Volume 1 Where the Heart Aspires Chapter 31 If you don't forget, there will be an echo
Chapter 31 If you don't forget, there will be an echo
When the first rooster crow sounded in the hotel, it meant that it was dawn, and the horseman thought that he was going to wake up the little master of the village chief's family, but when he arrived at the door of the room, Su Qing was already dressed neatly, doing a few sets of actions called morning exercises that Kong Qiu taught them after going to school.
Kong Qiu and Xueniao also got up, and everyone seemed to be observing the time in unison, and no one was dragging their feet. The four of them were still at that table, eating warm vegetable and lean porridge, and then the groom drove the carriage out, Kong Qiu paid the expenses for the hotel from yesterday to today, and the four of them set foot on the road to Beimo City.
Because the hotel was built to facilitate supplies, the place where it was built was relatively close to North Mexico City, and more than an hour after the horseman drove the carriage, it was close to North Mexico City.
The appearance of this border city of the Great Zhu Dynasty was slowly revealed in the eyes of Su Qing, who poked his head out of the gap in the curtain of the carriage, Kong Qiu in the carriage was naturally not curious, and the snowbird, who was originally born in Beimo City, did not have much feeling for the city because of the bad things in his childhood, even if the smart snowbird still remembered very small things, but the memories in his heart could not make any ripples.
However, for Su Qing's beckoning, the snowbird still leaned over, his head came out of the gap in the dark curtain on the other side, and looked at the city that was getting closer and closer, but it was mostly unfamiliar.
The snowbird is mainly afraid of the bumps in the carriage, Su Qinghui will be unstable and fall, she can stand next to her to protect it.
In Su Qing's eyes, the black city wall of Beimo City seemed to be building itself at a speed visible to the naked eye after the carriage followed the slope of the earth, and it was just an illusion that the carriage was going uphill quickly.
Su Qing sat back in the carriage, and Xueniao, who had no feelings and feelings for Beimo City, also sat back.
Arriving at the slope at the gate of Beimo City, there is a short distance, the horseman drives the carriage like water, and it can be said that there are countless times to go back and forth between Beimo City and Sujia Village, from the first shock, the second amazement, the third adaptation, and even now unmoved, the evaluation of Beimo City in the heart of this groom, there is nothing left left.
In the carriage, Kong Qiu is as steady as Mount Tai, he has traveled a lot of places, whether he has a heart for a place, it is no longer to see what that place is like, whether it is prosperous or dilapidated, but whether there are old acquaintances in that place, and whether there are traces left in the long years.
Su Qing walked out of Sujia Village for the first time, and naturally came to Beimo City for the first time, but he had read so many descriptions of spectacular scenery in the book, including the towering giant city and the pavilions on earth, and even the heavenly Baiyujing and the underground Senluo Palace, which I didn't know existed, and really faced the magnificent and endless scenery of the Beihai Sea.
The carriage drove into Beimo City, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate were obviously familiar with the horseman, and did not stop them. The carriage stopped in a wide, flat corner of the city, and Kong Qiu took Su Qing and Xueniao out of the carriage, and the groom's task was completed.
Kong Qiu explained a few words to the groom, then saluted him, thanked him for escorting him all the way, and took Su Qing and Xueniao away.
Although Beimo City is only a border city of the Dazhu Dynasty, there are not many people living here, because although it is a border, it is located in a remote area, leaning on the edge of the mountains, and the North Sea is outside, so there is a desolation outside the border, and there is no harassment from other countries, so the people who come to settle here are at least trying to be stable.
The crowd on the street was bustling, and the groom watched Kong Qiu and them leave, and the three of them disappeared into the crowd in a blink of an eye.
"Sir, my father said that after I came to this Beimo City, I would first visit the county magistrate here, who was friends with my father and had come to my house several times. Su Qing said to Kong Qiu.
"Well, it's okay, let's ask along the street, it's not difficult to find the mansion of the county magistrate. Kong Qiu nodded and said.
Beimo City also celebrates the New Year, and in front of every house on the street, you can see brand-new red objects, such as lanterns, door couplets, door god paintings, and so on.
Kong Qiu took Su Qing and Xueniao along the road to inquire about the mansion of the county magistrate, walked through the streets, and finally came to the door of a big mansion with a plaque on the door, the county magistrate's mansion.
Kong Qiu went to knock on the door, and soon a teenage child came to open the door, the boy was generous, opened the door, raised his head and asked Kong Qiu respectfully, "Old man, is there anything wrong with you?"
The tall old man smiled and explained his intentions, and the child said that he wanted to ask his master, and then closed the door again and ran to where his master was at the moment.
The name of the North Mocheng County Commander is Chen Qing, his parents died in that small plague, although Chen Qing survived the plague, his family was ruined, and in the past years, he was all studying, and he couldn't do any rough and heavy work, but Chen Qing always wanted to try, so he met Su Zhe at the place where he worked.
Chen Qing didn't do a good job, he was beaten by the steward, and there was no food to eat, and finally Su Zhe shared his own food for Chen Qing, and bought medicine to help him heal, during which Chen Qing taught Su Zhe to read and write, and told the story in the book like a storyteller.
However, after experiencing some turmoil, Su Zhe had some opportunities, no longer had to be a part-time worker, and his status rose, Chen Qing proposed to go to the capital to take the big exam at this time, because once he had a ranking in the big exam, he would have the opportunity to enter the court as an official.
Su Zhe did not keep Chen Qing, who was like a military advisor next to him, and made some coils out and handed them to Chen Qing for the passage to the capital, and the two separated, and a farewell was seven or eight years, and when they said goodbye, one was the new power leader of Beimo City, and the other was the county magistrate who carried the emperor's order to come to Beimo City to take office.
If it weren't for Chen Qing, Su Zhe, who had already taken root in Beimo City, would be intricately connected among the intricate forces, and he would not be able to get out at all, so he could leave Beimo City to find his hometown, and the so-called return to the village to enjoy his old age in peace is simply a fool's dream.
It's just that later, for the sake of the economy of Sujia Village, Su Zhe started to worry about business again, and once again stepped on the muddy ditch of the power of Beimo City, but now the county order of Beimo City is Chen Qing, and those gangster-like atmospheres in the past few decades have been almost cleaned up.
Because everyone wants to live a good life, no one wants the opponent to be an unscrupulous and unruly person, even if he is sleeping one day, he will be killed by someone. Now the so-called Taiping, there is no need to call people to patrol around the mansion at night, everyone can sleep peacefully, and there is no need to worry about killing or being killed, if anyone breaks the rules of this Taiping, needless to say, the county commander Chen Qing will be investigated, and the leaders of other forces will be indignant to find out the people who break the rules.
Soon, the kid reopened the door, saying that they could go in, and took Kong Qiu to where Chen Qing was.
In front of the county order is the office of the county order, and behind it is the private residential area, the child of the scholar who called himself Chen Qing came to the courtyard hall with three guests, Chen Qing was already waiting, there was a large wooden round table in the wide hall, the tea set on the table was neatly placed, the smoke was rising, and the tea leaves had been brewed.
Seeing Kong Qiu and the three of them enter the house, Chen Qing got up to greet him, and Su Qing immediately said Happy New Year, and Chen Qing naturally replied.
After Kong Qiu and Su Qing were seated, Chen Qing also sat down, and the scholar named Chen Tianqing and Xueniao kept their duties and still stood next to their master.
Chen Qing handed tea to Kong Qiu and Su Qing, and then asked, "How could the old gentleman bring Su Qing to Beimo City?" Because if Kong Qiu came here alone, there would be no problem, but with Su Qing, there must be something, big things, small things, family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, Chen Qingyan's meaning was what was the matter, and for what did he leave Sujia Village and come to Beimo City.
Without allowing Kong Qiu to speak, Su Qing explained to Chen Qing, and finally said, "My father told me to come to Uncle Chen's place to pay a New Year's greeting. ”
Chen Qing has been to Sujia Village many times, and knows and has seen Kong Qiu, an old gentleman who runs a school on the hill of Sujia Village, and does not charge tuition, relying on the agreement when he met Su Zhe that year, he taught in Sujia Village, and received not many materials from Su Zhe to live. In fact, Su Zhe wanted to give Kong Qiu a little more supplies more than once, and wanted to help the old gentleman's house decorate a little better, but the old man thought of the sentence in the book, "There is a golden house in the book, and there is a thousand Zhongsu in the book." "I refused.
"The book says, 'sit and talk about the Tao, get up and walk', and say, 'Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles', and only then can you be called a real reader, Su Qing, you have this opportunity, you can have such a good gentleman to accompany you to study, it is a blessing. Chen Qing said to Su Qing.
The latter smiled and nodded.
Chen Qing, who is the same age as Su Zhe and is now middle-aged, is full of bookishness, even if he became an official, he never gave up what he liked to do the most, and Chen Qing's biggest wish when he was a child was to have endless books.
The middle-aged Chen Qing has both the warmth of a scholar and the majesty of being a county magistrate, but at this moment, he is just Uncle Chen, who has a good relationship with his father in Su Qing's eyes.
The three people sitting here are all scholars, and naturally there are a lot of common things to talk about, talking about the things in the book, even Kong Qiu is willing to listen more, even if the knowledge is great, Kong Qiu thinks that it is not as big as the whole Jiuzhou combined, so why not listen to the words of others and the things in the book with an open mind.
Drinking tea and chatting, talking about the past, Kong Qiu sometimes listened, sometimes told some small stories that fit the situation, Su Qing was mostly asking, and there were some more naïve stories, but they would also cause Kong Qiu and Chen Qing to think deeply, since it was a naïve question, the two elders gave a ridiculous answer, even Chen Tianqing and Xueniao, laughed loudly, and there was a slight smile on one face.
Talking and talking, Chen Qing saw Su Qing and remembered the years when he and Su Zhe struggled in Beimo City, so he said something about the past, once he talked about it, it was like opening the old wine, which made people's thoughts drift away and the memories were endless.
told some stories, and time was quietly lost in the story, in fact, the time was still a little early, and it was not time to eat, but Chen Qing still tried his best to keep it, and let Kong Qiu and Su Qing stay for a meal before leaving.
It was still the big wooden round table, but the tea set on the table was removed and replaced with a meal, a rice bucket, a soup and six dishes, and two more people sat down, Chen Tianqing and Xueniao.
Chen Tianqing is obviously a bold child, maybe he is in love, or he rarely sees girls, he is very attentive to the snowbird, and he is not so reckless as directly giving the snowbird a dish, as Chen Qing's scholar, he naturally has a well-educated background.
Chen Qing didn't say anything when he saw this, this is the child's nature, what the child will do, as an adult, he has to ask the child to do what an adult who has matured and has no innocence to do, is it reasonable?
Just like in a child's carefree childhood, things are always reckless and careless, and parents feel that their children are underbeaten, and they feel that their children have long bodies and not brains, is it reasonable?
Who doesn't have a growth process, who doesn't want to be tolerated by the world and treated gently by the world.
is still the sentence that there is no banquet in the world.
At the time when it was supposed to eat, Su Qing had already eaten to his heart's content, and then Kong Qiu told him that it was time to go, and after the three of them said goodbye to Chen Qing, they left the county mansion.
At the entrance of the prefectural government, there are one big and one small, and if you don't know them, you might think it's a father and son.
"Master, can I still see the snowbird girl?" Chen Tianqing looked at the girl who was getting farther and farther away, and couldn't take his eyes back.
Chen Qing touched Chen Tianqing's head and said with a smile: "Just like if you still want to see it tomorrow, there is a little possibility, if you still want to see it after a month, it is very possible, if you still want to see it again after a year, then you will definitely be able to see it." ”
"Ah, sir, what are you talking about, I don't understand. Chen Tianqing looked at Chen Qing with a puzzled expression.
"If you don't understand, close the door and take a nap. Chen Qing entered the house first, leaving only a back for Chen Tianqing.