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In Hangzhou in winter, although the West Lake has not yet frozen, there will not be too many tourists on the lake in the light snow season.

Even though at this time Hangzhou is still a prosperous commercial port that stretches for dozens of miles, but the business at the end of the year is not as good as in the past, the silk of Huzhou and the silk market of Jiaxing have gradually decreased, and only the tea wine of Shaoxing and the silk of Ningbo are still common.

But even though the canal port from outside Wulin Gate to Hushu is still full of business travel, thousands of ships, but in addition to Jiacheng Lane and Qinghefang in Hangzhou, it is not as good as in the past, the flower market at the mouth of Guanxiang has gradually become less crowded since the beginning of autumn, and after the beginning of winter, even the dealers who wait for Chaomen to take out fresh fish are only less than half of the weekdays, I am afraid that in addition to the rice market in Weiqiao outside the north gate and the pig market in the south, only the medicine market near Tanqiao and the night market business of Shou'anfang have not been affected in the slightest.

On the pavilion in the center of the West Lake, in the past, it was a place where literati and visitors often came, and the same is true on the pavilion today.

The sorcerers are fond of this, one is that the scenery on the pavilion is indeed considerable, and the second is still less noisy, on weekdays, around the West Lake but there are festivals that are gathered around the shops, what three generations of eight dynasties of the bone Dong, the treasure of the barbarian Fujian, and all kinds of cruise ship juggling, than the tourist attractions of later generations are not much better.

It's just that in today's weather, except for some ferries that still rely on water draft, there are few ordinary traders who perform their arts, but they are clean.

Standing in front of the boat and looking at it from afar, between the clouds and the water, the Su Causeway in the distance is like a faint ink mark, and the moon in the three pools is only a small dot of shadows.

Huxin Pavilion is shaped like a vertebrae by the hill and water, some figures flickered among them, and when he got closer, Wang Xingping recognized some familiar ones from the shadows, according to the rare Yuan Chonghuan, Chen Zizhuang, He Wuyu and Liu Dalin, there is another person sitting in the seat should be Liu Dalin's younger brother Liu Dayun, and he is generally a martial artist, the Liu family is not rich, his eldest brother Liu Daji is still serving his mother at home, and the younger brother goes to Beijing with him, so he is the only one among the group who has no servants to follow, and there is still an old man sitting with them but does not recognize.

Everyone sat around with thick felt, and a few children were busy with hot wine and hot food.

The boat had just docked, and the people in the pavilion had already welcomed two or three people out, but when Wang Xingping landed on the shore, he vaguely heard the boat laugh and sigh, "Don't say that the prince is a few idiots, but he doesn't mean to be even more stupid." ”

It turned out that I had also seen my peers who were also leaning on the edge of the pavilion, and there were as many as four small boats.

Because it was the first time to go to Beijing, Gong Kexiu and Zhang Zhigui just took the first step after seeing several lakes and mountains in Hangzhou, and they went to Nanjing Yingtianfu, so there were no two people sitting in the pavilion at this time. Although the prosperity of Jinling did not make Wang Xingping, who was also the first time to come here, the two old Confucians who had failed for a long time were not in the same mood, as early as when Shaoxing separated, Gong and Zhang both said that if they failed to pass the test, they would go to the Ministry of Officials to wait for the official, so there was nothing bad about traveling like this.

From Hangzhou all the way to the north, to pass through Jiaxing, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang four prefectures, all of them are a good place to go, especially Suzhou, because the development of the handicraft industry is to lead the Ming Dynasty at this time, even if it is far away in Guangdong, women's clothing, shoes and socks are also said to be Su like. Therefore, even if the two of them advance for a few days, it is only enough to take a few more glances in Jinling City, but it is always enough.

According to the prior agreement, Gong and Zhang would cross the river from Longtan to the north bank after swimming in Nanjing. And Wang Xingping and others don't have to be so troublesome, they can go directly from Dantu County, and the two groups of people made an appointment to meet in Yangzhou Mansion in Jiangbei more than ten days later.

As for today, it is also set early to meet in the lake pavilion in this West Lake, at this time to enjoy the lake and mountains, drink and write poems, it is what the people think, the poetry society here in Hangzhou is only a lot more than Guangdong, such as Yuan Chonghuan, Chen Zizhuang, etc., naturally there is a little itchy, and after a meeting today, the people will also set off to continue to go north.

In this way, it was naturally Yuan Chonghuan and Chen Zizhuang who arrived first, not to mention that Wang Xingping also brought them two new companions on the same boat - Qi Biaojia, the new imperial examination person, and the third master of the Zhang family in Shanyin.

Although it has not snowed yet, but the lake after the winter is also a cold air, Wang Xingping took Qi and Zhang to introduce them, and everyone also saluted, and then quickly sat down by the fireside.

Wang Xingping said with a smile: "A few seniors have been here for a long time, I don't know if there are any masterpieces?" ”

With Yuan Chonghuan and Chen Zizhuang here, there is no reason not to write poems.

Chen Zizhuang smiled apologetically: "I held back a few songs, but they weren't good, and I was waiting for Xingping to come." ”

Although Wang Xingping has no fame, he has performed well in several poetry meetings he participated in in Guangdong, especially when he said goodbye to the Confucian scholars and went north, "The world is full of events, and the years are not over." It's even better. He Wusu is nearly forty years old, but he also came up, looking like he was listening, and this middle-aged scribe who was also a 'dragon friend' with Yang Wencong's name also admired Wang Xingping's insight and talent.

Qi Biaojia and Zhang Bingfang, who followed the landing, also became interested, "I just saw the virtuous brother in the boat, I am afraid that there is." ”

Wang Xingping said with a smile, "I just think that the scenery here is pleasant, and there are no good sentences, so I just have the right to make a couplet." ”

"Listen to it?" Qi Biaojia said with a smile.

"The waves of the lake are far away, and the mountains are deep in color."

"Wonderful, wonderful......" an old man's voice came.

Wang Xingping looked at the old man, who was pale and fat, wearing a felt hat, was the person in the pavilion he had just seen, Chen Zizhuang introduced it first, "This old man Ye is also eating wine in the pavilion, but we bothered him first." ”

"Mr. Tongbai, why are you here?" Qi Biaojia, who was beside Wang Xingping, saw the face of the old man under the felt hat clearly at this time, and said with some surprise.

This was replaced by a burst of surprise from the others, and when they got up and saluted again, everyone sat down in the pavilion again, and the relationship was understood. The old man called Mr. Tongbai by Qi Biaojia is named Ye Xianzu, a native of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, and a lifter, but he does not practice eunuchs, but likes to write miscellaneous dramas. Qi Biaojia's son Qi Chengjiao built the Tangsheng Hall, which is known as the collection of books in eastern Zhejiang, and Mr. Qi also likes to collect miscellaneous drama books, so the two often have contacts. In addition, Qi Biaojia often went to the South Han Mountain Cottage in Shaoxing City to listen to the lectures of the great Confucian Liu Zongzhou, and Ye Xianzu's young man and son-in-law who had made a marriage contract with his young daughter early also worshiped under Liu Zongzhou's door, and they were half of the same family, and the two families became more and more acquainted.

Ye Xianzu has not been admitted to the Jinshi for many years, and he has also lost his mind about his career, but his friend and future in-law high school in the last subject was awarded the Ningguo Mansion Governor, and it seems that he was touched by this, and he is going to Beijing again, and he happened to pass by Hangzhou to see that the West Lake was clean and came to the Huxin Pavilion to drink, but he met Yuan Chonghuan and others first.

Now the three groups of people are gathered together, and the pavilion is even more lively.

Gossiping with everyone Wang Xingping can be regarded as having increased his knowledge again, he originally just felt that since the northbound journey, it seems that it is too easy to make friends with celebrities, and the list that Gu Ziming gave him at the beginning only said that in Shaoxing, what Liu Zongzhou, Wang Siren, and Tao Xiaoling were all made friends under the recommendation of the Zhang family and the Qi family.

Wang Xingping didn't know that this was because of his special identity, and most of the people who could travel abroad at this time were still Confucian scholars, as long as he took the initiative to find the door, there were few people who would eat closed-door soup, so it was not that he was easy to make friends with celebrities, but it was inconvenient to know the news at this time, and it was naturally easy for a scholar to go on a diplomatic trip.

What's more, Wang Xingping's identity is not ordinary, just the thousands of households in Guizhou Weixia have been on the newspaper several times in a row, which makes people a little more impressed. And let's just say that this Qi Biaojia, although he is close to Wang Xingping, but after all, at the moment of Wushutu, Guizhou and Zhejiang are also far apart, but when they know that their father and Wang Zunde are also in the same year, the relationship between the two is a lot closer, even if Qi Chengjiao and Wang Zunde are not too deep.

And the third uncle of the Zhang family is indeed a drill camper, I heard that Wang Zunde is now serving in Taifu Temple, and he is going to go to Beijing with Wang Xingping.

However, speaking of the Zhang family, Wang Xingping also smiled bitterly, he didn't expect that Zhang Cao said that he had caught a crane to cook the chicken that day, and the fuel for cooking the crane came from a Song Dynasty guqin hidden by his father. Burning the qin and boiling the crane is just a description for ordinary people, but here Zhang Cao is really doing it, and his character is much stronger than his brother, so it's no wonder that he dared to tear up the book set by his uncle and give it away.

Zhang Cao's father Zhang Lianfang also wants to participate in the current science examination, early in Beijing to live in Beijing to prepare for the exam, he is the only son in the family naturally lawless, all day long is a cockfighting lackey business, and like to compete in case of trouble, that day Wang Xingping and Hu Barong were invited to the banquet, this crane will naturally not eat, but Guizhou and Nanyang have told Zhang Cao a lot, and he said that he was impatient, but he did not dare to take this living ancestor with him in Beijing.

As for Zhang Bingfang, who was torn up by his nephew, he was helpless, let him be a guest of many officials, known as a man of tongue and eloquence, and the most capable of speculation, but he was as speechless as he met this unruly junior. Fortunately, the book "Golden Vase Plum" originally wanted to tie up the new tune of Yang He, the imperial history of the two Zhejiang patrols, and wanted to seek some benefits, and Wang Xingping was quite familiar with this old man Yang, and after some persuasion, he finally felt that it was okay not to send this book.

And that Qi Biaojia is also helpless to take Zhang Cao, a peer who is slightly two years older, he is an easy-going person, but how can Zhang Cao directly take the merchant girl to talk about things, the merchant girl's name is Jinglan, it is Qi Biaojia's wife who has not yet passed the door, and she is also a woman with both color and art. On the family situation, Shang Zhouzuo, the father of Shang Jinglan, was a Jinshi earlier than Qi's father, and the two families were one in Shanyin and the other in Huiji, both of which were large families in Shaoxing Mansion. On the portal, Shang Zhouzuo and Qi Chengjiao are in the six departments and one in the military department, Qi Biaojia and Shang Jinglan are even known as the golden boy and jade girl in the township, which can be said to be the right match.

Half a day passed in a hurry, and the next day there were three more people in the team that moved north, plus the followers, and the line grew a lot.

In the following days, Wang Xingping followed the team to hurry up, and the sights and stories of the towns and towns along the way were self-evident, and time passed quietly.