Back at the inn, Shen Luojun lay in Kang Damao's arms and cried for a long time, and then fell asleep unconsciously, Kang Damao lowered his head and neatly brushed a strand of hair hanging down from Shen Luojun's forehead, he also had mixed feelings in his heart, there was guilt for his friend Dabin, there was hatred for Shen Yuhai, there was love for Shen Luojun, there was the helplessness of the eldest brother's unjust death, and there was haggard heart in the business field.

However, fortunately, he still has Luo Jun, a beloved by his side, and a group of good friends and good brothers who will never leave him.

This night, Kang Damao's dream seemed to return to the happy and carefree youth when he and the Shen family sisters and brothers were in Zhenjiang Mansion.

Early the next morning, Kang Damao and Shen Luojun returned to Zhenjiang Mansion together, and the two discussed that they would go separately, and Kang Damao took the first step.

The northwest wind was blowing in winter, and the river was stormy and rough, Kang Damao knew that the water surface at the confluence of the canal and the Yangtze River was dangerous at this time, so he deliberately took a big boat back to Zhenjiang Mansion.

This is a large ship dedicated to carrying passengers, the ship is full of people, there are ordinary people who are visiting relatives and friends near the end of the year, there are also businessmen who go out to run errands or go home, everyone is talking nonsense, slightly noisy, there is a stove burning in the ship, which is used to warm up and also burn some tea for merchants to warm their stomachs.

Kang Damao didn't pay attention to these people, he sat leisurely on the boat and dozed off by the boat, he left Zhenjiang Mansion for a while, and he didn't know how the business of the grain village and porcelain shop was now, how An's mother was, and whether the people of Zhenjiang Mansion had rebuilt their homes.

Just as he was thinking, an extremely arrogant voice suddenly shouted in the boat.

"Get out of the way, make room for you, do you know who is sitting here? Tell you this is a ......," said a young man in his twenties who pushed through the crowd around him, but was interrupted by a man sitting in a chair in the middle of his sentence.

"Ah Fu, don't be rude, it's my pleasure to be happy with the people." The middle-aged man sitting on the chair held a book and twisted his beard and said, saying that he was middle-aged, but in fact, this person looked at least fifty years old, and he was basically already in the ranks of the elderly.

"My lord, these people are so noisy, they disturb your reading, as your personal entourage, I must do my duty, let me deal with this matter, and I will depend on you in the future." The guy named Ah Fu said unrelentingly, and this sounded very loyal.

"You! Then you go and discuss it with everyone, just be quiet, let me finish these last few chapters, and be sure to pay attention to my attitude. After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he didn't pay attention to what was happening around him, he held the book and continued to look down, frowning from time to time while reading, obviously thinking that it was too noisy around him.

After Ah Fu gave the order, he began to push the people next to him towards both ends of the boat, and scolded him while pushing him: "Get out!" Do you hear me, do you know who this person is? The quality of you civilians is really poor, they all say that the deep mountains and bad waters are out of trouble, and the people are really like this, and in the future, I have to let the adults rectify you well, hum! ”

Ah Fu's words were very difficult to hear, and he didn't take everyone present in his eyes at all, his invincible, dog-fighting style was vividly reflected in this boat, and no one dared to stand up against this guy when they saw this guy so arrogant, because they just heard this guy say that the person sitting there was an adult, presumably a big official, who could afford to provoke him.

Soon everyone on the boat was driven to both ends of the ship with cringe, and a large area in the middle was empty, only the adult was sitting, who was sitting by the stove and reading intently, not affected by the people next to him in the slightest, and his brows that he had just frowned on because of being disturbed were also relaxed at this time.

The middle-aged man felt that everything around him was quiet, and he raised his head with satisfaction to serve a cup of fragrant tea on the tea table next to him.

Hey? Why is there a guy sitting diagonally across from him? He immediately turned his head to look at Ah Fu beside him, Ah Fu only found that there was indeed a young man sitting opposite, he just stood and pushed away the people but left this guy out, Ah Fu immediately sank his face and wanted to kick the guy who didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

"Ah Fu, come back, let him sit there if he wants, why did the people walk away?" The middle-aged man looked at the people at the bow and stern of the boat and said suspiciously, after saying that, he shook his head and stood up, with a sigh of emotion in his heart, and even twisted his beard and chanted poetry outside the boat.

"When I was young, I left home and went back, and my hometown accent has not changed, and my sideburns have declined...... After leaving my hometown for many years, I, Liu Shanzu, are back! ”

"Good poetry, good poetry, my lord, your talent is many times stronger than that Li Bai." Ah Fu leaned in front of him and bent over and patted his ass.

Syllable! Suddenly, Lord Liu knocked heavily on Ah Fu's head with a folding fan, and then said unhappily: "This is the poem of the great poet He Zhizhang of the Tang Dynasty, let you read more on weekdays, but you are lazy, if you don't know how to improve in the future, I am afraid that one day I will not be able to keep up with the pace of the master." ”

"When I was young, I left home and went back, and my hometown voice has not changed, and my sideburns have declined."

"When children don't know each other, they smile and ask where do they come from?"

Someone in the cabin immediately read out all the verses chanted by the middle-aged man just now, and the man just finished reading it with a burst of laughter, with a somewhat mocking tone, everyone immediately followed the prestige, it was the young man who was sitting diagonally opposite the middle-aged man just now, of course, this person was none other than Kang Damao, he saw that the middle-aged man was pretending from beginning to end, and he finally couldn't help but mock.

"Boy, what are you smiling at?" Ah Fu heard the mockery in Kang Damao's tone, so he walked up to Kang Damao and pointed at him and asked.

"I'm laughing at the big Eba wolf and a pug on this boat, haha!" Kang Damao ignored Ah Fu in front of him, and instead sneered meaningfully.

"You...... Do you know who we are? This is Lord Liu, the new prefect of our Zhenjiang Mansion, and you don't kneel down quickly when you see the prefect. Since he reported his name, he naturally wanted to give them the prefect's momentum, so he forced the other people on the ship to kneel to the new prefect Liu.

When the rest of the people heard that this middle-aged man turned out to be the new prefect of Zhenjiang Mansion, they were naturally so frightened that they knelt down obediently, and no one except Kang Damao dared not kneel.

Kang Damao not only did not kneel, but at this time, he patted his ass and stood up and stared at Lord Liu and read a poem.

"Zimo red dust is blowing on the face, and no one is looking at the flowers."

"There are thousands of peach trees in the Xuandu Temple, all of which are planted after Liu Lang goes."

This is the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi's "Xuandu View of Peach Blossoms", the first and second sentences write that people go to Xuandu to watch the scene of flowers, showing the lively scene of people and horses on the avenue and the endless streaming, and the people who come back to see the flowers are "no one without saying" the flowers are gorgeous, showing a satisfied demeanor; The third and fourth sentences superficially write that there are so many gorgeous peach blossoms in the Xuandu Temple, and I didn't have them at all when I was in Chang'an ten years ago, and the newly planted peach trees grew and bloomed ten years after leaving Chang'an.

At this time, it didn't mean anything from Kang Damao's mouth at all, he was using this poem to satirize the prefect surnamed Liu for getting something for nothing, and others planting trees for you to enjoy the shade.

Liu Shanzu is not stupid, he immediately heard Kang Damao's ridicule, and immediately rolled his eyes in anger, it seems that this kid in front of him is very unfamiliar!

"Yo? Ah Fu, today I heard that someone wants to fight poetry with this house, it's really interesting. Lord Liu first turned his head to look at Ah Fu beside him with an expression of disbelief, as if to say: Look, there is finally a young man with some literary talents here, but he is a little short-sighted, let me teach him a good lesson.

"That house will also send you a poem through the past and the present, listen to it!" Lord Liu stared at Kang Damao and said word by word.

"Wang Yang and Lu Luo were in good shape at the time, and they were light and thin."

"Er Cao's body and name are destroyed, and the rivers and rivers will not be wasted."

Du Fu's poem originally meant that Wang Yang and Lu Luo created a generation of poetry style and genre, and shallow commentators ridiculed it endlessly, and after everything in your generation was turned to dust, it did not hurt the surging rivers for eternity. Lord Liu is using this poem to ridicule Kang Damao's shallowness and ignorance.

Kang Damao was not angry after hearing this, he felt that it was not a waste of fame that this Lord Liu could achieve the position of the prefect, but this person was too good at pretending to make him scoff, he thought so, but the people on the ship did not think so, under the leadership of Ah Fu, those people applauded after listening to the poem of the prefect Liu, as if they had become a group of blind worshippers.

Dou Shi, right? Okay, accompany him to the end, Kang Damao has already come out with the next song in a blink of an eye.

"The hard bones are still in shape, and the corpses are not romantic."

"After the naughty death, the drill is all over the place, and it will not come out of life."

This poem was written by Pi Rixiu, and the homophone stalk is used to mock the people with the surname Gui. The Shang Dynasty used tortoise shells for divination, and the practice was to drill holes first and then roast, and judge the good luck and evil according to the cracks. This poem deliberately attributes the encounter of the turtle shell to the fact that the turtle "did not come out" during his lifetime, which has the meaning of satirizing the courageless person. Kang Damao used this poem to ridicule Liu Shanzu for being an old thing, and finally got out of it, and now he is dragging a handful of old bones back to his hometown to pretend to be the eighth king.

Liu Shanzu was furious when he heard that Kang Damao actually scolded him for being a turtle through poetry, he pointed to Kang Damao's nose and wanted to scold, but he turned his head and looked at the eyes of many people staring at him behind him, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and temporarily suppressed this evil breath, since it is a fighting poem, then he is going to win above board, he still doesn't believe it, he has been reading poetry for 50 years, and today he can't fight a little guy.

"Eight pieces of sharp oblique masonry are made of masonry, and they are boiled in the fire and kneaded in the water."

"A mess of idleness is as usual, and the kicks and punches are not stopped."

This poem is Liu Shanzu's ridicule of Kang Damao, using the ball to mock those who have "idleness" in their chests and like to make trouble. This is a poem borrowed by Liu Shanzu to mock Kang Damao, and the interesting thing is that you can learn about the craftsmanship of making leather balls in the Tang Dynasty.

After listening to it, Kang Damao fell into deep thought, he was not Kawen anymore, he was thinking about whether there was any poem for the other party to get in place in one step, or he would compose a poem on the spot, but in this way, he would have to waste some brains.

"Young man, this is the new prefect of our Zhenjiang Mansion, you don't fight poetry anymore, you can't fight him!"

"That's it! You've only been reading for a few years, don't play big in front of Guan Gong. ”

"If it's ugly, don't humiliate yourself."

"Don't say it, I really admire this kid's courage, but looking at his current appearance, most of them are already cold."

"Today's young people dare to show off in front of the prefect when they feel that they have some literary talents, which is a shame and a big loss."

At this time, the people on the boat all gave help to the prefect Liu Shanzu, and some even ridiculed Kang Damao, in their eyes, Kang Damao was just overpowered.

Kang Damao didn't bother with these people, he paced to the middle of the cabin with his hands behind his back, and looked up and sighed.

A spoonful of West Lake water.

Crossing the river, a hundred years of singing and dancing, a hundred years of drunkenness.

Looking back at the end of Luoyang's flowers and stones, the smoke is gone, and the new pavilion is in tears.

Tuole red makeup shakes the painting boat, and asks who is the middle stream?

Eternal hatred, when will it be washed?

The rest of his life is conceited and clarified.

Who else has not met, and Fu Yan has not risen?

Who is relying on national affairs now?

It's just a river.

Bendu Dao, the river god can be ashamed.

borrowed to ask the lonely mountain forest priest, but turned around and smiled at the plum blossoms.

The world is in the know!

After reading it, everyone in the cabin was stunned, even the prefect Liu Shanzu stood on the spot in a daze, not understanding the meaning at all.

"What's the explanation?" Liu Shanzu muttered in his mouth, he really felt that the young man in front of him was not ordinary at this moment, just these incisive poems that came and went with him before, the other party could easily come to him, this young man's talent was already far beyond his peers, and even with him, the prefect.

The others in the cabin also stared intently at Kang Damao, pricking up their ears to listen to his explanation.

Kang Damao raised his head and laughed, and said presumptuously: "I mean, everyone here is rubbish. ”

Forehead?! Everyone was confused!

Kang Damao didn't say a word more, he pushed everyone away and came to the bow of the boat to look at the river, and in front of him should be the Xijindu Wharf in Zhenjiang Mansion. Hey? Why is this dock so lively?