Chapter 16: Morning Exercise
Recently, not far from the intersection of Crescent Street, Cangnan Street, a new snack shop has opened. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć INFO snack shop is mainly engaged in the business of soy milk, fried dough sticks and fragrant drinks.
This shop on the street was given a dividend plate by Zhong Hao with high profits. This shop is in the style of the front store and the back yard, with a two-story building on the surface, with a small courtyard at the back and a separate courtyard gate. There are main houses in the courtyard, east and west wings, and as for the south house, it is naturally a store.
The courtyard is full of green, which is very eye-catching. There are several green bamboos planted in front of the main house of the north house, which are lush and green, slim and elegant, and very good-looking. There is a small platform in front of the east wing, there are several potted plants, most of them are various osmanthus grafted with tassels and old piles, and there are also a few pots of spring with coiled roots and branches, and a pomegranate tree is planted in front of the west wing, and the blue-green pomegranate is already as big as a child's fist. The courtyard is the same as the previous small courtyard, there is also a stone table, a few stone benches, and next to it is also a golden cinnamon, which is a very elegant courtyard.
Zhong Hao liked this shop and yard for the first time, and even if he paid for it, he bought it. Of course, the price of this courtyard is not cheap, and it cost Zhong Hao one hundred and thirty yuan.
Xu and Wan'er were very happy, and quickly cleaned up the yard, and the neighbors next to the originally rented courtyard also came to congratulate the housewarming.
Zhong Hao's original rented courtyard was idle because he planted his precious potatoes and sweet potatoes and did not sublease them. Zhong Hao paid half a year's rent at that time, and he could just collect sweet potatoes before the rent was due.
Guan Fang also came to congratulate him, and also brought the attached documents of Zhong Hao's family of three, and now Zhong Hao is a real Qingzhou person.
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Natural Residence is now on the right track, and Xu's newly opened snack shop has herself and Wan'er, and she can be busy. Zhong Hao was supervised by Xu to study at home every day. Now the shop and the yard are next to each other, which is convenient for the Xu family to supervise Zhong Hao.
Now the bookshelves in Zhong Hao's east wing are basically full of all kinds of books, which Xu bought for him after making money, as long as the books that can be used by the Jinshi, Xu will go to the study to search and buy.
At first, Zhong Hao was forced to read at home because he was helpless, but then he slowly became interested, calmed down, and could read all kinds of books.
Zhong Hao found that reading books, practicing calligraphy, and chatting with Wan'er every day was actually quite good, calm and happy, warm and reassuring.
At the end of June, Zhong Hao suddenly had a heat cold, but fortunately, Zhong Hao still had some anti-inflammatory and cold medicines around him, and the heat cold did not make him uncomfortable for too long. But this incident made Zhong Hao realize the importance of having a good body in this era. With the medical conditions of the Great Song Dynasty, a small illness such as a cold and fever may be able to kill people.
Zhong Hao has been in the Great Song Dynasty for more than three months, and his body has grown a lot taller, but he is still a little thin, and he feels that it is necessary for him to exercise his body and have a strong body in order to resist the threat of various diseases.
Zhong Hao plans to go for a run every morning to exercise, and he can also go out to let off steam, otherwise it will be uncomfortable to be bored at home all day long.
After Zhong Hao told Xu, Xu naturally had no opinion, and happily agreed to let Zhong Hao go out for an hour to run every morning.
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Exercising is exercise, Zhong Hao got up in the morning today and stopped.
Run a few steps from Cangnan Lane to Xinyue Street, and run south along Xinyue Street for about six or seven hundred steps, and then you will arrive at the bank of the Nanyang River.
On the morning of early autumn and July, the cool breeze is refreshing.
At the beginning of the rise, the golden sunlight sprinkles on the green waves of the Nanyang River, and the two bright hues reflect each other, which is beautiful.
From time to time, there are naughty fish jumping up and down in the Nanyang River, so that the calm river surface forms ripples, and the reflection of the green willows on the riverside in the ripples can't help but fluctuate a little.
The scenery on the banks of the Nanyang River makes people feel refreshed and comfortable.
Looking at the beautiful scenery on the banks of the Nanyang River and breathing in the fresh morning air, Zhong Hao couldn't help but stop.
Belch...... In fact, Zhong Hao didn't stop because of the beautiful scenery, but he really couldn't run, and his body was really weak.
Zhong Hao simply stopped to catch his breath and enjoy the beautiful scenery by the way.
The rippling Nanyang River is like a green jade belt, crossing Qingzhou City from west to east, dividing Qingzhou City into two. Nanyang River is Dongyang City in the north, and Nanyang City is in the south.
In the sixth year of Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu conquered Guanggu, the capital of the Southern Yan Kingdom in Qingzhou, and built Dongyang City. In the second year of Emperor Xiping of Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Nanyang City was added. Nanyang City "leans on the mountain and overlooks the stream, the base site is magnificent, and the pheasant spy is dense. Jigu garrison, can accommodate 100,000".
Qingzhou City is located in Nanyang City, and its attached Guo County Yidu County is located in Dongyang City.
The bridges connecting the two banks of the Nanyang River in Qingzhou City mainly include the Wannian Bridge on Haidai Street, the Nanyang Bridge on Yuntuo Street and the Lotus Bridge on Qingcheng Street.
The southernmost end of Crescent Street is the bank of the Nanyang River, and there is no bridge across the river on the Crescent Street, so Zhong Hao went east along the Binhe Street on the bank of the Nanyang River.
The scenery on the bank of the Nanyang River is beautiful, and the most high-end Qinglou wine shops in Qingzhou City are basically concentrated here. This is the favorite of Qingzhou dignitaries, scholars, gentry and wealthy businessmen.
On both sides of the Nanyang River, there are exquisite pavilions lined up, all of them fly eaves and bucket arches, carved beams and painted columns, beautiful.
The architecture of the Song Dynasty has gradually abandoned the Tang Dynasty's pursuit of the external atmosphere and glory of the style, but pays attention to the exquisite and elegant details of the depiction, not only every beam and column must be artistically processed, but also for the decoration and decoration to be more meticulously handled, all of which reflect the unique pursuit of details at this time of life enjoyment.
Every pavilion here seems to be a gorgeous work of art, and Zhong Hao is really dizzying when he walks on the riverside street on the bank of the Nanyang River.
Early in the morning is also the time when the benefactors who stayed in the village left one after another.
Zhong Hao took a walk while looking at the people who came out of various green buildings one after another. Some of them were well-dressed, some were disheveled; Some are radiant, others are languishing. Maybe it's the officials who are well-dressed, or maybe it's the untidy ones; Maybe the one who came out of the Qinglou with black circles under his eyes, but bought some steamed buns and rice porridge and went home, is still a good husband and father in the eyes of his wife and children; Perhaps that dashing scribe who is suave and full of benevolence and righteousness is a hypocrite behind it. It's really a variety of beings, colorful and mixed.
Zhong Hao walked about four or five hundred steps along Binhe Street, and saw the Wannian Bridge across both banks of the Nanyang River like a flying rainbow. Wannian Bridge is also called the North Bridge because it is facing the north gate of Nanyang City in the old days. This Hongqiao is the current prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, the British Duke Xia Zhu, in the Jingyou period when he was the governor of Qingzhou, presided over the construction. Wannian Bridge is a unique column-free single-arch wooden bridge with a unique structure, shaped like a rainbow, so it is called "Hongqiao", this Wannian Bridge is also the first wooden structure Hongqiao in the Great Song Dynasty. The famous Bianhe Flying Bridge in the Great Song Dynasty is said to have learned the technology of this bridge.
Zhong Hao felt a little tired when he walked here, and estimated the distance, it was about more than a thousand steps away from home, which was equivalent to more than one and a half kilometers in later generations, and it would take more than three kilometers to go back and forth. Zhong Hao felt that he would run here every day in the future, and then run back, the distance of three thousand meters was not short. However, this has to be gradual, and my current physical state can't run a single way.
Zhong Hao saw that there was a long pavilion on the riverside not far from the Wannian Bridge, so he wanted to go over and sit for a while to rest. When I got closer, I found that there were people playing in the long pavilion, and there were a few onlookers.
Zhong Hao also likes Go, so he also stepped forward to watch it for a while.
The game was played by two old men, one of whom was graceful and luxurious, dressed in a dark purple satin placket, and beside him stood two men who looked like domestic servants, and a servant next to him, boiling tea on a small red clay stove.
The graceful old man was very good at chess, Zhong Hao just looked at it for a while, and saw that the old man in black who was playing against him had encountered several dangers in a row, but fortunately, in the end, the old man in black turned the danger into a disaster.
But the old man in black was slightly inferior in chess, although he escaped death several times, but in the end, he was strangled by the old man with a pun on the old man in black.
Zhong Hao saw that the victory and defeat had been divided, and he felt hungry in his stomach, so he decided to go back and go home for breakfast.
The sun is shining, and the warm light on the body makes people comfortable, and Zhong Hao's mood can't help but be cheerful.
Zhong Hao, who was walking on the road, suddenly heard a few sounds of the zither coming, and the sound of the zither attracted Liu Xu's attention. Zhong Hao listened attentively, and the sound of the guzheng came from a small building not far ahead.
Zhong Hao was attracted by the quaint sound of the piano, and unconsciously walked under the window of the small building to listen.
Zhong Hao liked to listen to the guzheng in later generations, and he also knew some of the famous guzheng songs that have been handed down. Listening attentively, he found that the small building was playing a famous guzheng song "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", which he had heard.
The melodious and tactful sound of the piano makes people can't help but walk into the elegant ink painting scroll, spring, river, flowers, moon, night, are clearly displayed in front of them one by one, spring night, flowing water, falling flowers, waning moon, so that people unconsciously feel the beautiful artistic conception.
Just as Zhong Hao was intoxicated with the eternal spring night in the south of the Yangtze River, the sound of the piano upstairs turned, and the mournful and sad sound of the piano came from the side, which seemed to be a mournful song "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix".
The sound of the piano bursts, the owner of the guzheng seems to be telling the lovesickness that is rare to see the beloved, and it seems to pour out the helplessness of the bosom friend, and the mournful sound of the piano deeply infects Zhong Hao.
Zhong Hao couldn't help but slowly sketch a gentle classical lady in his mind, with a little sadness in her eyes, a little sorrow hidden in her eyebrows, and there was nowhere to dismiss the depression in her heart, so she could only use the guzheng to pity herself.
Suddenly, Zhong Hao thought of a word, which was a little appropriate to the woman in his imagination, and couldn't help but whisper: "Flowers float and water flow freely, a kind of lovesickness, two sorrows." There is no way to eliminate this situation, so I frowned, but I was in my heart. ā
Just as Zhong Hao was intoxicated by the sound of the piano, disaster fell from the sky.
PS: The Hongqiao in Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is said to be based on the Hongqiao, a Wannian Bridge on the Nanyang River in Qingzhou.