Chapter 22: Heading North (2)

Huang Yang spit out a piece of melon seed skin: "It's early...... The Shuiyang River hasn't even crossed yet. ”

"I've heard that the Yangtze River has to change ships, right?"

"Hmm." Huang Yang's eyebrows danced and said: "In the past, passengers were asked to get off the boat, and then change to a new train after crossing the river by boat. But it's troublesome. Now there is a special ferry steamship, and it is only necessary to unload the front of the locomotive, and then there is a hook in front of the first carriage, and the steam engine on the ferry ship is connected with such a thick rope, and the carriage can be driven to the ferry ship through the rails. After transporting all the carriages to Jiangbei by ferry, they are regrouped into a new train, and you can continue to set off north! ”

"It's really troublesome." Cheng Qi couldn't help but smack his tongue. Huang Yang said: "This is already very fast, passengers don't have to get off the car, and the consignment goods don't have to be carried back and forth." Now it only takes an hour to toss once, and it's almost an hour. Originally, it would have been tossed for almost half a day, and it would be even more troublesome if it had crossed the river at night. Now it's easy to cross the river at night、"

Cheng Qi still said: "If the bridge can be built on the Yangtze River, it would be good if the bridge of the railway could be crossed." ”

Huang Yang felt that he was thinking a little far away: "The Yangtze River is so fast, and the river is so wide, how can it be possible to build a bridge?" At least I don't think I'll be counting on it for a hundred years. ”

Before he could finish speaking, a soft sneer came from the other table.

Huang Yang and Cheng Qi looked sideways together, only to see a pair of beautiful maids coming over there at some point. The girl sitting at the table wore a lady's bun, a goose-yellow gradient skirt, and a pink ribbon on her chest, and the maid was dressed similarly to her, but the material and workmanship were far inferior to her master's clothes, not to mention the difference between the two in jewelry.

Cheng Qi was attracted by the sunglasses that the girl was wearing - glasses are not a rare object, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a prototype, after entering the Song Dynasty, with the development of optics, the level of understanding about lenses is gradually growing. After the industrial revolution, glass has gradually spread to the average middle-aged family, and Cheng Qi's study has installed several glass windows, and the lighting effect is much better than the traditional screen window.

Glasses, which are used as a tool for correcting eyesight, are naturally also sold in clinics, but they are still a favorite of scholars - they are not needed by ordinary coolies. In addition to the readers, I am afraid that only the blind fortune tellers will use it, and they use not myopic glasses or reading glasses, usually sunglasses.

In other words, in this era, sunglasses usually only have the function of covering ugliness, but have no fashion function. This kind of prop has not yet become a popular so-called light luxury item at a certain fashion week in later generations, so that when Cheng Qi noticed that the girl was wearing a pair of brown sunglasses on the bridge of her nose, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful: What a Peugeot beauty, why is her eyes bad?

Maybe Huang Yang also noticed this, so he didn't say anything. It's just that his scholar doesn't have such a good cultivation. When even reprimanded: "Who are you, why do you laugh for no reason?" ”

The maid was also a rude girl: "You talk so strangely, I laugh at me, what do you have to do with it...... Even if you laugh, you can't stop the Heavenly King Lao Tzu when he comes, not to mention that you have followed a master who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it. ”

Huang Yang's face changed, and he estimated that he had already torn the maid's mouth apart.

His scholar is also a violent temper, if it weren't for the delicate body of the maid and a girl, he would have swung his fist over, don't be cowardly, or do it.

But the girl who was sitting there spoke up: "Dan'er, don't be rude. How to speak. ”

It's also strange to say, this pair of main maids are all in the Yueyin of Yuhang, tactful and beautiful, like a yellow oriole hollow valley, but Cheng Qi just thinks that the little lady's voice is much better than that of the maid...... At least fifty times is required.

The girl stood up and blessed the two little Lang Jun: "The two Lang Jun forgive their sins." The little maid of the family has never gone out, and she doesn't know the rules outside, so she collided with the two, please bear with me. ”

The rules of the Song Dynasty were like this, the servant quarreled with the servant, and the master talked to the master. The little lady opened her mouth, and the scholar of the Huangyang family was not qualified to speak, so she could only look at her own Langjun.

Huang Yang doesn't have to be familiar with the little girl. He also got up and said: "The words are serious, the words are serious, and they are all not strict under the control." ”

Cheng Qi stood up and made a peacemaker: "Okay, okay, it's all a misunderstanding." This little lady, you are still waiting for the meal. It's better to come over and share a table together, and it's also a fate for everyone to go out together. ”

The woman was also generous, so she really came over to sit down and exchanged names and surnames. It turned out that this woman's surname was Hua, and her maiden name was Fangfu. She is the beloved daughter of a silk merchant in Yuhang, and she is seventeen years old this year. She went to Bianliang, Tokyo this time for another purpose.

"Is it a family visit?"

"Definitely."

"Or go to Daxiangguo Temple to make incense and make a vow?"

"Not really."

"Is that going to Tokyo to get married?" Huang Yang's mouth was open, and he almost provoked the maid to complain again, but fortunately, he apologized first, leaving others with nothing to say.

"Actually, I went to Tokyo to study." Hua Fangfu said with a little pride: "This year, I also took the entrance examination for the University of Tokyo Park, and I didn't want to be shortlisted, but I actually received the admission letter from them. ”

If Huang Yang was wearing glasses, the glasses must have fallen to the ground at this moment. There are not no girls studying in this year, and it is not uncommon for girls' schools specially held for the daughters of the boudoir in the wealthy Jiangnan. However, what is taught in it is some poetry and literature, the art of flower arrangement, the truth that people should be filial to their in-laws and their husbands, and they are all taught to be close to their sisters-in-law. First, he does not teach mathematics and history, which are not available to women, and second, he does not take the entrance exams of various universities, let alone the imperial examinations.

"I didn't expect that." Hua Fangfu was very smug: "I learned grammar by myself with Mr. Xibin at home, and it was just a temporary itch, but I didn't want to frustrate the group, and even the family didn't expect that the female concubine in the drama fell on me." ”

Cheng Qi was speechless for a while, and looked at her carefully: "Little lady of the Hua family, are you really not here to entertain us?" DID YOU KNOW...... Brother Huang Yang and I are also new students at the University of Tokyo. ”

As soon as these words came out, all three of them fell silent. Suddenly, Huang Yang slapped the table: "Hurry, hurry!" It's really fateful, it's really fateful! ”

Hua Fangfu also said curiously: "You are also all new science students in the University Park of Tokyo?" So, aren't we at the turn of the same year? ”

The three of them are in a row of teeth, Cheng Qi is the largest, Huang Yang is two months younger than Cheng Qi in the middle, and Hua Fangfu is more than half a year younger than Huang Yang.

The three of them then referred to each other as brother and sister, and even their little servants and maids changed their words to each other.

At this time, a table of meals came up, Huang Yang was full of interest, and asked Xiao Er to come with a jar of sweet wine.

Cheng Qi poured a full glass for Hua Fangfu, but noticed that she didn't need the help of the maid when she served the wine glass, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Sister Xian, your eyes ......?"

"Oh, my little sister is not blind." Hua Fangfu smiled lightly and said: "It's just that I was poisoned in my mother's womb, and I didn't dare to see the light in my eyes, so I had to wear sunglasses all day long." Although reading and literacy are a bit difficult, it is not affected when walking. ”

It turned out to be a poor girl. Cheng Qi suddenly thought of Zhang Yan, who had cut her hair and became a nun, and couldn't help complaining about God's unfairness: Why are they all such good girls, and God refuses to give them a happy life?