Chapter 1229: The Bitter Days Are Short
A piece of spring sorrow is waiting for the wine to be poured. The boat on the river is rocking. Upstairs curtain moves. Qiu Niangdu and Tai Niangjiao. The wind is blowing again. The rain is bleak again.
When will I go home and wash my robes? Silver word sheng tone. The heart word incense burns. Streamers are easy to throw people away. Red cherries. Green plantains.
After returning from the Great Eclipse, he stayed in Mumbai for a few days because he heard that Cheng Yanjin had found Xuanzang. Xuanzang had already wanted to return to China, but was delayed by the war between Datang and Tianzhu. After Tianzhu was destroyed, it was found when the temple was counted, because Xia Hongsheng had an explanation before, so he was taken to Cheng Yanjin.
Xia Hongsheng thought that the students of Jingyang Academy and the people of the world had broadened their knowledge and knowledge, and asked Xuanzang to record his westward journey into a book, which became "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty". Xuanzang readily agreed.
After that, Xia Hongsheng returned to his heart like an arrow, so he didn't stay longer, and took a boat from Mumbai to cross the Ryukyus through Malacca. When I went ashore in Quanzhou, it was already another spring.
This has been the thirteenth year of Zhenguan.
It has been exactly thirteen years since I traveled to Datang by myself.
With a flick of his fingers, thirteen years have passed in a trance, and if it is really a cherry that is red, the plantain is green, the spring and summer are changing, and the time has passed, all in an instant.
Xia Hongsheng was shocked to realize that he was already twenty-six years old in this life. Rounding it up, it's also a rush to three.
When he crossed over in the previous life, he was also twenty-seven or eighteen years old. This moment seems to be intertwined with time and space, and people can't help but laugh.
The Tang Dynasty has embarked on a completely different path, believing that in its lifetime, with its own intervention, capital and feudal landlords will compromise with each other, so that the Tang Dynasty will complete the bourgeois revolution and become a constitutional monarchy without bloodshed. But in the future, how Datang will go on is beyond his control.
Datang will undoubtedly get better and better, or it may go downhill in hundreds of years. Looking at the hot and smiling faces of the Tang people in front of him, Xia Hongsheng suddenly seemed to understand why the more eloquent emperors were, the more eager they were to pursue immortality - because they had poured too much into this land, this mountain and river, whether it was a long-cherished wish or ambition, he was always unwilling to look at the world he had trained with his own hands, and he would never see it again.
Xia Hongsheng felt that he also felt this way at the moment. The Tang Dynasty that he trained by himself, if one day he will never see it again, he is really unwilling.
"The bitter days are short...... Xia Hongsheng shook his head and muttered softly.
When I talked about this poem and this topic, I said-"Students, the suffering here is based on the use of the law, and it is based on the ...... For suffering, day here refers to time, short, naturally means short, so it is translated as feeling sad because life is short. ”
At that time, it was just an explanation, but now, I have deeply experienced this kind of sorrow - parasitic mayflies in the world, a millet in the sea, mourning the moments of my life, and envying the infinity of the Yangtze River. I want to fly the immortal to swim, I want to hold the bright moon and end up for a long time, just because I know that I can't get it suddenly, so I feel even more sad.
Thinking of this, I can't help but wonder. How did you persuade Li Shimin in the first place? Why are you starting to think cranky now?
can travel to this point, live two lives, and transform the Tang Dynasty to be so strong and prosperous now, what is not satisfied?
"Childe, we're about to go to the Luozhou border." Qi Yong's voice pulled Xia Hongsheng back to reality from his complicated thoughts.
Xia Hongsheng's heart moved, and said, "Go to Luanzhou to have a look." ”
The people traveled along the water, went ashore from the Tongji Canal, and diverted to Luanzhou. After a few days, I arrived in Luanzhou.
The city gate has not changed, Xia Hongsheng is dressed in ordinary clothes, and the soldiers behind him are also dressed in ordinary clothes and entered the city.
The city was even more lively than it had been thirteen years ago, as there were more merchants due to the new law and the opening of the merchant limit.
Luanzhou Academy is still there, and it is time to enter the school at this moment, and Xia Hongsheng is reluctant to go in and disturb the students inside.
The market is much more lively and crowded than before. walked to the place where the sister-in-law set up a stall to sell food, but did not see Lin Ergou's family.
I went up to the shop next to me and asked: "This old man, there used to be a roadside shop selling oily noodles and mutton soup next to here, why is it gone?" ”
The old man behind the counter didn't raise his face, but said, "It's been many years since I lived in Luanzhou!" ”
After that, he raised his hand and pointed at it casually, and said, "Look at the other side, I have rented a shop for several years ago." ”
"Thank you, sir." Xia Hongsheng thanked him, walked out of the shop, and looked at a few rooms on the opposite side, and really saw Lin Ergou shuttling between the tables inside.
"I'm afraid he won't recognize me!" Xia Hongsheng smiled at Qi Yong and said, "Let's go in and eat something." ”
Entering the store, there were two juniors busy in the store, one of them was somewhat similar to Lin Ergou, Xia Hongsheng guessed that it might be his eldest son.
Xia Hongsheng asked for a bowl of oily noodles and a bowl of mutton soup, and then waited quietly, looking left and right.
After a while, the things came: "Guest officer, your oily noodles and mutton soup!" ”
Two big sea bowls of honesty and sincerity.
Xia Hongsheng stared at Lin Ergou, but Lin Ergou really didn't recognize him.
Looking at the many diners around, it is expected that his family should be doing well.
Lin Ergou has his own persistence, how can he not let Xia Hongsheng help him, and he does not want the people of Luanzhou to know that he is related to Xia Hongsheng.
No contact for years.
Xia Hongsheng suddenly felt vicissitudes.
In the familiar taste, Xia Hongsheng ate oily noodles, drank mutton soup, and left silently with Qi Yong and a group of relatives.
Walking on the familiar and unfamiliar streets, I unconsciously returned to the front of the old house.
The old house was built again, a very ordinary, very common house, it must be that the original one could not be lived, and Lin Ergou made money by selling food, so he built a new one.
Xia Hongsheng looked at the unfamiliar house fixedly.
"You...... Isn't it Brother Sheng? Suddenly, a voice came from behind him.
Xia Hongsheng woke up from his fixed state, and hurriedly turned around, an old man was walking behind with his back on crutches.
At this time, he was determined, and he was looking at Xia Hongsheng with doubts on his face.
Xia Hongsheng laughed: "You are old and healthy!" Brother Zhang, has you ever learned your old craft? ”
"It's really Brother Sheng!" The old man became excited, his beard trembled, not only his beard, but his whole body trembled: "Ouch! It's amazing! It's amazing! ”
"I can't let anyone know!" Xia Hongsheng hurriedly said, "It's better to go to your hometown and sit down." ”
Zhang Laohan's house is still like that, full of carpentry things in the yard, but the house has obviously been renovated, and it is much better than before.
"If you want to say that this family can live well, it is all thanks to Brother Sheng'er. Those dining carts, matzas, folding tables and folding fans can be regarded as teaching the old man to turn over. Zhang Laohan smiled, the folds on his face were squeezed together, and he shouted when he entered the door: "Come out!" It's all out! The ancestral grave is smoking! A noble man is here today! ”
I shouted for a long time, but no one came out. The old man was a little embarrassed, rubbed his hands, and said, "Maybe they're all out." The eldest and second have now learned the old man's craft, and I'm afraid they are going out to deliver things. The little ones have all entered the school, and now it's really good, all of them are taught. ”
Zhang Laohan didn't mention it, and Xia Hongsheng didn't ask Zhang Laohan where his mother-in-law went. At the beginning, Zhang Laohan's mother-in-law always brought water to Xia Hongsheng to drink, but now, I am afraid that it is gone.
Xia Hongsheng sat down and chatted with Zhang Laohan in the courtyard, just like when Xia Hongsheng went to ask Zhang Laohan to ask him to take a food car.
Coming out of Zhang Laohan's house, Xia Hongsheng didn't stay longer, and he didn't stay in Luanzhou City that night, so he hurried to Luoyang.
Don't return to your hometown!