In ancient times, when going out to a long distance, it was quite boring on the road, if it weren't for the scenery along the way, Qiu Tongmian would probably go crazy.

Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists only meet Jiangnan Lao.

The spring water is blue in the sky, and the boat is painted to listen to the rain.

The people on the edge are like the moon, and the frost and snow are condensed on the wrists.

If you are not old, you must return to your hometown, and you must break your intestines when you return to your hometown.

Qiu Tongmian saw the scenery all the way, and sighed at the blue sky and white clouds in ancient times. Looking at the Yangtze River in the distance, it is mighty and heading eastward. Thinking of staying at home every day in the future, failing to take a good look at the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and feeling that he had lived in vain before, no matter what his fate would be in the future, Qiu Tongmian just wanted to say to himself, from today onwards, live every day.

The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is endless, only the Yangtze River skyline is seen, although it is not a lonely sail, but it still responds to this scene, the river boats are endless, it seems to be the same as the rolling Yangtze River water, endless.

This place is the boundary of Anqing, Qiu Tongmian is not very clear about the ancient geographical division, only know that he heard the housekeeper talk about Anqing two days ago, but he didn't think about it, an Anqing Mansion has been gone for three days, and he has not yet walked out.

Suddenly, Yang Xuezheng's carriage stopped, lifted the sedan curtain, and said to Qiu Tongmian who was walking on the side, "Tongjin, you move faster, go to the front and ask the housekeeper where you are." ”

Trotting to the front of the team, the housekeeper said that he heard the old man's question, looked at the surrounding scenery, and talked to a local subordinate on the side, and said to Qiu Tongmian, "It should be about to cross the river, and after crossing the river, it will be out of the boundary of Anqing Mansion. ”

Qiu Tongmian turned around and relayed the words to Yang Xuezheng, and after Yang Xuezheng listened, he stopped the team.

"In the past few days, the teacher has never taken care of you, have you ever been dissatisfied?"

Qiu Tongmian didn't know why the teacher suddenly asked this, shook his head and said, "The student dares to be dissatisfied, the student knows, and the teacher is also for the good of the student." “

Yang Xuezheng laughed after hearing this, changed his previous face, his face was full of red light, and he seemed to see this extremely beautiful splendid country, and the wind and cold on his body seemed to be getting better.

Let the steward tell the team to rest for a while, eat some dry food, and prepare to cross the river.

But he saw that there seemed to be a tall pagoda in the distance, erected on the bank of the Yangtze River, and asked the housekeeper, "Where is that?"

The housekeeper looked in the direction that the master pointed out, and knew that the master was asking about the pagoda.

"It's Yingjiang Temple, I have been here a few years ago, and I have been there. Master, do you want to take advantage of the rest of the people to go and have a look? ”

Yang Xuezheng nodded after hearing this, "Well, I want to go and see, my body has been much better in the past two days, and I just took a walk." ”

After speaking, he said to Qiu Tongmian, who was still looking at the pagoda, "Tongjin has never been to it, so it is better to accompany the teacher to take a look." ”

Qiu Tongmian said happily after hearing this, "Listen to the teacher's orders." ”

After seeing Qiu Tongmian happily agreeing, he went on the road, looking quite close, but he still walked for nearly half an hour.

Yang Xuezheng said to the housekeeper, "I see that there are quite a lot of households near Yingjiang Temple, and there must be a ferry nearby, so you have been there anyway, you now turn around and tell the team to gather at the ferry, I will enter the temple with the same to see, and the time will be saved, otherwise I will go back and find the way, I am afraid that I will cross the river in the dark." ”

After hearing this, the official also knew that the journey was not short, and he was afraid of delaying the crossing of the river, so he nodded and turned back.

After about half a pillar of incense before climbing to the temple door, this place is the high ground on the riverside, the line of sight is excellent, the right wall of the temple courtyard wall reads: "Buddha day increases, ** often turn", the left wall of the door is written: "solemn land, Tetra Pak has love".

Entering the temple, pilgrims were endless, let Qiu Tongmian find to preside over the abbot, after informing the identity, the host led the two, walked a road with few pilgrims, and walked to the pagoda, the host was very talkative, and Yang Xuezheng chatted very much along the way.

Yingjiang Temple, on the Jiuhua Mountain, down to Kuanglu, north of the pillar, south of the Yangtze River, can be said to have the aura of heaven and earth, occupy the glow of humanity.

According to folklore, the terrain of Anqing is like a ship, the tower is a mast, if it is not fixed with an anchor, Anqing City will go with the east of the river, so it is set up.

The tower that Yang Xuezheng saw before, called Zhenfeng Tower, Zhenfeng Tower stands in the temple, was built in the Song Dynasty, rebuilt in the Ming Longqing four years, formerly known as "Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda", is a rare seven-level floating map of Yingjiang River in the Yangtze River Basin. From a distance, it looks like a cone that has been standing, tall and beautiful, and majestic; Looking closely, the pavilion-style building made of bricks and stones is exquisitely embedded in the hollow, solemn and gorgeous. The tower has seven floors and eight corners, with a total of 168 steps, and each floor has a stone fence for sanitation. The center of the tower is the octagonal melon peel headspace hall.

Zhenfeng tower tower door layout changeable, visitors climb the second floor after often enter and hit the wall, can not go up to its door, so the laughter of people is endless, once the door is up, then it is full of enlightenment again, its fun is endless. The eaves corner of each layer is hairy, and the copper bell is tied under the tree, which rings with the wind and is melodious and far away. The bottom floor of the tower enshrines a 5-meter-high Buddha, the second floor is for Maitreya Buddha, the third floor is for the Buddha of the five directions, and there are more than 600 Buddha statues in relief above the fourth floor.

The top of the tower is the octagonal Sumeru seat, connected with a semicircular covered bowl and 5 iron balls (Buddha called the phase wheel), 1 gourd treasure bottle, strung together with a copper shaft to form a tower stop. The thick tower body is lined with the beautiful shape of the tower stop, towering majestically, straight into the sky. "Tower Shadow Hengjiang" is a beautiful and strange picture of a clear sky and moonlit night, and is known as one of the scenic spots in Anqing. The good names of "Anqing Bu Say Tower", "The First Tower of the Yangtze River" and "King of Pagodas" have attracted many literati and ink writers in history to come and leave beautiful poems.

On the top of the tower, Yang Xuezheng saw that Qiu Tongmian was full of interest along the way, and held on to the guardrail, "Before, I saw that you were hit hard by the death of your father, and you were in a trance all day long, as if you had changed a person. “

Qiu Tongmian thought to himself, an old oilman in officialdom like Yang Xuezheng, this ability to observe words and emotions is really powerful, and he can see his own differences, he said this, he should think that I have changed so much because of the old man's affairs, it is better to explain it according to his misunderstanding.

"Teacher, the trek through mountains and rivers in the past few days has made me feel much better."

Yang Xuezheng listened and said, "Well, you can see it, and I am much relieved in my heart." Looking at the Yangtze River in the distance, "this year as a teacher is not by your side, I don't know if you have dropped your homework, you look at the Yangtze River, since ancient times it is the literati love to use lyricism, today you also learn from the ancients, with the Yangtze River to make a poem." ”

Qiu Tongmian was suddenly stupid after hearing this, isn't this fatal, suddenly remembered the mobile phone on his waist, and asked his mobile phone about the poems about the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty, but he didn't expect to find a suitable poem for a long time, and the whole person is not good, God, don't people in the Qing Dynasty write about the Yangtze River.

Seeing that Yang Xuezheng and the old abbot were waiting for him to speak, he found a poem written about the Yellow River, and the ground was changed to Huizhou.

The flood is in the middle of the stream, and the range rover tour is soothed.

Count the fishing boats and songs, and the poetry is in Huifu Zhou.

After Yang Xuezheng listened, he nodded slightly, "The poem is good, there is progress, next year's spring boudoir, I still have great hopes for you." After hearing this, the host also praised the good poem and said to Qiu Tongmian, "If Mr. agrees, I will let the disciple copy it in the tower, so as to leave a name for Mr." “

Yang Xuezheng laughed after hearing this, "Thank you for your kindness." ”

Qiu Tongmian happily bowed his hand to the host and said, "So, thank you abbot." ”

Yang Xuezheng didn't expect him to thank the abbot, but he didn't expect it to be so direct, and he didn't know modesty at all.

After hearing this, the abbot hurriedly said, "This is not thankful, it is also a good poem of the gentleman." If it weren't for this poem, it would have been replaced by anyone, and the old man would not have let him leave his name in the tower. “

Xuezheng saw that it was not early, so he said goodbye to the abbot, pulled Qiu Tongmian, and went to find the team.

After finding the team, Yang Xuezheng decided to go down the river, go ashore at the boundary of Yangzhou, and then go from Yangzhou to the boundary of Tianjin, and when he arrived in Tianjin, he arrived in the capital.

Five days later, because it was going downstream and the tailwind, it would have taken him seven or eight days to get to Yangzhou, which was a long time earlier, during which Yang Xuezheng went ashore to meet many classmates, all of whom were accompanied by Qiu Tongmian, which also gave Qiu Tongmian a fuller understanding of the world.

Then I went all the way north, and finally came to Tianjin, which was the most time-consuming on the road, and it took more than half a month. Qiu Tongmian calculated carefully, I am afraid that after leaving Anhui, there will be a month less.

The weather is starting to get colder, but it's even colder in the north.

Tianjin Station. Qiu Tongmian saw that Yang Xuezheng had already recovered, so he didn't take the initiative to say to Yang Xuezheng, "Teacher, students don't need to stay at the boundary of Tianjin, it's only two or three days away from the capital after Tianjin, why do you have to rest here, wouldn't it be better to rest when you go back to Beijing." “

"You have never been in the officialdom, and it is normal to not know the truth in this, for the teacher to leave the capital for so long, the news in the officialdom, I haven't heard it carefully for a long time, these two days, you haven't found that the people who live in this post station are all returning to Beijing to report on their work, it is because this place is close to the capital, so they all choose to rest here, and inquire about the news of the capital with their colleagues, so that they can return to Beijing to report on their work."

Qiu Tongmian didn't expect this to happen, but he also learned, "Teacher Xie taught, teacher, not only the official who returned to Beijing to report on his work, but also the students found that there were many more people who came to Beijing to take the exam than I usually do, how could they be so early." ”

Yang Xuezheng nodded and said, "I think it should be a long time since Enke has been opened, there are many old people, and there are many people, and the distance will be farther away from the place, and it is right to go on the road earlier." ”

Qiu Tongmian didn't agree with what Yang Xuezheng said, but he couldn't say why, so he didn't make a sound, asked the teacher to rest early, and opened the door and went out.