On the eighth day of the first month of April, in early summer, a heavy rain last night washed the valley fresh, the forest dripping green, the afternoon sun reflected, the dendrobium, daylily, mulberry, rose, flower shadow sparse, competing for beauty, the mountain road from the foot of Wulin Mountain to Mingsheng Lake is like a picture.

The tenant Laifu temporarily acted as a coachman, driving an ox cart on the uneven mountain road slowly, from Lingyin Temple to Chenjiawu at the foot of Jiuyao Mountain, there were nearly 20 miles of road, and the ox cart had to walk for an hour and a half.

Chen Caozhi's mother and son sat in the car, the mountain road was rugged, bumpy and bumpy, Chen's mother Li felt disgusted, and her face was a little pale.

Chen Caozhi said with concern: "Mother, this mountain road is bumpy, and it is easy to get dizzy when riding in a car, it is better to be supported by a child, my mother has walked this road, okay?" ”

Chen's mother, Li Shixi, said: "Okay, my son is so considerate, my mother is really relieved." ”

In the past, Chen Caozhi's filial piety was filial piety, but it was limited to obedience and obedience.

Chen Caozhi walked slowly on the mountain road with his mother in his arms, looking at his mother's gray hair and age spots on the back of his hands, and secretly said in his heart: "Mother, I am your son, I will definitely honor your old man." ”

In the afternoon, the sun sprinkled on the mountain road from among the dense branches and leaves, speckled and flickering, Chen Caozhi, who was wearing a small crown and a large sleeve fluttering shirt, wore high-toothed sandals and walked through the fine light spots, the mountain road was quiet, the sound of clogs was crisp, he breathed deeply, he felt extremely relaxed and comfortable, the soul long-lived lamp has been more than three months, and the negative emotions have basically been overcome, at this time, he only feels the joy of rebirth, he is now fifteen years old, twelve years younger than the previous life, from youth back to youth, and it was more than 1,600 years ago, isn't it amazing?

Thinking like this, Chen Caozhi couldn't help but be a little excited, swinging his big sleeves more than two feet wide, looking at his slender and thin left hand, reflecting the sun, that hand was so white and transparent, what a delicate beautiful boy.

Chen Caozhi estimated that his current height is about one meter and six inches, which is about six feet five inches, for a teenager who has just entered the development period, such a height is not short, but compared with his strong physique in his previous life with luggage on his back, this is too thin and weak, and he is simply powerless.

Chen's mother Li was carried by Chen Caozhi and walked for a while, and really felt that her mind was not so depressed, and she was much more relaxed, and when she saw her son raising his hand to look at his palm, he asked with a smile: "Ugly, what do you do with your hands?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Mother, the child feels that his body is weak, and he must find a way to strengthen his body in the future and practice the five poultry opera." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, it's to keep fit, it's to keep fit."

Chen Caozhi's father and brother did not live long, Chen Caozhi has always been frail and sickly, Chen's mother Li often thinks worried, and now she is overjoyed when she hears Chen Caozhi say that she wants to exercise.

Laifu, a tenant driving an ox cart, interjected: "Xiao Langjun wants to strengthen his body, it is better to learn swords, and there are priests who can swordsmanship in the Heavenly Master Dao." ”

Chen's mother Li said: "Don't learn swords, it's learned by homeless people and soldiers, just practice the five fowl opera." ”

The Eastern Jin Dynasty has the atmosphere of advocating literature and light martial arts, and the children of the scholar clan pay attention to applying powder and incense, graceful demeanor, waving five strings, and boasting, who wants to sweat and practice martial arts, although Chen Cao's family has not been among the scholars, but has been heirlooming with poetry and books, so it is reasonable for Chen's mother Li to refuse to let Chen Caozhi learn swords.

"By the way," Chen's mother Li said again: "Ugly child, don't tell anyone else about my mother and son coming to Lingyin Temple to worship the Buddha - Laifu, you also remember, you must not say it." ”

Laifu is more than forty years old, loyal and honest, was originally a homeless person in Huaibei, wandered to Jiangdong without household registration and no land, Chen Caozhi's father was kind to Laifu when he was the county of Wuxing County, Laifu took a family of five to Chenjiawu, cultivated the fields for the Chen family, and became a tenant of the Chen family, which has been more than ten years.

Laifu promised: "Laifu will never say, no matter what Buddha or Heavenly Master Laifu is, as long as he can bless Xiaolangjun with peace and security, then Laifu will believe in whom." ”

Chenjiawu Chen family believes in the Tao of the Heavenly Master, that is, the Tao of five buckets of rice, worship the head of the Taoist Du Zigong of Qiantang County as a teacher, the name of Chen Caozhi is related to the Tao of the Heavenly Master, the word "Zhi" is the logo of the Taoist of the Heavenly Master, like the "interpretation" of Buddhism, there are many people named after the word "Zhi" during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the most famous is Wang Xizhi, Wang Xian's father and son.

Du Zigong is said to be a god of art, and has a great influence in the land of Sanwu, and many high-ranking families worship under him, such as Yaoya Wang's family, Chenjun Xie's family, Huiji Kong's family, and Yixing Zhou's family, these are all top-level gate valves, and Buddhism has been introduced to Middle-earth, and Taoism has become fire and water, and is incompatible with each other, so if Qian Tang Du Zigong learned that his disciple Chen Caozhi went to Lingyin Temple to make incense, then Chen Caozhi's future will only be very bad.

At this time, the three of them have gone out of the Lingyin Mountain Road, not far away a vast lake across the heaven and earth, thousands of blue waves, far water to the sky, there are several small islands in the lake, there is no fishing boat on the wide lake, blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and blue lakes, warm wind blowing, making people intoxicated.

Chen Caozhi is a senior traveler, where would he not know that the Lingyin Temple is the West Lake? Yes, it is the famous West Lake, but now it is called Mingsheng Lake, also known as Wulin Water, and the nearby villagers call it Jinniu Lake, the legend that there are golden bulls in the lake, compared with the West Lake that is full of tourists more than a thousand years later, the Mingsheng Lake in front of you is much larger, the lake water is clean, and it is inaccessible -

Chen Caozhi smiled and thought: "Seven hundred years later, Su Dongpo compared the West Lake to the West, and the West Lake in front of him can be said to be Lori Shih Tzu, which has not been tarnished at all." ”

Chen Caozhi helped his mother get into the ox cart, he continued to walk with the car, watching the lake and mountains all the way, walked a way, and saw several ox carts parked on the lakeside in front of him, as well as a board, more than ten attendants, maidservants, each holding a feather fan, a square mattress, a scroll, Ruyi and other things waiting, a long and fair-skinned young man accompanied a plain girl is picking wild flowers by the lake.

The girl had a narrow shirt, a long skirt that dragged the floor, a plain white, combed a fallen horse bun, a slender body, and a very beautiful appearance, pointing to a cluster of flowers more than two feet high by the stone side of the lake, and asked in a Sanwu accent: "Sixth brother, what kind of flower do you think this is?" ”

The young man took a closer look, the leaves of this bush of flowers and trees were oval, the petals were slightly drooping, the flower colors were white, yellow, light red, and light purple, and a branch had five colors, which was very gorgeous, and he hesitated and said: "This-it's a rose, right?" ”

The girl chuckled and said, "How can this be a rose, by no means!" ”

The young man asked the attendants and maids, and he talked about the spring and summer flowers, and the girl shook her head and said, "No, I think it's like a dendrobium orchid, but it's not like a dendrobium—"

At this time, a Qingyue voice said: "This is Dendrobium orchid, but it is not an ordinary Dendrobium orchid, it is a different species, called Dendrobium nobidole." ”

The young boy and the plain-clothed girl turned around together, and saw a small crown and big sleeves, a fair-skinned and handsome young man approaching leisurely with high teeth, with a faint smile on his face, his attitude was leisurely, chic and calm.

The young man saw that this beautiful young man had a very good appearance and demeanor, and he must be a child of the scholar clan, so he arched his hand and said: "Dare to ask the surname of the high, where is the county?" ”

The young man's tone was light: "What about Wang Xie's disciples?" What about the Shu family? With a slight bow, he followed the ox cart eastward.

The plain-clothed girl looked at the back of the young man in the gray shirt who was fading away, and said softly: "I didn't expect such a character in this secluded mountain!" He turned his head to look at the bush of dendrobium orchids and said with a smile: "Dendrobium nobile nobilis, this flower name is chic." ”

The young man felt that the young man was rude, and he was a little angry, and said: "It's not a character, it is estimated that it is the inferior scholar of Qian Tang, and it is likely to be Beiling." ”

Beiling is the barbarians of the north, this is the contempt of the three Wu Shi people to the northerners, Wu County, Wu Xing, Wu Hui are collectively called the three Wu, is the birthplace of Sun Quan Wu State, fifty years ago a large number of northern Jin people came to settle in the land of Sanwu to avoid war, the population of Nandu was nearly one million before and after, accounting for one-sixth of the population of Jiangdong, Jiangdong people think that the northerners went south, occupied their territory, damaged their interests, so they were very dissatisfied.

The girl smiled and said, "Sixth brother, if you call them Beiling, Beiling will call us raccoon dogs." ”

The Wu people are not used to the northerners, and the northern high-ranking families also look down on the Wu people, jokingly calling the Wu people "raccoon dogs", and the raccoon dogs are earth dogs, which is really ugly.

The young man said angrily: "They are the real raccoon dogs, these Beiling, in Jiangbei were beaten by the Hu people like lost dogs, as soon as they arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, they were blessed with prestige, our four surnames in Wu County - Lu, Gu, Zhu, and Zhang, are all heirlooms of poetry, where can they not compare to Wang, Xi, Xi, and Yu from the north?" ”

The young man's name is Lu Yu, is the descendant of Lu Xun, the governor of the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms, his father Lu Shi, the official residence of the five soldiers of Shangshu, is the third product, the girl in plain clothes is his cousin, the daughter of Lu Na of Wuxing County, the girl name Lu Weirui, the Lu family is one of the first and second wealthy families in Jiangdong.

Lu Weirui saw that his cousin was still glaring angrily at the young man who was far away, and couldn't help laughing: "Sixth brother, this young man taught us the flower name of Dendrobium nobile, we should be grateful, and even if he is a northerner, we don't have to be so angry, he is still a young man." ”

Lu Yu also felt that he was not elegant enough, so he laughed, but said: "It is indeed a child who does not know anything, and when he sees the first beauty in Wuxing County, he turns a blind eye, and he is really blindless." ”

Lu Weirui's bright eyes squinted, glanced at her cousin, and immediately ordered her followers to dig up this dendrobium hairpin by the roots and transplant it to the back garden of Lufu in Wu County.

Lufu Garden Jiangdong is unparalleled, Lu Weirui is even more obsessed with flowers, and Wu County is the "Lu's nymphomaniac".

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葳蕤 (sound: Weirui), one refers to the flourishing of plants and trees, and the other refers to gorgeous and bright. There is also a meaning, which is Xiaodao's unique understanding of these two words, that is, delicate and delicate petals.

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