【Wedges】

In the first year of the Great Song Dynasty (1111 AD), in March, all things sprouted.

"Qingming has been on the West Lake is good, full of prosperity, fighting for who's home, green willow and red wheel to go to the car. Visitors are going to go at dusk, wake up drunk and noisy, the road turns the embankment obliquely, until the city head always flowers. But when the sun is clear and the rain is not shining, on the bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou, there are many tourists. Many self-proclaimed talents will take advantage of this beautiful scenery to chant a song of Ouyang Xiu's "Picking Mulberries" to paint this spring picture.

On the shore of the Slender West Lake, pedestrians are weaving, there is a road that is full of prosperity, drunk and noisy, at this time the new emperor Zhao Ji has succeeded to the throne for ten years, but the people of the world have been suffering for a long time!

At the beginning of Zhao Ji's succession, there were sages in the dynasty, although they were hedonistic and extravagant, arrogant and lascivious, and extravagant, but they could not shake the foundation of the Zhao family. However, since Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Tong Guan and other traitorous ministers came to power, the spirit of the DPRK and China has become stronger and stronger. In particular, Cai Jing took advantage of Zhao Jixi's strange flowers and stones, and set up Hangzhou "Creation Bureau", Suzhou "Ying Feng Bureau" and other government departments to search for rare cultural relics on the southeast roads. Cai Jing's officials even took the opportunity of carrying flowers and stones to Tokyo to loot the people along the way. And in order to let the fleet loaded with huge flowers and stones pass, the bridges were demolished along the way, and the city walls were chiseled, which naturally made the people of Jiangnan miserable.

However, in the fourth year of Daguan (1110 AD), because the government and the opposition became increasingly resentful of Cai Jing's party, and the capital area was dry for a long time, and there was a comet. In May of the fourth year, Zhang Kegong and others played dozens of times in a row, saying that Cai Jing had been an assistant to the government for eight years, and he was good at acting as a prestige, leaning towards the government and the opposition, and counted dozens of Cai Jing's disloyalty and misdeeds. In the imperial history, Cheng Shi Gongbi also impeached Cai Jing for his crimes, and served Yu Shi Mao to impeach Cai Jing, saying that his crimes were deep, although he was dismissed, he was still pampered, and he lived in seclusion to do evil, so that the heavens and the people condemned each other, and hoped that His Majesty would order him to be expelled from the Beijing division as soon as possible, so as to eliminate the disaster with the anger of the people.

Zhao Ji was forced by public opinion, star changes, natural disasters and other reasons, so he had to order Cai Jing to be expelled from Beijing and live in Hangzhou.

It's just that at a time when the people of the world are celebrating Cai Jing's deposition, no one knows that Cai Jing came to Hangzhou this time to give a secret decree, which is that Zhao Ji hopes that Cai Jing will rectify the bureau after coming to Hangzhou, speed up the collection and transfer of flowers and stones, and prepare materials for accelerating the construction of Genyue, the largest garden construction project in the Song Empire that broke ground in the fourth year of Chongning (1105 AD).

But it is said that on this day, the sun is falling in the west, and the sunset is full of sky.

There is an old man riding a donkey on the shore of the Slender West Lake, walking along the old road by the lake, and every time he meets a pedestrian, he will look for each other, and he will come to a port by the lake in a moment.

The old man seemed to be about fifty years old, dressed in a half-old kudzu shirt, with half-white beard, a ruddy face, a half-foot-long beard under his chin, a black hood on his head, a pair of sauce-colored cowhide boots on his feet, an iron belt with a tiger head wrapped around his waist, his sleeves tucked in front of his elbows, and a pair of iron-armored arms tied to his arms.

Walking to the port, the old man did not go down to the ground, looked left and right, and shouted: "I Zhou Dong went to the appointment!" The old man of the Zhu family, don't show up soon! ”

There were more than ten bow passenger boats, boats, and sampans moored around the port, and after the old man who called himself Zhou Dong shouted, he saw many boatmen coming out of the boat, but he didn't see the person he was looking for, so he called again loudly.

Called three times, but heard a child's voice next to him ask: "Dare to ask the old man, but the iron arm of the Tokyo Imperial Boxing Gym Zhou Dong?" ”

Zhou Tong looked back sideways, and saw that the person who spoke was a boy in Taoist costumes, eleven or twelve years old, carrying a lot of lotus leaves in each hand, and his little face was three points of doubt and seven points of vigilance, Zhou Tong immediately laughed and said: "Yes, it is the old man!" ”

Xiao Tong asked again: "If you are Zhou Tong, can you know the full name of my master?" ”

Zhou Tong stroked his beard and smiled, "Lingquan Zhu Taozhi, right?" ”

"That's it!" The little boy hurriedly saluted Zhou Tong with his crossed hands, and then pointed to the port behind him and said: "The senior will send the mount to the boat family, and then follow the disciple to see the master." ”

Immediately, Zhou Tong followed the child's arrangement, made some scattered copper coins, deposited the donkey at a boat's house at the port, and took the burden and stick bag with the child on a bow boat and went to the lake.

After walking for more than a quarter of an hour, they came to a passenger boat in the middle of the lake, and saw an old man in a Taoist costume wearing a bamboo hat sitting on the bow of the boat and fishing. Zhou Tong saw it, but he took out a copper coin from his arms and threw it into the water where the old man in Taoist costume took the hook, and then laughed and said: "The old man of the Zhu family, all the monks must do more good deeds, but you are fishing and hunting here, but do you want to kill?" ”

The old man in Taoist costume was obviously the Lingquan Zhu Taozhi that Zhou Dong was looking for, but when he saw him, he looked up and smiled: "Definitely!" Definitely! Today, I don't want to fish, but I want to catch a big turtle that can make copper coins! ”

But look at the appearance of this Zhu Taozhi is only about fifty, wearing a dark robe with a placket, a pair of hemp ears and cloud shoes, black and thick hair, and a ruddy complexion like a child's face.

Zhou Dong was stunned when he heard this, but saw Zhu Taozhi get up unhurriedly to collect the line, and then suddenly slapped his thigh and pointed to the fishing hook on the rod and said, "Ouch! I was chatting with you just now, but I made the beast run away! Miscalculation! What a miscalculation! ”

Zhou Tong fixed his eyes and saw a copper coin hanging on the fish hook in Zhu Taozhi's hand, wasn't it the one he just thrown?

Before Zhou Tong came back to his senses, he heard the little boy who was leading the way beside him snort and laughed, obviously telling him to take the first step to realize where the "big turtle that can make copper coins" in Zhu Tao's mouth was sacred!

"Okay, you old man of the Zhu family, I haven't gotten on the boat yet, so I'll catch you first!"

Zhou Tong smiled bitterly, and then said no more, after the two boats were close together, he stepped forward, and then raised the burden in his hand and said: "Come on, come on, I Zhou Tong is willing to gamble and lose, the disaster star is really in the world as you said, and Cai Lao Thief was really demoted out of the capital." Look, this is the royal wine Sanle pulp paid tribute by the Great Food Messenger! ”

Zhu Taozhi took the burden when he heard this, opened it and saw that it was a small mouthful, big-bellied, strangely shaped clay pot, and after he opened the mouth of the pot, there was immediately a burst of rich fruity fragrance spreading, Zhu Taozhi smelled it and immediately rejoiced: "Yes, it is really Persian Sanle pulp." The eldest man of the Su family once said that he played the jade of the Hunan concubine and the cloud of the drum emperor. The calyx of the immortals is green, and the ancient dance is gloomy robe. Introduce the Boli of the South China Sea and drink the grapes of Liangzhou. However, compared with these three pulps, the Pu grape of Liangzhou is different from the cloud mud! I'm afraid that this authentic Persian Sanle pulp, the Su family has never tasted it in his life? ”

Zhou Tong shook his head and scolded with a smile: "You old immortal thing, what nonsense are you talking about? If Su Gong is under Jiuquan and knows that you are arranging with him like this, I am afraid that he will be angry and come back to reason with you! ”

Zhu Taozhi said with a smile: "That's it!" There is a way to go to Huangquan to regret it, no matter how hard the gluttony in the world is, just taste it with him! ”

After speaking, Zhu Taozhi turned his wrist, and tilted the three pulp in his hand to the surface of the lake, and a blue-red slurry poured out of the mouth of the pot. Stay! That's what it means! I just got a bucket of this kind of wine. ”

As soon as Zhu Taozhi's wrist was closed, the wine line stopped, and then he laughed and said, "If you don't have him, you said." With him, and stingy, if he is really in the underworld, I am afraid that he will not be an old Taoist if he wants to hold a grudge! ”

After speaking, he said to the little boy who led Zhou Dong before: "Tong'er, hurry up and get some food to drink, you must know that this guy in front of you, but Zhou Dong, the iron arm of the Tokyo Imperial Boxing Gym, is now a Zhishi, but he is still the head of the Tianzi seat of the Imperial Boxing Gym. ”

"What are you used to do? Do chickens drive dogs? Xiao Daotong blinked his eyes and muttered quietly, and then raised his voice: "Hey! If the master is less treated, the apprentice will be good! ”

Immediately, he quickly moved a Hu case and two Hu stools from the passenger cabin, took the dishes, opened the lotus leaf bag in his hand and put it on the plate, which was some cooked chicken and duck vegetables and vegetables. When he had eaten a good meal, and had raised the stove and boiled the hot water for scalding the wine, he took the corners of the bowl that had been left over from the plating, and released an old monkey from a large iron cage in the cabin, and sat down by the stove to share food with the monkey and amused him.

The old monkey is afraid of being four feet tall, the hair is shiny and shiny, and a pair of eye pupils are even more different, but its ear shape is a common Tibetan macaque in Emei, Sichuan.

At this time, at the bow of the boat, Zhu Taozhi and Zhou Dong had a very happy conversation, and in the cabin, the little Taoist boy was also happy with the old monkey.

After a while, I heard Zhou Tong say loudly: "It took me a long time to find you, and now how to fight hunger with just some wine and food, and let your Xiaolang cook some rice." ”

When Xiao Daotong heard this, he put the old monkey back in the cage and stepped forward and said, "Master, only Huang Liang is available in the passenger boat." ”

Zhou Tong hurriedly said: "Use it!" I cooked some yellow beam rice, but it was going to be soft, and it was not soft and unpalatable! ”

Xiaodao Tong took the pot and made a fire, and hit the lake water to cook Huangliang rice.

It is only said that Xiao Daotong may be tired, and his eyelids are fighting while looking at the fire, and he is actually dozing. After a while, the fragrance of Huangliang rice wafted out of the pot, but as soon as Zhu Erren smelled it, he found that the incense was burnt, and he screamed badly, so he hurriedly got up to see.

Sure enough, just because Xiaodao Tong was napping, although the water in the pot had been collected, the stove was still on fire, and it was strange that it was not scorched. Zhu Taozhi looked at it, and hurriedly leaned over and spilled a handful of water into the lake with one hand, and the fire in the furnace was actually extinguished by the water, and then Zhu Taozhi looked at the napping little Taoist boy, but his face was strange and shook his head, and he raised his hand to signal that Zhou Dong was okay.

Xiaodao Tongwu didn't wake up, but slept more soundly.

"How's this meal?" Zhou Tong was originally focused on Huang Liang's rice, but when he looked back and saw Zhu Taozhi's movements, he asked softly, "What is this doing?" ”

"It's okay, this Huangliang rice is stuffy with residual warmth, but it can still be used." Zhu Taozhi shook his head and smiled after revealing the pot, and said: "It's okay for me to be a disciple elsewhere, but I'm a little stubborn, and I've been haunted by nightmares for some reason these days, sending some weird dreams." Let's go and go back to drinking! ”

Zhou Tong was suspicious, so he returned to the bow of the boat with Zhu Taozhi to drink, and after a while, he smelled the fragrance of Huangliang rice, and Xiao Daotong also woke up with a scream, looking at his sweaty head and looking around, it seemed that he really had some nightmare.

At this time, Zhu Taozhi raised his voice and said, "Tong'er, don't hurry up and bring the Huangliang rice!" ”

When Xiaodaotong heard this, he came back to his senses and hurriedly wrapped the rice pot with a rag, but Zhou Tong asked with a smile: "Xiaolang, I just heard you scream, but you had a nightmare?" ”

Xiao Daotong first looked frightened when he heard this, and then nodded and said, "Yes!" Fang Cai really had a nightmare, and even dreamed that I had become a person in the afterlife. ”

"Hereafter?" Zhou Tong and Zhu Taozhi looked at each other in amazement, and Zhou Tong hurriedly said: "Who are the people of the next generation?" ”

Xiao Daotong shook his head blankly, as if he couldn't say why, and looked at the master with his eyes, but Zhu Taozhi smiled and said, "It's okay to say something." ”

Xiao Daotong thought about it and said: "In my dream, I saw that everyone said that the Great Song Dynasty was hundreds of years ago, and the world in my dream was modern. And the person in the dream can take the iron bird to the sky, and take the iron car to run on the land, that is, this ship, all of which are made of iron, among which there is a huge ship that is extremely large, and the ship can be placed with a hundred and ten iron birds, and thousands of iron cars. ”

"Ahh Zhou Dong was shocked when he heard this, but he hurriedly asked: "The Laoshizi in Xiaolang's dream is modern, but is it still my Great Song?" ”

Xiao Daotong shook his head blankly when he heard this, but then Zhou Tong reached out and patted his head, and said with a smile: "Oops! But I'm confused, this is far away from the Warring States to Qin, near the Sui, Tang, Zhou (Later Zhou) Song, a few hundred years later, it will not be my Great Song Dynasty, and it is not unusual. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Tong glanced at Zhu Taozhi again and asked, "I don't know, how did this Great Song Dynasty have no land?" ”

Xiao Daotong thought about it and said: "I remember that someone said in my dream that Jin destroyed Liao and the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, Mongolia destroyed Jin, and then destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. ”

"What is the Northern Song Dynasty? What is the Southern Song Dynasty? Zhou Tong's eyes were full of shock when he heard this, and Zhu Taozhi also frowned, with a deep face.

Xiao Daotong replied after a little thought: "It seems that now Tokyo Bianliang is the Kyoto of the Great Song Dynasty, this is the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty is located in Hangzhou. I still remember that there was a poem in my dream that said that it was the warm wind that made tourists drunk and made Hangzhou Bianzhou. ”

"The warm wind makes tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is Bianzhou?" Zhou Tong's eyes were even more shocked, and after thinking about it, he was immediately furious, and said: "Xiaolang and tell the old man, who actually lost my Great Song Tokyo Bianliang?" ”

At this time, Zhu Taozhi suddenly got up, first reached out and covered Xiao Daotong's mouth, and then said to Zhou Tong: "Zhou family Xiaolang, don't ask again, you know that the secret of heaven cannot be leaked!" ”

Zhou Tong thought about it, but he was also relieved, and then he took the stick bag he brought with him and handed it to Xiao Tong and said, "It's okay!" Everything in the world has a certain number, and the destiny of life and death is difficult to violate. This lance, which the old man has recently acquired, is now a gift to you. In addition, the old man has only recently realized the essence of the overlord gun made by Ling Gong Yang Ye, and now he will also teach you this overlord marksmanship! ”

"Overlord guns? Isn't it amazing? Xiao Daotong was stunned when he heard this, but he curiously broke Zhu Tao's hand to cover his mouth and asked.

"Hahaha!" Zhou Tong laughed loudly, but said: "The nine sunflower spears that my eldest apprentice Jade Qilin Lu Junyi learned and the thunder spear that my second apprentice Leopard Head Lin Chong learned together are less powerful than five or six out of ten of this overlord spear!" ”

Xiao Daotong was naturally surprised when he heard this, but he looked at the lance in the stick bag, but his eyes rolled, and he asked, "Could it be that the name of this lance is Liquan?" ”

Zhou Tong was stunned again, but Zhu Taozhi reached out and knocked on Xiao Daotong's head, and scolded: "The inferior disciple of the straight lady thief, isn't he really going to bring a catastrophe to the teacher?" ”

Zhou Tong suddenly shook his clothes, and bowed to Zhu Taozhi with his crossed hands and said: "Don't worry about Zhu Gong, there is a way of destiny, and reincarnation is impermanent." Mortals are just born at the right time, following the times. Xiaolang has this sympathy between heaven and man, and naturally has his karma. I still have a question now, but I ask Xiaolang to solve my doubts, if there is a catastrophe, I Zhou Tong will bear it on his shoulders. ”

Zhu Taozhi saw that Zhou Dong was resolute, and knew that it was useless to stop him, so he could only nod and say, "That's it!" However, you only passed on the battle array martial arts overlord spear, but it was a loss to me as a bad man, so why don't you pass on your 100-step shooting skills to him. ”

Zhou Tong didn't think about it, so he replied boldly: "Okay! Good things come in pairs! Xiaolang, let me ask you, can the traitor Cai Jing return to Bianliang in the future? ”

Xiao Daotong closed his eyes and thought about it, and replied cautiously: "Within three years, Cai Jing may be able to return to Beijing!" Within ten years, Jiangnan may be in turmoil because of Huashigang! ”

"Alas!" Zhou Tong listened, sighed, stretched out his feet and stomped his feet gently. But seeing that the ship was unharmed, but the lake was centered on the passenger boat, stirring up a huge ripple, like a water curtain like a mountain and a tsunami spreading out in all directions!

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Note 1: During the Northern Song Dynasty, the royal garden designed and built by Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, was built in the seventh year of Song Huizong Zhenghe (1117) and completed in the fourth year of Xuanhe (1122). In 1127, the Jin people captured Bianjing and it was demolished. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty Zhao Ji personally wrote the "Imperial Gen Yue Ji", which means that Gen is located in the northeast corner of the palace.