Chapter 3: The Soul Returns to Remember
Nanjing, on the banks of the Qinhuai River, is where the Jiangnan Gongyuan is located.
The ancient Qinhuai River flows in front of the Confucius Temple, and countless talented and beautiful people gather here.
Jiangnan Gongyuan was the largest imperial examination place in the Ming Dynasty, which could accommodate more than 20,000 scholars to take the examination at the same time. The lifelong future of countless scholars lies in this test.
Confucius watched all this in the Confucius Temple, and also looked at those beautiful girls in the Qinhuai River! It seems like a strange combination, but it's the most reasonable combination! Because of the saint cloud, food color, sex also! Since the saints say that food and color are sex, so many candidates gather here for the exam, and after the exam, they can take a boat in Qinhuai and soak some of their favorite girls by the way, which is very reasonable!
The Qinhuai River has flowed through the ages, and I have seen many talented and beautiful women. It's just that talented and beautiful women can't last long, just like this river, today is this water, and tomorrow where will this water go?
However, no matter how much sorrow there is through the ages, this water still keeps coming and going, just like the sons in front of the girls in Qin Huai, constantly coming and going.
Early this morning, when the girls on the Qinhuai River had just gotten up, because they had to be very late every night to end the Shengge mission, even if they didn't spend the night with the guests, they were very tired, so they got up late.
When the girls got up, they freshened up, and then sat on the railing of the pavilion by the Qinhuai River, holding fans, and watching the river in a daze, day after day, year after year, this is their life.
Among them, there was a girl named Cui Hong, who was thinking about her lover, who was taking an exam in the Tribute Academy.
"Xiangyun, your lover Zhang Yilang, will you do well in the exam today? If only he could get the lift, it would be great, and when he achieves his goal step by step, he will be able to marry you! You can see that he is sincere with you! Then a girl said to her.
"Green sleeves, thank you, the whole yard, you are the best for me, I look forward to it every day, looking forward to the day when I can fly with him! It's just that he's just an ordinary scholar, and he doesn't know how long he'll have to wait to get to that day quickly! Cui Hong said.
"Xiangyun, anyway, you don't sell your body, you play the piano so well, your mother is reluctant to let you bud to those fat-headed and big-eared thieves, and your mother earns more money from the guests who like to listen to you play the piano than from many sisters who sell their bodies! You can wait for him with peace of mind! Greensleeves said.
"Sister, you also play the zither well, play it well! I was twelve years old, when my father offended the current King Ning and was demoted to prison, I was bought into the official kiln, it has been six years, in order not to be forced to pick up customers, I desperately learned to play the piano, in order to play today's level, I hope to achieve my wish smoothly in the future! Xiangyun sighed and said.
At this moment, in the Jiangnan Gongyuan across the wall, a serious exam is being held.
Here are rows and rows of rooms, and the candidates are here, thinking and writing vigorously.
Zhang Yilang, an examinee in room 108, is writing at this moment.
This time, the topic is "How to make people who are far away from dissatisfied?" ”
It is estimated that the examiner who came up with this question came up with this question when he saw that the emperor of the current dynasty was fighting in the desert and curryed favor with the emperor in the air.
Zhang Yilang picked up the brush, he quickly wrote the beginning, and then he solved the question all the way, using eight strands of technique, and finally finished writing the test question.
It's just that after he finished writing the test questions, he was preoccupied! It's as if one thing can't be let go!
Finally, he seemed to have thought about it, he picked up the pen and wrote four small words on the top of the test paper, although these four words, although small, but they were indeed earth-shattering, and it is estimated that countless people will lose their heads!
But Zhang Yilang can't care about it anymore!
But when he finished writing and was about to hand in the test paper, he noticed that something was about to gush out of his throat, and he spit it in his hand, and when he saw it, it was blood.
At this moment, he wanted to shout, but he couldn't shout. He fell straight onto the table. The blood gushed out of his mouth and flowed on the test paper, drowning most of the test paper, leaving only one word that was not drowned, and that word was an "anti"!
The woman named Xiangyun had no way of knowing the situation in the Gongyuan at this moment, she was still by the river, looking at the river, quietly thinking about her thoughts.
That night, when Xiangyun had already gone to bed, she saw Zhang Gongzi coming in a daze.
"Ichiro, why are you here?"
"Revenge, revenge for me!" Zhang Gongzi said, his voice was low and a little weird.
"Revenge?" Xiangyun hadn't woken up yet, so he read there.
"Yes, revenge, revenge!" Zhang Gongzi slowly walked away.
"Ichiro, Ichiro, where are you going?" Xiangyun chased after her, but Zhang Yilang she saw was covered in blood, Xiangyun was startled, and she woke up.
Where is Zhang Yilang in front of him! I saw four words on the table, "Redress your grievances!" ”
Xiangyun burst into tears all of a sudden. She didn't know what was going on, but she had a hunch that Zhang Yilang was no longer in the world.
She stowed away the paper and sat under the lamp.
The cold lamp was silent, and at this moment, her tears couldn't stop flowing, for her life experience, and for her lover.
She remembered the first meeting that day, and also remembered those days of tenderness and sweetness together.
At this time, she heard a voice outside the window, and she was shocked again!
When she wanted to go out to take a look, she only saw that it was dark in front of her eyes, and she was unconscious.
At this moment, a figure in black jumped from the roof, quickly blew out the candle, and then took out a large bag and filled her in. Then he carried her and went out the door.
The man in black carried her on his shoulders and sped away from the roof.
When he saw the Qinhuai River, he jumped off the roof, he looked at the Qinhuai River, and sighed: "Girl, we have no grudges in the past, no hatred in the near future, if you die as a ghost, don't hate me!" ”
Then he threw the sack containing the girl into the river.
The sack splashed and then sank directly to the bottom of the river. The man looked at it, turned away satisfied.
He couldn't see that after he turned around, a person jumped directly into the bottom of the river, only to see that person sink hard, and then he quickly rescued Xiangyun out of the water.
"Wake up, girl, wake up!" The man slapped the girl in the face, and the girl spat out a mouthful of water and woke up.
When she saw this man in black, her eyebrows were crooked, and she couldn't hide a trace of melancholy in her eyes.
"Thank you, girl, for saving me!" Xiangyun said.
"Alas, they are both fallen people at the end of the world, why should they have known each other when they meet!" The girl who rescued her now thought of her sunset in the water.
She also remembered that person, the person she thought about for a long time, those eyes, the appearance of the jade tree in the wind.