The white canopy boat went around the Qinhuai River to the right, Wuding Bridge was invisible, Zhang Yuan was full of parting melancholy, but Zhang Dai was uncertain and very lively, and he wanted to speak and stopped, obviously wanting Zhang Yuan to ask him, Zhang Yuan asked: "Brother, what did Li Xueyi say to you, big brother is so happy?" ”

Zhang Dai lowered his voice and said, "The girl in snow just said to me, 'Be the public media for the prince'——"

Zhang Yuan didn't understand: "What does this mean?" Suddenly, he slapped his forehead, glared and smiled: "Big brother, big brother!" ”

Zhang Dai saw that Zhang Yuan understood, and was overjoyed, and said: "I saw him for the first time last year, I loved him, because I was young, I couldn't bear to speak, this goodbye, that kind of coquettish voice is like a turn, soft and flattering, which makes my heart itch and unbearable, the girl in snow promised to raise her for me, and next year or the year after, I will marry again." ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head and smiled, the eldest brother is romantic, this is Lori's cultivation, and said: "No wonder I see that Li Ko'er frequently looks at you, it turns out that there is already a love affair." ”

"Nonsense." Zhang Dai smiled: "I really couldn't take my clothes to wait for Li Xueyi all night, of course, Li Ko'er is also on the side——"

Zhang Yuan said: "It's in the same bed." ”

Zhang Dai laughed: "Jie Zishen counts, I can't hide anything from you, it's really on the same bed, it's true that I can't untie my clothes, it's so cold, wouldn't it freeze me if I don't go to bed, so I said it all night, but it's not as messy." ”

Zhang Yuan said two words: "Fascinated." ”

…… After the snow is clear, the color is bright, on the dock of Zhimaying, there is a large group of people standing tall and low, four boats are quietly moored on the shore waiting to set sail, respectively, Zhang Yuan's boat, Fan Wenruo's boat, Weng Yuansheng's boat, and Ruan Dacheng's boat, Zhang Yuan set off from Shaoxing to accompany six people, to Jiaxing, to Suzhou, and now to Nanjing, gathered twenty-four people, all of whom are members of the Han Society, except for Fan Wenruo, Wen Zhenmeng, Jiao Runsheng, and Luo Xuanfu, who are the four former imperial examination people, the other twenty people are all Yimao new imperial examination people, That kind of heroic spirit is trapped in the field house for many years of scholars do not have, fame and wealth are of course required, but the ambition to make contributions and pass on to future generations is also there at this time, of course, many people's ideals and aspirations will be consumed in the subsequent fall again and again, and will be changed in the hearts of officialdom and lust for profit - for some reason, Zhang Yuan suddenly remembered what Xiao Jinghui said to him in Hangzhou three years ago, Xiao Jinghui said: "Brother Zhang Gongzi, don't become too much, it's better to be like this......"

Zhang Yuanxin said: "I will not change, I will stick to my ideals and make them realize step by step——"

"Brother Jiezi, Brother Zongzi."

There were people on the dock shouting at the bow of the boat here, there were many people, I couldn't see who it was, I heard the voice seemed to be the Ryukyu prince Shangfeng, Zhang Yuan and Zhang Dai waved to the crowd, and when the boat was docked, they jumped ashore, only to hear Jiao Runsheng shouting: "Zongzi, Jiezi, come here, my father is here." ”

The crowd got out of the way, Zhang Dai and Zhang Yuan walked over, and saw Jiao Hong, who had hair like silver, standing by a sedan chair, Jiao Runsheng, Luo Xuanfu and others accompanied him, Jiao Hong smiled and said: "It's sunny today, I'll come to the river to see you off, and I look forward to the early news of the spring and spring." ”

Zhang Yuan said a few words to Teacher Jiao, and the Ryukyu prince Shang Feng and his two companion courtiers Lin Zhaoqing and Cai Qixiang squeezed over, respectfully saluted Jiao Hong, Jiao Hong didn't know this Ryukyu prince, and said to Zhang Yuan: "Is it your friend, you talk to yourself, I will tell Runsheng a few more words." ”

Zhang Yuan greeted Shang Feng, and Shang Feng complained: "Brother Jie Zi didn't tell me when he arrived in Nanjing, and he almost missed it." ”

Zhang Yuan apologized: "It's really a hurry, and I don't know that Brother Shang is still in the country." ”

Shang Feng looked a little sad and said: "I will return to Ryukyu at the beginning of next year, I don't know if there is a goodbye period with Brother Zhang!" ”

Zhang Yuan knew Shang Feng's pain, the Kagoshima daimyo Shimazu clan had to recruit thousands of people from the Ryukyus to serve in Kagoshima every year, and the Ryukyu king wanted to pay tribute to sea fish, bear paws, medicinal materials, and minerals, insatiable, although Shang Feng was unwilling to enslave and expel the island widows, but he was not a prince, and with Ryukyu's own strength could not compete with the Shimazu clan, I heard Shang Feng say that at the beginning of the year, he also went to the capital, visited the ministers and the ministries, and wanted to get the support of the Ming court for the Ryukyus, but in the end he was disappointed - Ryukyu, the Diaoyu Islands are also there, But at this time, Zhang Yuan could only give Shang Feng some verbal comfort, and said: "Brother and Brother Shang are both in their prime, how can there be no time to meet, Brother Shang cherishes." ”

Shang Feng attaches great importance to his friend Zhang Yuan in the Southern Prison, such as Zhang Yuan knows the Ryukyus and sympathizes with the Ryukyu Ming Dynasty is very rare, Zhang Yuan knows that the Ryukyus are important to the Ming Dynasty in maritime trade, and his vision and knowledge are far beyond his peers, Shang Feng said in a low voice: "I sincerely hope that Brother Jie Zi will be in charge of the cabinet as soon as possible, so that my Ryukyu may not be bullied by the island widows and be a Ming vassal for generations." ”

Zhang Yuan was not humble, he wanted to give Shang Feng a little hope, and said solemnly: "Brother and Brother Shang work together." ”

Wang Fengsu, Xie Jiulu, and Jinnige also came to talk to Zhang Yuan, Jinnige carried his luggage on his back, a little ascetic, Zhang Yuan's Sanmingwa boat could not accommodate so many people, and Fan Wenruo's boat was relatively empty, so Huang Zunsu moved to Fan Wenruo's ship and vacated a small cabin for Jinnige.

At the beginning of noon, the 24 lifters who went to Beijing to catch the examination respectively got on five boats, and the people on the shore saw off the people in unison to congratulate all the lifters "Spring Success, the title of the gold list", the five boats left the Zhimaying Wharf one after another, and went down the river, without half an hour to go out of the Qinhuai River estuary, into the Yangtze River, suddenly felt suddenly enlightened, the river surface is more than ten miles wide, the two sides of the river do not distinguish between cattle and horses, the cold river wind is coming, the boat enters the Yangtze River waterway from the Qinhuai River, only to make people feel that the river is big, and the manpower is small - Ruan Dacheng's boat leader, Ruan Dacheng is a Tongcheng person on the north bank of the Yangtze RiverThe boatmen are also familiar with the waterway from Nanjing to Zhenjiang, and the boats of Zhang Dai and others follow Ruan Dacheng's boat, sail along the river, and master the direction of the ship.

Zhang Yuan and Wang Binglin, Jinnige stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the scenery of the south bank, Zhang Yuan studied in Nanjing Guozijian for several months last year, the scenery of Nanjing was not appreciated, the changes in the scenery of mountains and rivers in the past four hundred years are not small, Wang Binglin stayed in the south prison for two years, Baixia Qingxi, Qixia Niushou, these places have been played, pointing to the high cliff on the south bank and said: "Jiezi, Jin Siduo, please see, that is Zhidu Mountain, and then look at the strange peak that abruptly lies in the river, it is Yanzi Rock, the first rock of the Yangtze River, which is the famous spot of Jinling. ”

When the boat passed under the swallow rock, because the river was forced by the swallow rock, the water was turbulent, the boat was very fast, the cold wind was cold, Zhang Yuan and several people did not dare to stand in the bow of the boat to watch the scenery, and returned to the cabin to sit down.

There are not many taboos in the diet of Catholics, only Friday can not eat meat, and Lent is said to be hungry, the rest of the meat can't help it, today is the fourth day of the winter month of Wanli forty-three years, Jinnige said to Zhang Yuan that it is Wednesday, lunch on the boat, Zhang Yuan, Wang Binglin and Jinnige around the stove to discuss the calendar, Jinnige is really an expert who is proficient in the calendar, although Zhang Yuan is not proficient, but as long as Jinnige says, he can quickly understand and master, which makes Jinnige amazed, some of Jinnige's views are wrong, such as Ptolemaic geocentrism, Zhang Yuan asked: "I heard that the scholar named Copernicus in the Polish state of Tessie is in the country, and I have a heart to say, do you know about Priest Kim?" ”

Jinnige suddenly shook his head and waved his hand as if he had been stung by a scorpion: "That's the devil's heresy, I hate it, I don't know it, and I don't want to understand it." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled, he had no intention of distinguishing the heart and the center of the earth with the Kinnige, and the heart and the center of the earth were all wrong, let Galileo distinguish them, he was more concerned about the "Tessie Water Law" and the two flintlock pistols in the cabin, but the Kinny Pavilion instead asked him where he knew what Copernicus and the heart said, Zhang Yuan said that he saw it from a book of the Tessie people, and the Kinny Pavilion shook his head again and again, and said: "I don't know who brought this heresy to your country, it is very harmful, Zhang Gongzi is extremely smart, don't be bewitched by that heresy, The books we brought with us from France were all open books that were useful. As he spoke, he took out a large stack of Latin books from his luggage, the most books on the astronomical calendar, including "The Law of Pushing the Year of the Calendar", "Jian Pingyi Said", "The Yellow Eclipse Distance", "The Human Body" about human physiology, and many religious books that Zhang Yuan was not interested in...... Zhang Yuan listened with a smile and said in his heart: "Isn't this "Aesop's Fables"? Thinking of Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci's co-translation of "Geometric Originals", he proposed: "Priest Jin, there is nothing to do in the boat, why don't you and I cooperate to translate the books "Pushing the Calendar Year and Paying Rites", "Yellow Altitude Table", and "Fables of Meaning" into Chinese, and publish them by my Hanshe Book Company. ”

Jinnige said happily: "I have this intention, I have not been able to find a Confucian who has opened the wisdom, Zhang Gongzi is extremely suitable, it is simply made in heaven." ”

Kinnige is very pleasant, Kinnie Pavilion admires Ricci the most, he was ordered by the Holy See to come to the Ming Dynasty is to sort out Matteo Ricci's posthumous manuscripts, Kinnie Pavilion agrees with Matteo Ricci's missionary strategy, and believes that in order to let the people of the Ming Dynasty accept the Holy Religion, the first thing to do is to spread Western science and technology - "But this is only a month and a half to Yanjing, I'm afraid I can't even translate half a book, Zhang Gongzi is about to take the exam, don't be half-hearted, and then make an appointment to cooperate in translation after the exam, how about it?" ”

It took Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci two years to translate the six volumes of the Geometric Originals, so Jinnige's consideration was not unreasonable.

Zhang Yuan said: "It is difficult to push the law of the past year's ceremony, so let's start with the translation of the "Yi Shi Yan" and try the difficulty. ”

Jinnige readily agreed, and when Zhang Yuan had polished the ink and spread out the paper, he opened the hardcover "Yi Shi Zhi Yan", and said the first oracle "Fox and Grapes" word by word in his immature Ming official dialect...... Jinnige This is a literal translation, the difference between Latin and Chinese is too big, Jinnige has not yet learned through the Chinese and Western, the translation is stumbling, stumbling, stumbling, very ashamed in my heart, I know that I am far from Matteo Ricci's Chinese and Western cultivation, for fear that Zhang Yuan frowns and laughs, but Zhang Yuan does not stop writing, and when he finishes talking about this "fox and grapes", after less than half a moment, Zhang Yuan put down the pen and handed the paper over:

"Priest Kim, please see, is it okay to translate it like this?"

Jinnige took it and recited it word by word: "Fox and grapes - there was a fox in the past, seeing that the grapes were full of shelves, thousands of purples and thousands of reds, tired and lovely, coveted for a long time." Nai has no ape ascension skills, and he can't feast on it. Hope leads to resentment, resentment begets anger, anger begets slander, and everything goes. It was duplicity, and he masturbated and said: "It seems that this grape is by no means a precious product, a rare thing, and its taste is sour and astringent, I never swallow it, and he eats it as a common man." This is like a despicable person in the world, seeing that he is talented and virtuous, and he can't go so far as to take care of himself, and he slanders and slanders, and pretends to be high. Oh, it's the surname of the person, and it's against the will. ”

After reading it, Jinnige was dumbfounded, Zhang Yuan's translation is more wonderful than the original Latin text, and it has played a little, which is like copying better than the original, and the copycat overwhelms the genuine version, Jinnige shook his head and sighed: "Zhang Gongzi's talent, I have only seen it in my life, and I can cooperate with Zhang Gongzi to translate, it is really brilliant." ”

The word "Peng Shen Shine" was used inappropriately, Zhang Yuan kindly reminded that Jinnige was also humbly taught.

In the afternoon, Jinnige and Zhang Yuan spent two hours cooperating to translate 20 oracles, a total of more than 180 fables in this book "Yi Shi Yan", according to this progress, if you translate four hours a day, it will only take five days to complete, Jinnige feels like a dream for such a speed, he attributes this miracle to God, Zhang Yuan's appearance, is the miracle of God's manifestation - the sky is dark, and the people on the boat in front of him can shout sharply: "Zhenjiang has arrived, Zhenjiang has arrived." ”

Nanjing is more than 160 miles away from the Zhenjiang waterway, this is smooth sailing, one afternoon on the light boat, according to the previous agreement, they will spend the night in Zhenjiang, tomorrow morning to cross the river to Yangzhou.

Five boats are moored under Beigu Mountain one after another, the crescent moon is like an eyebrow, it hangs in the middle of the sky early, there is the thin snow that is left in front of the mountain top, it reflects the moonlight, the sky is white, the river is swallowing, the white mist is filled, the scenery is quite strange.

Zhang Yuan stood at the bow of the boat, looked up at Beigu Mountain, and said in his heart: "This is the first country in the world praised by Emperor Wu of Liang. ”

"Meson, did you have dinner? After using it, okay, let's go to Jinshan Temple for a visit. ”

Zhang Dai called on the boat over there, Zhang Dai is the most fond of playing, didn't sleep last night, after getting on the boat, he has been sleeping from Nanjing to Beigu Mountain, was aroused to eat a big bowl of mutton wontons, the spirit is excellent, the tour is very strong, although Beigu Mountain is passing by, the beautiful scenery must not be missed, Ruan Dacheng hit it off with him, Ruan Dacheng has all kinds of musical instruments on the boat, a concubine and two small guys can sing with the ship, Ruan Dacheng said: "Beigu Mountain is steep, it is inconvenient to climb the mountain at night, and Ganlu Temple is decayed, I came last year, there is no view, Jinshan Temple is good, the mountain is not high, It's also easy to play. ”

Zhang Dai invited everyone to visit Jinshan Temple, Zhou Menong, Ni Yuanlu, Wang Binglin, Weng Yuansheng and others have to go, Zhang Yuan is also a person who cherishes the scenery on the road, and is glad to go, the missionary Jinnige heard that it is a Buddhist temple, of course he does not go, 24 people are going to go to 16 people, together with nearly 40 servants, gathered on the Ruan Dacheng boat, move the boat under the Jinshan Temple - Jinshan is the island of the heart of the river, the so-called Wanchuan East Note Island is neutral, choke the throat of the Yangtze River waterway, has always been fought for by the soldiers, Jinshan Temple is built according to the mountain, the mountain is the temple, the temple is the mountain, The scenery is secluded, the shape is better than nature, and the water in the legend of the white snake is here.

When the two drums, the crescent moon is slanted to the west, the moonlight is snowy, up and down a white, and the lonely Jinshan Tower on the top of the mountain is so solemn and clear, the temple is in the heart of the river, it is the cold winter night again, in addition to Zhang Dai, Zhang Yuan's line, there are no other tourists, everyone passes through the Dragon King Hall, enters the Daxiong Treasure Palace, there are no temple monks along the way, the surrounding paint is quiet, only there are a few ever-bright lights shining in front of the Buddha, the sparse residual snow outside the hall, at first glance it seems that the moonlight leaked from the treetops - Ruan Dacheng, Zhang Dai ordered the servants to bloom the lights in the main hall, gongs, drums, cymbals, cymbals, sheng, flute, flute, All the beating and blowing for a while, Ruan Dacheng dressed up as Han Shizhong, Zhang Dai asked Suzhi to play Liang Hongyu, and sang "Han Qi Wang vs. Jinshan" in the main hall, this drama is about Han Shizhong, Liang Hongyu and his wife in Jinshan defeated the story of the 100,000 army of Jin Wushu, very hot-blooded, very lively, gongs and drums are noisy, singing passionately, the old and young monks of Jinshan Temple are alarmed, gathered to the Daxiong Treasure Hall to probe the brain to see, see the lights are bright, the propaganda is like boiling, the clothes are gorgeous, and the powder and ink appear, these monks are completely stunned, dare not ask who is singing? Why do you sing here in the middle of the night?

When Liang Hongyu beat the drum to help the battle, Zhang Dai thought that Su Zhi had no strength, where could such a loose and weak drum sound mobilize morale, and when he glanced at Mu Zhenzhen beside Zhang Yuan, he came over and asked Mu Zhenzhen to go up to play Liang Hongyu - Mu Zhenzhen shrank behind Zhang Yuan, and said continuously: "The maid can't act, he really can't act." ”

Zhang Dai said: "I don't want you to play anything now, and you don't have to sing, you just go up and beat the drums hard, and the more urgent the drum, the better." ”

Zhang Yuan also encouraged Mu Zhenzhen to go, Mu Zhenzhen saw that the young master opened his mouth, so he stepped forward according to his words, took the drumstick, and beat it hard, Mu Zhenzhen was good at making a small dragon stick, the wrist was strong and flexible, and he quickly mastered the essentials of beating the drum, "the head is like a green mountain peak, and the hand is like a white raindrop", the drum is like a boiling, and even the Buddha statue of the Daxiong Treasure Hall is shaking, and 100,000 gold soldiers have fed the fish and turtles in the Yangtze River in this drum...... The monks of the temple stretched their necks to see, pricked up their ears to listen, heard the highlights, but also twisted their eyebrows, the expression was vivid, there was the old monk with cloudy eyes, yawning and rubbing his eyes, wanting to see more clearly - after the end of a play, it was already three watches, Ruan Dacheng and others packed up the lights and played out of the hall and went down the mountain through the Dragon King Hall, and no one dared to come forward to inquire about the monks of the temple, looking at each other, aggressively and strangely.

There is an old monk bold, quietly followed Zhang Yuan and others to the foot of the mountain, watched this group of people get on the boat, untie the cable and cross the river, the boat has gone far, the old monk also carried a small lantern standing at the foot of the mountain to watch, rubbing his eyes, I don't know whether this group of actors who came and went suddenly are people or ghosts?

After a long time, the old monk returned to the main hall, the hall was silent, and there were still only a few yellow lanterns in front of the Buddha.

(To be continued)