Xiuwu County Weiyuan Highway is very happy these days, because a friend happened to come to visit him after the provincial test failed, both of them are fond of poetry, and they have to travel leisurely in the forest and springs, chanting poems and inscriptions.

The Tang Dynasty's emphasis on poetry is the imperial examination, and there is no such thing as making poetry. This friend of his is quite superb in poetry, but the imperial examination has not been successful, so he is interested in the mountains and rivers, and travels around the Central Plains.

"Brother Yuan should be leisurely, which makes people envious."

"A land of just a hundred miles, and it is a peaceful and prosperous era, there is no official business, and it is natural to travel leisurely. However, it is not a busy time now, the weather has been dry for a long time, and if this continues, it will not be long before we all have to think of ways to persuade the people to fight the drought. Yuan Highway sighed: "The people's livelihood is very hard, and I don't have a few days to spare...... Brother Qian came here to practice martial arts, you can not go anywhere else, only Busan must be overlooked, the place where the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest are hidden, and the place where Sun Shenxian has achieved the Tao of alchemy, Brother Qian will definitely get a few good sentences when he arrives! ”

"If you have this good place, you should go ...... it"

Before Brother Qian's words fell, an errand officer hurriedly walked over with a strange expression.

"What?" The Yuan Highway is a little unfast.

"Master Yu Shaofu, Wu Zepi's village is coming to complain...... Complaint ......"

Speaking of this, the officer hesitated, but did not know what to say.

"If it's not a big deal, let them go to find it and deal with it." Yuan Highway is not satisfied with the tunnel.

The power of the Tang Dynasty is not small, and they can often decide on disputes in the countryside, and if there are thieves and criminals, they also have the right to arrest. Yuan Highway was entertaining his friends to relax, and he didn't have any intention of dealing with official business, so he wanted to push things down.

"It's not a complaint, but Wu Zepi has a bizarre case. The gold, silver, and title deeds in the boxes hidden by the housewives of Wu Zepi's Ye family suddenly disappeared, and the village came here to report and ask the master of the Shaofu to investigate the case. ”

"Suddenly gone? It must be a thief. Yuan Highway said: "Ling Li is going to arrest the case, why bother to report me." ”

"Brother Yuan, let's ask, what is the situation, junior brother, I will also see the power of Brother Yuan's Shaofu and his ability to make decisions." That Brother Qian became interested and teased to Yuan Highway.

Yuan Highway smiled when he heard this: "Since this is the case, it will ...... So I summoned Wu Zepi's village to see me. ”

After a while, Ye Dan was brought to Yuan Highway. Seeing that he was gray-haired, Yuan Highway exempted him from kneeling, and then asked what happened. Ye Dan didn't hide it, and after telling what happened, Yuan Highway also became interested: "That Ye Chang, does he really have magic skills?" ”

A sneer appeared on the corner of Brother Qian's mouth, what kind of magic trick must be a trick to pretend to be a god and confuse people's hearts.

"The villain asked, and Shiyi Lang insisted that he didn't have magic skills, but the neighbors were just because of his encounter with immortals, but he was suspected of being taught magic by the medicine king immortals."

"Immortals?" Yuan Highway became more interested: "What is the immortal? ”

So Ye Dan told Ye Chang about being hit by the broom star, and this time Brother Qian next to him finally couldn't help it, and laughed: "The fool in the countryside, confused by the warlocks of the rivers and lakes, then Ye Chang wants to capture the old man." ”

Ye Dan glanced at him with some consternation, in the plan that Ye Chang discussed with him, it should have been him who questioned Ye Chang's "meeting immortals", but now this was rushed to say. However, his mind changed, and he knew that he would have to take some risks at this time, so he said: "What this Lang Jun said is that the villain also thinks so, but it's just ...... The first master in the Shifang Temple said that Eleven Lang is a star descending to earth, and the immortals are enlightened. ”

"How did this get to Shifang Temple?" Yuan Highway found things more and more interesting.

So Ye Dan said that Ye Chang was looking for water from the spring, and when he heard that Ye Chang used bamboo to build a rainbow canal to divert water, Yuan Highway suddenly thought of something: "Speaking of this, a few days ago, the county order talked to the official about it, I have the skill of cultivating martial arts and offering rainbow canals to divert water and control drought - could it be this Ye Chang?" ”

"It's Eleven Lang."

"In this way, it is a credit to the people, where is this man now, and has he come with you?"

"Outside the door."

"Bring him in, and the officer will listen to him."

Hearing this, Ye Dan breathed a sigh of relief, at this point, his responsibility has been over. The relationship between the Liu family and the officials of the government is extraordinary, and the most fearful thing is that they will hide and bully their superiors and subordinates, and the matter will be solved by Li Zheng if it is not in the county.

At the level of county lieutenant, Ye Chang said that he had his own way.

"It's rare to have such an interesting story, do you think the young man's encounter with an immortal is true or false?" Brother Qian asked Yuan Highway.

"It's true and you'll know if it's true or not."

After a while, Ye Chang was called in. Yuan Highway and Brother Qian were very curious about what kind of character this legendary young man who had met immortals was, and they couldn't help but light up when they saw it.

Ye Chang is about six feet long, slightly thin, with clear eyebrows, and although his complexion is a little dark, it is the healthy wheat color. He walked at a slow pace, neither making people feel that he was nervous about seeing an official, nor was he the kind of person who was deliberately dragging his feet. What caught Yuan Highway and Brother Qian's attention the most was the things he shook in his hands as he walked.

Because the speed is just right, that thing can be seen clearly by Yuan and Qian.

With Ye Chang's temperament, he really didn't want to kneel down to others, so he walked in front of the two, but he didn't rush to kneel, but "snapped" and put away the things in his hand. Then, he crossed his hands, his thumbs up, and made a gesture of kneeling first.

"Slow, slow, what you have in your hand, let me see." Yuan Highway didn't wait for him to give a full salute before he said loudly.

Ye Chang's heart suddenly relaxed, as Ye Dan introduced, this Yuan County Lieutenant is the kind of person who is anxious and elegant. If this is the case, then your own plan can be carried out.

He opened the object in his hand with a "brush" sound again, and then presented it. His own errand stepped forward to take it and handed it to Yuan and Qian.

"It turned out to be a waist fan, and it was ingenious to make it look like this." The man surnamed Qian laughed.

"Exactly, Emperor Wu of Wei liked this thing at the beginning, and it is recorded in history." Yuan Highway nodded and said: "But it is rare to draw bamboo inscriptions on the fan......"

Ye Chang next to him was almost on his knees.

After he learned that Yuan Highway liked elegance, he immediately invited craftsmen to temporarily make this folding fan, and painted ink bamboo himself, inscribed the sentence "It is better to eat no meat than to live without bamboo; No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar". In his memory, the folding fan was introduced to China from the Wa Kingdom after the Song Dynasty, and was only popular among the literati after the advocacy of Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, but he never thought that these two literati in the Tang Dynasty actually recognized the folding fan, and said that Cao Cao had used it, and it has been a local product of China since ancient times......

Well, although Ye Changzhi was terrified when he talked about the small countries around him "since ancient times", he never thought that he would also be frightened when he thought of "since ancient times".

Fortunately, the bamboo and inscription I drew made them interested.

As soon as this thought turned, the brother Qian spoke again: "It's just ingenious, this ink bamboo and this handwriting are all unique and ingenious, not the handwriting of a famous artist." ”

Ye Chang almost knelt down again.

He has practiced calligraphy and painting, which is his hobby, although Yan Liusu Huang Mi Cai and even the rare confused Zheng Banqiao font, he has been in the rubbing, but the Mo is only similar to the shape and the god has not arrived. The same is true of ink paintings, like the bamboo on this painting, he imitated Su Shi's cousin Wen Tongwen and Ke, but he did not achieve Wen Tong's "confidence" at all.

It's just two random literati in the Tang Dynasty...... His old bottom has been taken out, so the more demanding work of copying poems should be hidden as much as possible, of course, except for the one written on the folding fan now.

"The poem on this fan ......"

Ye Chang was thinking about the poem on the folding fan, when he heard the brother Qian comment again.

Brother Qian was about to say when he raised his eyes and swept Ye Chang, and saw Ye Chang looking at him with a resentful face.

Can you not be resentful, Ye Chang thought that he was seamless and had a good start plan, but he was in danger because Brother Qian saw the old bottom.

"Well, although the words of this poem are flat, the artistic conception is lovely, and it is worth playing." Brother Qian smiled and said, "But I see that there is still room for you here, could it be that there are still two sentences that have not been written?" ”

Ye Chang was overjoyed.

Brother Qian's words were asked to him, which gave Ye Chang the feeling that it was like taking the wrong road and thinking that he was going to go back and walk dozens of miles again, some people said that there was a small road that could also lead to the destination.

"This poem is not done by going down, but it is ...... in a dream" Ye Chang spoke.

"Go down" is a self-proclaimed, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty still has a seat in front of the emperor, and the people will not be "grass people" and "untouchables" as soon as they see the officials. He got it in a dream, and suddenly raised the interest of the two literati: "But the dream of meeting immortals? ”

"Not really, but when I was taking a nap some time ago, I dreamed of a person chanting, this Langjun is very talented, and I can see at a glance that there is still a couplet behind it."

"What's that couplet?" Brother Qian asked.

Ye Chang's face showed a slight look of frustration: "I can hear it in the dream of going down, but when I remember the first two couplets and want to remember the last couplet, suddenly there was a loud noise, and the aunt of the lower clan suddenly broke in, waking up the next walk, and then I couldn't remember it." ”

Ye Dan, who was next to him, added at the right time: "His aunt is the owner. ”

Yuan Highway and Brother Qian glanced at each other, and Yuan Highway asked: "I heard that you used a rainbow canal to draw water from the mountains in Wu Zepi, and the water flowed down the mountains and mountains, I don't know if you can still see this scene now?" ”

He is not very interested in adjudicating cases, but if he accompanies his friends on a tour of the mountains and rivers on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can also try official affairs to show his ability to govern, why not. What's more, Ye Chang's series of things also aroused the interest of the two of them, if Ye Chang's experience is not, then Wu Zepi is a place to meet immortals, how can they miss such an opportunity to seek immortals and visit the Tao?

"It can be seen that now hundreds of acres of sloping fields and more than 20 households rely on this for food and clothing." Ye Chang replied.

Since he was interested and it was still early, Yuan Highway and Brother Qian came out together. The two of them were riding horses, while Ye Dan was riding one of his donkeys, but Ye Chang was on foot, but fortunately, there were five or six servants like Ye Chang.

The distance from the county seat to Wu Zepi is not very far, but in the era of inconvenient transportation, it also needs to be close for two hours, that is, four hours. Everyone walked all the way, occasionally stopping to drink water and rest. Lu Yuan Highway and Brother Qian repeatedly summoned Ye Chang for questioning, Ye Chang's response was different from that of the people who were afraid of officials at this time, and although he claimed to have never studied seriously, his conversation and knowledge made the two literati very interested. Therefore, when Wu Zepi was in sight, the two of them had changed from their initial curiosity to a little appreciation for Ye Chang.

When asked about the encounter with immortals, Ye Chang resolutely refused to admit that he had met immortals, but said that he was hit by a broom star and fell asleep, and saw that a person ordered him to be a furnace boy and guard the Dan furnace for that person, and he had already returned home after waking up. As for the rainbow pipe, it is a mystery seen in the Taoist Dan's room. The more he denied it, the more it left room for others to guess, and originally Brother Qian suspected that he was making up a story to deceive, but under his resolute denial of meeting immortals, he thought that he had really met immortals.

"Yuan Qilang, I never thought that there would be such a strange thing under your rule, this young man, you can take care of it a lot." That Brother Qian didn't have an official position, and he admired Ye Chang a little, so he said so.

Yuan Highway nodded and said: "There is no need for Da Lang to say, if the matter of the diversion of water from the Hongqu Canal alone is true, it must be a good thing for the benefit of the people of the world, and there is great merit, I will take care of it." ”

Caring for and taking care are different, but Brother Qian didn't notice the difference between the two for a while.

They were very interested in the diversion of water from the rainbow canal, and as for solving the case, it was a by-the-way move, so they did not enter the village first, but went to the rainbow canal first. When they reached the slope, they didn't care, but they could follow the trickle to the top of the river, and they couldn't help but admire the waterway that was made of bamboo and wooden planks flying over the mountain beams, huge rocks and treetops.

Never thinking only of water flowing on the ground, a few people thought of putting the waterway into the air!

As for the place where the bamboo pipe siphon was reached, the two of them were even more surprised, and asked carefully about the principle of the siphon, and Brother Qian said: "The magic method of the immortals, the ingenuity of the heavens, makes the water flow to a high place, Qilang, you have this under your rule, and the promotion is in sight." ”

"That's the credit of the prefectural order." Yuan Highway has some regrets in his heart, if he had known about this matter, he would have taken it over, with this thing, he would have reported it as auspicious, and he would definitely be able to reach the heavens to listen, so that the blue eyes of the current son of heaven would be added, and the flying yellow Tengda was in sight!

For example, although Li Sanlang has begun to indulge in alcohol and neglect politics, after all, he was once a generation of heroes, and he still pays some attention to people's livelihood. And this rainbow canal water diversion is not only related to people's livelihood, but also can act as auspicious, and it is very suitable to report it to invite merit and please.

It's just that the matter has fallen into the hands of the county order.

This made Yuan Highway a little uninterested in Ye Chang, he was about to give the order to go home, and suddenly all the way behind him, he saw a team of people rolling in smoke and dust, and everywhere he went, those rainbow canals were all destroyed by them!

This scene made Yuan Highway furious, if he was not present, this matter would be a trouble for the county order, but when he was present, this group of people dared to destroy the Hongqu where the county order was reported to invite merit, wouldn't it make him suspicious?

"Over here, over here!" Someone in the crowd shouted.