"Uncle Cheongju, why don't you leave." Qiuqiu noticed Zhao Qingzhou's abnormality, but she didn't intend to hide the fact that she was beyond the cognitive level of an eight-year-old child. "Xiaoqiu, I'll rest." Zhao Qingzhou made an excuse for himself, he only felt heavy in his heart, and only after a pause did he continue to raise his feet, and walked along the stone steps blocked by autumn grass to the Moon Pavilion.

Qiuqiu sat in the pavilion, clicking and biting the horseshoe candy in his hand, the moon in the sky was beautiful, and the islands on the lake were also beautiful, and each island was brightly lit, and it sprung up in the dark lake without a trace of change. "What is Xiaoqiu looking at?" Zhao Qingzhou couldn't help but ask when he saw Qiuqiu looking into the distance.

"Uncle Cheongju, look at the brightly lit islands on the lake, I'm thinking, maybe we fly above the nine heavens at this time, and see the stars in ten thousand constellations, just like the island we see in the pavilion on the lake at this time, so big, so bright, so beautiful, right?" Qiuqiu turned her head and said, not forgetting to take another bite of the horseshoe candy.

Zhao Qingzhou looked at Qiuqiu, gradually got used to the way the child in front of him spoke, and talked with her: "Xiaoqiu's idea is very good, did the master teach Qiuqiu?" Qiuqiu shook her head, and suddenly asked, "It's me who thinks about it, Uncle Cheongju, if I talk like an adult, will you think it's strange." ”

Qingzhou laughed and said loudly: "No, Xiaoqiu is smart and precocious, this is a good thing." Qiuqiu suddenly felt relieved in her heart: Yes, children are also precocious, and they don't have to pretend to be an eight-year-old child so hard in the future.

"So, is there anything Xiaoqiu wants to tell Uncle Zhao?" Zhao Qingzhou remembered the stunned appearance of Qiuqiu on the side of the ship just now. "It's nothing, Uncle Cheongju, I'm just worried about such a peaceful day of singing and dancing, I don't know how long it will last." Qiuqiu picked up the melancholy just now. "Why did Xiaoqiu say this? Let's talk about it. Cheongju guided Qiuqiu to speak his mind.

"Uncle Qingzhou, I'm afraid that one day, the Great Song Dynasty will eventually lose to the Mongols." Qiuqiu expressed the worries in her heart for these people. The smile on Zhao Qingzhou's face disappeared, and he seriously promised the child in front of him: "No, Xiaoqiu, don't worry, we, adults, will guard the country." ”

Looking at the firmness in Zhao Qingzhou's eyes, Qiuqiu was a little moved for a while, and said: "I understand, but more than a hundred years ago, the adults in Bianliang also wanted to guard the country, but didn't we also retreat to Lin'an?" Faced with Qiuqiu's questioning, Zhao Qingzhou quickly thought about how to answer: "Back then, the two factions in the country competed, the national strength was exhausted, and there was no one in charge of the court, so the Jin State took advantage of it. At that time, the strength of the country could not be compared with that of today. ”

"Uncle Qingzhou, the law of the jungle is the unbreakable truth in this world, otherwise why even if every dynasty has heroes and martyrs, it still can't escape the fate of changing dynasties. The torrent of history never gives way to any heroic figure, and if you fall behind, you will be beaten. Could it be that after the Mongols solved their problems to the west, they settled in the Hetao Plain and never went south? ”

Zhao Qingzhou understood the meaning of Qiuqiu's words, and suddenly felt that the world was sad. He really wanted his children to believe that as long as he held the foundation of self-cultivation and had the responsibility of helping the world, then it was only a matter of time before He Qinghai Haiyan was borne, but Qiuqiu's words reminded him of two poems: Personnel have metabolism, and exchanges become ancient and modern. Maybe Xiaoqiu's words are right, but how did this child give birth to such an idea.

"Xiaoqiu, is it that today in Wanghai Tower, the master covered Qiuqiu's head, making you feel scared, so you thought of this?" Zhao Qingzhou asked with some distress. "No, Uncle Cheongju, I'm not afraid, I'm just talking about what I think in my heart." She suddenly jumped off the stone bench and said, "Uncle Cheongju, can I tell you a secret?"

Zhao Qingzhou smiled and listened to Qiuqiu: "Actually, I'm not a child, I'm ...... He's an adult just like you. "I know, Qiuqiu is a smart and kind big girl." Zhao Qingzhou reached out and touched Qiuqiu's hairy head, and did not take this sentence seriously, but continued: "After eating the sugar, we should go down." ”

After getting off the Moon Pavilion, Qiuqiu took Zhao Qingzhou to buy another string of horseshoe candy, ready to take it to Ximen March, and the aunt who sold the horseshoe candy saw that Qiuqiu was cute, and took some fried broad beans wrapped in lotus leaves and gave them to Qiuqiu. Zhao Qingzhou pushed a little and wanted to pay, but the aunt stuffed the broad beans to Qiuqiu and said enthusiastically:

"I'm not the one who gave you an adult, I'm for your child, don't care." Zhao Qingzhou couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to take Qiuqiu to thank his aunt, and the two of them walked to the dock when they went ashore. Zhang Yunhua and Su Mengtang had already arrived, and were waiting on the boat, and when they saw Zhao Qingzhou and Qiuqiu, Su Mengtang hurriedly waved to the two.

"Why did you come back so soon?" Zhao Qingzhou clearly remembered that after he took Qiuqiu ashore, they went away by boat. "The bait seller wasn't there today, so we watched for a while and then went back." Su Mengtang smiled and carried Qiuqiu to the boat. Qiuqiu happily showed Zhang Yunhua the broad beans and horseshoe candy in his hand, Yunhua nodded, touched Qiuqiu's head, and said softly: "I said that you can't eat so many snacks." ”

"That-" Zhao Qingzhou also walked up to the boat and explained for Qiuqiu: "It's the aunt who sells snacks over there who has to give it, and the sugar is also Qiuqiu wants to bring to March." Su Mengtang was just about to praise Qiuqiu, when he heard the boatman laughing at the stern and said loudly: "It doesn't matter, the horseshoe sold in this area is all grown by the waterside of the West Lake, this thing is sweet and juicy, and children eat the most healthy stomach." ”

As he spoke, the boatman took a penny and put it on the stone on the shore, let the boat slowly shore the shore, and after turning in a certain direction, he sailed towards the island in the middle of the lake. Zhao Qingzhou and the boatman talked: "Old man, how many people are in your family?" The boatman replied with a smile: "There are five people in the family, in addition to the old man and the old woman, there are three boys. Su Mengtang pinched a broad bean held by Qiuqiu and praised: "Then you are really blessed." ”

Unexpectedly, the old boatman was half relieved and half sighed: "It is said that it is good, and the three children are also filial, but it rained a few days ago, and several acres of thin fields in the mountains were washed away by the rain, and the money for renting the boat has also risen year by year. When they heard this, they understood why the old fisherman sighed. Zhang Yunhua asked: "Old man, I don't know how the three Linglang make a living?" ”