Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Moon of Yangzhou City

The autumn cicada on the stairs walked slower and slower, and how to say the first sentence when they met after a while, did they say that they hadn't seen each other for a long time or that they had seen each other again?

It was only when he reached the top floor and looked at the empty corridor that he realized that the group had come down another staircase when he went upstairs.

Stretching out his head slightly, the street was crowded with people, and it seemed that the original two focal points were left alone, and the crowd was anxiously looking for the fairy.

As if infected by the crowd, Qiu Chan also became anxious, and with a slight force under his feet, he crossed the high-rise buildings like the previous shocking shadow, and the young man flew over one high-rise building after another, and saw only the sometimes dense and sometimes loose crowd.

In the end, the young man who got nothing sat down on a cornice, and the last time he missed it day and night, he didn't even know the name, thinking about whether to find the officials in Yangzhou to help him find it, but he was afraid that he would be too reckless and surprise the beauty.

After buying two jars of wine from the restaurant, Qiu Chan, who was sitting on an unknown bridge and drinking alone, suddenly thought of his uncle Bai Du'e, who had been tormented for two days, and how should he feel in his life?

There is a good wife in his family, although she looks mediocre, but she has promised to never abandon her for the rest of her life, which is why he was reluctant to write poetry at first.

"Mr. Qu, what do you think of this poem? We ordinary people also know how to read words, and we know what simple words roughly mean, but we can't understand them as soon as they are written into poems. ”

Many people around the stone hugged their fists at an old gentleman with white hair and said, hoping that the old gentleman would analyze one or two for everyone, as a well-known literary veteran in Yangzhou City, Mr. Qu did not shirk, and smiled at the words on the boulder over and over again, and praised in his mouth: "Good poetry, good words, good kung fu." ”

"Mr. Qu, don't sell it."

"yes, tell us about it."

"Good, good." The white-haired old Mr. Qu stretched out his hands and pressed them twice with a slight tremble, signaling everyone not to quarrel and then said: "First of all, I want to explain that my opinion is just the words of one family, and it does not prove that what Qiu Gongzi wrote is what I said." ”

"That's nature, but with the old gentleman's knowledge, nature is not far from ten." The woman who could talk opened her mouth and hugged the old gentleman, and the old gentleman was full of use.

"Look at this jade Qin Tower first, Qin Tower is a building built by Qin Mugong, a monarch before the unification of the world, for his daughter to make jade, this later generations have passed on the meaning more, here should refer to the place where the noble girl is, and the jade refers to the appearance of this building in the moonlight that exudes a jade-like luster."

Everyone nodded, and the old gentleman continued: "The beautiful jade in the world looks at Qin Tower, which means that you want to see the beautiful jade girl in the world, and you can only see it on the tall building under the moonlight in Yangzhou City." ”

"I thought this was Qiu Gongzi praising himself as a beautiful jade in the world, saying that he was watching the building." A man laughed at himself, causing a group of people to laugh along with him.

The old gentleman laughed and shook his head, and began to comment on the next sentence, "What does this mean?" My interpretation is that the figure is so soft that it looks like sand and hazy like rippling water. ”

The crowd began to fall silent, and the old gentleman continued: "There is a hidden question between the first two sentences and the last two sentences, that is, why is it so sparkling and hazy? ”

Mr. Qu suddenly became excited, although he was old, but at this moment his voice was sonorous: "The bright moon in the world is twelve minutes, and nine points shine on Yangzhou City." These last two sentences are an answer, which means that it is because the moon also favors her, and gives her nine parts of the twelve moonlight in the world, so even Yangzhou City with her will be crystal clear, so it is hazy. ”

"It means that the moon favors this fairy, so nine-twelfth, that is, three-quarters of the moonlight is sprinkled on her alone, and Yangzhou City becomes crystal clear after accommodating this moonlight, but we can't see this fairy clearly, right?" A middle-aged man asked.

Mr. Qu first shook his head, then nodded, and said: "No, no, no, there is nothing wrong with your understanding direction, but the two words in the poem are misunderstood." ”

Looking at the puzzled expressions of everyone, Mr. Qu explained: "There are many meanings of points, and the division of the twelve points of the bright moon refers to the division of the division, that is, there are twelve months in a year, and the moon is twelve times of profit and loss, so it is called the twelve points of the bright moon.

The nine-point point refers to the part of the division, which is equal to nine parts, according to everyone's habit, it is nine parts out of ten, which refers to the bright moon in the world She has nine shares. ”

After the old gentleman finished speaking, he made a gesture with his hand on the stone, showing everyone the difference between the points and the portions, and seeing that everyone was still confused, so he said: "If you can't understand it, you can see these two sentences as: the bright moon in the world, and the nine parts alone shine on Yangzhou City, you just can't turn around for a while, and you can understand it when you have time." ”

"I probably understand, it turns out that this poem means this." Many people showed such expressions, and some people asked: "Then is this poem good?" ”

"Yes, naturally."

The old gentleman looked at the crowd and laughed: "In less than three days, this elegant thing in my Yangzhou City will be spread to the capital, and within a month, the whole world will know that the eldest prince of Qiu saw a woman in this Yangzhou City and gave her a poem." ”

In the small alley under the moonlight, Mr. Qu, who was away from the crowd, walked and walked, suddenly pointed to the sky and said loudly: "This round of moon is the month of my Yangzhou City." ”

In a small dilapidated inn in the city, which was already mediocre in appearance, and occasionally had to work in the fields, the dark-skinned young man held the cake in his hand, and pulled it off little by little and put it in the hot water he asked for from the shopkeeper to soak, or it was not appropriate to pull it off, but it should have been broken off, because the cake must have been baked for a long time and became extremely hard.

Zhao Fujin, who was busy with his hands, was not idle with his eyes, he looked intently at the books on the table, and when he reached out to put the cake in the bowl, he would not shift his gaze and shake his hand.

A few days ago, in a small village bordering Qinglin Road in the south of Yunyue Road, a young woman with an ordinary appearance and many patches on her body baked some cakes overnight, and when the scholar got up in the morning, the young woman who had been married for two months had already packed the things that the scholar needed to enter Beijing to catch the exam.

Including a few sets of clothes that were a little less shabby, a few books to read on the road, and a large stack of biscuits wrapped in cloth, these biscuits that did not add anything except the fragrance of the noodles, just like this family with four walls and a poor face.

The scholar's name is Zhao Fujin, and his wife Chen is a baby set by his parents when he was a child, Chen has been working in the fields all year round since he was a child, so it is darker than Zhao Fujin, who only occasionally goes to the field when he is very busy.

The same amount of flour, today's Chen's cakes are smaller than usual, these dry and hard cakes taste very poor, a little chewy, but fortunately, Chen's has not gone to school, but she is literate, even more knowledgeable than Zhao Fujin's classmates, from the beginning of sensible, Zhao Fujin will teach this little wife who has not passed the door to read and write.

After the Chinese New Year this year, Zhao Fujin was preparing to enter Beijing to take the exam, he was already nineteen years old, for participating in the Spring Festival, this age is not too old, the youngest champion in the empire is a thirteen-year-old genius two hundred years ago, and the oldest is an eighty-year-old man decades ago.

Zhao Fujin was admitted to Xiucai when he was ten years old, prepared for eight years, and participated in the Autumn Festival at the age of eighteen, and became the first person to be lifted in the village since the records were made.

Just as most of the champions of the empire were powerful, most of the Xie Yuan of Yunyue Dao were born in the scholarly sects of Yunyue City and Yangzhou City, and it is really rare for Zhao Fujin to come out of the poor villages of remote small counties.

Yunyue Dao Wenyun is the most prosperous, many champions in the past dynasties are from Yunyue Dao, and winning the Xie Yuan of Yunyue Dao means that the Xie Yuan of other Dao is closer to the final champion than the Xie Yuan of other Dao, which is also the confidence of many ordinary people looking forward to him going to the capital to win the Huiyuan and the champion, and win glory for the poor.

Zhao Fujin's father was worried that if Zhao Fujin got a good score after entering Beijing to catch the exam, he would marry another powerful lady, if that was the case, he and his dead old friend and wife could not explain, so he let Zhao Fujin get married first, and then go to the exam.

In this way, the two, who had lived under the same roof for three years since the death of Chen's parents, visited the church in the presence of relatives and friends, and then moved to the same house.

Zhao Fujin, who said goodbye to his new wife and elderly parents, set off all the way to the capital, with his talent and potential, naturally many people, including the small county county magistrate, showed favor and gifts, but Zhao Fujin refused one by one.

He still knows the truth that he will double the benefits of others and return them, and now he accepts a piece of cake from others, so when others open their mouths in the future, he will have to return a table of delicacies from the mountains and seas, because he can keep the bottom line, so he has been poor.

Zhao Fujin, who was soaking cakes for dinner, reached into his arms and took out a small cloth bag, counted the copper coins in it over and over again, and looked at the two pieces of bread left in the small bookbox, and complained that he was eating fast.

Zhao Fujin thought that he might have to find a private school to earn some travel expenses before he went on the road, and the travel expenses he was going to enter Beijing to catch the exam were probably enough, but it was just a marriage, although everything was simple, but it still cost some money.

The wife also knew, so he secretly took the jewelry that he brought a few days after the wedding, and that night Zhao Fujin saw that there were more copper plates and less jewelry in the small cash cabinet at the head of the bed, but the newlywed wife just smiled and asked: "You will buy it for me in the future, right?" ”

At that moment, Zhao Fujin only felt that his wife with ordinary eyebrows and eyes was so gentle and beautiful, the villain who always followed him and taught him everything, I don't know when it began to become a kind of spiritual support for himself, gently hugged her and shed tears in the middle of the night, just muttered to himself that he had wronged her, saying that if he had a wife like this, what more could the husband ask for.