I heard from my senior brother that Luohe City is a lively place.

But I'm a little puzzled, the place we want to go to is Kunlun, and it's obviously not in the same direction as that Luohe City, what is the reason why the senior brother deliberately went there far away.

After leaving the Taoist temple, we hired a horse-drawn carriage, and after a tiring journey, we traveled for more than ten days, and saw that Luohe City was approaching, but we were blocked by a big river.

In desperation, I can only abandon the carriage and take a boat, it is the middle of spring, the willows on both sides of the river bank are lush and green, and the branches are reflected in the water, such as a graceful beauty.

The boat carries all kinds of goods, shuttling back and forth, not far away, several fisherwomen stand at the bow of the boat, while picking lotus leaves, while singing songs, sweet and soft sound, seems to carry the fragrance, echoing on the water surface, enduring.

I was very curious, looking at this prosperous and lively scene, I was overwhelmed, and shouted to my senior brother: "Senior brother, this Luohe City is so interesting, you haven't told me before, there is such a fun place in this world." ”

Seeing that I complained about him, the senior brother sneered lightly: "Short-sighted, frog at the bottom of the well, what is Luohe City, according to which the southern capital, which is thousands of miles away, is called a lively one." ”

"Senior brother, have you been to Nandu?"

I once heard Master talk about the Southern Capital, which was the old capital of the former Nanfu Kingdom, and later the Nanfu Kingdom destroyed the Northern Dynasty and became the overlord of the Central Plains, so he moved the national capital to Shengjing.

The senior brother seemed to show off triumphantly: "Yes." ”

"What kind of place is Nandu?"

Seeing that I was in high spirits, the senior brother withdrew his gaze and folded his arms: "Why should I tell you?" ”

My brother has always been hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and his heart is different, and he said that he would not tell me, but in the end he still told me.

In that place in the southern capital, every household has water, every household has flowers, because the climate is warm all year round, it is the most abundant melons and fruits.

At the beginning of the month, in the middle of the month and at the end of the month, there is a large market in the city, where all kinds of flowers, fruits, and delicacies are placed on both sides of the street, which is really dazzling.

The water and soil in the south nurture people, and the girls there are beautiful and spiritual, not like the girls in the north who are locked in the boudoir all day long and do not see the light of day, but like the men, they can go to the street at will, walk in groups of three or five, as long as they go out of the door, you can hear their hearty laughter like warblers everywhere.

I listened with envy, and was about to ask more, but I saw a look of loss on my brother's indifferent face.

Subconsciously asked: "Senior brother, are you from Nandu?" ”

The senior brother was stunned and asked, "Why do you ask like that?" ”

"Because ......"

I pulled away a comforting smile and replied, "Senior brother, it looks like he really wants to go back." ”

The senior brother fell silent, and after a long time, when he turned around, I heard his inaudible sigh.

He said, "...... There's no going back. ”

When I entered the city, I found an inn to live in, and saw that people in the city came and went, mostly scholars, standing on the street and bowing hands to each other, and greeting people who knew each other politely.

I grabbed Xiao Er and asked, "Is there any grand event in this city, why are these scholars so lively?" ”

Xiao Er put the food we ordered on the table, and then replied: "The guest officer doesn't know, we have a place called Yuntai Pavilion in Luohe City, and a poetry meeting will be held every three years, when all the readers in the world will gather here, learn from each other and compete with each other. ”

Hearing this, my eyes gradually lit up, and I immediately looked at my senior brother: "Senior brother, let's go and have a look too!" ”

Suddenly I thought of helping Rhubarb find his family, and now is really not the time to have fun, so he said: "Forget it, let's help Rhubarb find his family first......

Unexpectedly, the senior brother put the cup of tea on the table and replied neatly: "Okay." ”

I think since he entered Luohe City, Senior Brother's attitude has been a bit strange, after all, all the suggestions I have put forward in the past, even if they are very useful suggestions, he will not easily agree to them in order to refute me.

looked at Rhubarb, Rhubarb was still sitting with a blank face, like a gourd, and he couldn't squeeze out a word for eight hundred years.

He didn't speak, but just acquiesced, so after eating, we left for Yuntai Pavilion.

This place is easy to find, built in the center of Luohe City, a very tall attic, standing downstairs at a cursory glance, there are about four or five floors, red lacquer columns, glazed tiles, painted under the top, and the eaves on the top are towering, like the fairy palace depicted in the book.

There were more than a dozen small servants standing at the door to entertain guests, and my senior brother and I walked in, and when we saw the furnishings inside, we found that this Yuntai Pavilion was actually a place to eat.

Looking at the dazzling array of dishes on the guests' tables, I regretted a little and muttered: "The owner of this restaurant is really strange, it is obviously a place to eat, but it is so luxurious and grand, like a royal palace." ”

The little guy next to him had very sharp ears, straightened his waist when he heard the words, and said proudly: "What this girl said is that our restaurant does have a little bit to do with the royal family. ”

"Really?"

I became curious again, and was about to ask, but I heard the senior brother clear his throat and threaten in a low voice: "Seeing that you are so interested, why don't you leave you here later and be a maid who washes dishes?" ”

"No need!"

I was excited, looked at my senior brother, and showed a sweet smile: "Senior sister and senior brother are inseparable, how can I bear to leave you?" ”

My brother glanced at me, snorted, and walked towards the window.

Since we had already eaten before, we didn't call for rice again, but it was noon, and after walking some way, we felt a little thirsty, so my brother ordered three bowls of sour plum juice.

The sour plum juice was served, it was indeed cool, and when I reached out and touched it, there was a thin layer of water condensation on the edge of the bowl.

I think it's strange, after all, it's still spring, where do they get sour plums and ice to make such things?

But thinking about what the little guy said just now, Yuntai Pavilion seems to have some connection with the royal family, so he is also relieved.

In the center of the Yuntai Pavilion is a high platform that looks like a ring, on which two scholars are competing, and we are a little far away from the ring, so we can't hear what they are saying at all.

I saw that the dining tables that were relatively close to each other erupted from time to time with excited cheers, and then like the ripples of pebbles thrown into the lake, the peripheral dining tables also began to react, and even the guests upstairs were infected and stood up and applauded.

Senior brother called me: "Ajing." ”

I turned my attention to him, but he asked, "What is your impression of this place?" ”

I shook my head and asked, "Have I been here before?" ”

The senior brother was silent for a moment and said, "No." ”

"What did I do without you asking?"

I was slightly angry, thinking that he was playing tricks on me, and partly because he had interrupted my train of thought.

The senior brother held his chin, stirred the sour plum juice in the bowl, and said calmly: "I just want to test you to see if you will tell nonsense with your eyes open and deliberately lie to me." ”

Sick.

These two words are naturally said in the heart.

I was about to retract my gaze to look at the two scholars on the stage, but I felt that a gaze fell on my face, staring at it stubbornly, a little awkward.

Turning my head to look around, I found that there was a scholar in green clothes on the next table staring at me obscenely, and I showed him a charming smile: "Am I good-looking?" ”

The scholar nodded and said dumbly: "Good-looking, I have lived for more than 20 years, and I have seen thousands of girls, but there is no one who is better looking than girls." ”

When I heard this, it was to make fun of me, because my brother had said before that I was dark and ugly, and he had lived for more than twenty years, but he couldn't find a more ugly girl than me.

Seeing that the scholar refuted his words, the senior brother was really angry, and with a click of his hand, several cracks suddenly appeared on the porcelain bowl.

put the porcelain bowl on the table, glanced sideways at the scholar again, and said in a word: "I heard that after the Nanfu Kingdom entered the Northern Dynasty, it ruled the country with literature and educated the people with etiquette, why is it that to this day, there are still so many people who are not afraid of death and deliberately cause trouble?" ”

The scholar was confused, looked at me and asked, "What is he talking about?" ”

I was very understanding: "My brother means that you are impatient. ”

Hearing the senior brother's threat, the scholar was not afraid, but moved his position, sat next to us, arched his hand to me, and said, "Xiaosheng just feels that the girl is familiar at first sight, and he has no intention of abrupt the girl, please forgive me." ”

I pulled my lips apart: "Forgive me." ”

The scholar said again: "Xiaosheng's surname is Zhang, his name is Chu Fan, he is a local of Luohe City, and he dares to ask the girl's name." ”

"My name is Ajing."

Looking at the person sitting next to him, my brother's face was already dark, and although it was a hot day, I couldn't help but shiver.

"He is my senior brother Yi ......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard his senior brother clenching his fists and coughing lightly, and hurriedly changed his words: "My senior brother's surname is Yi, just call him Yi Gongzi." ”

"Surname Yi?"

Zhang Chufan was slightly stunned: "Which one is easy?" ”

I didn't understand why he reacted so much, so I dipped the sour plum juice in the bowl and wrote my brother's last name on the table.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Chufan reacted even more, and said in surprise: "The son surnamed Yi dares to come to a place like Yuntai Pavilion, and his courage is commendable. ”

I was even more confused.

Could it be that the owner of this restaurant has an enmity with the person surnamed Yi, and does business with people all over the world, but he refuses to entertain the person surnamed Yi?

I was about to ask in detail, but I saw Zhang Chufan holding back his expression and smiled flatteringly at me: "But I think the girl is really familiar, I don't know if we have seen each other before?" ”

I shook my head and replied, "I have always lived on the mountain with Senior Brother Master, and I have never been here, how can I meet you?" ”

Zhang Chufan was giving a gift to his hand, and said awkwardly for a moment: "Maybe I have a fate with the girl and met in my previous life?" ”

"That's even more impossible!"

I heard that there are also many cultivators at the foot of the mountain, who thought that they should popularize the matter of birth, old age, sickness and death, but I didn't expect that even a scholar like Zhang Chufan could have this fallacy.

Therefore, I rolled up my sleeves and planned to introduce this knowledge to him: "After death, the spirit will be dispersed, and the memory attached to the spirit will no longer exist, and reincarnation is already illusory, and no one has ever confirmed it, eighty percent is just made up by some people who are attached to the world, and even if there is such a thing as reincarnation, it is impossible for people to remember the events of their previous lives, otherwise the world will not be chaotic?" ”

Zhang Chufan's mouth was open, and he couldn't close it for a long time, as if he was shocked by my high arguments, and before he could react, he heard the senior brother squirt out tea first, and he felt out of shape, and covered his sleeves to wipe the corners of his lips.

"This ...... Actually, it's like this......"

Zhang Chufan changed his sad expression and said: "Xiaosheng used to have a confidant, and her appearance was no different from that of a girl, but unfortunately she was blushing and thin, she was young but fragrant and died, and she was worried about her birthday night, and when she saw the girl, she almost thought that you were her reincarnation or a sister, and her heart was kind, and she was familiar at first sight, whenever she saw the girl, it was like seeing the confidant." ”

This Zhang Chufan looked like a lover, and his words were sincere, I was about to be moved, but when I thought about it, I felt that it was wrong: "Zhang Gongzi, what you said is not right, I just told you, there is no reincarnation in this world, besides, my senior brother once told me that my father and mother are only one of me, and there are no sisters, in this world, there should be no one who looks similar to me, and also, you and I meet in Pingshui, I think you are a good person, I want to make friends with you, But you treat me as your dead confidant, and you use me to mourn, and you have never treated me sincerely, but have you ever thought that it is not fair to me? ”

“……”

Zhang Chufan was speechless for a long time, and finally stood up and bowed deeply to me: "Excuse me." ”