However, looking at Situ Haoran's handsome face like an iceberg, he obviously didn't have the heart to expose Wang Ce's hypocritical face, but he kept a straight face, holding his arms and looking at Lin Ling from time to time, as for what he was looking at, he didn't know.

But no matter what, Wang Ce's face still has to be given, and for Lin Ling, Wang Ce, as Wang Shiya's second brother, is a thick leg that must be hugged.

At this time, Lin Ling said in a timely manner: "It's really hard to go out early in the morning. ”

Originally, it was just a grumbling word, and I don't know which word touched Situ Haoran, but I saw that he changed his indifferent look, and said to Wang Ce with some annoyance: "Wang Ce, I'm not going out to play with you, don't forget our business!" ”

A word broke the dream, Wang Ce, who just wanted to say something more, suddenly heard Situ Haoran's words, and his face was obviously stunned, but compared to Situ Haoran, Wang Ce restrained himself very well.

And Lin Ling is not an ignorant person, knowing that the two of them still have important things to do, so he arched his hand and said: "If my brother has something important, don't worry about me, the main thing is important, and there will be more time to get together in the future." ”

Hearing Lin Ling say this, Wang Ce was also bold, and it could even be said that he didn't drag the mud and water at all, but after saying to Lin Ling, 'The green mountains don't change the green water flows', he patted Lin Ling's shoulder and left.

When the four of them walked away, the quiet atmosphere in the lobby was broken, but the topic of discussion had shifted from King Xin'an to Lin Ling, a mysterious scholar.

After all, no matter what age it is, people's curiosity is always very strong.

"Xianghe!"

At this moment, Guo Quan's voice came from upstairs, and when Lin Ling looked back, he found that Guo Quan was wearing a light blue cotton robe, with his waist slightly raised, and he was entangled in a circle of gray-white silk.

As a result, the lower body is only up to the calf part, and the feet are stepping on a pair of pure black cloud shoes, with a white marble pixiu tied around the waist, and the hairstyle is just a simple bun button, so that the black hair is draped behind him at will, and the breeze blows, and the whole person looks a lot more beautiful.

Looking at Guo Quan's dress, Lin Ling made a rare joke and said teasingly: "Seriously, you are dressed beautifully, if you hadn't shouted just now, I wouldn't have recognized you!" ”

Guo Quan, who originally felt nothing, was not ambiguous when he listened to Lin Ling's compliments at this time, but turned around in place with pleasure, and then squeezed his eyebrows at Lin Ling, looking very naughty.

The two quarreled for a while, Guo Quan went downstairs, walked to Lin Ling's side and pretended to be annoyed and said, "Hmph, just what you can say." ”

Seeing Guo Quan walking towards the door, Lin Ling hurriedly followed and said, "Pack up, have you figured out which way to go?" ”

The two left one after another, and Yang Zhen and Zhang Lun on the side glanced at each other and followed.

......

Following Guo Quan's pace, after walking for about half an hour, the four of them finally came to Lingding Lake in Xicheng, and although this Lingding Lake is not as wide as Jinming Pond, it is the only way to get out of the city by water.

As soon as the four of them came to the stone platform by the lake, they saw a boatman from a distance, waving at their side, as if they were waiting for their group.

When the four of them approached, they found that the boat family turned out to be a middle-aged uncle, and looking at his honest face, he thought he was a very good person to get along with.

At this time, the boatman was holding the boatman in one hand, and waved his hand at Guo Quan with a smile and said: "Guo Gongzi, you are here, please come inside, don't miss the hour, we are about to leave." ”

At this time, in addition to the light boats of this boat, the entire north shore of Lingding Lake has been densely moored with many ships, roughly estimated to be no less than hundred, and the sizes of them are different, but they seem to be limited to medium-sized passenger ships.

Because although there are many ships, there are no large-tonnage cargo ships as far as the eye can see, and the unity is dominated by light boats and passenger ships, and the most are light boats like boats, generally speaking, carrying three or five people.

It wasn't until the four of them got on the light boat and the boat traveled about a distance of 100 meters that Lin Ling learned what happened from Guo Quan's mouth, and it could be regarded as solving the doubts in his heart.

It turned out that when Lin Ling and Wang Shiya went to watch the martial arts, Guo Quan had already come to Lingding Lake to observe the path, and this boat was also rented by Guo Quan at that time, in order to keep it as a means of transportation today.

And Lin Ling learned from Zhang Lun's mouth that the width of the Guangji River seems to be very wide, but the depth of the bottom is only two or three meters high.

However, Lin Ling is very puzzled about this kind of river introduction, and compared with the boatmen who walk the waterway all the year round, it is obvious that Zhang Lun, a native of Kyoto, has limited knowledge of the changes in this river.

There was no way, curiosity was aroused, Lin Ling had to ask the boat family for advice, so this boat family is also a bold person, I think it is because of age, and Lin Ling They can also be counted, so they know everything:

"When it comes to the design of the river, it actually depends on the place, in the early years, because the streets along the river were not very prosperous, so large ships were allowed to pass through at that time."

"At that time, the reason why the river was designed to be so spacious was because of this original intention, but later on, Kyoto became more and more prosperous, and with the large increase in the number of immigrants, the prosperous places became more prosperous."

"And these originally deserted streets, because of the increase in the flow of people, have also become prosperous, but there are many people, and even the waterway economy has also risen."

"There are more and more large boats on the deserted river, and the merchants who come and go are also bees, and in the end, the first waterway in Kyoto has become crowded."

Speaking of this, the boatman thought that he was talking a little dry, and in the interval when he was raising his head to drink water, Lin Ling said with some vague understanding:

"As soon as there are more people, the river will be blocked, and if this goes on for a long time, this will not only not increase the sustainable growth of the economy, but may also drag down the economic regression of the surrounding streets."

The boatman who was drinking water at this time heard Lin Ling say this, wiped the water stains on his mouth, and continued: "This little brother is right, in fact, if it is just a traffic block, I am afraid that it will have an accident." ”

Zhang Lun, who had been listening to the sidelines, heard the word accident at this time, as if he remembered something, only to see him slap his thigh with a snap, and shouted:

"That's right! After you said this, I can be regarded as remembering, this happened about the tenth year of Qingli, when I was still young, it seems that for some reason, there were three big ships on the river in succession, and one of them was sunk! ”

Hearing Zhang Lun say this, not only Lin Ling and the boatman were surprised, but even Guo Quan, who was sitting on the side drinking tea, was taken aback, but he was not frightened by the facts, but by Zhang Lun's exclamation.

However, Zhang Lun also has some eyesight, and when he found out that he had disturbed Guo Quan, he hurriedly accompanied Guo Quan with a smile, and Guo Quan was not the person with the little belly, so he just shook his head lightly and stopped paying attention to Zhang Lun.

However, Zhang Lun's words really evoked the memories of the boatman, and he only heard the boatman sigh and say: "Oh, I can't imagine that after so much time, no one still remembers this matter." ”

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