Yuan Shui originated from Pingxiang Wugong Mountain, in Pingxiang this section is called Luxi, into Yichun is called Xiujiang, Xiujiang on both sides of the mountains and mountains, the scenery is picturesque, this can be seen from the word "Xiu" of Xiujiang, although there is no green mountains and green mountains in this area of Zhuangyuanzhou in the north of the city, but the clear water oasis, the scenery also has good places.

The sunset is about to set on Phoenix Mountain, the shadows of the trees and the figures are dragged for a long time, Zeng Yu and Sixi master and servant duo found a big stone on the river bank in the secluded place at the west end of the Zhuangyuanzhou Wharf to sit down, put on the wine dishes, the aroma of steamed pork and fried fish is overflowing, when the wine jar is opened, the air is added with the aroma of black glutinous rice wine, in addition to the old vinegar cucumber, salted asparagus, these small dishes are also quite clean and refreshing, the master and servant face the river view, a large piece of food.

Sixi chewed the tamales in his mouth and said vaguely: "Young master, there are people swimming over there." ”

Zeng Yu stood on the big stone and looked out, under the sunset, there are village women pounding clothes and children playing in the water on the opposite bank of the riverbank, Yuanzhou Mansion and Yichun County are all on the south bank of the Xiujiang River, the north bank is an ordinary village, and the scene on the opposite bank is somewhat similar to the Fengxi River in his hometown of Shitian——

"Sixi, let's swim over and play."

Zeng Yu drank all the black glutinous rice wine in the bowl, and began to untie his clothes, this long shirt was sweaty and uncomfortable to stick to his body.

Sixi was very excited, in previous summers, he and the young master often swam in Fengxi, both of them had good water properties, but the Xiujiang River in front of him was obviously wider than Fengxi, and there were large and small boats coming and going on the river from time to time, so he said: "Young master, this river is very wide, we can swim over but we are afraid that we will not have the strength to swim back." ”

Zeng Yu pointed to Zhuangyuanzhou in Jiangxin and said: "Don't go to the other side, just swim to Jiangzhou to see the former site of Lu Zhuangyuan's study, there seems to be a cottage on it." ”

Sixi said: "Great, I'll come when I pack up the wine and food and send it back to the inn." ”

Zeng Yu said: "It's three or four miles back and forth to the inn, how can you go into the water when you run sweating profusely, just hang the food box in the tree branch and hide it." ”

Sixi is a young man's nature, and he thinks the young master's idea is interesting, so he poured the remaining wine from the wine jar into a bowl for the young master to drink it all, and the unfinished dishes were received in the food box, and then he took off his shirt and climbed onto a thick camphor tree on the shore, he climbed the tree very well, and used to go up the tree to pick up bird eggs and simmer and eat in Ishida-

Sixi climbed the branch of the camphor tree more than one person high, Zeng Yu handed over the food box and the long shirt he took off below, Sixi hid the food box, and covered the clothes on the top of the food box to avoid insects and birds from invading, and stepped on the branch and trembled twice, to see if the food box was placed steadily, then slipped down the tree, looked left and right, covered his mouth and cooed: "No one sees us." ”

Zeng Yu smiled: "Swim in the water." ”

The master and servant were naked, and the lower body was wearing the kind of cow nose robe with a wide crotch, and slowly groped down to the river.

Zhuangyuanzhou is just in the middle of the north and south banks, are about forty zhang apart, nearly two miles long, about half a mile wide, long and narrow, Zeng Yu and Sixi two people did not wait for a moment on the south side of Zhuangyuanzhou on the shore, both of them are barefoot, Zeng Yu said: "Be careful under your feet, don't be pierced by thorns." ”

Looking up, the trees in Zhuangyuanzhou are luxuriant, most of them are some low shrubs, there are also some neem and laurel trees, in the highest part of Jiangzhou, there is a row of houses, faintly like a human voice, Zeng Yu said: "Let's go over there to see, hey, don't surprise others when you are shirtless." ”

The master and servant walked to the front of the row of houses, and saw that there was a fence wall surrounding, more than ten houses, covered by trees, quite elegant, and there was a lintel on the south chai door, which was written with the words "Luzhou Book House" of Han Li, and Sixi was surprised: "There are still people studying here, what if the water rises?" ”

Zeng Yu looked at the river and said, "This place is more than ten zhang high from the water, and no matter how high the water is, it can't rise here." ”

Sixi people said worriedly: "The boat can't come when the water rises, what do the people here eat?" ”

Zeng Yu laughed softly: "I don't care if I'm hungry for a day or two, just study hard." ”

If it weren't for the shirtless bareheaded, Zeng Yu would have wanted to visit this "Luzhou Book House", because he heard that there was movement in the chaimen, there should be someone inside, but of course it was inconvenient for his master and servant to knock on the door now, so he was also a scholar, so he couldn't be too rude-

Standing on the high place of Zhuangyuanzhou, seeing that the red sun had set on the top of the mountain, Zeng Yu said: "Sixi, let's swim back." ”

Sixi agreed, and the master and servant were waiting to go down to the river, when the chai door opened with a "squeak", and a young Confucian stood between the doors and frowned and said: "Who are you, this continent is a private territory, and outsiders are not allowed to come up without permission - hey, it's you!" ”

Zeng Yu also recognized that this young Confucian was one of the two candidates he met when he went to the lobby to hand in the papers earlier, and hurriedly said: "It turned out to be Brother Ren, by chance, Ha Luha, presumptuous, in the riverside to see the good scenery of Yuanzhou, so he swam over to play, but he didn't expect to meet Brother Ren, does Brother Ren live here and study hard?" ”

The young Confucian looked up and down at the shirtless Zeng Yu, with a sarcastic look on his face: "Zeng Gongzi is so interested, the student who enters the school is like a bag to get things, right, it should be played everywhere, my generation is not as comfortable as Zeng Gongzi, as soon as he comes back, he will write out the eight strands of text in the examination room, discuss the gains and losses with each other, and I don't know if I can live the grandmaster's eyes, I am nervous, and I am sincerely envious of Zeng Gongzi." ”

The sourness in this person's tone was more sour than the old vinegared cucumber that Zeng Yufang had just eaten, Zeng Yu's heart was bright, this person heard Huang Tixue's words praising him under the hall of the examination shed, and the prefect of Yuanzhou saw Lu Hanlin and the letter he wrote to Huang Tixue This person didn't know anything, and he couldn't help but suspect that Huang Tixue was intentionally favoritism, and said at the moment: "Why does this benevolent brother say such a sarcastic language, where did he offend you?" ”

The young Confucian sneered, but shouted to Chaimenli: "Brother Lie, Brother Lie-"

"Liu Xingzhi, who are you talking to?" The clogs were tapped, and another young Confucian walked out, staring directly at Zeng Yu, and the same sentence: "It's you!" ”

A Confucian named Liu Xingzhi said hesitantly: "This Zeng Gongzi was full of ambition as soon as he came out of the examination room, and he took the scholar to swim in the water. ”

The Confucian scholar surnamed Lie is about two or three years older than Zeng Yu, a little cross-eyed, and when he looks directly at people, he seems to despise the other party, of course, it is appropriate to despise Zeng Yu now, and he sneered and said: "It turned out to be this Zeng Da Cai, and he admired it below, and an eight-strand article can make a full house of officials praise him, even if Huai'an Ding Shimei is not as good as you, tsk, tsk." "Huai'an Ding Shimei is the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, that is, last year, he was the champion of the science hall.

The two Confucian students surnamed Lie and surnamed Liu were indignant at Huang Tixue's cover-up and favoritism, so they didn't dare to speak out in the examination booth, and they were still talking about it when they returned to Luzhou Library, but they didn't expect Zeng Yu to come here naked and stomping for some reason, this is to send them to the door to let them out of their grievances, how can they not be ridiculed.

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