Text Chapter 6, Nai Ho City
The two of them stepped out of the east gate of the Hou Mansion, and a stone-paved street led straight ahead. On both sides, there is a poplar in five steps, a willow in ten steps, and the green trees are like jasper, embracing each other in the middle of the road. Outside the road on the left side is the mountain forest, but see the good wood onion cage, the green grass is luxuriant, the height is staggered, the flowers are like a brocade; dozens of steps away on the right side, the market is gradually increasing, the white wall and green tiles, the courtyard is separated, the chickens are singing and the dogs are barking, and the children are chasing.
"I seem to remember that our place is called Nai Ho City?"
He searched for his memories as he walked.
"You've finally remembered!" She asked in surprise.
"I have a vague impression, but I can't remember anything other than the name. β
"Don't rush, take your time, you'll remember. I'll tell you about it first. Do you remember why this city is called Nai Ho City?"
"I don't know, I don't remember. β
"Because of its dangerous terrain and important location, one will defend the city, who can help meββ!"
Zhen'er said, the second half of the sentence became similar to the singing voice in the opera, and the pronunciation of the word "He" was also picked up, and at the same time, she stomped her feet and waved her hand, and posed like a general waving her hand. This exaggerated and interesting action amused Li Bingtong all of a sudden.
After walking for a while, I gradually felt that my eyes were brighter, and after a while, I saw an endless blue lake. The long causeway in the lake is traversed, and the embankment islands are connected to each other, the red pavilion and white bridge, the reflection in the water, and the pink lotus and green grass are connected with each other. There are also wooden boats lightly, penny support, old man net fish, children picking lotus, the sound of the flute is far away, and the sound of the flute is light...... What a beautiful scenery of the water town!
"I'll recite another poem praising this Naho city, will you listen to it?" said Zhen'er, and without waiting for him to answer, she recited aloud in a children's voice:
"The mountains and seas are beautiful, the riverbank will be prosperous, but it has been prosperous since ancient times. The smoke willow paints the bridge, the wind curtain is green, and there are 100,000 people. Cloud trees surround the embankment. The angry waves roll frost and snow, and the sky is endless. The city is a jewel, the household is profitable, and the competition is luxurious. β
"The heavy lake is stacked with Qingjia, there are three autumn laurels, ten miles of lotus. Qiang tube clear, Lingge flooded the night, frolicking and fishing lotus baby. Thousands of horsemen have high teeth. Listen to the flute and drum while drunk, and enjoy the smoke. The picture of the different day will be good, and return to Fengchi Kua. β
"Good!" he exclaimed.
"Is the poem well written, or is it the scene in front of you?" asked Zhen'er with her head tilted.
"Who's going to write this?"
"The legend was written by a Taoist immortal in Qingyang Mountain a few decades ago, and the name of the poem seems to be called 'Wanghai Tide', which is probably standing on Qingyang Mountain, looking at Nai He City on the left, and looking at the tide of the East China Sea on the right!"
"Where is Qingyang Mountain?"
Qingyang Mountain is the mountain outside the city in front of you! It stretches for hundreds of miles, reaching the seaside river. The strange peaks on the mountain are towering, the highest and most mysterious, is the Lingxu Peak and the Ethereal Peak, the well-known Qingyang School Lingxu Pavilion and the Gushen Palace, are located on the top of these two peaks respectively, it is said that the Lingxu Peak can also reach the heavenly realm. β
"So, this mountain must be fun. β
"Still thinking about playing, you fell down this time, and you fell from the tall tree in front of the Miaomen Peak outside the east gate of the city. β
"I remember, as soon as I woke up, my mother and my father always asked me why I kept climbing that mountain and that tree. β
When she heard this, she stopped, turned around, grabbed his wrist tightly, and stared into his eyes.
"Then can you tell me now what the reason is?" she asked in a serious and serious tone.
His eyes sank for a moment, and he thought for a moment.
"I can't really remember. Heyββ!" he said, sighing involuntarily.
"Forget it, don't think about it if you can't think of it. Don't be tired and stupid!"
"It's good that you know, it's not that I don't tell you. β
"Okay, let's talk about what's in front of you. Look at this bluestone street under our feet, go out of the east gate of the General's Mansion and keep going, we often walked before you fell stupid, do you still have an impression?"
"You're just stupid?" he was a little angry.
"Hehe!" she smiled sheepishly, "just tell me if you have any impressions?"
"Kind of. He looked at the weeping willows on both sides that were as green as a curtain and said. "It's time to turn right at the T-junction, right?"
More than 200 steps further south, there is the street in front of the main gate of the General's Palace. β
"Zhengyang Street?"
"That's right!"
"Let's go, go to the bell and drum tower over there to see the excitement!" She hadn't come out to play for a few days, so she jumped happily and took him to the left and turned left into Zhengyang Street.
The two of them jumped and clicked, walking in the cool autumn breeze, you said, I said, and after a while, I forgot my troubles, and I no longer had worries.
The streets are lined with green willows, and the elegant courtyards with blue tiles and white walls are one after another, and there are more and more pedestrians coming and going. After walking for a while, scattered shops began to appear, and when I looked up, I could see the towering bell and drum tower in the distance.
There are more and more shops, and the two or three storey antique small buildings stand in the middle of the street, with white walls and green tiles, flying eaves and corners, gradually showing the appearance of prosperity, and pedestrians, cars and horses are also becoming more and more crowded, which can be called a busy traffic. Lined up shops, fluttering flags, goods from the east and west, treasures from the north and south, bustling crowds, five-colored beautiful clothes, flowery shouting and selling, and singing and selling songs like Yue opera, intertwine the bustling streets. Li Bingtong was also attracted by the bustling atmosphere of this colorful street market, and Zhen'er looked east and west, tasted delicacies, picked treasures, watched the acrobatic sword and sword shadow spin like a bright ball, and listened to the tactful and agitated flute drum beat flying out of the window of the silver building, and his face showed a long-lost happiness and smile.
The Bell and Drum Tower is located at the intersection of Zhengyang Street and Shunyang Street, and it is also the most prosperous area of the city. After the two walked around Zhengyang Street, they turned to Shunyang Street in the south. As soon as I turned the corner, I saw a small stall dozens of steps away from the street, with red, orange, yellow and green Tianxian umbrellas of various colors, which were very dazzling. A beautiful woman with black hair and a cloud bun and a red Luo shirt stood next to her and shouted:
"I bought an umbrella! I sold an umbrella! I sold a good Tianxian umbrella! The golden one is the title umbrella of the gold list, the scorching sun shades, the rain is blocked on rainy days, and a hundred Wen is handful. Little brother, I see that you are a talented person who has read poetry and books, can you give it a hand?"
"Take that golden one!"
"Okay! Sell umbrellas! Buy umbrellas! Good Tianxian umbrellas! Green is an environmentally friendly beauty umbrella, made of green mountain banana leaves, with transparent diamond paper, which can block sand and dust, and with a healthy aloe vera film, which can moisturize and beautify, girl, you are so beautiful, a handful is only a hundred Wen, don't you come?"
"Let's do this then!"
"Okay! I bought an umbrella! I sold an umbrella! I ...... a good fairy umbrella."
"Let's go, look at the umbrella!"
Zhen'er was attracted by this fairy umbrella, waved her hand at him in front and shouted. The two of them hurried over.
As soon as he walked a dozen steps, he saw a young man in green walking sideways from the crowd opposite, followed by two guards with knives.
"Where is the beauty who sells umbrellas? Where is the beauty who sells umbrellas?"
The rich boy dressed in green brocade shouted as he walked, and finally saw the girl selling umbrellas, and immediately laughed and laughed, and walked to the stall in three steps and two steps.
"The voice is beautiful and beautiful, I didn't expect people to be even more beautiful and moving!" said the green-clothed young man with a grin.
"Childe buys an umbrella?"
"I don't want to buy an umbrella, I want to buy a beauty! The little face looks so cute! It's all beautiful from this fairy umbrella?"
"Childe laughed!" the girl flushed.
"This little hand, tender and tender, is also the function of the Tianxian umbrella?" said the green-clothed Kuoshao, reaching out and grabbing the right wrist of the umbrella girl, his four fingers quickly clasped the four key points of the meridians on the inner side of his wrist, and the other hand caress the back of his white and tender hand as if nothing happened.
"Childe, please respect yourself!" the girl said and fell hard, but did not break free.
"Don't be embarrassed, girl, it's better to go to the Crystal Palace with my son, where the treasures and treasures will protect you from nostalgia, and the treasures and delicacies will ensure that you will not miss it, but it is far better than standing on the side of the street selling umbrellas in the wind and sun!"
"You let go of me!" the girl shouted with a cold face. Because the key points of the wrist veins were pointed, the three yin and three meridians of the hand were locked, and the face was instantly pale and weak.
"Let you go, let you go, who will pay the silver debt to my family?"
"Who owes you money? I don't know you. β
"You don't know me, I know you. I've known you since three years ago. The green-clothed Kuo Shao stared at her eyes and said, the last sentence, word by word, was still profound.
"Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is who you are. Isn't your father an old yellow man in Fengluo Town? In the past three years, he has rented my mulberry field and owed nearly 100 taels of silver and did not pay it back, and the principal and interest have been stacked, at least doubled, right? I don't think I can pay it off in this life, so I just use you to pay off the debt!"
"The year before last, the typhoon was raging, the torrential rain poured, and the mulberry fields were completely destroyed; last year, there was no rain for a month, the fields were dry and the ground was cracked, and the silkworm treasures did not grow; fortunately, this year's wind and rain were smooth, the mulberry leaves were green and sweet, and the silkworm treasures were abundant, and our Huang family was a family of mulberry silkworms. β
"Hmph! That's a nice thing to say! Your father and daughter have fled from Fengluo Town to Nai He City, which is hundreds of miles away, and can you go back to pay the money? You dare to boast that you still owe the textile? If you really think that this son is a three-year-old child, who are you fooling?"
"In the past two years, there has been no harvest of silkworms, we have to live, so we temporarily came to this Nai He city, made these fairy umbrellas and sold them, in exchange for some broken silver and small money to make a living, this is the last batch of umbrellas. Daddy returned to Fengluo Town two months ago, leaving me to sell the remaining Tianxian umbrellas, and I will go back to work on silkworms in the next few days. β
"Hugh has to quibble, shrimp and crab guard, why don't you two hurry up and take this yellow girl away for me!"
"No!"
The two guards behind jumped forward in response, one left and one right, rushed towards the umbrella girl, and one of them put up one of the girl's arms and was about to drag it back.
Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound, and a thick bamboo pole suddenly swung from behind, and the shadow of the pole was like the wind, lightning on the backs of the two guards. The two of them immediately let go of their hands and jumped to the side with a "whoop".
A little girl in a white dress next to her took the opportunity to step forward and helped the umbrella girl who was about to fall down, seeing that her body was stiff and unable to move with her heart, she knew that she was blocked by the acupoint, so she helped her to retreat to the side.
"Who is so bold, dare to hurt my East China Sea Crystal Palace Dragon Seven Young People?"
The green-clothed young man shouted loudly.