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In the middle of the night, everyone in the house was woken up, and the cry of the old pig was like thunder, which shook several people who lived in the hotel and couldn't sleep, and they all got up and stared at the old pig, and they all wondered how this cry could come from a child's body. The old pig slept very hard, and the noisy did not wake him up, and the guests had to change rooms with the shopkeeper. Zhu Liang was happy in his heart, and said in his heart that you all should go, and it would be better for the two of us to be left.

For breakfast, Zhu Liang got up first. He wandered outside for a while. When he came back, he didn't see the old pig get up, so he shouted a few times into the old pig's ear before waking the old pig up. The old pig stretched his waist and asked, "Why are you waking me up?"

"Get up, it's time for us to go. ”

"Where are you going?"

"Today we are visiting Slender West Lake. ”

"What is Skinny West Lake? Are there skinny and fat people in West Lake?"

Zhu Liang was asked by the old pig, and he couldn't answer why it was called Slender West Lake. He said: "Slender West Lake is Slender West Lake, you will know it when you go." ”

They inquired as they walked, and soon arrived at Slender West Lake. They bought the tickets and walked through the gates of Slender West Lake. Zhu Liang asked the old pig: "Slender West Lake is very big, should we walk or take a boat?"

"Listen to you. ”

"That'...... Let's take a boat. "Zhu Liang is willing to take a boat. Of course, he chose to take a boat.

"Okay, just take the boat. The old pig nodded.

In front of the Imperial Pier in Slender West Lake, there are many yachts and boats. Many tour guides use small loudspeakers to solicit tourists. The tour guides are all young girls.

Seeing them coming, many tour guides accosted them: "Children, are you here to play?"

"Come, kids, get on our boat!"

"Come, kids, get on our yacht!"

"Little friend—"

The old pig stood in front of a girl in a blue blouse.

The old pig suddenly felt that this girl was very familiar, and he remembered Cuilan. He felt that the girl in front of him was very similar to Cuilan, and the more he looked at it, the more she looked like it. The girl also looked at the old pig, and she didn't know how the old pig looked at herself in a daze. The old pig blushed a little and smirked a few times. Then he got on the boat in one step. Zhu Liang saw that the old pig got on the boat, and jumped into the boat. The boat had a capacity of eight passengers, and six had already boarded, and the two of them had just enough to come. The boat was taken off the pier.

The old pig stared at the girl left and right when he got on the boat, and he felt that the girl was not very old, at most twenty years old......

The girl sat in front of them and then began to introduce herself, and the girl said, "Everyone is welcome to take our boat to visit Slender West Lake...... My name is Jin Ranh ......"

"Your name is Jin Lan?" the old pig blurted out.

“...... Yes, my name is Jin Lan. Jin Lan felt that the old pig was very strange, if it weren't for his young age, Jin Lanfei would have treated him as a pervert.

The old pig thought to himself, there is only one word difference between her and Cuilan, if she says that she is also called Cuilan, the old pig will think that she also crossed over from the Tang Dynasty...... The old pig was cranky, and Jin Lan didn't listen to what he said later

Jin Lan's voice is also very good, everyone enjoyed the beautiful scenery while listening to her explanation: "Our Slender West Lake in Yangzhou was formerly known as Baobao Lake. Legend has it that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the salt industry of Yangzhou flourished, and the thin West Lake was silted up due to its age, so the salt merchants funded dredging, and built many pavilions and pavilions on the east and west banks, and the scenery on the lake was particularly beautiful and beautiful. You see, most of the pavilions on both sides of the lake were built at that time......"

The eyes of the boat began to look at the pavilions on both sides of the lakeshore......

Jin Lan continued: "...... At that time, there were three richest salt merchants in Yangzhou City, and they were vassals and elegant, and often went to the lake to play and feast.

In the spring and February of that year, three salt merchants came to the lake for a small feast, and they drank wine while enjoying the scenery of the lake. The big salt merchant is the oldest, has a lot of experience, has always regarded himself as the eldest brother, he drank a few glasses of wine, and said: Our Baobao Lake, how good the scenery is, not worse than the West Lake in Hangzhou, but it is called Baobao Lake is a little incompatible.

The second salt merchant is accustomed to seeing the wind and making the rudder, and when he saw the big salt merchant making this discussion, he immediately made fun and said: Gao Zhi, Gao Zhi. Although there are many literati in Yangzhou, none of them care about this matter, which is really regrettable.

The third salt merchant was a self-righteous man, and he went on to say: "To choose a name, you also need to be a literati?" I think it will inevitably increase the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige. Come, the three of us think about it, and if we don't believe it, we can't come up with a good name.

"They gave it the name 'Slender West Lake'. Originally, the old pig was thinking about it, but he slipped out carelessly.

Jin Lan smiled at the old pig: "Little friend, don't worry, listen to me tell you slowly." ”

Zhu Liang lightly touched the old pig: "Don't interject, listen to the tour guide." ”

Jin Lan glanced at Zhu Liang and smiled with satisfaction. The heart said that this child was much more sensible than that child. She made a comparison between Zhu Liang and the old pig in her heart.

She continued: "The three of them stopped drinking, they were all bowing their heads and pondering, and after a while, the big salt merchant spoke first, and he said: Our Baobao Lake is in the west of Yangzhou City, why don't you also call it 'West Lake', what do you think?"

The second salt merchant immediately chimed in and said, "Wonderful, wonderful!" Changing Baobao Lake to West Lake is great, wonderful.

The third salt merchant glanced at the second salt merchant and said disapprehantly: You two have been to Hangzhou, how big is the West Lake in Hangzhou? How can our lake be called West Lake? According to the younger brother's opinion, it is almost the same as being called Xiaoxi Lake.

The big salt merchant shook his head, and had something in his heart: this "small" character is more than half a cut shorter than others, which is inappropriate, inappropriate, but he can't think of a good name, so he says: "Xiaoxihu" still needs to be considered. I think "West Lake" can be used, as long as a suitable word is added in front of it. ”

After a while, the second salt merchant spoke, he said: Our West Lake, although not as big as the West Lake in Hangzhou, but also has its characteristics, that is, the lake body is tortuous, more than 20 miles long, I think it is better to call it 'Changxi Lake'.

Both the big salt merchant and the third salt merchant shook their heads in disagreement. So they came up with a lot of names, such as Golden West Lake, Silver West Lake, Green West Lake, Blue West Lake, Meixi Lake, etc., but none of them liked it.

It was only then that they realized that it was not so easy to come up with a name for the lake. It so happened that there was a scholar sitting next to him, who had been listening to their arguments with great interest, but he was only laughing and not saying a word, and when the great salt merchant saw it, he said, "The man who is smiling at us is a scholar, why don't we ask him to come up with a name?"

The scholar didn't come over, he stood up and said: I have heard the discussion of the three, I think this lake in Yangzhou is comparable to the West Lake in Hangzhou, but it is too thin, in my opinion, it is called "Slender West Lake".

As soon as the three words "Slender West Lake" came out, the three salt merchants admired it and repeatedly invited the scholar to sit and drink, but the scholar drifted away. Since then, the reputation of "Slender West Lake" has spread.

It is said that "the West Lake in the world, there are six out of thirty", perhaps the number of lakes called "West Lake" is far more than this, Baoying Lake is known as the "Little West Lake", and even Hanoi in Vietnam has a West Lake. However, the West Lake in Yangzhou is unique from the lakes with its delicate and graceful demeanor, and occupies an appropriate "thin" word.

Later, Yangzhou scholar Zhu Fuyang introduced that the origin of the name of Slender West Lake originated from the poet Wang Xin's "Red Bridge Autumn Poem" during the Qianlong period: the weeping willows continue to pick up the remnants, and the wild goose tooth red bridge is like a drawing; This poem, which originally lamented the rich businessman's spending, did not want to justify the name of Slender West Lake.