The cold plum and snow are over, and the spring breeze willows return. In the sixth year of Zhongping, the heart is sunny and the weather is sunny.

Liu Qing got up early in the morning, freshened up, put on his official uniform, put on his sword, and went to the county government.

As soon as he went out, he met Zhou Tai, and the two saluted and hugged each other to go to the county government together.

Zhou Tai said solemnly: "Tai heard that the lord raised filial piety to go to Luoyang, this is far away from the mountains and rivers, the road is difficult and dangerous, and Tai is willing to go together." Zhou Tai thought to himself that Liu Qing left Anhui County to raise filial piety, and then met someone who didn't know what year it was, so it was better to resign from the petty officials in the county and go to make a name for himself together.

Liu Qing said: "You act seriously, you can convince the public, and your son is as fierce as fire, I originally thought that you would stay and take care of the county for me, but now it seems that it is going to be reversed." "Finally got rid of the Cheng family's uncle and nephew and subdued Liu Kai, Liu Qingyuan thought that Zhou Tai would take charge of the county for him and take one person to Luoyang, but now it looks like he has to re-elect people.

The two walked on the country road, rising day by day, the countryside was busy, the bamboo fence thatched house, the water into a village, contrasting with each other, from time to time there were villagers to greet him, Liu Qing responded one by one.

A few children gathered on the side of the road to pinch some clods of dirt, take some rocks and arrange them in several rows, pretending to be their father and mother playing at home. Suddenly, there was a burst of children's shouts, and four or five boys ran around Liu Qing and Zhou Tai in circles, and the one in front shouted as they ran: "I am the county lieutenant, you are the county officer, you all listen to me." Unlike the girls in front of them, the boys seemed to be playing a game of war on horseback.

The boy in front of him was not the oldest, but he had some momentum, ran for a while, pointed to the mulberry tree in front of him, and said, "I must take this feather cover car." Don't you bow down and greet you? Many of the little boys in the back really bowed down: "Meet the adults!" ”

Liu Qing and Zhou Tai saw it and laughed. Suddenly thinking that he had been here for a year, Liu Qing only felt that he had become accustomed to the life here, and thought that he was about to go to Luoyang, thinking of the simple villagers, thinking of the pond in front of the door, and thinking of those sleepless nights...... A little bit of memories come to mind, and it is inevitable that it will be sour and reluctant. But if you don't go to Luoyang, there is no power to protect yourself when the troubled times come, there are no eggs under the nest, everything is in vain, in order to protect the peace, you must go to Luoyang, Emperor Ling died, Zhu Eun, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing...... What awaits you ahead?

didn't walk long, and met Chen Wu again on the way.

Chen Wu said: "If the lord leaves, what is the point of Wu staying in the county, Wu is willing to go to Luoyang together." ”

Probably with the same thoughts as Zhou Tai, Liu Qing and Zhou Tai looked at each other and smiled, "You...... Hahaha, okay, okay, all go, all go together! ”

"Youping, what are you laughing at? Am I saying something wrong again? ”

"Hahaha"

"Don't just laugh, what's going on?"

"Hahahaha"

Out of the West Pavilion, the city is quite lively, the sound of "crackling" continues, it was a few children playing with "firecrackers", throwing some bamboo into the brazier, there is no sound, the child came closer to see, suddenly exploded, scared to cry in that wow woh. The child's parents hurriedly came out when they heard the crying, hugged the child and beat him twice, and said angrily: I'm not afraid of blowing up my eyes, let me see if anything is blown up, go home, and stop playing. The child stopped crying immediately when he was picked up, and when he heard that he was not allowed to play, he jumped up and down to play in his arms, looking naïve and cute. Every house has an open door, and they are hanging peach charms on their doors to expel ghosts.

Entering the county government, there were many well-dressed officials standing inside, including the pavilion chiefs, the county officials, and many scattered officials. Liu Qing entered the inner courtyard and cast a famous assassination, although the two actually have no power, they still have to get by on face, and they exchanged greetings with Liu Kai and Chen Jue, and left the county government under the pretext that they wanted to sacrifice.

When I went out of the city and arrived at the ancestral shrine, there were already many people inside.

After Liu Qing became the county lieutenant, he paid to renovate the ancestral hall, which looked very magnificent from a distance. A pair of finely carved white stone pillars in front of the door, the door is four dark red doors, the two doors in the middle are open, under the beam is the carved bucket arch, and a large plaque is engraved on the door 'Liu's ancestral hall'. A gray stone brick in the middle points directly to the hall, climb the stairs and go up, see a big stone tablet in the center of the hall, this tablet was originally a huge stone at the intersection of Xiting Road, when the ancestral hall was completed, it was moved in by the villagers, and the book reads: "Xiting people Liu Qingzhongping renovated in five years". The front façade of the ancestral hall is in the form of an archway, the roof is raised to make a mountain type, the wing angles are warped, and the solemn and towering hall sets off the sacred. There are rattan chairs and rattan tables in the hall, three feet away from the rattan table, there are the tablets of the ancestors of the past dynasties in front of the cube, the rattan table is placed with their respective tributes, and the rhombic pattern wooden window of the side corridor next to the rattan table is ajar, clean and clear. I don't know who put the incense, but I only felt a strange fragrance in the hall.

Before coming to the ancestral hall, the attendants who accompanied him took down the tribute and respectfully placed it on the rattan table. When everyone in the hall saw Liu Qing coming, they officially began to worship their ancestors, and the elders with the highest rank began to recite the sacrificial text, crying like a complaint, and the feelings were sincere, which made people feel emotional.

It was already evening after worshipping his ancestors, and Liu Qing set up a family banquet at home. Zhou Tai, Song Qian, Chen Wu, Jia Hua, Shi Shi, Shi Damu, Liu Jia, Zhang Laojiu and others were invited respectively, according to custom, all men, women and children in the family should participate, dozens of people gathered in one room, very lively.

Everyone came to Liu Qing's house and brought a jar of cypress wine, which was a kind of wine for New Year's Day at that time, soaked in cypress leaves, also known as cypress leaf wine, meaning that the pine and cypress are evergreen, containing good wishes. The elderly sit at the table, the younger ones sit at the end, sit down in turn, after the food is served, and when the children finish toasting, Liu Qing leads his subordinates to toast the old man in turn. After the toast, the children couldn't understand what the adults were saying, so they couldn't hold it back, so they got off the table in advance and played "firecrackers". The families talked to each other about the trivial parents, Liu Qing and the brothers drank and chatted about the various plans after going to Luoyang, at the moment there was only comfort and joy, everything was shrouded in this atmosphere, like drinking a sip of spirits, so that the blood in the whole body was hot. For the time being, people forget their troubles, forget their love and hatred, and forget their open and secret fights.

The sound of blessings, clinking glasses, laughter, and the sound is pleasant.

Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls with amber light. But that the master may be drunk, and he will not know where it is.

The flowers are half-opened, the wine is slightly drunk, if it is far away, it seems to be far and close. Liu Qing rubbed his eyes and came outside, as if he had suddenly come to another world. The twilight is pervasive, the fields exude a warm dampness, and the nearby patches of rice field felt cloth are spread all the way to the west of the mountain, and then look at that side is blocked by Tianzhu Mountain, the mountain reflects the moonlight, and the heavy shadow has shrouded the sky, the undulating curves, like who used a charcoal pen to draw out the softness; Farther away, the sky was filled with a faint blue haze, and the air seemed cool. Slowly, the rice seedlings in the nearby fields became blurred in the smoke-like dampness, the trees by the stream, the water surface of the stream was also unclear, and the whole world was shrouded in an infinite veil.

Liu Qing walked to the pond, and there was already a shadow waiting for him.

"You're late."

"Eating and drinking with my brothers, I can't get rid of it."

"I heard my father say, you raised filial piety and want to go to Luoyang?"

"yes."

"Is Luoyang big?"

"Great."

"Will you ever come back?"

"Yes. How can I see you if I don't come back. ”

"When will you be back?"

"When the time comes, I'll come back."

"Then I'll wait for you."

"Okay."

"What if you lie to me?"

"Then you will send a letter to the whole world to denounce me, a treacherous man."

"Hmph, rhetoric. What's the bottom of your poem? I didn't tell me before, but now I don't know when it's going to be. ”

"The beauty is touching, and she is hesitant. The divine light is clutched, and the yin and yang are at first glance. The light body of the Zhu stands with a crane, if it will fly but does not fly. The pepper is coated with lush and intense, and the steps are thin and fragrant. Resist Luo to cover up the tears, the waves of tears. The mourning will be eternal and mourning, and the mourning will be in a foreign land. There is no affection to serve love, and to dedicate the Mingjue of Jiangnan. ”

"This is the jade I have brought since I was a child, my mother said that it can keep you safe, and you bring it with you, which is the 'Mingjue' I gave you."

Under the trees by the pool, the moon is bright and the wind is clear, and the earth in spring looks particularly quiet and solemn at night. A light breeze blew, and the leaves of the grain rustled all over the ground. The wind stopped, and everything around me fell silent again. They stood under the tree, muttering to each other. Overhead, among the swaying, green foliage, the hazy moon shimmered with a blue light, and the moonlight shone on the willow branches, casting a dense shadow of the trees, and the shadow was imprinted on their foreheads. It's like a poem, a painting, an old nocturne sung by young men and women.