Chapter 90: Playing by the River
Li Zhiyun changed the allusion of "vinegar jar" and told it to Liu Yinglian, saying that there was an emperor in the past, remembering that the prime minister of the dynasty had worked hard and made great achievements, and wanted to give him a few beauties as concubines. After he finished speaking, Liu Yinglian understood as soon as she heard it, and said, "Are you sarcastic about my jealousy?" Li Zhiyun smiled and said, "It's good to know." However, jealousy is in a woman's nature, and there is nothing wrong with it......"
The next day, Li Zhiyun spent a day finishing all his official and private affairs. However, he didn't want to leave Gaoling County yet, and it was not far from Pizhou when he came to it, so he didn't need to be in such a hurry; Second, they had been gone for more than ten days, and it was time to take a good breath, so Li Zhiyun decided to stay in Gaoling County for two more days.
After breakfast, Li Zhiyun practiced writing in the room. It has been two years since he crossed into this world, and as soon as he is free, he will practice calligraphy, so calligraphy has made great progress, although it is not as good as the ancients who used the brush since childhood, but it is not the beginning of the writing of words like crabs crawling.
He spread rice paper on the dull and dull lacquer table, and wrote for a while, Liu Yinglian pushed the door and walked in, and when she saw him lying next to the bookcase, she asked, "What are you doing?" ”
"Oh, writing."
Liu Yinglian walked over, picked up a piece of paper on the desk and looked at it, and then read it softly:
Spring travel, apricot blossoms fly all over the head.
Mo is young and romantic.
The concubine intends to marry and rest for the rest of her life.
Even if you are ruthlessly abandoned, you can't be ashamed.
Liu Yinglian put down the paper, pursed her lips, and said, "I know who this woman is." ”
"Who?"
"If you don't know it, I won't say it."
Li Zhiyun glanced up at her and said with a smile: "You are careful." ”
Who knows, when Cao Cao Cao arrived, the woman suddenly broke in, and when she saw them, she said, "Hey, are you all there?" I'm looking for you. When Li Zhiyun saw it, he hurriedly put down the rabbit pen in his hand and said, "Miss Wang, why are you here?" ”
"My brother wants to accompany you to Yuanjiang, but today he was stumped by things, let me take you there, let's go!"
When Li Zhiyun heard this, he also wanted to go out for a walk, so he stood up and said to Liu Yinglian: "Let's go to the river to have fun, okay?" Liu Yinglian frowned slightly, and said: "The festival has passed, and now the riverside is full of flowers and willows, what else is there to play?" Wang Zhujun was unconvinced: "Although the flowers and willows are defeated, there are still water and mountains, and hundreds of boats are competing for the stream!" ”
Li Zhiyun saw that Liu Yinglian didn't want to go, so he hesitated. Wang Zhujun hurriedly said: "Hey, I've arranged everything, don't spoil the fun, let's go!" After that, he grabbed one of Li Zhiyun's arms and dragged him out of the room.
When he came to the courtyard, Li Zhiyun was about to pedal on the horse under the urging of Wang Zhujun, but he thought that Liu Hong had gone to visit his old friend early in the morning, if he left and left Liu Yinglian alone in the post station, would she be too lonely? Thinking of this, he hesitated again. At this moment, I saw Liu Yinglian walking out of the guest room timidly.
When Wang Zhujun saw it, he quipped: "What, have you figured it out?" Are you afraid that I will rob your golden beetle son-in-law? When Liu Yinglian heard this, her pretty face turned red, and she said in a low voice: "No, I also want to breathe." The carriage stopped in the courtyard, Liu Yinglian walked over and got into the carriage, and Yahuan followed. When the coachman saw that his master was going out, he hurriedly brought the horses from the stable and put them on the carriage.
Li Zhiyun and Wang Zhujun rode horses, Liu Yinglian rode in a carriage, and more than a dozen guards followed, and the group went out of the courtyard and left the post station to march outside the city.
When they came to the Yuan River, they saw that a carriage had been parked on the riverbank, and several servants were standing next to it. It turned out that Wang Zhujun had already asked the servant to arrive first. Li Zhiyun got off the horse, walked to the shore, and faced the spring water of the river, and suddenly felt relaxed and happy.
The young lady of the county magistrate's family had already made arrangements, she took a big butterfly kite from the carriage, and shouted with a smile: "King Chu, come and fly the kite." Li Zhiyun walked over, and the servant handed him a kite and basket of a large bat, which was a tool for winding strings. He wanted Liu Yinglian to let it go, but Liu Yinglian refused, saying that he and Yahuan were standing next to him. The wind was strong by the river, and Wang Zhujun's kite was quickly put up, and after a while, Li Zhiyun's big bat kite also rose into the air.
The ancients went out to play and kite flying was one of the most common activities. Xu Wei, one of the three geniuses of the Ming Dynasty, wrote many poems about flying kites, one of which reads:
Wicker thread wadding rubbed cotton, rubbed enough to put paper ducks.
How much power is consumed in the spring breeze, and the children will be brought to spring.
Kites have a long history in China, and the earliest record of kites is the record in "Mozi, Lu Wen" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: "The male loses the bamboo and wood for the kite, and flies into it, and it does not fall for three days." Mozi mentioned that Gong Yizi (Lu Ban) invented a bamboo magpie that can fly for three days and three nights, which shows that there were kites as early as more than 2,000 years ago.
The ancients have long realized that kite flying is an activity that is beneficial to physical and mental health, and in the spring season, people go out to fly kites, soak up the sun, stretch their muscles and bones, breathe fresh air, improve blood circulation and strengthen the respiratory capacity of the lungs.
Kite flying is not only a pastime for Chinese, but also began to be exported to the world from the Tang and Song dynasties, first to Southeast Asian countries such as Korea, Japan and Malaya, and then to Europe and the Americas. In fact, many things invented by our ancients are not taken seriously in our eyes, but when we go abroad, we let foreigners study it and discover its great value. For example, the compass, one of the four major inventions, after we invented the compass, we used it to make feng shui, and the Europeans used it for ocean voyages, which opened the Age of Exploration and laid the foundation for the rise of the West.
Similarly, after the ancient Chinese kite was transmitted to Europe, under the influence of the European industrial revolution, they began to study the development of flying machines, and after the unremitting research and improvement of Kelly in the United Kingdom, Hargrave in Australia and Li Lindahl in Germany, and finally the Wright brothers in the United States manufactured the earliest aircraft that could successfully fly with people. At this time, the international community re-evaluated the kite from China, believing that it was not only a toy, but a tool for scientific exploration. In the lobby of the Washington and Astronautical Museum in Washington, D.C., hangs a Chinese kite, and on its side is written: "The earliest flying machines of mankind were kites and rockets from China." ”
Li Zhiyun looked up at the sky, the wind was tight for a while, his hand was cut by the kite string, and he couldn't help but let out an "oops". When Wang Zhujun saw it, he took out a handkerchief and handed it to him. Li Zhiyun took it and put it on the silk pad. The two let go for a while, and Wang Zhujun called the servant to bring a pair of scissors and broke the thread. Li Zhiyun didn't understand: "What are you doing here?" ”
"Let the plague and bad luck be taken away." Wang Zhujun said, and hinged his line again. It turns out that there is still this saying about kite flying, and Li Zhiyun is considered to have grown in knowledge.
As soon as the line broke, the kite fluttered away with the wind. For a while, it was only the size of an egg, and in the blink of an eye, there was only a little ink star left, and it was gone after a while.
After flying the kite, I started swinging again. The servant tied a rope between the two trees, and there was a sitting board at the lower end, and Wang Zhujun sat on the wooden board and asked Li Zhiyun to push her. The swing got higher and higher, and her laughter grew louder and louder......
At noon, the servants took the food out of the wagon, and the guards, having distributed it, crouched down to eat it. Li Zhiyun, Wang Zhujun, Liu Yinglian and Yahuan sat on a grassy field, and the felt in the middle was placed on the fire deer meat, dried meat, belly lungs, red and white kidneys, steamed cakes, steamed buns, etc., steamed cakes were the steamed buns of later generations, and the steamed buns at that time were stuffed, similar to the steamed buns of later generations, divided into vegetarian steamed buns and meat steamed buns.
Wang Zhujun said while eating: "Miss Liu, you don't seem to be very happy, a young lady from a big family like you stays in the boudoir all day long, and finally comes out, why don't you have a good time?" Liu Yinglian glanced at her and was unconvinced: "Aren't you also a young lady from a big family?" ”
"I'm not like you, I never embroider in the boudoir. My brother said I was a tomboy and I would ...... anything a man could play with."
After lunch, Li Zhiyun spread a blanket under a tree, rested with his back against the trunk for a while, and went to the river to play for a while in the afternoon, and then went home.
The team walked back along a dirt road, Liu Yinglian sat in the carriage, lifted the curtain on the back window of the carriage, and saw Li Zhiyun and Wang Zhujun following behind the carriage, the two were talking and laughing, very happy. She was so angry that she threw down the curtain, and when she saw the girl ring sitting opposite, she couldn't help but "poof". Liu Yinglian glared at her, and Yahuan hurriedly didn't dare to laugh.
At dinner, Li Zhiyun walked into the dining hall and saw Liu Hong, Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and Yahuan sitting at the table, but Liu Yinglian was missing. He walked over and sat down, and said to Yahuan, "Where's Miss?" Why didn't she come? Before Yahuan could answer, Liu Hong said: "I went to her room and lay on the bed, saying that I was uncomfortable."
"How can you do it without eating?" Li Zhiyun frowned, and said to Yahuan, "Go and call her." ”
Yahuan agreed, and just about to get up, Li Zhiyun said: "Forget it, I'll go." Then he got up and walked out. He came to Liu Yinglian's room and saw her lying on the couch with a thin coat on her body. Li Zhiyun walked to the couch, looked down at her, and whispered, "Miss, why don't you go to dinner?" Liu Yinglian closed her eyes and said, "I don't want to eat, I have no appetite."
Li Zhiyun knew she was angry. The little daughter was angry, his heart softened all of a sudden, moved a stool and sat beside the couch, held one of her hands with both hands, and said gently: "Angry with me, right?" Liu Yinglian didn't squeak.
"Even if you're angry, don't worry about yourself, get up and eat." Li Zhiyun urged.
Liu Yinglian looked at him with half-squinted eyes, and said softly: "It's okay to let me get up, but you have to promise me one thing." ”
"What's the matter?"
Liu Yinglian grabbed one of his hands and put it on her chest, frowned and said, "I don't want to stay here anymore, you promise me that we will leave early tomorrow morning, okay?" Li Zhiyun smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, listen to you, let's leave if you say go!" ”