"Sir, I'm leaving, and I'm in a hurry, but the old man is not well entertained?"

"Where is Liu Gong's words? In the past two days, Liu Gong has treated each other with great courtesy, living well and eating well, especially yesterday, Liu Gong's enthusiasm and the simplicity of the villagers are rare in his life, in fact, he wants to stay here for a few more days. Song You said to the old official Liu sincerely, "It's just that I'm going to the county here, and I have to bring a letter to the family for an old man, and I have been staying for two days, so it's really inconvenient to stay longer." ”

In order to prevent him from thinking too much, Song You showed him the letter sealed in a bamboo tube.

"Even so......"

Old official Liu couldn't help sighing, and paused his crutches, but sending the letter was an important matter, and it was related to faithfulness, so he didn't want to stay longer, so he only ordered people to get silver and dry food.

"Sir drove away the evil tigers in my village and saved a lot of assets. Besides, even if there is no gentleman, the old man will have to spend some money when he sends someone to the county to invite someone, and it is reasonable to give it away. Old official Liu stood up with a cane, picked up a plate of silver coins and said to Song You, "It's unreasonable to only give some dry food, and prepare some silver coins for Mr. as a coil." ”

Song You looked down and saw that a plate of scattered silver was probably twenty or thirty taels.

In these years, the vast majority of people have not been able to see so much silver at one time, and it is far from enough money to go to the county to invite people to drive away tigers, and most of this money is a premium for "high-ranking people".

And this money Song You can't ask for.

Not to mention yesterday's perception of being more expensive than a daughter, it is the good food and drink in the past two days, and the courtesy of distinguished guests can also be offset by his persuasion to leave the tiger.

This is the way things are in this world, one party does it casually, and the other party treats each other with courtesy, there is really no need for anything else, even if you leave, both parties will not feel guilty.

So he took only dry food, and did not want any money.

Liu Laoguan was helpless, but he also felt that this little gentleman was very remarkable, and he was not the same as those strange people and folk gentlemen who also had some skills, so he personally sent him out with a cane.

"Sir go right along the main road, and if you have good foot strength, you can get to the county in about half a day's trip. The name of this county is Nianping County, if Mr. wants to rest in the city, or if he needs help with something, he can go to the county government to find the main bookkeeper Liu Hong Liu Yangsheng, who is the second son of the old decay. If you don't want to go, you can go to the county by water, which is easier to walk than by land, and you can prepare grain and grass, and you can carry horses on the boat. ”

"Waterways?"

"The waterway is smoother and more comfortable than the land route. Although Mr. traveled down the mountain, but Mr. did not know, Xuzhou is full of mountains and rivers, and this goes to the county, it is even more picturesque, and it goes down the river, which is called a comfortable. ”

"What is this river called?"

"Liujiang, all the way to the county."

"Picturesque landscapes ......"

"Absolutely! I don't know about going to the county here, but the old man told Mr. that it is better to take the waterway! ”

"How do you get by water?"

Song You gradually became interested.

In these days, if you have a waterway, it will be a better choice than land. It's just that I wanted to appreciate the landscape and people in more detail before, so I didn't go to the waterway, but the old officials in front of me said so, and Song You also had the idea of taking the waterway to get the county.

The old official talked to him in detail.

How to find a way, where is the ferry, how to take a boat, how much is the price, how to not be deceived by the pit, the explanation is very detailed.

"Liu announced his resignation!"

"Sir, go slowly."

The old man was still shouting at the door with a cane.

The Taoist and the cat and the horse have gradually drifted away.

……

Half-day trip, arrived in Nianping County.

The world in my heart has lit up again.

Song You once heard a saying that in most people's hearts, the world and the world are just a concept, and even this concept may deviate greatly. Even if you have seen a map or a picture, even if you have heard someone describe a place in detail, it is gray, it is flat, it is illusory, and only when you go to that place and really get there, will it be enriched, lit up, and become a three-dimensional real place in your mind.

The more you light up, the more complete the world in your chest will be.

This is also the first time that Song You has traveled far away.

The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, the waterfalls are picturesque, there are delicious rice noodles, and the temperature is warmer than Lingquan County, where Yidu and Taoist temples are located.

After eating rice noodles and passing through Nianping County, I will no longer take the original road. According to the guidance of the old official Liu, Song You walked about twenty miles, then walked along the road on the left to the Nianping Ferry, and when he came to a gentle hillside, his downward vision suddenly opened up.

I saw the shallow river bay below, the rocky beach and the ancient ferry, the scattered boats floating on the river, the big boats were connected with ropes, and countless dark and short slender men were at the other end of the rope, each leaning forward, trying their best, obliquely, looking from a distance I thought it was the shadow of the afternoon sun.

A faint sound floated through the air.

"Oh roar......

"Hey......

"Woo woo ......"

Most of them are syllables that I can't hear, as if there is no language. I don't know how many mouths are shouting, converging into one, as if coming from the distant river beach below, and as if coming from a distant more ancient world, mixed with the sound of the wind above the river crossing, more ancient than the Taoist scriptures.

Straight to the heart.

Song You stood in the wind of the mountain pass, stunned for a moment.

I only feel that this is the echo of ancient history, the labor horn that has echoed for thousands of years on the Liujiang ferry, and the polish mark of this era. I just listened to a sentence, and it was already echoing in my mind, and after listening to it for a while, I felt like a wail under high-intensity labor, which made people feel depressed and sad.

"Daoist, what are you doing?"

"Didn't do anything."

"Why don't you go?"

"Let's go."

"What are they shouting?"

"I can't hear clearly."

Song You only walked down.

The red horse and the cat followed.

Yesterday I just saw the simple happiness of this era, and today I see it again, this is also an era full of tribulations. Perhaps there is no contradiction between the two, the farmers who were happy at yesterday's banquet and the hard-working boatmen in Jiangkou Gudu today are a wave of people, or perhaps the contradiction is the norm in the real world.

This is also a scenery that cannot be seen on Yin Yang Mountain.

As I watched, I walked down to the edge of the ferry.

Song You only felt that the cloth shoes were light and thin, and the stones were sloppy.

"Is there a boat to the county?"

"I'll go to the county."

"Can you take a horse?"

"The melon skin boat can't take the horse."

"Old decay can be brought!"

Song You followed the voice.

A shed-roof boat, not too small, not too big, just in this shoal will not rest on the bottom, at the bow of the boat stood an old man, wearing a hat and a robe, and there were already a few people sitting in the boat.

"How much?"

"Where are the guests?"

"Lingbo County."

"Lingbo County can't get there, so you can only go under the nearest ferry, and there are nearly 100 miles of mountain roads to go up." Lao Suo shouted loudly, his voice turned leisurely as if he was singing, "It takes six days to go, two hundred yuan per person, and a horse has to be calculated according to the money of two people, and the materials are brought by themselves. ”

The three-flowered cat under his feet looked up at Song You.

Song You received her gaze and understood.

"Don't cats want money?"

"What money do cats want?"

"It's a total of five hundred dollars, which is the price."

"Five hundred and fifty, get on the boat and leave."

"It's all for Xiaoping."

"Guest, please come aboard."

Song You led the horse and cat to the boat.

Xiaoping is a common small copper coin.

A few years ago, the imperial court launched some big money, there are five when the five, there are ten folds, as the name suggests, a can be an ordinary copper coin five ten, but a five Tong Bao, the weight of the ten Tong Bao is not as heavy as the ordinary copper coin five or ten, even if it has just been launched, the Yan court is strong and prosperous, and it has not depreciated much, but the acceptance of the people has gradually decreased, anyway, a big coin of ten can never be used as ten money in actual life, how much has to be reduced.

That's why the boatman is so happy.

"The guest officer let the horse stay in the bow of the boat, shouldn't he be afraid of water?"

"Don't be afraid."

"That's good, as for the and urine, the old decay will clean it up."

"It's going to do its best to get into the middle of the river. If the old man is willing to find a place to dock halfway, it will also go down conveniently. ”

"The guest officer is obedient and elegant, haha......"

"When will you leave?"

"Let's go!"

The boat drifts easily to the shore, gently and gently.

Song You turned around and looked, and there were four people sitting in the boat.

A scholar holding a book, a family of three, a couple and a young girl, I don't know why they traveled far away.

He didn't have time to take care of it, he just stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the shallows Gudu farther and farther away, listening to the desolate Gu Xuan's horn, and his heart seemed to be thinking, but it seemed that there was nothing.

But the scholar behind him saw that he was wearing a Taoist robe, and raised his head to talk:

"Your Excellency is a Mr. Daomen?"

"I grew up in a Taoist temple."

"Sir, didn't see the transition?"

"See you for the first time."

"Haha, it was novel when I first watched it, and that's it after watching it for a long time!" The scholar is a talkative, warmly invited, "It's windy outside, it's better to come and sit in the cabin, don't hide from Mr. said, I am also a person who likes Taoist scriptures and spells, and I also brought this Taoist scripture with me. ”

Song You was still standing at the bow of the boat, only smiling.

The sound of the boatman's horn became farther and farther away, but the wonderful thing was that the farther it went, the more charming and powerful it seemed to be.

The scholar didn't know what he was thinking—

How can the Tao Sutra be so good.