"Sedan chair, come here." Xiaolong beckoned to hire a sedan chair.

Young Master Shen reluctantly looked back at the Governor's Mansion again, the majestic lion was silently watching him, and the lanterns on the opposite tower were swaying in the wind. The master and servant went all the way to the west, and the night of Shanyang County was left behind by them for a while.

The summer nights are enchanting, and the sky is dotted with stars, like sparkling pearls of the night, which are extremely beautiful. The moonlight is so bright and gentle, reflecting the calm surface of the river. From time to time, the croaking of frogs could be heard from the reeds on both sides of the canal, and mischievous fireflies flew around to dot the silent night.

"Stop the sedan chair, the young master has arrived at the dock." Xiaolong lifted the curtain and shouted, got out of the sedan chair and paid the silver, and Young Master Shen got off the sedan chair and looked around. The lights of thousands of homes in Hexi have gradually been extinguished, and the fields in the distance are like being covered with a silver light veil against the background of the moonlight.

"Rent a boat." With the dragon's shout, a small boat quickly rowed from the other side of the river.

"Young Master, it's here!" A woman's voice came.

The boat family is a woman in her early thirties, and as soon as she opened her mouth, Young Master Shen knew that she was a spicy woman, so it was no wonder that if she wanted to eat in the men's pile, she couldn't do it.

"Up and down the river." Xiaolong said after negotiating the price.

"Young master, sit tight in the cabin." The woman turned around and rocked.

"Ten miles of Zhu Banner on both sides of the boat, singing and dancing in the middle of the night. The thousand-year-old prosperity of Yangzhou has moved to the mouth of the West Lake. Young Master Shen remembered the poem written by Qiu Jun, a university scholar, when he passed by the thousand-year-old town under the river.

"Young master, why is our family called Hexia?" Xiaolong asked suddenly.

"Want to know?"

"Yes." Xiaolong's eyes flashed.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about it." Young Master Shen opened the conversation.

Hexia is located in the northwest of the county three miles, is a large market town of Shanyang City. Wu Jin (1714-1795), who wrote the words of Huai'an Dashui in the fourth volume of the Shanyang Chronicles, wrote the postscript: "The water floods the lower part of the river and the northern part of the salt river, and the water under the river is seven or eight ......feet deep."

In the Jiaqing period, the "Huaicheng Xinjinlu Zhang Tingjie Biography" written by Cao Bi, a native of Hexia, also mentioned Hexia: "The home is in the northern suburbs of the county, and it is commonly called 'Hexia' clouds." It can be seen that Hexia was originally a colloquial name of the masses, not an official name, but at this time it was gradually recognized by the literati and included in the books.

According to the natural danger of the big river in the north of the river, the west holds the key of the transport road, and is located between the two rivers, so it is named after the river. As for why it's called "down"? Duan Chaoduan believed that Hexia and Hebei were symmetrical, and it should be called Henan.

Hexia is located on both sides of the big river, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, and the residential terrain is lower and lower in the south, and it is customary to call it above and below, so it is called under the river. Judging by today's topography, such an explanation is plausible.

The name of Hexia has a history of about 800 years, because there was the Yellow River first, and then there was the name Hexia. Before the Song and Yuan dynasties, the ruins in the north were desolate, and they looked at Zhuzhou. It is closely connected with the end of the military fortress and the end of the transportation hub, the Beichen weir, and the same bank of the Huai River, and it is prosperous with the end of the mouth, and even exceeds the end of the mouth for a period of time. (Liu Huaiyu)

"Young master, I also know a little bit about the river." After hearing this, the woman suddenly opened her mouth, "I heard my grandfather say something." ”

"Oh, let's hear it." Young Master Shen said curiously.

The woman swayed loudly as she struggled.

In that year, the Yellow River in the Southern Song Dynasty seized the Huai, and the end of the mouth could not be passed, and the river once replaced the end of the mouth to become a north-south transportation hub and a military town.

In the Ming Dynasty, many shipyards were set up on the west bank of the canal according to the province, and the Ministry of Industry set up a division here to send officials to supervise the construction of unified wide-bottomed ships. A large part of the materials used by shipyards for shipbuilding are supplied by the river market.

"Huaicheng Xinjinlu" records that the bamboo lane, rope lane, banchang street, nail iron lane, copper lane, fenzhang lane and other street markets under the river were named after the operation of these industries. Of course, the Hexia market is not limited to this, but also sells local specialties such as Huai red cloth, mung bean wine, leather drums, and gilded bronze ware.

Mr. Wu's shop is located in Datong Lane, Yiyi Street, specializing in picking wisps of Wenzhu. (Liu Huaiyu)

"Yes, yes, your little sister is not simple." Young Master Shen praised, "I've been taught." ”

"Where, how can I have a young master who is deeply educated?" The woman said with a smile.

Young Master Shen sailed against the current, the sound of the rushing water, and the sound of the boat slurry hitting the water were particularly beautiful. Thinking that he was going to marry Miss Xu on May Day, he saw Miss Xu's delicate and moving image in front of him, and he couldn't help laughing.

"Young Master, what are you laughing at?" The little dragon was stunned by the laughter.

"Didn't laugh at anything."

"Oh, I see, I know."

"What do you know?" The young master touched Xiaolong's head and asked.

"Young Master, you must think, think—alone."

"Clever ghost, do you really think you're smart? Gone, disembarked. Young Master Shen saw the imperial pier, and he bowed down and walked to the bow of the boat.

"Xiaolong, since ancient times, there have been many celebrities under our river. The Han Dynasty writer Mei Cheng, he was good at writing Fu, his son Mei Gao, and the Tang Dynasty poet Zhao Yi were all from Hexia. You know, right? Zhao Yi claimed that his home was next to the old house of Meigao. "Young Master Shen is like a treasure.

The master and servant climbed the river embankment, and the two sides of Huzui Street, the main road of Hexia Street in the north, were quiet, and the people who had worked hard all day had already entered a sweet dreamland.

"Young master, we came back late, the old lady must be angry." Xiaolong said nervously.

Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.