Chapter 305: Watching the Tide
The autumn rain continued, and it was September 22.
This day is the tide of the Zangpu River, which is as famous as the August tide of the Qiantang River, and has the elegant name of 'double jade belt' in the literary world.
Before dawn in the morning, Sisi ran to Ning Junxi to recite the scriptures, and recited for nearly half an hour, and finally Ning Junxi couldn't bear it anymore, and made an appointment with Sisi for three chapters, and the four of them braved the gray sky to the Yuyan Dam near Qingping City.
Li Chan has not returned to Fanshe until now, Ning Junxi asked ruthlessly to ask, and the news he got was that he was fine, so he didn't care about him anymore, and he didn't see his shadow until now.
The embankment was already crowded with people, stretching for miles.
Ning Junxi secretly smacked his tongue, it's just a big tide, every year, so there's no need to be so active.
Sisi has heard a lot of tourists in the past two days, especially the Zangpu Navy review, full of expectations, but seeing that so many people have come, his heart suddenly cooled half, complaining about Ning Junxi, if he hadn't kept saying that the time was still early, how could he have come so late, and he was occupied by someone else.
Ning Jun could only smile and reassure him if he wanted to look around, he couldn't find any corners, and he could barely make do with it.
Sisi thought about it and could only do this, so she didn't have the same knowledge as Ning Junxi, she only scratched her eyes fiercely, turned her head and said to Frost Fall, which was considered to be agreed.
Ning Jun nodded ruthlessly, pulling the silk into the crowd.
The people who watch the tide are not as shoulder to shoulder as they see from the outside, there is still some space, but seven or eight out of ten of the places suitable for watching the tide on the riverside have set up tents or put on the table, and the rest of the good places and even the corners are full of tourists from all over the world, and it is really difficult to take advantage of a loophole.
Sisi didn't complain anymore, but her pouting mouth could almost hang an oil bottle.
Ning Junxi looked funny and guilty, and whispered comfortingly, "You really don't want to be reluctant, you can come back next year." ”
Ning Jun glanced at him and said angrily, "I'll look at this year's!"
Ning Jun smiled helplessly, "That ......"
Before he could say a word, a yellow-robed man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks suddenly patted Ning Junxi on the shoulder, and interjected with a smile, "Little brother, did you just come? ”
Ning Jun moved his body, not liking strangers, and said politely, "What do you say?"
"This year is the Zangpu Navy Parade, you know, this time it is a real battle, and there is an unprecedented big program, which is not comparable to the Qiantang River Navy Parade. The yellow-robed man smiled and said, "This matter has spread in the Yuanzhen Dynasty, and the little brother doesn't know?"
Ning Jun smiled shyly and didn't answer.
The yellow-robed man smiled, grabbed Ning Junxi's shoulder with one hand, stretched out his other hand to make a number of five, shook it, and said in a low voice, "I know that there is a piece of land that is empty, and this number will be sold, how about it?"
Ning Junxi looked at the straw sandals on the soles of the big man's feet to the coarse cloth clothes, and finally his eyes fell on the big man's face, "Five taels?"
"Little brother are joking, right?" The yellow-robed man frowned, and quickly stretched, but his smile was not so kind and kind, "You see so many people, it's not good for me to find someone in five taels, the key is to see if the two of us fall in love, right?"
Ning Junxi shook his head and pulled the silk to leave.
"Hey, the price is negotiable. The yellow-robed man hurriedly grabbed Ning Junxi, and his voice was suppressed again, "Twenty taels, it can't be less." ”
Sisi tilted her head and looked at it, inexplicably.
The yellow-robed man glanced at the silk and said earnestly, "You see that this little girl is small and cute, and she is reluctant to return with a beauty for twenty taels of silver?"
Ning Junxi secretly said something messy in his heart, frowned and shook his head, pulled the silk and left, vaguely heard the big man scolding the iron rooster, and ignored it.
didn't find a good position, Ning Jun regretted that he spent all the way out of the crowd to make him happy, and finally confessed the little monster to make the little ancestor's face soothe slightly.
It was still early, anyway, they didn't occupy a good position, the four of them simply broke the jar and broke it, and went back to have breakfast.
When the four of them returned to the tide viewing platform, it was already close to noon.
The sky was not yet a little clear, and it was gray.
On the riverbank under the sky, the flow of people has stretched for more than ten miles, Zhenjiang Ancient Tower, Zhongshan Pavilion and other nearby slightly higher tide viewing points have been placed a few cases of beds, full of wine, delicacies, melons and fruits, there are huge rich and dignitaries and dignitaries who drag their families to watch the tide, and there are graceful Qingliu celebrities, talking and laughing and pointing out the rivers and mountains, Zhu Cui Luo Qi is overflowing.
Ning Junxi looked up at the gloomy sky, thinking that there should be a rain soon, so he ruthlessly asked to buy four oil-paper umbrellas.
Sisi was not less interested, and became more and more excited, put the snack into Frost Fall's arms, and pulled Ning Junxi into the crowd.
Ruthless was not interested in this, so he stayed where he was.
On the embankment, there is no room for space, and the people who come to watch the tide are standing on tiptoe and stretching their necks to squeeze forward, and it is inevitable that some of the disciples who like to join in the fun and rub the oil take the opportunity to get their hands on it.
Sisi has no concept of the difference between men and women, as long as she doesn't steal her things, she can ignore it for the time being, Ning Junxi has no choice but to be that wicked person, when he sees someone wanting to do it, he smashes it with a fist, or raises his leg and kicks hard, and his hands and feet are unambiguous, but he is stunned, I didn't expect Ning Junxi to have such a good-tempered person to have such a horizontal time.
Those scoundrels who suffered from stuffiness naturally didn't want to be beaten in vain, but when they saw Ning Junxi's brocade clothes and jade belts, and the silk clothes were also unusually coarse cloth, their momentum suddenly wilted, and in order to avoid asking for trouble, they no longer entangled, and turned to look for the next target.
In the sea of tide watchers, there are many small jasper who are silent after being bullied, and there is no need to hang themselves on a tree.
The two squeezed for nearly half an hour, but fortunately they saw the water of the Zangpu River, but they saw that the water surface was calm, and only slight ripples seemed to blow the pool water.
In the Zhongshan Pavilion, most of the big people are also here, in addition to a cadre of officials, Yao Junzhi, the second county lord of Yuan'an Wangfu, and his two servants, Xiao, Qi, Niu The three rulers, and the two Tsing Yi students of Qingyun College are also among them, in addition, there are two empty positions left, but I don't know who the big man is.
Not far away, the ancient tower of Zhenhai was shrouded in a layer of mist, which was contrasted with several green mountains in the distance, looming in the clouds.
......
Drunk spring breeze, there is a wine shop outside Qingping City, which is so ordinary that it is not much different from other simple wine shops next to the official road, so that few people know that Qingping wine is from here.
The owner of the wine shop is a blind old man, who has been running a wine shop for more than a few years, and has been alone, who may or may not have broken through the rivers and lakes, anyway, there is no name for him on the rivers and lakes.
According to the old man, he can handle two things when he is a lot older.
One thing is getting acquainted with individuals.
One thing is to win a game of chess.
But if someone asks who or what chess, the old man just shakes his head and says something strange, and over time, no one cares.
Today, because of the tide, the humble courtyard is empty.
The blind old man sat on the threshold and drank his drink, occasionally spilling a glass of wine on the loess in front of him.
"Babble~"
A clear sound of the fence door being pushed open sounded in the small courtyard, and someone walked into the small courtyard.
The wind in the courtyard was swift and fast.
The old man looked up and saw a young man in a brocade robe, a monk in white robe, and a sloppy old man with a thin body.
The white-clothed monk shook the wine gourd at the old man, "Come to get wine." ”
The old man nodded, stood up tremblingly, turned and went to the thatched house, "Come in." ”
The wind in the small courtyard swept the fallen leaves, swirling in the courtyard, slowly calming.
All three breathed a sigh of relief.
Walk into the thatched house, but see the old Eight Immortals table placed side by side, several stools are horizontally vertical among them, there are a few oil lamps hanging on the beams, which have long been covered with dust, dozens of wine jars are stacked on the wall, the wine words pasted on it have faded, and there is a coarse cloth curtain in between, and you can vaguely see the bacon hanging on the wall.
The old man walked to a half-man-high wine jar, took the wine gourd, and directly used the wine spoon to hold the wine.
Yao Jingcheng couldn't help but sigh, "The old man has a good technique. ”
The old man put down the wine spoon and covered the wine jar, "I have been holding wine for half a lifetime, and my hands are familiar with it." ”
He returned the wine gourd to Li Chan, "Two taels or three dollars, give a change, two taels." ”
Li Chan frowned at Yao Jingcheng.
Yao Jingcheng rubbed his hands and coughed, "Yijiazi ago, did the old man say that he wanted to accept an apprentice, can you see if I can do it?"
The old man paused, slowly turned his head, a pair of cloudy eyes looked directly at the young man with flirtatious eyebrows, and then looked at the sloppy old man behind the young man, and sighed softly after a few breaths, "It's okay, it's time to pay it back." ”
......
Just after noon, there was a rumbling sound from a distance, like a muffled thunder rolling.
In an instant, the crowd resounded with deafening cheers, and the two young men who had crowded in front with the crowd stood on tiptoe and looked eastward, and the river was still calm.
After a while, the sound became louder and louder, overshadowing the crowd of voices, and the review platform was ordered by Yue Wang Yue Pan, and the drums suddenly shook the sky, and hundreds of ships belonging to the Zangpu Navy on both sides of the strait led the tide in.
The people saw a white line on the foggy river moving from east to west, and the white rainbow crossed the river, gradually elongated, thickened, such as the snow ridge of the jade city came from the sky, and after the Meng, it was like tens of thousands of white war horses marching together, galloping mightily.
In an instant, the tide and the sound of drums were endless, like thunder, shocking and shooting, swallowing the sky and fertile sun, and the embankments on the river bank trembled.
With the advance of the tide, the sailors are galloping and dividing into five formations, and there are those who ride and play flags, javelins and knives on the water, as if walking on the ground.
In between, yellow smoke rises everywhere, and the scenery on the water gradually becomes indistinct.
The water exploded and roared, and the sound was like a mountain cracking.
Suddenly, the tide rushed westward, but the aftermath swept all over the sky, and the wind and waves still roared on the river.
For a long time, the smoke and fog faded, and there was no trace,
Only the "enemy ships" were burned by the fire and disappeared with the waves.
The people were stunned by this heroic handiwork, and for a while they could only hear the horn of the waves and the wind.
The silt beside the embankment had been submerged by the rising tide of the river, and a barefoot old man emerged from the river, holding a cluster of reeds and looking at the vast river in a daze, muttering, "Wrong, wrong......
In his vague memory, there are vaguely swordsmen stepping on the tide in front of the thunderous tide, strong men carrying thousands of catties and smashing the tide angrily, swordsmen boating against the tide, and amazing archers with amazing strength, colliding with the tide, stirring up a thousand waves......
There have been countless heroes of the rivers and lakes who have shown their grandeur at the head of the tide, how high-spirited, and now the river is still wide, why is it so lonely and lonely?
The old man was puzzled, and suddenly his eyes widened
But I saw dozens of figures in the turbulent waves, all wearing tattoos, holding ten big colored flags, vying to be the first to drum up and go up.
The next moment, the whale wave suddenly exploded several walls of water, rising from the ground for several feet.
Dozens of people took off in an instant, and the formation was changing, but seeing that the river was like a curtain, one person in the water curtain was so forced back into the water.
These are just moments, for the people only saw dozens of people swimming in the water like fish, colorful flags fluttering, and they couldn't help but applaud.
After dozens of breaths, a huge whirlpool suddenly rolled up on the surface of the river, and the water became more and more turbulent.
More than a dozen people plunged into the water and disappeared, and the remaining people took off and changed, showing the power of swimming.
The river is gradually becoming more and more surging, and there is a majestic momentum that does not lose the previous tide.
At a certain moment, several water columns on the river suddenly rose into the sky, and dozens of people holding colorful flags seemed to have been vigorously pulled into the water.
Immediately afterwards, a majestic body nearly one zhang high rushed out of the river, and two water columns went out to sea like dragons, instantly hitting more than a dozen people who hurriedly drilled out of the water, full of momentum.
Dozens of people under the water seem to have been ready to go, and they came out of the water at the same time, stepping on the water, as if walking on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a formation and fell violently.
The burly figure waved his arms, and the river was like a dragon churning, causing a large splash, but his limbs were bound and he was forced to press into the water again.
When the people on both sides of the strait saw this situation, they all thought that the king of Jianglong was alive, and they were so frightened that they retreated one after another, and suddenly the river embankment gave way to a few zhang of open space.
On the bank of the river, I saw a person treading water, like a ghost, and smashed a group of tide people into the water with a punch, but in an instant, the formation was chaotic.
In the Zhongshan Pavilion, someone stood up suddenly.
Yao Jun, the second county lord of the Yuan'an Palace, who was accustomed to wearing a man's attire, turned his peach blossom eyes, and his voice was arrogant and playful, "Yo, but there is one more person who is sent to death, and there is no hurry on the review table, but Zhao Shangshu is in a hurry?"
Zhao Yuquan, the Sanpin Shangshu who was sent by Luo Jing to watch the ceremony and supervise by the way, laughed dryly and sat down again, "The county lord said with a smile. ”
Yao Junzhi took a sip of tea, "I'm shocked, if it's in Qinglian Mountain, I'll unload your two legs first." ”
She turned her head to look at Li Chan, who was sitting quietly, and her voice was slightly elongated, "Master Yizen, you said yes?"
Everyone who heard the words looked at each other.
Li Chan grinned, "Exactly." ”