The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is like a silver dragon passing through the foot of Maoshan Mountain, rolling from the south of Changzhou to the east.

There is an alley on the north bank of the canal, named Qianguo Lane.

To the south of the alley is a bustling street market, made by the water, the two-storey small attic stands next to each other along the river, there are Jiangjia Cloth Workshop, Tangjia Qianguo Fang, Kelaiju Inn, Lijia Fresh Fruit Fang, Xishan Fruit, Maoshan Orchard, Chen's Tea Shop, Hu's Hemp Cake, Wujia Tofu, Xu's Dried Radish, Maoshan Tea House, Lingji Bamboo Fang, Taomei, Apricot and Plum Color, as well as the stinky tofu shop at the end of the alley and the shrimp cake shop on the street corner.

This is a famous alley.

The alley is famous, not because of its beauty, nor because it is old or very large, but because there is a special pier.

The wharf is called Qianguo Wharf, it is not big, it can dock two or three small wooden boats at a time, a few bowls of thick willows on both sides greet the spring breeze and spit cui, not far away is the south gate of Changzhou City, the city wall stands majestically, it is indeed very beautiful, but it is not the reason for being famous.

There is no canal scene of "fishing songs ethereal and flying eaves, and the sails and shadows are jagged in the jade waves", and there is no gorgeous and gorgeous dragon boat and phoenix boat reflecting the flowing water. On this pier, strings of wooden boats break the waves, and they are full of fragrant fruits.

There are thousands of wharves on the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which basically belong to the Cao Gang, and this wharf is a special exception, which does not belong to the Cao Gang, but belongs to the Tang family in Changzhou.

The wharf is an exception to the riverside for passengers to get on and off and load and unload goods, and only ships selling fruit can dock. This alley is also very special, civil officials get off the sedan chair, military attaches get off the horse, and all kinds of people walk in the market. There was no loud noise in the streets, and no bloody violence. These are the rules of the Tang family.

For more than 100 years, it has become a paradise for fruit farmers and merchants, and merchants and fruit farmers who come from the south to the north to sell fruits have come one after another, and it has also become the most famous alley on the rivers and lakes.

According to legend, at the end of the Song Dynasty, Tang Guiren, the ancestor of the Tang family, had a dream to establish a country of Huaxu outside Changzhou on the edge of the canal. Its people have no appetite, it's just natural. I don't know how to live happily, I don't know how to die evil, so I don't die; I don't know myself. They don't know how to sparse things, so they don't have love or hate, they don't know how to backslide, they don't know how to go in order, so they don't have any interests, they don't care about it, they don't have anything to fear, they don't drown in the water, they don't get hot when they enter the fire. ”

Tang Guiren traveled all over the fruit estates in Suzhou and Changzhou to raise funds from every businessman, hawker and fruit farmer who came to Changzhou to do fruit business, and finally built this wharf.

On the day of its completion, Tang Guiren solemnly promised the people of the world that Qianguo Wharf could only dock ships transporting fruits. Qianguo Lane is the Huaxu country of fruit farmers in the world, no matter who you are, as long as you are dedicated to good and never follow evil, you can live a comfortable life here. The Tang family will defend the peace here with their lives and blood for generations.

In the turbulent era of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, this alley was like an oasis in the vast desert of the rivers and lakes, where many people lived a quiet and comfortable life.

Qianguo Lane has also become a paradise for fruit farmers and merchants, the kingdom of fruits, and the freshest and sweetest fruits in the north and south of the South China Sea are all available here.

There is a poem circulating on the rivers and lakes: "The vast rivers and lakes are difficult to hide and retreat." The charm invades the quiet, and a thousand fruits kill the ghosts. ”

More than 100 years later, Tang Guiren, the ancestor of the Tang family, who guarded this beautiful legend, had already driven the crane immortal, but others were not in the rivers and lakes, and his beautiful legend was still circulating in the rivers and lakes.

Tang Guiren is a beautiful legend in the rivers and lakes.

Legend has it that Tang Guiren, the ancestor of the Tang family, has mana to the sky and can call the wind and rain. To the early years of the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Hongwu period, Changzhou city sent three big floods, the flood like a demon covered the bridges in Changzhou city, the flood in the south of Changzhou city has been flooded to the roof, the south of the city is a piece of Zeguo, Qianguo Lane in the vast torrent like a small island leisurely standing.

The rivers and lakes are still legendary, the ancestor of the Tang family, Tang Guiren, has strong martial arts, is proficient in formations, and the Tang family's throat gun in his hand can defeat ghosts and gods, and he has set up a Daluo immortal array to guard Qianguo Wharf and Qianguo Lane.

The cargo ship did not dock at Qianguo Wharf according to the regulations, and no matter how many masters were used to guard it day and night, the falling mainsail would surely rise automatically, and a rusty iron gun would fly to the center of the mast with a letter, and it would be nailed there without a single difference. The content of the letter must be: shame on faith! Free delivery for poor fruit growers. If the cargo ship did not leave that night, the hull would have fallen apart and sunk into the river the next day.

Businessmen sell fruit to dominate the market, and when they come home, they will surely see a letter nailed to the door with a rusty iron gun. The content of the letter must be: Shame on no faith! Return the money and go to the Qianguo Wharf to work hard for a month. No matter the mountains and rivers, or the wind, frost, rain and snow, the deceitful must do what the letter requires. If he didn't finish it within the specified time, he thought he was unlucky, knelt down at Qianguo Wharf to admit his mistake, and cut off one leg to atone for his sins. If you don't admit your mistakes, or if you want to escape, you will be even more unlucky, either crawling back to the dock with broken legs and admitting your mistakes, or evaporating from the world.

Qianguo Lane has naturally become the most famous alley on the rivers and lakes.

However, in the decades since the ancestor of the Tang family, Tang Guirenxian, left, the Tang family no longer knew how to make the falling mainsail automatically rise, and the four blood-red characters "No faith is shameful!" fluttered in the wind. I only know that I can kill with a spear, seize a favorable position, raise the main sail, and order a disciple who has achieved light merit to write four blood-red characters in the air with a powerful pen in hand, "No faith is shameful!" In doing so, although there is no mystery and horror of the ancestors, it adds a lot of pride and domineering.

I don't know how to make a rusty iron gun fly with a letter to the center of the mast, nailed there, and stand still. Countless disciples of the Tang family have worked hard to fly spear skills, no matter what, it is always difficult for a rusty iron spear to fly to the mast with a letter, let alone not to mention that it is not the slightest difference, and it will not move majestically there.

The Tang family began to believe in the beautiful legends of the ancestor Tang Guiren in the rivers and lakes, and believed that the ancestor Tang Guiren relied on driving ghosts and gods to protect Qianguo Lane.

Learning Taoism and practicing martial arts have become a compulsory course for the disciples of the Tang family.

Many disciples of the Tang family gave up practicing martial arts to learn Taoism, and some went directly to Maoshan to become monks and concentrate on practicing magic.

The Tang family was busy thinking about whether the Tang family was high in martial arts or Taoism? As for where did the Tang family come from? No one cared about why the Tang family once had such martial arts!