Chapter 1 Poyang County

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After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and took the opportunity to become bigger and stronger in various feudal towns. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And the Tang Dynasty after the Huangchao Rebellion had a situation of "thousands of miles of eyes and no fireworks". The turmoil spread to the south of the Yangtze River in the two Huaijiang regions, and the local heroes rose up to resist the enemy.

In 907, Zhu Quanzhong forced Emperor Wai of the Tang Dynasty to concede, and soon killed him, and the Tang Dynasty died.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Chinese history once again entered the era of the Great Division. In the vast northern regions, the result of the warlord melee was the emergence of the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Five more powerful dynasties. At the same time, there were nine relatively small secessionist regimes in various parts of the south, namely: Wu, Southern Tang, Wu Yue, Chu, Former Shu, Later Shu, Southern Han, Nanping and Fujian, plus the Northern Han in the north, which was the Ten Kingdoms. The territories of the ten countries vary greatly in size.

Every time the dynasty changes and the troubled times come, it is also the time when heroes and heroes are revealed.

In the seventh year of the Southern Tang Dynasty (943) and the second day of February 22 in the eighth year of the Later Jin Dynasty, Li Sheng, the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, took the pill, died in the back, and did not mourn secretly, and the subordinate system was to Li Jingtong, the king of Qi, as the prisoner. On the 28th, Li Sheng's legacy was announced, and on the first day of the first month of March, Li Jingtong was the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, renamed Jing, and changed to Yuan Baoda.

Poyang Lake, formerly known as Pengze, is located in the north of Jiangxi Province, on the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and is the largest freshwater lake in China. In ancient times, the area used to be the "Yangtze Trough" in the ocean, and since then, "the sea has three lands", or uplifted into land, or sunk into the sea, which is changeable. The end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the southward invasion of the lake, and it was called "Poyang Lake" since then.

In June, in the south of the Yangtze River, on the official road of Poyang County in the east of Poyang Lake, two teenagers walked slowly.

"This is a bad weather, one will be sunny, and the other will be cloudy. How far does Brother Xuan have to go?" the tall boy grumbled with a bitter face.

"There are still ten miles or so, who told you to give our horses away?" Now you know that you are tired?" The same gray-faced young man, with a stalk of grass in his lips and two packages on his back, answered the tall young man lazily as he walked, and there was a sense of schadenfreude in his words.

"Didn't I see that the old man's legs and feet were not good, anyway, we were almost there, so I gave him the horse" The tall young man is named Chen Lin, half a year younger than Lu Yuxuan, the two grew up together, and they have honest personalities, but they are careless in making friends, and they have always moved forward bravely, because when he turns back, Lu Yuxuan's shadow is often faded.

"You have a crush on his little granddaughter, right?" Lu Yuxuan teased Chen Lin as he walked forward, compared to Chen Lin's empty hands and faltering steps, he was carrying two packages on his shoulders, still walking like flying.

"Nope. Chen Lin blushed

Seeing that his little friend's anxious face turned red, Lu Yuxuan didn't continue to tease him anymore and changed the topic.

"Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty once wrote a poem "Plum Rain": "The plum is ripe to welcome the rain, the vast is worth the small spring, the sorrow is deep and the ape night, and the dream is broken and the chicken is in the morning." The sea fog connects the South Pole, the rivers and clouds are dark in the north, and the plain clothes are now exhausted, not for the dust of the emperor'. The rainy season is from mid-June to early July. The sky was overcast for days and days, and the precipitation was continuous, sometimes heavy and sometimes light. We were lucky enough to catch up. Lu Yuxuan grew up in the north and had read about the plum rain in the south of the Yangtze River a few times in the book, and this was the first time he had experienced it personally.

Turned around and looked at the two of them with mud spots, layers of water vapor were revealed between their clothes, and they were still cloudy just now, and now it was the scorching sun, like two steamers, the water vapor was thick, grinning, not pretending to be a gentleman, and also followed Chen Lin to curse two sentences of "thief God".

Because the war in the north has never been extinguished, the economy is relatively backward, and the population has been greatly reduced. The south is relatively stable, so there are also some displaced people gathered outside Poyang City, doing some work every day to maintain survival, and it has become a habit to be hungry and full. If you are lucky, you can find a good owner's home, work for a long time, and support your family, and you can have three meals without worrying. It's officially settled here.

Every New Year's Festival, some wealthy families in the city will also make some food to provide to the displaced people outside the city, and do some acts of kindness.

Today is the day of the original wife of the wealthy family in the city, the eldest lady of the Yin family went to the Xianming Temple outside the city to pray for her mother, and when she returned to the city, she instructed her subordinates to distribute the food to the homeless people and accumulate some merits.

"Lin Zi, you rest here first, I'll go find someone to ask for directions" Lu Yuxuan handed the package to Chen Lin, the two had just arrived outside Poyang City, and saw a group of people gathered together, some were ragged and unkempt, and some were dressed in old clothes and patched, but their appearance was much neater, only a little dish. In the middle of the crowd, a few families in green clothes and small hats were taking out food from bamboo baskets and distributing it outside. Bypassing the crowd, a carriage stopped on the side of the road, and a sturdy guard beside the car glanced around from time to time, and a young maid in Tsing Yi with a double bun distributed the delicate pastries in the basket to a group of children, the children's cheerful laughter echoed in the air, and a girl with delicate facial features looked at them with a smile on her face.

Under the gaze of the guards, Lu Yuxuan slowly stepped forward and saluted the girl first.

"This young lady is invited, my person Lu Yuxuan, I came from afar, I want to find a distant uncle, I first arrived here, I wonder if the young lady can give me advice?"

"Son, I don't know what your uncle's surname is, where does he live?" the girl returned the salute and looked at Lu Yuxuan.

A soft voice came into his ears, Lu Yuxuan looked up at the girl in front of him, and then there was a bang in his head, and it was blank, and there was only the figure of the girl in his eyes.

The girl is wearing a cross-collared skirt, the white upper Confucianism is dusty, neat and clean, the sky blue lower skirt is embroidered with flowers and birds, the outer cover is a silk weaving half arm of the same color as the lower skirt, the hair is combed with a hundred flowers and a small bun, a small amount of gold ornaments, decorated in the hair, the hairpin jade step shakes, the skin is crystal clear, the eyebrows are like a distant dai, the eyes of the water are cut, two amethyst earrings hang down on the cheeks, the waist is tied with a pink palace silk, the jade is embellished, and the pink tassel is gently fluttering in the breeze. It's as if Roselle is coming back to the world.

"Idiot, what do you want?" the little maid shouted to Lu Yuxuan when she came to the girl. Holding a bamboo basket in her hand, as if there was a wicked person standing in front of her, she was ready to protect the young lady.

"Qing'er, don't be rude" The girl said to Qing'er in front of her, but there was no reprimand in her words, looking at Lu Yuxuan like a goose, covering her lips and chuckling. Although the young man in front of him was embarrassed, he had starry eyebrows and a thoughtful face, and it could be seen from the words just now that this person was a cultivated person, although he was out of shape for a while, he did not offend.

"Ah, it's a faux pas, please don't blame the lady, my uncle Hu Kun, who lives on Yong'an Street" After being scolded by the little girl in front of him, Lu Yuxuan was also very embarrassed, and hurriedly reported his uncle's address.

"Gongzi can enter the city from the east gate, turn left and the first street is Yong'an Street, go west for half an hour, you can see where Hufu is. The girl's voice was as soft as water again.

"Thank you, Miss, I don't know Miss's name, I have come to the daily newspaper to answer the grace of guidance" Lu Yuxuan made a thank you gift to the girl.

"The little woman Yin Yi, a little thing, not enough to worry about. ”

"There is Miss Lao Yin, I am going to say goodbye. ”

"Childe walks slowly. ”

Under Qing'er's defensive gaze, Lu Yuxuan walked away a little embarrassed.

"Miss, the snacks have been sent" Some fine beads of sweat oozed from Qing'er's delicate face, and the small bamboo basket in her hand was empty.

"Alright, let's go home. Yin Yi still had a smile in her eyes, raised her hand to comb Qing'er's slightly scattered bun, the little girl is thirteen this year, three years younger than herself, she has been with her since she entered the Yin Mansion five years ago, her mother died when she was eight years old, her father was busy with the store, although there were women in the house to take care of her, but a little girl was still lonely, until she was eleven years old, Qing'er's arrival, so that her smile gradually increased and became real. The two little girls are together every day, Qing'er has a lively personality and is a pistachio, she also treats Qing'er as a sister, and sometimes asks her, a young lady, to take care of this little confused.

The master and servant boarded the carriage, and the escort uncle raised his horsewhip lightly and drove into the city.

"Brother Xuan, did you ask where you went?" Chen Lin sat under a big tree on the side of the road, beating his legs lightly with his hands.

"Well, when I asked, I still have to walk for about half an hour, can you still walk?"

"Let's go, I'm tired, I knew this, and I practiced martial arts well. Chen Lin complained as he followed Lu Yuxuan towards the city.

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