"When will the chaos be chiseled, and the iron cables will be consolidated, and half of the rivers and mountains will be supported. Thousands of ravines and thousands of peaks lead to the bird road, and the mountains and smoke and rain fall on the rainbow stream...... "In the rumbling sound of water, a young man stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the stone wall on the cliff, and the sound of chanting in his mouth was faintly heard.

The stone walls are crisscrossed with words carved with words, and what the boy is chanting is exactly what is engraved on the stone wall. The young man is about ten years old, with luxurious clothes and a long body, and he knows at a glance that he is the son of a rich and noble family.

The cliff next to the stone wall hangs upside down, and a waterfall like a training water falls down, pours into the deep pool under the cliff, and the pearls and jade splash in all directions, and the cool attacks people. An old man dressed as a Confucian, holding an unsheathed green steel sword, tiptoed back and forth by the pool, as if looking for something.

The calligraphy carved on the cliff is vigorous and simple, magnificent, and quite famous. Presumably the remains of a local literati and inkman. The boy was attentive to appreciation, and he was very fascinated. But seeing that he sometimes nodded and smiled, sometimes frowned and sighed, it seemed that he admired many subtleties, and seemed to deeply regret the occasional failures. Where the love is sent, it is also enjoyable.

At the end of the sentence, the young man's eyes were fixed on a few lines of text for a long time, and after careful consideration, he still felt that he did not understand the point, so he beckoned to the old man and said: "Uncle Yu, you come, my nephew has something unclear to ask you for advice." The old man was stunned, still staring intently at the water.

After a while, the old man surnamed Yu suddenly threw his long sword into the pool and shot it, and the long sword swept across the water with a strong wind, and bounced back when it hit the opposite stone wall with a bang. The old man grabbed the hilt of the sword casually, and there were already two more herring fish on the blade, which were not dead for a while, and they writhed endlessly. The old man stuck the sword with the fish on the ground, and then he came over to the young man with a smile and said, "But have you encountered any difficulties?"

The young man pointed to the lines of words on the stone wall, nodded, and said: "These calligraphy are so exquisite, my nephew is clumsy, and I can't see what is written for a while, so I ask Uncle Yu for guidance." ”

The old man surnamed Yu looked at the place where the young man was pointing, and saw that the words on the wall were engraved in cursive, the gestures were intricate, and there were many erosions in the middle, which was really a little difficult to identify. The old man stared at it for a moment, stroked three strands of long beard under his chin, and muttered: "Oh, this article is really intriguing", paused and said: "The book on this wall should be 'both sides of the strait are as high as the sky, standing to the sky, like a dragon and a snake running, like a tiger and a leopard, looking forward to the sky and people are afraid, majestic and unattainable' seems to describe the steepness of the mountain, but I don't know if it's right. ”

After hearing this, the young man suddenly realized, looked around the mountains, clapped his hands and sighed: "'It is like a dragon and a snake running, like a tiger and a leopard', with such a pen power, where can there be a mistake, isn't what this article depicts exactly the scenery of this place? Uncle Yu is a scholar and a man, and his nephew admires it." ”

The old man surnamed Yu waved his hand and smiled: "Calligraphy, broad and profound, knowing a few words is nothing, you are talented and intelligent, full of poetry and books, that is the real elegance." ”

After the young man and the old man each said a few words of humility, the young man climbed to the post pavilion on the edge of the cliff. But I saw the dangerous peaks on all sides, surrounded by clouds and mist, and a vast scene. Looking at the bottom of the cliff, the river is rolling, like a cyan dragon, and this water is the Lancang River in Yunnan.

On the river surface outside the post pavilion, six large iron chains with the thickness of the bowl mouth are interlocked, and square wood is paved on the top, and handrails are provided on both sides to form a long bridge. The bridge is about dozens of zhang long, and Ling Bo lies horizontally, which is very spectacular. This bridge is called Qinglong Bridge, connecting the traffic on both sides of the strait, and it is the necessary place for the southwest section of the Yunnan Tea Horse Road, which is really an important place in the local area.

The young man was looking at himself with a smile, only to hear the old man surnamed Yu shouting from afar: "Come down and eat something, you will have to hurry later." It turned out that he had already made a fire and cooked two fresh fish.

The young man lazily walked down the post pavilion, which means that "good mountains and good water are not enough". The old man took out a lotus leaf roast chicken from the package he carried, tore a chicken leg and handed it to the young man, and tore off a piece of it himself and ate it.

The young man was thoughtful, looking unpleasant, tearing off the meat one by one and chewing it slowly, looking at the river, tilting his head sideways and being stunned. The old man was not surprised, but just ate by himself.

Halfway through a chicken leg, the young man slapped his forehead and said to himself, "Yes, it should be changed to a weeping rainbow here." This last sentence didn't quite fit my liking, but I couldn't scrutinize it for a while. ”

The old man surnamed Yu smiled and said, "Are you chanting poetry again?"

The young man smiled and said, "It's just a matter of moaning without illness." There are a few unsatisfactory areas that need to be considered. This was chanted out and asked Uncle Yu to criticize. The old man smiled and nodded.

The young man said casually: "The weeping rainbow is flying and falling, and the walls of ten thousand miles are breaking through the green cangs." The deep ape in the mountains roared and the dragon roared, and the hooves galloped and strong. He then said, "What does Uncle Yu think?"

The old man surnamed Yu said, "Well, it's not bad. In ancient times, Cao Zijian wrote a poem in seven steps, and said that it was a hundred poems of Li Baidou's wine, and you also made a poem between half a chicken leg, which can be regarded as looking at the back of the predecessors, and it is quite a legacy of the sages. The flying words in this first sentence are remarkable, and they are very much in line with me. The river here is wide and rapid, and the construction of this bridge must not be easy, but it is really like flying over in the air. ”

The young man smiled: "The sages are talented and famous, but the little nephew is nonsense and not enough, which is really a world of difference." The great poet Xie Lingyun said that there is a stone of talent in the world, and Cao Zijian occupies eight buckets alone. ”

The old man surnamed Yu said noncommittally: "Don't underestimate you, a weak scholar, and you don't have a heroic momentum when you make poems." It's hard to come by. After speaking, he nodded with a smile, and his heart was very happy.

The young man smiled: "It's not that my nephew is heroic, but this scene is imposing." The old man said: "Jing Sheng is good, your poems are also good, everyone is half a catty, no one has to be modest, ha "The young man is highly commended and very happy.

At this moment, a series of crisp camel bells were heard not far away, and then a group of men and horses were seen turning the corner of the mountain. There was an endless stream of mules and horses, no less than 100 horses, slowly coming towards the Qinglong Bridge. I saw that the horse at the head was all black, wearing red tassels, and a small round bronze mirror was inlaid in the middle of the bridle head, and the streamer was dazzling in the daytime. There are two bowl-sized copper bells hanging around his neck, and the ding-dong is very beautiful. The end is fat and strong, looking forward to life. There is a pennant inserted on the saddle, waving in the wind, and the black characters on a yellow background are embroidered with the word "wonderful" with a big bucket.

The young man usually spends time on the piano, chess, poetry and books, and rarely goes out, and when he saw these many people, he couldn't help but be very curious, and asked quietly: "Uncle Yu, has there been any war in Dali recently?" The old man surnamed Yu frowned slightly, and said casually: "I haven't heard of it." ”

The young man said: "This is strange, since there is no war, how can there be so many people and horses on the expedition." Immediately, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and he looked worried about the country and the people, and he looked worried.

The old man surnamed Yu laughed when he heard this, and said, "This is a horse gang that traffics materials, what kind of army is going out." Is there only a horse in the army, and there is no reason for the generals? ”

The young man saw that there were only twenty or thirty scattered people in the horse team, all of them wearing short clothes and unarmed, and they did not look like the imaginary mighty army. smiled: "I haven't even seen a real army, let alone this unscrupulous and strange army, Ha Luha." ”

After a while, his face suddenly became solemn again, and he said: "There is a way that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, if the war is together, it will inevitably be ruined, and I just hope that the soldiers of the DPRK and China will never have to go to war." ”

The old man surnamed Yu praised and said: "It is also very good that you have this compassion for the heavens and people, and it is not in vain that you have read so many books of sages." After speaking, he sighed, as if he felt something.

The young man asked again: "Then what is the function of this caramel?" The old man surnamed Yu said: "The caravan is a kind of people's gang, which trafficks goods between places and does not have the function of the imperial court. They transported tea and medicinal herbs from Yunnan to the Southern Dynasties, Tibet and other places, and then exchanged them for some porcelain and Chinese books and other things. It is also a big gang in Tiannan Martial Arts. Of course, there are also official gangs and private gangs. The young man said: "In this way, I have been able to read the Hanshu classics since I was a child, and I have also benefited from the horse gang, which is really beneficial to my Dali people." The old man surnamed Yu bowed his head and said, "That's exactly it." ”

As he spoke, a group of people had already approached, and they all stopped in the open space by the post pavilion. The leader was a middle-aged man, who ordered everyone to unload the goods and collect firewood to make a meal. The middle-aged man smiled when he saw the young man and the old man, and said hello, and went to the pond with a few other men from the horse gang to drink horses.

The waterhole is backed by the cliff, in a semicircle, and more than ten mules and horses bow their heads together to drink, like an open fan. The rest of the horses thought that they were thirsty and fierce, and saw their companions drinking water and neighing together, just as the so-called thirsty horses ran to the spring, and a few disobedient ponies were even more impatient, and spread their hooves and ran to the edge of the pool, and several horsemen hurriedly shouted in unison, but where to stop drinking, and the mud and dust flew when the open space landed. When the dust settled, the young man and the old man were already covered with dust, and the roast chicken and grilled fish in their hands were naturally not spared, and they couldn't eat it.