Striking while the iron was hot, Zhu Pingan sat down on the edge of the Taihu Lake leaning against a rock after the angling old man had left and carefully flipped through the calligraphy post that the old man had given him.
When he first opened the book, he only took a glance at it, and felt that it was like a lone boat in the middle of the ocean riding the wind and waves, and every word was as vivid as a frame of mirror image. Zhu Pingan leaned against the stone, and while studying it carefully, he stretched out his fingers to figure out the structure of the brushwork.
Unconsciously the sky had already dawned, and the horn of the fisherman in the lake came over from a great distance.
Zhu Pingan raised his head to look at the sun rising into the sky, and his stomach grumbled at the right time, before he reluctantly put away the word post, got up and put the word post into his school bag, packed up his things again, and walked towards the direction of the inn with the black wooden board in his hand.
Passing by the street was a “Mi Cha meat” snack shop issued by the smell of attraction, so clamped the black wooden board to the shop, asked the boss to ask for a copy of the Mi Cha meat and a bowl of rice congee, paid the money to sit in the shop and wait patiently.
It didn’t take long for the shopkeeper to serve a steaming hot rice pork, Zhu Pingan tasted it, ignoring the hot mouth, he was eager to eat, the shopkeeper made the rice pork meat crispy, flavour through the aroma of freshness, the rice flour to absorb the grease has a special aroma, eating without being greasy.
“Shopkeeper, please make another one and pack it away.” Zhu Pingan called out to the shopkeeper and paid again.
“Alright, when the gentleman eats up to seventy to eighty per cent then do it again for the gentleman, by then it will be hot to take it home.” The shopkeeper took the money and said with great consideration for Zhu Pingan.
“Thank you over there.” Zhu Pingan nodded his head in satisfaction.
“Your Excellency is polite.” The shopkeeper smiled and went to entertain the other diners.
Zhu Pingan sat at the table savouring the rice chaat meat, occasionally drinking a mouthful of hot porridge, truly having a feeling of not being envious of lovebirds and not being envious of immortality.
Just as Zhu Pingan was enjoying his breakfast, a few more merchants dressed as diners entered the shop, looking furious, and after each of them ordered a portion of the Mi Cha Pork and a few seasonal dishes, they spoke with righteous indignation.
“Those goddamned Japanese slaves have come to infest the coast again!”
“Who says it is not, the last time is still a few years ago, these should be killed pickled material, I received a pigeon this morning, only to know that two carloads of raw silk was robbed, even the shop mate has two people almost suffered from poisonous hands!”
“I’m not so good, car and horse style on the way to be sick for two days, just to avoid over, hey, these assorted small country, really should be Xingwangshi fight kill over.”
Next to the table to eat the diners, heard quite concerned about the enquiry, is where again suffered the Japanese disaster.
“This time is Suzhou Province, the same as the South Zhili, our Anqing Province far from the sea, but also a good place, to tell you, those Japanese slaves a bald bare feet stepped on the board, speaking bird language, fierce and vicious, eat human flesh, especially love to eat human heart and liver”.
“Although there are not many Japanese, they are ruthless, they don’t leave any dogs or chickens behind, they scrape the ground three feet, it’s really a miserable place.”
The side listening to the diners can not help but draw a breath of cold air, secretly glad that they are in the Anqing Province, if it is Suzhou Province, I am afraid it is bad luck.
Hearing this, Zhu Pingan could no longer eat! A wave of depression stirred in his heart and was difficult to dissipate for a long time.
Japanese, ghosts, almost forgot about this group of scum! Scum!
The Ming Dynasty was one of the greatest dynasties in Chinese history. Like all great dynasties, she had her own problems, her own woes. That was the Japanese invasion. From the Hongwu years to the Wanli years, the Japanese plague was almost unbroken. Especially during the Jiajing Years, in which she was now in, it was a period of rampant Japanese invasion.
At this time, more than a hundred years of chaos in Japan’s Warring States period, everywhere the fire of war, no one can get peace and quiet, the fields are deserted, corpses and bones everywhere. The ronin, who were like wild dogs with no food to grow and no fish to fight, and the scoundrels who had no life to live, set their sights on the rich China on the other side of the sea, and a Japanese ship set off!
The Japanese pirates in this period were disillusioned martial artists, ronin and vagabonds from Japan, but of course, there were also sea pirates and smuggling groups along the coasts of our country, the proportion of which was not small, and they formed pirate groups that often infested the southeastern coasts of China. In the middle of the period, they even attacked and plundered the southeast coast of China, and the people along the coasts of Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces were ravaged by the Japanese pirates, and the Japanese invasion lasted for several decades.
Zhu Pingan’s hatred of the Japanese invaders is far beyond the people of this era, they only experienced the Japanese invaders, no one knows that hundreds of years later the assorted small countries in the land of China committed heinous crimes, and even use the beast to describe the beast is an insult to the beast.
Now after hearing the news of the Japanese invaders ravaging the coast, Zhu Pingan could not hide the indignation in his heart, and almost had an impulse to abandon his pen and join the military. However, he thought that he was just a weak scholar with no power, and he was afraid that abandoning the military would only add a bloodstain to the Japanese sword, so he extinguished this thought.
On second thought, what about the scholar, he can also plan in a tent, the pen is like a sword, and he has a thousand years of accumulation, for Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and more than a hundred years after the national heroes with the experience of blood accumulation, in the grasp.
Platform, he needs a platform, he is now just a mountain village fart, even if again have ambition again have lessons there is no place to show.
So, for the idea of the imperial examination is even more, the gold medal, the top, the main coastal side, even a county, but also to do their best to kill the Japanese invaders, shelter hardworking and kind-hearted countrymen. If the platform is bigger, it would be better. I don’t mind this time to have a “black ship incident”, it is said that the island is rich in silver, it seems that the women are also not bad, well, think too much, some unrealistic, or with the heart of the poetry and books to build a solid foundation and then say it.
Hurriedly eat, will shop packaged Mi Cha meat take away, hurriedly leave, early arrival at the inn, will be able to read more read more a moment of the book, the gold list will be more confidence.
Pedestrians on the street also see more than three or two talking about Suzhou House, almost to the time of the inn, Zhu Pingan and encountered Tongcheng Xia Luoming, Cusong Feng Shanshui and other people, these people are dressed in gorgeous holding a fan, one of the dashing not vulgar.
“Good morning, gentlemen.” Zhu Pingan opened his mouth from afar and greeted them.
Tongcheng Xia Luoming only nodded slightly and did not speak.
“Oh, so it’s Zhu Xian Di ah, uh, Xian Di this is buying food again” Su Song Feng Shan Shui returned the salute, his eyes pointedly saw the Mi Cha meat carried in Zhu Ping An’s hand, and couldn’t help but nod, the corners of his mouth vaguely smiling.
The companions naturally remembered Zhu Pingan’s title of Rice Bucket, and some did not hold back their laughter.
“After yesterday’s exams, it’s rare to relax, why don’t you follow us forward to the Amazing Immortal Building to drink a few cups of thin wine.” Su Song Feng Shan Shui opened his mouth and invited.
“I won’t bother, there is still food in my hands.” Zhu Pingan shook the Mi Cha meat in his hand and laughed nervously.
“In that case, then we will leave you here.” Su Song Feng Shan Shui and the others then bowed their hands and left.
Zhu Pingan also made a motion of invitation and watched Xia Luoming, Feng Shanshui and the others laughing and talking about the wind all the way to the Amazing Immortal House, as if they had not heard about the flurry of Japanese invasion of Suzhou Prefecture rumoured on the streets.
Back to the inn, in the lobby, uncle Zhu Shouren and other people are also drinking and laughing at a table, Zhu Pingan did not disturb them, carrying rice and meat through the lobby, towards the residence.
