Snow like yesterday, fluttering, vast fields of snow white, outdoor that sticking to the snow and ice on the willow tree all the tree hanging, like a silver bar hanging in the trees, especially spectacular.
“Brother Yang, you guys don’t need to send anymore.”
Zhu Pingan rode on his horse and waved goodbye to Yang Dacheng’s family who were seeing him off on the roadside at the entrance of the village.
“Benefactor, stay for another day when the snow stops, and then hurry on your way. Yesterday’s incident, our family is really thanks to you, you are our family’s life-saver, stay for a few more days, wait for the snow to stop before you rush off. You are in such a hurry to leave, but you think my family is not well taken care of.”
Yang Dacheng’s family bitterly retained Zhu Pingan, thanking him from the bottom of their hearts, if not for Zhu Pingan’s presence, their family was afraid that they would be in great trouble. With Huang Saving Point’s style of eating people without spitting out their bones, he would have definitely scattered the Yang family’s wives and children. It was because of the help of Zhu Pingan that the Yang family was spared. Huang Zaodan was also cut off as a student by the magistrate, and then the crimes Huang Zaodan committed in the past were verified one by one, and he was sent down to the prison. As for the other servants, according to the severity of their crimes, they were given different punishments, so that the Yang family has no worries.
“Yesterday, I have been grateful to Brother Yang for staying overnight, today it’s time to catch the road. This trip to the capital is a thousand mile journey, and the examination period is near, so we can’t stay any longer.” Zhu Pingan refused with a simple smile on the back of his horse.
“Big brother, I also want to study for the examination.”
The bear child who followed behind Yang Dacheng, looked at Zhu Pingan and shouted loudly.
“Hehe, good, then I will wait for you in the capital.” Zhu Pingan turned back and smiled before arching his hand and saying goodbye to Yang Dacheng’s family.
In the midst of the heavy snowfall, the one rider travelled along the official road all the way to the north, slowly disappearing from the sight of Yang Dacheng’s family.
“This is our Zhu family’s benefactor, later I will go to find a painter to draw a portrait of the benefactor, and burn incense and bow in thanks during the New Year holidays.”
Yang Dacheng looked at Zhu Pingan’s departing figure and said to his daughter-in-law beside him.
Along the official road, all the way north Zhu Ping An suddenly sneezed and rubbed his nose, somewhat puzzled.
The drifting snow kept falling for another day and night before stopping. Zhu Pingan rushed in the daytime, and at night he looked for a residential house to borrow a night, and then rushed in the morning the next day, of course, when he left, he would leave more than 10 wen money to the people who borrowed the house.
On the third night, he stayed at the post station in Shucheng County. By virtue of his status as a scholar, Zhu Pingan was able to stay at the post station for one night free of charge. There was a standard for the reception of the post, and the standard for the reception of a scholar like Zhu Ping’an could only be said to be on the lower side of the standard. However, with the blessing of fewer people in the cold winter, the post still received him at a higher standard. However, with the blessing of fewer people in the winter, the post station received Zhu Pingan in excess of the standard, with one meat, one veggie and one soup for dinner, a single room for accommodation, and a hot water bath tub for Zhu Pingan.
After taking a hot bath, Zhu Pingan seemed like a newborn, his whole body’s fatigue was swept away.
For several days, he had not read by lamplight at night, and he was too embarrassed to disturb his hosts by staying in a private residence, and for farmers, oil lamps were used sparingly. So in the village residential lodging, Zhu Pingan are early to sleep, adhering to the habit of reading at night for many years also put down.
In the post station will not have to worry so much, clean up the table, will pick the light of the oil lamp, just pick the oil lamp again, there is no modern fluorescent lamps that bright incandescent, only a little dim yellow.
But yellow oil lamp, light ink, but also a perfect match. Let a person can not help but sink into it.
First of all, these days will be rushed to record a few things, right as a travelogue, and so back home when the parents asked, or to tell the mother to listen. After writing the travelogue. Zhu Pingan chose one of the books he was carrying, The Analects Annotated, and placed it on the table to read it.
“The son said: a gentleman seeks the way not food. When he ploughs, the discouragement is in it; when he learns, the wealth is in it. A gentleman worries about the Way and not about poverty.”
“The son said, “A gentleman does not seek to eat, does not seek to live in peace, is sensitive to matters and prudent in speech. On having the way and being correct, it can be said that good learning has also been.”
The word Qiankun big, the text of the sun and moon long. After the exhausting snow and wind trekking, reading by candlelight at night is also a kind of enjoyment, quench your thirst with ink and brush, poetry and books to lack.
Three o’clock at midnight, lights out to sleep, a night of beautiful dreams.
Shucheng County further north is Lu’an County, which is the jurisdiction of the Luzhou Prefecture.
Zhu Pingan early in the morning at the post station to rub a breakfast before starting to drive, walked about three hours into the Liuan County. Liu’an County belongs to the Luzhou Prefecture, where there are more mountains and hills, there is a section of the road is not accessible to the official road, Zhu Pingan had to drive his horse along the dirt road, this section of the road is relatively sparsely populated.
Zhu Pingan in the middle of the day through a low mountainous area, in the foothills of the fire roasted jerky for lunch, drinking water from the gourd kettle that I brought with me. After lunch, Zhu Pingan rode on, hoping to see people earlier.
“Hmph.”
Not long after riding the horse, Zhu Pingan saw a big black boar with more than three hundred pounds at the foot of the mountain arching in the east and the west looking for food, it should be that these few days of heavy snowfalls have sealed the mountain and starved the boar.
When he saw the wild boar, Zhu Pingan became alert.
Don’t look at the pork is always on the table by people, in the wild encounter wild boar is also to be more careful. Wild boars move very quickly and their tusks can easily bring down a bowl-thick tree. I’ve read the news before and know that wild boar is an omnivore, hungry wild boar will attack people, and I’ve seen many wild boar attacks and even cannibalistic tragedies on the news before.
The snow closed the mountain, hungry this goods do not know what to do, more than three hundred pounds of the big guy is much more difficult to deal with than the wolves, that is, the hunters also have to three or five before they dare to hunt wild boar, so Zhu Pingan is more vigilant.
On the one hand, vigilant wild boar, on the other hand is also vigilant to kill Matt this two lack again brain damage.
Sure enough, the wild boar that didn’t find anything to eat, saw Zhu Pingan and Killing Matt’s black horse, and then rushed over regardless.
Zhu Pingan was prepared for this, and with a tug on the reins of his black horse, he steered his horse around an arc to avoid the wild boar’s charge.
After the rush, the hungry wild boar went wild, pricked up its ears, stood up the hair on its body, and let out a wail at Zhu Ping An, and then chased after it aggressively.
The mad boar speed is really not slow, especially in the mountains, this goods occupy the home field advantage is like a tiger with wings.
Looking at the wild boar, Zhu Pingan calmly steered his horse to run to a hillside, and then circled an arc to accelerate downhill.
The wild boar was already fast, now downhill speed is even faster, looking to catch up.
At this time, Zhu Pingan pulled the reins, the black horse made a sharp turn, directly in front of a large stone suddenly appeared. The speed of the boar chasing downhill was too fast, it simply couldn’t brake and couldn’t turn in time, so it just crashed straight into the stone.
Listening to the earth-shattering roar, Zhu Pingan felt some pain.
Erm, the boar really does not know how to do a quick turn of the brain.
Ten minutes later, Zhu Pingan rode his black horse along the mountain road once again, and just now the difference is that the black horse pulled a simple sled made of tree branches, and on the sled lay a black boar.
Zhu Pingan also did not expect that the collision just now had become an eternity for the wild boar, and was a complete windfall for himself.
Based on the principle of not wasting it, he had to laugh off all of its flesh.
