As the old saying goes, “The scented pouch is secretly unravelled, and the ribbons are lightly parted.”
In the Ming Dynasty, scented sachets were mostly associated with personal belongings. Fragrance pouches were delicate and exquisite, loved by young men and women, and were often used as personal effects or gifts and tokens. Dream of Red Mansions” seventy-fourth, silly big sister picked up a ‘ten brocade spring scented pouch’, and then caused to the Grand View Garden copied. When copying and picking up, and from Wang Shanbao’s granddaughter Siqi’s box searched out the package, which is a concentric Ruyi, and a word sticker. On the sticker there is a cloud: ‘Outside the special send incense bag a, slightly show my heart. What is said in this is about the hooks between men and women that cannot be told to outsiders.
This kind of scented bag will be used as evidence of private grant, if it will be open, jump into the Yellow River is also difficult to clean up.
Therefore, looking at the scented bag that was shoved through the doorway, Zhu Pingan smiled bitterly and bent down to pick it up, then opened the door to put the scented bag back on the next door’s windowsill.
After returning to the room again, Zhu Pingan closed the door and used the futon in the room to stuff the doorway tightly.
As if playing hide and seek, Zhu Ping An returned to his room not long after, the doorway of the room was again Ruoxuosuo, but because the doorway was stuffed tightly, this time the other party was not able to stuff the scented pouch in again.
Finally quiet.
Zhu Pingan used the light to record what he had seen and heard over the past few days, and then took out a book and read it silently.
The temple walls were thin and not soundproof.
A short while later, another sound came from the next room, the wall was tapped a few times, and after a while came the exaggerated sound of water play bathing
Zhu Pingan was not moved, continued to read his book, until after watching the sleepy and difficult to hold, only then extinguished the oil lamp and fell asleep.
The next morning, Zhu Pingan woke up early, cleaned up properly, then went down the mountain to continue to rush.
By the time the next door Wang family woman got up and dressed up, knocked on Zhu Pingan’s room door, inviting Zhu Pingan to have breakfast with her family, only to find that Zhu Pingan had already left the room empty.
“This nerd!”
Looking at the empty room. The Wang family’s young girl’s face was black with anger, those individual bookworms she met in the past were always probing and peeping at her, this nerd was good, everywhere she went, she looked like a standard nerd with an impolite look. This is not a man, still is not a man? Or is that little nerd still not understanding the affairs of men and women?
It’s all my father’s fault, I had to do it myself!
The Wang family girl stomped her foot in shame and annoyance, wringing her willow waist to go back to her room. Only, father will definitely blame himself for being inferior to his sister again!
After descending Longquan Mountain. Zhu Pingan rode his horse all the way north, eating and sleeping in the wind, and under the days of rushing, the whole person became much darker and thinner as well, but the whole person was also much sturdier. If he did not wear the uniform of a student, it was expected that very few people would associate Zhu Pingan with a scholar. From his appearance alone, he looked obliterated, a standard simple farmer.
The clothes he wore had been washed several times and had become plain and unremarkable.
I believe that at this time. There will be no more similar to Longquan ancient temple that have girls favour.
The sound of the firecrackers is the first year of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel;
Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of pupils of the sun, always change the new peach for the old symbol.
Today is already New Year’s Eve night, bright shining stars and the moon dotted in the dark night, looks exceptionally bright, looks exceptionally moving.
Zhu Pingan sat at a window desk in an inn in the ancient city of Chengwu County, looking out the window at the bright night sky, listening to the incessant sound of firecrackers and bear children cheering outside, and could not help but miss his family members who were far away in the lower river village.
This year’s New Year’s Eve has less of me, but more of my sister-in-law. My parents should be very happy too.
I’m going to start writing and inking, and it’s going to be another night.
On the second day of the New Year, Zhu Pingan continued his journey, and along the way, the scenery of the northern part of the country was beautiful. Only after two days of walking, the road side sporadically encountered a lot of ragged stragglers, with their wives and children, with hungry faces, at first in twos and threes, and later in groups of three to five.
“The county town is closed. We can only try our luck in other counties.”
“Damnable dog officials, the grain in the granary is full of moths, and they won’t give us food.”
“You murderers!”
Zhu Pingan walks on the road from time to time can hear the sound of the homeless people cursing the county officials, asked an old man, know the general story: in the past winter water flow greatly reduced the Yellow River, for some reason this year the amount of water is not reduced by much, and the Yellow River ice blocked the upstream channel, forming a weir, the dyke can not withstand it, so it is flooded. The area around Juno and Jiaxiang was the most seriously affected, and there was never any extinction in the past winter, and the residents and officials did not take precautions against it, so they were caught off guard, and the damage was even more serious.
The affected people of Juno went north to the county to seek food and refuge, but the county officials closed the gates of the city and set up barricades, forbidding the victims to enter Juno. The victims had no choice but to go south again to look for a way out, and along the way, the bark of trees were uncovered to feed the hungry, and the victims were so vast that they could not even see the end of the road at a glance.
But fortunately at this time the Yellow River flooding just after a few days, Zhu Pingan encountered only the first part of the victims, this wave of victims in the prestige of the elders and the village is still able to control the victims, the victims are still in order.
Despite this, there are still many people who look at Zhu Ping An, who is riding a horse and carrying a parcel, with a wolf-like green light.
Zhu Pingan gave more than half of the dried meat and dried food he was carrying to the elders and village chiefs who were the leaders of the villagers, then he decisively turned his horse around and drove his horse to the south in front of the victims, then turned east for a few days, bypassing the affected area far away and then continuing north.
A gentleman does not stand on a dangerous wall, and at this time there is no room for women’s benevolence.
Just a few days thereafter, the starving people chewing on tree bark and pulling grass roots scene after scene in front of my eyes replay, the first starving people still have bark and grass roots to eat, behind the starving people?
The rise, the people suffer; the fall, the people suffer.
See this scene with your own eyes to understand the poet’s feelings at that time.
Along the way has been to the north, a few days after this melancholy only gradually dispersed, dusty more than a month time, after Qufu, Taian, Jinan, Cangzhou, to Tianjin Wei.
If the capital is the foot of the son of heaven, then Tianjin Wei here is a step away from the ground. Back then, King Zhu Di of Yan crossed the Grand Canal here to fight for the throne in the south. After Zhu Di became the emperor, in order to commemorate the “Battle of Pacification”, on the 21st of November in the second year of Yongle, the place was renamed Tianjin, which means the crossing where the Son of Heaven passed through.
Tianjin is a military establishment, but at this time it was a mixed military and civilian population, but because of its proximity to the capital, it was also quite prosperous.
After Zhu Pingan entered Tianjin, he went to the post station, only to return disappointed.
Here is the foot of the Emperor, the post station is busy, the officials who come out from the capital and the officials who go to the capital from the local area to report to the capital, have already lived in the post station, the post station to Zhu Pingan this small liftsman really do not look at the eye.
“A tiny lifer still wants to live in a post station, ridiculous.” An official who was travelling from the local area to the capital to report his duties taunted Zhu Pingan.
The officials at the post station also looked sideways.
There was no need for that, was there?
Zhu Pingan led his horse and looked back at the post station, shook his head with a smile, and then rolled onto his horse to go find an inn to lodge at
