I am sending someone else home in the slanting spring sun, and I am pointing to the end of the world with my whip and horse.
The heart of the countryside on the moonlit river was moved, and I was in a hurry to stay at a restaurant.
Only in Li Shu’s home to live a day, the two have just ignited the fireworks have not yet bloomed, Zhu Pingan on the departure to the capital. The capital’s several urges, so that Zhu Pingan had to leave the gentle countryside departed for the capital.
Li Shu helped Zhu Pingan pack a good gift, mother Chen and will be pickled tender cucumber to Zhu Ping installed a jar, will be Zhu father hunted rabbits smoked two and a few pieces of cooked pancakes together with paper wrapped and stuffed into the luggage of Zhu Pingan.
This time, Zhu Pingan went to the capital alone, because Li Dazhou was too homesick for his daughter, and had to ask Li Shu to stay at home for a few more days before sending Li Shu to the capital to go to the Marquis, Li Shu said the word “go”, and Li Dazhou was in tears, and according to the custom of the village, “the female party has to stay at the maiden’s home for seven days after returning to her family in the third dynasty, so Li Shu stayed at home for a few more days before she went to the capital.So Li Shu stayed at home for a few more days before going to the capital.
Zhu Pingan’s return to the capital this time is on horseback, the last shipping accident made his mother Chen and Li Shu heard of the boat, and unanimously opposed to Zhu Pingan to take a boat again.
Of course, it is also undesirable to keep a secret.
Zhu Pingan decided to take a boat straight down the Yangtze River, to Nanjing and then take the road north on horseback, both modern and ancient coastal economy is more developed, is located in the plains, the road is also relatively flat, but along the official road on horseback, the speed is also faster.
Mother Chen and Li Shu are worried about encountering bandits and shipwrecks on sea boats, and it is much safer to ride on boats in the inner stream, and they do not object to Zhu Pingan riding a boat straight down the Yangtze River.
The reason why Zhu Pingan wanted to take the road in Nanjing to steer his horse north was due to time considerations. If you go straight down the Yangtze River, it will only take a few days to reach Nanjing, but if you take the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal from Nanjing, it will take a longer time. Recently, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has received less precipitation, causing the water level of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to drop, the river is shallow, the waterway is limited, but there are many ships, especially the grain ship daily, plus all kinds of official and private ships, the river is often congested, and shipping is naturally greatly affected; part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is borrowed from the original natural rivers and lakes, and part of the river is artificially dug, the majority of the water flow of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is natural.Most of the water flow of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is converged by natural rivers, the size of the water flow varies, and the direction of the water flow is also different, with the water is fine, against the water, if the boat will be slow, especially now the precipitation is low resulting in the shallow water of the Canal, against the water of the place or even need to be pulled by the boatman, naturally, it will take a lot of time; in addition to the various sections of the Canal is to rely on the regulation of the gate boards, the use of gate boards to cut off the flow of water to raise the water level, the opening of the gates to release the water, and the waiting for the opening of the gates to be calculated in the time.
Usually when the canal water volume is large, many factors are not a problem, the recent water volume is small time to consider. Weather and wind direction, the size of the current, against the water, smooth water, river traffic congestion, waiting for the opening of the gate, a number of factors together, by boat, if from Yingtianfu to Shuntianfu less than a month or two, in contrast, riding north is a good choice.
Li Shu took his third brother’s beloved steed to Zhu Pingan, causing Li Shu’s third brother’s heart to ache for a long time.
After gathering his gifts and bidding farewell to his parents, Zhu Pingan set off on the road back to the capital. Li Shu rode in the carriage with Zhu Pingan to the Ten Mile Pavilion before stopping.
“Is it pretty?”
Li Shu broke a willow outside the pavilion and tied it on Zhu Pingan’s horse’s head, and tied a bow at the end, patted the horse’s head with satisfaction, looked at Zhu Pingan with her pretty face up, and asked with her bright red lips.
Bright eyes and white teeth, slightly powdered, smiling sweetly, confusing Yang Cheng, fascinating the lower Cai.
“Good looking.”Zhu Pingan looked at Li Shu and nodded vigorously.
“I’m talking about this.”Li Shu rolled her cute white eyes, pouted her little mouth, and reached out her slender jade hand to tug on the bow willow on the horse’s head.
“Ahem, it also looks good.”Zhu Pingan could not help but cough.
From the Poetry Classic’s “I used to go back and forth, the willows are still here”, folding the willow to send off has become an indispensable part of sending off.
“Nerd ……”
Li Shu pouted, her face as charming as the moon, her eyes flickering, provoking people’s hearts, so that Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but look at it two more times.
The man is talented and the woman is beautiful, ten miles long pavilion.
However, there is always a goodbye after sending you a thousand miles.
In the end, Zhu Pingan still rode his steed alone and set off on the road to the capital, Li Shu watched Zhu Pingan’s figure disappear into the distance from the Long Pavilion.
“Miss, Miss, come back to your senses, Master Auntie has gone far away.”The bun little maid, Painter, covered her small mouth and looked at her own young lady snickering.
“Laugh again and I’ll give you away.”Li Shu snapped.
“Miss is the one who doesn’t want to give it away.”The bun little maid spat out her pink tongue, followed by a small red face, “I’m still a common room maid.”
“Don’t know how to be shy ~~” Li Shu stretched out her small hand and nudged the bun little maid’s head.
The little bun maid covered her mouth and blushed as if she was the one being kissed.
“Hun say what ah.”Li Shuxiao pouted.
“Have seen it.”The bun little maid nodded her little head affirmatively.
“You’re looking at it wrong, that’s the stinky toad whispering to me in my ear.”A layer of redness flew over Li Shu’s pretty face.
At the time of departure, it was still windy and sunny, Zhu Pingan rode his horse for about an hour or so, then he saw the dark clouds start to gather, hardly a few minutes the sky was dark clouds, and then the bean-sized raindrops started to fall, and suddenly it was raining densely.
Zhu Pingan dismounted and put on a rain poncho, covered his gift with a tarpaulin, and remounted his horse and continued on his way.
At this moment has been on the official road, the surrounding sparsely populated, can not see the village, the rain also has no place, can only continue to go forward, find a village place to avoid the rain.
Rain more and more heavy, the wind also became big, rain is blown by the wind oblique only to the human clothes drill, the gift is okay, Zhu Pingan with oil cloth all 360 degrees without dead angle wrapped up, do not have to worry about will be wet, but their own a little bit of a tragedy, poncho under the leakage of the rain is quite a lot, not a moment Zhu Pingan feel wet clothes, the wind blowing under, but also some shivering.
Fortunately, the steed underneath is worthy of being a good horse, speed is much faster than the killer black horse, braving the wind and rain speed does not decrease.
After about half an hour, Zhu Pingan saw a village in front of him and a small shop not far from the road.
Zhu Pingan rode his horse to the shop, tethered his horse in the stables outside the shop, and carried his gifts into the shop.
The shop was not big, but it was crowded with people taking shelter from the rain. The shop is very village, inside set up simple tables, chairs and stools, there is a fire pit inside the shop for people to bake clothes, but at the moment there is no place around the fire pit. Today was originally windy and sunny, everyone wears very thin, but the weather suddenly changed, the wind and rain, the temperature dropped steeply. Although many people have already roasted their clothes dry, but still surrounded by jokes and jokes, unwilling to leave, the newcomers can not squeeze through.
“Guests to make a stop or stay in the shop?”The shop assistant had a white towel on his shoulder and trotted over to ask.
“Beat the tip.”Zhu Pingan put down the salute, reached out and squeezed a handful of rainwater on the body clothes, clattered and flowed a large piece.
“Good le. What do you want to order?”The shop assistant asked.
Zhu Pingan looked at the people around the fire, slightly hooked the corner of his lips, returned: “A bowl of hot soup, a meat and a vegetarian, two steamed buns, in addition to the trouble to take some meat to feed my horse.”
The shop assistant was dumbfounded, “This customer, horses don’t eat meat ah?”
“Just go ahead and feed it.”Zhu Pingan waved his hand.
The shop assistant had no choice but to take a bit of meat and go feed Zhu Pingan’s horse in the shed outside the shop, his face curious and speechless.
A horse eating meat?
Holy sh*t, did I hear it right, how is it possible, this kid’s head was kicked by a donkey, right? How could there be a horse that eats meat?
Many people in the shop heard the conversation between Zhu Pingan and the shop assistant, pointing at Zhu Pingan, either despising or ridiculing, but ultimately, they could not resist their curiosity, and many of them followed the shop assistant to see it.
For everyone’s pointing, Zhu Pingan turned a blind eye, a bland face towards the fire, looking for an empty position to put down the gift, remove the outer shirt with a hand to squeeze dry moisture, and then roasted the clothes on the fire.
