"The spring breeze is green again on the south bank of the river."
After uttering a poem that no one understood very well, Li Chongrun walked out of the somewhat low cabin and looked at the increasingly clear scenery on the other side.
Although it can only be called early spring now, the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is still different from that in the Central Plains. The green grass and trees on the shore are still full of life, and the long and leisurely chirping of birds in the early morning can be heard in the lush woods on the shore.
Quiet and comfortable look.
Her Royal Highness’s garden is on the edge of Hangou. Hangou is vast and can be used by large ships. However, both the building boat and the former Evian Xuan painting boat are too ostentatious and inconvenient to use. It happened that the Xiao family sent a sloop to pick up the book.
, Li Chongrun simply followed the book printed by the Xiao family and went to the Xiao family.
When the news of Li Chongrun's assassination reached the Lanling Xiao family, the young patriarch was very anxious and came to visit him in a boat that night. However, Li Chongrun pretended to be unconscious and went to the river to fish, so he could not be seen.
The Xiao family is famous all over the world for their scholarship. Li Chongrun's subsequent planning will be much slower without the help of Xiao Song. In addition, the Xiao family is still far away from Yangzhou, but he is not afraid of the news leaking, so Li Chongrun is planning to go to the Xiao family to follow him.
Let’s talk to the clan leader.
The Xiao family is in Danyang, more than a hundred miles away on the other side of the river. If the wind is favorable, it won't take long. However, spring has come recently and the east wind has been very strong, which makes the boat heading southeast move a bit slower.
"Alan, you've become a master before you know it." I looked around at the scenery of the Yangtze River outside. Although the scenery of Jiangnan in early spring was a bit novel for a while, it was just that I had already seen it all the way and there was no beautiful woman to accompany me.
Feeling a little bored, I turned around and went back to the cabin.
The beautiful lady Gongsun Lan who was originally planned to accompany him was not idle at this time. He was walking in the cabin with the young monk Jianzhen and the little girl rescued from Runzhou Mountain.
The little monk Jianzhen's hair has grown out, and several little girls in the house who like to dress up have used hairbands to carefully braid it into two upturned buns. In addition, he has eaten well in the house recently, and he looks more and more like the ones on the New Year pictures.
Like a golden boy.
The little girl's injury has healed, but there is nothing that can be done about the injured eye. A few deft palace servants helped the little girl make a lambskin eyepatch and carefully put the injured eye on
Covered up.
During the day, Jianzhen learned some self-protection skills from Yang San, and at night he had to learn writing and arithmetic with the children in the literacy class. The academic schedule was extremely hard.
I just don’t know how the old monk in the ruined temple brainwashed Jianzhen. The young monk Jianzhen actually benefited from this high-intensity training. He still had the energy to carry his injured dog after class every morning and evening.
Running around all over the place.
It's just that Yang San was busy these days and really didn't have time to teach this young apprentice, so he handed it over to Gongsun Lan for training.
The little girl was still so silent. Except for whispering a few words in front of Li Chongrun and Gongsun Lan, she had always been aloof and cold.
The conditions at home before the little girl's death must have been pretty good, and she could actually read and hyphenate, so she naturally didn't have to go to the evening classes that Li Chongrun called a literacy class. It just so happened that Gongsun Lan was teaching real kung fu recently, so she was dragged along
Went to study together.
"Your Majesty is making fun of you." Hearing Li Chongrun's vague teasing tone, Gongsun Lan gave him a big eye roll.
Since the relationship between the two had a substantial breakthrough, Gongsun Lan and Li Chongrun's attitudes have become much more natural. Although they are still gentle and respectful, they can already joke with Li Chongrun.
The crewman steered the boat around a curve and headed inland towards a fork connecting the Yangtze River. Taking advantage of the wind, the boat rocked slightly twice and the speed was much faster.
Jianzhen had been taught by Yang San for some time before, and his foundation was a little better. Although the rocking of the boat made his horse's steps deformed, it was much better than the little girl staggering.
Gongsun Lan had a thin bamboo strip in his hand. Seeing that the little girl almost fell, he whipped her.
The soft sound of "Pop!" and the faint sound of breaking through the air made Li Chongrun feel pain just by looking at it.
The little girl's expression was still the same, she didn't even frown, as if Gongsun Lan was whipping Jianzhen who was standing beside her.
"Just hit it lightly, there's no need to use such force."
Li Chongrun's scar healed and he forgot about the pain. He had long forgotten how miserable he was when he was beaten like a rolling gourd in Qiniang.
"Master once said that it is better to be beaten by a bamboo board than by a knife."
Gongsun Lan and Li Chongrun were taught by the same master, and they even learned the same techniques in teaching their disciples.
Sighing softly, Li Chongrun was afraid that if he watched here for a long time, he would evoke the psychological shadow of when he was learning Kung Fu under Qiniang, so he simply went to tease Sister Xiquan brought by Jianzhen.
The puppies born to this thin dog named Sister have grown up a lot and have become the main caregivers in the garden. But I don’t know if it’s because I have been playing wilderness survival with Jianzhen for a long time.
Those puppies especially like to meddle in other people's business, and their ability to catch mice is unparalleled. Now there is not even a mouse hair to be found in the garden, which makes Li Chongrun very happy.
Winter has not passed yet, and the long winter hair on the little dog sister has not faded away, and it feels oily and smooth. Recently, Jianzhen heard that the monk wanted to become a vegetarian, so he no longer eats meat, and all the meat in his daily meals is left to him.
, but I have raised it to be fat and strong, and it is no longer as scrawny as when it first came here.
"I'm talking about Jianzhen. When the monk said not to eat meat, he meant not to eat things that make people's mouth smell bad, such as onions and garlic. If you don't eat meat, you won't grow taller."
The children who came with Jianzhen were eating much better in the house, and all of them began to grow taller than dogs. Only Jianzhen stubbornly left all the meat for the dog, and only ate it every day.
Even with some vegetarian dishes and staple food, he still looks so thin.
"What the senior brother said is absolutely true. It's just that Jianzhen ate too much meat before, but he prefers vegetarian dishes." Jianzhen smiled very honestly, and his thick lips curled up, revealing a very standard smile.
come out.
"Forget it, you can eat whatever you want." Jianzhen said in a simple and unpretentious tone, and Li Chongrun thought that the children had relied on this honest little monk to catch mice and fish every day to support themselves until now.
There was a vague feeling of pity, but I didn't know how to comfort him, so I could only lower my head and concentrate on teasing Sister Xinquan.
After a while, the three people who were learning Kung Fu had dispersed. Jianzhen went to the cabin to get some food prepared for the journey, and placed them one by one on the table on the deck. Seeing that it was almost time, Li Chongrun
Entering the cabin, he prepared to call the two masters and apprentices who never showed up for dinner.
But as soon as he entered, Li Chongrun saw Gongsun Lan lifting the little girl's clothes to help her apply medicine.
The little girl was slapped by Gongsun Lan's small bamboo stick, and a red scar protruded frighteningly, and two bruises left before had faded a lot. Gongsun Lan was there with safflower oil on her body.
Help her rub it.
The safflower oil prepared by Daochang Li specially contains a lot of safflower from the Western Regions. It has a very good effect in reducing swelling and relieving pain. Although it cannot be used to treat knife wounds, it is very effective in treating bruises and sprains.
Of course, the price of the overbearing effect is that the safflower oil is extremely painful when used to treat injuries. Li Chongrun tried it once before. Although it was super comfortable when the medicinal effect was released, the process of safflower oil catalyzing the medicinal effect was called
It was so painful that Li Chongrun always stayed away from this medicine.
Unexpectedly, the little girl remained so calm, as if she didn't feel any pain.
"Have you seen enough?" Gongsun Lan saw Li Chongrun staring at the little girl's snow-white back, and pretended to be angry. Li Chongrun touched his nose in embarrassment and walked out of the door.
He and Jian Zhen played with the dog for a while, and explained a few sentences from the Book of Songs through the scenery. Li Chongrun's strength was originally Li Chongrun's strength, and coupled with the accumulation of two lives, Li Chongrun successfully fooled Jian Zhen into a daze.
Stunned.
After listening to Li Chongrun tell so many allusions to the south of the Yangtze River, Jianzhen felt that this young man in his family, who said that teachers are not teachers and bosses are not bosses, looked more like a southerner than himself.
While he was talking, a water village made of metasequoia trees appeared vaguely on the bank of a very quiet lake.
The water village is backed by water and mountains. Although the water is not big and the mountains are a little low, it is very elegantly decorated. There is a faint sound of silk and bamboo inside, as if they are celebrating something.
"Jianzhen, go and tell Chief Xiao that there is something wrong with the book and ask him to come to the ship to discuss it in detail."
The crew on the ship didn't know Li Chongrun and Gongsun Lan, but they knew the Xiao clan leader and their steward. Besides, this is a big family with many people, who knows if something will get out. Let Jianzhen go.
Spread the word, this clan leader loves books as much as his life, and will definitely come in person.
Sure enough, just as Li Chongrun guessed, not long after Jianzhen arrived, Xiao Song, wearing a formal dress, ran over in a hurry, jumped onto the boat in three steps, and kept asking: "
What's wrong with what's wrong? What's wrong with the book?"
Li Chongrun was sitting in the middle of the cabin and made a shushing gesture to him.
This clan leader is also a smart man. Thinking back to the previous rumors, and seeing that Li Chongrun was so lively and lively without any signs of serious injuries. Although he didn't know why he pretended to be sick, he immediately turned around and drove away Chuan Huo'er and the people behind him.
The people who followed lowered their voices and came to greet him in low voices.
"Clan Chief Xiao, I am here this time because I have a business deal that I would like to discuss with the clan leader."