"Kuang Yan, let's go." The scholar called to the boy and got on a "powerful" mule cart.
"Here we come, sir."
After getting on the bus, the scholar asked the boy to prepare pen and ink. At this time, his literary thoughts were flooding in his heart, and he came up with a good poem.
"Sir, the car is bumpy, how can I write well? I'm afraid the ink will spill all over the floor." The boy named Kuang Yan muttered.
The scholar glanced at him sideways and said, "Would your young master care about this?"
Kuang Yan had no choice but to take out the Four Treasures of the Study on the bumpy donkey cart and prepare them properly. The scholar wrote:
Guixing
Last year, when Shu Jian returned to Xianyang, he climbed up Mount Lu to look at his hometown.
I didn't see Zhao Bi being sold in Qincheng, but I heard that Feng Prison had abandoned his generals.
Hongdu's creeping grass pulls the clothes belt, and Dayu's plum blossoms laugh at the guests' clothes.
Today, Jingxuan is full of strange characters, and the dusty area is full of reading beds.
Signed: Kuang Lu Bingzi
During the Longxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Kuang family fled from Zhuji Lane in Nanxiong and settled in Dazhen Township, Dalibao, Nanhai County. This experience of Kuang Lu and his servants can be regarded as re-walking the "Long March" of their ancestors. Along the way, they were reminded of their ancestors' migration to the south.
I can't help but feel a lot of emotions about the past.
Speaking of which, when a wanderer returns home, there is always a lot of expectation and joy. However, Kuang Lu had no such mood.
Once you enter Nanxiong, you are an "enemy country".
Guangdong, where she lived for a long time, is now the land of the "Great Song Dynasty". Kuang Lu only feels absurd and sad. She doesn't know what has happened to her beloved Guangzhou city and her family and friends...
Nanxiong was the station of Lingnan Road Guards in the Ming Dynasty and an important distribution center for goods from Guangdong and Jiangxi. Qiwei and Dachang had points along the Beijiang Commercial Road. In the Ming Dynasty, there was no direct passenger ship from Nanxiong to Dali. Kuang Lu and his servant sometimes took a boat
The journey was bumpy from time to time by car. Fortunately, Qiwei Travel Agency organized the entire journey. Whether by car or boat, staying overnight or traveling, everyone made good arrangements, and the road went smoothly. However, we often saw Australian patrols patrolling along the way.
There are often checkpoint towers at key points in the pass. There are frequent inspections and inspections, which makes the atmosphere a bit tense.
On this day they arrived at Dali Fort. This place is located in the alluvial plain of the Pearl River Delta, with dense water networks and crisscrossing rivers. The water transportation is very convenient. As long as you follow the ships traveling between various strongholds on the Beijiang Commercial Road, you can return home in a few days.
He originally thought that after the Kun thieves rebelled, ruins would be everywhere and the people would be in dire straits. However, the sights he saw along the way surprised Kuang Lu. Although ruined houses and many signs of being burned by fire could be seen in the city along the Yangtze River, the villagers going to the market were
There is a bustle of people coming and going, business travelers are constantly on the road, and the prosperity of the past has basically been restored. Many simple shacks have been newly built on the wasteland along the river, and they look like small villages from a distance.
"Boatman, what's going on with these stilts? Why haven't you seen them before?" Kuang Lu asked the boatman who was rowing the oar.
The boatman pointed to the riverside, "The guest is talking about Danjia Village, right? Your accent doesn't sound like an outsider. You don't know the grace of the Senate?"
Kuang Lu smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest, I offended the county magistrate a few years ago, so I fled to the world. I heard that Guangdong and Guangxi have changed the world, so I dared to go home to fulfill my filial piety. I really don't know the changes in my hometown."
The boatman couldn't help but be in awe after hearing this, and said: "There were not many good dog officials in the previous dynasty. Sir, he is not afraid of power, so he must be a good person."
"Ashamed..." Kuang Lu was a little embarrassed. The past events between herself and County Magistrate Huang were actually more motivated by emotion. Of course, the man named Huang was not a good person, but she was just acting out of anger.
"The previous dynasty not only had to collect fish lessons from us, but also fish feathers, fish bladders, fish oil, and tinctures. We were also required to perform corvee labor. Our taxes were heavier than anyone else's, but we were not allowed to study for the imperial examination.
If you don’t marry us, we are not allowed to live ashore, and we are not allowed to wear shoes when we go ashore. Big fish in the water eat ants, and dry ants in the water eat fish. The big ones bully the small ones, and the small ones bully the short ones. If you have nothing to bully, you will bully the young ones..."
The boatman talked about the hardships of life, and somehow his eyes got light again: "The Senate issued an edict as soon as they came, saying that everyone in the Song Dynasty was equal, and they even reduced the low status of the previous dynasty. They also exempted us from many
We were taxed and allowed to live ashore, study, join the army, and take the imperial examination. It was like a dream! Sir, those stilt houses you saw were built on the wasteland where the chief allowed us to stay. The surrounding wasteland may
We are reclaiming land and are exempt from the land tax for five years. The harvest on the shore this year is not good, and there is famine everywhere. The Senate has prepared a lot of work to build dams. As long as you go to work, you will have something to eat."
Hearing this, Kuang Lu was surprised. He knew the situation of Zhujiang households quite well: in spring and summer there were plenty of fish to feed them, but they were poor all year round. In order to survive, it was common for wives and daughters to make fun of themselves.
As soon as they came, they cut off their low status and treated them like good citizens. In the end, these people were no longer used by the Ming Dynasty.
Kuang Lu asked the boatman: "Have you also done something for the Australians?"
The boatman laughed and said, "How come you haven't done this before? To be honest, I said: Three years ago, someone took my boat and asked me, 'If someone asked you to go ashore and build houses, live like people on land, start a family and start a business, would you support it?'
I said, 'I don't understand what support means. I only know that if there is such a father-in-law, I will obey him in everything.' Later, the chiefs went to Wuzhou to recruit boatmen, so I brought a dozen brothers to help the chiefs sail and transport food.
"
"Oh, why don't you have a part-time job as an official?"
"The old man is joking. He is sixty years old this year. He can't read a word and can't learn it. We people have been living on the water all year round, and our bodies are full of aches and pains. Every rainy day, our joints and bones ache, and we can't learn them anymore."
I have to bend down to live in this small boat, and my back is hunched, so I have no ability to be an official or a errand.
"The boatman's clothes were all patched, his temples were gray under his shrimp hat, and the wrinkles on his face were like scars from the years. As soon as he started talking, everything came out. "We Danhus are untouchables who are looked down upon by others.
I didn’t get married until I was in my fifties. My wife was a widow and a married woman. She remarried me after her husband died. I originally thought that she would be more than ten years younger than me and that I would always be able to rely on her until I grow old. Unexpectedly, she died.
In front of me! I couldn’t see today. She is a good woman. She washes, cooks, fishes and transports goods. She does everything. She has mended all the holes in my clothes. Without her, I would still be
I have to wear leaky clothes. I think she must have owed me a debt in her previous life and paid it back in this life. She also said so, but why did she leave after only paying it off for a few years? She died, my soul
It was like losing it, almost falling into the river and drowning several times..."
A gust of cool wind blew by, and the corners of Kuang Lu's eyes were a little moist. To be honest, he had seen too much suffering in the world, and it was nothing. These tears were not shed for this poor man, but for the world. He didn't want to
Let the boatman see it, walk out of the boat canopy, and his eyes just fall on the white couplet with some vague handwriting on the boat canopy, which reads crookedly:
Danhus are born, Danhus are dead, and generations of Danhus are in the ship.
The wind goes away, the wind comes and the wind comes, and the wind stays in the tent for a lifetime
Hengbiao: Die early, be happy early
Seeing that he was fascinated, the boatman said: "This was written for me by a scholar a few years ago. I am illiterate, and my friends on the water are also illiterate. The guests who came and went all laughed when they read it. I guess it is a good couplet."
"
Kuang Lu said: "It's good, it's just a little old. How about I give you a new one."
"Okay, sir, you are such a charming person. Our village is not far ahead. Let me go ashore and look for a pair of red papers." The boatman said and sailed towards Danjia Village ahead.
"Okay, I just want to buy some dried fish."
"I don't have any money, but there are plenty of these things. The master likes them, so I can give you some as a filial piety!"
Kuang Yan secretly tugged at the corner of Kuang Lu's clothes, indicating that he was afraid of eating the noodles. Kuang Lu patted his shoulder and whispered comforting words: "It doesn't matter, sir, I am proficient in the six arts, both civil and military, and I can't do anything ordinary people can do to me. Here
We have entered the Fenjiang River, not far from Dali. I heard that the Australians have a team of troops in Dali, and there are often Australian patrol boats on this river. It is not a place where there is no rule. I also happened to see how the Australians ruled.
What a clear river and sea."
"Master, what couplet do you want to give him?"
"Winter is passing and spring is coming. I am happy to bid farewell to the old year in the southeast and northwest. After all the hardships and joy, I look at the lakes, seas and rivers to celebrate the new life. Horizontal comment: great country." Kuang Lu added an accent to the last four words.
"Young master, you hate Commander Xiong for losing this great country, right?"
Kuang Lu remained silent. Did Governor Xiong throw it away?
At this time, the bow of the boat hummed a saltwater song:
"Three piles of clay make a stove. There is no bottom wind stove for cooking rice in a clay pot.
There is no overnight rice left in the rice vat, and there is no overnight firewood in the stove pit!
A married woman in other places has a red skin hole, but a married woman in my land has a rotten chicken coop;
Married girls in other countries sit in sedan chairs, but married girls in our country just cross the boat!
There is a treasure boat above and a boat below. Without your brother, just a boat would be so desolate.
The cane bags are tied everywhere, and the head is wagging and the tail is swaying like a dragon born in the deep sea.
Master, the whole boat is not (not) leak-proof.
Your sister-in-law sleeps and watches the fish swimming at night.
The master is arranging the canopy and not laying the leaves, but your sister-in-law is sleeping and looking at the Milky Way at night."
The lyrics were sad and sad, the singer was in high spirits, and the boat moved briskly along with the singing. Before it reached the shore, someone on the shore shouted: "Uncle Salmon, Principal Tian and Doctor Hou are here..."
The boatman shouted back: "Okay, I'll be there soon!"
"What kind of fish is salmon?" Kuang Yan asked curiously.
"How can there be any nickname? That's what people on the shore have!" said the boatman, "I don't know, my original name is Zeng Liyu. When I was helping the leader transport food, the leader said that the carp live in the pond and the pattern is too small.
Salmon is a deep-sea fish. Like salmon, it can travel thousands of miles to find where it comes from. This is called the salmon dream. If a person has no dreams, what is the difference between him and salted fish? I have never seen a salmon, but Chief
So it must be very good, so I later changed its name to Zeng Salmon."
Kuang Yan sneered at this and thought to himself: "The thief is really vulgar."