Prime Minister

Chapter 109 The sound of the piano
That night, Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi stayed in the town.

Although they were traveling with Wu Anshi, both Zhang Yue and Huang Haoyi invested in the inn by themselves.

Firstly, Wu Anshi had a female family member accompanying her, so it would be very inconvenient to force her to live in the same place.

Secondly, it is also the insistence of scholars. I am not a guest of your family, so how can I eat and live in your house for free.

On this point, not only Zhang Yue, but also Huang Haoyi, the two easily reached a consensus.

This is already Quzhou, Huang Haoyi found an inn under the guise of a fence to stay.

Zhang Yue is familiar with this kind of inn. Before his own shop was burned down, it was the Jianli shop.

Except for the cooking utensils in the room, the residents of this shop take care of everything by themselves.This kind of inn is also the most economical and affordable. It can be seen that Huang Haoyi is quite budget-conscious.

The two put down their luggage, and Zhang Yue paid the porter to send him back. Then he calculated the rent and asked the shop assistant to fill Tang Jiu's wine gourd with wine and buy some wine and vegetables. Then put rice to cook.

While eating in the hall, several merchants in Tang Jiuxun's store inquired about the situation on the road.

Huang Haoyi looked unconvinced.

At the end of the meal, there was plenty of food and wine, but no one was full of rice.

After dinner, Huang Haoyi was very sorry, and said that he lit the lamp in the room, and asked Zhang Yue to go and read a book together.

Zhang Yue agreed, and after reading for about an hour, Zhang Yue was sleepy and returned to his room to rest. Huang Haoyi was greatly surprised by this move. Aren't all the Jingsheng students reading with their heads hanging from their beams?

None of the Jinshi subjects are so lazy.

Huang Haoyi sighed and sighed, and forced himself to sleep until the third watch.

But this night Huang Haoyi slept restlessly, because of what Wu Anshi said during the day, his heart was very itchy, thinking of those slender jade feet and the method of refining and transforming Qi, he couldn't get rid of it in his mind.

Since he was a child, his family rules were very strict, and adults were very strict with him. Except for his relatives, he never even looked at a woman. But after hearing what Wu Anshi said about the fun, he couldn't help thinking about it, but he didn't know about men and women, so he thought about it. It's kind of absurd.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, Huang Haoyi heard footsteps.

He got up and saw that the merchants who were talking to them during the day had left the shop in the middle of the night wearing black hats and white clothes, and they didn't know where they were.

Huang Haoyi was very frightened by this, he got up several times at night to check the movement to prevent accidents, but there was a scene of thunderous snoring in Ting Zhangyue's room.

Waking up early the next day, Huang Haoyi almost had no sleep all night. He went to the kitchen to watch the movements of the people last night, but he knew that they had already left.

Huang Haoyi hurriedly knocked on the door of Zhang Yue's room, and then told the strange things of last night in front of the drowsy Zhang Yue, and said that the inn was very strange.

Zhang Yue was a little confused when he heard it, but seeing Tang Jiu's calm face, he asked for advice: "In Jiulang's opinion, where are these people coming from?"

Huang Haoyi looked at Tang Jiu and thought, this man is just a soldier, why Zhang Yue treats him so respectfully.

Tang Jiu got up together and drank with wine gourds. After hearing this, he said lightly: "It's okay, they are just people who eat vegetables and cause trouble with demons. They don't have any malicious intentions. If we ignore them, we won't cause trouble."

Eating vegetables is a monster?

Zhang Yue thought about it carefully, that's right, when those merchants ate yesterday, there were vegetarian dishes on the table, and they didn't drink alcohol.

Before Zhang Yue left Fujian, he always wondered why Liangzhe Road was the most affluent place in the Song Dynasty, but why did he say that the road was not peaceful.Didn't the common people rebel because they didn't have enough to eat?Why do ordinary people rebel in places where there is plenty of fish and rice.

But now Zhang Yue just remembered that the Fangla uprising, the largest peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty, was on Liangzhe Road.

Before the Fangla Uprising, non-governmental organizations that eat vegetables to make troubles were everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River.

how so?

In a word, "The ancients' harsh laws are complete in this dynasty." The Song Dynasty had extremely heavy taxes, especially in the rich and prosperous Jiangnan.The folks band together in the name of religion to fight against the government.

For example, in Jin Yong's novels, Mingjiao is described as eating vegetables and causing demons.

In fact, in Jiangnan, not only Mingjiao is like this, but most non-government organizations are "eating vegetables and making troubles". The government exploits the place, and the common people can't survive, so they have to turn to these religious organizations for protection.

Therefore, the government used the term 'eating vegetables to cause evil' to stigmatize these non-government organizations.But this is also a matter of course. The government certainly doesn't like the people's self-organization, but the government refuses to reflect on itself, but forcibly suppresses it.

Once the common people turned into bandits and rebelled, the government couldn't beat them, and the imperial court ordered high-ranking officials and rich salary to make peace.

It is said that the novel of Outlaws of the Marsh is wonderful in Zhao'an, and at the same time it is a peasant uprising. Let's see how the capitulators help the court suppress the uprising faction.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yue felt relieved, and secretly admired Tang Jiu, thinking that when he was away from home, he still needed such a seasoned person by his side to be at ease, and his brother was really thoughtful of himself on this point.

But after Tang Jiu finished speaking, he drank heavily again.

Huang Haoyi felt a little unhappy when he heard this, thinking that even if Tang Jiu knew the whereabouts of those people, he didn't remind him, which made him worry for nothing all night.Huang Haoyi thought of how tired he was yesterday, and how miserable he would be on the road today.

Huang Haoyi had no choice but to send someone to hire a donkey for transportation.

They cooked noodle soup, started cooking, and then joined Wu Anshi and the others to head north. After traveling for several days, they arrived in Quzhou.

More than 200 people from the Wu family traveled north and hired five boats by themselves. There was still a lot of spare space on the boats, so Zhang Yuehuang Haoyi was arranged to board one of the boats.

Zhang Yuehuang and Haoyi were all overjoyed. One must know that chartering a boat to Hangzhou was expensive, and it was not easy to find such a boat at this time. It was not easy to have such a boat to take them there.

At this time, the two of them couldn't care less, and Wu Anshi wouldn't accept money even if he gave it to Wu Anshi. The two of them discussed that they would go to Bianjing to find some valuable gifts and visit Wu's house in the future.

Lishui, also known as Qujiang, is the waterway between Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

At this time, Fujian was still very backward, and the 28 capitals and Qinghu Wharf only emerged after the Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, Fujian people had to use water to sail to Hangzhou by waterways.

Bamboo and wood are abundant in the upper reaches of the river, so the wharves are discharged along the river. These bamboo trees are sold along the river to Qiantang River and then to Hangzhou, and then the boats transport rice back from Hangzhou. In addition to these livelihoods, there are also fruits and salt on the river. Waiting for the boat by hand.

But now it is the dry season in Lushui, all ships coming from upstream can only stop at Quzhou Wharf. There is a pontoon bridge far from the wharf, and the center is connected across the river by several iron locks.

Many ships arrived at the center of the river but couldn't pass through, and the travelers on board couldn't disembark, so they had to sit in the boat and wait.There are also a few scholars sitting on the bow of the boat in the wind and dew of the river, drinking and composing poems with great elegance.

There are also many ships moored to the shore, and people go to the shore to have fun.The restaurants and restaurants on the bank of the river are full of guests, very lively.

As night falls, the moon sets and the stars are few and far between. Inadvertently, there are already fishing boats everywhere on the river, which complement each other with the lights of thousands of families on the bank.

Zhang Yue watched this scene from the bank, letting the river wind blow, and suddenly the mood of a wanderer came to his heart. It had only been a few days, and he was already homesick.

Zhang Yue let out a long sigh, and was about to get back to the inn when he heard the sound of the piano.

Zhang Yue looked over, but saw that it was a three-story building facing the water, and the top floor looked like a pavilion.

The sound of the piano came from the building.

In the cold night, the sound of this piano is very quiet and cold at first, but after listening to it for a long time, it feels like fishing on the river with a crane cloak and feathers.

A few high-pitched voices suddenly appeared, like a frightened heron flapping its wings on the river beach, and the melodious sound of the piano, it seemed to come to the mountains and rivers, the fireworks in the world, a bit wild and natural, and it seemed to have the romance of a boudoir girl.

Zhang Yue was fascinated by the sound, and the sound of the piano just flowed through his heart like running water, soothing the loneliness of leaving home.Many tourists stop here to listen to the piano.

Unknowingly, the sound of the river waves fluctuated from time to time, and the fishing fires on both sides of the strait were bright and dark.

The sound of the piano has stopped.

Zhang Yue and many others were at a loss, and wanted to play another song on the balcony, but they couldn't hear it again.Zhang Yue couldn't help leaving with regret.

on the floor.

Fan sighed to Seventeen Niang who had finished playing the song: "After listening to your song, I remembered that when Fang was a Xiaojiabiyu, she was born as the daughter of an official, and now she is solemnly managing the family. Our daughter's life is like this. gone."

Seventeen Niang said: "Isn't everyone living like this?"

After speaking, Shi Qi Niang walked to the side of the pavilion and leaned on the railing to overlook the river view. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a young man standing not far away.

Fan said: "On the seventeenth, you, Yunying, are not married, so you don't have deep feelings. Besides, I haven't seen you playing the piano for a long time. How can you be so elegant today?"

Seventeen Niang was taking the handkerchief handed over by the female envoy to wipe her hands and said, "Try your hand and pass the loneliness of the journey."

"You know that it was even more difficult for you to play a song in the past?"

Seventeen Niang said: "At the beginning, if Dad didn't want our daughters of the Wu family to know piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I would not bother to learn. Although I have learned for a long time, although I know the beauty of playing the piano, it is just for self-entertainment. Three years ago, Dad insisted. I play the piano to reward customers, I don't like entertaining people, so I won't play it again."

"That's when the prince came to the house. Daddy should respect it. I wanted to learn the piano, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity when I was young. Daddy wanted to learn too late after he became an official. I heard that Guo, who taught the girls in Bianjing's boudoir, The luthier is the only one who is dedicated to you, saying that your talent and understanding can pass on his mantle."

Seventeen Niang smiled slightly and said, "Is that so? I've never heard him tell me that personally."

Between the two talking.

"I don't know who is playing the piano on the pavilion, can I ask for another song!" At this time, I heard someone from the downstairs said.

Fan laughed and said: "Seventeen, you are good, if you don't play it, you will be fine, and if you play it, you will attract the audience."

Seventeen Niang turned her back and smiled shyly, looking back, she saw that the boy had already left.

Fan was taken aback, when had he seen the Seventeenth Niang showing such a shy expression, she couldn't help asking: "Do you want to play another song?"

Seventeen Niang said: "The interest is over, how can there be good news, go back!"

The next day.

Let the boat cross the river.

Wu Anshi took out a famous post and asked the officials at the ferry to let them go. When the other party heard that it was Wu Anshi, the nephew of the dignified deputy prime minister's family, he didn't dare to shirk the boat at all, so the boat was let go immediately.

Immediately, the boat passed through the Qujiang River, and then to the Qiantang River, all the way to Hangzhou.

(End of this chapter)