Second Continuation of Golden Plum

Chapter 21

Under the city of Huai'an, the widow is weeping and the widow is weeping. The stars in the boat in Qingpu are scattered and people are shocked to meet.Like spring flowers and autumn swallows, fallen leaves and lonely boats.Let good fortune go, upside down, relying on him, the world will be lost, the date of return is difficult to determine, and the boy's head will turn white.Shaohua can last for a few days, mountains are long and rivers are far away, worrying everywhere.Look at the shore of Baikou, the head of the Red Polygonum.Outside the hanging willow, several fifes sounded, startling the gulls.Where to ask, Sanlu Yufu, all paid to Dongliu.

Right tune "Man Ting Fang"

It's a single table that there are joys and sorrows in the world, and life is unfortunate. In troubled times, it becomes more and more like a mess, gathering suddenly, and breaking up suddenly, but they can't think of where to go, and there is a chance.

That is to say, Yunniang was originally Brother Xunhui, who misunderstood the letter and went to Tokyo, and was exiled in the Jigu Temple. Fortunately, Gao Qiuyue missed the past and subsidized the expenses, and took the hatch on the big ship with him, and went to Linqing Matou by the way, Returning to Wucheng County is considered to be extremely safe.Unexpectedly, the golden soldiers were snatched from Shandong and wanted to intercept the palace servants on board, so they had to change their route to Huai'an at the mouth of the Yellow River.

Yunniang was on the big boat, how dare she go ashore, so she had to go with her.Really helpless people.

A widow leads a maid, although she still has a few taels of silver from Gao Qiuyue, who knows where to go?To ponder alone.

In less than two days on the boat, we crossed the Yellow River and came to Huai'an.When I arrived at the gate, I saw a decree from the south of the Yangtze River, saying that the soldiers of the Jin Dynasty believed in southern crimes, fearing that spies would cross the river, only the palace servants sent by Tokyo were named on board, and all the idlers who should be brought, regardless of men and women, rushed ashore. Don't let anyone go.Let the officers and soldiers cross the boat, carry Yunniang with men and women, and drive them away together.Fortunately, the eunuch in charge of the boat recognized Gao Qiuyue, so he sent Yunniang's baggage ashore, and the others were still empty-handed, so it was very painful.

This Yunniang and Xizhu left the official boat, guarding a burden, lonely and desolate, but where should they go, and no acquaintances to ask for directions, how to go back to Linqing in Shandong?Yunniang and Xizhu River sat for a while, and it was getting late.Nasu big and small boats are full.Yunniang was so ashamed that she didn't dare to approach her and asked Xizhu, "Go to the river and ask if there is a small fishing boat. Let's rent one." Xizhu walked to the mouth of the river and wanted to charter a boat to Shandong.I saw a small wave boat parked at the slightly head of the river, and a 70-year-old old boatman was mending a torn jacket on the bow.Xizhu asked, "Can you go to Shandong on this boat?" The mother-in-law said, "There is grandma Zhang Yali in Huai'an on this boat, who hired her to burn incense in the East China Sea. Where do you want to go?" Xizhu said, "I do too. Two women, going to Shandong." The mother-in-law said: "Is there no man?" Xizhu said: "No, only my mother and two sons. There must be a cabin, thank you for the boat fee. It doesn't matter who hired it , just in the back cabin." It turned out that Xizhu went to Tokyo with the aunt's phantom sound, took a boat, and walked outside for two years, so she had the old-fashioned way of being in the rivers and lakes, and said: "Even if you buy rice, you can talk about it in one place." Let's do it." The woman said: "My husband went to the city to pick up Grandma Zhang, and waited for him to come to discuss." After a while, I saw an old boatman, leading a young man, and carrying a load of luggage to see the boat coming. .Seeing Xizhu talk to her mother-in-law nearby, she asked what she did.The woman said: "It's a boat hire. I said Zhang Yali hired it. He said it was two women who wanted to go back to Shandong on the way. How about taking it on the stern of the boat and earning a little more money? Buy rice." The old boatman asked Xizhu again: "You only have two people to take with you on the back boat, let's make three taels of silver, and add a bucket of rice."

Xizhu said: "It's too much, let's make two liang of silver with rice." After talking for a long time, Xizhu was afraid that it would be late, and said, "Add five qian silver. Where do you go ashore?" In Qingkou area, the drought is caused by hired footwork, and the waterway is taken by boat." Xizhu came back and said to Yun Niang: "It was a grandma who hired her to burn incense and go to the East China Sea, and there was no male guest, so we took him all the way. It's very inconvenient. We only talked about two or five renminbi of silver, and we will stay on the boat tonight. The old boatman and his wife are very honest." Yunniang was very happy, and she and Xizhu came on board the boat with their bundles and quilts.It turned out that there were four cabins covered by a mat shed, with pots and stoves behind it.

The boatman pulls his fibers on the shore during the day and sleeps on the bow at night.The young man guarded the luggage, packed the back cabin, and packed packages for Yunniang and Xizhu.One night view is not a problem.

But it is said that Lu Jiayan married Zhang Yanei that year and was promoted to Taizhou Prefecture.Later, because Liang Cai, Nangongji's son-in-law, went to abduct him, Zhang Tong sentenced him to drive Ya Nei back to his original place, Zhending Mansion.Later, Zhang Tong passed away, so the young master had to live in a house in Huai'an Mansion.Three or four years of chaos.Lu Jiayan gave birth to a son named An Lang.

Unfortunately, Ya Nei caught a cold last year and died within five days, leaving Lu Jiayan and An Lang alone—he was already five years old.Because he promised to go to Qingfengding Sanguan Hall in Haizhou to fulfill his vow, he rented a boat and waited in Qingjiangpu.At that time, the fate of the heavens coincided, and Yunniang met here, because Yunniang was virtuous all her life, and treated all concubines with kindness, so she deserved this kind of help.In the evening of the next day, I saw a small sedan chair and a maid riding a donkey. Uncle Lu came from the shore with An Lang in his arms.The young man taught him to get off the sedan chair and load the luggage.Lu Jiayan entered the cabin and lowered the curtain of the front cabin.It was already dark, and the rear cabin was separated by reed mats, so we couldn't see each other.This Yunniang only said that it was a lonely place where wild geese lived on a piece of autumn water, so she knew that the moon was bright and the old man came from thousands of miles away.

On the second day, the young man said to Lu Jiayan: "The boatman on this boat has two more women in the back of the cabin. I don't know where they are from, but they are going to Shandong." Lu Jiayan didn't say a word.

The boat arrived at Andong County from Qingjiang Pu Gate. The water was wide and the wind was strong, so it couldn't be dragged.At night, the heavy rain poured down, the reed mat above was soaked, and the boat deck below was permeable, so that the grass on the boat was wet.At the third watch, when the lamps were lit, the women got together and just scooped water out.This Yunniang shouted from the back cabin: "Xizhu get up, look at the baggage, it's about to leak." Lu Jiayan heard Xizhu's call in the middle of the night, the voice was so familiar, she had already lifted up the reed mat at the back of the cabin, and she just met, so she was busy Called: "Big sister, why did you come here?" Yunniang was startled, and after asking carefully, she recognized that it was Lu Sanjie, and she hugged her head and burst into tears.

It is:

A leaf of duckweed returns to the sea, where life does not meet.

The world is chaotic and the years are barren and chaotic, and the beautiful women are wandering and thinking endlessly.

The prosperity has changed completely, and the children hate the difference.

Thousands of miles away, the horizon is reunited in the sound of rain.

Who said that Qilu is worried about where to go, and there is still a lone cloud accompanying Saihong.

After Lu Jiayan and Yunniang cried for a long time, they asked why there was no brother Hui.When Yunniang heard about it, she burst into tears, and then she broke up "the golden soldiers entered the city, and the mother and son were separated. I went to Tokyo to look for it for two years. I didn't see each other. Gao Qiuyue's family sent me back to Linqing. Unexpectedly, the official ship did not leave Linqing, but entered by the Yellow River." Huai'an, so I have to take the boat back to Shandong. The sisters have to meet one place, which is also luck."

Yunniang asked Lu Jiayan again: "Why do you wear filial piety?" Jiayan then said that Zhang Yanei's father and son were both dead.He called An Lang and kowtowed to Yun Niang.When Yunniang saw it, she thought of Brother Hui, she burst into tears, and thought, "If you have children, you will have children. Where do you want to go with the things in the world?" Here the sisters live in the same class.

In another day, I arrived at Banpukou, Haizhou.Yunniang wanted to hire a boat to go to Shandong, but Jiayan refused to live there. She wished she could get home in one step and look for her son's letter.

Let Uncle Lu go ashore first and ask about the way to Shandong.The storekeeper said: "Now that the Jin soldiers have arrived in Jinan, they have established Liu Yu as king, and they will soon invade the south. Don't say it's two women, even a whole army dare not leave." Yunniang looked at each other in dismay. , dare not speak a word, just wipe tears.

The second uncle Lu also tried to persuade him, saying: "Sister, you have made a mistake. Now people are still hiding in the south. You two young women and young women will have to walk one or two thousand miles. The soldiers are in a panic, and they are all dead." If you don’t wish to meet today, you will be a family. When you go back to Huai’an City, the two widows will stay together. People from Dongchang Mansion must come and go on the North and South Roads. I will send you to Taiding to pick you up. If you are here, you are only afraid of Hui Brother and Taiding don't know where to find you. It's just a thousand miles away, and a brick away from the near one. In the future, mother and child will meet again, just like today, on the same boat, and they won't be able to recognize each other until it rains." Lu Jiayan also advised Yunniang said: "What the second uncle said is, why don't we go all the way to Huai'an and go back to Huai'an. Waiting for stability, there are often people from Shandong, so it's better to write a letter first." After hearing this, Yunniang had no choice but to follow He said, "Just to disturb you, you are now a stagnant water."

Lu Jiayan said: "My sister said that! Thinking about sitting together and eating in the same pot at that time, she never treated me wrongly. Even when I arrived at Zhang's house, I didn't forget my sister's kindness. Today is called meeting each other, and we sisters There are still a few houses on the mouth of the Huai'an Lake, and we ask for rent every month. The coffins of my father-in-law and his father are sent to the Huxin Temple. There are also two hectares of paddy fields, which are enough for our sisters. That's all. I still can't find a companion." Saying that, he turned the boat into the Heifengkou.

After passing Haizhou City, along the way, Yuntai Mountain is breezy.Hiring two small sedan chairs and a few donkeys, Uncle Lu carried An Lang in his arms.I saw the Hall of the Three Officials on Yuntai Mountain earlier, it was so majestic, but I saw: the peak is abrupt, and the sea is vast.The black wind blows waves of snow, and people cross lonely sails; Baishi crosses several villages in the tide, and monks return to ancient temples.The famous temple of Avalokitesvara on the cliff, Yanfu Guanyuan Shitianzun.Cang pines and ancient cypresses cover the golden palace and silver platform; Yaocaoqihua, Penglai Langyuan in a trance.The ancient caves of Lei Lei in the north and south are deep and deep, and the sages of the eighteen villages have disappeared.Outside the blessed land surrounded by spiritual mountains, thousands of families are surrounded by fireworks and mirages.

It turns out that the emperor of Sanyuan, the heavenly official is responsible for fortune, official position, and fortune; have to respond.Shangyuan, Zhongyuan and Xiayuan are the dates of his birth.

On that day, the three brothers became monks here and became immortals, so they came from all over Kyushu to offer incense.

When Lu Jiayan and Yunniang came up to Deshan, they took part in the Jialan first and counted their foot strength.When you go up to the Nantian Gate, you can see dense layers of pine, bamboo and clouds, which is really a blessed place.On the high platform of the main hall, there are all white stone jade pillars, carved as the body of a dragon, more than two feet tall.There are two floors in the front and back, surrounded by corridors, passing through Louxiang Pavilion, and rising above the sky.The two dared not raise their heads. After paying their respects, they burned incense paper.Lu Jiayan said: "Sister, please ask for a lottery." Yun Niang held the lottery tube in her hand, and secretly wished: "If mother and child meet again, please help me." She knelt down and shook it, and a lottery had already jumped to the ground.Picking up the bead, it is No.11 lottery on the top: You are the most auspicious person in the world, because Yin virtue can pass through the gods.

The rendezvous of the pearl must be there eventually, and Zizhu beach head is interested.

Lu Jiayan also knelt down to ask for a lottery, which was the 82nd lottery of Zhongji.The two thanked each other for signing, and a Taoist invited them to the living room.After the fasting meal, I held the fate book and asked the two ladies for alms.Lu Jiayan left behind two taels of incense money, and refused to ask Yunniang to pay for it.Yunniang refused and left five qian.

When I came down to the mountain, I bought a few ghost heads, red sticks, and drums for An Lang to play with. I also bought two pictures of sages from the eighteen villages of Yuntai Mountain. The story has everything.Still board the original ship and come back to Huai'an.

Not a day later, when I arrived at Qingjiangpu, because the gate was not open, the boat moved slowly, and I changed into two small sedan chairs, and it seemed that I had arrived in Huai'an.I used to live in Zhuxiang, near the river, with five front doors, three-story house, and a house in the back, next to a small pavilion, where Guanyin Bodhisattva is worshipped.

Yunniang went in and worshiped the Buddha statue with Xizhu.That is to say, I cleaned up the next room of the pavilion and gave Yunniang a place to sleep.Since then, the two sisters have lived together as one.Uncle Lu went to the lake to do small business and ask for rent money.I don't know when Yunniang's mother and son will meet again in the future, it's exactly: the sky is forever and the earth is far away, and the moon and reed flowers are nowhere to be found.

Let's listen to the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)