Urban Sims

Chapter 124 The Road to Shu is Difficult

The passenger ship arrived at the wharf in Changsha County. At the invitation of Zhang Jing, the son of Changsha County Governor Zhangdu, Zhou Ming and his party made a short stay in Changsha.

The arrival of Mr. Zihua caused a sensation in the whole city of Changsha. At that time, there were countless visitors. In order not to be disturbed, Zhou Ming and others lived in the Sheriff's Mansion. Mr. Zihua asked for advice on poetry and Fu, and received him very hospitablely.

And in Changsha City, in order to participate in these banquets where Mr. Zihua can be seen, the upper-class celebrities in the city fought desperately for a seat. For a while, even in Changsha County, a dispute over the ranking of celebrities was triggered. The qualifications to participate in these banquets have become the only criterion for judging whether they are "celebrities".

Seeing that the dispute was getting worse, on March [-]th, the [-]th year of Tiansheng, according to Zhou Ming's suggestion, Zhang Du, the county magistrate, personally led people to arrange, and invited celebrities from all walks of life in Changsha, as well as literati and scholars from surrounding counties, to come together. Gathered in the White Crane Tower, held a literati event.

Baihe Tower is a famous building in the local area. It has nine floors and is ten feet high. Wooden platforms are built around the building, which can accommodate thousands of people to gather here. Because Baihe Tower is adjacent to the Juzi River, this meeting is also called It is called "Orange Island Club".

At this "Orange Island Meeting", all the celebrities and scholars unanimously recommended Mr. Zihua. For this reason, he wrote a preface for the meeting. "Preface", after the literary meeting officially started, I wrote another article and six poems, all of which were excellent works, which attracted numerous participants to copy and praise.

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After the Juzizhou meeting ended, on the [-]th, Zhou Ming and others set off again, heading west towards Shuzhou.

However, there was an episode here. When everyone passed by Jingzhou, although Zhou Ming repeatedly urged and repeated orders, the clan soldier Tian Dayong was still thirsty, so he drank a sip of raw water from the river ditch before the boiling water was finished. Three days later, He started to have a fever, diarrhea, and talking nonsense. All kinds of treatment methods were ineffective. Ten days later, he died of an intestinal infection and was unable to eat.

It has been a year since the tour, and the tour team, which has gone through countless dangers and traveled [-] miles, has lost its staff for the first time because of a mouthful of raw water.

For the first time, the atmosphere in the team was very oppressive and heavy.

Zhou Ming was also quite uncomfortable. He and these clan soldiers had a master-servant relationship in name, but after more than a year of getting along inseparably, the relationship between them was more like friends, brothers, and relatives.

Tian Dayong, the clan soldier, is the youngest and most lively of the eight clan soldiers. Sometimes he is neither big nor small, and does not understand the rules, and often provokes criticism from other clan soldiers. But now, seeing the raging fire, that body The bodies that were gradually burned to ashes can be seen from the expressions of everyone, they are all extremely sad and reluctant.

After the body was cremated, the ashes were packed in clay pots. Zhou Ming also called the locals to set up a clothes tomb at the cremation site, and found a stelemaker to carve a tombstone.

The eulogy on the tombstone is "Mourning Dayong Ji" written by him himself. The whole text is more than [-] words, and it describes the memorable moments and shining points in this loyal servant's life. After this eulogy, no matter who it is, they are all deeply moved and deeply mourn the young deceased in the tomb.

The seven clan soldiers even knelt down in front of the tombstone, tears streaming down their clothes.

"Dayong, you deserve to die! With the eulogy written for you by the young master himself, you will never be forgotten in this lifetime!"

"Dayong, do you know? I really hope that the person who died was me, not you. You died so enviably that even the Wenqu stars in the sky wrote mourning articles for you."

"The young master often told me that a person, no matter how ordinary and ordinary he is, has many shining points in his body. I don't know which shining points are in me, but if one day I die too, I hope someone I can write down these shining points of mine and tell others that such a person existed... I will be very grateful to him."

"Rest in peace, Dayong, your family will be taken care of by you. In your next life, let's have a good pregnancy. Even if you don't get a good pregnancy, I hope you can meet a good person like the young master again..."

Hearing the words of the seven clan soldiers, Chu Jingling on the side burst into tears and sobbed from time to time.

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After Tian Dayong, the clan soldier, left, for a long time, everyone seldom had a smile on their faces, until they walked out of Hongzhou and entered the winding and rugged mountainous area of ​​Shuzhou, with cliffs hanging on stacks and difficult cableways. For this dangerous road with many dangers and dangers that may occur at any time, everyone had to cheer up, support each other, and walk cautiously on this difficult mountain road.

It took a full 25 days to walk the mountain road of more than [-] miles, and there were dozens of moments where life and death were almost separated.

For example, on the edge of a vertical cliff, on a path that can only accommodate one foot, a piece of stone suddenly collapsed on the edge of the path, and some people almost lost their balance and fell off the cliff; Big mouth broke countless planks), some people almost fell into the abyss; for example, some non-human-triggered accidents, such as the weathered and fallen rocks on the top of the mountain, suddenly fell from a height of [-] meters, no one could predict, these high-speed falling rocks , Will it hit yourself?
"Hey, the danger is so high! The road to Shu is so difficult that it is difficult to go to the blue sky!
Cancong and yufu, how at a loss was the founding of the country?Erlai is [-] years old and does not live in Shangsai.Xidang Taibai has a bird path, which can cross the top of Tianzhu.Dibengshan destroyed the strong men to death, and then the ladders and stone stacks were connected with each other.On the top is the high mark of the six dragons returning to the sun, and on the bottom there is the rushing and turning back to Sichuan.the yellow crane can't fly too fast, and the ape wants to overcome his sorrow and climb for help.What a pan of green mud, a hundred steps and ten folds of lingering rocks.Go to the Lijing well and raise your breath, touch your hands and sit down and sigh!

When will I return Journey to the West?If you are afraid of the road, you will not be able to climb the rock.But I saw the ancient wood of the Mourning Bird, male and female flying around the forest.I also heard that Zigui cried at night, worrying about the empty mountains.The difficulty of the road to Shu is that it is difficult to go to the blue sky, which makes people listen to this withered beauty, and even the peaks go to the sky without a foot...

The difficulty of the road to Shu is that it is difficult to go up to the blue sky, and look sideways to the west for a long time! "

After walking out of the Shu road and entering a hilly area, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately wrote an article "The Difficult Road to Shu" based on the article written by Li Bai in his mind, basically without any revisions, because he found that Li Bai The scene of the Shu road depicted is almost exactly the same as the Shu road he walked these days, with very little exaggeration. Moreover, he dares to swear: more than 99% of people will only dare to walk this steep Shu road once in their lives. , will not go for a second time, including himself.

The road to Shu is difficult, but the interior of Shuzhou in the basin terrain has a suitable climate, like spring all year round, fertile soil and water, and a highly developed economy. It has the reputation of "Land of Abundance".

Because of its superior geographical location, large population, rich land, abundant resources, and surrounded by steep mountains, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, for thousands of years, Shuzhou has always been the place where careerists took the lead in rebelling. There is a law that "the world is in chaos before Shu is chaotic, and the world is governed after Shu". Although Shu Prefecture is a rather closed state in the west, to a certain extent, it is a barometer that reflects the state of the dynasty.

After entering the counties of Shuzhou, Zhou Ming was quite surprised that Mr. Zihua's reputation was very big here.

Part of the reason is the influence of "Zihua Anthology" after the establishment of Zihua Bookstore; and a considerable part of the reason is because his cartoon "Shushan Sword Immortal Li Bai Biography" was introduced to Shuzhou, which triggered a Because the background of this comic is set in the territory of Shuzhou, even though some of the humanistic customs presented in the comic are quite different from the reality, the sense of substitution of Shuzhou readers is that of all The strongest among readers who have read this comic.

Out of a fanatical love for this comic, they love the house and love the author of the comic, and they also admire and admire it very much.

Therefore, Zhou Ming and others who passed through the counties of Shuzhou received an extremely warm welcome, and because the government here is very educated, the economy is developed, the literacy rate of the people is very high, and there are very few illiterate people in the middle class.

Moreover, Shu people are hospitable, Shu merchants are generous, Zhou Ming and others, in Shuzhou, encountered some of the most unimaginable experiences since they traveled the world.

They want to go out, the carriage and driver at the door are all ready, and they can leave after getting on the carriage.

They wanted to stay at the top of the hotel, and the innkeeper had already prepared first-class rooms, hot water and hot meals for them, and someone had already paid for them.

They were going to eat, and all the good wine and dishes were served, and all the restaurants were free, because someone had already paid the bill.

There are even more than a dozen rich merchants from Sichuan who are potbellied and have a fortune of over one million. , will lead to a rush of rush, a complete poem will be called for a high price, but no one will sell it.

As for a complete landscape painting and an authentic prose with more than a thousand characters, these rich merchants even fought to the point of breaking the dog's mind, shouting a jaw-droppingly high price.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming sighed: "I haven't died yet, and my value has already soared to such an extent. If I die, after a thousand years, how much will these ink treasures appreciate? These wealthy merchants, It’s all about investing in advance.”

Apart from wealthy merchants, the people Zhou Ming dealt with the most were the officials, sheriffs, famous households, and homes of the prefects of various counties in the Shu region, and the people who stayed the most were naturally the homes of these nobles.

After only being a guest in these nobles' homes for one day, Zhou Ming understood why people said that the people of Shu are very hospitable. Ji, you have to know all kinds of tricks, you have to satisfy the guests, otherwise you will be severely punished if you don't entertain the guests well and make the guests unhappy.

Therefore, in the bedroom, Zhou Ming, who couldn't bear to face the two beautiful maidservants weeping weakly and begging on their knees, could only "smile and accept" the hospitality.

The more places he traveled, the more "good intentions" Xiaona naturally received.

Even in Yizhang County, Pang Caier, the daughter of the local governor Pang Ji, admired Mr. Zihua's appearance and talent, changed into a maid's clothes, and actually replaced the sleeping maid, and presented herself as a pillow mat, and appeared in Zhou Ming's bedroom. middle.

"Miss Cai'er, you are still innocent, you can't do such a thing that ruins your reputation!" Zhou Ming said in surprise after recognizing her.

A piece of soft fragrant lips came over, and this beautiful young girl breathed heavily, undressed him and said: "It's a slave's longing but not a blessing to be able to hand over this innocent body to my husband."

So, for a while, the phoenix turned upside down, the red was overturned, and the spring night was once.

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After that day, Chu Jingling, who finally couldn't bear to see all kinds of absurdity, expressed her dissatisfaction. She told Zhou Ming not to stay in Shuzhou for such a long time, and it was better to leave as soon as possible... Zhou Ming understood what she meant Ming, nodded, and immediately asked people to pack their bags. Early in the morning of the second day, everyone set off and rushed straight to Liangzhou.

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