Data rivers and lakes

Chapter 37, leaving

night.The moonlight was bright and clear, and Tan Longcheng quietly fell asleep like a sleeping child.Occasionally, a watchman knocking on bamboo passes by, and only a few shouts are made.

Meng Jingye opened her eyes, walked out of the house, and poked a small hole in the window of Dangdang's house. Seeing that Dangdang was still asleep, she quietly walked away, went back to the room, packed several clothes, and He brought dry food and all his money, picked up the Dragon Slaying Sword, wrapped it around a few times with a cloth, carried it behind his back, and pressed it under the bag.Walked out of the home where I had been for the entire 4 years.

Tan Longcheng didn't close the city gate at night. After all, the law and order was good, so there was no need to worry about bandits attacking the city.All the way north.Meng Jingye was walking on the path, and Meng Jingye didn't know where she wanted to go, so let's just walk anyway.No matter where you go.Only the slight sound of frogs and insects accompanied Meng Jingye.

"Crack." Meng Jingye heard a soft sound, as if she had stepped on a branch.But it's so obvious at night!Meng Jingye turned her head and found a shadow hiding in the grass by the roadside.Meng Jingye drew out the dragon-slaying sword, and shouted at that side: "Who?" But the other side was silent, Meng Jingye was on guard, and slowly approached, there was a figure still hiding inside, suddenly, The figure yelled: "Snake!" Then it jumped out and ran towards Meng Jingye.While running, he shouted: "Snake! Snake! Snake!"

Meng Jingye didn't relax, she was still on guard, waiting for someone to approach, and found out by the moonlight that it was Dangdang, so she put away her sword and said to Dangdang, "Why are you here?" Dangdang ran to Meng Jingye's side, Holding Meng Jingye's arm, with a bitter face, she looked left and right, as if looking for where the snake in her mouth went?Seeing that she didn't seem to hear her words, Meng Jingye asked again: "Why are you here?" Dangdang looked into Meng Jingye's eyes and said, "You don't want me yet?"

Meng Jingye didn't know what to say, so she pulled out the arm held by Dangdang and continued to walk forward.Seeing that Meng Jingye didn't speak, Dangdang smiled happily.No matter what snakes or not, they followed with brisk steps.

"What a big moon, what a big moon~" Dangdang jumped and hummed an inexplicable tune, walking beside Meng Jingye. Meng Jingye listened quietly and walked silently, and a bridge appeared in front of her. In front of you, this is a bridge built in the previous dynasty, named Minghe Bridge. According to legend, there once was an upright county magistrate in this place, named Shen Minghe. The river here is rapid, but it is also an important transportation thoroughfare, traveling from south to north. There are many people in the river, but they all rely on small boats to ferry them. Every year, the boats capsize, causing many casualties. So Shen Minghe decided to build a bridge again, but building a bridge in this place is not an easy task. The rapid river water , the cost is much higher than that of ordinary bridges, and small counties that are not wealthy simply do not have that much money to support it.

Therefore, Shen Minghe visited all the gentry and wealthy businessmen and asked for funds to build the bridge. However, Shen Minghe was honest and honest, and although he was deeply loved by the people.However, Shen Minghe took out the vested interests of many rich and powerful people who squeezed Baixin, so no one was willing to contribute. Shen Minghe also sighed because of this. There are more in the past, and there is another student who he was very optimistic about when he was still in his hometown. The student's family is poor, but he is intelligent, humble and studious. At that time, he was drowned by a ship overturned by the flood, which deepened his desire to repair the bridge.

So, amidst all the difficulties and dangers, he persuaded an out-of-town stone merchant to use the bridge tolls as collateral and asked the stone merchant to provide materials. He then summoned local people who supported him, and he personally participated in the process, which took a long time. Three years later, the bridge was finally built.

On the day of the ribbon cutting, Shen Minghe laughed three times and said, "After a hundred years here, there won't be a single lonely soul!" Then he died crying blood!The common people lay down on their corpses and wept bitterly. Although they had no descendants, they didn't realize that they were ten miles away from the mourners!Therefore, later generations call this bridge Minghe Bridge!Later generations engraved a stele and stood beside the bridge.

Meng Jingye stood on the bridge, looking at the sparkling river water, stroking the stone piers on the bridge, as if someone was whispering in her ear, as if she was telling the past of the previous dynasty.A large fish jumped out of the water, its thick scales glistening in the moonlight. "Wow~" Dangdang supported the bridge, leaned out half of his body, and watched the big fish toss and fall into the water again.Swimmed a few times and disappeared. "Well, I really want to eat it! It's so big, I'm sure I'll be full!" The big fish had already disappeared, but Dangdang still couldn't forget its meat.

Meng Jingye didn't speak either, and after standing for a while, she continued walking. "Oh, wait for me!" Dangdang saw Meng Jingye leave.Hastened to catch up.

The sky was getting darker and the stars had long disappeared. Although the moon had not yet set, the sun was showing a gleam of light. Meng Jingye was hungry after walking all night, so she found a clean grassland, untied her bag, and took out After taking a bite of the dry food, he handed Dangdang another cake.

Meng Jingye ate on her own, taking a sip of water from time to time, and after a while, Meng Jingye had finished eating.But Dangdang was still crouching on the ground holding the piece of cake, looking at the cake with a sad face.Meng Jingye said: "Don't like it?" Dangdang shook his head and said, "Why can you have breakfast without the rooster crowing? Isn't it only eaten when the rooster crows?" Meng Jingye said speechlessly: "I said You can eat, you can eat."

Dangdang nodded, and said joyfully: "To Huo~ you only count if you say it." Then he began to bite the cake.Meng Jingye walked in front, Dangdang followed behind, but Dangdang kept hiccupping after eating the cake. "Hi~" came again, and Meng Jingye had listened to it for a long time.Turning around, he said to Dangdang, "Don't you want to drink some water?" He raised the water bottle on his waist and said.Dangdang's eyes lit up: "Can I drink? Hiccup~" Meng Jingye nodded and handed the kettle to Dangdang.

Dangdang was stunned for a moment, then took it carefully, looked at the kettle, then at Meng Jingye, and said, "Can I really drink it?" "Yes!" After hearing Meng Jingye's answer, he took a small sip up.After drinking it, he immediately returned it to Meng Jingye.I'm afraid Meng Jingye will get angry.

"Hululu~" A sound of wheels came from behind, and both Meng Jingye and Dangdang turned their heads to look at the motorcade behind them.There were three carts, all pulled by oxen, but there was nothing on them. There were only three or two people sitting on each cart. They were all men, chatting with each other. When I saw Meng Jingye, I stood alone. After getting up, Meng Jingye and the other two people on the other side said: "You two on the roadside, do you want to take a car? I'll go to Lijia Village. If you want to go, 5 coppers per person."

Meng Jingye replied: "On the way!" The ox cart gradually approached. The first one drove straight past, but the second one stopped in front of Meng Jingye. A person above called to Meng Jingye: "Come up!" Meng Jingye led Dangdang, got on the bullock cart, gave the money, Meng Jingye sat down and closed her eyes to start self-study. At this time, as long as Meng Jingye self-study controlled it, there would be no strange phenomena, just like a person falling asleep.

The man in the car greeted Meng Jingye a few times and wanted to chat together. However, seeing that Meng Jingye was sitting there motionless and seemed to have no intention of chatting, he gave up and continued to chat with other people in the car. It comes.In the eyes of others, Dangdang was Meng Jingye's female family member. It was a very rude behavior to talk to the female family member in front of others, so no one went to greet Dangdang.then.The convoy just continued to move forward.

(End of this chapter)