Love in Suzhou

This "Nine Flying Dragons of the Song Dynasty" has a certain origin. It is composed of nine boys from the Song Dynasty. They have five coincidences: one of the coincidences, they were both born in the year of Renzi; the second of the coincidence , they are all inextricably related, but their generations are the same; coincidence three, they are looking for the same person; coincidence four, they rescued the same person; coincidence five, they met at the age of nine The ninth day of the ninth lunar month gathers in Longcheng, Jiujiang.So they became brothers of the opposite sex, and it was rare to encounter so many "nine" characters, so they took the nickname "Nine Flying Dragons", which gradually spread among relatives.

This matter started with the Sun and Lin families five years ago.

Let me talk about the Lin family first. It was an early summer weather, and the weather was not too hot.Lin Yun, a boy who was only nine years old, was originally an innocent age, but he was reading "University" by himself in the yard.

Suddenly a little girl came over and asked, "Second brother, are you watching "University"?"

"Yes, Yu'er, why did you run out?" Lin Yun put down the book and looked at his younger sister and asked, she was Lin Yun's younger sister Lin Fangyu.

"My head is not feeling well. Maybe it's because I slept too much. You can teach me how to study in college. Dad said you are studying this now, so I'll come here." Yu'er said with a long hairy grass in her hand.

"Okay, then listen to me and read it to you obediently." Lin Yun imitated his master and read: "'The so-called extension of knowledge is in the investigation of things, and the words are intended to convey my knowledge, but the truth is in the face of things. It is the soul of the heart. There is no knowledge, and there is no reason in the world, but there is no end to reason, so his knowledge is endless."

Yu'er interrupted him and said, "Second Brother, 'Everything in the world is justified', this is too scary, it doesn't make sense, why should you learn to be reasonable?"

"Is it unreasonable to be unreasonable?" Lin Yun asked back.

"Is not it?"

"Still learning or not?"

"Learn." Yu'er can't say anymore, anyway, Confucius said that he didn't make sense, so he didn't make sense, who made him a saint?listen.

"Beginning with the "Great Learning", it will make scholars become all things in the world, and they will benefit from the principles they know, so as to reach the extreme. The surface and the inside are all fine and rough, and the whole and great use of my heart is clear. This is called the nature of things, and this is called the ultimate knowledge..." Lin Yun thought: I have already memorized everything, I don’t know how much my sister has memorized. , Ha ha! As a result, Yu'er took a branch and drew something on the ground by himself. After a closer look, it turned out that his sister was drawing symbols, so he had to read his book by himself.

"Second brother, this is also called "The Knowledge of Things in the University." Yu'er suddenly said.

"Are you listening?" Lin Yun asked in surprise.

"That's what I said in the end. You and your elder brother kept reading. I remembered a little bit, but I couldn't remember it."

"Let's memorize the Three Character Classic, it's easy to memorize."

"My mother taught me a long time ago, and now I'm learning 'clouds face the rain, snow faces the wind, and evening photos face the clear sky. Laihongs face geese, resident birds face singing insects. Three-foot swords, six equal bows, Lingbei faces Jiangdong. The world is clear. Summer Palace, Guanghan Palace in the sky...'I want to go out to play, can you accompany me?"

"Go and change your clothes, and then we'll go out and call Liu Er." Lin Yun thought about finishing his homework, so he went out with his sister for a walk.

"Oh, second brother, you are so kind!" Yu'er ran out after finishing speaking.

Later, the two siblings took Xiaoluzi and Yangliu out to play together.There are a lot of sellers in Fengxiang Town, they walked through one stall after another, and suddenly saw an old monk walking towards them, Lin Yun was afraid of hurting his sister, so he stood in front of her.

Unexpectedly, Yu'er stepped forward instead, took out a jade pendant and gave it to the monk, saying: "If the master comes to beg for alms, Yu'er has no silver taels, only this jade pendant."

The monk nodded and accepted the jade pendant. He was about 50 years old and said to her: "Master is really a bodhisattva. The poor monk became a monk in Fengxiang Baohui Temple, and his Dharma name is Baochan. Seeing that the master's seal is gray, I hereby tell you .”

"It turned out to be Master Baochan, thank you Master." Yu'er clasped her hands together and bowed to him.

"Since the master gave the poor monk a jade, the poor monk will also return the jade to the master." After Baochan finished speaking, he took out a jade bracelet and put his hands in Yu'er's hands.

"No, no," Yu'er didn't expect the master to give her a piece of jade, and this jade bracelet is emerald green, crystal clear, and seems to be more precious than her own piece of jade, she dare not accept this After receiving the gift, he said: "Master, this is a gift from the immortal family. I cannot accept such a precious gift from you."

"Since the master is willing to give the poor monk a jade, please accept this jade. Maybe in the future, the master's urgent need will be relieved, and the poor monk will get the jade back from the master when there is a destiny."

"Thank you master." Yu'er had no choice but to accept the jade bracelet.

Baochan glanced at Lin Yun and smiled slightly: "Master will have a lot of blessings in the future. The poor monk has a message for Master: "In the middle of the month, who is this year and who is this year? Drinking wine will also kill your soul. The water is far away, the mountains are long and the road is at the end , Dogwood sprinkled Tangtangxin. Four nines in Chongyang plus one nine, East China Sea Dragon Palace has four gates. One night in late autumn is like a dream, Jiangbei and Jiangnan kiss each other."

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Yun asked.

"Amitabha, master is very intelligent, so he naturally understands." Master Baochan just nodded and smiled after finishing speaking, and then left.

The brother and sister had no choice but to return a gift to him, and then went home.

They told their parents about it, and General Lin Zhenzhi said, "I heard that Master Baochan is an eminent monk, just like the case ten years ago, he also saw through the mystery."

"Is it General Bai's case?" Mrs. Lin asked.

"Who is General Bai?" Lin Yun asked strangely.

"As my father's former boss, Master Baochan instructed me to go to Fengxiang to do it, otherwise our Lin family might not exist." Lin Zhenzhi said with a sigh, he still felt a little uncomfortable thinking about that incident.

"In this case, father, don't think about it anymore." Although Lin Feng is a little older, he doesn't know very well. Looking at his father's expression, he knows that it must be earth-shattering, so he persuades his father.

Mrs. Lin also said: "Yu'er, since Master Baochan gave you the jade bracelet, you must keep it safe, and there must be no mistakes!"

Yuer nodded.

"However, the meaning of this poem sounds like it has a good ending, but the content is twists and turns, so it's hard to explain." Mrs. Lin said.

"The phrase 'Donghai Dragon Palace has four gates' reminds me of a place." Lin Yun said.

"Where?" Lin Zhenzhi asked.

"Master Feng's hometown is Longcheng. He once said that there are four city gates outside Longcheng. Could it be there?" Lin Zhenzhi nodded and said, "Maybe, since Master Baochan said it, it should be related to Yun'er, but do you dare to go there alone?"

"Then why not dare? I just don't know if I can get there before the August Festival." Lin Yun said.

"Master, Yun'er is still young." Mrs. Lin was worried about letting her son leave alone.

"What are you afraid of? I've been to Hangzhou since I was his age."

"Ok."

Lin Zhenzhi also said: "Don't come back if you don't come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival, just go to Jiangnan and visit your aunt and two aunts' house, just in time for the New Year."

Lin Yun pulled his mother and said, "Don't worry!"

Madam Lin nodded.At this time the housekeeper came in, Lin Zhenzhi asked, "What's the matter?"

"Master, the Suzhou Sun Mansion sent someone to deliver the letter." Manager Lin handed the letter to him.

Lin Zhenzhi read the letter and said with a smile: "That's all right now, Kun'er brought Qi'er and Jing'er to play, and we will arrive tomorrow. By then, let Yun'er go with Kun'er and the others to the second aunt's house, won't it be much closer?"

"Great, Archie is here, so I can let him accompany me to Dragon City to see my master." Lin Yun said.

"Mom, I'll go play with them too, okay?" Yuer begged.

Madam Lin smiled and asked her eldest son, "Feng'er, are you going?"

"Father and I still have something to do, let Brother Yun and Yu'er go, and I will pick them up when the time comes." Lin Feng said.

"Okay, Yu'er, you have to obey your second aunt obediently."

"Yeah! I can go to Suzhou now. Then I will stop by Jiangning Mansion to see my aunt and my aunt, hehe..." Yu'er said with a smile.

Several people smiled.

The next morning, before Sun Wenkun and others arrived, Zhu Rong, Liu Qing and Liang Chun came to Fengxiang first.Zhu Rong is the cousin of Lin Yun's third aunt, Liu Qing is the cousin of the fourth aunt, Liang Chun is the cousin of the fifth aunt, and they came together from the Chu family in Qinzhou.

When Mrs. Lin saw them, she asked, "Why did you come to Fengxiang? Does uncle know?"

Liang Chun was the youngest, so he pulled Second Aunt and said, "Second Aunt, don't worry, we all agreed with Uncle to ask Brother Yun to go out to play."

Zhu Rong also said, "Yes, Second Aunt, don't worry!"

Mrs. Lin looked at the three nephews and smiled helplessly: These four cousins ​​are not only the same age, but also have a very good relationship. Every time they get together to fool around.

Lin Yun said with a smile: "Then wait a day! There is a guest coming today, let me introduce you."

Liu Qing asked: "Who else?"

"It's Sun Wenqi's cousin from my aunt's family. Today we agreed to visit relatives at my house. He is the same age as us. We will go play together." Lin Yun did not forget his cousin at this time.

"Sun Wenqi, I haven't seen him before." Zhu Rong said, because he had never seen him every time he came to Fengxiang.

Liu Qing thought for a while and said, "I think I've seen him before. Last year, he came with your aunt. He's a pink guy. He's as tall as me. He talks a lot of fun. He even dragged me to play in the back garden. "He laughed as he thought about it.

"Are you fat?" Liang Chun asked curiously.

"A little bit, but I don't know if he has grown taller now." Liu Qing hadn't seen him for a year, and if she saw him, she would definitely not say that. He is not fat now, but handsome.

"That must be fun." Zhu Rong thought and said, "Then we'll just wait for him."

They waited until almost noon before they saw a sapphire blue carriage parked at the gate of General Lin's mansion, and everyone stood at the gate to welcome them.A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy jumped out of the car. He was handsome and unrestrained in a purple suit. He was Lin Zhenzhi's nephew Sun Wenkun, and his attendant Wang Lian was driving the car with him.I saw him open the car door, and immediately jumped down a young man in light blue clothes, holding a two-foot-long stick in his hand, he was Sun Wenqi.Then there is his little follower Wang Hai.And Sun Wenkun carried a seven-year-old girl from the car, wearing a red embroidered jacket, with a braid on her hair hanging down to her right shoulder. She is Sun Wenjing, the heroine of our "Love in Suzhou", and the last one is Wang Qiutong, the maid who was with Sun Wenjing, was carried down by Wang Lian.Wang Lian, Wang Hai and Qiu Tong are three brothers and sisters who have been servants of the Sun family since they were young, but they are not real servants, but the orphans of Wang Jingshan, the old subordinate of General Sun Cheng. In the movie, Wang Jingshan died unfortunately, so Sun Cheng took the three brothers and sisters to Suzhou to raise them with his children.

After seeing the ceremony, everyone entered the Lin family's courtyard. Lin Zhenzhi said to Wen Kun, "Kun'er, how are your parents?"

"Okay, please don't worry, uncle and aunt." Wen Kun replied.

"Qi'er learned martial arts?"

"Going back to uncle started after I went home last year."

"Then let me try it." After Lin Yun finished speaking, he rushed to Sun Wenqi. The dexterous Sun Wenqi turned right and avoided the fist of his second cousin. Then, when he turned back, the stick in his right hand had already met him.Lin Yun has practiced martial arts since he was a child, so naturally he would not be hit, and he dodged it by leaning back.When his left hand touched the wooden stick, he turned his wrist and held the other end of the wooden stick. Sun Wenqi's left hand was not idle, and he punched Lin Yun's left arm.Lin Yun raised his stick upwards and kicked up, and Sun Wenqi kicked him back, but neither of them hit the other, because they both gave up their sticks, switched positions, and retreated several times backwards. Chi away, looking at each other intently.

I only heard the sound of the stick falling to the ground, and then I heard Lin Zhenzhi say: "Kun'er, ignore them, and go to the hall with Jinger to rest." Then came the sound of footsteps...

At the end when they heard a series of applause, Lin Yun and Sun Wenqi turned to the owner of the applause at the same time. It turned out that it was Zhu Rong who was applauding. Zhu Rong successfully diverted their attention and said with a smile: "What a Sun Wenqi, only a year old It’s a miracle that you can learn this with time and kung fu.”

Sun Wenqi asked strangely: "Second brother Yun, who is he?" because he had never seen this person before.

Lin Yun took Sun Wenqi and introduced them one by one: "Let me introduce to you, he is my cousin Zhu Rong from my third aunt's family; that is my cousin Liu Qing from my fourth aunt's family. You met him in Fengxiang last year; the last one is my little brother. Cousin Liang Chun from my aunt’s house. Everyone was born in the year of Ren Zi, and according to the month of birth, Archie is older than all of you, either you are called Cousin Qi, or you just call him by your first name.”

Sun Wenqi memorized their names and said, "Cousin Qing, I remember, this is the first time I've seen the other two cousins."

Liang Chun said: "Cousin Yun, let's go out with Cousin Qi to get in touch."

"That's right, Cousin Qi, let's go to Fengxiang's mountain to play. It's still early, just come back for dinner at night." Zhu Rong also responded.

"Okay, then let's go to the nearest Cuiling Station." Lin Yun suggested.

"Okay, it takes about two quarters of an hour to ride a horse from here to Cuilingyi. We can find a place to have lunch on the way, and it won't take long to climb to the top of Lingyu Mountain. We should be able to come back for dinner." Zhu Rong once climbed with Lin Yun once Lingyu Mountain, because I was still watching the sunset there, so I missed the time to come back for dinner.

"I've never been there!" Liang Chun said, he also wanted to go to such a nearby place.

Liu Qing said, "Me neither."

Lin Yun introduced: "There is a small mountain called Lingyu beside Cuiling Station, which is the remaining vein of Cuiping Peak. The mountain in Fengxiang Mansion is not too high. Cuiling Station is composed of Lingyu Mountain, Cuiwei Gorge, Yuxi and It is composed of Cuiling Posthouse. There is a Taoist temple named Yuqingguan on the top of the hill. You can see Yuxi below Cuiwei Gorge at a glance from the Zhaixing Building of Yuqingguan. The view is relatively wide. It would be beautiful to watch the stars there at night. , because the Zhaixing Building is built in the mid-air on the top of the mountain, where it seems that you can touch the stars, and there is really the feeling of 'picking the stars with your hands', hence the name, and you can also watch the sunrise and sunset there. Ride a horse from here It takes two quarters of an hour to reach Cuiling Station, where we can leave our horses and walk up the mountain.”

"Picking the stars? I want to pick the stars too." Sun Wenjing arrived here at some point, and her heart was moved when she heard this sentence. It's a castle in the air, and you can pick the stars. Who wouldn't want to go?

Yu'er also said: "If you don't take us with you, we will tell your parents that you secretly went to pick the stars and won't go home."

"It's over, it's over, we're dead." Liang Chun said.

"Then take the four of you with you, and you are not allowed to tell the truth." Lin Yun also knew that it would be impossible not to take them with him, so he said.

So the two young ladies and the two maids nodded desperately, and then Wang Hai, 11 of them, went out with his five brothers and Xiao Luzi.Lin Zhenzhi had already known all this, so even if they really didn't come back, it didn't matter. He sent someone to inform the real Yuqing of Yuqing Temple in advance, and stayed 11 of them overnight, and notified the people in the inn to help take care of the horses.

It was already past noon when they arrived at Cui Ling Yi, they put the seven horses in the inn, found an inn at random, had lunch, and then started to climb Lingyu Mountain.Lingyu Mountain is neither high nor dangerous, but the surrounding scenery is quiet and elegant. You can smell the fragrance of wild flowers and grasses everywhere. Occasionally, a rabbit pokes its head out in the woods to look at the visitors, Yuer, Sun Wenjing, Qiutong and Yangliu It was the first time to climb a mountain. I didn't expect Fengxiang to have such a fun place. They talked and laughed on the mountain road.

In less than an hour, they reached the top of the mountain while walking and playing.A courtyard gate came into view, and the plaque on it was written in seal characters [Yuqing Guan], and two towering green pines were planted on both sides of the courtyard gate.

Lin Yun pointed to the door plaque and said: "This is Yuqing Temple. The Star Picking Tower is on the back mountain of the temple. If you want to go there, you have to say hello to Master Yuqing."

Sun Wenqi and Liu Qing stared at the plaque with strange eyes, and suddenly Liang Chun said, "I know the word 'Yu' in 'Yuqingguan', haha." It turned out that they didn't know the characters in seal script on the plaque.

Zhu Rong said with a smile: "Never mind him, let's go in and talk about it." Then he strode in.So a few people went in, they didn't see the real person Yuqing, they were taken to the Zhaixing Tower by a little Taoist named Song Ling.

The Zhaixing Tower is located on the back mountain of Yuqing Temple. Looking from the back door of the temple, there is a beautiful small pavilion on the top of a small hill. It is called the Xingxing Tower. There seems to be a fence on the roof. star place.

Song Ling said: "That small building is the Star Picking Building. If you want to see the stars, you have to wait until night."

They looked at the building, and Sun Wenjing said, "It's really in mid-air!"

"Let's go, let's pick the stars." Yu'er said and pulled her cousin up.

Qiu Tong pulled Yang Liu to catch up and said, "Miss, it's daytime now, how can there be stars?"

Yu'er seemed to understand and said, "Yes, there are no stars."

"Then let's go pick the sun." Sun Wenjing said immediately.

"Picking the sun?" Yang Liu immediately said, "So hot?"

"Yes, you don't need to light the fire if you take off the sun, you can directly use the sun to cook and eat." Yu'er responded to her cousin.

"Yes, let's go, go pick the sun. Maybe the people in Yuqingguan pick the sun for cooking every day!" Sun Wenjing and Yu'er ran to the front as she said.

After hearing this, Zhu Rong said to everyone: "Then it might as well be called Jieri Building."

"Hehe!" Liang Chun laughed.

Song Ling said again: "Master said that there will be a meteor shower after midnight tonight, you can stay and watch."

"Meteor shower?" Sun Wenqi asked curiously.

"It's just that there are many stars flying in the sky." Lin Yun said, because he saw it once when he was practicing, and he was so scared that he didn't dare to practice, for fear that any star would fall and hit him, but the master said that shooting stars would not It hit someone, so he and Master admired the stars flying around, it was extremely beautiful.

"What if it falls?" Liang Chun asked.

"They don't fall to the ground, they can only fly. They are very beautiful." Zhu Rong replied, because he had seen them before.

"Then let's watch the stars fly tonight, shall we?" Liu Qing asked.

Lin Yun said, "Aren't we going back?"

"What if uncle and the others are worried?" Sun Wenqi said.

"Let's let the people from Yuqing Temple tell them." Lin Yun wanted to watch the meteor shower here.

So they decided to ask Song Ling to help tell the family. In fact, the family already knew that it was Master who told them to keep them, so he told them about the meteor shower.Later, they chased the four girls to the Zhaixing Tower.

The Zhaixing Building is a small three-story building with guest rooms. Songling arranged eleven guest rooms on the second floor and the top floor for them in the building, each with a room.

When they got there, they ate some fruits and ran to the small pavilion on the roof. The sky was blue, the sun was shining gently in the southwest sky, and the whole mountain could be seen in a panoramic view.They walked to the west and looked down. It turned out to be a canyon. Lin Yun pointed to a green belt in the middle of the canyon and said, "Look, that's Yuxi, and this is Cuiwei Gorge. The only way to get down from here is to go down from here." You can go around Cuiling Station to reach the lower reaches of Yuxi, and then go upstream along Yuxi to reach its source, Yulongquan."

"Belt, like a belt, fastens Lingyu Mountain." Sun Wenjing said.

"Shall we go to Yulong Spring tomorrow? I want to drink the water from Yulong Spring." Yu'er suddenly thought that the spring water must be delicious.

"Me too." Sun Wenjing also responded to her cousin.

"Okay, then let's go drink spring water together tomorrow." Sun Wenqi knew he couldn't refuse, so he had to agree.

At night, they went to bed early in the Star Picking Building, the purpose is to better watch the meteor shower.After midnight, the eleven children got up excitedly.They sat on the fence of the small pavilion on the third floor of the Star Picking Building, looking up at the sky, waiting for the first meteor to come.

After waiting for a long time, I saw a meteor streak across the sky from the northeast to the southwest and disappeared...

Sun Wenqi pointed to the sky and said, "Here we come, look quickly."

Before the voice fell, meteors shot one after another from the northeast to the southwest. It was like raining stars...

Liang Chun said with emotion: "As if they had been negotiated, they lined up and headed southwest."

"Yes, it's so beautiful. If only I could fly like them." Zhu Rong said enviously.

"People can't fly, just look at them." Liu Qing said.

"I can't even count, there are too many." Sun Wenjing said with her head raised.

"Me too, there are so many." Yu'er also said.

Qiu Tong took Yang Liu's hand and said, "I am the same, I have never seen so many stars flying."

"Me too. Although I'm older than you, I've never seen one. I heard that making a wish on a shooting star will definitely come true. Let's make a wish together." Yang Liu was a little older than them, so naturally he suggested it after hearing about it, so the four The girls began to clasp their hands together and promise their little secrets...

The stars in the sky are still flying, the eleven children are still looking up at the endless sky, and the meteors fly by again and again towards the southwest sky...

At some point, the number of shooting stars became less and less, and they cuddled up and slept outside...

Lin Yun was the first to wake up. He woke up Xiao Luzi, Sun Wenqi and Wang Hai, carried the four girls back to the guest room, and carried the three cousins ​​back to the room before going to rest.

On the second day, they went to Yuxi again, went upstream along Yuxi, and found Yulong Spring in Cuiwei Gorge on the other side of Lingyu Mountain. They played there for a whole morning before returning to Fengxiang's home.

Because they heard that Lin Yun was going to Longcheng, Liu Qing, Zhu Rong and Liang Chun also wanted to join in the fun with him, so they went back to their respective homes early to discuss with their families.The three boys were arranged by their parents to go to Jiangning's aunt Chu Yanqiu's house, but they also brought their uncle's cousin Chu Peng with them, and went to Jiangning Mansion with their mother and uncle's entrustment.

But they couldn't go with Lin Yun, because the Sun brothers and sisters were still living in Lin's family at that time, so they went to Jiangning first. Anyway, they made an appointment to meet at Jiang's family in Jiangning.

Later, the Sun brothers and sisters took Lin Yun, Yu'er and their close friends Xiao Luzi and Yang Liu to Suzhou together.Then Lin Yun took his younger sister Yu'er, and Sun Wenqi took Sun Wenjing to Jiangning's aunt (aunt) Lin Shijie's Meng's house, and then the Lin brothers went to the same city's aunt Chu Yanqiu's Jiang's house.

End of this chapter