Moth

On July [-]th, on Jiuliwan, Qinghe County, Taoyedu's once-a-month flower fair will come quietly.

In the evening, the Duolu Bridge was wrapped in colorful silk cloth by the flower girl of Chuxianglou, lying in the center of Taoyedu in a very gaudy and unscrupulous way.The Qingshi streets on both sides of the strait were crowded by the stalls of small merchants and hawkers in advance. The whole street was bustling with people, and all the shops were overcrowded.

... Only the Hengmen teahouse was abnormally opened.

On the water surface in the center of the "Zigzag" of Taoyedu, there stands a high platform as if flying from the sky. The high platform is about a knuckle's width higher than the water surface.When the water from the north reaches the high platform, it will automatically divert to the two sides. Liu Changzhou glanced and saw two square holes in the river on both sides of the high platform, part of the water flowed to unknown places through the holes.

He couldn't help but exclaimed - usually when the hole is closed, the water surface can barely cover the high platform, but when the hole is opened, although the water flow is not very large, it is still enough to discharge part of the water, so that the high platform can come out of the water .

The locals call it "Yangliu Terrace".

The water area near Yangliu Terrace has been artificially widened into a very perfect circle to prevent the surrounding river channel from being too narrow and passing ships that touch the platform and sink.

Fang Bingbi booked this unique site in advance, set up a banquet on the Yangliu Terrace very generously, and offered that Fatty Song the same as offering to his ancestors.In fact, he stomped his feet angrily behind his back. This scene was rich and rich, and the small [-] disaster relief funds were fucking fed to this fat man.

But this kind of life is almost coming to an end - the secret letter from Beijing yesterday, the top leader of the Military Aircraft Department, who was recently impeached by a group of Qingliu, can't protect himself from crossing the river. It's probably not far away from the fallen tree and the hozen.

Compared with Fang Bingbi's generous writing, Liu Changzhou still takes the shabby route.He spent a few pennies and bought four bowls of Yangchun noodles—himself, Zhan Baili, Du Heng, and Jin Dou—from a very inconspicuous noodle stall on Qingshi Street, where people crowded with each other.

This Zhan Baili is an old man over sixty years old, with a bunch of gray hair tied up in a random way, and a big beard, which is ridiculously tied into a bunch with something that looks like a wick, and a small tail like a writing brush hangs down .His skinny face was full of creases like Jin Dou's.

These two old things were still quite sympathetic to each other, when Jin Dou saw Zhan Baili, he immediately forgot about his parents, and shamelessly rubbed against the old man's legs, almost acknowledging his ancestors.

Liu Changzhou kicked Jin Dou secretly, expressing the anger of a father who was abandoned by his son in a simple and rude manner.

He blew on the hot air from the noodle bowl with his eyelids downcast, took a sip of the hot soup while holding the bowl, sweating all over his forehead on a hot day, pointed his chopsticks at the water outlet and asked, "Who designed this water outlet? "

After all, Zhan Baili was a low-level soldier, and he sat timidly on one side, and replied very respectfully: "My lord, it is the owner of the Hengmen teahouse, and it is Lu Hengmen's idea." He straightened the door and closed it tightly with one hand. , a small building with a unique door face, "I heard rumors that one time the soldiers from Duolu Bridge went to Hengmen to drink tea and enjoy the cool air. I heard that the boss and the guy said such a gossip while chatting, and then there was this Willow The river water directly enters the underground water channel from the water outlet hole. In the past, people in the county had to go to Jiudaowan for drinking water. Since the underground water channel was opened, every hundred households in the city have a drinking well. The people in the village don’t have to run all the way to fetch water.”

Liu Changzhou tapped the rim of the bowl with his chopsticks, looked at the tea house, and began to size it up carefully.

I saw that the bamboo slices on the roof were designed into a large slope.The bamboo tube was split into two halves, spreading down one by one from the apex, and the connection between the layers was quite tricky, instead of covering each other neatly, each one was inclined at a certain angle. One piece is covered and the other is extended, and the periphery of the upright walls is also overlapped in the same way.The bamboo slices are not spread out horizontally, but are inclined to the side at an angle, and parallel grooves are formed between adjacent bamboo slices.

Each half-bamboo tube is stacked together with one positive and one reverse.

He looked at the ground facing the exit of each groove, and as expected, he saw a row of slightly sunken dimples on the bluestone slab there—the rainwater accumulated on the roof probably left along the chute.

He squinted his eyes, as if he hadn't eaten meat for hundreds of years, he stuck out the tip of his tongue slightly, he didn't know if it was subconscious, or he was delighted by the taste of the Yangchun noodles, and he started to lick the oil on his lips in a very poor way Flowers, the fingertips also knocked on the table in turn.

Jin Dou probably felt that he could not afford to lose face, put his head on the raised paws, and quietly covered his eyes, silently expressing a kind of "seeing without eyes".

Not long after, night fell, a round of bright moon rose slowly, and the lanterns near and far lit up one after another. A pipa sound suddenly sounded in the direction of Duolu Bridge. The noisy crowd seemed to have reached a certain consensus, and there was a moment of silence. Only the pipa resounds through Taoyedu.

Then a big boat came slowly from the river in the north, and that boat barely stopped in front of Yangliu Terrace.The whole ship is almost decorated with lights, very gorgeous.

Liu Changzhou struggled to discern a slim figure in white gauze on the bow of the boat, and then all kinds of musical instruments suddenly sounded from all around, and those sounds set off a soft and charming voice like stars arching over the moon , Qi Pingping and Tingting came from the sky, and the Qinghui full moon night was instantly covered with a layer of ambiguity.

Du Heng's eyes were straight - he probably didn't even know where he was "poisoned".There was a kind of light in Jin Dou's eyes when he saw fleshy bones in that bitch's seductive eyes, they were all green.

Liu Changzhou was very wicked. He calmly took out the meat from the bowl of noodles in front of Du Heng, and threw them all into the big bowl that Jin Dou had already drank. He patted Jin Dou's dog's head and said flatteringly: "A run for dad later?"

Goosebumps all over his body were sung by those singing prostitutes who sang crookedly, no matter how he listened to it, he felt uncomfortable. In addition, he was bored like that just now after finishing a big bowl of soup, and was forced by the singing to want to go to the toilet.

Such wind, snow, moon, and beautiful scenery on a good day, in his opinion, are more like a kind of alternative venting for being full and unable to find a toilet.Here, Yingying, Yanyan, Qingqing, and me are also defined by him as a kind of worry because of boredom and complaints.

In a word, in his opinion, the superficially turbulent Daqing country left by the late emperor more or less carries some suspicions of "the cicada's wings are the most important, and the weight is the least". Almost everyone can set up a Kyushu chain, but the truly talented and well-educated people are all penniless.

It is true that "although the literature is full, it is not worth a penny".

He took the jar of vinegar on the table of the Eight Immortals without any expression, and poured half of the jar into Du Heng's bowl without cherishing it, then touched Zhan Baili slightly, and asked in a low voice: "She can't howl like this!" nighttime then?"

Zhan Baili: "..."

The old Zhantou waved his hands and said in a low voice: "No, after singing a song, I will find a home for this girl. The girl who sang the song tonight seems to be called Ning Peipei. newcomer."

Liu Changzhou let out an "ah", and said very obscenely: "Oh, it's blooming, so it turns out."

Then he hugged Jin Dou without too much heat, and after a happy quarrel with one person and one dog for a while, he decided to officially introduce Hong Meizi to Jin Dou.

He carefully put the red girl on Jin Doubi's nose, waiting with great anticipation to see the two love each other.As a result, the wish came to nothing, Jin Dou bared his teeth, the two black pearl-like eyes had a radial reflection, the visual axes converged into cross-eyed eyes, and he began to cry and bark.

Liu Changzhou and Xiaohong: "..."

Even though it barked, it jumped three feet high after barking. Sa Yazi started to run northward, barking as he ran, throwing innocent people who were listening to the music along the way to their backs. fell into the river.

After that, all the dogs, big and small, from far and near in Qinghe County started barking, barking in various voices and intonations one after another, and they could almost make a duet for the girl who presented the song.

The entire Huahui suddenly turned into a "barking contest" in which the dogs in the southeast and northwest barked more vividly.

Listening to Qu'er on the river bank was full of curses for the people who feasted their eyes. In the chaos, someone grabbed Jin Dou's big furry tail, forcing Jin Dou to run like a gust of wind even on such a densely populated river bank.

When approaching the big boat, the frightened Jin Dou changed direction abruptly, leaping directly onto the painting boat, scaring all the girls into screams, and the scene was out of control.

It is not small in size, and it sprints left and right on the bow of the ship, shaking the whole ship in a twisted state.Several servants serving tea fell into the water one after another, and the pipa in the hand of the woman in white who was holding the pipa also fell to the ground.

Jin Dou seemed to be suffering from a sudden illness, barking at the girl non-stop, with the same viciousness as its scar-faced father.The girl's face was pale, she let out an "ah" and fell down.

…and then fell into an embrace that smelled slightly of sake.

Fang Bingbi, like his boss who doesn't understand style, simply doesn't know how to write the word gentle. He carried the girl on his shoulder, put it on the platform of Yangliu Terrace, and stepped back to the painting boat. superior.

He and Jin Dou are usually referred to as brothers, so the eye contact between one person and one dog is quite frequent, almost to the point of "heart-to-heart communication".

However, Fang Bingbi had a premonition that in the near future, his relationship with Jin Dou would undergo a qualitative leap - when things in Qinghe County came to an end, he and Liu Changzhou's sister would be engaged after returning to Beijing.

...According to seniority, he will be Jin Dou's uncle in the future.

So he squinted his eyes and rushed on the Yangliu platform, not knowing the imminent disaster. Fatty Song, who was still squinting at Huaniang, glanced at him, then squatted down to stop Jin Dou, and said with a bluff: "Who is that?" Unruly dog! How dare you hinder Master Song from listening to the music!"

Jin Dou squatted down, then rushed forward suddenly, took a step on Fang Bingbi's seemingly random arm with his front paws, and threw himself on the Yangliu platform in an extraordinarily brave posture, as a metaphor for just now More than twice as ferocious, he barked at Fatty Song.

Fatty Song usually has a very rich night life, and he has a fat body that is not good for anything. There are three folds on his face, and the flesh on his waist is almost drooping when he sits on the stool.He was still staring at the girl's jade arm under the white gauze, and his lustful heart was aroused. He was caught off guard by the anger of a dog flying from the sky. Before he could react, he subconsciously picked up the hand The teacup was thrown at Jin Dou.

Jin Dou leaned over and dodged, and began to howl even more violently. Wushou's body fell down, his eyes revealed a fierce look, and he rushed forward with lightning speed, throwing Fatty Song into the water in one fell swoop.It is very proud of itself, it has long forgotten all the black history that was overturned by a fat spider just now, and leisurely wandered around the thumping Fatty Song in the water, showing the proud appearance of a hero , very embarrassingly went back from the lower reaches of the Duolu Bridge.

Song Wuchang didn't know how to swim, and the two or three soldiers he brought were usually exploited miserably by the fat man, and they all refused to step forward to give him a hand.Not to mention the people along the coast, let alone pull this fat man, they can't wait to kick this new county magistrate who doesn't know the details.

Fang Bingbi pretended to be very worried while pretending to use a useless official accent, and he was able to spare some time to express a kind of helplessness of "I am a landlubber", waiting to see the fat man drink enough in the water After getting into the water, after being tossed enough, he kicked those soldiers into the water together.

The whole Huahui has basically become a mess.The people on the shore scolded more and more loudly, even the [-]th generation ancestors of the perpetrators were not spared; while the young men and flower girls in the brothels on the painting boat all hugged each other, covering their hearts with pale faces and turning into Xi Shi.

Fang Bingbi worriedly greeted Song Wuchang, who was almost half dead, for a while, and hypocritically arranged for a sedan chair to be sent away like a doctor sent off by a plague god.As soon as he turned his face, he gave a very unscrupulous smile, and then he saw the girl who was still lying on the ground.

The scholar with a long reflex arc finally realized that he seemed to have performed an impromptu heroic rescue of the beauty just now, so...he stepped onto the shore without saying a word, and began to arrange soldiers to organize the crowd to retreat.

And here, when Jin Douyou returned to the noodle stall, he shook Liu Changzhou's shameless tail after getting wet in the water, and immediately lost more than half of his tail.Liu Changzhou kicked Du Heng, glanced at the wet Jin Dou, and mouthed two words: "The antidote." Then he got up and left.

Du Heng seized the time to pick up the bowl and took a sip, almost saving his teeth from being sour.He glared at Liu Changzhou angrily, but under the majesty of Scarface, he took off his cloak with an aggrieved face, wrapped the golden bucket, and once again showed the strength to pull up mountains that did not match his body. With the golden bucket under his elbow, he followed behind step by step.

Liu Changzhou lowered his eyes, thinking of those big and thick dossiers that gave him a reflexive headache just by looking at them, and decided to choose a way to save effort and trouble, and asked the "moving dossier" beside him. Who designed the dam? How long did it take?"

Zhan Baili said: "This happened more than ten years ago. Three hundred people were involved in the project one after another, and finally the work was dismissed hastily. The presiding officer was the county magistrate at that time, and he was an upright official. Qingming was destroyed on this dam. Qingliang Mountain is too steep and high, and the façade is slippery. More than 300 laborers died in vain to build it carelessly. A few days ago, when there was a flood, the entire dam collapsed. It was destroyed once. It took a full three years to build it, because it can only be constructed when the river is dry, and all the building materials have to be transported to the stone mountain by water, which is quite time-consuming and labor-intensive.”

Liu Changzhou put his hands into his sleeves, ignored the ordinary people around him who vowed to dig his ancestral grave, recalled the establishment of the Hengmen teahouse in his mind, and asked very humbly and shamelessly: "Brother Zhan, who is Lu Hengmen?" how is it like?"

Zhan Baili stepped back half a step and followed, bent slightly, and said, "Returning to my lord's words, Lu Hengmen is one of the monsters known as the 'Three Monsters of Qinghe'. There are three monsters in Qinghe, and one is at the mouth of the Xuanhu. This is the landscape monster." ; The second monster has no land, and every household is mainly engaged in business; the third monster is in Lu Hengmen, this person is very mysterious, when he came here, he was only about fifteen or sixteen years old, after building this Hengmen with one hand, Almost no one has seen him anymore. Although people can’t see him, things still spread occasionally. This owner does not leave his house, and spring tea can be marketed earlier than other tea houses. , less than one Yin of Yansha Wujian catechu is produced every year, which can’t be found anywhere else, only in Hengmen. The skill makes people have to obey.”

The bridge that the old man walked was probably longer than the road that Liu Changzhou walked. After connecting the problems before and after, he thought about it for a while, and then he knew the reason for this master's visit.And he also fully demonstrated his extensive knowledge as a gatekeeper, and finally came to such a conclusion.

"If your lord wants to build water conservancy, Lu Hengmen must be this person."

Liu Changzhou rubbed his face with his hands, then waved his hands, the pace of his feet suddenly accelerated, until he almost flew up, and even the corner of his flying clothes turned into an afterimage.

After turning into the Qingshi Road in front of the yamen, all the noisy voices were left behind.At this time, the moon is in the sky, and the sound of knocking clappers outside the city gate is very abrupt in the silence. The veteran of the night watch walked past the gong, and Liu Changzhou made a meaningless "hiss". Borrowing a step on his body, he quickly climbed up the eaves, and jumped onto the roof of the signing room.

He lay down on the ground, grabbed the thatch on the eaves that he had long coveted for a long time, and put it in his mouth leisurely. Amid the sound of clappers, he felt very sensitively that he was a little homesick.

Although I believe in beauty and not in my land, why should I stay less.Everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River is poetic and picturesque, full of flowers, flowers, willows and greenery, but even if this is the fairyland of Kunlun West Queen Mother, it is not a village.

This kind of emotion is like "sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently", spreading secretly and overwhelmingly at an irresistible speed, putting him in a boundless nostalgia in an instant.

Those verses that he read in the book before were defined by him as groaning/groaning without illness, and now they suddenly seem to be endowed with entities, hitting his heart truly and powerfully.

He laughed lightly at himself, it turned out that he lived in another country, so he couldn't help but feel some sorrow about traveling.

It's really... my hometown is thousands of miles away.

Not long after, Fang Bingbi returned home and brought an exciting piece of news: Song Wuchang was about to collapse, the Shangyu was already on his way, and he would arrive in Qinghe County in about half a decade.

Fang Bingbi has always followed their father's lead. Where his father is, there is the organization.So this man didn't understand the occasional expression of emotion in his grandfather's eyes at all, and he was chattering everywhere, very noisy, from Fatty Song's four wives to how much their warehouse was, to the end he even ate salty radishes Dan worried about the issue of whether he would stay or stay after he stepped down.

Liu Changzhou was expressionless, and listened to him for a while, feeling very depressed. It was rare for such a good night, and it was rare for him to squeeze out such a bit of literati's sourness, all disturbed by these words. Be of the same virtue as the younger sister who talks a lot at home thousands of miles away.

Then, when he thought of his little sister's sharp words at home, he suddenly felt...he didn't want home anymore.At the same time, I also started worrying: Will there be guys who like girls who can climb trees, hunt birds, can't speak human language, and are a little rascal?

Fang Bingbi was just talking about the fart about the flower lady giving him a sneak peek, when he saw their master raised his legs, took off his shoes and held them in his hands without being too unseemly, and cried out tenderly, " Hold the pen", and then patted the shoe over with a quick movement that was quite different from the tone of voice.

...he was caught in the face by him.

Liu Changzhou felt happy now, he looked over affectionately, raised the tails of his eyes like willow leaves, and said softly: "When the time comes, give me the "Journey to the River in the New Year" and I will meet this Lu Hengmen."

Fang Bingbi held the shoes away from the distance, and said disgustedly: "You can get new ones, the broken ones will embarrass us beggars in the imperial city. I really didn't say that your scars will not work, you have to stick them. Where is the corner of the mouth..."

Liu Changzhou didn't even look at it, he swept out with one leg sideways, the corner of his clothes drew a neat arc in the air, and kicked the broken mouth down with precision and strength.

Fang Bingbi turned over smoothly in the air, landed firmly on the ground, and shouted: "There is an ingenious ugliness!"

Then...he took another shoe with his face.