My country is dead again [Rebirth]

In March, Jiangnan is full of tourists. Literati and elegant guests gather here to recite poems in places with mountains and rivers outside the city. Young ladies and young masters from rich families also go out for outings with friends. The foot of the mountain is often full of luxury. There are carriages and sedan chairs, and the laughter and laughter halfway up the mountain can be clearly heard at the foot of the mountain.

The second chief envoy of the south of the Yangtze River called Wufeng and Yujiang. Wufeng is in the west and Yujiang is in the east.

The most suitable thing to see in spring is of course peach blossoms. There are seven or eight famous peach forests in the south of the Yangtze River, and a few particularly famous ones are crowded with people from morning to night. Tongzhou below the Yujiang River has the highest mountain here. The peach grove on the mountain is also well-known, but because of the high mountain, many people are discouraged, and there are fewer people than other places.

Even so, along the way, you can still see a few tourists every once in a while, Xie Ruzhuo can't help thinking, I don't know how crowded other places are, and I can't tell whether it's peach blossoms or people.

In order to climb the mountain, Xie Ruzhuo wore light clothes, but the mountains in early spring were still a bit chilly, and he couldn’t help sneezing after climbing a few steps. Before going out, the person who vowed that he was fine was a little guilty, and secretly turned his head Glancing at Shen Ci beside him, unexpectedly, he happened to meet Shen Ci's dark eyes, and he sneezed again because of his guilty conscience.

Xie Ruzhuo rubbed his nose, coughed and said, "I'm fine, it won't be cold after walking around."

Shen Ci was too lazy to talk about him anymore, it was useless to talk about him anyway, he had always been the only one to listen to him, and what he said was generally useless, so he held his cool hand and said: "If you do something, you do it yourself .”

Xie Ruzhuo glared at him: "You didn't say that about me before! I think you don't love me anymore!"

This person would say "I don't think you love me anymore" or "You didn't do this before" every now and then. He once asked Yue Tingchuan specifically about this, and the other party said that girls like to say that. As for Your Majesty, it is probably the same as Xiao The girl's thoughts are similar, she just wants you to follow her more and love herself more, this may be regarded as some kind of taste, so don't worry about it.

Therefore, Shen Ci has long been used to it. As soon as Xie Ruzhuo said so, he immediately apologized first, and then comforted him in a gentle voice, saying that he only loves you for all his life. smile.

"Isn't it good to be seen?" Xie Ruzhuo looked back at the endless stream of pedestrians behind him, and then at the hands they held together, "Look, no one is holding hands."

Shen Ci pointed to the two men walking in front, and said: "They still hold their shoulders, what's the matter, friends can't hold hands?"

"Oh, it seems to be the same." Xie Ruzhuo didn't care about it, looked at the high mountain with no top, and sighed, "Does it really take more than an hour to climb?"

"It's not very high either." Shen Ci said, "I'll carry you if you can't climb."

Xie Ruzhuo sighed again, and said: "I feel bored when I stay at home, and I want to come out to play, but I feel tired after going out to play, and I want to go home, I also feel that I am doing well."

Shen Ci laughed and said: "It's really not good to stay at home all day. Master and wife know to go out every day, and go to other places to play every once in a while. Besides, staying at home every day is quite boring."

Xie Ruzhuo looked at him and said, "You just don't want to write, and you don't want to play chess with me."

Shen Ci: "..."

"It's been a year, and you haven't finished writing half of the copybook. I'll be mad at you sooner or later." Xie Ruzhuo became short of breath when he mentioned this, "I haven't learned the most classic three games in the chess record. I taught Xie Mingting Reading is not so tiring.”

Shen Ci embraced his shoulders affectionately, and said softly: "I'm really not suitable for learning these things, but I just can't get in. You see, I'm tired if you're tired, so don't learn..."

"No!" Xie Ruzhuo said righteously, "Do you know how long I have been writing those two copybooks? I have been copying them day and night. Even if you want to save face, you have to finish writing them for me."

"Okay, okay, I will definitely finish writing the copybook." Shen Ci bargained with him, "But don't learn how to play chess, you might as well teach my master more, you two can play."

Xie Ruzhuo has had no playmates since he was a child, and he has no other things to relieve his fatigue. For decades, he has spent his spare time relying on piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is impossible for him to go outside to play all day long. I quite like these things, obviously very interesting, why are some people so uninterested?

As one of those people, Shen Ci really can't like piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It's not that he can't calm down, it's not that he has bad patience, it's probably because he has no chance to learn these things, not only can't learn them, but he also has a headache when he sees them. The next moment he wanted to sleep, Master and Mistress had given up on him when he was a child, and I don't know what Xie Ruzhuo was thinking, and it was simply unreasonable to think that this piece of rotten wood could be carved again.

Since he settled down in Jiangnan last year, Xie Ruzhuo was eager to urge Shen Ci to practice calligraphy and chess at the beginning. After a month, he realized that this might be a mistake. In terms of interests, he and Shen Ci were doomed to be different. They understood each other, so that later he also became lazy. He didn't want to care about Shen Ci fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, otherwise it would affect the relationship between each other too much.

The two lived in different places and atmospheres since they were young, and they really couldn't get together what they liked. When he was a child, Xie Ruzhuo thought that if he learned these things better, would his father and mother like him more? So if you think about it carefully, maybe he didn't really like it when he was a child, but he got used to it after a long time, even if he didn't like it, he could do it easily, but Shen Ci didn't care, Shen Che and Ye Xinmei just wanted Shen Ci to be happy, Just do what you love.

Although this mountain is relatively high, the mountain road is not steep, and the stone steps are relatively gentle. Xie Ruzhuo walked slowly, and Shen Ci followed him slowly. He snorted and said, "What's wrong with practicing calligraphy more?" Yes, I can learn a few more lines of poetry."

Shen Ci followed him and nodded: "You are right."

Although practicing handwriting took three days of fishing and two days of posting on the net, Xie Ruzhuo would check it from time to time, and would repeatedly ask for rewriting if the writing was too ugly. Before that, Su Dongpo's "Jiangchengzi" was written for ten times. Several times, he thought that he must have memorized it backwards, but a few days later he said the last sentence of Shen Ci and had forgotten the next sentence. Usually, he didn't see Shen Ci's bad memory. No matter how he memorized these things, he just couldn't remember them. It was not as good as when he was a child. Xie Mingting.

"Do you remember those poems that I wrote several times two days ago?" Xie Ruzhuo coughed lightly as he was bored while walking on the road, "The drizzle and slanting wind make dawn cold."

Shen Ci wished he could escape, he bit his bullet and thought for a while, then asked unsurely, "Scattered Flower Island is a small fan?"

Xie Ruzhuo rolled his eyes: "Brother, these are two poems. Although they are both "Huanxisha" and written by Su Dongpo, they are not the same poem at all!"

"But I remember that there seemed to be some slanting wind and light rain."

"It's slanting wind and drizzle without returning. It was Su Dongpo who used Zhang Zhihe's fisherman's poems to fill in the lyrics." Xie Ruzhuo thought to himself, why don't you change a sentence, you can always remember one sentence, "Feng Yansi's "Nanxiangzi" is still Remember? I just wrote it three times the day before yesterday, and the drizzle was wet."

Shen Ci wondered why it came again, thought for a while with a headache, and said: "The golden phoenix flower is red all over the ground?"

"Brother, the drizzle is wet and flowing, this is about spring, do you have red flowers in spring?" Xie Ruzhuo was tired, "This is another song "Nanxiangzi" by Feng Yansi, it is about autumn!"

"You have chosen too much." Shen Ci said confidently, "If you ask other people, you may not be able to match them."

"Okay, let's make it simpler." Xie Ruzhuo took a deep breath, "Isn't Empress Li's "Lang Tao Sha Ling" famous? I just wrote it a few days ago. I will carry the que on my back, and you will take the que , this time it's always easy."

"The rain is gurgling outside the curtain, and the spring is fading. Luo Qun can't bear the cold just before dawn. In the dream, he doesn't know that he is a guest, and he is greedy for joy all day long."

Xie Ruzhuo recited the last question fluently, and waited expectantly for Shen Ci to say the next question, thinking that this time it would happen, but he didn't expect this person to think for a long time, and said to him: "That...you have already remembered me I’ve recited all of them, and I don’t remember the rest of it.”

"Then you have the nerve to say it!" Xie Ruzhuo gritted his teeth angrily, "Go back and copy each of these three poems ten times for me, no, you won't be able to remember even ten times, twenty times!"

Shen Ci never copied so many times in school when I was a child, and my head hurt even more: "Should I go back to the head office and recite it? Make sure to remember it."

"You're a ghost if you know how to recite it." Xie Ruzhuo snorted, "Copy it for me."

"I have injured my hand before, so I need to rest more."

"I'm still sick all the time, and I can't be angry."

"So let's not torture each other."

"No, it's just that you tortured me, and you didn't write a few words!"

"..."

While arguing on the road, the two were tired of walking forward together. They forgot the fatigue of climbing the mountain, but felt that time passed quickly. When they reached the top of the mountain, they finally saw the peach forest and the pedestrians they met on the road. Most of them were tired on the way and did not insist on coming here, so looking around, there were not many people.

The peach grove is empty, and the sun slanting from the west spreads down. After the rain, the empty mountain scenery is a bit hazy, and the peach red in the eyes also brings some unreal feeling, like a painting on a scroll.

When he left Pingdu last year, Xie Ruzhuo followed Shen to a famous peach grove in Wufeng. It was the first time he saw such a grand scene. Now, the peach grove they saw in Nangulang Mountain could not be called a peach grove at all. The scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is also very different from that in the north. At his feet, there are gardens set up by literati and elegant guests from the old dynasty. The pavilions, terraces and waterside pavilions are so beautiful that each has its own merits. He once cried out in excitement.

After living for two lifetimes, I have said the word Jiangnan countless times, but it is only now that I come here for the first time, seeing the scenery I saw in the poems and essays before, and realizing that "tourists are only old Jiangnan" What kind of feeling was it, and then they went to many places in the south of the Yangtze River. They went to sit on a painting boat on the lake to see the lotus in June, walked across the long embankment to see the willows on the bank, went to see the alleys with white walls and black tiles in the rain, and climbed to the tower to listen to the yarn. The girl sings a soft song.

This year, they still haven't lost their interest in playing. They inquired about several interesting scenic spots and started a new round of sightseeing. The peach forest here is only the first place.

Different from the grand scene that stretched for several miles that I saw last year, the distribution of peach forests here is patchwork. You will see a few rows when you walk across the creek, and you will see a few trees as you turn a few turns on the mountain road. The wild fun of treasure hunting in the mountains, the ding-dong of mountain springs, the joy of swimming fish, and the noise in the silence.

Xie Ruzhuo still likes to play in the water. When he touches the stream in the mountains, he likes to splash the water on his face, and then he laughs and laughs. The current drifts away.

"I want to see peach blossoms next year. I heard that there are two rows of peach trees beside the Yuezhou River, which are also very beautiful." Xie Ruzhuo looked at Shen Ci with a smile, and his eyes were also filled with brilliant spring, "Now all I see are peach blossoms on the mountain. I haven’t seen the peach blossoms by the water yet, let’s go to Yuezhou next year.”

"Okay." Shen Ci responded, took out a towel from his arms to help him wipe off the water, and there was a smile in his eyes, "I promised you before that I would see all the most beautiful peach forests in the south of the Yangtze River. I have seen two places, so I will continue to watch them. After reading the famous ones, we can still find the ones hidden in the mountains that no one cares about. Every year we have to go to a place to see peach blossoms, and you still have to see us. I painted all the peach blossoms, until one day we couldn’t walk anymore, so we just looked at the peach blossoms on the paintings at home.”

They purposely came to a secluded mountain stream where few people set foot. Xie Ruzhuo was not afraid that anyone would see him. He sat by the stream and leaned against Shen Ci. He wanted to say "thank you" and "you are so kind". But in the end, they both felt that these words had already been said too much, and there was no need to say these things between him and Shen Ci, so in the end they just responded with a smile: "Yeah."

It was still some time before dusk, they sat together and didn't talk anymore, just quietly watching the sun slanting westward in the forest, and a few peach petals falling from the tree from time to time, this quietness already told their deepest love. affection.

"It's late to go home, master and wife should not wait for us to eat." Xie Ruzhuo saw that it was almost time, "Shall we eat outside?"

"Listen to you." Shen Ci said, "I can do it."

"No, we went back late last time, Master and Wife are still waiting for us." Xie Ruzhuo shook his head again, "Let's go back, don't wait for us again."

Every time they go out, they tell Shen Che and Ye Xinmei not to wait for them to eat, but every time they still wait, or leave them two meals, Shen Ci said: "Master is used to it, before Master was still there In the army, sometimes I come back and sometimes I can’t, she is afraid that Master will not eat when he comes back, so she always prepares more meals. Later, I may not always go back in Nangu, and she is afraid that I will not be able to eat, so it is still the same. "

Xie Ruzhuo nodded and said, "It's such a good feeling, you and your master are so happy."

"Now you can also experience this feeling." Shen Ci pulled him up and helped him dust off his body, "Ms. Niang treats you better than me now, and always teaches me, thinking that I bullied you."

Xie Ruzhuo said proudly, "That's because I'm cute."

"That's natural." Shen Ci took his hand again and went down the mountain from another road, "You are not likable, how did I like you?"

"Go back and finish the meal, first copy the "Langtaosha Order" by Empress Li ten times." Xie Ruzhuo felt good after hearing the good words, "I will watch you copy."

"...Why are you still thinking about this?" Shen Ci was extremely helpless, "I'm tired from playing today, let's forget it."

"No, just today, ten times!"

"...how about we go on a cruise at night?"

"Shut up. How about this, if you copy well, you will be rewarded at night."

"What reward?"

"I can't say it now. If you can't copy it to my satisfaction, I will never tell you."

"Didn't you use this trick to deal with His Royal Highness?"

"Xie Mingting is more motivated than you! How dare you say it!"

"..."

The two quarreled all the way again, and when they rode back down the mountain, they were still arguing about whether they should copy those ten times tonight.

After they left Beijing, they came to Yujiang Tongzhou and bought a second-class house here. The original owner was an elegant man, and everything in the house was well-kept. They didn't make any changes, only repaired a few old places After that, he rearranged some new items according to his own preferences, then brought Shen Che and Ye Xinmei over and lived in together.

Xie Ruzhuo once vowed that he would buy an entire street, no matter how bad it was, it would be bigger than Zhabusu’s house in Wuzhou, but when he left Pingdu, he no longer had that kind of thought, and only wanted to live a life full of fireworks. Having a comfortable home and being happy with the elders is already the happiest thing. Buying such a big house would be scary at night.

Xie Ruzhuo is still the emperor in name, so it is impossible to be too ostentatious, and the family will not let servants take care of them. The second time entering the house is already too big for them, and it would be a bit exaggerated.

They entered Liulin Lane, saw that the gate was ajar, and there were lights inside, so they guessed that Shen Che and Ye Xinmei were waiting for them, they put their horses away, and when they entered the house, there was indeed the smell of food.

Since Xie Ruzhuo asked the imperial physician to change Ye Xinmei's medicine, and took various high-quality supplements every day, his complexion looked much better than before. For this, Xie Ruzhuo proudly said to Shen Ci, you see, this is obviously useful , You didn’t let me find the imperial doctor to show my aunt before, obviously the medicine I took before was not good enough.

"Haven't you eaten yet?" Ye Xinmei got up and went to the kitchen to get some food, "I cooked small fish today, but it was fresh. The fish in the south of the Yangtze River is better than the fish in the north."

Shen Ci stopped Ye Xinmei, and went to the kitchen to bring all the dishes, and then went to get the bowls and chopsticks, and said: "Master and wife, why did you wait so late, what if we really don't come back?"

"Then we are not fools." Ye Xinmei said with a smile, "If you don't come for a while, you plan to eat first, it's not just that you are here."

"It's still a bit late, it's getting dark, don't starve." Xie Ruzhuo also worried, "Don't do this next time."

"It's okay, we also went out to play in the morning, and we ate late for lunch." Ye Xinmei was used to picking up a bunch of vegetables for Xie Ruzhuo first, "Don't worry about us, we will naturally eat first when we are hungry."

The fish and shrimp here in the south of the Yangtze River are tender and plump, and they are indeed better than those in Suifang and Chizhou. Xie Ruzhuo has never eaten this kind of food before, and he fell in love with it once. Food, it seems that he has forgotten that he can also have hobbies, but in this life, he has discovered many hobbies of his own, such as eating fish, eating all kinds of fish, as long as it is delicious, it is his love.

"Qingzhuo's face looks rounder than before." Ye Xinmei looked at Xie Ruzhuo with satisfaction, "So we should eat better, it's useful no matter what."

Shen Che smiled and said: "He has nothing to worry about, he eats well and sleeps well."

"So the emperor is really not a human being." Ye Xinmei continued to serve Xie Ruzhuo, "Look at how we have been polished before."

Every time he eats, Xie Ruzhuo's bowl must be full of vegetables. Ye Xinmei will pick up chopsticks, Shen Che will pick up chopsticks, and Shen Ci will pick up chopsticks after a while. He couldn't even take care of talking, and in the time it took to say a word, he lowered his head and added a lot of food to the bowl, but he used to eat too little, and his stomach couldn't hold it, and eating too much would make it hard to digest, so everyone knows that enough is enough , I won't pinch him again when I see that it's almost done.

Outside the alley is a noisy night market, the house is brightly lit, the food is delicious, there is no intrigue, no sorrow and sighs, there are only fireworks that he has never seen before.

After eating, Shen Che and Ye Xinmei went to rest. Shen Ci always did the dish washing, and Xie Ruzhuo would clean up the table with him. As for washing the dishes, he consciously didn't touch them.

It's not that he's lazy, it's that he's not suitable for this job.

He washed it once before, and only that one time he broke two bowls and three plates. For this reason, Ye Xinmei gave him a heavy resignation, yelling how he could be asked to do this, this time it was broken. Bowl, what to do next time you hurt your hand.

Shen Ci didn't dare to let him wash it again, but he didn't give up and pestered Shen Ci to wash it again, then slipped his hand and dropped another bowl, which was smashed into a pile of cups, plates and dishes. Most of the cups, plates and dishes were not spared, and what's more unfortunate, his hands were cut by broken porcelain.

Ye Xinmei felt distressed, and scolded Shen Ci again. This time, no one dared to let him wash it. He himself felt that this matter should not be touched again. Shen Ci had nothing to do with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It's a heinous sin to miss washing dishes and get Shen Ci to be taught a lesson twice.

However, it turns out that Xie Ruzhuo has nothing to do with other housework. The two lives have been together for decades. He really has no experience in doing these things. He is in a hurry when he does everything. He was able to wash the clothes torn, but in the end he chose to stay quietly. It was embarrassing to think that he was making trouble while others were doing work.

So every time Shen Ci did something, he would move a stool and watch it, and it was the same today, when Shen Ci was washing the dishes, he sat and chatted with Shen Ci.

Ye Xinmei came out of the room to get the fruit, seeing him staying inside, she thought he was washing the dishes again, and worriedly ordered at the kitchen door: "Xiaoci, don't let Qingzhu do the dishes anymore, and you too, How dare you ask someone to wash it?"

"I didn't..." Shen Ci couldn't argue, "Yes, yes, I don't dare anymore, don't worry, Mrs. Shi, I will never let Qingqi do the dishes again, and I won't let him do other jobs either. "

Ye Xinmei nodded, gave Xie Ruzhuo a plate of cherries, said to Shen Ci, "Then wash it quickly", then turned around and left.

Shen Ci: "..."

Xie Ruzhuo ate a cherry, which was full of juice. Seeing Shen Ci was a little pitiful, he walked over and handed one to him, saying: "I won't go out next month, this year there will be waterlogging in the south, so stay at home. Hmm... I I remember that there seems to be a little drought in the north this year. Alas, the court will run out of money again."

"Let the prince worry about it." Shen Ci ate a cherry, the bowl was almost washed, and slowly wiped off the water, "This is not something you have to worry about."

"Don't you have to go back to Beijing for Chinese New Year?" Xie Ruzhuo said, "Just wait, the prince will cry poor with me again."

Although Xie Ruzhuo has given up his pick, he is still an emperor. Last year during the Chinese New Year, he deliberately went back for a few days to show his face sickly in front of the courtiers, and then talk to Xie Mingting and Du Ruo. After shuffling the cards, the power belonging to Sun Bingde faded away, Du Ruo's power became the main force, and emerging powers rose again. It is not appropriate to have a change of the throne at the turn of time. Hearing Xie Mingting's opinion, he wanted to wait another ten years.

Wait another ten years, and the power belonging to Xie Mingting will grow. Xie Ruzhuo also agreed, thinking that after ten years, it will be the time when he died in the previous life. Maybe history treats an emperor's life like this and cannot be changed. He simply decided to officially hand over the throne to Xie Mingting in the 31st year of Longxing.

But before that, the emperor had been so sick that he couldn't get out of bed all year round. Of course, he still didn't have to do anything. It didn't matter whether he was an emperor or not.

"Ming Ting is going to get married this year, we still have to go back and have a look." Xie Ruzhuo said again, "For such a big event as a marriage, the internal treasury still needs a penny, tsk, there is really no money."

"Anyway, you don't need that much money, just enough." Shen Ci said helplessly, "If you don't have money, you don't have money."

"That can't be done." Hearing what he said, Xie Ruzhuo withdrew his hand to feed another cherry, "My wife is not in good health, and those supplements are precious and cannot be broken. Don't we need money to go out to play? Master and wife also want Go out to play, do you still want to wrong them?"

"That doesn't mean you don't have any money, right?" Shen Ci lowered his head and took the cherry from his hand, and said vaguely, "Didn't you save a lot of money a few years ago?"

Xie Ruzhuo leaned into his ear and whispered: "Last year, the three major battalions in Beijing and Central China were going to replace a batch of firearms. How could the Ministry of War spend so much money from the Ministry of Households? Besides, making firearms has always been a secret, so it's not good for everyone to know too much. , In fact, most of the money was paid by the emperor himself in the past, so last year, the internal treasury posted it, and then I bought this house again, and there is not much left."

Shen Ci shook off the water in his hands, and said, "The prince has no money himself?"

"Really not." Xie Ruzhuo said, "He still doesn't dare to deposit a large amount of private money under my nose, and he should save it in the future." He said with a frown again, "This year, the internal treasury has to pay for floods and droughts again. Money, the crown prince is about to get married...the days are unbearable."

Shen Ci was even more helpless, and said, "I still have some money."

"It's reserved for master and wife's pension, so you can't move it." Xie Ruzhuo glanced at him and said with determination, "I think we need to go out and make money."

As if frightened, Shen Ci widened his eyes and said, "What did you say? Earn, earn money?"

"That's right." Xie Ruzhuo bit a cherry hard, "We also need to retire!"

Shen Ci had an ominous premonition: "You...what do you want to do?"

I have been yelling about saving money for so many years, but in fact, there are so many trivial matters in such a big country. It has not been a few years since the war in Dayu subsided, and Xie Ruzhuo really didn't save much money. Besides, he can't really ignore everything, pat If you leave, you still have to worry about money in the end.

"Zhabusu can do business." Xie Ruzhuo's eyes lit up, "Let's do business too!"

"No one knows him in Dayu, how about you?" Shen Ci poked his forehead, "You wait for someone to recognize you, and tell the world that the emperor is pretending to be sick?"

Xie Ruzhuo counted all the ways to make money with Shen Ci in one night, but unfortunately they were all rejected by Shen Ci. The good thing is that this person completely forgot what he said before that he would copy Li Houzhu's "Lang Tao Sha Ling" ten times.

Xie Ruzhuo frowned worryingly, and suddenly had an idea, and said with a smile: "I suddenly feel... It's meaningless to earn Dayu's money. If you want to earn money, you can earn other people's money!"

Others don't need to guess who it is, Shen Ci said in his heart: Even if Xie Ruzhuo doesn't want to be emperor anymore, someone can't escape being squeezed.

The author has something to say: Wuwuwu watched Peach Blossom together and wrote himself crying. Suddenly I was so moved, I felt like I really saw two cubs watching together for a lifetime.

Zabusu: trembling.

To be continued... The next chapter should be updated the day after tomorrow, and it will be posted when it is finished, okay~

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Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!