Counting nine cold days, the north wind blows, especially at night, like a knife.

Zhu Ping'an, who had feasted all day, returned to his room in the inn before curfew in the evening, his breath was mixed with the smell of wine, and he was a little drunk. Zhu Ping'an once made up his mind not to drink, but there are so many big guys at the Luming banquet, why are you embarrassed to eat there? ! So despite being very restrained, I can't help but get drunk.

After returning to the room, Zhu Ping'an took a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, sat at the desk by the window, opened the "Biography" given by the mysterious old Tao, lit the oil lamp and looked at it.

Three points drunk, his head was a little heavy, and it was difficult to concentrate, Zhu Ping'an opened the window after covering the oil lamp, the cold wind blew, and the feeling of a few points of knife cutting made Zhu Ping'an sober up a lot in an instant.

There are 100 Hamlets for 100 readers, Wang Yangming's "Xinxue" thought integrates the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, because of hundreds of years of experience, Zhu Ping'an saw a kind of "fighting with the sky, fighting with the earth, fighting with people" when he saw a hundred victorious methods, the core of which is Wang Yangming's eight-character motto: this heart does not move and moves randomly.

"True knowledge is what you do, and what you don't do is not enough to know. This is for scholars to establish a religion, and it is okay to do it."

Before the night dawned, the snow entered the window, and a certain teenager reading by the window gradually sank into the book.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Ping'an got up and washed up, crossed his schoolbag, and went out as usual with a black wooden board. The so-called "winter practice Sanjiu, summer practice Sanfu", the emphasis of practicing calligraphy and learning is perseverance.

Counting nine cold days, practicing calligraphy and reading in the cold wind has a different flavor.

After the number of pedestrians increased, Zhu Ping'an collected brushes, bamboo tubes, black wooden boards and other things, Shi Shiran walked out of the woods, asked for a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup in the street shop, and ate breakfast with oil cakes.

After breakfast, Zhu Ping'an walked to the dock outside Yingtian City with his schoolbag on his shoulder, ready to ask about the passenger ship going upstream. Find out what's going on. Yingtian's wharf is also relatively busy in this weather, Zhu Ping'an went to the wharf to inquire about the situation, and the people on the wharf did not dare to slack off when they saw Zhu Ping'an's gown.

After inquiry, Zhu Ping'an had a general understanding of the situation. Ordinary boats do not swim against the current in this weather, and only larger passenger and cargo ships do swim upriver with a combination of sails, oars and perhaps slendermen, and the fare is three times more expensive than when going downstream.

However, the owner of a large cargo ship took the initiative to contact Zhu Ping'an, and the cargo ship will set off early tomorrow morning to go upriver to the Bashu area. There is a section in the middle that coincides with Zhu Ping'an's journey.

The reason why the owner found Zhu Ping'an is very simple, that is, he wants to use Zhu Ping'an's identity. In the Ming Dynasty, there were no high-speed railways, no airplanes, but waterways and post roads. The post road was similar to today's national highways, and travelers could travel by car without charge, but the post station was only responsible for receiving officials and tolerances. The general waterway is free, but some waters are still like the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal with money customs, that is, the toll station of the Ming Dynasty, small boats and the like are free, but large cargo ships and the like still have to be charged.

However, the Ming Dynasty re-read the scholars. There are rules that there is no charge for the ship of the official, no charge for the ship of the eunuch, and no charge for the ship of the jinshi, the lifter, and the talent.

The people of the Ming Dynasty also liked to take advantage of it, trying to find ways not to pay and steal some taxes.

There are policies above, and there are countermeasures below. There are many ways to evade fees, and the core is fraud. For example, fake official ships, erect fake signs on the bow of the ship, and write what big official positions and the like, the bigger the better. Scare the tax collectors and let them go quickly. For another example, I am not a jinshi, a lifter, or a talent, but there are always more ways than difficulties. Ask a jinshi to take a boat like that, this is a talisman, the tax officer has to charge, and naturally there is a "talisman" to come out to meet him, which is free of charge. There is a great risk of counterfeiting official ships, so. The businessmen have hired Jinshi to escort people.

The owner of this cargo ship took a fancy to Zhu Ping'an's talent status and wanted to use Zhu Ping'an's talent status to be exempt from taxes.

"There is Lao Zhu Gongzi, along the way, there will be good wine and good food to entertain the son, and there are ten taels of silver in the line, and I hope the son will smile." After hearing that Zhu Ping'an was a newcomer, the shipowner was very respectful and promised Zhu Ping'an like this.

After Zhu Ping'an heard this, he couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips, eating and drinking for nothing, playing for nothing, and traveling for nothing, and he could also earn some consulting fees by the way, why not.

Besides, I had heard about it in my previous life, and this has become a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, so why should I break the convention.

After making an appointment with the time and place, Zhu Ping'an said goodbye to the boatman and returned to the inn. The fat man in the inn had just gotten up, and after hearing the news that Zhu Ping'an was going to return to his hometown early tomorrow morning, the fat man took Zhu Ping'an to a restaurant to practice for Zhu Ping'an.

Zhu Ping'an is also a little famous near the Confucius Temple, this year's Enkenan Zhili is the youngest person, when eating in the restaurant, the shopkeeper let the shopkeeper give two dishes of the restaurant for free. This made the fat man sigh, and he swore that he would study hard when he went home, and he would definitely enjoy this treatment.

On the second day, before the sky was bright, Zhu Ping'an quietly left the inn with his bags on his back, walked along the Qinhuai River to the city gate, and let him go out of Yingtian City in the first batch of city gates.

The owner of the cargo ship waited at the dock early, and after seeing Zhu Ping'an, he asked the guy to pick up Zhu Ping'an and get on the ship.

After Zhu Ping'an got on the ship, the owner of the cargo ship used a cleaned room upstairs as Zhu Ping'an's bedroom, and asked the cook on the ship to make a sumptuous meal and send the sealed red envelopes into the room.

"I'm tired." Zhu Ping'an thanked the shipowner.

"Zhu Gongzi must not be like this, it should be that I thank Gongzi, there is a place where hospitality is not good, although Gongzi proposes it."

The shipowner hurriedly avoided his body, did not dare to accept Zhu Ping'an's salute, and bowed down to thank Zhu Ping'an.

Mutual benefit and reciprocity, Zhu Ping'an did not insist anymore, thanked the shipowner and enjoyed breakfast.

"If the son is in need, go downstairs and call someone." The shipowner also left with a smile.

Because the cargo ship is very high and has handrails, it is very safe, after breakfast, Zhu Ping'an went to the bow of the ship, firmly grasped the handrails and enjoyed the snow scene of the Yangtze River in winter.

Although there are snowflakes in the sky, there is no ice because the water of the Yangtze River is flowing.

The cargo ship raised several large sails, and with the skillful use of the wind under the exquisite skill of the helm owner, rowed "zigzag" on the Yangtze River upstream, and the scenery on both sides of the river passed in front of you one by one, full of snow-covered forests, half of the white-headed mountains, and so on.

Facing the howling north wind, wearing a rabbit fur coat, standing on the bow of the boat and watching the mountains and woods pass by in front of his eyes one by one, he couldn't help but feel an impassioned breath echoing in his chest.

In this situation, standing at the bow of the boat, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but chant a poem:

The beautiful scenery of the good day is not a day, and the king sent me to patrol the mountain.

After three days of sailing, Zhu Ping'an got off the ship and showed the tax officer on duty his certificate of holding an official seal, and the cargo ship successfully passed the banknote customs.

Two days later, Zhu Ping'an got off the boat, and his home was close at hand.

When I left home, the autumn harvest was busy, and when I returned home, it was already snowing; When he left home, he was just a small showman, and when he returned home, he was already a person, which made people feel a little emotional, patted the falling snow on his body, and Zhu Ping'an put his bags on his back and walked forward. (To be continued.) )xh123