When I walked out of the Wenwu Building, the noon sun was just right, and it was warm and comfortable on people.

Turning back to the west to look for his family, there is a pond in the southwest corner of the West Lake that is connected to the West Lake, but it is independent.

The pond is only half a person deep, and the water is crystal clear, and the microwave divides the sunlight hitting the bottom of the pond into small golden pieces, which is shaky and beautiful.

The water lilies in the pond are still open, and between the lotus leaves, there is a large palm-sized koi, and the fish are clustered together, and the scales shimmer with red and yellow colored light.

Perhaps because of the water money, there is no guardrail around the pond, but a regular edge made of white stone.

Standing on the rocks at the edge of the pond, tourists sprinkle some grains of dry rice or crumbs from leftover cooking cakes, attracting schools of fish to rush around to grab food.

When Yang Huairen approached, the second girl was sprinkling the crumbs of cooking cakes into the pond, attracting the fish to the shore, and the senior official opened his eyes wide to look at the colorful koi, and the second girl exaggerated his mouth shape, teaching his eldest nephew to say "fish".

There weren't many things that the senior official could say, and the word fish didn't seem to be able to pronounce it accurately, but he stretched out his hands, as if he was going to catch a fish.

He Zhiyun wanted to educate his son, but Yang Huairen came over and snatched his baby son, kissed his son on the chubby face, and then smiled, "Daddy will take you to catch fish." ”

Saying that, Yang Huairen squatted down with the big official in his arms, put his son on the stone on the shore, put his left hand around the big official's small waist to protect his safety, and asked his sister with his right hand for some cooking cake crumbs, and sprinkled it on the shore waters.

Smelling the smell of food, the koi immediately turned around and swam over, jumping in the water and pecking at the white scraps floating on the water.

Yang Huairen hugged his son and asked him to lean out, and the little fat hand that stretched out his hand finally reached the fish.

Fish are not afraid of people!

I thought the fish could see the chubby little people on the shore reaching out to catch them, and they should have scattered in terror and fled for their lives.

Unexpectedly, those equally fat koi fish seem to have long been accustomed to the innocent touch of humans, and even if they are touched, they only twist their bodies slightly and dodge, but continue to crowd and compete for food.

The official touched the slippery koi, at first he was surprised, curious, and a little scared, but he quickly took the little fat hand back after touching it.

Yang Huairen encouraged his son, "Don't be afraid, touch again." ”

The big official also mustered up his courage and bravely went to catch the fish, but the body of the fish was too slippery and greasy, and it was not easy to be caught.

It's just that after such a fuss, the fish's tail threw up a lot of water droplets and threw them on the faces of the two men who were also naughty, and the big official laughed happily, which made Yang Huairen laugh too.

Sister Ghost was happy to see it, but there was one thing she didn't understand, and she wondered, "Why aren't these colorful fish afraid of people?" ”

She turned her head to see that many tourists were feeding the fish and teasing the fish, and continued, "The people of the Great Song Dynasty are really knowledgeable, if everyone is greedy to catch fish, I am afraid that there will be a beautiful scenery missing on the edge of the West Lake." ”

It was Tie Xiangyu who explained to him with a smile, "Koi is different from other fish, whether it is ordinary carp or other fish, people catch it for food."

Koi is indeed considered by the people of the Great Song Dynasty to be a spiritual fish, and there was even an edict in the previous dynasty to strictly use koi among the people, and this rule has been passed down to the present.

If it had been in another place, people would not have been able to eat, and if they encountered so many koi who were not afraid of people, it is estimated that they would have been caught long ago.

But in the rich Jiangnan, the people are not short of food, and they will not catch spiritual koi to eat.

There is also a legend that a koi can transform into a dragon by jumping over the dragon gate, and eating koi is also considered a sign of disrespect to the royal family.

Because of habits, legends, or the spirituality of the fish, people will not easily eat koi, and the rich and noble families who live on the edge of the West Lake will not catch and eat these elves. ”

Yang Huairen smiled, feeling that what Tie Xiangyu said made sense, but thinking that these fat koi are not afraid of people, it should be because there are too many people who feed the fish and tease the fish, and there are no people who really catch fish, so the koi are used to the current state of life.

Without danger, they live leisurely, but the problem is that once the real danger comes, these koi have already lost their instinct to survive.

Yang Huairen was very worried that the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, including high-ranking officials and ordinary people, may have gradually turned into obese koi fish in a long-term superior living environment.

It is a good thing that the country is rich, but everyone is gradually losing the sense of crisis, which is an extremely dangerous thing for the whole country.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been lost for a hundred years, and the people have long been unable to remember that land was once the land of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The literati are naturally still worried about the country and the people, and some poems about Yanyun will pop up from time to time, but the sour Confucians are just talking about it, and the so-called worrying about the country and the people is just a means to raise their own value among the scholars.

Waiting for the best of them to become officials in the future, in the continuous tempering of officialdom and official careers, one by one has become smooth and visible, instead of pretending to worry about the country and the people, it is better to seek some practical benefits for themselves.

The bigwigs in the court naturally missed what kind of rivers and mountains they couldn't remember, but it was a pity that they just thought about it, even the belligerent Zhang Dian Xianggong didn't dare to say the bold words of recovering the rivers and mountains in front of everyone.

As for the official family, the map of the Great Song Dynasty in the dormitory, which contains the sixteen states of Yanyun, is still hanging high, and at the beginning, perhaps every emperor did not have a dream of recovering Yanyun when he first ascended to the throne.

But I saw too much and dreamed too much, so I became numb, and then I gradually began to pretend not to see, knowing that I couldn't see it, and the sweet dreams at night also changed other scenes, and the emperor could really become a koi.

Yang Huairen had been to Yanyun, and when he thought of the suffering compatriots in that land, he couldn't help but feel a tightening heart.

What made him even more sad and sad was that the most elite Han people in the land of Yanyun no longer thought that they were Song people.

The emperor of the Liao State has always made it clear to the people, and those who have the ability or talent to learn, whether they are Han or any other ethnic group, he has been vigorously co-opted and slowly adopted for his own use.

As for the ordinary poor people, they are just slaves of their families, and those who can work to create value naturally have to leave them a bite to eat, and those who cannot create value will naturally ignore them and let them fend for themselves.