Chapter 540 by the West Lake
Sky Wolf's eyes sparkled: "It's a pity that I didn't ask about this when I saw my little junior sister yesterday." In the future, if I have the opportunity, I will identify myself and ask her in person about the details of the death of Master Ziguang. Although others have already been buried, Senior Brother Xu and Little Sister must know what kind of injuries they died of. ”
Qu Caifeng was surprised: "You want to show Mu Lanxiang your identity?" ”
Heavenly Wolf nodded firmly: "It has to be so, the death of Master Ziguang is the privacy and top secret of the Wudang Sect, if she doesn't know that I am a senior brother, how can she tell a Jinyi guard and Pan about it?" ”
Qu Caifeng shook his head: "Li Cangxing, I am a woman, I know best what a woman thinks, if she still has feelings for you, if you tell your identity, then she may go with you regardless of it, can you really let go of the matter of defeating Yan Dang and go away with her?" ”
Tian Wolf himself didn't know how to answer for a while, he asked himself in his heart, last night when he saw the little junior sister in the woods, he knew his ambition to dominate the world, as long as the moment he saw the little junior sister, all of them were wiped out, and they no longer existed, if Mu Lanxiang really cried and asked him to take him away, then he would probably take her to the ends of the earth without hesitation this time, to a place where no one knew him, to escape the responsibility of a qiē, etiquette.
But the wolf knew that this was just a fantasy, the little junior sister's intentions were already clear on Wudang Mountain that night, and yesterday he called himself Xu Linzong one by one, it seems that their married life is very good, and it stands to reason that he should not interfere in her peaceful life. Just to investigate the death of Ziguang, I had to do it.
Gritting his teeth, the Heavenly Wolf said calmly, "Miss Qu." This assumption is not true, the little junior sister rejected me back then, and it is even more impossible to go with me now, and even if it is as you said, it is impossible for us to elope without regard to it, at least, we have to avenge Master Ziguang. Even if Master Ziguang died at your hands, but you were poisoned by the Cold Heart Pill, those who don't know are not guilty. The real murderer is still the poisoned inner ghost, and this is the real murderer we want to find out. ”
Qu Caifeng sighed faintly: "Then what are you waiting for, don't you go back to Mu Lanxiang now?" She's in Nanjing City, and it's still too late for you to find her. ”
The wolf closed his eyes. His chest heaved violently: "No. This matter is Wudang's official business, and I have to ask about it in the presence of Senior Brother Xu. ”
Qu Caifeng stomped his feet: "Li Cangxing, are you stupid?" If Lin Zong is by her side, how can she go with you!"
The wolf only felt a pang of cramping in his heart, he didn't want to continue this question, he looked up at the moon in the sky, the bright moon tonight was so beautiful, and the bright moonlight passed through the treetops in the forest. Sprinkled in the woods, it is as gentle as flowing water. Just like that night outside the White Camel Villa many years ago, I held Mu Lanxiang like that, swore an oath from the mountains and the sea, and complained to each other.
But the Heavenly Wolf knew that such a beautiful thing could never come back, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Miss Qu, the past is irreparable, and it is useless to make more assumptions, I am thinking about defeating the Yan Dang and the Demon Sect now, and catching the real culprit who harmed my master and your master, and I can't think about anything else." Let's say goodbye today, you go back to Wushan, I'll go to Hangzhou, if there is an emergency, send someone to contact you. ”
After speaking, as soon as he turned around, he walked towards the south without looking back, the dark shadow of the tree was reflected on his body, but the face behind the mask was already full of tears, Qu Caifeng stood in place, until the figure of the wolf disappeared, and then he sighed: "Li Cangxing, you are really the number one fool in the world." With a slender movement, her figure rushed like lightning towards the city of Nanjing in the north, and soon became a small dot.
Five days later, Hangzhou City, here is the southeast area, in addition to Nanjing is the most prosperous city, the earliest history can be traced back to the period of Yu water control, according to legend, Yu once took a boat through this place, called this place Yu Hang, and then the homonym became Yuhang, at that time it was just the scale of a small fishing village, but later became the earliest predecessor of Hangzhou City.
During the Qin Dynasty, a province in Zhejiang belonged to Huiji County, built a city under the Lingyin Mountain in the Yuhang area for governance, named Qian Tang, the name Qian Tang was used for a thousand years, until the time of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian abolished the county for the state, the name of Hangzhou only entered the history for the first time, and under the Phoenix Mountain, the West Lake was built on the edge of the mountain, the circumference was thirty miles and ninety steps, this is the prototype of Hangzhou City.
In the Qin Dynasty, the Qiantang River was close to the Qiantang River, and the river water entered between Wushan Mountain and Baobao Mountain, forming a small river bay, and in the Han Dynasty, because of the alluvial effect, the sand in the Qiantang River was deposited at the entrance of the river, and the sea became a mulberry field, isolating this small river bay from the big river, and thus forming an inner lake, which is the origin of the West Lake.
After that, the Sui Dynasty general Yang Su dredged the Jiangnan Canal when quelling the Jiangnan rebellion, starting from the Jiangnan Zhenjiang River to the Gongchen Bridge in Hangzhou, a total of more than 800 li, and later Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty Emperor ascended the throne and dug the Grand Canal, and Hangzhou became the starting point of the Grand Canal, with this developed shipping channel, Hangzhou suddenly changed from the former remote and desolate place to the important town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the household registration also increased year by year from more than 15,000 households when the city was built.
There is a Tang generation, Hangzhou is placed here in Hangzhou County, and the governance office moved back to Qiantang, in order to avoid the country, Qiantang changed its name to Qiantang, until the end of the Tang Dynasty Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the world was in turmoil, but in the troubled times of more than 100 years, Hangzhou maintained a rare tranquility, under the jurisdiction of Wu Yueguo, after the rule of the three emperors for 85 years, as Ouyang Xiu said, "Qiantang since the five dynasties, do not bother to fight, its people are happy, rich and happy." More than 100,000 families, surrounded by lakes and mountains, left and right reflections, and Fujian merchants, sails and waves, in and out of the smoke and mist, can be described as prosperous!
On the basis of the original Sui Phoenix Mountain Hangzhou City, the king of Wuyue expanded and improved on a large scale, this capital city starts from Qinwang Mountain in the west, along the Qiantang River to Jianggan, and goes to Baobao Mountain in the east, the shape is like a waist drum, so Hangzhou City also has the name of waist drum city.
During the period of the Five Dynasties, several generations of Wuyue kings diverted the water of the West Lake as the moat of Hangzhou, and built more than 100 miles of pond protection beach by the Qiantang River with the stone hoarding and wooden pile method, dredged the river, and prevented the Qiantang River from flooding.
After entering the Northern Song Dynasty. Hangzhou ushered in a golden period of development in history, when the city's population reached more than 200,000 households, making it one of the most populous prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. The economy is booming. The textile, printing, winemaking, and paper industries are all relatively developed, and foreign trade has been further developed, and it is one of the four major commercial ports in the country.
In the Song Dynasty, Hangzhou served as magistrates and attached great importance to the renovation of the West Lake. In the fourth year of Yuanyou (1089), the famous poet Su Dongpo served as the governor of Hangzhou and dredged the West Lake again. With the excavated mud, they are piled up to form a long causeway (Su Causeway) across the north and south, and there are six bridges on it. Peaches, willows and hibiscus are planted on the embankment to make the West Lake more beautifying. Two rivers of Maoshan and Yanqiao were opened again, and six wells were dredged again, so that the well water with the salty smell of seawater no longer entered the market. The people drink and weigh the stool.
After Jingkang. The Northern Song Dynasty perished, the Song Dynasty moved south, that is, the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital of Hangzhou, renamed Lin'an, this is the second time in the history of Hangzhou to become the capital of a country, the population has also experienced explosive development, the number of residents increased to more than one million. It has become the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, and the developed trade and convenient water transportation have also made it the economy of the world. The cultural center is full of literati and vendors.
In the Ming Dynasty, Hangzhou became the seat of the Zhejiang Provincial Government, and the Yuan Dynasty did not dredge for many years, so that the annihilated West Lake has also been renovated on a large scale, and the water quality has become clear and picturesque again. And the handicraft industry in Hangzhou, which is dominated by the silk industry, has been greatly developed, because Zhejiang is the geographical environment of seven mountains, two rivers and a field, the farmland is very small, so since ancient times it is a large-scale silkworm spinning, now Hangzhou has dozens of large and small silk fangs, thousands of spinning machines, every year will produce a steady stream of silk, attracting merchants from Tiannan and Haibei, and even overseas.
At this time, the wolf was dressed as a businessman, wearing silk clothes, wearing a scarf, wearing a white human skin mask, two hooks, and was sitting on the second floor of a restaurant by the West Lake, with a pot of wine and two plates of side dishes in front of him, while drinking, while looking at the beautiful scenery outside, the cool wind on the lake blew through the window on the second floor, indescribably comfortable.
But the wolf is not very fond of the atmosphere of the city, here prosperous, business developed, red men and green women are all over the street, is now this September season, the young ladies who come to the West Lake to play together are also everywhere, both sides of the lake shore are full of small stalls, all kinds of famous snacks in the south of the Yangtze River can be found here, the weather is cool in September, at this time the breeze blowing into the lake, but also the taste of sweet snacks such as West paste lotus root powder, osmanthus chestnut soup, oil Dong'er and so on, In the poem, the warm breeze of the clouds makes the tourists drunk, and that's probably what it says.
But the wolf did not mean to be drunk at all, the first two days in Hangzhou he was very surprised by the prosperity and wealth of the city, but the sweet snacks in this city are not too suitable for his taste, the world-famous Song sister-in-law fish soup, shrimp fried eel noodles, Dongpo meat and other famous foods are not as attractive to him as he imagined, not a few days, the wolf will miss the fragrant meat buns, but the Jiangnan rice grain-based diet style makes it difficult for him to find authentic buns, even the wine has little northern strongness, more than soft, strong enough, After a few days, he got tired of it.
What makes Tianluo even more dissatisfied is that he did not see a little bit of the current enemy, the meaning of the military and the people uniting and forging ahead, the southeast has been in turmoil for more than ten years, and the coastal towns have basically been looted, and Hangzhou is located in the interior, and as the seat of Zhejiang Province, there are heavy troops to protect, but it has never experienced the war, but as the Zhejiang Provincial Government Office, and there is a military camp outside the city, Hangzhou City, there is no taste of military warfare, but it seems to be a peaceful inland city, which really makes the wolf a little puzzled.
Seeing this city, it is like a microcosm of the entire Ming Dynasty, the prosperous inland city spends all day drinking, drunk and dreaming of death, completely ignoring the life and death of the people in the coastal and border areas, and there is a smell of decay and depravity in his bones, which makes the wolf feel difficult to breathe, if it is not for the fact that before entering Hu Zongxian's camp, the wolf intends to observe for a period of time, the wolf does not want to stay here for a moment.
The wolf picked up a piece of Dongpo meat in front of him and ate it, in this Hangzhou city, it is difficult to eat big meat buns, this kind of sweet pork belly has become his favorite food, compared to the sour vinegar fish, the wolf still prefers this kind of big bowl of wine, the heroism of eating meat, but when he thinks that he is now a white-faced businessman, and he must pay attention to the image of eating, the wolf reluctantly put down one leg that was cocked on the stool, and picked up the small bowl in front of him to drink the fish soup.
A wild and uninhibited voice came from a table in the corner: "Hahaha, outside the mountain, outside the Qingshan Building, outside the building." When will the West Lake sing and dance be closed, and the warm breeze will make the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou will be regarded as Bianzhou!"
Although the wolf is not very good. But I also know that this is a masterpiece written by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lin Sheng, specifically scolding the Southern Song Dynasty court and even the Jiangnan scholars who were in Lin'an at that time for not wanting to forge ahead, not trying to restore the Central Plains, and only thinking about the decadent atmosphere in a corner of peace. And the extravagance in the city of Hangzhou has not diminished at all, but it really responds to what this poem says.
As soon as these words came out, the guests at the next table who were originally drinking were all putting down their wine glasses. Glaring angrily at the table, the wolf also looked over, and saw that there was a scribe in Tsing Yi about thirty years old, looking sloppy. Slovenly. His sleeves were stained with wine, and his face was scruffed, while his man was lying on the table, as if he was half-asleep, with long saliva hanging from the corners of his mouth, about to drag to the ground, and from time to time he was still drinking.
The guests at those tables were dressed in gold and silver, and they were full of rich boys. The table by the window looks more like an official young master, who is in his twenties. Born with a fat head and big ears, wearing a purple fine satin dress, the clothes are embroidered with gold threads, and the hat he wears is inlaid with a large pearl, with his head moving, it can directly brighten the blind eyes, behind this fat head and big ears of the official young master, there are more than a dozen strong and strong slaves, and he is holding a few women with heavy makeup left and right, just now while eating vegetables, while pouring wine into the mouth of the woman in his arms, the obscene words make the wolf can't help but feel sick to his stomach.
As soon as the guest in the corner said this, the face of the fat man in purple changed, he slammed the wine glass to the table, pushed away the two women in his arms, and the voice like a broken gong began to explode in the entire restaurant: "What, it's talking nonsense here, disturbing the uncle's drinking Yaxing!"
The drunken scribe in green clothes muttered words in his mouth, but his voice was as small as a mosquito humming, no one could hear it, the fat man in purple was still about to attack, and a thin man who looked like a housekeeper standing behind him said with a smile: "Young master, why do you have to be as knowledgeable as this drunk, you drink yours, if he is nonsense, we will beat him!"
The fat man in purple nodded with satisfaction, hugged a woman into his arms again, took out a small ingot of gold, and put it in her belly pocket, matching his obscene smile and voice: "Beauty, come, incense one!"
The wolf wanted to vomit, he didn't want to stay in this place anymore, he took out a piece of silver from his bosom and put it on the table, and was about to get up and leave, but he heard the young literati suddenly say in his dream again: "What a fat pig!"
The purple-clothed fat man's face turned red at this time, pushed the woman in his arms to the side heavily, and bounced up from the seat at once, the fat all over his body was shaking, pointing at the green-clothed scribe and scolding: "Who is the dog talking about!" Call me!"
The thin housekeeper got the order, and with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen wolf-like servants pounced on him, surrounded the table, and began to roll up his sleeves one by one, and seeing that there was going to be a fight here, the other guests on the second floor rushed downstairs one after another, and the little two were so anxious that they also chased after them, and said while running: "Guest officer, you haven't paid the money yet!"
The wolf heart moved, he was originally going to leave, but there was this kind of martial arts staged, but it made him want to see the result, the Tsing Yi scribe couldn't feel any breath, but since he dared to be sarcastic, he must have a few brushes under his hands, and those evil servants were just big shoulders and round waists, and they didn't seem to know martial arts at all, only the housekeeper looked at the figure and had some kung fu, but he was not a first-class master, presumably this Tsing Yi scribe could clean up these evil servants very lightly.
I saw that the black-clothed butler parted ways, squeezed into the table, and sneered at the green-clothed scribe: "Where did you come from, you dare to scold our son-in-law if you pretend to be drunk, don't you think your life is long, now get up for Lao Tzu, kowtow to our son-in-law obediently three times, otherwise your mother won't recognize you today!"
The green-clothed scribe was still drunk on the table, stretched, but said in his mouth: "Where did the dog bark, it's really annoying!"
The black-clothed butler suddenly changed color, took a step forward, and shot like electricity, this time the wolf could see clearly, this person practiced grappling techniques such as eagle claw skills, and when he shot at the veins of the green-clothed scribe.
In the eyes of the wolf, the movements of the black-clothed butler were as slow as when he was a child, when he was a disciple of his children, the speed of a move to dismantle various changes, with the current vision of the wolf, this kind of second-rate master's move is like a child playing at home, just at this moment, his mind has flown at least thirty ways to defeat the enemy to counterattack, and the moves can counter this move Eagle Claw capture, now he is only curious about how this Tsing Yi scribe will choose, and he can see his teacher origin at this moment.
But the green-clothed scribe really seemed to be asleep, not moving at all, and the black-clothed butler's hand with long nails suddenly buckled the veins and points of the green-clothed scribe, and even pinched out the blood, and the green-clothed scribe frowned and said "ouch". (To be continued......)