But it is said that Jia Lian picked up Daiyu, said goodbye to Lin Ruhai, and set off with Jia Yucun to board the ship and return to the capital.
They took two boats. Jia Lian and Jia Yucun took the first boat with a group of young servants. Daiyu took Grandma Wang, her nanny since childhood, and two maids who had been with her since childhood, as well as a few people who came to pick her up from Rong Mansion.
A woman, riding behind in a boat alone.
Jia Lian only knew that the boat went north along the canal, but he didn't know whether the capital they were talking about was Nanjing or Beijing, and it was difficult to ask.
After thinking about it for a long time, it seems that in the whole "Dream of Red Mansions" there is no mention of where the capital city is. There are only a bunch of words like "神京", "京城", "京都", and "都中".
Title.
Although the scenery along the way is pleasing to the eye, no matter how good the scenery is, it cannot withstand endless viewing from morning to night.
There is no mobile phone, no Internet, no games, nothing, only time.
Jia Lian was so bored that he just wanted to sleep. After a few days of this, Jia Lian felt groggy during the day and tossed and turned at night, unable to sleep anymore. He sat on the bow of the boat, looking at the stars and rivers in the sky, feeling as lonely as a dog.
What's worse is that once a person is lonely, it is difficult to stop thinking wildly and worrying about the future.
Jia Lian held his head and thought: Should I also sell briquettes? Turn "Second Master Lian" into "Second Master Mei"?
He originally didn't want to deal with Jia Yucun, but in the end, between Boring and Jia Yucun, Jia Lian still chose Jia Yucun.
Jia Yucun is a master who is very good at ingratiating himself. When he sees that Jia Lian wants to chat with him to relieve his boredom, why not step forward?
So, they put wine on the bow of the boat and chatted about interesting topics, just to please Jia Lian.
After a few days, Jia Lian was finally able to sleep normally again at night. By the way, he also learned many stories about his dynasty and local customs, and gradually felt that the people in Jia Yu Village were not so annoying anymore.
It was already dark that day, and I heard from Xing'er that the boat was going smoothly and they had arrived in Zhigu. They would reach Beijing in two or three days.
The name seemed familiar to Jia Lian, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before, so he asked casually: "Can I go ashore?"
Xing'er smiled and said:
"Second Master still misses that little girl in Haijin Town? I think about it every time I go back here, but it's a pity that she has gone back to her hometown."
When Jia Yucun saw that Jia Lian was just smiling, he took the opportunity to raise his glass and said:
"Second Master Lian is indeed a romantic and passionate young man. Come, come, let's drink to the romantic!"
Jia Lian smiled and drank another glass of wine, thinking:
My original owner is really a fine stallion, leaving semen everywhere from south to north.
Suddenly Jia Lian remembered a few erotic lyrics in Xu Wei's "Elsewhere":
The moment I entered,
I really want to die in your arms.
I saw my other body,
Floating to that distant place.
Taking advantage of the wine, Jia Lian sang:
"Love is like a flower, it never blooms.
Desire is like weeds, growing crazily."
Jia Yucun just listened to this, which seemed to be a five-character poem, and immediately cheered loudly:
"What a poem! What a poem!"
Then I heard Jia Lian continue to shout and sing:
"They are like flies, always flying around.
Beside me, eroding my body.
Every night, I wake up from my dream.
See my heart, it's floating out the window."
Just as Jia Yucun was about to continue to attack the case and scream, his hand stopped in mid-air, and he stared blankly at Jia Lian, who was roaring with his eyes closed.
Perhaps it was because he was so uncomfortable being suffocated that it reminded Jia Liancheng of his previous life. When he was almost driven crazy by work, he grabbed the microphone in the KTV and vented like crazy.
The songs in his repertoire of three-part series are "Exaggerated", "Elsewhere" and "I Will Love You Even to Death".
When he sang "Floating to the Window" and opened his eyes, he saw Jia Yucun's mouth half-opened in surprise, looking at him as if he were a monster. Jia Lian's heart sank:
Too careless! The script is skewed! The secret is exposed!
Fortunately, his psychological quality was pretty good and he immediately smiled and said:
“Have you ever heard of ‘Howling Song’ in Yucun?
In Yue Wumu's "Man Jiang Hong", there is a sentence of "Looking up, looking up to the sky and roaring, with strong feelings". Wang Mojie's "Zhuli Pavilion" said, "Sitting alone in the secluded bamboo, playing the piano and roaring", "Bamboo Forest"
Ruan Ji of the Seven Sages is also good at whistling.
I wanted to imitate it, but I also felt that it was so loud that it shook the valley. Wouldn’t it be more interesting if I could add some words to it?"
Jia Yucun was suddenly surprised:
"Second Master really makes people's eyes brighter and refreshing every time!
Fengya! Fengya! Fengya is so tight!
Compared with the second master, I am like a crow seeing a phoenix, dwarfed by him and ashamed."
Jia Lian said solemnly:
"Yucun, you are so flattering. What do you flatter me when I say it? What's the point of chatting like this?"
Jia Yucun also took advantage of the wine and smiled:
"I'm just afraid that once my wild scholarly virtues show up, the second master will hit me with a wine cup."
Jia Lian raised the wine cup and made a gesture of smashing it:
"I'm ready, you hurry up and show off, otherwise I'll really screw you up."
When Jia Yucun saw the slight smile on his lips, he gathered up his clothes and stood proudly on the bow of the boat facing the wind, raised his wine and sang:
"Unpredictability of three lifetime wishes often adds a period of sorrow.
Hold your forehead when you feel bored, and turn around several times after walking.
Looking at the shadow in front of the wind, who is worthy of being a couple under the moon?
If Chan Guang wants to, go to the Jade Man Tower first."
When Jia Lian saw that the poetry show he was going to perform in front of Zhen Shiyin was performed again in front of him, he was very disdainful, but he was inconvenient to say that he was a time traveler who had read the script.
"You are thinking about my beauty. What I want is my beauty."
He threw the wine cup at his feet, picked up a piece of rouge lotus root on the table with his hands, and deliberately pulled up the lotus root silk:
"It's the beauty who pities the snow lotus root that makes me feel a little bit sad."
Jia Yucun laughed and said:
"Second Master, you really speak your mind well. I admire you, I admire you.
The second master's wildness is the wildness of rich people, and my wildness is the wildness of poverty. How can it be the same?"
He shook his head and sighed:
"Thinking of me in Jiayu Village. I have been alone and poor since I was a child, with no one to rely on.
People say that "there is a house of gold in the book, there is a thousand bells of millet in the book, and there is beauty like jade in the book". Children from poor families like me can only count on ten years of cold weather, winter and summer without stopping, lights at the third watch and chickens at the fifth watch.
It’s really an exhaustive effort.
I wholeheartedly hope that 'I will be a farmer in the morning, and ascend to the emperor's palace in the evening; I will have no seeds at all, and a man should strive for self-improvement.'
But the big exam was in the capital. I lived all the way from my hometown in Huzhou to Gusu, making a living by selling calligraphy and writing articles. With the help of Mr. Zhen, I was able to travel all the way to the capital. It was also the grace of God that selected me as a Jinshi, and I was admitted.
Career.
After walking all this way to this day, are you still not a poor person?
It is a blessing from the past life that Er Ye, who was born like this, has become prominent in the capital."
While listening to his complaints, Jia Lian complained in his heart:
Isn’t the imperial examination the ancient version of the “college entrance examination”?
You call it "academic examination" to test talents, we call it "little promotion to junior high school";
You call it the "rural examination" to test people, we call it the "high school entrance examination";
You call it the "National Examination" to test tribute students, we call it the "College Entrance Examination";
You call it the "Palace Examination" to get a Jinshi, we call it the "Civil Service Examination";
Reincarnation is a technical job. Some people are born in Rome, and some people are born as mules and horses. This is true in ancient and modern times.
The more I thought about it, the funnier it became, I couldn’t help but chuckle and said: