Once the sun sets in the west, the working farmers who go out early and return late have finished their farm work for the day, walk out of their farmland with hoes on their shoulders, and walk toward the thatched houses with smoke rising from the kitchen.
For those farmers, this may be the most relaxing time of the day. There are more people on the road, and naturally there are one or two who follow these farmers.
Different from the people, one is the old man who is always smiling and riding his donkey backwards, and the other is the young man in green shirt holding a guzheng that is a full head taller than him. The two of them are walking leisurely on the road with the donkey and the others.
The farmers who were anxious to go home for dinner formed a very sharp contrast. Those farmers turned back and looked at the grandfather and grandson. After all, the guzheng in the young man's arms was too conspicuous.
The donkey under the old man shook its nose slightly, and then stopped on the roadside again. The old man patted the donkey with a smile, without saying anything or urging, just waiting quietly, but the young man behind the donkey saw the donkey stop.
After that, he obviously couldn't control his temper. He threw down the guzheng in his arms with a clang, then stared at the donkey and scolded: "You have only taken a few steps, why did you stop again?"
"Puff puff puff..."
The donkey shook his nose at the young man, but still had no intention of moving forward.
"Hey, if I had known better, I would have secretly sold you to the butcher who killed the donkey. You said you can't run fast and can't walk. What do I need you for?" The young man squatted next to the donkey and asked with a frown.
The donkey glanced at the young man, but still had no intention of moving on.
When the old man on the donkey saw his precious guzheng being thrown to the ground by his grandson, he jumped off the donkey in a panic and ran to the guzheng with a funny look. He picked up the guzheng and observed it carefully to make sure it was not there.
After it broke, I slowly let out a sigh of relief.
"Don't do this next time. What if you break it?" The old man shouted to the young man with a smile. His tone was more of a discussion than a reproach.
"I don't know why you kept this guzheng. I've never seen you play such a big guzheng before, and you keep asking me to hold it. It's really troublesome." The young man muttered in dissatisfaction with his small mouth.
The old man chuckled and said nothing. He reached out to untie the wine bottle tied to his waist. But just as he touched the wine bottle, he seemed to remember that there was no wine in it. He smiled helplessly, then put down the guzheng and rode on the donkey again.
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The young man raised his head and looked at the old man riding the donkey. He blinked and walked to the old man's side. He asked with a smile: "Grandpa, your guzheng and this donkey are a burden. Otherwise, we go to the city and kill them both."
How about selling it? In exchange for the money, I can give you some good rice wine and big bones to chew on, wouldn’t it be nice?"
After hearing this, the old man thought for a moment, then quickly shook his head and said, "No."
"What's wrong? You've kept these two things for almost your whole life and haven't seen any use for them? You might as well sell them for wine and meat." The young man muttered with his mouth curled.
"These two things mean to me..."
Before the old man finished speaking, the donkey walked forward again with slow steps. The old man was interrupted, so he smiled and stopped talking.
"You are this guzheng, it's dead, you can't play it, what's the use of it? If it were used by the top player in the flower restaurant, maybe there would be more customers who would listen to the tune, but it's useless for you, an old man.
." The young man reluctantly picked up the guzheng and followed slowly behind the old man, chattering endlessly as he walked.
When the old man heard this, he didn't refute or respond. He always had a smile on his face.
"And you donkey, I won't say how fast you walk. Just walking three steps and resting for a long time is not as easy as walking down by yourself."
The old man didn't speak, and the young man continued. As soon as the young man finished speaking, the donkey shook its nose and stopped again.
"Look, it's stopped again!" the young man shouted with his eyes wide open. He thought about throwing down the guzheng in his arms, but he still didn't throw it out.
"Haha." The old man looked at the donkey with a smile, but still did not urge it.
"Grandpa, why are we going to the city this time?" the young man asked, looking at the old man.
"Look at a person." The old man whispered back.
"Who?" the boy asked.
"..." The old man smiled and said nothing.
"Could it be your old lover?" The young man asked, clasping the strings of the guzheng.
"Don't talk nonsense, where did my old lover come from?" The old man surprisingly changed the smiling expression on his face and scolded him with wide eyes.
"Tch." The young man knew that the old man was angry, so he stopped asking further.
After waiting for a while, the donkey finally swung its hooves and ran forward. The young man quickly stood up and followed with the guzheng in his arms.
"Grandpa, why don't you hold the guzheng when you are riding a donkey, but you still let me hold it when I walk?" The young man followed behind the old man and asked with some confusion.
"This donkey is already so tired carrying me alone. Wouldn't it be nice to lie down if I play the guzheng again?" the old man replied with a smile.
"Hey, in your eyes, my grandson is not as good as that stupid donkey under you." The young man sighed helplessly.
"Haha." The old man smiled and said nothing.
…
Li Longqian on the carriage was originally admiring the scenery on the roadside, but as the sun set, and since he was close to the city, the surrounding scenery was far less beautiful than the countryside, so Li Longqian simply decided to
He closed his eyes and looked at nothing. After taking a nap, before entering the city, Li Longqian's stomach began to growl.
Li Longqian touched his belly and suddenly remembered the words of the little nerd Mingleyou, "There is a golden house in the book." "I wonder if there is lamb wine in this book?" Li Long murmured with a smile.
, then opened the curtain and shouted to Ling Shiqing in the carriage: "Madam, choose a book for me."
"Who is your wife?" Ling Shiqing rolled her eyes at Li Longqian, reached out and picked up a "Sword Classic" and threw it into Li Longqian's hands.
"Thank you, madam."
Li Longqian replied with a playful smile, then put down the curtain and leaned on the carriage, reading with interest. However, after reading for a while, Li Longqian realized that there seemed to be no such good wine and delicacies in the book, and his stomach was still rumbling.
He screamed indiscriminately, but Li Longqian did not put down the book in his hand, because he seemed to have nothing else to do except reading at this time.
At this moment, a pair of grandfather and grandson appeared in Li Longqian's eyes. Li Longqian slowly put down the "Sword Classic" in his hand, quickly reined in the reins, and the carriage slowly stopped on the side of the road. Lu Zhengyang saw Li Longqian
After Long Qian's carriage stopped, he quickly turned around and made a stop gesture.
The carriages and horse teams were all stopped on both sides of the road. Li Longqian looked at the young man holding the large guzheng in his arms, and then at the old man with a kind face, flowing white hair and a smile who was riding on the donkey and asked.
Said: "Grandpa, do you need any help?"
"No kidding, my donkey is tired and can't walk anymore. Let's take a rest." The old man replied with a smile.
Li Longqian looked at the old man and then at the young man, wiped his mouth, and then shouted: "Drive!"
The carriage moved forward again, and the horse team followed closely behind the carriage. The old man smiled while stroking his beard against the flying dust, then patted the donkey's butt and whispered: "Hold on, if you delay again, we will do it today."
We can’t enter the city.”
…
After the carriage continued to drive for a while, Ling Shiqing poked her head out of the carriage and looked at Li Longqian and asked, "Do you know that person just now?"
"I don't know..." Li Longqian shook his head.
"Then why are you talking to them?"
"I think the old man just now looks like the same person." Li Longqian replied with a heavy face.
"Who?" Ling Shiqing asked again.
"Old slave."
…
The carriage and horse team ran for a whole day and finally arrived at the resting place when it was getting dark. If Li Longqian hadn't been so anxious and later made the carriage speed up, they would have been unable to get there even if the city gate was closed.
, but luckily we arrived in the city as planned.
During Ling Shiqing's trip, Ling Yuanzhou didn't say hello to anyone in advance, so even when he arrived at Lincheng in Le'an City, he didn't greet her with a grand display like Lan Aoxue did. This happened to be Ling Yuanzhou's
In terms of behavior, if Le'an City was a big city and the city lord's daughter went out, the city lords of these small towns would definitely come out to greet her in person and entertain her well in order to curry favor with her. However, Ling Shiqing's entry into the city seemed a bit deserted.
"Bingshu City." Li Longqian led the carriage, looked up at the three big characters on the city, smiled helplessly, and then said to Ling Shiqing beside him: "This name is far inferior to your Le'an City.
Sounds good.”
"The name Bingshu City comes from the fact that the late emperor merged the seven books and six chapters of the imperial examination into three books here, so it got this name. If you don't understand, don't lie." Ling sat in the carriage for a long time.
I had long been exhausted of poetry, so I ran out of the carriage after entering the city, and then followed Li Longqian leading the carriage towards the inn slowly.
"This place is obviously not as lively as Le'an City." Li Longqian looked at the shops in the street and commented in a low voice.
"You think the flower restaurant here is not as grand as ours in Le'an, right?" Ling Shiqing replied with a small mouth.
Li Longqian was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the Hua Restaurant in front of him, smiled helplessly at Ling Shiqing and said, "Sometimes I just walk here involuntarily."
"Tch, you men are all of the same virtue."
"Then your father, Lord Lingda, also has this kind of virtue?" Li Longqian asked.
"you!"
Ling Shiqing glared at Li Longqian, then kicked Li Longqian, then gritted her teeth and cursed: "Get out."
Li Longqian reached out and patted the place where Ling Shiqing had kicked, smiled and said nothing.