Chapter 12 The Twelfth Chapter The Cold Wind Frozen the Water and Heating of the Yellow River Urges the Citation of Bai Xue

It is said that when Shen Ziping woke up from sleep, the red sun had already filled the window, so he got up in a hurry.Huang Youzi did not know when he had left.The old man brought in hot water to wash his face, and after a short pause, he brought in several plates and bowls of breakfast.Ziping said: "Don't worry, thank you for my girl, I have to hurry." Then, Aunt Yu came out and said, "Didn't Uncle Long say it yesterday? It's useless if you go early. Liu Renfu's afternoon card Only then can we get to the Guandi Temple, and it’s not too late to go after eating.”

Ziping eats according to the words, sits for another moment, resigns from Gu Gu, and goes straight to the mountain market.Look at that episode, it's densely populated.Although there are not many stores, there are many street stalls on both sides, selling farm utensils and daily necessities in the countryside.After asking the villagers, I found the Guandi Temple.Sure enough, Liu Renfu has arrived. After meeting and talking about the cold and warm, he took out the old and disabled letter. Renfu picked it up and said: "I'm a rough man, I don't know the rules of the yamen, and I'm short of talent. I'm afraid I'm tired of making my brother know people, so I always don't go. Because then the second brother Jin sent a letter from Brother Tie, saying I must ask to go, and I am afraid that Baishuyu, where I live, will be difficult to walk, and I will not be able to find it, so I greet you and resign in person. It is best to ask Mr. Er to resign on your behalf. It is not to be lazy, nor is it to take Joe. I am afraid that I am not competent. Please forgive me for misrespecting things." Ziping said: "Don't be overly modest. My brother is afraid that others will not invite you, so I asked my younger brother to sincerely invite you."

Seeing that he could not resign, Liu Renfu had to arrange his own private affairs and return to Chengwu with Shen Ziping.Shen Dongzao really treated him as a guest of honor, and everything else was handled as the old man ordered.At the beginning, there were one or two cases of robbery, but after a month, it reached the state of "a dog never barks at night".This is not the case. But he said that Lao Can set off from Dongchang Mansion and planned to go back to the provincial capital. One day, he went to the south gate of Qihe County to look for a shop. Seeing that every inn on the street was full, he was surprised and said: "There has never been such a place here. It's busy. What's the reason for this?" He was hesitating when he saw a person coming in from the door, shouting: "Okay, okay! It's about to get through! It will be over in about tomorrow morning!" Lao Can has no time to visit, and I went to the store, and said, "Is there any room?" The store said, "It's full, please go to another house." No matter how good or bad it is.” The shopkeeper said: “There is really nothing to do here. In the shop next door to the east, a group of customers left in the afternoon, so you always rush there, or it’s not full yet.”

Immediately, Lao Can went to the store on the east side, and asked the store owner, there were actually two rooms vacant, so he immediately moved his luggage in.The waiter from the shop ran over to wash his face, took a burning incense stick and put it on the table, and said, "The customer smokes." The old man asked, "Why is it so busy here? All the shops are full." The waiter said: "There has been a strong north wind for several days. Before the blow, the river is full of water. If there is room for Ling to make the house bigger, the ferry boat will not let go. I am afraid that the boat will break down when it encounters Ling. By yesterday, Shangwan subling is blocked, and boats can go under this bay, but several ferry boats are frozen to death by the lingering on the riverside. Last night, Master Li of Dongchang Mansion arrived and wanted to see Futai replied, "I couldn't get through this place, and I was in a hurry. I lived in the county government office and sent rivermen and land guards to fight the cold. I've been fighting for a day to see if I can get through, but don't rest at night, rest. You can see that the inn is full of people who cannot cross the river. Our inn is still full this morning. Because there is a group of customers, one of whom is an old man, by the river. I read it on the Internet for a long time, and said, "I can't open the freezer. You don't have to wait here. Let's go to Luokou to see if there is any way to figure it out. Let's make up our minds when we get there." I only drove there at noon. You It's good luck to be old. Otherwise, there is really no house to live in." The waiter finished speaking and left.

After washing his face, Lao Can spread his luggage, locked the door, and went out to the embankment to have a look. He saw that the Yellow River came down from the southwest, but it was just a bay here, and after that, it went due east. The river is not very wide, and the distance between the two banks is less than two miles.In terms of the current river water, it is only a hundred feet wide, but the ice in front of it is piled on top of each other, and it is seven or eight inches thick above the surface of the water.Looking upstream and walking one or two hundred steps, I saw that the upstream ice was still coming in pieces one by one.The later Bing caught up with him, only to make a "chi chi" noise.The back ice was pressed tightly by the water, so it ran to the top of the front ice; the front ice was pressed, and gradually lowered.It seems that the river is only a hundred or ten feet wide, and the main stream in the middle is only about twenty or thirty feet wide, with flat water on both sides.The surface of the flat water was already covered with ice, but the ice surface was flat, covered by the blown dust, but it was like a sandy beach.The big slip in the middle is still surging, loud and powerful, squeezing the impassable ice on both sides.The ice on the flat water on both sides was crushed by the turbulent ice in the middle. Running to the bank, the ice could be squeezed five or six feet away from the bank.A lot of broken ice was squeezed to stand up, like a cry, a screen.After watching for a while, this section of ice was squeezed to death again.The old man walked downstream, passed the original place, and went down again, only to see two boats.There were a dozen or so people on board beating ice with wooden pestles, looking forward for a while, and then looking back.On the other side of the river, there are also two boats fighting in the same way.Seeing that the sky is getting darker, I plan to go back to the store.Looking at the willow trees on the dike again, the shadows of each tree have been shone on the ground, shaking one by one, it turns out that the moonlight has already given off light.

Back in the store, opened the door, called the waiter to come, lit the lamp, had dinner, and took a walk on the embankment again.At this time, the north wind had subsided, who knew that the cold air was more severe than when there was wind.Fortunately, Lao Can has already changed into the sheepskin robe donated by Shen Dongzao, so it is not too cold and can still hold on.I saw the ice boat still playing there.A small lantern was lit on each boat. Looking from a distance, it seemed that one side had the word "Zhengtang" and the other side had the word "Qihe County", so he left.Raise your head and look at the mountain in the south, a snow-white strip, reflecting the moonlight is very beautiful.It's hard to distinguish the layers of mountains, and there are a few white clouds sandwiched in it, so it's hard to tell whether it's a cloud or a mountain.It wasn't until I settled down to look that I realized that it was a cloud and that was a mountain.Although the clouds are also white, and the mountains are also white, the clouds also have light, and the mountains also have light, but because the moon is above the clouds and the clouds are below the moon, the light of the clouds shines through from behind.That mountain is not the case. The light on the mountain comes from the moonlight shining on the mountain and is reflected by the snow on the mountain, so the light is different.However, this is only the case for the nearby places. As the mountain goes eastward, the farther and farther you look, the sky gradually becomes white, the mountains are also white, and the clouds are also white, so you can't tell anything.

Facing the scene of snow and moon, Lao Can thought of Xie Lingyun's poem, "The bright moon shines on the snow, and the north wind is strong and mournful." How about the words? At this time, the moonlight is shining brightly all over the ground. When I look up, I can’t see any stars in the sky. Only the Big Dipper in the north, the sun shining like a few pale spots, can still be seen. It is clear. The Big Dipper is leaning on the west side of Ziweiyuan, with the structure on top and Kui on the bottom. I thought to myself: "The years flow like a stream, seeing that the dipper is pointing east again, people will add another year.Year after year of such foolishness, what is the end? "I also thought of what I said above, "There is a bucket in Weibei, so you can't pour wine. "—" Now the country is in troubled times, and the princes and ministers are just afraid of delaying punishment. One more thing is worse than one less thing. If everything is ruined, what will happen in the future? If the country is like this, what should a husband do for his family! "Thinking of this place, I couldn't help crying, so I didn't want to enjoy the scenery, and went back to the shop slowly. As I was walking, I felt something attached to my face. I touched it with my hand, and it turned out that there were two drips on both sides. Slippery ice. I didn’t know why at first, but when I remembered it, I laughed. It turned out that it was the tears shed just now. The weather was cold, and it froze immediately. There must be a lot of ice beads in the ground. I returned dully When I got to the store, I fell asleep.

The next day I got up early and went to the embankment to have a look again. I saw that the two ice boats were already frozen solid on the river bank. I asked the people by the embankment, and they knew that they had been fighting in the middle of the night yesterday. Go up; hit the back, and freeze the front.So let's stop fighting today, the boss waits for the ice to become firm, and then walk over the ice.This is the only way to get stuck.Having nothing to do, I went for a walk in the city. There are only a few shops on the main street, and there are not many tile-roofed houses on the other back streets. It is a desolate scene.Because most of the north is like this, it is not very surprising to see it.Back in the room, I opened the book basket and picked up a book to read, but I happened to be holding a copy of "Selected Poems of the Eight Dynasties". I remember that I cured a Hunanese in the provincial capital and gave it to Xie Yi, the provincial capital I was busy at home, so I didn't have to read it carefully, so I put it in the book box. Why don't you take a closer look at him when you have nothing to do today?It turned out to be twenty volumes: the first two volumes are four characters, volumes three to eleven are five characters, twelve to fourteen are new style poems, fifteen to seventeen are miscellaneous words, eighteen is music, and nineteen is poetry. Ballads, volume 20 is miscellaneous.Looking through the details again, I saw that Xie Tiao's 28 poems and Shen Yue's 14 poems were selected in the new style; Xie Tao's 54 poems and Shen Yue's 36 poems were selected in the ancient style. , I took out the tenth volume and the twelve volumes together and looked at them, but I couldn't see the difference between the new style and the old style.I thought again: "This poem was selected by Wang Renqiu and Yan Yun. This person was famous for a while, and the book "Xiangjun Zhi" is really good, and it is appreciated by everyone. Why is this poem selection not satisfactory?" I thought: "Shen Guiyu's "Ancient Poetry Source" mixed ballads and poems together, which is also a serious illness; Wang Yuyang's "Ancient Poetry Anthology" is also unsatisfactory; Zhang Hanfeng's "Ancient Poetry Record" is still not satisfactory. Don't worry about him How about it, let's just use the chants of the ancients to amuse your worries."

After watching it for a long time, I went back to the door of the store and stood idle.After standing for a while, Fang wanted to go back. He saw a family member wearing a red tassel hat approached him, slapped him a thousand times, and said, "Master Tie, when did you come?" The old man said, "I arrived yesterday." He said in his mouth Thinking, I just can't remember whose family this is.Seeing that Lao Can was stunned, the family knew that they couldn't recognize him, so they laughed and said, "My family name is Huang Sheng. My boss is Huang Yingtu, Mr. Huang." The old man said, "Oh! Yes, yes. My memory is really bad. I often go to your mansion, why don't I recognize you!" Huang Sheng said: "You always say 'noble people forget things'." Lao Can said with a smile: "Although people are not expensive, they forget things a lot. When did you guys come here? Where do you live? I'm also in a panic, so I'm going to talk to him." Huang Sheng said: "My lord was appointed by Mr. Zhuang, the general manager, to buy 8 million materials in Qihe Now the materials are all purchased, and the acceptance committee has also passed the inspection, and I am planning to go back to the provincial sales office. The river has been plugged in just now, and I have to wait two days before I can leave. Do you always live in this store? In that room?" Lao Can pointed to the west with his hand: "It's in the west room." Huang Sheng said: "I also live in the north room of the upper room, and I just arrived last night. I was working a while ago. I live here because the acceptance committee has passed by. I am having lunch in the county right now; after eating, Mr. Li please gossip, and I may not come back for dinner." Lao Can nodded, and Huang Sheng also went up.

It turns out that this person's name is Huang Yingtu, his nickname is Renrui, he is in his thirties, and he is from Jiangxi.His elder brother was transferred from Hanlin to the censor, and he was close to the military plane Dalami, so Huang Renrui donated a fellow acquaintance to work in Shandong Hegong.Futai takes special care of the eight lines with military aircraft. Seeing that a major case is recommended and played, he is a magistrate.He is not very vulgar. When he was in the provincial capital, he had been with the old man several times, so he recognized him. Lao Can stood at the door of the store for another moment, and returned to his room, it was almost dusk.I went to the room and read half a book of poems, but I couldn't see it anymore, so I lit a candle.He heard someone come in from the door of the room, shouting: "Bo Weng, Bu Weng! It's been a long time!" The old man hurriedly stood up to see that it was Huang Renrui.After bowing to each other, they sat down and talked about their affairs.

Huang Renrui said: "Bu Weng hasn't eaten dinner yet? Although someone sent me a first-class pot and a few dishes, I'm afraid it's not good to eat, but I got up early and asked the cook to rinse a fat chicken with mushrooms. It's probably good for dinner." , please come to my house for dinner. The ancients said: "The most difficult enemy is the wind and rain." The boredom of the frozen river is more uncomfortable than the wind and rain. When friends meet again, this will not be lonely. Old man Xi said: "Very good, Very good, since there are delicacies, if you don't invite me, you will still come to eat. Renrui looked at the book on the table, picked it up and saw it was "Selected Poems of the Eight Dynasties", and said: "This poem is still a good selection. "I also read a few songs casually, threw them down and said, "Let's sit in the room." " So two people came out.Lao Can sorted out the books, locked the door with a lock, and followed Renrui to the upper room. It seemed that there were three rooms: one inside and two outside.A large woolen plywood curtain is hung on the door of the main room, and an Eight Immortals table is placed in the middle, and a piece of oilcloth is spread on the table.Renrui asked: "Have you got the meal?" The family said: "We have to wait a little while, the chicken is not very rotten." The family members went out in response, and turned around in an instant, set up the table, set up four pairs of chopsticks, and four wine glasses.Lao Can asked, "Who else is there?" Renrui said, "You'll find out after a while." The cups and chopsticks were set up, and there were only two chairs, so he went out to look for chairs.Renrui said: "Let's sit on the kang." In the Ming Dynasty, there was an earthen kang in the west, and the kang was covered with reed mats.In the middle of the kang, Renrui spread out a big tiger blanket, on which was placed a cigarette tray, on both sides of the cigarette tray were two big wolf-skin mattresses, and a Taigu lantern was shining brightly in the center. How is it called "Taigu Lantern"?Because there are the most wealthy people in Shanxi, but everyone eats cigarettes, so the smoking utensils there are more exquisite than those in other provinces.Taigu is the name of a county. The lamps produced in this county are of good style, full of firepower, and big bald heads. He ranks first in the five continents.It's a pity that it came from China. If it came from Europe and the United States, the first lamp maker would be famous in every newspaper, and the country would give him a patent certificate.But there is no such regulation in China, so the first lamp maker in Taigu and the first fight maker in Shouzhou are called. Although they can use utensils and become famous all over the world, their own reputation is buried.Although the choice of technique is not correct, it can be seen that it will be so in time. Gossip less.There are several cloisonné boxes, two bamboo bongs, and two pillows on both sides of the cigarette tray.Renrui asked the old man to take the seat, and he lay down casually, took a cigarette stick, picked up the cigarettes to burn, and said, "Boom, why don't you eat it? Naturally, it’s not good; if you’re not addicted, it’s a good thing to have fun for fun, why do you refuse so much?” The old man said: “I have a lot of friends who smoke cigarettes, and I don’t have any of them just to get him addicted. , are all pastimes, so I went into it. After becoming addicted, not only is it not enough for entertainment, but it has become an endless burden. I think you still don’t have fun, brother.” Renrui said: “I There is a sense of propriety, and you can’t be fooled by this.” As he said that, the door curtain rang, and two prostitutes came in: the first one was seventeen or eighteen years old, with a duck face; the back one was fifteen or sixteen years old, with an oval face.When he entered the door, he greeted two people on the kang.Renrui said, "Are you here?" He pointed towards Li and said, "Master Tie is a friend of our province. Cuihuan, you can serve Master Tie and sit over there." I saw the seventeen or eighteen-year-old He sat down on the edge of the Kang next to Renrui.The fifteen or sixteen-year-olds stood still, embarrassed to sit.Lao Can took off his shoes and moved into the kang to sit cross-legged so that he could sit better.He turned sideways and sat down staggeringly. The old man said to Renrui: "I heard that there is no such thing here, why do we have it now?" My father and mother are from this city. His mother lived with his sister and son in Ershilipu. The month before last his father died, and his mother came back. She was afraid they would run away, so the ones she brought back were not sold here. I was so bored that I asked them to find it. This one is called Cuihua, and yours is called Cuihuan. They both have snow-white skin and are very cute. Look at his hands, I guarantee you will like them.” Lao Can smiled Said: "Don't look, can you still be wrong." Cuihua leaned against Renrui and said to Cuihuan: "You burn cigarettes for Master Tie to eat." Renrui said, "Master Tie doesn't eat cigarettes, so tell him to burn them for me to eat." Then he handed the cigarette stick to Cuihuan .Cuihuan arched her waist and burned a mouthful, put it on the bucket and handed it over.Renrui "hoo hoo" price finished eating.When Cuihuan was burning again, the family had set out the dishes and the Yipin pot, and said, "Masters, please use the wine." Renrui stood up and said, "Let's have a drink, it's very cold today." Then he asked Lao Can to sit up, and he sat opposite him, and ordered Cuihuan to sit on the top and Cuihua to sit on the top.Cuihua took the jug, added everyone's wine, put down the jug, and held up the old and disabled Lai first.The old man said: "Please stop, there is no need to spread the cloth. We are not brides, we can eat by ourselves." Then Huang Renrui's dishes were distributed.Renrui also arranged a set of vegetables for Cuihuan.Cuihuan stood up hastily and said, "Stop your hands." She covered Cuihua again.Cuihua said, "I'll eat it myself." She took it with a spoon, put it in her mouth, ate a little, and then put it down.Renrui repeatedly asks Cuihuan to eat vegetables, but Cuihuan just agrees and never does anything. Renrui suddenly remembered, slapped the table, and said: "Yes, yes!" Then he shouted in a straight voice: "Come on! I saw a family member walking in from outside the curtain, six or seven feet away from the mat. Standing on his feet, Renrui nodded and told him to go a step further, then whispered a few words into his ear. The family member said repeatedly: "Cha, chi. "Go back and go. After a while, a man in a blue padded jacket came in from the door, holding two Sanxianzi, one for Cuihua and the other for Cuihuan, and said to Cuihuan, "I told you to eat vegetables, Serve the gentlemen well." Cuihuan seemed not to hear clearly, she glanced at the man, and the man said: "I told you to eat vegetables, don't you understand?" Cuihuan nodded and said, "Got it." At that time Picking up the chopsticks, he spread a piece of ham on Huang Renrui, and took another piece of cloth for Lao Can.Lao Can said, "It's best not to use cloth." Renrui raised his glass and said, "Let's have a toast. Let them sing a couple of songs, and we'll have a drink." As they said that, their sanxianzi had all been harmonized, and they sang a tune one by one. Renrui scooped the first-grade pot with chopsticks for a long time, and seeing that there was nothing delicious, he said, "This one-grade pot is delicious." Everything in it has an emblem, do you know that?" Lao Can said: "I don't know." He pointed with his chopsticks and said, "This is the shark's fin of 'Raging Crown'; this is the sea cucumber of 'Never Return'; This is the chicken of 'Nian Gao You De'; this is the duck of 'excessive wine'; this is the elbow of 'resisting arrest by force'; this is the soup of 'mind like water'." As they spoke, they laughed for a while. . They were two sisters and sang two or three more tunes.The family brought the chicken they made by themselves.The old man said: "The wine is enough, let's eat while it's hot." The family brought four rice.Cuihua stood up, took the rice bowl, put it in front of everyone, made chicken soup, everyone had a full meal, after the meal, wiped his face, Renrui said: "Let's sit on the kang." Go to sit on the kang.The old man is at the top, and Renrui is at the bottom.Cuihua falls into Renrui's arms and burns cigarettes for him.Cuihuan was sitting on the edge of the kang, having nothing to do, holding the string and playing with it. Renrui said: "Old Can, I haven't seen your poems for a long time. Today, I finally met an old friend in a foreign land. You should also write a poem. Let's read it." Poetry, I was making up my mind there, and I was messed up by you for a while, and my poems were also mixed into the 'excessively drunk' duck!" Renrui said: "Don't 'resist arrest' by force, I will ' I'm so angry!" After saying that, they laughed at each other.The old man said: "Yes, yes, yes, I will write it for you tomorrow." Renrui said: "That will not work! You see, there is a large piece of new powder on the wall, which is for you to write a poem." The old man shook his head. Said: "Leave it to you." Renrui looked at the pipe and put it on the plate, and said, "It's up to you!" He stood up, ran into the room, and took a pen , an inkstone, an ingot of ink came out, put it on the table, and said: "Cuihuan, come and grind the ink." Cuihuan really poured some cold tea and began to grind the ink. All of a sudden, Cuihuan said: "You've got the ink, you can write it." Renrui took a cloth duster and said, "The Cuihua holds the candle, and Cuihuan holds the inkstone. I'll dust off the ashes." He handed the brush to Lao Can's hand , Cuihua held the candle holder, Renrui jumped onto the kang first, stood under a piece of fresh powder, and dusted off the dust.Cuihua and Cuihuan also stood on the kang, standing on the left and right.Renrui beckoned and said, "Come, come, come!" Lao Can said with a smile, "You're really messed up!" Then he stood on the kang, dipped his pen in ink on the inkstone, and after a while, it was on the wall. I wrote it in a crooked manner.Cuihuan was afraid that the ink on the inkstone would be frozen, and she couldn't help it. The pen was still covered with fine ice, and the pen became fatter and fatter.After writing it in an instant, it looks like: The North Wind is cracked by the ground, and the long ice covers the river.The back ice chases the front ice, and the phase mausoleum complex phase sub.Hequ Yiwei Cyprus, Saga Silver Bridge.Returning to the long-term consultation, the passengers sigh in vain.There is a room full of water, and the car is not allowed drive.Jinyan invites prostitutes to play, and the chaos is so miserable at night. Renrui read it and said, "Good poem, good poem! Why don't you sign it?" The old man said, "Inscription Jiangyou Huang Renrui." It's a little uneconomical to take the punishment of coercing prostitutes for drinking and dismissal." The old disabled wrote the word "repair the disabled" and jumped off the kang. The Cuihuan sisters put down the inkstones and candlesticks, and went to the brazier to dry their hands. Seeing that the charcoal was almost embers, they took some raw charcoal and added it.Standing on the edge of the kang, Lao Can bowed his hands to Huang Renrui and said, "Don't bother me! I'm going back to my room to sleep." Renrui stopped him and said, "Not busy, not busy! I heard something today. This is an earth-shattering case, in which infinite lives are involved, and there are bizarre plots, I am going to discuss with you, and I will return early tomorrow at night. Wait for me to take a few puffs of cigarettes, be more energetic, and tell you." The old man had to sit down.I don't know what the case is, let's listen to the next chapter to break it down.