25. Ship Log V

June 6, Suzhou, the first state of Huainan.

A talented man who passed by here wrote this during the Shangyuan Festival at the beginning of the year:

Thousands of riders for a spring outing. The light rain is like a crisp fall. It can make Jiangdong return to the old guest and stay late. The liquor is silently slippery. The planet is in chaos. Qiandai is full of waves. It's not as cold and gentle as Baiyun. This is the first state of Huainan.

After reading the rubbings of this poem, Zhao Ze yawned a hundred times on the dock and started aimlessly.

Only Yao Lian followed her. She held a big roast chicken, carried a pot of old wine, quietly accompanied Zhao Ze, blinked her bright black eyes, and was as cute as a bird under the wings of a big eagle.

"It's so boring. I'm going to find someone to fight!" Zhao Ze said to himself.

"Do you really want to fight?" Yao Lian asked him.

"What should you do when you are bored?" Zhao Ze asked her.

"Ah, me!" Yao Lian tilted her head and thought, "I will go to the field to weed, and then take the grass to the big cow's house to feed his horse."

"What if the big cow doesn't have a horse? Where are you going to send the grass? Zhao Ze asked.

"Ah, how can there be no horse? There is an old horse in the Da Niu family. It lives well," Yao Lian said stupidly.

"If the big cow's horse is gone, what should you do? use your brain"

"That's it!" Yao Lian smelled the roast chicken in her arms and suddenly thought of an idea, "If his old horse is gone, I will send the grass to my mother-in-law's house to feed the chicken. Her old hen loves to eat grass leaves."

"Uh-huh!" Zhao Ze stopped and didn't know where to look. He asked, "If all the chickens in my mother-in-law's are dead, what should you do next?"

"No way, my mother-in-law's chicken has never died, otherwise who can buy her eggs? My father also said that my mother-in-law's chicken is delicious. Buy me one during the holiday." Zhao Ze's words aroused Yao Lian's homesickness. She also stood by the water and looked into the distance.

"Your life is really boring, poor child." Zhao Ze picked up a stone and threw it into the water, splashing a big splash. Yao Lian blinked happily and wanted to do so, but she suddenly remembered that she was still holding something and gave up.

But she asked Zhao Ze, "Son, what do you usually do? I can't understand."

Zhao Ze sighed long and told her, "I am an adult, so I have to do what adults like. For example, I have to meet many people every day and deal with many people I don't know. Whether I like it or not, I have to say something against my will, and even hide my joys and sorrows. Do you think you are tired of life?"

"Ah, that's it!" Yao Lian bit her lip and thought, "Son, why did my father tell you differently?"

"What did your father say?" Zhao Ze picked up a fallen leaf and stood in front of him. He looked at the sky, hoping to see the green light.

"My father told me that I am very happy to be a person. If I want to cry, I can cry and laugh, and I can eat a lot of delicious things. If I don't like to stay in one place, I can move away. I can go anywhere, and I can't die of hunger. I heard from my father that he was like this when he was young..."

"Well, your father should have suffered a lot!"

" Suffering? The maidservant doesn't know what suffering is. Is the prince saying that there is no food to eat? When there is no food, my mother will say that she really suffers!"

"Maybe, by the way, what do you want to do when you grow up?" Zhao Ze found a dandelion in the grass on the shore. He carefully picked it, blew it gently, and his childhood dream flew up.

"It's so beautiful!" Yao Lian still had an innocent expression, and then replied, "I have to serve the prince when I grow up. I don't want anything else."

"What's the point of being a servant for a lifetime, you child?"

"It's quite interesting. You can also quarrel with Baoer's sister, eat a lot of things, and..."

The water rippled, and a small boat appeared in Yao Lian's eyes. There was a girl standing on the bow of the boat, waving her hand hard, "Ah, Sister Baoer is here"

"It's not Baoer!" Zhao Ze said.

"No, isn't it?" Yao Lian asked puzzledly.

"Yes, you will know in a moment." Zhao Ze sat on the steps, motioned to Yao Lian to sit down, and then asked her, "If I give you a chance, what do you want to do most? Don't answer me as a servant again. You have to speak your mind. To be honest, I want to know what you think in your heart. !"

"Oh!" Yao Lian hugged the roast chicken in her arms and thought it would be good if she could take a bite, but she had to answer the master's words first.

She blinked, thought for a moment, looked at the sky, and said, "My father said that if I were a son, I would send me to go to school, and then get meritorious deeds, so that I could fight for the ancestors of the Yao family. However, if I were a daughter, my father said that I could only marry. The prince asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. I really couldn't think of it. It's possible to get married..."

After listening to Yao Lian's words, Zhao Ze smiled, gently patted her on the shoulder and said, "Well, since you can't think of it, let me think about it for you. Your future is up to me!"

Yao Lian nodded. Although she didn't understand the meaning of Zhao Ze's words, she could feel it. The host was very good to her. It was enough. As for what she could do in the future, she didn't think about it at all.

Shi Yangxiu, the governor of Suzhou, is Changyan, a person from Jiangdu, Yangzhou. His ancestors worked as a soldier in the Tang Dynasty. Later, he met a fairy in his dream and said: There will be changes in the world, and Shu is the safest place. So the whole family moved to live in Shuzhong.

After several years, the Tang Dynasty was really overthrown and the Song Dynasty was established. The Shi family is in the middle of the way. In several generations, there is only Shi Yangxiu, a scholar. When he was studying, his parents were no longer alive and lived in his uncle Li Ran's house. After years of hard study, Shi Yangxiu finally raised his eyebrows. He became a scholar in high school, entered the court as an official, and revived the Shi family.

When Shi Yangxiu was young, he was lonely and helpless. He was so poor that he couldn't even afford to buy half a book. In retrospect, it is still vivid in his mind, just like yesterday. Mrs. Li once jokingly said to him: No wonder the master is so good at making money, but he is reluctant to spend it. It turned out to be the root of the disease left when he was young!

Shi Yangxiu nodded silently and said, "There will always be advantages and disadvantages in life. The most important thing is to buy family property. If your children and grandchildren don't know how to cherish it, no matter how big the family business is, it won't last long. What you do today is for your future. Don't be surprised, madam!"

Li sighed, "Marry a chicken and follow a chicken. Since you have entered your stone family, I don't care about food and clothing. Only my children are safe, but as a parent and official, you don't have to patch your official uniforms. It's too shabby and will make people laugh!"

Shi Yangxiu shook his head: "It doesn't matter. As the saying goes, those who are clear are self-clear! Just get used to it"

When Zhao Ze's anti-bandit army passed through Suzhou, Shi Yangxiu was meeting guests at home. He was several famous local merchants. They wanted to know if it was safe to go to the border gate now. If possible, they also wanted to partner with Shi Yangxiu to go north to Liao to sell Song Dynasty specialties.