Tang Dynasty good man

Chapter [-] West Lake Beauty

It is not allowed to rely on the scenery in the scenic spots that are too close, and it is not allowed to bring a saber when traveling. After the end of the tour, bricks and tiles are not allowed to be kept privately. There are temples that need to be paid for sesame oil, and Taoist temples that need to pay attention to etiquette. Etiquette cannot be used universally. Although the monks don't care, the Taoist priests in the Tang Dynasty were still very good at fighting, and they would beat me into a pig's head.

For the time being, there is no danger of being beaten into a pig's head. The second lady got my true biography. She sat at the entrance of the scenic spot and bullied others. No one dared to approach.The two brothers were laughing and laughing, and Lan Ling walked around pretending not to know us. Afterwards, the second lady felt very humiliated, and I deducted her wages when she planned to reform.

Don’t think how beautiful the great rivers and mountains are. The scenery is indeed much more beautiful than it will be 500 years later. There are scenery everywhere, and you can see the scenery at your fingertips. But the age of traveling in mountains and rivers has not yet arrived, at least the conditions are not yet mature.Whether it is riding a horse or riding a car, it is a great test of physical fitness. When people are as tired as a dead dog and have no strength to stick out their tongues, even when they go to a holiday beach full of beauties, there will never be any sweet encounters. energy.

It seems that it is necessary to develop some means of transportation beyond the times. The five-day tour of Hainan Shuangfei is the real vacation, and Xu Xiake's behavior of visiting famous mountains and rivers was an ultra-extreme sport in ancient times. It is a pity that me and Lanling does not have the psychological quality of an extreme athlete. Once the freshness stage at the beginning of the journey is over, the rest is an endless and difficult journey.

"I won't be with you anymore," Lan Ling lied weakly on the soft couch in the palace to refresh himself, and said aggrievedly, "I'm not considerate of others, but let the local escorts make me feel comfortable, I'm pregnant."

"I'm not loyal, are you?" I was so tired, I took off my socks and squatted on the soft couch to rub my feet, "Pregnant women should enjoy the treatment of pregnant women, and have the face to say it. Who dragged me around endlessly? Would I like to?" Fortunately, we are now in Yingzhou, if you don't want to walk, it will save you a lot of effort to take a boat down the river, depending on whether Lanling is used to sitting or not.

The land is indeed different from what I had imagined. The south is not as prosperous as I imagined. The more you go, the more the tributaries, but the population is decreasing.Pedestrians are sparse on the official road, and there are fewer and fewer decent fields. Even the paddy fields do not have the magnificent scene that stretches as far as the eye can see in the north. Difficult to reflect.

"Don't you want to see West Lake?" Lanling carefully marked all the places with West Lake on the route as a major scenic spot. I pointed along the route, "Let's talk about it first. You didn't plan to see it. Don't blame me afterwards."

"It's boring." Lanling lazily turned over and gave me a back, "I can't get used to eating, and I'm tired of looking at it. Besides the waterways, there are more and more scenery. There are few places that can compare with the Eight Scenic Spots of Chang'an. After coming out for more than a month, I miss Chang'an a little."

"It's different. This side is just to see the water view. The water over there is not comparable to this." Lan Ling's mood is understandable.After all, it was the first time in this life to travel far.If it's better to stay at home than to go out, it doesn't matter who you put it on.I have a strong mental quality that I have trained on previous business trips, but I still firmly believe in the saying that it is good to be at home. But at this time, I have to persuade her, and I have to explain the benefits of the water town to Lanling to cheer her up.

"What's the difference? I don't think it's as imposing as ours." Lan Ling turned sideways and gave me a glance, "I don't like to see the wide and narrow places. It's not as majestic as the bank of the Yellow River. Remember Did we go to the Weihe River before? This side is much wider than the Weihe River. I haven’t seen one that is faster than the Weihe River.”

"Idiot!" The handle wanted to hit, it was impossible to communicate.Here, water feeds people. The Weihe River and the Yellow River will gradually become a disaster in the next thousand years. People feed water.On the Yangtze River, Li Bai dared to sail a light boat alone for hundreds of miles, only to have the sound of apes on both sides of the bank endlessly crying, and the light boat has passed ten thousand mountains; except for a few sections of the Yellow River where a boat can barely be placed, try other places.From this we can see that Li Bai is a smart man. "Ignorance! This is the water that nourishes people. Ruobi's momentum, there are plenty of places in the Yangtze River. Ming and I swim in the West Lake, and I will tell you the story of the white lady."

"I heard from you that it wasn't about the West Lake in Hangzhou? Why did it get involved with the West Lake in Yingzhou again?" Lan Ling bent his knees, tapped me with his knee, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, there is still you who can talk to me. One cannot survive alone.”

"Walking around, you won't feel tired after seeing and thinking more. We didn't come at the right time, but we can still appreciate the delicious food and the scenery we should see." Rubbing Lanling's belly, he smiled unpredictablely, "Go to bed early, and you will know the benefits tomorrow."

Yingzhou West Lake got its name from Qin Dynasty and flourished in Tang Dynasty. The four waters of Ying, Ru, Qing and Bai meet here. into one occasion.Where there is water, there is wind, and the breeze blows, and the lotus-leaf shuttlecock waterbirds sing incessantly. Occasionally, there are girls from the water town who are pushing boats to collect water chestnuts, with their skirts and cuffs rolled up high, and when they meet strangers, they shyly hide behind the lotus leaves. I looked curiously at the stranger with my head through the gap between the lotus leaves, and when I looked at each other, I always smiled kindly and evilly. The little girl threw a handful of freshly picked water chestnuts up, and hurriedly pushed the light boat to hide in the depths.

"Shui Lingling little girl." Lan Ling pursed her lips and slapped me, jumped to the side and picked up the little girl's hidden self-defense weapon, bowed and rinsed it off on the surface of the water.

"Four water chestnuts, many water chestnuts can't be seen this season. This kind is wild and hasn't passed the season yet."

"I didn't ask this, how did you scare the little girl just now?" Lan Ling covered her mouth and smiled, carefully put the refined water chestnut into the armhole, waved to the little girl's hiding place, and pulled me to move on.

"Bai Jing, um, looks exactly like Shui Lingling."

"The customs are different, girls in Chang'an don't dare to come out like this." Lanling learned the custom here and pulled up the hem of her skirt, thinking it was funny, put it down again, and pointed to the waters in the distance, "I don't know what Xingqingyang is It looks like you can’t see the edge from here.”

"Sit down and rest when you're tired, over there." There is a small thatched pavilion not far away, which is run by someone. The steamed water chestnuts in a big pot, and the peeled raw water chestnuts are piled up in a large pot and soaked in clear water. There is no tea, and the small spoon digs a little water chestnut powder out of the big copper pot and pours it into a bowl of sweet porridge that exudes a fragrance.

Rely on the lake to eat the lake, fish, shrimp, and crab.There are also snails soaked in salt water, which can be eaten at any time, and the water can be boiled at any time. The old man who runs the shop is agile.

Lanling likes these, the grass shed, the lake water, and the breeze.Compared with the magnificent and magnificent scenes in the royal family, this place is more like a place where people live, at least she likes these when she is with me.

He took the wine bowl and greeted the owner politely, "Old man Guigeng?"

The difference in accent is a bit difficult to communicate, and Lan Ling and I also dress a bit awkwardly, always laughing, whatever you ask, he will laugh when he understands, and even if he doesn’t understand.Don't ask back, just nod.

"How old are you?" I repeated, trying to keep my expression gentle, and Lan Ling also looked like a harmless little daughter-in-law, trying to make people think that foreigners are not necessarily here to smash and rob.

"45." This time the shopkeeper understood, and agreed with my tone as much as possible, smiled and gestured with his fingers, and hurried to go.

This is a bit of a stretch.He exchanged a glance with Lan Ling, and lightly fiddled with the pottery bowl in his hand. At 45, a girl like Li Jingxuan, like Du Feng, or even a girl in her 30s like Lan Ling doesn't look like her. "Who do you think I am when I stand with Li Jingxuan with a full face and beard?"

"You!" Lan Ling was very rude, pointing his chopsticks behind him, signaling me not to dwell on this issue, which is impolite.

Lan Ling ignored. "You said that I want to stand with the owner with a beard all over my face. From the looks of it, it's not too much for me to call him grandpa?"

"Okay, I don't have such a metaphor like you." Lan Ling stared at me dissatisfied, "In Chang'an, if you dare to say that, let's see if they smoke you!"

"No, I just want to make it clear that life here is not as rich as we imagined. It is said that the land of fish and rice eats fish and rice along the way. It really is not the way of eating as imagined." Lan Ling cast a glance, "This place guards the West Lake. It should be a treasure. Compared with the life of the farmers on the Qujiang side, I feel weird."

Lan Ling didn't make a sound, glanced at me, then turned to look at the old man who was busy outside, took a silver key from his arms and put it on the table, got up and planned to go out.

"Look, rich people look like you." Without moving his place, he grabbed the silver pistol on the table and stuffed it in his arms, "Leave after eating, don't just look unhappy when you say something, it's better People give too much money, if you use this thing to pay the bill, be careful they will sue you.”

"I'm afraid it will be better when we arrive in Huaiyang." Lanling smiled awkwardly, and said to himself: "You have seen it along the way, the officials do not disturb the people, and everything is governed in an orderly manner. After all, it has only been a few decades since the founding of the country. There is still time."

"Stop!" He waved his hand, "We shouldn't say this, you should know it in your heart." Pointing to the steamed crab, "One of the three delicacies of Chaohu Lake, whitebait, white rice shrimp, and crab, although the season is not suitable , it’s still okay to have a taste.”

Lan Ling hesitated for a while when he brought the crabs, and then imitated my example and mixed them with vinegar, "It's weird, we don't have such big crabs over there, and I haven't heard of anyone eating them."

"Take a bite, the taste is not bad." Helping Lanling open the crab shell, pick up the clear crab roe with a hairpin, gently dip it in the vinegar sauce boiled with shredded ginger, savor it carefully, and it is full of fragrance.Seeing Lan Ling's expression, he said with a smile: "Yellow wine, take a sip, just take a sip."

"En!" Lan Ling nodded, "It tastes weird, it's not bad." As he spoke, he glanced at his mouth outside, "That little girl who hit you just now."

Looking back, the little girl was dragging the sack and standing behind the pavilion to look at us. Seeing that she was discovered, she ran to the shop owner to complain.

I bumped into it again, I'm sorry.If I had known not to tease others, I heard the voice of the little girl complaining, and quickly took out the silver scorpion and threw it on the table, and pulled Lan Ling who was fighting the crab, and left, "This crab is not delicious, let's go to a big restaurant."

"No, it's pretty good." Lan Ling deliberately piled up several crab shells and arranged them neatly, just like Mei Chaofeng.

The little girl disappeared after filing a complaint, and the store became more cautious when she came down. It seems that there are a lot of hooligans coming to this place to see the scenery like me, but I didn't do anything else.Lan Ling gradually frowned, always feeling weird, it is said that men and women in this day and age have not been guarded like this, but the shopkeeper's behavior is obviously defensive, and even did not take the initiative to check out after eating, I insisted Throw money on the table before giving up.

"No," Lan Ling walked away and turned around to look at the pavilion. "They are afraid of well-dressed people. Come with me." He said and pulled me back to a place not far from the pavilion to take a peek. There were already many customers in the empty pavilion just now, and it seemed that they dared not enter until the two of us left.

Strange thing, the two of them looked at each other, they have never seen such a scene in so many places, they are all like thieves, do I look like a bully in the village?But my accent is obviously not from the locals, even if it's my fault, it's not my turn to go so far.Besides, I just glanced at the girl and smiled, so I can't get together with the gangster, right?

"I'll ask, you stay here." Lan Ling pointed at my nose, "It's not a good person at first sight."

"Nonsense," I grabbed her, "you go, since people are afraid of our number, don't go there." If there are hooligans doing evil, it's good to be a hero, at least say hello to the local authorities The ability is still there.But if you think about it, it's not such a thing. They are all locals. Who would be afraid of a hooligan from a foreign country? "Go back and ask and you'll know. It's hard for people to communicate with you."

Sure enough, it had nothing to do with my evil smile. The people in the hotel bluntly admitted that the people who live by the West Lake do have the habit of being afraid of people in gorgeous clothes.But it definitely has nothing to do with the local ruffian, which is a long story.

In the words of the people in the hotel, the local officials are absolutely strong in governance, and playing wild is a dead end.But most of those people by the West Lake are not locals.Most of the farmers who abandoned their farms in the surrounding areas come here to beg for a living. Almost all of them come here to be self-cultivated farmers, the kind with fields at home.

What's the point?Since ancient times, it has only been said that there are many grievances among the tenant farmers, and the life of the self-cultivating farmers is comfortable. Especially the self-cultivating farmers in the Guanzhong area are like small landlords. In the era when there were many people and few lands, not only was there land distribution at birth, but the imperial court encouraged self-cultivation and self-cultivation.Families like the Cheng family who are brave enough to open up wasteland will hang big red flowers and parade through the streets.I want to ask in depth, but the staff of the hotel are jealous of my identity, and only use tricky words to prevaricate, and then I can't ask why.

But this explanation can understand that people here are afraid of our behavior. First of all, it is a crime to give up the land instead of planting when the weather is good. It is a felony to evade tax and corvee. .A large area escaped.

"The taxes are high here?"

Lan Ling shook his head. "It may be imposed on the people by the local government. I can't tell. Do you remember what we saw when we came here?"

Dry land is fine.The scene of the paddy fields here is really not worthy of the title of land of fish and rice. Some places are barren, and only the land of the big families is still there. It is probably related to the phenomenon of self-cultivating farmers escaping.Being able to abandon the farmland is a thought only when you can't survive. I can't imagine what the situation is, at least it doesn't match Ying's behavior of fighting for a piece of land.

"Paddy fields, the yield of paddy fields is higher than that of dry fields, right?" Lan Ling has some agricultural knowledge, twisted the silk scarf on her hand, and could see that what happened to her today made her very unhappy.

"If you only look at the harvest of rice and wheat, the paddy fields are higher, so you can't count the harvest like that."

Thinking back to the planting structure of my own land, or just comparing wheat to rice, the yield per mu is lower than that of rice. Under the condition that the same tax can be levied, the advantages of dry land are obviously more.Seedlings are only planted when the wheat is harvested, which means that there is nothing else to do in the paddy fields except rice for one season. However, the yield of coarse grains such as sorghum, soybeans, and buckwheat in dry fields is much higher than that of paddy fields, and coarse grains are the same. It can be counted into the official grain and handed over. As long as God is good, the amount of grain left by the family is considerable.

It makes sense once you think about it, based on taxation, if my family only collects wheat, the yield per mu will be small this year, and the official grain is levied... The official grain of the Wang family is fine, and the symbolic levy is true. Also faced with the situation of fleeing.

"So the tax collection by the imperial court is unreasonable?" Lan Ling frowned, "But it is much better than the previous dynasty. Isn't that how it has been done in the past?"

"But the royal families of all dynasties came from the north. How can the sufferings of the people in the south reach your ears? If you don't see it with your own eyes, who would know that the good land can be planted to the point of escape?" It's not a good feeling to come out.

"That's not true. The royal family has known this since they were young." Lan Ling wanted to excuse Li's surname, but he couldn't make sense of the facts. He sighed and comforted himself: "Such a large territory, it is not always possible. This time Isn't your inspection of Sanji Rice just to solve this problem?"

Fleeing, with this experience, Lanling no longer had the idea of ​​looking at the scenery, and followed the shortest route towards Lingnan, as if fleeing from disaster.After entering the Jiangnan Road, the more desolate it gets, the green mountains and green waters in the impression have become poor mountains and bad waters, the official roads are getting more and more bumpy, if you are interested, you will stop by the road, if you are not interested, the two will not see each other for a few days, she will go ahead, The second lady and I followed, all the way down to Lingnan, calculated the distance, and in three days, we should arrive at the experimental base of the Agricultural School, and finally we can rest.