Book pick up the last time (Liu Bowen Changzhou Fuhualong Lane Burning Dragon)
It is said that Liu Bowen left the Changzhou capital, went down the canal, and came to the boundary of Wuxi in a day.
His official ship had just docked at Wuqiao, a small boat quietly leaned over, and at the bow of the ship stood a young Confucian, shouting loudly: Is Mr. Qingtian here? My family Mr. Yanrui has please.
Mr. Qingtian is Liu Bowen's jianghu title, and those who are not familiar with it dare not call it, and are generally honored as Guoshi or Chengyi Gong (Feng Chengyi Bo).
Before Liu Bowen had left the cabin, he asked happily: Mr. Yanrui? Oh! Where is your excellency, sir?
Na Ru Sheng commanded the boatman to lean back and whispered, "Please sir, come with me."
Liu Bowen only took a twelve- or thirteen-year-old Daoist boy with him and carried a dusty feather fan onto the boat.
The boat turned into a river and paddled west.
He knows it from afar
Sir arrived. The boat had stopped, Liu Bowen got off the boat, looked up, and in front of him was a sea of pink flowers.
I saw only one plant, one cluster, one cluster of peach blossoms, competing for flowers, pressing all over the branches. The pink of a tree, the blossoming of a tree, vigorous, brilliant.
Each one is so enthusiastic, so unrestrained, and full of strength to bloom. The delicacy of the buds to be released, the full unfolding of the rambling, the small charm, the big delicacy, it is really "the death of the peach, the burning of its glory".
Pink butterflies danced in between, and many branches protruded out, hanging half a red curtain on the fence wall, swaying with the wind, with a variety of styles.
The breeze blows, the flowers fall like rain, fluttering and sprinkling, and flowers are all in the eyes. The faint pink fragrance spread quietly, at this time, facing the fragrance of flowers in the wind, Liu Bowen took a deep breath, and there were cool fresh elves drilling in from the mouth, nose, and eyes, moisturizing the lungs, and the whole body was clean.
He couldn't help but groan: "The peach blossoms are open without a master, and the cute crimson loves light red." ”
"Let the public peach and plum fill the world, and he will plant flowers in front of the hall." Brother Liu, don't come unharmed? A hearty laugh came from the depths of the peach forest, and a few dog barks were heard.
Deep in the peach forest, a row of four or five grass huts is hidden in it, surrounded by random bamboo hedges, and two people stand at the door, a thin and clear old gentleman, and another chubby and angry township kun rich man.
Liu Bowen took a few steps, grabbed the old gentleman's hand, looked at it carefully for half a day, and said, "Brother Master, I want to burn the old brother!"
The old gentleman gently clapped his hand, and with tears in his eyes, he said, "After fifteen years of separation, the rivers and lakes are like clouds of smoke."
He also introduced: "This is my owner, Jiangyin Zhutang Xu Qi, admire Mr. Jiuyi!"
The two of them made another cold noise, entered the grass together, and sat down to serve tea.
This Xu Qi of Zhutang had no fame in history, just a rich man at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, but two hundred years later, during the Wanli Period, his descendants produced a famous traveler from all over the world.
But the old gentleman was famous, he was the head of the three major literary scholars in the early Ming Dynasty (the other two Luo Guanzhong, Wu Cheng'en), Liu Bowen's brother Shi Nai'an, and the young Confucian was his disciple Luo Guanzhong.
Shi Nai'an
Shi Nai'an, Zi Zhaorui, Zi'an, Anderson of Xinghua, Northern Jiangsu. Born into a boat family, he grew up in a poor family. When he was a child, he moved to Suzhou with his father and studied in Hushuguan.
At the age of twenty-eight, he went to the Yuan Metropolis examination at the age of 30, and the result fell behind. On the recommendation of a friend, he went to Yuncheng, Shandong province as a teacher (Yuncheng is the hometown of the timely rain SongJiang, and the discipline is a staff member similar to the inspector of the Education Bureau and the teaching of the teachings, not an official, an official, and is commonly known as not entering the stream without quality and rank).
After working for two years, he returned to Suzhou and studied the study of the classics under the contemporary Confucian Zheng Fuchu.
Zheng Fuchu was a native of Yushan, Jiangxi at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, who was worthy of the title of "learning to be rich in five cars, only eight buckets high", and in his twenties he was admitted to the jinshi and served as a recorder in Chuzhou.
In the Yuan Dynasty, Chuzhou Road was today's Lishui, Liu Bowen's hometown Qingtian was under the jurisdiction of Chuzhou Road, and the recorder was the third in command of the county lord, in charge of literature and history education, and also an official of living hell.
After working for a few years, the superiors of the Yuan Dynasty were Mongols (at that time, social people were divided into four classes) and did not regard Han Chinese as people at all. Zheng Fuchu resigned from the government to run a college and opened a teaching hall.
For a while, Jiangnan students came to visit. Among the many disciples, two are the most famous, one of whom is Liu Ji (that is, Liu Bowen) and the other is Liu Bowen's brother Shi Zhaorui (later renamed Shi Nai'an, or later called hou name for habit). At that time, Shi Nai'an was 32 years old and Liu Bowen was 17 years old.
Shi Nai'an was 35 years old and went to Qiantang to serve as a county Yin, equivalent to the head of the public security bureau and the head of the public security brigade, the nominal second in command, in fact, with the first in the sky, one on the ground.
The rules in the workplace are: the right to live Yama without responsibility, and the right to live hell without responsibility. Shi Nai'an suffered in the living hell for two years, and angrily hung up the seal and returned to Suzhou, and Lao Tzu stopped waiting! Belongs to the old angry youth with personality.
Later, Zhang Shicheng's peasant rebellion team occupied Suzhou, and was hired by Zhang Shicheng as an aide and became a military division. (This period of years of rogue bandit-like peasant rebel army barracks life, and some of the leaders of the rebel army who were full of liver and gallbladder and bloody nature, were later transformed into liangshan one hundred single and eight generals.)
As Zhang Shicheng and other leaders became more and more arrogant, he expected to be defeated in the future, and then left Zhang Shicheng's department.
After Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed Zhang Shicheng, in order to escape Zhu Yuanzhang's pursuit, he changed Zhaorui to Yanrui, nicknamed Nai'an, and later generations called Shi Nai'an. Later, he sat in the Heyang Mountain in Changshu and the Xu family of the rich man xu in Jiangyin Zhutang, where he taught for a living and immersed himself in the creation of "Water Margin".
Inside the grass hut, the host serves a table of sumptuous native vegetables and a famous peach blossom brew. The four of them drank and talked.
Peach blossom brewing, it is a pink wine obtained after fermentation and processing with fresh peach blossom petals as the main raw material, adding water, glutinous rice and caramel.
This kind of wine, strictly speaking, can not be called wine, has a strong peach blossom fragrance, can be directly drunk, it can supplement nutrition for the human body, but also beauty and beauty, belongs to the fruit wine or juice class, but the staying power is long.
Xu Yuanwai as the owner of the first toast: Guoshi Xian descending caolu, this is my peach garden to see the garden grass lu, simple to the point, there is no hospitality, but this peach blossom brew can still be drunk. There may be this brew elsewhere, but there is no such mellow.
Liu Bowen took a sip, and sure enough, the aroma was mellow, far better than the imperial wine of the imperial palace, and asked: Is there any secret recipe that is different?
Xu Yuanwaidao: There is no difference in brewing method, but there is no such spring water elsewhere.
Liu Bowen asked: Jiuwen Huishan has the second spring of Huishan Mountain, is it not brewed by this spring?
Xu Yuanwai smiled: "Sir is indeed very knowledgeable." Huishan, first known for its famous springs and good water, the most prestigious is "the second spring in the world".
There are three spring pools in this spring, and the lower pool of the spring has a dragon head carved into the wall of the Song Dynasty pool. The spring water flows down from the cave above and is spit into the ground by the dragon's mouth.
Above is the Yilan Hall, also built in the Song Dynasty. There are two spring ponds in the pavilion and in front of the pavilion, which are said to be in the last year of the Tang Dynasty (779), which were excavated by people sent by Ling Jingcheng of Wuxi County, and were divided into upper ponds and middle ponds.
The octagonal shape of the upper pond is the best; the middle pond is irregularly square, leaching from the Ruo Ice Cave, and it is rumored that this gap and the stone spring were found by the Tang Dynasty monk Ruo Bing when he was looking for water, so it was also called "Ice Spring".
On the shadow wall of the Erquan Pavilion and the Yilan Hall, the calligrapher Zhao Mengfu inscribed the stone carving of "The Second Spring in the World".
Since the Tang Dynasty tea saint Lu Yu visited all over the place, tasted tea springs, and visited Huishan Many times, and rated Huishan Spring as the "second spring in the world", the literati and monks and nobles have always used this spring to order tea as a pleasure.
Throughout the ages, this hongqing spring has been favored by countless emperors and generals and rioter literati, all of whom are happy with the water of one product and two springs.
In particular, Li Deyu, the chancellor of the Tang Wuzong Dynasty, was even worse.
Liu Bowen asked: Li Deyu and his father Li Jifu can be called famous figures of the late Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wuzong, during his reign, he made outstanding achievements in the reign of Waiping Uighurs, Neiding Zhaoyi, dismissing redundant officials, and assisting Emperor Wuzong in destroying Buddhism.
Xu Yuanwai: But he lived in the capital Chang'an, and liked to drink the water of the second spring, so he ordered the Wuxi government to send someone to transport the Wuxi spring water three thousand miles away to enjoy it by means of a stagecoach. The Tang Dynasty poet Pi Rixiu had a poem that satirized:
When the prime minister often thinks about cooking tea,
The county marquis urged only too late;
Wu Guan went to the country for three thousand miles,
Mo xiao Yangfei loves lychees.
Liu Bowen smiled: It is indeed extravagant, and it is even worse than Yang Fei.
Shi Nai'an asked: Master and disciple this time hung up the seal to the Shi, I am afraid that it is not really returned to the hidden mountain forest, right?
Liu Bowen laughed and said: If you want to be like your master and brother, you must write a book and say something, and you must teach it with one or two good materials.
Shi Nai'an shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not like my idle cloud wild crane, you are in Changzhou Hualong burning coffins, liangxi is also moving for the land." (Wuxi is also formerly known as Liangxi, Jinkui)
Liu Bowen couldn't hide it: It was really not a secret, and this time he also had the will to inspect the dragon vein of the mountains and rivers on behalf of tianzi.
Shi Nai'an pondered for a long time: The general trend of the world, the prosperity will decline for a long time, the decline will be prosperous, the feng shui rotation, how can it be reversed by people, I hope that the master and disciple will be cautious! Since the ancient way, the way to get more help is to help the lost way and less help. Still in the hearts of the people!
Liu Bowen nodded: This place has been the land of longxing since ancient times, Wen Xinghui suddenly, I watched the sky at night, found that Wuxi Longshan has dragon vein dragon qi, will produce three buckets of three liters of sesame seeds more civilian officials and three kings and eighteen generals, then afraid of suffering or the common people, war together, jade and stone burning?
Xu Yuanwai stood up and bowed deeply: Wangguo Shi Chuen, if you can retain one side of the cultural vein and cut off one side of the martial pulse, it will benefit the people of Liangxi side, and the good will be great!
Liu Bowen nodded: "Good! I will do my best.
Huishan clay people have been passed down for thousands of years
The next day, Liu Bowen, accompanied by Xu Qi, Shi Nai'an, and Luo Guanzhong, climbed the main peak of Sanmao Peak in Longshan (now known as Huishan Mountain), looking around, the smoke waves of Taihu Lake in the distance, the fishing sails dotted, the feet, the mountains undulating, the east and west peaks and the main peak, forming like a seat, really there is Damingtang Taihu Lake in front, and there is a patron Longshan Mountain, a left green dragon, a right white tiger, and a middle Ji Cave Tiancheng.
The clouds and mist at the Ji Cave are swirling, the purple gas is steaming, the west peak is steep and densely wooded, and the east peak is gentle and the streets are strange.
The dragon vein of this dragon mountain has become a climate, and within a hundred years, disasters will come out, how will this be calculated? Liu Bowen was silent.
A group of people descended the east peak.
Coming to the foot of the mountain, Liu Bowen squatted down, grabbed a handful of dirt, and pinched it, the soil was delicate and yellow, very sticky. He looked at the sticky clumps on his hands, frowned, pinched and looked at them again, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.
Liu Bowen said to Xu Yuanwai and others: Yes.
A group of them came to Jinkui County, and the county grand master saw that the Guoshi had arrived and rushed out to greet them. Liu Bowen instructed the county master:
Today, tomorrow's son is well aware of the sufferings of the people, specially sent me to secretly observe the people's feelings, and now found that the soil of Longshan can make the people pinch into mud people to sell money to support their families, turn the soil into Ugin, and the people of Wuxi also have a long-term rice bowl!
Liu Bowen asked the county grand master to recruit skilled craftsmen from the people, and used clay to knead into a number of civilian officials and military generals wearing imperial crowns, wearing court clothes and foot boots, and painted them with color, which was really vivid, as if it were real, and everyone loved it when they saw it.
Huishan clay man
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang was played, explaining the reason. Soon, the Holy Will came: Now change Wuxi Longshan to Huishan, and 66,666 clay people of Huishan mountain are paid as tributes, which can be deducted from taxes, and many will receive the market price to pay silver.
At that time, the people at the foot of Longshan Mountain lived a very poor life, and now the soil has turned into gold, so every household took up a shovel and went to the foot of the mountain to take mud and make mud people.
Soon, at the foot of Huishan Mountain, it gradually became a street market, with large and small clay people shops and stalls.
Back in Caolu, Xu Yuanwai offered the local name "Taihu Sanbai" and Wuxi sauce ribs, and drank peach blossom brew. During the banquet, he asked, "Guoshi, why do you ask the people of Wuxi to be clay people?" What's the secret to that? ”
Liu Bowen smiled and said, "Outside the staff, I don't know, I call the dragon vein here to exhaust the mud king mud phase, the mud minister mud general, this mud pinch prince will be able to become the climate!" Isn't this more than three fights and three promotions of officials?
Xu Yuanwai also asked: So, what does it affect the context of this place?
Liu Bowen: After this place, there were many literati and brilliant stars, but there were very few talents who came out.
Xu Yuanwai said happily: To be able to do so is also a blessing for the people of Liangxi, Xie Guoshi.
Shi Nai'an was on the side road: Outside the old man, the current guoshi is here, why not ask the guoshi to help you choose a jiyang, and also be able to bless the future generations, the opportunity is rare?
Xu Yuanwai stood up with trepidation: I have had this intention for a long time, but I did not dare to open my mouth, and I was willing to ask for the guidance of the National Master.
Liu Bowen smiled: This is a small thing, drinking a good wine outside the staff, it should be returned. I also want thousands of gold, this helper brother's masterpiece "The Legend of jianghu high-rollers" (later changed to "Water Margin") to pay the cost, there is one more thing I also want.
Xu Yuanwai said busily: Guoshi said it was okay, as long as I had it.
Liu Bowen smiled: Every year peach blossoms brew ten altars, Yangshan water peach ten baskets.
Xu Yuanwai said: This is a small matter. I chose a crypt and asked the Guoshi for guidance.
Who would have thought that through Liu Bowen's point of absence, it would lead to the Xu family's hundreds of years of wealth and long-term aftermath.
The magic of feng shui lies in the point hole.
To be continued.
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