Qinglian Chronicles - v2 Chapter 158 The end of a river

The end of a river

The Jiangnan Qujia Haofu is famous for its reputation. Although it is not awkward, the majority of the in-laws are Wang Gonggui, the minister of the sect. For example, Zhou Zizhu, a university student with a famous name, is a close relative of the table. In the past few years, I have also received the errands of the Emperor, and it is also an exaggeration to say that "the pearls are like gold and iron".

Qu Baifeng, the heir to the Qu family, is a dazzling person. He has no desire to go to school as an official. He has to travel around and do business. He is very versatile and knowledgeable. In the past ten years, he has never had any scorpions.

This incident, Qu Baifeng from Zhejiang to transport a batch of silk tea to go to big food, to go outside the Shaanxi customs, through the Silk Road in the Western Region, all the way the caravan has to go for a year, this road is far and dangerous, although it is hundreds The big caravan of the people, the cargo volume is not comparable to a huge ship, but the boat is not far away, only to the South Sea, to the faraway of the big food, so the Qu family did not give up. The land is hard, usually handed over to the trustworthy buddy, the old butler to do, the rich family of the first party rarely go in person, Qu Baifeng so well to travel, but also the second time.

First arrived in the capital, Qu Baifeng once saved the emperor of today, and now is the identity of the emperor, everywhere is very open to eat, Guan Wenlu cited nothing at all. However, there are many friends in Beijing, and it is natural to have rich gifts and more balances.

The Wenhua Temple University and the cousin of the Book of Rites, Zhou Zizhu, was the first to visit. Zhou Xueshi was rich from home, and secondly he was clear, so he could not send the gold and silver beads to the jade stream. His gift list is a calligraphy and painting of the former dynasty, two good inks, three pounds on the good Mingqian Longjing, and twenty of his wife Xue's used Su embroidery.

Zhou Zizhu and his wife are very affectionate. They have never been stunned. His wife was famous as a teacher when she was a girl. She was also a heroic hero. She was better than the girl who had the eyebrows.

Zhou Zizhu also had a close relationship with this cousin. I was very happy to see it. I received a stay from the government, asked the long and short questions, and talked about the old things, but I couldn’t finish the words:

"It hasn't seen each other for three years. I haven't seen you old for three years. It's still a romantic look."

"Where, the rivers and lakes are more than frosty, and it is better than the cousin to raise the temple."

"White wind, what was added to your house last year is your family's three rooms? Now there are several children under the knee?"

"Exactly. There are two children and three women today."

Qu Baifeng did not want to say more, Zhou Zizhu's wife, Xue Shi, only gave birth to a daughter, and she was not allowed to be married. Now Zi Zizhu is 37 years old, but only has an eight-year-old daughter.

Zhou Zizhu didn’t mean anything. When she spoke, Xue’s daughter came over with a bunch of shackles. Although Qu Baifeng is a male guest, after all, he is a close relative, so Xue Yuyao also came out to meet.

The little girl was born with powder makeup and jade, very similar to her mother, but the eyebrows are like Zhou Zizhu, and in the future it will be a good beauty embryo. Qu Baifeng saw a piece of tourmaline hanging from her waist. It was red and green, shiny and translucent. It was carved into a lotus shape according to the natural color. The green leaves were made, the red ones were carved into flowers, and it was natural, but it was seen.

This is a high-priced purchase of nine thousand and two silver coins from a jewelry store in Shanxi. This piece of tourmaline was brought back from Nanyang by his caravan. The old jade master of the house took two months to do it. Well, the appearance is very good. I wanted to put it in my home and later put it in a newly opened jade shop. Many people refused to sell the price. This Shanxi businessman recognized his father and sold it to him. he.

Unexpectedly, I went to my cousin's house. Qu Baifeng knows that these things are not easy to say, smiles.

Zhou Zizhu saw him see his daughter's tourmaline lotus flower, and said: "This is what she sent to Zhang Qinglian when she was at the full moon."

Qu Baifeng suddenly realized: No wonder it is necessary to buy, it was originally to coincide with the name of Zhang Qinglian. I want to give a gift to Zhang Qinglian. Zhang Qinglian also transferred to her daughter, the full moon ceremony.

"Zhang Daren has been in this for three or four years, and there is no news?"

Zhou Zizhu shook his head and his face looked blank.

Qu Baifeng remembered that Zhang Qinglian’s words and laughter were so good, and Yao Jin’s heroic spirit could not help but feel a little stunned.

Xue Yuyao also bowed his head and wondered what he was thinking.

"Zhang Daren is gone. In the past few years, the cousin of the imperial court alone supported it. I want to be very tired."

Zhou Zizhu shook his hand and gestured to his snoring. "There are few things in the past, and the sacred priests are arbitrarily arrogant. We are ministers of the people. But the emperor has told me what to do, and there is nothing to be done."

Qu Baifeng knew that he had lost his words, changed the subject, and talked about the family.

When I went back, I passed through the former Duke's House of Zhang Qinglian. It was still glazed tiles, blue brick walls, and the willow apricot flowers in the garden were all explored. Zhumen was locked, but there was nothing to ruin. It is said that the emperor not only did not return the house to others, but also It is still routinely maintained. Therefore, the dynasty rumored that the emperor was still waiting for Zhang Daren to change his mind and return.

Qu Baifeng is full of emotions. I think of the situation when I met this person in the restaurant in the first year. It was almost ten years ago. I was a fledgling little boy. I didn’t want time to fly so fast... ...

He got out of the carriage and walked around Zhangfu. But the corner hit a person. The man met, but he was very polite and looked forward to him. Qu Baifeng was very surprised. When he looked at it, he saw a young man who was twenty-three or four years old. He was very red and white, very handsome, wearing the six-person official uniform of the Ministry of Industry, but his eyebrows were strange.

"This adult, forgiveness is under the eyes..." The businessman pays attention to the enthusiasm, so the richness of the wind is also very polite to people.

The young official grinned.

"Qu Gongzi, I don't remember me. I am Zhang Daren's book boy Xiaolu. I used to serve when I went to see our adults."

Qu Baifeng is stunned and faintly impressed. Zhang Qinglian has once had such a delicate and clever little book boy, but he has never paid attention to the next person. Unexpectedly, a small book boy is now so promising. Seeing him is not Concerned about his own humiliation, he did not look like a savage and snobbish generation, and he smiled calmly: "The years are urging people, but you are so big, and so much."

The little green man surnamed Li, now known as Green Chen, smiled and said: "My family has been away for a few years, I often miss, always come back."

Qu Baifeng saw that he did not forget this, and he was very fond of him. Moreover, although his official title was not high, the Ministry of Industry always had business dealings with his family. He invited him to dinner, and he had a certain balance. mention.

After staying in Beijing for a few days, he took the caravan westbound. This road is different from the Beijing Normal University. The country wild shop, the wind meal, and the good night, are not used to think that it is miserable.

The more you go west, the more rare people are, and on this day, they walk to the edge of the desert.

The Qujia caravan is very large in scale. It has rich experience in crossing the desert and has its own arms. Many small-capital passengers and small caravans request to accompany them. Walking through the desert is dangerous. People are very small in this situation. The more their companions, the stronger their courage. Usually, as long as they don't look like the inside of the sand thief, no one will refuse.

When Qu Baifeng was supervising the crowd to install drinking water, the buddy reported that some people wanted to go with them. Qu Baifeng didn’t care, and waved him to handle it himself. The companion’s traveler came out from behind the guy and talked with him. See the ceremony.

Qu Baifeng looked up and looked at it: he was a little man in front of him. He wore a brown dress and a sand-proof bucket on his head. His eyes were beautiful and his eyes were not smiling and affectionate. Inconspicuous, but it is extraordinary.

Qu Baifeng’s embarrassment is due to the fact that this man’s appearance is extraordinary, but he has not seen the world before. He wants to say that he is handsome and handsome. At that time, Zhang Qinglian’s Yao Jinyu was so amazing that it was no worse than the one in front of him. It was because of this that he felt that he was familiar with it, but he thought about it. He couldn’t remember where he had seen it. It’s reasonable to say that such a good character would be hard to forget when he saw it, but he couldn’t remember it.

The man smiled and said: "There is a son."

Qu Baifeng also said that some of the words are set, but the heart is still wondering.

After being busy with the preparations, I will ignore them.

Finally entered the desert, this time is the spring, but at noon, it is already in full swing, the sweat can't flow out, and the quilt is wrapped up in the morning and evening. Qu Baifeng is not the first experience, and he does not care. His old folks are also used to it. Some of the first-time novice buddies are a bit unbearable.

Fortunately, the caravan is large in scale, familiar with the road, well prepared, and not eating water.

The mysterious man has watched the white wind several times. His looks are calm and seem to be the best for everything. It seems to be a veteran for the desert.

After walking for more than ten days, the road was more than half past. After three oases, the desert gradually turned to the Gobi, and the sand was no longer so thin.

The old buddy of the team leader began to be alert. When Qu Baifeng asked, he knew that this was the place where the sand thieves were most absent. He told everyone to be careful.

In addition to the ten carers of their own nursing home, the caravan also invited the deputy chief of the town and the senior darts. The two did not walk through this road. They laughed at the moment: The son and the old treasurer are at ease. These places are just a few rogues. If you are both, you will be able to keep everyone well."

The deputy general head is a man in his forties, his body is awkward, but his hands are empty, and he is obviously practicing the inner work. The darts are younger, thirty-five and six years old, making a pair of golden knives. With a golden knife at the waist, he said: "If you want to come, you have to ask me this pair of knives!"

The mysterious traveler was standing next to Qu Baifeng, and no one else noticed it. Qu Baifeng saw his mouth slightly.

When I arrived at the end of the night, I really had a movement, and I heard the whistling sounds, and the white wind screamed: "Everyone protects the goods!"

The Qujia caravan is well-trained, and most of the guys are strong and strong. They are long-lasting, and they are not flustered at the moment. They have weapons to withdraw their weapons. No one has also used wooden sticks and other things to bring the caravans of the caravans. The camel is in the middle, and the darts and martial artists stand on the periphery, next to the white wind.

Qu Baifeng was also a little panicked, but he also saw several dangerous times, so he could calm down.

The robbers rode around the horse, and the white wind counted a few times. There are about sixty or seventy people. Although they have to be three or four times more, they are not like the other side.

Businessmen are more and more expensive. Once they move their hands, there will be losses. If the goods are not said, if there are casualties on their own side, the pension is not a small expense. Therefore, you can't do it without actually doing it.

He just wanted to say a few good words, send two or three hundred and two silver, the dartsman around him shouted, holding a golden knife and jumped out, shouting: "Rabbit scorpion, compare with Grandpa to test."

The other party ran out of a dagger, the body was very thin, and a little bit sly, in his thirties, his face was sallow, holding a smoker in his hand.

The dartsman laughed: "If you do this, you will do the robbers! Go back to the sick!"

The dagger smiled and said: "The spirit is not working, you will know when you try."

The two men fight in one place, and the white wind is secretly complaining. This is a dartsman who is not enough to make a mistake. The rivers and lakes are mixed, most afraid of encountering women and watching such strange people, just because they look Going up is not very powerful, dare to come out and sway, there must be extraordinary.

Sure enough, as soon as I saw it, the golden knives looked like two golden knives that made the tigers and tigers prosper, but they couldn’t cut the other side, and the smoker left and right, and it looked like a wolverine.

The dart head also saw that his men were not good, and he even said hello to everyone: "Everyone is on the shoulders! We have many people, don't be afraid of him!"

The people of Qujia are well-trained, and they all look at the white wind. When he orders, the white wind is sweating.

At the mouth, the smoker was knocking on the head of the gold knife, and the gold-knife teacher looked at him with a soft look. The robbers laughed in unison.

Seeing that the situation is difficult to clean up, there are too many fierce ones here. Qu Baifeng was so helpless.

Who expected to turn around, suddenly heard a chuckle, the voice is extremely light, but overshadowed so many bandits laughed.

The robbers stopped, and the smoker looked dignified and looked around with his eyes: "Which is the tall man?"

Another laugh, I saw that the mysterious man who accompanied the companion slowly came out from a carriage and slowly removed the sand-proof bucket.

Everyone is looking at him.

When the fight was taken down, the jade face and the red lips were smiling.

Suddenly, one of the bandits exclaimed: "Original...original..."

Everyone whispered, and a red-faced scream in the bandit called: "What is the round, the gods are ghosts, I will scale him two pounds!"

Just about to run out, but was slapped back by the smoker.

The smoker respectfully said: "Since your old man is here, we are not allowed to reach out and we will retreat."

The handsome man chuckled: "So it works."

When the smoker waved his hand, the bandits ran away like a flood, and they walked away for a while, as if they were just dreaming. Many people are blindly squinting.

The handsome man walked to the side of the gold knives lying on the ground, looked down, and kicked his toes twice. The dartmaster climbed up and looked like he was just acupuncture points.

Qu Baifeng thanked him before he went up. The man smiled and said: "Do not hesitate to raise your hand."

Qu Baifeng: "Mr. Yu is doing his best, and it is a matter of life and death for me."

The man laughed: "Qu Gongzi doesn't have to be so polite, it is also an old man. Seven or eight years ago, there was an old man who was detained and helped by the son. I arrived late and only saw the son."

Qu Baifeng left to think about it, suddenly a move: "Is it... Zhang..."

"It is him." The handsome man in front of him showed a tender and nostalgic color in his dark eyes.

"The desert has already come out here. Thanks to Qu Gongzi for taking care of it all the way, the future is no danger. I will leave now." I said with a mysterious smile: "The front is back to the capital city, and maybe the son can still meet the old man."

"Ah?" Qu Baifeng was shocked and happy. Just wanted to ask again, the Sri Lankan was far away.

The city in front is a famous big city in the Western Region.

The palace of the Hui people is in the center of the city. Recently, the queen of the queen is happy to win the third child.

Qu Baifeng sold some tea and silk, porcelain, bought some local products, renewed the goods, and earned thousands of dollars.

Deliberately balanced for a few days, but did not see the so-called old people.

Qu Baifeng’s hundreds of silvers sent the two pusters who had been hired back. The two men consciously lost their faces and did not dare to ask for more. They went back.

In this way, the big forces set off again.

The cities of the Western Regions are scattered like pearls. The good or bad road is the chain of these pearls, but sometimes the chains will grow too much.

Many times, you can't see a city in the first half of the month.

After I came out, I haven't seen a city yet. If I go ahead, it is the snow-capped mountains all year round. The white wind looks at the crystal-clear peaks and glaciers. Although it is not the first time I saw it, it is still Can not help but shake the waves.

There is a section of their way to go from the foot of the mountain. Although it is not high, the road is still a mountain road. It is very difficult to go. The horse camel is so tired that everyone is bitter.

The experienced groom had fed the animals for a few days in advance, and the white wind encouraged everyone to make a promise to the next city to buy one or two silver for everyone. Everyone was rejoicing and the road seemed to go better.

Going to the highest place, although not even on the mountainside, it is a bit of a smoggy atmosphere. Everyone stops and rests, eats something and drinks some water, and the mood is very high.

Qu Baifeng is chatting with his buddy. Suddenly the two people down the mountain. The mountain is so high and the people are so greedy. Suddenly two people came down. Everyone snorted and looked at them.

In front of a placket fluttering, a light bicolor robes, the movement behind the rapid, dark blue narrow sleeves dressed, seems to help the person in front.

The dark blue clothes held the man sitting on the stone not far away and walked over to them.

The man gradually approached and could see his face. The people who saw him took a deep breath: there are such handsome people in the world!

This is a twenty-seven-year-old man. His appearance is like a jade carving. The eyebrows are star-studded, the ink is red lips, and his face is cold and fascinating, but his face is flying and he looks forward to life. It seems to be born with light, everyone’s eyes. They were all sucked on him.

The mysterious beauty of the life saved a few days ago is beautiful, but it is not like this person.

The man approached the road: "Is there any food and water that can be transferred? The water of my two people was accidentally lost on the mountain." The voice was low, but it seemed like Yuzhu collided and couldn't tell.

Qu Baifeng saw that this person had already stopped, and then he came back to God, and he screamed: "Yao Gongzi! I am Qu Baifeng!"

The man only saw him at this time, and he couldn’t help but sneak a bit. The end of the world met the old man, and Rao was always a self-sufficient person, and he couldn’t help but smile.

"I can't think of meeting here." He turned back and waved at the people on the stone. "Top, come on!"

Qu Baifeng thought that Zhang Qinglian was with him. He was so called, and his heart was cold. The man ran halfway. At first glance, Qu Baifeng liked to grin and laugh: not who is Zhang Qinglian!

This person is still the appearance of ** years ago, the appearance is beautiful, the eyebrows are gentle, but for many years, he is in a high position, and he has his own arrogance and disappointment.

When Zhang Qinglian saw him, he liked to say: "White wind, I can't think of seeing you here!"

Qu Baifeng saw him laughing, no scruples, and felt in his heart: I couldn’t think of leaving the temple court, this person can live so freely.

The two men talked about the old, from Zhou Zizhu to Xiaolu, and said the current situation of the people they met. Zhang Qinglian said why he came here: It turned out that because the queen returned to the third son, please The two of them went to eat full moon wine, and the family was expensive for the royal family. The gold and silver beads were not in the eyes, so Zhang Qinglian took Yao Jinyu to the snow-capped mountains in the snowy mountains as a gift.

Speaking of his treasure, he took it out to let Qu Baifeng see it. Although Qu Baifeng has seen a lot of knowledge, he has never seen it: This flower is white and crystal clear, as big as a bowl of mouth, and it is fragrant, such as white jade carving, beautiful and unpredictable. Things.

Zhang Qinglian said, "This thing can hurt us a lot of risks, but we didn't expect it to be so big. We didn't have enough utensils to prepare, but it was annoying!"

Qu Baifeng thought for a moment and said, "I have something to pretend."

Said to tell people to find extremely fine kiln small porcelain cylinder from the valuable goods, slightly larger than the big bowl, its thin as paper, buckled with the sound of golden jade, the color is not purple and blue, even thin, the edge is lotus The petal is undulating, and the shape is very good. It can be used as a decoration or a small fish. It is also appropriate to put the snow lotus in the size, and the lining is more transparent and different.

Zhang Qinglian knows the goods and smiles: "This thing is only cheaper than the jade carving. It is embarrassing to give birth to you."

Qu Baifeng also laughed: "This road is bumpy. It is not as good as it is to break it. It is better to give it to you."

Zhang Qinglian generously accepted: "So, I am not welcome."

It’s a joy to meet, but it’s a different road. After a while, you have to leave.

Qu Baifeng gave him two lots of dry food and water. They then resigned from the road of Qu Baifeng to go back to the king city. The white wind sent the two people to gradually become smaller. After all, they disappeared, leaving only the glacier snow mountain. Yunxia.

There are some poultry on the mountain, the sound is crisp, the sound is broken, and the white wind waved to remind everyone to continue on the road.

The road ahead is still long.