In the fourth year of Mingde, at the end of the first month, Donghe County.
This place is less than a hundred miles away from Changjing City, but it has been raining continuously for three days.
Song You also stopped here for three days.
Since coming down from the mountain, the most entertaining activity Song You has done in the city is listening to books.
Next to the hotel is the Wase House, where there are also storytellers.
Listening to books is a good deal. You can hear a lot of things, both true and false. You can sit there for a long time for a few pennies, and you can chat with the storyteller in the middle. It is especially suitable for Songyou who are running out of money these days.
Then I listened to the storyteller on the stage:
"When it comes to the three sects in the world with the highest martial arts skills and the greatest reputation, our Yunhe Sect in Changjing should be the largest sect in the world. There are countless martial arts sects in Yizhou, and the Xishan Sect is the leader among them, and its swordsmanship and swordsmanship are among the best. It is well-known in the world, and is recognized as one of the three sects in the world. The north is always in trouble, but the Spear Sect remains standing and has countless disciples, and it can be considered one of them."
This tile-roofed house with hooked railings is quite elegant and is built near the river.
Song You sat at a seat by the window, drinking tea, listening to a book, and looking out the window.
The rain at this time was all drizzle, thinner than hair, but densely packed. The blue water of the river was originally like a mirror, and the continuous drizzle also gave off countless fine frosting sensations.
The storyteller's voice reached my ears.
A cup of tea and an afternoon.
About an hour later, the storyteller had finished his story and was collecting the rewards from the guests, when someone asked from below: "Sir, you are well-informed, do you know where there are places to have fun in Changjing?"
The storyteller looked up, and Song You also looked up, and saw a few people dressed as literati. They must have been to Changjing for the first time, and were left behind in Donghe County by the rain.
These people had just thrown away a lot of reward money. The storyteller did not dare to neglect it and only said:
"Then it depends on what kind of fun the officials want to have?"
"It sounds like sir is really understanding?"
"The villain will eat this food..."
The storyteller handed over his folding fan to them.
"I'm going to ask sir for advice."
"I don't dare to ask for advice. When I went to Changjing last year, I heard that there are ten unique things in Changjing."
"Which ten are they again?"
The hook fence was bustling with people, many people were still walking out, but some people stopped and wanted to know more.
Song You also sat there and didn't move.
There was still a mouthful left in the tea bowl.
I saw the storyteller beating his hands with a folding fan. Even if he was chatting, he still had the attitude of telling a story: "To say that among the ten specialties in Changjing, the banquet at Yunchunlou is one of the best. It is said among the people that it is a dish that comes out of the palace. Style, but it is mostly a rumor, because if the dishes were leaked from the palace, the nobles and princesses in the palace would not ask people to order dishes from Yunchun Tower."
"The nobles in the palace and Her Royal Highness the Princess are all ordering food. I'm afraid that meal will cost a lot of money, right?"
"That depends on how the guest officer eats it."
"oh?"
"I've never eaten it, little man. But I heard that a table of cheap noodles at Yunchunlou only costs two to three taels of silver. If you want to eat well, you have to book it in advance, and it costs at least a dozen taels." Silver. If you want to eat the same thing as the noble princess in the palace, then the villain doesn’t know."
"Is it so expensive?"
"It really flies in the sky, swims in the water, and runs on the ground. I can catch all kinds of rare objects for you. Whether it's worth it depends on you. Anyway, villains can't afford it. It's all just hearsay."
"anything else?"
"The porcelain produced by Jing Kiln is one of a kind, the Wanjiang girl in Changjing City is one of a kind, the apricot blossoms on Changshan Mountain outside the city are one of a kind, the prosperity of the East and West markets and the night market is one of a kind, and the ghost market in the middle of the night is also one of a kind. The incense from Tianhai Temple is one of a kind, the girls from Qinghongyuan in the south and Liyuan Garden in the north are also one of a kind, the tea from Anleguan is one of a kind, and the last one is the house prices in Changjing City..."
"Isn't this a repeat?"
"The guest officer doesn't know something..."
"..."
Song You left the house, held an umbrella and walked back.
He had memorized these ten skills.
Especially that last trick...
When he was practicing Taoism on Yin Yang Mountain, he never thought that one day he would be embarrassed by housing prices.
She was about to reach the door of the inn when she saw a calico cat walking from the opposite side. The cat naturally didn't hold an umbrella and was walking in the rain. The hair on its body was soaked, but she didn't notice it. She looked left and right. Sometimes I look up at the sky, as if watching the raindrops in the sky.
Suddenly an umbrella protected her from the rain.
I looked up and saw that it was a Taoist priest.
If you look closely, you will see that it is a Taoist priest.
"Well……"
One person and one cat walked towards the inn.
Back in the room, Song You took a handkerchief, wrapped it all over her body, and wiped it carefully. Her head shook and her hair exploded, and she was almost unrecognizable from before.
The Taoist's voice was gentle: "Where did Sanhua Empress go to play?"
"Went shopping."
"Why did you run out to play when it was raining?"
"You've all gone out to play."
"I borrowed an umbrella from the store."
"It's just raining~"
A soft and thin voice, said casually.
Since Song You met her, he often heard such sentence patterns. He didn't know what Mao'er thought, but he often heard a kind of open-mindedness that often touched him. Today, he was also stunned.
But today I thought of that heroine again.
A hundred miles away, we reach Changjing City.
Nearly two years have passed in a blink of an eye.
He still remembered the agreement he made back then.
But I don’t know if she is still in Changjing.
Song You's wiping movements slowed down, and the calico cat was keenly aware of it, so it stared at him curiously.
"Taoist priest……"
"Um?"
"What do you think?"
"I think the rain might stop tomorrow morning."
"How do you know?"
"Guess."
"You also said you can't tell fortunes!"
"..."
Song You shook his head secretly and continued wiping.
…
Early the next morning, the rain stopped.
The Taoist took the horse and cat on the road again.
Today happens to be the first day of February.
This road goes past the West City Gate.
Walking from early morning to dusk, when we stepped onto a small slope, Changjing City appeared in front of us.
It was an extremely tall city wall. When you climbed down the slope, you were still some distance away from it, but you could still barely see the end to the left and right. Today, the light rain has stopped, but the dusk is particularly thick. Everything in the distance, including the Changjing City, is shrouded in the heavy dusk. Looking from a distance, it feels like a dream.
Song You stopped and looked at it without saying a word.
Although Changjing was just a waypoint, only a temporary rest, not a destination, it still took him more than two years to walk from Yidu.
Over the past two years, we have really traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers.
I have eliminated water demons in Lingbo, watched the Liujiang Convention in Anqing, fought with countless heroes in rivers and lakes, talked with the thousand-year-old Yanxian, met a peerless swordsman who slayed ghosts, and walked through the ghost market in the mountains. I drank with the gods of the mountains in hundreds of miles of barren mountains, went to Yunding Mountain to find immortals, and also moored at night in Jinghu Lake, where all the stars were shining on the water, and fishing lights were about to float in the sky...
I don’t know how many sunrises and sunsets there are, and how many scenery and people there are.
Traveling thousands of miles, they gather into a painting, all in the eyes.
A person's life is made up of all the roads he has traveled, all the scenery he has seen, every person he has known and every sentence he has spoken, every passage he has read, and every small choice he has made.
Of course, Song You also remembered that he had made an appointment with a Jianghu woman in Changjing because of her sincere heart for friendship.
Now we are finally here.
This is the most prosperous city in the world, the center of the world in this era, and the dream in the hearts of countless people.
It's time to keep the appointment.
Looking from a distance, I can only see the city in the smoke, and only the broad city wall. People can still be seen coming and going in the near distance, but it is difficult to see clearly in the distance.
Will the heroine be outside the city?
Song You didn't know.
After careful calculation, Wu Nuxia went straight to Changjing. Xuzhou was not that far away without taking a detour. Even if she walked slowly and was delayed along the way, she should have arrived here before the end of the spring of the second year of Mingde. , it should be early summer at the latest, or late summer at the worst, and now it has been a year and a half since the late summer of the second year of Mingde.
Song You was not sure whether the heroine was still in Changjing and whether she was okay, nor was he sure whether what she said at that time was just a whim, impulsively said out of joy. Later, he came to Changjing and spent a few times here. After a few weeks or a few months, it becomes boring and pointless, so I give up.
Or the waiting time was too long, and after more than a year of waiting, he felt that he would not come, or he felt that he did not look for her when he came to Changjing, so he stopped waiting.
Or maybe it’s too cold in Changjing during this late spring period and I don’t want to go out for a walk, so I won’t come.
I didn’t say I wanted to see her very much.
The two met not long ago and didn't have much contact with each other, so it's hard to say how deep their friendship was.
But Song You really wants to know, in this era of martial arts, is there really someone who wants to keep a friendship and a rare fate, so he comes to Xicheng Gate every day for a month, and for more than 20 people in a row? I come here every first day of the month to wait.
This in itself is a precious thing.
Song You stood for a long time and finally took a step.
Go down and go forward.
There are two or three peach blossoms on the roadside.
The city wall is getting closer and bigger, people are coming and going at the city gate, cars are flowing like water, horses are like dragons, the capital city of Dayan is gradually showing its majestic and prosperous side.
There are notices posted next to the city gate, which are similar to those outside Yidu City. They are roughly notices, wanted orders, reward orders, etc.
Many people gathered around to watch.
There was a figure among them, wearing a gray and black winter coat, wrapped very thickly, with disheveled and frizzy hair. He was also standing in the crowd, looking up at the notice. But soon she felt bored. She turned around and walked around in the open space for a few times, like an idle worker waiting for work. However, not long after, she kicked up the gravel on the ground again, and unknowingly kicked it. At the feet of the official.
The official scolded her, and she quickly admitted her mistake.
Turning around again, she saw a Taoist priest, a bay-red horse, and a calico cat, all covered in dust, looking at her.
Song You looked at her silently, feeling moved.
It turns out that some people really wait for a friend for two years and come once a month for the sake of a relationship.
The woman also stared at him blankly, full of surprise.
It seemed strange, and it seemed that I couldn't believe it.
After all, she is a Jianghu person. When she saw her grinning, she strode over:
"Taoist Priest! Long time no see!"
The Taoist also bowed respectfully:
"Hero, long time no see."
It has been two years since we said goodbye.
Peach blossoms never miss the promise of spring, and old friends never break their promises.
This encounter is as rare as before.
(End of chapter)
