Chapter 2467 Meeting on the Lake
Zhangqiu Baiyun Lake has always been a destination for literati to visit.
The lake surface fluctuates slightly, and the rising sun shines on it, as if thousands of small fish are jumping on the lake surface, and the scales are flickering.
A small boat walked slowly in the lake.
The boatman was shaking and jogging in the back, and the boatwoman made breakfast in the fleet.
She opened the board, snatched it under her pocket for a while, and then caught a few fish.
"Please rest assured, the fish came to the net last night, it's fresh."
There were only two guests, and there was a boat behind him towed it a little.
Fang Xing saw that the fish were still jumping around, so he said, "Just live."
Sitting opposite him was a gray-bearded man.
The man stroked his beard and said, "The scenery here is good, but I was negligent in the past."
The boatwoman started to cook breakfast, and the fish scales collapsed everywhere.
Fang Xing leaned over and picked up a piece of fish scales. The scales were a little bit greasy. He reached out to wash outside the boat.
The lake water is clear and clean, with willows swaying on the shore, but there are clusters of reeds in front of it.
The porridge was being boiled on a small stove at the bow of the boat, with a strong fragrance.
"Xinghe Bo, here is not far from Beijing."
A slight charcoal fire from the bow of the boat floated over. The man sniffed, reached out and squirted in front of his nose a few times, and his brows frowned slightly.
This is a pampered person.
Fang Xing likes this smell.
“I like this taste.”
He also sniffed, but he felt a little leisurely and pleasant.
"When I was in the countryside when I was a child, I just harvested rice and the straw in the fields was lit up in piles, and then the smell was mixed with the smell of cow dung."
Fang Xing was recalling the melancholy and leisurely yearning that he could not look back.
"The old farmer walked in front, and the old cows followed without driving them. The old farmer didn't have to let the old cows get tired, so he carried the cows to dig them by himself. It looked stupid, but it fits with the world. Even if the best painter came, he could not find any mistake in that scene."
The man sighed, "Xinghe Bo, my family is also studying for farming..."
Speaking of Gengdu, he looked at Fang Xing uncomfortablely.
Originally, farming and reading was a compliment, but since Fang Xing revealed the background of the so-called farming and reading families, farming and reading has become synonymous with the opportunity to merge.
"You have planted the land?"
Fang Xing asked with a smile.
The man nodded and said, "I have to go to the ground every year, even if I just support the plow, I am not an ignorant scholar."
Fang Xing nodded and said, "Do you know the reason why you have to plow the land after the autumn harvest?"
The man was stunned and wanted to argue, but remembered the wall at home that was later rebuilt, so he had to shake his head slightly.
Boom!
The sky was clear, but a thunder came.
"This is spring thunder, Jingzhe, and the dormant insects should wake up."
Fang Xing put his hand into the water and said, "The biggest reason for the child to be born and the fields to be plowed in winter is to remove insects. Pull out the insects hiding in the soil and freeze them to death in the cold winter."
"And Jingzhe... the remaining bugs must be unwilling to accept it, so they will excite themselves from the ground to see what is going on outside."
Fang Xing smiled and said, "So you have to cultivate the land frequently, and often let the insects be exposed to the sun by God. Today is Jingzhe, next month, when Qingming Festival, farmers will plow the land again, and when Grain Rain will also fertilize the land. So who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard, do your family understand this hard work?"
The man gently patted the boat's side and smiled and said, "Xing Hebo is turning his swords and guns between his lips and tongues, but do you want to attack my family?"
The man's demeanor was quite calm, and his expression was even more bookish.
"Next month, we will set the foundation of the country. Xing and Bo are stranded in Shandong. What do you want to watch?"
The man said aggressively: "If you want to watch my house, then the head of the family will naturally tie himself up and go to the capital to apologize. If not, why bother to make a big fuss!"
He said coldly: "A count, a prime minister, and a left assistant minister, what a big show!"
The boatwoman put the sliced fish into the porridge and stirred it slightly, and the taste gradually came out.
"Just put some salt, don't have anything else."
Fang Xing saw that the boat girl was reluctant to scoop some lard from the jar with a small spoon, and hurriedly stopped her.
The boatwoman said, "Customer, we can't bear to leave this oil!"
Fang Xing said, "Don't put oil on, you won't lose money at that time."
The boatwoman confirmed it again and happily served the fire.
The fresh fragrance of fish porridge gradually spread out, and Fang Xing sniffed, and couldn't wait.
Later, the boatwoman brought two bowls of fish porridge.
Fang Xing took a sip, then closed his eyes and savored it slowly.
The man looked at him coldly and said, "Is Xing and Bo really Taotie?"
Fang Xing drank the porridge silently, and finally handed the bowl to the boatwoman, then wiped his mouth and took a sip of the green tea that he made.
Green tea is slightly bitter, but it is most appropriate when it is full of fresh fragrance in the mouth.
The rich tea aroma of green tea gradually washed away the fresh fragrance of the fish porridge, and Fang Xingxin said satisfied: "Just eat only one bowl of fish porridge, Fang was satisfied with this trip."
The greed for gluttony and greed for money are synonymous with insatiable desires.
The man was waiting patiently for him to drink the porridge, but he just sniffed it slightly, and the bowl of porridge did not move at all.
The boatwoman wanted to come over to collect the bowl, but was afraid that he had never moved.
"Take it!"
The man pointed to the bowl beside him, and the boatwoman put away the bowl and chopsticks, and then took the bowl of fish porridge to the stern of the boat.
Fang Xing turned around and watched the boatwoman feeding the boatman who was shaking porridge. The couple whispered in a low voice, looking happy.
"This is the day for the people. Your family has been extremely rich for many years. I think they are all ants."
The man wanted to refute, but Fang Xing glanced at him coldly, and then his heart trembled, saying, "What kind of benevolence do you want? Is the benevolence of the emperor? That is the disaster of the world. Or the benevolence of the important ministers, that is also a disaster. Only by treating all things as straw dogs is the foundation of the prosperous era. I don't even understand this, so I should go to the title of Xinghe Bo and the Prince's Young Master."
"The people are never straw dogs!"
Fang Xing said, "This enthronement will definitely be smooth, and then the prince becomes a rare treasure. Countless people want to be his teacher, and you are the greatest force. I would like to remind you, it is best for your family to continue to be dormant, and if you are a dragon, you have to lie down for me!"
The man's expression remained unchanged, as if he was really a dragon son and a grandson.
"My family doesn't care about ordinary things, so today, you are in vain when you gather here."
The man said coldly.
Fang Xing nodded and said, "That's best. Uncle Ben has to go back to Beijing, and then he will be unsure of his whereabouts, but he will definitely not pass by your house."
The man stared at Fang Xing tightly, "You are threatening."
Fang Xing continued, "If your family dares to get involved, if there is any punishment from heaven, it will be your own fault."
A wild duck flapped its wings and landed on the water, then looked here curiously.
“Dangling!”
Fang Xing waited for the boatman to finish drinking the bowl of porridge before he ordered him to go to the dock.
The man looked at him curiously and asked, "Are you pitying them?"
"No, everyone deserves respect, that's all."
The man shook his head, feeling that this kind of thinking was hopeless.
"Heaven and earth are unkind..."
He wanted to save the values that were very different between the two sides.
Fang Xing said: "Heaven and earth are ruthless, and there is no difference in treating all things."
The man sighed, "You blocked the negotiation path between us again."
Fang Xing smiled and said, "We are not people on the same path. I will return to Beijing and shock those traitors. And you... your family will be anxious and full of anger, but you will do nothing."
The man held back his anger and said, "Can science have a way to govern the country? Is there an emperor's way?"
"have."
Fang Xing said: "What an emperor needs to govern the country is to be sober and erudite, but the most important thing is to be able to identify people's hearts."
The two were silent for a while, and the boat sailed into the river channel covered with reeds on both sides.
The reeds are slightly green and in another month or two, there will be a thriving reed here.
Seeing that both of them were not talking, the boat girl asked tentatively: "Does the guest want duck eggs?"
"This lake is good, and the ducks raised must be good too."
Fang Xing nodded and said, "If there are, then get a few hundred and bring them back for food for your family."
"Some! Not to mention hundreds, thousands."
The boatwoman happily asked her husband to shake and scoop quickly, and wait until she could go to the village to ask someone to collect duck eggs.
The man saw Fang Xing and the boatwoman talking seriously about the price of duck eggs, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart.
After the boat landed, more than ten people came down from the boat behind, including Fang Xing's servants and the man's entourage.
The two stood on the shore, and the man bowed and said, "Let's leave here, Xing and Bo, we should not be opponents, this is what the head of the family said."
Chapter completed!