In late spring, the reeds by the waterside grow luxuriantly, and ripples form as the wind blows. Sometimes, when the wind suddenly gets stronger, even if there is no moon at night, you can still see the sky full of white reed flowers floating around, and my heart follows them, floating around, perhaps to my silver bell.
Just as I was thinking this, the wind suddenly blew the reeds away to the northwest, and I had to go southeast against the white fluff. Thinking of this, I took off my armored coat, picked up the Tianlang, which had also been unsheathed, stood on the front of the car, and urged the horse. I was singing a song at the same time. I didn't understand any music, so I could only follow the rhythm of Guo Pei's song, and I also made up a few songs:
Reeds are swaying on the wild paths in the starry night, the wind blows people away freely, I stay awake thinking about your beauty, I smile alone, you are the only one in the world!
In March, the sky is bright without a moon, the reeds are flying and the wind is fragrant, the man stands on the front of the car and leans on the wolf, have you ever forgotten? You are in the distant place.
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Wearing black robes, black boots and Lingxi armor, people shouting and wolves howling in carriages, breaking through the wind and seeing old friends coming, climbing up to Yingtai, I laugh at the world in white!
When the last song was finished, the sky was really white. In the morning mist, I looked at the wolf and saw some gray and black marks. I felt a little distressed. I let out a long breath, put away the old brother, and put on my original black coat, and returned to the clothes of a traveler, no longer singing so wantonly. Brother Chen knew that I was going to travel, and even drew a route for me that he thought was the safest. Sure enough, I didn't see a ghost along the way, but this made me a lot more bored.
The sun had just risen and the weather quickly became hot. I could not stand the heat in my arms any more, so when no one was around, I quickly took off my clothes and put on the clothes that Yinling had made for me before. I held my clothes tightly and drove the horse slowly with a warm smile on my face. I leaned against the cart and finally felt a little sleepy and slowly fell asleep.
Suddenly, I saw a man kneeling in front of me in a hall, and someone told me that he wanted to surrender to me. I suddenly remembered that he wanted to assassinate me, and I became nervous, unable to speak or do anything. I saw that he suddenly jumped up and stabbed me with a sharp knife. I knew Yinling would come to save me, but I still stretched out my hand and grabbed the tip of her sword.
When I woke up, I felt an itch in my hand. I opened my eyes with great effort. The sun was already high in the sky, very dazzling. When I tried to look at my hand, I found that the reins were being pulled by the horse, dragging back and forth in my hand. I blocked the dazzling sunlight with my hand, smelled some unremembered fragrance floating from somewhere around me, and changed my posture to lean against the car, feeling very comfortable and cozy. I squinted my eyes and looked around casually, and this time I actually saw someone.
But maybe it was because of the dream, looking at that man made me feel that he was the one who stabbed me in the dream. I was a little scared at the time, but looking at his dull and silly smile on his unshaven face, I could only smile, greet him casually, continue to lightly stroke the horse's back, and walk away leisurely like this.
The man politely reminded him, "Dear guest from the west, please come and have a meal. You see, the horse can hardly move anymore."
My stomach was really uncooperative. When I heard about the meal, it growled. I could only laugh at myself, reined in my horse, and said to the man casually, "Are you the shopkeeper?"
"Sir, I am just a waiter. This is the only place within a radius of dozens of miles where guests from the south and the north can eat. Since you are passing by, why don't you invite me to have something to eat before continuing on your journey?"
"You are a man who knows some etiquette. You are not like some waiters in taverns who force customers. Okay, I'll go to your restaurant." I turned my horse around and drove in the direction he indicated.
It turned out that this was a village outside the ferry. There was a place to eat on the road beside the village. Reeds and other things were burning in the stove. The aroma of meat in the pot really made me hungry. Seeing a ferry leaving in the distance, there were no people here for a while. The large place, with more than a dozen low tables and dozens of reed mats on the ground, did have a unique charm. But at this moment, I was the only one enjoying it.
Soon, an old man with an accent from the east of Jingzhou came up and asked me what I wanted. I didn't pay attention and just said, "Bring me three pounds of pork, some rice, some rice wine, and anything else you want."
"You have a really big appetite..." I nodded quickly and gestured my size with my hands. He then nodded and turned to prepare, mumbling something in his mouth, as if to say, "Big, big appetite."
I smiled, and my attention was quickly drawn to the children playing among the reeds. Several boys were playing a war game with thick reeds, a game that I had played ten years ago. Watching them charging back and forth, I seemed to have returned to my own time, playing the same game that my brothers and I had played repeatedly in all places in Xiangyang. However, we mostly learned the scenes of Huo Qubing's expedition against the Xiongnu, and I had no idea what these children were playing. Suddenly, I saw several children falling backwards, holding the reeds horizontally, and then several other children fell to the ground when they rushed over, and then they started to wrestle. I knew what they were acting, but I didn't know who was in the middle. But their fight was too real. The country kids were indeed better than us. As I watched, I began to get a little nervous.
I was about to stand up, and at that moment, I felt a tightness in the back of my heart, and immediately a piercing pain came. I knew something was wrong. My mind was distracted and I was ambushed.
Ignoring the pain, my mind was full of thoughts. My body immediately rushed forward and rolled on the ground. When I stood up again, I turned around immediately. It was indeed the guy holding a boning awl and rushing towards me. When I thought about it, the tip of the awl with a bloody smell was in front of me. I immediately leaned back, grabbed the man's arm with my hand, and threw him to the right. But I couldn't use any strength in the air. When my back fell to the ground again, I felt that my pain was worse than his. When I stood up quickly, I dragged the flute bag on the ground, which also dragged out some of my memory. I quickly pulled out the thorn, rushed forward, kicked the boning awl in his hand away, and pressed my thorn against his throat.
"Who are you? Why did you try to stab me?" I gasped, and kept reaching back with my other hand to touch the wound to see how it was.
He lay on the ground with a look of joy and sorrow on his face, sighing and closing his eyes to wait for death. This scene really confused me. I had to turn around and look at the shopkeeper. I saw that the shopkeeper and several other employees were all staring at me in shock. When they saw me looking at them, they hurriedly explained that it was none of their business.
"I'm not trying to offend you, but tell me who this person is?" I was a little angry and anxious.
"We don't know either. This man came across the river from the south. His name is Xia Chou. He's been looking for a job everywhere. I just kept him because we are short of staff recently. He can't do anything else well, but he is good at attracting customers, so I asked him to go to the road to invite guests." These words really woke me up. I really knew who this man was. It was really this person.
I shook my head and put away the thorn. "Why are you here? You look like you have been wandering among the people for a long time. Don't you know what kind of people the Xia father and son are?"
"Not entirely because of this." Seeing that I didn't kill him but asked him these questions, he opened his eyes, hesitated a little, but seemed unwilling to give in, and said: "You only know how to be righteous and moral, but you know how those jailers humiliated me, and how can you understand... I was driven out by them... and I didn't even have a way to make a living. No one in Changsha dared to hire me. I could only sneak away by boat to this village at the junction of Jing and Yang, where there is no need to check household registration, to do this kind of work and barely make a living, otherwise I could only beg. All this is because of you, because you are the Marquis of Ping An Fengyun." He was a little excited when he said this, and finally tears flowed down his face, which was much more haggard than last time, and I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
However, the last sentence had a greater impact on the people around him, and it immediately sparked a lot of discussion over there. I knew that the name of Marquis Ping'an Fengyun was still able to intimidate some ordinary people in the world.
"You can still do something with your hands, that's good." I wanted to reach behind me again, but I held back. I straightened my body and thought about some things, and then I said, "Besides, you only hurt me this time. According to our agreement, I will let you go. You may not be able to stay here. It will be very convenient for you to find me in the future. Everyone in the world knows me. Here is the money." I wanted to find some money in the purse to give him, but I thought it would be too mean, so I threw the whole purse to him, "Go, go to the north, and make up a good name for the household registration official in any city. You can survive there. In this world, these household registration officials are easier to bribe. You may think it's too much, so I will consider it as compensation for your hard days in prison. Besides, I was hit by you, so you don't consider it as compensation. Go. Find a place to think about it carefully. What is the purpose of your life in this world? Go, go. If you still want to kill me in the future, we will talk when you come."
He really left, and when I sat down and looked back, I saw a few reeds swaying in the reed bank. I felt lost, and I didn't know if I was a little crazy, but I was too lazy to think about it for the moment. I felt thirsty, so I asked him to bring up more soup.
However, the people in front of me didn't move. When they saw me looking at them, they all knelt down in panic.
Sometimes these people really have some big problems to deal with. Under normal circumstances, I would definitely go over to help them and give them a sanctimonious lecture, but at this moment, I really don't have the energy to do so. I can only shout as loudly as I can, "Get up, this is my business with that person and it has nothing to do with you."
After saying this, he took out another purse from his bosom, thinking that what the lady had prepared was indeed very useful and beneficial, and after throwing it to them, he shouted again: "Hurry up and feed me the meat, I'm hungry. Also, feed some hay to my horses, they're hungry too, and... clean the wound on my back." After saying this, he took off his shirt and shuddered unconsciously. The wound seemed to be quite serious, at least it hurt a lot from the scratching of his clothes. Although the sun shone on my body all of a sudden, I still felt a little cold, and I actually felt a little sorry for that person.
"A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated." I sighed, "But you chose the wrong master."
It’s just that I didn’t enjoy the meal, and I couldn’t help feeling resentful about this matter. I may be tolerant now, but having met such a person, my life may be difficult in the future.
After the meal, they found out that I gave them too much and even asked for change. I asked them to bring me a few more days' worth of food, and they still had some left over. They even added that I really gave them too much, so I considered it as compensation for one of their employees.
When I was leaving, I realized that almost all the people in the village had formed a big circle behind me, just looking at me, and standing in a semicircle 80 meters away from me. I straightened my clothes, not knowing what to do, and finally said hello, and they immediately made way for me. Then, I watched them load all kinds of steamed buns and cooked meat onto my cart. Finally, I said thank you and rode away. At this time, I was a little sleepy, and I fell asleep soon after getting on the cart, and the horse dragged me away.
I opened my eyes several times in the afternoon, and each time I saw a road leading eastwards, with reeds stretching for thousands of miles all around me, only the shadows were getting longer and longer, and the sky was getting darker.
I was probably a little sick, probably because of that blow, the wound was festering, and my clothes were wet and sticky. Fortunately, there was only one road, so I just leaned against it for a few days and didn't pay much attention to the horse.
When he was hungry, he just ate something casually. When he was thirsty, he drank some water. After a few days, the situation in front of him did not change, and his body was still not getting better. His whole body was also very uncomfortable from the shaking, so he let the horse stop completely, settled down by the roadside, and let the horse rest.
The things in my mind are very simple: I miss Yinling. I often dream about her, but I often leave her before I wake up. When I wake up, I cry for no reason. At this time, Ping An Fengyun Hou is just an 18-year-old injured boy. Sometimes I dream about other things, such as this night, I dreamed of that man, and he wanted to assassinate me again.
I was awakened by a nightmare and broke out in a cold sweat. I opened my eyes and looked around, only to find that there were indeed people in the reeds around me, and there was more than one. I picked up Tianlang not far away and was about to stand up when I found that there was someone in the car.
"Who!" I didn't know whether to shout or not. But I couldn't shake off the wolf in the car, so I immediately got out of the car, jumped onto the road, pulled open the weapon sheath, and immediately let out the wolf's fangs to fake a wave at the car door. Then I looked around vigilantly, not knowing whether it was to build up courage or to scare others, I shouted loudly, "Come out, otherwise, I will beat you to pieces."
"Don't... don't, sir, we are just begging for food. You may not care if we take some food from you, but for us, it means we can survive one day, and that's one day." The voice of a begging adult sounded, and then a man came out from the crowd.
"Then you can wake me up. If you want some food, I can give it to you. Why do you have to steal?" Although he was a little angry, he could only soften his tone when he thought of this.
"The children are ignorant, just forgive them. Yuan, come out quickly and kowtow to this uncle." How could the child steal things without being taught by an adult? How could anyone believe these words? However, looking at the clothes on the man's body and a poor child kneeling on the car, I still couldn't get hard. This adult should be the child's father, so he came out to persuade me.
"How many of you are there?" I asked, and put away the wolf, helped the child up, and let him get off the car. However, two pieces of rags were left on his knees, which reminded me of Brother Meng De's words: "I pity my people, and it breaks my heart to think of them."
"There are more than 30 people, who fled here to escape famine from Yangzhou. We heard that the local officials in Jingzhou were good, so we wanted to make a living in Jingzhou. However, we didn't expect the checkpoints and roads to be so tight, and we couldn't enter Jingzhou at all." The man seemed to be relieved about me, and I realized that I had arrived in Yangzhou, but there was one thing I didn't understand.
We are so short of labor this year, but why don't we let these people in? Why is the teacher doing this? But the teacher must have his reasons. If he doesn't tell me, I will ask him later. It may also be that Yangzhou doesn't let me out, but it seems too easy for me to come out like this, which always makes me feel that their words are not credible.
"Where are you all? I'll go over to see you." I made a suggestion.
"No, sir, don't go. We have women there..." He didn't finish his words, but I quickly figured out what was going on. Looking at their clothes, I could tell what those women were wearing.
He sighed, got into the car, took out all his food, and when he came out again, he said casually: "Tell more of your people to come." But in his heart, he was thinking, if I get cheated, then I'll just get cheated this time.
I got into the car again, took out a few pieces of my clothes, and even started tearing off all the cushions in my car and pulling down all the curtains of the car.
I realized that I had quite a lot of stuff in my car. When I threw everything away and turned around, I found a mountain in front of the car. I looked at the people who came behind them but didn't dare to move. They were basically men and children who looked very sloppy. I pointed to the mountain in front and said, "Take these, and this." I had to re-examine my wife. She was really foresighted. As the purse flew out, I still had two bags in my arms. I actually found a few more bags in the car.
"Also, come here..." I squatted in front of the car, just like the old farmer I saw eating at Shanghe, and greeted the middle-aged man I met at the beginning in a very honest way: "What do you do for a living recently?"
"There are fish in the river..." I nodded, and then I heard his next question, and I thought they would definitely ask: "Who are you?"
However, I didn't answer his question first: "You can use the money to buy a few boats and nets, find a good place and build a village, then your life will be settled in the future." I was very idealistic, but I really didn't have any other ideas.
Seeing that they had taken all the things away, I urged my horse forward, and then with a smile on my face, until there was no one in sight, I shouted to the sky: "My name is Xie Zhi, but I don't think you know me."
I guess everyone in the world knows Ping An Fengyun Hou, but Xie Zhi is obviously much more famous. So I heard a faint shout from behind: "Thank you, Lord Xie En."
My last name is really good. At least I didn’t understand at that time whether those people were calling me “Thank you, benefactor” by my last name or just saying thank you to this benefactor.
I didn't actually do anything. These things were only enough for them to live for a few more days. But if they really bought boats and nets, and finally built a village by the water, then I would be considered a good person, and my words would have a greater impact. At that time, I thought that I must take another look at the situation here when I come back.
The cart became much lighter and the horse immediately pulled the cart much faster, and I felt relieved, until I saw the two pieces of rags on my cart again.
I picked them up and looked at them, tears welled up in my eyes. I put them away and treasured them for a long time.
However, the next day I found that my body seemed to be much better after what happened the night before. At noon that day, I passed by a familiar mountain. I looked at it all the way, watching the misty smoke above, thinking about the ice lake above, and the familiar but distant shadow in the snow above.
After walking for another two days, we found a post station and changed horses. The soldiers guarding the post station were still ours. Considering my current status, I greeted them and asked them to take me to the post station. The people at the post station were very curious about my status, but they didn't dare to ask because there were more than a dozen of our soldiers standing beside me. It would be very convenient for me to take care of them. However, they said that they had received orders to pack up the camp and might leave at any time. In addition, Brother Yan had taken many brothers to Wu County in the east, and Brother Yang had disappeared recently. Now they all obeyed the command of General Liao, and General Liao often ran around the military camp, so it was not easy to find him. Because he was very brave in battle and very decisive in doing things, he was promoted very quickly recently and has become the second in command here. I especially noticed that when these soldiers mentioned General Liao, they liked to add the word "abnormal" to his name. I suddenly remembered that person, and also another person, and a word called mad dog.
I treated them to a meal as a reward for their help. They felt embarrassed, but they didn't refuse when it came to drinking and eating. I also asked them to show me the way to where General Liao is now.
But the best and what I like most about these northern men is their generosity. After dinner, I rode a horse, one man helped me drive the carriage, and the other rode a horse with me.
When we came across a military camp on the road, they went to inquire for me, but basically the answers were all some time in the past, such as they had been there a few days ago, which made them alert and prepare to move out of camp.
I had some doubts, but it was inconvenient to ask them, so I could only smile at them casually, but in my heart I was missing the mountain I had passed by.
The day I found Liao happened to be the first day of April, and summer had officially arrived. I had a new idea that day, and I thought I had found the reason why this season is called summer. The reason was that it rained all day that day, and I was helpless and at a loss what to do. I was so angry that I felt evil.
By the evening of that day, the ground was already quite muddy and the car got stuck several times. If the car was not very light, I don’t know how long it would have taken. But the two people were still very happy. For them, following me was a good job because they had good food and drink every day and had something to brag about when they went back. In fact, they got this opportunity by drawing lots among more than 20 brothers.
And I could only share their happiness, and in order to make them look more pleasing to the eye, I even wore Lingxi Armor and hung Tianlang. However, it was windy and rainy, and it was much more comfortable than the previous few days when I was covered in sweat. So I was in a good mood today, at least not worse than the previous few days.
Just as we were about to reach our next military camp, I met this man on the road who was heading west with a dozen followers.
He wiped the rain off his face, looked closely and found that he was familiar. Without any hesitation, he immediately raised Tianlang and waved, "General Liao Hua?"
This kid should be only about seventeen years old, but he has a rather impressive beard, and he looks very impressive in his linked iron armor. However, he gave away the secret as soon as he opened his mouth. His childish voice could not be concealed: "Lord Ping An Fengyun Hou?"
He was about to dismount, but I stopped him with a shout: "I don't need to salute when I'm wearing armor. Besides, I'm a commoner. General, you don't have to do this. If you want to salute, I should salute you."
"Haha, there are commoners like you... and what's going on with you two?" He pointed at my clothes and laughed, but then he saw two soldiers next to me who looked very familiar, so he quickly questioned them.
"Ah, report to General Liao, we are from Lu Ting Camp, we are here to bring Marquis Ping An Feng Yun to see you." They both reported loudly at the same time.
"Lü Ting? There are only more than 20 people in your military camp, right? What if something happens if you are not there? One person will be enough. Do you want to enjoy a good life with Fengyun Hou? Because this time it is because of Fengyun Hou, he will not let me punish you, so I will let it go. Otherwise, I will beat you up and you will go back tomorrow morning. Fengyun Hou, it is raining, let's go to a nearby military camp to talk." This is a big improvement. The whole thing was solved very neatly, leaving no questions or follow-up possibilities. But I always feel that these two people cannot be blamed like this, which makes me feel a little guilty. In the end, I threw some money to them and asked them to go back and treat everyone to a good meal.
Zhaoguan, where Wu Zixu's hair turned white overnight, is the junction of Wu and Chu, and is now an important garrison camp for our troops. There are about 500 people stationed at the pass.
It took us an hour and a half to get there. When we arrived, except for the lights on the top of the pass, it was completely dark. I wiped myself a little and waited for Liao Hua in the room assigned to me. I asked him to finish his work and then come to me. In the end, he came to me almost late at night, with a strong sense of fatigue on his face, but still looked at me with a smile. I patted his shoulder and said nothing, asking him to go to rest quickly.
In my dream that night, I was on my way to see Yin Ling and was about to pass Zhaoguan. I was stuck in the crowd for a long time and couldn’t move. After I got out of the city, I found that my hair had turned completely white.
The next day, I set out with him. He was going to the wedding, so I had a chat with him over breakfast and on the way.
I remember I asked him directly: "Do you have a brother? Is he in Jingxi?"
"Yes, his name is Liao Hao, but he is staying with me now."
"Oh, how did he get here?"
"In the battle of Mingzi, you were the only one who survived in Tingyicheng... You sent him out to deliver a letter before the battle, saving his life... Later, the brigade he originally belonged to was empty, and Lord Luo Xin saw that my brother was the only child and knew that I was his older brother, so he sent him to me, and now he is assigned to our team."
"That's fine. He was the oldest person in the city who could fight at that time, so of course we sent him." I felt a little sad when I mentioned that battle. I could only say it casually and immediately pushed it away with other words, "Why did you divide the soldiers so sparsely? If something goes wrong, how can we take care of them? Many barracks only have dozens of people."
"There is no way. In fact, Tao Qian is also an old fox. He used the name of the governor and the excuse that he did not provide supplies for such a large army. In fact, we only have a few thousand people, but he took the opportunity to stab us everywhere for doing nothing. Brothers Yang and Yan asked us to send some soldiers to each county, especially to deploy heavy troops at some important passes. In other places, we are almost just guarding sentries to make it look like we are trying hard to guard and defend everywhere, and it is convenient to send some food and grass to each county. Fortunately, Tao Qian is only a governor, and we have more people now, so it is difficult for him to do anything to us. But it seems that he has been reorganizing his troops since last autumn. He raised food and grass for us, which is actually for himself. I also left a copy. Several of the princes here are the same as him, and they all look at us with strange eyes. But Brother Yang asked us to prepare to leave. This is the message sent by the governor. It may be in a few days, and then we won’t have to endure this bad mood. But Brother Yang is now in the north, and I don’t know which prince he is. He is just wandering there, meaning that we don’t make enemies everywhere. I think it may be to let those people think that we will stay here for a while. I don’t quite understand why? In fact, I have been thinking about finding an opportunity to pretend to be a bandit and beat up these bastards, and I will feel refreshed all of a sudden. "His voice was very low, but his eyes and facial expressions pretended to be very relaxed.
"I completely agree with General Liao Hua's opinion." My facial expression was more serious and relaxed than his, which made him unable to suppress his laughter.
"They dare not move. They know in their hearts that if a fight really breaks out, just a bunch of loose guys fighting against us, one of our Yellow Turbans can beat ten of them, plus a hundred Tao Qians. If it's those princes, the number may be even greater." He suppressed his voice, but in the end he couldn't help laughing.
"And please help me make arrangements. I want to go to Wu County. Please help me arrange a boat and a place to cross the river. Otherwise, it may be very troublesome."
"Yes, that's right. Before the flood, it was most convenient to go south from Liyang to Dangtu, because there is an island in the middle of the river, the water is gentle, and it is fast and safe to go there. But now the water is high, I can only find someone to take you there. Go south, there is a hill between Yaogou and Tanggou, where we built a dock on a hill. From there, we can take our boat directly to a hilltop in the south of the Yangtze River, and then continue south, and then turn west along the road. Considering the difficulty of the mountain road, it will take about half a month to ride a horse. If we can reach Wujun before May, it may be normal." He paused, and then suddenly said to me in a more serious tone: "I heard that the whole mountain in the south is very beautiful (Huangshan, author's note), you can go and see it when you have time."
"Have you been there?"
"I don't have time. I'll go back when I have the chance."
There were some things I didn't ask because I didn't think they were very important. After he made some arrangements for me, we said take care to each other and I said goodbye to him.
I spent the next three days traveling south by land. It took less than a day to cross the river when I finally reached the south bank of the river. My heart was empty, as if there was always a shadow lingering in my mind, making me want to cry.
I left the car on the north bank, took all my luggage, and only took two horses, the wolf and the spear, and continued the long journey. The only reason that supported me to travel so lonely was that one reason. In my heart, except that I felt that I was not very friendly with two such weapons, everything else was fine.
This is indeed a very beautiful mountain. After walking along the highlands for a day, I saw a whole range of lush mountains in front of me. There were layers of peaks, clouds and mist, and strange peaks lined up one after another. There was white gauze wrapped in between, which added a sense of immortality. This made me feel like traveling. However, I would rather bring Yinling with me. However, by the time I find her, all kinds of troubles may come to me.
The mountain is steep and rugged, and the pines there must be rare and fine, with strong trunks, unyielding branches, and leaves gathered like disks. It is even more rare to find pines in the cracks of the cliffs, which shows how tough they are! Because there is really no road into the mountain, you can only slowly meander along the mountain trails. There are also several villages on the flat land at the foot of the mountain along the gurgling stream. Fortunately, the people are simple and honest, and there is no problem along the way.
It is said that the mountains, rivers and people here are all beautiful. I was intoxicated by the scenery together with the heaven and earth and could not extricate myself. It took me five days to walk out of this place of a hundred miles.
No matter what, I still gained a lot, not only for the beautiful mountain scenery, but also for saving a life.
This was a young man. I called him a young man because he was older than me, otherwise I would have called him a young man. At that time, I didn’t know if I would see him again, and I didn’t know what he would become. At that time, he was just a medical student from a mountain west of here, and he only came here to collect herbs. So, I saved a medical student who was collecting herbs.
He fell from the mountain. Fortunately, there were vines at the foot of the mountain that held him up. When I saw him in the afternoon, he had just fainted and his legs were slightly injured. I carried him on the horse. Although I was sure that there would be a village ahead, and it was later proved that we could reach it in another hour, I still turned back and walked to the village I left in the morning. I handed him over to the care of the villagers, and I didn't feel relieved until he woke up.
He was very grateful to me, but I was nothing special; his name was Dong Feng, and mine was Xie Zhi; he really didn't know who I was, so we became friends very sincerely; maybe we will meet in the future, but I think the possibility is not high, at least it is much more pessimistic than his expectations.
Five days later, I left this beautiful mountain under the guidance of a woodcutter. After walking for half a day, I realized that the mountain was beautiful, but I always felt that something was missing. In my heart, I could not find any words to separate it from other beautiful scenery, at least I couldn't think of any in my mind.
So, I thought I could go find Yinling openly, I thought I really loved her. There was nothing else in my mind, but I always thought of her. But I also knew another thing, I still loved a "passing away" person.
On April 21st of the first year of Chuping, it took me nearly a month and thousands of miles to finally reach Wujun. I was very unlucky in the last period of time as it rained almost every day and I could not walk much every day; but I was also very lucky as I missed a "feast" here a few days ago.