mountain and river drinker

Chapter 18

Here, I don't know why, but I know that generally no one would want to come to this place. "

"Can't I come here to see you?" Zhou Hanzhi rolled his eyes at Zhao Rixin, "I just want to come, especially to go to the Shenji Mountain to catch a chicken, and see if the sky is still bright without the cock crowing."

"All right, all right, I really want to explain it to you, but if you don't want to say it, let it go."

"Well, I don't want to say."

"...I told you all about it."

"This can't be exchanged, I don't want to hear it." Zhou Hanzhi smiled at Zhao Rixin, and Zhao Rixin almost hit him with the piano he was holding. I'm going to find you in your house. Sigh——you still call him El Niva, he obviously took my surname."

"Brother Geng, it's obvious that you are too fierce to El Niva, so you should blame me?"

"..."

"By the way, there are no temples in northern Xinjiang?"

"There is no temple here, but there is a small temple on the land of the mountain god," Zhao Rixin laughed at him. "What do you want to know when you ask this question? Redemption or peace, or marriage?"

"I... atone for my crime? Why do you think of this reason? You just look at it like this, and you don't think I have committed any crimes."

"Besides greed and jealousy, there is another kind of sin that everyone has. Cowardice is also a sin, such as not daring to do justice because of cowardice. It would be nice if someone took Reyihan in after she escaped from her husband's house, but no one Only those who dare to do justice can be tyrannical and rampant. Can a city of people beat a villain? I don't believe it... So I came back and went to Liujing City to investigate the case first, and then came to Shenji Station."

Is cowardice a sin?Zhou Hanzhi had never heard anyone say that.If he said it like this, he had hidden a lot of things in his mind, and he didn't want to think about it because of his cowardice.Cowardice is a sin against oneself, not against others.

He and Zhao Rixin talked about this matter, talked and laughed, went to Quanren and went back.Thinking about handing in the documents prepared a few years ago, the official documents should be approved in the spring of next year, and when the weather is warm, he will be busy repairing water conservancy and reclaiming the fields, so he will think less about unnecessary things and forget most of the things he doesn't want to think about. .

After returning, he lit a candle and prepared to burn the swastika pattern drawn by Xianlai, but just after he lit it, he stopped.If you don't send it back to the capital, you can keep it yourself, and you don't have to burn it.Northern Xinjiang is very far away from the king, and he came here for more than half a month. Zheng Yan really wrote "Yang Tiantian" and sent it to him. The day before yesterday, he unexpectedly received a letter from Shuli from Hezhou, but never There is no message from Qin Ronggu.

But after thinking about it, he always felt that Qin Ronggu should send something.Or it's because... when I dreamed that Qin Ronggu wanted to give his life to him, I felt both funny and inexplicably sad, so I thought that if I could... receive a letter from him.

withered maple

Summer willows, autumn wine, winter heavy snow, has been five years.

This year, the saponin tree in Anguo Temple lost all its leaves overnight, and the red silk on the tree bent its branches.In the dense fog, Qin Ronggu bent down, picked up the abandoned past pieces and put them in the envelope.

He often wrote letters, but he never sent a single letter. When he had nothing to do, he read it and put it back in the bag.Most of the records on the paper are brief and gossip, or "Hongwen Museum wants to plant new trees, a general cuts down the ancient locust tree, Hanzhi once leaned on the tree to read, but he is not allowed", or "Looking at the stars in the west, I miss you very much"... Sometimes There are also dried flowers and leaves, such as saponins from Anguo Temple, lilac flowers from Hongwenguan, and ginkgo from Prince's Mansion.

He was already the emperor who ruled the world, and moved out of the Prince's Mansion.On the night of leaving, he went to Ting Rong Yuan to take the scroll in the painting jar. The moon was very lonely at night, and he looked out of the window.Over the past few years, the heartache has been frequent and severe, but the missing is still unbroken.

"If there is a day when I sit alone in the empty palace and look up at the bright light outside the window, I will not forget my compassion for the people, and I will not forget you by my side." He remembered saying to himself.

He couldn't forget Zhou Hanzhi, but Zhou Hanzhi was no longer by his side.

When assessing officials from various places, Qin Ronggu specially sought out the officials from Northern Xinjiang to take a look.The Zhizhou of Longzhou commented on Shenji Post's outstanding achievements, "no deficit, no excessive punishment, no robbery, no arrears of money and food, people's livelihood in the territory, and the local area is improving day by day." Zhou Hanzhi and Zhao Rixin, the original postmaster, have been reassigned from Shenji Station.

As the end of the year draws to a close, North Korea and China are already on vacation.He secretly laughed at himself, and went to northern Xinjiang without heeding the advice of Cheng Gao and others.Northern Xinjiang is too far away, he doesn't have much time, ever since Zhou Hanzhi left the capital, he has always been suffering from heartache, this trip is only enough for him to hurry back, but he is still hot-headed, put on a strong outfit and ride a horse out of Andingmen .

300 million Jade Dragons retreated in battle, and broken scales and armor were flying all over the sky. No one knocked on the door in such a snowy day.

Zhou Hanzhi wrapped up his sleeves, and Zhao Rixin, Aniwar, and a few servants were grilling meat in the house. The charcoal burst and made a slight sound. The yard was closed, and there was heavy snow outside.

He took a sip from his wine glass, and Anivar snatched it away, then moved over with his buttocks and handed him a piece of roasted venison.

"Little heartless." Zhao Rixin stood up and laughed at Anivar, who bit his finger, and Zhao Rixin yelled and pulled his hand away.

"Anivar is duplicity again." Zhou Hanzhi chuckled, and Anivar murmured a few words and gave him a blank look, then turned angrily and went to harass a few servants for a drink.

"Hanzhi, I've thought about what you said about opening more discussion venues in the north." Zhao Rixin pondered for a long time, "Well—the regulations you drafted are still inappropriate, and I have also changed them. However, even though it is New Year's Eve, I It’s not a trivial matter to spoil the scenery. Sun Zhizhou will become an official this year. It’s uncertain, and Xin Zhizhou may not be happy about it. In my opinion, let’s continue planting trees to control the wind and sand.”

"Alright, I just had this idea, so I'll mention it to you first. I'll go to Sun Zhizhou when I go back in two days, and discuss it with him."

"Hey," Zhao Rixin lazily called out to him, "Hanzhi, your top priority this year is not this, it's begging for a wife. Sun Zhizhou's granddaughter, what a girl."

"The current emperor is not married, why should I be anxious?" Zhou Hanzhi smiled, "I told her that I don't like her...it's okay, Sun Zhizhou plans to return to Shenzhou after retiring, she won't see me gone."

"Why don't you transfer to another place?" Zhao Rixin looked at him. "The capital often has letters from you. If you have any concerns, go back. I was born here and have no ambitions. Naturally, I don't want to go elsewhere. You are younger than me. What are you doing?" They all have ideas, and they also have the opportunity to be transferred elsewhere, why do they have to stay in this corner?"

"Why do you always ask me this, I said before, the dragon is in a secluded place, and the phoenix will fly when you wait." Zhou Hanzhi used this sentence to prevaricate Zhao Rixin. intention.

Zhou Hanzhi just wants to guard the corner of the country, which can be regarded as... Watching the border of the country for the current emperor.

He looked at the snow outside the window, heard a few barking dogs, and suddenly pushed open the door and walked out.The yard was very quiet, and he could hear the sound of him walking on the snow. He walked to the gate of the yard and put his hand on the latch, but he heard no movement outside the wall.

But he and Qin Ronggu are only separated by the door in front of him.Qin Ronggu stood quietly outside the door with his hands behind his back, neither knocking nor doing anything else.Even though Zhaoyu held the umbrella for him, there was still a layer of snow on Shen Zhuyue's cloak, he knew that Zhou Hanzhi was in the yard in front of him.

Zhou Hanzhi stood for a while, but he didn't know why, but he didn't open the door after all, so he withdrew his hands and walked into the room.

"Is anyone there?" Zhao Rixin came out to ask him after he hadn't entered the house for a long time, Zhou Hanzhi shook his head.

Erniva ran out, "It's fine if anyone has a look, what's the point of you two standing and guessing like this?" He opened the door as he spoke, and there was indeed no one in the courtyard outside. .

There were faint footprints of two people on the snow, about a foot away from the door, presumably they just stood in front of the door and did not come over.

"No one," Erniva said, "but..." He has sharp eyes, ran out, bent down to pull out a piece of paper from the snow, and ran back joltingly: "There is a piece of paper, um... looking west at the stars , What are you thinking about... I don't know that word. There is also a strange red leaf!"

Very Siqing, Qing's ancient character is written in the state of two people sitting and eating, implying equal status.Zhou Hanzhi remembered clearly that Qin Ronggu happened to be in the Hongwen Museum when Lu Keli said this word, and nodded thoughtfully after listening.

Qin Ronggu never called anyone Qing.

"That's the leaves of the maple tree..." Zhou Hanzhi felt his heart was tightly grasped by someone, and tears rolled down the corners of his eyes unconsciously, even if he didn't see the handwriting on the paper, he had already guessed who was coming.

Haven't forgotten in five years?Indeed never forget.

"Qin Ronggu!" He ran out, but there was no one in the vast snow field.Zhou Hanzhi couldn't help but wiped the tears off his face, and followed the footprints, but the traces were broken on the road.

Qin Ronggu had already gone far away, he didn't look back, and he couldn't hear Zhou Hanzhi calling him in the snow.

That letter was not left by Qin Ronggu, but Zhaoyu stole it, and secretly buried it in the snow while Qin Ronggu turned around.

Qin Ronggu's heart wouldn't hurt when he saw Zhou Hanzhi, but he looked at the sky through the door, but felt that there was a rift between him and Zhou Hanzhi, and couldn't help feeling uncomfortable.

Yi Diqing

When the spring was warm, the first rain fell in northern Xinjiang.Zhou Hanzhi sent a letter to the capital after dealing with the affairs piled up on his desk. It was the half-burned swastika pattern.

Zhou Hanzhi thought for a long time, and decided to accept the position of the king's capital due to Sun Zhizhou's good intentions. When he had no business, he took a leave of absence and went to the king's capital.

Aniwar grew up very fast, and at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he faintly surpassed Zhao Rixin in stature.He also calmed down, and occasionally sat beside Zhao Rixin to read and write quietly, but his handwriting was like a dog crawling.When he heard that Zhou Hanzhi had accepted an official position in Beijing, he was stunned.