[Xianze] Danbo Bookstore Jiangnan Branch

It took more than three times as long to return to Hangzhou after a four-day journey.

Fan Xian and Li Chengze traveled all the way to the south to play in mountains and rivers, crossed streams and climbed high mountains.Li Chengze had seen a lot of authentic folk food, no matter how tolerant his physique was, Fan Xian fed him three catties solidly.Fan Xian claimed that all the way back, he has basically graduated from New Oriental Chef.As for Li Chengze, he was forced by Fan Xian to fill up his capture skill points, and now he only smiles contemptuously when he sees a pheasant.

On the last night before returning to Hangzhou, he even made a terrifying animal trap that shocked Fan Xian physically and mentally. He wanted to catch a rabbit back home, but accidentally caught a stubborn domestic suckling pig that escaped from the farmer's house next door.The two kept their money according to the rules, and after happily eating roasted suckling pig's trotters, they packed up the rest and brought it to the Shizi couple who were still in Hangzhou to help them take care of the bookstore.

Fan Sizhe had already returned to Beijing ahead of schedule due to the busy business of the bookstore.Li Hongcheng and Fan Ruoruo received the fat farm gift in half-surprise and half-surprise, and the four of them simply set up a charcoal-fired barbecue table in the garden of Fanfu, Hangzhou. A lot of wild cats and dogs came.

Fan Xian taught Li Chengze to wrap pork, rice and pickled vegetables in washed vegetable leaves, saying that this is called a simple version of rice wrapped in vegetables.Li Chengze ate two in one go, chewing and nodding with puffed cheeks, rice grains still stuck to the corners of his mouth, Fan Xian wiped them off naturally.

After Fan Ruoruo returned to Jiangnan from Li Hongcheng earlier, "That day I saw Mr. Fan hugging Brother Ze and wanted to teach him how to dance. They seem to have become very good friends. From now on, the Jianghu Road brothers will walk together for the rest of their lives! Hehe!" The key points were extracted from the book, and the new relationship between the two was understood.She covered her mouth with a smile and said:

"Brother, the work that you Feige came to ask us to do a few days ago has basically been completed."

Li Chengze was still gnawing on a pig's foot, and when he heard this, he rolled his eyes left and right, recalling that these days Fan Xian was indeed often throwing pigeons behind his back in a mysterious way, and refused to say who he was sending letters to.Li Chengze scratched his itch for a long time but didn't force him to ask. He suddenly felt that his cold and decisive killing and prestige in the past was no longer there.

"What did he ask you to build?" Li Chengze asked.

Fan Ruoruo and Li Hongcheng looked at each other with a smile, and said, "This one, I'd better ask you to check and accept it yourself."

After the outdoor barbecue, Shizi and his wife also bid farewell and set off for Beijing.Before leaving, Fan Ruoruo gave a deep salute to Li Chengze, and said with a smile, "My brother will leave to you."

It was rare for Li Chengze to be taken aback. Although he knew that Fan Ruoruo probably knew everything, it was the first time in his life that he was so solemnly entrusted to him.But he had experienced too many firsts with Fan Xian that he didn't dare to dream about before, so he also smiled reassuringly, and patted Fan Xian on the shoulder: "I will look at this worry-free person."

Li Hongcheng also followed his wife and bowed, but he certainly didn't understand the subtext between the eyebrows and eyes of several people.After getting in the car, he looked at his wife covering her mouth and smiling, and she also smirked.

Watching the carriage go away, Li Chengze heaved a sigh of relief and pushed Fan Xian: "Go, take me to have a look."

Fan Xian pretended not to understand, and asked, "What are you going to see?"

"Stop pretending, you must have built something on the land in the backyard of the bookstore." Li Chengze said.At the beginning, he and Fan Xian were arguing about whether the name of the branch office should be "Jiangnan Branch" or "Xiling Yinshe". In the end, Fan Xian suddenly gave up the dispute on the condition that the backyard was vacant. What article.

Fan Xian tapped his forehead: "Oh, that little brain is really smart." He stretched out his index finger to Li Chengze, and coquettishly hooked it in the air, "Let's go."

The Jiangnan branch of Danbo Bookstore is in good order.Li Chengze and Fan Xian walked through the corridor, the academy was closed today, and there was no one in the courtyard, so they walked around holding hands.Fan Xian said that he could build another trial reading room to provide some snacks to the people who couldn't afford books for the time being.Li Chengze agreed, and said that he would build another publication room in the courtyard to collect and record interesting stories and anecdotes circulated by the people, and keep all the folk culture and customs of Nanqing in a book.

"People can die and the country can perish, but the crystallized civilization will last forever. To preserve a civilization forever, it is the easiest way to record it in words." Li Chengze said.

"Civilization is not necessarily good. Civilization will devour another civilization, and it will become a tool to buy people's hearts. How do you know that the words you record are not the bane?"

"Paper and pen are innocent, let future generations judge."

Fan Xian said: "In 'Wonderland', there are more ways to record civilization than paper and pen. There are also photographs, audio recordings, and videos... Maybe because there are so many ways, people don't care much about it."

"video?"

Fan Xian asked Li Chengze to imitate his hand gestures, forming a square frame with both hands.He explained: "All buildings, flowers and trees, sounds, weather, colors, and people can be recorded. Record the summer, hide it in the bookcase, and wait for the cold winter to dig out and review."

He led Li Chengze to the backyard. Li Chengze stared closely at the inside of the square frame formed by his fingers. He saw the oleanders and wisterias he planted in the courtyard with all his heart, and saw the dean who he loved to study most on weekdays. In the study room, he saw Fan Xian's back, leading him through the courtyard, through the study room, through the darkness, and suddenly opened up in front of him——

Li Chengze put his hands down and couldn't help laughing.In the past, he smiled quite generously, but now he smiled and lowered his head slightly, even a little embarrassed.He saw the gift Fan Xian gave him.

"The world's first glass house... Ruoruo named it Liuli Pavilion." Fan Xian snapped his fingers and proudly scratched Li Chengze's hot palm.

The bookstore is originally located in the West Lake, and the backyard looks out to the pale lake with willows and white dikes and the blue sky.Fan Xian built a large glass house with transparent sides at the original position of the gazebo, which is now gleaming in the afternoon sun, reflecting the sparkling lake outside, like a palace in the sky.

Li Chengze continued to raise his hands to act as "cameras", and he slowly approached Liuli Pavilion.Ye Qingmei brought glass products to Nanqing, and he had seen many exquisite vessels made of glass in the imperial palace, but he had never seen such a whimsical idea made of glass in such a large area.But this Liuli Pavilion also reveals the designer's intentions in every detail.The frame structure is still made of red and black wood commonly used in Nanqing, and the roof is also made of glass to form a steeple similar to a gazebo. A circle of newly moved willow trees is placed around it to block the outside view, so there is no place in the back of the antique academy. It is not obtrusive, and it is integrated with the West Lake.

The crossbreeding of 'Fairyland' and Nanqing is indeed Fan Xian's style

"How's the filming going?" Fan Xian pointed to the box in his hand.

Li Chengze withdrew his hands and said with a smile, "All of them were photographed. But I don't want to show them to others."

"Then wait until the end of the world, and then dig it out and review it."

Li Chengze took off his shoes, and impatiently stepped on the wool carpet inside.In the glazed pavilion, wooden tables and tea sets of the same color are simply placed, and bookshelves are placed on both sides, which are already filled with many of Li Chengze's favorite books.

Fan Xian followed him in, and Li Chengze had already started counting the books on the bookshelf, knocking on the glass wall behind him from time to time, as if testing his strength.Fan Xian complained from behind: "Hey, don't you think that the pavilion will be demolished when it's used up, just like before you sent me to Northern Qi?"

"I won't open it, I won't open it." Li Chengze fondly touched the scroll in his hand, looking around the glass room like a child who was at a loss after receiving a beloved gift.He can almost imagine the four seasons of the year when he stays here in the future. During the days and nights when the moon is cloudy and waxing, he wants to live leisurely and busy, read books, eat delicious food, endure suffering, enjoy the ordinary, and enjoy freedom.

If there is any freedom that is common to all human beings all over the world, it is probably the choice of ordinary power.

Li Chengze looked at Fan Xian behind him, who was also looking at him with burning eyes.Li Chengze put down the book, hugged Fan Xian again, and pecked the corner of his mouth with his lips.He found that his body was hot, and besides the faint emotion, there was also a drive and belief that would never be extinguished from now on.

Fan Xian is a fire, but he is no longer a moth to the fire.He also became a fire.

While kissing his ear, Fan Xian slowly laid Li Chengze down on the carpet. Li Chengze knew how good the affair was, and put aside his shame, he generously rubbed and entangled him, biting Fan Xian's collar from time to time. , like a voracious beast begging for the next good meal from nature and all things in the world.

Halfway through the torment, Fan Xian suddenly realized that the glass pavilion was not a very good idea.After all, all their attention is on each other now, their brains are hot and viscous, and they can't wait to devour each other with their teeth and tongues. How can there be any leisure to watch the scenery outside the pavilion?

I can only waste the beautiful scenery of the grass growing and the warblers flying outside the pavilion, and lock up the lingering and moist breath and kiss inside the pavilion, leaving the two of them to savor it carefully.

Li Chengze put his head into Fan Xian's chest affectionately, muttering indiscriminately, Fan Xian's hands were tightly pressed against his waist.Both of them were sweating, and Li Chengze whispered in his ear half complaining and half coquettishly: "Little Fan Shixian, you really want it."

Fan Xian kissed him by the corner of his eyes, and their stomachs were tightly pressed together. He asked, "Then how many times have you been there?" Li Chengze scratched the back of his hand, and wrote a number on his palm.Fan Xian simply pinched his fingers and whispered a few sentimental words to him, causing Li Chengze to "slap" his ass twice.

Both of them were enjoying the laziness after the affair, and it was almost dusk. They silently looked at the lake outside the glass pavilion in the breeze, and the birds flew by in the air. Li Chengze said that he had seen the sunset many times, and suddenly wanted to see watch the sunrise.

"Okay, then I'll call you at sunrise tomorrow, don't sleep like a dead pig."

"Obviously you can sleep better than me." Li Chengze squinted his eyes and snorted, rubbing his leg against Fan Xian's waist for a while, "I'm hungry."

"What do you want for dinner?"

"Hmm...beef vermicelli stew."

"Great idea, post two pancakes to eat together, it tastes great."

"Bian's letter, let us go there in two days, mother concubine wants to see you."

"Is this the rhythm of meeting your mother-in-law?"

"According to Concubine Mu's personality, she probably wants to remind her to change..."

"...Let the back kitchen make another salted pork belly. I see that there are several strips of salted pork belly drying in the backyard. It must be edible."

"The two chickens in the backyard are alive and kicking."

"I'll make fried chicken for you another day. 'Wonderland' is a must. I almost understand the brewing process of beer. I will definitely drink it this winter. When it snows, fried chicken and beer... In short, don’t rush to update everything is easy to talk about.”

"Fan Xian."

"Huh?" Fan Xian thought that Li Chengze was going to hold on to the update, so he replied casually.

Li Chengze didn't speak for a long time. He looked at the sunset outside the pavilion with a smile on his lips.He sighed: "It's good to be alive."

Fan Xian also laughed. In his previous life, he spent years lying on the hospital bed, counting the clouds outside the window; in this life, he lightly touched the stone tablet left by his mother and walked on the bustling Nanqing Street. He understood this sentence better than anyone else. The heaviness and lightness behind the words.

It's good to be alive.

"Yeah." They interlocked their fingers, and Fan Xian said, "It's great to live together."

The Jiangnan branch of Danbo Publishing Co., Ltd. has been established in West Lake, Hangzhou for three years. According to legend, it was headed by the distant cousin of Nanqing Shixian Xiaofan. Within three years, the classic masterpieces headed by "Red Mansions" were released, which were directly collected into the national treasury by the Emperor Nanqing. A national treasure.In addition, the dean of the academy is also kind and generous. He often helps underappreciated literati and scholars, and publishes books and articles for them.

The Guo family in Jiangnan has been compiling "Hangzhou City Chronicle" for generations. This time, Guo's father sent his youngest son, Xiao Guo, to visit the Jiangnan Branch of Danbo Bookstore, and wanted to list a separate chapter record for the bookstore.

Xiao Guo quickly visited the bookstore with a bookcase on his back. It was a noon in the golden autumn and September, and the sun was lazily shining on an orange cat lying on the front door of the bookstore.Fan Sizhe received Xiao Guo under the plaque with the inscription "Tanbo Bookstore Jiangnan Branch" written by the pilgrim.

Fan Sizhe saw that Xiao Guo was about the same age as him, and there was a handsome (stupid) look in his eyebrows and eyes, he waved his hand and said, "Little brother, you are lucky today. Sister-in-law... the dean let me I will personally be your tour guide. Do you know who the young master is?"

Xiao Guo hurriedly bowed his hand, and had already understood the various relationships of the Fan family: "Mr. Fan, one of the founders of Danbo Bookstore and the well-known Milk Tea Yidiudiu, is really a talent, seeing it is better than hearing it. "

Hearing the good words, Fan Sizhe felt secretly refreshed, and happily patted Xiao Guo on the shoulder: "Little brother has a bright future, great future! If I hadn't come to Hangzhou these few days to discuss with my brother about opening a new branch of the bookstore in Beiqi, would you still be here?" I have no chance to meet the young master! What is the name of this little brother?"

Xiao Guo cupped his hands again, and said respectfully: "The Guo family in the south of the Yangtze River has compiled "Hangzhou City Chronicle" for generations, and also uses storytelling as a side job. My father, Guo Digang, is passing on the ninth generation, named Qi Lin..."

Fan Sizhe was startled for some reason, and felt something strange, so he interrupted quickly, "I'd better call you Xiao Guo! Come on, let's go this way."

Fan Sizhe led Xiao Guo to step into the threshold. First of all, it was the antechamber where the daily purchase of scripts and books for door-to-door customers.The front hall is spacious and magnificent, and the assortment of bookshelves are classified according to authors, and customers are free to take trial readings.

"Since the books are sold, how can we give them the chance to try them out?" Xiao Guo asked, taking a brush and jotting down a few sentences on a piece of paper.

Fan Sizhe explained: "A good book is not something that can be thrown away after reading it once. Here, there are not a few people who buy a book after reading it. What's more, the dean of our branch loves to read, and he is also happy to let people who can't afford books people have books to read."

He pointed to the rear right with his side hand. It turned out that there was a special reading area with more than [-] books on the back of the front hall.

"This piece is the idea of ​​our legendary Nanqing No. [-] poet Xian Fan Xian, Mr. Fan—that is, my brother." Fan Sizhe raised his head like a proud rooster and said, "Regardless of age, regardless of status, You can come here to read books for free, and tea and snacks are served all day, all seasons."

"This...isn't it a loss-making business?" Xiao Guo asked.

"You don't understand this truth," Fan Sizhe said inscrutablely, "Looking for a long time to catch big fish. According to my brother, 'enhance welfare, improve national literature and recuperation, so that more people can buy books!'" Obviously He was completely convinced by Fan Xian's theory.

Xiao Guo looked at the reading area, and saw that there were still people sitting around the wooden table with their families, listening to the old man drinking tea and reading the story from the storybook, and the children with shofar braids eating a small steamed bun, seriously Listening to the elders telling stories she could not understand into the sky, she looked at the vast world in the book curiously with her little ignorant eyes, and waved her hands excitedly because of the plot in the book from time to time, following her grandpa's babble. Repeatedly: "Water it, water his father."

The book in the old man's hand is called "Frozen".

"?"

Fan Sizhe said: "Our little Fan Shixian wrote it, saying that adults and children can read it, maintain a childlike innocence, and be your own princess. There are several other books. What are they called... the Disney Princess series."

Before Xiao Guo could ask what the story was, Fan Sizhe led him to the corridor.On the left side behind the academy is a simple movable type printing department, which mainly prints books and articles specially for Tanbo Bookstore Jiangnan Branch.On the right is the ancient book repair department, which is responsible for repairing all kinds of old books left in the folk and digging out the treasures left in the sea.

"In addition to the regular departments of these bookstores, there is also a literati scouting department... Xiao Fan Shixian named it, don't ask me what it means. It is responsible for going around, discovering underappreciated scholars and candidates who have failed the exam, and providing them with writing essays. An opportunity to write poetry, looking for the next rising literary superstar in Nanqing."

Xiao Guo wrote down Fan Sizhe's words frantically, and asked a few details from time to time.Fan Sizhe felt the wonderful pleasure of being valued and interviewed, and he talked a lot.

"It was just said that the next branch will be opened in Northern Qi?"

"Hey, this is called cultural export. Around the middle of next year, we will go to Beiqi to prepare for the ribbon-cutting of the opening. The dean of the branch said that he has been craving Beiqi food for a long time."

"The dean of the branch is known far and wide for his good food."

"That's right, he goes out with my brother all day long... and doesn't take me with him. Nanqing doesn't have food that they haven't stained! Listen to him, he is going to write a book called... "I Eat Therefore I" In the book of ", it is dedicated to record the delicious food along the way."

Fan Sizhe introduced several departments of the academy, led Xiao Guo to the two steles in the courtyard, and said, "Here we are. The dean has specifically instructed that those who are interested in the culture of the academy must come and see these two steles. "

Xiao Guo leaned over, looked at the first piece first, and then read out the last sentence: "...Although there are thousands of twists and turns, they are not afraid to move forward, they are born equal, and everyone is like a dragon." After thinking about it for a long time, he only felt that this paragraph The words made him half-understand, but he could vaguely hear some fiery hope from them.So he looked at the signature, the person who wrote this passage was called Ye Qingmei.

"It was exactly the same piece from the Beijing Procuratorate and moved here," Fan Sizhe said.

Xiao Guo looked at the second tablet again, and the words on it were shorter, writing: "May the people of Nanqing, the people of the world, no matter which time and space people can have freedom. The body is not imprisoned, The society is not discriminated against, the ethics are not restrained, and you can control your own destiny in your heart. Distinguish the light, enjoy the suffering, be free, and live endlessly." The signers wrote Fan Xian and Fan Jun.

Free and unrestrained, endless life.Xiao Guo read it several times in his mind, and copied the contents of the two steles respectfully in his notebook, preparing to go home and continue discussing the meaning with his father.When he finally finished copying the reputation, Fan Sizhe was called by the housekeeper to deal with the affairs, so Xiao Guo had to scratch his head and stand up, looking around cautiously along the corridor, when suddenly he felt a cool wind blowing from the front.

He followed the direction of the wind and turned around two willows that were growing wantonly.The willow branches were blowing on his face with the wind, he barely got rid of the green vines in front of him, and looked out——

A transparent glass pavilion is built in the corner of the academy, and tea is still steaming at the entrance of the pavilion.There are two books spread out on the table in the booth, but there are no scholars.

Today's West Lake is misty and rainy, the lotus on the lake is about to bloom, and scattered boats and fishing boats are dotted on the water.Xiao Guo searched carefully, and saw two figures standing on the prow of one of the boats.One put his hands behind his back, and the other folded his hands on his chest.They all looked at the misty green mountains in the sky, waiting for the sun to slowly emerge from the smoke.

After a while, they turned their heads to look at each other and smiled at each other.

Xiao Guo backed out quietly, he was still holding the pen and paper foolishly in his hand, but he didn't write a word for a long time.Fan Sizhe hurried towards him with a stack of cardboard boxes in his hand.

Xiao Guo saluted and said that it was late and he needed to go back to sort out the manuscripts, and he would visit again in a few days.

"Hey, the dean and my brother are both here today, and I want you to meet. Let's talk about it next time." Fan Sizhe didn't say much, and quickly pulled out a small snack box from the paper box, and said involuntarily. It was stuffed into Xiao Guo's hand, "We make our own specialties, you accept it." It turned out that they were Jiangnan special pastries that were served with tea when reading books. They were all small and exquisite in shape and exuded the fragrance of grapes.

Xiao Guo walked out of the Jiangnan Branch of Danbo Bookstore and re-mingled into the bustling streets of Hangzhou.He turned his head again, and saw that the bookstore was still standing quietly at the street corner, hidden from the world.He recalled the sentence on the stone tablet again: Freedom, endless life.

Xiao Guo scratched his head, showed a silly smile, and walked away.

END

Thank you for your comments all the way, really grateful!

The original intention of writing this article is actually mentioned at the beginning of Chapter 1. Seeing that the two of Xianze are going to drift away, and I am a stubborn bronze who never reads or writes BE... so it was born Jiangnan Bookstore!In a utopian world, where all misunderstandings will be unraveled, all pain will pass, and all happiness will be sublimated. I want Fan Xian and Li Chengze to live in such a place.

I hope that if you read this article, even if you are hurt by a knife in the future, you will occasionally remember that there is a Jiangnan branch of Danbo Bookstore by the West Lake in Hangzhou. Live in it, enjoy flowers and make tea in the spring in the glass house, and live happily ever after!

I also hope that everyone has such a pure land in their hearts, and can find peace in the face of suffering and difficulties.Take care of your body and be happy, we will see you soon.

By Lily, who was lying dead on the seventh day after finally returning home