On the Qinhuai River, under the Wanhua boat and Qinhuai River, there are feelings.

Smoke cages, cold water, moon cage sand, night parking at Qinhuai, and restaurants.

1

early morning

There is a man sitting by the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

Unkempt, stubble-faced, and ragged.

He sat there with a straight face, staring at the Qinhuai River ahead.

It seems that the flower boat parked there is still brightly lit, as if there is a girl waiting for him in the flower boat.

Children who have contacts feel puzzled and go home to ask their parents.

Parents with children know this person, and they tell their children.

Don't be like him when you grow up.

But never mention his story.

2

Ten years ago, when Qin Jianghuai was a rich boy. Before, the old Qin family had suffered man-made disasters and completely declined.

Qin Jianghuai is a famous poet in the whole Nanjing literati circle.

Write poetry and compose music.

But what made him a poet was his great feat of swimming around all the flower boats in Qinhuai River.

Qin Jianghuai has seen all the flower heads and written many poems and songs for them.

For example, Peony Ci, Peony Love and so on.

According to himself:

"When I turn on the light, I can discuss poetry with the based girl on the table, and when I turn off the light, I can discuss it more deeply with the based girl."

In this regard, colleagues' evaluation is.

What a genius, turning off the lights is also discussing poetry and songs.

three

After that, Qin Jianghuai and many based on established inseparable deep feelings.

He's a little depressed.

Because I see familiar faces every day.

"It's strange to watch too much. It's boring to watch too much."

He thought to himself.

Qin Jianghuai's days of drinking Huasan passed day by day, and his interest in watching those based on flowers became less and less.

Including sexual interest.

It wasn't until half a year later that Qin Jianghuai watched those people spit.

A great event happened.

A new flower boat appeared on the Qinhuai River.

four

The city of Nanjing has accumulated for hundreds of years and thousands of years.

Attracted countless people to hang around here.

There are politicians, businessmen, homeless people, frustrated people, proud people and prostitutes.

Lotus is a prostitute.

The kind that only sells art and doesn't sell its own

She followed the procuress and the flower boat to the bustling Nanjing city.

She really wants to have a home in this bustling city.

But after all, she is just a person in a foreign land.

She is just a prostitute, even if she speaks well, she is also called a geisha.

"Where does a prostitute have a home?"

She thought to herself.

Although she has been on the flower boat for a long time, she was surprised to see the brightly lit night on the Qinhuai River for the first time.

At night, the Qinhuai River is brightly lit, the river is sparkling, and the world is dotted with music and piano music.

"Come, uncle, this way, please." The voice of the procuress greeting guests reached her ears.

"Well, let's play my piano well. Stop looking. There are a lot of days to see in the future. "

She thought, look away and walk into the boat.

five

Qin Jianghuai has just set foot on this new flower boat in this city.

He also heard about the new flower boat, and he was lucky on his first day in this place.

"Come on, come on, this way, son."

The madam with heavy makeup led Qin Jianghuai to sit in the position, told the tortoise and the girl to serve, and went to the door to continue welcoming guests.

Qin Jianghuai got familiar with the dining tables and sat down to look at the luxurious decorations in the flower boat.

Just as he was watching, the crisp piano sound from the stage attracted his attention.

A woman dressed in pure white is plucking the strings.

This woman doesn't wear heavy makeup like the procuress, and her face is only light makeup.

I don't know why, the flower boat has been very lively, and no one seems to notice the girl playing the piano.

The sound of the piano is not only a sound, but will continue soon.

Perhaps because he is a gifted scholar, Qin Jianghuai is listening to the whole song carefully.

Her piano music is as clean as a pool of clear water, without the resentment of a boudoir woman or the eagerness of a brothel prostitute.

Qin Jianghuai called the procuress and asked her the name of the girl playing the piano on the stage.

"Hey, son, that girl on the stage is our Qingxian, called Lotus." The procuress rushed to tell Qin Jianghuai. It seems that Qin Jianghuai may be a big customer.

Lotus.

Qin Jianghuai silently chanting the name in my mind.

six

This girl, Lianhua, has a fairy spirit that other prostitutes don't have, and her face and heart are always choppy.

But recently, she is also very upset.

There is a rich boy named Qin Jianghuai who always spends a lot of money on a girl who doesn't know what she is smoking.

Going back and forth several times, I just ordered myself to play the piano, but I spent a lot of money for myself.

Dozens, even hundreds.

Many times, all people, headed by the procuress, regard Qin Gongzi as a big customer.

Lotus is not interested in this playboy who spends money like water and doesn't know how to get excited.

Not to mention that pimps and girls advised her to recommend a pillow for this son.

How can this Qin Gongzi have a crush on her?

Miss Lian is puzzled.

seven

Qin Jianghuai's friends recently felt that he was a little lost.

I cann't believe I didn't spend hundreds of taels of silver on based flowers.

It's on sunny.

Qingxian can't discuss poetry in depth!

Qin Jianghuai himself didn't know why, maybe he wanted to change his taste, maybe he liked the girl's fairy temperament, or he was moved by the sound of the piano that day.

Miss Lian is not so beautiful and coquettish as other prostitutes.

Just have a cool temperament, deeply attracted him, inexplicably attracted.

It's amazing.

eight

"Miss Furong, what's your real name?" Qin Jianghuai sat in a chair and asked the lotus sitting at the table.

"What's the name of the prostitute? I have been on this flower boat for more than ten years. I have always been called Lotus, and there is no other name. " She just gave a faint answer, not a trace of a prostitute.

Qin Jianghuai is used to the peace of lotus. Since he came here, he has never seen Furong's smile, and even her face has not changed at all.

"Do you have a book? Hold this for me. I want to write something for you. " Qin Jianghuai said thoughtfully to Lotus.

"Very good." Crisp and neat answer, no other prostitute heard the happy expression and happy tone when someone wrote a poem for her.

Qin Jianghuai began to write.

After Qin Jianghuai finished writing, he put down his pen and spread the rice paper on the table.

Looking at the whole process, Lotus's mouth rose slightly and looked at Qin Jianghuai with a bright smile.

There are sandstorms in the northwest and lotus flowers in the south of the Yangtze River.

The mud came out unstained.

nine

Ever since I saw the lotus smile that day.

Qin Jianghuai is at a loss.

Day after day, year after year, I went to Qinhuai River to find lotus flowers, and the expenses were as big as usual, but Qin Jia had a big career and didn't lack the money.

In this way, it took Qin Jianghuai a year, but it seemed that the sentence that three generations were not rich came true strangely.

Something happened to Qin Jianghuai's father.

The caravan led by my father met a mountain thief who robbed the road and all the goods were robbed. None of the caravan survived.

It was Qin Jianghuai who identified the body. His brain exploded with a bang when he saw his bloody father.

Six gods have no master.

At home, he even performed a seven-day ceremony to cross over the ghost of Qin Jianghuai's father. Qin Jianghuai never left the gate from his father's first seven days to his last seven times.

Since then, there has been no roof beam in the family, leaving only one mother among the parents. Qin Jianghuai temporarily put down his love for children.

His father's death was a great blow to him.

I could have waited another ten or twenty years to take over the family business.

I could have waited until my father was old to be filial to him, but I couldn't have done everything I could.

The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind will not stop.

Keep the children, don't go near them.

10

Miss Lian feels very strange.

It turns out that Qin Gongzi who comes every day has not come for a long time.

Did his master leave the song "Lotus" hanging on the wall here?

Girl also embarrassed to ask others, a face of Chun Qing, but where did Qin Gongzi go?

"It can't be what happened.

Or has he forgotten me? "

1 1

Qin Gongzi went to the flower boat to see the lotus today.

It's been 50 days.

"There is an accident at home, and I may rarely come here to find you in the future."

Qin childe was sitting in a chair with a heavy face, without any previous smile.

Lotus felt something was wrong. Recently, I heard that something had happened to the Qin family.

"Come out with me and sit by the river." Qin Jianghuai said, without any feelings.

"Very good." Lotus's answer is unexpected and reasonable.

12

The two men by the river were silent.

Qin Jianghuai first broke the silence.

"My father passed away."

A few words.

Like a bolt from the blue.

"It was a mountain thief who robbed the goods and killed everyone." Qin Jianghuai slowly say that finish, eyes red.

Lotus took his hand and comforted him silently.

"They will think one day, stick to it, it's okay. If you don't come to me, I'll wait for you. Well, no matter how long. "

Lotus said the most impulsive words in her life, and also the words that she would not regret the most.

13

One year, Qin Jianghuai stepped out of the shadow of his father's death and officially took over the family business.

In the past two years, Qin Jianghuai has made the business at home smooth and prosperous.

In the past three years, Qin Jianghuai provided food and clothing for the officers and men, wiped out the bandits gathered in the mountains and avenged his father.

Due to the attention of the Qin family, there are no weeds on Qin's grave.

Qin Jianghuai put the head of the bandit leader in front of his father's grave, looked at the words "Father Qin Yuanshan" engraved on the tombstone, and looked at the tombstones of his father and others in the caravan.

He said slowly, "Dad, friends and brothers, I did it. I have avenged you."

His eyes were red, and his bloody hands wiped a handful of tears. He stood up silently, turned around and sobbed.

He didn't want his old father to see him crying in the spirit of heaven. He wants the old man to put his heart at ease and be reborn in the spirit of heaven.

14

Five years later, when Qin Jianghuai made all preparations to marry Lotus, there was news that the war was about to extend to Nanjing.

However, the fact that the war did not spread to Nanjing did not prevent Qin Jianghuai from looking for Miss Lian.

Qin Jianghuai went to the flower boat and became familiar with the lotus house.

Everyone in the flower boat knows that Lotus is a favorite of Qin Gongzi, and he has not been allowed to go out to play the piano for a long time. Lotus is sitting quietly in the room, waiting for Qin Jianghuai to come. If he doesn't come, Lotus will walk on the boat and by the river.

"Lotus! When the battle of Nanjing is over and the war is over, I will marry you. You wait for me here first, and I will definitely marry you. " Qin Jianghuai said these words in one breath and looked at Lotus breathlessly.

Lotus smiled and said, "I've been waiting for so long. It is not too late. I am waiting for you to marry me. "

After that, walk along Qinhuai River. They don't even know that this is the last chance to be together. Neither of them knows this farewell, but it is a farewell.

15

In just three days, the war reached Nanjing as fast as wildfire.

Qin Jianghuai took out money and food to support the garrison.

It is not that he supports the Nanjing government, but that there are people he cares about in Nanjing.

He must give his full support and try his best to keep the people he cares about from being hurt.

The troops outside the city are constantly pounding the city gate, and the soldiers' shouts are combined with the rumble of slingshots and speeding cars, as if they were songs from hell and poems praising war.

The morale of the defenders in this city is low. They faced a flood of enemies, but reinforcements still didn't arrive. They don't know how long they can last, maybe ten days, maybe longer or shorter.

The general shouted on the wall, and the soldiers beat drums beside him. The war seems stable, but it is elusive. Every move may determine the direction of this battle.

Those people on the flower boat all live in houses in the city, not in the city center, but closer to the city wall.

They have no chance to leave Nanjing. The river was blocked by the enemy and the city gate was closed.

They may have to live with the city.

16

The general died, and the arrow from the sky penetrated his chest.

The soldiers guarding the city lost their backbone, blocked the city gate and fought to the death with the enemy.

They are soldiers in Nanjing. Behind them are the family, friends and lovers of this city.

They must defend the city with their lives and fight for the chances of survival for the people they care about.

Enemy soldiers have captured the city gate, and the trebuchet has volley under the command. Countless boulders have fallen into the city, and warships' shells on the water road have also been fired into the city. The enemy seems to have given up and completely captured Nanjing.

Capturing the city is their purpose, even if it is an empty city.

Qin Jianghuai escaped from the city in chaos and ran into the mountains to avoid death under the pull of servants at home.

17

Nanjing city was breached.

Countless soldiers rushed into the city, and the commander ordered the city to be killed.

The rest of the people in the city became their tools to vent their anger.

Lotus fled outside the city with the crowd, followed by a group of peak sexually soldiers.

The soldiers shouted and took out bows and arrows to shoot at the crowd, and people kept falling down in the crowd.

When it is only a short distance from the city gate, an arrow passes through the back of the lotus.

Before landing, the lotus held the things in her arms tighter.

"Sorry, I may not be able to wait for you any longer, Jianghuai." She thought to herself.

At her side, the soldiers galloped by.

She didn't expect that parting is the separation of yin and yang.

18

Reinforcements finally arrived and counterattacked and captured Nanjing.

Qin Jianghuai, who was alone, sat beside the body of Lotus crazily, crying and laughing.

Hold what he found in the lotus's arms.

A piece of rice paper.

lotus

19

From that day on, Qin Jianghuai, whose family was ruined, sat by the Qinhuai River every day.

He looked at the river as if the flower boat were still there.

It seems that the girl is still there waiting for herself.

20

You come from far away and don't know where your hometown is.

Come to me and say you want to go with me.

I said, I'll come back and take you home.

You nodded and said, why don't you wait for my life?

I didn't expect it to be the end of the world after a short walk.

Later, it was full of lotus flowers.

Later, it was just as prosperous here.

Later, riverside, vegetation, and cities attracted attention everywhere.

I hate bricks in this city.

That year.

Let our home, become close at hand, but live far apart.