Chapter Twenty-Seven: Entering Beijing
The capital, according to the dragon and the tiger, is the most prosperous city-state on the mainland. Four squares, eight squares, one hundred and eight avenues, busy with traffic, shoulder to shoulder. The bluestone slab on the avenue can be seen from the light, the road side is full of tall and straight poplars, between the graceful willows, charming cherries, rigid and soft, picturesque and natural. There are nine roads in the city gate, two rivers are vertical and horizontal, there are seventy-two large and small bridges, the scenery of the bridges and bridges is different, all of them are full of fun.
Whipping all the way, non-stop, the group finally arrived in the capital in the evening four days later. Although the sun is dark, but the big burning clouds are burning all over the sky, under the sunset, the thousand-year-old city stands majestically, the city wall made of huge stones is towering into the clouds, and the guards who defend the city are wearing gold armor and holding halberds, all of them are majestic like gods descending from heaven. The mahogany gate was more than 30 meters high, and it was nailed with 7749 bright brass nails, each of which was the size of a bull's head.
At this time, it is the time to return home, the people who enter the city are endless, they hold the reins of the horse and walk slowly with the crowd, this city has an invisible sense of intimidation, as soon as it enters the city, the Sang Ke who has always been lively falls on the shoulder of Mu Qingyan in a regular manner, and walks over several streets before sighing softly, "It is really the king's bearing, incomparable." ”
Mu Qingyan admonished, "The capital is very big, and there are many taboo places, Sangsang, you can't trespass." However, this city is boxy, and the direction is easy to find, remember, where the Great Qing Dynasty Cultivation Sect is named after the north-south street, and the high-level divine beast spirit bird is named after the east-west street. They crisscross and criss-cross, there are stone tablets at both ends of each avenue, the stele indicates the origin of the avenue, and there are some official yamen and mansions in it, you will know if you are familiar with it, where to go and where to go. ”
Sang Ke was curious about the way it was named: "Will there be Cuiping Avenue and Phoenix Avenue?"
"Of course there is, Cuiping Avenue is very famous, the street is full of shops selling high-end goods, the world's good things are gathered there, only what you can't think of, nothing you can't buy, don't go shopping if you have nothing to do, you can't open your legs when you go shopping, I can't wait to go home to sell houses and fields to buy things!"
Sang Ke's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she wanted to fly over to take a look now, but Mu Qingyan couldn't help but smile and grabbed her, "Okay, when I go to choose a gift for Miss Su Ming'er, I will definitely take you there." Phoenix Avenue is not far from Jinshui River, there is also a good place to scatter money, all restaurants, tea shops and dim sum shops, a street is filled with aroma, you can also watch plays, listen to music, listen to commentary, it is very fun. ”
"Who's singing, young girls?"
"There are a lot of young girls, and the more beautiful they are, the more popular they are. ”
She smiled and said, "Then I'm going to sing when I'm not in class, my voice is good, I'm spending your money all the way, and I'll invite you to dinner when I earn money." ”
The more she thought about it, the more beautiful she became, Fu Heng couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb anymore, and carried her over, "The dignified Qionglin Bachelor went out to perform arts, you should save it, the Qiusa Divine Sword of the Academy Venerable has been sleeping for eighteen years, I'm afraid that I will be so angry that I will wake up, Tiangang Avenue has arrived, get off the horse!"
Although the capital is prosperous everywhere, but Tiangang Avenue is particularly different, it is actually paved with white marble, the camphor is planted all over the sides, the thick shade covers the sun, the greenery is full, there are tall pillars along the way, and the column body is carved with exquisite patterns.
Sang Ke flew over curiously to look, "These are all stories of subduing demons and subduing demons!"
"Yes, this is the record of Tiangangmen back then, the name of Tiangangmen resounded throughout the Three Realms, this road dares to be named after Tiangang, only it is qualified to pass in front of our Qionglin Gate. ”
Xiong Pan proudly turned his mayfly sledgehammer, "This name is good, people in the mortal world, no matter how high and powerful, rich and boundless, have to get off the sedan chair and enter on foot, so my grandfather has never been too lazy to come to the academy to see me, let me be free." ”
Tiangangmen, is the first sect of Qing cultivation in the past, at its peak, there are countless masters in the door, don't say the three elders, the eight protectors, just say that the thirty-six hall masters, which is not with amazing skills, down the mountain can open a sect of the big man. The capital is a place where there are many big people, but for hundreds of years, Tiangangmen has never had a scandal such as brother disharmony, rebellion, bullying teachers and destroying ancestors, the reason is very simple, even if it is the stars shining, it is difficult to hide the glory of the moon, under the reputation of the head of the Qiushui people, these big people can't remember how to write the word pride, let alone what the two words of resistance are, one by one obediently bow their heads and obey orders, don't dare to disobey.
How powerful this Qiushui person is, just listen to his nickname "Two Lists of People".
Two lists, a "Lingyan List", this list has a history, before the door of Liuhe opened, the last prosperous Tang Dynasty in the human world to commend the meritorious ministers specially built the Lingyan Pavilion, the portraits of the heroes were hung on it, as the highest honor at that time. After the opening of the Gate of Liuhe, in the thousands of years of interconnection between the three worlds, the human world strongly worshiped the power of the two worlds of immortals and demons on the one hand, and infinitely recalled its own glory days in the past, so everything loved to emulate the Han and Tang dynasties.
On the central axis of the capital, they established the imperial palace at one end and rebuilt the Lingyan Pavilion at the other. The building is 1,000 feet high, divided into 12 floors, the meritorious person in the human world, according to the size of the merit, can hang the portrait in it, the greater the merit, the higher the number of layers of the hanging image. This building is magnificent, there is a large capacity, the people who enter the cabinet have both Anbang Wenchen, Dingguo military generals, there are also the ink writers who pass on the poetry and literature all over the world, the painters of peerless famous paintings, the casters of divine weapons and sharp weapons, the cultivators who break the wasteland for the fields, and the artists who sing and dance all over the world...... There is no distinction between north and south, and there is no distinction between high and low, but anyone who creates great benefits for the human world can be hung in it.
It seems that the scope of this building is very large, but the standard is extremely strict, the selected ones all represent the supreme and supreme in a certain field, and the word "great welfare" is not an ordinary merit to bear, it is for more than a thousand years, only 91 portraits have been hung upstairs. For example, Hu Hou, in the final battle of the Three Realms, he personally led the tiger pounce camp in the belly of the Tianshan Mountain, desperately opened up the secret path to the black end of the demon world, and laid the victory.
From this, it can be imagined that the top floor of Lingyan Pavilion is a legendary place, the top of the thousand-foot tall building, is the closest place to the sky in the human world, the closest place to the light of the sun and the moon, even the sea of clouds lingers at its feet, but there are only three portraits hanging alone on the huge floor, one of which is the person on the autumn water.
Two lists, the other list is called "Jiangshan List", formerly known as "Chivalry List", the history is also long, from the first time human beings picked up crude weapons until the era of Qing cultivation, spanning the entire years of martial prohibition, this is a ranking list on behalf of the strongest people in the human world, regardless of national boundaries, do not distinguish between good and evil, do not ask about merit, only look at cultivation. This is a list that advocates strength, and the world has a natural reverence for the strong, making every name on it shine with the brilliance of Ye Ye and accept the admiration of all beings.
The chivalrous list, since its birth, has changed every three years, and behind each change of ranking, there are dazzling swords and sword shadows, buried in countless swords, beauties, treasures, grievances, and adventures...... In the mouth of the storyteller, in the dance of the red card girl, on the strings of the street violinist, in the snow-white or yellowed pages...... Over and over again.
Until the third year of Kaiyuan, the circulation of vitality between heaven and earth suddenly stopped, the Qing Xiu Road was broken, and there was no possibility of improvement in everyone's cultivation. The top seven on the list that year, the names are connected to the two popular but unrelated Tang poems "The tide of the spring river is even with the sea, and the night rain of Bashan rises in the autumn pool".
The Lingyan list and the Jiangshan list, one is in the court and one is in the opposition, one commends merit, one advocates strength, one embraces hundreds of schools of thought and one specializes in one, one is fresh and one is dead, the living list makes people's blood boil, and the dead list makes people sigh ancient and modern. Wind and rain are like obscurity, the ups and downs are all in the two lists, the two lists have stood for thousands of years, and those who can enter the top ten of the single list are rare talents! Those who can be famous on both lists are rare! Those who can enter the highest level on both lists are only one person throughout the ages, and that is the unique Tiangangmen master Qiushui people, and only he is qualified to be called "the person on the two lists"!
The heavier the reputation, the more the body does not belong to himself, three years after the opening of the Yuan Dynasty, the characters on the list of rivers and mountains have retired, or as rich people, or as mountain and forest guests, or travel all over the world, or worship by the powerful, only this autumn water people, not official and not people, not expensive and not cheap, not into the dynasty and not retreat, after the dissolution of the first sect of the Qing Dynasty Tiangangmen, the creation of the first academy of the human world Qionglin College, restored the common name Meng Yaqiu, not to mention the name of the two people on the list, the current title is "Yuan Zun Lord".