Chapter 3 The Birth of the "Sword Demon".
Liao Tingyun, the sword demon in the eyes of most Youzhou people, is a monster with cat's eyes, long hair and shawl, hermaphroditism, and bloodthirsty life. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Liao Tingyun, a native of Wei County. Wei County is located in the central part of Youzhou, and four of the seven counties border it. The Xujiang River runs through Wei County, and its main tributaries converge in Yunjing, the capital of Wei County. Therefore, Wei County is the center of Youzhou, the main road between the north and the south, and has been prosperous since ancient times.
Liao Tingyun's original surname was Kuang, nicknamed "Huan'er", born in a wealthy family in Wei County, ranked the eldest in the family, Kuang Yuanwai was old and had a daughter, Huan'er was clever and likable, so he was spoiled abnormally. Huan'er's mother's name is Liantong, her family's surname is Liao, she was originally just the maid of the second wife, and in order to keep Huan'er from being looked down upon by her brothers and sisters, she married Liantong into the door and became a side room.
It stands to reason that these two ladies were originally Liantong's masters, and now they are Liantong's sisters, and the two should be more harmonious. It's a pity that although the second lady is beautiful, she didn't give birth to a son and a half daughter, seeing that the maid who used to serve her not only ascended to the throne and was on an equal footing with herself, but also because she gave birth to a little daughter and was favored by the outsider, it was inevitable to feel jealous. often went to his wife, Mrs. Mao, to talk bad about her mother and daughter. Mrs. Mao was born in a large family, is well-read, and has some minds, so she only enters the left ear and goes out with the right ear when the second lady says, and never takes it seriously.
She knew that Liantong was born in a poor family, she was cowardly by nature, and she didn't talk much, and the people in her room secretly ridiculed her, but she just swallowed her anger. Naturally, she won't believe the words of the second room, and she has three sons, no matter how precious her daughter is, she will marry after all, what will she have in twenty years?
The second lady said a lot, and the eldest lady was annoyed to listen to it, and sometimes it was inevitable to tease her, or even avoid it altogether.
This made the second lady anxious like an ant on a hot pot, she was not afraid of being snubbed by the eldest lady, she was worried that sooner or later her slave would surpass her.
One day when Huan'er was more than ten years old, a fortune teller came to the city, and it was rumored that he set up a stall on the side of the street every day.
Half of the city is spreading the fortune teller's skills, and the people in the palace are also chattering, saying that this fortune teller can not only know yin and yang, avoid disasters and evil, calculate wealth, but also cure all kinds of incurable diseases.
All the rumors, the second lady listened to it in her ears and remembered it in her heart. When it was about to get dark, she secretly gave her henchman Yao'er a bag of silver and let her out.
The next morning, the second lady, accompanied by Yao'er, met the fortune teller in a private room in a remote teahouse. After listening to the statement of the second lady, the fortune teller took out three sachets from his sweat pocket, one was emerald green, one was agate blue, and one was cinnabar red.
Mr. Fortune Teller took two packets of green and blue and said to his wife: "This pack of green is for you to take, and this pack of blue is for you to eat, once a day, and eat it in three days." ”
Yao'er stared at the red bag and asked, "What about this bag?"
The fortune teller smiled: "After taking the two sachets for two months, if there is no improvement, then find a way to give the medicine in the red sachet to the little girl that Mrs. said. ”
The second lady suddenly felt a tingling in her scalp.
"What should I do if the medicine dies?" asked the lady anxiously.
The fortune teller waved his hand and laughed and walked out. In the distance, his old cat-like voice could be heard again.
"Once you do this, you can't regret it. ”
Out of the teahouse, there was a small river opposite, the second lady grabbed the medicine out of the red sachet, wrapped it in only a piece of oiled paper, picked up a stone and put it in the sachet, "plopped", threw it into the river, and watched it sink gradually and finally disappear.
Half a year later, Huan'er suddenly suffered from a strange illness, and could only open her mouth and couldn't make a sound, from Mao's family to the second lady, from the elder brothers and sisters to the servants and maids in each room, all of them cried for the well-behaved Huan'er. Ask the doctor to come and take a look at the pulse, the medical shallow person is so frightened that he runs away with the medicine box, and the experienced and familiar medical books are also hammer-headed and bearded, and he is puzzled. But their rhetoric is quite different:
"Ling Ai's pulse is strong, there is thick black body hair on his legs, armpits, and chest, and his throat bone gradually comes out, like a man in the prime of life, but with a woman's face......" Every time they didn't finish speaking, they were blasted out of the house by Kuang Yuanwai.
Although the staff strictly ordered the family members not to talk about Huan'er for half a word, outside the Kuang Mansion, and even most of the streets and alleys of Yunjing City, there were rumors of the Kuang family's daughters, the more unpleasant they became, the more evil they became, and finally reached the ears of the staff, and the outsiders were furious, and they arrested a pair of mother-daughter servants who were famous for their words and words in the mansion on weekdays, and then blasted out of the Kuang Mansion after a beating. The Kuang family is a big family in Yunjing, how can they be insulted like this?
One early morning a few days later, the staff got up from the second lady's bed, raised his eyes and saw the second lady sitting on the dresser crying, so he asked why. The second lady just wiped her tears and said nothing.
The staff outside the dull nose gasped, these days have been upset and irritable, the staff outside the mood is gloomy, he has no patience to ask, put on his clothes, and get up to leave.
When he walked to the door, the second lady suddenly grabbed his hand and said, "I was awakened by a nightmare just now, it's terrible." ”
The staff member brushed away her hand and said, "Learn from the boss, eat more fasting and chant Buddha, don't think about it all day long." The second lady was stunned, staring blankly at the beautiful face in the bronze mirror, and Yao'er didn't respond to her call.
A month later, the staff was settling accounts in the account room, and the maidservant girl in the Liantong house hurriedly ran to report that Huan'er could speak.
The staff came to the Liantong basement house in a hurry, Huan'er raised her head to look at him, and said with tears in her eyes: "Daddy, you haven't come to see Huan'er for a long time." After hearing this, the staff almost fainted, and the ladies who came with them also screamed injustice, crying, screaming, and the second lady was also stunned. It turned out that Huan'er was a majestic adult male voice, and what made these people even more disgusting was the bulging throat bone on her neck.
After a while, with the support of his family, he panted and said: "You two mothers and sons, the farther away the better, my Kuang family has been innocent for generations, and I can't tolerate a monster like you!"
The second lady wanted to open her mouth and step forward, but suddenly remembered the words of the fortune teller when she was leaving, and retreated, holding Yao'er's wrist tightly.
When Liantong's mother and daughter had just stepped through the gate of Kuang's mansion, Kuang shouted to them outside the courtyard inside the house: "Don't have the surname Kuang in the future." ”
Liantong was already crying, and after listening to the words of the outsider, she fainted several times, but she didn't dare to open her mouth to say a word. Huan'er held on to her mother's heavy body to prevent her from falling, and when she turned around, she saw the disgusted and disdainful eyes of the people outside the staff and behind him, and the subordinates who tended to be inflammatory.
Walking out of the house, Huan'er touched the stone lion in front of the door and looked up at the big word "Kuang Mansion" above her head, clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and changed her name to Liao Tingyun from then on.
On the streets of Yunjing, children threw stones at them from afar, and adults ran away like ghosts. The careful and sensitive Liao Tingyun changed in an instant.
The matter has come to this, Liantong does not dare to go back to her parents' home, Cai County in the northwest of the country is full of mountains and forests, sparsely populated, Liantong took her daughter and only went to the west. Two weak women, they didn't dare to partner on the road. Youxi Mountain is cold and cold, and it is a long-distance bump, Liantong is not accustomed to the water and soil, and soon falls ill. At first, because of the fear of people, lack of entanglement, etc., I didn't go to see the doctor, so one day is like a day. Although Tingyun was small, she could already see that something was wrong, but even if she begged every time, Liantong found all kinds of excuses to stay up, and only insisted on hurrying. The further they went, the higher the terrain, the more serious Liantong's illness became. Finally, on this day, Liantong raised her eyes and saw a majestic and abrupt mountain in the distance. However, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the top of the mountain is already covered with snow, and there seem to be a few houses on the mountainside, but not a single pedestrian can be seen from far or near. Lian Tong smiled, her pale face bloodless.
This is the first time Huan'er has seen her mother smile after beating herself for this strange disease.
This mountain is called Lonely Mountain, and the only female grandmaster in the five sects, Master Zhizheng, is living here.
Lian Tong leaned against a stone and called out to her daughter. She grabbed Liao Tingyun's arm and found that the original thick long hair had almost fallen off, except for the laryngeal bone and voice, she was no different from an ordinary little girl.
Liantong said: "Huan'er, my mother can't walk the road, so I'll send you here, you look at the house halfway up the mountain, that is the first nunnery in Youzhou - Maoyue Nunnery, there is something that has never told you, you have an uncle Dharma name and Xin, since childhood into the Dharma, is the abbot of the nunnery Master Zhizheng Master disciple, I have a letter here, she received it. She sighed and said, "Now you can't do anything else, just live quietly in this nunnery." I heard that this abbot is a martial arts master, and it would be good if you were lucky enough to learn some skills from her. After speaking, he took out the letter from his arms, handed it to Tingyun, and told her to go.
Looking at her mother's sick Long Zhong, Xiao Tingyun may have expected something, she just shed tears and refused to leave her mother.
Liantong said: "Don't get in the way, I'm waiting for you here, my mother can't walk, you go up and call your aunt and Master Xin to carry me." ”
After persuading him a few times, Xiao Tingyun hurried to the lonely mountain.
Xiao Tingyun had never been to Lonely Mountain, and he didn't know that Mao Yue'an was not far away from a distance, but it would take a lot of trouble to run. The long distance and the fatigue of taking care of her mother for days made her faint on the way, but fortunately she was found by a nun patrolling the mountains. When she woke up, she was in the Maoyue Nunnery and saw her uncle, whom she had never met.
It turns out that once a woman enters the Fa, she is regarded as a man, so although Master He Xin is a woman, she is Liao Tingyun's uncle. She wiped her tears and told Xiao Tingyun that not long after she left, her mother passed away.
Master He Xin comforted Xiao Tingyun while sending away the nuns who surrounded her. When the two of them were the only ones left in the room, she stroked the poor niece's head and shed tears again.
"I know everything about you, don't open your mouth to talk from now on, let others think that you are dumb, the abbot and I will try our best to dispense medicine to save you," she paused, and then said, "If you can't help but open your mouth, we will have to leave Maoyue'an." ”
Xiao Tingyun nodded sensibly.
"You can rest here first. Your mother's grave is in the col behind the hermitage, and when you are better, I will take you to see her. ”
No one deliberately wanted to teach her martial arts. Because she is not yet an adult, according to the rules of Maoyue Nunnery, Xiao Tingyun can lead the hair to practice, the law name is Qinghe, according to the generation, and Xin is her uncle. When she becomes an adult, it is up to her to decide whether to stay.
Maybe it had something to do with her illness. During an examination, the abbot found that Xiao Tingyun's shoulder blades were gradually widening, and his spine was blue, and he must be a strong person when he became an adult. Therefore, Zhizheng asked Wuni in the nunnery to teach her martial arts, and was afraid that she would be resentful because of her miserable life experience, and she would bring disaster to the world in the future, so he ordered Hexin to personally take her to practice and teach her to do good.
But she didn't expect that in less than half a year, the master who taught her martial arts had been defeated by her men. The abbot was shocked, and asked the more accomplished Wu Ni to teach her, and it didn't take long for the Wu Ni to say that she would know what she would, and hoped that the abbot would train herself. Zhizheng was shocked again, she originally just wanted Qinghe to learn some martial arts, and she could take care of the temple in the future, at most she was the head of Wuni, but she didn't expect her martial arts talent to be so smart. She has been running an anthema for decades, and there has never been a woman with such a talent for martial arts. If this continues, maybe she will be able to inherit the mantle and become a generation of grandmasters in the future.
So the master officially shaved her home, and then took her with him every day, taught her martial arts, and took her to practice.
In the past few years, Liao Tingyun's skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and he soon became one of the best masters in Maoyue Nunnery.
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