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Two horses walked on this simple and heavy bluestone road, making a clicking sound, and the white mule, this road has been walked tens of thousands of times, the hooves are very soft, very quiet.

As you keep going, you can hear the sound of the river, and then you see a bridge.

The bridge is a combination of massive stone piers, timber bridges, long silhouettes and pavilions. Except for the stone pier, all are wooden structures, without a nail and an iron, all are mosaic with mortise and tenon, and cross and vertically.

Husheng introduced the two of them: "This bridge is called the wind and rain bridge, because there is a promenade-style bridge house on the bridge that can shelter the wind and rain, and because it is shaped like a sedan chair, it is also called the flower bridge." The people in our village like to rest on this bridge, chatting and chatting, and it has been renovated several times over the years. ”

Starting from the stone pier, the trapezoidal bridge is inverted with a giant wooden structure, and the arch bridge body is lifted to balance the stress point, and the bridge deck verandah is like a long dragon. On the verandah, there are three or five floors of four corners, forming an octagonal bridge pavilion with three to five pavilions. At the end of the eaves tile beam of the bridge, there is an eaves bell in plastic, which is in the shape of Danfeng Chaoyang, carp jumping beach, sitting lion with treasure. The long avoidance of the bridge is a passageway, and benches are laid on both sides for pedestrians to rest. At the upper end of the two long walls, various historical figures are carved with wooden panels, or mythological stories are painted.

Li Chang'an and the two stood motionless on the stone road not far from the bridge, it turned out that it was not only the scenery that could be so beautiful that it could shock people, but also the building, in other words, the building itself was a landscape, a landscape full of human wisdom.

Seeing this, Husheng smiled proudly, and poked his mule on the side, waiting for the two of them.

This massive building, spanning the stream, stands proudly in the sky, has stood the wind and rain, and is still indestructible. Li Changan and the others did not dare to go up, for fear that Qiji and his horse would trample on this history.

Later, it was Husheng who pulled the mule up to the bridge, and Li Changan and the two followed, secretly casting a spell on the horse's hooves, so as not to leave traces that were incompatible with this ancient village.

In the middle of the wind and rain bridge, Hu Sheng pointed to the benches on both sides of the corridor and said to the two: "Do you want to sit for a while?

The two didn't sit down, Xu Su touched the wooden bench and said, "We are both laymen, just take a look, and don't disturb the purity of this ancient bridge." ”

Xu Su and the others were not afraid of taking advantage of the cool of the predecessors of the ancient village and getting involved in cause and effect. It is the location of the five drum towers in this Dong village, and the location of these two streams and a river, which corresponds far away, and hides the road luck. If you don't have the guidance of a master, you can't be so right everywhere.

Li Changan and the two glanced at each other, and they didn't dare to make a decision, and they knew everything when they looked at the location of the sect hall for a while.

The three of them got off the bridge and continued to walk forward, getting higher and higher, and they could even see the terraces below the cottage. The surrounding hills are like snails, and the mountains are like towers, stacked on top of each other, and the heights are staggered.

The two looked around, and the autumn yellow layers were stacked on top of each other.

Husheng said proudly: "Thanks to the love of the mountain gods, we have good weather here every year, and every family can eat well, so there is really no need to go out." ”

Xu Su smiled and didn't say anything. After the great battle between the Heavenly Realm and the Asura Realm, the power of the two realms disappeared, and the two realms overlapped with the human realm. Shinto has long since collapsed, and those so-called mountain gods, river gods, land and other pseudo-gods hand-picked by the ancient gods have disappeared. However, since this so-called mountain god has protected a living being, it doesn't hurt for him to call himself a mountain god.

Looking up, the clouds and mist are shrouded, the front of the house is low and the back is high, row upon row, connected into a piece, layer upon layer, beautiful.

The three of them continued to walk for half an hour, and Hu Sheng pointed to the front and said: "That's the sect, it's not that I won't take you to my house, but there are rules in the clan that outsiders must live in the sect, and don't come out when it's over, even the people in our village won't come out."

Everyone will leave a portion for the mountain god when they cook at night, and put it outside the door, and the mountain god will appear to eat tribute after the child, and if anyone's meal is eaten, they will receive the blessing of the mountain god. ”

Li Changan first nodded in understanding, and then asked Xiang Husheng curiously: "Big brother, how often does the mountain god you said come to eat? How many families can you eat at one time?"

Husheng swore that "every day I come, every day someone's food is eaten, sometimes dozens, at most there are hundreds." ”

Li Changan continued to ask: "Then no one in the village has ever broken the rules, don't you want to see what the mountain god looks like?"

Husheng whispered: "It's not nothing, I've heard the old man say before, those who have broken brains are the consequences of breaking the rules." After the brain is not bright, they are stupid every day, they only know how to laugh, and they can't speak clearly, and no one knows whether they see the mountain god or not. But it's true that good people have become stupid, and since then there have been fewer and fewer people with bad rules, and I haven't had them in my life. ”

Li Changan opened his mouth, his eyes widened, pretending to be surprised, and he didn't ask any more.

Since it is a mountain god, it is natural that you can not eat grains, if you say that you are greedy for appetite, it is enough to eat once in a while, but if you come every day, and eat at least dozens of them every time, then it will be a little tired here.

Xu Su glanced back deeply, the two of them attracted the attention of many villagers along the way, some bold children followed behind, maybe more attractive to the children are these two groups of spirited horses, and then there are some residents in the village, most of them are young and strong, and the old people follow behind, for fear that their children will be hooked away by outsiders.

Husheng and Li Changan also glanced back, Husheng waved his hand to the fellow villagers behind, and said to Li Changan and the two with a smile: "Don't see each other, you two haven't been outsiders for more than ten years, and everyone is very curious." Again, the ancestors left a rule, every time outsiders come, they have to eat a hundred meals, and each of the top 100 families in the family tree has to cook a dish and send it over, I may have to follow the two of you to enjoy happiness today. Hahaha!"

Li Changan and the two glanced at each other, what kind of people are the ancestors of this Dong village, just the layout of this Dong village is quite fairy, and the rules set are the rites of the ceremony, the people in the village are simple, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, what is this paradise?

Xu Su looked at the people behind him, and indeed some people were holding chickens, ducks and geese waiting to be slaughtered in their hands, as well as some newly picked vegetables and fruits, and asked Husheng: "It's so good here, have there been people from outside who have left?"

Husheng shook his head and said, "It's a good place for farmers like us, but it's not a good place for those outside. A thousand years ago, a scholar came to us, taught here for a month, and then left, supposedly because it was not suitable for cultivation.

At that time, he also wanted to take a student out with him, but the child's family did not agree, so the scholar had to leave by himself. However, he is really good at teaching and teaching, and his vision is also very good, and the child he wanted to take out later became the patriarch of our Dong village. ”

Xu Su frowned slightly, and thought in his heart: The vitality in this mountain is indeed a little thinner, but it is by no means that it cannot be cultivated, there must be other reasons, and it may not be known until the evening.

Continue to walk up to a triangular square, surrounded by three buildings in the shape of horns, namely the ancestral hall, the Confucian Temple, and the mountain temple. The doors of its Chinese Temple and Ancestral Hall are open, and you can enter at any time to offer incense. The red gate of the mountain temple is closed, not locked, and no one in the village dares to go in without permission to disturb the mountain god.

A group of people had already gathered at the gate of the ancestral hall, waiting for Li Changan and his party. The leader is an old man in his 100s with a sycamore tree in his hand, an old man with a gray beard, but his waist is straight, and although his eyesight is not as good as before, he still looks straight in the direction of the intersection.

Husheng stepped forward, bent down slightly, and said, "Patriarch, these two brothers I met in the Zhaimen, and they listened to it and followed them all the way to our Dong Village. ”

The patriarch of the Dong nationality smiled and said to Li Chang'an and the two: "The two distinguished guests must have been guided by the mountain god to come to our Dong village, and we will definitely entertain the two of them." ”

Li Changan and the two bent down to thank them, just because the two of them took so much pain, they really didn't want to go, but this is the rule left by the ancestors of the Dong people, and it can't be broken because of the two of them, fortunately, the hundreds of Dong households eat together, and there will be no waste.

The villagers with the ingredients around hurriedly went to prepare, so they borrowed the stoves of the people near the sect, and the young people also brought many tables and chairs from the neighborhood, and the children brought a pile of dry firewood, and after a while, the bonfire was lit.

The patriarch of the Dong nationality led ten senior Dong elders and Li Changan to sit in front of the sect hall and talk, Husheng went home to send the mule, and said that he would come back to accompany Li Changan and the two to eat and drink later.

The patriarch asked, "Where did the two distinguished guests come from?"

As soon as Xu Su opened his mouth, Li Changan preemptively said: "Old man, we are from Weicheng, our surname is Xu Mingsu, and this Taoist brother is a friend of Xia, and his law name is Xuansu." ”

Xu Su looked at the friend in front of him who borrowed his name, couldn't help but squint, gritted his teeth and smiled, and nodded in agreement.

The patriarch of the Dong tribe took a deep breath, and the Dong people sitting on both sides also looked at each other, obviously having heard of Weicheng.

Li Changan and the others were also a little surprised, they didn't expect that there was no one who practiced in the entire village, and the cultural movement in the village was not prosperous, and they had actually heard of Weicheng, which was a bit incredible.

What the patriarch of the Dong clan said next completely shocked Li Changan and the others.

I only heard the patriarch ask: "Have you ever heard of a scholar named Yuan Liang, thousands of years ago, he came here, and when he left, he said that he was going to Weicheng, he is a person with university questions, and half of the books in the village were left by him." ”

How could Li Changan and the others not have heard of this scholar named Yuan Liang-Semi-Saint Tao Qian, however, he is no longer in Weicheng, it is said that he is living in seclusion in a small cave, and only one sentence is heard:

Sonoda day dreams, and Andejiu is separated

The two nodded, they didn't expect that this senior had also come to this Peach Blossom Spring, if it was him, he would not necessarily be erased by the so-called mountain god.