Chapter 27: The Legend of Fengcheng
Taking advantage of Brother Tiger's ventilation, I interjected and asked:
"What is the matter with the demons? The Three Realms refer to people, gods, and ghosts, and how did the demons come from?"
Brother Tiger didn't care about me asking more, but continued along with me:
The human race has captured countless innate creatures, although they have been refined, but the innate creatures belong to the innate after all, and the foundation is deep, even if they are deprived of their magical powers, but their sanity has been achieved.
Over time, some of the innate beings will take away the human race, devour the heavens and the earth, take rebellion as the way, and live by war.
That's where the devil comes from!
The human world is ruled by the human race, the imperial power changes, and the cycle is orderly.
The divine realm is controlled by the Pan family, inheriting all kinds of magic powers, and ruling the rules of heaven and earth.
The ghost world is occupied by the underworld, the netherworld and the demon world, and is called the ghost world because it is formless and formless.
As I said before, I have been wandering the heavens until the heyday of humans and demons.
At that time, that is, what you call the ancient era, because of the war between humans and demons, I was not spared and was involved.
Later, I was refined into a weapon by the Terrans, and then it was shattered in the battle between the gods and demons, and my body was scattered into two parts, and I didn't know where to go......
As a result, my mind flickered and I couldn't remember many things clearly.
I just remember that in one space, I was seriously injured and wandered into the human world, inhabiting your body.
Don't worry, I am an invisible body, once I settle down in your dantian, it means that you have a different bloodline, and I will not do you any harm!
I've told you everything I can tell you, and I can't remember a lot of the details
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After speaking, Big Brother Tiger fell silent.
It took me a long time to come back to my senses.
What it says is not much different from the ancient myths circulated by Taoism, and its accuracy is no longer verifiable, so I can only choose to believe it for the time being.
Although I know that this world has its hidden side, when I really face it, I am still full of unknown fear and curiosity!
I was bold and asked again:
"Brother Tiger, what, do you know the Qian I met that night?"
"I don't know it in my memory now, but I can't remember some impressions clearly......
I wanted to ask the generals or something, but it stopped talking.
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On the third day, the fat man went out early to find a shop to make a sign, and the little monk and I also ordered some furniture to be shipped to the company.
Brother Guo, they went to the company in the morning, and then after confirming some business scope and other things with me, they also went out to distribute business cards.
In the afternoon, the fat man returned to the company and installed the signboard.
I took Lu Tian over, and I said to the fat man:
"Now that our handicap is set up, I plan to take Lu Tian to find your ninth uncle's friend tomorrow, so that Lu Tian can resume speaking earlier. ”
Fat Man Dao:
"What about our business?"
I said, "Entrusted by others, loyal to people." Lu Tian's matter should be sooner rather than later.
As for this, I guess there may not be business in the early stage, and besides, we may only need a few days in the past, if there is business, you and the little monk will take it first, and if there is a problem, wait for me to come back. ”
The fat man took out two flip phones and gave one to Lu Tian and me.
I asked Lu Tian to pack her luggage, and then went to the train station to book a ticket to Gan Province the next day.
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My friend of the old man lived in Fengcheng in the central part of Jiangxi Province, and there was no direct train in the 90s, so Lu Tian and I took the train for about eight or nine hours to arrive.
Fengcheng is also known as Jianyi, named in the Eastern Han Dynasty, because the local county ordered to dig the prison, get the Spring and Autumn Dry General, Mo Xie two swords, so it is called.
In the 90s, Fengcheng City was just established as a small city, but the shops and high-rise buildings show the development strength of the historic county.
The pace of life here is comfortable and slow, which can be seen from the orderly demeanor of the people in the streets and alleys.
I took the address and inquired, and my old trafficker friend lives on the outskirts of the city, not far from the train station.
I took a taxi with Lu Tian, and there were still very few taxis at that time, but because Fengcheng produces coal and iron ore, and its development is slightly better than that of the surrounding counties and cities, there are still a small number of taxis.
It was almost dark when I arrived at the place, and the driver pointed to a bungalow road, which was the place on the address.
I took Lu Tian to meet people and asked, Fengcheng dialect is similar to the eastern dialect of Hunan Province, but it is integrated into the lingua franca of the coastal areas, so it sounds a little troublesome.
After inquiring for a long time, I finally met a kind mother-in-law who led us directly to the door of a bungalow.
The old man said in a hurry on the phone, only saying that his friend's surname was Jiang, and he was the same age as him, and he didn't say anything else such as characteristics and appearance, so I had to knock on the door hard, and say more good things in case I was wrong.
The bungalow was far away from the surrounding houses, and the two closed doors were almost collapsing.
I knocked cautiously on the door, lest I blow it down with too much force......
The door opened, and a hunched old man who looked about fifty or sixty years old stood in the doorway.
At first glance, this old man is no different from an ordinary farmer, except for a dry smoking gun at his waist.
He tried hard to hold his chest up, but he had no choice but to hunch over for a long time, so he had to raise his neck and say:
"Who is Ni Ou looking for?"
I smiled and asked:
"You're Jiang Lao, right? My master is Shi Chongming, and I'm looking for you for something!"
I try to be as polite as possible, and if I find the wrong person, I still have room to talk.
The hunchbacked old man looked me up and down, and then said in Mandarin:
"Oh, it's you! Come in, Lao Shi is here this morning, I know, come in, come in!"
I'm glad I found the right person, and I'm glad that this old man can speak Mandarin, otherwise I wouldn't have been in a rut.
Walking into the house, the hunchbacked old man poured us two cups of tea, and without waiting for me to speak, he said:
"I know everything about you, the innate Dao body is indeed rare, I wonder if I can ask the old man to verify it?"
My evil qi has the ability to see through the essence of things, but ordinary cultivators can only be clear through contact.
I wrote a sentence to Lu Tian, and after reading it, Lu Tian obediently walked to the hunchbacked old man.
The old man stretched out a finger and put it on Lu Tian's wrist and closed his eyes.
From this old man's methods, he can't see the Dao faction, but it is a bit like the medical Tao in the mountain doctor's fate.
When the old man withdrew his hand, I opened my mouth and asked:
"Dare to ask if Jiang Lao is a senior in the medical Tao?"
The old man laughed and said:
"You kid has good eyesight, yes, I have learned the five techniques of metaphysics, and among them, I walk the world with the way of medicine. ”
I nodded.
The old man sighed again: "This little girl has a clear Taoist bones, and her innate meridians are naturally accessible, she is really a good seedling to learn the Tao!"
It's a pity...... Alas!!"
My heart was shocked, could something have changed?
I asked anxiously, "Elder Jiang, what is the pity? Could it be that there is something wrong with Lu Tian's innate Dao body?"
Jiang Lao coughed a few times before saying:
"Little nephew, I have known Lao Shi for many years, and I also asked him to lead one of my relatives into Dingmen, and I naturally won't refuse if he has something to do with the old man.
This little girl's innate Dao body lives up to its name, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Issue...... In me!"
I said:
"Elder Jiang, please tell me directly, this girl is dependent on her father, I promised her father to restore her language function, if you can let her recover without learning the Tao, then it's no problem!"
I was worried that this old man had something unspeakable or that there were any rules in the sect, so I retreated to the next best thing and could cure the problem of speaking!
Jiang Lao smiled bitterly:
"Little nephew, as I said just now, Lao Shi is kind to me, and I will never brush his face. I'll just say it straight, I'm going to die soon, I'm afraid I'll miss you!"
That's amazing!
Although the metaphysical Taoism is magical, there has always been a saying that "life is not counted as oneself", that is, whoever tells one's fortune cannot count one's own life.
How did the old man Jiang in front of him know that he was going to die?
Jiang Lao looked at me and sighed:
Little nephew doesn't have to guess, listen to me.
It turned out that this old man was a sword keeper.
What is Sword Guarding?
This matter has to start from ancient times, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a world-famous blacksmith in Chu State, who was also a swordsmith, called a cadre. His casting craftsmanship is exquisite, and the sword he creates is so sharp that everyone in the world knows it.
Later, Chu Guojun found out, so he ordered the cadres to make a sword for him.
There are many versions of the sword casting in later generations, and two of them are more famous.
One said, the cadre cast two swords, male and female, one is called the cadre general, and the other is called Mo evil.
Because he knew that Chu Guojun had a perverse personality and was moody, he only dedicated the female sword to Chu Guojun, and gave the male sword to his son by a wife.
Later, Chu Guojun found that only one of the two swords was offered, and he killed the general in a fit of rage.
After the son of the cadre learned of the revenge of killing his father when he grew up, the sword cadre avenged his father and killed the king of Chu.
Another said that there was a problem in the process of forging the sword, and his wife Mo Xie felt sorry for her husband, fearing that he would not be able to complete it and would be retaliated by the king of Chu, so she sacrificed the sword with her body, cut her armor, shaved her hair, and threw it into the sword melting furnace.
The cadre was heartbroken when he found out, and he didn't want to exist alone in the world, but he also threw himself into the furnace and always accompanied his beloved wife.
In addition to these two versions of the legend, there are other theories, but these two versions of the legend are widely circulated.
In the Yongping period of the Jin Dynasty, purple gas often appeared between the two stars of Dou and Niu in the sky of Jianyi (Fengcheng).
At that time, Emperor Hui of Jin thought that the new monarch would come out and would endanger the imperial dynasty, so he ordered Zhang Hua and Lei Huan to investigate the reason.
Lei Huan consulted the classics and found that the First Emperor had buried the two famous swords of Chu in the domain of Yuzhang when he was on his southern tour to suppress demons and suppress evil.
So he speculated that Ziqi should be the two famous swords of Ganjiang and Mo Ye.
Lei Huan is a master of metaphysics, and after exploration, two swords were unearthed in the foundation of the county prison.
When it was unearthed, the purple qi between Xuanwu Dou and Niu Xing immediately disappeared and became invisible.
And the sword digging place in the county jail turned into a deep pool.
After Lei Huan took out the sword, he found that the two swords were shining brightly and sharpening iron like clay, and he couldn't help but put it down, and his greed suddenly rose, leaving the Mo Evil Sword and handing over the sword to Zhang Hua.
Zhang Hua also saw it, and on the day of the sword sacrifice, Zhang Hua lied to Emperor Jin and said:
The minister dug out a sword in Yuzhang Fengcheng, and the purple gas on the day of the sword has disappeared, and I can be safe in the country.
This sword is called Longquan, the emperor is the dragon body, the dragon spring and the dragon body are mutually restrictive, the emperor can not be seen, otherwise he will hurt his dragon body. The ministers should keep this sword to protect the emperor's dragon body.
This Emperor Jin was fooled by Zhang Hua, and he was approved.
Later, Zhang Hua was killed, and legend has it that the cadre turned his sword into a green dragon and threw it into the Ru River, swimming southeast......
Later, when Lei Huan died, he regretted dismantling the two famous swords, so he passed on the Mo Evil Sword to his son Lei Hua and told him that one day, the two swords would eventually merge.
Three years later, Lei Hua served as the magistrate of Fujian County, and suddenly encountered a storm on a river in Jian'an, and the boatman informed: A green dragon came to this river a few years ago, often crying and dry, although the wind and rain were blowing, but it did not hurt people's lives!
Lei Hua cast his eyes into the river, and saw a green dragon shaking his head and tailing to follow the boat.
The green dragon approached, and the sword on Lei Hua's waist suddenly came out of its sheath, turning into a white dragon and going away with the green dragon.
Later, Lei Hua remembered what his father said, and understood that the male and female swords should be reunited in the end.
Because of the spirit of the sword, Lei Hua put the stone box of the sword that his father abandoned in the grass in the past, and named it the Sword Box Pavilion, and mentioned the poem: "The box still exists in the homeland, and where is it now." ”
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