There is a small place called Zhaojiayu, there are hundreds of families, most of them are surnamed Zhao, it is an inconspicuous settlement in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Great Zhou State has been founded for more than 1,000 years, and the Zhu family has ruled for generations.

In the past thousand years, the Great Zhou State has developed a total of eight major states, located in the middle of Zhongzhou, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty Tianhong City is in Zhongzhou, as well as Aozhou in the east, Nanzhou and Tuzhou in the south, Minzhou and Yangzhou in the west, Yuanzhou and Mozhou in the north.

In the eight states, there are countless counties, and Zhaojiayu is in Tianliang County in the north of Zhongzhou.

Don't underestimate Zhaojiayu, a small place in Tianliang County, Zhaojiayu is the only place from Tianliang County to Puyang County, Hexi County, Xiameng County and Tianhong City, the capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and Tianliang County is adjacent to the northern counties of the Great Zhou Kingdom, so the geographical location of Zhaojiayu is unique.

Because Zhaojiayu is located in the traffic fortress, the merchants will inevitably have to live in the hotel, there are many hotels here, but this is a small place and the residents also have to farm, most of the hotels are not franchised, often hang a flag in front of their own house to attract customers to do business. There is only one inn that specializes in this kind of hospitality for a living, called an inn, the store is not big, there are two floors, divided into front and back yards, a total of more than a dozen rooms.

The merchants from the south to the north made Zhao Jiayu lively, and they brought news from the outside, and even Chen Yuan in Tianhong City could know about the fact that he had taken the ninth concubine. To say that the biggest benefit of popularity is to make Zhao Jiayu's family realize that literacy is needed to break into the world, so the clan invited a gentleman to teach children to read and write. Over the years, most of Zhao Jiayu is literate and has also produced talents, the most prominent is Zhao Ming, the fifth son of the current patriarch, who has become an official.

Speaking of Zhao Ming, his ability to make leaps and bounds in reading is also related to an encounter. Zhaojiayu is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the west is a flat land, there is a small river and a small lake, and there is a mountain ten miles to the west, called Baihe Mountain. The mountain is not majestic or beautiful, but it is surrounded by pines and cypresses, chirping birds, and bells ringing, because there is a white crane temple hidden in this mountain. No one knows when it was built, as if it was innate, it has existed for as long as people can remember, and Baihe Mountain is famous for its existence in a hundred miles and incense.

The master of the White Crane Temple is called Yu Chenglong, who presides over the big and small affairs in the temple, and leads more than a dozen Taoist priests to become monks here. The life of a Taoist priest is very simple, get up in the morning, walk from the Qingxin house to the dining room, eat a bowl of porridge is considered to have breakfast, and then go to the Taixuan Hall to complete the morning class in front of the true monarch, except for the Taoist priest assigned by Yu Chenglong to do sundries, after the morning class is their own practice, the day passed peacefully, and almost all the Taoist priests went to bed when they arrived.

When Zhao Ming was eight years old, he met the remnants of the White Crane Temple. That day, after the heat of the day, the sun was particularly scorching, Zhao Ming had just finished lunch at home, Zhao Xiaoniu came to him, and said to Zhao Ming: "Go to play in the water, Zhang Jiu, Zhao He, they have to go to Xiaohu." Zhao Ming saw Zhao Xiaoniu in a hurry, his dark face was red because he was running too quickly, and he thought about copying the calligraphy later today, anyway, it was so hot now, it was not bad to have a good time, so he agreed to Zhao Xiaoniu.

Under the scorching sun, several children hurriedly trotted to the small lake, stripped off their essence and jumped into the lake. The small lake is 1,000 acres in size, the water by the lake is not deep, the water is just enough to reach the chest, and a few children are playing by the lake. Maybe the children only have this lake in their eyes, and when they play for a long time, they suddenly find that there is a person fishing not far from the shore, who would come to fish on such a hot day, which aroused their interest.

A few naked-striped children came out of the water and ran over. When I got closer, it turned out to be a Taoist priest fishing there, this Taoist priest had a thin face, gray hair, a few strands of beard on his chin, a pair of triangular eyes, and a rosacea. Perhaps this Taoist priest also felt that the weather was very hot, and he wore a hat on his head to block the sun, and a gourd pinned to his waist to hold wine.

The Taoist priest was dressed like this, squinting at the fishing rod, looking drowsy, as if he didn't notice a few children walking next to him. Zhao Xiaoniu couldn't help but be curious, so he asked, "Old Taoist, have you caught a fish?" The old Taoist priest ignored it, and Zhao Xiaoniu asked again: "Old Taoist, are you drunk, why don't you answer me!"

The old Taoist priest still ignored it, and Zhao Xiaoniu muttered, "This old Taoist priest must be asleep, I'll wake him up", so he found a stone on the shore and threw it into the lake next to the old Taoist, "Bang", the lake splashed, wetting the old Taoist's clothes and face.

The old Taoist priest still ignored them, and Zhao Xiaoniu said to the other children: "Why don't we go and wake up the old Taoist priest, in case this Taoist priest doesn't sit firmly, he will fall into the lake in a hurry, won't he drown." Zhao Ming asked, "Then who is going to wake him up?"

"In this way, we rock-paper-scissors, whoever loses will go, how about it?" Zhao Ming nodded a few times and agreed, and after a few rounds, Zhao Ming finally lost to Zhang Jiu and became the child who went to wake up the Taoist priest.

Zhao Ming was also simply, willing to lose the bet, walked over without hesitation, stood behind the old Taoist, and shouted while patting the Taoist priest's back, "Hey, wake up, wake up, wake up, the fish is hooked." This time, the old Taoist priest heard it, opened his squinted triangular eyes, looked at the fishing rod, where was the fish hooked, and turned his head to look at Zhao Ming: "Child, it's not good to deceive people."

"I didn't mean to lie to you, we saw that you were asleep, and we were afraid that you would fall into the water, so we came over to wake you up" Zhao Xiaoniu They also said "Yes, we kindly woke you up." The old Taoist priest smiled and said, "Thank you then." ”

Zhao Ming saw that the old Taoist priest was awake, and when he turned around and was about to go back to play in the water with his friends, the old Taoist priest suddenly stopped him: "Wait, let me show you." After speaking, he grabbed Zhao Ming's wrist, Zhao Ming didn't react at once, he was stunned, and felt a coolness coming from the palm of the old Taoist priest's hand, and this coolness traveled all over his body along the meridians, which was indescribably comfortable. The old Taoist priest frowned slightly when he grabbed Zhao Ming with his hand, and Zhao Xiaoniu saw that the old Taoist priest was holding Zhao Ming and didn't let go, Zhao Ming looked demented, and had a bad feeling in his heart, and shouted, "Hey, old Taoist, you let go, why do you hold people and don't let them go, we are kind enough to wake you up."

At this time, the old Taoist priest laughed, "Okay, I'll give him back to you", after speaking, the old Taoist priest slapped Zhao Ming on the back of the head. The color on Zhao Ming's face changed, and there was a faint black gas, and after a while, Zhao Ming spit out a mouthful of black blood, closed his eyes, and passed out.

Zhao Xiaoniu and they saw that Zhao Ming fell to the ground, and they were frightened by the old Taoist priest, shouting, "Ah, the Taoist priest has killed someone", and ran away, wanting to go back and call the people in the clan to save Zhao Ming.

Several children ran all the way back to Zhaojiayu and found Zhao Ming's father Zhao Youzhi, Zhao Youzhi heard that his son was beaten to death, and immediately became angry, and called his brothers Zhao Youcai, Zhao Li and Zhao Youting to hurry to Xiaohu to save Zhao Ming.

However, when Zhao Youzhi was halfway to Xiaohu, he accidentally ran into Zhao Ming, Zhao Youzhi finally let go of his heart, hugged Zhao Ming and took a closer look, and asked Zhao Ming if there was anything uncomfortable, and he had to go to Xiaohu to find a Taoist priest to settle accounts. Zhao Ming was a little dazed, and told him that his father was not feeling unwell, and that the Taoist priest had already left when he woke up.

Zhao Youzhi was a little unwilling, and asked Zhao Ming what the Taoist priest looked like, and wanted to go to the White Crane Temple to find the Taoist priest. Zhao Ming then told the old Taoist priest what he looked like and what he was dressed in. Zhao Youzhi groaned for a long time and told Zhao Ming: "This old Taoist priest is Yu Chenglong, the master of the White Crane Temple, and he is the most kind, he shouldn't be unfavorable to you, let's go home." ”

Half a month after returning to Zhaojiayu, Zhao Ming showed a different intelligence. In the past half a month, Zhao Ming has learned all the enlightenment readings given by Mr. Teaching, and he has memorized them like a stream, and at the same time, his writing is getting better and better. Mr. Teaching was very surprised and decided to teach Zhao Ming more things and allow Zhao Ming to borrow his collection.

As a result, within half a year, Zhao Ming read Mr. Teaching's collection again, and he was often able to discuss problems with Mr. Zhao. After Mr. Teaching felt that he had nothing to teach, he decided to recommend Zhao Ming to the Shuzhi School in Tianliang County and let Zhao Ming continue his studies.

In this way, Zhao Ming became more and more intelligent, and his knowledge became more and more profound, and finally passed the imperial examination high school jinshi, and was able to serve as an official in the court of the Great Zhou State, and step by step became commonplace, in charge of the country's water conservancy and construction.

And Zhao Ming's encounter with Yu Chenglong also spread throughout a radius of 100 miles through the mouths of Zhao Jiayu, and the merchants who came and went also spread this matter to Tianliang County and Tianhong City. The white crane view is more vigorous because of this, and every time there are more people with their children to "open the light", but there is no longer Yu Chenglong casting spells, he just tells these people that everything is fate.

Of course, Zhao Jiayu was deeply affected, Zhao Youzhi became the patriarch because of his son, and Zhao Jiayu's children also had to go to the White Crane Temple to offer incense before entering the school in the clan, praying for academic success.

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