Chapter 6 Sun Chengzong
Although I have to climb a few mountains to go back, but it is obviously much shorter than the way to come, Hanwa told the old man interesting stories in the mountains along the way, he said that in fact, outsiders do not understand, the mountains are the most peaceful, although not as prosperous as the city, but there is no lack of food and drink, and there is no war and invastation. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the most rare, Beizhen has been an important place for soldiers since ancient times, and the perennial army is stationed, so that there is no bandit in the mountains.
The old man remembered that there was an original valley among the three valleys here, and there didn't seem to be anything legendary, so he asked Hanwa if he knew a thing or two.
"There is a temple of the original old mother in the original body valley, which is for the incarnation of Guanyin, the old lady, but the people in the mountains say that Guanyin Bodhisattva entrusts the White Emperor to bless here, so it is the same to worship which, there is also a village over there, so everyone is worshipping nearby."
"Isn't there a magical thing like a fox fairy sending a treasure?"
"Does the healing water count? There is a spring in the valley of the original body, and in the hole halfway up the mountainside, there is a stone basin in it, and spring water flows down from it, and drinking it can cure many diseases. β
"Well, the spring water in the mountains contains a lot of minerals, which are needed by the human body, so drinking it all year round can indeed strengthen the body, so will you take it home every time you save it and drink it slowly?"
"No, no, the spring water must be drunk at the time, and if it is left overnight, there will be a lot of small stones, and the water will not be drinkable."
"That's crystallization, it seems that there are a lot of minerals in this divine water, I will taste it when I have the opportunity to see if I can live a long life!"
In the evening, the two finally returned to the village with Wangcai.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Li Qin preparing a meal, and there was an old man sitting at the table, who was older than Li Qin's father.
"Uncle, this is Mr. Lu, people know astronomy and geography, I knelt down last night."
"Sins and sins, Brother Li don't mention it again, I don't know who this old gentleman is?"
"This is my uncle, my father's uncle."
The old man hurriedly asked the old man to say goodbye, but he saw that the old man was very tough, and he stepped forward to support the old man in two steps.
"Mr. Lu is polite, early this morning, my nephew came to tell me that he met a master last night, and said that you are still planning to take Hanwa as an apprentice, this is a blessing for my family, no, come early to thank Mr."
"Where does the old man say, if it weren't for the Li family to take me in, maybe I would have fed the beasts. Hanwa is also a studious child, the key is to be simple-hearted, and I am also glad to have such a student. I don't know if the old man is long-lived? β
"My ancestor is 86 years old this year, the oldest person in our village, and he worked as an errand in the city during the Qing Dynasty."
I saw the old uncle waving his hand with a smile and pulling the old man to sit down.
"Hey, it's not worth mentioning, it was the sixth year of Xianfeng at that time, I was 16 years old, I was a deserter in Jinzhou Mansion, the Taiping Army made a lot of trouble that year, although it only hit Tianjin Mansion, but there was also a rumor outside the Guan, it was a shame, I was responsible for catching Zhuangding, but then I really couldn't see the people ruined, so I simply fled back, ashamed and ashamed."
"What is the shame of this, in ancient times, Cao Mengdetonqiu County resisted the decree and went away without conscription, and now there is an old uncle who abandons the official for the people, which is also a beautiful talk!"
With such a compliment from the scriptures, the old uncle's face was as happy as Maitreya Buddha, and he ordered to hurry up and start the meal, and he must accompany the old man to drink two more glasses.
"Uncle, at that time in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what was the status of our Han people in the Northeast?"
"It's not bad, after all, there are few Manchurians, although they have sat in the country, but they still have to rely on our Han people, not to mention that the children of the Eight Banners were not as brave as Emperor Taizu at that time, and they have all become waste, so there are few Han people who are bullied."
"Alas, even then, it can't compare to our Han people sitting on their own, what a beautiful scenery the Ming Dynasty is, Liaodong was defeated back then, and the Ming Dynasty was exhausted."
"Yes, Mr. Lu, our mountain belongs to Jinzhou, you are familiar with history, and you know better that Jinzhou is the most important town in the Ming Dynasty, and the Beizhen next to it is where the Liaodong General Army is stationed, and now there is Li Chengliang's stone workshop, if you go to Beizhen, you can take a look."
"Li Chengliang is a handsome talent, when he was in charge of Liaodong, he was solid, but the kid admired Sun Chengzong the most."
"Haha, Mr. Lu knows, these two have a relationship with our Lushan."
"I'll give my uncle a drink, and then listen to your story."
That Li Chengliang was poor in the first half of his life, and the whole fortune was in Liaodong, and finally the official to the general army of Liaodong, before and after guarding the customs for 30 years, this person was brave and good at strategy, leading the first elite Liaodong Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty to be invincible, which can be described as unprecedented in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Li Chengliang lacked the vision of investigating people, supported Nurhachi in order to contain the tribe, and later gave up the six forts of Kuandian, so that Nurhachi unified the Jurchens and established the Later Jin. Moreover, Li Chengliang was arrogant and extravagant, collected countless wealth, and was impeached and dismissed by the official many times. And the last time Li Chengliang took office in Liaodong, he was very old.
Legend has it that there was a **** who led the troops to suddenly enter Lushan, blocked the entrance to Guwan, and entered the Bay of the Dead, but his soldiers did not carry swords, but excavation equipment, and the locals knew that this was to find mines or rob tombs.
But for a few days, Li Chengliang can be said to have no harvest, the Dead Man's Bay is about to be dug into a sieve, or nothing, even more terrifying, the title of the Dead Man's Bay is worthy of its name, those soldiers who entered the fog miasma, ten out of ten are still one, either missing, or the corpses brought back are missing arms and legs, and most of the living soldiers are also mentally disordered, just saying that there are ghosts.
In the end, Li Chengliang had to give up, but with his cruel temper, he didn't set fire to the mountain, but finally ordered someone to erect a large monument at the entrance of Dead Man's Bay, which read:
"There is no peaceful day in Liaodong, and the green mountains will always hide the souls of loyal martyrs."
Then he regretted and left.
"Oh, there is such a thing, and is this stele still there?"
"It's long gone, it is said that later Sun Chengzong took office, and heard that Li Chengliang had used officers and soldiers to do this work of digging graves and stealing treasures, so he ordered someone to smash the stele in a fit of rage.
"Then Sun Chengzong has ever been to our Lushan?"
"Have you been, sir, can you pass by the rest of the peak on the way there? Is there a pavilion ruin? β
"Yes, I also think it's interesting, I asked Hanwa, and he said that there was a stone tablet with a strange soil character written on it, and the two of us dug it out and saw it."
"It was rebuilt and repaired during the Qing Dynasty, but the pavilion was destroyed by Sun Chengzong. It is said that after he came to Lushan, he sat alone in the pavilion for a long time, and thought about it all the time, and finally wept bitterly, ordered the pavilion and the stele to be smashed, and even threw the residue of the stele to the bottom of the mountain with his own hands. Later, when the White Emperor Temple was rebuilt, the mountain people repaired the pavilion by the way, so they set up a monument again, but the earthquake destroyed the stone pavilion again, and it was never repaired again. β
But why there is such a strange word in that pavilion, the old uncle doesn't know, and no one knows who first repaired it.
But the old man knew that he was even more sure that the owner of this treasure was Lan Yu, and that the secret of this landscape painting and poetry had never been kept. Sun Chengzong must have guessed something, so he simply demolished the pavilion and destroyed Li Chengliang's stele, in fact, he clearly saw that there were words in Li Chengliang's two poems.
The trick is in the fourth word of the two sentences, which is combined to "no treasure", which is to tell everyone that there is no treasure here. Sun Chengzong is so smart, when he went to Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty has reached the point of retreating to Shanhaiguan, he just played a protracted war with Nurhachi, today to advance dozens of miles to build a fortress, tomorrow to advance dozens of miles to build a fortress, just a few years to restore the Ming Dynasty's control over Liaodong.
And when he took office, he could be said to have gone alone, seeing that the people of Liaodong were struggling and the military was weak, so he must miss the strength of the early Ming Dynasty, and it was Lanyu who destroyed the Northern Yuan Dynasty in one fell swoop and laid the peace of Liaodong.
Sun Chengzong must know what Lan Yu left behind, and also discovered the secret of the pavilion, thinking of the general star back then, looking around the present, the government is corrupt, the people's livelihood is withering, and the country will not be a country, so he was sad and cried, and finally simply destroyed the pavilion, wanting to leave the secret in the green mountains and green waters forever!
Thinking about it, the old man also felt a sadness in his heart, today's Republic of China, where is it not like the end of the Ming Dynasty, foreign forces encroached, and the political situation was turbulent, which can be described as the same.
The old uncle was very talkative, and the old man accompanied him to chat until the time of the breakup, the old man proposed to go to Beizhen tomorrow to see if he could open a private school again. Li Qin immediately asked Hanwa to go with him, in order to exchange the agate stone for some money to buy medicine.
In the evening, the old man felt that he could do it, and this time he went to Beizhen, looking for a place to prepare a private school on the surface, secretly contacting people in the industry, preparing things, and once he was ready, he started to explore the treasure.
At noon the next day, the old man set off with Hanwa, and did not arrive at the county seat until the evening, and the two of them found an inn to live in, and asked the shopkeeper where there was a gold stone store nearby.
Although the name of the town is the town, but the scale is very large, since ancient times where there are heavy soldiers where there will be popularity, so starting from the Ming Dynasty, here is not only a military town, but also the economic development of western Liaoning, the merchants from the south to the north take this place as a transit station, therefore, several commercial streets are very prosperous, there are no less than five or six gold and stone antique shops alone, and among them, the Chang Guxuan of the Bai family is the most famous.
Early the next morning, the old man took Hanwa to Changguxuan to see if he could sell the agate stone.
Chang Gu Xuan is located at the east end of Shangqing Street in North Town, the faΓ§ade is tall, two-story structure, one of the plaques, the name of the bookstore, look at the payment, it is actually the ink treasure of the prince of Jiaqing Chaodun Miankai, it can be seen that the strength of the main family of Chang Gu Xuan is not small.
The old man stood at the door and watched for a while, then turned around and left with Hanwa, and went to another house at the end of the street, looked at the doorway, and went straight in. The shopkeeper who came up saw that this young man was polite and polite, and he didn't dare to slack off.
So, the old man opened his mouth to add fuel and vinegar to the experience of Hanwa's family, and the shopkeeper was also a philanthropic person, and after opening a good price, he gave the two of them away.
Hanwa bought medicine with money, and when they broke up, they asked the old man why he didn't enter the Bai family's shop, only to see the old man whisper two words mysteriously:
"Black shop!"