Chapter Twenty-Three: The Singing Conference
Yi Qingxin said: "Fourth brother, don't ask. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info characters like Da Maojun dared to watch one of them, but Heavenly Master Zhang Zhenren didn't dare to watch it at all, so you can think about it yourself. ”
Zhao Sheng continued: "So when I go out of the customs this time, I must find Li Honghai in the shortest possible time, otherwise if he refines to the third corpse immortal cultivation, it is difficult for me to say that I can take him, and then I can only ask my master to go out of the mountain." ”
Meng Qichuan said: "You don't have to worry too much, we fought with him three times before and after, but we feel that his cultivation is not as good as once." It shouldn't be that he will be able to break through to the third level in these seven years, and besides, as you said, this third level will cost tens of thousands of Yin Souls. ”
Zhao Sheng continued: "Brother Meng, don't be careless, now there are many wars in the world, how many people die in vain every day?" There are not too many tens of thousands of female ghosts. ”
When the five immortal ministers heard this, they were all stunned, and the earth immortal Zhao Sheng had really seen a big scene.
The sun sets and the full moon rises. Zhao Sheng, a disciple of Zhengyi, led the five immortals of Mount Tai to a tree, and there were several large stones coiled into a week under the tree, which was an excellent place to rest. Although most Taoists have the habit of not eating at noon, Zhao Sheng thought that the five immortals of Mount Tai were running around all day long, and he specially offered himself to fish for more than a dozen golden flakes and double-liped fish for half a day. They cut down some branches and made a bonfire to make the delicious grilled fish. Taohe fish fat and meat are fresh, the spines are less and tender, and the taste is very beautiful after being grilled by fire.
Everyone was eating and talking, and Zhao Sheng suddenly remembered something, he said: "I met a child before noon today, and I found that he had corpse yin qi in his body. I have fought with my master many times to chase away ghosts and corpses, and I have come to know the yin qi of this corpse. I heard my master say that the five refining corpse art is to practice the qi of corpse yin in the body, and then accumulate the qi of corpse yin and turn it into the god of bone yin. I suspect this kid must have seen Li Honghai. ”
Yi Qingxin listened and immediately asked, "Is it a boy or a girl?" How old is it? Zhao Sheng replied: "It looks like a girl, but he should be a boy, about six or seven years old, very smart, but his body is too weak." However, if he hadn't fainted suddenly, I wouldn't have discovered the yin qi in his body. ”
Dong Yu asked Zhao Sheng, "Where did you meet this child?" Zhao Sheng replied: "It's on the opposite side of Jintong Mountain." ”
Yi Qing couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and said to Meng Qichuan: "Big brother, maybe he is the Du Zhen we have been looking for." ”
Meng Qichuan thought for a while and said, "But how can Zhen'er have Li Honghai's corpse yin qi in his body?" When he met Li Honghai, he was an ignorant baby, and all five of us were present, so Li Honghai didn't have time to hurt him, so he was injured by the fifth sister's secret weapon. After that, we also got along with him for a while, and we haven't seen anything unusual about Zhen'er. It turned out that Du Zhen regarded Li Honghai as a woman, sucked his chest, and a corpse yin qi entered his body from Li Honghai's body, which did not cause Taishan Five Immortals to feel anything strange at that time, and he never saw anything wrong with Du Zhen's body after that.
"Besides, I just heard what Brother Zhao said, the child is frail and looks very much like a girl. Although Zhen'er has no mother since he was a child, he ate for nothing when he was young, which is also extremely inconsistent. Meng Qichuan continued.
Guo Qiong couldn't bear it and said, "Big brother, won't we go and see?" Li Chong also chimed in: "Big brother, what the fourth brother said is right. Since we have all arrived at the Jade Girl Peak, how can we not go to Jintong Mountain? If that kid is really Zhen'er, our hard work in the past few years is not in vain. ”
Zhao Sheng listened to the words of several people and asked, "What, are you looking for a child named Zhen'er?" ”
Meng Qichuan replied: "Brother Zhao, this matter is a long story. If it weren't for him, Li Honghai would have killed us all. The kid ruined Li Honghai's corpse with a soak of boy urine, so he vowed to kill the child. At that time, several of us agreed that we would ensure that this child had a thorough life, and we wanted to repay him for our kindness, and secondly, to wait for Li Honghai to appear. ”
Zhao Sheng nodded and said, "I see, I originally wanted to see the child's family, so it seems that it is safer for you to go and see it in person." ”
Meng Qichuan said: "Brother Zhao, if you don't go with us to find him, how can we recognize him?" ”
Zhao Sheng said with a smile: "Brother Meng, I don't know where the kid's family lives when I come, and besides, it's getting late today, even if we go to Jintong Mountain, we may not be able to find him; Second, there is a festival here tomorrow, and I have never liked people to be noisy, so I ran to the Jade Girl Peak to hide from Qingjing. What Zhao Sheng said is indeed true, he is very clean, and he often does not say a word all day long, and he feels that even if the boy he sees is the Zhen'er that the five immortals of Mount Tai have been looking for, Li Honghai is not here, and Li Honghai must be a place where he goes.
Guo Qiong said bluntly: "Alas, if Zhen'er can't be found again, if Li Honghai preemptively kills him first, a few of us will be shameless in the Daomen." ”
Zhao Sheng saw that Guo Qiong was a little frustrated, so he said to him: "Brother Guo don't have to worry about not being able to find him, although that child is also dressed by Qiang, but he is different from the local Qiang children, when I talked to him, he said that he is Han, and he knows how to speak Chinese." Brother Guo, in this land of Qiang people, the Chinese language is more obvious. ”
When Guo Qiong heard this, he immediately smiled, and he said, "Haha, it's much easier." Tomorrow we will shout to him all over the mountains, and he will answer. ”
Zhao Sheng also smiled and replied to him: "Brother Guo, I don't know if you know what festival tomorrow is!" I used to travel to the land of Qiang, and I knew his customs. Tomorrow is a big day that we call the 'Flower Festival' in Chinese. Don't think that the Flower Festival is to enjoy flowers and plants, they Qiang people also sing mountain songs to express their mood on this day. When the time comes, the mountains will be full of songs, and I will see how you shout to him. Haha, let's look for it honestly, if he is really the shock you are looking for, he will have a fate with you. ”
Meng Qichuan also smiled: "Fourth, there are many good things, and you can be patient tomorrow." ”
Don't talk about Jade Girl Peak, let's talk about Jintong Mountain. In the Han room, Yang Zhang and Du Zhen were also having dinner. Different from the past, when Du Zhen returned home for lunch at noon today, Yang Zhang felt that Du Zhen was different: on weekdays, Du Zhen's rice was limited to two mouthfuls of steamed buns and half a bowl of mutton soup. Although there were only a few steamed buns at noon today, I drank two large bowls of mutton soup. In the evening, Du Zhen had a great appetite and ate two full steamed buns, a bowl of mutton soup, and half a leg of mutton. Yang Zhang was very happy at first when he saw that he was abnormal, but later he became worried, but the amount of food he had this night was as good as that of a young man in his prime. Yang Zhang was afraid that he would eat his stomach, so he persuaded him to chew and swallow slowly, but Du Zhen said that he was hungry until half a leg of mutton was in his stomach, and he was willing to stop gobbling it up.
The next day, everyone got up early in the morning. Knife Piercing Order, once a year, although Yang Zhang is a Han Chinese, he also follows the customs, but he has never sung. How can a Confucian be frivolous and impetuous? Seeing, listening, and appreciating can all be done. In previous years, Yang Zhang also learned from the Qiang people to pick some mountain flowers, simply decorate the courtyard of the Han House, and then took Du Zhen to enjoy the grand occasion of the Knife Piercing Singing Conference.
The first thing Du Zhen did when he woke up today was to be hungry, but fortunately, Yang Zhang slaughtered a big ram for the festival in the past few days. Early in the morning, Du Zhen mixed two bowls of mutton soup with some haggis and ate them. Yang Zhang saw that his face was flushed, and he no longer looked as pale as before, and he was very happy in his heart, saying that his father and mother had a spirit in the sky and cared for Zhen'er. After the two finished breakfast, they went to watch the Knife Piercing Singing Conference together.
Fox slave Qiang village, all year round, between agriculture and animal husbandry, there are people singing mountain flowers, between the mountains and mountains, deep in the ditches and valleys, the singing never stops. Especially in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the mountain flowers are the most splendid, and the flower tide is ushering in the song tide festival.
At the Knife Piercing Singing Conference, the singers who sang "Flowers" were of all ages, young and old, and of high and low status, and they could express their joy, love and other emotions through singing. However, if you want to talk about the origin of the knife order, it has a completely different meaning: according to legend, in the early Han Dynasty, a cheetah entered the Qiang village. At first, it just stole a few sheep and ducks. The tribesmen did not drive it away, but revered it as a patron saint. As the days went on, the cheetah became emboldened and attacked the baby.
The people of the village could not bear it, the patriarch Hexin Grandpa angrily cut off his left arm to lure the leopard to appear, one evening, the leopard was finally captured by everyone, Hexin Grandpa killed it with a sharp blade oozing cold light, and then distributed its meat to the tribesmen to eat. The heart-rending sound that Grandpa Hexin shouted when he killed the leopard with a sharp blade actually made his throat bleed, and the clansmen also bleed from their hearts when they heard it, which became a bloody knife order. At first, not everyone could sing the sword order, only the cry from the heart could sing the momentum of Grandpa Hesin, that kind of voice, like the howl of a knife and axe into the flesh, like the sorrow of a child who has lost his mother, like the despair of believers who have lost their protector, even how much helplessness and all kinds of pain they have suffered will become miserable at this time.
Legends are legends, but it is an excellent metaphor for the relationship between the Qiang people and the Han people in the early Han Dynasty. The Han people are the legendary cheetah, and since he entered the land of the Qiang people, the Qiang people have regarded him as a guardian god-like existence to support and revere him. However, the greed of the Han people became heavier and heavier, and finally developed to the point where the Qiang people could not bear it. Grandpa Hexin's sharp blade and that stabbing order not only had anger, but also helplessness and sadness.
The current knife stabbing order has become a singing competition. The men and women, old and young of several villages, sit on the mountain meadows, and there are men and women singing love songs, and the tunes are gentle and sultry; There are those who sing open-mindedly, but the tune is rough and simple...... One song after another, it is really like a mountain wind and wildfire, the mountains echo, and the empty valley echoes.
Du Zhen followed Yang Zhang for a while, and just saw Gu Lebao where his eyes fell. Du Zhen said to Yang Zhang: "Uncle Yang, see for yourself, I'll go play with Bau and them." Yang Zhang was pleased that Du Zhen had reconciled with Gule Bawu, and said to him: "Come back before noon, Uncle Yang will wait for you to eat." ”
Du Zhen left Yang Zhang, whispered before Gulebawu, and the two left the singing conference with a group of children. The friends ran away from the crowd all the way to a place where no one was around, and Gu Lebao and Du Zhen fell down. It turned out that after Du Zhen saw Gu Lebawu, he had the idea of wrestling with him to take revenge. Although Du Zhen is strong in his heart, his appearance has always been weak, but since he fainted and returned home the day before, he felt that he seemed to be hungry for a few years, and his appetite was also open.
Gu Lebao and Du Zhen are two children, and their hands are on each other's shoulders. Gulebawu is half a head taller than Du Zhenzu, and it is extremely easy to pick his shoulders; Du Zhen is very difficult, short and short-armed, and is completely at a disadvantage. Although Du Zhen had never wrestled, he had seen it before, and he used his head against the chin of the bone Lebawu, so that he could not bow his head. Gu Lebawu's chin couldn't be retracted, but he didn't need much strength on his waist and eyes, so he had to put his arm hard and try to shake Du Zhen. In this way, the two sides fought one head and shook the other hand, and a stalemate began.
Du Zhen overestimated himself after all. That Gu Lebawu has been a tiger since he was a child, and he is not picky about meat and vegetables when eating, and his body is round, plus he often wrestles, not only is he far better than Du Zhen in terms of strength, but also has some skills. Although he was pushed up by Du Zhen's head and straightened his waist, he immediately used his skills after a stalemate, pretending to mix him under his feet, Du Zhen naturally had to hide under his feet, and he would unload some of his strength on the upper plate, Gu Lebao seized the opportunity and slid Du Zhen on his back with both hands, "Hi! With a force, he actually picked Du Zhen up, and then fell to the side, crushing Du Zhen on the grass.
Gu Lebao pressed Du Zhen and asked him in Qiang language, "Have you taken it?" Du Zhen naturally replied in Qiang: "Don't accept it!" Defy! Just don't accept it! Gulebawu pressed him hard and said, "I'll press you until you obey!" The two were at a stalemate again, and suddenly several more adults approached. A young man in a blue shirt in front of him, holding his hands on the two whips at his waist, saw a group of children wrestling, and shouted: "Big brother, there is a group of children fighting here!" ”