Huazhou, the state is governed in Huayin County, which belongs to Yongxing Military Road. Under the jurisdiction of the state, Huayin, Weinan and other counties. Huayin, as the name suggests, the south of the water, the north of the mountain, is called the yin, that is, the north foot of the Huashan Mountain in Xiyue.

When Xiao Yiran's family settled down in the official residence of Zhizhou Yamen, it was already the twentieth day of the lunar month, and then the New Year. After the New Year, it was the third year of the Taiping Rejuvenation (978). Seven-year-old Xiao Yiran rarely reads books such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, but finds a copy of "Huazhou Prefecture Chronicles" and studies it carefully.

Local chronicles generally record the mountains and rivers of the place, as well as historical figures, and so on. Within the jurisdiction of Huazhou, there are mountains and rivers. The mountain is Xiyue Huashan, and the river is the Yellow River. As for the historical figures, the only ones who are more famous are Bai Juyi and Zhang Renyuan, both of whom are from Xiabang County and are known as the two sages of Xiabang. In addition, the state chronicles also recorded a person named "Kou Xiang", whose ancestral surname was Su, and the ancestor Su Chasheng once served as the Western Zhou Dynasty Wuwang Si Kou, because of his great contributions, he was given the surname by his official position and changed his surname to Kou. And Taiyuan moved to Fengxu, and finally moved to Xiabang, Huazhou. In Xiao Yiran's memory, there was only one more famous Kou Zhun surnamed Kou in the Northern Song Dynasty, also known as Kou Laoxi, I don't know what the relationship between this Kou Xiang and Kou Zhun is.

Xiao Yiran remembered Lin Chen again, and Lin Chen was also from Xiabang. I don't know how he did after following the prefect to Cangzhou? I haven't seen him for four years, according to Lin Chen's knowledge, he should have already been admitted to Xiucai, right?

Spring has gone to summer, and I have lived by the Yangtze River for a long time, and the scorching heat in the north makes Xiao Yiran feel very uncomfortable. At the beginning of July, Xiao Yiran said to his mother, Sun:

"Mother, I've been in Huazhou for more than half a year, and now it's just the middle of summer, and I want to visit Huashan."

"Ran'er, I heard your father say that Mount Huashan is steep and difficult to climb, if Ran'er really wants to go, let's go together when your father is resting."

"It's fine. However, I had nothing to do in the past two days, so I only went to the mountain pass. It should be cooler there than Furi. ”

"It's okay, bring more people, and my mother will accompany Ran'er for a walk."

Early in the morning of the sixth day of the seventh month, after the mother and daughter told Xiao Guoliang, they led Xiaoxi, Xiao Qing, and two long-term followers, Zhao Qing and Qian Jun, to let Xiao Qing drive, and the group began to visit Huashan.

First of all, I came to the ancestral temple of Chen Tuan at the entrance of Huashan, bowed to the incense, and walked along the winding mountain stream road. As he walked, Xiao Yiran suddenly remembered the poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Chang Jian:

The water at the mouth of the river is shallow, and the Lingling medicine is thick.

The twin peaks into the river are steep, and the wind is sparse and sparse.

The weeping ridge branches are curling, and the spring flowers are cloudy.

"Niang Ke has read Chang Jian's "Immortal Valley Meets Mao Girl and Knows that She is from Qin Shi Palace"?"

"Read."

"Mother, is there really a hairy girl?"

"Ran'er, Niang believes that there are ghosts and gods in the world, as for whether the hairy girl really exists, it is not certain from Chang Jian's poems alone. The earliest record of the hairy girl is the "Column of Immortals". It is to the effect that the hairy woman's word jade ginger, in Huayin Mountain, the hunter has seen it from generation to generation, and her body is hairy. He said that the people of Qin Shi Huang's palace were also, Qin was bad, and he went into exile in the mountains to avoid chaos, and met Taoist Gu Chun to teach him to eat pine leaves, so he was not hungry and cold. The body is as light as flying, more than 170 years, there are drums and piano sounds in the rocks. ”

"Mother's knowledge is really profound."

"Hehe, Ran'er also praised her mother. My mother just read more idle books when she had nothing to do. If you compare it with Ran'er, when my mother was so old, she didn't have a star of the books that Ran'er read. ”

"Mother, if the hairy girl is still alive, I'm afraid she is really an immortal. It should have been a thousand years since Qin, right? ”

"It's been a thousand years. The legendary Peng Zu only has a lifespan of 800, and the ancestor Chen Tuan in the Yamaguchi Temple has a lifespan of less than 200 years. ”

This season happens to be the season for mountain climbing, and there are still many tourists. Men and women, young and old, are also mixed with many small merchants and vendors selling food and small toys. The further you go into the mountains, the cooler the temperature becomes. When I arrived at the Mao Nu Temple, I couldn't feel the scorching heat of summer, but the cool breeze was slow, which made people feel very comfortable.

"Mother, this should be the legendary place where you can hear the sound of the drum and piano, right?"

"Yes, because people often hear the sound of the piano, they built the Mao Nu Temple here."

"Mother, I want to learn the piano too."

"My mother has already had this intention, ask your father another day, and ask a violinist to teach Ran'er."

The mother and daughter gossiped and played, and came to the Nine Heavens Xuannu Temple at noon.

"Ran'er, let's get here today, and if you go up, there are layers of steep stone steps, which are difficult to climb."

"Okay, mother, let's go and worship the Xuannu Niangniang, and rest in the temple for a while by the way. After lunch, just go back the way you came. ”

Nine Heavens Xuannu, also known as Xuannu Niangniang. Xiao Yiran remembered that in "Water Margin", Song Jiang got a book of immortals from the Nine Heavens Xuannu Niangniang. Xiao Yiran followed his mother Sun, knelt down in front of the statue of Xuannu Niangniang, and muttered in his heart:

"Xuannu Niangniang, little girl Xiao Yiran, this life is the second soul rebirth. First, an archaeology student in the distant future died unexpectedly in his morning dormitory, and then was reborn in the wilderness. I worked hard to build a nation and a country, but for some reason, God asked me to abandon my five young children, as well as my husband and relatives, and be reborn now. If the Xuannu Niangniang knows, please also solve the doubts of the little girl. ”

Because they were the family members of Zhizhou, the abbot personally received the mother and daughter. After tea in the abbot's room, a vegetarian meal was prepared, and the mother and daughter were invited to have lunch, and the special person sorted out a clean room and invited the mother and daughter to take a rest.

Xiao Yiran followed his mother to the clean room, and wanted to sit for a while, and then set off to return to Huayin when the sun turned west. I didn't want to, but as soon as I sat down for a while, I felt sleepy. Before I knew it, I fell asleep on the couch.

Xiao Yiran, who was asleep, returned to the main hall of the Xuannu Niangniang Temple in a trance, and walked through the back door of the main hall and entered a large garden. In the garden, flowers are everywhere, green trees are shady, cranes and birds are singing, just like a fairyland. Xiao Yiran lingered in it, forgetting who he was and where he was. I don't know how long it has been, I suddenly heard a long bell, and I seemed to remember that I came to visit Huashan with my mother Sun, why did I suddenly come here. Mother, where are they? Thinking of this, Xiao Yiran was secretly shocked in his heart, could it be that he was reborn again?

In a panic, Xiao Yiran was about to look for the exit of the garden, but saw a yellow silk silk suddenly floating down from the sky, stretched out his hand to take it, and saw a poem on it:

The reincarnation of life and death is determined by the sky,

Relatives and children are married.

The ancient desolate is the first of you,

The leak is clear.

Regeneration Zhao Song Xiu resentment,

Right and wrong total leading.

The three heroes compete for a daughter,

Cleanliness can be taken care of.

Everyone's small family is in charge of the country,

Wholeheartedly try to be safe.

Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren,

There's no need to dream first.

Xiao Yiran looked at the poems on the silk silk, and couldn't help but read them out loud. Suddenly, the voice of his mother Sun sounded in his ears:

"Wake up. Is it a dream? ”

Xiao Yiran opened his eyes, first looked at his hands, saw that there was no shadow of silk silk for a long time, and then looked at his mother Sun, knowing that he was not reborn this time, his heart settled down a little.

"Mother, I was dreaming of reading a book just now. Did I pronounce the voice? ”

"Yes, my mother was just about to fall asleep in a daze, but I heard the sound of Ran'er's recitation, and I couldn't hear what I was reading, I was afraid that it was a nightmare, so my mother woke you up."

Xiao Yiran was talking with her mother, but she was thinking that it was a poem just now. The twelve lines of poetry are remembered clearly, and Xiao Yiran knows that the prayer in front of the statue of Xuannu Niangniang in the morning has worked. Such a clear dream must have been given to her by the Xuannu Niangniang. The poetry is relatively simple, from which we can know that the ancient times were my own life, but why let myself experience it again? "Leaking the heavens is clear"? Is it that you shouldn't have brought the technology you had before being born there? For example, bows and arrows, such as smelting, such as explosives, etc.?

Xiao Yiran thought about it, it should be because he used too much technology that the genius didn't let him continue to survive in the wilderness. Needless to ask, this life should also be a reincarnation of yourself. "Three heroes compete for one woman", does it mean that there will be three men in this life?

Especially the last two sentences, after Xiao Yiran silently recited it in his heart a few times, he felt that he should tell himself, don't worry about the children of the ancient times, the so-called "dream first" should be the dream he had when he was just reborn here. The original soul of the body in the dream reoccupied the body, and instead of herself, she became the mother of five children and became the emperor of Xiao Kingdom. Thinking of this, Xiao Yiran was completely relieved of his five children who stayed in the ancient period.

But why let yourself relive your past life? What is the meaning of this? ”

From the verses, Xiao Yiran couldn't find the answer.

After resting in the clean room for a while, after the mother and daughter got up to freshen up, Xiao Yiran came to the main hall again in view of the dream just now, and bowed down devoutly, thanking the Xuanniang for her dream.

Back in the evening, at dinner, the mother and daughter told Xiao Guoliang about today's visit to Huashan. Finally, Sun said to Xiao Guoliang:

"Husband, after Ran'er saw the Mao Nu Temple today, she suddenly wanted to learn the drums, if there is a suitable pianist, it is better to invite you to teach Ran'er."

"Ran'er really wants to learn the piano?"

"Yes, Daddy."

"It's okay, since Ran'er wants to learn, wait for Daddy to entrust his subordinates to help Ran'er find one."

"Daddy, if only I could find someone who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

"I'm afraid it's hard to find such people. However, most of the scholars who are proficient in music and rhythm will dabble in chess, calligraphy and painting. Let Daddy find out. ”

For his smart and well-behaved daughter, no matter what requirements he makes, Xiao Guoliang and his wife will be full of promises. The husband and wife also knew that their daughter would not ask for anything excessive. From childhood to now, this is still the only request Xiao Yiran has made to them.

"Dad and Mom are both knowledgeable people, why didn't they get involved in these things back then?"

"Daddy doesn't have the time and the opportunity. But your mother doesn't care about this, she only likes to read. ”