After the sacrifice, the men, women and children of the clan all sat on the ground, and cooked fruits, vegetables, rice wine, and soup were put on the table.

Regardless of whether men or women come or young, they all sing, dance and dance. The joy is undisguised, and the folk customs are rich and sweet. There is no difference between men and women between young people and girls. Holding hands and frolicking, it is more casual than traveling through the previous world. The child sighed secretly: The simplicity of the folk customs is beyond the reach of later generations.

Full of wine and food, Ziqi quietly got up and said goodbye to Li Hong in the suburbs of Li, and the two brothers sent Ziqi out of three or four miles before parting.

Xu Ziqi changed into the deerskin clothes that Dan'er had sewn for himself, put the changed clothes on the back of the package and continued to hurry.

After walking for two hours, the mountain suddenly appeared in front of me, with a cliff on the left and a small stream on the right. There is a pine forest in front, and when I walked into the woods, I saw a flat green stone under an old pine tree, and I sat on it to rest.

When the sun was in the sky, it was almost noon, and Ziqi felt that the wine was surging, and his whole body was unbearable, so he had to lean against the tree, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Suddenly, a mountain breeze blew. The pine branches crackled, and a terrible tiger roar came like thunder.

The child immediately woke up, and his intuition was numb and cold.

With a bang, a colorful tiger scurried out from the depths of the pine forest, its shoulder and back were already injured by blood, and it was half-squatting on the ground and roaring frequently.

Xu Ziqi was so frightened that his soul flew away.

Xu Ziqi was panicking, and a man in black brocade followed closely like a black shadow.

This man has a majestic figure, about thirty years old, and a short beard. More than an inch taller than the eight-foot-tall figure of the child period. The head of a leopard and the eyes of a dragon, the back of a tiger and the waist of a bear, the limbs are unusually thick, and he holds a bronze long sword in his right hand to confront the tiger.

Domineering leakage, awe-inspiring and fearless.

Holding each other for a moment, the man in brocade jumped up and raised his sword with both hands to slash.

The tiger was obviously frightened and dodged to the side. The man in brocade missed the blow, swept with his sword, and the tiger flashed to the other side. Due to the excessive force, the sword slashed at the trunk of a pine tree, and it really hit the wood.

The man in brocade was just about to draw his sword, when another tiger roared and roared, and a female tiger came out of the woods again.

The female tiger sprang up with her front paws on the ground and pounced on the top of the brocade-clad man's head.

The man in brocade was not in a hurry, his body was short and avoided the front paws of the female tiger, and he grabbed the front legs of the female tiger with both hands and fell, and the female tiger was thrown more than a foot away, and was hitting a pine tree with a thick bowl mouth, and the trunk was broken in response.

The sub-period can't help but secretly praise the man in brocade for his unparalleled power and courage!

The man in brocade was about to turn around and draw his sword again, but the previous male tiger pounced again, so he had to turn around and dodge, and at the same time fly with his right foot in the left crotch of the male tiger. Repelled the male tiger, the female tiger arrived again, and one person and two tigers fought in one place.

After a long time, the man in brocade clothes was overwhelmed.

Beads of sweat dripped down his sideburns, and his face was red and panting.

Ziqi didn't dare to wait and see anymore, took off his longbow, and put on a bamboo arrow. Pulling out the bow like the moon, aiming at the female tiger who was about to pounce again, he raised his hand and shot, and the right eye of the female tiger was pierced with a bang. The tiger fell to the ground with a bang, and the arrow entered the brain, and he was killed instantly.

The female tiger was killed, and the man in brocade was also refreshed, and when he repelled the male tiger, he turned around and drew his sword. When the male tiger pounced again, he easily dodged a sword and stabbed the tiger in the neck. The male tiger fell to the ground, bleeding from the wound and dying.

Ziqi walked up to the man in brocade with a longbow in his hand and was about to speak, only to hear the voices of people in the forest, and a pair of soldiers holding Chang Ge surrounded him. The leader of the lead shouted, "Escort, kill the assassin!" The soldiers waved their Changge and stabbed the son viciously in the chest and back.

The soldiers rushed to the sub-period and were about to make a move, but the man in brocade hurriedly waved his hand to stop the retreat and shouted: "Fei Lian, and slow!" Don't hurt anyone! ”。

The commander of the guard, who was called Fei Lian, hurriedly stopped, and everyone hurriedly saluted and called His Royal Highness the Prince.

Ziqi was shocked again, it turned out that this guard commander was Fei Lian. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Di Xin had three capable men under him, one literate and two martial. The text refers to Fei Zhong, who is a traitor who has been scolded for thousands of years; There are two people in Wu, one is Fei Lian, the other is evil, the two are father and son, that is, the ancestor of Qin Mugong, the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the ancestor of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages. Both father and son had the courage of ten thousand husbands, and all three of them came from humble backgrounds, and were disgraced by the civil and military ministers and nobles of the royal court.

But Di Xin doesn't care about his background, and he is very important to the three of them.

With Fei Lian on the side, there is no need to ask, this prince must be the third prince, and the son who was called the king of Su by later generations is undoubtedly called, and he must not have inherited the throne yet.

Zi Qi hurriedly put his right hand into a fist on his left chest, and bowed down: "See His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Zishou smiled, stepped forward to hold Ziqi's right shoulder and said, "You are very good, your name is Ziqi?" Could it be that you are a royal family? ”

Ziqi hurriedly replied: "I am an orphan, I don't know my genealogy, I don't know my homeland. I only know that I am called the child period, and I make a living by hunting in Jingshan. ”

Zi Shouhu looked at Zi Qi suspiciously for a while, and asked, "Are you really called Zi Qi?" ”

Xu Ziqi was a little flustered, "Back to Your Highness, the grass people are really called Ziqi." ”

Zishou hurriedly asked, "Is your mother Lunan Sushen?" ”

Ziqi hurriedly bowed his head, "Back to Your Highness, I really don't remember, I was raised by the Orion in the mountains for as long as I can remember." ”

Zishou seemed to be a little disappointed, "You can help me subdue the tiger and be fearless in the face of danger, which shows that you are loyal and brave." I like it very much, you can go back to the song with me! Be a personal guard for me, and as for your background, I will instruct Uncle Wang to investigate thoroughly. ”

As he spoke, the accompanying guards arrived one after another, kneeling on the ground and pleading guilty. The sub-period learned the reason on the side, and it turned out that the sub-shou's entourage went out of the city to hunt. Because of the eagerness to hunt the tiger, he got rid of Fei Lian and the guards, and had this adventure with himself.

Zi Shouxin didn't care, and ordered his entourage and guards to turn out of the valley, and turn back to Chaoge on the main road. Di Xin beckoned to Zi Qi: "Zi Qi come with me and be my royal guard."

The love is beyond words.

Ziqi understands in his heart that this is because he is grateful for his life-saving grace, so he loves him more.

Ziqi Fu Di Xin got into the car, and then sat on the outer side of the car, and the inner side sat the guard. The royal seat of the child was six horses, the size of a van, surrounded by bronze guards, with soft seats, white tiger skins on the seats, and umbrella covers. The retinue's chariot was only two horses, and the carriage was only half the size of the royal carriage, and there was no umbrella cover on the carriage.

The rest of the guards were on foot.

On both sides of the road, the green shade is like a cover, the trees are dripping green, and the flowers are fragrant and the birds are singing. The air is fresh and humid. Ziqi was very surprised in his heart, this place had obviously entered the boundary of Qi County in later generations.

What is the climate of Qi County, Dutch Province, Xu Ziqi is of course very familiar, the winter is cold, lack of rain and snow, the spring is short and dry and windy sand, the summer is hot and rainy, and the autumn is sunny and sunny. And the smog is quite severe, how can it be as pleasant as it is now?

It seems that it is all the sins of man's own making, indiscriminate deforestation and endless plundering of natural resources, and a large amount of industrial waste gas and wastewater destroying the natural environment.

Ziqi looked up and looked around as he walked, almost like the Xishuangbanna of later generations. I can't help but feel happy, a little proud!

Passing through a dense mulberry forest, a group of young girls were picking mulberry leaves.

Singing while picking:

What is the Tang Dynasty?

The hometown of the mountain.

Who's thinking about the cloud?

Mei Meng Jiang Yin.

I am in the middle of the sang,

If you want me to go to the palace,

Send me a kie.

Wheat picking?

The north of the mountain.

Who's thinking about the cloud?

Mei Mengyi.

I am in the middle of the sang,

If you want me to go to the palace,

Send me a kie.

What is the case?

The east of the mountain.

Who's thinking about the cloud?

Mei Mengyong.

I am in the middle of the sang,

If you want me to go to the palace,

Send me a kie.

Ziqi suddenly woke up, isn't this "The Book of Songs, the Wind and the Sangzhong"! In the past, my grandfather once said that the poems were all from the people, and they were really good, but I didn't expect that they were already being sung at the end of the Shang Dynasty. By the way, the poem says, the east of the foam, isn't the foam a song?

Later generations have a great controversy about this poem, some people say that it is yinluan, and some people say that it is the simple and strong style of ancient relics at that time, and the love between men and women is also direct and innocent. It seems that the latter is right. When I heard the girl's singing voice light and lively, how could there be a little vulgarity? Thinking of Dan'er, isn't it the same?

Love is love, unlike later generations, which are linked to material power and whitewash purity. Ziqi really wanted to shout at a few girls: "I love you to death!" ”

Several girls giggled when they saw that they were distracted, without the slightest shyness. One of the pretty-looking girls sang:

There are vines in the wild,

Zero dew 漙 (tuán) 兮.

There is a beautiful person,

Clear and graceful.

Encounters and encounters,

Fit me.

There are vines in the wild,

Zero dew 瀼瀼 (ráng).

There is a beautiful person,

Graceful as clear.

Encounters and encounters,

With the son 偕臧 (zāng).

Xu Ziqi's old face flushed, knowing that the girls had misunderstood him. This is another love poem in the Book of Songs, written about a pair of young men and women who meet by chance and have feelings for each other. The dew droplets are round, a metaphor for the love between two young men and women, and the scene of thousands of entanglements, just like himself and Dan'er.

Ziqi secretly screamed in his heart: "Girl, you are too direct, right?" ”

These two songs are the original text of the "Book of Songs", but Dan'er sings not, although the sentences are similar, they are not in the "Book of Songs". It is conceivable that Dan'er sang it improvised, unlike these girls who can only sing the original text passed down from generation to generation.

Thinking of Dan'er, the child's longing is even deeper.

The team walked for more than an hour, and Chaoge (pronounced the same as Brother Zhao) appeared in front of them. The north of Chaoge City is close to Huanshui, there is Taihang Mountain as a screen in the west, there is a big river as a barrier in the east, and there is an open plain in the south. The procession entered the city through the south gate, and the acropolis wall was made of loess rammed, with a height of 25 feet and a tower of 35 feet. Majestic and quaint.

Passing through the Acropolis and entering the inner city, as far as the eye can see, the entire Chaoge City covers an area of about 30,000 acres. The crowds in the inner city are gradually abundant, the market is neat, the roads are paved with blue strip stones, and the merchant houses on both sides are all wooden tile structures, the wood color is dark yellow, and the tile color is dark.

Walk to the center of the inner city is the royal city, the walls of the royal city are thirty-two feet high, and the tower is forty-two feet high. The lower part is made of gabbro, the upper part is made of long gray-black bricks, and the white mortar is caulked, and I don't know what material is used.

The entourage soldiers stopped at the gate of the royal city, and the royal rider entered the royal city. The buildings of the royal city are magnificent, simple and gorgeous. The temples are scattered, and the pavilions are symmetrical. The main body is made of gray brick mahogany, and the roof tiles are golden and shine in the daylight.

Ziqi was amazed in his heart, "As the saying goes, Qin bricks and Han tiles, it seems that history has played a joke again, and it turns out that the technology of firing bricks and tiles in the Shang Dynasty has been so perfect."

As soon as Zishou got out of the car, he saw the waiter in front of the door in a hurry, and saw him stumbling over and shouting: "Third prince, you are back, the king has fainted, and Uncle Wang is looking for you!" ”

When the son heard this, the tiger's body was shocked, and he ran inside.

Ziqi didn't know whether to advance or retreat, and secretly thought: "Lao Tzu is not familiar with this life, and the guards don't know me." was caught by them, and it was too late to shout injustice with a click, so it was better to follow the child to be safe! After thinking about it, he hurriedly followed behind Zishou.

The two of them ran one after the other to the inner sanctum. Zishou was startled when he looked back, "Why did you come with me?" ”

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Annotation Translation of "The Book of Songs, the Wind and the Sangzhong":

Where to pick dill? to the Momo Country there. Who's on my mind? Beautiful eldest sister, her surname is Jiang. Ask me to wait in Sangzhong, invite me to meet in the upper palace, and send me far to Qishui.

Where do you go to gather ears of wheat? to the north of Namo Township. Who's on my mind? Beautiful eldest sister, her surname is Yi. Ask me to wait in Sangzhong, invite me to meet in the upper palace, and send me as far as Qishui.

Where to go to pick cranberries? to the east of Namo Township. Who's on my mind? Beautiful eldest sister, her surname is Yong. Ask me to wait in Sangzhong, invite me to meet in the upper palace, and send me as far as Qishuibin.

Translation of "The Book of Songs: Wild Vines":

In the wild, the grass grows, and the dew becomes a round bead.

There is a beautiful man with eyes looking forward to the fragrance.

Having a chance encounter is really in line with my wishes.

The wild grass is full of grass, and the dew is dense and crystalline.

There is a pretty woman, pure as the waves of water,

Unexpectedly, let me meet and share the fun with me.