The earthquake is scorching, and it is not easy to order.

Hundreds of rivers are boiling, and the mounds are collapsing.

The flat land becomes a valley, and the wilderness is a mausoleum.

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Four years ago, that is, in the twenty-fifth year of the Jin Kingdom, the earthquake created the scene of hell, which reminded the world of the years when the Yu Dynasty overturned.

The Tianqi earthquake caused disasters and displaced people affected the three provinces in the south of the Jin Kingdom, and the crisis of displaced people also affected Sanguan.

Anping, the government of Southwest Province, was almost destroyed in a series of earthquakes, and no amount of words was enough to describe the tragedy.

Many towns were either destroyed by the earthquake or destroyed by man-made disasters that were aggravated after the earthquake, but only Xiuteng retained its vitality to the greatest extent.

There are no ghosts wandering around the tombstones along the way, and it seems that the deceased has long passed the "broken seven", and even if a ghost is generated, it will no longer exist.

"Whew! What a big array. ”

He Mengdong pointed to the tower-like pillars on the side of the road and sighed.

Chai Xiaotang also looked at these behemoths stuck in the ground, and also sighed: "Such a big array staff......"

The pillars stand like cranes in the "flock of chickens" composed of tombstones, overlooking the graves of the deceased.

The pillar stone of the formation is the cornerstone and key to the formation of the magic circle.

The Zhao people called it the "Array Pillar", and the Jin people called it the "Array Staff", which can deploy the natural Qi from between heaven and earth, and cooperate it with the Qi of the Zhou Master, so that the "technique" is close to the "law", and the legendary formation has the ability to change the heavens and the earth.

The carriage moved slowly forward, passing by several mounds, and Wang Yu vaguely heard someone singing poetry.

"The cracks and cracks are in the deep pits, the oblique trembling and tilting are difficult to stop, the yin wind is sassy, the ghosts and gods are swaying, and the earth is miserable and the sky is dark and foggy. ”

"Escape and go to death and chaos, call each other and chase each other, raise your head and don't see the person in front of you, raise your head and don't see the house at that time, build a time and space, broken and broken. ”

"There are ruined villages all over the barren villages, how many villages can survive in a thousand villages?"

As the carriage drove between the two mounds, a neat house with a gabled roof sat quietly on the mound on the right.

Wang Yu saw the plaque in the house, which read "Soil Protection Ancestral Society".

Wang Yuzheng wanted to hear He Mengdong's opinion, but he didn't want Chai Xiaotang to say directly: "This ancestral hall is not like a family temple, not like a clan ancestral hall, nor like a shrine of strange gods. ”

He Mengdong nodded and said: "It turns out that the customs of the Jin people are like this, well, I have learned." ”

As the carriage approached the mound, the poetry that I had just heard became clearer and clearer.

"The young woman sleeps alone at dusk, the old woman cares for her orphaned grandson with her white head, the ghost fire is born at night, and the new soul is crying under the moon. ”

A well-dressed and well-nourished old man sat on a tree stump at the foot of the mound, his mouth shutting a hymn.

The meaning of the poem is so pathetic, but the old man's expression is very ordinary.

Wang Yu suddenly ordered He Mengdong, "Stop the horse." ”

As soon as he saw the old man, Wang Yu's Yuanchi Sanbu couldn't help but tremble, and then, his own emotional line and the emotional line on the old man's body shook at the same time.

The old man's Yuan Chi also trembled instinctively, he stopped his mouth and looked at Wang Yu, and the two seemed to resonate in an instant.

He Mengdong tightened the reins, and Chai Xiaotang asked, "What's wrong?"

Wang Yu looked at the old man without squinting, "This old man is a master of the Taicheng realm. ”

He Mengdong and Chai Xiaotang's faces changed immediately, and they were too ...... That's the seventh floor!

The old man stood up and said loudly: "What a rare guest, I haven't seen Master Zhou in the Zhengjun realm for many years!

After He Mengdong and Chai Xiaotang learned about Wang Yu's realm, they didn't even have the strength to be shocked, and their minds were directly empty for a while.

Wang Yu bit his lip and didn't reply immediately.

This old man can see his own realm, can he overcome the moonlight of Gao Que?

"My surname is Wang Mingyu, I am from Zhao Guotianxi, who are my predecessors?"

The old man said earnestly: "I am also from Tianxi, I didn't expect it to be a fellow villager! Then I must entertain you! Come to the ancestral shrine, in addition, I advise you not to enter Xiuteng, it is not very peaceful." ”

Wang Yu said helplessly: "Why is this Jin Kingdom not peaceful everywhere?"

"Where is there peace in the whole world?"

"This ...... That's right. ”

In this series of small talk, Wang Yu and the others took their luggage, hid the carriage, and the old man led them up the mound along the regular stone steps and came to the ancestral hall.

The old man filled a few peaches with a basket as if offering a treasure, and brought three bowls with millet porridge, and told the three of them not to be polite, but to eat.

Wang Yu and Chai Xiaotang were really thirsty, so they went straight to the peaches and took a big bite of the peach flesh to soothe their thirsty throats.

This situation made the old man very satisfied, and even a little proud.

He Mengdong looked at the peaches in the rice bowl and the millet porridge in the thick bowl, and although he was hungry and thirsty, he didn't do it.

The old man asked He Mengdong: "Young man, why don't you eat?"

He Mengdong bowed and replied solemnly: "Millet has a prominent position among the grains, and it is the top three tributes during the sacrifice, and the peaches are the bottom of the six major vegetables and fruits, not to mention the sacrifice, the temple can't enter, and it is also a ritual vessel, you use the peaches and millet in the thick bowl, which is really incompatible with the ceremony......

When the old man heard this, his face turned gloomy, and he snorted coldly, so he took the peaches and ate them.

While eating, the old man said to Wang Yu: "In the early years of the Yu Dynasty, peaches were holy relics! After Taizong, this vain and brainy evil ceremony made people restrain their hands and feet in food, clothing, housing and transportation, weird and annoying~ Etiquette is necessary, harsh can be tolerated, but inexplicable evil etiquette, I will never perform, this ancestral shrine, Gui is just a meal, and there is no difference between peach and millet, and I and you have no distinction between high and low. ”

Chai Xiaotang took a sip of porridge and asked, "I don't know who the senior's surname is?"

The old man had peach meat in his mouth, whimpered and said, "Just call me Qiu Qianku." ”

He Mengdong couldn't blame Wang Yu and Chai Xiaotang, so he had to say to the old man: "Zhao Ren has been ridiculed by Qi and Jin because of his delay in cultivating rituals, why don't you set an example as an old-timer?"

"I'm not from Zhao, why bother so much?"

He Mengdong asked rhetorically: "Aren't you from Tianxi?"

"When I was born in Tianxi, Yu Chao just ruled the world, where did Zhao come from at that time!"

As soon as Qiu Qianku's words came out, Chai Xiaotang and Wang Yu were choked by the porridge and coughed repeatedly.

When their breathing was smooth again, the two stared at Qiu Qiangu in astonishment, unable to speak for a long time.

Qiu Qianku felt that the reaction of these young people was really exaggerated, flicked his sleeves, and said loudly: "I'm seven floors old, it's normal to practice some longevity-prolonging Zhou techniques, and live until now, right?

Then, he looked at He Mengdong again, and said slowly: "Whether it is a person or a country, as long as you have enough confidence, even if the etiquette formulated is respected by shrimp and the dragon is inferior, there will be people who are convinced, if you have insufficient confidence, even if the etiquette formulated is gorgeous, it is not worth mentioning." ”

After eating the peach in his hand, Qiu Qianku stuffed the peach pit into his mouth, bit it with a "quack", and said proudly while chewing the peach pit: "Just like me, four years ago, I set up a big array, with the strength of one person, to withstand the earthquake, to ensure the peace of the whole city, they set up for me, must be in accordance with my will, get the peach into the hall! Every year on the sacrifice day, these Jin people pay tribute to the peach during the sacrifice, and worship me Qiu Qianku. ”

He Mengdong took out the last peach in the basket, ate it, and after eating it silently, he said, "I have been taught, but the power cannot be absolute." ”

Without waiting for Qiu Qianku's reply, Wang Yu hurriedly rounded the field: "That's natural, but the same is true of etiquette, people or forces whose strength has reached a certain level must also rely on principles, and such a strong force can last." ”