Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Peacekeeper
Compared to my adventures, this third thing is actually not too special, it is the gossip related to the thousand-year-old fish charm of the Lock Demon Lake.
I didn't want to elaborate on it, but my grandmother asked me to tell me more about the situation. So I told the girl how to force her to marry and how she retreated, and after 1510, my grandmother listened, and her two eyebrows were so frowning that they shrank into the wrinkles on her forehead.
After muttering for a long time, grandma suddenly asked, "Xiaoyi, you said that the fish charm once mentioned a Taoist priest surnamed Xiao?" Did she say exactly what her name was? β
I was stunned for a moment, and said in my heart why my grandmother asked about this, and hurriedly replied: "No, she only said that her surname is Xiao, and listening to her, Qing'er's mother seems to have disappeared in order to find this Taoist surnamed Xiao." β
When Grandma heard this, she just mumbled, then closed her eyes and stopped talking.
Just when I thought that my grandmother was old and tired, and was about to let her rest, her eyes suddenly opened again, and her cloudy gaze stared directly at the statue of the witch boy enshrined in the shrine behind the door, and asked an irrelevant question:
"Xiaoyi, do you remember the biography you peeked at when you were a child?"
"Biography?" I thought about it, and suddenly understood what my grandmother was referring to, and blurted out, "Are you talking about that volume of "Records of Pingxiao Daoren"?" β
Grandma nodded, and then turned her gaze to the statue of the witch boy.
However, I was reminded of my childhood memories by my grandmother's "Chronicles of Pingxiao Daoren".
Half of my childhood was spent in my hometown, when there was no electricity or TV, and I spent most of my time hanging out with playmates such as Erhu, so when I was five years old, my father began to teach me to read, and by the time I was seven or eight years old, I could already read a lot of words.
There are a lot of books on my father, but most of them are the kind of Yili scriptures that I don't like and can't understand, but grandma's place, there are a lot of books with bizarre stories, grandma won't let me read, so I quietly peeked at it, among which there is a biography of my favorite character, which records the experience of a Taoist priest with the Taoist name Pingxiao for most of his life.
I don't know if you still remember, I once told the story of a young man who met a hungry ghost while walking at night, which is from that volume of "Chronicles of Pingxiao Daoren", and the young man in the story was the Pingxiao Taoist when he was young.
There are many wonderful and bizarre stories recorded in this biography, and my grandmother watched it so closely at that time that I could only sneak into my grandmother's room while she was not at home, and read only one story at a time, and I was never greedy. In this way, it took me nearly half a year to read all this biography.
Maybe it was because I was cautious and steady, and my grandmother didn't notice my little movements, and I always thought that she still didn't know the secret, but now it seems that I was too naΓ―ve, and Jiang is really still the hottest old.
"Hey, grandma, you knew it back then?"
Grandma had already withdrawn her gaze at some point, touched my hair with a doting face, and said with a smile: "Stinky boy, grandma already knew, just when you first touched the room." β
Hearing this, I was even more speechless, I have been successful in the relationship for half a year, not because I am smart, but because my grandmother deliberately did not poke me, no wonder she always went out at a specific time.
I smiled awkwardly, and instead of asking my grandmother why she hadn't debunked me in the first place, I asked why she had mentioned the biography. 000 Literature
Grandma restrained her smile, and after a deep sigh for two seconds, she suddenly said: "That biography is not complete, what you see is only the first volume." β
"Volume?" I was shocked, in fact, after reading it that year, I also suspected that there was a story behind, because this volume only wrote the story of Pingxiao Daoren before he was in his thirties, and then it was very abruptly gone, so I also specially rummaged through my grandmother's room back then, but unfortunately there was no gain, so I gave up.
Later, as I grew older and the big things that happened later, this insignificant little thing was completely thrown into my memory, and if it wasn't for my grandmother suddenly mentioning it, I might never remember it.
"Well, it's just the first volume, when your grandfather and I got this biography by chance, your grandfather thought the story recorded in it was very interesting, so he collected it, but the next volume was lost soon after!"
I sighed, and suddenly said: "Oh, that's the case, no wonder I couldn't find it at the beginning, it turned out to be lost a long time ago." But...... Grandma, you suddenly mentioned this biography, could it be that it has something to do with that Taoist surnamed Xiao? β
Grandma nodded: "Well, you haven't read the next volume, so I don't know, in the story recorded in the next volume, there is one related to the mermaid!" β
"Oh? Grandma, talk to me! β
I'm a little excited, it's not been long since the trip to the lock demon lake, I still have a very good impression of the kind-hearted mermaid princess Qing'er, if I can really get the information of the Taoist surnamed Xiao, maybe I can find the news of Qing'er's mother.
Grandma smiled lovingly and told the stories she had seen in her biography about mermaids.
The specific details of the story are very old, and grandma is old again, so she can't remember clearly, so she just told a rough idea.
It is said that this Pingxiao Taoist was already famous in Shenzhou Wudao Xuanmen when he was thirty years old, and since then, he has been lingering among the rivers and mountains of Zhong Ling's Shenxiu, and he has been punishing evil spirits and eliminating demons everywhere.
In the process, he discovered the existence of the Earth Eye in several mysterious forbidden places, and learned of its harm to the living beings in the world, and since then, the life trajectory of the Pingxiao Daoist has been rewritten.
Following the clues obtained from their previous travels, the people of Pingxiao Dao found the toast and found the fake lock demon lake hidden in the 100,000 mountains.
In the Fake Lock Demon Lake, the Pingxiao Daoist experienced similar dangers to us, but the difference is that the strength of the Pingxiao Daoist is profound, and he also inadvertently saved the contemporary mermaid princess who was caught in the seal, that is, Qing'er's mother, and the two fell in love at first sight......
Later, Pingxiao Daoren also found out that the lock demon lake was fake, in order to completely solve the hidden danger, he resolutely gave up his relationship with the mermaid princess and quietly left the fake lock demon lake. Ten years later, the people of Pingxiao Daoren returned to the Fake Lock Demon Lake in Toast to find the mermaid princess, but learned a news that made him regret his life.
It turned out that after he quietly left ten years ago, Qing'er's mother collapsed, and despite the dissuasion of the thousand-year-old fish charm, she secretly ran out of the lock demon lake, intending to find the people of Pingxiao Dao, and there has been no news since then.
Five years later, Qing'er's mother returned to the Lock Demon Lake with a haggard face, and after giving birth to Qing'er, she left again and never returned.
After receiving this news, the depressed Pingxiao Daoist spent the rest of his life looking for Qing'er's mother, but there was no news until he disappeared in a secret place, leaving only these two biographies.