In the end, Jiang Lan slept in bed, while Li Huaining sat at the desk in the distance and didn't know what he was writing.

After two more incomprehensible classes, Jiang Lan was so bored that the whole person was in her sleep, and she didn't know what to do.

Because of Jiang Lan's joining, Li Huaining, who was often absent from class and studying in the Dao Library Pavilion, has often missed a single class recently.

As long as there is Jiang Lan, there must be Li Huaining.

After several classes, Jiang Lan was in a state of boredom.

Seeing this, Li Huaining comforted Jiang Lan, "Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang, you must like this next lesson." ”

Jiang Lan changed his arm and continued to support his head, obviously not very convinced.

An old man with a kind face walked in from behind, and the nervous people who were still studying immediately had a soothing face.

"Today, let's tell a few stories from the old decay."

"Storytelling?" Jiang Lan raised her eyes and looked at Li Huaining, "What are you talking about?" ”

"This Master Wu always teaches with stories, and then explains to us what is in them."

This story is recorded in Zhang Hua's "Naturalist Chronicles" Zheng of the Jin Dynasty

There is a very magical valley in Chaomen County, and when someone enters the valley, he will suddenly rise into the air, and disappear in an instant like an immortal.

The locals call this place the Valley of the Immortals.

People who like to cultivate immortals and practice the Tao especially love to go to this valley.

Before going to the valley, they will hold a set of rituals at home, and the popular saying goes: life must have rituals and blessings

After the cultivators bathe, fast, and wash up, they go to the Immortal Valley very devoutly, perhaps because of their piety, they can often ascend as they wish.

For cultivators, the Immortal Valley is the ultimate shortcut to cultivating immortals.

There was a man named Song Lin who suspected that there were monsters in the Immortal Valley Ascension.

Song Lin was very exploratory, he tied a large stone to his waist, led a dog, and entered the Immortal Valley.

As a result, the dog flew up in the daytime, and because he tied a big stone, he did not fly.

Song Lin returned to the village and recruited dozens of people, holding rolling pins, hoes, hunting bows and arrows, and forks for insertion, hanging large stones from his waist, cutting grass and cutting trees all the way to the top of the mountain.

When I arrived at the top of the mountain, I saw a strange man who was more than ten zhang long and had ears as big as a dustpan on the mountain, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and there were bones more than one person tall around the python.

The crowd threw their bows and arrows and forks, killing the monster.

This big python is really big, and the python's mouth is more than a zhang wide. The people who had risen in the sky before were all sucked away by the monster's breath.

After the python was killed, no one in the fairy valley ever flew up in the daytime.

This story is recorded in the Jin Dynasty Zhang Hua's "Naturalist Chronicles" Zheng

”

Hearing this story, Jiang Lan rolled her eyes reasonably, and said to Li Huaining next to her, "Not necessarily, that python is actually a good one, it's just because the person named Song Lin can't fly, so he blames all the python."

Listening to the way the clouds and spitting out the mist, it seems that the python is at least an earth immortal. ”

"What? Earth Immortals? Li Huaining asked.

Jiang Lan shook her head, "You must have heard it wrong, I'm thinking about Di Sanxian." ”

Li Huaining was chatting, and Wu Fuzi on the stage told the next story.

"There is a story recorded in "Taiping Guangji", and it is very doubtful that the White Lady is full of water and Jinshan is the spiritual blessing obtained from this story

The story goes like this:

There was a young scholar who encountered a snake on the road and thought it was very cute, so he put it in a bookcase and took it home to raise, and named the snake Dansheng.

Later, the snake grew bigger and bigger, and the scholar couldn't pick it anymore, so he released the snake to a big lake Zheng when he went out once

40 years have passed in a flash.

The young scholar was already very old, and when he went out, he was going to pass by a large lake, and the locals warned him that there was a python in the lake, as long as a big boat, and that people passing by the lake would often become food for the gods, so you should take a detour.

The scholar saw that it was almost winter outside, and most of the snake pythons hibernated in this season, so it should be no problem to pass by the lake at this time, so he walked from the lake without listening to the advice.

As soon as the scholar approached the lake, suddenly a snake came out of the lake and ran after him.

The boat-like python chased him and circled above his head, but he didn't open his mouth to eat it, looking at the appearance of the snake, the scholar vaguely felt that it was very similar to the snake he raised back then, so he tried to ask, are you my bearer?

The python hovered with its head down, as if nodding, and then plunged headlong into the lake and disappeared.

When the scholar returned home after finishing his errands, the county magistrate of his hometown heard that the snake did not eat him when he met him, and thought it was very strange, so he arrested the scholar and tortured him to the county office, and then put him in prison and sentenced him to be beheaded in the autumn in the name of raising demons.

The scholars on death row are very unwilling, and often shout angrily: Dansheng raised you back then, but now you are being killed, which is too much.

That night, the entire county town, except for the prison where scholars stayed, fell into a vast ocean.

The prototype of the story of the White Lady flooding Jinshan may come from this, the scholar who adopted the snake became her husband in the story of the White Lady, and the bad guy county master became a Hesan

”

Jiang Lan's eyes lit up, "I heard the story of this white lady in ancient times, and this version is interesting." ”

"Wu Fuzi always likes to collect some weird stories, and always has his own different views on some well-known stories, and pushes new ones."

"That's interesting, listen, let's continue listening."

"In the Classic of Mountains and Seas: There is a thunder god in Thunder, a dragon body and a human head, and a belly is thunder.

Later, when they came to the Eastern Han Dynasty, people imagined that the god of thunder had a big drum, and when the drum was beaten, this imagination took a step towards civilization.

Later, people further added tools to Thor, and with Thor's thunderbolt, Thor could not only thunder, but also contract the work of lightning.

Tao Yuanming's "Postscript to Sou Shen" recorded a story:

A son-in-law surnamed Zhou went out with a servant, and passed by a newly built thatched hut in the dark, and the owner of the house was a beautiful girl, who kindly left them to stay and eat.

In the middle of the night, Zhou Gongzi closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, and suddenly heard someone shouting outside the house: Ah Xiang, Lei Gong wants you to push the thunder cart.

The girl named Ah Xiang got up and opened the door and went out.

When there was lightning and thunder outside the house that night, Ah Xiang was called back in the morning to say goodbye to them.

Zhou Gongzi left the thatched house, and when he looked back, he found that the grass house was gone, and behind him was a new grave, and there was fresh forage left over by horses under a tree behind the grave.

It can be seen that at least until the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Thor has already known how to control the car.

”

Li Huaining looked at the thoughtful Jiang Lan and couldn't help but wonder, "Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang, is there anything wrong?" ”

Jiang Lan shook her head, "It's nothing, it's just that I remembered the doubts that had not been explained before." ”

"What doubts?"

Jiang Lan thought for a while, and then said, "I had an acquaintance before, his daughter has always liked to run away from home, my acquaintance is always puzzled, but his daughter is so powerful, he can't find out why, let me tell me about it when I was drinking again, and wanted to ask me for help." ”

"Acquaintances? Daughter? Brother Jiang, your friend is quite old. Li Huaining looked at Jiang Lan suspiciously.

Jiang Lan touched her nose, this matter is not good.