Chapter 257: The Unfathomable Ancient Village
In the north of Liansheng Country, Yuqin Village.
This is a small but extremely famous village, although it is located in the north, it is very populous, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and it is not at all as arid and barren as other northern towns and villages.
Even warmer and more inhabitable than most southern towns and villages, it is also the first of the four famous ancient water towns in the country of Liansheng, while the other three villages are all located in the south.
It stands to reason that the ancient village of Shuixiang should belong to the unique villages in the south, but Yuqin Village, as an inconspicuous small village in the north, can rank first, which naturally has its uniqueness.
That's its name – Yuqin.
It is said that if anyone comes to Yuqin Village and does not go to Yuqin Mingju, even if they have been here a hundred times, it is equivalent to not having been there.
Why? That's because Yuqin Village is a village named after the existence of Yuqin Mingju.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there is no way to verify the specific extent, and no one knows, only that Yuqin Village was a nameless village at that time.
The main reason why this village doesn't even have a decent name is because it is so barren that there are hardly any people to be seen.
This deserted, inaccessible village has been in drought for so long that the people living here are desperately short of water all year round, and they either leave the country or die of thirst on the way away.
So over time, the inhabitants of this place itself have all gone, and none of them have died. So much so that the name of the village was lost, and it became a tomb-like nameless village.
The people who really survive here are often outsiders, and these people are all lost in the rush to escape for their lives after encountering a big sandstorm, and they come to this village unintentionally.
At first, these hungry and thirsty people thought that they were saved, but when they walked through the village and found that there were corpses everywhere, and even if they occasionally met a living person, they were about to die of thirst, and they realized that they were completely in a desperate situation.
However, they no longer had the strength to leave the village, so they sat on the ground in decadence, looked up at the sky, and gradually left this world in the midst of good memories.
In the end, he became one of the shocking corpses in this village, which also added a touch of sadness to this village.
Until one day, a newly married and extremely loving young couple lost their way due to a sandstorm and came to this village unfortunately.
At first, they were also excited, thinking that they were saved.
But when they had spent three days walking through the village, carefully inspecting every place, and finding not a single living person except a dying young boy, and not a drop of water, they realized that it would be difficult for them to get out alive.
They couldn't bear to let the boy who had died of his parents die at such a young age, so they gave the boy all the water and dry food that they had been reluctant to eat, because they thought that after all, the child was small, and he could live a long time without too much food and drink, and for them, this little water and dry food was no longer meaningful, and encouraged the child to try to persevere, maybe someone would come and take him out of here.
After that, the couple hugged each other, sat on a stone, and waited for death while reminiscing about the best past, and so another day passed, and when they were dying, the husband asked his wife, do you have any unfulfilled wishes?
The lady replied with difficulty, yes, that is, before dying, she played a piano for her beloved Xianggong for the last time, which was her greatest wish, and then asked Xianggong, does he still have any unfulfilled wishes?
As a result, Xianggong said that there were, that is, before he died, he could not listen to the piano music played by his favorite lady for the last time.
After listening to Xianggong's words, this lady cried, because the two of them met through the sound of the piano, knew each other, fell in love, fell in love and then stayed together, so for her, if she could play the piano for her beloved one last time when she was dying, such a life, even if it was short, was still perfect.
It's a pity that at this moment, they have nothing, because all their belongings were lost in the sandstorm, so not to mention the piano, even the most precious life is almost gone.
With this unwilling regret, she suddenly swore to the sky, that is, if the sky has eyes and can fulfill her last wish, even if it is turned into rain in the sky, she will have no regrets!
And when her father-in-law saw his beloved lady crying into tears and making such a poisonous oath, he naturally understood the other party's intentions, and he was also heartbroken to the extreme.
At that moment, he also swore loudly to the sky, that is, if the sky has eyes, he can satisfy his mother's last wish, even if he turns into a piano to let his mother play, he is willing!
After swearing to each other, they hugged each other tightly again and died happily.
Maybe it was their oath that moved the sky, but I saw that their bodies began to slowly deform, the husband really turned into a stone carved guqin, and the lady turned into rain and sprinkled down.
When the rain falls on the stone-carved guqin, although no one is playing, the most beautiful and pleasant sound of the qin automatically sounds, as if the rain has turned into a pair of dexterous hands and is playing.
This sudden rain lasted for a whole year, and the sound of the piano lasted for a year, which also turned this barren and nameless village into an oasis again.
And the boy survived.
After a year, the rain stopped, the sound of the piano also stopped, and there were crystal clear pools everywhere, and many exotic flowers and plants could be seen everywhere, and everyone who came here for the first time felt as if they had seen the only paradise in the world.
During the year, countless people who got lost in the sandstorm and came to this village survived.
Most of the people left one after another after filling their water bags because they still had concerns about their hometowns.
There are also a small number of people who have no fixed place to live and travel around, so after seeing the extraordinary nature of this village, they are reluctant to leave, so they settle down.
Over time, decades passed, and the village became more and more populous.
However, the village never had a name and no head.
So, one day, everyone spontaneously organized themselves with the intention of electing an influential person to be the head of the village, and then giving the village a nice name.
It's just that there are different opinions on who is the most suitable to choose, and there are great differences.
Some say choose the richest person, some say choose the most learned person, and some say choose the narrowest person.
While everyone was arguing, an old man stood up and told a bleak story he had witnessed, which was the experience of a young couple who turned into rain and a stone guqin respectively before they died.
He also said that he was the boy who came to the village with his parents decades ago because of a sandstorm, and that when he thought he was also dead after his parents died, the young couple gave him water and dry food.
In the end, they both died of thirst, but their last poisonous oath to heaven was fulfilled, and their last wish was fulfilled, and the boy was saved, and this barren land with no grass became an oasis.
In order to prove that what he said was completely true, the old man also personally took everyone to the location of the stone carved guqin, and this place has been opened by this old man A teahouse called Yuqin Mingju.
At that moment, everyone knew that this old man was actually the extremely mysterious boss behind the most famous teahouse in the village, Yuqin Mingju.
Since the opening of Yuqin Mingju, business has been booming, and the reason is that the tea is tasted here, which is particularly meaningful.
Especially when it rains, the guests of each teahouse can hear the most beautiful piano sound, which is like a heavenly sound, like crying and complaining, like a melodious turn, which makes people feel emotional, and even tears falls.
Every time at this time, there would be a rich man who spent a lot of money to meet the pianist with his own eyes, but the waiter politely refused.
The reason is that the luthier never sees a guest!
When the rich man asked to meet the owner of the teahouse and wanted to buy the entire teahouse, he was told by the waiter that the owner still never saw customers! Even if you do, you will never sell a teahouse.
So when everyone listened to the story of the old man and knew the identity of the old man, they knew that when everyone was drinking tea here on a rainy day, the sound they heard was not played by anyone at all, but by the rain in the sky!
Immediately, everyone was deeply moved by the old man's silent protection of the stone-carved guqin, as well as the couple's love for the world!
Because they understand that without the sacrifice spirit of the original couple and the unswerving love that touched the heavens, this village would not be as prosperous as it is today.
So, after everyone discussed, they unanimously elected the old man as the village head, and named the village Yuqin Village from then on.
Later, under the careful management and perfection of that old man, Yuqin Village finally became the well-deserved first place in the ancient village of Liansheng Country Water Town!
Since then, many people will come here to listen carefully to the sound of the stone-carved guqin in the Yuqin Mingju on a rainy day.
Even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the past dynasties will choose to come here to witness the legendary stone guqin, and listen to the moving sound of the heavenly qin on a rainy day, to personally verify this moving legend that has been passed down through the ages.
And now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not met, after traveling for more than 20 days, he has come to Yuqin Village without exception at this moment.
Since the death of his mother, Nalan Qiqing, he was overly sad, so he wanted to relieve the huge grief in his heart by traveling.
After leaving the imperial city and heading north, after traveling through many large and small towns, I finally came to this world-famous ancient water town.
At the moment of stepping into Yuqin Village, it happened to be drizzling in the sky, so you Buyu only had one thought, that is, to go straight to Yuqin Mingju.
When he rushed to Yuqin Mingju, he didn't notice that a sneaky black shadow not far away was already secretly staring at him.
And what he didn't expect was that at this moment, there was also a luxurious honor guard in the palace, and after a long journey of more than ten days, it was rushing to Yuqin Village, and in the largest luxury sedan chair in this honor guard, there was a woman wearing a lotus mask.
This person is none other than the Empress Dowager, the goddess who personally went to the north to deal with the plague crisis on behalf of Her Majesty.
Because Yuqin Village is the only way to go to the plague-stricken area, and this goddess and empress dowager naturally persuaded His Majesty and the ministers to come from thousands of miles through three amazing tricks......