Chapter 1: The Spooky Spring

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On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 1990, it was the Dragon Boat Festival, Peiwan Village, located on the Loess Plateau, the sky was sunny and windless, but the strange sky was full of loess, such as the beginning of chaos.

Peiwan Village is surrounded by mountains but not near water, and there is drought and little rain, so the problem of draft has become the most difficult problem in the village.

At this moment, in the small village where this cigarette can be walked, a newborn baby is croaking to the ground, and a loud cry fills the whole village, as if to wash away the loess in the sky and return the village to a bright place.

This newborn baby is none other than a contemptible person.

The contemptible person's name is Jiang Ling, did he think of a certain car brand? According to my parents, such a strange name was given to me by a Taoist chief, and I once suspected that he was also the name of a certain car brand that I founded later.

My family has been farmers since my grandfather's generation, and my parents are no exception.

As for my grandfather, my grandfather said it when he was alive.

Tai Ye was a soldier, fought several battles with the Kuomintang team, and mixed up with a deputy company commander, and finally the team was broken up, he secretly sold a few cannons, held a box of silver dollars, and prepared to flee back to his hometown.

But he was a gambler, and on the way home, he had a gambling addiction, his hands were itchy and unbearable, and he divided five by two, except for the pants that covered his body, and the one who lost was called a fine light.

In desperation, I could only find a nearby village to live in, in order to eat a mouthful, do short-term work from house to house, and later marry a wife and have children, and directly settled down, and I have my grandfather.

When I was born, there was no running water in the village, and there were no big rivers and streams within a radius of 100 miles.

Although the crops grown in the fields are drought-tolerant sorghum and corn, they cannot withstand months of rain and dew.

Just when the whole village was complaining and scolding God for not opening his eyes, at the foot of the mountain called Camel Mountain behind the village, two clear springs magically appeared.

As soon as the news came out, everyone was ecstatic, in addition to the buckets, pots and pans also went out in unison, and the bells rushed to the back mountain.

I saw the white spring gushing out from the ground, like two immortal elves shouting and jumping, shining in the scorching sun.

In order to distinguish between the two springs, everyone calls the spring north of Camel Mountain the north spring, and the south spring is the south spring.

As the name suggests, Camel Mountain is shaped like a camel, and there are some vegetation on the mountain, but it is still bare from a distance, like a huge pile of loess.

Coincidentally, I was also born on this day, which also became the capital for me to brag to my friends later, claiming that I was the reincarnation of Lingquan.

Later, when the name was given, the people in the village said that I appeared in the village on the same day as Nanbeiquan, or I should be called Jiangquan, but just when my father was about to register me, a Taoist chief came to the family, and he insisted on naming me.

But my parents strongly objected, saying that it sounded like a robber, so he was aggrieved and begged for everything to say that it would be called Jiang Ling, and my parents saw that he would not leave, so they relied on him and decided my name.

After I read the book, I didn't like my name in particular. Jiang Ling, isn't the homonym what I mean when I'm going to take the zero egg? What's even more hateful is that I really got two big duck eggs in the first exam, and the friends around me made fun of me with this.

Later, when I was twelve years old, the Taoist who gave me my name secretly found me and asked me to go to Houshan Beiquan every night to find him and teach me something.

At first, I didn't like him because of his name, but I was ecstatic to hear that he was going to teach me something secretly.

Influenced by Master Jin Yong's martial arts world, when I was a child, I always fantasized about when I fell into a cave, and then got a martial arts cheats, and from then on I began to act chivalrous, although my uncle might give me a pair of silver bracelets.

When I first went to Houshan to find him, I learned what I looked like in the TV series and prepared to perform a great ceremony of apprenticeship.

But just as I knelt down and was about to kowtow, he quickly knelt down like me, saying that it was okay to call the master, and kowtowing was absolutely impossible.

During the period when I was twelve to twenty years old, I had to go to Beiquan every night to find Master Wudao.

At first, I thought he was going to teach me some martial arts mastery, but who knew that he just asked me to sit cross-legged by the spring, close my right eye, and stare at the spring with my left eye.

You may not believe it, but I have been staring at Beiquan for eight years in the form of a one-eyed dragon.

At first, my left eye was very painful, and from time to time the master would drop a drop of unknown black liquid into my eye, and then put two fingers on my eyelids, but as time went by, my left eye gradually stopped aching, and occasionally when I stared at the spring water, I would feel warm and comfortable.

Master Wudao left when I was admitted to university, and when he left, he told me to protect my eyes no matter what happened in the future, and he would come to me again after I graduated from college.

I had a messy life in college, plus I was introverted, I didn't participate in any of this club and that club, and most of the time I basically soaked in Internet cafes, and it can also be said that I was waiting to die.

But time waits for no one, four years flew by in a flash, and I didn't look for a job when I graduated, because I always felt that something was calling me home, so I returned to the small village where I was born with a broken suitcase.

On the way home, I meditated, but I couldn't think of how to explain to my parents, how to face the surprised eyes of my neighbors, so I had to take one step at a time.

But when I arrived in the village, my worries disappeared at once, because the whole village was quiet, and there was no one on the village road, and it was a little gloomy, and it felt cold in the summer.

When I arrived at my home, my parents were surprised to see me come home, but they didn't blame me, saying that they could find a job slowly and not in a hurry.

To be honest, I regretted that my parents had worked so hard to provide me with education, but I had failed to live up to their expectations. In order to change the subject, I hurriedly talked about what it was like to enter the village and asked my dad what had happened.

"Xiao Ling, you still don't know these things, you just stay at home for a few days, let your mother cook you some delicious food, and then go to the city, slowly find a job, try not to come back, your mother and I will save some money and move over, let's rent a house in the city."

Father took a deep breath of dry smoke and looked at the gate and said.

When I heard this, I was immediately stunned, my parents' generation rarely went out, they have lived in this small village all their lives, and they have a deep affection for this place, if it were not for the special situation, they would definitely not want to leave here for the rest of their lives.

I wondered what was going on in the village, but judging by my father's expression, he wouldn't tell me even if I asked again.

My mother helped me pack my bags and went to cook.

I had nothing to do, and suddenly it occurred to me that my master had said that he would come to me after I graduated from college, so I asked my father if Master Wudao had ever come to me, and my father shook his head and said no.

After dinner, my father went to tidy up the farm tools, my mother was also busy with the chores of the house, and I had nothing to do, so I thought about going to Beiquan to have a look.

To be honest, I miss my master a little bit, and I have a lot of doubts in my heart that I want to ask him.

When I arrived at Beiquan in the back mountain, I was completely shocked by the scene in front of me.

The spring no longer has clear spring water, and the yellow sticky substance is turning upwards, and there is a faint fishy smell, and the stench is incomparable.

After staring at this disgusting filth for a few seconds, my left eye suddenly ached, as if many needles had pierced my eyeball, and I screamed in pain and fainted.

"Hurry up and save me, master, I don't want to sleep anymore..... The Immortal Emperor ...... ”

Before I fainted, the voice of a young girl came to my ears intermittently.

In the middle of the palace, a man in an ancient official uniform was holding his hands behind his back and looking up at the sky.

Just as I was trying to see what he was looking like, the sight suddenly disappeared and I lost consciousness completely.

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