After the boat was dragged into the ice, Gao Cheng jumped down first, and he didn't see where he got an ice pick, and he pierced the ice with great skill, and after a few strokes, the ice cracked, and the boat sank into the water. He reached out to me, and without hesitation, I gave him my hand and jumped into the boat. Seeing him alternately chisel the ice with icicles left and right, and having to row with his oars, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you need my help?" He was not polite, and threw the oars at me, "Two times on the left and three times on the right." ”

I paddled as he commanded, and the ship drifted off shore, and we went into the darkness. After a while, I left the ice area, and Takashiro took the oars from my hand. My attention was drawn to the fog that was getting thicker and thicker around me, and the snow seemed to have stopped, but in the darkness of the night, the white fog shrouded our ship as if it were shuttling through the clouds of the night.

I thought it would be a long way, but the boat stopped in about ten minutes. Gao Cheng tied up the boat and came to pull me ashore, unable to control his heartbeat, extremely uneasy, only then did I realize that I did not have the courage to face the past, and I couldn't help but pull his hand very tightly. His eyes were wide open, and he wanted to see his surroundings as clearly as possible, but the visual distance of the fog here was only within one meter, so he couldn't help but whisper: "Don't you use a flashlight?" ”

When he came out, he was seen putting a flashlight in his pocket.

But I heard him reply: "No, I can walk here with my eyes closed." ”

Stunned, can he walk with his eyes closed? Is he so familiar with this place? While thinking about it, he was stopped at his feet, and next to his ear was his clear voice: "It's here." "I was confused, I didn't understand where it was, it seemed like there was something in front of me. I saw Gao Cheng take two steps forward and stretch out his hand, and a dull voice came slowly, I couldn't see clearly, but I could also hear the sound of stone and ground grinding, and he was pushing ...... A stone door?

When I watched his figure enter, I couldn't help but consciously follow his footsteps, and after entering the dark space and colliding with him, I realized that he was waiting for me. He took me to his side, and felt his long arm cross my ear, and immediately behind him came the rumbling sound of the stone mill, and the coolness was isolated, and the stone door should have been closed. Only then did he pull me inward, and when he walked a few dozen meters away, he seemed to think of something and asked, "Can't you see?" ”

It's pitch black, isn't that nonsense. With a soft "snap", the flashlight came out, and he said, "I forgot that you can't see in the dark." "I feel like I want to cry without tears, and I don't think most people can see it in the dark.

Even with the flashlight, the light stretched more than ten meters away and was swallowed up by darkness, and I could only feel that the place was very large. Especially above, there is a feeling of emptiness, and there is no sense of oppression around, but the ground can be seen, and I can see the more elaborate and neat stone slabs, with traces of age, and occasionally some lines can be seen.

Is this where I grew up? I seemed a complete stranger, and I didn't feel any déjà vu.

After walking for about five or six minutes, I stopped again, and this time I could see clearly that there was a gray stone door on two flights of steps. The stone gate extends to the side and is a gray stone wall, mottled and broken, much like the ruins of the ancient city.

Gao Cheng opened the stone door again, and this time his vision was no longer disturbed by the darkness, because there was a faint yellow light behind the stone gate, and when he walked inside, he saw a cluster of flames on the wall on all sides, not to mention illuminating the room as bright as day, at least he could see it clearly. But when I saw it clearly, I was shocked in my heart, this place looked like an ancient building, but I don't know if it was because of the age, the whole thing has become dilapidated, even the pillars erected in the four corners, one of them is missing, and the stone bricks on the ground are also broken, and there is a thick layer of dust.

Finally, I asked the question I had been asking since I stepped through the door: "What is this place?" ”

Gao Cheng pursed the corners of his lips, and the answer shocked me: "My home." ”

"Your home?" I repeated in disbelief, looking around again, no matter what kind of mentality I had just looked at this broken place, I suddenly felt sad. Looking at his expression, he noticed that there was nothing unusual, and asked carefully, "Why did your family become like this?" ”

He smiled suddenly, "Little bamboo, what you should be asking is, why am I here?" He let go of my hand, walked briskly around me, and said, "Does this look like a palace?" However, I see it as a city. I barely set foot outside the city until I was ten years old, until ...... He died. ”

Gao Cheng's gaze was fixed on a certain place, and I followed my line of sight, only to find that on the left wall, there was a square grid under the fire cluster, and in the middle of the grid was a wooden plaque, and from that shape, it looked like the spirit card of the deceased. Because under the square there is also a long desk, on which something resembles an incense burner.

I saw Gao Cheng step forward, lit the candle on the desk with two soft sounds, smoked three more incense sticks, lit them, bowed to the wooden sign three times, and inserted them into the incense burner. I approached him and my eyes fell on the wooden sign in the square.

Chu Yuanfeng.

Just three simple words engraved on it, neatly and neatly, without a little extra fancy. The outer part of the wooden plaque is exquisitely carved and has clear textures, which is very retro. I turned my head to look at him, and while still hesitating, I heard him say, "Ask whatever you want." ”

It was he who said it, and I'm not welcome, "Did you make the wooden sign?" Seeing him nodding, he asked again: "This person is the one who raised you until you were ten years old and had the greatest influence on you, right?" After the question came out, Gao Cheng smiled again, but the smile was sarcastic, and there was a faint ridicule in his eyes, and he said: "The profound impact can be regarded as far-reaching, but feed me?" Forget it. ”

With a sigh in my heart, I didn't dare to ask deeply, and my eyes turned to change the topic: "This island is not the place where you and I first met, right?" "After hearing him say that this was his home, I guessed that this was not my childhood training place.

"It's not. I'll take you later, it's a bit far away. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief when I heard this, some things may always have to be faced, but it would be good to be late. It's just that some things can be bypassed if you don't want to be transferred, especially when Gao Cheng rarely wants to confide, he squinted his eyes and said softly: "Xiaozhuzi, tell you a story." "I can't say it's bad. He pulled me away from the desk, sat down on the next steps, and said slowly.

A long time ago, there was a vassal state in the south, active in the Central Plains of the Yellow River Valley, and was a descendant of Emperor Xuan. Later, in the conflict of antiquity and the expulsion of the Shang Dynasty, it gradually moved south. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, there was a leader named Mane Xiong, who assisted King Wen of Zhou Ji Chang to raise troops to destroy the Shang, and then King Cheng of Zhou named Xiong, the great-grandson of Mane Xiong, as a viscount, and finally founded the country. During this period, this king conquered Yongguo in the west and attacked Yangyue in the east. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, he attacked the barbarians and destroyed all countries, but due to the historical cycle, he finally encountered a strong country.

The vassal state is Chu, while the powerful state is Qin. Wang Jian led 600,000 Qin troops south to attack the Chu capital Shouchun, but the Chu army was defeated and died in Qin.

It's a piece of history, and it's written in our books. After Qin Shi Huang destroyed Chu, two more sentences were circulated: Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu. This is said by an old man in the south of Chu State, this old man's name is Chu Nangong, he thinks that although Chu State is wiped out, even if there are only "three households" left in the end, it will be Chu people who will die in the future. In the end, the prophecy of the Duke of Chu came true, and Xiang Yu, a descendant of the Chu State, led a large army to destroy Qin, but after that, it was a battle for hegemony between Chu and Han, and finally Han and Liu Bang unified the world, and Xiang Yu Wujiang killed himself.

Since then, the state of Chu has been destroyed.

But the destruction of a country does not mean that the people will also be destroyed, and Liu Bang himself claims to be a native of Chu, so he will not exterminate all Chu people. Those who should pay the grain pay the grain, and those who should pay the tax pay the tax, and in the middle of this hides a royal family, who are plotting to restore the country. But the Han Dynasty was prosperous and powerful, and it could not be overthrown overnight, so the Chu people found another way. This Tao is the most famous art of seeking immortality during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Taoist priest who was most trusted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is called Qin Fang, who is a Chu person.

This story has little to do with Na Tan Fang, and the real origin is from here. The royal family hid the folk and lived and grew up secretly in a mountain, generation after generation, originally only waiting for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to be stunned by the art of seeking immortals, and then he entered the palace in one fell swoop. But the night before the plot, an accident occurred, and it was unprecedented.

Suddenly, the heavens and the earth were turned upside down, and the world became purgatory. Not only the entire Chu royal family, but the entire body of life was withdrawn from that land, and then, to this river area. That's why archipelagos appear on a vast river like the sea. Sounds outrageous, landslide? Ground cracks? It's impossible to move an entire area of land to the river.

With doubts in my heart, I didn't interrupt Gao Cheng, and the story continued.

After the Chu royal family was "relocated" to the river by that accident, let alone recovering the country, it was difficult to even survive, and the Chu people, who were originally quite numerous, were instantly only a hundred left. With the passage of time, birth, old age, sickness and death, and the powerless rules of nature, generation after generation of people have multiplied to modern times, and there is no other word to describe it except pathetic.

100 people, turned into two.

Hearing this, I already understood. These two people are Chu Yuanfeng and Gao Cheng. In the end, it was all of a sudden, no wonder Gao Cheng always said that he was in the name of Chu before, but it turned out that he was after the Chu people. <