The king was cooking there and said to us, "Are you discouraged?" I see you all one by one, and your head is slumped. ”

I said, "yes, is it really that hard to find?" We all searched for a day, and we found a Erjiazi, and nothing else was found. ”

Wang turned his head and said with a smile: "This is urgent, in fact, what is this?" The mallet is a rare treasure, very rare, especially the kind of mallet that is more than 100 years old you want, if the mountain god is gracious, we can find one. The mountains are bitter, the mountains are tired, and the taste of the mountains can only be experienced by themselves. ”

I nodded, knowing that the mallet was not easy to get, after some meals, we did not go anywhere, went directly to the grass nest and slept, and the next day, we continued to look for the mallet, but on this day, we found nothing, the king encouraged us not to be angry, saying that we must be able to find the mallet, Lao Shengou has the most mallet. But having said that, our hearts are still very heavy.

On the third day we were sleeping, and the king cried out, "Get up, get up, get up, our luck has come." ”

When we heard this, we got up quickly, crawled out of the hut, rubbed our eyes, and asked what was the matter, and the king said, "What did you hear the bird calling?" ”

When we heard Wang put his head up, we all listened with our ears pricked up there, and we only heard two birds calling in the woods, one bird seemed to have been calling Wang Gange, and the other bird, the voice was Li Wu. The bird called Wang Gange called quickly, as if it was calling for something, and the bird called Li Wu responded for a long time. When I heard this, I asked the king to put his head on his head, "What kind of bird is this?" ”

Wang turned his head and said, "This is a mallet bird, and we will definitely find a mallet when we encounter a mallet bird crying today." ”

I said, "What is a mallet bird?" ”

The king turned his head and said, "This mallet bird, like a pigeon, is our guide to find a mallet, where there are mallets that bloom and bear seeds, and where there are mallet birds." It kept screaming as it flew through the woods, and followed the cry to dig up the mallet. Anyone who goes to look for it with the sound of birds, most people can really dig up the mallet, whether it is big, small, more, or less, there will be a harvest, so as soon as the mountain keeper hears the call of the mallet, he will be able to pick the mallet.

We have a legend about this Gada, that is, the legend of the stick mallet bird, there were two people who were brothers (Wang Gange, Li Wu), in ancient times, the brothers did not want to be born on the same day in the same year, but hoped to die on the same day in the same year, and the parents of the brothers were like their biological parents. One day, the brothers got lost when they were leaving the mountain, and finally Li Wu came back by luck. As soon as the mother saw that her son had returned, Wang Gange couldn't bear it, so she urged Li Wu to go into the mountains again to look for it, but the two of them starved to death in the deep mountains and old forests, and became two mallets.

The bird called Wang Gange is Li Wu, and the bird called Li Wu is Wang Gange. Because Li Wu was looking for Brother Wang Gan, he shouted quite frequently, and Brother Wang's response was relatively small. Therefore, now most of the people who put the mountain in the mountains and forests during the day hear the call of the stick mallet bird making the call of Wang Gange, and the sound is particularly crisp and far away, while the birds that make the call of Li Wu are relatively few, and the sound is also very dull.

The mountain bearer has a lot of respect for the mallet bird, especially at night, when he hears the call of the mallet bird, he feels the loyalty of the mallet bird, like the character of the mountain man, who does not betray his friends and forgets his righteousness. And it also led the mountain people to look for the mallet, so the mallet bird called early in the morning, we must have a harvest today. ”

We listened very happily, the haze of the past few days was swept away, after breakfast we went to the dense forest to find the mallet, from the morning to find the evening, did not see the shadow of the mallet, we were very disappointed, it seems that the mallet bird is not reliable, several of us are exhausted, is about to find a place to rest, suddenly in a ravine, there is a purple light, the purple light, very soft, looks like purple mist, straight to the sky, I saw the purple light, was very surprised.

In 516 B.C., the Zhou royal family was in turmoil, the vassal states were keen on power struggle, wars were frequent, and the people were not happy, Lao Tzu was very disappointed in the Zhou family, so he decided to resign and go west. When Lao Tzu passed through Hangu Pass, Yin Xi, who was guarding the pass, was a person who was good at observing the heavens, and he saw a cloud of purple gas floating from the east, thinking that a saint must come, and hurriedly greeted him. I saw an old man riding a green ox walking slowly, this is Lao Tzu.

This is the origin of the idiom purple qi from the east. Yin Xi entertained Lao Tzu for a few days and asked him to write, but Lao Tzu couldn't refuse, so he left the famous 5,000 words. The world calls it "Tao Te Ching", also known as "Lao Tzu" or "Lao Tzu Five Thousand Texts". Therefore, the purple qi comes from the east, and it has always been a description of auspicious scenes.

As soon as I saw the purple qi, I hurriedly said to the king, "Look at the purple qi, look at the purple qi." ”

When the king heard this, he looked towards the purple qi, and at this time, the king knelt down at once, and said there: "The emperor has lived up to his wishes, and we have finally found the big mallet." ”

I said, "Boss, this purple qi is just an auspicious cloud, how do you know it's a big mallet?" ”

Wang turned his head and said excitedly: "You don't know, this mallet is born of the aura between heaven and earth. Yun Doushu": "Shake the light and scatter and become ginseng, and the benefits of the people's waste and desecration of the mountains are unclear and the ginseng is not born." "Liwei? Dou Weiyi": "The king rides the wood and the king has ginseng, and there is purple gas on the ginseng below." Where there is purple gas, there will be a magical mallet, let's go to the place where the purple light is emitted. ”

As soon as we heard the spirit, we hurriedly followed the head and ran towards the purple valley, when we ran down, the magical purple light disappeared, we looked around, and saw that the place where we were was was a flat meadow, surrounded by a few large stones, and on the grass were some small flowers, there were no trees in this place, bare, and generally big clubs and mallets would not grow in such a place. When we saw this, we couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and the king's eyes were also full of disappointment, and we looked aimlessly on the grass for a while, and then it was almost dark, and we had to find a place to set up a shack to live.

After dinner at night, we went to sleep in the shack, I couldn't sleep in the shack over and over, thinking about some things in the Northeast this time, the more I thought about it, the more chaotic my heart became, and finally I didn't sleep at all, I got up and climbed out of the shack, and looked outside, only to see a person sitting by the fire, as if thinking about something, I saw that the person was Mao Qinglian, she put her hands on her cheeks, and was motionless there, I stood up, walked to Mao Qinglian, and asked Mao Qinglian softly: "Qinglian, what do you want?" ”

Mao Qinglian looked back at me and said, "Zhendong is so late, why don't you sleep yet?" ”

I said, "I can't sleep, and you can't sleep either?" ”

Mao Qinglian said: "I'm thinking about something, and the more I think about it, the more I can't sleep. ”

I said, "Qinglian, are you homesick?" ”

Mao Qinglian thought for a while and said: "It's a little homesick, but I'm thinking nonsense, or the things we encountered along the way, we encountered so many things along the way, and almost lost my life, to be honest, I really didn't expect so many strange things, sometimes I think, meet you is my happiness, or my misfortune?" ”

I sat down next to Mao Qinglian, was silent for a while, and said, "Qinglian, it's hard for me to answer your question, but I know that meeting you is the luck of my life." In fact, I never dreamed that I would meet such a beautiful girl. ”

After hearing this, Mao Qinglian quickly turned his face away and said shyly: "You look very honest, and you talk like a disciple." Flim tongue, people don't know if what you say is true? ”

I said, "Qinglian, what I said was sincere, what I said in my heart. ”

At this time, Mao Qinglian suddenly looked into the distance, she seemed to see something, I said, "Qinglian, what are you looking at?" ”

Qinglian turned his head to me and said, "Zhendong, you see that purple light has come out again." ”

As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly looked over, although the moon in the sky was not yet round, but I could see the surrounding environment clearly, only to see that in the place where we had been during the day, a purple light rose again, and the purple light was particularly beautiful under the moonlight.