Chapter 21: Blind Storytelling
This day is the day of the big market, the countryside people are usually short of materials, it is inconvenient to buy goods, so this week is the main means for everyone to buy goods, this kind of market is different from the shops and shopping streets in the city, the merchants are itinerant vendors from all over the place, find an open space in the market to build a shelf, this shop is counted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
On this day, the villagers of ten miles and eight townships flock to the town, setting up stalls, buying things, livestock markets, cooked vegetable markets, old goods markets, clothing markets, and all kinds of transactions have their own conventions. The girls dressed up in fancy flowers, the young men jumping around, the half-grown children scurrying about in the laps of the adults, the aroma of the cooked butchers, the roar of the animals, the shouts of the traders, the sounds of bargaining...... It is as if all the noise and noise of the world have come together, and the usually depressed town is filled with the atmosphere of festivals.
The master of the slaughterhouse took out the steaming internal organs from the belly cavity of the animal that had just been slaughtered shirtless, and immediately someone next to him took it to clean, and threw it into a large pot with firewood burning on a green brick brick with his hands and feet, and after a while, a tempting aroma came out of the pot, and the master put out a row of big wrists, sprinkled with chopped green onions and ginger, scooped a spoonful of thick soup from the cauldron and sprinkled it in, fished out the cooked belly intestines with an iron hook, cut them into several sections with a brush, and threw a few pieces into each bowl, plus red spicy oil, and a steamed bun kneaded into pieces. A bowl of fragrant mutton steamed buns is done. A few men dropped two yuan, picked up the bowl and snorted and ate hot, and the children next to them licked their mouths.
On the stone steps in front of the guest house, there was an old man wearing old-fashioned round sunglasses, a torn melon hat on his head, a pile of shabby clothes that had not been washed for many days, and he had long since lost his original color.
The aroma of the butcher's shop permeated, the old man sniffed, smacked his mouth twice, and heard the people next to him, and suddenly a sense of spirit came, straightened his clothes, cleared his throat, and knocked down the broken bowl in front of him with bamboo chopsticks:
"Uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, I am a person from Xishan, I introduce a storyteller to go south and north, the four seas as home, passing by your land, but seeing the mountains and rivers beautiful, auspicious clouds, no one spitting, no mouth outrageous, no one jaywalking, no chickens flying eggs, no donkeys on the tree, it is really a treasure of feng shui."
The voice is sharp, the words are round, and it sounds sonorous. Many idlers were attracted by the crowd, and some of them shouted: "You ball potential, you blind man can see so clearly." ”
The old man ignored him and said to himself: "Brothers and sisters, men, women and children, Mo Laosan will borrow a piece of treasure land from you today, and talk to everyone, rich people will hold a money field, and those who have no money should not go, you will hold a personal field, here I thank you, I wish you all the best every year, give birth to a boy like a tiger, a tiger and a tiger, and give birth to a daughter like a green onion, beautiful and white." The young man grew more and more energetic, the mother-in-law opened her mouth when she saw it, the eldest girl became more and more beautiful, and the father-in-law and mother-in-law were so happy that they broke their legs. ”
The people next to him laughed, and seeing that he said something interesting, gradually someone surrounded him, and the old man was interested, and knocked the broken bowl in front of him with bamboo chopsticks. Seeing that no one was present, he raised his voice again:
"Brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, someone asked; Are you selling dog skin plasters, tell you, we have been real people for generations, and the dog skin plasters are all fake, we never play with the false, if you want to come, come to the real, we are storytellers......"
Someone next to him coaxed: "You are a sullen person, people talk about stories with three strings and pipa and play and sing by themselves, you take a broken bowl and knock on the old three paragraphs all day long, ask for food, and tell stories, you are not afraid of losing the face of your ancestors, and the criticism of your face is the same as the corner of the city wall......
The old man was anxious, "You have to be a thief, such a melon skin!" Don't look down on people, the three ancestors of the hungry Mo are silver ...... with heads and faces."
The man was not angry, "You tie the style, you can tell some fresh hungry people, and say that you will eat mutton steamed buns." ”
The old man pondered for a while and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, our Shaanxi is a good place for outstanding people, there is a way to be the Han of Suide, the mother-in-law of Mizhi, and the charcoal of the slate tile kiln ditch of the clear stream. The brave Lu Bu in the world is our Suide people, the Diao Chan who closes the moon and is ashamed of the flowers, is the Mizhi people, and the king Li Zicheng who broke into the chaos in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Han Shizhong, the hero of the Southern Song Dynasty's anti-Jin Dynasty, ......"
The man next to him coaxed again: "Are you stunned, you Bao Shelie (don't say it)." “
Someone next to him was so happy with it that he immediately interrupted the man's words and asked him not to interject.
Mo Laosan continued: "We Suide has been a 'famous state in the world' since ancient times, located in the hinterland of northern Shaanxi, where the Dali River and the Wuding River meet, and is the transportation hub of northern Shaanxi. There are really a lot of literati and military generals in history, the one we are talking about today is a big hero, but there is no name in history, why do you have a name? With that, he knocked on the broken bowl in front of him, and immediately someone threw a few coins into it.
Hearing the crisp sound of the coin touching the bottom of the bowl, Mo Laosan came to his senses, swallowed his saliva and continued, "The big hero we are talking about today is called General Zhang, surnamed Gong Changzhang, and has a single name. Do you know how capable this General Zhang is? At that time, Genghis Khan's Mongolian army galloped through the Central Plains and was invincible, and this general Zhang was the only one who dared to do anything with him. ”
Someone next to him muttered, "Brag X." ”
Mo Laosan ignored the man and said to himself, "It is said that this Genghis Khan dominates the world, and his iron riders have no opponents in the world, how can he suffer the loss of people from this small place of Suide?" ”
"It turns out that this general has never read a military book, and he has only one trick to subduing the Mongols, which is called 'the way of the other, and the other body'."
There was another burst of laughter in the crowd, this Mo Laosan's ability to make up was still a little worse, and even the martial arts novels were moved out. Mo Laosan ignored it and continued to talk eloquently: "This general, the ancestor was originally a blacksmith, and he made a living by going to the countryside to help people make iron tools. This Genghis Khan is a murderer and invaded our Central Plains, this Mongolian has lived on horseback since he was a child, and he is fierce and fierce, and he has been doing looting since he was a child. Everywhere he went, he killed people and set fires, men were killed, women and children were enslaved, crops and houses were burned down, trees were cut down, iron horses were everywhere, corpses were everywhere, ruins and walls were ruined, and not a single grass was grown. ”
"Our general Zhang has been walking the streets and countryside with his father since he was a child, and he doesn't want to meet the Mongolian cavalry who came out to fight the autumn wind one day, and a team of men and horses slaughtered a small village, killing the men and plundering the women. The Mongolian general was violent by nature, and treated the father and son as pigs and dogs. ”
The crowd listened to him speak in a sonorous voice, and these words came out of his mouth, and his thin body was quite majestic, and several people were attracted and gathered around to listen to him.
"That General Zhang has followed the army to fight in the south and north for several years, and unconsciously has grown from a half-sized young man to an adult.
"One day, the Mongol general got a good sword, the original owner of which was a prince of the Mi'er beggars, and was destroyed by the army of Genghis Khan, because the general fought bravely, Genghis Khan gave him this sword, which was made of cold iron outside the sky, six feet long, and the back of the sword was palm wide, and the iron was like clay, and the wood was cut like tofu. It's a pity that the scabbard was lost when it was obtained, and the ordinary scabbard could not be used, so it was handed over to General Zhang's father and ordered him to make a pair of scabbards. ”
A few days later, the Mongol general was having fun in his tent one day, and ordered General Zhang's father to present his sword to others to watch.
When the father came to the tent, he saw a group of Mongolian soldiers drinking and having fun, and a few beggar women accompanying him wept secretly. The Mongols were cruel by nature, and they thought that the happiest thing in life would be, 'There is nothing better than to defeat the enemy and drive him before the horse; plundering their possessions and plundering their horses; witnessing his loved ones washing their faces with tears; hugged his wife and daughter to accompany my bedroom', and the end was cruel and unprovoked. The prince of the beggars was destroyed, and the general had a great achievement, and Genghis Khan rewarded him with gold, silver, and jewels, and the prince's concubines were all his own. The general was cruel by nature, and did not treat these women as human beings, and spoiled them like beasts every day. ”
Zhang's father held the sword in both hands, knelt forward, the general stretched out his hand to take it, but he was weak after drinking, and the lower plate was unstable, and the sword was quite heavy, and he didn't hold it steady, and he almost fell, causing a group of Mongolians next to him to laugh. The general was angry and ashamed, so he accused Zhang's father of deliberately letting him out of trouble, and immediately ordered his subordinates to tie up Zhang's father, melt the silver ingot, pour it directly into Zhang's father's ear, and burn him to death. These Mongols laughed like they were watching a play. ”
"This general Zhang witnessed the tragic death of his father, knowing that his two fists were invincible to four hands, he held back at the moment, remained silent, and waited for everyone to get drunk at night, sneaked into the tent, and picked up the sword. Wake up the general, split his head in half with a sword, then he hacks the guards to death, awakens several women, leads the horses and lets them escape, and picks four horses himself, and flees in the opposite direction. All the way non-stop, rotating mounts, people did not stop, all the way back to the land of northern Shaanxi. ”
"I didn't expect that my hometown had been burned and looted by the Mongolian iron horsemen, the villagers died and fled, and the former lively villages and towns were only left with broken walls and a depression."
"At that time, Genghis Khan had unified most of the Mongol tribes, and although the territory was vast, he still maintained the habits of nomads, burning and looting every place he occupied, leaving a ruin behind, and then coming back to occupy it when the people returned to rebuild their homes. And so on until the land was left uninhabited. These Mongolians have never regarded us Han people as human beings, and in their eyes, Han people are even inferior to animals. ”
"This general Zhang walked all the way, and as far as the eye could see, there were no people in the eight towns for ten miles, only broken walls and scorched trees, and there were corpses of people who froze to death, starved to death, and were killed on the side of the road. In that year, the entire northern part of the Central Plains was harassed by Mongol soldiers all year round. Although the Great Song Dynasty had the heart to resist the enemy, it had no choice but to defeat the Mongolian iron cavalry, so it could only let the people be slaughtered. ”