Chapter 173: King of Liaodong
Early the next morning, we turned back in the direction of Hongbai Mountain, and when the camel of Zhuo Mingfeng Bridge passed by us, the palace lord suddenly went up and grabbed the camel bell, and then raised his hand to signal us not to speak.
Seeing that he seemed to have heard something, the palace lord had always had a keen ear, and then looked up at the hill in front of us, looking a little excited.
"What's wrong?" We all looked in that direction, and the general couldn't help but ask.
"There's a camel bell!" The palace lord said with a grim face.
"The Silk Road will not pass through here, and the location of this oasis is quite hidden, so it should not be ......"
Before Zhuo Mingfeng finished speaking, we didn't hear the bell that the palace lord said from beginning to end, but a person riding on a camel appeared on the opposite hill, and slowly the second and third, until a large group of people completely appeared on it.
"There is no endless road, now we are saved." The field chicken happily put his arms around my neck.
Zhuo Mingfeng rode on the camel and looked back, I saw that his expression gradually became cold, he seemed to know the people on the hill, the general next to him took a few steps forward, covered his forehead with his hand and stared for a moment, his voice was full of confusion.
"White near?! How did he end up here? ”
It seems that Zhuo Mingfeng is not the only one who knows those people above, I looked at the hill, the person in the middle has a wide forehead, a tiger body and a bear's waist, riding on a camel and looking down on us from a distance, the sun shines from behind him, and the momentum is like a rainbow.
"Do you know this man?" I asked the general.
"King of Liaodong, Bai Jin, there is no one in the industry who doesn't know this person." The general said.
"King of Liaodong?!" Tian Ji scratched his head in surprise. "How many years has this been, and there are still people who call this name, he sealed it himself."
"Don't talk nonsense, of course your juniors don't know this person, the king of Liaodong is not sealed by himself, the Bai family is a real famous family in Liaodong, the king of Liaodong is hereditary, and he is also the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty." The general glared at Tian Ji, and his voice was grim. "It is said that the Qing Dynasty was able to win the world from the dragon into the pass, and Bai Jia's great achievements were therefore named the king of Liaodong."
"They are all crowned kings, this ability is not small, but there are only fifteen kings with different surnames in the Qing Dynasty, and only five were crowned kings during their lifetimes, and the rest are all posthumously sealed." Ye Zhiqiu thought about it and said. "But I remember that none of the fifteen kings with different surnames have the surname Bai."
"What's the use of chasing the seal after death, I know that the five people you said were crowned kings before their deaths, all of them were the commanders of the Eight Banners Han Army, and the kings were just to solicit appeasement, but in the end, there were a few good deaths, but they just had good names." The general said as he looked at the man coming down from the dune. "The Bai family is different, this king of Liaodong has neither military power nor real power, but do you know why he wants to seal a king of Liaodong?"
"Why?" Ling Zhihan was curious.
"Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the birthplace was in Liaodong, which can be said to be the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, the king of Liaodong, dare to be the king in the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty, you weigh this weight, that is, the Qing Dynasty did not make the Bai family the king from the beginning of Taizu, but respected the Bai family as the king."
"But why is there no record of the king of Liaodong in the history of the Qing Dynasty at all?" Ye Zhiqiu was puzzled.
"The King of Liaodong is a title of the Bai family, there was the King of Liaodong before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, but the Bai family never participated in politics, and has been staying in Liaodong, it is said that the Bai family has protected the Qing Dynasty for three hundred years, of course there is no one in the books you learned, you must know that in Liaodong, there is no one who does not know when it comes to the Bai family, so let me tell you, the Bai family is a crab in Liaodong." The general raised two fingers and gestured a few times. "No one dares to say a word when they walk sideways."
"How much stubble has passed, he is now going sideways to try, who will buy his account." Tian Ji glanced at the people who walked towards us disapprovingly.
"But all the children of the Eight Banners must be respectful and courteous to the Bai family, this is an unwritten rule of the Qing Dynasty, even now this rule has not changed, the reputation of the Bai family has never been ruined, and this Bai has not insulted the name of the king of Liaodong." The general's voice was full of admiration. "When I beat the Japanese, the Bai family occupied the mountain as the king and the little Japanese son stumbled, that was the master who didn't want to die, and there are still shrapnel on his body that has not been taken out."
"The Qing Dynasty was at its peak at that time, how could this Bai family enjoy such honor and treatment if they wanted power but no power, and they wanted money but no money?" I was shocked to hear what the general said.
"It's not clear about the specifics, but the Bai family in Liaodong rarely enters the customs, and they actually encounter it here, but they can't figure it out." The general shook his head, also unaware.
The man on the other side approached, and I saw the man in the middle clearly, King Kong was looking at him with angry eyes, his hair was majestic on the camel, his beard made him look even more rough, and a clearly visible scar hung diagonally on his cheek, which looked very angry.
This is the king of Liaodong, Bai Jin, who is about the same age as the general, after glancing at us, he saw the general in front, Bai Jin got off the camel and walked in a tiger's step, and the hearty laughter of the people arrived first.
"Wei Zi, we haven't seen each other for more than 30 years." Bai Jin stepped forward and punched the general in the chest. "My hometown has left you land, don't die outside, you have to crawl back and bury it, and our brothers will have someone to talk to when they go down together."
The general was stiff, he didn't flash his waist with a punch, and stretched out his hand to pat Bai Jin's shoulder: "The fallen leaves return to the roots, I will go back to Liaodong to accompany you on that day." ”
The two are arrogant, presumably old friends, they haven't seen each other for more than 30 years, and they will talk about the aftermath first, which shows that these two people have a good relationship.
Bai Jin beckoned to the people behind him, pushed the general to the front, pulled his clothes open, and pointed to the general's already loose body: "Come and see, this is called the master, count how many bullet holes there are on it, all of them were left when he hit the Japanese." ”
The general was actually a little shy by Bai Jin's words: "It's old, why are you mentioning this." ”
"Let these shriveled calves remember clearly, you were desperate Saburo back then, this scar, this is this." Bai Jin pointed to a bullet hole in the general's body and said. "This is the shot that I blocked, Bai Jin's life was saved by Wei Zi, you let you stay in Liaodong back then, you refused to live or die, and there has been no news for so many years, I don't know which direction to incense if you want to die."
"It's not that you don't know what I'm doing, I beat Japan because I cut off my financial route." The general is open-minded and does not hide it at all. "You are the person of the family and the country, when I first met you, you were like a stunned person, don't rush forward, I can't pull it in the back, I have entered the range of the Japanese son, I don't know how to bend my waist, I really didn't want to help you block, and the bullet happened to hit me when I pushed you away."
Bai Jin laughed loudly, and beckoned the people behind him to set up a tent to rest on the spot: "I haven't seen you for more than 30 years, today our brothers are not drunk and don't return, you don't expect you to go back to Liaodong Ansheng, I don't know when the next time we meet, I can't say which of the two of us will go down first, let's drink this white wine first, and it will be regarded as a send-off!" ”
"Good!" The general readily agreed.
Bai took a closer look at the waterhole next to him, the body of the more than sixty people was still very tough, took off his shirt and squatted by the waterhole to wash his face, and the tattoo on his back fell into my eyes.
A coiled dragon is on the entire back, with the ups and downs of the white muscles, vivid and majestic and solemn, there are many curved lines under the dragon pattern, like a tumbling wave, above the water waves, there are mountain stone treasures.
This dragon pattern is a special ornament of the Qing Dynasty, and the name of this tattoo is Haihai Jiangya, in addition to the meaning of continuous auspiciousness, there is also the meaning of unifying the mountains and rivers and the eternal level.
In the Qing Dynasty, who dared to tattoo this thing on the body, it was a felony of the nine clans, but the general told us that this is the tattoo of the hereditary inheritance of Bai Jin, and it is also the emblem of the king of Liaodong.
I've seen a lot of people with dragon and tiger tattoos on their bodies, and they look tacky, and in the final analysis, they can't set off these patterns, but such a big dragon tattoo on Bai Jin's back, instead of feeling exaggerated and worldly, complements him as a person, and there is a feeling that only he is worthy of this tattoo.
These two people are inseparable friends, no one has asked each other why they are here after meeting for so long, I think this is love and trust, and real friends will not deliberately explain each other.
"I'm going to find the Vientiane Shrine." The general blurted out at Bai Jin's back.
The general has always understood the importance of proportion, such a big thing can be said bluntly to a person who has not seen him for more than 30 years, and the hand that washed his face paused for a short time, and he didn't even look back, wiping a handful of water on his face.
"Nanling and Beizhuo, the two great metaphysical families gathered, Wei Zi, you have dug a tomb all your life, you people get together, I don't think it is to run to this desert where birds don't to see the oasis." Bai Jin wiped his face and got up and walked to the general. "I've heard about Ye Jiuqing, is it related to him to find the Vientiane Divine Palace?"
"The shopkeeper was framed and forced us to find the Vientiane Shrine before we were willing to release him." The general nodded in reply.
Listening to Bai Jin's words, this person knew Ling Zhihan and Zhuo Mingfeng, before the general didn't mention it, he didn't ask a word except for reminiscing, but after the general told him, Bai Jin didn't even ask what the Vientiane Divine Palace was.
I looked at the heroic old man on the other side with some confusion, his reaction to the Vientiane Shrine was too flat, as if he had known this place for a long time, and there was no curiosity in his eyes and expressions.
Bai Jin got dressed and patted the general's shoulder, although his voice was still bold, but suddenly calmed down a lot.
"Okay now, let's talk a little more this time, it just so happens that I'm here to find the Vientiane Shrine."
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We were taken aback, these two people were talking about the huge palace complex above the dragon vein, which could be said from the mouth of the general and Bai Jin, just like going to the field to find an ordinary radish, and what made me even more puzzled was how Bai Jin, who had never entered the customs, had come all the way to get here, how did he know about the Vientiane Divine Palace?