Section 297 White Jade Toad

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers tore up the covenant and invaded the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and captured Hui and Qin Erzong, which was called the Jingkang Change. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At that time, Zhao Gou, who was not favored by the prince, escaped by luck, went south to Lin'an Mansion, and established the Southern Song Dynasty with the support of Yu Chen. The great rivers and mountains north of the Yangtze River have fallen into the hands of foreign races.

This Jin country is from the Changbai Mountains of the Jurchen people, has always believed in shamanic witchcraft, but by the influence of the Liao people, the Central Plains culture is very yearning, although not as revered as the Liao people, but also absorbed some Han culture, such as Taoism.

At that time, the Taoist priests in the north had some backbone, and they hid in the mountains one after another, or went south to take refuge, and there were also Taoist chiefs who cared about the lives of the world, and did not hesitate to leave a bad reputation and succumbed to the palaces of the ministers of the Jin Dynasty as guests, instructing them to treat the Han people well, although it did not help the overall situation, but also avoided a lot of killings and disasters.

It is said that although this Luofu Mountain in Guangdong is located in the southern corner, it is a famous cave blessed land in Shenzhou, since Zhu Lingzhi in the Han Dynasty, there are many immortals and Taoist masters to cultivate here, to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Ge Xian Weng is one of the leaders. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Nan, a famous Dandao scholar at that time, established a Ding furnace to practice here.

Bai Yuchan's original name is Ge Changgeng, his ancestral home is Minqing, Fujian, born in Qiongzhou, South China Sea, he is extremely intelligent since childhood, familiar with the Nine Classics, can write poems and songs, and is the best at calligraphy and painting. At the age of twelve, he was a child and was talented and wrote a lot of books. This white jade toad is a Confucian student, and was born in a scholarly family, and has always been responsible for gaining fame and saving the common people in the world, why would he be interested in this cultivation? There's another story.

Although this Bai Yu Toad is a young prodigy, he is clever and capable, but he has no choice but to be born at the wrong time, the traitor in the court is in charge, and the barbarians are rampant outside, and when he was eighteen years old, he was going to be admitted to the Jinshi, and he didn't want a Qing official surnamed Meng to offend the adulterous minister, so he was dismissed as a commoner and exiled to the wild land of Lingnan, and Bai Yuchan's father was also implicated as a close friend of Meng Qingguan, and he was charged with a crime. The parents couldn't afford to get sick, and after half a year, they left Bai Yuchan, the only son, to die.

After this catastrophe, the white jade toad saw through the red dust, devoted himself to cultivating, walked all over the mountains and rivers in the sea alone, and sought immortals to visit the Tao. However, where is this immortal so easy to meet? He doesn't know how to farm, and he doesn't know how to make a living, and after many years, even if he saves money and sleeps in the open, he has already used all the money left over from the house.

One day, when I came to Luoshan outside the city of Huizhou, Guangdong, I saw that my hands were empty, my clothes were shabby, and I didn't feel sad from it, and I thought: I have been searching for the gods for many days without success, and if I want to go to the city, but every relative, I still have to go back to my hometown in Minqing.

So, he came to the city and set up a small stall to write and divinate for people. The city of Huizhou is a remote place, a place where the Tao of Confucius and Mencius cannot be instructed, and there are not many literate people in the city, even if they do, they all serve in the government, how can they go to the street to set up stalls to write for people? So, Bai Yuchan set up a stall in the market during the day, lived in a deserted and ruined temple in the suburbs at night, drank some well water when it was cold, and went to the street to buy a white flour bun when he was hungry.

Unexpectedly, before entering the territory of Fujian, these few hangings of money have also been used up. In the past, when the family was wealthy, there were a few friends and relatives in the local area, and now they went to the city to find someone to help, and the slaves outside the house either said "the master and the guest went", or said "go to Beijing to meet friends", which is in line with the words of the ancients: the poor in the downtown no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains. This white jade toad is a person with backbone, where can he see such a face, plus he has not visited half of the immortals after suffering for a year, the more he thinks about it, the more bitter he becomes, the more he thinks about it, the more sad he becomes, he came to a moat outside the west gate of the city, and planned to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river.

I was about to plunge into the river and end up clean, but I heard someone shouting behind me: "Wu Na boy, don't jump into the river!" ”

Bai Yuchan looked back, and saw that the person who spoke was dressed as a businessman, in his thirties, and he looked upright.

The man looked at it for a moment and said, "Aren't you Mr. Ge who set up an office stall in that street market (Bai Yuchan's real name and surname Ge mentioned earlier)?" You are young, you can write well, you must be a reasonable person, why do you want to find such a short view? ”

Bai Yuchan said: "You don't have to ask this big brother, there is no place for me to stand in this yang world, and I have to die this time." ”

The man said, "Mr. Ge, what are you embarrassed about?" Why not talk to me? ”

Seeing that the man's face was sincere, Bai Yuchan was also depressed for a while, and he was definitely not really determined to die, so he hesitated and asked, "Dare to ask the eldest brother's surname?" ”

The man said, "In Xia Lile, he lives in this city." I opened a restaurant opposite your stall, and after a few months, I know him. ”

Bai Yuchan reported his name and said the reason why he threw himself into the river.

Li Le shook his head and sighed: "Mr. Ge is really smart, and he was confused for a while. You have hands and feet, where can't you do things? Why take such a supreme? Come on, come on, you go to the restaurant with me to eat some wine and food, and I'll help you come up with an idea. ”

Bai Yuchan and Li Le came to the restaurant, and after they were full of wine and food, Li Le said that his bookkeeper would go back to his hometown in three days, and asked Bai Yuchan if he would stay to help him? This white jade toad has been sleeping in the open for a year, and now there are such good things, where should he not accept it, and he will pound his head and garlic vigorously at the moment, and thank Li Le for his help.

Li Le smiled: "Don't thank me either." You contribute, I give money, and we don't owe each other. ”

So, Bai Yu Toad stayed here in Li Le, and after more than half a month, one evening, Bai Yu Toad was idle, so he wanted to go to the Zuiyun Tower by the river outside the city to see the sunset and eat river fresh. It was the middle of the night after I was full of wine and food, and when I came back, the lights were blind, and I inadvertently mixed my feet and reached out to pick up something.

Looking at the moonlight, it was two pieces of silk with the words "Lin'an Mansion Splendid Silk Shop" printed on them.

Bai Yuchan thought to himself, this thing is from Lin'an Mansion, and it is not a local store, how can I find the lost owner? It's better to wait here, if someone loses it, he can't see the goods and naturally rush to find it.

So, he waited in the same place for a long time, it was the late autumn season, but fortunately, the climate here was warm and cold. The white jade toad drank the rice wine from the drunken cloud building, and waited for two hours and didn't see the owner coming, so he picked up the two silk horses, and planned to post a notice in the restaurant and near his home the next day, asking the owner to come and claim it.

Early the next morning, Bai Yuchan wrote more than a dozen notices and was about to go to the restaurant, but he heard someone shouting and knocking on the door. (To be continued.) )