Chapter Ninety-One: Death by Starvation
"The Sun family searched for famous doctors and immortals, but they were helpless, the daughter of the Sun family was getting thinner and thinner, and she was in a state of confusion all day until she was unconscious, at this time the Sun family came to a young Taoist who claimed to be practicing in the Jinguang Cave of Qingcheng Mountain, and did not cure the disease after seeing the battle, only let the Sun family summon someone to scoop up the water in the Qinglong weir next to it, and the Sun family's daughter's illness was naturally cured. The Sun family didn't believe in that person at the time, but they were in a hurry to go to the doctor, and there was really no way, so they called people to go to the Qinglong Weir to fetch water, and worked day and night for several days before the water level of the Qinglong Weir gradually decreased, but just when the Qinglong Weir was about to bottom, in a few blink of an eye, the water level in the Qinglong Weir suddenly returned to normal, and the You Fang Dao people continued to let them scoop the water, and the water level returned to normal when it was about to bottom out several times in a row, and in this process, the daughter of the Sun family gradually improved. The old man said.
I interjected and asked, "Why can't I finish scooping up the water in the Qinglong Weir?" ”
The old man said, "At that time, the people of the Sun family were also curious, during that time, there was no living water flowing in the Qinglong Weir, why could it not be scooped up?" The Taoist said that there was a green dragon in the Qinglong Weir, and the green dragon spit out water, so naturally he couldn't finish scooping it. Someone asked why the Sun family's daughter's condition would improve, and You Fang Taoist said that the Sun family's daughter was the reincarnation of a big Taoist figure, and the green dragon hooked the soul of the Sun family's daughter and soared into the sky, but then as the dragon spit out the water, the green dragon vomited out the soul of the Sun family's daughter, so it got better. Later, the daughter of the Sun family followed the Taoist to Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan to practice, but as for whether the two of them got married, I never heard anyone mention it. ”
This thing is extremely long, and at that time, the people's wisdom was not as good as it is now, and when they encountered something difficult to explain, they would push it to the ghosts and gods, maybe it was just a story made up by later generations.
However, the old man said that the dragon spit water in the Qinglong Weir is quite similar to what his son experienced, and there was suddenly water in the Qinglong Weir, which made me begin to be suspicious of this story, could it be that there is really a dragon in the Qinglong Weir?
Yuan Shouyi naturally associated these two things together, but instead of talking about his son's death, he asked the old man, "Have you heard of the name of the daughter of the Sun family?" ”
The old man shook his head, "I don't know this, if you want to know, you have to go to Qinglongyan and ask, maybe someone over there will know." ”
Yuan Shouyi didn't ask much next, and said the main purpose of our coming, that is, we were here to beg for food.
Although we didn't help them anything, it didn't matter if we gave them a meal, the old man immediately asked his wife to heat up the leftovers, and Yuan Shou and I had a great meal, and we said goodbye to the old man after eating and drinking.
Outside the village, I met Chen Yingying and Huang Yunqiu, who were waiting for us, and when they saw that there were still oil stains on my mouth, they knew that we had eaten and drunk enough, and then under the leadership of Yuan Shouyi, we continued to walk south, preparing to go to Qinglongyan.
This time, we didn't have to go over the mountains and mountains, there were ready-made roads for us to walk, it was a lot easier to walk, and there was nothing to do during the journey, so I asked Yuan Shouyi, "I don't think the three paintings in the tomb are likely." ”
Yuan Shouyi glanced at me with interest and asked, "What do you think is impossible?" ”
I said thoughtfully, "In the first painting, it is impossible to walk a horse in the water, how can a horse walk in the water and not sink?" ”
Yuan Shou smiled, "The heavenly horse in this word refers to the divine horse, the divine horse can walk in the sky, what is so strange about being able to walk in the water?" There is also a term called 'Ma Chao Dragon Sparrow', which refers to the dragon bird holding the horse to fly......"
"Where in this world are there gods and dragon sparrows? []" I muttered.
Yuan Shou saw that I was not convinced, so he smiled and continued, "It is recorded in the "Narrative of Differences" that on the island of Longchuan, Mu Tianzi raised eight horses. There is a grass named dragon on the island, and the horse eats it, and it is a thousand miles a day. As the old saying goes: A dragon is turned into a dragon horse. What if the painting was engraved with a dragon horse? ”
I was defeated immediately, and I didn't even have time to express my opinion, in terms of the amount of knowledge accumulation, I was still 108,000 miles away from Yuan Shouyi, and I was deflated, and I was embarrassed to speak again.
Huang Yunqiu and Chen Yingying next to me saw me deflated, covered their mouths and snickered, I stared at the two of them angrily, and said without admitting defeat, "The second painting, the grain mountain is hungry bones, how can you starve to death if you guard the grain mountain?" That's. ”
I looked at Yuan Shouyi, and said in my heart that he shouldn't be able to give an answer this time.
Yuan Shouyi walked forward by himself, and walked for a while before he spoke, "This is also achievable, the credit knife door is not a single line, I have a junior brother when he was on credit knife once left such a 'proverb', called 'starvation to death', which means that the same person is both starved to death and supported to death." Later, I once saw an incident with my own eyes, which is quite similar to the 'grain mountain hungry bones', when I passed through a commune on credit, I met an old man, the old man was so hungry that he had to hold on to the wall for fart, I saw that he was pitiful, and I happened to have a few wild vegetable dumplings on me, so I gave him three, and he ate one and a half in one go, and the remaining one and a half died without eating. Why, he has been hungry for too long, his stomach is different from ours, he can't stand it after eating too much in one breath, so he died, do you say he starved to death, or did he die? ”
We all listened to this, but we couldn't give an answer, because we couldn't tell whether he was starving to death or dying of support.
Yuan Shouyi laughed, and instead of saying the proverb of the knife gate, he talked about the hungry bones of the grain mountain, and said, "That old man was holding the vegetable dumplings, and the bones died like firewood." It's too similar to the painting you see, the vegetable dumplings are the grain mountain, and the old man is the starving bones, so the grain mountain and starving bones can also be realized. ”
He explained the first two things, and I didn't express my opinion on the third thing, so as not to be bored, and asked directly, "What about the dragon bullfight?" ”
Yuan Shouyi shook his head, "These three paintings are already closely related to the owner of the tomb, and I have been thinking about who will be linked to these three paintings. ”
After that, I didn't say anything more, and hurried with peace of mind.
Almost in the evening, I saw the lights in front of me, the voices of people were boiling, we stood in the distance and looked at it from afar, I was stunned, the lights in front were red, the traffic was busy, people came and went, the house building was completely different from what I saw in the countryside and Yinsi, a house was more than ten meters or even dozens of meters high.
My father and mother told me about the prosperity of the city, and I have always been full of yearning for the city, this is the first time I have seen such a prosperous place, far beyond my imagination, I used to think that the most prosperous is only the Yin Si Yu capital city, now I see it, it is just two concepts.
Chen Yingying also saw it for the first time, and Huang Yunqiu also saw this scene, a little stunned, but she smiled bitterly, and said with a sad expression, "One day in the mountains, the world has been a thousand years, I didn't expect it to become like this outside." ”
Chen Yingying and I were full of yearning for the brightly lit city in front of us, but Huang Yunqiu's expression was a little subtle, and I asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Huang Yunqiu shook his head and said nothing, but Yuan Shouyi patted me lightly and told me not to say anything, and then took us towards the city.
I just figured it out in the process of moving forward, Huang Yunqiu was locked in a coffin by the Seven Evil Soul Locking Array, her best time was spent in the dark coal hole, she missed too much, and now she is a wandering soul, no wonder she is sad.
Looking close, but the real city is a few hours later, the time is about eleven o'clock, at this point in time the countryside has long turned off the lights and slept, but in the world is still full of people, fashionably handsome men and women come and go, roadside stalls are still soliciting business, leveling the road is full of traffic.
Chen Yingying and I looked around as if we had seen a new world, Yuan Shouyi crossed the avenue one step ahead of us, but Chen Yingying and I were stopped on the other side of the avenue, there were too many vehicles on the road, we didn't dare to cross.
Yuan Shouyi waited there for a long time, I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, and walked over in a daze, and looked at the street stalls with all kinds of food in the past, and touched my body, my grandfather still had some money left for me before, and when I was about to open my mouth to discuss with Yuan Shouyi, Yuan Shouyi asked me first, "I'm a poor sorcerer, you can't walk without money in this kind of place, do you have money?" ”
I took out the money, and it was hundreds of dollars, the largest denomination I had ever seen, but Yuan Shou looked at it and said, "This money can't be solved for a meal, we have to find a way to make some money, Qinglongyan is next to this city, we have to stay here for a while." ”