Chapter 106, Pangu White Light
In the northern part of the land of Jizhou in the Dahua Empire, on the north side of the Loess Plateau, where peaks and peaks are stacked, there is a majestic and lofty mountain range, which is called Wufu Mountain; there is a big river with wide water and rapid flow in the north of the mountain, called Wufu River; and in the south of Shannan, there is a long river with a slow circulation called Xuancang River. The Xuancang tribal alliance is scattered on the valley plain formed by the alluvium of the river on both sides of the Xuancang River. At this moment, there is a teenager doing carpentry work in "Ping Pong".
"Abandon life, why don't you stand there and cut these yellow planks?" a woman's voice came from the stone house.
"Mother, I'm inventing a magic car. ”
"Magic car! What is a magic car?"
A woman dressed in green with her hair in a bun came out of the stone house and looked curiously at the pile of yellow planks and yellow wood edges in front of the young man.
"How did we get so much food to be shipped home?"
"Shoulder-to-shoulder, two men are heavy, and four people are heavier. ”
"Sink or not, tired or not?"
"Of course it's heavy and tired. You didn't see the way your father and the four of them were tired and out of breath when they carried a big pig just now. ”
"After my magic car was invented, they didn't have to be so tired. ”
"Why?"
"The magic car I invented is used to replace your shoulders and backs. ”
"Blow you!"
Although the woman said this, there was a bit of acquiescence and appreciation in her eyes. went to the field alone to dry the grain, and no longer controlled this little son who had been strange since birth. Because in her heart, she always felt that this son was an unusual person.
Since marrying Wan Qingpo, the young leader of the Xuancang clan, Jiaobao of the Qiao clan wanted to have a son, because in the present days, men have become the main labor force, and have become the pillars of the tribe and the family. This is no longer the case before.
My own grandmother and grandmother always love to proudly tell her about the past, those old-fashioned stories, and the glorious history handed down by their grandmothers, grandmothers and grandmothers. That was at least a few hundred years ago, or nearly a thousand years ago, when they didn't grow corn, pods, buckwheat, and potatoes at all, and they relied mainly on the fruits, wild vegetables, bean seeds, and potatoes that the women picked to satisfy their hunger, while the men mainly went to round up wild foals, wild wolves, wild boars, mountain hares, pheasants, etc., and sometimes went to the river to net some fish and shrimp.
"The men hunted back something—delicious and delicious, that is—they couldn't count it, and it took a long time to come back, as short as five or six days, or as long as ten days and a half months, and eight times out of ten they couldn't hunt big wild goods such as bison and boars, and it was common for them to come back empty-handed, and they couldn't be counted on at that time. Women are different, they can pick wild fruits, mountain beans, fruit seeds and hairy potatoes every day, and the hoarding of food at home, which hoarding is not all hard work of our women. If you don't want to go hungry, you have to rely on us women. Those prey of the men! That is, they open meat to satisfy their cravings during the festivals, how can they last long?"
The expressions of Grandma and Grandma's eyebrows are still fresh in her memory. At that time, whether it was at home or in the clan, women were also arrogant! The dolls were born with their mother's surname. The family is headed by women, and women are also in charge of the clan, and women speak first when discussing matters, and men have different formulations, and if women object, they have to follow what women say. Even when worshipping the gods, the women walk in front and make offerings first, and the men follow behind, and then the Yousheng dance is danced, in which the women dance the head and the men dance the tail.
But now it's different.
Hundreds of years ago, the Awata clan on the southwest side of the mountain came to cultivate the fields and grow millet, and everything has changed since then. Of course, millet is not only corn but also beans, buckwheat, five or six kinds of millet grains, as well as a variety of vegetables and fruits such as cabbage, large potatoes, shallots, white radish, and beans. Don't say it, these things planted are indeed better than picking, and the fruit is large and full, and there are many fruits, and they are also very fragrant when they are fried, and they can be saved if they are not eaten and dried, and the bits and pieces are enough to eat for a year. Hunting and picking have become a supplement during the fallow period, but they deliberately hunt some live mountain and wild creatures, bring them back and raise them in captivity, raise the small ones into big ones, raise the thin ones into fat ones, and eat and slaughter them on festivals, which is much more convenient.
Planting at home is more secure than picking, but planting these grains and fruits requires more labor and a stronger body! Let's just say planting grain, this slash-and-burn farming has a lot of things, first to split the mountains and open up the wasteland, and then to take advantage of the solar term to turn over the ground and sow seeds, and to weed and loosen the soil and water the seedlings, and it can only be harvested in half a year, and it has to be peeled and dried. Most of the women really can't do the heavy physical work, so the men have to do it. The men seldom went hunting and fishing, so they switched to growing grain and farming, and during the day they were tired like a ploughing ox, sweating profusely, and their backs and legs ached, and at night they fell asleep and snoring like dead pigs. The women felt sorry for them, and sometimes let them eat more delicious food, and they also followed their orders, but they slowly became coaxing.
Anyway, it's better to have a boy, and he starts to help work at the age of ten, and he becomes a strong laborer at the age of fourteen or five.
It's a pity that the mountain god doesn't bless her, she gave birth to a girl in her first child, and the second child is still a female baby, and the third time she is pregnant, the mountain god blesses her, and finally sends her a male baby. In fact, this time it is not the mountain god, it should be said that the Pangu Great Heavenly God has appeared, and a male baby has been sent in a special way, and it has been a mysterious and weird male baby since she was pregnant.
Thirteen years ago, on that night, when the moon was bent, she and her man Wan Qingpo were lying on the wooden bed in the house. Just as the two of them were tightly intertwined and glued together, a bright white pillar of light suddenly entered through the window, shining on their naked bodies, illuminating the altars and jars in the house, and also illuminating the four fields outside the house. She felt a slight heat in her lower abdomen, as if something had penetrated her belly, and she collapsed and collapsed on her bed.
"You're going out and see what's wrong?" she pressed at her man.
"What is it? What is this bright white pillar of light?"
The man muttered, abandoning the comfort he had just felt through, and he didn't care about the exhaustion of his body at the moment, so he picked up the sheet and covered his lower body and walked out of the door. Then I saw a large white celestial body that was flat and round like a large plate on a pot, spinning rapidly in the southern sky, illuminating most of the night sky. A molten white light shot from the stacked pots, like a god breaking through the air, and shining right through the window lattice of his house on the bed in the house. When he stood in front of the door and looked up at the southern sky, the white light was still there. After a while, the white light gradually faded, and the white pot in mid-air then galloped away to the southeast sky, gradually dimming next to a bright and dazzling star, and finally disappeared into the empty night sky.
Wan Qingpo went back to the house to see his daughter-in-law, and saw her lying there with her face bent over, not moving, so he leaned down and reached out to pull her, and shouted, "Bao, are you okay?"
"My dear brother," she said with a shy face, "I was dizzy from the light just now, my belly was warm and warm, but my body couldn't move at all, as if I was paralyzed, but now it's better." What do you see?"
"Stacked pots!"
"What pot?" asked Qiao's Jiaobao inexplicably.
"I saw a big white guy in the southern sky, just like ...... It was like a big shining plate, the size of a grinding plate, buckled on a shiny cauldron of the same size, and the stacked pans shone on us with a melting white light, and it happened to shine into the bed in our room, and after a while, it flew away, and flew to a bright star in the southeast and gradually disappeared. ”
"Po, this is the manifestation of the star god, right? Did you do anything unreasonable when you were hunting? What did you do to be sorry for me?"
"Don't talk nonsense! I haven't done anything bad. ”
After he finished speaking, he climbed into the marriage bed and hugged his woman to sleep, and after a while, he snored loudly.
In the days that followed, the woman's blood menstruation was due, but it didn't, and she knew that she was pregnant with the child the night she was irradiated.
She told her man how she got pregnant when the two were entangled, and Wan Qingpo also felt that this matter was quite strange, so she secretly told her father.
"What kind of pot? That's Pangu! Pangu, the great god who opened the world! It must be the great god Pangu in the sky! Falling from the distant stars, shining on the mortal dust, it seems that this time he is going to send a boy to our ten thousand families!"
The old man Daddy Wanqiu, who was eager to hug his grandson, said happily.
The Wufu Mountain in the north of Hebei is located at the northern edge of the mountainous area of northern Hebei, with the loess slope stacked with peaks and peaks in the south, and the vast Gobi Desert in the north, with rivers and mountains, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Since more than 100 miles to the north is the boundary of the Demon Clan's Great Youguo Kingdom, this Wufu Mountain, with its high peaks and deep rivers, is particularly important, and it can be said to be the natural barrier of the entire Jizhou land and even the entire northern frontier of the Great Hua Kingdom. I don't know from what era, the court and government in the Central Plains area built a city and garrisoned it in this Wufu Mountain Pass, which is called Wufu Pass. After the founding of the Dahua Dynasty, the first emperors and kings of the past dynasties built a high wall here to accumulate grain, sent fierce generals to guard, to ensure that thousands of miles of border plugs, no vain pass and the southeast of the Nai He City, etc., called the "Dahua Four Towns", its importance is no less than the Nai He City, the military status is even higher than the Nai He City.
For thousands of years, the people in the area of Wufu Mountain have been worshiping the three great gods of Pangu, the founder of the world, Nuwa, the ancestor of mankind, and Pangu, the wise emperor of ancient times. In every city of this generation, temples were built to worship the three great gods. The temple in this city is located in the center of the main street that connects the north and south of the city, less than a hundred zhang after entering the main gate of the city, Suzaku Gate, and the most arrogant and luxurious building in the city is this sacrificial temple. The main gods of the temple are these three great gods, and they are sacrificed with "three animals" all year round.