Chapter 22, Nine Suspicious White Sparrows

Jiuyi Mountain is in the south of Lingling County, Jingzhou, and is also the natural dividing line between Lingling and Cangwu County in Jiaozhou, also known as Jiuzhi Mountain. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Classic of Mountains and Seas, Classic of the Sea" said: "The hills of the cangwu in the south, the abyss of the cangwu, among which there are nine mountains, where Shun is buried, in Changsha Lingling (Qin Dynasty and early Han Dynasty only Changsha County, under the jurisdiction of Lingling County) boundary. "Historical Records: The Book of the Five Emperors" also said: "Shunnan patrolled and collapsed in the wilderness and was buried in the nine peaks in the south of the Yangtze River." ”

The so-called "nine doubts", "nine" is an approximate number, in order to say that the mountains are stacked on top of each other, and there are many steep mountains, and "doubt" is to say that the roads in the mountains are tortuous, and pedestrians are easy to get lost. According to the statistics of later generations, there are more than 90 peaks in the mountains that are more than 1,000 meters old, and almost no one can turn them completely.

One of the peaks, because pedestrians are rare, so there is no name, the top is like a sword, straight into the sky, on which there are monks living in the ground. This is still a female Taoist priest, looking at the appearance of only more than 30 years old, dressed as an ordinary family woman, calling herself "Nine Suspicious Mountain People", in fact, this is the Nanye people of Yuzhang County, the common family name is Du, and the double name is Lanxiang.

On this day, Du Lanxiang was meditating in the fast, and suddenly felt something, so he looked at the sky and said, "Follow the decree of the immortal master." He immediately ordered a female disciple standing beside him: "Quickly call Bai Que'er to see him." ”

The disciple bowed down and took the order, stepped out of the gate, and in a short time, brought in a girl who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old. The girl was dressed in a peculiar way: her upper body was dark red belly pockets, covered with a cardigan with red thread trim, the sleeves were not long, and only the elbows were high, and her lower body was a short skirt with the same red thread embroidered edges, which only reached the knees, and she wore a pair of black lace-up cloth shoes with bare feet; she had a black cloth wrapped around her head, two sharp horns on the left and right, which resembled a double mustache, a faint tattoo on her cheeks, and silver studs on her ears.

When she saw Du Lanxiang, the girl knelt down and said, "Teacher." Du Lanxiang asked her: "Bai Que'er, you have come up to my mountain, how many years will you be here?"

The girl named Bai Que replied honestly: "It's been seven years......"

To the north of Jiuyi Mountain is Yingpu County, and then to the north is Lingling County to govern Quanling County, there is Taoyang County in the west of Quanling, Bai Que'er was originally the indigenous barbarians who lived between Quanling and Taoyang, according to the habit of the government, they were called "Lingling Man" by the name of the county where they were located. Bai Que'er still remembers seven years ago, in fact, her appearance at that time was no different from now, she was fourteen years old, and she didn't know why, she suddenly got a sudden illness, couldn't eat, and lost a full circle in just three or five days, and she was about to die......

At this critical juncture, a Han man suddenly came to the mountain, carrying a bamboo pole and a gourd, claiming to be able to cure all diseases. The mother wanted to go and ask for it, but the father shook his head again and again, saying that there is no cure for the disease in the world, and in order to save the white bird, we have already given the wizard a lot of things, and I am afraid that we will not be able to get any remuneration - if we really hollow out the family funds, how will the two brothers of the white bird marry a daughter-in-law in the future?

Unable to stand his mother's pleading, his father had to run to hit the luck. The Han doctor came, pressed the pulse of Bai Qi'er, who was lying on the ground and was about to breathe, opened his eyelids and looked at it, and then said, "I deserve to die if I have this disease, but I can cure it." "Mother knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying that she had to be able to cure her daughter's illness, sir, no matter what conditions you prescribed, we would find a way to meet them—although we can't get anything now, we will pay it off year by year.

The Han doctor smiled slightly: "What I want is only this woman." "If you are willing to cut your love and give me your daughter, I will be able to heal her. The father refused to agree, saying that the girl had promised to be a concubine for the Jingfu (chief), and if she died of illness, it would be fine, and if she knew that she was still alive, but we gave it to someone else, the Jingfu categorically refused to give up.

The Han doctor flicked his sleeves: "In this way, I don't want to heal." After saying that, he turned around and left. The father just sighed, but the mother chased after the doctor and knelt on the ground and kowtowed. The doctor said that if you refuse to agree to my conditions, then how can I treat your daughter? My mother said that I only want my daughter to live, and as long as I can cure the disease, even if I give it to my husband, there is nothing wrong with it...... The problem is that she has been caught by her husband, and once she is born, I am afraid that you will not be able to take her away, sir.

The doctor smiled and said that it was my business whether I could take it away or not, and it would be up to you whether I would give it or not. The mother had no choice but to agree, so the doctor turned back and took out a small pill from the gourd and gave it to Bai Qi'er. It's strange to say, as soon as the pill melted in the stomach, the sickly color on Bai Qi'er's face instantly subsided, as if he was full of strength, and immediately got up and went to the ground, and even his skin became smooth again.

The doctor was about to take her away, but her father stopped her and said that he wanted to be with his daughter for another night, so that he could say goodbye. In fact, in a blink of an eye, he secretly ran out to report to the master, and the master immediately brought people to stop the doctor, saying that you cured my future concubine's illness and should have rewarded you, but you planned to abduct her without me.

The doctor asked what about the private, and what about the public?

Jingfu smiled cruelly: "If you are private, bring 500 coins, and let you go." If the public is gone, he will kidnap you and go to Taoyang County, and punish him for the crime of abducting and selling people's girls!" Bai Que'er knows that the so-called kidnapping to Taoyang County is just an excuse, and the Jingfu doesn't have so much effort and is so bold to deal with the Han government, he must want to take the doctor to which ravine and beat him to death with a stick. She hurried forward and stopped in front of the doctor, and said that I will go home with you now, and I beg you to spare this gentleman.

The doctor was not afraid, nor was he in a hurry, but just patted Bai Qi'er on the shoulder, and said to the sperm man with a smile: "I have come to take this girl now, and if you are not in a hurry to take it away, you must sue her parents." To you, in my eyes it is no more than an ant's ear. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and the man and the man he had brought with him all stood up in horror and fell to their knees. The doctor then turned his head to Bai Qi'er's parents and said, "I am not a human being, but a heavenly immortal, and I will take your daughter to cultivate the immortal path and return to heaven together." Although you have lost your daughter, I can keep your family safe and live to be eighty years old. ”

As he spoke, he took the white sparrow into the air, and the people in the underground hurriedly knelt down and prayed without mentioning it. I don't know how long it took, when Bai Que'er opened her eyes again, she was already in the Nine Doubts Mountain, and the "doctor" had long since disappeared, and there was a kind big sister standing in front of her, claiming to be named Du Lanxiang, who had been cultivating for nearly a thousand years......

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, seven full years passed, and the "doctor" never appeared again. Bai Que'er followed Du Lanxiang to meditate and practice the immortal way, which is also a bit of a small success, this time Du Lanxiang called her over, and said, the immortal who took you up the mountain in the past has a will to pass it down, and ordered you to pack up and go down the mountain to Wu County, thousands of miles away, to help a cultivator named Zhang Lu.

Under Du Lanxiang's arrangement, Bai Que'er took off the clothes she was used to wearing, changed into a set of Han women's clothes, carried a small burden, and wore a short sword at her waist, and hurried down the Nine Doubts Mountain.

Master said that Wu County was thousands of miles to the northeast, but after Bai Que'er came down the mountain, he first turned to the northwest and quietly went home to take a look. It turned out that after the immortals took her away that day, the sperm and the doglegs fell ill immediately, and they had nightmares as soon as they fell asleep, and it took more than half a month to barely recover. From then on, they no longer dared to harass the white finch family, and the villagers heard that a fairy had descended on the family, and they also led the white finch away, and they came to visit with gifts, wanting to have a little fairy spirit. Not long after, the sorcerer in the village took Bai Qi'er's eldest brother as an apprentice......

Seven years have passed in a hurry, and now the family is generally not worried about food and clothing, especially my father, who looks at it from a distance, and it seems that a layer of fat has been added to the cheeks, and my mother is still the same. The eldest brother has married a daughter-in-law, and the younger brother is also fourteen or fifteen years old, and his appearance is quite vigorous.

The white finch secretly shed a handful of tears and kowtowed to her parents. Barbarian family, the culture was originally backward, her little girl is also very simple-minded, there is no need to say what the immortal master wants to irresist, since her parents agreed to the immortal master, she must follow the immortal master with all her heart, let yourself do whatever you want. The immortal master asked her to cultivate from Dulan Xiang, so she practiced seriously, and asked her to go thousands of miles away to help Zhang Lu, and without saying a word, she set off. Although she couldn't let go of her parents and brothers in her heart, after all, neither the master nor the immortal master allowed her to return to her hometown, and being able to come and take a look from afar on her own initiative was already the biggest struggle she could do against fate and orders.

Since his parents and brothers were healthy and their lives were okay, Bai Que was relieved, so he wiped a handful of tears and turned away.

In fact, she lived for more than 20 years, but the scope of her life has always been very narrow, before cultivating immortals, she only wandered around her own village, and after cultivating immortals, there were no doubts. Not to mention the whole world, the territory of the Han Dynasty, even how big Lingling County is and how many counties it has under its jurisdiction have no concept at all - let alone Wu County, which is thousands of miles away. I had to judge the direction according to the sun, and according to what Du Lanxiang said, I went all the way to the northeast.

Fortunately, she has followed Du Lanxiang for many years, and she has already learned Chinese, thinking that she can always meet one or two people on the way, and then she can explore the path in detail. The cultivation is successful, and the white bird is quite strong on his feet, especially when he crosses mountains and streams, and his travel speed is not inferior to that of a galloping horse, but even so, because the road is not familiar, it is inevitable that he will go around in a circle, and it will take more than half a month to arrive in Wu County.

Bai Qi'er and Zhang Lu were ordered to go down the mountain almost at the same time, one walked from Jiu Suspicion and the other walked from the Jing Room, in fact, the straight-line distance from Wu County was not too much. However, although Zhang Lu has never been to Kanto, he always has a vague map of China in his mind, and the roads in the north are divergent, and although the population is not comparable to the undeveloped areas in the south, it is relatively simple to find people and ask for directions. Therefore, he and Xuan Jian traveled together, and should have arrived in Wu County a few days earlier than Bai Qi'er—but this was not the case.

Let's say that the two of them first went to Henan, then Yingchuan, and then to Runan, and half of the journey only took six days. But on this day, when I walked near Zhipingyu County, Runan County, I heard the sound of golden drums and shouts of killing in front of me. The two of them couldn't help but look at each other, and said in their hearts, is this a war? I don't know which one is against which one?

I met a few local people who fled, and after inquiry, I realized that the later general Yuan Shu was stationed in Runan, not only levying taxes, carving the people, and even plundering the army, so Xu Xuan, the Taishou, secretly wrote to Cao Cao, the assassin of Yanzhou, requesting that troops be sent to drive Yuan Shu away. This time, Cao Cao personally led the army over, and attacked Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, in the north and the west, vowing to defeat Yuan Shu in one fell swoop.

When Zhang Lu heard the news, he couldn't help but bow his head and groan. Zhang Lu suddenly raised his head and said, "I want to meet Cao Mengde." "Xuan Jian said that it is important for us to hurry, hurry around the battlefield and continue eastward, why do you suddenly remember to see Cao Cao?" ”

He originally had the opportunity to meet Cao Cao in Luoyang, who wanted to catch up with Yuan Shao and others to fight with the ten permanent servants, and then Zhang Jian scared him to Zhongding, and the banquet that he had originally said to introduce him to Cao Cao was ruined. Zhang Lu is now pondering, I was targeted by something, in order to save my life, I was forced to step up my cultivation, and it is estimated that I will never have the opportunity to go down the mountain and compete in the world - once I cultivate, I have to cultivate until I become an immortal, this can be an immortal, who cares about the wealth of the mortal world - from now on, I will miss out on the heroes of the world. But since he has crossed this trip, it is a pity that celebrities have only seen one Xu Huang (and may have the opportunity to meet Yu Ji).

If you have the opportunity to travel back in the future and tell others about the things of this life, everyone will have to spit on your face: You haven't even been able to see Sun, Cao, and Liu, why did you go to the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty?!

Who knows if there will be a chance to wade into the red mortal world when he returns to the mountain to cultivate? Moreover, cultivating immortals for tens of thousands of years, maybe when he goes down the mountain again, it will be time for the Three Kingdoms to return to Jin...... For now, Zhang Jian and Pei Xuanren will definitely not let themselves go to the plains to see Liu Bei and go to Yanzhou to see Cao Cao, so they can only hope that they can meet Sun Ce when they go to Wuhui and meet Sun Ce...... But although he is not very familiar with history, he estimates that the little overlord can't go down to Jiangdong. Fortunately, when he met Cao Cao, how could there be a reason not to run to take a look?

He said to Xuan Jian: "Although there is no old, I have admired it for a long time, and the friend of the deceased wants to be for a while." He is not lying, with the "theory of six degrees of separation" as evidence, it can always be related to the twisting and turning. Besides, if he really couldn't have anything to do with Cao Cao, how could he have the opportunity to go to the same banquet in Luoyang in the first place?

Xuan Jian is easy to speak, and said that since this is the case, we don't care about delaying for half a day and a day, then I will accompany you to meet this Cao Mengde, who has recently become famous. The two were discussing when they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and they knew that an army was coming, so they hurriedly avoided the roadside. At a glance, I saw a team of about 1,000 people, all bloody, obviously just encountered a fierce battle, and was surging along the avenue - a big banner was written on it, and the word "music" was written on it.

Zhang Lu thought about it, the surname Le is relatively rare, could it be that it is Cao Ying's general Le Jin Le Wenqian? In this case, this must be Cao Jun. So he hurriedly changed into the clothes of the Lang official he carried with him, and then pulled Xuan Jian to the road, and bowed his hand from afar: "General, please stay." ”

- Because he saw a great general at the head of the procession, riding a tall horse, with an iron helmet and iron armor, and a large red tassel on his helmet, but his appearance was not very clear, and he could only vaguely distinguish a very powerful beard.

Seeing that someone was blocking it, he immediately waved his hand, and the team gradually stopped. He rode his horse and approached, looking up and down at the two people in front of him - a young man in front of him, dressed as a Lang official, and a small old man in the back, although he was dressed as a civilian, his bearing was quite graceful. So he immediately asked, "Who is stopping me in my way?"

Zhang Lu replied with a smile: "I heard that your lord is here to ...... the master" This is a kind word, not to say that you are here to fight, to say that you are here to parade, but also to congratulate you on winning the victory easily-"Because of the old people, I came to worship." ”

"Is there an old relationship between the gentleman and my lord?"

"In the past, in Luoyang, there was a one-sided relationship......" Speaking of this, Zhang Lu suddenly had a lot of eyes and asked rhetorically: "Please ask the general to respect his name." "If you are Lejin and you are fine, if it is Lejin's subordinates, this layer of reports, when I see Cao Cao, I don't know the Year of the Monkey, I don't care, I'm afraid that Xuan Jian is not willing to wait.

The general raised his chin slightly, and replied loudly: "The general under the command of the rear general is happy!"