Chapter 140: Dreaming in the Rivers and Lakes
readx; Legend has it that from the history that was interrupted, Shushan was a blank in historical memory seven hundred years ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoTsing Yi City is cold and speechless in this blank, its past can no longer be restored, and it can only be handed over to the legend to be smeared at will.
Du Huan is the first time to come to Tsing Yi City, in the rainy day, the fog of Tsing Yi City slowly approaching in front of him, Du Huan said, what a big stone city, who built it? Everyone who sees Tsing Yi City for the first time, will ask this question.
Lin Xiaoanan said that it was built by people anyway.
You can say that again. So what are we doing here, I've heard it's a mess here.
"It's very messy", Lin Xiaoanan said, "When Shushan is chaotic, it's chaotic here, and when Shushan is not chaotic, it's also chaotic here." Anyway, it's just one word: chaos. For three hundred years, no one has taken care of it here, no matter what Shushan is, no matter what Chengdu Mansion has over there, and they can't manage it and don't want to take care of it, because the people here are all outlaws from the north and south of the river. ā
"Why?"
"No, because the people who are being hunted down in the world, especially those outside Shushan, as long as they escape into this city, the people who chase and kill them can only give up. ā
"Why?"
"For the whole city is hunted down, and there is only one rule in their city to keep alive: whoever wants to go into the city to hunt down the murderer is to be the enemy of the whole city. This rule has been recognized for 300 years. ā
"Why?"
"The rivers and lakes are like this, there are no rules, but the conventions are customary, and they have become rules over time. If you don't leave Tsing Yi City for the rest of your life, then you will die. ā
"Why?"
"Because Tsing Yi City is in the eyes of the Jianghu people and the Chengdu government, it is the city where the dead live. ā
"Why?"
"Because you see," Lin Xiao's slender finger was already pointing at the gate of Tsing Yi City, which was mottled with old and new bloodstains.
Tsing Yi City has crashed into Du Huan's eyes, indeed, this is not a city in the world, in the eternal barren valley, like the background of the beginning or end of a nightmare.
"Why?" Du Huan muttered.
Lin Xiaoanvil slapped Du Huan on the back of the head, "What, why? Can't you ask questions more clearly?"
"You know what I'm going to ask. ā
Lin Xiaoanli shook his head and sighed, "You want to ask why you are here?"
Du Huan said happily: "You are really a worm in my stomach, and you are asking this." ā
Lin Xiaoanan said, "Find someone." ā
"You're not going to kill him, are you? ā
Lin Xiaoanan said: "No, no one can break into Tsing Yi City to kill people, unless it is someone from their own city." If an outsider kills a person in Tsing Yi City, the rules of Tsing Yi City will collapse. Tsing Yi City will not let such a thing happen. ā
Du Huan breathed a sigh of relief. Lin Xiaoanan said: "When I was fifteen years old, I came to Tsing Yi City with two senior brothers to hunt down and kill a defected uncle in Zhuxi Temple, and I used a trick to earn him out of Tsing Yi City and kill him. ā
"How old are you?" asked Du Huan.
"Fifteen years old. Lin Xiaoanzu said. "It's hard to look back. Lin Xiaoanan said four more words.
Speaking of entering the inner city, to Du Huan's surprise, the city was orderly, but the pedestrians and traders who came and went were not the murderous faces he imagined. Although the street is dilapidated, under the shade of the bean trees along the street, it is a little refreshing and clean in the gloom.
There is only one kind of tree planted in this city, and that is the bean tree. Du Huan thought, just like their city rules, there is only one rule.
Every industry is like any other city. The old women who sat on the steps of the street with the soles of their shoes chatted with the same curiosity as the rest of the townspeople, looking up at the two strangers with curiosity. The only difference is that every city in the world is noisy, but this city is slowly quieting down.
All the people on the street looked like they were normal, but they gradually quieted down. Du Huan said that it was not like this just now.
Lin Xiaoanan said, because they saw two outsiders.
After that, the bell on the castle tower rang out, and as the bell rang three times, the whole city seemed to be shrouded in pre-war suffocation.
A person on the street said, "Lin Xiaoan, you are Lin Xiaoan." "Listening to the accent is not a person in Shu.
Lin Xiaoanzu nodded.
"If you want to kill someone, just do it in the three feet outside the city. You know the rules of Tsing Yi City. If you come to eat, Tsing Yi Lou has good food, if you come to drink, the South Gate Restaurant has self-brewed good wine, if you come to take refuge, there is still open space under the West Gate Bridge. ā
Lin Xiaoanan said, "I'm here to kill people." ā
As soon as the words fell, Du Huan heard hundreds of weapons on the street all light up, and the sound of the brush brought out a dazzling cold iron light on the street. The sword aura was so strong that a few bean green leaves fell on the street.
"Just kidding," Lin Xiaoan's eyes bent into a good-looking crescent moon with a big smile, "I've been to Tsing Yi City three times, and I've always been obedient, I'm just here to find someone, to find Chen to sit in the city." ā
The people on the street were all staring at Lin Xiaoan, Du Huan's eyes were the biggest, and his eyes were full of anger, you just joke with me, how can you make such a joke with these people?
Lin Xiaoanzhen smiled, turned a few streets and alleys, people who didn't know Lin Xiaoanqin followed Lin Xiaoanli and Du Huan to look, after looking at a few streets, I felt that Lin Xiaoanqin was just two eyes and a nose, but there were still people watching. The bell on the city tower rang three more times, and Tsing Yi City immediately resumed its noise.
"So many people know you?" Du Huan asked.
"Well, because I'm Lin Xiaoan. Lin Xiaoan said distressedly, "Because I killed a lot of people for Qu Huanshan." If you kill one person, ten people will always remember you, and if you kill ten people, ten thousand people will always remember you. ā
"And how many people did you kill?"
"I don't know, I just know who the last person I'm going to kill is?"
"Who?"
"You. ā
"Huh?"
------------------------------------------------------------------- "The good thing about Tsing Yi City is that you come to find someone, and you never have to worry about that person going out of the city." Lin Xiaoanli smiled at Chen Zaicheng.
Du Huan saw the dark room in the underground tunnel, and the only thing that glowed was Lin Xiaoan's smile.
Chen Zaicheng is in his sixties and has a lackluster appearance. The thin body sat in the dark room, thinner than the light of the oil lamp.
A little boy next to him was thinner than Chen Zacheng.
A small door in the dark room, leading to a deeper dark room, there was not even a curtain on the door, and in the dim light inside, Du Huan saw the bookshelves leaning against the four walls, and the smell of moldy pages lingered like some boring old things.
"The book still has to be kept in a ventilated and dry place, but I am afraid that it will be rotten next year. Lin Xiaoanzu said.
"It's rotten. Chen Zacheng finally spoke.
"It doesn't matter if it's rotten, it's all in your heart anyway. Lin Xiaoanzu said.
"I mean, my heart is broken. ā
"It's called being familiar with the heart. Du Huan said.
"Rotten in the heart, but it is the way of a sour and rotten reader, the rotten are rotten, and the rotten are also rotten, these books are all in my heart. So much for. Alas, like the book of today, there is not a single one to read. Chen Zacheng said.
"I haven't been studying for three years. The boy replied triumphantly.
Du Huan said: "I haven't studied for several years. ā
"Lin Xiaoan, you came to me, what do you want to ask?"
"One question, ten taels of silver. The boy said, "As long as the things of the world are written in books, and those that are not written in books are only the things of ghosts and gods." There are no things in the book that are not in the world, as long as it is about Shushan, just ask. Ten taels of silver asked. ā
Du Huan remembered that when he came in just now, there was a person who was asking what Chen was sitting in the city. It turns out that there are still such businesses in the world, but they are very rich. Divination also needs some capital, but this Chen Zacheng doesn't even need the capital.
"I ask about a dream," Lin Xiaoanli said, "In the dream, the two mountains are staggered, straight into the sky, it looks like a mountain gate, but when you look closely, the cliffs are closed, and there is no entry or exit." The cliff is like a cut, and the clouds and mist on it are all year round. Apes and birds are also difficult. However, behind the cliff is a large lake, and there is a huge ship in the lake, which is eternal and quiet. May I ask Mr. Chen, what is the interpretation of this dream?"
"The two mountains are together, and the cliffs are encircled. This is a sign of breaking thoughts. The clouds and mist are peaceful all year round, and this is the realm of lost ideas. The dreamer forgets something, and there is a memory in the dream, and he can't recall it, so he falls into this scene. However, the scenery is all love language, but the love language is speechless, the person in the dream does not say a word, and the old man is puzzled. ā
Du Huan asked, "What are you talking about?"
The boy said, "Is this asking the teacher? If so, ten taels of silver." ā
"This also costs ten taels of silver?" Then I ask you. ā
"Ask below, five taels of silver. ā
"Forget it. Say, I don't have that much silver. ā
"What does that giant ship mean?" asked Lin Xiaoan, again.
Du Huan reminded Lin Xiaoanqing in a low voice: "It's ten taels of silver again." ā
"Alas, you also have to ask, isn't the boat hidden in the mountain, isn't it the hidden boat mountain, where you grew up, and you still come to ask me?"
Lin Xiaoanan was startled, shook his head again, and said, "There is no such a huge ship in the Tibetan Zhou Mountain. ā
Chen Zacheng said: "Lin Xiaoan, you are not confused, everything in your dreams, where to find it when you wake up?"
"I'm trying to find the place of this dream. Lin Xiaoanzu said.
"Alas, Lin Xiaoan, for a long time, you don't want the old man to interpret the dream, but you want to ask the old man where the place you dreamed of? ā
"It was the idiot who said that there were many strange dreams, so I came to ask Mr. Chen. Lin Xiaoanqing said, "Mr. Chen has read all the books of the world's absurdity and grotesqueness, and my matter is also inexplicable, so it is natural to ask inexplicable people." Please advise. ā
Chen Zaicheng fell into deep thought, then closed his eyes, seemed to be asleep, opened his eyes for a while, and said: "The old man has just flipped through the books he has read in his life, and there are only a few clues in a few books. One was bought from a thief when the old man traveled to Shushan in the first half of his life, and now it has become a bookworm's belly. A strange note in the book says: There is a mountain in the west of Shu Mountain, there is no trace, there is a peak in the mountain, and the clouds and mist do not disperse all year round. It is said that there was a lost woodcutter, chaotic into this uninhabited deep mountain, one day suddenly saw that the peak of the clouds and mist dispersed, only a white cloud condensed between the two peaks, like a heavenly palace. And another 30 years ago in the ruins of the moon full building found in the remnants of the book, the old man read about a piece of cloud mountain, said that a piece of cloud mountain is in the west of Shu Mountain, in the continuous canyon, where the strange peaks are abrupt, all year round cloud cover, when you turn around, you can not distinguish the previous peak, the road under the feet. It's just that the book has been damaged for many years, and the language is unknown. I now think, why is a cloud mountain called a cloud mountain, or the mountain that the woodcutter saw, but what does this have to do with your dream? If you want me to find out where your dream is in Shu Mountain, the old man can only find here. If you still want to ask, then please go back and get a good night's sleep and have another dream. This son, have you ever seen someone ask such a strange question?" Chen Zacheng asked Du Huan with a smile.
Du Huan shook his head.
"You think my answer is worth ten taels of silver?"
Du Huan didn't answer, he looked up and saw a broken plaque above the dark room, at this time Du Huan's eyes adapted to the darkness here, and saw that the plaque read:
Ten taels of silver Zhai Du Huan thought it was funny.
Lin Xiaoanqin asked again: "If a person keeps having the same dream from childhood to adulthood, why?"
"Today, in Tsing Yi City, there is a scholar who is a person from the north, who offended the powerful and took refuge here. He told me that because of the disaster of imprisonment in the past, when he was frightened, he suddenly lost his memory, forgot a few old things, blurred the faces and names of several old people, and now he is in a trance every day. I just feel that the names of those old people, the memories of the past, are on my lips, but I can't say them, I can't remember them really, why is this?"
Lin Xiaoanvil was silent.
Chen Zaicheng said: "Just because he was frightened at the time, he avoided fleeing in a trance." You Lin Xiaoanvil is just the opposite, living today, but looking for a desolate dream. Just because I was reluctant to give up at that time, I was once in love and it was difficult to break. The maester wants to forget the horrors of the past, and you want to regain the memories of no one else. ā
Lin Xiaoan's smile: "At that time, I was reluctant to give up, when I had this dream, I was only seven or eight years old, but what was I reluctant to give up? That's it, the dream is getting clearer and clearer, why?"
Chen Zacheng said: "That bachelor's memory is getting more and more blurred, why?"
Du Huan listened to the two of them talking there, feeling bored, looking left and right. Suddenly remembered, and said, "If two people dream of the same place, why?"
Chen Zacheng said: "This son, this question should be asked to the person who wrote the legend of the book." There are too many coincidences in the world, but there are no coincidences in dreams. ā
Lin Xiaoanli took out a luminous pearl and handed it to the little boy, and Chen Zacheng accepted it. Lin Xiaoanli said: "The last question, Mr. Chen is a master in the world, sitting in the city and watching the world. But what do you want so much silver for?"
"I have too many enemies, and when I have money, I can hire men to kill my enemies, and when I have killed my enemies, I will be able to go out. If you want to kill people, the first one in Shushan is your Lin Xiaoan, but unfortunately Lin Xiaoanli doesn't like to kill people now. ā
Lin Xiaoanzhen was taken aback: "How do you know that I don't kill anymore?"
"A person who has indulged in a vain dream, even if he wants to kill someone, he will kill the person in his dream. ā
"Yes. After Lin Xiaoanan finished speaking, he pulled Du Huan and left. Nor will I say goodbye.
"Wait, you asked two more questions, and you asked twenty taels of silver. The boy said. Chen Zaicheng also nodded.
Du Huan said, your business is too dark.
When they went out, Lin Xiaoan, and Du Huan also heard Chen Zaancheng say in the dark room: "Lin Xiaoan, you actually came to the wrong place, you should go to see a doctor." ā
Du Huan said: "Yes, this Mr. Chen said the right thing today, and I also think you should go to the doctor." ā
Lin Xiaoanli sighed: "I always feel that my dream is true. ā
"The madman thinks his dream is real. Du Huan said.
With a snap, Du Huan received a slap on the back of the head.
Out of Tsing Yi City, Du Huan asked, where to go?
"All the way to the west. Lin Xiaoanzu said.
Du Huan was taken aback: "Are you really going to find your dream?"
Lin Xiaoanqing nodded: "I'm tired of this bloody river and lake, but I can't get out of this river and lake, what should I do, then go find a dream of rivers and lakes." ā
Du Huan looked back at Tsing Yi City, which was gradually moving away, still hazy in the rain and fog, and said, "I will sleep and wake up, and what happened to Tsing Yi City today will become a dream." ā
Lin Xiaoanli said: "This can be regarded as a word of enlightenment. The past is a dream. Treasure hunting, seeking fame and fortune, seeking revenge and seeking cheats are not as good as dreaming. ā
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