Chapter 5: The Secret
The old rooster waited for a while, as if to prepare the wording, after about a dozen breaths. As if he had already figured out the ins and outs, he finally began to tell:
"Child, when I was young, I heard the elders of the clan say that your Ning family and our Jing family did not live here as ancestors, about hundreds of years ago, we actually lived in Changning County, south of this Pavilion Mountain.
Hundreds of years ago, there were many more countries in the world, much more than now, so both natural disasters were more frequent than today. At that time, Tingshan was the natural demarcation, and there were two countries in the north and south of Tingshan, namely Jiang and now Zhao, when there was endless war, all the kings fought each other for land and wealth, today you fight me, tomorrow I fight you.
It was also a cold winter, and it is said to be much colder than now, a teenager because the old father of the family went to the battlefield, there was no news, a family of 4 was hungry and cold in winter, the rest of the village lacked food and clothing and could not help, the eldest brother sold himself as a slave in exchange for a small amount of food, but it was not enough for the old lady in the family, the young brother and his own three mouths, only before the moon was about to be exhausted.
The second child, who wanted to sell himself like the eldest brother, found out about the miserable experience of the eldest brother on the way to the lord's house to peek at the eldest brother - as a human animal, wearing thin clothes in the snow, lying on the snow, crawling with many slaves who also sold themselves, dodging arrows shot by many lords and nobles wearing fox furs and riding BMWs. Slowness means death, and if you want to live, you have to be faster than others.
Seeing all this, after returning home, the second child began to have nightmares at night, and in his dreams he always substituted himself into the cattle that lowered their heads and begged in fear not to be shot by bows and arrows, and finally fell weakly on the snow, watching the blood slowly flow out.
No one knew what effect that night had on him, but in the early morning the boy picked up the broken dagger left by his father and went into the mountains, where he gambled his luck and hunted others instead of being shot as an animal.
The boy started his journey with the determination to bury himself in the mountains and reduce his mouth if he couldn't hunt animals, but unfortunately if this world really came true, there might not be so many tragedies. The boy found dusk from the early morning, but he couldn't find anything to eat, let alone prey to bring back, and the once lively jungle seemed to be dead, leaving only the corpses of trees to prove their existence. The boy consumes time, physical strength, and even life in the search.
After dark, when he was unconscious, he accidentally fell from a low cliff, and there was a large slope of snow under the cliff, so he rolled down the snowy slope to a cave and fell into a coma, and the pine branches stretching out of the cliff saved him once, but it only delayed time, and if there was no accident, death would eventually take him away, just like his father. But there is no endless road, in the process of the teenager's coma, a silver pheasant came here, may have seen the unconscious child, a magical scene happened, many pheasants, relying on the child, began to close their eyes and rest, swallow the moon, pheasant body temperature finally rescued the child. The child slowly woke up, saw the many pheasants in front of him, and the dagger in hand, he was ready to start killing chickens, take them back, mother and brother can live well, but he failed, shook his body, and staggered and fell before he could get up, he was too weak, he only ate very little food every day, coupled with today's day of searching, he really had no strength, fell to the ground, looked at the chickens in front of him, but did not have a trace of strength to make action, only tears oozed from his dry and cracked face, this is the only proof that he can control his body。
At this time, a pheasant came out of the flock, looked at his face, and after a while walked back, when he appeared in front of him again, he held a small crescent-shaped fruit in his mouth, shook his neck and sent the fruit to the boy's mouth, one, two, and finally the boy survived with the help of the chickens, and when his body regained his vitality, he immediately discarded the dagger, covered his face and cried.
The boy followed the chickens to find the moon pine tree with moon fruits, and there was a small piece of ripe moon fruit on the tree, and the boy picked two moon fruits and left, relying on the vitality provided by these two fruits, he finally found a spot of spotted jasmine trees by a small lake, and he was ecstatic, he took off his tattered clothes, pocketed a lot of spotted jasmine fruits, and began to walk home. The green fruit the size of half a fist, in the years when the food was abundant, the solid people, with its hard and bitter taste, no one even wanted to look at him, but in the famine year she could save her life. The young man's family of three was lucky to survive with these bitter fruits, and more people died in the cold winter like grass mustard in the troubled times.
The following year, the eldest brother was missing in the family, the mother alone could not afford to feed three people, and the younger brother, who was two years younger than him, seemed to overlap with his role in the family, so that they would not starve to death as they had done last winter.
The nine-year-old second child almost decided to go out and break through, so he took some wild fruits from the mountains in one afternoon, and walked out of the house in rags, out of Jiang Guo, no one knew that he had been there, and no one had seen him for twenty years, and there was no news.
When he returned to his hometown again, he saw that his mother died of illness a few years ago, and his younger brother had grown into an adult, and he returned here, but he could never go back to the past, and he was incompatible with the surrounding environment, bearing, knowledge, and demeanor, completely different from the surroundings, that was another kind of existence, so he found the eldest brother who was still alive and returned home, lame with one leg, and lived with the younger brother.
He bought the debts of the whole village, moved the villagers to the northern foot of Tingshan, and bought the surrounding land, so although the land harvest around Ningjia Village was not good, because there was no tax, as long as they did not encounter the pain of forced labor, the whole village was also living very well. For hundreds of years, the Ning family has never encountered wars and natural disasters.
Then I came to Tingshan-
The old rooster saw that Ning Chen seemed to be intended, and knew that he was young and vigorous, and wanted to go out, so he couldn't help but persuade: "Ning boy, although your ancestors have made a name for themselves, but after all, there are only a few, and more people just become the nourishment of others, and it is too dangerous outside." ”
Seeing Ning Chen nodding yes, he didn't know if he listened to it, so he had no choice but to continue to tell the story behind.
At that time, the batch of Yunjin chickens that had something to do with him were almost dead, and the few remaining ones didn't quite remember what had happened, and seeing that a monk had actually descended on the chickens, the only chickens shrank into a ball in fear, until he used the rubbing method to transmit the memory to the minds of those old chickens, and the Yunjin chickens, who were only equivalent to the wisdom of seven or eight-year-old children, finally understood that this monk did not want to be unfavorable to them. Finally, it was active again, and the chatter became a crowd.
After he asked the old chickens what they wanted in return, the old chickens replied that they wanted the newborn children not to suffer from natural enemies. The southern foot of Tingshan is due to the sunshine relationship, the yang is relatively blazing, the fierce beasts with a violent personality are more than the northern foothills, the cloud brocade chicken is due to the moon and the moon, the yin is thick, it is the necessary prey of the heavy beasts to reconcile the yin and yang, most of the cloud brocade chickens can not live to adulthood and die under the mouth of the tiger wolf. Fortunately, the temperament of Yunjin chickens can survive in small quantities at the southern foot of Tingshan, where there are many fierce beasts.
When he learned all this, he once saved him Yun Jin Chicken completely moved to the north foot of Tingshan and the villagers lived next to each other, and at the same time built a cave belonging to Yun Jin Ji on the main peak, carved out the formation, with Zhoushan Yue Song as the guide to absorb the Yuehua, through the Yue Song root system to pull some transmission to the top of the cave jade, in the use of jade after the transformation in the cave, to help Yun Jin Chicken live, although after several transformations of the brilliance, not as cold and quiet as the Yuehua, but the victory is more safe, Yun Jin Ji relied on this immortal mansion to finally recuperate, and divided a number of branches to settle in the Pavilion Mountain。 The yang energy generated by the activities of the Yunjin Chicken in the cave will finally be transmitted to the outside of the cave with the formation engraved on the stone pillar in the center, forming an artificial treasure land.
Ning boy, but probably because the time is too long or the number of our Yunjin chickens is too much, a large number of Yang Qi produced by the activities of Yunjin Chickens was deposited on the stone pillar, and finally it produced a strange thing born in this heaven and earth - Huo Yunzhi, after the Huo Yunzhi was generated, the formation was reversed, not only the Yang Qi in the cave could not be transmitted, but also the Yang Qi outside the cave was pulled back by itself, and this treasure land was slowly deserted in the end, and most of the Yunjin Chickens also left here and went to other places. Because the treasure land here is left by the ancestors, we dare not give up, and secondly, we are the place where we have roots, and we do not dare to bring outsiders to mend it, if it is not for your chance to come to Tingshan to hunt and meet us, I am afraid that this secret will be retained.
In the future, there may be more pregnant Yun Jin chickens will be the same as Xiaoyun, but also in the wild to absorb the moon, you may not know, although our Yun Jin chicken is a bird, it should be oviparous, but as the years grow, the more Yuehua is absorbed, the body's yin deposition is more and more heavy, and the body temperature will be lower and lower, only when the body temperature is relatively high when it is young, so after adulthood, it cannot be hatched after the eggs are conceived, so the hens of our family are about to lay eggs, leave the eggs in the body, until the eggs are hatched to the end of birth, will be produced, waiting for the birth of new life。
Ning boy, don't say Xiaoyun because when you absorbed Yuehua two years ago, you Ning family found out that your Ning family had no way to chase Xiaoyun during the rotation period, and you shot and injured her again-
"Senior, I really didn't know at the time, you have such a deep relationship with our Ning family, and I didn't know that Miss Xiaoyun was there for her ...... at that time" Ning Chen argued with difficulty.
You didn't know all this back then, it was just an accident, and if she hadn't forgiven you, she wouldn't have thanked you tonight. But this has always caused the fact that she is lacking in vitality, so we will give him this piece of Yuehua, you two are good children, so we will solve this matter so peacefully, she wants to give birth to a child smoothly, and she still needs a lot of Yuehua, if someone rushes here on the other day, I'm afraid it won't be good. Of course, I don't mean to threaten you with this, I just hope that you can see more of the lives of Xiaoyun Jinji like Xiaoyun's children in the future, and please help us-
Speaking of this, Ning Chen saw that the old rooster beside him actually knelt down against him, and his nondescript posture shocked Ning Chen to hurry forward and help him up. But he was rejected by the old rooster, Ning Chen couldn't, so he had to kneel next to the old rooster and listen to him-
Xiao Lao'er knows that your Ningjia Village is short of money this time due to the temporary increase in government service, if you are worried that the value of Huo Yunzhi is not enough, then arrest Xiao Lao'er together, the children are still young, they should not be reduced to the food of other people's mouths so early, I am old, I am replaced by you human beings, I am over ninety years old, and I don't have a few days to live-
"Senior, don't bother me, I just want to ask, that Xiaoyun girl would rather catch us than Tuying to deal with us because she was pregnant. Ning Chen asked with a complicated expression, and when he saw the old rooster nodding, a trace of shame appeared on his face. Looking up at Huo Yunzhi, who was high above, he swallowed his saliva, thinking back to his wife and children at home, and finally made up his mind. "Senior, you get up first, you kneel like this, you are breaking my life, can I not do it?"
The old rooster breathed a sigh of relief, and then stood up.
Ning Chen looked at the old rooster and said, "Senior, I still have a condition, if you can agree, I will go up and try it immediately." ”
"Say, boy Ning, no matter what the conditions, as long as our Jing clan can get it, we will agree to you. The old rooster immediately replied.
"I want to say, this stone pillar is too smooth, and I am not completely sure that I can take out the fire Yunzhi, whether it is successful or not, you have to let Ah Hui go back, not only that, but I also hope that you will find some mountain treasures for Ah Hui to bring back as in the past, if you can promise me. I'm going to try it now. Ning Chen looked at the old rooster and said with a firm expression.
The old rooster didn't even hesitate, immediately got up and agreed.