1425 - White jade for the building
"Pocket watches? Do you know where that pocket watch came from? ”
When I heard that Mao Daochang suddenly lifted the pocket watch again, it instantly aroused my interest.
In the assessment before, although I saw Gengchen take out the pocket watch, I didn't care about it until I heard Xue Jiaoer mention it tonight, because Sima Lie and Gengchen inadvertently broke the pocket watch when they were fighting, which caused Gengchen to go crazy and almost took Sima Lie's life, which brought up my curiosity......
So what is the origin of pocket watches? Why is it regarded as a treasure by Gengchen? Now that even Mao Daochang has mentioned it, could it be that the pocket watch is related to Gengchen's big secret?
Hearing my question, I saw Mao Daochang turn his head and look at Xue Jiao'er, and asked: "Xue Jiao'er, when I observed Gengchen before, I also saw him take out that pocket watch and look at the time once, but it was far away, and the old man was old and dizzy, so he might not be able to see clearly, and now I want to ask you for verification......
"Daoist, please speak." Xue Jiaoer replied respectfully.
Mao Daochang nodded, and asked again: "Let me ask you, the front of the pocket watch is painted with a statue of the Virgin, and there are two small characters engraved on the back of the pocket watch - 'Spring Breeze'." ”
"That's right, you're all right......" Xue Jiao'er nodded without thinking about it.
Seeing Xue Jiao'er nodding, Mao Daochang sighed and muttered to himself: "Hey, it seems that I really guessed it, could it really be him...... But how is this possible......"
At this point, Daochang Mao looked at Xue Jiao'er again, and then asked, "Let me ask you again, have you ever seen the inside of that pocket watch?" Inside the cover of the pocket watch, there is a black and white photo of a woman? ”
"You know that?"
Xue Jiao'er was taken aback, hurriedly nodded again, and replied: "When Gengchen opened the cover to look at the watch, I had secretly forgotten the inside of the watch, and there was indeed a black and white photo pasted on the cover, and the edges were yellow, it looked very old, the photo was a very beautiful long-haired woman, but I never knew who that woman was, and I never mentioned Gengchen to mention it......"
"Her name is Velvet Snow ......"
Mao Dao let out a long sigh, and actually muttered a poem to himself-
"The spring breeze is a night of velvet and snow, and the crane dreams of the soul of the white jade building......"
"What's snow and buildings?"
After listening to the muttering for a while, I was so confused that at this moment, Sima Lie had already stood up from the seat next to me, and for some reason his face was pale with shock, and he asked Mao Daochang with round eyes: "No, won't it?" Could it be that Gengchen, with ...... Something to do with the Spring Breeze White Jade Building? ”
Mao Daochang bowed slightly.
I was even more confused, and hurriedly asked Sima Lie, "What Spring Breeze White Jade Building?" What is that place? ”
"It's not a place, it's a personal ......"
Sima Lie glanced at me and said in a deep voice: "The masters of that generation a hundred years ago have all passed away, but some of them have left their names through the ages, and they still have many actual legends that have been passed down to this day...... Among them, the more typical ones are Uncle Lin Jiu, the head of Maoshan who once forced the zombie king Xuankui to be cornered, and Luo Xisha, who led the Tianzhu Mansion to kill demons and return to revival, and your grandfather Ma Sanshan, whose deeds of killing devils in anger back then have also been passed down to this day...... And when it comes to this Bai Yulou, the name is even greater than the three I just mentioned, and the ability is even higher, but because he was born from a small sect, he can't compare to Maoshan Mountain, Gesoap Mountain, and even less than the lord of Tianzhu Mansion, so not many people have praised him so far, and not many people in the younger generation of exorcists still remember him......"
"So powerful? I haven't seen a more powerful exorcist than my grandfather! ”
As I spoke, I deliberately glanced at Mao Daochang, and saw that Mao Daochang also nodded solemnly, where did he dare to refute my words, after all, I thought that back then, my grandfather was the eldest brother of him and Zhang Biqing of Longhu Mountain, and he took the two of them to cause trouble everywhere......
However, at this time, he heard Mao Daochang speak: "Brother Sanshan is powerful, this is obvious to all, smashing devils, calming chaos, punishing Rakshasas, blocking the sea eye, fighting fox ancestors, your grandfather's amazing deeds left in the exorcism world are countless, but compared with Bai Yulou, I am afraid that it is still not as good as ......"
"This white jade building is even more powerful than my grandfather?" I exclaimed.
"That's natural, speaking of which, Bai Yulou can be regarded as half of your grandfather's master," only to hear Mao Daochang said in a deep voice: "Although your grandfather later became the head of the Pavilion Soap Mountain, but that was only a later thing, I think your grandfather was like you, he was an orphan who fell into trouble among the people and did not know his background, and he made a living in a place called Jiuhe Town in the northwest of Beijing called Jiuhe Town, and later fortunately was taken in by the Bai Yulou who was practicing in the White Dog Temple of Xiaoli Longshan outside the town, and since then he has relied on each other and passed on his magic, and when your grandfather became an adult, and help him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and regain control of the Soap Mountain Demon Dragon Clan......"
Speaking of which, Mao Daochang's originally old face was full of vicissitudes, and he sighed leisurely, as if the past was vivid.
And when I heard Daoist Mao mention this, my heart shook suddenly, and I suddenly remembered a sentence that Bai Wei had inadvertently mentioned at the beginning-
'Thirty-six miles northwest of Beijing, Jiuhe Town, Xiaoli Longshan White Dog Temple......
And the same words, I remember when I was in Yangzhou, I also mentioned it from the mouth of the Rakshasa girl Yue Qianqian, and even at that time, Yue Qianqian once named her in public and said that the 'White Jade Building' and my grandfather had found her trouble in the White Dog Temple.
It's just that I didn't know who this Baiyulou was at that time, and the war situation was urgent at that time, so I took this directly as a deaf ear......
Then I heard the Taoist chief and said: "Bai Yulou is his name, 'spring breeze' is his number, legend has a year of great drought in the world, has reached the beginning of spring, but the rain does not fall, the grain does not grow, Bai Yulou insight into the heavens, this is the Wulong Mountain to save people to survive the world, every drought to the place, then try to help the people dig the canal, the law rain, the spell must be a spring breeze on the face, comfortable and free, so the name 'spring breeze white jade building'......"
Hearing Mao Dao's long words here, I hurriedly asked again: "You just said that he came down from Wulong Mountain?" Could it be that this Spring Breeze White Jade Building is from my Origin Sect? ”
"That's right," Mao Dao said, "He is a member of the Yin Yang Dao Source Sect, who has been practicing on Wulong Mountain all the year round, and he is an old acquaintance with him." I think that after the death of Song Shufang of Yuanzong, he broke off the lineage of Yuanzong, and vowed to inherit the incense for Yuanzong, and later revitalized Yuanzong. But in fact, as early as the early years of the Republic of China, at the stage when the incense of Yuanzong was cut off, Yuanzong actually still had a lineage, but few people knew it, this was the Bai family...... As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the Bai family formed an indissoluble bond with the Yin and Yang family, and its descendants were passed down from generation to generation, but they never accepted disciples with foreign surnames, so they gradually derived a unique branch of the White Gate for the source sect. This branch never interacted with the disciples of the Yuan Sect Master, and even divided into mountains on Wulong Mountain, and it was not until the Republic of China period that the Bai Family Branch reconciled with the Yuan Sect Master Sect who was revived by Youyuan, and merged into one again......"
Listening to Mao Dao's long words here, I was busy frowning and asked in a deep voice: "Speaking of the Bai family, Bai Wei's surname is Bai, Bai Long's surname is Bai, and Bai Zilin's surname is Bai, do you mean ......?"
Mao Daochang nodded and said: "You guessed right, Bai Wei and Bailong and even their father Bai Zilin are all after the Spring Breeze Baiyulou, and Baiyulou is Bai Zilin's grandfather, that is, Bai Wei and Bailong's grandfather...... Now you should know why the people of the Bai family are all disciples of the Source Sect, and the reason comes from an ancient precept left by the ancestors of the Bai family in the early years - the Bai family needs to serve the Yin Yang Dao Source Sect for generations, kill demons and demons, and rest until death, and those who violate it will be destroyed by five thunders, and heaven and earth will not be ......."
"And what ...... is the velvet snow you just mentioned?" I asked again.
Mao Daochang stroked his beard and replied: "Just as I read the poem just now, 'Spring breeze and a night of velvet and snow, the crane dreams of the soul of Bai Yulou', velvet and snow is the grandmother of Bai Wei and Bailong, and there was a touching life and death relationship with Bai Yulou back then, and it was passed on as a marriage story in the entire exorcism world, so I left these two lines of poetry to ......"
Speaking of this, Mao Daochang's expression suddenly became serious again, and he turned his head to look at Xue Jiaoer and said, "The woman in the old photo in the pocket watch is the ...... of Velvet Blossom Snow."
When I heard this, my heart 'groaned', and the others were equally shocked.
I heard Xue Jiao'er ask in a panicked voice: "The woman in the pocket watch photo is Rong Huaxue, is Gengchen's real identity ...... It's ......"