Chapter 25 Peach Realm Patriarch
Long Yi didn't feel bored lying on the bed all day reading the scrolls sent by the white gauze woman, and the white gauze woman knew Long Yi's preferences after a few days of contact, so he picked out some books he liked to read, and Long Yi couldn't count how many Jane's books he had read, anyway, after reading a volume and then changing another volume, and the 'reround mirror' didn't repeat a book as if there were countless book collections, which made Long Yi secretly heartbroken.
After about half a decade, Long Yi was able to get out of bed and walk around a little, but after all, he had been asleep for too long and was seriously injured and his body was still very weak, so he could only move his hands and feet in the house. Even so, Long Yi was very happy, because he finally didn't have to lie in bed all day long.
After another two days, the woman in the white gauze was also very happy to see Long Yi's injury, knowing that Long Yi could only stay in bed these days and might be suffocated, so she took him outside the house to walk around properly. It was the first time Long Yi had walked out of this wooden house since he woke up, and he was naturally curious about the outside. Long Yi lay inside the house and never imagined how beautiful the scenery outside was, and when he stepped out of the wooden door, he was completely shocked by the scenery outside the house, thinking that he was in a heavenly fairyland, maybe the heavenly fairyland was not so beautiful. The wooden houses are built on the lake and overhang the shore. Outside the hut is a long wooden deck that stretches into the middle of the lake. The lake is like a bronze mirror, and the waves are not alarmed; The water of the lake is crystal clear, and you can clearly see the fish swimming freely at the bottom of the lake from the observation deck. The lake doesn't look too small, and at the end of the lake is a rock wall as high as a foot high. Only then did Long Yi notice that this fairyland was surrounded by thousands of cliffs, and being in the fairyland was like standing at the bottom of an ancient well. Long Yi secretly smacked his tongue, he couldn't imagine the miracle of natural creation, and the magic of such a situation was born, if it was said to people outside the world to know, no one would believe it. And what made Long Yi even more incomprehensible was that there was a huge distance between the valley bottom and the valley mouth, but the light at the valley bottom was not affected in the slightest, and it was as bright as the valley mouth, which could not help but make Long Yi dumbfounded. Long Yi looked at the nearest cliff carefully, and there were fewer doubts in his heart, the light of the cliff could shine on people, and the light above illuminated the valley floor through the refraction of the layers of the light wall. Seeing Long Yi standing aside in a daze, the woman in white yarn stretched out her plain hand and pulled him along the wooden platform to the center of the lake. Long Yi woke up from his stunned stupor at this time, and saw Granny Xue's jade hand holding his palm, and a burst of warmth spread from his arm to his heart, Long Yi felt a feeling of numbness, and couldn't help but think in his heart, how good it would be if Granny Xue kept holding her hand like this. The white gauze woman's slender hands were crystal clear and flawless, and Long Yi secretly wondered that this Xue Granny was also a little old, but her skin was as smooth as a baby, and she really didn't know how to do it. The white gauze woman didn't know Long Yi's messy thoughts, and pulled him to the end of the viewing platform, lowered his body and took off the white cotton shoes and white sock covers, and bare a pair of lotus feet as clean as jade hands, the white gauze woman's jade feet were not as deliberately entangled as the women in the world, but they were so incomprehensible and eye-catching, the white gauze woman pulled up the corner of her skirt and sat on the wooden platform, putting the flawless jade feet into the clear lake water and swinging back and forth, splashing the starry water and wetting the snow-white Luo Shang. Long Yi's heart was disturbed by the "giggling" and smiling white gauze woman, the white gauze woman didn't know how tempting her such a move was, even if she was a saint, it was difficult to hold it at present, and she was as still as water. Long Yi also couldn't, he had to take a long breath, reluctantly turned his eyes to the surrounding scenery, Long Yi turned his head and counted, there are three wooden houses by the lake, he lives in one of the wooden houses in the middle, and the next wall where he lives seems to be a hall, there is a wooden plaque hanging at the door, on which the book "reround mirror" three vigorous big characters, and the one on the right side of the hall should be the residence of the white gauze woman, because there is a flower garden at the door, the flower garden is full of all kinds of flowers, red, yellow, white and pink It's in full bloom. Some even climbed to the roof, and the wooden house was a flower house, and only a fairy-like figure like Granny Snow was suitable for this kind of place. The wooden house on the left is full of firewood under the eaves, it should be the kitchen and storage room, it looks like this wooden house is not inhabited, then Granny Zi and Granny Lan must live in the wooden house of Granny Snow. Long Yi was still a little proud of his analytical ability, and because of the shift of attention, the heart that was almost beating out of his chest just now finally calmed down.
Behind the wooden house is a green meadow, the grass used to be a small slope, the slope is full of peach trees, the peach blossom trees are full of huge and fresh ripe peaches, Long Yi suddenly thought that now since the flowers are in full bloom, the peach trees cannot produce fruits, it seems that those peach trees are different from ordinary peach trees, there must be something special. And the figures of the two mothers-in-law faintly appeared in the forest, but they didn't know what they were busy with.
"I really don't know who found this fairy-like place, it should be a great person." Long Yi sighed.
"Of course, our ancestor found this place with great difficulty, and it was impossible to find it without the providence of God." The woman in white gauze answered.
"It's a pity that Long Yi was born too late and didn't have the opportunity to see such a great character, regret, regret."
"What's there to regret about this, you want to see me lead you there." As she spoke, the woman in white gauze dried her feet with a white cloth, put on her shoes and socks, stood up and walked back. Long Yi was a little stunned, but he still followed behind Granny Xue.
The woman in white gauze took Long Yi into the hall of the wooden house in the middle, saying that it was a hall but it was not big, but the study room connected to the hall was a little outrageously large, and there were countless books and picture scrolls in it. This made Long Yi even more admired the ancestor in the "Reunion Mirror".
There are no other furnishings in the hall, only an offering table and three futons, there are two portraits hanging on the wall above the table, the male is handsome and chic, and the female is beautiful and fragrant. The white-gauze woman pulled Long Yi to kneel on the ground and kowtowed three times before she said, "These two are the ancestors of our 'Reunion Mirror', Fan Yan and Xi Shi. ”
"Fan Yan, Xi Shi?" Long Yi exclaimed in disbelief. It's no wonder that Long Yi was so surprised, Fan Yan and Xi Shi were both from Yue in the late Spring and Autumn Period. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period (note: 494 B.C.), Wu Wangfu personally led the army to attack the Yue Kingdom in order to avenge his father, and there were two very capable doctors in the Yue Kingdom, one was called Wen Chong, and the other was this Fan Yan, Fan Yan said to the monarch Gou Jian: "Wu has been training troops for many years, and this time he is determined to take revenge, and he is fierce." Let's hold the city and not fight them. Gou Jian disagreed, and as a result, the Vietnamese army was defeated. Gou Jian led 5,000 remnants of the defeated army and fled to Huiji, where he was besieged by the Wu army. Gou Jian had no choice, so Fan Yan proposed to go to seek peace, and Gou Jian sent Wen Chong to Wu Wang's camp to sue for peace, Wu Wangfu wanted to agree, but the minister Wu Zixu resolutely opposed. After Wen Chong went back, he heard that Wu Guo's uncle was a greedy and lustful villain, so he gave him a batch of beauties and treasures privately, and asked him to say good things in front of his husband, and finally his husband ignored Wu Zixu's objections and agreed to Yue Guo's request for peace, but he wanted Gou Jian to go to Wu in person.
Gou Jian entrusted the state affairs to Wen Chong, and took his wife and Fan Yan to Wu Guojian to feed the horses and be a coachman for the husband, and Fan Qi followed the husband to do some slave work. After two years like this, the husband thought that Gou Jian was sincere and obedient and let him go back to China. After Gou Jian returned to Yueguo, he tried his courage, and with the help of Fan Yan and Wenzhong, Yueguo slowly became rich and strong.
At this time, Wu Wangfucha became a hegemon and blindly greedy for pleasure. Wen persuaded Gou Jian to pay tribute to the beauty of King Wu, Gou Jian sent Fan Yan to collect beauties, Fan Yan met the Huannu Xi Shi in Huanxi and was shocked, and Fan Yan was also born with a polite and polite nature, and the two involuntarily fell in love with each other. Fan Yan secretly lived in Huanxi, but soon after being found by Gou Jian's messenger, Gou Jian dedicated Xi Shi to his husband. When the husband saw Xi Shi, he regarded her as a fairy from the earth, and he was very fond of her. Xi Shi came to Wu Guo in his heart, but he thought about Fan Yan of Yue Guo, and he was depressed all the time, and he didn't see a smile.
The use of literature and tactics caused Wu to miss the harvest and caused a great famine. Then Wen Chong used a counter-plot to let the husband kill the minister Wu Zixu. In the fourteenth year of Fucha's succession (note: 482 B.C.), King Wu led the elite soldiers to meet with the Duke of Lu Ai and the Duke of Jin Ding in Huangchi, leaving only some old and weak soldiers to defend the city. When the husband came back triumphantly, Goujian, the king of Yue, had already led a large army to attack Gusu, the capital of Wu State. The soldiers of Wu came back from afar, very tired, which was the opponent of the Vietnamese army, and the Wu army was defeated. The husband had no choice but to send Bo to Gou Jian to ask for peace, and Gou Jian discussed with Fan Yi and decided to temporarily agree to make peace, and retired to go back.
Seven years later (note: 475 B.C.), Goujian, the king of Yue, made full preparations and attacked Wu on a large scale, and Fucha committed suicide in desperation. Gou Jian destroyed the state of Wu and met the princes of the Central Plains in Xuzhou. Zhou Tianzi also sent envoys to send sacrificial meat to Gou Jian, so that the princes recognized his overlord status. After Gou Jian returned to China, he rewarded the heroes, but Fan Yan was gone. At this time, Fan Yan took Xi Shi and ran to another country incognito. Before leaving, Fan Yan left a letter for Wen Chong, saying: "The birds are gone, and good bows and arrows should be collected; When the rabbit was finished, it was his turn to burn the hounds and eat them, and the king of Yue had a long neck, and his beak was as sharp as a bird's peck, and I saw that I could share the hardships with him, but I could not enjoy them with him, and I advised you to leave early. ”
Wen Chong believed what his old friend said, so he claimed that he was sick and could not go to the court, Gou Jian listened to the slander, and felt that it was useless to keep Wen Chong, so he asked Wen Chong to his side and said to him: "You taught me seven strategies to attack Wu State, I only used three to defeat Wu State, and there are four more in your place, you might as well follow the king of Wu State and try your strategy to see if you can save them." So saying, he gave him a sword and told him to kill himself. Pity this meritorious old minister who died like this.
Long Yi has always had a deep respect for Fan Yan, because he was resourceful and experienced in many battles throughout his life. Being able to see current events and retreat bravely when you are successful and famous is not something that anyone can do. Thinking about it, Fan Yan and Xi Shi left the Yue Kingdom and hid in this "reunion mirror", living an isolated life like a fairy couple.
The woman in white yarn said at this time: "This is not the case, that day Master Zu crossed the Huai River to surrender the State of Qi and the Kingdom of Jin, the official worshiped the general, Master Zu returned to China in victory, felt that he was too famous, and decided to leave the Yue Kingdom, so he wrote a letter to the King of Yue, revealing his thoughts. The ancestor said in his letter: I once heard that the lord has troubled things, and his courtiers should share his worries, and when the king was humiliated in Huiji, we courtiers should die for the king. Now that this vengeance has been avenged, it is time for me to take the blame for my earlier sins. Yue Wang Goujian didn't know what to say when he saw it. Later, Gou Jian told Master Zu that Master Zu was an honest person and wanted to give half of the country to Master Zu, but Master Zu seemed to be listening to Wu Wangfucha talking, and this was what Fu Cha said to Wu Zixu before. That night, Master Zu rode a white horse and secretly left the Yue Kingdom with his beloved wife Xi Shi. From time to time, Master Zu looked back at his country with affection, and his eyes were full of tears. ”