Volume 1 The End of Qingping Chapter 32 The Wuling people fished for a living
Leaving the remote forest and continuing to go north, Ning Chuyi's mood has obviously stabilized in the past few days, and he has lost the rustiness and ignorance of stepping into the rivers and lakes for the first time, and he has some strange views on the word ghost in people's hearts.
As a Fengchu Realm cultivator, in Li Muxuan's opinion, even if he really stepped into the sword cultivation avenue that people in the world dreamed of, a rookie like Ning Chuyi would probably not enter the stream.
Ning Chuyi walked for half an hour, the sky was already bright, and he stepped into the official road again, without the demonic spirit, the young man had a comfortable face along the way, and walked unhurriedly.
But there is one thing he didn't understand, according to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty, just disobeying the Jiupin official in the local county town with angry words is enough to make a poor man's family of four squat in prison for a lifetime, not to mention killing the second-grade secret guard who is closest to the royal family.
If the official eunuch in the capital accidentally provokes the secret guard with a knife, according to the ruthless temperament of Da Sima Hengwen, he will lose his head as light as a feather, and even the nine clans, how can he be as unharmed as a young man.
After two days, Ning Chuyi left the official road and followed a narrow path to the boundary of Wulingyuan.
Wu Lingyuan's first impression of Ning Chuyi was green mountains and green waters.
A blue-gray plate-like stone tablet stood alone on the border of Wulingyuan, the young man became interested, walked dozens of steps, looked at it, and suddenly remembered a poem that the old beggar often recited after getting drunk.
"Peerless dust, you can live in the depths of Wuling, a leaf swings with the waves, why bother Penglai to find the old man."
Wulingyuan is located in the south of the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, covers a huge area, but the population is only 10,000 people, but there are many rivers and hills in the border, the mountain range extends in the northeast direction, belongs to Hanzhong County, the most prestigious is the Wuling River, in which the people live along the river, unlike Fufeng City, they can live on agriculture and animal husbandry in the plain area, and they are all fishing.
Probably accustomed to the fertile fields of the plains, the first time he arrived at the fishing land surrounded by mountains, the young man was a little anxious for a while, I don't know whether to bypass this place and go straight to the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, or to visit Wulingyuan.
After a long pause, Ning Chuyi finally made up his mind and raised his feet to step over the stone monument.
The young man with the sword on his back walked and stopped all the way, the sky changed suddenly, the dark clouds gradually gathered, and after a while, it began to rain drippingly.
Ning Chuyi couldn't help but have a headache, according to the territory drawings depicted, Wulingyuan is high and sparsely populated, it is not an exaggeration to say that there is no village in front of the village, there is no store in the back, the young man is not thinking much, and he began to run wildly, although it is not to the point of exhaustion, but no matter how you have to find an inn to shelter from the rain temporarily, right?
The rain was getting heavier, and the young man was drenched in soup without accident, and Ning Chu had no time to care about it and continued to run wildly.
After running forward for about four or five miles, he finally saw an inn with a very good appearance, Ning Chu strode in without saying a word, handed three copper coins to a sharp-eyed guy, asked for a room, and planned to rest here for one night, as for why he chose this inn in all kinds of realms, it was because the young man saw a tall and straight plane tree in the courtyard of the inn.
Impartial, it is planted in the middle of the small courtyard of the inn.
The small inn is located in the southeast of Wulingyuan, surrounded by mountains and rivers, covering a very small area, except for a little old man who looks very good-looking, there is only one young man left.
Ning Chuyi is not an insatiable person, money is something outside the body, as the so-called life does not bring death and does not take it, at this moment, in addition to the ten taels of silver given to him by Sima Yu, there are also four or five taels of clean broken silver that he earns, which is not much but not less, and the livelihood of a poor family of four for half a year is only eight or nine taels of broken silver.
Therefore, at present, Ning Chuyi is not worried about the livelihood problem in the next year, but is hesitating to go to the Wuling River, which has been mentioned in the book "Life Notes", and it is rumored that there is a peach blossom source in the upper reaches of the river.
The stories in the book are true and false, false and true, if the boy really wants to ask for a reason, there is no way to talk about it.
In addition, Li Qingbai, the author of "A Brief Record of His Life", is a very simple sentence about the Peach Blossom Spring, and even Wulingyuan is a brushstroke, but for a Confucian poet born in Wuling, it took a lot of pen and ink to write about this person.
At that time, Ning Chu was young and ignorant, and he only felt quite sloppy when he saw this, where in this world would there be such a reason because a person knows a city, but now that he is a few years older, the young man is quite touched.
Ning Chuyi remembers the name of the Confucian poet very clearly, surnamed Tao, named Qian, and known as Mr. Jingjie.
As for whether to visit him, the young man was undecided for a while, according to the book, this poet is the best wine, which is easy to say, but he does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice.
Ning Chuyi had a headache.
After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't find an answer, so the young man in the room simply put down the matter and began to ponder the description of Emperor Taizu of the Great Jin Kingdom in the "Brief Notes of His Life", which is also the word, "absurdity".
Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, fought the world, and the secular Taoism in the country made a lot of effort, so from the beginning of the founding of the country, the Jin royal family intentionally or unintentionally improved the prestige of Taoism, not only was the royal family named the state religion, but also the old Taoist master was also named the national teacher, and did not restrain to reduce the prestige of Confucianism and Buddhism. Since then, various small cities in the country have been widely circulated to record the life of Emperor Taizu, Ning Chuyi first went up the mountain to collect medicine for the first time and had some money, gritted his teeth and bought a copy, which is nothing more than around the word "close to the country and the people" to write, but that day the young man pondered back and forth in the middle of the night, but from the words full of praise for Emperor Taizu saw two words horizontally and vertically, "eat people".
The young man did not deliberately slander Sima Yan, but he really believed in one sentence from beginning to end, and history is written by the winner.
It's just that if Ning Chuyi is calculated, in fact, he is also deeply enlightened by Taoist thought, but unfortunately Taoism is Taoism, Taoism is Taoism, the difference between the two words, but the meaning of the representation is very different, even if the starting point of the two is the same, it cannot be said that Taoism is Taoism, and now this world, in addition to the unique views of the secular dynasty, in fact, the Taoist monks in the outside world have already "said goodbye for three days", and they can't say whether they are right or wrong if they deviate from their hearts, but as long as the people of the world are happy, no matter how they say it, it is not an insult to the word "Tao", it is good.
Qinglin Town, a small remote place, naturally has no Taoist temple, even half of the Yunyou Taoist people have no trace, but Wulingyuan is different, located in the northwest of the Great Jin Dynasty, the only three Taoist temples in the Great Jin Dynasty, in addition to the two Taoist temples in the capital and Fufeng City, there is the last Taoist temple left in the Great Jin Dynasty, Baiyun Temple.
One of the most prestigious, not one.
Just because when Sima Yan was in power, Baiyunguan paid not only manpower, but also invited the ancestors in the temple to help in the war, so everything fell into place, and the inside story was not enough for outsiders.
Thinking of this, the young man shook his head, he is a monk of the sword sect is good, the sword cultivation and the three sects in the world are not pleased, and everyone knows about the cultivation, but in his heart, he actually does not have a clear concept of the grievances between the two sides, he can only be regarded as ignorant, Li Muxuan just said to let him find the answer by himself.
But now that he has come to Wuling, he has never gone to Baiyun Temple to walk on this reason, so Ning Chuyi stood up and walked to the eaves, this autumn rain was endless, he was stunned, I don't know why, I suddenly remembered that Ning Que was coming, he was stunned, how could he be so ruthless?
Who said they didn't regret it?
The young man put down the locust wooden sword, his face was solemn, he turned back to the room and carried a small wooden stool, and sat under the eaves to watch the autumn rain quietly for a long time.
Probably his thoughts drifted back to the cold winter of a certain year, thinking of the pink porcelain girl with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, the young man's tense heart relaxed, and the smile on his face was drunk with the autumn wind.