Chapter Twenty-Three: Joy

The yellow-toothed old beggar came back, Chen Qingshan didn't know what he had done, but when he came back, he was missing an arm, and the remaining arm was holding a corpse, which was the corpse of a Seven Realms cultivator.

Judging by its dress, this corpse should come from the Xingchen Sea outside the Great Wall in the north, and the Tang Dynasty likes to call the monk who came out of the Xingchen Sea Bingyi.

What is the sea of stars, that is the north of the world, the place where the stars died.

The largest of them hangs high at the end of the Great Wall, and the Tang Dynasty and the monks from the Sea of Stars fight on this star, which is the largest battlefield on the Great Wall in the north.

This largest star is called Beichen, so the end of the Great Wall is called Beichen Pass.

After the yellow-toothed old beggar put down the body, he died facing north, and Tianlan Village mourned.

Three days later, Zhao Jingang, the second master of Tianlan Village, left with his brother.

Tongque said goodbye, and Chen Qingshan and the four also left.

Out of Tianlan Village.

"You can also see the Seven Realms by looking at the script, and the old beggar is not simple." Chen Qingshan sighed.

"It was the old beggar who found his way." Changxin answered.

The four of them went all the way to the north, the snow stopped from time to time, and after half a month, they came to the boundary of Quzhou, and after Quzhou, it was Chang'an.

The reason why Quzhou is called Quzhou is because the drinking sea canal runs through the entire Quzhou. As its name suggests, the Drinking Sea Canal is a large river dug entirely by hand.

The drinking sea canal was built at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the drinking sea canal east to the Bohai Sea, west to the desert, and its water flows backwards, that is to say, it is to lead the water of the Bohai Sea to the desert, so it is called the word drinking sea.

That year, the ancient kingdom of Loulan in the northwest disappeared overnight. On the border between the Tang Dynasty and the desert, there was also a vision from the sky, and there was a bottomless heavenly cave, which was nearly 10,000 miles in size, directly swallowing the northwest half of the border pass, causing the whole country to shake.

The elders of the Seven Realms Pavilion of the Heavenly Council went to investigate, but they never returned.

In the end, the Yasheng of Shengyan Academy was attracted to take action and enter the Heavenly Cave in person, but what people didn't expect was that Yasheng not only failed to save anyone, but he was also injured.

According to Yasheng, the Heavenly Cave can devour everything in the world, and if it is not solved in time, it may be a great disaster.

Therefore, on that day, Yasheng invited out the Confucian Sage sword, and the Lord of Si Tianjian took down the Youying, the second moon of Chang'an.

Yasheng entered the Heavenly Cave to save people, and after Yasheng rescued people, the Lord of Si Tianjian suppressed the Heavenly Cave with Chang'an Yue, so that the Heavenly Cave could not be swallowed.

Subsequently, at the order of the Holy Emperor, a large canal was dug to bring endless sea water from the sea into the cave, which took three years and four months.

The Heavenly Cave drank the endless seawater, the Heavenly Cave did not overflow, and the sea did not dry up, forming a delicate balance, suppressing the Heavenly Cave with the immeasurable sea, and this canal is the drinking sea canal.

It has also formed the wonder of water flowing backwards in the drinking canal, and the current Quzhou is formed after the craftsmen and monks who dug the drinking canal.

The governor of Quzhou, a Confucian cultivator in the Seven Realms, is responsible for maintaining the smooth flow of the drinking canal.

The drinking canal is too wide and too long, and there are demons in it.

There are 25 counties in Datang Kyushu, and the state is larger than the county. The state capital has a state pastor, and the county government has a county guard, the state pastor has seven borders, and the county guards six borders.

When Chen Qingshan and others entered Quzhou, they were blocked by the drinking sea canal, and although it was winter now, the drinking sea canal did not look half frozen.

Looking at the surging drinking canal in front of them, Chen Qingshan and the others made a difficulty, the drinking canal was very wide, about hundreds of miles, and it was not at all what Chen Qingshan and the others could pass through with their current strength.

"For the convenience of coming and going, when the drinking water canal was opened, the Holy Emperor also ordered the construction of nine overpass bridges on both sides of the drinking sea canal, and we can step on the overpass and cross this drinking sea canal." Chang Xin said, this is what the master told him before leaving.

"In that case, we're going to ask where the nearest skybridge is." Chen Qingshan nodded, and his hair was drenched in snow.

The four of them began to walk east along the riverbank, and Chen Qingshan was amazed as he watched the river flow backwards.

After a while, Chen Qingshan saw someone, more precisely, a person who was close to a zhang tall.

The man was very fat, squatting in the reeds by the river, trying to chew something in his mouth, and it seemed that he was in a hurry.

The man also seemed to have spotted Chen Qingshan and the four of them, and before Chen Qingshan and the four of them could say hello, the man rushed away.

Especially after he saw Ah Yan, he was even more stunned, spit out the things in his mouth, his face was embarrassed, and he ran faster.

Chen Qingshan also saw clearly what the man was eating, which was grassroots, cows and horses, things that they didn't like to chew very much.

Maybe it was in this season when the frost killed the grass, and the person couldn't even find the grass, so he ate the grass roots.

Maybe it was because he had been hungry for too long, so the man ran away for a while, then stopped, and when he saw Chen Qingshan and the four chasing after him, the man hurriedly squatted down and held his head in both hands.

"Childe, it's still this girl, I didn't mean to get in the way of your eyes, I'll go! Don't hit me! ”

This man said inexplicable words in his mouth until Chen Qingshan saw the scars all over his body.

In this snowy weather, the man was wearing only a ragged shirt, and his trousers seemed to be sewn from a lot of rags, but they were only up to the knees, and the trouser legs were tattered and almost strip-shaped.

There is no cultivation, and he is so thinly dressed, in this snowy weather, he is not frozen to death, which can be described as a miracle.

The man named Xihan was a poor man, and he was so hungry on the way home that he couldn't stand it, so he went to the river to find some grass roots to eat. Because of Xihan's strange appearance, the young master and girl in the city always disliked him when they saw him, which made Xihan suffer a lot of beatings.

Xihan ran away after seeing Chen Qingshan, firstly because of the embarrassment after being seen by Ah Lan eating grass, and secondly, because he was afraid of being beaten.

In Xihan's impression, Ah Lan is as good-looking as those girls in the city, or even better-looking, but in the eyes of those girls in the city, they only dislike Xihan.

Although Xihan is a little naïve, he is also afraid of losing face in front of girls, especially beautiful girls.

"It's okay, it's okay, we won't beat you, we have something to eat, come, give it to you." Chen Qingshan probably understood Xihan's situation, when he was in Jishui Town, he was also hungry, and he also thought that one day a beautiful girl would favor him.

Out of sympathy, Chen Qingshan took out his own dry food.

Hanxi raised his head, a little scared, but out of a desire for food, Hanxi finally mustered up the courage and took the dry food from Chen Qingshan's hands.

"Thank you, my name is Xihan." Xihan looked at the sincere appearance of Chen Qingshan and the four of them, and said.

Chen Qingshan smiled, introduced the four of them separately, and saw Xihan put away the dry food, Chen Qingshan asked why he didn't eat it.

Xihan was a little shy and said: "Xihan wants to leave it to A-Niang, A-Niang eats food, Xihan just eats this!" ”

Xihan skillfully dug out some grass roots from the snow next to her, shook the soil on it, and then put it in her mouth, smiling innocently.

Looking at Xihan's appearance, I don't know why, Chen Qingshan's nose was a little sour.

Chen Qingshan and the others simply took out all the dry food and let Xihan eat it.

Xihan ate happily with the snow water, but she still didn't touch the portion for A-Niang.

"Since Daddy's death, Xihan hasn't eaten food, and it feels good not to be hungry, thank you." Xihan stood up and was about to go home.

Chen Qingshan and others asked about stepping on the overpass, and Xihan said that there was one outside Hancheng, and Xihan could take them there tomorrow.

In this way, Chen Qingshan and the others went home with Xihan, and also saw Xihan's mother, who was an old woman who was sick in bed.

"A-Niang, A-Niang, Xihan is back, Xihan brought food to A-Niang!" The house was so small that Xihan almost climbed into it, and Xihan didn't dare to get up and look up, because as soon as he looked up, the broken house was likely to collapse.

Xihan seemed to be very happy, as soon as he entered the house, he called A-Niang, and after shouting for a long time, the old man on the couch slowly opened his eyes, and saw that it was Xihan, and the corners of his mouth smiled slightly.

"Xihan'er, I'm back." The old man stretched out his hand to touch Xihan's head, Xihan stretched his head over, and the old man's eyes were full of kindness.

"A-Niang, A-Niang, eat this, food." Xihan took out the food from his arms like a treasure and held it to A-Niang.

"Silly child, are you hungry again and leave the food for A-Niang?" The old man said.

"Eat, you eat, A-Niang doesn't need it, I'm suffering you, child." The old man pushed the food back, his face full of serenity.

The old man's hand slowly drooped, and he gradually stopped breathing.

"Auntie!"

The cry of joy resounded throughout the village.

The happy aunt is gone, and she did not survive this winter, probably because of poverty and hunger.

The old man does not have a happy physique, so he is destined not to survive this winter.

And A-Niang left a half-house-high firewood for Xihan, which was neatly piled up outside the house, which was picked up when the old man could get out of bed.

She was afraid that her child would be cold.