Chapter 38 The sound of the sheng flute
Suddenly, like the sound of the flute in the night, the sheng and a song of the phoenix begging for the phoenix.
The sheng flute sang together, and the two entered the hall happily.
I found that the current Xiao Shi senior, the fine beads of sweat slowly oozing from his head, his face was a little pale at this time, and my brain was running rapidly thinking of countermeasures.
At this time, the two people sitting at the opposite table suddenly stood up and called the service staff to go over to settle the bill, the old man just glanced at us casually, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and they walked out of the restaurant.
When the two of them came out of the restaurant, Xiao Shi's body relaxed, and there was already blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and Lang Yu next to him held his hand nervously and asked with concern: "How about husband, are you okay, it seems that we are not the opponent of the old man, and it will be a little troublesome now." As he spoke, he took out a pill from his bosom and fed the pill into Xiao Shi's mouth.
Xiao Shi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, showed a bitter smile on his face, and said, "Sure enough, it's a strong enemy!" The old man's Taoism is much more advanced than ours, and the three of us together will not be his opponent, and the young man next to the old man is definitely not an ordinary person, it seems that this treasure hunt will be a vicious battle. β
When I heard them say this, I couldn't help but be a little curious, I thought to myself: When I first came here, it was the evil demon who called me to come to Huashan, saying that there was a strange treasure here in Huashan, could it be that these people also came for that strange treasure, why don't I take this opportunity to ask the predecessors of Xiao Shi what kind of strange treasure they are, and will let so many cultivators come to fight for it.
I made up my mind, and just wanted to ask the couple about the reason for the matter, but I saw Xiao Shi wave to me and silence me, and I stopped what I was about to say, when a middle-aged man in coarse cloth clothes came in from outside the restaurant.
The man who came in, tall and burly, with a full beard on his face, was only about forty years old, and his body exuded a breathtaking temperament and momentum, I secretly said in my heart What kind of day is this tonight, a big gathering of cultivators? This man who had just come in was also a cultivator, and I felt that his skills were far superior to mine.
After a series of things just now, I also understood the truth that there are mountains outside the mountains and there are people outside the people, and I knew that many people's cultivation was above me, so I also restrained my contempt and looked at the man cautiously.
When the man came in, he found a remote spot and sat down. After a while, the fried rice he ordered came up, and then he looked over to us, nodded at us, and began to feast on it.
At this time, Xiao Shi and his wife beckoned me to leave with them, and Xiao Shi whispered: "There are too many people here, if you want to know the ins and outs of the matter, go back to the room with us, there is a formation we have arranged there is very safe." β
I nodded in agreement and followed them back to their room.
When we stepped into this room, the room seemed to be constantly flipping in an instant, the scenery of this room began to become blurry and transparent, disappeared in front of my eyes, in front of me, slowly appeared a green prairie, in the deepest part of the prairie faintly can also see a few horses galloping freely on the grassland, at this time, we are already in this vast grassland.
At this time, Xiao Shi had already returned to his original state of floating out of the dust, walked over and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Hyun boy, your master really has a vision and can unearth an apprentice like you, we are really happy for him." β
When I heard them talk about my master, I couldn't help but widen my eyes, and I showed an excited expression again, and said, "Senior Xiao Shi, how did you and my master meet?" Why did he ask you to come and protect me? When I asked a series of questions, I saw Xiao Shi just nodding and smiling at me.
Xiao Shi raised his hand and motioned for me to wait for a while, and then he said slowly: "Xiao Hyunzi, you are very smart, you are a senior on the left and a senior on the right, I am quite comfortable in my heart, hahaha, yes, I am thousands of years older than you after all." β
I looked at him in shock, Xiao Shi just shook his head lightly and continued to smile at me, saying: "I met your master three hundred years ago, when your master had just been in contact with cultivation for a short time, and was chased and intercepted by several people from the evil and foreign ways, just in time for our husband and wife to pass by, so he was saved, and since then we have been called brothers." β
When I heard this, I interjected to Xiao Shi's seniors: "Seniors, did my master come to Huashan too?" β
Xiao Shi shook his head at me and said, "Your master has some other important things to do, and he is now in Kunlun Mountain. "When I learned that Master didn't come to Huashan, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
At this time, Lang Yu, who was standing next to Xiao Shi, said: "Now there are some hidden masters here in Huashan, and only a few of them I saw in the restaurant just now, and some of them did not show up, they came to Huashan because they heard that there is a sword left over from ancient times. β
I asked, confused, "Ancient swords?" Is it that far away? Can such a sword attract countless strong people to fight for and snoop? β
At this time, Xiao Shi stared into my eyes and said to me mysteriously: "Because this sword is a key, the key to start the moon." β
I stared at Xiao Shi with wide eyes, and I didn't believe his words, I remembered that Master had told me about the history of the moon, but Master didn't say that the moon had to be activated with a sword.
Xiao Shi looked at my surprised expression, and said indifferently: "After the moon was started for the last time, the key has been left somewhere in China, and countless cultivators in this world are secretly searching, and finally discovered the whereabouts of this sword in modern times. β
I continued to ask, "Why did this sword appear in Huashan?" Can't it be anywhere else? β
Hearing me ask about this, Lang Yu on the side walked over, glanced at Xiao Shi beside him, and said to me: "This is a bit long, this has to start with the history of the two of us." β
It turned out that in the early Spring and Autumn Period, Qin Mugong, who had achieved hegemony, was discussing with the courtiers about the important matter of strengthening the country one day, and suddenly, an envoy from a neighboring country came in with a jade. Mu Gong took it in his hand, and at a glance, it was a rare thing that was shaped like an egg, as big as a melon, moist and shiny, and emerald dripping, and he liked it very much.
Immediately recruited a jade craftsman, cut it open in public, and took out the piece of jade that was crystal clear, green and shiny, and radiant for the ministers to see. At this moment, the maid of the first palace came to report that Sanniangniang gave birth to a girl. When Mu Gong heard this, he laughed, and while sending a decree to set up a banquet to entertain the envoys and ministers, he walked quickly towards the harem.
Before Mu Gong entered the back room, he heard his daughter's cry, and he came to Niangniang's bedside to take a look, and saw Niangniang congratulating him with a silent smile. He looked back and saw the white and fat little princess, and his heart was very happy. However, the little princess who had just come to the Qin Palace couldn't stop crying as if she was wronged, and she couldn't coax her. Just as he was in a hurry, a eunuch sent Puyu in.
Strange to say, the princess's crying immediately stopped, and the pair of round eyes stared at the fluorescence of the beautiful jade.
But when the jade was put away, the princess cried again. When Mu Gong saw that his daughter couldn't do without Meiyu, he asked someone to hang the jade in the room, and instructed the palace maid in the room to take care of it.
The east goes to spring, and it is a year, the princess is one year old, the palace holds a banquet, entertains the courtiers, relatives and friends who come to congratulate, according to the customs of the Qin people, the child is to "catch the year" on this day.
To catch the year is to put the four treasures of the study, the boudoir fat powder jewelry and jade in front of the child, and let her grab it at will. Judge your child's future interests by the things they like. Who knew that this daughter, for the colorful things in front of her, did not take it, and only grabbed the beautiful jade that was shining brightly.
Mu Gong saw his daughter playing with Meiyu and couldn't put it down, so he smiled and said to the queen: "Name her Langyu!" β
The flowers bloom and fall, spring goes and comes again, and Princess Langyu has grown to more than ten years old. She is unique, brilliant, well-written, and embroidery. But she has another withdrawn character: she is very disgusted with the court's etiquette that is too trivial and restrictive between the old and the young, between the noble and the inferior.
Therefore, she often stayed alone in the secluded room, playing the flute and playing the sheng, hungry and thirsty, endlessly. Mu Gong saw that she liked to play the sheng very much, so he carved the beautiful jade into a "jasper sheng" for her.
Since the princess had a jasper sheng, she was more attentive, she studied every day, and played every night, and when she was twelve or thirteen years old, she could blow the call of a hundred birds and all kinds of beautiful and beautiful tunes, the high ones were like the clouds, and the low ones were like the bottom of the sinking pond. She blew the phoenix chirping, just like the real thing, so people said that she could do the "phoenix chirping".
In order for his daughter to study more quietly, Mu Gong specially built a "phoenix tower" in the harem for her to live in. After she lived in Fenglou, she first abolished the daily clichΓ©s of setting the province in the morning and dusk, and respecting the lord and the slave, and said to the palace maids: "In my place, don't be rigid." β
When Langyu grew up to 15 years old, because of her beauty and grace and memory, princes from all over the world proposed to her. All day long, in front of the Qin Palace, there is a lot of traffic, and there is an endless coming-and-going. And the wise father, for the selection of his daughter, the pearl of his palm, did not adopt the set of etiquette of "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", but let the princess choose for herself. The princess said: "I don't want to be rich, I don't want to be poor, as long as I am like-minded, I want it."
However, how many people proposed marriage were not chosen by the princess. Mu Gong sent people to all parts of the country to search, but he still did not wish. As a result, a hot selection has cooled down.
One night, the sky was like a wash, the bright moon was bright, Princess Langyu sent her maid to set up an incense altar, and after a while of the moon, she leaned on the Zhu Column and played her phoenix song. The night is silent, the melodious sound, the clear sound is thin, such as willow and silk, floating out of the palace wall, echoing in the night sky, like fairy music in the world.
Suddenly, a flurry of music and his own sheng sound, such as resentment, such as admiration, such as crying, such as complaining, the sound of agitation, came from the sky. At first, she thought it was an echo of her own play, but when she heard it, it was the sound of a flute floating down from the eastern sky. The sound was extraordinary. For several nights, it was like this. So the princess deliberately played a song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", and then, walking back to the pavilion, fell asleep as if sleeping.
In the haze, she stood quietly through the screen window and looked at the starry sky. Suddenly, I saw the southeast, the gate of heaven was wide open, full of colors, pouring down the building, a young man with a childish face and fairy bones, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, with a feather crown and a crane, crossed the colorful phoenix, and came from the sky and fell in front of the phoenix tower. He held a purple jade flute and played it slowly. Its sound is like a spring breeze, like a drizzle, like a white cloud, like a bubbling stream.
Princess Langyu listened to her heart in a daze, as if she was in the clouds, and after finishing the song, she asked: "What is this song?" The young man replied, "Huashan Fugue Song!" And said: "My name is Xiao Shi, I live in Huashan Star Cliff, because I have a long-cherished fate, I came to the song."
After speaking, he drifted away with the wind. Princess Langyu wanted to summon him back, as soon as she stretched out her hand, Biyusheng fell to the ground, she woke up from her dream, opened her eyes and saw that there was nothing, and what she heard in the dream was still lingering in her ears......
The story told by Lang Yu was very long, but it made me a little fascinated by it, and I continued to ask, "Then what happened to you?" β
Under my eager questioning, Lang Yu continued to tell me.
On the second day, the princess told her father what she had dreamed. Mu Gong immediately sent the general Meng Mingshi to visit Huashan with the image in his dream.
Meng Mingshi came to the valley of Huashan and asked a woodcutter, who said: "There is a young hermit who lives alone in the star cliff of the middle peak, and goes down the mountain every day to make wine. His people are good at the flute, and the sound of the flute reaches hundreds of miles, and the listener forgets to return. Meng Mingshi climbed the vine and crossed the ridge to the Star Cliff to see Xiao Shi, and asked him to go back to the Qin Palace to see Mu Gong.
On August 15, Xiao Shi came to the Qin Palace. As soon as Qin Mugong saw him with a feathered crown and a crane, his demeanor was chic, his eyebrows were delicate, and his demeanor was elegant. And the princess Langyu, who was hiding behind the curtains, saw that it was exactly the same as in the dream, and she couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in her heart.
So, Mu Gong recruited hundreds of officials and asked Xiao Shi to play. Xiao Shi took out the purple jade flute from his sleeve and blew it calmly in the hall. After the song is blown, it is like fairy music in the air, endlessly; After the second song is played, the red dragon and colorful phoenix on the temple pillar, the expression jumps, like dancing and flying; After the three songs are played, pieces of colorful clouds, floating around the Luan Palace, leading a hundred birds to come, the phoenix soars in the sky, and the crane sings on the ground. Everyone unanimously praised: "Xianle! Xianle! "Bow down to the king and congratulate the princess. Mu Gong was even more happy and praised endlessly.
The princess also sighed behind the curtains: "It's really a dream man!" Mu Gong happily said to Xiao Shi: "My beloved daughter makes jade, quite a good rhythm, and I am willing to match with those who are good at Xiao, and your Xiao sound can pass through the world and the world, and I will meet in a dream, and I should be my son-in-law." Today is the 15th day of August, and the moon is full in the sky, and people are in the earth. "I made the princess a history in public.
Xiao Shi and the princess live in the Fenglou, respect each other like guests, look for music and scores, pass on skills to each other, but also leisurely.
Since Xiao Shi came to Fenglou, he did not eat millet grains and only drank a few glasses. The princess also learned the method of qi diversion with Xiao Shi, and gradually stopped eating. But every starry night, they have to send the melodious sound of the flute out of the palace wall, and they will be happy in the world, and they will be months before they know it.
One night, after playing the Xiao Sheng, Xiao Shi said to the princess: "I miss the quiet life in Huashan." The princess also said, "This world is rich, and the three meals are delicious, and I don't need them at all." What I want is like-mindedness and joy in life. I have been with you through thick and thin." Xiao Shi listened to it and was very satisfied. They decided to go to Huashan together and live a quiet life that was beyond the world.
The princess proposed to say goodbye to her father, mother, and sisters in the palace the next day, but Xiao Shi said: "Since you are a god, you can't have a child's affection, so you can leave without worry." The princess thought for a moment, and then agreed to him.
So, Xiao Shi took out the purple jade flute and played a song in the air, and the red dragon and colorful phoenix flew from the sky and landed in front of the building. Xiao Shi rode the dragon, crossed the phoenix, slowly left the phoenix building, and went east to Huashan.
At this time, Lang Yu and Xiao Shi leaned against each other, looked at each other and continued to tell me: When they arrived at the middle peak of Huashan, they still sent the sound of the sheng flute into space every night. The sound of their sheng flute often attracts phoenixes falling on the stone and singing together. After Lang Yu and Xiao Shi left the Qin Palace without saying goodbye, Mu Gong and the queen missed their daughter very much, so they sent people to chase them to Zhongfeng, but they couldn't find them, it turned out that they had flown to the fairy world.
They didn't actually fly to the immortal realm, but to the interior of the moon. It sounds strange, but it's true, because the moon has a special feature in its existence, which is to defend against the attacks of alien creatures. And the key to unlocking the moon's defense system is the sword!
When they flew into the moon, the sword had already disappeared, and they searched for nearly a thousand years, and finally, they learned the clues of this sword from the headquarters of Kunlun Mountain.
However, they got the news, and some of the demons and outsiders also got the news of this sword, including some alien species, because they pity the powerful force and technology of the moon, which is also infiltrating our earth little by little.
Therefore, there are often some things on this earth where people in practice subdue demons and eliminate demons, in fact, they mainly refer to the elimination of some evil aliens, and they are called "Shura Dao" in Buddhism.
These evil alien species colluded with some cultivating scum on the earth, and they formed an alliance, that is, the "evil heaven alliance" wanted to gain control of the entire earth and the moon, so they did a lot of unsightly evil deeds in the dark.
In order to effectively fight against these evil demons, we have also formed an alliance that has been fighting between good and evil behind our backs for thousands of years, just to protect this earth from being destroyed by evil demons.
Your Master is a member of this Justice League, because all righteous path practitioners have the duty and responsibility to eliminate demons and defend the path.
In fact, all practitioners nowadays, whether they are on the righteous side or the evil side, are waiting for an opportunity, which can also be said to be a period, that is, "hope for the future."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask, "What hope for the future?" Xiao Shi and Lang Yu just smiled at me and shook their heads, and said, "The secret of heaven must not be leaked." β
Hearing this, I didn't ask any more questions, but I remembered the evil demon who always troubled me, and asked Xiao Shi: "During this time, there is always an evil demon who is looking for me to fight when I am cultivating, and he is also from over there?" β
Xiao Shi nodded and confirmed to me: "The demon people are pervasive and have infiltrated all aspects of human life, in fact, the reason why these demons are so rampant in this period is also caused by human beings themselves, because now people's hearts are not right, and their bodies will attract these messy things to their bodies." β
Xiao Shi could only shake his head and sigh, there is no way, after all, this is a person's own choice.
We put down this somewhat heavy topic and said to Xiao Shi and his wife: "Tomorrow I am going to go to the Huashan area to walk around first, first familiarize myself with the terrain and situation here, I know that it may be dangerous to go up the mountain this time, but there are two friends with me, I don't want them to be in danger, seniors, what can you do to keep them from going up to Huashan?" β
Xiao Shi laughed and said, "Xiao Hyunzi, can this still stump you?" Also, your master only taught you the method of cultivation, and has not taught you how to cultivate the methods of supernatural powers. In this way, let your two friends come to me, I will use a special method to let them stay in this town for the past few days, and implant a memory of browsing in Huashan into them, how about it? β
Hearing this, I thought: It's okay, so that they won't encounter any dangerous things because of me, and I can also focus on the situation here in Huashan.
I made an appointment with Mr. and Mrs. Xiao Shi to set off tomorrow and decided to act together, so it would be safer for me, and when the barrier disappeared, I walked out of their room and returned to my room with Haohai.
Haohai has been waiting for me to come back while watching TV on the bed after washing himself, watching me open the door and enter the room, lazily glanced at the watch on his arm, and said in a cynical tone: "Brother only came back at this o'clock, to be honest, is there a big beauty who has shackled you?" β
I laughed and threw my shirt over, and scolded with a smile: "You think I'm you, all I think about all day long." β
After I finished washing, I lay down on the bed, and Haohai chatted with me for a while, and then went to sleep on his own.
Tonight I sat cross-legged on the bed as usual, going about my daily lessons, and when I entered the meditation state, what I didn't notice was that in a corner of the room, a faint black spirit flashed away.
After I entered the state of meditation, because all I was thinking about in my mind these days was Huashan, some scenes of Huashan appeared in my meditation.
The time I saw was in the late Tang Dynasty, when Han Yu was demoted and was in a very bad mood, and happened to meet his nephew Han Xiangzi and Huashan monk Lu Dongbin. The two persuaded Han Yu to take a trip to Huashan to relieve the boredom in their hearts.
This Han Yu has always been more interested in the famous rivers and mountains, but because of the busy government affairs in the past, there is no spare time, and he can't travel. He said: "It's okay, it's just that the road is rugged and the road is far away, how to get there?" Han Xiangzi said: "What's so difficult about this? So the two Taoists carried Han Yu to the top of Huashan Mountain in an instant, and then the two turned around and left.
Han Yu stood on the top of the peak, looked around, and saw that Huashan was stacked with mountains, lush pines, paths and secluded paths, strange birds singing, pleasant to the ear, like a fairyland outside the sky.
Han Yu walked on the mountain and watched the Zhenyue Palace, Yujing Tower, and Twenty-eight Sleepover Ponds. He looked at the west peak, magnificent, the lotus leaves covered the top, the temple was built according to the mountain, the road was chiseled into a boulder, the mountain sun and the sky were bright, the brilliance reflected each other, the green grass and green trees, set off each other, the infinite wonders and beautiful scenery attracted Han Yu Shixing to send away, and then chanted: "The top of Taihua Peak Yujing Lotus, the flower blooms ten zhang lotus root like a boat." Cold than frost and snow than honey, a piece of the entrance is healed. I want to go far, and Qingbi has no way to go. Pick up the fruit on the long ladder, and plant the roots of Qize under it.
After groaning, Han Yu climbed to the top of the Heavenly Pond with great interest and enjoyed the highest point of the "Ketong Emperor Seat". He came to the South Heavenly Gate again and watched the long sky plank road with a volley in the sky.
With a feeling of wanting to give up, he walked all over the East Peak and appreciated the "Huayue Cactus", the first of the eight views in Guanzhong. After getting off the golden lock pass, I came to Wuyun Peak, and thought: it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, so I took a step forward and went down, and came to the top of "Canglong Ridge" in a blink of an eye, and looked down, the sky was vast, and Canglong Ridge was shaped like a single bridge in the clouds and mist, and the two sides were bottomless.
Faced with this scene, Han Yu couldn't help but be dumbfounded, his body was weak and his legs trembled, and he didn't dare to take a step.
Huashan in the Tang Dynasty was just a few stone nests carved on the back of the "dragon", visitors to this place, can only climb up and down with their hands and feet, such a dangerous situation, how can it not make Han Yu, who is good at learning literature and ink, tremble?
Han Yu took a step up and back, his feet slipped from time to time, he really took one step and two steps back, nervous cold sweat flowed, and his whole body trembled.
In order to lighten his luggage, he threw all the books he was carrying down the ridge, but he still couldn't move forward half a step, and when he was trapped for a long time, he couldn't help but cry loudly when he thought of his rough encounter. And lamented: "Could it be that I, Han Yu, am buried here?!" β
When I saw this, I also sweated for Han Yu, and I also wanted to know how he got down the mountain and continued to observe.
After all, this Han Yu is a great wise man, love life, love life strong desire to make him anxious, so he took out the pen and ink inkstone he carried, and quickly wrote a letter for help still went down the mountain, soon, Huashan medicine collector reported this letter to Huayin County Order, and the county order sent someone to save Han Yu down the mountain.
So later, there was the famous monument of Canglongling's "Han Retreat's Confession Office".
I sped up and used the eyes of heaven to deduce the back, and found that later, there was a centenarian named Zhao Wenbei in Wuxiang, Shanxi Province, who was swimming to the "Han Retreat's Submission Office", and felt Han Yu's anecdote, so he laughed more than once, and carved on the cliff wall "Canglongling Han Retreat's big cry resignation, Zhao Wenbei laughed at Han at the age of 100." β
Later, in the Qing Dynasty, there was a person named Li Bairen who climbed the mountain here, faced with a cry and a smile, and showed another mentality, and made a poem: "The danger of Hua, the mountain is important." Han Lao cried, Zhao Lao laughed, and a bitter smile passed on two wonders. Li Bai did not laugh or cry, but roared on the independent ridge. β
While observing history with the eyes of the sky, my heart was also full of emotion, and the anecdote left by Han Yu in Canglongling added a lot of interest and reverie to future generations. And the dangerous beauty and magical charm of Canglongling also deeply attract future generations.
When I advanced the Tianshen Divine Power to modern times, I found that Huashan was originally shrouded in a field, but in modern times, this field slowly disappeared, and I didn't understand what was going on here, and I thought that I would wait until Huashan to find out.
After a night of silence, when Haohai and Master Li and I came to the restaurant, we found that all the cultivators I had met last night were dining in this small restaurant, and everyone didn't pay attention to each other, only Xiao Shi and his wife sat down at the table next to us.
I greeted them, and at the same time introduced Haohai and them, when we were about to get up after eating, Xiao Shi stopped Hao Hai and Master Li, and when they looked into Xiao Shi's eyes, their bodies suddenly shook, and then, they ignored me and walked straight outside.
Xiao Shi smiled and made an "OK" gesture to me, signaling that I didn't have to worry about them. I watched Haohai's back as they walked out of the door, and I felt a little guilty in my heart, but for their safety, I had to do it.
I nodded to the seniors of Xiao Shi, and after that, we packed our bags and headed in the direction of Huashan.