Chronicles of the Year of Glory (3) · Sanqing Palace

Like Tianjiao, the Dragon Taoist is actually not a person, but a generation of inheritance. The first generation of dragon Taoist priests were kind to the Taizu of the Dayan royal family, and the Taizu gave the name of the dragon, and established the Taoist view of Xuanqing Temple, which has been inherited to this day.

In the first year of Zhengyu, near Gaojia Town at the foot of the Qinling Mountains, he picked up an abandoned baby, accepted as an apprentice, and named Gao Qin.

Although he was an apprentice who was picked up, Gao Qin felt that Li Kan treated him no different from his own son. For so many years, wandering south and north, wandering Dayan, only relying on the name of a dragon Taoist priest of Taizu Xu five hundred years ago, sometimes in the countryside often fall into an embarrassing situation, hungry and panicked when the little Taoist boy was anxious to cry, the master Li Kan will give him the only food to him, and then comfort him, saying that it will be good to wait until the city where the Tianjiao clan is located, and then eat it is fragrant, and the meat buns want to eat a few and eat a few, without hesitation.

As for why it is the city where the Tianjiao clan is located, Li Kan, the dragon Taoist priest, explained: Only the city of the Tianjiao clan has a Xuanqing Temple, and when we have a place to stay, we will go to the Tianjiao clan to eat and drink, and even eat and take.

Xiao Daotong's eyes always lit up at this time.

Gao Qin actually knew for a long time that Master Li Kan was not an ordinary Yunye Daoist. Speaking of appearance alone, Gao Qin has grown from an abandoned baby to a young man with gentle sideburns and eyebrows, but Li Kan's appearance has not changed at all.

Secondly, Li Kan has a hibiscus crown, and when he meets some people on the way, Master Li Kan will bring it to divinate them and predict their future fate, and the hexagram is so accurate that it makes people tremble and suspect the existence of ghosts and gods.

But Gao Qin didn't expect that he would be separated from his master so soon, and it was four thousand miles away from Shuchuan to Shengjing.

Gao Qin still remembers that on the day he left Shengjing, the sun was particularly bright, and it was a golden yellow and bright unique to the north. Master Li Kan told himself again and again,

"You have to take care of yourself, that's the most important thing. If you are short of money, go to Tianjiao Chen to ask for it, don't be embarrassed, Master, I have saved the contemporary Pingshu Gong. ”

"Try your best to befriend Chen Cong, the second son of the Chen family, his talent is extraordinary, this is the only thing I tell you to do."

"You haven't been to the Xuanqing Temple in Jinguan City, it was a Buddhist temple before I bought it, it was very big, and it was very troublesome to clean, you just clean it."

"Also, don't deduct the same as when you travel, money is used to spend, and the Chen family is rich."

Li Kan looked at the silent apprentice, and handed over a package while chattering, which contained a god-like hibiscus crown and a pair of scarlet clothes embroidered with golden thread butterflies on the cuffs.

Gao Qin was surprised, "Isn't this the hibiscus crown that Master you gave to someone else?" ”

"I won't need it anymore, you can take it. Wearing it, you will naturally be divination, and you can attract goodwill for Gongzi Cong Buyao. ”

Gao Qin saw that Li Kan had a very complicated expression on his face, like relief, like regret, and mixed with something he couldn't understand.

The carriage and horses were very slow, so slow that Li Kan avoided talking about it, and Gao Qin ignored it as if it were nothing.

But everyone knows that this will take years.

Gao Qin changed the topic: "Master, then this dress ......"

"The clothes of the six generations of the Chen family Tianjiao when the three swords and horses went north can be given to the county lord Chen Anji as a gift, which will bring in the relationship with the Chen family."

The sunlight hit Gao Qin's face, and he sighed.

"I almost forgot," Li Kan patted his head, and suddenly said to Gao Qin with great seriousness, "When you wear a hibiscus crown on your head, you must not give Tianjiao Zhang's fortune!" ”

"Master, isn't the Tianjiao Zhang clan completely wiped out in the eleventh year of Shenjing because there is no successor?" Gao Qin was puzzled.

"They're hiding in the folk... In short, don't give the surname Zhang to the person! ”

"Remember, don't wear a hibiscus crown to anyone with the surname Zhang! No matter what time it is! ”

Jinguancheng, in the morning fog, Chen Cong took An Ji and the younger brother of the third uncle's family, Chen Lang, to climb the Xuanqing Temple in Qingque Mountain by horse-drawn carriage.

"Why didn't I know that there was a Taoist temple on Qingque Mountain?" Chen Cong was puzzled.

An Ji was lifting the curtain to look at the pedestrians who also went to Xuanqing Temple, most of them were not confused and knew the destiny of heaven, and even some old people, Chen Lang was sitting in the carriage and meditating on something, fiddling with the unknown function of the machine in his hand from time to time, and neither of them paid attention to Chen Cong.

Chen Cong pursed his mouth, threw a snack into his mouth, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Xuanqing Temple on Qingque Mountain was originally a Buddhist temple, more than 20 years ago was bought by Li Kan, a Taoist priest of the dragon, and changed to a Taoist temple, and did not renovate it in a big way, so it is quite a bit of a sense of nondescriptry, the Taoist tower Taoist hall, but the lintel is the inverted lotus carved in stone, the glazed tile roof, the layers of ups and downs.

Most of the pilgrims who put incense on the incense only poured incense into the bronze tripod in front of the Taijun Palace, and no one went to find the Tao to calculate the marriage fortune, and it seemed that the Sanqing Hall in the back hall was deserted.

There is a begonia tree planted in front of the Sanqing Hall in the back hall, and the flowers are in full bloom.

Taoist priest Gao Qin sat under the stone carved plaque of the Sanqing Palace, watching the cigarettes in the bronze tripod in the front hall merge into the mountain fog one by one, Gao Qin felt that the stone carvings were just like this, and they would not die out with time like fog.

An Ji walked in front of the three, and when he was looking for the apprentice of the said dragon master, he saw at a glance the gentle-eyed young man sitting under His Royal Highness Sanqing in the back hall.

Anzilara pulled the corner of Chen Cong's clothes and hid behind him.

Chen Cong looked at this young man of about the same age as himself with some curiosity, he had a dusty temperament, which looked good. The blue-shirted practice suit looks like he has just finished his morning class.

Chen Cong bowed to the Taoist priest very politely: "The Taoist is a disciple of the Daoist of the Dragon?" Cong led the younger sister and younger brother to say hello on behalf of the father. ”

Gao Qin had actually noticed Chen Cong and the three of them a long time ago, especially the girl who walked on the front side at the beginning, bouncing and jumping like a harmless elk in the mountain fog.

Gao Qin immediately guessed the identities of Chen Cong and the others.

Gao Qin hurriedly returned the salute: "Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Xiaodao Gao Qin." ”

Gao Qin welcomed the three of them to the Sanqing Palace, there was still a lot of dust in the corner of the hall, and the wooden clay statue of Sanqing was a little moldy, and Gao Qin put it in the Sanqing Palace, he planned to save money to repair the main hall, and then ask the craftsman to repair a new Sanqing statue.

After all, clothes can be sloppy, food can be eaten less, and the Tao must not be cultivated, and God must not be disrespectful.

In fact, there is nothing to say about the four of them. Chen Lang kept his head down and pondered, not knowing what he was thinking. An Ji sat very obediently, embarrassed to speak, so he blinked his black and white eyes and watched his brother Chen Cong and Taoist Gao Qin chatting without a tower.

After Chen Cong and Gao Qin chatted awkwardly for a while, the atmosphere was a little dull, and the two fell into silence, thinking to each other what they would say later. Chen Cong came to visit the Taoist priest Gao Qin in the name of his father, and Gao Qin listened to his master's instructions to befriend Chen Cong, and the two of them deliberately wanted to create a topic.

"Has the Taoist ever been to Guanzhong Yang ......?"

"Gongzi Cong is willing to give the trail to the third ......"

The two of them opened their mouths at the same time, closed their mouths at the same time, and gestured at the same time to ask the other to speak first.

Such a coincidence, both of them laughed.

In the end, it was Gao Qin who smiled and opened his mouth first.

"Gongzi Cong doesn't have to be so polite to Xiaodao, Xiaodao can make a hexagram for the three of them."

"It's an honor."

Gao Qin took the hibiscus crown and gently put it on his head.

Chen Cong pulled down Chen Lang, who was pondering, "Ah Lang, don't think about other things, the Taoist chief wants to make a divination for you..."

"Huh?" Chen Lang looked up blankly, looked at his brother, and said casually: "Divination? Then ask me how to create a 'camera'. ”

The word "camera" comes from the Su Hui person,

It was Chen Lang who saw it from the codex of the six generations and three swords that opened Su Hui.

Chen Lang likes the study of the Mo family, and when he was at the Tianjiao party last summer, he heard Wu Chengxiang, the elder of the Wu family, say that there was a kind of machinery in the Su Hui he dreamed of that could fix the picture in front of him.

And in the late spring of this year, he turned over a scroll of the Codex of the Six Generations and Three Swords from the family's library, which mentioned that after the Six Generations of Three Swords opened Su Hui, he mentioned a thing called "camera", which was quite similar to what Wu Chengxiang described, and he could take pictures of the scene in front of him, and there was no difference. He was fascinated and wanted to make something exactly the same.

Gao Qin smiled calmly, "Trouble the prodigal boy stretched out his wrist. ”

Gao Qin pressed his middle finger against the center of his wrist like Lang Zhong took the pulse.

"Lang Gongzi's idea is right, it is indeed a matter of pride. Jiangnan Tianjiao Li's family, Tianjiao vision, water and stars, the water that has cast a vision, can flash back the picture in an instant. ”

Chen Lang was dumbfounded, unable to speak with his mouth open.

Then Chen Lang jumped up like a fire, stumbled down the hill, and almost fell down the threshold.

"Water Stars, Water Stars......"

There was silence in the Sanqing Hall for a while.

An Ji looked at Chen Lang who was going down the mountain a little worriedly, and then asked Chen Cong what to do with his eyes.

Chen Cong thought for a while, and said to Gao Qin sincerely: "Cong will thank the Taoist chief for his brother again, and the Taoist chief may wish to make another hexagram for Cong Bu." ”

Gao Qin wore a hibiscus crown on his head, and then put his wrist on it.

Chen Cong's peach blossom eyes looked at Gao Qin deeply, and silently said: "How to achieve Tianjiao?" ”

Chen Cong kept staring at Gao Qin, feeling the touch of his fingertips on his wrist, his heart beat faster, and blood gushed upstream.

"Tianjiao, become a Tianjiao like the six generations of three swords......"

"The storyteller of the tea shop, the blood-stained hairpin......"

During Chen Cong's reign, Gao Qin opened his mouth and said that his face was not very good-looking, his mind was dizzy, and his fortune was also consumed.

Chen Cong's peach blossom eyes widened for a moment, he gritted his teeth, barely restrained the ecstasy in his heart, his voice was hoarse, and the corners of his peach blossom eyes were as red as blood, "Dao Chang is more than Cong's great grace, and after the matter is completed, he will definitely be friends with Dao Chang!" ”

Chen Cong hurriedly pushed An Ji beside him, looked at Gao Qin with fiery eyes, and bowed deeply, "Cong asks the Taoist chief to re-burn for his sister Anji, and I am willing to thank you with a thousand taels of gold!" ”

Chen Cong knew that as long as Gao Qin Buyao was accurate, then such an opportunity would be far from comparable even if it was a golden daughter.

After all, it is impossible for Gao Qin to know that he went to a certain tea shop yesterday, let alone know that the storyteller's new play is called "Suiyi Hairpin".

Such an ability to divination, even as a child of Tianjiao, has never heard of it.

A great possibility of a thousand taels of gold, it is worth it.

Gao Qin took a deep breath and breathed a sigh of relief, reluctantly smiled at Chen Cong, and then said to An Ji, "County Lord Chen, offended. Gao Qin motioned for An Ji to stretch out his wrist.

An Ji glanced at his brother Chen Cong a little dissatisfied, smiled at Gao Qin, and spoke for the first time, his voice was soft and glutinous: "Dao Chief's face is not good, it is better to rest today." ”

Chen Cong reacted to his gaffe at this time, after all, he heard a big legend and desire since he was a child, and suddenly realized it in a Taoist temple with dust in the corner, so caught off guard that his heart was shocked, and he suddenly regarded Gao Qin as an omnipotent god.

Chen Cong was about to apologize, but Gao Qin hurriedly waved his hand.

Gao Qin looked at the girl who looked like an elk in the mountains at first glance, and felt a warmth in his heart.

"Xiaodao will be the master of Chen County first, so you can slow down after two or three days."

An Ji couldn't resist Gao Qin, who was serious-eyed, so he had to stretch out his wrist.

Gao Qin got up, and because it was inconvenient to have skin contact with An Ji, he plucked a petal from the begonia tree outside the Sanqing Palace.

The mountain mist is shrouded, the begonia flowers are in full bloom, Gao Qin took a deep breath of slightly cold mist, which was mixed with the smell of fireworks in the bronze tripod in front of the Laojun Palace, and there was a very light fragrance of begonias.

Gao Qin put his finger on the begonia flower, and the petals pressed against An Ji's wrist. The ghost sent the gods, and his fingers took the liberty to tap the begonia petals and the snow-white wrist of the girl under it, and asked: "Can the elders of the county lord have someone surnamed Zhang?" ”

An Ji's eyes widened a little suspiciously, and he turned his head sideways: "My mother's surname is Zhang, what's wrong with the Taoist?" ”

Gao Qin suddenly remembered Master's repeated admonitions before leaving,

Zhang's surname... Zhang's surname... Tianjiao Zhang's is hiding the folk...

Reason told him that he should stop, and Master Li Kan said repeatedly, you can't give a fortune to anyone surnamed Zhang when you are wearing a hibiscus crown on your head!

Should have stopped...

Gao Qin glanced at the beautiful black and white eyes that reflected himself, like a harmless deer only growing up.

Gao Qin turned his eyes away, didn't look directly, and asked softly: "Does the county lord know about the Tianjiao Zhang family?" ”

Chen Cong next to him interjected and came in: "The Taoist may not know that the Tianjiao Zhang clan died out in the eleventh year of Shenjing because there was no successor. ”

Anji nodded in agreement.

Gao Qin remembered his master's advice again: Make friends with Gongzi Cong as much as possible...

He thought to himself, maybe it's just a coincidence, even if Anji's mother is Tianjiao Zhang, how can she hide it from her daughter and nephew?

Gao Qin said that he was confident, his heart was settled, and he began to divination.

When he was dividing Chen Lang and Chen Cong, Gao Qin's heart was blank, and the words of explanation blurted out along the Furong Daoguan, although the more difficult the problem was, the more tired his mind became, but everything felt within the controllable range.

But when he was in charge of Anji, all the colors around Gao Qin began to fade, the sound of rain from the outside world, the conversation of the pilgrims in the front hall, the figure of the son Chen Cong beside him, and the touch of begonia flowers at his fingertips... All of them faded into the mountain mist, leaving only the faint sound of breathing as he sat across from him.

The endless darkness, the hesitation of riding the dust, the mountain fog that has been written off, and the touch of a leaf knowing autumn.

In the darkness, Gao Qin felt that he had spread out contact with the Hibiscus Crown.

A wave of fear rose.

Isn't it...... Is Anji's mother really a child of Tianjiao Zhang?

Gao Qin's left eye jumped and he smiled bitterly.

There was a subtle sound of soldiers colliding in the darkness, which reminded people of the war in the twilight field, the important documents of the prosperous empire, and a general who cried in the face of the twilight sun.

Then the sound gradually died down, and the yellow sorghum gradually rose.

Gao Qin didn't realize at this moment that he was about to fall into a yellow dream.

such as

There are deer in the mountains, white porcelain and green pillows, a dream on the pillow, a dream of yellow sorghum.

Overwhelmed in the darkness, he could only walk towards the sound that had finally disappeared. I kept walking and walking, I don't know how long it took, but it was dark and evolving, and the sky was bright ahead.

And when the sky was bright, Gao Qin saw,

A white bird flew tired and stopped on the eaves of a certain house, drenched in the rain, its feathers drooping, to see where the passing wind was going;

A dragon hid in the pool, but could not get out again, looking at the sky overhead, waiting for a rainstorm;

After the Taoist priest was feathered, the Buddha sat high in the Ming Hall, and a drop of blood from Tianjiao stained the wine and ink red; Begonia flowers become prisons, frost and snow are a symbol of twilight...

And he made a hexagram for Anzib......

Gao Qin guessed what he would see next—what he would see after being imprisoned in Begonia Flower......

He will know all the processes of a girl from birth to the present, no matter how big or small, the details are vivid in front of his eyes, and he will watch everything about her, even the details that she knows or does not know......

He will know her to the flesh and bones, like a ghost who grew up with her...

He will gradually fall into her and Begonia, so that he will be unable to extricate himself.

This may be a curse for Tianjiao Zhang's Buya,

Gao Qin burst into tears unconsciously.

Gao Qin saw,

In the second year of the Zhengyu, on September 9, the Double Ninth Festival, Chen Jun, the son of Tianjiao Chen, got a daughter, the Jinguan city hung red lanterns, and the Liuchuan River that ran through the Jinguan was full of prayer lamps that invited Taoist priests and monks to do, a thousand crane boats, and the Xuanqing Temple on Qingque Mountain rang the bell, and the bell rang one hundred and eight.

Six years after the conquest, Anji was four years old. The little girl didn't want to go to school, so she ran out of the courtyard gate, and immediately hugged the little prince of the Zhao family in Longbei, who was passing by and came to Tianjiao Chen's as a guest, and said in a milky voice: "Brother Zhao Xiao, I'll marry you..."

Then Anji was followed by the Zhang family, and the little girl made this gentle woman from Jiangnan a little angry. Zhang pinched An Ji's little ear: "Even if you have a marriage contract today, you will give me a chance to go to school." ”

Eight years after the conquest, Anji was six years old. The little girl went to her father Chen Jun in frustration and hugged her father with an unhappy face.

Chen Jun smiled and asked her what was wrong, An Ji was sullen: "Brother Cong went to draw the bow, he didn't let me touch the bow and arrows, saying that I was a girl..."

Chen Jun asked her, "Do you want to learn archery?" ”

Anji bit his lip: "Yes." ”

"Xiao Anji, just go and learn if you want"

"But I'm a girl......"

"Then you will use a beautiful pink bow and arrows with red tassels."

After nine years of honor, Anji was seven years old, and he was praised by his master for studying at Qingque Academy, and he was very happy, smiling so much that the corners of his eyes were crooked, like hiding an amber.

Ten years of success, Anji was eight years old, and he had to sleep in a bed with Sister Yang Juexi, who came to Chen's as a guest, and the two little girls chatted until late, making love and affection, and fell asleep unconsciously.

In the twelfth year of Zhengyu, Anji was ten years old, and hung a wind chime outside the study Shi Ji Pavilion, and the wind blew the bell Langlang, but his brother Chen Cong naughtily removed the copper tongue of the wind chime, and Anji went to find his father to cry his nose, and Chen Cong was beaten by his second uncle Chen Jun on the grounds of teaching swordsmanship.

Anji was angry and did not take off the wind chimes that would never ring again.

In the thirteenth year of her reign, Anji was eleven years old and went to the easternmost side of Jinmen, which was the first time she saw the sea, lying in the sun undulating, like a lazy tanuki wagging its tail, very cute and colorful.

In the fourteenth year of the expedition, Anji was twelve years old, and the beginner girl embroidered a green finch on her father Chen Jun's clothes, but the yellow thread was used, which made it look like a duckling. Anji asked his father to wear it wherever he went.

Fifteen years after the honor, Anji was thirteen years old, and he had a favorite person, Zhao Xiao, the son of the Zhao family of Longbei Tianjiao, who secretly wrote to him......

Gao Qin knew the slightly baby-fat arc of Anji's face, knew how Anji's tears swirled in his eyes when he was sad, knew that Anji liked to sit alone under the eaves when he was bored, looking at the rain in a daze, and knew that Anji liked the son of the Zhao family......

He understood all the details of her life, all the details, all the little emotions from her birth to the present fifteen years......

If you understood all the smiles and cries of a girl, would you like her?

Gao Qin didn't know if others would,

But he would.

If you have to be for Anji, Gao Qin is just a pity, it is Anji who secretly likes the Zhao family first... Instead of meeting her first...

All the details in front of him were deeply imprinted into Gao Qin's mind, and he will never forget it.

The last scene was just now, An Ji had a layer of begonias on his wrists, and he put his fingers, and An Ji opened his beautiful eyes slightly, looking at himself a little worriedly.

"It's like a harmless elk......"

Gao Qin raised his head, tears silently penetrating his eyelashes,

"I really want to hug her like a fawn......"

Gao Qin fell into darkness again, lost consciousness, and fell into a deep sleep.

"What is the purpose of monasticism?"

"Cultivate the usual, cultivate the pure, and cultivate the freedom."

"If you don't seek longevity, can you be considered a cultivator?"

"Cultivating the Tao and cultivating others, not cultivating the way."

- The Dragon's Codex · Kan》