040, Human Affairs (I)
Huwa waited in the market for a while, and the people from the six nearby villages soon arrived, including Huwa, all of them were young offspring with strong physique. Everyone introduced each other and got to know each other. Huwa sensed it very clearly, and the hearts of the five descendants around him were full of excitement, excitement, longing, and a beautiful vision for the future.
Some of them may also know the inside story of the Immortal City Pilgrimage, even if they don't understand it, they also know that being able to participate in the Immortal City Pilgrimage is not only an honor, but also a status symbol among the people of the White-Fronted Clan. In fact, in ordinary villages, almost every patriarch participated in the Xiancheng pilgrimage when he was young.
Meng Guang led six juniors and drove two carriages south, finding a place to spend the night on the way, and arrived at the roadside village the next day. The roadside village is located on the side of the road leading from Yilang City to Hu'an City, hence the name. From Yilang City, go northeast to Lucheng, and go due east along the east coast, and you will arrive at another city outline that is Hu'an City.
There is the largest market in the eastern region of Yiyang City, and it is also the place where Huwa once exchanged muntjac skin for eggs. Ba Yuan is very large, and the land of China outside Ba Yuan is said to be even more vast, but for the villagers of many nearby villages, the roadside village is the end of the world and the farthest place they have ever visited in their lives.
Huwa finally met the real Chiwangqiu disciple in the roadside village. This person looked to be in his early thirties, and he stood in the crowd with a bit of an ethereal immortal atmosphere. His name is Liang Yu, and he introduced himself as having four realms and five transformations. Meng Guang handed over the six juniors such as Huwa to Liang Yu, explained a few words and went back.
Huwa waited in the roadside village for another day, and successively there were people from the white-fronted clan who participated in the pilgrimage to Xiancheng to come here to meet, and there were more than 30 people and eight carriages after arriving. These young juniors looked at Liang Yu's eyes. They are all full of awe and envy, this is the immortal family on Chiwang Hill.
At least a dozen or so juniors were on this trip for the first time, and they were all very surprised by what they saw, and even surprised by the carriages. Ordinary people rarely ride in horse-drawn carriages, although the speed of horses is fast. But it is not as laborious as an ox, and it is very delicate and needs to be carefully expected. Therefore, many caravans used ox carts to transport goods, and it is indeed very rare to see eight two-horse carts like this one.
After the more than 30 people arrived, Liang Yu led the team to set off, and the things they prepared were very complete. There are food to eat on the road, utensils for cooking in the field, and even tents for sleeping in the open. Most of the time, the team stayed in the villages along the way, and was received with care and warmth, but if they were not in a hurry, they would occasionally sleep in the wilderness.
Everyone is a strong village descendant. With such sufficient supplies for the journey, there is no hard work on the road, but it is as easy as touring the mountains and rivers. But there are also people who privately tell their companions that the really difficult road is still to come, and it will not begin until after leaving Hu'an City, and now the journey is simply a pleasure.
The person who said this kind of thing was obviously not the first time to participate in the Immortal City pilgrimage, and he had already suffered a long time ago. I walked on the road for more than ten days. The team led by Liang Yu finally arrived in Hu'an City. The lord of Hu'an City personally came forward to greet them and arranged food and lodging for them. Many, many people in the team were flattered, it was the first time they had seen such a big man as the city lord.
The lord of the city also made a special trip to entertain them. During the banquet, he went to the back hall with Liang Yu to chat privately for a while. The tiger baby could hear the conversation between the city lord and Liang Yu, who gave Liang Yu a heavy gift and entrusted Liang Yu to take care of a few people on the road and not let them have accidents.
Liang Yu promised the city lord that he would try his best to take care of it, but the gift was waived. However, the city lord was very uneasy and resolutely begged Liang Yu to accept it. Seeing this, Liang Yu stopped entanglement, and put the things away. Huwa also heard the names of those people. is not yet in the team of his own group, presumably he is going to be a new member after arriving in Hu'an City.
In fact, with the respect of the lord of the city. If it is his own son and nephew, he doesn't need to participate in the immortal city pilgrimage to seek immortal fate, he can always find an opportunity to ask a master for individual guidance, as for whether he can enter the initial realm and be able to cultivate, it depends not only on whether he has found the right person, but also on the qualifications, informability and chance of the apprentice himself.
The few people entrusted by the city lord to Liang Yu's private care were all the sons and nephews of his subordinates, and his lord arranged them to the pilgrimage team of Xiancheng through various connections, and he was afraid that they would have an accident on the road, so he found the city lord here and asked the city lord to take care of the monks who led the team. The gift given to Liang Yu by the city lord should also be made up by the elders of the next generation, and the city lord may have received another benefit from it.
When she was in Cuizhen Village, Miss Ayuan explained these situations to the tiger baby, and when she saw this scene in Hu'an City, the tiger baby also knew it. The so-called cultivation is considered by many people to be something outside the world, but cultivation is really the path that the monk has walked in the world, and everything he has experienced is a human thing.
On the second day, more than 30 people and eight carriages joined Huwa's team, and these people were not descendants sent by the villages, but people selected by the city and the major tribes.
Huwa also discovered one thing, when the team just set off from the roadside village, most of the people sent from various villages were strong and healthy, and they were indeed the most suitable candidates. But in the city it was different, half of the newcomers should be okay, but the other half was very reluctant, although it did seem that the physique was a little stronger than the average person.
But it's not yet time for the real test, so there's not much difference between everyone and the mix. And the tiger baby also noticed that when Liang Yu looked at more than a dozen of them, he always couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The pilgrimage procession to Xiancheng was gathered from various places where the Bai-gil clan lived, and if some people were far away, they set off relatively early, and finally gathered in Hu'an City at almost the same time. The tiger baby also arrived early, and after waiting here for five days, all the people arrived, and the farthest came from the Bincheng area of the Silk Chamber.
There were about 300 young descendants sent by various cities, tribes, and villages to participate in the pilgrimage to Xiancheng, and they drove 80 wagons, which were loaded with various materials for worshipping Chiwangqiu. Including Liang Yu, Chiwangqiu sent a total of five disciples to lead the team, and all of them were cultivators of the Four Realms.
In the traditions of the major sects, only when the disciples have broken through the four realms of cultivation can they officially go out of the mountain and perform various tasks on behalf of the sect. Huwa was a little puzzled for a while, why did Chiwangqiu only send five disciples of the Four Realms to escort such an important pilgrimage to the Immortal City?
When she left the city and continued on the road, the tiger baby figured it out as she walked. The people in the team are young talents from the villages and tribes to which the Bai Yi clan belongs, Chiwangqiu has given them a chance to get immortal fate, they are pilgrims, not distinguished guests invited by Chiwangqiu, and it is already good to be able to send disciples to escort them.
Because of the existence of Chiwangqiu, the people of the Baifang clan are lucky, and they don't need to ask for it, even the most remote and ordinary villages, its most outstanding young people have the opportunity to get immortal fate.
As for who to give this opportunity to, it is the business of each village and tribe itself, and Chiwangqiu has no intention of interfering. But to let them understand that it is difficult to find immortal fate and practice, the road of pilgrimage to Xiancheng is a test, not only to test what kind of people will be selected by those villages or tribes, but also to test these "pilgrims" who walk on the road.
No matter how rugged and dangerous the road to Xiancheng is, can it be compared to the path to the heavens? If such a road cannot be walked, the will of the people can be known. Moreover, so many people have traveled such a long journey together, and they no longer have their original identity, and everyone is a pilgrim transporting supplies, and it is easiest to see the nature of a person.
You may not be able to see it when you talk and laugh together, but when you continue to encounter difficulties and obstacles, who and what kind of person you are will be exposed. Who is tenacious, who is delicate, who is reckless and impulsive, who is selfish and indifferent, who is cheerful and righteous, and even who is ruthless and ruthless, in fact, cannot escape the eyes of the masters.
If there is a selfish and indifferent person, but he can hide himself well, pretend to be enthusiastic and generous, and can pretend to go all the way to Xiancheng, then he can be regarded as a great talent, and the important thing is how he does it along the way.
Most of the young people in this team will become the leaders of the villages and tribes to which the Bai Forehead clan belongs in the future, as long as they walk back and forth on this road, Chiwang Hill will basically understand what they are like, and they will also have enough understanding and communication with each other, and they will invisibly weave a closer clan network.
With such an experience of overcoming hardships and dangers together, it is also a means to increase the sense of identity and cohesion between the people of the white-fronted clan.
The tiger baby pondered like this while following the team eastward. More than 300 people and 80 horse-drawn carriages walked along the smoky east coast at first, the road was flat and wide, the scenery was picturesque, and they were treated with the warmest hospitality by the villages along the way.
This seems to be the most comfortable journey of life, looking at the sea view under the bright sun every day, listening to the fishing song and singing in the evening, feeling the beauty of traveling between heaven and earth, everyone is so happy to enjoy. However, after leaving the territory of Hu'an City, the situation soon changed, and they walked into the continuous and precipitous mountains, and the terrain under their feet became higher and higher.
In the first few days, I occasionally turned to the south side of a certain mountain, and I could see the East China Sea in the distance, but as we went deeper and deeper into the mountain, everyone gradually lost their place, and it seemed that there were endless thousands of rocks and ravines. It is no wonder that horse-drawn carts were used to transport supplies instead of ox carts, and in some places cattle could not pass, and they needed to be led by people and carried by companions.
The laughter in the team gradually decreased, because the road was too difficult to walk, and everyone was so tired that every day when they arrived at camp, they wanted to find a sheltered grass nest to lie down and not move. However, when you go out, there are no villages along the way, and you have to do everything by yourself, and after camping, you have to set up tents, place goods, take care of horses, and make fires for cooking. (To be continued) R580