The eagle said again and asked, "I heard that there was a saint in the nether world once upon a time, and he lived alone in the room. One day, when it was raining heavily, his neighbor's maiden came to him because the wall had collapsed and begged for shelter. The saint agreed. Because the girl's clothes were wet with the rain, lest she catch a cold, he told her to take off her clothes and hug her in her arms all night, and she had no heart, so everyone praised him for being able to sit still.

Later, another man, in the same situation, also had a young woman who came to knock at the door late at night, but the man never opened the door. The woman said, 'Why don't you learn from the saint?' and the man said, 'The saint is fine, but I am not.' I will learn from the saint what I can't do. And they praised him, saying that he was a good learner and a saint. Don't you know if there are two of these stories?"

Zhang Xuanchu said: "Yes, there is, this is a book that I often read when I was a teenager." ”

Qing Yu said: "Since there is, then there is a certain sentence to inform you: In the situation just mentioned, the gods in the sky can, but the people in the world cannot." I hope that people in the world will learn from the immortals because they can't do it, and that is the first class to be immortals in the future. If you go back to China in the future and announce this situation, those foolish people will surely take it as a truth when they hear it, and they will say, 'The gods and goddesses in heaven are all gambling, so what does it matter if we gamble?' The gods and goddesses in the heavens are mixed with men and women, and they do not avoid suspicion, so what matters if we are mixed with men and women and do not avoid suspicion?' Please also note this. ”

When Zhang Xuanchu heard these words, he admired them very much, and replied repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I must pay attention to these." After a while, he asked Qing Yu again: "I heard you say just now that your lord and the Queen Mother have many sons-in-law, so there must be husbands." May I ask your lord, who is the husband of the Queen Mother, and where is he now?"

Qing Yu said: "The husband of our master is called the East Prince, also known as the Mu Gong, and the West Queen Mother is called the Golden Mother! The surname of the prince of the east is Huang Mingni, and his name is Junming. Because of his old age, everyone called him Huang Weng. He also lived on Kunlun Mountain, but his old residence was in a large stone room in the East Barren Mountain, and he often played the game of pitching pots with the jade girl in the sky. Sometimes the two of them often go to the shores of Hongmeng and the White Sea, and they are thousands of miles away from Kunlun Mountain. Every year, we fly on the back of a big bird called "Rare" to meet. ”

Zhang Xuanchu said: "How old is he?" Qing Yu said: "I can't know if I have a low status." But I heard that some thousand years ago someone met him on the shore of the White Sea, and the man asked him how old he was, and he said: 'I went to eat and swallow air, and now I am more than 9,000 years old.' The pupils in the eyes are all blue, and you can see hidden things. The 3,000-year-old bone marrow is washed once, the 2,000-year-old bone is cut once, and I have already washed the marrow three times and cut the hair five times. At that time, this was already the case, and at this moment, I don't know how many times I have washed the marrow and cut the hair? ”

Zhang Xuanchu said: "How many daughters-in-law does your master and queen mother have?, how many princesses?" Qing Yu said: "There are twenty-four, plus today's Zhiling Fairy, a total of twenty-five." When Zhang Xuanchu heard this, he secretly thought: "This queen mother is really a tile kiln, she can give birth to so many daughters! I don't know if there are any sons." ”

Just as he was about to ask him how many sons he had, he suddenly saw two blue birds flying from the sky, and when they arrived on the ground, they had turned into two people, the big bird and the young bird. At that moment, the young eagle asked Zhang Xuanchu and said: "Shicai has gone to report to our master to show me, and my master said that you go to Qunyu Mountain, and there is a god who wants to meet you." ”

The four of them walked all the way, all the way to the upper reaches of the mountain, but they saw strange flowers, monsters and rare birds, so many that they could not describe their shapes. Turning a mountain peak, I saw a very large mountain in front of me, shining in the sun, golden and brilliant, standing in the middle of the sky, I could not see where its top was, and I did not know where it had reached on both sides, and almost half of the day was covered by it.

Zhang Xuanchu asked: "What kind of mountain is this?" Qing Yu said: "This is not a mountain, it is a copper pillar, also known as the pillar of heaven, there are three thousand miles around, in the north of Kunlun Mountain, the surrounding is round and like a knife, there is a house below, called 'back to the house', the square garden is one hundred zhang, and it is governed by the nine mansions of the immortals." There was a big bird on it, named 'Rare', facing south, and it spread its right wing to cover our master, and its left wing to cover the husband of our master, the prince of the east. There is a small place on its back that has no feathers, and someone has calculated for it, and it is 19,000 miles wide.

Zhang Xianren, think about it, this big bird is not big? It is really rare in the world. Our master and her husband, the prince of the east, met every year, and they climbed on the wings. The ancients said that the black magpie fills the bridge and meets every year. Our master and his wife used the wings of this big bird as a place to meet, and everything in the world is really a coincidence. There are two inscriptions engraved on the bronze pillar, one is about the copper pillar, and the other is about the meeting of the master and his wife. ”

Zhang Xuanchu thought to himself, it would be nice if he could climb on the back of the bird to take a look, but he still couldn't go, and asked, "Can you go over and see it?" Qing Yu said: "The words of this inscription are very big, very high, and I am afraid that you will not be able to see it." Then he asked, "Do you remember the sentence of the inscription?"

Shao Yu said: "Some people remember that there are only four inscriptions on the bronze pillar, which are called:

Kunlun bronze pillar, its height into the sky. The circumference is like a peel, and the skin is beautiful.

There are nine lines of inscription on its big bird, which are called:

There are rare birds, Lu Chi Huanghuang, no song and no food, east over the east prince, west over the west queen mother. The queen mother wants to go east, and she is self-connected. Yin and yang must be combined, but it will benefit the work.

When Zhang Xuanchu heard this inscription, he couldn't help but feel a lot in his heart, what was the inspiration? It felt that it was the Dali of cultivating immortals, could it be the power of the "Dao". Looking at the height of the bronze pillar, the size of the rare birds, and the strange Kunlun, they are all things that should be in the place of immortals, and it is not surprising.

He also felt something, the first is that the Queen Mother of the West has become a fairy, and she can't forget her lust, and the couple will meet every year, which is unreasonable for ordinary people. Second, where is it not possible for husband and wife to meet, why do they have to climb on the back of this rare big bird? Third, when husband and wife meet, the man should always go to the woman, but the prince of the east does not come to the queen mother of the west, but the queen mother of the west goes to the prince of the east first.

Seeing the inscription that says, "The Queen Mother wants to go east, ascend to the self-passing", there is a scene of pheasants singing and begging for peons, which shows that the reason of the gods is really different from the world. There is also a layer of meaning, in the world, in a family, the famous person is always a man. It is now the name of the Eastern Prince, and very few people know it, but the Queen Mother of the West is a great name, almost everyone knows it, and no one knows it. It is also strange that women's rights are grand.

The four of them were walking all the way, thinking all the way, facing the wind gusting, blowing the spirit of the people who came, and feeling happy. When I looked down, I saw that there was a lot of dirt on my clothes, and when I got here, there was nothing left when the wind blew it. Just like the newly worn ones have been washed, they are not so clean, and I don't feel very curious.

Shao Yu said: "This is the effect of the wind. The wind on the mountains here is called the 'dust wind', and all the dirt can be washed away without leaving a trace. Therefore, the houses, courtyards, and utensils in this place do not need to be sprinkled with sweeping and washing, let alone the clothes. Zhang Xuanchu listened and sighed with envy.

Let's say that Zhang Xuanchu traveled to this Kunlun, from the eastern corner of Kunlun Mountain to the northwest corner, and crossed Kunlun Mountain several times, so there were many days to go, and there were many strange objects to see, all of which were carefully explained by the three blue birds. Walking into a big city in the east, you will see two kinds of strange trees: one is called the begonia tree, its shape is like a tang, yellow flowers and red fruit, its taste is like a plum but no seed. I tasted a few and thought it was very luscious. One is called Langyu tree, which is tall and exquisite, and the branches, leaves, and flowers are all made of jade, and the green onions are lovely. The breeze blows, and the branches and leaves strike each other. There is a sound, and its sound is clearer and clearer. Compared with the iron horse hanging under the eaves of the people, I don't know how many hundred times higher.

Shao Yu said: "This mountain is in five directions, according to the five elements, each has a special tree. Here are two kinds of sand tang and Langji. There are four kinds of pearl trees, jade trees, Xuan trees, and immortal trees in the west. There is a kind of red tree on the south side. There are two kinds of green trees and yao trees in the north. There is a kind of wood grass in the center, its height is thirty-five feet, its big five circumferences, a seedling is harvested into 1,600 catties, there are many kinds of it, all of them are eaten by immortals. ”

Qing Yu said: "From the ninth Chongzeng City, another 11,000 miles, 144 steps and 2 feet 6 inches high, it is the mountain of cool breeze." People can climb this mountain without taking any medicine, and they can live forever. If you go up again, it is 11,000 miles and 144 steps and 2 feet 5 inches, and it is the mountain of hanging gardens. If a person can climb this mountain, not only will he be immortal, but he will also have a god and can call the wind and rain. Go up from the Hanging Pu Mountain, 11,000 thousand miles and 14 steps and 2 feet 5 inches high, this place is the heavens, that is, the residence of the Emperor of Heaven, calling Zhongshan Mountain, not that the gods and men can not arrive. ”

Zhang Xuanchu listened and thought for a while: "Kunlun Mountain is so big and so high, it's really incredible!" and asked: "Isn't that Zhongshan in the Nether Realm? Is there also Zhongshan in this sky?

Qing Yu said: "The Heavenly Emperor of the Upper Realm lives in Zhongshan Mountain, and there is also Zhongshan in the Lower Realm, they are connected places, but they are not ordinary immortals who come and go, you don't have to walk to Zhongshan to go to Zhongshan Mountain, and you can't walk through it." Zhang Xuanchu said: "The highest heaven, have you all been there?" Shao Yu said: "Only Liangfeng Mountain has been to a certain level, and Hanging Pu Mountain can no longer go up, let alone the heavens." I usually listen to our master say that above the sky, it is extremely flat, the square garden is about 12,000 miles, and its height is 10,000 miles, which can be described as the highest place in the world. ”

The four people came to the bottom of the mountain, saw a piece of sea, this sea separated from the mountain, Zhang Xuanchu walked all the way, all the way to look at the mountain in the distant sea, and saw the three peaks of the sea, which were suddenly inclined and crumbling, so he asked the green eagle: "How many miles are there around this mountain?"