Chapter 57: The White Crane
Before leaving, Yuwen Che told Yu Wenqi about the phantom of witchcraft, and Yu Wenqi's sword eyebrows were twisted into Sichuan characters.
In their Nanjing Kingdom, the royal family of all dynasties clearly stipulated that the people of the country were forbidden to practice witchcraft in Xiwu Kingdom, and if they violated it, they would be punished by the fire of Nanjing.
The torture of burning is extremely cruel, it involves tying the sinner naked to an iron pillar, and there is a five-foot-high pit under the iron pillar, which is filled with firewood, which is lit during the execution, and then the iron pillar is slowly roasted to a fiery red, and soon the smell of the raw person becomes cooked meat.
Why is there such a cruel punishment, because the witchcraft of Xiwu is extremely evil, and the practitioner will easily go mad and become crazy, and the heavy will be swallowed by the dark power of witchcraft, fall into the infinite abyss, and become a bloodthirsty monster. It is said that a hundred years ago, there was a person who practiced witchcraft, causing all the people of the whole city to be manipulated by evil spirits, and at that time endangered the safety of the entire country of Nanjing, the emperor of Jingcheng at that time loved the people like a son, and sent people to set fire to the whole city, and burned the whole city to ashes with a fire.
Therefore, in the past hundred years, no one has secretly used witchcraft in the Nanjing Kingdom, first, they are afraid of becoming monsters, and secondly, they are afraid that they will have to endure the punishment of burning after becoming monsters.
It's just that everyone was afraid of such vicious witchcraft in the later years, but it still reappeared after a hundred years.
Yu Wenqi looked thoughtfully at the casual pink morning glory in the distance, the vines of the morning glory struggled to climb outside the thick wall, and the branches and leaves of a red apricot tree outside the wall quietly and slowly stretched into the wall. It's like this deep palace cage, some people want to go out and regain their freedom, and some people want to come in and participate in the battle of profit.
He may be one of those savage petunias, who every day wants to be freed from the bitterness of this conspiracy and calculation.
Yu Wenche knew the danger of this trip to the Snow Peak, and he returned to the Liwang Mansion and began to prepare all the belongings he needed for this trip.
It includes the bundle of fairy ropes given by the old man, the night pearl of the East China Sea, and his pet white crane.
The white crane was the only friend of Yu Wenche during the three years of retreat in the mountains with the old man, and it was accidentally met by Yu Wenche when he was playing on the mountain. When they first met, Bai He's leg was injured, and its eyes were fierce, and it was extremely resistant to Yu Wenche and very unfriendly.
Yu Wenche only wanted to save it, and under its fierce resistance, he wrapped herbs around it and wrapped its wounds, and it poked many holes in his arms with his mouth. Later, the white crane recovered from its injury, and it also took Yu Wenche as its master, Yu Wenche would whistle to train it when he was bored, and it was extremely smart and spiritual, and what it taught could basically be learned once.
The crane was bigger than a human, and during that retreat, Yu Wenche used the crane as his mount, and often watched the stars at night with it.
Recalling the retreat at that time, it was much happier than the intrigue life now, if he really wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests all the time, but he still had his mother and sister, if he left, who would take care of his mother and Qing'er?
Yu Wenche picked up a well-made whistle and blew it into the sky, and soon a crane chirped in the sky. Suddenly, the white crane with white feathers landed in the courtyard of Liwang's Mansion, and when it saw Yu Wenche, it seemed to miss it very much, leaned over and lowered its head, and rubbed it on the side of Yu Wenche's head with its long pointed mouth.
"Haha-hatsuru misses me, haha-itchy, neck. Yu Wenche squinted his eyes and smiled like a child who had not grown up.
The white crane let out a chirp and responded to Yu Wenche, translating it into human language, probably saying that it missed him too.
The white crane can understand human speech, because it is quite large, and Yu Wenche is afraid that it will be hurt outside, so he has made it live in the deep mountains where he practiced with the old man before him.
Occasionally, Yu Wenche misses it, and will blow the whistle in a place where no one is around, calling it out for a walk, but it is the first time that he has directly summoned the Liwang Mansion like this.
"Bai He, we are going to Snow Peak later, would you like to go with me?" asked Yuwen Che Zhengse.
The white crane let out a crane cry, blinked its small eyes, and told Yu Wenche that it was willing. It knelt down on its legs and lowered its body a lot, a position that wanted Yu Wenche to ride up.
Yu Wenche crossed his legs and rode on the back of the white crane, he touched the little head of the white crane, his handsome face was unusually kind, and said softly: "White crane, then let's go." ”
With a crane chirp, the white crane spread its majestic and broad wings and flew into the air.