Southern Xinjiang Benji - "The Biography of King Chu Xiang": The thirty-fifth year of King Chu Xiang, Fa Yuan. Yuan said: I am not guilty. The king said: I am a barbarian!

Chu Guojing County, Longquan Town.

Today is the winter solstice, and on this day, the yin pole is solstice, and the yang energy is born. It was just past noon, the streets of Jingxian County were different from the bustling of the past, the vendors on both sides of the street were already pulling together in twos and threes, and there were many more deserted businesses, and the shouting and selling voices were much less. It is not as serious and sophisticated as the New Year Festival of the people in the other four regions, but it also attaches great importance to this big festival in winter, and it is even no different from Chinese New Year's Eve.

As the saying goes: the winter solstice is as big as the year. The people of Chu believe that this is a season of yin and yang, and the yang energy of heaven and earth begins to grow stronger, representing the beginning of the next cycle and the day of great luck. Therefore, on the winter solstice, the gods and ancestors are sacrificed, so the wanderers who are out also have a home at the end of the year and are reunited together on this day.

The sun has begun to slowly set to the west, as the sun sets in the west, the people of the town are gradually returning home, and the streets that are not many people are even more deserted, even the vendors on both sides of the street have been gone, and the street in Longquan Town, which is usually called busy with traffic, is completely deserted and empty.

For the Chu people, the day of the winter solstice is a time when "yin and yang" compete, which is a good time to predict the sunshine, rain, cold and warm of the year, and even predict the blessings and misfortunes of the world in the coming year. At this time, the laymen in Longquan Town were in a hurry, all in order to be able to rush home before sunset and worship the heavens and ancestors.

On the official road outside Longquan Town, a middle-aged woman saw a young man standing alone not far in front of her, walking alone. And the clothes were tattered, and I couldn't help but feel a pain in my heart. said to a middle-aged man beside him:

"I don't know which young man it is, it's already the winter solstice, but his clothes are so thin. Look at this young man in a tattered green shirt, most of him is a middle-of-the-road scholar. Lang Jun gave him a few treasure coins, and it is also a good deed to be able to add some food when he returns home today. ”

The man should be the middle-aged woman's Lang Jun, after listening to his wife's words, he frowned, and said coldly:

"Every man sweeps the snow in front of his own door, and does not care about the frost on the tiles of others. ”

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he didn't wait for his wife to respond, so he dragged his wife and walked a few steps quickly. In an instant, he walked in front of the young man and passed by the young man. In the eyes of the middle-aged man, the shabby boy is undoubtedly a trouble, and he is afraid to avoid it, and he is willing to step forward to help. But whether this middle-aged man passed by trouble or chance, who can say for sure?

The old man in Longquan Town often said: 'No, Tai is like heaven and earth, enough to glorify your body.' It is said that this person lives a lifetime, and luck is still very important. Good luck and bad luck are like one in the sky and the other in the ground, the difference is huge. If it is a person with good luck, it is enough to make him glorious for a lifetime. If you are a person with bad luck, most of your life will be stormy and fateful.

As the sun sets, at the end of the street in the center of Longquan Town, there is a staggering teenager, he enters the city from the east gate, this young man is about eleven or twelve years old, but he is unkempt, there is no youthful vigor and vigor, but lifeless, at first glance I thought it was a twilight old man, now the Chu country has the winter solstice, the cold is abnormal, but the young man is in rags, just dressed in a single clothes, walking slowly on this empty street.

If there is any difference between this young man and others, it may be that his eyes, when they are dim, when they are shining, when they are dark, they are like the most inconspicuous dust in the rolling red dust, and when they are shining, they are as dazzling as the scorching sun in the sky, and people dare not look at them directly. The boy had a mixed feeling, as if his eyes weren't supposed to be in the same body. The young man's eyes were dim and bright for a while, flickering alternately, but his steps had slowed down, and he was getting more and more strained, and as he walked like this, he suddenly fell to the side of the road.

However, the teenager's fainting did not cause any fluctuations. The streets of Longquan Town, which are busy with traffic and people on weekdays, are already empty at this time. This is supposed to be the time for people in this town to be reunited with their families, and no one is walking around the streets. And today's winter solstice, the days are extremely short. At this time, as the sun went down, the light on the street was a little dimmer, and someone could see the young man in a tattered green shirt. Even if someone can see a young man, it is still unknown whether he can help or stay out of the situation.

The boy who fainted on the side of the road, the bright lights of thousands of homes, have begun to brighten the crescent. The lights of thousands of homes and the bright moon are intertwined, harmonious and happy. It's a beautiful but countless scenery in the world. But if you add another ragged teenager who fainted on the side of the road, it will be completely miserable, which is shocking.

At this time, the sky is already twilight, probably because the day is too short today, and even the birds have already returned to their nests. As the sky darkened, the heavens and the earth became silent and cold. Seeing that the boy's breath was getting weaker and weaker, a man's singing sounded at the west end of the street.

"The water of the jade belt is clear and can wet me"

"The turbid water of the jade belt can wet my feet"

"The water of the jade belt is clear and can wet me"

"The turbid water of the jade belt can wet my feet"

The songs of the Chu people are not good, but they do sound unique. The folk customs of Chu have always been like this, even when Zhang Yi deceived Chu and Chu was isolated from the princes. Even if the soldiers are not stopped, and the Chu realm is shaken, the people of Chu will still hum a few words of Chu songs in their spare time.

Now the state of Chu in southern Xinjiang is dominant, since the reign of King Xiang. The mountains and rivers are unharmed, and the soldiers are strong and strong. It is also known as within the Chu realm, controlling 200,000 strings, and the long arms are like apes. There are also 300,000 iron horsemen, 500,000 heavy armor, and a total of millions of good men in armor to guard the Quartet for the Chu State. And the national strength of Chu is thriving. The Zhongzhou Damang Heavenly Dynasty collected a total of 'Bangzhong, Sijiao, Bangdian, Jiajiao, Bangxian, Bangdu, Guanshi, Shanze, and Currency', these nine kinds of taxes, but this tax in the Chu realm did not have the variety of Damang. At the beginning of the founding of the country, it began to 'measure in cultivation', and it was abolished immediately after the reign of Prince Xiang.

Nowadays, the national policy of Chu is "the decline of the land", and the national policy of such a good people makes the people do their best. This is the case of the middle-aged man from the west of the street, who rented a few acres of thin land from his family in the countryside to his fellow villagers, while he brought his wife and daughter to Longquan Town to make a living. The rent of the fields in the countryside is enough to feed the family for a year, and the treasure money earned from the stall operation in the town is a year's pure income. It is a great blessing that the people in the rest of the territory of this 'Qingning Daotian' can have a small balance at the end of the year. How dare you expect a rich income like the people of Chu Realm.

"Alas, my mother-in-law is good in everything, but this chatter on her mouth really makes me unbearable. Now that the sweat towel has been left in the stall, why not pick it up tomorrow? I heard the storyteller in the bazaar once said, 'Only women and villains are difficult to raise,' probably this is what he meant. ”

The middle-aged man was dressed in a short outfit and looked quite capable. And the eyebrows are full of honesty, and at first glance he is a solid man. Listening to the muttering words in the man's mouth, it should be that he had already closed the stall and returned home. However, because the sweat towel fell on the market, he was urged by his wife at home to take it back immediately, so he was angry.

The weather was cold, and the man's hand carrying the burden kept changing on the burden, and without waiting for a few more Chu Ge, he walked to the vicinity of the winter solstice. He was stunned when he saw the winter solstice lying on the side of the road, scratched his head and walked forward.

"This little brother, it's getting late at this time, and it's so cold, why are you sleeping here? Are you from the town?"

Seeing that the young man who fell to the ground did not react, the middle-aged man became even more anxious, and hurriedly held him in his arms and asked again:

"Wake up quickly, where is your home? If you stay here for the night, your life can still be saved." ”

"Alas, look at you in a green shirt, most of you are a middle-of-the-road scholar. It looks like she is not a few years older than my daughter, so how did she end up in such a situation. Since I met you today, it is the fate of you and me, how can I ignore it. I'd better carry you home first, and let my mother-in-law figure it out. As he spoke, the middle-aged man carried the young man behind him and hurried home.

The ancients often said: When the sky is not shining, the sun and the moon are not shining, when the earth is not shining, the vegetation is not growing, when the water is not available, the wind and waves are uneven, and when the people are not good, the good luck is not passable. People live this life, all by fate, not by others. How can a little boy get out of the negativity.