The eighth day of the lunar month in the thirteenth year of Hongxiu.

Today is the traditional Fengfeng Festival of the Great Zhou Dynasty, celebrating the harvest of the last day and praying for more than one year in the coming year.

Every Fengqing Festival, the imperial court will hold a temple to worship the sky in the Gucha Temple by the Sui River in the east of the city, and there is no curfew and no travel ban in Shengjing City for three days.

On this day, the people of the capital will spontaneously organize a procession, starting from the Confucius Temple, all the way through Xiaojing Lake, Taichang Temple, Tianjin Bridge, until the Guangwu Gate in the south of Shengjing City, when the festival is abundant, even the royal clan will join it, these years the Great Zhou Dynasty Haiyan River clear, all industries are prosperous, the Fengqing Festival has gradually become a carnival day for the whole country to celebrate, and this year is the number of harvest years in history, Tianqing Division was ordered by Emperor Renzong, held a three-day ceremony to thank God, and opened the outer courtyard of Chongming Palace for the people to visit, prosperous and prosperous, but so.

Fengqing Festival has always been the busiest time for the Tianqing Division, officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households, the sacrificial wine and musicians of the Shangyang School Palace, and the students who came to help from the Guozijian have crowded the Outer Division's courtyard, and the usually deserted Division is lively at this time to the entrance of the vegetable market in Beicheng.

"Let one! Let one! Cabinet business! Idlers avoid! Cabinet business! Idlers... Don't push me, get out of the way!

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy held the waist card of the Tianqing cabinet and squeezed it desperately, and the department was either an official or a reserve official at this time, so he didn't care if he was a small official of the Tianqing Division wearing a low-grade uniform.

Finally, after walking around the door three times and losing a shoe, Zhou Zhe gave up his efforts to enter the division from the main gate, went around to the back alley alley, complained and lost the remaining official boots that were no longer a pair, took two steps back to run, and jumped over the high wall.

"Lao Li! Lao Li! It's too difficult to enter our gate today, you have to accompany me with my boots!" The Tianqing Division cabinet is both mysterious and sacred in the eyes of ordinary people, and it is a holy place for the court to communicate with God, and Zhou Zhe shook his shoulders like this, and pushed the door in a big way.

In the gazebo in front of him, an old man who could not be said to be old was lying on the rosewood Taishi chair.

The reason why the word paralysis is used is that the posture of the old man is too comfortable, and the whole body is spread flat on the chair, and there is no need to exert force, as if he can lie down until the first month. I saw him holding the teapot of Ouchi Migong in his left hand, and holding a popular novel of gods and monsters on the market in his right hand. Hearing Zhou Zhe call him, his eyes stared at the novel and he didn't move, but replied with a smile: "It's not big or small, it's called master." ”

"Master, I want to take leave. Zhou Zhe grabbed the novel angrily and threw it aside.

"Leave, why?" the old man was not annoyed, sat up slowly, and handed the teapot in his hand forward.

Zhou Zhe took the teapot, walked to the side to refill the boiling water, and muttered: " The whole division is busy for the Fengqing Sacrifice Ceremony, Senior Brother Mu hasn't even been home for three days, and he sleeps in Gucha Temple to borrow a Zen room, you can do it, lie down here, it's okay, it's the same as no one, you look like this, I don't do it, it just so happens that the messenger sent by the barbarian entered Beijing today, and is in Guangwumen and Taichang Siqing, I heard that the barbarians are all blue-faced and fanged, and the monsters are like, and no one in Kyoto has seen it, so I will take leave and grandma to see the barbarians. ”

"What's so nice about the barbarian, it's nothing more than a bigger head, and his face is dry red by the north wind, how can Mr. Xiaoman's new book be interesting. The old man took the teapot as he spoke, picked up the novel that was snatched by Zhou Zhe and thrown on the ground, and lay down again.

Zhou Zhe asked worriedly: "Lao Li, you said that this time the barbarians came to make us sign a treaty to stop the war and repair, do you don't have to fight anymore?

The old man flipped through the pages of the book and replied absentmindedly: "What if you sign the repaired treaty, the barbarians are still those barbarians, the white lake is still the white lake, how can there be a reason not to fight, as for Zhou Beichen, he has already entered Beijing three days ago, how can he be missing such an important matter as the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens and the white sea." ”

"Uncle is back?!" Zhou Zhe's eyes lit up, he jumped up suddenly, rushed out without saying a word, and was grabbed by the old man.

"Don't be busy, don't be busy, our Governor Zhou should report on his work in the military department at this time, I won't be free to see you for a while, just take advantage of today's sacrifice ceremony, and take you to see the real Tianqing Division cabinet for the teacher, anyway, it will be a matter of time, in a few years, this courtyard will be yours." ”

The old man grabbed Zhou Zhe with one hand, and sketched a few strokes in the air with the other.

Zhou Zhe heard that he had returned to Beijing with his best uncle, and where could he still listen to what the master said, but he just blindly struggled to rush out, but suddenly found that everything in the small courtyard was weirdly still, the pages of the book, the burning fireplace, the flying birds, and even Zhou Zhe himself, only the old man was still smacking the teapot spout unhurriedly.

Zhou Zhe was shocked, and was about to urge Zhenyuan to forcibly break away, but he heard the old man say, "Don't waste your efforts, when the star map is activated, everything around you is blocked, and you can't get out." “

Zhou Zhe had to give up his efforts, settle down, and secretly thought to himself what the star map in the old man's mouth was, sure enough, after a while, the old man continued: "Everyone in the world thinks that my Tianqing Division is a public yamen who sacrifices to the sky and ceremonies, and usually has no, only in the major ceremonies and ceremonies of the imperial court, playing the role of a dispensable god stick, in the past two years, there are even new people who have entered Beijing and are not yet aware of the imperial history, proposing to abolish the Tianqing Division and belong to the Ministry of Rites, where do they know that this division is the important weapon of the country related to the life and death of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty!" ”

Having said this, there were new changes in the originally static courtyard, everything began to decompose into the smallest particles, these particles slowly rotated around the old man and Zhou Zhe, floating lightly in the air, shining like a galaxy, sinking and falling to the ground, recombining in twos and threes, mimicking a variety of forms, two handfuls of loess is a mountain, two drops of residual tea is a lake, and the mountains have the majesty of the mountains, the lake has the magnificence of the lake, and finally, when everything stops turning, the whole small courtyard has become a miniature version of the Central Continent shining with stars。

Zhou Zhe sat in the middle of the world, looking at the scene in amazement.

The old man continued: "Heaven and earth have righteousness, and they are mixed with manifolds. The lower part is the river mountain, and the upper part is the sun star. Since ancient times, the Central Continent has been affected by the changes in the vitality of heaven and earth caused by the fall of the stars, just like this. The old man said that he pointed his hand to a certain place on the mainland, and saw that a dust patch was flickering for a moment, as if a star blinked, and a wisp of dust and smoke floated on the ground corresponding to it.

"It's Xiangzhou, it seems that Xiangzhou is going to usher in a winter snow in the past two days, and the coming year will be a good year for a bumper harvest. The old man twisted his beard and smiled: "The flow of the stars and vitality is related to everything in the world, and the rain, dew and thunder in the mouths of the people are all heavenly graces, which is what it means." The real responsibility of the Tianqing Division is to observe the stars, to make predictions and responses to the impact of each star change on the world, and the cabinet of the Tianqing Division, in fact, is the Qianyuan Town Star Map in front of you, this map was originally created by Emperor Taizu with the power of the whole country, and the Gongji clan is more blind to the eyes of the whole clan for this map, this map can not only connect the mountains and rivers and stars, observe every star tide ups and downs, such as a backhand view, but also can change the influence and scope of the star tide to a certain extent, it can be said that it is the lifeblood of the Great Zhou Dynasty National Treasure, this map can only be used by the head of the Tianqing Division in each generation, for the teacher Li Chunyu is the master of the star map of Qianyuan Town in this generation, and so on for the teacher to tell the old, this is your responsibility。 ”

Zhou Zhe looked at the Zhenxing map in front of him and felt amazed, thinking that such a heavy responsibility would fall on him in the future, he couldn't help but be terrified, but after all, the young man's mind, after a while, curiosity prevailed, and when he found that the ban on his body had been lifted, he opened his mouth and asked: "Lao Li, you said that this is our Central Continent?

Seeing that Zhou Zhe's expression quickly returned to normal, Li Chunyu was very satisfied with the disciple's temperament, and replied with a smile: "Exactly, and you and I are Shengjing under our feet, and then you can see that there is a vast white mist that is buried water, and the place where the black star is shrouded is reckless." Li Chunyu's fingers moved slowly from south to south on the town star map, and with the sliding of his fingertips, the place where it was pointed was slightly lit up, and others called pointing to the country, which is the case, and finally, he pointed to a deep well at the edge of the town star map in the northernmost part of the small courtyard, and said angrily, "There is the White Lake." ”

Zhou Zhe looked at the wellhead in the distance, the quiet and elegant well on weekdays seemed a little inexplicably dark at this time, compared to it, the Sui River was just a wisp of water splashed out of the well, and he couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that the white lake is so big." ”

The White Lake, also known as the White Sea, is the largest lake at the northern end of the continent, and many branch rivers radiate to the entire grassland with the White Lake as the center, nourishing millions of cattle, sheep and wolves, and also raising the White Lake Grassland tribe group that is as tough and brave as wolves.

Between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the seventy-two tribes of the Baihu Grassland, they are separated by the moat of the Miyun Mountains. Originally, the water from the well did not interfere with the water of the river. Until the sixth year of Taizu Hongbao. The dense cloud festival made Bai Yujing cross the moat. Drive the horse to the shore of the White Sea. The two kingdoms, which were originally unrelated, are now connected.

However, it is a pity that the situation of harmonious coexistence between the two ethnic groups did not appear, and the grassland people coveted the fertile fields of the Great Zhou, and the Great Zhou people longed for the horses of the grassland. The conflict arose, and the Great Zhou and the White Lake tribe waged a decades-long war. In this war, the people of the Great Zhou were resolute and resolute. The grassland tribes are even more fearless of death, and when the war was at its worst, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty even hung his armor several times. How many heroes and famous generals on both sides, it is impossible to verify how many hot-blooded sons and daughters are buried in them. Until Emperor Renzong succeeded to the throne, under the pressure of generations of blood feuds and the government and the opposition, he overcame all difficulties and reached an armistice consensus with the major tribes of the Baihu grassland after years of negotiation and consultation, ending this war with no winner.

After being silent for a long time, Li Chunyu continued: "Every time there is a great star tide falling from the sky every two jiazi in the Central Continent, the vitality of heaven and earth will be affected, or the blessed land will open, or the saint will come out, the world will be rich, and all things will recover, which is the big and small years in the market. Counting the year, it should be the time of the arrival of this star tide. In the next three months, the teacher will stay at the side of the town star map, you also collect your heart, come to learn the use of the town star map from the teacher, after the Fengqing Festival, your good day of herding sheep will come to an end. ”

Zhou Zhe was in a hurry, the town star map is interesting, but it is really unbearable to accompany the master to sit here for three months, since Senior Sister Zhao married the grassland, there is not even a person to talk to in this department, not to mention that the uncle has returned to Beijing, and he must have brought back a lot of new and interesting things from the north.

Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't show anything on his face, only to see Zhou Zhe walking behind Li Chunyu, smiling and beating his shoulders, while saying: "Master Taoism is profound, where do you need to stare at this dead thing every day, in my opinion, you pinch your fingers and calculate when this star tide will come and where it will fall, not like pinching a snail with ten fingers? Not to mention the master, even the apprentice is taught by the master day and night, and now he can calculate a rough idea." As he spoke, Zhou Zhe stretched out a hand, pinched it a few times, and then casually pointed to a place in the Zhenxing map and said, "In my opinion, the star tide should come here at this time today." ”

Zhou Zhe looked determined, but what he thought in his heart was that as long as there was any wind and grass here today, he said to the master that this was an omen of the arrival of the star tide, and then when the old man closed the door and calculated, he would first find the uncle and play with him in the dark, it was best for the uncle to take himself when he went north, and go to the army to play, anyway, he would not fight now, and he would not die, and then return to Shengjing after this limelight passed, the master would be so spoiled by himself, he would not be willing to be punished.

Li Chunyu looked at the place that Zhou Zhe was pointing at with a dumb smile, and said: "This Star Tide can happen anywhere in the Central Continent, but only here, it is absolutely impossible."

"Why is this? You don't count how do you know!" Zhou Zhe knew that something must have gone wrong, but he was still dying.

"Because the star tide doesn't come to the same place twice. Li Chunyu stood with his hands in his hands, looked at the imperial city, kicked on Zhou Zhe's buttocks, and said with a smile: "Don't think that the teacher doesn't know the little Jiujiu in your heart, honestly come to the division to study for a year, if your senior sister is still there, this star map will not fall on your head, and now it is your blessing to witness the birth of the star tide! If this matter is too important, the teacher will not be sleepless day and night in the past few days to read Mr. Xiaoman's new book, not because you will not have this leisure in the future, you will not go anywhere after Fengqing, and let the teacher save snacks。。。。。。 ”

"Lao Li... Li Chunyu was still instructing in detail, but Zhou Zhe suddenly stretched out his hand and trembled to the place where the star tide could never have occurred just now.

"What?" Li Chunyu turned his head leisurely, looked in the direction of Zhou Zhe's finger, and then suddenly widened his eyes, only to see that the nebula was gradually gathering in a swirl shape and becoming extremely bright, and a small sun appeared in the small courtyard for a moment, and then, all the stars condensed at one point, and suddenly pierced towards the mountains and rivers in the picture, the sky and the river hung upside down, and the stars entered the ground!

Li Chunyu and Zhou Zhe looked at everything that happened in front of them in amazement, and after a while, they looked at each other and shouted together: "Star tide!"