The Scroll of the Waves [Chapter 27] Purgatory on Earth

"You said that this old Li Tou doesn't know what happened recently, running to Erniang's widow's house every day, isn't it that he has been holding back for a long time and wants to eat grass by the nest?"

"Hey, you don't know that Erniang's skillful threading of the needle, the fire, cooking, sweeping the house, feeding the chickens, that is good at everything, I heard that when I was young, I also worked as a maid in a big family, and I knew a few words, and then the old family left, and the little one had a good heart, and he married her..."

Two peasant women, with pot pulp, were talking and laughing while walking on the field path, and behind them were fertile and flat, with a radius of hundreds of miles and Wudang Mountain.

"Well, then she is a little pitiful, how can she be a widow," said one of the fat farmers, covering his mouth.

"Shhh

"Oh yo," the fat farmer listened, and his eyes were full of pity.

"Isn't the long-tongued woman who talks behind people's backs afraid of going to hell after death?"

As he was talking, there was a burst of coquettishness from the west, and two peasant women didn't need to look at it, but they only saw a woman dressed in sackcloth, a woman with a scarf, her eyebrows were angry, her face was angry, and she was carrying a sieve on her side, although she was dissatisfied, she was in a different temperament.

"There are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door! Soon, let's go!" the thin peasant woman whispered again and again, and the fat peasant woman seemed to have to leave, and when she passed by, the fat farmer looked back at the woman, and she didn't know how much shame and sympathy, and after a while, she went away.

The woman is the second mother in the mouth of the two women, since the soul of the outer son is broken, she washes her face with tears all day long, and the pillow cloth is wet over and over again, but she is strong and self-reliant, and she can't do farm work, but there is a pair of skillful hand-woven cloth shoes, all of which are costly to take care of the work during the day, take care of raising chickens and ducks, and in the evening, it is convenient to mend clothes under the shadow of the lonely lamp to make a living, even if it is hard, it is not difficult.

But as the two women said, the most poisonous thing in the world is nothing more than people's words, at the beginning, everyone sympathized with Erniang a lot, but she was born beautiful, causing jealousy, and there was a treacherous villain, slandering behind her back, saying something, "How can other people's husbands come back in a good manner, and her man is buried in the wilderness, is it not that someone is outside who is in love with a hot conspire to kill his husband." Another person said: "I heard that the county master's family came to recruit people last time, looked at Erniang's beauty, and stayed in the scholarly door for a while, so he was happy to accept her as a child!" and someone else said: "But isn't it, I heard that the son went back not long after he inexplicably contracted a strange disease and died, which made the county master sad and angry, and levied a lot of miscellaneous taxes on us, fortunately, in the village, the village chief came out and there was an old show who came forward, and the county master did not dare to force each other, so that the disaster was avoided!"

The so-called "three people become tigers, accumulate and destroy the bones", the village rumors continue to rumor, and most of the villagers have no opinions, plus the roar of the lion in Hedong at home, gradually alienated Erniang, not only that, but even more famous on the mountain Xuanwu Temple said that Erniang is a fierce star, the reincarnation of the fox demon, and the fate of Kefu makes the superstitious farmers regret contacting her, and they are worried and panicked.

Erniang ignored it at first, but then she was extremely angry, so she also retaliated with a tooth for a tooth, who dared to say it to her face, she would make a tongue and a sword to meet her, she had a little ink on her chest, and the women of the whole village were not her opponents combined, so no one dared to put her right when she came and went, and most of them said secretly like the thin woman. But in this way, Erniang has an extra shrew's hat, but why should she care about how much she splashes when she is sewage?

It's a pity if that's the case... Erniang looked up to the east, sitting alone on the edge of the field, staring at the birds outside the sky, the clouds and the curly on the side, the hoe was brand new, and the mud stains were not stained, thinking that it had not moved all day.

Erniang looked at him, changed her smiling face, and walked gently towards the man.

"Brother Li!" a shout was passed to startle Lao Li, and when he looked back, the woman quickly got up and said, "Erniang, why are you here?"

"I'll bring you some food. Erniang chuckled and said, took out a piece of snow-white pastry spread in the sieve, and handed it to Lao Li, who took it and thanked him repeatedly, and put it in his mouth, intuitively delicious and delicious, and asked with relish, "What is this, so delicious?"

Erniang covered her mouth and giggled: "Brother Li, have you forgotten that the slave family used to be a maid in a big family, this is called "Snow Jade Ning Xiang Cake", but I begged the master for a long time before he agreed to give it to me, I heard him say that this cake has a great origin, it is the famous sentence of the palace royal roll call from the poet fairy Li Bai, "A branch of red dew condenses incense, and the clouds and rain Wushan break the intestines in vain"..."

"Is it? Haha, this Li Bai is very famous, he only hates me, and he doesn't recognize a few big characters, but he listens to this very catchy, but he doesn't know what it means?"

Erniang's face was slightly red, and she lightly opened her thin lips and said, "What I said is, "The pretty beauty is like a peony with red dew, and the meeting between the king of Chu and the goddess is just a legend..." ”

Lao Li couldn't help but look stunned when he heard this, his eyes were blurred, and the appearance of the woman in Tsing Yi dancing with her sleeves flying, only looking at Erniang's lips opening and closing, he couldn't hear what she said anymore.

"Yunyu Wushan is in vain... "Old Li Shensi didn't belong to the left and right, so that Erniang talked about Xing and lost her face, and she didn't say anything anymore, just put down the pastry, and suddenly she thought of something, and asked carefully: "Brother Li, where is Brother Zhao, why didn't you see him come back?"

As soon as these words came out, it was tantamount to a flying stone stirring up a thousand waves, and Lao Li Dengshi's eyes were in tears, and the situation was revealed at the moment, but Erniang's face was pale, and she sat on the ground, muttering: "Another one... Another one..."

Lao Li felt that there was a lot of hidden truth in it, and he hurriedly said: "What, there is another one?"

"It was very dark that day..."Erniang lowered her eyebrows and said slowly, "Just the day before you went up the mountain, the dolls of the old man Wu in the village were clamoring to eat wild meat, how could he be coaxed, I kindly asked him if he wanted a pheasant, then the old man Wu looked at me like a ghost, and dodged again and again, so I had to give up..."

"What a fucking bastard!" Lao Li scolded bitterly, and listened to Erniang continue, "That day, the old man Wu went up the mountain in the dark night with a bow and arrows on his back and a hunting knife, and he later said that after going up the mountain, it was easy to find a lost white deer after years of experience, and he was trying to catch it back to relieve his hunger and take the bow to lead the string, when he suddenly heard a burst of laughter..."

The Orion looked for the sound, only to see the grass gray, and the smoke was dim, and there was a Taoist priest standing in the middle of the misery with a sword in his hand, and said coldly: "This is the realm of the Xuanwu Temple, who allowed you to come here to hunt?", the Orion heard it and asked angrily, "This has always been a borderless land, when has it become the territory of the Taoist Temple again?", the man did not answer, but when he heard a sneer, the sword light flashed, and the Orion screamed, and the bow and arrow were cut off, and his entire right arm was cut off!" Ling Jiange recalled, sitting on the bank of the stream.

"How can this be reasonable!" Su Qingyue's face was slightly cold and said, "Is it that Yunling?"

"Not bad. Ling Jiange frowned and said lightly: "His swordsmanship is not bad, I was going to the top of the mountain, I wanted to find a place to practice, I didn't want to just let me meet, so I fought with him, after sixty moves, I fell down sharply, rose up, and the courage of the water was worthy of a draw with him, I looked at a gap that could pierce his throat, but I didn't expect that guy to dodge it, but it hurt his shoulder, the fighter plane has passed, and it is difficult to plot, and I will be invincible, I originally intended to die with him, who expected that Master Lingyun was out of luck, and the stone was like a flying shuttle, and a hit him in the back, making him spit blood, but he didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, hahaha. Speaking of which, I think of Lingyun Dao people, with a chic posture and a bright smile.

"That's nature..."Su Qingyue nodded and said, "When I was ten years old, I went to Yandang Mountain, and four of the "Five Sects in the World" have been there. Since then, the world's martial arts have taken the "Five Sects" as Mount Tai and Beidou, and ordinary martial artists are insurmountable in their lives. ”

"Five Sects, which are the Five Sects?" Ling Jiange said curiously, "Master Venerable is actually such a person?"

"Our Heavenly Abandonment Valley Lord Qin Yuming is good at swordsmanship, and the legal person calls it "Thousand Miles of Dreams", which is naturally the "Sword Sect"..."Su Qingyue said.

"Then the master must be the 'Sword Sect'?" Ling Jiange said with a smile, he said in his heart: "The master's swordsmanship is like a god, and the 'Sword Sect' is considered to be humiliated, and it should be called the 'Sword Immortal'!"

Unexpectedly, Su Qingyue shook her head and said, "Although Lingyun's real swordsmanship is high, it is not a "Sword Sect", but a "Qi Sect". ”

"What?" Ling Jian Geqi said, "Is there anyone else who is higher than Shizun's swordsmanship?"

"Gao is not necessarily just Lingyun Zhenren, the most powerful thing is not swordsmanship, but internal force. Su Qingyue thought for a moment and said, "If you want to say 'Sword Sect', there are other people, hmm, have you heard of Li Bai?"

"The name of the poet is like thunder, I have never read a book, and I have heard of it. Ling Jiange nodded.

"In fact, he not only writes poetry, but his swordsmanship is also extremely high, 20 years ago, when you and I were not born, his prestige spread throughout the martial arts, and those who have good deeds named him with his poems, calling him "drunken songs, crazy pen, sword breaking the west wind, things are clothes, fame is a dream"

"What a great ability!" Ling Jiange didn't want to be so big in the world, he really had a genius who was both civil and military, and his admiration came out spontaneously, blurting out praise.

"That's natural, but even more powerful is his master, the great swordsman "Sword Saint" Pei Min, who is known as "the sword crown of the Tang Dynasty, famous through the ages". ”

"Sword Crown, all Tang, I'm afraid this tone is going to blow through the sky!" Ling Jiange was full of disbelief, "This is a bit exaggerated to say that his swordsmanship is the crown of the entire Tang Kingdom!"

"Hey, that's not what I said. Su Qingyue said with a smile: "You don't believe it, go back and ask Lingyun real person, and immediately know the truth or falsehood." After that, he replied, "The other one is my mentor, so you can continue to talk about it, what happened later?"

Ling Jiange sighed when he heard this, and said, "What else can it be, that Yunling naturally ran away, the master came out, lit the Orion acupoint, stopped the bleeding, caught the white deer, and sent him back to the village..."

"You still killed the deer?" Although Su Qingyue was a man, her daughter's heart couldn't bear to listen to this after all.

"Of course. Ling Jiange said strangely, "Otherwise, what should I do?"

"But... But that's a life..."Su Qingyue frowned.

"A gentleman who is a beast and a beast cannot bear to see his death, and when he hears his voice, he cannot bear to eat his flesh; A burst of laughter came, as if the afterglow of the jade flute and sheng flute was long, clear and bright, and the people of Lingyun Dao walked slowly towards the edge of the abyss in their cloud shirts. Su Qingyue knew that this came from "Mencius", which said that a gentleman could not bear to kill an animal when he saw it alive, and when he heard the scream of his killing, he could not bear to eat the food made of it, and this kind of compassion was the biggest difference between a gentleman and an animal, so in order to avoid the torture of conscience, he should stay away from the kitchen and cooking place.

"Niubi, you're eavesdropping again!" Ling Jiange said with a smile, this is very disrespectful, Su Qingyue was stunned on the spot when she heard this, but she didn't mind hearing Ling Yun Dao Ren smiled and said, "Little beast, I'm eavesdropping again!"

"It's going to be a hundred moves away today!" Ling Jiange said with a smile, and Ling Yun Dao replied with a smile, "Bullnose doesn't believe it!"

"If you don't believe it, it's best! If you want to underestimate the enemy, I can pass two hundred moves!" Ling Jiange's laughter was not only swept backwards, but he was like a goose returning to the eagle, Gu supported the ground with both hands, pulled up a few feet in the air, and the shadows of his feet and legs were all over the sky, as if the stars were pouring towards the Lingyun Dao people! Su Qingyue was surprised in his heart, but after ten years, he couldn't keep up with him! I only suspect that Auntie poured the medicine by mistake, and the jade shadow shook the light and filled the galaxy!"

"Bull nose, my trick is a trick realized by watching the sky at night the night before yesterday, can you still look at the past?" Ling Jiange said with a smile, but when he saw Lingyun Dao people smiling, his figure suddenly stopped, and Ling Jiange kicked it, wrapped around his calves, and threw his whole person out with a snort, and fell into the stream with a thud.

"Phew!"

The young man raised his head and spit out sewage again and again, soaking wet, his hair hanging down behind him in bundles, like a chicken in soup, and Su Qingyue laughed again and again.

"You little brute has learned an appearance, so you can show off this long memory?" Lingyun Daoist laughed, and the latter climbed ashore with a red face and a look of disbelief in his eyes.

"If you don't accept it? Ling Yun Dao said with a smile, but Ling Jiange just stared at it for a while and sat down angrily.

"Don't you disagree with me and ask you, "What is it?" Lingyun Daoren said with a smile.

"The Tao is the truth, what is the reason to ask?" Ling Jiange muttered, "Let me look at the sky, the earth, the mountains and the water, and now I am talking about a bunch of truths that make people so angry." ”

"Then what is the truth?" Lingyun Daoist suddenly asked, Ling Jiange was stunned for a moment and said to himself, "The truth? The truth is the truth... What else?"

"What else, after the old man Wu came back, his entire right hand was gone, and Langzhong in the village didn't have anything to do..."Erniang sighed, "The Wu family cried and said that I killed him, and the old Wu said that I was a dead star..."

"Hmph! Dead and clean, mouth owes retribution!" Lao Li patted his thigh and said, and Erniang hurriedly ordered him to stop so as not to cause trouble.

"Then who sent that old Wu back? He had his arms cut off, but he was afraid that he would not be able to leave. Lao Li asked again, and suddenly what came to mind widened, "Is it a sloppy little beggar?"

"What a little beggar, when it is an old fairy!" Er Niang wondered, "That person is casually sloppy, but he is not a beggar or a child." She recalls that day.

Lao Li's heart was bright: "Old immortal, it must be the longest! I don't know if Miss Su said that my wine was delivered, and I don't know if it suits his appetite..."

"You kid has a bad temperament, but he has a poor appetite, but you must know that although there are shortcuts to martial arts, it is by no means overnight, and it is like a majestic mountain, how can you enjoy the strange and wonderful scenery at the top of the mountainside?" Lingyun Daoist said slowly, "The truth is the "law", the origin of all things in the world, the dead branches and fallen trees flow to the east, and the flowers bloom and the clouds pass away. ”

While speaking, the Taoist priest paced east, Ling Jiange looked at him, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, only to see the footsteps of the Lingyun Daoist passing, the withered grass raised its head, the butterflies danced, and everything around it was full of vitality in spring!

Su Qingyue shouted, "What kind of kung fu is this?"

Lingyun Taoist said with a smile: "This internal skill has no name, and the poor Taoist is called "Dangche Gong", since twenty years ago, the Taoist priest realized this skill in the deep mountains and valleys, and has not tasted a defeat so far. ”

Ling Jian Geqi said, "Can I also learn such ingenious skills?"

"Look at you. Lingyun Daoist said casually, "Everyone is bull-nosed, relying on the sword in their hands, looking at the world with a sword, and returning to the truth with a sword in their sleeves, but they don't know that what is really powerful is the internal strength that supports these two peerless learnings! Poor Dao has always been casual and casual, and even the transmission of martial arts generally does not have so many stereotypes and bad opinions, so it can be passed on to people in the court such as Chen Xuanli, and it can also be passed on to innocent children like Fan Qin. But as the saying goes, "Master leads the way to practice in the individual", and what you will achieve in the future is not something that the poor Tao can say!"

"Master!" Ling Jiange was very moved when he heard Lingyun Daoist's heartbreak, tears flowed down like a bead, and the Taoist priest smiled and said, "You kid! If you really want to repay the old man, you should feel it and experience it well, the Taoist method is naturally the fundamental principle, and it is also the foundation of the "Dang Che Gong"!"

After saying that, he dismantled the moves with the young man, Su Qingyue wanted to avoid it, but listened to Lingyun Daodao: "Old man Qin and Gongsun Niang value you very much, see if you can enter the territory from my moves?" Su Qingyue heard the Taoist priest shouting out that his master also nodded and stayed in place, but seeing that the two of them were flying up and down, they had already fought a hundred moves, Ling Jiange's fist and foot kung fu became more and more aggressive, and the Taoist priest became stronger and stronger.

In this way, more than ten days have passed, Ling Jiange's intuition is full of true qi in his body, and he observes the sky every night and the mountains and rivers during the day, and he has actually practiced martial arts, which is really a miracle in the world. Of course, it was Lingyun Daoist who opened up the meridians for him at the time of the fight, but because of his extremely clever technique, no one knew about it.

Su Qingyue also gained a lot from it, and the Taoist people pointed out Su Qingyue's knife skills from time to time, and she actually got out of the cage of the "Flowing Warbler Flying Flotsam Knife" and began to develop in a new direction, which made her overjoyed, practicing harder every day.

On the evening of this day, Ling Jiange was trying to find Lingyun Dao people for dinner, but she didn't see anyone, Su Qingyue asked the young man to go with her and sneak silently, but she didn't know why.

The two walked through the forest and around the trees to a cliff outside the color forest, but they saw the Taoist priest in white clothes facing the cliff and looking at a simple stone tablet in a daze, and the wine pot sent by Lao Li in front of the monument was still placed there, in addition to the wine, a broken arrow was offered in front of the monument.

"Coming?" the Taoist priest didn't look back and said lightly, his voice was less cynical and more gloomy and sad.

"Bull's nose..."Ling Jiange scratched his head, wanting to say something, but he couldn't say it. Su Qingyue had the courage to step forward to look at the stone stele, but saw that the regular script on the stele was neatly written: "Brother Zhang Xun through the ages" and wondered: "Who is this person?

Lingyun Dao people changed their old teasing expressions, stared at the blue sky with their eyes, let out a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "Once upon a time, there was a family with a rich family, and there was a pair of brothers in the family who were extremely harmonious, like-minded, and like siblings..."

Ling Jiange and Su Qingyue stopped speaking when they heard the words of the Taoist priest, the two of them had never seen him in such a situation since they met Lao Dao, and they listened quietly for a while, and did not dare to interrupt.

However, as they got older, the two brothers began to disagree, the elder brother liked the career of the official, intended to be famous, the younger brother did not like poetry and books, and was happy to be quiet, so the two argued many times or parted ways. The elder brother finally became a protΓ©gΓ© of the Son of Heaven in high school, but the younger brother wandered outside the valley and did not know where to go..."

When Ling Su and the others heard this, they both knew in their hearts, was the younger brother looking for Gu Gu talking about the Taoist himself?

Lingyun Daoist said slowly: "My younger brother wandered the world and became a rebel of the Xuanmen, and was hunted down and killed by the Taoist because he hated Huang Lao's method of escaping the world. After ten thousand deaths, I was lucky to be trapped in the valley and the pond, and I didn't want to be blessed by misfortune, and I realized the Great Dao and practiced a martial arts to go to Long Fei and laugh at the rivers and lakes..."

"It turns out that the Dao Leader is also a hard-working person?" Ling Jiange thought so, and the corner of his eyes skimmed to Su Qingyue's face, only to see the girl slightly moved, and his eyes contained sadness, obviously he also felt empathy.

Lingyun Daoist leaned down and sat in front of the stele, staring at the stele and said, "I thought that the two brothers would never see each other again, and I didn't want to... Brother An Lu Pocheng stubbornly defended and resisted desperately..."Speaking of this, Daoist tears slid down his cheeks, and Ling Su and the others were about to step forward to comfort them, but they heard the Taoist priest ask: "Boy, what will you do if you are allowed to defend the city and run out of food?"

This question came out of the way, Ling Jiange was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "I will eat livestock."

"Have you finished eating the animals?"

"Eat the turf. ”

"What if there is no grass in the city?"

"Eat cloth. ”

"What should I do if I eat cloth and have no clothes to protect myself from the cold?"

"That's... Then the only way to do this is to gather forces and fight the enemy to the death!"

Su Qingyue also nodded when she heard this: "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, so worthy of my heart!"

After hearing this, the Lingyun Dao people smiled bitterly and said, "Worthy of your heart, if the enemy occupies your city as a stronghold and burns the war to more places, can you still talk like this?"

Su Ling and the others were stunned, their young man was a chivalrous man, but he didn't know that the battlefield was thousands of life and death, if the Lord would only think about death to repay the king's kindness, it would undoubtedly push the tens of millions of people behind him into the Infernal Hell.

"Then what else!" Ling Jiange took a step forward and said unconvinced, "If you don't have anything to eat, is it difficult to eat people?"

As soon as these words came out, the four fields were silent, and the Taoist priest was silent, which made the two of them frightened, Su Qingyue covered her mouth with a dumbfounded voice, and her voice trembled: "That person... He..."

"The first person he killed was his own concubine. "Lingyun Daoren's voice pierced into the hearts of the two of them like a steel cone...

"The second one to kill is his wife," Ling Yun Dao's words were like cold ice, but Ling Jian Ge felt more and more unbearable the more he listened, and said, "Don't say it... Don't say it..."

"Under his leadership, the soldiers of Suiyang City started from children to women, and then to old people..."Lingyun Dao people closed their eyes and paused word by word.

"Ate half of the city's soldiers and civilians..."