Tracing the Origins of the Past Chapter 52.5, Branch Line 29
The flooded city, the city is surrounded by water, the mountains are surrounded by colorful clouds, the forest is full of wilderness, the wild hidden forest, and the shade of the trees is full of hearts. Jiangnan show, drunk and sorrowful, like rhyme and poetry, willow and soft. The end of the world is not cloudy, but there is Jiangzhou in the world.
Located in the north of Hongzhou, this Jiangzhou city is worthy of being the beautiful place in the south of the Yangtze River, the scenery is enchanting, the water and the sky are the same color, and it is unique in ancient times! It is also close to the Poyang Lake, but it is far better than the buds of Hongzhou, only because it happens to be in the charm of the Yangtze River, and the green grass grows long, so that it can be cultivated so beautifully. Xunyang County, the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, is named after Xunyang Tower, and the phoenix perched in the praise of the former people, this place is also!
Wang Yin and Fu Silin marched northwest from Quanzhou, passing through mountains and villages and towns, traveling thousands of miles, and finally arrived here.
In the city of Jiangzhou, commerce and trade are prosperous, all industries are prosperous, and pedestrians are like ants chasing sugar, swarming the streets. Wang Yin and Fu Silin worked hard all the way, and decided to spend a few nights in a large restaurant, staying here for a few more days, holding a glimmer of hope at the same time, you can also enjoy the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers under Kuanglu, maybe a good luck, here really found the traces of his brother Wang Gui.
At night, when the locals were holding a lantern festival (temple fair), Wang Yin stood by the window of the guest room of the restaurant, looking at the jubilant crowd downstairs, and his playfulness was spontaneous, so he immediately ran to the door of the guest room next door and shouted at the door: "Miss Fu, the lantern exhibition is being held here, and there are many people crowded downstairs, why don't we go down and go shopping together?" Fu Silin seemed to be left out by someone along the way, with a sad face. Depressed, I finally heard Wang Yin invite him to go downstairs to play together, but he suddenly had an unknown fire, looked at the door angrily and said: "If you want to go, you can go by yourself, you have to pull me to do something, you go alone, it's not that you can't find a home and are afraid that you won't be able to come back, it's true." Can't you come in and chat with me?" Wang Yin's bright smile immediately showed a trace of disappointment, and he could only reply to the person in the room and say, "Oh, then, okay, then you can rest in it alone, I'll go downstairs for a walk, and I'll come up in a while." He picked up the bodyless sword wrapped in blue cloth and went downstairs.
Wang Yin came downstairs, all kinds of lanterns and candles connected the street, plus the full moon and stars, and a finger could be faintly seen in the dark night when he couldn't see his fingers. He walked along the street, came to a prosperous area, which was even more crowded, and many big men lined up to drill into a large building, and looked at the plaque of the wooden building by the still bright lights, only to see the huge "soft incense pavilion" three big characters immediately reflected in the eye. Wang Yin was startled, probably knew what this place was, and immediately turned around and was about to turn back, when a young businessman who was standing under the soft incense attic and was trying to win over guests happened to see him and shouted: "Second son, why are you here?" When Wang Yin heard it, this voice seemed to have been heard somewhere, and it was indeed familiar, so he turned around again and looked at the young businessman who was walking towards him, and the businessman spoke again: "Second son, don't you remember me? I am Brother Ding, Brother Ding, do you remember?" Wang Yin opened his mouth "Oh" as if he had come to a big understanding, and said: "Oh, it's Brother Ding, aren't you selling oil in Luoyang City, why did you come to the south of the Yangtze River?" Brother Ding said: "Hey, since you all moved away, my oil shop business is not good, there are few people to buy it, the oil has been broken for a long time, and if it is broken, it can only be poured out, what a loss of the old capital!" So, now I'm going to the south to do business again, and I just opened this brothel not long ago, and wow, the customers are so many, and I made back what I lost at once. Wang Yin said: "Oh, it seems that Brother Ding is now a rich party, he really has the ability!haha!" Brother Ding immediately said: "Where do I have any ability, your villa is really capable, you can foresee the future, just a few days after the decryption villa moved away, many forces in the rivers and lakes rushed to your villa, even the martial arts alliance leader Wan Datie and the chief head of Xilin Temple, Luoyun Shitai, also went, saying that they were grabbing a sword, uh, I don't remember, in short, they all went to grab it!" Wang Yin was shocked, pinched Brother Ding's shoulders with both hands, and said with both hands shaking vigorously: "It turns out that after we left, so many things happened, but my whole family didn't hear about it at all, that Luoyun Shitai was the murderer who killed my parents, it turned out that it was also because of this bodyless sword, do you know where Luoyun's female demon is now?" Brother Ding was shaken top-heavy, and said uncomfortably: "Two, two, second son, you calm down, don't be like this, I, how can I know, ouch, you stop first, stop first!" Wang Yin immediately let go of his hand and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, Brother Ding." The enmity of my parents is not shared, and I really can't control the feeling of killing Luoyun's evil nun. Brother Ding said: "It turns out that the owner of the village has been killed, hey, the second son, it's inconvenient to talk here, come, let's talk in the house!" Wang Yin waved his hand straight, and stammered: "No, no, I won't go in, I'm me, I don't, don't ......" Brother Ding smiled and said: "Oh, let's go, it's not for you to go in and help me do business, we're just looking for a side hall to talk, hey, let's go!" Wang Yin's hand was grabbed by Brother Ding, and he pulled Wang Yin like a cow and refused to move forward, but he was still dragged in by Brother Ding.
Although Brother Ding opened a brothel, his character was not bad, and he really took Wang Yin to a quiet side hall where no outsiders disturbed, and then asked: "Second son, if Ding is not wrong, the sword you are carrying is a bodyless sword, how unsafe it is for you to take it alone to wander the rivers and lakes, and it will be ...... when someone with vision sees it" Wang Yin said:" My uncle told me that my father had given me the Bodyless Sword before he died, so that I could find out the secret, but it didn't look like it was still a sword, and where was the secret! Brother Ding said: "Oh, so the eldest prince doesn't know that the owner and his wife have ...... Hey, uh, can you take out the bodyless sword and let me take a look, maybe I can find some clues. Wang Yin stared at Brother Ding's eyes, the two of them were stunned for a moment at the same time, Wang Yin then said, "Well, Brother Ding, look!" immediately untied the thick cloth bag on his back, put it on the ground and pushed it to roll, after many layers of blue cloth were rolled away, a dull blue-green sword was rolled out, and Brother Ding picked it up and studied it.
Brother Ding looked at it for a while, and then asked Wang Yin: "Second son, have you tried to disassemble it?" Wang Yin said: "Split......?" Brother Ding said: "This bodyless sword has been called a bodyless sword for thousands of years, hasn't anyone ever thought about why he has no body?" This sword blade, blade, and hilt are all there, and there is no bodyless, and no body is no body, and the sword has no body, and the sword has no body, isn't there only a hilt left without a body, take it apart and see." Wang Yin felt that Brother Ding's analysis was very correct and indeed reasonable, but how could such a sharp and wide sword be separated? Brother Ding came up with another idea: "Since this sword is so hard, if it can't be hard, let's make it soft! This sword is not made of ordinary steel, although it is extremely hard, it is easy to destroy. The second son knows that limestone is also extremely hard, but when it encounters water, it will naturally burn, and the lime will burn itself, burn soft, and burn into mud. Wang Yin looked at Brother Ding sincerely, and said in a deep voice: "It is really a gift from God to me to meet Brother Ding today, Brother Ding, thank you!" Brother Ding was so frightened that he immediately went to bring a basin of water and poured it on the bodyless sword, only to see white smoke rising and "rustling" sound. After a while, the sword body automatically dissolved into green mud, Wang Yin picked up the long hilt and looked at it, sure enough, there was a small hole in the place where the sword handle and the sword body were connected, only a hole as thick as a finger, Wang Yin shook the hole downward, and a bamboo slip fell out, and it was written in pre-Qin characters "The South Peak of Huashan Mountain Falls Yanfeng Ganoderma lucidum" A few big characters, Wang Yin was puzzled, and asked Brother Ding what this meant, Brother Ding shook his head when he saw it, and then said to Wang Yin with tears in his eyes: " I am an inferior person, a businessman in agriculture and industry, I am the lowest level of society, but I can help the second son to complete this immortal work, and I have no regrets in this life. This sword is useless, the second son quickly memorizes the words on the bamboo slip, maybe he will be useful one day. I burned both things with fire, so that the unscrupulous would not be inadvertently discovered. Second Prince, have you written it down?" Wang Yin nodded suspiciously, only to see that Brother Ding immediately took a shovel to dig up the soil next to the house, buried the dissolved cold copper mud and sword hilt in the ground, and then burned the bamboo slips with fire, and then said to Wang Yin: "Second Prince, go quickly, get out of here, there are many people nearby, so as not to cause misfortune." Wang Yin hugged his fists and said goodbye and returned to the guest room of the restaurant, while Brother Ding put the torch lit with bamboo slips on his body and burned himself alive, because he didn't want to be forced by anyone to ask the secret of the bodyless sword, he was not humiliated, and was willing to sacrifice himself for Wang Yin's desire to avenge!
Sure enough, on top of another luxurious wooden building not far away that sells supper, a man with a hat had been drinking there and watching the brothel owner downstairs opposite pulling a young man into the house sneakily, and then came out to dig the dirt with a shovel and a series of other things, he had already felt that something was wrong, but he never made a move, wanting to see what the brothel owner wanted to do, but the young man left, but he didn't see the man go out to greet the guests again, feeling very strange, he immediately put down the silver on the dining table, jumped to the downstairs of the opposite brothel to see, the boss actually set himself on fire, has been burned to ashes, and then dug up the soil he had moved before his death, found a sword hilt and a puddle of cyan mud, suddenly startled, the whole body trembled, and said to himself: "Such a thing was buried so secretly, ah, this, isn't this the same color as the sword in the Decryption Mountain Villa that day?
This person is Wu Chang Song, invited by the Zen master Feige to pass the book, just received the money and tasks from the Donglin Temple at the foot of Lushan Mountain to Jiangzhou City, and was about to go to Saibei to assassinate Wan Datie, and inadvertently discovered this earth-shattering secret. But the commission of Huachen is limited in time, and he can no longer trace the traces of the young man just now, so he can only go north to do things first!
Wang Yin looked worried on his face, and returned to the restaurant with his head down, Fu Silin had been waiting for him at the door of Wang Yin's room for a long time, and asked: "Why have you been there for so long, didn't you say that you will come back when you go out for a walk, and you lie to me again!" Wang Yin said absentmindedly: "Oh, I'm sorry, please get out of the way!" Fu Silin was even more annoyed, her eyebrows furrowed, her body swinged, and she let Wang Yin get out of the way, only to see Wang Yin push open the door less than an inch in front of him, and go in alone. Fu Silin immediately pushed open her door and went in, slammed it shut again, threw herself on the bed, covered her head with the quilt and convulsed her body and cried. Maybe God doesn't even know why she's doing that.
The morning glow of the next day spread in the sky again, and Wang Gui and Luoyun, who had been on the road for several days, went all the way north from Dali and also came to Jiangzhou City. An even more unbelievable thing also happened "without a coincidence", that is, Zhao Qingling was about to rush back to his home in Bianjing, took a boat from Hongzhou to the north, and came to Jiangzhou City by water. I really don't know what kind of mystery will be staged in this beautiful place on the north edge of Lushan Mountain and the south bank of the Yangtze River.
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