Chapter 42 Laoshan Mountain

Laoshan Mountain is known as the first mountain on the sea. Located in the east of Qingdao, the main peak of Laoshan is called "Jufeng", also known as "Laoding", has the name of "the first famous mountain on the sea", in ancient times, Changchun, Sanfeng repaired the aisle, Qin Huang, Han Wu sought immortals, there are nine palaces, eight views and seventy-two nunnery, and there are thousands of Taoist priests in the whole mountain.

There is an ancient saying in Laoshan that says: "Although Mount Tai is high in the clouds, it is not as good as Laoshan in the East China Sea." It can be seen that the beauty of the clouds on the sea of Laoshan Mountain, the wonder of the natural scenery, legend has it that Qin Shi Huang in order to make himself immortal, once personally climbed Laoshan to look at Yingzhou, watch Penglai, and let the monk Xu Fu go to the sea from not far from here to seek the elixir of immortality. It is said that the stone carving of "Waves and Seas Soaring to the Sky - The First Emperor Traveled to This Mountain in the 28th Year" on the mountain road on the east side of the Taiqing Palace was left at that time. It is recorded in the historical books that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also "worshiped the gods and men in the Jiaomen Palace" here. Li Bai also came here to ask for immortals to visit the Tao, and left the verses of "I used to be on the East China Sea, Laoshan Meal Purple Dew", in addition to the eight immortal piers of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", the chessboard stone of the "Rotten Ke Chess Game" where the immortals played chess, the immortal peaches that fell from the sky of the "Great Sage Stealing Peach", etc., are countless, it can be said that there is no stone in Laoshan and there is no story, and the caves have left legends.

At this time, Zhou Yunhe, a Taoist of Laoshan Mountain, brought Zen to the foot of Laoshan Mountain, hiked up the mountain, walked on the bluestone path of Laoshan Mountain, and could see two kinds of scenery: on one side is the blue sea and the sky, the waves crash on the shore; on the other side is the green pine strange stones, lush and green, seeing such a scene, Zen heart can not help but admire.

Along the way, the two were quite familiar with each other, so Liao Chan asked Zhou Yunhe beside him: "Senior, I have heard the story of the Five Dragon Caves in Laoshan Mountain, I wonder if Laoshan has anything to do with the Dragon Clan?"

Zhou Yunhe said with a smile: "This is not true, there are no real dragons left in the world now, only some dragons, poisonous dragons, and elephant dragons, but we have no contact with them." It's just that there was once a White Dragon Daoist in Laoshan who cultivated in the Five Dragons Cave, but he was really from the Dragon Clan. ”

The ancients said, "The mountain is not high, the name is immortal, the water is not deep, and the dragon is spiritual." "Laoshan has immortals and dragons, mountains and waters, and it really deserves to be "the house of the gods, the house of the supernatural." ”

Zhou Yunhe smiled: "Of course it's true, my senior brother's White Dragon Sword was obtained from the Five Dragons Cave. ”

After that, Zhou Yunhe introduced this Bailong Dao person, it turned out that there was a white eel in Bailong Bay here in the past, and he often went to the stone cave above to do penance. One day, the immortal Zhang Guo came here on a donkey, and when he saw his extraordinary skills, he knew that he could achieve a positive result, so he made a point. With the help of the immortals, the white eel turned into a white dragon.

The Dragon Palace of the East China Sea has jurisdiction over the Quartet Dragon Clan, and the white eel will be under the control of the Dragon King of the East China Sea after the dragon, so on the birthday of the old Dragon King, the little white dragon went to the East China Sea to pay homage to the old Dragon King, and the result fell in love with the youngest daughter of the Dragon King of the East China Sea at first sight, and the two of them made a private engagement for life. But the old dragon king disagreed, it turned out that the dragon girl had a marriage contract, and the dragon king refused to lose face, so he had to force his daughter to marry the son of the dragon king of the South China Sea. The son of the Dragon King of the South China Sea was short-tempered and ugly, of course the dragon girl was unwilling, and when she was about to get married, she sneaked out and came to Laoshan to look for the little white dragon everywhere.

As a result, the little white dragon was not found, one day, in a big ravine, he met a 10,000-year-old toad essence, he wanted to rob the dragon girl as his wife, the dragon girl did not obey, so he fought with him. The dragon girl and the toad fought for a day and a night, and the dragon girl was heavily poisoned and lay dying in the pool water.

In the west of the valley, there is a village of more than a dozen families called Wangjiagou, and there is a family surnamed Wang in the south of the village, both husband and wife are in their 40s, have no children, and they are planting a few acres of thin land in the mountains, barely making ends meet. One summer when the wheat was harvested, they were harvesting wheat in the field, and it was hot at noon, and the husband and wife drank all the water they had brought, and the husband took the scoop and scooped some spring water into the mountain stream and handed it to his wife, and there was a small worm floating in the water, and no one cared, and mistook it for a straw stick, and the wife drank the spring water that her husband had brought with the scoop, and she became pregnant from then on. After twelve months of pregnancy, she gave birth to a little girl, with dark skin and not handsome appearance, named Ugly Yan. When Ugly Yan grew up, she had a lot of strength to help her father and mother farm the land, like carrying water and pushing carts. She often helps the lonely and widowed elderly in her neighborhood, although she is ugly, but she is deeply loved by the villagers. I see that I have passed the age of twenty, and I have not found my in-laws.

One year, the husband and wife of the Wang family were ready to go to the market to buy some things for the New Year, and when they left, they instructed their daughter: "Take care of the house, don't go out, feed the chickens and ducks." With that, the two of them left.

At noon, a Taoist came to the village. He was in his early thirties, dressed in a shabby robe, holding a brass bell in his hand, and had a handsome appearance. When he came to the door of the ugly woman's house, he asked, "Is there anyone at home?"

Chou Yan walked out, the Taoist gave a salute to Chou Yan, and said: "Girl, I am from the White Dragon Cave in Laoshan Mountain, the statue in the cave collapsed, I went to Sixiang to make a fortune, raise funds, rebuild the statue of the White Dragon God, so as to bless our Laoshan place with good weather and rain, please donate some money to your family." ”

The ugly Yan said to the Taoist: "My parents are not at home, our family is poor, and we have no money, so I'm really sorry. ”

The Taoist said, "Girl, forget it." It's just that I'm thirsty and hungry right now, so please let me come to your house to drink some water and something to eat, and I'll leave after a rest. ”

The ugly woman glanced at the Taoist shyly, and said embarrassedly: "You are a monk, I am a girl, and my parents are not at home, how can I let strangers into the house? ”

The Taoist turned around to leave, but the ugly woman glanced around, and saw that there was no one in the village, so she said to the Taoist: "It's not easy for a monk to ask for help, so you can come in." ”

When the Taoist entered the house, the girl asked him to sit down, and then she brushed the pot and boiled water, and warmed a little ready-made rice and served it to the Taoist. When the Taoist had eaten and drunk enough, he stood up, bowed deeply to the girl, and said, "Girl, thank you! You don't know me?"

The ugly woman said, "How can I know you when we meet for the first time?"

The Taoist said: "Girl, I am the little white dragon in the White Dragon Cave of Laoshan Mountain! You have forgotten the oath we made twenty years ago, I have been looking for you for twenty years, and I can find you today." "The ugly woman was reminded by the Taoist, and she remembered what happened twenty years ago in a trance, and she cried. The Taoist stepped forward, and the two hugged each other and cried bitterly, telling each other about the pain of lovesickness. When the sun set, the Taoist left, and the ugly woman couldn't remember anything about what happened next.

In the evening, when the Wang family and his wife returned home, they saw that their daughter had become a beautiful girl with a slender figure and clear eyebrows.

Since then, her daughter's behavior has been very different from usual, her voice has become thinner, and she is reluctant to go out easily. Soon, the daughter's face became thin and her belly gradually grew bigger. When the Wang family saw this, they asked their daughter who did it, and the daughter was aggrieved and told her about how her parents went out that day and how to let the Taoist into the house to drink water. The Wang family didn't believe it, even though they were poor, they also felt ashamed, so they locked their daughter in the house and didn't let her out. The daughter is very lonely in the house, rubbing hemp rope and collecting shoe soles all day long.

One day, when his wife was delivering food to her daughter, she opened the door and saw that her daughter was gone, only a thin hemp rope dragged along the window to the house. The husband and wife of the Wang family followed the hemp rope to find it, followed the twisted hemp rope through the ground and entered the mountain stream in the south of the village, only to see the hemp rope enter a stone cave in the cliff. The Wang family and his wife tried their best to climb into the cave, looked up, and were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them, only to see a big dragon crawling in the cave, with its eyes closed, and its nose seemed to be panting for a faint breath, and there were several small dragons crawling beside the big dragon, which kept swimming on the big dragon. The Wang family was stunned, climbed out of the cave, stumbled home, frightened, and distressed for their daughter, and the old couple fell ill from then on.

One night a month later, dark clouds, storms, lightning and thunder. Wang Laohan's wife had a dream, in which she saw her daughter and said to her, "Mother, I am the youngest daughter of the Dragon King of the East China Sea. It was you who saved me and raised me, and I will never forget the saving and nurturing grace of the second elder. The Taoist who came to our house that day was changed by Brother Xiaobailong, he looked for me for many years, we had a fate in our previous lives, and we finally got together again. I gave birth to five little dragons, and in order to repay my father and mother for their nurturing kindness and the good things that the villagers gave me, I let each little dragon dig a river, so that we will never have to be harmed by floods again. ”

The next day, after the rain, five deep and long rivers appeared in the valley, and the rain flowing down from the mountains no longer flowed around, so that the land here was fertile, the villagers were rich, and the fields were more beautiful. Everyone thanked the Wang family girl for bringing benefits to her hometown, so they called these rivers "Wulong River", and the hole in the cliff is now "Wulong Cave".

The dragon girl returned to the stone cave to give birth to a dragon son, and since then she has practiced here with the White Dragon Daoist, and since then the husband and wife have both achieved positive results, and the Dragon King of the East China Sea has also recognized their marriage.