Chapter 97: Worshiping the Mountain
(There is another chapter tonight.)
The group slowly moved south along Longxu River and Tiefu River, but after traveling for more than 60 miles a day, Li Baoping and Li Huai were both children with different feet than ordinary people. Although Lin Shouyi had two pairs of straw sandals and was also a rich child, he was unwilling to admit defeat in front of the two children surnamed Li, so he insisted on enduring. In addition, Chen Ping'an taught him the method of applying herbs to his feet, and finally he had to grit his teeth and survive. There were white donkeys and horses in the team to help carry things, so it was not too difficult to leave.
Chen Ping'an admired Li Baoping and the three children in his heart, so the word "study travel" and the title of scholar were getting worse in the minds of the straw sandal boy.
Longquan County belongs to Yongjia County of Dali. A long time ago, all dynasties in Dongbao Pingzhou issued an edict that if the county and county in the world had the word "long", they would need to avoid taboo modification and replace it with other characters. Now, Longquan County is probably because it is the light of the Lizhu Cave Heaven, which makes an exception.
The place where the broken cave heaven landed and took root has shifted southward compared to the previous suspended position. If you walk on the official road and post road, it will be only more than a month before.
Zhu He should have read many private books and learned about many external affairs at the Li family on Fulu Street. Chen Ping'an asked Zhu He for advice if he had anything to do. On the contrary, Zhu He was also willing to ask the young man about the rules and regulations for going into the mountains. For some reason, Aliang drank more and spoke less. Since Lin Shouyi drank the strong wine in the silver gourd, he got very close to Aliang and often asked him about everything, and at the same time he had a tendency to become a little drunkard.
In Li Baoping's small bookcase, there was a painted version of the county and county geographic map album issued by the Dali court. According to the picture album, they were soon to climb a mountain called Qidun Mountain. The mountain road was more than 300 miles long, passing through the four counties including Yongjia and Baiyun.
The group took a break at the foot of the mountain. Li Huai looked at the small road that was not as wide as the Qilong Lane, and was as dumb as a wooden chicken. After being shocked, he turned around and cursed: "Aliang! This is what you are talking about, the official horse road specially built by the Dali court?! The broken road as thin as the chicken intestines is also considered an official road?"
The Yilu, commonly known as Guanma Avenue, connects all counties and counties in a dynasty territory. The Yilu is like a human meridian. Once it is blocked, the qi and blood will be blocked. If it is placed on the country, it means that the government orders will not be implemented.
Aliang sat on a rotten wooden pier beside the road. After raising his head and drinking, he laughed and said, "The post road is also divided into levels. There are three post roads leading to the north on Yefuguan on the southern border of Dali. Qidun Mountain Post Road is the smallest, mostly used to use porcelain, tea and fine salt. In the past, people were very busy. Now, a Lizhu Cave Heaven fell to the ground, blocking the original north-south passage, so this post road is temporarily abandoned and no longer used.
Many people's wealth routes were cut off, and many goods were stagnant at a water transport pier on the southern foot of the Qidun Mountains. It was called Hongzhu Town. Well, the flower boats there were mostly small boats of two or three people. At night, the lights were brightly lit, and the sisters on the boat were very pretty. They sat on the bow or stern of the boat, with white thighs, and they were deliberately exposed to you. Order a pot of wine and a plate of peanuts at the wine shops on both sides of the shore. You can watch it for a night without spending money."
The maid Zhu Lu quickly bent down to cover her lady's ears to avoid being tainted by the slutty words of this disciple. She said angrily: "We won't spend the night in the Red Candle Town!"
Aliang pointed at Chen Ping'an on the side with the wine gourd and said with a smile: "It won't be night, I have to ask him, he is the God of Wealth who cares about our money."
Zhu Lu's eyes were sharp and her murderous intent was full of murderous intent, as if Chen Ping'an dared to nod, she dared to kill someone.
Chen Ping'an thought for a while and said seriously: "We must stay in the town and add some necessary items. As for whether to spend the night there, we have to see if the inns and hostels there are expensive. We have a lot of people. If the price is unfair, we can only forget it."
Zhu Lu's face was gloomy and aggressive, "If it's cheap, we'll live in a dirty place with fireworks and powder? Chen Ping'an! Have you ever thought that my lady and Lin Shouyi are half a Confucian child, or a student of Shanya Academy, how can she live next to those unfamiliar women? Even if you can't see those nauseous scenes, you will always hear some unpleasant sounds!"
Chen Ping'an replied with a tough bullet: "Let's talk about it when you arrive in the town."
Zhu Lu was furious, and Zhu He stopped his daughter, "Just as Ping An said, don't make a conclusion. When you go there, you will see that we don't have to spend the night in Hongzhu Town."
Zhu Lu pointed at Chen Ping'an and said angrily: "Luckily you are not a scholar, otherwise those sage books were really shamed because of you!"
Chen Ping'an was literate and read with Li Baoping and Zhu He along the way. Looking at Zhu Lu with righteousness, the young man was suddenly defeated.
The culprit Aliang was gloating.
Zhu Lu glanced at the jade hairpin on the boy's head at the last moment, and felt it was really annoying, and sneered: "I'm soaked in the monkey!"
Zhu He shouted lightly: "Zhu Lu!"
Li Baoping and Lin Shouyi frowned at the same time.
Aliang drank a sip of wine lazily. No matter how good the wine was, it didn't taste much. Then he thought of the new brewed apricot blossom spring in Hongzhu Town, and he was a little expectant, thinking about how to cheat some money from Chen Ping'an to enjoy his mouth.
Chen Ping'an wanted to speak but stopped, but finally he didn't speak and silently took them to climb the mountain.
But before entering the mountain, the straw sandals boy still bowed three times as he used to.
This is the old rule passed down by Old Man Yao, but he never explains the reason to Chen Ping'an. Chen Ping'an has always done it all these years.
Aliang sneered at this. Even Chen Ping'an didn't want him to sit on the tree stump casually, and he would sit down when he was tired, just as carefree as he is now.
Chen Ping'an is not the kind of person who likes to impose his preferences on others. After persuading him twice, Aliang kept doing his own thing and stopped dissuading him. Moreover, everything went along the way, so Chen Ping'an would not talk much.
The following long mountain road was a long road paved with bluestone, but it was quite difficult to walk.
In late spring, the mountains, wild plants and trees have no twilight spirit. The plants and trees are deep, and the flowers and trees are blooming and full of vitality. It seems that this year's spring is particularly long and I am reluctant to end.
The mountain road was bent and circling. The group, regardless of size, had cotton wraps on their legs to increase their feet. They held a wooden stick in their hands, and of course, straw sandals made by Chen Ping'an. Even Zhu He, Zhu Lu, and his daughter, who had several pairs of sturdy boots in their luggage, were no exception.
Zhu Lu refused at first, despising it too ugly and shabby. Later, when he entered the mountain, it was rainy, and the mountain road was muddy and his feet were often slippery. Zhu Lu was a warrior who entered the house. Although it was not dangerous, he was also staggering and embarrassed. Finally, he had to take straw sandals from her father's hand and change them silently. Li Huai was secretly happy. The girl who was angry and angry stepped on it hard in the mud. The warrior at the peak of the second realm deliberately stepped on it, and naturally sank strongly, splashing the mud on the spot.
The child is from a poor family and has not brought a few clothes to change clothes. He immediately hits the sad part and cries so hard that Lin Shouyi is unwilling to get involved in this mess. He rolls his eyes when he stops to rest. Zhu He is a simple person. Even though he is a martial artist in the fifth realm, he still apologizes to the child patiently and agrees to go out of the mountain and enter the town, and he will definitely buy him a brand new set of clothes. But the matter that the child cares about is that his family is poor and he feels pitiful.
The maid had such a bad temper, but she was following a rich father. The child felt that he was being smeared by the wound and cried even more heartbrokenly. He stepped on the muddy ground with his feet and soon looked like a little mud monkey. After a while, everyone became upset. Chen Ping'an went up to persuade him, but Li Huai didn't want to listen, and Chen Ping'an was quickly implicated in yellow mud. Fortunately, Chen Ping'an had never suffered any disasters, but he was not anxious, but he was a little helpless.
Zhu Lu took the opportunity to fan the flames, see, kindness will not be rewarded, Chen Ping'an, you can quickly throw this heartless thing away.
Li Huai cried even harder.
Li Baoping's loud scolding did not work.
Chen Ping'an thought about it, but finally asked tentatively: "Li Huai, I will turn around and make a small bamboo box for you, how about it?"
The child immediately stopped crying, wiped away tears and snot, and asked seriously: "How old is it?"
Chen Ping'an replied: "You can't be too big. You are small and you can't feel the weight when you carry it. If you don't agree, just pretend I didn't say it, keep crying, and then we will continue to rush forward and follow you if you follow me."
Li Huai grinned and said, "Xiao Ke, you must do it beautifully! At least you must look as good as Li Baoping's bookcase!"
Zhu Lu said, "The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. At a young age, he learned to cheat and deceive. You can tell the character of your parents without looking at it. It's such a good family tradition!"
Li Huai, who was about to get the bamboo box, winked and almost made Zhu Lu so angry that she was so angry that she was smoking.
Chen Ping'an turned his head and said to Lin Shouyi: "Make a bookbox for you too?"
He smiled, "Anyway, it's just a casual move."
Lin Shouyi was about to shake his head and refuse, but after hearing the words behind him, he hesitated for a moment and nodded.
The scenery on Qidun Mountain is extremely strange, like a huge glutinous yard commonly found in a small town. The ground is flat and placed here, it is like an immortal cutting off the towering mountain with his sword.
The children were very excited. Even Zhu He looked into the north with a look, feeling quite refreshed and wished he could whistle a few times.
Chen Ping'an is a person who is used to seeing the mountain, especially when he entered the mountain in the last trip, he walked past the mountain step by step, and now he looked relatively calm.
We have to spend the night at the top of the mountain tonight. Zhu He and Zhu Lu started to set up a tent. Li Huai and Lin Shouyi ran to pick up flammable firewood. Chen Ping'an and Li Baoping cooked rice with stones. Now the rice and dried vegetables in several luggage have been eaten almost the same. We really want to find a downtown supply. Chen Ping'an saw the medicinal materials along the way, so he picked them up and put them in a basket. Because he crossed mountains and rivers, his legs and feet were neat. Even if he needed to take a detour to climb the cliff, he could keep up with the team quickly and not delay his journey. Now he has saved half of the rare herbs dried on the basket, and strive to spend less savings.
After eating the rice with a few plates of pickled pickles, Aliang started to rebel and took Li Huai to knock on the white bowl with chopsticks, yelling to eat meat.
Chen Ping'an nodded and said to go and do some traps tonight to see if he could catch a few pheasants from the mountain to get meat tomorrow morning.
There are snakes, snakes, rats, and rats, and all animals on the mountain are like this. Chen Ping'an is not unfamiliar with this. As long as you observe carefully, you can easily find some routes for wild animals in the forest for food and drink water. The small trap made of trees and stones is not complicated, and practice can make perfect. In the dusk, colorful clouds are everywhere. Not long after the boy left the mountain top to try his luck alone, the colorful clouds around the top of the mountain gathered and dispersed at all, and the speed was extremely fast, like the change of faces of a naughty child, and everyone did not feel the mountain wind was rapid. At the same time, the originally upright and refreshing scenery of mountains and rivers brought a gloomy feeling of being covered with haze to those who are interested.
This made Zhu He feel heavy immediately. He tried not to disturb the three school children who gathered to recite books, nor did he say hello to his daughter who was sitting alone on the cliff in a daze. Zhu He thought about it and came to the place where no one was. He took out an ancient book in his arms, turned to the page of "Caishan" in the middle, stopped near the "Grain Chop", carefully browsing the bright red texts that were as thin as fly heads, and turned over a page. After a page, there were two patterns, one with a hill-shaped look, but the bottom of the mountain roots were like bamboo shoots, and the blank space next to it was annotated as "Taishan Talisman", and the mysterious gesture of sealing with both hands.
Zhu He looked solemn, silently chanting intermittently, constantly deepening his impression, "Take one piece of earth in the east and south of the mountain, the word Nian jing is the best, and the word Nian shan is also possible", "Burn a talisman of worshiping the mountain, step on the two words Kuigang, and breathe a breath, you can borrow a mountain from the mountain, and the air is connected to the earth..."
After closing the ancient books and put them carefully back in his arms, Zhu He pulled out a piece of yellow paper from a stack of yellow talismans in his sleeve, and began to follow the records in the book to grab a handful of soil from the east and south of Shiping, and twist out an ancient character Yue, and then went up to the mountain and went to the prison. Zhu He was about to rub the yellow talisman given by the ancestor of Li in his hand, but suddenly he was shocked. It turned out that Aliang was squatting next to him at some point. The latter was holding a wine pot and smiled and said, "The ordinary material of the mountain entering the mountain talisman in your hand is still good, but the talisman is almost the same as the same step. The material of the paper is as important as the root of a human being, so it can't bear the weight of the word "六". So I advise you to write the word Yue, so it will not be possible to avoid the failure to invite the gods and annoy the mountain gods."
After all, it was Zhu He's first time to come into contact with the legendary mountain spirit monster. He was a little nervous and said softly: "Senior Aliang, does this Qidun Mountain really have that land or mountain god entrenched? Then why does it have such a heavy evil aura?"
Aliang Youran took a sip of wine and sneered: "Who told you that the mountain gods must be a kind-hearted person?"
Zhu He looked surprised, "Or what?"
Aliang said, "I just said casually. God knows that the host here has a good or bad temper in hospitality."
Zhu He suddenly woke up and said, "No, Chen Ping'an is not on the top of the mountain alone!"
Aliang nodded.
Zhu He said anxiously: "Senior Aliang, go find Chen Ping'an, I will continue to complete this technique of grinding the mountain. How about it? I, Zhu He, is only a martial artist in the fifth realm. I have a strong sense of confidence in dealing with secular masters, but I am really unsure of dealing with those strange things."
Aliang smiled and stood up, swayed away, and said lightly, "Then be careful."
Chapter completed!