Fairy Sword Inquiry 1

Chapter 30

... In the late autumn when the vegetation was withered, on that night that should have been ordinary, there was an inexplicable and mysterious tremor surging in the jungle and sky outside Raozhou City.

The protagonist who triggered this rhythm, the young Zhang Xingyan, is standing on the top of the Horseshoe Hill facing the wind, with his eyes closed and silent.

However, the young man who seems to look normal is suffering an unspeakable pain inside: the foreign "Taihua Taoist Power" who helped him finish the song "Shuilongyin" still seems to have a lot of spare time, and he is in the middle of it. The meridians and meridians in his body flow everywhere, but there are countless clues and no rules to follow.

Although, the current situation is much better than before, not like the sinister situation like cutting out the heart with a thousand blades, but the strange feeling that should be familiar, but it seems to have some new thorns, and it is cleaning up. While waking up his whole body, it inevitably made the young man feel itchy and depressed.

After this strange feeling circulated for a few days, it seemed that they all gathered at the Renying acupoint next to Xingyan's throat.All of a sudden, Xing Yan felt his whole body twitch, the depression that had lasted for a long time seemed to have finally found an outlet to vent - he heard a clear and clear howl, which escaped from the mouth of the boy who was standing on his back. out, echoing between the empty and lonely fields.

The ups and downs of the young man's ups and downs and unbridled shouts seem to reach up to the sky and down into the underworld.

After shouting this voice, Xing Yan only felt that the power in his body disappeared, leaving only the exceptional clarity and emptiness of the Lingtai.

"Why is it like this again? Bitterness first, sweetness later - never come to me after this matter!"

Although Xing Yan complained so much in his heart, he really didn't take it to heart.Perhaps the young man himself does not know that although he has a cheerful, optimistic, and easy-going personality, there is a persevering and fearless temperament in his bones.That's why he still dared to lean on the white stone of Horseshoe Mountain where such a weird phenomenon once happened - and because of this, he was able to walk around before the gate of hell today and regain his life again!

However, after experiencing this strange situation, the young man who seemed to be out of danger, before he had time to recover, unfortunately encountered another accident: just as Xingyan, who had always thought he was alone, looked up to the sky. Just as the long whistling sound came to an end, there was a strange and grand roar suddenly heard around my ears and body!

Xingyan was startled, quickly widened his eyes and looked around carefully, this look is not a big deal, Xingyan was so frightened that his hair stood on end, he backed up abruptly, and was tripped to the ground unexpectedly!
It turned out that it was only at this time that Xingyan realized that there were so many mountain beasts gathered on the originally empty and lonely Horseshoe Mountain, and they were roaring at him in unison.The roar of tigers, wolves, and leopards rolled and tumbled in this barren sky and mountains, endlessly——

The whole valley seemed to boil in an instant!It's no wonder the young man wakes up and says he's scared.Anyone who suddenly finds a lot of beasts roaring at him will be scared to death!Especially seeing that there are many beasts among these beasts!This wake-up statement is only a few steps back and a fall, it is considered very calm!

Besides, Xingyan, who fell to the ground, hastily picked up the thing beside him that tripped him up, and thought it was a stick, so he took the handle of the stick with his right hand and laid it across his chest—— Although, this instinctive action is probably useless, but it is better than nothing to strengthen courage at this critical moment.

At this moment, the anxious young man felt annoyed: "I'm really full and have nothing to do, why would I think of running to this wilderness to practice the flute?! If I practice the music near my house, I can fight as hard as I can. I was scolded by noisy neighbors! How could it be like this—I am afraid that my flute is too loud, disturbing the dreams of these beasts, so that they all ran to surround me and get some snacks by the way! "

Xingyan felt extremely remorse at this time, and said in his heart that this time he would definitely become the prey of that tiger and wolf.However, after a short pause, he was waking up with self-pity, but he was surprised to find that those beasts and animals that surrounded him all stopped roaring unevenly when they saw him sitting on the ground. He stepped forward to bite, but couldn't help but stare at him with scorching beast eyes.

"Weird! Why do I have this absurd feeling—how do these beasts in front of me seem to have no malice towards me?!"

It's really strange that things happen every year, but these two months are particularly frequent!However, even though he was thinking about something like this in his heart, Xingyan didn't dare to run away at all.Because this mountain boy who is familiar with the habits of wild beasts knows that when people are close to these mountain beasts, the most taboo thing is to turn around and run away. Instead, they confront each other face to face. vitality.

When Xingyan was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard shouts one after another faintly from a distance: "Xingyan!...Xingyan!..."

Hearing the sound, the bewildered young man immediately lifted his spirits, and quickly looked in the direction of the sound—with his current excellent eyesight, he woke up and saw from a distance in the dark mountains and fields, a little bit like a bean. The flames, dancing and swaying, are gradually approaching!

"Ah!!!" Seeing this ray of light, Xing Yan suddenly jumped up as if stung by a poisonous scorpion - it turned out that he heard the shouts one after another, it was his father's old head And Mu Niang's voice!
At this moment, Xing Yan's heart seemed to be boiling, he couldn't care anymore, he jumped up and rushed in the opposite direction without saying a word!
At this time, Xingyan only had one thought in his mind: "If you die, you will die!...The child is not filial, this kind of nurturing grace can only be repaid in the next life!..."

While jumping and running, Xingyan waved the stick he picked up casually, unknowingly, there seemed to be a glimmer of brilliance in the dance.

Xingyan, who was waiting for the beasts to pounce at any time, was gradually surprised to find that wherever he went, those tigers, leopards, and bears who were usually fierce and fierce all dodged to the side in unison, as if... He was a little afraid, lest he avoid it!

"Huh? How could I have such absurd thoughts?!" Xing Yan reviewed himself, "Could it be that this is an illusion produced when death is approaching?"

However, Xing Yan is a clever and clever young man after all, and he immediately judged that these various beasts surrounding him really have no malice towards him!
"Weird!" This is the number of times I wake up tonight, and I can't help imitating the tone of old scholar Ji Zhiye in my heart.However, even though he thought so, he was still in a dangerous situation after all, and he wisely woke up and said that he never had time to judge and ponder, and he did not dare to stop at his feet.I saw the boy's figure running and flashing, leaping out of the "encirclement" of the mountain beasts, and fleeing down the mountain in a hurry!

After running for a long distance, the boy stopped to take a breath, and after he was sure that there was no wild animal chasing him, he woke up and hurried around the trail, running forward to find his parents. Come forward, intercept them in the middle of the road as soon as possible.Along the way, Xingyan didn't know how many tumbles and thorns he had eaten!
Anxiously, Xingyan spread his legs and ran as fast as he could, and finally managed to stop his parents who were looking for him on the way.

It turned out that the old Zhangtou couple saw the sudden changes in the sky and were worried about their child who had gone to Mashoe Mountain to practice flute, for fear that something unexpected would happen when he woke up.So, the old couple gathered a bunch of pine oil torches, and Lao Zhangtou held it. Regardless of the dark night, the mountains were tall and the grass was deep, they came to the Horseshoe Mountain to search together.

— ho! !Thank goodness!Finally, let them see her alive and kicking baby, and come back safe and sound!

Seeing that he successfully stopped his parents before they reached the top of the mountain, Xingyan, who had been tensing his heartstrings, immediately relaxed.It wasn't until this moment that Xingyan realized that after the lifeless run just now, he only felt sore all over his body.The tired young man had no choice but to lean on the stick he had picked up just now, support the shoulders of old Zhangtou, and return to the hut at the foot of Horseshoe Mountain.

Later, someone wrote a poem of praise and said:
There is a strange stone that allows me to lie down
Overwhelmingly ambitious

Only Qingshan is like me——

A long scream

Dragon Crying Tiger Soul!

After returning home, under the light of the pine oil lamp, Xing Yanniang finally realized that the boy's coarse clothes had already been torn by the thorns on the mountain, so she couldn't help being flustered again, and asked her son to change the clothes and let her mend them overnight.

Xing Yanniang was sewing, and at the same time blamed her son for why he rushed so quickly when he knew his father and mother were looking for him—although he was blaming her, but her loving mother and her concern for her son were beyond words.This young man who was usually quick-witted and eloquent, but now in front of his mother, suddenly became clumsy and tongue-tied.

As for the cut bloodstains on Xingyan's calves, this is a common occurrence for boys in the mountains, not as delicate as the children in the city. The old man just rubbed and chewed a few pieces of herbs, and randomly applied them to stop the bleeding. It's over.

In this thatched hut at the foot of Horseshoe Mountain, a wick made of rushes is soaking in the pine oil squeezed by the farmer's own house, lighting up a soft yellow light.The bean-sized lamp kept flickering, illuminating the four walls of the thatched cottage, and also leisurely reflecting the needlework in the hands of a loving mother.After sorting out the old head of the farming and hunting equipment at home, he casually asked his son if he had been frightened when he was on the Horseshoe Mountain just now—the sudden lightning and thunder that happened a while ago was really "scary". !Hearing his father's question, he woke up obediently and said that he was afraid that his parents would worry, so he just said lightly that he was not scared, since it wasn't raining anyway, as long as he didn't get drenched, he would be fine.Xingyan’s mother, who was sewing clothes, told her son to be virtuous and good, otherwise he would be struck by the thunder from the sky—the scary thunder and lightning tonight might be the Which god is angry...

She stared blankly at Mu Niang mending her clothes stitch by stitch, chatting without saying a word, after a while, Xingyan, who had been tossing all night, felt a little tired.So Xingyan gave a warning and went to bed first.

When he got to the bunk, he lay quietly for a while. Wake up with his eyes closed, thinking about what happened tonight, his sleepiness was not as strong as before.

The scenes that happened on the Horseshoe Mountain tonight flashed before Xingyan's eyes like a revolving lantern and flowing water.Although, these events are less than half an hour away from now, and all the details are still vivid in my mind, but when I wake up and think of all these events, I still seem to be in a haze for a long time, dizzy, as if everything They are all within reach, but when Shinichi reaches out, he can't always grasp them.

The young man who couldn't sleep, and felt a little dazed, simply opened his eyes, stared blankly at the mottled moon shadow cast on the earth wall through the window lattice, and tried his best to calm himself down.

After calming down, Xingyan tried hard to recall everything that happened tonight, and sorted them out carefully.

Thinking over and over again, in the end, even though he couldn't believe the facts he deduced, Xing Yan still thought that everything that happened tonight was, in all likelihood, related to what he had blown out with his "Tai Hua Dao Power". "Shuilongyin" has a great relationship.Although Xingyan did not dare to associate the lightning and thunder in the sky with him, it was only a coincidence, but there were so many wild beasts gathered around him for no reason, not only did not attack him, but they seemed to be quite afraid of him ——This kind of strange thing that has never been heard before, if it is not because of the "Shuilongyin" that I think is unusual, I can't think of it in my head, what else can have such a relationship with it!
"It seems that the old man Yun Zhongjun who met by chance must not be an ordinary person, and the score and jade flute that I gave to me are definitely not ordinary things!

"My life, maybe it will change from now on!..." Thinking of this, the mountain boy lying on the bunk couldn't help getting a little excited:
"I, Zhang Xingyan, will be able to get a job taming animals in the circus troupe that travels all over the world! Come to think of it, the pay must be quite a lot! Hehe!!
"..." This young man who had been tossing all night just fell into a deep sleep, with a faint smile still hanging on the corner of his mouth...

Xu Shi really worked hard last night, so he woke up and said that he didn't have to get up from the bed until the sun was high on the next day.After washing up, the young man found that after this night's sleep, yesterday's fatigue had disappeared; breathing the fresh and pure air of the mountains, he felt that his whole body seemed to be reborn, and he was particularly refreshed.Xingyan, who was intoxicated by the cool morning breeze in the mountains, suddenly heard Mu Niang in the room cry out in surprise: "Huh? Where did you get this iron knife?!"

Waking up and hearing the sound, he hurried back to the house to see what happened.Seeing this, Xingyan was rather surprised.It turned out that it was not an "iron knife", but a long sword lying flat on the ground in the corner.

Xing Yan hurried to the front, bent down to pick up the sword, and looked at it carefully: the sword is slender, about three feet and nine inches in length.There is no hand guard at the connection between the hilt and the sword body, it only slightly protrudes to the sides, and then curves slightly concave toward the blade.The blade of this sword is flat and the tsuba is dull, obviously it has not been sharpened yet.The sword head was round and blunt, with many mud marks on it.The whole sword is slightly gray-black in color, but its shape is quite simple.

Xingyan held the long sword and looked at it over and over again, wondering why the family had this extra sword out of thin air.The confused boy asked his mother:

"Could it be that Daddy's Xinxinyang beat it?" Xing Yanniang shook her head and denied it, saying that she had never seen such a thing in her family.

Xingyan held it outside again and looked carefully at the sunlight until he noticed the few mud marks on the sword head, and finally realized:
"Ha! This sword turned out to be the crutch I used all the way back from the Horseshoe Mountain last night!" Thinking about how he used it as a stick in his panic last night, the young man couldn't help laughing.

"Hehe! It must be when the white stone was shattered by lightning that it turned out the iron sword buried in the soil!" The young man who figured this out couldn't help but be overjoyed:
"Haha!!! Now I've found a treasure!" As he spoke, Xingyan quickly fetched a basin of clean water, and put the unexpectedly acquired sword on the piece in the yard that his father used to sharpen it. He grinded the stone hard: "Take this treasure and pawn it in a shop in the city, you should be able to get a lot of money?! Hehe!!"

(End of this chapter)