Fairy Sword Inquiry 1

Chapter 4 Strange Mountain Lying Idlely, Midnight Surprised by Moon Dew

The idiot is lying on the back of the fairy mountain, and the cold dew is covered with moonlight.

——"Qi Yun Rock Wall Verse"

The days passed leisurely like this, and Xingyan followed the same route every day, shuttling between Horseshoe Mountain, Ji's Private School, Shangqing Palace Shanyuan Office, Liji Grocery Store, and the Daoxiang Restaurant where he worked part-time.When he gets older and his head gets older and he can't do heavy work anymore, he wakes up and says he should inherit the ancestral property of the horseshoe barren mountain, planing food in this barren mountain, drilling ditches and crossing ridges to hunt mountain animals.When I save some money, I will marry a girl from the well-matched family in Shangshan Village as my wife.From then on, he stayed away from the school, away from the beauties in the grocery store, and became a man who was only suitable for raising girls in the fields.

Perhaps, if that accident hadn't happened, the young Xingyan's life would have been passed along the same route as the Zhang family's ancestors for generations, leaving no trace in the future legends.

This accident that changed the life of Xing Yan, a teenager, happened in the summer when he was 16 years old.That day, it was scorching hot, and the loquat tree he had painstakingly planted on the Horseshoe Mountain in his family somehow got into trouble with insects.It stands to reason that this loquat tree has its own fresh air, and it is generally not easy to grow insects.It's just that when Lao Zhang headed up the mountain to inspect the loquat forest that his family relied on as a source of food, he found some moths that he had never seen flying around in the bushes.

This time, Lao Zhang became very anxious immediately, and quickly recruited his son and his wife to beat him together.Who knows that this flying insect is so flexible, it is not easy to kill it completely.Seeing this situation, the three had no choice but to beat them with their clothes, trying to drive these strange insects away from the loquat forest.

After tossing and tossing all day, these strange insects in the loquat bushes were finally driven away.As the main force of repelling insects, jumping up and down all day, even a young man like Xingyan is exhausted after a day.

In the evening, when he was too lazy to move around for a while, he asked the elders to go back first, and then he rested on the mountain to see if the insects would come again.Anyway, on such a summer night, sleeping in a thatched hut at home is too hot, so it's better to just rest on this mountain, where the night is cooler.When you are hungry, you can pick some wild fruits to satisfy your hunger, which just saves a dinner.

So the two elders went back first.Zhang Xingyan lay down on the white stone slab that was often used to rest his feet on the hillside.

This white stone slab is made naturally, and its shape is similar to that of a bed.Although this Horseshoe Mountain occupies a large area, it is really not high, and the trees are sparse, it can only be regarded as a barren mountain.Old Zhangtou once intended to sell it to buy a paddy field near Raozhou City for some money, but no one cared about it.

The only thing worth mentioning about this Horseshoe Mountain is this bed-shaped white stone that is half buried in the soil.The stone was grown by one person, and Xingyan could just lie down.The surface of the stone bed is smooth, although there are a few bulges in the middle, but if you lie down for a long time, you can't feel it.

There is another strange thing about this white stone bed that only Xingyan can understand, that is, every time it catches up with the farming season, when you are tired from working on the mountain, you lie on this white stone to sleep and rest, and you always feel refreshed when you wake up Cool, my brain seems to be a lot more flexible.Even, there is often the urge to whistle several times.

However, maybe this can't be regarded as anything special. Sleeping on the cool stone, I'm afraid this should be the feeling after waking up.The thoughtful young man was afraid of making others laugh if he said it, so he never mentioned it to anyone.

When Xingyan lay down on the natural white stone bed again, a bright moon had leaped over Dongshan Mountain.In the unique breeze of the mountains, the boy stretched his limbs, fully enjoying the coolness of the white stone.

After a long time, I seemed to feel a little bored, so I quietly looked up at the sky full of stars above my head.Looking at the faint Milky Way above his head across the sky, the boy couldn't help but think of the agricultural proverb: "The Milky Way runs from east to west, and every family eats rice." Unfortunately, there is no fertile rice field in his family.

The young man lying on the white stone felt that the star above his head, Han Tianyu, could never get enough of it, as if it was different every day.When he has been looking at the stars in the sky for a long time, it always seems that his eyes, and even his whole body, will be attracted to this mysterious and endless starry sky.

Xingyan just lay there, motionless.Only this time is the happiest time for him. Any worries and worries are for tomorrow, so there is no need to worry about it now.

Time passed slowly like this.The moon moves and the shadow moves, and before you know it, the full moon has moved to wake up.The snow-like moonlight poured down like soft water, flowing on Xingyan's lying body.

"The moon is so round tonight... Is it the fifteenth day again? I have to ask my mother when I get home..." Xing Yan thought casually.At this moment, suddenly, he felt that the white stone under him seemed to have life for a moment, and a sudden force was suddenly coming from under him, rushing into his body.In an instant, the young man who was lying comfortably seemed to be thrown upwards, flying in the depths of the endless and unfathomable cosmic starry sky... "Ah! Encountering a ghost!"

Xingyan's first reaction was to feel that he had encountered the evil spirits that those foolish women and ordinary people said!Unexpectedly, I have always been disrespectful to ghosts and gods with a playful smile, and today I finally get my retribution!
Thinking to this point, Xingyan is not going to lie down and wait to die, just waiting to struggle, but it doesn't matter that the originally weak and intangible Rushuiyuehua suddenly seems to have substance.The snow-white and bright moonlight shrouded directly on the white stone where Xingyan lay - as if the essence of the moon that filled the entire world had gathered in an instant to the square inch of land where the young man lay, and The vigorous power from the white stone below him impacted Xing Yan's body together, continuously and endlessly.

Under the pull of these two inexplicable forces, the young man only felt that he was being grabbed by two giant claws, squeezed and torn at times, his whole body seemed to be not his own, like a small tornado in a storm. Leaves, tumbling can not be autonomous.Unfortunately, he doesn't feel pain like a leaf. For a while, he just feels like ten thousand ants devouring his flesh, excruciating pain and itching; it seems that the whole person is falling off a cliff, knowing that the end is near but he has nothing to rely on!At this time, Xingyan was so shocked that he was dumbfounded but couldn't cry out, he wanted to get up and escape but couldn't move an inch!

And the boy's unexpectedly tenacious nerves allowed him to think a little bit under the inhuman pain: "It turns out that those miserable and toiling days I lived before were so happy and happy!" Xing Yan thought that he was about to "die suddenly" on the spot as Mr. Ji said, but while maintaining the pain and terror, he gradually realized that the terrible pain had receded like a tide, and the two Now Juli has merged into one place, just like a stream of water, flowing through his body slowly but also rushing endlessly - he himself didn't know, how could there be these two contradictory absurd feelings at that time.But at this time, he had gradually recovered from the panic, and after a while, he finally knew that the suffering just now was over.

Because, as the flowing water flows through the body and mind, the pain in the whole body will gradually disappear, and the refreshment will gradually arise.As this clear stream washed over his body over and over again, Xingyan seemed to have a third eye, looking down at "Zhang Xingyan" on the white stone, watching "him" gradually become clear and ethereal... I don't know how much time has passed, Xingyan's "third eye" watched the flowing water quietly, and as it circulated, it became more and more invisible, and finally melted into the limbs and bones like a mountain spring returning to the stream, until the boy I can no longer grasp it—the invisible flowing water first, and then the strange "third eye".

However, the mellow and light aftertaste that still existed in the young man's body made it difficult for him to let go of it for a long time.Xingyan transitioned from the initial pain to the current reluctance, and gradually forgot the initial panic, and was nostalgic for this never-before-seen feeling.So the young man maintained this posture, lying on the rock that had calmed down, hoping that the vision would come again, not knowing that the east was white.

"That kid Xingyan is crazy!" The next day, the neighbors in Raozhou City who knew Xingyan well, laughed and spread the word of mouth like this early in the morning.No wonder, the young Zhang Xingyan went home early in the morning the next day, and continued to go to Raozhou City for activities. He would grab acquaintances and ask the same question: "Did you see the white light outside Dongcheng last night? Look at me today. What's the difference?!" As a result, the questionnaire was unanimously denied by his parents, who gave him strange looks; if he met a particularly caring audience, the boy would often have his forehead touched, so as to Make sure he has a fever!

Even so, the boy still didn't give up, and even grabbed Li Xiaomei's sleeve, asking the same question, making the unfamiliar girl blush, trying his best to shake off his demented entanglement, and went straight to the back hall. go.After that, only half of the lonely sleeve was left, which was caught in Xingyan's claws.The stolen goods were all obtained, which naturally provoked the owner of the grocery store, Li, to warn him not to play tricks on his daughter by pretending to be crazy.Fortunately, Boss Li had already heard about Xingyan's weirdness this morning, and witnessed the whole process of the young man harassing his daughter, so he roughly understood the whole story.Therefore, although his tone of reprimand was severe, he still felt that there was a bit of irrepressible smile in it.

After reacting, Xingyan immediately blushed, and had no choice but to leave behind the half-sleeve that still had a lingering fragrance, and turned around and fled.

Mr. Ji, who was idling on the nearby Qingshiban Street to digest his breakfast, happened to witness this ugly scene of his disciples, and he was also disrespectful, and exclaimed in an exaggerated tone:
"I'd rather know that my son has a habit of breaking sleeves!" After saying that, he shrugged his shoulders and laughed like a cormorant.

It's a pity that under the high profile, no one in this street can tell what kind of joke this is except for the old man himself.In fact, anyone would think that there are some ghosts who wake up and say that they are playing some tricks to tease everyone this day; so everyone has never worked together like this before, as if they had made an appointment in advance, and came to deny it together. Xingyan's problem - except for the old Taoist Qinghe who was in good relationship with him.When the young man finally turned his pleading eyes to Lao Dao Qinghe and asked the same question, his voice was much quieter.Because after being hit repeatedly this morning, the boy's self-confidence was almost exhausted.And what's worse, now even he himself almost believes that last night was really just a strange dream.If he continues to ask like this, I'm afraid he will also think that he is sick.

The more he looked at the blue sky and white sun, the stronger this thought became.Up to now, Xingyan, who has been hit hard, has decided that if this old Taoist priest Qinghe, who is also considered to be beating around the bush, denies it, then he can completely think that he, really, just did it last night. It's just a weird dream.

From the looks of it, the old Taoist Qinghe seemed to have been waiting in his Shanyuan shop for a long time, as if he was waiting for a rabbit.Hearing the young man's words to inquire, the old Taoist looked up and down the young man carefully for a while, and then said softly after a long time:
"Something has changed!" Wow! !After tossing and tossing for a long time and insomnia for most of the night, the young man has gone through untold hardships and suffered all the humiliation in the world, and finally found a bosom friend after all the hard work!Qinghe Laodao's low-pitched words sounded as loud and lovely as Hong Zhong Dalu to Xingyan's ears who were tortured by the stereotyped answers.

Seeing Xingyan's excitement full of anticipation, the old Taoist Qinghe said slowly and word by word: "Today, today, you, indeed, yes, no, same—" "Because you are very special today. Silly! Wahahahaha!" After the bad old man finished speaking, he burst out laughing, hearing the wild laughter that seemed to last for three days, it is estimated that the old man has held back for a long time! "I'll strangle you stinky Taoist priest!"

The young man was very annoyed when he heard the words, and wanted to pounce.However, while dancing his paws, he had completely given up in his heart, and he only thought lightly:
"Oh, it turned out that last night was really just a dream... But this dream is really weird, as if I have experienced it myself!"

After a while, Xingyan seemed to remember something again, and said to the old Taoist Qinghe who was dodging: "Master! I beg you, just accept me as your apprentice! Let it be your little compensation for laughing at me just now!" So Starting from this same daily apprenticeship dialogue as in the past, the life of the young Zhang Xingyan seems to have returned to a normal track.The ups and downs of that morning were just treated as a joke, and became an inconspicuous appetizer among the many conversations among the men in the city when they enjoyed the cool and drinking at night.Maybe within two days, this matter will be forgotten by everyone.

However, will the white stone that sprouted that night and the bewitching moonlight really make the life of the young Zhang Xingyan continue on the original track?

(End of this chapter)