Fairy Sword Inquiry 1

Chapter 48

For Zhang Xingyan, a country boy who wandered in the wells of Raozhou City, when he was 17 years old, his originally stable life trajectory was facing a huge change.

The young man who has always lived a stable life suddenly encountered the first drastic change in his life this year.At the end of February in that slightly cold winter, on that strange night when the moon was full like a round, the young Xing Yan's family's only property for generations, an ordinary and low wilderness hill, was surrounded by the brilliance flying all over the sky. In the middle of the night, it rose from the ground and suddenly entered the clouds.This small hill, which has always been ordinary, now stands proudly in the east of Raozhou City with a majestic and majestic figure.

Now, with a radius of tens of miles, whether in Poyang County, Shinan County by the Poyang Lake, or in Raozhou City, people can see the majestic and majestic shape of Horseshoe Mountain as long as they look up in that direction.

And all of this, to the young man who was watching among the crowd that night, he was completely ignorant of the inside story.Seeing a mountain rising suddenly on the outskirts of the city, covering the sun with clouds, after the initial shock passed, Xingyan suddenly thought: Look at the general orientation of this mountain, but it is close to his own Horseshoe Mountain.As soon as he read this, Xingyan became extremely anxious - the city of Raozhou was shaken so badly that he didn't know that his home...

The boy didn't dare to think about it any more.

Now he was a very anxious young man, and he no longer cared about chatting with the man in the street next to him, so he immediately got up and hurried towards his home.

... The closer he got to this majestic mountain peak, the more the boy's heart sank.Because, he felt more and more that something was wrong: walking towards this mountain that suddenly rose into the clouds, he was basically on his way home.The general location seems to be at the horseshoe mountain of my own house!

Unfortunately, when Xing Xingyan walked to the foot of the mountain and compared the surrounding scenery, he finally discovered that this majestic mountain peak that appeared in the early morning and was now shrouded in clouds and mist was exactly the place where his home used to occupy despite its vast land. But it is really a low and inconspicuous horseshoe hill!
The moment he confirmed this matter, Xing Yan's heart felt as if he had been savagely clawed by a beast's claws. A feeling of panic and helplessness that he had never felt before immediately filled the young man's heart.The mind of the whole person seems to be sinking into the bottomless abyss, sinking, falling...

The distraught young man hurried around the foot of the Horseshoe Mountain, looking for his thatched hut.Although the current situation of this Horseshoe Mountain is very different from before, the young man didn't have to spend much effort to see that the very familiar thatched hut in his home is still there.It's just that these three thatched huts were almost on the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, but now they have risen to the middle of the mountain!Will the parents in that family... Xing Yan was terrified, and rushed to his own house in a hurry.

Now, Xingyan is deeply worried, but he can't help feeling absurd: When will he go home by himself, but actually climb the mountain?The strange shape of the horseshoe mountain in my house today really confirmed the old saying of Qinghe: "There must be no reason, but there may be something."

...It really is "something may happen"!When this worried young man, who had prepared all kinds of worst-case plans in his heart, and was even preparing to save others, arrived not far from his house, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his parents, whom he cared about so much, were in Leaning on the door of my house and looking at it.Although now this Horseshoe Mountain is full of jagged rocks, which is very different from before, Xingyan was surprised to find that not only his thatched hut was intact, but even the stone meadow in front of the gate and the fence of the chicken coop remained intact. save! "Weird!" "Weird!!..."

——Poor young man, repeating this sentence that he has said several times in the past few days, he repeats it in his heart again and again, and he does not know how many times he has said it.

I only found out after asking my parents. I woke up at night and waited for a group of Raozhou city people to see so many strange things in the sky above Horseshoe Mountain, but my parents didn't realize it at all.It wasn't until early this morning, when Xing Yanniang came out to feed the chickens, that she realized that the world in front of her was already very different from last night!
Seeing this at first glance, Lao Zhangtou and his wife thought that they were ignorant and still in a dream!

"Hey! Don't care about other things, as long as the family is safe." Seeing that his parents are safe, Xing Yan felt relieved.

Because he had known the Dragon Palace Princess before and witnessed all kinds of weird things, some youngsters who were familiar with the strange things now thought that this matter would just calm down.But what he didn't expect was that in the following days, he would never be able to return to his usual leisure.Ever since the horseshoe hill at Xingyan's house suddenly rose into the sky, the prefectures and counties near Poyang have spread the rumors about it.Those people who came to visit Shengliqi after hearing the news were really like crucian carp crossing the river, in an endless stream.At the beginning, I could barely receive them, but if there were too many, it was really annoying.

Following these secluded and victorious people came one after another, there are various theories about the unprecedented and strange change of Horseshoe Mountain in the Poyang boundary of Raozhou.Many of the rhetoric in Xingyan's ears are even more bizarre than the Horseshoe Mountain itself.

For example, it started from the nearby mountain people, and now everyone has passed it on by word of mouth, and they all agree that the Horseshoe Mountain is a legend that a horseshoe stepped on the sky back then, and it is by no means a lie.Do not believe?Looking at the majestic and majestic atmosphere of Horseshoe Mountain now, one can tell at a glance that it is not an ordinary hill. If it weren't for the fairy spirit of Tianma back then, how could there be such a scene today?

And the gentry who always advocated the powerful said that Zhang Xingyan's family on the Horseshoe Mountain turned out to be the descendants of Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu in the early Han Dynasty;This kind of saying is almost a strange power, and it is widely spread among the local scholars.There was even a scholar who believed in gods and ghosts, who came to Xingyan's home to inspect in person, saying that he would betroth his little daughter to this descendant of Liuhou.It was only after hearing that this young man was hanging out in the Huayue brothel, and was unanimously opposed by the whole family, that he woke up and missed this possibly good marriage...

Of course, when it comes to the textual research of this family, some people naturally claim that he believes that the Xingyan family is the descendant of Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, the famous generals of the Wei Dynasty. It was easy to find many flaws, and after a while, it died down.

In addition to the textual research on the origin of this family, there are still neighbors who focus on small things and use hard facts to prove that Xingyan's family is extraordinary.According to the witnesses of many neighbors of this horseshoe mountain owner, when Zhang Xingyan, a son of this family, was still young, he steamed steamed buns for Chinese New Year one year. His family fermented rice noodles in a small ceramic vat. But the yeast is still there, it is inexhaustible, the steamed buns that have been pulled all night have not been used up until dawn.

According to witnesses, this is the rare "Qinglong Yeast" in the world!It can be seen that this family has never been an ordinary person!

This legend is actually quite absurd, and the term "Qinglong Yeast" is also a bit incomprehensible.But the rumorer will never pursue it, and will never think of breaking the casserole and asking what is "Qinglong Yen".Anyway, it was passed on by word of mouth, the narrator was vivid, and the listeners were amazed, as long as they knew that this matter was miraculous, it would be fine.

However, the person who heard the rumor woke up, but he was a little bit dumbfounded: Although he may not remember much about his youth, the so-called "Qinglong Yen" rumor is very likely to be unreliable: The number of steamed buns is really countless, very few.Even if the steamed buns are steamed, how can they afford the rice noodles made from rice?I'm afraid the perpetrator of this legend took it for granted.

In addition to these legends, there is another theory circulating in the market, but it is even more absurd - I don't know where it came from, saying that under the soil under our feet, there is a lot of soft red flaming stone pulp like a charcoal stove , just like the molten iron in the iron-making furnace, flowing endlessly.And now, the Horseshoe Mountain soaring into the clouds is formed by the sudden eruption of hot rocky water, condensed by the cold wind...

Because this statement is too absurd, there are very few supporters.Apart from these illusory and absurd rumors, for Xing Yan, there are still some more troublesome things.Ever since Horseshoe Mountain showed its majestic appearance, a few shabby households in the nearby city came to claim that the unattainable Horseshoe Mountain was originally their real estate!However, these things now, to the boy Xingyan, are just trivial matters.After Xingyan was not polite, and with the help of the neighbors, he beat those rogues away who only wanted to fish in troubled waters with a few punches, and these hooligans never came to harass them again—because, with the help of this horseshoe With the sudden change of the mountain, the boy woke up and said that he is now famous in Raozhou.Some old stories about him, regardless of whether they exist or not, were discovered by idlers, passed on from word to mouth, and became a popular topic of conversation after dinner.Now on the ground of Raozhou, Xingyan's deeds of punching back the master "Thunderbolt" in the Huayue Tower a few months ago have naturally been embellished and become well-known in the streets.

After witnessing the brave scene of the young man and confirming these rumors, none of those rascals who have settled down now dare to come to make trouble.

And those real tyrants, although they also have the heart of annexation, but when they first saw this strange thing, they were also amazed and awed, and they never thought of doing it for a while.After a few days of delay, the mind calmed down, and when the idea of ​​annexation came up, it was too late: it was already well known that the family was the owner of the Horseshoe Mountain-if you try to do it now, you will inevitably become the target of public criticism.

Unknowingly, Xingyan's family escaped the real disaster.

However, after a few incidents of hooligans coming to the house, Xingyan was worried about his parents at home. Although he felt sorry for the few wages, he still took a few days off with Huayuelou and stayed at home to take care of him.Now such a large mountain field is full of thorns, and it really takes some time to rectify it.

At this moment, the boy woke up and said that he still didn't know what changes the sudden change of his mountain would bring to his future life.In a few more days, when this matter subsides, he should go back to Huayue Tower and continue to be his musician in the brothel.

Xingyan's family has always held this idea.It wasn't until one day that a few special guests came to visit that the young man realized that his life might not be just wandering around in the fireworks and drinking alleys, earning food, clothing and money for food and clothing.Probably on the fifth day after the horseshoe hill suddenly rose from the ground and towered in the east of Raozhou City, Xingyan's home came with a few Taoist priests from Sanqing Mountain near Poyang Lake.Among them, there is the well-known expert in warding off evil spirits and catching monsters: Taoist Master Wang Pan of Sanqing Mountain.

The Sanqing Mountain Taoist, wearing a pure yang scarf and a gray robe, solemnly told the surprised young man in front of him that the horseshoe mountain that suddenly rose from his house was exactly the one in the Taoist treasure book "Seven Mirrors of Yunji". , one of the 72 blessed places recorded, is also the place where the ancient Zizhou real person practiced and ascended.Classical records: Horseshoe Mountain in Poyang, Raozhou, a fairy mountain for cultivating Taoism, and a blessed place for ascension!

(End of this chapter)