Qingyan felt that Han Yunqi and the others were handling things a little too lightly. If Chou Chou hadn't helped to deal with that Hou Sanwa, she would have suffered a lot of losses later.
After all, he doesn't care about anyone's life, and his indulgence will only make him more aggressive.
However, after thinking about it, it became clear that Han Yunqi was just a businessman, and he was also the kind of traveling trader with the highest risk factor. If he really offended someone to death, there was nothing they could do about the other party's big move.
You must know that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, businessmen ranked last, especially in the Song Dynasty. You can say that you are a soldier, an official, or a farmer, but if you say that you are a businessman, you will immediately Become a vile person.
Even the little gangsters in the street are on par with you in status, which shows how humble you are. The key thing is that this idea has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is deeply ingrained.
Qingyan remembered that her father once told her a little story. In the late Song Dynasty, an official made a mistake, and the emperor was furious and wanted to be severely punished.
And this severe punishment is not to go to a prison cell to beat someone, nor is it to be dismissed from office and fined with salary. It is something that neither you nor I can imagine.
That is to punish him to open a shop in the market. This shop is opened in a place he is familiar with. If the neighbors come to buy a broom today and a bronze mirror tomorrow, they will make fun and humiliate the erring official in every possible way. This is the biggest punishment to him. punishment.
Not to mention the Song Dynasty, even the Tang Dynasty had a prosperous economy and an open country.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty issued a special order prohibiting officials above the fifth rank from passing through the market. In the early years of the Song Dynasty, the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business was basically followed in the past dynasties, and merchants were explicitly prohibited from participating in the imperial examination.
There is a record in "History of the Song Dynasty: Election Chronicles": "Everyone who is ordered to be elected is called the Lock Hall Examination. The subordinates are first known by name, and then the decree is obtained. After gathering together to protect each other, no treacherous person above the level of Yi Ma is allowed to get close to him. Those who are unfilial, disloyal, reclusive, business aliens, monks and laymen."
It can be seen that the status of merchants was evident in ancient times.
In this way, it is normal for the Han family not to pursue a gangster who has become a petty official.
Fortunately, they came across this, and there was a plug-in called Chou Chou, which solved this hidden danger directly for them, otherwise they would probably have no peace in the future.
After Chou Chou finished eating, Qingyan went into the house to rest with him. Chou Chou was still used to being a little monkey when he returned to the space, so he did not live separately from Qingyan.
When Jin Yang is in space, he usually returns to his true body to practice, so it is still the same as before.
Qingyan Yuanbao lives in a house with a formation, Huang Jin lives alone in a wooden house, and Big Bear and the others usually walk outside and come back to the yard when they rest. There is a shed specially built for them.
When he was about to go out the next day, Chou Chou looked outside as usual to make sure no one was going out.
As a result, they found that they could not go out to the open space they chose yesterday. There were many people resting there. Judging from the clothes of those people and the sedans they were carrying, they should be a procession to welcome the bride.
Chou Chou listened for a while and said to Qingyan: "Outside is the Han family's wedding team. They came out early and haven't reached the agreed time. We are waiting for the auspicious moment. We have to change places to go out."
Qingyan and the others originally came in from here yesterday. If they wanted to go out, they could only go out here. If they had to change places, they would have to rely on Jin Yang.
After all, this space belongs to it, and Chou Chou can't take them out of the space elsewhere.
Qingyan sent a message to call Jin Yang over. Originally, Jin Yang was not going to go outside the space today. He would come into the space from time to time in the past two days to study the bone sword that he got from Taoist Yaoguang. .
It is now somewhat interested in this kind of magical weapon, and wants to see if it can also learn to refine weapons. After all, it possesses the true fire of the sun, so it should have a natural advantage in refining weapons.
So these days it spends a lot of time in its own place in space, and doesn't spend much time with them.
They all drive a carriage now, and Chou Chou and Jin Jin just need to take turns driving in front. Of course, most of the time, Jin Chou is driving and Chou Chou just sits next to him.
Qingyan would also open the window or the carriage door, and listen to Jin Jin introducing the customs and customs here with Chou Chou. After all, this was Jin Jin's hometown.
She had said before that this guy Huang Jin was not born in the right place. For Wong Tai Sin, the north was better than the south.
In the north, there are more people who believe in spirits like Wong Tai Sin, but in the south, they will be labeled as evil spirits. After all, Taoism is prevalent in the south, and such mountain spirits can easily be accepted by Taoist priests.
And the unlucky ones may even become disciples who have just started practicing.
If he had been born in the north, with Jin Jin's current level of cultivation, he would definitely be offered up as an offering and gain a lot of faith.
This should be the reason why Huang Jin traveled all the way from the south to the capital. He also wanted to stay in a temple in the capital for a while to see if he could enjoy some incense, and then he would probably continue to go north.
It was also a coincidence that I met Qingyan and the others on the way, and immediately asked for Feng's transformation, and now I have the opportunity to revisit the old place.
It just doesn't know if its master is still there. It also said that when it left before, its master was almost at the end of his life. It has been more than ten years and it is possible that he is no longer there.
They later came out from behind a forest more than two miles away. There was no way. The villages here were very dense and there were many people on the official road. It was difficult to find a secret place in broad daylight.
There was an unexpected situation before coming out. The big bear didn't want to come out at all. He thought he was tired and wanted to rest, so he put on Little Red. But it turned out that he didn't agree and was so anxious that he ran back and forth and stumbled.
Chou Chou asked and found out that it was his wife Xiaohong who had a baby.
Qingyan was quite happy. It was a happy event to have a baby in the space. She fed Xiaohong a lot of spiritual spring water and asked Daxiong to take good care of it. Then they hitched the ox cart and came out.
So most of the rest of the journey was pulled by oxen. Big Bear only came out to pull the cart occasionally for a day, and spent most of the time in space with his wife.
Qingyan thought about buying another horse when she returned to town, but the speed of the oxen pulling the cart was still too slow.
After leaving the space, they went up the official road. Qingyan used her spiritual consciousness to look at Han Yunqi's second brother's house and saw that everyone there was busy preparing a banquet, but the bride had not been brought back yet.
If you think about it, you will understand. Nowadays, the emphasis is on the ceremony in the evening. Unlike in later generations, where the bride was picked up early in the morning, the ceremony was held in the morning and the banquet started at noon.
She also looked specifically at the team that went to pick up the bride, and found that they were still at the place where they entered the space before. More than half an hour had passed. She didn't know why they came out so early. Couldn't they have agreed on a time in advance before coming out?
She expressed her doubts, and Huang Jin explained her doubts: "Auspicious times and auspicious days are different. The date of marriage is calculated in advance, and the auspicious time is calculated on the same day. It is different every day and will change with the weather. .
There are auspicious times when getting married and when getting married. Sometimes it is postponed temporarily or postponed temporarily. The team cannot turn back, so they can only wait on the way. "
Qingyan suddenly realized, "So that's it. I thought it was only important when paying homage to the bride. This wedding is really complicated. If you didn't understand, it would probably be a joke."
Huang Jin: "Yes, weddings are all presided over by special persons. The three books and six etiquettes in the first part, and the good times and auspicious days in the second part are all very particular. We don't do this often, and most people probably can't remember it."
They walked forward while chatting. The ox cart was moving slowly. They could have reached the county seat at noon, but they didn't arrive until evening.
When they were about to enter the city, they met Hou Sanwa who was being pulled back to the village by an ox cart. Chou Chou pointed out to her that the ox cart had no shed, so she could see it at a glance.
Different from the wretched gangster Qingyan imagined, he was a pretty handsome young man. Even though he was a little silly now, it didn't affect his handsomeness.
If Chou Chou hadn't said that he was Hou Sanwa, and knew what he had done and that he was carrying a human life, Qingyan would have wanted to ask if she had recognized the wrong person or if there was some misunderstanding.
Don't say that she judges people by their appearance. This appearance is really confusing. There is a saying that appearance comes from the heart. Now she just wants to say that it is true that people cannot be judged by their appearance.
Also, if he looks too unattractive, the county magistrate will probably look down on him, let alone marry the daughter of a landlord. It is said that he comes with a large dowry.
Now that we have arrived at the county seat, we simply go in and find a restaurant for dinner. The food here is pretty good.
After dinner, I left directly without staying there. I walked forward a while while it was still early, and didn't enter the space to rest until after ten o'clock in the evening.
The next few days went very smoothly, and I didn't encounter any problems. Except for the slow speed, everything else was good.
In the end, I didn't buy any more horses. It wasn't that they weren't for sale, but I just didn't see the right one. Anyway, there were cattle, and big bears would come out occasionally, so I gave up the idea.
They walked slowly for six days to reach the boundary of Shishou County, a distance of two hundred miles, where Longgai Mountain was located.
Shishou, "Shi" refers to Stone Mountain, and "Shou" refers to the first time you see the mountain along the Jingjiang River. In the fifth year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty, Shishou County was established and the county was named after Shishou Mountain in the north of the city.
Shishou County is now under the jurisdiction of Jiangling Prefecture, and later returned to Jingzhou, and later changed to a city.
The geographical location of this place is very special. It is located at the junction of Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain. Jiangbei belongs to Jianghan Plain and Jiangnan belongs to Dongting Lake Plain.
The south of the Yangtze River is dominated by plains with hills. The terrain is high in the northwest, slightly lower in the middle, and slopes to the southwest. There are many wild animals that are not found elsewhere, such as elk, white dolphin, finless porpoise, Chinese sturgeon, great bustard, white stork, black stork, etc. Storks, swans, etc.
Later generations even established a protected area, which contained first- and second-level nationally protected animals. Qingyan visited it with her parents.
It's just that there is really nothing in common between the later generations and the current look. The later generations are already a well-developed small city, and high-rise buildings can be seen everywhere.
Nowadays, the scenery is good, but there is not much bustling and bustling. The houses are also low-rise like elsewhere, and there are only some two-story buildings in the center of the county.
They first entered the county town and had dinner in the largest restaurant. Yes, it was dinner. It was already evening when they arrived.
After dinner, she went directly to Longgai Mountain. A park was built here in later generations. Now it is just a wild mountain. It is not very high, just over 200 meters. It is higher than when she came here in later generations.
They did not go up the mountain. Although there was a Taoist temple on the mountain, I didn't know if anyone would receive them at night. After all, it was not a tourist attraction, but a place for Taoist practice.
Moreover, the mountain lake with the legendary dragon is at the foot of the mountain. They came mainly for the lake, and secondly to see the Taoist temple where Huang Jin once stayed.
We went directly to the lake and took a look. Qingyan's consciousness couldn't detect the bottom of the lake, so Chou Chou had to come.
Chou Chou put his consciousness into the bottom of the lake and found that there was a barrier that he couldn't penetrate at all. After looking at the bottom of the lake, there was something really different.
Turning to Qingyan, she said: "There is a barrier at the bottom of the lake that blocks my consciousness. It seems that I have to let Shui Lingzhu come out. The water is its home field."
Qingyan nodded, entered the space with it, sent a message to Jin Yang, and told Jin Yang about the situation, and Jin Yang called out the water spirit bead.
The water spirit bead quickly emerged from the mouth of the spiritual spring. After Jin Yang asked him to go out to explore the lake outside, he agreed without saying a word.
There must be something good that they can't find. If it is beneficial to it, I guess they won't be stingy and ignore it.
Qingyan and Chou Chou did not say that the bottom of the lake might be his ex-fiancée or ex-love rival. First, they were afraid that he would be in mood and unwilling to go, and second, they were not sure.
Afterwards, they followed Shui Lingzhu out of the space. The four of them stood by the water and watched Shui Lingzhu sink into the bottom of the lake.
Except for the small splash just now, the entire lake was very calm, because there was no wind and no ripples at all.
The water was deep where they were, and it was the closest to the mountainside. The water was shallower on the side closer to the roadside, and there were some wild lotus leaves and water hyacinths on the water.
About twenty minutes passed, and the Shui Lingzhu "pop"
It emerged from the water with a sound and hovered in the air.
Jin Yang communicated with it through voice transmission for a while, and then said to Qingyan and the others: "It said there was a barrier under the lake bottom. It tried it but couldn't break through.
However, it faintly felt the aura of its kind, but it was very weak. It was not known whether it was due to the isolation of the barrier, or whether it was because the aura of its kind was no longer there and the aura remained. "
Qingyan frowned, she couldn't even get in with the Water Spirit Pearl, so there was nothing they could do. If it was underground, they could still find a way to find a passage or dig in. They didn't seem to be able to do it underwater.
Chou Chou consoled him: "Tomorrow we will go to the Taoist Temple on the mountain to see. Didn't Huang Jin say that the Xiutian Temple where his master is located has records in this regard? We can go and ask."
Qingyan nodded, that was all she could do. She couldn't come here in vain. Ninety-nine steps had already been taken, and this last step was not missing.
The group went directly back to the space to rest, and we will talk about the rest when they get up tomorrow morning.
(End of chapter)
