At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Empire, in order to prevent the remnant forces from the north from coming back, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang personally issued an order: on the border defense line of more than 16,000 miles, starting from the Yalu River in the east and reaching Jiayuguan in the west, Liaodong, Ji, etc. were set up in sequence. The nine military fortresses of Zhouzhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Yulin (Yansui), Ningxia, Guyuan, and Gansu are known as the "nine sides and nine towns", and a large number of elite soldiers and generals are stationed to protect the security of the interior of the Central Plains.
Among the nine towns, Yulin Town, located in northern Shaanxi, is the most famous.
Yulin Town has jurisdiction over Yulin's left, middle and right guards, as well as the three defense posts of Zhenqiang, Dingbian and Guide. The defense area is more than 1,200 miles long from east to west and more than 300 miles wide from north to south. It is the key point in the northwest region, so it is also known as the "most powerful town in the northwest"!
People in the Yulin area are even more famous for their "hard-working, tough folk customs, and fighting without risking their lives"!
Therefore, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has repeatedly recruited the children of Yulin to join the army, fighting in the south and north, blocking the east and killing in the west. They have made countless achievements and written countless evocative stories!
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The first year of Chongzhen - the third day of March!
Yulin right guard - Zhenbei Qianhusuo - Seven Kills Fort!
The third day of March, also known as 'Daughter's Day', is one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. According to custom, on this day people will hold sacrificial activities, sing and dance, celebrate warmly, and also set red lines for young men and women to promote marriage!
But inside the Seven Kills Castle, there was no joyful atmosphere at all.
Because someone died!
In the northeast corner of the fort, in a simple courtyard, there is a white mourning shed. Under the shed is a white wooden thin-skinned coffin. In front of it are spiritual tablets, incense candles, earthen jars, and a few simple tributes!
A beautiful girl with a graceful figure, wearing linen and mourning, holding the coffin and crying bitterly... her cry was hoarse, just like a cuckoo crying blood, which shows how sad she was.
"Alas, Jiao Lang was only seventeen years old this year, and he passed away like this before he was married to Yu Niang. What a pity!"
"Who says otherwise? These days, it is unreasonable for good people not to live long and evil people to live for thousands of years!"
"Yu Niang, don't cry, or you may break your body from crying!"
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The military households in the fort gathered around, some whispered, some sighed, and a few elders comforted the girl. Don't be too sad. No matter what hardships you encounter, you have to look forward!
The girl's name is Jin Yuniang. She is 18 years old. She has a pretty appearance and a gentle personality. She is a well-known good woman within a few dozen miles. A saying often said by military households is: Whose child can marry Yuniang? As a wife, I must have burned high incense in my previous life!
Burn more than one bundle, otherwise you won’t be able to achieve such blessings.
It's a pity that the person who burned the incense in the previous life is currently lying in the coffin, accepting the incense tribute from everyone. He is Jin Yuniang's fiancé: Qin Feng, who is seventeen years old this year, and 'Jiao Lang' is his Baby name.
Why is there such a nickname?
This is all because when he was a child, Qin Feng often cried for no reason and could not be coaxed. According to folklore, this was caused by ghosts and ghosts who were frightening the baby.
There is a ghost-exorcism ritual in the northwest region, called "Da Nuo", in which wizards wear masks and play twelve ancient evil beasts, jumping around a bonfire to drive away ghosts and bless peace... Twelve evil beasts Among the beasts, the dragon is the most ferocious. It can control thunder and lightning, stir up wind and rain, turn rivers and seas upside down, and make hundreds of ghosts retreat.
Therefore, his parents gave Qin Feng the nickname "Jiao Lang", which was intended to drive away ghosts and keep him safe!
Similar nicknames can be found everywhere in the northwest, and they are neither unusual nor taboo.
Someone asked, why did such a young man die, and why was he paid homage by so many military households?
It’s a long story.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Qin family came to Yulin Town as military households to station themselves. In the subsequent war with the Mongols, the ancestors of the Qin family fought bravely and captured several enemy heads. Due to their merits, the ancestors of the Qin family were named the Seven Kills Fort - Hundreds of officials.
Hundred households, the sixth rank, belongs to the middle and lower-level official positions in the border army, and can be inherited by descendants.
Since then, the ancestors of the Qin family have taken root in Qishao Castle, married wives, had children, and multiplied their lives for more than two hundred years.
Logically speaking, with the hereditary official position of one hundred households, the life of the descendants of the Qin family will not be too bad. In fact, the Qin family has been in a terrible state in recent years!
Qin Feng was born on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in the thirty-ninth year of Wanli. Six months later, he and his neighbor's only daughter, Jin Yuniang, were engaged in baby marriage, and they became 'Qin and Jin's best friend! '
In the first year of Tianqi, when Qin Feng was ten years old, his father died of a sudden illness.
Two years later, Qin's mother passed away due to excessive grief and physical injuries from working day and night.
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The Qin family was small and had no other blood relatives to rely on. Fortunately, the military households in the fort were kind-hearted and often helped out. Coupled with the care of his fiancée, Jin Yuniang, Qin Feng, who became an orphan, did not starve to death.
I thought that as Qin Feng grew up, his life would get better little by little, but he never expected that bad luck would happen again.
There is a custom in Yulin. On Daughter's Day, engaged men and women exchange gifts. The women give sachets and the men give hairpins, which expresses their eternal love for each other!
But after the death of his parents, the Qin family's situation plummeted, and life was extremely difficult. Not to mention precious jade and gold hairpins, they couldn't even afford the most ordinary copper hairpin. What should they do?
Thirty miles southeast of Qisha Fort, there is Lianglang Mountain. The mountain has lush vegetation and is rich in a kind of yellow thuja wood. It has a hard texture, fine texture, and a natural light fragrance. Wooden hairpins are made from this material. She is very beautiful and deeply loved by common women.
So, yesterday morning, Qin Feng went up to Lianglang Mountain alone, wanting to collect a piece of yellow cypress wood and make a hairpin with his own hands to give to Jin Yuniang as a gift. Unexpectedly, during the collection process, Qin Feng lost his footing and fell off the cliff. By the time the soldiers found him, the body was already cold.
The Qin family is thin, and only Qin Feng is left in this generation. Now that he has died unfortunately, the Qin family is almost extinct, and his fiancée Jin Yuniang has become a poor widower.
There is no greater misfortune in life than this.
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According to custom, after a person dies, the body must be laid to rest for seven days to receive memorials from relatives and friends. Monks and Taoist priests must be invited to read scriptures and redeem the souls before being buried.
However, the military households of Qishaubao were too poor to pay more tributes, and they could not afford to hire monks or Taoist priests.
Therefore, after a hasty memorial ceremony, under the command of several veteran military households, eight strong young men stepped forward to cover the coffin, nail the nails, install the ropes and poles, and begin the funeral.
"Put your hands on your shoulders and get off the bench. The higher you lift, the more stable it will be. Look behind you at your shoulders in front. Keep your back straight and cannot bend...it's time to lift the coffin!"
"My family, break the basin!"
"woo woo woo woo!"
The Qin family had no male members and no relatives, so Jin Yuniang had no choice but to let Jin Yuniang wear sackcloth, wear mourning, break the earthen pot, hold a soul-summoning flag, and walk in the front with the support of two women.
Eight strong young men followed behind carrying the coffin, and the other military households followed, playing and playing, throwing paper money, and exited the south gate of Qisha Fort... Soon they came to a barren hillock, where someone had already dug a grave pit in advance. Deep and big!
Next, just put the coffin into the pit, fill it with soil, and set it up on the grave, and the story ends.
Fortunately, God didn't want the story to end, so he intervened.
When the coffin was about to be lowered, the weather suddenly changed. The bright sunshine disappeared. Then the clouds gathered, the wind blew, and the rain poured down, accompanied by thunder and lightning!
"Boom... boom!"
The thunder was rolling and deafening, as if thousands of demons were shouting together; lightning streaked across the sky, like dragons dancing desperately, and their momentum was earth-shattering!
The northwest region experiences drought and little rain all year round, and heavy rains in March are even rarer.
For a time, the funeral soldiers were staggered by the violent wind and rain, and many of them had looks of horror on their faces. The power of heaven and earth was so terrifying!
"Crack--crack!"
Immediately afterwards, a thick red lightning bolt fell from the sky, hitting the coffin parked beside the pit without any bias, knocking the white wooden coffin to pieces and scattering wood chips all over the ground.
Logically speaking, lightning is so powerful that even the coffin is broken into pieces. The corpse inside should not be broken into a ball of charcoal?
Unexpectedly, the body was unharmed!
What was even more unexpected was that a blush slowly appeared on the corpse's originally deathly gray face. His chest was rising and falling, and he was breathing... The people around him could clearly see what was going on.
"Ah, no, it's a fake corpse!"
"Run quickly, run quickly!"
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"Everyone, stop, you are running around. You are a bunch of ignorant people. They are not fake corpses. Jiao Lang must have faked his death before, but now he has been revived by thunder and lightning. Don't be stupid and help him to carry him back." "
"Fake death and come back to life...God bless, the good people of the Qin family will be rewarded!"
There were a few experienced old men who knew the concept of 'suspended death'. They immediately stopped the panicked crowd, and then directed a few young men to step forward and carry Qin Feng back to the Seven Kills Fort quickly for treatment...
It is naturally a happy thing for a young man who died young to come back to life. Unfortunately, the happy military households did not know that the original Qin Feng had already returned to the underworld and was reincarnated.
What is resurrected now is another soul from more than four hundred years later!
A terrifying soul that reverses yin and yang, travels through time and space, and is about to change this world!
