Delong

Chapter 343 Long Shangxing (22)

A few days later, the April smoke blew up, and everything went smoothly. With the release of Guan Xu, the leader of the Dragon Clan, Lu Daobin, the ambassador of Yecheng Palace, was about to be redeemed at a preferential price of 1000 taels of Chen Su.

So this afternoon, Xie Minghe brought his new friend Lu Daobin to the Jiangling County Government Office in advance.

After three or five times, it is not easy to shirk, especially on this day, the end of the previous battle, the disposal of Qinghe County has more or less come to fruition, Zhang Xing is indeed not too busy, and is leading Chen Bin, Yan Qing chatted with the visiting Xu Shiying and Zhang Jinshu on the east side, so he didn't ask to wait until night, so he met this person in the public housing compound.

Frankly speaking, as the cause of the rebellion gets bigger and bigger, the so-called wings are getting more and more powerful, and Zhang Xing's attitude towards these things is not the same as before... In fact, a few days ago in Liaocheng , when he stayed overnight, it was almost the first time he took a serious look at the starry sky of this world.

That's right, after traveling through four years, I finally dare to look at the stars wantonly.

"Is your divination accurate?"

Since it was rare to have a leisurely mind, after the other party entered the courtyard, Zhang Xing inevitably asked curiously in the corridor.

"Of course it is accurate." Xie Minghe rushed to explain beforehand. "This hexagram sign was consecrated by the Qing Emperor, and the interpretation of the hexagram is from Qing Emperor's "Taixuan Jing". The way of divination is to follow the method of three hui and four royals in one... simple, direct and effective."

"But it's impossible for everything to go smoothly, right?" Zhang Xing raised the issue seriously. "Can the hexagrams signed by Lord Qing be successful in the Baidi Temple? Moreover, the situation is changing, and some things are obviously successful if you advance, and you will fail if you retreat... How can it be accurate?"

"The dragon head misunderstood." Xie Minghe couldn't help laughing triumphantly. "This hexagram is to remind people that 'if you advance, you will succeed and if you retreat, you will lose'..."

Zhang Xing was stunned, but also laughed: "So, the "Taixuan Jing" is full of principles of how to behave and do things, right?"

"It must not be so careless." Xie Minghe said patiently. "To solve the hexagram is to first understand the current situation, and then understand what to do."

"Oh!" Zhang Xing was a little stunned. "In this way, I still have some intentions to turn the clouds and see the sun... Let me tell you...Ambassador Lu, do you do this professionally? Or did you fall in love with it by chance?"

"Of course it's a chance meeting..." Lu Daobin, who had never dared to say anything, replied sincerely. "But I got the chance to get this visa earlier than I became an official."

Zhang Xing nodded and went to the courtyard.

But Xu Shiying seemed to think of something, and asked from behind: "Ambassador Lu, since you are an ambassador in Yecheng, do you know the younger brother of Prince Jijun's mansion? Back then, the three brothers got a precious mirror by accident. It is quite miraculous, he himself travels around the world with this mirror, he visited Dengzhou last year to meet Zhang Sange, and Zhang Sange even advised him to go back to Ji County to find his brother."

"Wang Huaiji?" Lu Daobin lifted his spirits. "To be honest with this leader, I have met him before, and I know that he has recently gone to Ji County and only stayed with his elder brother... I also want to see his precious mirror."

"Since that's the case, let's not delay, you just talk about how to divination." Zhang Xing was too lazy to talk about it.

"May I ask your Excellency what is the matter?" Lu Daobin regained his spirit.

"Bu..." Zhang Xing thought about it carefully, but he was a little upset. "I was in a complicated mood for a while, and I didn't know what to think."

"It doesn't matter." Lu Daobin was eager to try. "You can do everything, just concentrate on thinking about one thing first."

"Is there no limit on the number of times? For example, three times a day?" Zhang Xing felt a little funny. "Will it consume your energy, maybe you need real energy assistance?"

"No, there is only the saying that if the three hexagrams fail to form a formula, then they will stop divination, and there is no other taboo." Lu Daobin answered frankly. "Actually, it's just divination... I have doubts in my heart, so let's talk for myself, that's all."

Zhang Xing nodded, no longer entangled: "Then let's predict the future of the Dragon Gang first."

"It's April now, in the first ten days, in the afternoon, please stand in the courtyard, face north, look at the sun, then look down at the ground vertically, close your eyes and cast your lottery in front of you." Lu Daobin further instructed.

And Zhang Dalong didn't hesitate, just took the hexagrams under the watchful eyes of many people, then walked forward, followed his words, and easily threw the hexagrams in front of him.

"How?" Xie Minghe, who had endured for a while, asked eagerly.

"It's a bit vague, but roughly speaking, it's still the formula of the upper nine, saying: The shape of the spirit is reversed." Lu Daobin looked at it and tried his best to answer. The people around him included Chen Bin, Xu Shiying, Jia Yue, Zhang Jinshu, Yan Qing, Wang Xiong Dan and the others also looked around a lot, but Cui Suchen was nowhere to be seen, so he should still be in the public house.

"How to solve it?" Xie Minghe couldn't urge him in time.

"The spiritual energy of the sky is reversed, and the time can't stop it." Lu Daobin came to explain with a straight face. "That is to say, the current situation, the era, the time anyway, will not become an obstacle to the Dragon Clan...or in other words, the future development of the Dragon Clan will not be hindered by the time."

This explanation is quite clear, and the people around are obviously relieved. Many people are simply happy, but some people are obviously frowning because of the broad explanation.

"The time is not good and the time is not dying." Zhang Xing was also thoughtful, but he seemed speechless. "So what if time doesn't work? I understand why your divination is effective...Time can't be used, situation can't be controlled? Can people be overcome? Can the Supreme Grandmaster be overcome?"

Lu Daobinuo didn't say a word, but Xie Minghe still came to persuade him: "At least it's time!"

Zhang Xing nodded: "That's right, it's time."

"What else do you want to divination?" Xie Minghe urged.

"Bu relatives and friends..." Zhang Xing thought for a moment before continuing.

"It's still the same as before." Lu Daobin hurriedly reminded.

After a while, the lottery was thrown again. This time, the attention of the people around was obviously less. They just stood in the corridor and looked around, and no one poked their heads out.

"The lottery signs are scattered, they can't connect, they don't take shape, they don't form a hexagram." Lu Daobin became bewildered.

"Is this common?" Xie Minghe couldn't help being curious.

"It's not uncommon." Ambassador Lu said helplessly, and at the same time picked up the hexagram lottery and handed it to Zhang Xing. "Just do it again."

Zhang Xing didn't take it seriously, and tossed it again.

"It still doesn't make a hexagram." Lu Daobin quickly picked it up again, and quickly handed it to Zhang Xing. "Your Excellency, please toss again."

Zhang Xing threw it for the third time.

Lu Daobin was inexplicably terrified: "Three times... I just said it, it's hard to predict."

Xie Minghe took a deep breath and came to see Zhang Xing: "Master Zhang, who are your relatives and friends? Are you thinking about Chief Bai?"

"It's Sisi, but I think more about Li Si, Sima Zheng, and Qin Er. In fact, I just think about the relatives and friends who celebrated the New Year in a courtyard in Dongdu that day, and wonder if there is any chance to get together with them. Is the road still a stranger?" At this point, Zhang Xing laughed to himself. "I know what you mean. According to some sayings, I am selected by the Black Emperor, and Sisi is selected by the Red Emperor... The matter between the two of us must be a fight between the Supreme Beings, and the Qing Emperor's lottery may not be used... But what about Li Ding and Qin Er? Could it be that there is also a selection of Bai Di Ye? Li Ding is the selection of Bai Di Ye, and Qin Er is also a pattern of San Hui's selection? So the hexagram sign of Qing Di Ye is really invalid here gone?"

Xu Shiying and Chen Bin's expression changed slightly.

Xie Minghe couldn't help sighing and being speechless.

On the other hand, Jia Yue rarely spoke at this time: "Li Ding may have something to say... I was in the North, and I heard some rumors. It is said that it was said by the Commander-in-Chief, but I can't be sure... It seems to be saying, Master Si Yu On the Internet, it is no longer as good as the ancestors who interfered too much in the past, but they will still participate in the battle of fortune for a while, relying on selecting heroes to participate in it, but clicking does not mean that whoever clicks more is better. There are many opportunities, but the heroic spirit is torn apart, held by the four masters, and then each implements it... Some are only invested in one person, the only seedling in the womb; Some of them may be thrown on a clan or a place... From this point of view, Li Ding may have something to say."

Everyone thought about it.

Only Zhang Xing thought about it for a while, but his mood became a little low, and he shook his head directly: "The gods and gods are weird and unscrupulous, no wonder the heroes at that time went on and on, and they wanted to use the three brilliance to overwhelm the four royals... These four are also, they are self-contained. Great merit, think carefully about the stars and seas reopening the map, why can't you always forget the world?"

As he said that, Yan Yan walked away with his hands behind his back, leaving only many people looking at each other in blank dismay, Jia Yue was even more disturbed.

Besides, this early summer afternoon, when all kinds of gods and monsters, all kinds of grand narratives, and all kinds of nothingness are attached to Zhang Dalongtou, Gaojipo on the south bank of Qingzhang River, which belongs to Zhangnan County, which is a hundred miles away from Jiangling City Nearby, there are people who are down-to-earth and ready to work hard, which is in stark contrast.

Really ready to work.

In early summer, it is impossible to plant corn again, but it is not too late to drain the swamp, plant some cabbage, kidney beans, wild rice stems, spread some water chestnuts in the water, and prepare other perennial fruit trees and lotus roots.

And this kind of work is really a bit bitter, so the people working in the village here in Gaojibo are actually a group of prisoners of war in previous wars, homeless wandering young men, who are now collected as semi-forced settlements as garrison soldiers.

"Let me introduce first. My surname is Huang. You can just call me Tunchang Huang. In fact, I am Xiangzheng. It's just that we are all Tuntian soldiers here. That's why I'm called by this name. I'm not a local, just like you. It was Qinghe who was the head of the mausoleum, and because he did a good job, he was transferred to this level." Under the sun, a middle-aged head of the village was standing with five or seven men in leather armor and swords. Under a big tree with lush foliage, and then talk to the new batch of old-fashioned people. "And since everyone has come to our Gaoji Santun, then don't have any extra thoughts. We will only be brothers in the future, so we will come here as a family."

The twenty or thirty people in front were clearly divided into two groups. One group was thin-skinned and tender-skinned, with families and children, extremely depressed, while the other group were all strong men, only gathered around a dull-looking young man, Come and listen.

Chief Huang had noticed this person a long time ago, so why didn't he know that this must be a real stubble from the army?
But he is also a local tyrant for many years, and he is used to being a low-level official, but he also has some methods, which is to pretend to ignore it and start with others.

"You, you seem to be a rich family, how did you end up here?" Tun Zhang only asked another group of people who came first. "Did you commit a crime by burning usurious debts? Or did you occupy too much land by occupying too many official slaves and private slaves?"

"It's a prisoner of war." The leader of the family raised his head and answered in frustration.

Hearing this, Tun Zhang changed his attitude a bit, and his tone became much better: "Your surname is Wang, right? What was Lao Wang's job before?"

"County magistrate." The man continued to answer. "It's the magistrate of Liting County in the south."

"I see." Chief Huang couldn't help feeling a little nervous. "Wang Xianjun was not redeemed?"

"I originally wanted six hundred shi of corn to redeem." County magistrate Wang was powerless to answer. "But Dou Lide...someone under Dou Datou's subordinates told me that when I was the county magistrate, he approved some rewards and judgments, saying that he would kill me, but it is said that Dou Datou went up to intercede, saying that at that time each was his own master, the vicious , The tyrant is killed, and someone like me can be given a chance... In the end, he was sentenced to labor reform at Zhang Longtou, and he only came to work as a farmer in the village."

Head Huang heard the names of many people, either the current manager or the general manager, and knew that the matter was beyond his control, so he came to ask seriously: "Do you have any cultivation?"

"Changsheng Zhenqi has two extraordinary meridians." County magistrate Wang continued to answer honestly.

"That's good. Changsheng Zhenqi is the best way to cultivate land, and it's easy to do strength work with Qijing cultivation base." Huang Tunchang sighed. "In addition, County Magistrate Wang knows legal documents, even a farmer, and his life is much easier than others... Live here with peace of mind! Your family has a large population, and there are female relatives, I will make it bigger for you place, and then invite someone to help you quickly build a decent house.”

County magistrate Wang could only thank him.

Jumping over to County Magistrate Wang, Chief Huang came to see another group of people. After being silent for a long time, he finally decided to call it a day and stop making trouble. Make a note, and then try to spread out the gang's intended accommodation when allocating housing, and that's it.

However, Han Er also didn't mean to cause trouble, but seemed too dull.

"The so-called foundation building is actually to adjust one's state and mentality, to feel a little bit of anger towards other masters who have already cultivated, and to draw that true energy to one's dantian, and then nourish it for a hundred days. You can keep it for yourself... Generally speaking, after the age of seven or eight, before the age of twelve or thirteen is the most suitable, almost every test is perfect..."

A group of people passed by a place in the village, and they heard someone talking inside. Han Erlang suddenly stopped to listen, and many people stopped together. The head of the village was helpless, nervous, and could only pretend to look around. I regretted that my family was tempted for a while, and I had extra thoughts. I left Shuanghuangli and came to be a village chief.

The head of the village is still different from Xiangzheng, if there is a riot, okay?Even if the Dragon Army was invincible, it was immediately suppressed, but what about the life of the head of the village?
However, Han Erlang didn't act like a moth. After listening for a while, he asked the magistrate Wang beside him: "Mr. Wang, is this where the Dragon Gang forced everyone to build a foundation?"

Listening to his words, it seems that he is quite familiar with the county magistrate Wang, and his status is not low.

"It must be so." County magistrate Wang obviously respected this person, and he was no longer overly depressed, and just cheered up.

Han Erlang nodded, and continued to ask: "If there is no master to guide with zhenqi, can't you build a foundation?"

"Of course not." County magistrate Wang sighed. "This method is for ordinary people. In ancient times, there were often some geniuses. During a certain period of time, facing the nature of vegetation, water and fire, rivers and lakes, and the sun, moon, cold and heat, they could breathe a little bit, and they could feel their breath..."

"Why can't you become a foundation after the age of twelve or thirteen?" Han Erlang continued to ask.

"I don't know, I can only guess that after the age of twelve or thirteen, men and women can get married, and their minds are muddy, not as simple as children's minds. Some people say that there is an invisible orifice in the dantian, which completely disappears after the age of fifteen or sixteen. Closed, it is difficult to accept the true energy to enter... I believe in the latter, because after the [-]th, [-]th, the number of successful foundation building is much less, and there are still some, and it is very rare after the age of [-] or [-]." County magistrate Wang patiently did science popularization. "However, this matter is not absolute. There are also twenty foundations in ancient books, but they are dragon hair and whale bones. In ancient times, there was a holy emperor who was forty years old. I learned how to grow rice and went back, but I returned to the tribe to teach others to plant the land, and I suddenly felt angry after planting... It can be seen that for the real big men and geniuses, God's will will be lenient. Han Does Erlang have an idea?"

Han Er shook his head: "I ask myself that I am stupid, what can I think? It's just that now, I feel more and more frustrated with my incompetence."

As he spoke, he moved on his own.

County magistrate Wang hurriedly followed, but couldn't help sighing even more.

But Tun Zhang in front saw the opportunity quickly, and immediately activated it, just acting like leading the way, allocating residences along the way, after all, he dispersed and arranged these people one by one.

Then he left early and made up his mind to take a trip to Zhangnan tomorrow to find out the details of this person so that he can be prepared in the future.

On the other side, Han Erlang didn't know Tun Zhang's thoughts at all. He was a bachelor and was assigned a place to live, so he followed the caller and settled there directly.

As for the living place, I saw that it was a newly built air-permeable wooden house, connected to other houses, with four or five beds, barely enough to live in.

The person who picked him up from the head of the village was also in his 40s or [-]s. He didn't pay much attention to it at this time, but pointed to the house and said: "On the first day, it is customary not to work. The bed is new. Pick a rest by yourself." Xie, I can’t get used to sleeping, so I went to cut wood and lay bricks, and it’s all like this.”

Han Erlang wanted to thank him, but the man continued:
"The mats are gone. Most of the later ones were made by finding reeds by myself. If you don't know how to weave, you can go to Zhao San's house to buy them. His family has several generations of craftsmanship. Don't be afraid of running out of money. You can pay on credit. After work is done, every day It is customary to give a few money in ten days, I heard that it depends on whether the work is proper or not, and whether there is any crime, the newcomers are given first, and we can see each other tomorrow."

Han Erlang nodded, and he couldn't help but relax.

The man continued to point to the stove and said, "It is said that oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar will also be bought in the future, but at this time, they are paid like food, just like in the army. The big stove and firewood are all shared. You You can't be lazy with that share, you have to help out if you know how to cook, and have more eyesight."

Han Erlang became more and more relaxed.

But the man paused for a moment, and continued: "Since you've come here, you can live in peace. No matter how it was before, we will eat and sleep together in the future, and we can move out when we get married. It's good for everyone to live more peacefully."

Han Erlang finally said: "I'm afraid of uneasiness."

"That's good." The man nodded. "The people in our house are all fishing on the edge of the water pond at the back. Just rest and watch if you feel bored. I'm going."

Han Erlang nodded quickly.

As soon as his roommate left, Han Erlang was stunned for a moment, but he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, so he just sat down by the bed, thought for a long time, then stood up again, and walked to the water pool behind.

Not long after, I saw Gaojibo in summer.

Gaojibo is located on the south bank of the Qingzhang River. It is a huge swamp that shrinks in winter and broadens in summer. Dark ridges intersect with deep harbors and the terrain is complex.

At this time, the breeze is blowing, the water waves are slightly rising, and the not too bright sun in early summer hangs high above, making it look sparkling, but the lake color is often blocked by the river bank, reeds, and trees, intermittently.

There are hundreds of people on the shore, sorted and divided into groups. Some are planting vegetables on the edge of the drained land, some are driving some donkeys and horses to plow the land, some are still carrying soil to and from landfills, and some are digging wild vegetables in the water with bare feet. There is even a team People are building dams to catch fish... This seems to be a preparation for the next step of draining the water.

Han Erlang stood in a daze on the new Tianlong, looking at this scene, suddenly felt that four or five years ago, from the time he bid farewell to his mother before Erzheng, and was called to work as a groom in the county, many experiences were like a As illusory as a dream, I was still the barefoot young farmer back then, and I never lost all the precious things.

Only thoughts, like this wild lake in Gaojibo, are stirred up by microwaves, and in four or five years, countless faces of people who have lost their lives and lost information have also swirled around, matching the golden color in the lake in front of them, but Almost could not hold back the tears.

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation in front of him, which woke Han Erlang up. He looked up and saw that a donkey lost control and ran up Long, as if it was going to eat the vegetable seedlings nearby.

Han Erlang turned pale with fright, he didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't need anyone to shout, he ran to meet him almost instinctively, and stopped the donkey on Longshang.

As the saying goes:
You don’t hear about the two hundred prefectures of the Han family in Shandong, where Jingqi is born in thousands of villages.

Even if there are healthy women who plow the hoe, there is nothing left in the sage.

PS: Happy New Year everyone.

(End of this chapter)