Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 102 Legend
The name of the boatman who punted the boat was Wang Sanliu.

What does the name mean?It's very simple, he was born on the sixth day of March, so he is called Sanliu.

In those days, most of the children from poor families were given such names, firstly because the adults in their families had limited education, and secondly because they were really not suitable for such a particularly tall name.

Think about it, a fisherman, whose family members are basically illiterate, so you name him Zixuan, Zihan...Whether he can write is the next thing, and he may have to be recognized when he grows up. laugh at.

Another example, there is a rich family, the master is low-key, his surname is Yu, and his single name is Qian, and he is also very humble. As a result, he has three servants under his command, one named Long Aotian, one named Zhao Ritian, and one named Dong Batian... how do you think this master feels?
On weekdays, when I greet them to do things, I would say: "Ritian, make a pot of tea for my grandfather." "Batian, make a basin of water for my grandfather to wash his feet." "Aotian, has the dog been fed today?"

How awkward do you think this master is?

In addition, there is a more superstitious saying among the people, which is the so-called "a humble name is easy to support".

One is that children are energetic but immature and easy to be targeted by ghosts, so giving them a name that even ghosts dislike can ward off evil spirits; another is that when the king of hell looks through the book of life and death, he will be impressed when he sees a name that is too distinctive , If you say check it, you will check it, but names like Zhang Sanli Si Goudaner Mazi are easy to be ignored.

But in the final analysis, it was because the medical level was too low back then, and the probability of children dying or being disabled due to illness was a bit high, so there was a market for such claims.

Wang Sanliu's family believed in that very much. When he was a child, he often heard the elders in his family... especially the old people talking about it.

And among the many stories he had heard, there was one that left a deep impression on him, and that was the legend about the "Lanruo Temple" on the island in the middle of the lake.

According to legend, more than a thousand years ago, the Shi River was not called the Shi River, but the "Shi River". There lived a big monster under the river, known as "the ancestor of the corpse".

What is "kill"?Extermination means extermination, ruin.

Just hearing the name, this monster's hobbies are of the first grade...

At that time, countless people died on the river of corpses every year, and these people, without exception, became the food of the ancestor of the corpse; Absorbing monster power from resentment, wait until a person's three souls and seven souls are almost exhausted, then the corpse ancestor will swallow his body and squeeze out the last bit of flesh and blood. bone".

Needless to say, such an evil thing will definitely not last long.

One day, an old man came, and without any nonsense, he jumped into the river and fought with that monster. The man and the monster fought for three days and three nights.

In the end, it was the old Taoist who was slightly better, beheading the dead ancestor at the bottom of the river.

However, in the body of this monster, there is too much flesh and blood and resentment accumulated from unjustly dead souls. As soon as it died, those things poured out, mixed and transformed into thousands of walking dead, evil ghosts and evil spirits. It looked like he was about to climb up from the bottom of the river to the bank.

Seeing that things were about to happen, the old Taoist hurriedly sacrificed his magic weapon, and with the last bit of his strength, he summoned a mountain from the sky, put it in the middle of the river, and suppressed all the demons and evil spirits under the mountain.

Since then, there has been such an island in the middle of the lake at the Sancha estuary of the Shi River, and the "Shi River" has also been renamed "Shi River" in order not to touch the word "corpse" so that the things below will not be destroyed. call out.

In this way, hundreds of years passed in the blink of an eye, and it was the last year of the former dynasty.

In that year, the king was fatuous, treacherous officials were everywhere, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the people were in dire straits.

There is a saying that officials force the people to rebel. If you want to rebel, you must fight.

At that time, Taizu Taizu personally led the rebel army to fight against a certain department of the former dynasty. The latter retreated steadily and retreated to the south bank of the Shihe River.

The former general who was chased by Taizu was named Yelu Baoqi. This guy was greedy for life and afraid of death, and did a lot of evil. He also knew that even if he surrendered, the rebel army would probably not spare his life.Therefore, seeing that he had been pushed to the bottom of the water, Yelu Baoqi did an extremely shameless thing - he even took advantage of the darkness, took a dozen of his confidants and guards, and took a few bamboo rafts He escaped with the snatched fishing boat.

All the soldiers of the army were thrown by him by the river to die.

I don't know if it was God's will, but that night, when Yelu Baoqi arrived in the middle of the river, there was a strong wind on the river, making the waves turbulent and the water rushing.

Yelu Baoqi had no choice but to take shelter on the island in the middle of the lake with his subordinates.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the rebel army took advantage of the night to rob the camp and launched a surprise attack on the camp by the river.

An army that has lost all its commanders and generals is like a headless chicken. After being beaten like this, it is naturally a mess, and it is quickly killed and defeated.

In this way, Yelu Baoqi watched the fire from the other side of the bank in the dark, watching the soldiers who followed him being slaughtered on the opposite bank tens of meters away from him, and clearly listening to the wailing and screaming.

But he didn't feel any guilt about this in his heart, instead he was glad that he ran in time.

Not long after, thousands of lives disappeared, and their blood stained the water of Shihe River red.

And the pain and resentment of being betrayed and abandoned connected their blood with another force under the island in the middle of the lake...

At dawn the next day, Taizu led the rebel army to the island in the middle of the lake, intending to capture Yelu Baoqi alive, but found that Yelu Baoqi and his dozens of cronies were dead.

The clothing and armor on the corpses were all in good condition, and there were no obvious scars, but each of the corpses...had no flesh and blood or internal organs, and some were just a set of bones wrapped around a complete sheet that hadn't decayed in the slightest. of human skin.

This thing is crazy.

Even though the army is full of old men and it is daytime, after seeing the death of Yelu Baoqi and others, everyone feels a chill down their backs.

However, they can't manage this kind of thing if they want to, so they can only let it go.

Until many years later, Taizu conquered the country and established Dalong.

One night, he had a dream, dreaming that he was back at the mouth of the Sancha River of the Shi River, drifting on a bamboo raft. Suddenly, thousands of heads suddenly appeared on the water around him. The face of each head is similar to Yelu Baoqi's death form - no blood and flesh, with empty eyes, but the surface of the bones is covered with a piece of fresh human skin.

Waking up from a nightmare, drenched in sweat.

This dream frightened Taizu so much that he sent the national teacher to explain his dream overnight.

What kind of person is that national teacher?
Do you think it's just a fortune teller for the queen, and it's fine if you can fool me?
impossible.

This position has high requirements for literary attainments, common sense of natural science, psychological ability, knowledge of royal etiquette, and even appearance.

On weekdays, in addition to doing astronomy at the Sitianjian, fortune-telling, dream interpretation, and healing for the emperor and the ladies, according to the requirements of different emperors, the national teacher may also go to lectures, lectures, cure diseases, and drive away disasters. , begging for rain, catching demons...

The most important thing is that even if you leave out the additional factors such as the change of dynasty and the death of the emperor, there will be at least one "sacrifice to heaven" every year.

Worshiping heaven was a big event in the feudal dynasty.

Big deal.

For the national teacher, hosting the sacrifice to the heavens every year is the same as crossing the catastrophe. Today, even if you make a major mistake in hosting the Spring Festival Gala, at most you will disappear from the TV screen next year; If so, you will disappear from the face of the earth next year.

Therefore, those who can become a national teacher, and be stable, their IQ, style of conversation, and psychological quality... are definitely not ordinary people.

The No. [-] National Teacher of Taizu next to Taizu is undoubtedly such a person. When Taizu finished talking about the dream, he rolled his eyes and asked Taizu insincerely if he had been to that place before. Zu told about the annihilation of Yelu Baoqi's department.

The national teacher laughed after hearing this.

What laughing?One is happy, knowing what to do, and two, smiling can show that he has a plan in mind.

After laughing, the national teacher told Taizu that the people who died in that place had a lot of grievances, and more or less it had something to do with you. You were still fighting in the country before, and you didn't have the time or ability to manage them, and they didn't I blame you, but now that you are the king of a country, they feel that you should save them, so they entrust their dreams to complain.

When Taizu heard that it made sense, he asked again: "Then how can I help them?"

The national teacher said: "It's easy to handle, just build a temple there."

As soon as this idea came out, the "engineering funds" for building the temple will be available. Can the national teacher not pick up the skin first?As for how the people below him will subcontract layer after layer, that's another matter.

In short, the temple was built like this.

And in order to build this temple, the engineering team also built a bridge on the south bank of the island in the middle of the lake (it was too much trouble to transport building materials up there), and the cost went up a lot, so that the national teacher later took this matter The son asked the emperor to allocate a sum of money.

A few years later, the temple was built, and the national teacher gave it the name "Lan Ruo", which means "clean and free from trouble and trouble".

However, this temple has been an empty temple since the day it was built.

Originally, who would go to the temple built on the island in the middle of the lake?If there is also a bridge on the north bank of the island, connecting to the other side of the river, then it would be easy to say, so that people will come and go, but now this is a dead end, where will the incense come from?

Furthermore, the island is so big, it is impossible to reclaim farmland to grow food and so on. If someone stays in the temple, they have to buy food and daily necessities from outside to send to the island.
Therefore, this Lanruo Temple is like many "face projects" created by bureaucracy. After spending a lot of money to get it out, the actual meaning is to show it to the leaders. By the way, it also enriches some people's pockets Fan.

A few years later, the bridge on the south bank of the island in the middle of the lake was also washed away by the current; of course, this is also reasonable. When the temple was built, the cost was insufficient because of subcontracting layers upon layers, so the contractor built the bridge I just thought: this bridge can be made with a little tofu dregs, as long as it can last until the temple is completed.

I have to say that he was quite successful in what he did. After the completion of Lanruo Temple, the bridge lasted for several years before it collapsed.

Anyway, no one walks on this bridge at all, and Taizu has long forgotten about the things here a few years later, so no one takes it seriously when the bridge collapses.

Time passed by in a hurry, and another two hundred years passed in a blink of an eye.

That is to say... 30 years ago.

That year, there were four sworn brothers in the rivers and lakes, known as the "Four Thieves of the Central Plains"——

The boss "Gluttonous Bandit" Han Li, who eats and fights rice every day, is powerful and has the best food and wine. It is said that [-]% of the property he steals is spent on food and drink.

The second child, "Longyang Bandit" Zhu Meng, whose name is completely different from his own impression, he doesn't look "violent" at all, and he looks handsome, like a woman, and his voice is soft-spoken; this person is a "flower picker" Pirates", or "grass picking robbers", because he only picks men, and his taste is tall and mighty men over the age of 30...

The third "Zhuge Pirate" Lan Shuoli, whose surname is Lan, is not Zhuge, but he is called "Zhuge", which shows that he is quick-witted and resourceful. Unfortunately, his martial arts are not as good as those of the other three brothers; Shuo Li's hobbies are quite special. He likes "ingenious things". In today's words, they are some small inventions similar to magic props, such as some exquisitely designed traps, smoke screens that can deceive people, and flying needles used to plot against others. Poison sacs and so on.

Finally, there is also the fourth "Flying Thief" Li Yuan, who has reached the pinnacle of qinggong. According to rumors in the world, his qinggong belongs to the level of "stepping on the left foot to ascend to the sky with the right foot". Hobbies are the most normal. He just loves money and has no eccentricities.

Just these four, in those few years, they enjoyed a lot in the arena, and they ran rampant for a long time.

But in the end, they are "thieves", and they are not "righteous thieves", so they didn't have a good time for too long, and they were hunted down by the assembled enemies and bitter masters.

That night, the four of them were chased to nowhere, and after reaching the bank of the Shi River, they took a small boat and fled to the island in the middle of the lake.

Those who chased them did not give up, and the twenty or so people from the rivers and lakes also went to get boats to cross the river, and chased them all the way to Lanruo Temple.

However, after the Central Plains Four Pirates and their enemies entered the temple, they never came out again...

Those fishermen whose boats were borrowed by them had to get their boats back, so some people went to the island to pick up their boats;

Among those who went to fetch the boat, there were some brave ones who quietly went to the gate of Lanruo Temple to look in, but they couldn't even see a ghost, only a gloomy draft came out from inside.

It was also a coincidence that the buddies who had been blown by this wind got sick when they came back, and died when they got sick.

From then on, the legend of "cannibalism" of Nalanruo Temple began to spread nearby. Together with the two passages of more than a thousand years ago and more than 200 years ago, it was told vividly by the common people everywhere, and the adults listened outside. After the scalp was numb, I went home to frighten the children to play.

Wang Sanliu heard this story under such circumstances.

He was ten years old when I heard it, and now he is 47, and he still remembers it clearly, and he really believes it.

Of course, it was impossible for him to tell the above-mentioned words to the travelers in the boat in this violent storm, and even if he wanted to, they would not stand in the rain and listen.

Therefore, he can only simply say something like "that temple is haunted and can eat people", how can people believe it?
Seeing that he couldn't convince the other party, Wang Sanliu didn't care. Anyway, he was determined not to go near Lanruo Temple, even if he was drenched to death in the rain.

Seeing that the boatman was so stubborn, everyone had no choice but to leave him and go on their own.

There were seven other people on this boat besides Wang Sanliu who was punting the boat.

Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai, and Lei Buji are already familiar to everyone, but the other four are: a scholar, a quack doctor, a traveling businessman, and an unidentified tall and strong man.

(End of this chapter)