Record of Yin and Yang

Old General Dong, named Xiuying, who is seventy-three this year, is the first female general of the Xia Kingdom. Because of her, Xia Guo pioneered the establishment of a female barracks, which has continued for three emperors.

Dong Xiuying once had a white horse named Baixue who accompanied her through life and death for many years.In a confrontation with the enemy 50 years ago, Bai Xue protected Dong Xiuying, who was seriously injured, and broke through the enemy's siege. After taking Dong Xiuying to the camp, she fell to the ground and died.

Dong Xiuying has deep feelings for Baixue. After handing over the military power, she did not choose to enjoy the glory and wealth in Shangjing, but returned to settle in the city that she took back with her own hands, not far from the barracks where Baixue fell to the ground and died.

As for the former battlefield separated from the military camp by a certain distance, countless bones were buried. With the unification of Xia Kingdom, that battlefield gradually became a mass grave, and generally few people would pass by there.

Regarding the mass grave, there have always been rumors of ghosts. Not long ago, someone said that when he passed the mass grave, there was a thick fog, and there were many ghosts and shadows in the fog.He lost his way in the fog, turned around for a long time but couldn't find a way out, and even ghosts came to chase him. Just when he was feeling desperate, a blood-stained white horse suddenly appeared beside him and repelled him. The ghost led him through the thick fog, and then disappeared suddenly.

This matter has a strong legendary and strange color, so no matter whether it is true or not, it has been spread far and wide.After Dong Xiuying heard about it, she thought that the white horse was Bai Xue, and went to the mass grave herself, but there was no thick fog in the legend, and there was no blood-stained white horse.She went several times, but never met.But later, other people encountered this situation. The timing of the dense fog and the white horse appeared irregularly.

Dong Xiuying is already very old, she doesn't know how many years she has left to live, she has never been married, and her biggest wish for the rest of her life is to see Bai Xue again.However, she never encountered the situation that others encountered, so she listened to someone's introduction, found Fang Beiming's place, and asked him for help.

Gu Jiu felt very uncomfortable hearing this, and couldn't help touching the younger brother who was eating meat on the chair next to him.To him, his younger brother is a relative who is more important than life. If he hadn't been with him these few years, he might have died alone in silence.

Seeing the sad expression on the little apprentice's face, Fang Beiming put a piece of braised pork in his bowl, "Eat it quickly, I don't know where the next meal is." He didn't tell Gu Jiu that this kind of parting of life and death, It will not be so easy to be sad when we face more in the future.

After dinner, Fang Beiming was preparing things that might be used this time, and Gu Jiu followed Shao Yi to learn things as usual.

Gu Jiu is full of yin energy, born with yin and yang eyes, being smart is one thing, but he is very talented in metaphysics. Shao Yi taught him to draw the most basic Qingxin Talisman, and he succeeded after a few attempts.

Gu Jiu took the heart-cleaning talisman he had drawn, and for a moment he was so daring that he wanted to give it to Shao Yi, so that he would not feel as if he had taken explosives at any time, but just thinking about it, he was still too timid to face Shao Yi , sometimes he couldn't remember how to write some complicated characters, but Shao Yi knocked him on the head unceremoniously.

After the class was over, Gu Jiu took his little brother back to his room while silently reciting the Soul-fixing Sutra.

The clothes on her body were new and clean, and the quilt and pillows on the bed were soft and smelled like they had just been washed.Gu Jiu wrapped his arms around his younger brother and snuggled into the bed comfortably, closed his eyes and began to sleep.

It's just that he lay down for a long time but still didn't feel sleepy at all, the bone-chilling chill that made him both afraid and disgusted returned to his body, making him shiver with cold.

Gu Jiu, who has tasted what it's like to be warm, can't stand the cold that he could bear before.

Gu Jiu sat up from the bed, hesitated for a while, then went out of the room with the pillow in her arms, and came to the door of Shao Yi's room.Gu Jiu raised his hand to knock on the door, but before touching him, he retracted, standing where he was, with a troubled expression on his face.

He lingered at the door for a while, gritted his teeth and was about to knock on the door again, when the door suddenly opened from the inside.

Shao Yi looked at Gu Jiu with a dark face: "What are you doing walking around outside without sleeping at night?"

Gu Jiu shrank behind the pillow, only showing a pair of eyes, with a pitiful look, "Brother, I, I'm too cold, I can't sleep."

Shao Yi stared at him alertly: "What do you want?"

Gu Jiu shook her fist and begged, "Brother, I'll sleep with you tonight."

Shao Yi refused without thinking: "No, I want to sleep alone."

As he said that, he was about to close the door and enter the house.

"Senior brother!" Gu Jiuyi was in a hurry, stepped forward and grabbed the corner of Shao Yi's clothes, not daring to speak, just looking at him helplessly.

"You're so annoying!" Shao Yi brushed his hand away, walked in angrily, but didn't close the door, seeing no movement behind him, turned around and shouted: "You don't want to sleep with me, don't come in!"

Gu Jiu ran in hastily, in case Shao Yi would regret it, he quickly closed the door, crawled onto the bed with hands and feet, huddled under the quilt, and said: "Brother, you are so kind."

Shao Yi wasn't in the mood to listen to his flattery, so he stopped the little brother who came in to see Gu Jiu who wanted to jump on the bed after getting into bed, "You sleep on the bed for me."

The younger brother meowed, bared his teeth at Shao Yi, walked around him and jumped onto the end of the bed, his paws firmly grasping the quilt, no matter how much Shao Yi pulled it, he would not let go.

In the end Shao Yi gave up, glared at his younger brother, and then glared at Gu Jiu who was next to him, who was pretending to sleep with his head covered, and curled up under the blanket to sleep unhappily.

When Shao Yi woke up the next day, Gu Jiu was still sleeping, his right arm was hugged by Gu Jiu.Shao Yi looked at the skinny child in his arms, curled his lips, this child was used to cuddling cats before sleeping, and he must hold something in his hand when he sleeps, he was obviously afraid of him to death, but in order to sleep comfortably, he Dare to have the courage to come to him.

Tearing the child away from his body, Shao Yi kicked Gu Jiu, "Gu Jiu, get up."

After Gu Jiu gushed out of the bed, Shao Yi went to open the door, and a servant came in with water.

Shao Yi said: "My junior brother is here."

The servant then expressed his understanding, and took the toilet utensils prepared for Gu Jiu here.

Shao Yi then went to practice sword in the courtyard.

When Shao Yi came back from practice to take a shower, he saw Gu Jiu sitting on the bed with his messy hair and grabbing the quilt to doze off. He felt the anger accumulated in his body was churning again. Jiu Er raised the volume: "Gu Jiu! Wake up!"

Gu Jiu was startled, covered her ears and stared blankly at her senior brother.

"Tch..." Looking at him like this, like a frightened cat, Shao Yi actually found it a little funny, and he really couldn't hold it back.

Gu Jiu immediately pointed at him, with a look of surprise on his face: "Master, senior brother..." He was actually laughing. For so many days, Gu Jiu thought Shao Yi couldn't laugh!

After Shao Yi finished laughing, he immediately put on a straight face, slapped his fingers away, and said expressionlessly, "Get up."

Gu Jiu held his fingers and slowly got off the bed.

How beautiful it is when you smile, why do you have to be so fierce...

Shao Yi combed Gu Jiu's hair this morning. After washing up, Fang Beiming stretched his waist and came out of his room. The servants came to report that the general invited them to have breakfast in front. .

When she arrived at the dining room, Dong Xiuying saw Xiaodaotong in gray clothes, just like yesterday, her eyes paused.

Gu Jiu was stared blankly by Dong Xiuying, and asked the other party with puzzled eyes.

Dong Xiuying came back to her senses, smiled with emotion, and invited the three of them to sit down.

After eating, it was time to talk about business.

Dong Xiuying asked Fang Beiming to come over to ask him to find out if there are really ghosts haunting the mass grave, because they have the intention of harming pedestrians, so they can't be ignored, and moreover, she wants to make sure that the white horse in the fog is her Bai Xue If so, I hope to bring Bai Xue's soul back and meet her.

Fang Beiming asked when the fog started, and deduced some patterns from it, "The thick fog and the white horse appear gradually every seven days, starting from that day to the seventh cloudy hour of the next day."

There are ten heavenly stems and earthly branches, divided into five yin and five yang; twelve earthly branches, divided into six yin and six yang, among which Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai are Yin times.

Seven is a very special number in Taoism, it represents the sun, moon and five stars, so Taoists, whether they are refining talismans or opening altars to do large-scale rituals, all use seven days as a period.

And the six yins are not enough for the number seven, so on the first day starting with the first "seven", count down from the first overcast hour until the seventh overcast hour, thick fog and white horses will appear.For example, the first person to meet a thick fog and a white horse was at the time of Chou, and the second one should be met at the seventh cloudy time counting from Mao time on the second seven days, which is Mao time of the next day.In this way, push down in turn, once every seven days for a Yin hour wheel.

Seven or seven is a fixed number, Gu Jiu silently followed and calculated. The first person who encountered the dense fog and the white horse was traveling at night and met in Choushi. This matter also came from him, and the second was in Sishi , the third, and the last one encountered in this matter at present, is in the future.Counting the Mao hour in the middle, the thick fog and the white horse have appeared four times.

Such a regularity, with seven as the number, involving Yinhun and Yinshi, Gu Jiu felt that this incident was probably not a coincidence, and there seemed to be a shadow of someone from the Taoist sect behind it.

The three of them came out of the General's Mansion and were going to visit the mass grave.

Dong Xiuying sent a carriage, and Gu Jiu climbed into the carriage and shook it for a while, feeling bored, feeling that it was not much better than walking.

Fang Beiming looked at the young apprentice's pale face, took out a small medicine bottle from his pocket, poured a black pill for him to take with water, and patted his back: "You are so weak, you can't do it from tomorrow. Let's practice swords with your senior brother, it will be useful for killing ghosts or fighting with colleagues in the future."

Gu Jiu looked at Shao Yi cautiously, "Then I will trouble my brother."

Shao Yi leaned against the window and looked outside, without turning his head when he heard the words, he hummed in a stiff tone.

The carriage traveled for more than an hour, passing by the outside of the barracks, and a fork appeared in front of it. The driver was a veteran who had retired from Dong Xiuying's side. After running into the barracks and falling to the ground, it died without making a sound, holding its last breath and carrying General Dong back to the camp."

The veteran still feels sore when he thinks of that scene. Even if Bai Xue died, his eyes were still open. He looked at his comatose and seriously injured master with concern in his eyes.Although war horses are not human beings, as cavalrymen, they are life-and-death companions, closer partners than comrades-in-arms.