The second story of the ancient sword II

After staying in that impoverished small village for a day and helping the people in the village buy some food, Yi Ze and A Ruan continued on their way to Baicao Valley.Along the way, there are small villages one after another, but most of them look like ordinary misery.Fields overgrown with weeds, dry canals, hungry people begging along the streets.

It is another small village, and the situation seems to be a bit more difficult than the previous villages.The government sent people to distribute porridge, but the porridge was looted as soon as it was out of the pot, and there were endless hungry people with empty bowls behind.

"Yize, do we still have money?" A Ruan asked cautiously.

"Well, there's not much left." Yi opened the purse, "Maybe there's enough to buy a few bags of rice noodles."

"I won't buy things indiscriminately again." A Ruan said seriously, "Try to eat as little as possible."

"Fool." Yi Ze patted Ah Ruan's head.

A burst of crying caught their attention. A woman was sitting under a big tree on the north side of the road. Her hair was disheveled like grass, her body was covered in dust, and the patterns of flowers and plants on her dress could not be distinguished.The four or five-year-old child in her arms was as dirty as she was, and was crying loudly from hunger.No one paid any attention to the mother and son, she was crying very sadly.

The sound of horseshoes was getting closer and closer, and a man-high yellow dust was set off. The man on the tall horse had black narrow-sleeved riding clothes, a golden crown and jade face, and a black eagle-feathered cloak was raised high.The woman holding the child on the side of the road suddenly rushed to the horse's hoof without fear of death, and said loudly, "My lord, save my son! He is about to starve to death!"

The reins were tightened fiercely, the horse's head was thrown up desperately, the horse neighed high-pitched, and the hooves raised in the air brought up thick dust.The man on horseback was full of hostility.

"Dare to block my king's way, do you want to die?!" There was no sympathy on the haughty face. "It's the greatest kindness not to trample you to death, hurry up and make way for this king!" After finishing speaking, the two attendants got down from their horses and dragged away the mother and child in the road.

"Ah Ruan, let's go!" Yi Ze pulled her into the bushes beside the road quickly, "The one on the horse is my second brother." Yi Ze suppressed his anger, and his fists could almost hear the sound of clenching.

The second prince on the horseback scoffed, and smiled faintly, "Didn't you already send someone to give out the porridge? Why are there still people who are not afraid of death blocking the way? Sigh, you are weak, why do you have to risk your life? Dirty and dirty , and I’m not afraid of dirtying my eyes. With that appearance, I just want to take care of it, and I don’t bother to care about it when I feel uncomfortable.”

"Yes, yes, sir, what you said is that she is a good woman, and she doesn't look ugly, but she is so dirty, whoever sees it will hate it!" It was the man wearing the azalea hat, echoing in a soft voice. with.

"How is the stele of meritorious deeds in Xianlinyuan?" The second prince glanced at the team transporting stone and wood on the mountain road ahead.

"Returning to Your Highness, that, that...it didn't go very well, and it would tilt to one side after standing up a few times. I'm afraid that the Bìxì (Bìxì) who carried the stele was unhappy..." The man with azalea had a panicked expression.

"Bastard! It's been a long time and it's still not working. I've been worrying about this king all day long." The second prince threw his fist into the air unwillingly.

"Well, go back to Your Highness, I heard that there is a method, and I will try it a hundred times. Your Highness, would you like to listen to the little one..." The man with azalea approached the horse, closed his hands, and put his mouth on the second prince's face. Whispering in the ear.

"It's his!" Yi Ze, who was in the bush, slammed his fist on the tree. "The man wearing the rhododendron is the envoy of flowers and birds. You were almost captured by him last night for my second brother's entertainment."

"Yi Ze." A Ruan stretched out her hand to grab his hand, and forcefully opened his tightly clenched fist. His warm fingers in her hand were trembling slightly.

"What is that doing? He would be so kind?" A sneer flashed across the corner of Yi Ze's mouth.I saw that the Rhododendron man brought a piece of steaming steamed bun, walked up to the mother and child, shook it in front of the child, and the child's longing eyes stayed on the snow-white all the time.

"Yi Ze, doesn't your second brother hate that child?" A Ruan stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"There must be something tricky." After the second prince had gone away, Yi Ze and A Ruan walked straight to the woman from the bushes.

"Auntie, where's your baby?" A Ruan leaned over and asked.

The woman raised her head and smiled, "I was taken to dinner by the official, the official is really a good person."

"Really?" Ah Ruan straightened up, with a dazed expression on his face.

"If that's the case, he has done a good deed." Yi Ze pulled A Ruan towards the direction of the mountain road.

It was almost noon, the sun was getting stronger, and Yi Ze pulled A Ruan away in a hurry.On the rugged mountain road, there are workers who stop to rest from time to time, and bundles of wood are piled aside.

"Yize, where are you going?" A Ruan wiped the sweat from his forehead, "My feet hurt so much."

"I want to see what magic is in that fairy garden." Yi Ze stopped and thought for a while, "Leaving you alone, I'm not at ease..."

"Yize, look!" Out of the corner of A'Ruan's eyes, a Taoist-looking man in black hurried up the mountain with something in his arms.

"Go, take a look." Yi Ze pulled A Ruan and carefully followed the man.The man in black walked very briskly, and disappeared among the trees after a short time.

"Oh, I lost my track. It's because I walked too slowly." Ah Ruan Xiumei's eyebrows were locked together.

"No, he's very alert." Yi Ze placed his fist under his lips, with sharp knuckles.

The front view gradually widened, and a large flat land was excavated by manpower on the top of the mountain, and the big jagged rocks were transported away one by one.A towering wooden structure building rises from the ground, with a majestic dome soaring into the sky. This is Xianlinyuan, which has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.

"Your Highness, why did you come here in person?" A slightly aged voice asked tremblingly.

"Praying for the blessing of the father and building the Immortal Garden, how can a son-in-law not care about it? After a lot of hard work, today this monument of merit and virtue is finally completed. When the father is born, I will definitely give him a surprise!" The second prince treacherously said Smiling, he stepped down from the shoulders, followed by two scantily clad beauties, one behind the other, embracing his left and right sides.

"This is located in the dragon's veins. In the future, the auspicious stars will shine brightly, and will definitely protect my emperor's health!" The old man knelt down and bowed, still not forgetting the words of foolishness and loyalty in his mouth.

"It's really extravagant!" Yi Ze, who stopped in the bushes not far away, kept frowning, holding A Ruan tightly. "When he goes in, we will go down the mountain quietly."

In the village, Ah Ruan distributed the food bought by Yi Ze to the hungry people.

"Yize, the food is all distributed." Ah Ruan beat his waist with his hands, smiling brightly, "Although I am a little tired, I am very happy!"

"It's getting late, eat something first, and then find a place to rest." Yi Ze unloaded the burden on his back and took out dry food. "I have yours, Ari must be very hungry." Yi Ze smiled and took out a piece of fish cake, reached out and touched Ari's head, with a wry smile on his face, "Could it be that this village is so deserted that even Ari can find it?" No food?"

"Meow!" Seeing Chi's eyes shining, Ahri quickly lowered his head and started to gobble it up.

"Ah Ruan, I'm going to wrong you tonight, there must be no inn here." Yi Ze looked up, half of the sky was covered by blood-red fire clouds.

"I'm not wronged at all." A Ruan took the pastry that Yi Ze handed him, and leaned against him to eat in small bites.

While eating, I could only hear commotion at the entrance of the mountain road.

"Give me back my child...give me back my child..." It was that woman in the morning again, sitting slumped at the entrance of the mountain path, with her mouth open and her crying appearance extremely terrifying .The child on his lap had his head thrown back, and his eyes had long since lost their luster.At the beginning, some people came to look at it, but as night fell, the people gradually dispersed, leaving only the crying mother and the expressionless officers and soldiers in the huge open space.

"That's..." Ah Ruan couldn't eat anymore, "Yi Ze, didn't the child be fine this morning?"

"Look!" Yi Ze put down the bun in his hand and walked towards the woman.

"The body is still hot, but..." Yi Ze couldn't bear to continue talking, looking at A Ruan with disappointment in his eyes.

"How could this be?" Ruan touched the child's forehead, and saw a satisfied smile still hanging between the child's brows.

"Where was the child taken for lunch at noon?" Yi Ze asked.

"The child followed me up the mountain road, and then... I didn't know about it later." The woman was still crying sadly.

"Not good!" Yi Ze tried hard to recall what he saw and heard today, and a sense of ominous premonition rose in his heart. "Ah Ruan, you stay here, I want to go up the mountain!" Yi Ze said, concentrating on pulling out a sliver of his spiritual power, and placed the halo of spiritual power in A Ruan's palm, "This spiritual power turns into The halo of the child is maintained around the body, so that his body will not become cold, you must guard it!"

"Okay, I will definitely do it." Ah Ruan's eyes showed affirmation.

"This... can this save my son?" The woman's dirty face was full of tears, and her eyes were begging.

"I... will definitely do my best!" Yi hesitated a little, "Auntie, what's the child's name?"

"Seven sufferings." The woman read out the name of the child in her arms tremblingly.

Qiku, this name is really cheap, and Yi Ze feels a trace of sadness in his heart.After taking a heavy look at Ah Ruan, a spell disappeared in front of his eyes.

The starlight was faintly visible in the deep sky, the wind was blowing on the mountain road, and the chill almost penetrated through the clothes.The construction site of Xianlinyuan is quiet, only a few lampstands are burning with cottonseed oil, the bright red fire snake licks the blue sky, and the moths that fly past turn into a wisp of smoke instantly.Yi tightly tightened the sword in his hand, while concentrating, a cold light sent people into the hall.

In the center of the spacious hall, there is a stele of meritorious deeds that is as tall as a person, and it is densely engraved with small seal characters.Yi Ze condensed a halo of light to illuminate the surroundings, and the words on the stone tablet came into view, Yi Ze's eyes sank, and a chill flashed across his brows, "Is this the merit of your second prince!"

I saw that engraved on the stele: "Tang Baoli Emperor's Second Son, Linshan King Slaying Monsters and Protecting the Country and Praying for the Country's Merits and Virtue Stele"

In the 17th year of Baoli, at the age of Gengyin, there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and starvation was common. The second son of the emperor got the way of hearing from heaven, and finally felt that the disaster star was in the imperial capital. , Thinking of its benefits, benefiting future generations; discussing its merits, the merits will last for thousands of years.Your Highness's filial deeds are admirable.

Your Highness is wise and wise, responding to the situation, praying for his father, and creating a garden for immortals to come.Going through many hardships and dangers, clearing the money in the pocket, not thinking about food and tea, not being able to sleep at night, with a pure heart, the world can learn from it.The heart is concerned with the country's destiny and plans are made.If you unite as one, you will finally get Xianyuan.I hope that the luck of the gods will come, and I will bless the Tang Dynasty, the country will be prosperous and the people will be safe, and the weather will be smooth.

Therefore, the name is recorded and the stele is recorded.Inscribe his achievements, manifest his virtues, show his aspirations, and publicize his name, in order to be famous for a hundred generations, and to show off to future generations.

①赑屃 (Bìxì): Bixi, one of the nine sons of the dragon, also known as Baxia.Shaped like a tortoise, it is good at carrying heavy loads, and it has been carrying steles on its back for many years.People can see this hard-working Hercules everywhere in temples and ancestral halls.Touching it is said to bring good luck.

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The resentment in Yi Ze's heart arose from this.