Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 870 The Origin of the Legend

"This is the only statue of Kublai Khan seen in the country today. The so-called Da'er mother-in-law was actually called 'Tar' at the earliest. Because after the helmet was weathered, the statue became like an old woman, so it was attached to become a mother-in-law."

"Actually, the statue of Maitreya in Da'erwo, Anle Mountain, is said to be the one that will give birth to a son when you throw mud at it. According to the research of the godfather, it should also be a 'Tar'. Throwing mud at it was originally an act of venting anger of the people. Later, it gradually evolved into a custom and legend of "beating a son to get a son."

"Ah?" Liang Hong said angrily, "If I hadn't said it earlier, I should have thrown him a few more dollars at that time!"

"They are all cultural relics and should be protected." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "How can you throw them around?"

"Then what kind of villain is he?" Zhang Xinyi found that there was a cliff carving four or five meters away from the statue of Liu Zheng's Jiangyuan. image.

"This is called Baozi God." Xiang Yu introduced: "Our local rural women still come to worship. They regard the one on the left as the mother-in-law who beats children, and the one on the right as the God of Baozi. They are all related to childbirth."

Zhou Zhi couldn't help laughing: "This one is not a villain, nor is he a child-preserving god, but a great loyal minister, a great martyr, named Xu Biaosun."

"This statue is called 'Xu Biaosun Tuo Gubaozi'."

"Xu Biaosun is the son of Xu Yi, a scholar of Xianmo Pavilion in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Jingding, when Liu Zheng rebelled, Xu Biaosun was the staff officer of the Sichuan System Department. offer."

"The envoy of Xu Biaosun's speech said: 'This wrist can be broken, but this pen can't be written.' That is to say, behind closed doors, the youngest son was entrusted to relatives and friends, and the rest, from childhood to adulthood, died of medicine."

"This stone statue hangs its shoulders side by side, with its left arm outstretched. The halberd points at Liu Zheng, looking very angry. There is a 'child' on the forearm, which has fallen off. It is the scene where Xu Biaosun rebuked Liu Zheng for his traitorous surrender."

"Did the child survive?" Jiang Shuyi asked in a low voice.

Zhou Zhi sighed: "Actually, the real record in "History of the Song Dynasty Xu Biaosun Biography" is that Xu Biaosun committed suicide behind closed doors. In the legend, the orphans were entrusted to protect the son, but the people couldn't bear to lose their loyal ministers, so they grafted the story of Zhao's orphans into On him."

Everyone was silent, only Jiang Feng was sobbing beside the cliff stone carvings, as if he was writing footnotes for the stories Zhou Zhi told.

"We should be grateful for the peaceful life today." He Shiqing said softly, looking at the statue that had already changed beyond recognition.

"Of course." Zhou Zhi nodded, "I would like to thank...those who ensured our peaceful life."

Back at Xiangyu Mountain's "city" home, we sat on the open dam and chatted.

Xiang Yu's mother has brought rice milk and is making cold cakes.

On one side, two large pots of jelly have been prepared.

Jelly is a very simple summer snack, and the method is also very simple. It is to make a paste from starch and pour it into boiling water to make a thick transparent paste. Put it in a basin and put it in a water tank to cool it down, and then put it on the cutting board On the top, the special perforated iron sheet scrapes off the vermicelli-shaped jelly, put it in a bowl, adjust the seasoning, and you can start eating.

There are many types of starch that can be used to make jelly, and Jiachuan generally likes to use pea flour and mung bean flour.

The seasoning is green onion, ginger, garlic and coriander, served with cucumber, shredded mung bean sprouts, topped with soy sauce, sesame oil and red oil, and sweet and sour sauce.

Come to two bowls of this in summer, spicy and sour, as comfortable as you want.

The cold cake is made of rice milk into a paste in a pot, then mixed with lime water and poured into a bowl to make it solidify, soaked in well water to remove the alkali smell, and then poured with brown sugar juice.

Xiang Yu's house still has a rammed earth wall, which is warm in winter and cool in summer. Everyone sits in a row against the wall, eating jelly, plums and grapes from well water, and doesn't feel the heat at all.

Looking at the river at the foot of the mountain, Fang Wenyu said: "The structure of the Song Dynasty is still not open. If we compare the Great Wall, build the city wall from the Yangtze River, connect the city wall here, and then connect it to the Tuojiang River from the other side, you can get a stable building. big city."

"Marshal, you are very talented in military affairs. The ancients have already thought of what you said, and even practiced it."

"Really?" Fang Wenyu was a little proud. It is a pleasant thing to know the ancients.

Zhou Zhi held the jelly bowl and squinted his eyes to look down the mountain: "In the tenth year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the attack of the peasant army, another outer gate, Longtou Pass, was built on Longtou Mountain in the south of Song City."

"Longtou Pass is seven miles away from the Songcheng Pool at our feet. The pass wall starts from the Yangtze River in the south, winds up through the top of Longtou Mountain, and then goes down the mountain to the Tuojiang River in the north. It is almost in line with the plan you said, Commander."

"The wall of the gate is close to the Yangtze River and the Tuojiang River. There are small gates respectively, and a large gate in the middle, which is today's Longtou gate."

"The city wall controls the only land passage in the southwest of the peninsula. It stretches across Longtou Mountain. It is about five kilometers long. It is actually a small Great Wall."

"According to what the godfather found at the foot of the mountain, the "New Records of the New God's Arm Pass" set up in the first month of the 11th year of Chongzhen recorded that Longtou Pass is "the throat of Zhongshan, and there is no foothold, only one line to get in and out." The situation is extremely dangerous. Easy to defend but difficult to attack."

"The project was presided over by Wu Dengqi, an official at the time who was inspected by the inspectorate in Sichuan Province and participated in the political affairs of the South Road. 'It was built on the old site."

"If this legend is true, then the history of Longtou Pass can even be pushed back to the Three Kingdoms period."

"Later, the Longtou Pass collapsed for a long time, and in the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Xiling, the pastor of the Luzhou Administration, presided over the reconstruction, and it remains to this day."

"Since the Ming Dynasty, Longtou Pass in the south of Manzhou City, together with Yuchan Pass [-] miles north of Manzhou City, has become the key to the throat of the ancient Changuan Road, a traffic channel in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. Manzhou has an important strategic position in the north and south."

"The closed wall is still there? How about we go and see?" Fang Wenyu was a little moved.

"It's seven miles away from here. It's just a collapsed stone wall. It's nothing to see." Dad Xiang brought cold cakes for everyone, and when he heard Fang Wenyu wanted to see the wall, he said, "The sun is so big in summer, so don't let it go." Let's go."

"It's easier to go along the ridge." Xiang Yu said, "Let's go boys later, and find some good food by the way."

Wei Fei waved his hand: "I'm going to you guys. I'm not interested in shutting down the wall. By the way, since you're talking so well here, why did Manzhou City move away in the end?"

"It's interesting to talk about this." Zhou Zhi said: "Manzhou was called Sanlu in ancient times, and the state government has always changed in three places."

"Yang Shen, a well-known literati in central Shu, was the one who wrote 'Rolling Yangtze River to the East', and he also left behind the saying 'San Lu's name has been corrupted through the ages'."

"Yang Sheng'an also wrote about our Manzhou?" Zhang Lu was very interested.

"Well, the title of the poem is "Huaiqiu in Illness", 'The green grass is spring in front of Nanding Building, and there is little dust under the lychee forest. The name of Sanlu has been wronged through the ages, Ershui Tuomin will meet two Jin. Green Ruohai Merchant Boat Collection , a new orchestra of red makeup camp prostitutes. Passionate, don’t regret to come and count, why not light candles frequently in cool nights.'”

"Huh? This seems to be about our place."

(End of this chapter)