Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 792 Hu Lanyu and Xiaoqiao
There is a mountain village outside Qingshan Town, hundreds of miles away from Jinling City.

There are only dozens of families in the village, and they make a living by farming and hunting.

But no one knows that in the mountains near the village, it is the seclusion of the Qingshan Fox Clan. There are hundreds of big and small fox spirits of the Hu Han Clan living there. , many fox spirits were hunted down, but after this catastrophe, the Qingshan Fox Clan recovered again

lived a peaceful and peaceful life.

After Hu Lanyu left the capital, she returned to the mountain village alone.

He came out to help Li Xiuyuan this time mainly to repay his kindness, not to seek fame and fortune. Now that the general situation has been settled, he will retire after his accomplishments.

"It's been almost a year since I came out of the mountain." Hu Lanyu looked at the approaching Qingshan Village in front of her, and for some reason, she thought of a girl from a peasant family, Xiao Qiao.

I remember that when I left that day, Xiaoqiao still pestered me to teach her to read and write.

He only taught a part of the thousand-character prose and then stopped teaching it.

Now that a year has passed, I don't know what happened to this girl.

"Maybe she is already married, after all, she has reached the age of marriage." Hu Lanyu thought.

Wearing a green shirt, with a tall and straight figure, long hair draped over his shoulders, handsome as a monster, and without anything else, he came to the head of the village.

He appeared so out of place in Qingshan Village, and the villagers passing by nearby showed a bit of fear when they saw him, and they dared not speak to him, let alone speak.

Perhaps the villagers have begun to doubt his identity.

But that doesn't matter.

He is a thousand-year-old fox spirit who has attained the Tao, and even a cultivator who slays demons and eliminates demons passes by, and he can't beat him, and he doesn't do any harm, and he has nothing to fear in his heart.

"The heaven and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun and the moon are full, the days and nights are arranged, the cold comes and the summer goes, autumn harvests and winter hides."

Just when Hu Lanyu was passing by the village and was about to go home, she heard three or five village urchins laughing and playing, chanting a thousand-character essay.

When he came to a house, he saw the wall of the yard and the wooden door carved with stones. There were also thousands of characters on them, and the characters were messy and scribbled, not aesthetically pleasing.

Hu Lanyu knocked on the door.

It was an old woman who opened the door.

The old woman's eyes lit up when she saw Hu Lanyu, and she said happily, "It's Lanyu, you're finally back."

"It's been a while since I've been away this time, and I'm worried about my mother." Hu Lanyu gave a respectful salute.

This old woman is not his biological mother, but his adoptive mother, whom he promised Li Xiuyuan to take care of, in order not to let the villagers criticize him, so he worshiped the old woman as his adoptive mother, and served her in her old age.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back, get tired, go into the house and rest." The old woman treated Hu Lanyu as her own son, and excitedly grabbed his hand and led him into the house to rest.

As soon as Hu Lanyu sat down, she said, "Master, is there any teacher in the village?"

"The village is still the same as before, how can we afford to hire a teacher." The old woman said.

"Why are all the urchins in the village reciting the thousand-character essay?" Hu Lanyu said.

Hearing this, the old woman sighed and said, "Where did the teacher teach it? It was taught by Xiaoqiao. Since she left that day, Xiaoqiao's child has come almost every day, and she is holding the book you left him. , reciting and reciting the thousand-character prose all day long, and the people in the village laughed at her."

"What are you kidding about her?" Hu Lanyu said.

"It's a joke that she was confused by monsters. She learned to read and read like other scholars. I'm afraid you don't know. Many people in the village secretly say that you are a monster. Otherwise, how could there be such a handsome person like you in this remote valley? Young master." The old woman sighed helplessly while beating her legs.
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"Actually, I also know in my heart that what the villagers said may be true, but you are my child, so how could I doubt my own child? Xiaoqiao also believes that you are not a monster, so she argues with the villagers every time."

Seeing this, Hu Lanyu sat down on her knees and beat the old woman's legs: "Then what happens later."

"After a long time, Xiaoqiao stopped talking. Maybe she was persuaded by those villagers, but she still came here to read and read every day. But her parents couldn't stand it. Half a year ago, a matchmaker asked her to marry her next door. A family in the village, the child refused to agree, saying that he would wait for you to come back.
I have been waiting for you for more than a month, and seeing that you have not come, everyone in the village said that you will not come, that you are rich and famous outside, how could you fall in love with her, a girl from a poor mountain valley, and make her give up. "

"Xiao Qiao's child still didn't believe it, so she had a big fight with her parents, and then she was looking forward to your return every day at the village head. After a long time, she also gradually believed that you really wouldn't come back, so two more It went crazy a month ago."

Speaking of this, the old woman sighed: "What a wonderful child, why did he lose his mind and go crazy? Now he is carving and scribbling in the village with broken tiles every day. The words on the door are all carved by her." come out, the courtyard walls of other people's houses are similar."

She babbled, and Hu Lanyu listened quietly.

He was silent after hearing it.

Then he asked: "Where is Xiaoqiao now?"

"Maybe hiding somewhere in the village. She is very afraid of adults. She runs away when she sees adults. Maybe she doesn't want to be caught and married. Occasionally, she will come here for food. Alas, I have bad legs and feet, so I chased her several times. People in the village also avoided her, saying that she was bewitched by evil spirits.
If you get close to her, you will be easily possessed by evil spirits. " said the old woman.

"Is that so?" Hu Lanyu stood up and gave a salute, "Mother, please sit here first, I'll go visit Miss Xiaoqiao."

"Since you're here to see her, maybe you won't go crazy after seeing you. After all, she also went crazy because of you. If she can get better, then bring her back," said the old woman.

"En." Hu Lanyu responded, and then quickly left the door.

Somewhere in the village at the moment.

A shaggy face, tattered clothes, bare feet, and a crazy girl with frostbite on her hands and feet were walking on the road. Her eyes dodged, and she seemed to be wary of anyone who appeared around her.

As he walked, he was still chanting magically: the heaven and the earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is flooded, the sun and the moon are full, and the celestial constellations are listed.
This is the beginning of the thousand-character essay.

She tightly grasped a broken tile in her hands covered with black mud and frostbite, and then went to a corner to carve on the ground, writing horizontally and vertically very forcefully.

"It's you crazy girl again, don't get out, get out of my house." A woman from a nearby farmer's family saw Xiao Qiao, she was furious, picked up a broom and hit her.

Xiaoqiao screamed in fright, hugged her head and ran away.

After beating her away, the woman was very puzzled, and took a sip: "It's really bad luck, this crazy girl came to my door today."

Glancing at the words painted on the ground, the woman hurriedly stomped them flat for fear of causing evil spirits.

"The crazy girl is here, hit her quickly, hit her quickly."

Xiaoqiao ran into the middle of the village in fright. At this moment, the urchins in the village saw that they picked up the stones and mud on the ground and threw them at her. She groaned when they hit her, and her cloudy eyes were full of fear. .

An older naughty boy was very naughty. He purposely picked up a stick and stretched it towards Xiao Qiao's feet.

Xiaoqiao was tripped and fell to the ground and fell heavily on the muddy ground, bleeding from her nose.

Other urchins in the vicinity praised the kid who did it well.

The kid looked smug as if he had defeated a bad guy.

Xiao Qiao didn't cry, after getting up from the ground, holding her head with fear in her eyes, she tried to leave here tremblingly.

The group of urchins chased after them again, throwing stones and mud, and clapping their hands continuously.

But this scene was seen by Hu Lanyu who was looking for him.

Hu Lanyu's eyes were complicated, and he seemed ashamed and remorseful. He strode over without hesitation, and his tall and slender body stood in front of Xiaoqiao.

The stones were on his body, staining his spotless blue gown, and the mud hit his face and hair, making his handsome and uncommon appearance look vulgar.

There was anger in his heart, but he didn't express it.

If the humiliation of these urchins made him feel angry, then what is Xiaoqiao's suffering for so long?
"Run away~!"

Seeing Hu Lanyu's appearance, the group of urchins didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and ran away with a loud cry.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting, little girl." Hu Lanyu said slowly.

"Hey, hey." Xiaoqiao smirked, pointing her dirty fingers at the mud on Hu Lanyu's face, as if laughing that he was being bullied.

Hu Lanyu grabbed her dirty hand and said: "There is no room for you here, come with me, I will take you to Qingshan, cure your madness, and then marry you, if you don't hate it, I will I will continue to teach you to read and write, and next time I will teach you the Book of Songs, but next time I will not
go again. "

As he spoke, he held Xiao Qiao's hand.

Xiaoqiao seemed very scared, screamed and wanted to run away.

"Don't be afraid, I will recite the text for you, the thousand-character text you are most familiar with."

Hu Lanyu hugged her, and then said: "The heaven and earth are dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun and the moon are full, and the celestial constellations are arranged."

The crazy Xiaoqiao immediately calmed down when she heard the thousand-character text, and gave a silly smile: "Hehe, hehe."

Just like that, a handsome young man who didn't look like a human being in the world led a crazy girl with chilblains, a sallow, thin face, and an unkempt face, and left the village with a thousand-character text on her back, and walked towards Qingshan. They walked through the fields, entered the dense forest, and finally disappeared in the depths of the mountains.
The voice of Thousand Characters can be vaguely heard echoing back.

"Clouds make rain and dew turn into frost, gold produces Lishui and jade leaves Kungang."

Since that day, in Qingshan Village, there has never been that crazy girl who was scribbling on tiles, and I have never seen Hu Lanyu, but the old woman often mentioned that Hu Lanyu cured Xiaoqiao and married her , I often came to visit myself afterwards, but the people in the village did not meet

I have some doubts about this, but one night, Xiaoqiao's parents suddenly picked up 100 taels of gold in the yard, with red paper underneath, which is Xiaoqiao's birthday.

Some people said that it was left by the gods to compensate Xiaoqiao's parents.

But the old woman in the village said it was Hu Lanyu's betrothal gift.

The old woman's words were gradually accepted by the villagers.

But as time passed, the matter of Hu Lanyu and Xiaoqiao was gradually forgotten.

Until more than ten years later, the old woman died of old age. When the funeral was held, Hu Lanyu brought a young and beautiful young woman to the village in filial piety, saying that she was going to die for the old woman. The woman was holding a few children in her hand. The older one is ten years old, and the younger one is one or two years old.

All of them are very handsome, just like virgins in the sky. They return to Qingshan after finishing the funeral for the old man, but the villagers who burn incense and worship their ancestors can meet them to visit the old woman's grave every Qingming.

The villagers were terrified of the couple, thinking they were ghosts and spirits.

The old people in the village remembered the past, and often said: "Don't be afraid, those couples are Hu Lanyu and Xiaoqiao, that crazy girl from the village before, and there is still a thousand-character inscription carved by Xiaoqiao on the gate of your house. When I was in the village, many young people bullied Xiaoqiao, could it be that

Have you all forgotten? "

Some unbelieving young people went to check, and sure enough, there were shallow traces left on the gates of every household, and some clear traces could still be recognized, engraved on them: Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is prehistoric
Seeing the evidence, the people in the village believed that the story was true.

(End of this chapter)