The Complete Works of Lu Xun's Novels

Chapter 29

The old Taoist priests who fell on the coast have also been passed down for countless generations.When he was about to die, he passed the important news of the fairy mountain being carried to the sea by Juao to his disciples, and his disciples passed it on to his disciples and grandchildren. Later, an alchemist wanted to curry favor, so he went to hear about Qin Shihuang, and Qin Shihuang instructed the alchemist to find it.

The alchemists couldn't find the fairy mountain, and Qin Shihuang finally died; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty taught him to look for it again, but there was no sign of it.

Probably the Juaos didn't understand Nuwa's words, and they just nodded by chance at that time.After humming around for a while, everyone dispersed and went to sleep, and the fairy mountain sank, so until now, no one has seen half of the fairy mountain, at most they have discovered some barbaric islands .

Made in November [-].

This article was originally published on December 13, [-] in Beijing's "Morning Post Four Weeks Commemorative Supplement", titled "Buzhou Mountain", which was included in the collection of novels "Scream"; in January [-], "Scream" No. When it was printed for the [-]th time, the author removed this article, and later changed it to the current title, and included it in "New Stories".

To the moon
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The clever animal really knew what people wanted. As soon as it saw the gate of the house, the horse immediately slowed down, and lowered its head at the same time as the owner on its back, pausing every step, like pounding rice.

Dusk shrouded the mansion, thick black cooking smoke billowed from the neighboring houses, and it was already dinner time.Hearing the sound of horseshoes, the generals had already come out to welcome them, and they all stood upright outside the gate with their hands down.Yi lazily dismounted from his horse by the rubbish dump, and the generals took the reins and whips and went.Just as he was about to step through the gate, he looked down at the pot full of brand-new arrows hanging on his waist, and the three crows and a shattered sparrow in the net, he was very hesitant.But in the end, he had to bite the bullet and walked in with great strides; the arrows were ringing openly in the pot.

As soon as he arrived at the inner courtyard, he saw Chang'e peeping out of the round window.He knew that her eyes were quick, and she must have seen those crows long ago, so he was startled and stopped immediately—but he had no choice but to walk in.All the maids came out to welcome him, unloaded his bow and arrow, and untied his net bag.It seemed to him that they were all smiling wryly.

"Madam..." He wiped his hands and face, and walked into the inner room, calling.

Chang'e was looking at Mu Tian outside the round window, she turned her head slowly, glanced at him indifferently, and did not agree.

Yi had been used to this situation for a long time, at least for more than a year.He still approached, sat on the opposite wooden couch covered with old shaved leopard skin, scratched his scalp, and said staunchly——

"Today's luck is still not good, there are still only crows..."

"Huh!" Chang'e raised her willow eyebrows, stood up suddenly, and walked out like the wind, muttering, "It's crow's fried noodles again, and it's crow's fried noodles again! Go ask, who's here?" Do you only eat fried noodles with crow meat all year round? I really don’t know what kind of luck I got to marry here, and eat fried noodles with crow meat all year round!”

"Ma'am," Yi hurriedly stood up, followed behind, and said in a low voice, "but today is fine, and I also shot a sparrow, which can cook for you. Nu Xin!" He called out loudly. Female, "Bring that sparrow and show it to your wife!"

The wild game had already been brought into the kitchen, so Nu Xin ran to pick it out, held it in both hands, and presented it to Chang'e.

"Hmph!" She glanced at it, slowly stretched out her hand, and said unhappily, "It's a mess! Isn't it all crushed? Where is the meat?"

"Yes," Yi panicked, "it was broken. My bow is too strong, and the arrow is too big."

"Can't you use a smaller arrow?"

"I don't have a small one. Ever since I shot the hog long snake ②..."

"Is this the long snake Fengzhu?" She said, turning her head to Nu Xin and said, "Put a bowl of soup!" Then she went back into the room.

Only Yi stayed in the main room blankly, sitting by the wall, listening to the sound of firewood exploding in the kitchen.He recalled how big the half-year-old hog was, and looked like a small mound from a distance. If he didn't shoot it at that time, it would be enough to eat for half a year now, so why worry about food every day.There are also long snakes, which can also be made into soup....

Nu Yi came to light the lamp, and the Tong Gong, Tong Shi, Lu Gong, Lu Shi, Crossbow ③, long sword, and short sword hanging on the opposite wall all appeared in the dim light.Yi glanced at it, lowered his head, and sighed. Nu Xin brought in the night meal and put it on the table in the middle. On the left were five large bowls of white noodles; on the right were two large bowls and one bowl of soup; Fried sauce made from crow meat.

Yi ate the noodles with fried sauce, but he thought they were really not tasty. He stole a look at Chang'e, but she didn't even look at the noodles with fried sauce.He felt that her face seemed yellower and thinner than usual, for fear that she might be sick.

By the second watch, she seemed to be calmer, sitting silently on the edge of the bed drinking water.Yi was sitting on the wooden couch next to him, rubbing the old leopard skin that had been depilated.

"Ah," he said kindly, "this Xishan Wenbao was shot before we got married. It was so beautiful at that time, and it was all golden." He recalled the food back then. Leave the peak, and the rest will be rewarded to the maids and family generals.Later, when the big animals finished shooting, they ate wild boars, rabbits, and pheasants; "Oh," he sighed unconsciously, "my archery palm is so ingenious that I shot all over the place. Who would have thought that only crows were left to cook..."

"Hmph." Chang'e smiled slightly.

"It's still luck today," Yi said happily, "I actually hunted a sparrow. It took a detour of thirty miles to find it."

"Can't you go further?!"

"Yes, Ma'am. I think so too. I will think about it earlier tomorrow. If you wake up early, then wake me up. I am going to go another fifty miles to see if there are some roe deer and rabbits... But, it is hard to be afraid. .When I shot the hog and long snake, there were so many wild beasts. You should remember that a black bear often passed by the mother-in-law's door, asking me to shoot it several times..."

"Really?" Chang'e didn't seem to remember much.

"Who would have thought that I would be naked now. Thinking about it, I really don't know how to live in the future. As for me, it doesn't matter, as long as I eat the golden pill that the Taoist priest gave me, I will ascend. But I have the first priority." To plan for you...so I am determined to go a little further tomorrow..."

"Hmph." Chang'e had finished drinking the water, lay down slowly, and closed her eyes.

The light from the residual cream illuminated the residual makeup, the powder faded a little, the eye circles looked yellowish, and the black color of the eyebrows seemed to be different on both sides.But his lips are still red like fire; even though he is not smiling, there are still dimples on his cheeks.

"Alas, for such a person, I will only feed her Crow's noodles with fried sauce all year long..." Thinking about it, Yi felt ashamed, and his cheeks and even the roots of his ears became hot.

two

After one night is the next day.

Yi suddenly opened his eyes, and saw a ray of sunlight slanting on the west wall, knowing that it was getting late; looking at Chang'e, she was still asleep with her limbs spread out.He quietly put on his clothes, climbed down from the leopard skin couch, and walked out of the hall. While washing his face, he asked Nu Geng to order Wang Sheng to prepare the horse.

Because he was busy with work, he had abolished the morning meal ① long ago; Nuyi put five cooking cakes, five green onions and a packet of hot sauce in the net bag, and tied the bow and arrow around his waist for him.He tightened his belt, stepped out of the hall lightly, and told the female Geng who was coming in from the opposite side——

"Today I plan to go to a distant place to find food, and I may be late when I come back. Seeing that my wife wakes up and has an early snack, and when she is a little happy, you can go and tell her to ask her to wait for dinner. I am very sorry. Remember. What? You said: I'm very sorry."

He walked out quickly, got on his horse, left the guards on duty behind him, and ran out of the village after a while.In front of him was the sorghum field that he was familiar with every day. He didn't pay attention to it, because he knew that there was nothing there.After adding two whips, he galloped forward, and ran about sixty miles in one breath. When he saw a cluster of lush forests in front of him, the horse was panting and sweating, so he naturally slowed down.After walking for more than ten miles, I approached the woods, but there were wasps, white butterflies, ants, and grasshoppers everywhere, and there were a few traces of animals there.When he saw this new place, he thought that there would always be at least one or two foxes and rabbits, but now he realized it was just a dream again.He had no choice but to go out of the woods and see the green sorghum fields behind him, and a few small earthen houses scattered in the distance.The wind is warm and the sun is warm, and there is no sound.

"Unlucky!" he yelled as hard as he could, sulking.

But after walking forward for more than ten steps, he was immediately elated, and saw from a distance on the flat ground outside a mud house, there was indeed a bird parked, pecking at every step, like a huge pigeon.He hurriedly picked up the bow and set up the arrow, drew the full string, and when he let go of his hand, the arrow shot out like a shooting star.

There is no need to hesitate, there is always a hit; as long as he rides his horse and gallops along the arrow, he can pick up the prey.Unexpectedly, he was about to approach, but there was already an old woman holding a big pigeon with arrows, shouting loudly, and was rushing towards his horse's head.

"Who are you? How did you shoot my best black hen? Why are your hands so idle? . . . "

Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly reined in his horse.

"Ah! Is it a chicken? I only think it's a partridge." He said fearfully.

"Blind your eyes! Look at you are over 40 years old."

"Yes. Old lady. I was 45 last year."

"You really grew up in vain! You don't even know a hen, so you'll take it for a partridge! Who are you?"

"I am Yiyi." He said, seeing that the arrow he shot had pierced the hen's heart, and of course it was dead, so he didn't speak the last two words very loudly; while getting off the horse.

"Yi Yi?...Who is it? I don't know." She looked at his face and said.

"Some people know it as soon as they hear it. When Master Yao, I shot a few wild boars and a few snakes to death..."

"Haha, liar! That was shot to death by Master Pengmeng and others. Maybe you were involved; but you said it was yourself, so shameless!"

"Ah, old lady. That man, Pangmeng, has come to my place frequently in recent years. I have no partnership with him, and it has nothing to do with him."

"It's a lie. People often say it recently. I hear it four or five times a month."

"That's all right. Let's get down to business. What about the chicken?"

"Forgive me. This is the best hen in my family. It lays eggs every day. You have to pay me for two hoes and three spindles."

"Old lady, look at me. I don't plow or weave. Where did I get the hoe and the spindle? I don't have any money with me. I only have five cooking cakes, which are made of white flour. I used them to pay for your chickens. I also added five green onions and a packet of sweet and spicy sauce. What do you think?..." He took out the pancakes in the net pocket with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to pick up the chicken.

When the old woman saw the cakes made of white flour, she was somewhat willing, but she had to order fifteen.As a result of the negotiation, it was finally decided to be ten, and it was agreed that they would be delivered at noon tomorrow, and the chicken arrow would be used as collateral.Only then did Yi feel relieved, stuffed the dead chicken into a net pocket, stepped on the saddle, and returned to his horse. Although he was hungry, he liked it very much. It had been more than a year since they hadn't had chicken soup.

It was still afternoon when he came out of the woods, so he hastened to whip up and headed home; but his horsepower was exhausted, and it was already dusk when he reached the sorghum field he was used to walking.I saw a shadow of someone in the distance on the opposite side flashed, and then an arrow suddenly flew towards him.Yi didn't rein in the horse, and let it run, but he also picked up his bow and set his arrows. He only shot once, and only heard the sound of clang. Squeeze upwards into a "person" character, turn over and fall to the ground again.Just as the first arrows touched each other, a second arrow came from both sides immediately, and with a clang sound, they touched in mid-air.After shooting nine arrows like that, Yi's arrows were all exhausted; but at this moment he could clearly see that Pang Meng was standing proudly opposite, but there was still an arrow on the string that was aiming at his throat.

"Haha, I thought he went to the beach to catch fish, so he was still doing these things in these places. No wonder the old woman said those things..." Yi thought.

At that time, the bow is like a full moon, and the arrow is like a shooting star.With a whistling sound, the radial direction flew towards Yi's throat.Maybe he missed his aim a little, but he hit him in the mouth; a somersault, he fell off the horse with the arrow, and the horse stopped.

Seeing that Yi was dead, Pang Meng walked over slowly, looked at his dead face with a smile, and regarded it as a reward for drinking a cup of victory.

Just when he was looking intently, Yi opened his eyes and suddenly sat up straight.

"You have come here more than 100 times in vain." He spat out the arrow and said with a smile, "Don't you even know my 'arrowhead method'? How can this work? You can't do these little things, steal You can't kill yourself with your fists, you have to practice yourself."

"That is to use one's own way, against one's own body..." The victor whispered.

"Hahaha!" He laughed and stood up, "It's quoting scriptures again. But you can only coax the old woman with these words, what the hell are you doing in front of me? I have always been just hunting, and I have never cut a trail like you. It's a thing..." He said, looking at the hen in the net bag again, and found that it was not crushed, so he got on the horse and walked away.

"...You struck the death knell!..." There were shouts from afar.

"I didn't expect to be so unpromising. I learned to curse at such a young age. No wonder the old woman believed him so much." Thinking about it, Yi immediately shook his head in despair.

three

Before we finished walking the sorghum fields, the sky was already dark; stars appeared in the blue sky, and Chang Geng was particularly brilliant in the west.The horse could only walk along the white field, and was already exhausted, so naturally it walked more slowly.Fortunately, the moon gradually spits out a silvery white light in the sky.

"I hate it!" Yi heard his stomach groaning for a while, and immediately became anxious. "I'm busy making a living, so I encounter more boring things, wasting my time!" He knocked his legs on the horse's belly, urging it to go fast, but the horse only twisted its hindquarters and continued to walk slowly.

"Chang'e must be angry, look at how late it is today." He thought. "Maybe I'll have to put on a face. But I'm lucky to have this little hen to please her. I'll just say: Ma'am, I've traveled two hundred miles to find it. No. , No, this seems to be too pretentious."

He saw that the lights of other people's houses were already ahead, and he stopped thinking about it when he was happy.The horse galloped naturally without waiting for the whip.The round snow-white moon is shining on the future, and the cool wind is blowing on the face. It is more interesting than when the big hunting comes back.

The horse naturally stopped by the rubbish dump; Yi looked at it and seemed to feel strange, somehow it seemed that the house was in a mess.There was only one Zhao Fu to greet him.

"What's the matter? Where's Wang Sheng?" He asked strangely.

"Wang Sheng went to Yao's house to find his wife."

"What? Has your wife gone to Yao's house?" Yi asked, still sitting on the horse.

"Cha..." He agreed, and went to pick up the bridle and whip.

Then Yi got off his horse, stepped into the door, thought for a while, then turned around and asked——

"Isn't it too late to wait, did you go to the restaurant by yourself?"

"Cha. Three restaurants, the small ones have been asked, but they are not there."

Yi lowered his head, thinking, and walked inside, the three maids gathered in front of the hall in bewilderment.He was very surprised and asked loudly——

"Are you all at home? The Yao family, isn't the wife never going alone?"

They didn't answer, just looked at his face, and came to untie his bow bag and quiver and the net bag containing the pullets.Suddenly Yi jumped up in fright, thinking that Chang'e committed suicide because of anger, so he asked Nv Geng to call Zhao Fulai, and asked him to go to the tree in the pond in the back garden to have a look.But as soon as he stepped into the room, he knew that this speculation was wrong: the room was also in a mess, the suitcase was open, and when he looked into the bed, he first saw that the jewelry box was missing.At this moment, it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on his head, and the gold beads were naturally nothing, but the elixir given to him by the Taoist priest was also placed in this jewelry box.

Yi turned around twice before he saw Wang Sheng standing outside the door.

"Master," Wang Sheng said, "Madam didn't go to Yao's house; they didn't play cards today either."

Yi glanced at him, but didn't speak.Wang Sheng withdrew.

"Master's name?..." Zhao Fu came up and asked.

Yi shook his head and waved his hand again, telling him to leave too.

Yi walked around the room a few more times, walked to the front of the hall, sat down, looked up at the Tong Gong, Tong Shi, Lu Gong, Lu Shi, crossbow machine, long sword, short sword on the opposite wall, and thought for a while. Only then did he ask the maidservants who were standing dumbfounded below——

"When did the wife disappear?"

"I didn't see her when I was holding the lamp," Nuyi said, "but no one saw her go out."

"Can you see that my wife has taken the medicine in that box?"

"I didn't see that. But she asked me to drink water in the afternoon."

Yi stood up anxiously, as if he felt that he was left alone on the ground.

"Did you see anything flying up into the sky?" he asked.

"Oh!" Nu Xin thought for a while, and said with a sense of enlightenment, "When I lit the lamp and went out, I did see a black shadow flying towards this side, but I never thought it was my wife..." So Her face paled.

"It must be!" Yi slapped his knee, stood up immediately, walked out of the house, turned to Nu Xin and asked, "Where?"

Nu Xin pointed with her finger, and when he followed, he saw a snow-white full moon hanging in the sky, with towers and trees looming in it; the moon palace that his grandmother told him when he was a child He vaguely remembered the beautiful scenery in the movie.Facing the moon floating in the blue sea, he felt that his body was very heavy.

He suddenly became angry.Out of anger, murderous intentions appeared again, eyes wide open, and loudly shouted at the maids——

"Bring my sun-shooting bow! And three arrows!"

Nv Yi and Nv Geng took down the powerful bow from the center of the main room, brushed off the dust, and handed the three long arrows into his hands.

He held the bow in one hand, and held three arrows in the other. He put them on, drew a full bow, and pointed it at the moon.His body is standing upright like a rock, his eyes are direct, shining like electricity under the rock, his beard and hair flutter like black fire, this moment, people seem to want to see his majestic posture shooting the sun back then.

With a swish sound, just one sound, three arrows have been fired in a row, and the arrows are fired as soon as they are fired.Originally, although the opposite side received three arrows, they should all gather in one place, because the arrows and arrows are biting each other, and there is no difference in hair.But in order to be sure to hit, he moved his hand slightly at this time, so that the arrow will be divided into three points, and there will be three wounds.

The handmaids uttered a cry, and everyone saw the moon trembling, thinking it was about to fall—but it hung there safely, emitting a more pleasing radiance, seemingly unharmed.

"Hey!" Yi shouted, looking up to the sky, and watched for a while; but the moon ignored him.He took three steps forward, and the moon took three steps back; he took three steps back, but the moon moved forward again.

They were all silent, each looking at each other's face.

Yi lazily leaned his shooting bow against the door of the hall, and went into the room.The handmaidens also followed him.

"Well," Yi sat down and sighed, "then your wife will be happy alone forever. She has the heart to leave me and fly alone? Could it be that I am getting old? But she said last month: You are not considered old, and if you call yourself an old man, it is degenerate thinking.”

"It's definitely not true." Nuyi said, "Some people say that Master is still a warrior."

"Sometimes it looks like an artist," Nu Xin said.

(End of this chapter)