Huangya Laoqiu came back. Chen Qingshan didn't know what he went to do. But when he came back, he was missing an arm, and the remaining arm was holding a corpse. It was the corpse of a seven-level cultivator.
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Judging from its clothing, this corpse should have come from the Sea of Stars beyond the Great Wall in the North, and the Tang Dynasty liked to call the monks who came out of the Sea of Stars Frozen Yi.
What is the Sea of Stars? It is the north of the world, where the stars die.
The largest one hangs high at the end of the Great Wall. Datang and the monks from the Sea of Stars fought on this star. It was the largest battlefield on the Great Wall in the north.
The largest star is called Beichen, so the end of the Great Wall is called Beichen Pass.
After Huangya Laoqiu put down his body, he died facing north, causing great mourning in Tianlan Village.
Three days later, Zhao Jingang, the second master of Tianlan Village, followed his brother.
Tongque said goodbye, and Chen Qingshan and the other two also left.
Exited Tianlan Village.
"You can even tell the seven realms by reading a storybook. The old beggar is not simple." Chen Qingshan sighed.
"It was Lao Qi who found his own way." Chang Xin replied.
The four of them headed north, and the snow fell and stopped. Less than half a month later, they arrived at the border of Quzhou. After passing Quzhou, they reached Chang'an.
The reason why Quzhou is called Quzhou is because the Yinhai Canal runs through the entire Quzhou. The Yinhai Canal, as its name suggests, is a large river that was completely dug manually.
The Yinhai Canal was built in the early days of the Tang Dynasty. The Yinhai Canal reaches the Bohai Sea in the east and the desert in the west. Its water flows backwards, that is to say, it leads the water from the Bohai Sea to the desert, hence the name Yinhai Canal.
That year, the ancient kingdom of Loulan in the northwest disappeared overnight. A strange phenomenon also appeared on the border between the Tang Dynasty and the desert. A bottomless cave appeared. The cave was nearly ten thousand miles in size and swallowed up half of the border in the northwest.
The whole country was shocked.
An old man from Qijing Pavilion of Tianshu Academy came to investigate, but he never came back.
In the end, the sub-sage from Shengyan Academy took action and entered the cave in person. However, what people didn't expect was that not only did the sub-sage fail to save anyone, he was also injured.
According to Yasheng, the cave on that day can swallow everything in the world. If it is not solved in time, there may be a big disaster.
Therefore, on that day, Yasheng invited the Confucian Sage to bring out the sword, and the Lord of Sitianjian took down Youying, the second moon of Chang'an.
Yasheng entered the Heavenly Cave to save people. After Yasheng rescued the people, the Lord of Si Tianjian suppressed the Heavenly Cave with the Chang'an Moon, making it impossible for the Heavenly Cave to be swallowed.
Subsequently, under the orders of the Holy Emperor, he dug a large canal to draw endless seawater from the sea into the Celestial Cave, which took three years and four months.
The Heavenly Cave drinks endless sea water, the Heavenly Cave never overflows, and the sea never dries up, forming a delicate balance. The infinite sea suppresses the Heavenly Grotto, and this canal is the Sea Drinking Channel.
It also formed the strange phenomenon of water flowing backward in the Drinking Sea Canal. The current Quzhou was formed after the craftsmen and monks who dug the Drinking Sea Canal.
The Quzhou Prefect, a Confucian monk of the Seventh Realm, is responsible for maintaining the smooth flow of the Yinhai Canal.
The drinking channel is too wide and too long, and there are monsters in it.
There are twenty-five counties in the nine states of the Tang Dynasty. The states are larger than the counties. The state capitals have prefectures and prefectures, and the county prefectures have county guards. There are seven prefectures and six prefectures.
When Chen Qingshan and others entered Quzhou, they were blocked by the Yinhai Canal. Although it was winter, the Yinhai Canal did not appear to be frozen at all.
Looking at the drinking water canal surging in front of them, Chen Qingshan and others were in trouble. The drinking water canal was very wide, probably several hundred miles long, and it was not something that Chen Qingshan and others could pass through with their current strength.
"For the convenience of travel, when the drinking water canal was opened, the Holy Emperor also ordered the construction of nine overpasses on both sides of the drinking water canal. We can go on the overpass and cross the drinking water canal." Chang Xin said, this is before leaving.
, the Master told him.
"So, let's go ask where the nearest overpass to us is." Chen Qingshan nodded, his hair dripping with snow.
The four of them began to walk eastward along the river bank. Chen Qingshan was amazed at the backward flow of the river.
After a while, Chen Qingshan saw someone, more specifically, a person nearly one foot tall.
The man was very fat. He was squatting in the reeds by the river and was chewing something in his mouth. It seemed that he was eating in a hurry.
That man also seemed to have noticed Chen Qingshan and the others. Before Chen Qingshan and the others could say hello, the man ran away.
Especially after he saw A Nan, he was stunned, spit out what was in his mouth, his face was full of embarrassment, and he ran faster.
Chen Qingshan also saw clearly what the man was eating. It was grass roots, something neither cows nor horses liked to chew.
Perhaps it was during this frost-killed season that the man couldn't even find grass, so he ate the grass roots.
Perhaps because he had been hungry for a long time, the man ran away for a while and then stopped. Seeing Chen Qingshan and four others chasing after him, the man quickly squatted down and held his head in his hands.
"Sir, this girl is still here. I didn't mean to be an eyesore to you. I'm leaving right now! Don't hit me!"
This man was saying incomprehensible words until Chen Qingshan saw the scars all over his body.
In this snowy weather, this man was only wearing a tattered singlet. His trousers seemed to be sewn from many rags, but they only reached his knees. The trouser legs were in tatters, almost in strips.
With no cultivation and wearing such thin clothes, it was a miracle that he didn't freeze to death in this snowy weather.
The tall man named Xihan came from a poor family. He couldn't bear the hunger on the way home, so he went to the river to find some grass roots to eat. Because of Xihan's strange appearance, the young men and girls in the city always looked up at him when they saw him.
He was disgusted, which caused Xihan to receive a lot of beatings.
Xihan ran away after seeing Chen Qingshan, first because he was embarrassed after being seen eating grass by A Nan, and secondly because he was afraid of being beaten.
In Xihan's impression, Ah Nan was as good-looking as those girls in the city, or even better-looking, but in the eyes of those girls in the city, they only had disgust for Xihan.
Although Xihan is a bit naive, he is also afraid of being embarrassed in front of girls, especially beautiful girls.
"It's okay, it's okay. We won't beat you. We have food here. Come and give it to you." Chen Qingshan probably understood Xihan's situation. When he was in Jishui Town, he was also hungry, and he also thought about it one day.
A beautiful girl will favor you.
Out of sympathy, Chen Qingshan took out his dry food.
Hanxi raised his head, a little scared, but out of desire for food, Hanxi finally mustered up the courage and took the dry food from Chen Qingshan.
"Thank you, my name is Xihan." Xihan looked at the sincere expressions of the four Chen Qingshan and said.
Chen Qingshan smiled and introduced the four people respectively. Seeing Xihan put away the dry food, Chen Qingshan asked him why he didn't eat it.
Xihan was a little shy and said, "Xihan wants to leave it to grandma. Grandma will eat the food. Xihan can just eat this!"
Xihan skillfully dug out some grass roots from the snow next to him, shook the soil on them, and then put them in his mouth, smiling naively.
Looking at Xihan's expression, the noses of Chen Qingshan and the others were a little sore for some unknown reason.
Chen Qingshan and others simply took out all the dry food and let Xihan eat it.
Xihan drank the snow water and ate happily, but he still didn't touch the portion given to his mother-in-law.
"Xihan hasn't eaten food since my father died. It feels good not to be hungry. Thank you." Xihan stood up and was about to go home.
Chen Qingshan and others asked about the overpass, and Xihan said that there was one outside Hancheng, and Xihan could take them there tomorrow.
In this way, Chen Qingshan and others returned home with Xihan and met Xihan's mother-in-law, who was an old woman who was bedridden.
"Aniang, Aniang, Xihan is back. Xihan has brought food to Aniang!" The house was so small that Xihan almost crawled in. Xihan didn't dare to get up and look up, because when he raised his head, he saw this broken house.
It is very likely that it will collapse.
Xihan seemed to be very happy. As soon as he entered the room, he called Aniang. After calling for a long time, the old man on the couch slowly opened his eyes and saw that it was Xihan, with a slight smile on his lips.
"Xihan'er, you're back." The old man stretched out his hand to touch Xihan's head, and Xihan stretched his head over. The old man's eyes were full of kindness.
"Aniang, Aniang, eat this food quickly." Xihan took out the food from his arms as if offering a treasure and held it to Aniang.
"Silly boy, are you hungry again and leaving the food to grandma?" the old man said.
"Eat, you eat, I don't need it anymore, it's a pain for you, child." The old man pushed the food back, with a look of peace on his face.
The old man's hands slowly dropped, and he gradually stopped breathing.
"Aniang!"
Xihan's cries echoed throughout the village.
Xihan's grandma is gone and has not survived this winter. The reason is probably poverty and hunger.
The old man is not in good health, so he is destined not to survive this winter.
Aniang left a pile of firewood half the height of the house for Xihan, and piled it neatly outside the house. The old man picked it up when he could get out of bed.