Journey to the East Chapter 1: Is the Mandate of Heaven?
Chapter 1 Is it destiny?
Cangshan is a very famous place.
It is one of the four famous mountains recognized by the world, echoing the Jiuyi Mountain in China, and setting off each other with Bulao Mountain in Youzhou and Yinwu Mountain in Jiangzhou.
Before Yuan Tianshi preached in Jiuyi, Cangshan Mountain had always been the well-deserved No. 1 mountain in the world according to historical records.
Nowadays, the title of the No. 1 mountain in the world has been taken away by Jiuyi, but Cangshan’s name is still resounding. The famous Jokhang Pass, the No. 1 Pass, Bishui Pass, relies entirely on Cangshan Mountain for its existence. It can even be said that without Cangshan Mountain, there would be nothing.
Sishui Pass, in the "great cause" of resisting the rebels outside the pass, Cangshan should share at least half of Sishui's credit.
Xu Sheng and the old blind man walked through the mountains and dense forests, getting closer and closer to Cangshan Mountain, and the mountain roads became more and more rugged. There were even no roads at all in many places, so they had to rely on hands and feet for support. Needless to say, the hardships involved.
What puzzled Xu Sheng was that the old blind man was obviously blind and his pupils were very white, but he could easily identify mountains, rocks and trees. He clearly had the ability to fly and escape, but he had to climb on foot.
The old blind man was always urging: faster, faster; but no matter how fast, can it be faster than flying in the air? Xu Sheng felt from the bottom of his heart that the old blind man was just causing trouble for him. There was obviously something wrong with him.
There were official roads, but the old blind man chose to avoid them. In some places, people gathered together, and Xu Sheng brought money, but the old blind man insisted on letting him hunt and gather in the mountains.
In this case, how can the trip be faster?
Since ancient times, chaos has created the world,
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the present day.
How many palaces have decayed?
How many beauties are turned into dust?
A hundred generations pass by in a blink of an eye,
Dynasties change quickly.
How many things have happened in the rise and fall of the ages,
They all laughed and talked to idiots.
Sometimes, when the old blind man got tired from walking, he would sit down to rest, holding his erhu in his arms and singing endlessly.
The old blind man's lyrics are indeed a bit strange. He is not like a storyteller in the market, who talks about legends about gods and ghosts and anecdotes from the people. He prefers to use ancient metaphors to express his emotions. In his singing, there are no specific stories, but more emotions.
and truth, permeated with the wisdom and freedom to see through the world of mortals.
Unexpectedly, Xu Sheng actually loved listening to it. He always felt that the old blind man's lyrics had a unique charm and a trace of something indescribable. After listening to it a lot, he vaguely felt that there was something deep in his heart and soul.
Something seems to be being pulled and summoned, ready to burst out.
"Is it really me who is destined to be the one?"
Xu Sheng was a little suspicious. If someone had told him before that he was the "Destined One" and the proud man chosen by God, he would definitely not believe it. Most likely, he would think that person was having a seizure and was delirious.
But now, after many mysterious things happened that were beyond his knowledge, he was shaken. He began to doubt himself and became afraid of himself from the bottom of his heart.
He felt that he didn't recognize himself. He looked around him up and down. The more he looked at him, the more unfamiliar he felt. He always felt that there was a frightening reality hidden under the mediocre appearance.
Blood light, meteorites, tombstones, weirdos, Taoist priests, old blind men, "all-purpose methods", "dark forests", all kinds of weirdness, I am afraid only "people with destiny" can afford them.
Xu Sheng's thoughts were flying, and he tried hard to recall. The scenes from the past reappeared in front of his "eyes", and he "watched" them intently.
There seemed to be nothing different, everything was very ordinary. Before the "bloody meteorite" fell to the ground, he was just an ordinary farm boy.
"wrong!"
Xu Sheng suddenly woke up, and his memories stopped abruptly. A piece of his memory was missing.
To be precise, it was a large section, or even half of it. He had no memory of anything before he was ten years old, not at all!
horrible!
Xu Sheng's heart suddenly tightened and his spine felt chilly. He vaguely remembered that his parents had told him that when he was a teenager, he fell from a cliff and injured his head.
Did you lose your memory because of the injury?
He might have believed it in the past, but now he hesitates.
He touched his head. What kind of injury can cause no scars and erase ten years of a person's memory out of thin air? For a ten-year-old child, if he falls from a height and hits his head, the probability of death is not high.
Far better than amnesia?
Xu Sheng's thoughts were racing, and he gradually thought more and more deeply, sweating profusely.
He thought about the mysterious death of his parents again. According to the official approval at the time, the old couple were robbed and killed by gangsters. But Xu Sheng knew his parents, who were the kind of masters who wanted money rather than their lives? Besides,
The border of Zhongzhou is not a miserable place like Guandong, so how could we encounter robbers on the official road? And... Xu Sheng thought about his brother's sudden change in temperament.
"Why?"
Xu Sheng asked himself, and slapped his head violently. It turned out that it was not after the bloody meteorite arrived, but before. Earlier, something strange had already happened around him. But he had been stupid and didn't notice it at all.
Now, when I think about it more deeply, Xu Sheng's liver and gallbladder are really broken, and his mind is in shock.
"Am I still me? Who am I?" Xu Sheng whispered, confused.
"Qiang!"
The sound of the erhu stopped, and the old blind man stopped singing. He looked at Xu Sheng with two empty eyes.
"What did you say just now?"
"Who am I?" Xu Sheng came to his senses.
"Destined Man"
"What else? Don't I have another identity?"
"There must be some. People in this world never have more than one identity."
"Then what is the rest of my identity?" Xu Sheng felt sad.
"You will always know in the future." The old blind man said softly, then put away his erhu, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes tightly.
...
Time passed and it became dark in an instant.
"Why do you think I am the destined one?" Xu Sheng asked again after a long silence.
"Because I believe that there will be people with destiny, and you happen to be able to awaken that tombstone, which is said to be awakened only by people with destiny."
"Wake up! Is Tombstone sleeping?"
"No, it should be said that the thing behind the tombstone is sleeping." The old blind man said firmly.
"What's behind the tombstone?" Xu Sheng couldn't help being frightened and asked tentatively.
"I don't know." The old blind man paused and then said, "Legend has it that it is something that can change the world."
"Oh" Xu Sheng responded, paused for a few breaths, and then spoke softly: "But, that monster from the Xu family said that I was just a fake and not the real destiny."
"Perhaps, it is not ruled out that possibility. It is said that when a person born with destiny is born, there must be a false child accompanying him to confuse the secret of heaven."
"If I'm just a pretender, wouldn't all your efforts be in vain? If I'm not the destined one, all your efforts will be in vain." Xu Sheng said slowly, looking straight at
The old blind man, he wanted to know what the old blind man would answer
"I have no choice." The old blind man sighed: "Oh! I'm not going to die soon, and I can't wait any longer. Whether it's true or not, it's only you. Moreover, the false child was born to protect the true child, and I helped you.
By making people mistakenly think that you are the real destiny, for Zhenzi, it can be regarded as diverting his attention and helping him grow."
"You are really thoughtful!" Xu Sheng looked away from the old blind man and said softly: "Are the people who are destined to be that important?"
"Yes!" The old blind man nodded and said slowly: "The one who is destined is the only hope."
"Hope?" Xu Sheng was puzzled, "What kind of hope? Or, what are you expecting?"
The old blind man didn't reply when he heard Xu Shengzhi's words. He stood up slowly, looked into the distance with his empty eyes, and said after a long time: "Change"
"Change!"
Xu Sheng repeated it. Although he didn't understand the meaning, he didn't ask any more.
He had a hunch that the old blind man would not give him a satisfactory answer; in other words, the old blind man himself did not have the answer, and everything in the end could only be revealed by himself.
"Let's light a fire." The old blind man had no intention of continuing the conversation and sat down. He took out his erhu again, but instead of playing it, he stroked it seriously, as if he was reminiscing or thinking about it.
...
"Crack!"
The dry wood burned, making a restless sound, and the tongues of fire danced, flickering on and off. The old blind man and Xu Sheng each had their own thoughts and did not speak to each other.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The sound of percussion suddenly sounded in the empty and silent mountain forest. The sound seemed particularly deep paired with the thick night.
"You stand behind me."
The old blind man took out the strings and said in a deep voice, with a solemn look on his face.