Chapter 105 There are foxes in the boudoir, and they are longer than poetry
Luoyang City has been an imperial state since ancient times. Since the Yan and Huang Dynasties, it has been named "Xi Bo, Zhen, Luoyi, and Luoyang" successively.
Emperor Ku's capital was in Xibo; Xia Taikang moved his capital to Zhen; Shang Tang established his capital in Xibo; Zhou Gong assisted the government and moved Jiuding to Luoyi; Han Guangwu was revived and his capital was Luoyang; at the end of Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo rebelled and burned Luoyang; Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor and
The capital was moved to Luoyang; during the Five Husties, Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang; in the Sui Dynasty, when the world was unified, Emperor Yang moved the capital to Luoyang...
After the establishment of the prosperous dynasty, it was respected as the "Eastern Capital" and "the Divine Capital". It has the reputation of "there is no other place in the world, and there is no equal in the four seas".
Funiu Mountain, which is the eastern branch of the Qinling Mountains, is located in the south of Luoyang City. This mountain range stretches for 800 miles from northwest to southeast and is known as the "Fence of the Eastern Capital". Since ancient times, the Central Plains has been rough and has often been the place where heroes compete.
On the northern side of Funiu Mountain, there is Xiong'er Mountain. In spring, thousands of trees are sprouting, the peaks and ridges are beautiful under the clouds, and the ice water in the mountains is beginning to bloom. Even if an immortal comes here, I am afraid that I have to praise it - it is a good way to wash away the dirt.
, the happy place to return to nature!
Between the vast peaks, there are winding valleys. At this time, the snow melts and the ice disappears, and there are many streams in the valley. Somewhere the stream flows slowly, and on the bank squats a woman with an outstanding figure and a jade hairpin in her bun. Her fingers and palms are slender and white as catkins.
, holding a handful of stream water and taking a sip. His exquisite facial features were carefully reflected by the stream water.
The stream was sweet and sweet, her red lips were slightly raised, and her beautiful eyebrows were stretched. The woman stood up, brushed off the dead grass on her body, laughed for a while, and couldn't help shouting to the mountains: "I finally
Come out!"
It's like a bird returning to the forest or a fish descending into the pond. The woman is in a happy mood. Looking around, the mountains and mountains are all beautiful, and the water is filled with emotion.
She jumped up and down, stopping and picking a few wild flowers from time to time, and stuck them in her head. However, the bun trembled in the wind, and after a while, the wild flowers fell off. She was not annoyed, and picked and stuck them again.
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After swimming like this for half a day, I found a deep pool. The water in the pool was clear and you could see the bottom. There were more than ten green carps in it, all of them seemed to be swimming in the air. The woman stuck out her tongue and licked it between her lips, and she felt something in her heart.
After some calculations, the smile on his face became even stronger.
I saw her suddenly rising up, connecting with her feet, and within two breaths, she rushed to a bamboo bush. She made a knife with one palm, using her nails as the blade, and after a few breaths, she cut out a few poles of appropriate length and thickness.
The Junzhu comes. The fracture of the bamboo is as smooth as a knife or an axe!
The woman dragged the bamboo back to the edge of the pool. She still waved her hands neatly, cut the bamboo into several sections, and set up a simple grill on the ground on the shore.
Without stopping, she took out more bamboo and chopped it into a bamboo spear about ten feet long. The tip of the spear was so sharp that it could draw blood when touching her skin. She was very interested and waved it in her hand again. The shadow of the spear fell into the pool.
At the bottom, more than ten green carp were frightened and fled in all directions.
The woman suddenly jumped up to the pool and plunged her gun down! At the bottom of the clear water pool, a cloud of blood mist suddenly exploded. The gun was about to be fired and then retracted. When she put the gun away and jumped back to the shore, a fat carp was still on the head of the gun.
She was struggling and twisting, but was already penetrated across her body. She shook the bamboo spear slightly, and the carp fell into the grass.
She followed the same pattern again, and after plucking five or six carps from the pond, she found a bluestone and sat down with satisfaction. Humming an unknown tune in her mouth, she quickly scraped off the scales and cut open the belly of the fish with the bamboo knife in her hand.
He also threw away the gills and internal organs, washed the treated carp in the pond, and tied it with bamboo sticks. Then he took out the fire sickle flint from his arms, gathered up the withered grass, ignited it, and then started to roast it leisurely.
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The fish oil was sizzling, and the flames were "beeping". She was turning over the roasted carp with one hand and holding her chin with the other hand, and suddenly smiled. She was so complacent that she couldn't help but think of the scene when she escaped——
To the east of Mang Mountain, there is an exquisite formation hidden among the ruins of grass and monuments. The formation protects the entrance to a large tomb. Those who enter the tomb should walk along the corridor and pass the nine-layer mechanism to see the huge Broken Dragon.
Stone. Behind the Broken Dragon Stone, in the hollow of the mountain, lies the mansion of the Liu family of the Fox Clan.
There are several houses in the mansion, and the main hall is where Liu Chongsi, the head of the Liu family, entertains guests and studies. There are red sandalwood utensils, three-color porcelain vases, bronze paperweights, and shelves full of scriptures, showing the style of a Confucian scholar.
To the inside of the main hall is the back room, which has wide eaves and black roofs on three sides, painted pillars and carved beams. On the left and right are the east and west chambers. In the middle is the residence where the mistress takes a nap with a pillow. The room is filled with gold and jade treasures, and incense and brocade are laid out.
It has indescribable grace and splendor.
There are also side rooms on both sides of the center, which are the residence of Liu Chongsi's concubines. The size and furnishings of the rooms are much simpler.
The eldest son Liu Yaochen, the second son Liu Shunchen, the third son Liu Dingchen, and their wives and concubines were all assigned to the rooms in the east wing. The fourth sister Liu Hanyan and the younger sister Liu Xiaomu were each allocated two rooms in the west wing.
Liu Hanyan did not like to practice Taoism. Because he had not yet left the imperial court, he lived in seclusion. Most of the time he only followed his mother Ah Jin to learn the skills of needlework, net weaving and tailoring.
Only Liu Xiaomu, who was cunning and out-of-the-box by nature, liked to be in the public eye. He not only practiced martial arts and Taoism, but also read poetry and books, and even played music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and wine.
His great ambition is actually a bit more powerful than his three brothers.
The Fox clan practices immortality, and their life span is naturally long. Thousands of years are fleeting, and to them, it is roughly equivalent to the few months of the human race. With their long lifespan, the pace of birth, old age, illness, death, weddings and funerals is much slower than that of the human race. Therefore, the pace of life is much slower than that of the human race.
A fox demon like Liu Xiaomu, who has practiced Taoism for more than five hundred years, is nothing more than a cardamom girl from the human race.
It is spring again, and the plum blossoms are blooming in the mountains. The servants of the Liu Mansion went out for hunting and picked many plum blossoms and put them in porcelain vases.
Extraordinarily ethereal.
In the west wing of Liu Mansion, the sandalwood door is lightly closed, and the curtain is slightly cool. Liu Xiaomu is lightly rouged and has drawn her eyebrows carefully. She is holding the end of her pen and looking at a vase of plum blossoms on the table. In front of the three-color porcelain vase with a thin neck, there is a square
On the rice paper, there are two Chinese characters for "Pull Away" written in the upper right corner, but there is no following.
At this time, the outer door creaked and was pushed open. Then there was the sound of jingling rings, and gradually entering the room, there was a beautiful middle-aged woman carrying a girl with hair-length hair.
The beautiful woman came closer, glanced at Liu Xiaomu's desk, and said with a faint smile: "What is Mu'er doing? Is it another rhetorical technique of 'observing objects and writing poems'?"
Liu Xiaomu said gloomily: "When I first saw this plum blossom, I couldn't put it down. I was very interested in reciting poems and writing poems. However, the more I looked at the plum blossoms in the vase, it seemed to be like my own situation, so I stopped writing." Liu Xiaomu said.
, sighing softly, "Such exquisite purity trapped in a bottle is not as good as the splendid freedom that fills the mountains and plains."
This beautiful woman is Liu Xiaomu's mother Ah Jin. When she heard her sighing like this, she was a little moved: "In my mother's opinion, 'observing things and composing poems' is just self-entertainment. It's a coincidence today that our mother and daughter
Why don't the three of you come up with a "scenery couplet" to save you from feeling sad about spring and autumn."
The girl with hair-length hair was Liu Hanyan, the fourth sister of Liu Xiaomu. After hearing what her mother said, she quickly smiled and apologized: "Mom! If you want to do elegant things, don't count me in. I've never been good at this. It's rare for my mother to be happy today.
, I will become a copyist and copy down all your sentences. I will save a lot of them in the future and copy them into scriptures, which may be remembered for generations to come."
Liu Xiaomu frowned slightly and glanced at Liu Hanyan: "Although my sister is not good at poetry, she is really good at talking! If you start this first sentence, no matter what the rhyme is, I will continue it. How about it?"
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Liu Hanyan smiled: "Do you really mean what you said?"
"Of course!" Liu Xiaomu said that he would never give in, but there was a bit of tit-for-tat confrontation between the two of them.
"Then I'd rather be respectful than obey your orders. I'll try to attract good friends, but I'll show off my ugliness first!" Liu Hanyan lifted the weight as lightly as he could, and said after a moment of deep thought, "Pull away...push away the fragrance and go deep!"
Liu Xiaomu's beautiful eyes were looking forward to it, and her light flashed: "Sweep away the red dust. The branches sway like shadows!"
"You two little ladies, you didn't even wait to think about it carefully for me!" Ah Jin couldn't help laughing and scolding when she saw the two of them abandoning her, and then continued, "The flowers are moving but there is no soul. The hairpin stands in front of the steps!
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"Leaning on the roots of the tree outside the threshold. I haven't washed myself for a long time!" Liu Xiaomu just said it without thinking.
"It's so depressing in the late night. Pick up the petals and cherish the color of the flowers!" Ah Jin thought about it for ten times before coming up with these two sentences.
"Pick up the remaining traces of snow on the branches. I can only appreciate it now!" Liu Xiaomu barely paused, as if this sentence already existed in her heart and was just waiting for her to read it out.
"It's dusk again when I wake up." After Ah Jin finished this sentence, he couldn't hold back anymore and laughed out loud, "I couldn't continue, so I used this sentence to end it. Where is this 'coupled poem'? It's clearly drawing a sword.
Work hard!"
Liu Hanyan's writing skills are as fast as flying, but her calligraphy is beautiful and graceful. When her mother Ah Jin finished speaking, she also held up the rice paper, and silently recited the concatenated sentences:
"Pull the fragrance deep into the air and sweep away the red dust.
The branches are shaking as if there are shadows, and the flowers are moving but there is no soul.
A hairpin stands in front of the steps, and tree roots lean on the outside of the threshold.
If you don't wash yourself for a long time, you will feel depressed at night.
Pick up the petals and cherish the color of the flowers, pick up the branches and leave traces of snow.
It's clear now that I can appreciate it, but it's dusk again when I wake up."
Ah Jin listened carefully and said with a smile on his face: "If our demon race becomes elegant, I'm afraid no one will have anything to do with it. After all, the demon race has a long lifespan, no matter what tricks or tricks, we can learn them."
Liu Xiaomu was disturbed by her mother Ah Jin, and the feeling of self-pity she just felt faded away. She frowned slightly and said: "Mother, the demon clan is a little unwilling to make progress because its life span is too long. Even if it is to practice Taoism, it is far away.
It is not as hard as the human race, so for more than a thousand years, there are only a few people who have truly achieved Taoism and immortality. There is a saying in the human race of "using barbarians to defeat barbarians". If we are arrogant and unwilling to learn the skills of the human race, we will definitely suffer in the future.
Suffer a loss."
Ah Jin pretended to be angry and said: "You little girl! You just sigh a few words casually, but you will end up making a long speech!"
Liu Xiaomu's red lips pursed slightly: "Mom, my daughter has been banned by you and her father for ten years! The more than a thousand scriptures in this mansion have been read three times. If I stay in this dark and damp place again, my daughter will have a headache.
Mushrooms are about to grow."
Ah Jin smiled for a while, and her face gradually became kind: "I know you want to go out. But your engagement with Ah Wu of the Huo family of the tiger tribe has been concluded, and your father has given an ironclad order to the Green Fox Guards. If you are allowed to escape again,
When you go out, they will apologize. If you really want something new outside, mother will ask the Red Fox Guard to get it for you!"
When Liu Xiaomu saw that her mother had agreed to this, she was secretly happy and asked the lion to open her mouth. Liu Hanyan had already picked up something on the incense couch and said with a smile: "Little sister, you are really good at making this treasure."
Okay! I wonder how powerful it would be if I used the puppet technique?"
Liu Xiaomu was slightly frightened, but there was no expression on her face: "Sister, it's just a puppet made by a very bored little girl for fun. It's not easy to make a puppet! My father doesn't allow me to go out. It's very difficult just to gather the materials.
extremely difficult!"
After Liu Xiaomu finished speaking, he took the puppet made of bamboo, wood and cloth from Liu Hanyan and put it back on the incense couch. Except for the fact that the facial features had not yet been put on, just looking at the body shape, he looked about the same as Liu Xiaomu.
resemblance.
Liu Xiaomu hurriedly continued the topic and looked at Ah Jin pitifully: "Mom! Send the Red Fox Guards to find some heavenly materials and earthly treasures. I want to refine a furnace of elixirs. Now I am trapped in the 'Fifth Level of Qi Refining'
It's been almost forty years, and I feel like I'm just a little short of reaching the 'Sixth Level of Qi Refining'. With the help of elixirs, I might be able to take one step forward, and maybe go directly to the 'First Level of God Refining'!"
Ah Jin stared at Liu Xiaomu, and after making sure that she was not making trouble unreasonably, he stopped the string of beads in his sleeve: "Treasures from heaven, materials, and earth are too general. You have to name a few main ingredients, it's good for your mother."
Follow the picture and ask someone to find it for you. In addition, you can ask your eldest brother and second brother to help you with the refining of the medicine, so as to prevent you from losing control of your fire and blowing up the alchemy furnace."
After hearing this, Liu Xiaomu nodded lightly: "The clue I found from a book called "Luoyang Jialan Ji" is called 'wood of beef tendons and dog bones, grass of chicken heads and duck feet', which should be the four main herbs."
After saying this, I was secretly shocked: My mother was indeed very far-sighted and had every plan! After careful investigation, she not only prevented me from making nonsense, but also sent my eldest brother and second brother to monitor me refining the medicine. This kind of behavior is indeed
There is no leakage! If I didn’t have a backup plan, I would have been completely defeated after just these few "smart moves".
Liu Hanyan was also a smart person. He guessed her mother's intentions and followed suit: "What else does my little sister need? Let's talk about it. After all, my red fox guards are limited. If they all go to find things for you,
The power of guarding and vigilance inside and outside the house will be drained. Now that I have gone out to look for it, I will simply find it all at once to save you from having to worry about it."
Liu Xiaomu glared at her and said: "Sister, what you said makes sense. There are also a few volumes of books called "Natural History". You can buy a set. I will use it. You must have the finely edited version of Hongwenguan, and don't want it to be handwritten by a poor scholar.
The book may contain errors."
Ah Jin smiled and nodded in agreement, and then left the west wing with Liu Hanyan, leaving Liu Xiaomu alone in the room holding a pillow to vent his anger.
When the mother and daughter heard the movement in the room outside the door, they couldn't help but look at each other and smile, and they no longer doubted the woman in the room. After all, she was already at her wits end and there was nothing to worry about.
When Liu Xiaomu heard the footsteps of the two people getting further away, he put down the embroidered pillow in his hand. He had a bright smile on his face and felt very proud in his heart. Even the doll lying on the side of the fragrant couch became friendly.
Liu Xiaomu picked up the nearly completed puppet and looked at it carefully for a long time. As if giving instructions, he murmured with a smile: Whether this will succeed or not depends on your performance!