It is worthy of being a famous fairy mountain spot in the past——
Ten years ago, Yuezhou was still a wasteland with only demons and ghosts and no human habitation. When the imperial court first immigrated to the north, Song You, Sanhua Empress, and Yanzi came with them. At that time, Yuezhou began to have people. Until now, Yuezhou has also
It is far from being restored to its peak period. Sitting on the crane and flying all the way, the population below is far less than that of several states in the Central Plains. However, there are actually many people in Tianzhu Mountain.
There are even two tea stalls, a wonton shop and a soup stall set up at the foot of the mountain. Some local villagers have also converted private houses into thatched cottages to provide accommodation for tourists.
There were quite a few people going up the mountain today.
It's probably because of the Chinese New Year.
At this time, the Taoist was sitting in a tea stall at the foot of the mountain. Next to him were three bowls of steaming tea.
My cat turned into a girl, took a water bag, and went to the syrup stall to buy syrup. She was negotiating the price with the stall owner, hoping that for ten cents, the stall owner could fill her water bag.
Yanzi also turned into a boy, but he was on the other side to buy wontons.
The Taoist sat still, working hard and waiting for his meal.
"The guest officer is really stingy..."
The juice stall owner was finally persuaded by the girl. Maybe he saw that Song You was wearing a Taoist robe and that he was a Taoist, so he regarded the girl as a Taoist boy of a poor Taoist. He was short of money, so he was so entangled, so he agreed within a few words.
, took the girl’s water bag.
They saw him holding a water bag in one hand and scooping out slurry water with a wooden spoon in the other hand. The water was poured from the mouth of the bag, just like pulling a thread, without spilling a drop.
"Gurgling..."
Until the entire water bag is filled.
Not a drop of slurry water was wasted.
The girl had a serious face and stared intently.
Others thought she was shocked by the stall owner's technique, but in fact she was observing whether the stall owner had enough food.
"Okay, my dear guest." The stall owner handed the water bag to the girl and asked her, "My dear guest, are you from the northwest?"
"no."
"Then why do you also like to eat syrup?"
“My Taoist priest loves to drink!”
"Your honorable master comes from the northwest?"
"No, he likes to eat sour food."
"So that's it. I thought that several guest officials also moved here from Longzhou in recent years." The stall owner said to her with a smile, "I'll charge you ten cents."
"Give……"
In his tender white hands, ten copper coins, polished until they were shiny, were placed in the palm of the stall owner's hand.
"You count!"
"Not a penny less!"
Of course it's a lot, not much more.
Sanhua Empress was satisfied and returned with juice.
Almost at the same time, the boy also brought three bowls of wontons to the table.
Three bowls of wontons and three bowls of steaming hot tea.
In this harsh early spring, at the foot of the mountain with thick fog and heavy humidity, it is a pleasure to have such a hot breakfast.
"Suck..."
"There are a lot of people here." Sanhua Empress took a bite of wontons and said to the Taoist next to her, "When we came here the first two times, there was no one here."
"It's good to have more people."
“I don’t feel like this before.”
"yes……"
The Taoist turned his head and looked around.
There was someone who spoke with a strong northwest accent. He must have migrated from Longzhou and other areas after the northwest climate changed from wetness to drought. This incident could be considered to be related to him and was the change he brought about.
But with his current state of mind, he no longer feels anything about it.
It’s more of an accent from several southern states.
Very mixed.
I don't know when they will be able to merge, or if it will always be like this.
"When you finish eating this bowl of wontons and drinking this bowl of porridge tea, you will no longer be able to become a swallow." Empress Sanhua lowered her voice and whispered to the swallow.
As for rice porridge tea, it is her unique name for this kind of tea, which is made by adding a lot of ingredients and making it very filling.
"Isn't it true that Sanhua Empress can't change back into a cat?" Yanzi responded weakly.
"You can turn into a pot-bellied cat!"
"..."
The Taoist turned a deaf ear to their whispers and only paid attention to the voices of the tourists at the table next to him.
"Although Yuezhou has just begun to prosper, and business is easy to do, I'm afraid it won't last for many years. It's better to make plans in advance to avoid another disaster."
"Who says it's not..."
"well……"
"well……"
Both of them sighed.
The Taoist turned around and saw two short and thin businessmen with accents that sounded like they were from the Yuzhou area.
"I went up to Tianzhu Mountain today. It's a good luck and a bit of fairy spirit. I hope things go smoothly in the future."
"If you earn enough money soon, you should go back to your hometown."
While eating wontons and drinking tea, the Taoist listened secretly. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he turned around and asked curiously: "I dare you to ask, haven't the wars in the north been put down? I heard that the demons and monsters in Yuezhou have also been restrained.
Very good, why are you two so worried, and what disaster are you worried about?"
When the two businessmen heard this, they immediately fell silent.
Seeing that he was a Taoist, I felt a little relieved, and then looked at each other with doubts.
"Sir, this is..."
"I have just arrived in Yuezhou and don't know what's going on here. I just feel that this place is in ruins and is just beginning to flourish. It should be prosperous. When I heard the worries of you two, I couldn't help but be confused, so I asked for advice." The Taoist saluted, "Please feel free to rest assured.
There is absolutely no other meaning."
"Sir, you are joking. This place is located in the middle of Yuezhou. No matter where you are from, you must have been walking for a few days. There is no way to say that you have just arrived in Yuezhou. You must have just arrived here."
One of them corrected with a smile.
"What you said is not bad. If we just talk about Yuezhou, it is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is highly productive. It is indeed prosperous. However, Dayan is not like that." Another person lowered his voice and said, "Nowadays, the world is getting worse and worse.
Ansheng, sir, didn’t you hear that King Wenhan of Yizhou rebelled a few years ago, and then the magistrate of Zhaozhou rebelled together with the local military town. In the past two years, King Liu of northern Yangzhou also rebelled. I heard that the court is now suppressing and suspicious of the Zhenbei Army.
It is becoming more and more powerful, and it is already known to everyone in the north that General Chen is worthy of being the clan brother of Lord Protector.
This person didn't go into detail.
But Song You already understood it.
Yuezhou Hezhou itself is the passage connecting the northern border towns to the hinterland of Dayan. Decades ago, after the Saibei people failed to attack Hezhou, they turned south from Yuezhou, which turned Yuezhou into a dead land. They
What worries me is that the Zhenbei Army, like King Wen of Han in the west of Yizhou, Zhizhou of Zhaozhou and King Liu in the north of Yangzhou, raised troops to rebel, and then went south from Yuezhou, bringing about war.
Even without Chen Ziyi, the Zhenbei Army's cohesion has been greatly reduced, and it has been cut again and again, divided into several parts, and suppressed several times, but its strength is still not comparable to that of the previous ones.
The situation was unstable and there were rebellions everywhere.
In this era, communication is inconvenient and information has always been limited. If a rumor is known to everyone, either someone is deliberately spreading it, or it has really reached a stormy time.
Either way, it's not good news.
The Taoist couldn't help but shook his head, feeling inexplicable.
It has only been ten years since I last left Changjing, and since I last walked to Yuezhou, but Dayan is already facing a storm.
Shinto is, after all, a subsidiary of humanity.
Things in the human world are much more difficult and complicated than things in heaven.
After thanking the two merchants, she turned around and saw that the bowl in front of her was almost empty. There were only two wild vegetable leaves left, only one wonton and the oily soup, and she was using it.
A small wooden spoon scooped up a spoonful of wonton soup and carefully brought it to the mouth.
He put it in his mouth, narrowed his eyes, raised his head slightly, and smacked it in his mouth quickly, as if he was enjoying it very much.
Bone broth is really fragrant.
Just when Song You was surprised that she ate so fast, and even wanted to pretend to praise her for it, he lowered his head and found that there were more wontons in his bowl than when he was first served.
"...Sanhua Empress, what does this mean?"
"What meow?"
“Have you finished eating Sanhua’s wontons?”
"There's one left in the bowl!"
"What's going on in my bowl?"
"What?"
Empress Sanhua held the spoon and stared at him blankly. Her little face was expressionless and serious, and her eyes were clear and firm, and she didn't look like she was lying.
"A bowl of wontons is enough for me, why does Sanhua Empress do this?"
"What meow?"
Sanhua Empress looked left and right and said seriously: "Eat quickly, you can go hiking after eating."
"Looking at the left and right, he..."
The Taoist said while shaking his head.
"Want to add salt?"
The girl leaned down and stared at him with concern.
"..."
The Taoist sped up.
After eating, pay and go up the mountain.
Yuezhou itself cannot be called warm. Fortunately, the weather has been good recently. It can only be called slightly cold at the foot of the mountain. However, when we reach the mountain, the chill becomes significantly worse. Fortunately, my stomach is bulging and there is food in my belly, so my body will naturally warm up.
You don't have to worry about the cold if you get up and move around.
I walked slowly up the mountain, feeling pretty good.
There are many people walking together on the mountain.
"There are so many people." It didn't take long for Sanhua Empress to transform into a cat again. Her belly was not bulging, and she walked with the Taoist with small steps. This also proved from the side that she really didn't eat much.
I lamented again, “It’s not convenient at all with so many people here.”
"Miss Sanhua, don't smell it, it's cow dung."
"oh……"
The cat immediately ran back.
That afternoon, the group arrived at the top of the mountain.
There are really a lot of tourists during the New Year.
Obviously, most of them are not refugees who immigrated to the north. They should be local officials, businessmen doing business, or literati, tourists and Taoists who come here for their reputation.
Some people even built simple wooden houses on the mountain to collect money and provide temporary accommodation for these tourists.
As for the stone pillar-like Tianzhu Mountain in front, there are also many tourists on the mountain paths, climbing up the mountain like ants with difficulty. There are also curls of incense floating into the clouds from the palace on the top of the mountain.
"Excuse me, my Majesty..."
The Taoist grabbed a man who had just come down from Tianzhu Mountain and asked politely: "Is there someone already in the palace on this mountain?"
"Since there is a palace, there must be people there." The tourist replied, after thinking for a moment, he looked at Song You again, "Sir, you must have been here before, right? There was no one in the entire Yuezhou before, and there was no one on Tianzhu Mountain.
Naturally, there is no one in the palace. Now that there are people in Yuezhou, naturally this place cannot be empty."
"Who is he?"
"It's an old gentleman and three young gentlemen who take care of the palace above and entertain pilgrims."
"Thank you very much."
"It's nothing to worry about a matter of two sentences."
The tourist waved his hand and left.
The remaining calico cat followed the Taoist at his feet, sitting and licking the hair on his arms. When no one was around, he whispered to the Taoist: "There was no one here last time. Where did these Taoist priests come from?"
Whoever comes here first and takes possession of it, does it belong to whom?"
"Tianzhu Mountain is so famous, how can it be so simple? It is more likely that it was decided by the government and the ancestral hall."
"I see……"
Empress Sanhua suddenly looked disappointed.
It turns out that not only being a deity and sitting on the altar of a temple requires a government seal, but also being a Taoist priest in a temple and helping to clean the temple also requires a government seal.
She thought it was first come, first served. In that case, they had been here many years ago when there was no one here, climbed that mountain, entered the palace on the mountain, and were still in the palace on the mountain.
After cooking porridge and eating it, the palace on this mountain should belong to them.
"Let's go."
It was getting later and later, and fewer and fewer people were climbing to the top of Tianzhu Mountain. The Taoist also took Mao'er and the boy up the mountain.