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Volume 59, Chapter 15 Catastrophe (1)

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    On April 16, Tunzhou, Daode County, the day before the Monument Opening Festival, before the sun rose in the morning, the entire Daode County was already boiling.  Daode County was not actually called Daode County. Before 687 years of the Black Iron Calendar, Daode County actually had another name, Anping County. However, after 687 years of the Black Iron Calendar, Anping County slowly became Daode County.  County, because on April 17, 687 in the Black Iron Calendar, an earthquake occurred in Anping County, and the Hongyu landslide in the county. Among the collapsed mountains, the ancient moral monument appeared out of nowhere, shocking the world.  Fifteen years after the Taikoo Moral Monument was born, in Anping County, there was a young man named Meng Shidao who was born in the same year and the same day as the Taikoo Moral Monument. He learned Taoism and practiced under the Taikoo Moral Monument for three years, and was promoted to the Black Iron Knight at the age of 18. That Taikoo Moral Monument  The Moral Monument has become a sacred object among many people in Anping County. In the following 30 years, the young man who gained enlightenment under the Taikoo Moral Monument became middle-aged and advanced to the rank of Earth Knight again. The influence of the Taikoo Moral Monument expanded to  The whole Tunzhou attracted the attention of the world, and Anping County slowly turned into Daode County. Later, Meng Shidao began to write books and treatises, which became popular in the world, and the so-called "Tun Dang" gradually took shape, and Meng Shidao naturally  , and became the leader of Tuntang.  In the next two hundred years, as Meng Shidao's cultivation became stronger and stronger, his achievements became greater and greater. Meng Shidao, who came from Tunzhou, became famous all over the world, and finally became the teacher of the prince and one of the three princes.  The power of Tuntang, the Great Situ, spreads all over the world, and is on par with the six major sects Just as the people of Youzhou regard Zhang Tie as the pride of Youzhou, in Tunzhou, Meng Shidao is also regarded as the pride of Youzhou.  The people of Tunzhou regard it as the pride of Tunzhou. From the birth of Tundang to the present, there are thousands of moral societies all over Tunzhou. There are dozens of moral societies in every city in Tunzhou. Even in  In the towns and villages outside the city, moral societies are everywhere. All the moral societies are unified into one and controlled by the backbone of the party. At the beginning, joining the moral societies was voluntary, but later, as the moral societies  More and more, the power of swallowing the party is getting stronger and stronger. People who do not join the Tao De Society will gradually be excluded and suppressed by the swallowing party and the Tao De Society. They are regarded as alternative. No matter what they do, there will be many obstacles and all kinds of shackles. In this environment  Next, those people and families who were unwilling to join the Moral Society had to leave Tunzhou and go far away to find another place to settle down.  Over the past two hundred years, as Meng Shidao has grown step by step, the entire Tunzhou, from wealthy officials to peddlers and pawns, there are very few people who can still gain a foothold in Tunzhou without joining the Moral Society, and they have almost disappeared.  On April 16, the day before the Monument Opening Festival, many capable people in Tunzhou came to Daode County early by flying boats or airships with a pilgrim mentality. The entire Daode County was filled with people and horses neighing, and the streets were overcrowded.  , all the restaurants and inns were full, and people rushing to Daode County from the surrounding cities and counties of Daode County were even more crowded, filling all the official roads.  ¡­ In the early morning of April 17, just after the ugly hour, Zhu Laosan, who opened a tofu shop on Zhujiaji East Street outside Huangyan City, Daode County, got up, lit an oil lamp, and slept in the same room as himself  woke up my thirteen-year-old son.  "Guang Si, wake up" The eleven-year-old child was sleeping soundly in Chou. Zhu Laosan called him twice and finally pushed him to wake up his son.  "Ah, dad, what are you doing" Zhu Laosan's son opened his eyes, but he was still sleepy and did not react for a while.  "You forgot that dad told you that today is the Monument Opening Festival. We are going to "touch the monument". We must rush to Hongyu Mountain before dawn. Get up quickly, wash up, and put on the new clothes prepared for you!"  Zhu Laosan's tone suddenly became stern. His son, who had been severely disciplined by him for a long time, did not dare to say anything more. He rubbed his eyes, quickly got up from the bed, and began to prepare.  Zhu Laosan is a widower. Since his wife died giving birth to a son, he has not remarried. He lives alone in Zhujiaji with his children and relies on his ancestral tofu-making skills.  Zhu Laosan actually didn't sleep at all last night. Although he was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, the excitement in his heart made him feel extremely excited the day before the Monument Opening Festival.  It's like taking medicine, making it difficult to sleep.  Since seven days ago, the president of the Zhujiaji Moral Society and the director of the Zhujiaji pavilion handed him a gift card and told him that he could take his son to "touch the monument" during this year's Monument Opening Festival, Zhu Laosan  I've already started to have insomnia.  He had been waiting for this day for ten years. During these ten years, he donated almost half of the money he earned from selling tofu every year to the Moral Society of the Zhu family, in order to one day get a piece of  With a large gift card, you can take your son to do a "stele-touching" ceremony on the day of the Stele Opening Festival to see and touch the ancient moral monument with your own eyes.  ??Perhaps for some people, the ceremony of "touching the monument" is pious and sacred, but for Zhu Laosan,?Living at the bottom of society, he is not that pious. He joined the Moral Society because everyone in Zhujiaji joined. If he didn't join, he wouldn't be able to survive in Zhujiaji, even if he was a small tofu seller.  In business, there is a possibility of losing money, and at the same time, there will be a lot of troubles, and the reason why he insists on completing a "touching the monument" ceremony is because he has a very commercial and realistic idea in his heart. He wants to bring his own  The son went to take a chance and give his son a chance to honor his ancestors and have a bright future, instead of having to stay in Zhujiaji and make tofu all his life like him.  Zhu Laosan did not dare to hope that his son would be favored by the Taoist master. Although there were only seven or eight children who could be favored by the Taoist master during the Monument Opening Festival every year, compared with the children who came from all over Taixia every year to open the Monument Festival.  The seven or eight children who perform the "touching the monument" ceremony may not even have a one-ten-thousandth chance. Besides the Taoist masters, the leaders of the moral societies in various cities in Taixia basically have no chance of doing so.  I will come on this day, and I will also select some children worth cultivating and take them back.  Zhu Laosan just hopes that his son can be favored by the leaders of other big cities, or that when he comes back, he can find a backer in the Moral Club in Huangyan City with the qualifications of having done the "touching monument" ceremony at this age, and he can have noble people.  With a little help, he was satisfied. For Zhu Laosan, who had only been able to make tofu since he was a child, this was a way for his son to get ahead with all his efforts.  In less than a stick of incense, the father and son were ready. They each dressed up and ate some food at home that had been prepared last night. Then Zhu Laosan carried dry food and a kettle on his back, carrying it in one hand.  He lit a fluorite lamp, held his son in one hand, and went out.  It was midnight when we went out, the moon was sparse, the lotus pond next to Zhu Laosan¡¯s house was full of frogs, and the grass was full of crickets.  When Zhu Laosan took his son out, there were also many people in the Zhu family gathering to help the elderly and children prepare to go out.  Many people greeted Zhu Laosan when they saw him and his son, and looked at Zhu Laosan with envy. It had already been rumored that Zhu Laosan received the grand gift card for the monument opening ceremony.  After going through the Zhujiaji, in the entire Zhujiaji, apart from the president of the Moral Society, only two families received the other two gift cards this year. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Out of Zhujiaji with envious eyes and warm greetings from everyone in Zhujiaji, Zhu Laosan felt even more encouraged, pinched the gift card he kept close to his body, pulled his son, and walked out of Zhujiaji with his head held high.  Fortunately, the weather is good today. Even without a fluorite lamp, you can still see the road clearly by relying on the moonlight. Zhu Laosan and his son walked out of Zhujiaji in a short time and came to the outside of Zhujiaji, which is connected to the official road.  On the hillside path.  Looking down from the hillside, although it is midnight, the entire official road below is already brightly lit, which is even more lively than the busiest night market. Countless people, both men and women, old and young, are walking on their backs.  Carrying simple luggage and holding lanterns or fluorite lamps in their hands, they were walking on the official road. Some young people did not even bring anything, and they were just walking happily on the road in groups. Everyone was heading towards the same goal.  The direction is moving forward.  Zhu Laosan also pulled his son into the huge flow of people and hurried along with them.  Zhujiaji is more than fifty miles away from Hongyu Mountain. As long as you keep walking, you can almost reach Hongyu Mountain before dawn.  In order to show piety, when approaching Hongyu Mountain for a hundred miles, no one took carriages, horses or any other means of transportation. Everyone walked to Hongyu Mountain on foot.  "Dad, my feet hurt" After walking for twenty miles, Zhu Laosan's son couldn't walk anymore.  "If your feet hurt, then take a rest, drink some water, and then go again" Zhu Laosan took off the water bottle he was carrying and handed it to his son.  A few minutes later, although his son had not rested enough, Zhu Laosan continued to lead his son forward. When his son really couldn't walk, Zhu Laosan had a cold face and dragged his son along.  Walk.  Along the way, Zhu Laosan himself was tired and thirsty, but he still relied on his own foot strength and persistence to reach the edge of Hongyu Mountain before dawn.  More than half of the people who came along the way stopped when they arrived at the edge of Hongyu Mountain, and then automatically gathered in the dozens of huge squares surrounding Hongyu Mountain.  , each of those squares is comparable to a large airship take-off and landing base, which can gather hundreds of thousands of people, and connects the roads leading to Hongyu Mountain from all directions. In normal times, there will not be so many people in these squares.  , and on the day of the Monument Opening Festival, all the squares around Hongyu Mountain will be overcrowded.  Because of their gift cards, Zhu Laosan and his son Zhu Guangsi were envied by countless people. After passing two inspections,Following the repaired road, we entered Hongyu Mountain. After finally forcing ourselves to walk a few more miles, a long line of winding snakes stretching for more than ten miles appeared in front of Zhu Laosan.  The tail of the team was just in front of him, but the head of the team turned behind a ridge.  Everyone was waiting, and Zhu Laosan had to stop.  Everyone who comes here comes here to do the "Touching the Monument" ceremony, and the "Touching the Monument" ceremony for the Opening of the Monument Festival will not begin until the first ray of the sun shines on the Taikoo Moral Monument in the morning. It is still not until dawn.  For a while, everyone was waiting quietly
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