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Volume 1: Yan Cunzheng Chapter 68: One step makes a boat, two sleeves sail

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    About thirty miles to the north from Xiayan Village, there is a village similar to Xiayan Village. It is located at the foot of the Niaoshu Mountain and is located at the foot of the mountain. This is Yan Village.  Near Yan Village, there is also a stream winding down from the top of the mountain. The villagers draw their food and drinking water from this stream.  There are about 200 households in Yan Village, which is much larger than Xiayan Village and covers a large area.  But at a glance, everyone is like a zombie, numb and stiff, and pale.  In the entire mountain village, except for the place where the stream flows, the rest of the place is desolate.  It should have been the autumn harvest season, but there were only a few people in the reclaimed mountain fields near the village.  In previous years, whether it was a severe drought or a severe flood, there were always some reasons, but this year I don¡¯t know why, but there was no harvest for no reason.  A farmer was holding shriveled ears of wheat, his withered face full of despair.  The stored grain has long been gone. After the autumn harvest, there will only be some miscellaneous grains that can mature before winter. Other than that, there will be no grain left.  With such a harvest, the villagers are completely desperate, so why should they collect jade tax?  There is no need to wait for the jade tax collectors to come, Yancun will not be able to survive first.  Most of the old people in the village can¡¯t survive, and several old people have died this year.  The skinny Yan Dafu opened the door of the ancestral temple. Today is the day of his father's funeral. According to tradition, the funeral must pass in front of the ancestral temple and the ceremony is held in front of the ancestral temple.  Not to mention, his deceased father was the clan elder of Yan Village and the clan leader of the entire Xiayan Village.  There was ashes all over the floor in the ancestral temple, the remaining incense candles on the altar table were also covered with dust, and even the stone statue was covered in gray.  It¡¯s been too long since anyone has cleaned this place.  The desperate villagers have stopped coming to worship their ancestors for a long time.  Yan Dafu lightly brushed the dust, and was immediately choked by the dust and coughed.  He bent down, grabbed the barrel in the corner, turned around and staggered out.  After his father passed away, the burden of the clan elders fell on him. Today was not only the day of his father's funeral, but also the day when clan elders from several other villages came to witness him becoming the new clan elder of Yan Village and the entire Yan clan.  The day of the clan leader.  As soon as he carried the barrel out of the ancestral hall, he saw an old man in ragged clothes slowly walking over with a stooped waist. After seeing him, the man raised his cloudy eyes and looked at him for a long time before walking forward.  He took two steps and seemed to be planning to come forward.  Yan Dafu quietly took two steps back. The smell of something moldy and rotten on the other party made him particularly disgusted.  "Dafu" The man opened his mouth, revealing his yellow teeth: "I am your seventh uncle" "Seventh uncle?" Yan Dafu's eyes widened and he looked at the old beggar-like old man in front of him.  , "Uncle Qi, you old man" This is Yan Laoqi from Shangyan Village. Shangyan Village is in the northwest of Yan Village. The terrain is slightly higher than that of Yan Village. It is about ten miles away from Yan Village. Shangyan Village  The village has a small population, probably only about a hundred people and dozens of households.  And Yan Laoqi is the clan elder of Shangyan Village.  In the spring, Yan Dafu went to see him. He was still upright. It had only been a few months. Why was he like this?  Yan Dafu knows the smell of Yan Laoqi very well. It was the same smell when his father was dying.  "I'm about to die" Yan Laoqi took a deep breath and said, "I want to see my eldest brother for the last time no matter what" Yan Laoqi helped him sit down on the stone in front of the ancestral hall.  Dafu's father is the oldest among the clan elders and is the clan leader, so he is respectfully called eldest brother. The others are ranked according to their age. Among the clan elders in several villages, Yan Laoqi is the younger one.  , but has aged like this.  "Uncle Qi, would you like to have a meeting at home?" Yan Dafu said quickly.  "I can't walk anymore." Yan Laoqi shook his head, leaning on his crutches with both hands, and said, "I'll just wait here, ancestor" Yan Dafu wanted to say something else, but Yan Laoqi waved his hand.  , said: "Go and do your work, leave me aloneI'll wait here" Yan Dafu turned around three times and carried the bucket. He was really worried that a gust of wind would blow and Yan Laoqi would fall to the ground.  die.  What is going on in this world?  Yan Dafu walked to the creek, knelt down, put the bucket into waist-deep water, and planned to fetch water.  At this moment, a burst of singing came from the mountain.  "Good deeds have no traces, good words have no flaws; good numbers do not require planning; good closures have no ties but cannot be opened; good knots have no ties but cannot be broken." The song is simple, the tune is majestic, but the voice is old and hoarse.    Yan Dafu looked up and his eyes suddenly widened.  This creek winds its way up, hidden among rocks and trees, like a silver ribbon stretching to an unknown place on the mountain.  It was just early autumn, but the mountains were already as desolate as late autumn. The leaves were withered, revealing large gaps. Just in the gaps between the leaves, a green shadow could be seen flowing down the river.  Yan Dafu squinted his eyes and took a closer look. He was an old Taoist!  The sleeves of the old Taoist robe unfolded, stirring up the wind and clouds, breaking through the mist in the mountains.  He retracted one foot and placed only one foot wearing straw shoes on the stream.  The stream was flowing and splashing happily, and he just stood on the stream, using his shoes as a boat and his sleeves as a sail, like a golden rooster with its legs and a white crane drying its wings, flowing down the river from above.  His five-willow long beard, two long eyebrows and a head of white hair were fluttering in the air, and his eyes were shining coldly. He seemed to feel that someone was looking at him, so he glared directly at him.  "GhostGhost!" Stung by those sharp, blade-like eyes, Yan Dafu staggered with fright and sat down on the ground, almost suffocated by the messy chaos by the stream.  As soon as he let go, the barrel in his hand floated downstream along the stream. Yan Dafu stretched out his hand, opened his mouth wide, and wanted to scream twice, but he didn't know what to say.  After a long time, he slowly got up from the ground, rubbing the root of his tail. His buttocks were already soaked with water. The wind was chilling, and the barrel floated away. Yan Dafu didn't know what to do.  It¡¯s really raining all night when the house leaks!  But what on earth was that old Taoist just now Could he be a god on the mountain?  But didn¡¯t the gods on the mountain fly down from the mountain on clouds?  Why walk on water?  While he was hesitating, there was a sound of water from below the creek. Looking from a distance, a colorful small boat was going upstream from below.  The boat was moving very fast. When you heard the sound, it was just a small dot. In the blink of an eye, it was already in front of you.  Two red koi carp swam vigorously in front. When they reached the shallow water, their backs were exposed from the water, but their speed did not slow down at all.  Mixed with the sound of water, the sound of reading came from above the boat.  "I traveled to the North Sea in the morning and the sky was green at dusk, and the green snake wrapped in my sleeves was brave. I was drunk for three times and the people in Yueyang didn't know it. I sang loudly and flew across Dongting Lake." What is this?  Yan Dafu looked closely and saw three people standing on the bow of the ship. One was dressed as a scholar, one was dressed as an officer and a soldier, and the other was dressed as a hunter. Among them, the man dressed as a hunter was holding a wooden barrel in his hand and shouting from a distance.  "Whose barrel was washed away?" said Yan Dafu. "It's mine" Yan Dafu took two steps forward and looked intently. He felt that the face of the old man dressed as an Orion looked familiar, but he didn't dare to recognize it.  "Is itDafu?" But the other party recognized him first.  "Uncle Five?" Yan Dafu's eyes widened immediately. Yan Laowu was older than Yan Laoqi, but at this moment, he looked almost the same age as Yan Dafu. He had a straight waist and was as strong as a young man.  When the boat stopped, he jumped out of the boat with one step. A middle-aged man jumped into the water behind the boat and walked over. Yan Dafu looked over and smiled naively: "Brother!" The person who came was none other than Yan Laowu.  With his second son Yan Er, Yan Laowu stared at Yan Dafu with wide eyes. Yan Dafu was so haggard, with a sallow complexion and thin skin, which made Yan Laowu feel chilled.  But now is not the time to care about this. Yan Laowu said sadly: "I saw my eldest brother in Mengcheng a few days ago. At that time, I thought that my eldest brother was very thin, but I didn't expect that he would become rich so soon I'm sorry." "I'm sorry."  !" The two people who were standing at the bow of the boat and were not coming down also clasped their fists and said.  "Dafu, let me introduce to you. This is the village chief of our Xiayan Village, Zi Baifeng. This is the general of Mengcheng Prefecture, General Luo Qianshanluo." Yan Laowu introduced, and then pulled him over.  His second son said, "I know I'm very busy today, so I brought someone to help." Yan Er didn't say much, just went to get some water and waited aside.  After hurriedly greeting Zi Baifeng and Luo Qianshan, he looked at Yan Laowu, who was full of energy, and then at Yan Er, who was tall and strong. Yan Dafu was very envious in his heart. Once upon a time, he was also such a man, and now he can even  It was difficult to carry the bucket of water.  Zi Baifeng looked at the skinny man in front of him.  It can be seen that he used to be a very strong man, but now he has become so thin that he has no more than four ounces of flesh on his body.  Zi Baifeng remembers that when he was a child, there was a time when Yan Laowu also?With such thinness, the whole people in Xiayan Village became extremely thin, and then gradually became healthier again.  The reason is very simple. The big bluestone guards the spiritual energy of Xiayan Village, so that the spiritual energy of Xiayan Village will not be easily taken away. The spiritual energy of the people in Xiayan Village will not be easily lost, and naturally they will be much healthier.  Looking up again, the entire Yan Village is not as good as the original Xiayan Village. In Zi Baifeng's eyes, Yan Village is almost black and white, without even a little bit of aura.  This village is about to die Birds and mice, what have you done?  How many people¡¯s spiritual energy, lifespan, and health have you taken away for the sake of cultivating Taoism and immortality?  ¡°For a long time, Zi Baifeng¡¯s activities have been limited to Mengcheng and Xiayan Village, but he has never visited other villages.  I think there is something guarding Mengcheng to prevent the spiritual energy from being easily drained away, so Mengcheng's energy and energy are pretty good.  And villages like Yancun are probably almost exhausted.
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