The boatman who supported the boat was named Wang Sanliu.What does this name mean?
It's very simple, he was born on the sixth day of the third month, so he is called Sanliu.At that time, most of the children of poor families had such names, firstly because their adults had limited educational level, and secondly, because they were really not suitable for that kind of particularly lofty name.What do you think, a fisherman, his family is basically illiterate, what do you name him Zixuan and Zihan......
Whether he can write or not is secondary, and he may have to be ridiculed when he grows up.For another example, there is a big family, the master is low-key, surnamed Yu, a single name is a humble character, and he is also very modest, but he has three miscellaneous family members under his hands, one is called Long Aotian, one is called Zhao Ritian, and the other is called Dong Batian......
What do you say this lord feels?
On weekdays, I greet them to do errands, and the opening is: "Every day, make a pot of tea for the master" and "Batian, make a basin for the master to wash his feet." ”"Aotian, did you feed the dog today?"
How awkward do you say this old man is?
In addition, there is a more superstitious saying among the people, that is, the so-called "cheap names are easy to feed".One is that children are vigorous but their minds are not yet successful, and they are easy to be targeted by ghosts, so a name that even ghosts hate can ward off evil spirits; There is also a saying that when the king of Hades turns over the book of life and death, he will be impressed when he sees a name that is too distinctive, and he will be ticked when he says it, but the kind of names such as Zhang San, Li Si, and Dog Egg Pockmarks are easy to be ignored.But in the final analysis, it was because the medical level was too low back then, and the probability of children dying or becoming disabled due to illness was a bit high, so this kind of statement will have a market.Wang Sanliu's family believed in that set very much, and he didn't listen to the elders in the family when he was a child......
Especially the old people are talking about this.Among the many stories he has heard, there is one that impresses him deeply, that is, the legend of "Lanruo Temple" on this island in the middle of the lake.According to legend, more than 1,000 years ago, this river was not called the river, but called the "corpse river", and there was a big monster living under the river, known as the "corpse ancestor".What is "殄"?
Extinction means extinction, ruin.Just listening to this name, there is a product of this monster's fetish......
At that time, countless people died on the river of corpses every year, and these people without exception became the food for the ancestor of the corpse; By torturing the corpses of these victims, the corpse ancestor draws demonic power from the sorrow and resentment of the soul, and when a person's three souls and seven spirits are almost consumed, the corpse ancestor will swallow his corpse and squeeze out the last bit of flesh and blood, which can really be said to be a veritable "eating people without spitting out bones".Needless to say, such a sinful thing will definitely not last long.One day, an old man came, and there was no nonsense, he jumped down the river and started with the monster, this person and a demon fought for three days and three nights, and the fight was so dark that the ghost cried and howled.In the end, it was the old man who had a slight advantage and beheaded the corpse ancestor at the bottom of the river.However, in the flesh of this monster, there is too much flesh and blood and resentment of the unjustly killed corpses, and as soon as it dies, those things will pour out, and they will all mix and transform into thousands of walking corpses, evil ghosts and demons, and they will climb ashore from the bottom of the river.As soon as Lao Dao saw that something was going to happen, he hurriedly sacrificed the magic weapon, used up the last bit of Dao power, summoned a mountain from the sky, suppressed it in the middle of the river, and pressed those demons and evil spirits under the mountain.Since then, at the mouth of the Sancha River of the Shihe River, there is such an island in the middle of the lake, and the "Corpse River" has also been renamed "Shihe", in order not to touch the word "corpse", so as not to be like this, hundreds of years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it has reached the end of the previous dynasty.In that year, the king was mediocre, traitorous ministers were everywhere, natural disasters were all over the place, and the people were not able to make a living.There is a saying that the government forces the people to rebel, and since they want to rebel, they must fight.At that time, Taizu personally led the rebel army to fight with a certain part of the previous dynasty, and the latter was defeated and retreated to the south bank of the Shihe River.The former general who was chased by Taizu was named Yelu Baoqi, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and did a lot of evil, and he also knew that even if he surrendered, eighty percent of the rebel army would not spare his life.Therefore, seeing that he had been forced to the back of the water, Yelu Baoqi did an extremely shameless thing - he actually took advantage of the night, with a dozen henchmen and guards, to escape on the only few bamboo rafts and the stolen fishing boats.All the soldiers of the army were thrown by him by the river to die.I don't know if it's providence, that night, Yelu Baoqi just arrived in the center of the river, and the demon wind on the river was fierce, causing the waves to be turbulent and the water to be urgent.Yelu Baoqi had no choice but to take refuge with his subordinates on the island in the middle of the lake first.Unexpectedly, at this moment, the rebels took advantage of the night to rob the camp and launched a surprise attack on the camp by the river.An army that had all disappeared as a company commander and a partial general, was beaten like a headless fly, and it was a mess and was quickly slaughtered.In this way, Yelu Baoqi watched the fire from the other side in the dark night, watching the soldiers who followed him being slaughtered on the opposite bank dozens of meters away from him, and clearly listened to the wails and screams.And he didn't feel guilty about it at all, but was glad that he ran in time.In a short time, thousands of lives were lost, and their blood stained the waters of the river red.The pain and resentment of being betrayed and abandoned connected their blood to another force crushed under the island in the middle of the lake......
At dawn the next day, Taizu led the rebel army to the island in the middle of the lake, preparing to capture Yelu Baoqi alive, but found that Yelu Baoqi and a dozen of his cronies were dead.The clothes and armor on the corpses were all intact, and there were no visible injuries, but every corpse was ......
There was no flesh or entrails, only a skeleton of bones, covered with a whole, undecayed human skin.This thing is evil.Even if the army is full of big men, and it is daytime at the moment, after seeing the death of Yelu Baoqi and others, everyone feels a chill down their spines.However, this kind of thing, they can't manage it if they want to, so they can only stop it.It wasn't until many years later that Taizu laid down the country and established Da Shu.One night, he had a dream in which he was back at the mouth of the Sancha River, and was drifting on a bamboo raft, when suddenly a thousand heads suddenly appeared on the water around him, and the faces of each head were similar to the death of Nayelu Baoqi—bloodless and fleshless, with hollow eyes, but the surface of the bones was covered with a fresh human skin.I woke up from a nightmare and was drenched in sweat.This dream scared Taizu a lot, and he sent the national teacher to interpret the dream for himself overnight.What kind of character is that national teacher?
Do you think it's just a royal fortune teller, and you can just fool around?
No, yes, yes.This position has high requirements for literary attainments, natural science knowledge, psychological ability, knowledge of royal etiquette, and even appearance.On weekdays, in addition to doing astronomy in Si Tianjian, telling fortunes, interpreting dreams, and talking to the emperor and his ladies, according to the requirements of different emperors, the national teacher may also have to preach, preach, heal, drive away disasters, pray for rain, and catch demons......
The most important thing is that even if additional factors such as changing the dynasty and dying the emperor are put aside, there is still at least one "sacrifice to the sky" every year.Sacrificing to the sky was a big event in the feudal dynasty.Big deal.For the national teacher, presiding over the sacrifice to the heavens every year is the same as crossing the catastrophe - today, even if you make a major mistake in hosting the Spring Festival Gala, at most you will disappear from the TV screen next year; In ancient times, if you smashed the heavens, you would disappear from the earth next year.Therefore, those who can be national teachers, and those who are stable, have that IQ, that conversation, and that psychological quality......
Definitely not the average person.As soon as he heard Taizu finish talking about the dream, his eyes rolled, and he asked Taizu if he had been to that place before, so Taizu told him about his annihilation of Yelu Baoqi back then.The national teacher laughed after hearing this.What are you laughing at?
One is happy and knows what to do, and the other is that a smile can show that he is confident.After laughing, the national teacher said to Taizu, the people who died in that place are very angry, and it has something to do with you, you were still fighting the country before, you didn't have the kung fu and the ability to manage them, and they didn't blame you, but now that you are the king of a country, they feel that you should save them, so they come to complain about their grievances.When Taizu heard that it made sense, he asked again, "Then how can I help them?"
”The national teacher said, "It's easy to do, just build a temple there." ”As soon as this idea comes out, the "project money" for building the temple will be in hand, can the national teacher not pick up the skin first?
As for the fact that after he finished picking it up, the temple was built like this.And in order to build this temple, the engineering team also built a bridge on the south shore of the island in the middle of the lake (it was too troublesome to transport building materials by boat), and the cost went up a lot at once, so that later the national teacher took this matter and asked the emperor to allocate a sum of money.A few years later, the temple was built, and the national teacher gave it the name "Lan Ruo", which means "a place of silence and no distress and trouble".However, this temple, since the day it was built, has been an empty temple.Originally, who would go to the temple built on the island in the middle of the lake?
If there was a knock on the north shore of the island, which was connected to the other side of the river, it would be nice to say that there would be people coming and going, but now this is a dead end, where is the incense?
Besides, the island is so big, and it is impossible to reclaim farmland to grow food, if someone is resident in the temple, they have to keep buying food and daily necessities from outside to send to the island?
As a result, this Lanruo Temple is like a lot of bureaucratic "face projects", after spending a lot of money to get it out, the actual meaning is to show the leaders, and by the way, it also makes some people fill their pockets.A few years later, the bridge on the south shore of the island in the middle of the lake was also washed away by the current; Of course, this is also reasonable, when the temple was built, because of the lack of cost due to layers of subcontracting, so when the bridge was built, the foreman thought: this bridge can be built with a little tofu slag, as long as it can last until the temple is completed.I have to say that he did quite successfully, and after the completion of Lanruo Temple, the bridge lasted for several years before it collapsed.Anyway, no one usually walks on this bridge, and a few years later, Taizu has long forgotten about what happened here, so no one takes it seriously when the bridge collapses.Time flies again, and more than two hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.That is, it is time to ......
Thirty years ago.That year, there were four sworn brothers on the rivers and lakes, known as the "Four Thieves of the Central Plains" - the boss "gluttonous thief" Han Li, who fought rice in the eclipse, pulled out thousands of catties, and the best food and wine, it is said that ninety percent of the property he stole was spent by him on eating and drinking.The second "Longyang Thief" Zhu Meng, his name and himself give people a very different feeling, he doesn't look "fierce" at all, and his appearance is delicate, like a woman, and his voice is also soft; This man was a "flower thief", or "grass thief", because he only picks men, and his taste is that of tall and powerful men from the age of thirty onwards......
The third "Zhuge thief" Lan Shuoli, surnamed Lan, is not surnamed Zhuge , but he is called "Zhuge ", which shows that this person is quick and resourceful, but unfortunately his martial arts are a bit worse than the other three brothers; In addition, Lan Shuoli's hobby is more special, he likes "clever things", in today's words, some small inventions similar to magic props, such as some cleverly designed traps, smoke screens that can be used to obstruct eyes, and poison sacs that secretly plot against other people's use of flying needles, etc.Finally, there is the fourth "flying thief" Li Yuan, who has reached the peak of light skills, according to the rumors in the rivers and lakes, his light skills belong to the level of "stepping on the left foot and spiraling to heaven with the right foot", and those who are not talented cannot succeed; Li Yuan's hobbies are the most normal, he loves money, and he doesn't have any quirks.is just these four, in those years, they were very good at eating on the rivers and lakes, and they were rampant for a while.But after all, they were "thieves", and they were not "righteous thieves", so they didn't have a good time for long, and they were hunted down by the assembled enemies.That night, the four of them were chased into a corner, and after coming to the bank of the Shihe River, they took a small boat and fled to the island in the middle of the lake.The people who chased and killed them did not give up, and the twenty or so people in the rivers and lakes also went to get boats to cross the river, chased them, and chased them all the way to Lanruo Temple.However, after the four thieves of the Central Plains and their enemies entered the temple, they never came out......
The fishermen who had borrowed the boats had to get their boats back, so some people came to the island to get them; Some of the boats have been retrieved, while others have been swept away by the wind and waves, and they are nowhere to be found, so they can only give up.Among those who went to fetch the boat, there were also those who were brave and fat, and quietly went to the gate of Lanruo Temple to look inside, but they couldn't even see a ghost, only a gust of eerie wind rushed out of it.It's also a coincidence, the buddies who were blown by this wind came back and got sick, and when they were sick, they died.Since then, the legend of "cannibalism" in Nalan Ruo Temple has begun to circulate nearby, along with the two paragraphs of more than 1,000 years ago and more than 200 years ago, together with the common people everywhere in a vivid voice, adults listened to the scalp numbness outside, and went home to scare the children to play.Wang Sanliu heard this story under such circumstances.He was ten years old when he heard it, and now he is forty-seven, and he remembers it clearly, and he really believes.Of course, in the midst of this storm, he could not have told the travelers on the boat all the above words, and even if he wanted to, they would not stand in the rain and listen.Therefore, he can only simply say something like "that temple is haunted and can eat people", how can that person believe it?
Seeing that he couldn't convince the other party, Wang Sanliu didn't care, anyway, he would not get close to Lanruo Temple, even if he died in the rain, he wouldn't go.Seeing that the boatman was so stubborn, everyone had no choice but to leave him and go on their own.In addition to Wang Sanliu, who supported the boat, there were seven people in this boat.Sun Yihuan, Huang Donglai and Lei Buji are already familiar to everyone, and the other four are: a scholar, a Jianghu Langzhong, a foot businessman, and an unidentified tall man.