2022-05-07

Chapter 113 The Legend of the Peach Tree Spirit

It was said that Li Qing had already arrived outside the village at this time. There are peach trees everywhere outside Peach Blossom Village. The peach blossoms on the peach trees are blooming pink. Li Qing couldn’t see it for a while.

moved towards a peach forest, where the peach trees are of different heights, Li Qing walked into it and bowed his head from time to time, and from time to time his clothes were scratched by the branches. It was already in the afternoon, the peach blossoms were blooming too thickly, there were peaks dancing and butterflies inside, there was a lot of noise and it was not quiet.

After about a circle, Li Qing saw more than a dozen peach trees, all of which were ordinary peach trees. It really didn’t seem like there was any natural phenomenon.

The only thing that is different is that the peach forest here is extraordinarily large. The area he has entered is nearly a thousand mu. Li Qing probably calculated it, Peach Blossom Village. The surrounding peach blossom forest is estimated to be at least five thousand mu.

This is not a small number, especially for the Peach Blossom Village with 200 households, it seems a bit too much.

Li Qing thoughts move , so many peach trees were not planted by anyone, they couldn’t have appeared by themselves.

Without looking at it, Li Qing left Peach Blossom Forest and returned to Peach Blossom Village. He went straight to the restaurant where he just bought wine. He wanted to ask again about Peach Blossom Forest. .

Li Qing came to the restaurant. The restaurant was cleaning up the booth with his wife. Li Qing bought all the wine, and their booth was useless, so they put it away.

Seeing Li Qing’s return, the restaurant and his wife looked at each other, thinking that Li Qing was here to ask for more gold, and their expressions suddenly became unnatural.

“Guest, why are you back?”

Before Li Qing could ask a question, the restaurant stepped forward and said, the words were not smooth.

How could Li Qing know these things in the restaurant’s mind? His thinking is not on the same channel as the restaurant who is thinking about gold now, Li Qing opened the mouth and said: “I want to ask more about peach blossoms. Lin’s matter, I don’t know if I can answer it.”

“Peach Blossom Forest?” The restaurant heard Li Qing’s words and looked back at his wife, both of them were a little surprised, but Li Qing didn’t want it Gold, which is great for them.

The restaurant looked at Li Qing laughed, and said flatteringly: “guest, feel free to ask, I know everything.”

“Okay,” Li Qing nodded, and then said, “It’s a trivial matter. The peach blossom forests outside your village are huge. I don’t know who planted them?”

“Who planted them?”

The restaurant bowed his head. Puzzled, it seems that this question never appeared in his mind. After thinking about it for a while, the restaurant said hesitantly: “Since I was born, there have been peach blossom forests, I’m afraid it was planted by my ancestors.”

“Ancestors? You mean that these peach trees are Your ancestors planted it, and then you made wine from it?” Li Qing said, and after talking about the restaurant’s nodded, he seemed to agree with Li Qing’s statement.

But Li Qing felt that if it was really planted by their ancestors, it would be too big. After planting these peach trees, wouldn’t they plant some food? I saw a field full of peach blossoms.

However, Li Qing felt that it was a waste of time to continue asking about this. He had already seen that this restaurant didn’t know much about Peach Blossom Forest, and it was useless to ask.

Saying goodbye to the restaurant, which was still uneasy in her heart, Li Qing went to other places in the village. Li Qing stopped at a gathering place for the elderly.

This is a shady place, under which sit or lie down six or seven old people from the village, all of them quite old, enjoying the blessings and gossiping here.

As soon as Li Qing came here, the old people all looked towards Li Qing. They were extremely curious about Li Qing’s unfamiliar face.

An old man said, “Youngster, I’m the boy from the village, why haven’t I seen you before?”

Li Qing smiled and said, “Old man, I’m not from this village. People come from outside the village to buy wine.”

“Oh~”

“Oh, from outside the village.”

Li Qing finished speaking one by one The old man nodded inhaled, there was a sense of so that’s how it is in his words, and because of his old age, all their movements became slow, which seemed a bit funny.

But Li Qing didn’t laugh, speaking of which, these old people are still his juniors.

Although they call these old people old people at this time, but in terms of Li Qing’s current age, they should call Li Qing old people.

Of course, this is the truth, but Li Qing would not say it. He was in good spirits when he saw a few old people, so he asked: “Several old people, I came to us for the first time. Peach Blossom Village, I saw the lush peach blossoms outside the village, and the scale is extremely large, I don’t know who planted it? Have you heard about it?”

“This”

Hearing Li Qing’s words, several old people took a breath. Li Qing’s question made them suddenly find a point to discuss in the endless repetition of day after day.

The reason why Li Qing asks this is just because he just bid farewell to the restaurant and saw the old people gathered here. I got something, so here it is.

“Listen to your tone, are you a scholar?” an old man suddenly asked Li Qing.

“Yes, that’s right.” Li Qing nodded, he used to be scholar.

After hearing Li Qing admit that he is a scholar, several old people took another look at Li Qing. Li Qing’s elegant appearance made several old people feel at ease, so the old people took a look at Li Qing. In front of outsiders, he started talking about the Peach Blossom Forest without any scruples.

An old man said first: “If you want me to say, since I can remember, this peach blossom forest has been there, not only since I can remember, but also since my grandfather can remember, this peach blossom forest has been there, To say who planted it, I guess at least five generations.”

“Five generations? That’s not enough!” An old man retorted, “My grandfather’s grandfather has a peach blossom forest for as long as I can remember, and even My grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather has seen the peach blossom forest, at least. At least eight generations.”

“Hey, who can tell, these peach blossoms are not a matter of a day or two, It takes hundreds of years to say, eight generations are not enough.” An old man said, while speaking, he also smoked a dry cigarette.

“So, what do the old people mean, these peach trees are old, but they were planted by the ancestors in the village?” Li Qing asked again at the right time.

“That’s not necessarily true.”

Suddenly an old man said, not only Li Qing, but other old people also looked towards this person.

This old man with all white hair seems to be the eldest here.

He took a sip of the old man’s cigarette, and then seemed to think of something, and said thoughtfully, “This peach blossom forest supports our entire peach blossom forest, and if you want me to say, it is the first peach blossom Lin, we have Peach Blossom Village later, this tree should not have been planted by our ancestors.”

“oh?” Hearing this, Li Qing could sense something.

The old man continued: “This piece of peach blossom forest, if I say it should be wild, if our ancestors could not plant it on such a large scale, our ancestors borrowed the light of the peach blossom forest. “

“So, Peach Blossom Forest is earlier than Peach Blossom Village?” Li Qing asked for confirmation. When he asked, other old people were also a little curious. I had been concerned about the source of the peach blossom forest that had always existed around me, but when Li Qing asked, everyone became curious.

First was nodded, but the old man who spoke then shook his head: “I’m not sure about this either. It’s been a few hundred years, and no one can tell.”

“Hey!” Li Qing heard this, sighed in her heart, in the end, there was still no clue. But this can’t blame them. For mortals, because of the limitations of lifespan, things that are often more than three generations are almost forgotten. This is not their fault.

After asking a few more questions, none of these old people could explain clearly. Li Qing could not see anything and was about to leave. Suddenly, an old man who had been obscure beside him spoke up.

He didn’t say anything just now, and seemed to be thinking about something. At this time, he narrowed his eyes and recalled: “I remember when I was a child, my grandfather was still alive, and he once told me the origin of the Peach Blossom Forest.”

“Huh?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qing didn’t say anything. He had to listen to him as he continued, while the other old people on the side made a puzzled voice first.

It is said that this old man is the youngest among them, and they don’t know anything, so how does this old man know.

At this time, I saw other old people who were suspicious of him. This old man came to the spirit and slowly told the vague things in his memories, while Li Qing listened carefully without saying a word. .

“My grandfather was eighty-seven at that time, and I should be ten-year-old one. I remember clearly that day when the peaches were ripe, and the whole village was full of peach fragrance. I was picking and eating peaches in the peach blossom forest, and I asked him at that time who planted these peach trees. I remember clearly, but he perfectly clearly told me that these peach trees were all grown by themselves.”

“Hey~~ It’s not something that grows out or falls from the sky, you’re probably confused.” An old man expressed contempt for the old man’s words, and the other old men laughed after speaking.

“Don’t laugh, listen to me, it’s not the kind that grows out, it grows out overnight.” The old man said again.

Seeing that Li Qing had been listening attentively, he continued: “Of course I know that peach trees are buried in peach seeds and grow underground, but these peach trees are not ordinary. According to my grandfather, he I also heard from an ancestor that one day these peach trees suddenly grew up, and they grew together, just like the rain falling from the sky, and the peach trees grew out of the ground.”

“Hey, you were dreaming at the time. There are thousands of acres of peach trees outside the village. You think it is your vegetable garden, and it will grow by yourself. This is absolutely impossible.” An old man expressed doubts.

Before they could laugh, the old man said again: “Don’t worry, it’s not over yet. Listen to me first, I also asked my grandfather this, you guessed it, my grandfather How did he tell me, he told me that these peach trees were actually grown by a goblin.”

“Yeah!” Hearing this, an old man seemed to be frightened, and he moved from the sitting The chair fell a somersault, and the other old men who were cited immediately laughed.

“Don’t laugh at me, you go on and on, I’m not sitting still.” The old man who fell over quickly explained.

The old man who was talking about didn’t care, and continued to follow his memory and said: “I was very curious at the time. I asked my grandfather what a fairy is and why a peach tree grows. My grandfather told me I, this goblin, is nothing else, but a peach tree spirit. He liked the good feng shui here, so he decided to settle here. He was too lonely by himself, so he attracted a large number of peach trees to accompany him in one breath. , thousands of acres of peach trees grew overnight.”

“Oh, it turned out to be a peach tree spirit.” An old man said after listening, but his tone was obviously teasing, Do not believe in the stories handed down by the ancestors of the old man’s grandfather.

Other old people didn’t believe it after listening to it, and one of the old people said: “Don’t talk for nothing, you deliberately make up stories to listen to, and you’re still a peach Tree Demon, why don’t you say it? It was planted by a fairy who likes peach blossoms. You, I like to make up stories since I was a child, and I don’t know you yet.”

“Eh, I really didn’t make it up, my grandfather really said that. , it was transformed from the peach tree essence. Scholar, do you believe what I said? Huh? Where’s the scholar?”

The old man looked towards the surroundings suspiciously, and asked why the scholar in the peach blossom forest just now disappeared. , he listened carefully.

But Li Qing, he left after hearing what the old man said about what his grandfather told him. He didn’t listen to what other people were teasing later, contrary to other old people who didn’t believe it. , Li Qing is somewhat convinced of this story.

The elderly may not believe in the existence of fairies, but Li Qing does. It is not uncommon to see such a thing recorded in many culture books.

These old people may have been dealing with the village all their lives. I don’t know how big the world is. In fact, there are more things in this world than this strange.

And most of these fairies are made of treasure.

And to say that the peach blossom forest in Peach Blossom Village was planted by a peach tree spirit in the mouth of the old man just now, Li Qing thinks that it has a probability, and it is not even lower than other possibilities, after all The other old people just said a lot, but they didn’t say a word about Ziwuyinmao, but this story, which can be called a legend, has a little credibility.

Li Qing came to the outside of the village at this time. He didn’t go to the peach blossom forest again, but flew directly into the sky and released Little Zhu.

5,000 mu is very big, but it’s not big in the sky. Li Qing and Little Zhu are each responsible for a search, and the search is naturally the trace of the peach tree spirit, he wants to go up from the sky Look for.

as the saying goes mountains multiply and streams double back There is no way, every cloud has a silver lining, Li Qing felt a faint commotion in his heart at this moment, he couldn’t find it in the Lijiang River or the mountain range He, who is treasure, may really have something to gain in this Peach Blossom Village that he came to by chance.

But.

Li Qing’s feeling is just a feeling. Except for the heights of the peach trees on the ground, the rest of the trees are almost like a mold. It seems that the same is true, and even more can not find any difference.

Li Qing tried to search for traces of spiritual power, but none of the peach trees had fluctuations in spiritual power.

It can be said that it is almost impossible to find any peach blossom essence in it.

After searching, Li Qing and Little Zhu landed in the peach blossom forest. Looking at the peach trees one after another, Little Zhu was also a little melancholy.

He followed Li Qing out to search for the treasure for so long. He knew that Li Qing was very thirsty for the treasure. After thinking about it, looking at the surrounding peach trees, he suddenly gave Li Qing an idea: “Master, you said there might be a peach tree spirit, and since we can’t find it, why not force him out.”

“Forcing it out?”

Li Qing looked towards Little Zhu .

Little Zhu explained: “Master, since these trees are grown from peach blossoms, we might as well cut down all these peach trees, he will definitely feel distressed if they cut too much, and they will come out, and if they are cut down, After that, he has nowhere to hide, so we found him.”

“This”

Li Qing looked at the surrounding peach trees and shook his head.

“Master, why not?” Seeing Li Qing shaking his head, Little Zhu asked strangely, isn’t this a good method? If it’s too troublesome, he can breathe fire and burn it in one breath, the peach tree spirit will not be burned to death.

Touching Little Zhu’s head at this time, Li Qing said to Little Zhu: “Little Zhu, your method is a bit too extreme. Sure, this is just what I heard from the old people in the village. It is not right to cut down all the peach trees for an uncertain matter.

Secondly, if the peaches here are really cut down Shu, let’s not talk about whether we can find the peach tree spirit, that is, how will the people of this peach blossom village live in the future. They have lived here for generations and make a living by making peach blossom wine. If we cut down all these trees, how will they survive in the future? Aren’t we forcing them to do evil? “

“This”

Little Zhu stopped talking, Li Qing’s way of thinking was beyond his reach, but Little Zhu said reluctantly: “In case there is really What about peach tree essence? Did you miss it? “

Li Qing first looked towards the horizon, and then shook his head: “I believe that I won’t miss it, it’s ours that’s ours, it’s useless if it’s not ours, let’s go first.” ”

After finishing speaking, he took Little Zhu Li Qing and left the Peach Blossom Forest. What neither he nor Little Zhu saw was that after they left, there was a peach tree standing beside them. , a peach blossom slowly fell on Li Qing’s footprints.

Leaving the peach blossom forest, Li Qing returned to the peach blossom village and found a place to stay.

Li Qing Although he doesn’t cut down peach trees, he won’t just leave. He has to stay for more time to be observed.

Fortune will favor someone inadvertently, but those who are favored by chance always You can’t walk away before the chance is down. It’s like winning the lottery, but you have to buy it.

As for Li Qing’s lodging house, it’s not that restaurant, but someone else A family, gave some silver taels to live in.

At this time, after several things such as buying wine and visiting the peach blossom forest, the sun was gradually falling, and the peach blossom village was surrounded by the dusk. , and was about to fall, and fell into the camp of the night without hesitation. Many people in the village had already started dinner, and the air was filled with the fragrance of peach blossom wine.

Li Qing was sitting in the house where he was staying. Inside, because he gave out a lot of silver, the host killed a chicken for dinner, and took out a jar of peach blossom wine for Li Qing to drink.

Li Qing slapped his hand big before eating with the host. Little Zhu put it out, Little Zhu stood on the table in front of Li Qing, and Li Qing asked for a bowl for him.

“Birds also drink? The host looked at Little Zhu in surprise and asked.

Li Qing nodded, and then poured a bowl of wine for Little Zhu. Before Li Qing and the host had finished drinking, Little Zhu had already killed him. The wine in the front bowl was almost finished, and the host was amazed when he saw it, so he looked at Little Zhu carefully.

In order not to scare the host, Li Qing took Little Zhu again. He got up, but Little Zhu didn’t have enough to drink, and rolled in Li Qing’s arms. Li Qing comforted Little Zhu and ate with the host’s family.

At night, Li Qing brought out some food to Little Zhu. A jar of wine can be regarded as compensation for Little Zhu’s not drinking enough wine at dinner.

A jar of peach blossom wine, Little Zhu drank it all in one go, and then went to sleep contentedly.

Little Zhu fell asleep, but Li Qing couldn’t sleep in the host’s wing. Everything I heard and saw today was inseparable from the peach tree. Li Qing thought to himself, is his fate really here? But why? Is it a peach tree?

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Qing didn’t come up with a result, and then he fell asleep.

On the second day, Li Qing had breakfast and was preparing When he went to the Peach Blossom Forest to take a look, he suddenly heard a cow bark from outside the house where he was staying. This sound was very familiar to him, as if he had heard it recently.

“Little Luzi” ,How did you come? The host outside the door started talking to someone.

A crisp voice came into Li Qing’s ears from outside the door: “Uncle, my mother told me to come here today to herd cattle, by the way. eat here. “

“Hahaha, uncle’s house is all you can eat.” “

The host is very happy, Li Qing is also happy, he can hear who the voice outside the door is, it is obviously the shepherd boy who showed him the way yesterday. Didn’t expect it really has a fate, he last night The house where he was staying was actually the uncle’s uncle’s house. He just heard his uncle call him Xiao Luzi. Could it be that the shepherd boy’s surname is Lu?

Li Qing walked out the door at this time, a Lao Niu stood at the door with a child on his back. It was the shepherd boy who was not fake, but the shepherd boy on the cow’s back was more excited to see Li Qing than Li Qing saw him.

“Yi!! How is it you, you are the master of that bird! Why are you here? ”

Li Qing heard this with a smile, the uncle on the side was a little puzzled, why did his nephew still know this person.

Li Qing at this time, in order to dispel doubts, put yesterday’s I told the host about the matter, and after hearing Li Qing’s words, the host couldn’t help but praise it. It’s really fate.

“Where’s your bird? The shepherd boy asked Li Qing.

Li Qing smiled and took out Little Zhu. The shepherd boy was very happy to see Little Zhu, and then asked, “Did you buy him a drink yesterday? “

Li Qing didn’t need to answer this question, his uncle had already told him.

The shepherd boy opened his mouth when he heard that Little Zhu had drank a whole bowl of wine. It was bigger than a bull’s eye, and even more shocked than the owner yesterday, staring at Little Zhu was amazed, but Li Qing didn’t give him Little Zhu, so he could only stare at it.

At this time , the shepherd boy suddenly thought that he was going to herd the cows, so he waved his hand to his uncle and Li Qing, patted the old cow’s forehead, and the old cow walked on his own.

Watching the old cow on the back The shepherd boy left, and both Li Qing and his uncle showed a relieved look.

(End of this chapter)

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