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Chapter 176: A Man Leaning on a Broken Bridge and Traveling Westward

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    In the evening, Ji Xu and his party came to the "Pinghu Qiuyue" restaurant.

    As soon as I entered the door, I happened to meet the little girl who had just sang "White Snake" and the middle-aged woman having dinner.

    Su Xiaoya happily said to the little girl: "Come upstairs after dinner, please sing us another piece of "The White Lady"[1]!"

    The little girl quickly swallowed the rice ball in her mouth, and said "Okay~"

    [1] "Heaven Doesn't Know Love" by Chen Ziwei. Ci Zuo Hongyuan. Song formosa. Song

    Halfway through the banquet, the little girl and the couple walked into Ji Xu's private room.

    The little girl was very cute, so Ji Xu began to tease her: "Where are you from?"

    The little girl said: "I am from Qiantang."

    "Oh, local what's your name?"

    "My name is Wang Qiaoer."

    "Qiaoer, ingenuity not bad!" Ji Xu looked at the couple behind her again.

    Wang Qiaoer immediately introduced: "They are my parents."

    Eldest Young Master Zhou quickly interrupted and asked, "Is it your own?"

    Qiaoer smiled and nodded shyly.

    Qiaoer's father said: "My name is Wang Jingxian, and I used to be the drummer of the theater troupe." He pointed to the woman behind him and said, "She is Qiaoer's mother. She used to be in the same theater troupe as me.  Singing Zhengdan [referring to Tsing Yi in the Yuan Opera]. Now that we are old, we quit the opera troupe and make our home all over the world, traveling all over the world to let my little daughter sing and earn food and clothing."

    Ji Xu said: "Oh~ Then you guystonight are going tohey? Where is Miss Du?"

    Qiaoer asked: "Is that the pretty sister who said I sing well?"

    "Yeah, have you seen her?"

    "She seems to have gone to the Broken Bridge, which is the place where I sang before."

    "Oh~" Ji Xu turned his head and said to Xiaoya, "Ya'er, go and ask Miss Du to come up and listen to the song."

    Qiao'er said: "I'll go, my legs are fast." Then she raised her legs and ran downstairs.

    Looking at Qiaoer's disappearing figure in an instant, Ji Xu said with a smile: "This little girl is really cute"

    Wang Jingxian said to everyone: "Guest officials, how about letting Xiao Ke and my humble wife play a song first to cheer up the fun?"

    Ji Xu said: "Okay!"

    Wang Jingxian and Tian Shengxiu sat down in front of the table. The man played the drum and the woman played the pipa.

    Just listening to Wang Jingxian hit the drum twice, Tian Shengxiu's slender fingers slid out a beautiful prelude in an instant.

    After the prelude, the couple sang together¡ª¡ª

    [Chorus] "The clouds are light and the wind is light, and the river is bright."

    [Male voice] "Wandering me, this life is full of love."

    [Chorus] "A little melancholy, a little melancholy."

    [Female voice] "Leave me alone, self-pity for the shadow in the water. The sweet past, surfaced in the bottom of my heart; how many memories, hurt my heart!"

    [Male voice] "Whether I am concerned or not is all about you, it's my fault that I don't know love when I love you deeply."

    [Chorus] "A good dream is easy to wake up, and easy to wake up is a good dream."

    [Male voice] "I can't keep it, it turns into a cloud in a blink of an eye; I ask God, God should not me."

    [Female voice] "Isn't it true that God doesn't understand love?"

    [Chorus] "I asked God, and God didn't answer me: Is it true that God doesn't understand love, doesn't understand love!"

    Ji Xu couldn't help standing up, took out the emerald green bamboo flute that Liu Haohao had given him, and played it comfortably against the red lip marks left by his sweetheart.

    [Chorus] "The clouds are light and the wind is light, and the river is bright."

    [Male voice] "Wandering me, this life is full of love."

    [Chorus] "A little melancholy, a little melancholy."

    [Female voice] "Leave me alone, self-pity for the shadow in the water. The sweet past, surfaced in the bottom of my heart; how many memories, hurt my heart!"

    [Male voice] "Whether I am concerned or not is all about you, it's my fault that I don't know love when I love you deeply."

    [Chorus] "A good dream is easy to wake up, and easy to wake up is a good dream."

    [Male voice] "I can't keep it, it turns into a cloud in a blink of an eye; I ask God, God should not me."

    [Female voice] "Isn't it true that God doesn't understand love?"

    [Chorus] "I asked God, and God didn't answer me: Is it true that God doesn't understand love, doesn't understand love!"

    At this time, Wang Qiao'er had already returned upstairs, and said to Ji Xu: "Young official, that elder sister said that she won't go back upstairs, and watch the lights there for a while."

    "Oh, then let her watch itMiss Qiaoer, can you play that "Out of the Water Lotus"?" Ji Xu asked.

    "I can!"

    ?An old man surnamed Xu in Yanjiagou Village saved his life from a black eagle.  In order to repay the Xu family for saving their lives, the white snake married Xu Xian, a shepherd boy from the Xu family.  After marriage, she often used herbal medicine to treat the villagers' illnesses, which made the incense in the nearby "Jinshan Temple" cold, and also annoyed the elder "Monk Fahai" of the "Jinshan Temple" reincarnated by Black Eagle, determined to destroy Xu Xian's marriage.  "White Snake" died.  This leads to familiar plots such as "Stealing Immortal Grass" and "Water flooding Jinshan Temple".  The white lady gave birth to her son Xu Shilin prematurely because of the water flooding the Jinshan Mountain.  Fahai took the opportunity to cover the white lady who had just given birth with a "golden bowl" and suppressed her under the "Leifeng Pagoda" in Nanshan.  After this incident, Xu Xian was disheartened, so he became a monk and practiced under the "Leifeng Pagoda", serving as a guard for the pagoda.  Eighteen years later, Xu Shilin, the top student in high school, returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors and worship the pagoda. Only then did he rescue his mother and reunite his family.

    According to records: "Jinshan Jiayou Temple" was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty Jiayou (1056-1063), named after the place where the temple is located and the year it was founded.  The story of "White Snake Troubling Xu Xian" spread among the people in this area should have been formed in the late Northern Song Dynasty.  The spread of the story of "White Snake Troubling Xu Xian" to the south of the Yangtze River is related to the southward invasion of the Jin people and the southward migration of the Song dynasty.  After Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty took the Zen throne in his later years, he stayed in Deoksugung Palace in Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang).  "Happy to read the storybook", "Enjoy a book in the day of life. If you are careful, you will be rewarded with money."  Out of "nostalgia", the folklore "White Snake Troubled Xu Xian" in Xiangzhou, his "Longxing" land, is one of the stories he likes to listen to because of its fantastic colors and twists and turns.  This became the main reason why the story of "Legend of the White Snake" was widely spread in Hangzhou during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

    The fourth argument is that the legend of "The Legend of the White Snake" is believed to be related to Hinduism.  The creation of Hinduism began when two serpents churned the sea of ??milk.  Southeast Asia also has stories similar to "Legend of the White Snake".  Zhou Daguan's "Records of Fengtu of Zhenla" in the Yuan Dynasty recorded that the king of Zhenla had a "Heavenly Palace", and every night he climbed up to the golden pagoda of the Heavenly Palace and had sex with a snake spirit that turned into a female body.  In addition, Lamia in Greek mythology was transformed from a snake.  Later, he married the young Lysius.  On the day of the wedding, Apollonius came and saw that Lamia was a snake.

    In addition, in the Southern Song Dynasty court storyteller's storybook, there is a story of "Pisces Fan Pendant", which mentions that the white snake and herring have cultivated to become refined, fell in love with Xu Xuan (not Xu Xian), stole official silver, opened a medicine shop, etc.  Similar to the later "Legend of the White Snake".  And in other literary works, there are similar stories.  Therefore, some scholars believe that the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" may be a legend formed by combining Chinese stories and Indian myths.

    (2) Content of the story

    According to Feng Menglong's "Jing Shi Tong Yan" in the late Ming Dynasty, it is said that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, a snake demon who had practiced for a thousand years turned into a beautiful woman named Bai Suzhen, and her maid Qingqing (also known as Xiaoqing, Herring, and Green Snake) met a drugstore in West Lake, Hangzhou.  Xu Xuan (or named Xu Xian), the supervisor of the king, met by chance, shed the rain in the same boat, and fell in love at first sight.  After marriage, after going through a lot of right and wrong, the white lady repeatedly appeared strange, perhaps unbearable.  Fahai, an eminent monk of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, presented Xu with a bowl to cover his wife.  Behind the white and green quilts, the original shape is revealed, which is the white snake and the herring that have been enlightened for thousands of years.  Fahai then took his bowl and put it in front of Leisi Peak, and asked people to build a seven-level pagoda on it, named Leifeng, and white and green in the pagoda forever.

    The monks bought a niche and burned it to build a bone pagoda, which will be immortal for a thousand years. When they were dying, there were also eight lines of poems, which were left to warn the world. The poem said:

    The patriarch taught me to go out of the world of mortals, and the iron tree blooms to see spring; transforming and transforming samsara and transforming, transforming from life to life and rebirth.

    If you want to know whether there is color or not, you must know that there is no form but there is form; form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and emptiness must be distinct.

    Later generations added some plots based on this legend, making the story more popular and in line with the tastes of the public, and it has been passed down to this day. The content is roughly as follows:

    In Zhenjiang City during the Song Dynasty.  Bai Suzhen is a snake demon who has cultivated for thousands of years. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his previous life, he turned into a human to repay his favor. Later, he met Xiaoqing, the green snake spirit, and the two became friends.  Bai Suzhen used her magical powers and clever tricks to get acquainted with Xu Xian and marry him.  After marriage, the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that Bai Suzhen was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical.  Later, Xu Xian made Bai Suzhen drink realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival according to Fahai's method. Bai Suzhen had to show her original shape, but frightened Xu Xian to death.  Bai Suzhen went to heaven to steal the celestial grass Ganoderma lucidum and rescue Xu Xian.  Fahai deceived Xu Xian to Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing fought against Fahai and flooded Jinshan Temple, but they hurt other living beings.  Because Bai Suzhen violated the rules of heaven, after giving birth to a child, she was put into the bowl by Fahai and suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda.  Hou Bai Suzhen's son grew up to be the first prize, went to the pagoda to sacrifice his mother, rescued her mother, and reunited the whole family.  And the lovely Xiaoqing also found her husband.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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