Chapter 335 Three sentences to make Li Yingqiong and his daughter my people

In Cao Jie's opinion, the cause and effect in the Shushan world is so strict that it is like the net of heaven, which is vast and wide, and nothing can escape it. It is true that there are gods everywhere.

The background is so powerful and the water is so deep that even if Cao Jie has the talent of "Demon Star" to disrupt the will of heaven and turn the world upside down, he dare not do anything too suicidal for the time being.

The purpose of his coming here was to test Emei's reaction.

When predators arrive in a new environment, they always test the waters before choosing which animals to eat.

When a tiger arrives in Guizhou, it will retreat three times when facing a donkey.

Cao Jie sat down with confidence: "Uncle, you are too polite. I am Cao Jie, from Shandong. Just now, I heard your sad words and your worries about your country, which made me feel sad. It is unbearable to look back at my homeland!"

"I see that the young man has not shaved his head either, so it is obvious that we are of the same mind. Come, let us drink a cup of muddy wine together. Alas!"

Li Ning frowned slightly, with a worried look on his face, and poured a bowl of turbid wine for Cao Jie.

"My name is Li Ning, and this is my daughter Li Yingqiong... The world can no longer tolerate the two of us, so we have come to this land of Shu, and we will find a mountain to live in seclusion, and we will never leave the mountain for the rest of our lives..."

"The mountains and rivers are sinking, and the barbarians are invading China. Although the world is turned upside down, in my opinion, it is only temporary. We still need to work hard. If we give up, who in this world can save us?"

“I’m old!”

Li Ning immediately took a liking to Cao Jie and sighed, "Back then, my three brothers were just like you, with lofty aspirations and unquenchable ambitions, but... but... oh!"

"The road ahead is difficult, but I will go forward despite the thousands of enemies! I don't want the descendants of the Chinese people to wear barbaric clothes and shave their heads in the opposite direction..."

The descendants of Yan and Huang have attached great importance to clothing and costumes since ancient times.

The "Book of Filial Piety" says: "The body and hair are given by parents. Do not dare to damage them. This is the beginning of filial piety."

Han people are not allowed to shave their hair after reaching adulthood, and both men and women must tie their hair into a bun on top of their heads. Although this practice may seem foolish and filial, it is a tradition of Chinese culture that has been passed down for thousands of years and cannot be changed overnight.

Moreover, Yaoqing's hairstyle is really beyond the aesthetic standards of the Chinese people!

No nation can accept it except Yaoqing itself.

Adult men of Yaoqing shaved off all the hair on the front of their heads, leaving only the hair on the back of their heads, which was braided into a small tuft and hung behind their heads, mainly for riding and shooting in the mountains and forests. In addition, Yaoqing believed that the braid was the abode of the true soul and the basis of life. The Eight Banners soldiers who died on the battlefield would bring their braids back to their hometowns and be buried solemnly, which was called "taking a small braid" or "money rat tail".

In the eyes of the Qing rulers, the previous ethnic minority regimes were strong because they resisted Hanization and maintained their own customs. However, their successors often envied Han culture and carried out Hanization reforms or promoted Han customs from top to bottom, which led to their demise.

In order to protect the ruling position of the Yao Qing, it was necessary to prohibit the sinicization of the own ethnic group and at the same time use coercive means to require the Han ethnic group to change their customs and habits and quickly become Yao Qing.

Shaving the head and changing clothes is one of the means, and it is extremely effective, almost a magic weapon to rule the nine provinces.

After the Qing people in Liaodong and Liaoxi moved into the interior, there were only more than 500,000 people. Soon after the war and the issuance of the "Enclosure Order", they dispersed to various places in the Central Plains and the south. However, the Han population in various places was more than 50 million. This created a serious problem for the Qing regime, which implemented tyrannical policies such as the "surrender law" and the "fugitive law".

"Shaving the hair and changing clothes" was an extremely cruel but extremely effective method to force the people of all ethnic groups in the interior to become demonized and Qing. Shaving the hair into a demonized and Qing style made it difficult for people to distinguish them, so that other ethnic groups did not know how many Manchus there were in the area through "enclosure" and "recruitment".

At the same time, the Qing rulers used the policy of "keep your head but not your hair, keep your hair but not your head" to establish their authority by massacring the city. This made it impossible for people with lofty ideals to organize and carry out effective resistance, thereby consolidating their rule over the people of Kyushu.

In order to implement the "hair-cutting order", the Qing Dynasty killed people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Jiading Massacre was the direct consequence.

Ten Days in Yangzhou, Three Massacres in Jiading, and a sea of ​​blood feud.

They talked about the broken mountains and rivers, the fallen country; they talked about the rise and fall of the country, the blood feud; they talked about overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and rebuilding the world.

Cao Jie didn't eat the food either, he just drank with Li Ning.

Li Ning was amazed that the young man in front of him had such ambition: "If I were ten years younger, I would definitely go with him and turn the world upside down."

After three rounds of drinking, the wine in the big gourd was almost gone.

Cao Jie stood up and pointed at the beautiful scenery of Shu. "The destruction of a country is not a big deal, but the destruction of the world is. We cultivators have our own ways of doing things and our own ways of not doing things. If the world is destroyed, what's the point of becoming an immortal? Emperor Xuanyuan is watching us! In ancient times, great cultivators vied to become the emperor's teacher and took the people's life as their responsibility. I don't know when cultivators began to keep to themselves and fear being contaminated by the secular world..."

"Brother Li, you went to Mount Shu to seek immortality and Taoism. What immortality were you seeking and what Taoism were you asking about?"

"This……"

Before Li Ning could speak, Li Yingqiong couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "Brother Cao, are you an immortal?"

"As for me! I am half a fairy!"

Li Yingqiong said excitedly: "I saw you, Brother Cao, have been reading that book all along the way. Could it be... that this is the legendary Taoist scripture that can allow people to cultivate the supernatural power of flying into the sky and hiding in the ground?"

Cao Jie took the book from his waist. Under the moonlight, the pages had been turned and curled up, making it look tattered and worn out, as if if it was turned occasionally, it would turn into some paper money and fly away with the wind to offer sacrifice to the poor ancestors.

This was something Cao Jie obtained from an evildoer when he came along the Yangtze River from Jiangnan. It was a filthy thing that imitated the Green Robe Patriarch in eating people. Naturally, it was eventually thrown into the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Although this scripture is just a common item, in Cao Jie's hands, it is enough to give us a glimpse into the cultivation system of the Shushan world.

"The Yin-Yang Divine Scripture?"

Li Yingqiong read as she looked at the cover.

"It is just the basics for a cultivator to get started, and records a few crude spells. I heard that there are many swordsmen in Emei in Shu, and I am interested in looking for them. I wonder if I can find a senior master and work together for justice..."

Li Ning took the Taoist scripture handed over by Cao Jie, stretched out his hands to receive it, and did not flip it easily, but said in a deep voice: "I have also cultivated internal strength, opened up the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians, and my swordsmanship is not only unparalleled in the world, but also ranked in the top ten in the martial arts world... But this immortal way, I have only heard of legends but never seen the real body. I wonder to what extent Brother Cao has cultivated? Forgive me for being presumptuous, can you let me see the real face?"

Cao Jie smiled slightly and said, "What's so presumptuous about this? It's just some small talk."

The world of Shushan involves a lot.

This is a world that has truly paved the way to transcendence and opened the door to transcendence. Not only are the laws and rules of the world the strictest that Cao Jie has ever seen, but even the system of cultivation is the most complete.

It can be said that if you follow the path of this world step by step, achieving immortality and ascension is not a fantasy.

The perfect practice system of the orthodox sect, the wide-open Buddhist sect's teachings and the salvation of all without distinction, the supplementary exploration of unorthodox practices and demonic monsters, plus the perfect system of cause and effect, destiny, good deeds and external merits, the practice of many lifetimes, and the accumulated path of reincarnation make this world exceptionally friendly to monks who intend to transcend.

As long as you behave uprightly and keep your mind pure, do not commit acts of greed, ignorance, stupidity, evil, indiscriminate killing, or bigotry, and do not have false or evil thoughts, even if you go astray for a while, there will be a day when you will achieve the right result and ascend to heaven.

Even if one pursues freedom and lives a carefree life in the mortal world and does not want to ascend to heaven and be controlled by the emperor, as long as one avoids the 49 heavenly tribulations in the mortal world, one can become a carefree immortal and play freely.

In this case, as long as the person has not committed unforgivable crimes, he will have the opportunity to reincarnate.

However, the magical skills that Cao Jie now possesses are not inferior to the world's top skills at all.

Not to mention the King of Moonlight and the Great Dragon, even the Wind and Fire Returning obtained from Song Jiang is also a great magical power to control the rules. But in the path of cultivation, it is necessary to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and perfect each other. This is the right way.

The Tao of the Shushan world is similar to that of pregnant gods.

Visualize and concentrate the mind, subdue distracting thoughts in the mind, and temper the primordial spirit and soul. One is following the path of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, and refining spirit into emptiness.

Cao Jie smiled faintly and said, "This simple Taoist method may seem mysterious, but it is actually not worth mentioning. Even if an ordinary practitioner performs it, he will not be able to stop a sword from you, brother."

"Haha, I've also made a name for myself in the martial arts world. I'm the Tongbi Shenyuan among the Three Heroes of Qi and Lu!"

"So you are an old senior. I am so sorry for your disrespect."

"Dad, please let Brother Cao perform his magic!" Li Yingqiong was itching to do it.

"Then I am ugly!"

When Cao Jie said this, he squatted down at the side of the boat, reached his hand into the river and pressed it on the surface of the river. At the moment when he reached his hand and pressed it on the surface of the river, a water claw appeared from the rushing river waves. The water claw disappeared in a flash, and appeared again after a while. On the water claw was actually a fat Three Gorges fish.

Li Yingqiong looked at the lively fish on the boat, marveled at it and yearned for it.

"This is water control, just a trick..."

Cao Jie only revealed a trace of his magical power. If his real body had come, he could have rolled up a huge wave.

The so-called method of controlling water, the key is to keep a spirit in your mind that is in harmony with the essence of heaven and earth, and to combine it with the true energy in your body and the vital energy of the outside world. The representative of this spirit of heaven and earth is the talisman.

The talisman is the spirit of heaven and earth, and the scroll is the seal of ghosts and gods. They can drive the vital energy of heaven and earth, communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth, restrain ghosts and gods, and use the true qi in the body to stimulate the spirit of imagination and transform it into a talisman seed in the dantian.

This is the beginning of magic power.

"It's amazing. Although my sword skills are sharp, they are just the way of fighting. How can they be compared with Brother Cao. Brother Cao, you have achieved enlightenment!" Li Ning was quite moved. He handed the Taoist scripture back to Cao Jie without looking at it. He said, "I have practiced swordsmanship for a lifetime. I know I can't learn the skills of the immortals, so I won't read it."

Cao Jie said nothing, rolled up the book and put it back into his waist.

But the look in this little girl Li Yingqiong's eyes is really eager!

At this moment, a man in white suddenly walked out of the woods in the distance. Under the moonlight, he was very clear and was getting closer and closer.

The man walked and sang along the way. His voice was clear and melodious, and could crack metal and stone. Gradually, he was not far from the boat.

When Li Ning saw that face, he immediately stopped.

It turns out that the visitor is Zhou Lang, the "Flying Crane in the Clouds" among the Three Heroes of Qi and Lu. Now he has changed his name to Zhou Chun.

As luck would have it, after not seeing each other for more than ten years, we meet here tonight.

What a feeling.

"After parting in the capital, who would want to meet again here! The people are still the same, but the mountains and rivers are completely different. How can it not be heartbreaking!"

"I heard that my elder brother had turned into a foreign object during the battle of Yangzhou. Who would have thought that we would meet in a foreign land? Since then, I have been stranded in a foreign land. Having a close friend can mean that I am no longer alone. This girl, I think, is your daughter, right?"

"That's right!" Li Ning clapped his hands, bowed to Cao Jie and apologized, saying: "I was so surprised to see you, brother, that I forgot to introduce you. This is Yunzhong Feihe Zhou Chun, my sworn brother. Come, Zhou Chun, let me introduce you. This is brother Cao Jie. He is traveling with me today. He not only has profound Taoist skills, but also intends to rebuild the mountains and rivers."

Seeing that his sworn brother admired a young man in his twenties so much, Zhou Chun did not dare to be careless, let alone boast. There were many sword immortals in Shu, and he had lived there for a long time and had heard many legends.

It is common for hundreds of years old gods to transform into children and play in the human world.

Although I have never seen the legendary sword immortal.

After some introductions, Li Ning called his daughter over and said, "Come here, Yingqiong, and greet your Uncle Zhou."

After hearing what her father said, Li Yingqiong came over and bowed down.

Zhou Chun returned a half-bow and said to Li Ning, "I see that my niece looks very heroic. She is the daughter of a general. Your unique skills must have a successor."

"My dear brother, you don't know. My family was ruined and my people died because I knew a little about martial arts. Moreover, when she was born, her mother died with me in the chaos of war. For ten years, we have been fleeing and have no place to stay. She always troubles me and asks me to teach her martial arts. I believe that mediocre people are more blessed, and this child has too much anger in her eyes. If she learns martial arts, she will definitely have troubles in the future. My martial arts are only average, and there are many extraordinary people in the world. If I don't learn well, I will get killed. I only have this one daughter, and I am really worried about her, so I didn't teach her anything. I hope to marry a scholar in the future to see me off to the west, and that will be enough for me."

Zhou Chun said: "Having said that, I think my niece's appearance will definitely not allow her to spend her whole life as a maid. We'll see in the future!"

After hearing what Zhou Chun said, Li Yingqiong couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and look happy; then she looked at her elderly father and couldn't help revealing a bit of resentment.

Finally, her eyes fell on the old books around Cao Jie's waist.

My father doesn't allow me to practice martial arts, so I asked Brother Cao to teach me Taoism.

However, Li Ning, Zhou Chun and Cao Jie started talking about anti-Qing again, and no one paid any attention to the little girl.

Cao Jie told the story of Chen Jinnan's uprising in Jiangnan, and invited two veteran veterans to go and provide guidance on the work.

Li Ning and Zhou Chun said they had let it go, but how could they really let go of the world in their hearts?

That was the land and mountains that the three brothers had fought for all their lives!

"Brother Cao, please let my two brothers think about it."

"Alright!"

At this moment, it is already midnight.

Seeing that they had finished, Li Yingqiong opened her eyes and came over quietly: "Brother Cao..."

"Sister Yingqiong, what's wrong with you?"

"Brother Cao, can you teach me Taoism?"

"That method is superficial, it's better not to learn it!"

Seeing Li Yingqiong's disappointed look, Cao Jie said, "If you want to learn, you should learn a proper method. Are you really willing to learn?"

"Yes, yes!" Li Yingqiong could hardly suppress her excitement.

(End of this chapter)