Chapter 858 Penglai Immortal Island
Just as I was about to turn around to rent a fishing boat, I was stopped by Xu Tianxuan. She said, "No need to bother, just wait patiently here."
Waiting patiently for what?
Xu Tianxuan seemed to see through my inner thoughts and said: "Xiao Su, do you know about Xu Fu's eastward journey?"
I nodded. Of course I understand this matter, and it will be recorded in the history books.
219 BC, the twenty-eighth year of Qin Shi Huang.
On his second tour, Qin Shihuang climbed to the top of Mount Tai, engraving stones on Mount Tai, and then headed to the Bohai Sea.
Arriving at the seaside, Qin Shihuang boarded Zhifu Island and took in the full view. Between the sea of clouds and the sea of clouds, people in the mountains and rivers disappeared and appeared, which was so spectacular that it especially fascinated Qin Shihuang.
Of course, this situation is a mirage when explained by modern science.
However, there is also a problem here, that is, if it is a mirage, what exactly is the scene reflected on the sea?
In order to cater to Qin Shihuang's desire for immortality, a group of alchemists claimed that it was the Penglai Fairy Island.
According to legend, there are three fairy mountains in the world: Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou.
After Xu Fu returned to the palace, he wrote a letter stating that he could go to sea to find the fairy island.
Qin Shihuang readily agreed and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to search for it. According to Xu Fu's request, he sent thousands of boys and girls to go to sea with him to obtain the elixir. He himself lingered here, waiting for good news about Xu Fu.
However, what was waiting was that Xu Fu returned empty-handed. Xu Fu claimed to have met Poseidon, but Poseidon refused to give him the elixir because the gift was too thin. In this regard,
Qin Shihuang was convinced and sent 3,000 more boys and girls as well as craftsmen, technicians, and grain seeds to make Xu Fu go to sea again. Qin Shihuang refused to leave. He waited for three months and returned with no news from Xu Fu.
No one knows whether Xu Fu found the legendary Penglai Island.
Xu Tianxuan looked at the sea under the night and said calmly: "According to legend, Xu Fu encountered danger when he went to sea. Everyone on the ship died at sea, but Xu Fu and the three thousand boys and girls still had their grievances. It turned into a ghost ship and sailed on the sea day and night.”
I was slightly stunned and asked: "Master, what do you mean... we want to take that ghost ship?"
Xu Tianxuan nodded slightly and replied: "That ghost ship does exist, and it is not just a rumor. Every year on October 25th, after early morning, the ghost ship will stay on the shore for one minute. At that time, we will take the ghost ship If you find the Immortal Monument, you can find the path to Penglai Immortal Island."
I nodded, it seemed that my master had arranged everything.
Tonight is October 25th, and of course it is also the Cold Food Festival.
Cold Food Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Qingming Festival are combined into three major ghost festivals.
But compared to the other two festivals, the Cold Food Festival seems a bit inconspicuous.
Xu Tianxuan and I were sitting on the beach. The seaside was quiet at night, with the vast endless ocean and a bright moon rising slowly on the far horizon. The sky and the earth were filled with the clear light of the moon.
I looked at Xu Tianxuan sitting next to me.
Under the illumination of the moonlight, her face looked particularly gentle between her eyebrows.
"Master, what kind of existence are those people you speak of?"
Xu Tianxuan slowly turned his head, looked at me, then lowered his eyebrows and said: "They... are existences that you must not provoke, not even me..."
She finished her words with eyebrows, but I also knew what she wanted to express.