Name: Ancient Bell on Dagushan
Author: Zheng Xiyan

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On the coast of the Yellow Sea in the Liaodong Peninsula, there is an isolated mountain standing near the sea. There is a temple on the mountain, and there is a bell in the temple - a thousand-year-old bell cast in the Tang Dynasty. The fate of this bell has been connected with tears from the moment of its birth: During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the bell-caster Chen Tong was recruited to Liaodong to cast the bell, but failed three times. When the deadline was approaching, his wife Ah Yue threw herself into the sea and died in love. Chen Tong cast the fourth bell with tears in his eyes. On the day it was completed, a tear-like pattern appeared on the bell's body. In the thousands of years since then, this bell has witnessed countless joys and sorrows: during the Song Dynasty, there was a severe drought, and the bell-keeper monk knelt down for three days, and a group of whales suddenly appeared on the sea; during the Yuan Dynasty, when aliens ruled, the bell-keeper monk resisted silently for thirty years; during the war in the late Ming Dynasty, the bell protected the young man from escaping the pursuers, and the father and son have known each other across the sea; in the 20th year of the Sino-Japanese War of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the Zhiyuan ship sank, and the shell hit the ancient bell, leaving a second tear mark on the bell... From the Tang Dynasty to modern times, seven generations have guarded this bell and those who are waiting to return home. To this day, a young man who has returned from overseas stands in front of this bell, and the bell rings by itself—— That sound means: You are back.

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In the spring of the sixth year of Wanli, the original horse market was opened in Liaodong. In the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wang of Qianhu investigated the iron smuggling case and met Sister Wen, the female leader of the Yehe tribe. She is shrewd and ruthless, and is the "Queen outside the border" who controls the undercurrent of the horse market; he is stubborn and true, and is a border army spy determined to find out the truth. This was originally a confrontation between an official and a thief, but due to life and death, they gradually developed feelings for each other. At that time, Wan Khan, the old chief of the Hada tribe, died of illness, and various princes competed for the throne; Yang Jiniu, the brother of the Yehe tribe, broke up with Qingjia Niu and met each other at war; Jianzhou tribe felt that Chang'an was scheming, and his grandson Nurhaci grew up quietly. Under the bustling horse market, there is an undercurrent. The deeper Shen Wang investigates, the more he discovers that the enemy who killed his father is actually his immediate boss; Sister Wen is caught between the two younger brothers, but fails to make peace and is abandoned instead. On the bank of Yehe River, the two said goodbye in the rain; outside Zhenbeiguan, she looked back for the last time. Qing Jiali died in battle, and Sister Wen was forced by her own son and died in depression. Shen Wang stayed in Kaiyuan City, guarding Meng Gu, the orphan girl entrusted by Sister Wen, and guarded the red lantern on Mianhua Street for his entire life. She left him two jade pendants, one engraved with "Wen" and the other with "Wang". She said, put together, it is her. Many years later, Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty. On the day when Kaiyuan City was destroyed, the white-haired Shen Wang stood on the ruins and took out the two jade pendants from his arms - forty years later, they were still close to his heart. Wen Wang. Warm watch. She has guarded him all her life, and now it is his turn to guard her. Guarding the Meng Gu she left behind, guarding the Cotton Street where they met, and guarding the red lantern she remembered. Keep it for a lifetime.
5mo ago
Finally someone has written Kaiyuan's story. But the big bell in the old city had been sold long ago.
3mo ago