Weicheng snow

"When Master Liu first came to Weicheng, his legs and feet were much better than now..." Jiang Zhige recalled, "At least he was able to stand up. I remember when I cast the Zhenhe Yanjia, I was also in Weicheng, so I was very impressed by the flood at that time..."

At the end of the spring of the first year Master Liu lived in Weicheng, Taoze suffered from floods, and a wave smashed the structure of the house that Master Liu had worked so hard to build for several months.Master Liu was furious, and stood in front of the temporary residence on the high ground and scolded Tao Ze for three days and three nights, but it was still useless.

Some residents were afraid that the old man would be so angry and hurt their bodies, so they tried to persuade them, "This river is like this every year, and we are used to it every time we come and go. Fortunately, the valuables at home have already been pre-packed, and there is no big loss. Who told this to be the ancestors? As for the chosen place, no matter how good it is elsewhere, it won’t reach Weicheng to live comfortably. Bear with it, bear with it..."

After listening to Master Liu, the young man who was about to say this also scolded his head and face. The young man was scolded inexplicably and almost hit him. Fortunately, the surrounding residents stopped him in time to avoid seeing blood.

But since then, Master Liu has stayed in the tent all day, and occasionally residents who deliver meals come into the house to greet him, and he just sits at the table and seriously draws something.

Finally, a curious resident couldn't help but stepped forward to ask, Master Liu patted a stack of ghostly drawn symbols in front of the person, and the person flipped through it as if reading a book from heaven, but couldn't help but want to hear Master Liu's explanation .

Master Liu told others about Zhenhe Yanjia's thoughts, who would have thought that this person laughed at Master Liu after hearing it, "Impossible, impossible, like you say, such a big Yanjia, Such a sophisticated mechanism, even the elders of Yanzong can't make it together, unless their ancestors are reincarnated, if anyone can make it, I will give him three kowtows and call him grandpa!"

"I don't think Master made it, that person really kowtowed?" Yi Qingchen knew Master Liu's temper, and knew that he would not let that person go so easily.

Jiang Zhige nodded with a wry smile, "I really knocked, and I knocked in front of hundreds of people on the day Yanjia entered the water, but I didn't say grandpa...I was very young at that time. I just remember that it was late at night, and all the other tents were turned off. Only Master Liu's room was lit all night. Later, I also sneaked into Master Liu's tent with Zhi Lin Zhifeng and the others. The one that impressed me the most was It’s the blueprints all over the floor, each one is densely drawn, although I don’t understand it, I also know that it takes a lot of time to draw such a picture..."

After saying this, both of them admired and felt helpless towards Master Liu, but they couldn't help but think that if the old man was willing to change his violent temper, they might not be reduced to such hardships now.

Jiang Zhige laughed, and talked about the identity of Zhenhe Yanjia with Yi Qingchen, "That Yanjia should be as high as a mountain, but at that time, supplies were scarce, and few people were willing to support Master Liu, so he kept saving Shifu again and again. It’s only a piece of wood, so it’s only as big as it is now, but it’s still very impressive. By the way, do you know his name?”

Yi Qingchen shook his head.

Jiang Zhige took a deep breath and said solemnly, "River God."

Taking such a domineering name is also in line with Master Liu's domineering temperament in the early years. Yi Qingchen sighed at the good name and turned to think about how to save the river god Yanjia now.

However, when the book is ready to be used, Yi Qingchen hasn't learned much from Master Liu in the past ten years, and now he can't think of a remedy even if he is exhausted.

The two chatted some more gossiping to facilitate their separation in front of the Qiaoshou Pavilion. Jiang Zhige walked the main road back to the county government office, and Yi Qingchen took a shortcut to return home. He climbed over the wall and went to the back kitchen as usual, but he noticed There were less ding-ding-dong-dong sounds in my ears, and it was surprisingly quiet.He searched around and walked around the door opening, and was surprised to find that the mountain of broken copper and iron in the courtyard had disappeared.

Yi Qingchen had never seen such a situation in the past ten years, and he was at a loss for a while. He forced himself to calm down and think carefully, but his footsteps did not stop. He only searched around the courtyard a few times to confirm that Master Liu's clothes and bedding were still in place. Now, it's just that the Yanjia in the warehouse and the materials hoarded in the yard are gone.

In this situation, Yi Qingchen could only think that someone came here first to tell Master about the River God, and immediately overturned the courtyard wall, rushing to the county government with the wind blowing under his feet.

Yi Qingchen has his concerns, at Master Liu's age, it is really not suitable to go into the water anymore, if the county magistrate is confused and forces Master to enter the water to restore the River God, he will risk his life to take Master away from Weicheng, Then I will replace the master by myself.

Isn't it Xiu Yanjia?Can't he learn?

Thinking in this way, when passing the Qiaoshou Pavilion, he didn't pay attention to the scenery around him, until Qiao Niang called him several times behind him at the top of his voice, Yi Qingchen stopped walking belatedly, but still refused to leave Go back, he is in a hurry.

Seeing that he refused to come, Qiao Niang walked over with her arms crossed, slowly sucked on the pipe under Yi Qingchen's flustered eyes, slowly exhaled the white mist, and smiled slowly, "Why is Mr. Yi walking so eagerly?" I don’t even care about Qiao Niang? Let Qiao Niang guess, follow Mr. Yi’s direction...it must be to go to the yamen to find Mr. Zenji.”

Qiaoshou Pavilion is located in the most prosperous area of ​​Weicheng, so the news naturally spread quickly. It is not surprising that Qiaoniang knows this, but Qiaoniang and Master Liu also have some friendship. Now that Qiaoniang dares to smile like this, it proves that Master Liu There should be no serious problems, Yi Qingchen's hanging heart also settled three points, "Dare to ask Miss Qiao, what do you know?"

Qiao Niang covered her mouth and smiled, "I don't know, but I just happened to see Zhi Lin and Zhi Feng respectfully knocking on the door with Mr. Chan Ji, so I went up and chatted with the three of them. You know it too, my lord. If the River God is damaged, it will destroy the entire town."

Even if Qiaoniang didn't mention it, Yi Qingchen is more aware of the harm of the river god's destruction than most people in the city, but he is so worried about Master Liu's physical condition that he doesn't care about the town at all. In his heart, he wants Master Liu Going into the water is to take his old man's life, and it's not worthwhile to exchange the life of the master for the lives of the whole town!

"The life of a person is the same as the life of a city. The reason is just the balance of the human heart..."

The cold and clear female voice came from the side, Yi Qingchen followed the reputation, and found that it was the mysterious girl she met on the bridge just now, she was still dressed in a cloak, and the black cloth was embroidered with lifelike white plums, Qiao Niang obviously also I don't know her well, but I am quite interested in what she said, "Miss has a deep understanding. I don't know if a person's life is important or a city's life is more important to you?"

The girl only replied lightly, "If you win my heart, no matter the person or the city, it's worth giving up everything."

When Qiaoniang received this reply, she laughed more happily than usual at any time. Blind Su came out, still holding a jar of fine wine in his arms, "Miss Boss, why are you smiling so scary? Picking up the money bag Already?" Seeing the mysterious girl, she was so frightened that most of her wine sobered up, "Xiao Lingzi? Why did you come out like this?"

The girl called Xiao Lingzi was not so happy when she saw Blind Su, she didn't feel the joy of reunion at all, she just bypassed Yi Qingchen and Qiao Niang, and passed Blind Su, "Just now in Taolin There are some troubles here, the mountains and rivers here are not peaceful."

Xiao Lingzi entered the room and took a seat, Su Xiazi was still leaning against the door frame, drunk, the latter met Qiaoniang's eyes and smiled awkwardly.Although Blind Su is called Blind, he is not actually blind. Blind is what people in Weicheng call a god stick.

When Su Xiazi was picked up by Qiao Niang from the side of the road, he was just doing fortune-telling and cheating food at the food stall. Later, the stall was renovated and the Qiaoshou Pavilion was built, and then he became a storyteller. The head has already been called familiar by the people of Weicheng, so no one bothered to ask his name.

Yi Qingchen couldn't stop looking into the house, feeling very worried, Blind Su was afraid that Yi Qingchen might misunderstand something, so he hurriedly came forward to explain, "This girl and the blind man are old friends, although she has a strange temper, she is not a bad person." At the end of the day, Blind Su let out a "huh" in surprise, walked up to Yi Qingchen in three or two steps, grabbed the latter's wrist, and spread out his palm to check, "My lord, have you been to Taoze before?"

Yi Qingchen looked at the tooth marks on the back of his hand, and felt that it was not surprising that Blind Su could guess it, so he nodded, "I went into the water once to check the situation of the River God." Blind Su let go of Yi Qingchen's palm , hiccupping, eyes blurred, "Fortune is great, good fortune is great!" Without going into details, he turned around and swayed back into the room.

Yi Qingchen looked at Qiaoniang inexplicably, Qiaoniang took two puffs of the pipe, and explained what Su Xiazi said earlier, "Mr. Yi, you have only been in Weicheng for ten years, and I am afraid you don't know about the Weicheng River Monster back then." matter?"

"It is said that it is a very huge strange fish, which often preys on passers-by by the water. The county magistrate invited many Taoist priests to do it, but they all failed. At that time, Taoze was not always full of peach blossoms like it is now, but It was turbid and foul-smelling."

"Until a passing Taoist Yunyou came here and felt sorry for the plight of the residents here, so he fought fiercely with the strange fish for seven days and seven nights in the peach blossom forest upstream of Taoze, and finally killed the fish monster with a peach wood sword."

"The fish demon sank to the bottom of the water with a wooden sword, and then a peach tree grew on the beach, and it bloomed a bewitching flower overnight. The petals fell off and melted in the water, turning the filth in the peach lake Go. Since then, there has been no strange fish attacking people, and the peach blossoms have never bloomed bloody..."

In Yi Qingchen's surprised eyes, he added, "This happened more than 20 years ago, and I only heard it from my grandma. Her old man kept saying that the bloody peach blossoms were seen with my own eyes. Although I haven't seen them until now." However, I also believe that the old man will not just make up a story to coax me."

"Later Master Liu came to Weicheng, and threw down the river god Yanjia at the bottom of the river, and protected Weicheng for ten years. However, in recent years, we have heard that cattle and sheep were thrown away after drinking water. I suspect that the strange fish is responsible. Yanjia Most of the early damage is also caused by that strange fish."

After hearing this, Yi Qingchen finally couldn't help asking Qiao Niang a question, "Qiao Niang, do you believe that there are demons, gods and ghosts in this world?"

Qiao Niang picked up a pinch of tobacco from the bag and put it into the pipe, and took another deep puff, "So what if you believe it or not? Qiao Niang, I have lived for such an age, and some things really cannot be done by human power alone. Arrived, but it may be Qiao Niang and I have short-sightedness, you just have to believe what you want to believe."

Now that Qiaoniang had said that, although Yi Qingchen was still tangled, she no longer deliberately thought about it, and instead followed Qiaoniang's words and said, "If that strange fish makes trouble again, master will go into the water to repair the river god Isn't it dangerous?"

Qiao Niang only held the cigarette stick in her hand and thought about it, "Master Liu and the county magistrate are not foolish people, you should understand the reason why you should not rush into the water, don't just think about getting into the water, in case there are other ways How about a change? You are not as good as your master in Yanjia, so instead of thinking about what you have, why not buy a box of hot porridge for your master in my shop."

It was only then that Yi Qingchen realized that he had been misled by Jiang Zhige's words and had fallen into a dead end. Master had his own discretion, and it was not up to me, a junior, to worry about it. Now that I really rushed to the county government, I'm afraid It will only add to the chaos, and the master will not be able to use some dangerous but practical techniques because of his presence.He just gave a wry smile, followed Qiao Niang's advice and walked into the Qiaoshou Pavilion, ordering some hot porridge.

Seeing that Yi Qingchen would be so obedient, Qiao Niang was a little inconceivable, "Young Master Yi, are you not going to the yamen?"

Yi Qingchen said with a light smile, "If anything happens, Big Brother Jiang will come to inform me. The Qiaoshou Pavilion is the only way to go. I can wait here by sitting here. Since I have gone, I will be shut down. Why bother to run away?" Last time? And according to Master's violent temper, even if he saw him, he would just scold me..."

The two looked at each other and smiled, Yi Qingchen chose a seat by the window, Qiaoniang leaned over and said something when passing by Xiao Lingzi and Su Xiazi's table, then went around to the back kitchen to make porridge.