Chen Mengsheng's screams made everyone in the room come over. A palm-sized black cloth bag lay quietly under the bluestone under the table. The black cloth bag was embroidered with a gold thread with the word "good luck".
Chen Mengsheng picked up the bag and felt it was quite heavy. It weighed two kilograms. He pulled off the string on the bag and poured it into his hand. A handful of golden beans rolled out from the bag. Chen Mengsheng held the golden beans and said:
"Brother, look at these golden beans, they are so strange. They must have been smelted by yourself, right?"
Xiang Xiaotian took the golden beans from Chen Mengsheng's hand and looked at them for a while and said: "Let me tell you, there are rich owners in this town. Have you seen it? If you bury gold in this land, you can make a fortune every day."
But I’ve only heard that there is gold to be mined in the Jinsha River upstream of the Yangtze River, but I’ve never seen any gold diggers come here to pan for gold.”
Shangguan Yanran tilted her head and tried her best to hide the dark spots on her face, and said to Xiang Xiaotian in confusion: "Brother Xiang, couldn't this golden bean be earned by the owner of the family from fishing?"
"Girl, ask your senior brother, he has been buying fish on the Qiantang River for several years. It would take several lifetimes to sell so much gold. Besides, this place is in a remote place, so if you want to sell fish, don't you?
Rowing to Qing'an Prefecture means going to a big place like Huizhou to find big buyers. It will take several days until you get the boat there, and after all the expenses on the road, you will only be left with most of it. I want to save two kilograms.
Heavy gold, unless the family belongs to the bastard family and can live for thousands of years." Xiang Xiaotian said teasingly.
Qi Ying pointed to the golden beans and said in surprise: "This is the first time in my life that I have seen so much gold. Even in Huizhou, I can be considered a wealthy family." Qi Ying has lived in poverty since she was a child.
The golden beans really opened her eyes.
Xiang Xiaotian hurriedly stuffed the golden beans into Qi Ying's hand and said with pity: "This good gold has been ruined by smelting. There are so many impurities in the black ink. Miss Xianglan, if you can refine and purify these golden beans,
It’s quite a sum of money.”
After what happened to Yao Rengui, Lihua didn't dare to talk to Chen Mengsheng and the others anymore. She watched Yao Rengui and the two little girls without saying a word. Seeing the hesitation of Lihua and the others, Chen Mengsheng said gently: "Miss Lihua, you
The deep affection with Brother Yao makes others envious. What Brother Yao did was also cursed by resentment and was not his original intention. Miss Lihua also asks you not to be grudged anymore. Only by working together can we break the curse.
The most important thing is that the owner of this room must have been killed. Brother Yao, you should keep these golden beans and live with them in the future." Yao Rengui refused in every possible way and did not dare to accept the black bag in Chen Mengsheng's hand. In the end, Xiang
Xiaotian divided the golden beans equally among the three girls, Zhuzhu Xiaotong and Qi Ying, as dowries for their future marriages.
Shangguan Yanran felt much better when Xiang Xiaotian made such a fuss. Although her face was covered with black spots like ink, she could still force out a smile and said: "Sister Xianglan, Brother Xiang still had a lot of money left when he was in Yangzhou Mansion."
There are a few gold leaves! You will have to take good care of them from now on, so as to save him from doing bad things when he has money."
"What does his golden leaf care about me? I'm not his wife..." Qi Ying blurted out, but immediately realized something was wrong and stopped her words abruptly. It was hard to see whether she was blushing or not despite the dark spots on her face.
Yes, my neck is completely red anyway.
Everyone in the room was amused by Shangguan Yanran teasing Qi Ying, and the gloomy atmosphere finally eased. But at this moment, an old woman staggered past the river and shouted loudly: "
Everyone must die, everyone must die. The Dragon King has sent heavenly soldiers, and the gods have cursed and punished Hulu Town. Anyone who commits evil must die, everyone must die..."
Chen Mengsheng rushed out when he heard the old woman's cry, and Xiang Xiaotian followed closely behind. The people in the room also looked at each other, and they didn't dare to go out to see anyone because of the ugly black spots on their faces. The five of them were eager to look at the window.
Staring at the yelling old woman...
"Old lady, what do you mean by shouting? What kind of sin are you doing?" Chen Mengsheng asked.
The old woman picked up the cane in her hand and struck Chen Mengsheng down. She shouted excitedly: "They all have to die, they all have to die. So many people in the town have died, but why didn't I beat you, Mr. Zang, to death?"
!" The old woman was furious and swung her walking stick around and hit Chen Mengsheng several times. Xiang Xiaotian was about to grab the old woman's walking stick from his body, but he saw that the old woman's eyelids were sunken, leaving only two dark wrinkles in the eye sockets.
.Xiang Xiaotian was unable to do anything to the blind old woman for a moment, and looked helplessly at the beaten Chen Mengsheng, not knowing what to do...
Chen Mengsheng was protected by a green bamboo armor. The blind old woman's blows could not hurt him at all. She asked loudly: "What's wrong with Mr. Zang? Why do you want him to die?"
The old woman was tired from beating, and the cane in her hand was broken. She gasped and screamed: "It's you...it's you who caused the gods to curse Hulu Town. This is the punishment of the Dragon King!...
..." The old woman's shout attracted two middle-aged men in their forties from a house not far from the river.
The two people walked directly to the old woman and kicked the old woman to the ground in front of Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian. They cursed in their mouths: "Why did you sneak out again, you crazy aunt?"
Ah, you are not afraid of being laughed at when you talk nonsense. If you dare to slander Lao San again, be careful that we tear your old bones apart!" The two of them set up the old woman and started to leave.
Chen Mengsheng shouted: "Stop, what are you doing? Bullying an old man is not a good thing, please let her go."
The two men were stunned when they saw that there were no dark spots on Chen Mengsheng's face. They dragged the old woman and shouted at Chen Mengsheng: "You foreigners, you don't need to take care of things here. Get out of Hulu Town quickly or you won't blame me for treating you."
You're welcome." The middle-aged man's shouts made many people from nearby towns lean on their doors and windows to watch, but no one dared to speak out.
Xiang Xiaotian said angrily: "What's wrong with us being outsiders? If the road is uneven, someone will plow it, and everything depends on a rationale. Looking at your moral character, I know you are not a good person. Anyone who dares to tell our brothers to go away, why not?"
She hasn't come out of her mother's womb yet." As Xiang Xiaotian spoke, he grabbed the two middle-aged men's wrists with a pair of iron pliers, and they were forced to let go of the old woman's hands. The two middle-aged men giggled.
His tooth hurt so much that he lay on the ground and couldn't get up. Xiang Xiaotian didn't expect these two guys to be so pusy, so he spat on the ground and threw them aside.
At this time, a young man ran out of the town. He ran out of breath and ran to the old woman. He supported the old woman and saluted the two middle-aged people repeatedly: "Mother, mother, why did you run out again? Uncle Da
"Uncle Gui, my mother is sick, please let her go." Chen Mengsheng took a quick look and saw that the person was actually the young man who played the drum in Hulu Town last night, and he seemed to have heard Zang Jiu call him Xiao Qingzi.
As soon as the two middle-aged men saw him, they said fiercely: "Xiao Qingzi, how do you take care of your mother? Why did you let her run out again? I'm warning you that I won't give you face if you're not Uncle Da.
Your mother is so crazy that she talks nonsense every day. Take your mother back and watch her carefully. If she dares to talk nonsense next time, our brothers will really lock her up.
Don’t blame us for not remembering the kindness of our fellow villagers.”
Xiao Qingzi seemed to be afraid of these two middle-aged men, so he helped the old woman up and walked back. The old woman kept shouting her two words: "Everyone must die, retribution is coming. Everyone must die, Lord Dragon"
It's been cursed... They all have to die, retribution has come. They all have to die, the Dragon King has cast a curse..." The screams turned into intermittent heart-wrenching sounds as Xiao Qingzi led her away.
The erratic sound of cracking lungs.
The two middle-aged men dusted off the dirt on their bodies and were about to leave. Chen Mengsheng shouted: "Wait a minute, do you want to leave without clarifying your words? Then why did the old man say that this town was cursed by the gods?
Don't even think about leaving until the matter is explained clearly." The two middle-aged men looked at each other, and Chen Mengsheng could see the black ringworm on their faces twitching rapidly.
"Have you all become deaf? Do you think what my brother said is fart? Tell me quickly! I don't have the heart of a Bodhisattva like my brother. If you don't tell me, I will let you have a taste of my fist." Xiang Xiaotian glared at them.
He yelled sternly, clenching a pair of iron fists like a wrathful Vajra, which made people feel frightened. The two middle-aged men looked at Xiang Xiaotian timidly, with fear in their eyes.
"Uncle...Uncle, how can you take what the crazy aunt said seriously? We are all law-abiding people in Hulu Town. You...you have also seen that people in Hulu Town are frightened now. You'd better leave quickly, Young Master
Mind your own business here."
"You old man talks so much nonsense and doesn't say anything useful. Wow, you're so mad at me! If I don't give you some color, do you really think I'm just a piece of paper made of dough to scare you?" Xiang Xiaotian's face was livid.
He punched a piece of bluestone on the ground hard, and the bluestone made a dull sound and then cracked into pieces.
"Uncle...Uncle, Uncle...Don't be angry, he won't say...I said. Everyone in Hulu Town is named Zang. It was because he killed the strange and harmful fish in the town a few months ago that he became fierce.
Disasters were everywhere, so Zang Laosan asked someone to do a feng shui check for the town. Unexpectedly, that... that feng shui master said four sentences, the spirit fish dies, the dragon king is angry. Zang's surname is destroyed, and the beginning is the end. Alas!"
Chen Mengsheng frowned and said: "Where is the Zang Laosan you mentioned? Take me to see him quickly!"
"Master, this... I can't do this. Mr. Zang is dead. The house behind you is where he lives. Where do you want me to take you to find him? His graveyard
It's right behind that house. If you don't believe me, just go and see for yourself." Chen Mengsheng looked in the direction pointed by the middle-aged man's finger, and the house he pointed was exactly where the group of people spent the night last night.
Chen Mengsheng asked: "How did Zang Laosan die? Please explain this to me clearly. Why did the old man just say that Zang Laosan caused the curse?"
"Uncle, my name is Zang Da, he is my brother's name Zang Gui, and the third Tibetan elder's real name is Zang Ji. In the early years, he had been following a church called the White Lotus Sect, and then he came back for unknown reasons. We brothers
Seeing that he was alone and quite pitiful, we took him fishing and doing business together, and sometimes sold fish from the town to Anqing Mansion. As time went by, we became friends with Zang Ji, and everyone in the town called him Zang.
The third child. Just half a year ago, when he couldn't catch any fish, that boy followed Uncle Zang Jiu's son upstream to set up a seine net. Unexpectedly, a strange fish came out of the water and knocked him into the water. So many people were trapped.
After the strange fish was killed, we thought he would be in trouble, but two days later he came back..."
"Ah, brother, please stop talking..." When Zangda said this, Zanggui beside him suddenly screamed as if he had seen a ghost, and his whole body started to tremble.