Under the Painted Stone Bridge, by the Yangjiang River.
Several fishermen were wearing bamboo hats and sitting on small wooden benches by the river. Their bamboo poles were hanging down into the river, and the fish floated up and down with the water waves.
The girl was dressed in three-color clothes and also wore a bamboo hat to block the sun. She also sat on the river bank with a small wooden stool, not much bigger than a square brick. She had a small fishing rod in her hand, and the fishing line was hanging into the river, and she was staring at it.
Looking at the river, his face was focused and his eyes could not turn away.
The Taoist was holding a book and sitting behind her.
"Miss Sanhua has become a fisherman."
"Shh..."
The little girl was like an old monk in meditation, looking directly at the water, as if she could see the fish swimming below through the deep green water, and said without looking back: "There is a fish that wants to eat my worms!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the fishing line sank.
The little girl stood up and pulled the lever without hesitation.
"Puff puff……"
A flash of silver jumped out of the water with the fishing line, struggling constantly.
Several fishermen around him couldn't help but cast glances at him.
The little girl had a meticulous expression. She raised the fishing rod with one hand and reached out to catch it with the other hand. She caught the fish with one slap and held it firmly in her hand.
He skillfully removed the fish and threw it into the bucket next to him.
"Pa bang bang..."
The mullet struggled in the bucket.
There are already more than a dozen fish of various sizes in the bucket.
Sanhua Empress glanced at the fishing hook and saw that the bait had not been lost much. Without stopping, she lowered her head and scanned the river, found a certain direction, and threw the rod again.
The whole action is done in one go.
"Have you caught the little Sanhua again?" came an old man's voice from the side, full of envy.
"Yes!"
The little girl replied seriously, without squinting.
Yes, she already has fishing friends.
It's just that these fishing friends are often envious and inferior to her in front of her.
"Xiao Sanhua, do you think your seat is better or something? Why are you here just a short time ago and you already got so many seats? We have been sitting here for a long time. I'm okay. It's open, but Luo Gongdu hasn't opened it yet."
"Yes! It's better!"
While the little girl answered their questions succinctly, she turned her head and glanced at her Taoist priest lightly. There was still no expression on her face, but she seemed to be saying——
Look how awesome I am!
Song You shook his head and said nothing more.
I wanted to say that she cheated to find fish, but when I thought that all my food and clothing depended on her fishing, I shut my mouth.
For her, fishing seems to have become a substitute for going to the sea. Although the harvest is not as rich and easy as going to the sea, selling fish in Yangdu is more profitable than selling seafood on the beach in Langzhou. She still has the pleasure of harvesting. As time goes by, fishing
The fun is no less than catching the sea.
Second only to catching mice at night——
Rats can run, so it's more fun.
"puff……"
After a while, the girl caught another big fish.
Many fishermen around her, whether young or old, on this bank or on the other bank, couldn't help but cast their eyes at her, their eyes full of envy.
"Pa bang..."
This fish was so energetic that it rushed out of the barrel and almost returned to the river.
It's a pity that cats are too agile.
Sanhua Empress casually grabbed it and caught it in mid-air. No matter how slippery it was, it could not escape from her palm. Then she smashed it on the ground and threw it back into the bucket.
"about there."
The little girl looked down and said like an adult.
Then, without waiting for the Taoist's reply, he stood up, raised his head, selected one of the countless silk ribbons hanging from his head, picked out a small crucian carp and a large mullet, and tied them with willow branches.
"These two are what we ate today. There is black fish that you like to eat. A small fish is enough for Empress Sanhua."
The fair girl carried the fish with a willow branch and handed it to the Taoist.
The Taoist reached out to take it, but blinked.
There was an inexplicable trance in front of my eyes.
It seems that I have returned to the beginning of autumn of the first year of Mingde. Yizhou climbed to an unknown village market town under the rock, begged two fish from a fisherman on the river, wrapped them in wicker sticks, and gave them back to her.
"Taoist, why don't you move?"
A gentle voice pulled him back.
Standing in front of him was still a girl wearing three-color clothes. She was holding two small fishes on a willow branch in one hand, and lifting a wooden bucket with the other hand. She handed the willow branch to the Taoist's hand and tilted her head to stare at him.
, with a puzzled look on his face.
"nothing……"
The Taoist hooked his fingers and picked up the willow branch and fish.
"I thought you were stupid."
"It's not that easy."
"You go back and cook! Sanhua Empress first goes to the street to sell these fish to the rice seller!" the little girl warned, and took out the key from her arms and gave it to him, really like a little adult.
"Do you want me to accompany Empress Sanhua?"
"You go back and cook!"
"I sincerely follow the instructions of the Sanhua Empress..."
The Taoist shook his head again, smiled, and walked forward, lowering his head from time to time to take a look at the two fish, one large and one small, hanging on the willow branches.
Now that I think about it, those two fish were really a good deal.
The girl carried the bucket and walked side by side with him, but she kept tilting her head and staring at him with a puzzled look on her face.
Walk to the foot of the bridge and climb up the steps.
The two persons, one large and one small, were separated.
The Taoist crosses the bridge and heads east to return home.
The girl went west to sell fish in a restaurant.
Walking to the top of the arch bridge, the Taoist discovered that the stone brick that was missing on the bridge some time ago had been replaced.
I don’t know how many years have passed since this bridge was exposed to wind and rain, but it has been repaired with a new brick. There are also words engraved on the brick, which records that at the end of the ninth year of Mingde, the God of Paradise was turned into a stone brick and hidden here. Taoist Wen Pingzi invited him to come
Zhou Lei Gong beat him to death and later repaired the bricks. The officials at the time clearly wrote down the time of repairing the bricks.
I don’t know how many years this brick will last.
I don’t know what future generations will think when they see it.
Thinking about it this way, among the five earth gods in Yangzhou, only the Anyi God in the south died a good death because he kept to himself, and the Hedonistic God is half of them.
The people chosen by the Imperial Preceptor were pretty good. Only the eminent monk in charge of the God of Anle was a complete failure and even lost his life. In addition, the God of Peace was killed cleanly. The God of Pleasure and the God of Anyi were both sent by the Imperial Preceptor.
Within the authority granted by the national master, people took the initiative to let them go based on their performance. As for the God of Bliss, before Song You came, it can only be said that it was still in progress, with no success, but no failure.
"You still have to do good..."
The Taoist sighed in his heart, lowered his head and stepped on the stone brick, then raised his head, stood on the bridge and looked down -
Before I knew it, it was already deep in spring. There were a lot more greenery on both sides of the plum trees and willows. People's clothes were a lot thinner and they were full of vitality. There were still a lot of boats on the river, but a few fishermen on the shore were already quarreling over the position.
.
"..."
Song You shook his head and walked back.
When I walked into the alley and was about to go home, I saw a few people suddenly surrounding the door. They were either looking around or walking around, seemingly very anxious.
As soon as they saw Song You, someone shouted:
"came back!"
"Go and ask!"
A group of people immediately came towards Song You.
Each of them has a small plaster on their face, which is applied from the corners of the eyes to the temples. It smells like herbs and has a slightly strange smell. Each of them has a sallow complexion and sunken eyes, as if they have overindulged in sex.
Although Song You was confused, he kept walking and walked over with two fish in hand, curiously asking.
"I'll tell you!"
A rather skinny man in green clothes stood up and saluted and said, "My name is Li Hexi. I have met you sir."
"Please speak up."
"I wonder if sir can do magic?" the man surnamed Li asked directly.
"Know something."
"Oh? Can you exorcise evil spirits?"
"Let's just talk about it directly."
The man surnamed Li turned around, looked at the people around him, and then spoke in detail:
"Li's family lives in the east of the city, not far from here. There are twelve people in the family. Some time ago, for some reason, my father and second uncle began to suffer from unbearable abdominal pain. No matter how they sought medical treatment, it was of no use.
"After we asked them about it, we found out that it started when we came back from having a drink outside the city and met a big bird at night. At that time, the doctor at the pharmacy said that this was not a disease, but an evil spirit.
"After that, we worshiped the God of Ultimate Bliss, gods and bodhisattvas, and invited some gentlemen and wise men in the city, but it was of no use. On the contrary, it seemed to be contagious. At first, only my father and second uncle got sick and had abdominal pain, and then everyone in the whole family started to get sick and have abdominal pain.
, and even later, even the neighbors suffered.
"Not long after, a man who looked like a beggar suddenly came to my house to sell plaster, saying that it could cure abdominal pain if applied on the head. We didn't believe it at first, but after applying it, it actually worked!"
When Song You heard this, he almost understood. He raised his eyes and glanced at the small plaster on their heads:
"Once it's attached, it can't be taken off. Instead, it becomes weaker and thinner day by day."
"Exactly!"
When everyone heard that he guessed the result instantly, they were immediately overjoyed.
"After that, although we no longer had diarrhea, we started to lose weight day by day. We went to see a doctor, but the doctor only said that our yang energy was weak and our yang life was disappearing. We went to a folk expert, and they only said that our yin energy was heavy and evil spirits increased. But the beggar said that this plaster must be applied.
Enough for seventy-seven forty-nine days." The man surnamed Li said, "My second uncle was so angry that he wanted to take off the plaster. Once he peeled it off, he found that there was a thread stuck inside, as thick as a hair, straight from
The flesh around the eyes was pulled out, and the more it was pulled, the darker the vision became. Once it was pulled off, both eyes were blind. The doctor in the city said that the tendons of the eyes were torn out."
"It's so vicious..."
After listening to this, Song You almost understood——
The plaster is used to absorb the essence and the eyes are used as a threat. If you have to remove it, you will become blind. If you don't remove it, it will become a furnace for it.
But Song You has a question.
The Thunder God came into the world not until 2000 in Yangdu. In addition to the God of Paradise, there are now statues of the Thunder God everywhere in the city. The Thunder God Temple is almost half-finished. How long has it been since then that evil spirits have come to cause trouble?
"How did you guys find me?"
"To be honest, we have searched all the nearby folk experts, witches and warlocks during this period, but none of them are useful. The gentleman often comes in and out here, and we have seen him a few times. We know that this mansion was originally that
Yaksha ghost, that Yaksha ghost is not afraid of heaven and earth. He even scolded the God of Paradise in the street before, and he has refused to rent the house out, but he is willing to let the husband live there. He must be capable. Now there is really no other way.
So I have no choice but to ask for help from my husband."
"I see."
"Sir, is there anything you can do? I'll thank you very much!"
"have!"
The Taoist smiled slightly, carried the fish forward, opened the door and entered.