The master of the town's official school is surnamed Hua, and he is already a handful of years old and has gray hair.

He knows some internal strength, and his body is well maintained. Compared with the old people of the same age, they are still in good spirits, and there is no sense of old age.

When Pan Long made his intentions clear, Old Master Hua pondered for a moment and asked, "You read a travelogue and traveled all the way to the Peach Blossom River, but have you ever thought that the travelogue may be a lie?"

"The younger generation naturally thought about it. Pan Long said seriously, "But it's not a big loss for me to be deceived once, even if I run three or five times in vain, as long as one time is true and can help, I think it's worth it." ”

Old Master Hua smiled: "Very good, since this is the case, come with me." ”

He took Pan Long to the study, pushed open the desk, and lifted a brick on the ground, and a wooden box underneath.

There was nothing unusual in the wooden box, only a few books.

"This is the secret note of the official education Daifuzi, you can read it here. ”

Pan Long opened the notebook and saw that most of the things recorded in it were some big rebellions. For example, the records of local criticism and resistance to certain policies of the imperial court, such as the key passages in certain books that were banned by the imperial court...... Etcetera.

He rummaged through one of them, and soon found a record of the marriage of the Peach Blossom River River God.

The river god of the Peach Blossom River made meritorious contributions in the coup d'état of the Great Xia court and was canonized as the river god by the Son of Heaven. This river god is good at fishing, and once vowed to build the largest harem in the world, raise 3,000 beauties, and have wanton pleasure day and night. After he became the god of the river, he forced the people to hand over the beauties - the custom of marrying the river god came from this.

This record is quite consistent with the record in the original travelogue, and I don't know how resentful and helpless the people of Taohuahe were at the beginning.

Later, after a while, I saw another account.

About one hundred and fifty or sixty years ago, Yiwu, the famous demon god in Yunzhou, happened to pass by here and found the matter of the river god's marriage. Yiwu changed into a beautiful woman in the world, and sat on a bamboo raft to attract the river god.

The two immortals had a fierce battle, and in the end the river god was defeated, and he was grabbed by Yiwu and rubbed on the nearby Wolf Head Mountain.

There is a huge wolf's head mountain, and half of the mountain has been worn off. And the river god has never appeared again, and it is estimated that he was killed by Yiwu.

In the following years, the villagers still held the river god marriage every year as they did when the river god was still alive. But the river god didn't know what to do, and naturally no one took away those beauties who were sacrificed. After the "sacrifices" came back alive again and again, before they knew it, the sacrifice became a ceremony.

The current river god marriage ceremony is already a famous festival in the Taohua River area, and many people come to visit it every year, which can be regarded as a grand event.

After reading these two records, Pan Long returned the notes, and then asked curiously: "The younger generation is not from Yunzhou, during the time I came to Yunzhou, I heard a lot of stories about the demon god Yiwu, but I don't know if the old master knows what kind of character the demon god is?"

Old Master Hua smiled: "The demon god Yiwu is a chivalrous warrior with a righteous thin cloud, it is said that his personality is free and easy, and he always wanders the rivers and lakes alone, and he is uneven everywhere. This demon god also likes to reason with others, and many people have gained a lot after listening to it. Gradually, mortals who had received the favor of the demon gods or who had listened to the lectures joined forces and established the Great Wind Hall. ”

"So, the establishment of the Great Wind Hall is not directly related to this demon god?"

"Probably not. But the demon god Yiwu has more than once come to maintain the people of Dafeng Hall, and there is a little bit of incense if you want to come. ”

Old Master Hua said, a trace of worry appeared on his face: "It's just that in recent years, the scale of Dafeng Hall has become larger and larger, and there are more and more contradictions with the imperial court. The old man is worried that if this continues, he is afraid that it will develop to the point of civil unrest!"

Pan Long was taken aback: "It's just that the villagers help each other, how can it come to the point of a civil uprising?"

Old Master Hua didn't talk in detail, just shook his head and sighed.

Bidding farewell to this worried old master, Pan Long came to the inn to live in peace, and every day in addition to practicing and reading, he chatted with the guys and travelers of the inn to understand the situation in Yunzhou.

He came early, there were still many days before the second of February, and it was a shame to waste time.

After four or five days like this, that night, he had dinner and was about to go for a walk outside the city, practicing his fists and feet to digest food for a while, but he was stopped by two strong men wearing the uniform of the imperial court.

"Who are you, and what secrets do you want to spy on?" a strong man said loudly, "In the past few days, you have been collecting local intelligence, could it be that you are a rebel party of Dafengtang and want to plot against you!"

Pan Long was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect these two catchers to find such a crime for themselves.

Spying on secrets, gathering intelligence, and plotting against ...... This is a terrible crime, and if any one of the three can be confirmed, it will be a decisive decision.

But he really didn't have the heart to do that!

He was about to explain in detail, but he remembered one more thing - after destroying the Sun family, he asked local officials to convict the Sun family. Because it was so difficult to do, the local officials finally came up with a special solution.

They actually reported to their superiors, saying that it was the patrol envoy under the command of the prince Di Luonan who found out that the Sun family was full of evil and took action to eliminate it.

This statement is naturally nonsense, but the court even acquiesced and issued him a reward.

The reward is not much, that is, a commendation order, two ingots of gold, and a pot of spiritual wine that can nourish the body.

The pot of spirit wine was given by Pan Long to the old man Han Wensheng - this old man presided over the affairs of the Sun family, was conscientious and did a good job. Pan Long felt that he had made up for his merits, and it was worth giving him a reward.

Han Wensheng was reluctant to drink it, and gave the spirit wine to his children to drink...... This is off topic.

The spirit wine was given away, but the commendation order and the two gold ingots with the seal of the government were there. Pan Long took out the commendation order, and the two of them looked at it quickly, and immediately showed embarrassment.

Ordinary people collect information from the people, which is called conspiracy. But the Patrol Riders did it for granted—and that's what they do.

The main task of the so-called patrol envoy is not to eliminate those corrupt officials and bandits who hinder the rule of Great Xia, but to collect all kinds of information from the people and report it to the imperial court in a timely manner, so that the imperial court can respond as soon as possible no matter what it faces.

What Pan Long has been doing in the past few days is exactly what a wind patrol should do.

Although he seems to be a bit high-profile, not like the style of an ordinary wind patrolman, no one stipulates that the wind patrol must only hide in the dark, and cannot openly collect the opinions and suggestions of the people in the inn restaurant.

This matter is upright, and there is nothing that cannot be said to anyone, let alone deliberately concealed it.

Seeing this commendation order, the two catchers left very boringly. When they walked away, Pan Long could still hear the content of their conversation with far more than ordinary ears.

"What a pity! I thought it was a fat sheep!"

"Don't sigh, there are a lot of fat sheep, this one is not slaughtered, just slaughter others. ”

Seeing them go so far, Pan Long shook his head and sighed deeply: "Alas!