Chapter 137: Ghosts and Demons
"I'm going to call Zhang Zhong," Cui Zhen stood up from his seat, "and I am willing to go with me." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Nanfeng waved his hand, "Don't go, beware of going and not returning, by the way, you go and call the messenger, I'll ask him a few words." ”
"Good. Cui Zhen turned around and went out.
After going out, Cui Zhen remembered something, "Since it is a demon, you should bring a few masters or Taoist masters to make sure you can." ”
"It's okay, you send someone to call a few and leave at noon. Nanfeng nodded, there are also temples and Taoist temples in Yuxian County, and there are hundreds of Taoist monks together, but there are no advanced Taoist ones.
Cui Zhen responded and wanted to close the door with his backhand, but he walked in again and moved the brazier towards the south wind, and then closed the door and left.
Although the two gave him a stick at the beginning of their meeting, he did not hate Nanfeng, the root cause of which was that Nanfeng treated people very well, and he shared the income from logging and sales, and he made a profit of as much as 1,000 taels in this half a year.
After a while, someone outside the door shouted to report, Nanfeng answered, and a young messenger bowed into the door, this person was the one sent by Qinghuai Township to deliver the letter, but he didn't know about Heishigou, and after asking a few words, Nanfeng let him go down.
As soon as this person left, the porter came to report that Hu County's order from the neighboring county had come to pay a visit.
Nanfeng immediately went out to greet him, this Hu County Order is the county official of Ju County, and Longkong Temple is in the territory of Ju County, and there will definitely be a place where Hu County Order will be used in the future.
The fat man was crackling in the room at this time, so naturally he couldn't let Hu Xianling see him, and Hu Xianling also knew that the fat man was only the nominal county magistrate, and the real person in charge was Nanfeng, so Nanfeng said that the fat man was sick, so he didn't insist on seeing the fat man.
Hu County Ling came here for two purposes, one is to borrow grain, Ju County is in the westernmost part of Gong County, the terrain is remote, the poor are to death, after the snow Hu County Ling wants to open a porridge field, but there is no rice to cook.
With enough money, Hu Xian ordered him to borrow 300 stones, and Nanfeng gave him 500 stones.
The second purpose of Hu County's order is to study, there are many civil engineering in Ju County, and I also want to learn from Yu County to sell silver rice, but I am not familiar with the way.
For Hu County's second request, Nanfeng did not reply immediately, cutting trees and digging mountains is to kill the head, he and the fat man are picked up official positions, and they are singles who say they will leave, the East Window incident is a big deal and he left, but Hu County's order is a person with a family, and the head really tracked it down, and Hu County's order ran away and the monk couldn't run the temple.
After thinking about it, Nanfeng told Hu Xianling the 'truth', only saying that there were people in the fat man's court, so they dared to act recklessly.
Seeing that Hu County Ling was very frustrated, Nanfeng gave him an idea, Ju County could not cut down stones, but Ju County and Yu County were next to each other, Yu County could send people to cross the border to cut down, and Hu County Ling could share fifty percent of the profits by simply turning a blind eye.
Hu Xianling immediately smiled when he heard it, took out a small wooden box from his arms, opened it and handed it to Nanfeng, which contained a formed Xishan old ginseng, looking at the size of the appearance, even if there is not a thousand years, there are eight hundred years.
Nanfeng smiled, and more than a hundred stones of grain and rice, and did not blame Hu County for not seeing rabbits and not scattering eagles, this old ginseng is worth a lot of money, if it is not harvested, it is indeed reluctant to give it away.
According to the practice of officialdom, Hu County Ling was to be invited to a banquet at noon, but he had important things to deal with at the moment, so he told the truth and told Hu County that something strange had happened in Qinghuai Township, and he had to go to deal with it, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold a banquet at noon.
Hu Xian Ling came all the way not to have lunch, so he hurriedly got up to say goodbye when he heard the words, and did not forget to invite Nanfeng and the fat man to Ju County as guests when he left.
Sending away Hu County's order, Nanfeng gave ginseng to the fat man, ginseng has the best effect on replenishing qi, and it is not so unpalatable among many qi-replenishing herbs.
The fat man asked where he came from, and Nanfeng told him truthfully.
"The bigger you get, sooner or later something will happen. "The fat man is not without worries, the conditions and environment for the two of them to practice at the moment are very superior, if something happens and they lose their officials, they will be displaced and suffer from hunger and cold.
"If you don't want him, aren't you afraid that he will play this book for you?" Nanfeng asked rhetorically.
The fat man thought about it and felt that what Nanfeng said made sense, so he didn't say anything.
Then Nanfeng briefly told the fat man about Qinghuai Township, and the fat man shouted to see the excitement, but Nanfeng disagreed, this matter was too dangerous to let the fat man get involved.
But the fat man didn't agree, he had to go, and Nanfeng could only take him with him.
At noon, a group of people set off on the road, the fat man was a county official, sitting in a sedan chair nearby, and traveling far away in a car. In addition to the fat man's carriage, there was also an uncovered carriage on which sat a monk and a Taoist priest.
The monk is not very old, wears a tattered robe, is in his early thirties, and his Dharma name is Wuzhen. The Taoist priest is an old Taoist, in his seventies, and his clothes are quite shabby, his lungs seem to be bad, and he has been coughing.
The county lieutenant rode a horse, although Nanfeng could also ride a horse, but it was only rough, not very skillful, and his hips hurt after riding for a long time, so he ran to the carriage behind and sat with the Taoist monk.
Both of them took their leads, and when they saw Nanfeng getting into the car, they moved their respective lines to make room for him.
Nanfeng asked where the two came from, and then confessed to the two, saying that the government is here, has been busy with political affairs, neglected the care of the monks, and ordered Zhang Zhong to send ten stone grain and rice and three rolls of cloth to the temple where the two are located after they go back.
Zhang Zhong responded, in fact, he was not in charge of these, the reason why he responded was because he knew that Nanfeng's move was deliberately said to those two.
Nanfeng is indeed this kind of thinking, as the saying goes, a strong general is not a hungry soldier, and he does not give benefits to others, how can people do things with all their heart.
On this cold day, the two of them were dragged out of the office on an errand, and they were originally full of grievances, but when they heard Nanfeng say this, their complaints suddenly became full of joy, and the monks are also people, and they have joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and they are not called people if they can completely avoid vulgarity.
After talking, Nanfeng knew that this Wuzhen monk was good at taking tricks to save death, and to put it bluntly, he was more proficient in catching ghosts. And that old Taoist is not a Yuqing Daoist, but a grant of Taiqing, belonging to Taiqing Yuanzhi, this person is good at peeking into the truth, driving away evil spirits and subduing demons.
The distribution of the power of the Sanqing sects does not completely follow the national borders, but in a certain area, taking Yuxian as an example, it belongs to the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty at this time, but it did not belong to the Western Wei Dynasty before, and before the Western Wei and other countries determined the borders, the three Qing sects already existed, so it is normal for the Taiqing sect to appear in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty.
This old Taoist name Tianmu is the same generation as Tianyuanzi, but this person only gave a cave god jar, in this poor and remote place, he can be regarded as a master, and many Taoists have not even passed on the degree, they are all wild roads that are self-cultivation and blind enlightenment.
Nanfeng had the heart to see the two of them, although the two were not very happy, but they could only let him see, Tianmuzi took a detachable wooden table, which is a necessary bill to open the altar, in addition to the flag, bells, chime gongs, small drums, cinnabar, realgar, white phosphorus, incense candles and other dry altar materials.
Different from many lines of Tianmu Lao Dao, Wuzhen monk has fewer lines, with five or six pieces of wooden fish, prayer beads, bowls, yellow umbrellas, etc.
When Nanfeng saw the true line, there was a lot of disdain in the eyes of Tianmu Lao Dao, Buddhism is a foreign sect, and after entering Middle Earth, he borrowed a large number of Taoist scientific instruments, and this wooden fish rosary was originally used by Taoist priests.
The key between the Taoist priest and the monk is very subtle, the Taoist priest looks down on the monk, and the monk does not look down on the Taoist priest, but the teachings of both have moral benevolence and righteousness, so the two sides see each other on weekdays, and they are still very friendly and friendly on the surface.
Although the monk Wuzhen is not very old, he is very calm, he lowers his eyebrows and closes his eyes along the way, and he rarely speaks, even if he speaks, he mostly does not touch the cheesy noble words. Tianmu Lao Dao doesn't have many words, this person is very wise and very scathing, as long as he speaks, most of them are aimed at Wuzhen, nine out of ten sentences are to tear down the stage and expose the ugliness, and it is really embarrassing to make Wu.
Seeing that the two might fight if they continued, Nanfeng didn't dare to say more to the two, ran back on horseback, and walked with the county lieutenant Zhang Zhong.
Qinghuai Township is more than 60 miles away from the county seat, in order to be able to go earlier, everyone walks quickly, and it is okay to ride a car and a horse, but it is hard to suffer the dozen or so soldiers on foot, and the snow road is slippery and not very easy to walk, and they have to carry a spear.
In winter, it gets dark early, and the snow gets dark even earlier, but it gets dark when Shen Shi does, but fortunately there is snow on the ground, and the groom can barely see the path.
After a hard journey, everyone finally arrived at Qinghuai Township at the second watch.
The township and town are about the same size, and there are also towns and offices here, but they are not as big as the county government, and they are called public offices.
The person who reported the news before had already ridden back first, and the township was waiting for the county magistrate to know that the county lord was coming, and had been waiting at the public office.
After eating and settling down, Tianmu Lao Dao asked to meet the survivor, and Xiangzheng sent someone to lead everyone to the village where the person was.
Qinghuai Township is in the northwest of Yu County, and the village where the incident occurred is in the northwest of Qinghuai Township, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and it is an out-and-out mountain village.
When they arrived, it was the second half of the night, and the man who had escaped death was a young man, who had been surprised and contracted the cold, and had fallen ill at this time, and was lying in bed with a high fever and full of nonsense.
Seeing this person, Nanfeng felt guilty in his heart, if he hadn't sent a notice to find medicine to lure him with a heavy reward, these villagers would not have ventured into the mountains to find medicinal herbs.
Wu Zhen reached out and touched the young man's forehead, then frowned and retreated, "Amitabha, this person has been infected by yin qi before, and there should be ghosts hiding in the black stone ditch. ”
Tianmu tilted his head and glanced at Wu Zhen, stepped forward to call the pulse, and rolled the young man's eyelids again, "The pulse is chaotic, the whites of the eyes are yellow, this person has been in contact with poisonous monsters before." ”
Gojin is good at catching ghosts, but that doesn't mean he can't catch demons. Amaki is good at catching demons, but that doesn't mean he can't catch ghosts. The two of them held one end and debated endlessly.
"What do you mean, is it a ghost or a monster?" the fat man asked suspiciously.
"Ghosts, no doubts. "What Monk Wuzhen said is very affirmative.
"It must be a monster. Aki said with a straight face.
Nanfeng raised his hand to signal the two not to argue, and instead stepped forward to inspect the man, he was not very proficient in spells, but he was not ignorant, and after inspection, he found that the surviving young man's breath was very weak, and his pulse was also chaotic, although he was not possessed by demons, but he was indeed infected by abnormal aura.
"What the hell is it?" the fat man leaned in.
"I don't know, I have to go to Heishigou to see ......"