Chapter 7: Charlatans

PS: I'm sorry, the electricity was out all day yesterday...... )

The moon is shining, the stars are like a disc of scattered pearls inlaid in the black night sky, the breeze gently sweeps the earth, the river is surging, the frogs in the fields and the roar of the river constitute a wonderful symphony. On the side of the picturesque Xiangjiang River, a sloppy old man in a tattered Taoist robe, with an even more tattered peachwood sword hanging from his waist, carrying an equally tattered wine gourd, dragging the broken boots that had dropped off the heel, strolling crookedly along the riverside.

Take a sip of wine, shout a few obscene tunes to the river, the old road is very self-satisfied, as the wine gourd gradually bottoms out, the footsteps of the old road are even more floating, a deep foot shallow foot on the river beach to and fro, suddenly, the foot of the old road mixed with a ball of soft things, he was so drunk that he couldn't stand on his feet and immediately fell into a dog to eat shit.

"Fuck it!" The old man spit out the mud and sand in his mouth, and didn't care if he was injured or not, first to see if the wine gourd in his hand was safe, and saw that although the gourd was not broken, the precious wine spilled a lot, and couldn't help scolding: "It's really unlucky, today I finally cheated half a lot of money in Xujiazhuang, bought a gourd wine, and planned to drink it overnight, but now it's okay, the wine for two hours is gone." ”

The more the old man thought about it, the more angry he became, struggling to get up, and facing the culprit who knocked him down was a few heavy kicks, but the old man immediately found that the thing that knocked him down was soft and soft, not like a big stone and rotten wood and other common things by the river, and he looked at it closely, but saw that it was a fat corpse like a pig, the body was covered with knife wounds and gunshot wounds, and there were two broken arrows inserted into it, and he stepped on it motionless, obviously dead for a long time.

"Alas, another one who died on the battlefield." In this troubled world, the old man saw a lot of this kind of corpse, shook his head and sighed: "At such an old age, you still have to go to the battlefield to fight, and finally die under the sword and arrow, it's really pitiful." ”

Pity has risen, the old way of cheating and cheating is not embarrassed to find the corpse to settle his own account, and is about to leave, suddenly thought of something, and clasped his palms at the corpse and said: "Amitayus Buddha, since you and I are destined to meet under the moon, I will put you in the earth for peace, but you must bless me underground, bless people every day to find me to do things, exorcise evil spirits and cure strange diseases, and the reward given can ensure that I drink enough wine every day." ”

At that moment, the old Tao picked up the pebbles by the river, sprinkled the corpse, worked for half an hour, and finally buried the fat and ugly corpse reluctantly, and the old Tao clasped his hands together and said: "Amitayus Buddha, remember, my name is Yu Ji, if you don't bless me, I will burn the talisman to Lord Yama, and ask him to send you to the eighteenth layer of hell, so that you will never be able to be reborn." With that, the old man named Yu Ji walked away, leaving the cobblestone tomb alone on the riverbank.

Yu Ji walked two or three miles downstream of the Xiangjiang River, and several warships came from the procession, Yu Ji recognized that it was the Jiujiang warship that was attacking Jingzhou, and was about to dodge in a hurry, when the soldiers on the boat had already seen him, and a small colonel shouted: "That old man, can you see a corpse or a seriously injured old man?" He's about your age, fatter than a pig, and he's very recognizable. ”

Yu Ji was stunned, and said in his heart that the person in his mouth wasn't the old man I buried just now? Yu Ji was about to reply that he had seen it, but after thinking about it, the old man was dead, and looking at the attitude of these fierce soldiers, the old man's body fell into their hands, and he didn't know what kind of insult he would suffer. Although Yu Ji is an unscrupulous Taoist priest who swaggers and deceives, he is still more superstitious, the old man's body has been buried by himself, and if he is dug up again, then his hard-earned merits will be in vain - if he goes back to ear, he will go to hell with his tongue, and the poor fat old man is worried about his death, so he replied: "I didn't see it, if I saw it, I must inform the military master." ”

The little colonel didn't seem to have much hope for Ji, and with a wave of his hand, the warship continued to move downward, and the little colonel shouted to Yu Ji: "If you see his corpse, take it to the government immediately, and the reward is 100 catties." ”

A bounty of 100 pounds? Bounty of 100 pounds! Yu Ji's mouth opened up, a hundred catties of gold, even if he does things every day, he can't earn so much gold in his life! "Wait!" Yu Ji came to his senses for a long time, and immediately shouted, wanting to beckon those Sun Jianjun warships to stop, but those warships had already traveled far away, and they didn't hear Yu Ji's shouts at all.

Yu Ji's voice was hoarse, and he didn't see those warships come back, Yu Ji had a wit, and ran back, panting back to the river beach where the fat old man's body was buried, and picked up the thin layer of pebbles, picked up the fat old man's thick legs and dragged them to the shore, and his mouth was so excited that he said, "One hundred catties of gold, hurry up and accompany me Yu Ji to the official mansion to receive the reward, and when I get the gold, I will personally do the Dharma for you for seven days and seven nights." ”

Yu Ji was dragging the fat old man's corpse, the fat old man suddenly let out two low **, Yu Ji was startled first, and then reacted, the fat old man is not dead, Yu Ji is even more happy, his corpse can be worth a hundred catties of gold, and he doesn't know how much gold is worth if he is alive. Yu Ji was overjoyed, hurriedly put the fat old man down, and pressed his hands on his round belly, the fat old man immediately spit out a stream of river water from his mouth, Yu Ji repeatedly pressed the fat old man's belly, until the fat old man spit out all the river water in his belly.

Kang Peng woke up from the coma in a daze, only felt severe pain all over his body, opened his mouth to speak, but could only make some unconscious single sounds, at this time, a gourd mouth with the smell of inferior wine was fed to his mouth, and an old voice said: "My hundred catties of gold, you can drink some wine to warm your body, I will take you to the official mansion." ”

A hundred pounds of gold? What do you mean? Kang Peng's mind was confused for a while, but Kang Peng's whole body was cold and painful at the moment, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to swallow all the half of the gourd wine, and his body suddenly felt a lot more comfortable, and Kang Peng fainted again. When Kang Peng woke up again, he found that it was already dark, and he was lying on a soft grass, the wounds on his body were also pasted with herbs and bandaged, and there was an ugly old Taoist in a tattered Taoist robe sitting beside him.

"Did you save me?" Kang Peng said with difficulty, struggling to sit up, but his body was in severe pain as soon as he moved, fortunately, the old man found that he had woken up in time, and hurriedly helped Kang Peng to sit up, Kang Peng ** said: "Dare to ask the name of the Taoist Changgao?" Where is this? ”

"My name is Yu Ji, and this is Huarong Dao." Yu Ji replied casually, and said triumphantly: "You don't have to thank me, I want to thank you, a hundred catties of gold is enough for me to spend the rest of my life." ”

Kang Peng, Yu Ji? Isn't it the charlatan who swaggered and deceived in Jiangnan and was finally slaughtered by Sun Ce? But what about a hundred pounds of gold? Kang Peng was puzzled: "Could it be that the Taoist is Yu Jiyu Immortal, who is known as the Living Immortal?" What does a hundred pounds of gold mean? ”

Yu Ji's nose knocked on Lao Gao, and he said proudly: "That's right, others call me a living immortal." At that moment, Yu Ji told Kang Peng what happened last night, and added at the end, "Can you walk?" Huarong is only sixty miles away from Chuyang, so I will send you to the official mansion in Chuyang to receive the reward. ”

Kang Peng was taken aback, Weiyang is in the hands of Sun Jianjun, if he falls into the hands of Sun Jianjun, is there still a life? At that moment, Kang Peng shook his head and said: "Living Immortal, I can't go to Chuyang, if you can send me to Yong'an, I can guarantee that you can get at least a thousand catties of gold." ”

Yu Ji was willing to believe it, and laughed: "What are you kidding? The army of Marquis Sun Jian of Wucheng is fighting in the area of Jiangling, so can we ordinary people pass? Besides, do you have that much gold? ”

Kang Peng was in a hurry, he had an idea, struggled to touch his waist, and touched the piece of jade set on the belt, Yu Ji also saw the piece of jade, hurriedly ripped it off, held it in his hand and shouted: "Good thing, I have seen the same piece in the city, and it is not as good as this piece of color, it can be worth thirty gold." Yu Ji shouted, and said strangely to Kang Peng: "You can carry such a valuable treasure with you, are you really rich?" ”

Kang Peng nodded with difficulty and said: "That's right, my money is far more than you imagined, as long as you take me to a safe place, I can guarantee that you will eat and drink spicy food every day in the next life." ”

Yu Ji stared at Kang Peng for a long time, and finally made the most correct decision in his life, Yu Ji nodded and said, "Okay, I believe in you." It's just that there are indeed heavy troops in the Gangneung area, and we don't have a road guide from the government, so there is no way to get there. ”

Kang Peng calculated in his heart that Sun Jian had been killed by Zhou Yu, and there was no commander in the army, so he would definitely not continue to attack Jingzhou, and he would definitely withdraw to Jiangdong to reorganize the power structure. Kang Peng said: "Living Immortals, I estimate that the Jiujiang Army will withdraw from Jiangling in a few days, you first find a place for me to hide for a few days, and then send me back to Yong'an after the Jiujiang Army withdraws." ”

Although Yu Ji wondered how Kang Peng could conclude that Sun Jianjun would definitely withdraw his troops, he still said: "More than 20 miles east from here, there is a Huangjiazhuang, I used to do Dharma for the villagers in the village, so many villagers know me, how about we go there to hide?" Kang Peng is not familiar with life here, and there are other ideas there, so he had to nod and agree, and because of Ji's support, he limped slowly and walked towards the east.

After walking for several miles, Kang Peng was hungry and tired, and he was really unable to move, and the thin Yu Ji was unable to carry him away, so he had to help Kang Peng to sit under the tree on the side of the road, Yu Ji gasped and said: "You are too heavy, no way, you wait for me here for a while, I will go to Huangjiazhuang in front to find someone to carry you." Kang Peng, who was tired and exhausted, nodded and agreed, and Yu Ji brought a few bundles of thatch and put them on Kang Peng's body, Kang Pengqi said: "Living Immortal, what are you doing here?" ”

"There are often people from Wuchenghou passing by here." Yu Ji replied, "I will cover you up and dress you up as a haystack, so that no one else can find you." ”

"Thank you for the living immortals." Kang Peng wept and said: "If I ......, if I can go back alive, I will definitely repay you heavily." Kang Peng's heart was really moved, Yu Ji said that Kang Peng was polite, but he muttered in his heart: "Damn, if I don't hide you, if others find out about you and send you to the government to receive the reward, then I will never have a chance to get a thousand gold." ”

Yu Ji hid Kang Peng, and repeatedly told Kang Peng not to move, then he went straight to Huangjiazhuang, but it was almost to Huangjiazhuang, Yu Ji began to worry again, and he began to worry in front of Kang Peng that he knew a lot of villagers It is true, but those villagers also know that he is a swaggering and deceitful stick, last year he used a sparrow in Huangjiazhuang to train a sparrow to perform the god of the bird divination, and began to do well, defrauded a lot of copper money, and was later debunked by the ugly daughter of Huang Chengyan, the owner of Huangjiazhuang, on the spot, and the money was forced to be returned. The person was also beaten by the angry villagers, and the bird was also taken to the ugly daughter of the Huang family for some experiment, and now he is going to ask someone to carry the fat old man, will anyone go?

Yu Ji is worthy of being an old god stick who has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and in a blink of an eye, a ghost idea came to his heart, strode into Huangjiazhuang, and shouted when he met people, "Woe to you, woe to you, big things are not good, Huangjiazhuang is going to have a big deal." Yu Ji ran all the way into the middle of the village, knelt down on the big tree in the middle of Huangjiazhuang, kowtowed, Yu Ji shouted: "God, please spare the innocent villagers of this village, don't set fire to burn this village." ”

Yu Ji was surrounded by villagers watching the excitement, and many villagers also recognized this well-known big liar in the countryside, and one of the villagers said disdainfully: "Old liar Yu, what do you want to deceive?" Hurry up and change the village to deceive people, we won't fall for you again! ”

Yu Ji straightened up, shook his head and sighed: "If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, you have your own heavenly send, if you don't believe it, you can only wait for the fire to burn down this Huangjiazhuang." The villagers laughed and scolded Yu Ji for being alarmist, and some children even threw stones at Yu Ji. Yu Ji shook his head and stood up, pointed to the weed-covered land under the tree, and sighed: "There is a foot and a third deep underground here, there is a warning from heaven, if you believe it, dig it up and see, if you don't believe it, forget it." With that, Yu Ji slowly walked out of the village again, shaking his head and sighing for a long time, as if he was very lost.

Yu Ji had just left Huangjiazhuang not far away, and a group of villagers behind him hurriedly chased after him, and several villagers shouted together, "Living immortals, please stay." Yu Ji was secretly happy in his heart and immediately stopped. The villagers rushed to Yu Ji, one of the villagers was holding a red cloth, and there was a stone tablet engraved with words on the red cloth, and the villager shouted: "Living Immortal, I dug this out at the place you pointed out, and I only know the word 'fire' on this stone tablet, what does this mean?" ”

Yu Ji picked up the stone tablet and read: "The Huang family is unkind, and the fire is extinguished from the sky." Yu Ji explained: "The above means that because you have a man surnamed Huang here who has done unkind and unrighteous things, Heaven will send a fire to burn him." Yu Ji smiled secretly in his belly, it can be said that he has buried such a stone plaque in every village near this Chuyang, and after the weeds will cover the traces of the burial, he can go to swagger and deceive, he has been buried in Huangjiazhuang for more than a year, but he is afraid of the ugly girl who is so smart that Huangjiazhuang, so Yu Ji has never dared to come to this Huangjiazhuang to cheat and cheat.

The villagers were taken aback, and many exclaimed, "Living Immortals, none of us have ever done anything wrong?" Why should God punish us? ”

Yu Ji sighed and said with a depressed expression: "In the year of the Yellow Turban, a starving man passed by you and begged you for a bite to eat, but you were reluctant to give him even a bowl of brown rice, and watched him starve to death in the wilderness; And it came to pass in another year, that the body of a man who died of hunger lay in your field, and you did not let him be buried in the ground, but let his body be bitten by wild dogs. ”

The villagers were confused, and one of the villagers said strangely: "Living immortals, there is such a thing, but in these years, there are people starving to death every day, and there are people in the wild every day, and they are eaten by wild dogs, and we can't care so much." ”

"Big mistake!" Yu Ji looked **, as if he was very sacred, and said: "If it is an ordinary person, God will naturally not send disasters to you, but do you know who he is?" ”

"Who is it?" The villagers asked together.

Yu Jishuang hugged his fists and bowed to the sky: "It's Huo De Xingjun, Huo De Xingjun is ordered by heaven to tour the world, check whether there is any deficit in the virtue of the people in the world, and he has suffered two times in a row from you, he is going to come to you today to do the last test, if you stay slow with him, within three days, this Huangjiazhuang will turn into a scorched earth." ”

"What?" All the villagers exclaimed together, and hurriedly asked Yu Jidao: "Living Immortal, where is the Fire De Xingjun now?" Let's go and fetch him and offer him. ”

Yu Ji smiled secretly in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Huo De Xingjun has now turned into a mortal and is sitting fifteen miles away from here......" Before Yu Ji finished speaking, a crisp and pleasant voice suddenly sounded behind the villagers, "Demon Dao, you have come to our village to deceive again, do you still want to be beaten again?" Hearing this, the village hurriedly got out of the way, and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl appeared in front of Yu Ji, with burnt yellow hair, a black face full of smoke and dust, and only a pair of big eyes that were very bright and clear. Or do you want to cheat and drink? ”

Yu Ji banged in his head, this ugly girl is Huang Yueying, the daughter of the owner of Huangjiazhuang - and his nemesis of Yu Ji! Yu Ji smiled bitterly and explained to Huang Yueying: "Miss Huang, you misunderstood, I just came to convey God's will to Huangjiazhuang, not to eat and drink. ”

At that moment, Yu Ji had the courage to say the nonsense just now, and the villagers also handed over the stone tablet dug out of the soil to Huang Yueying for inspection, who knew that Huang Yueying only glanced at it and threw away the stone tablet, and said disdainfully: "Fake, the words are crooked, if it is really a warning from God, I will not use such ugly words." ”

Yu Ji had a big headache, although he was coarse in writing, but the calligraphy was stinky, and it was beyond his power to make it real. At this time, Huang Yueying had already said to the villagers: "Don't listen to this old liar, he must have colluded with someone to let that person pretend to be some Huo De Xingjun to defraud you of your money." As for the stone tablet, I'm sure the old liar had buried it beforehand. ”

The villagers were furious, and Yu Ji beat him up in the middle, causing Yu Ji to cry and call his mother, and one of the villagers shouted: "Kill this old liar, and then go and arrest the guy who colluded with the old liar and dip it in the pig cage." The villagers shouted together, "Yes, soak them in the pig cage together." At that moment, the angry villagers immediately escorted Yu Ji, who had a blue nose and swollen face, to arrest his accomplice, and Huang Yueying also followed with a smile to see the excitement.

Will our Dong Boss be able to escape the doom of being immersed in the pig cage? See the next chapter.