Eastern Capital, Luoyang, Liangyi Palace.

Yang Guang was in a very bad mood, Wang Shichong, who was standing opposite him, stole his head, stood with his hands down, and pretended to be loyal and obedient on his face, but he couldn't stop sneering in his heart, since the moment he wrote down the evil deeds that were investigated and dealt with in the process of opening the river, he knew that Yang Guang's good mood these days because of Chen Ling's expedition to seek a great victory on the island and the capture of thousands of natives to come back to offer prisoners to Taimiao will definitely disappear.

Yang Guang grabbed the hand of the song, trembling slightly, his face had gradually become red, and the two eyebrows were tightly twisted together, holding the songfold in his left hand, and grabbing the ice cubes in a jade plate with his right hand, and chewing it in his mouth.

Finally, Yang Guang couldn't hold back any longer, threw the fold to the ground fiercely, and landed in front of Wang Shichong's feet, Yu Shiji, who was standing on the side, suddenly knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and his voice was also crying: "Supreme, you must take care of the dragon body, and you must calm the wrath of thunder!" ”

Wang Shichong bent down slightly, picked up the fold, put it into his sleeve, and silently retreated half a step, neither kneeling nor speaking.

Yang Guang was like a trapped beast, pacing back and forth behind the imperial case, and kept scolding: "Kill, kill!" ”

After walking back and forth like this for more than a dozen times, he calmed down a little, stopped, and said to Wang Shichong: "Wang Shilang, you tell me again about the crime of Uncle Ma, the head of the river, I don't want to see it, for fear of staining my eyes!" ”

Wang Shichong said unhurriedly: "The head of the river." Shangkaifu General Ma Shumou. Since I received the holy decree. After being ordered to dredge the Tongji Canal from Dongdu to Jiangdu (i.e., Yangzhou), more than one million soldiers and civilians were requisitioned, digging rivers day and night, urging them to work hard, exhausting more than 100,000 people. ”

Yang Guang shook his head: "Uncle Ma's method is too urgent. But after all, he completed the task of opening the river during my appointment, I took a dragon boat two months ago, and went to Jiangdu for a round trip, it is true that the river is much wider, and the last time I went to Jiangdu, some of the shallows that could not pass through the big dragon boat have also been reorganized, and the whole river is unimpeded. ”

Speaking of which. Anger suddenly erupted in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I can't tolerate it." It's not that Uncle Ma forced to kill the people when he opened the river, but that he was disloyal to me! Wang Aiqing, you go on! ”

Wang Shichong nodded and continued: "When Uncle Ma planned to dig the river and dig into the territory of Yongqiu, he once dug up the tomb of Zhang Liang, only dug more than zhang, and found an ancient coffin room, Uncle Ma ordered someone to excavate this tomb, saw a sarcophagus, after opening the coffin, he found an ancient corpse, the person's face was lifelike, a black hair grew from his head, covering his face, through the entire front of the chest, abdomen and legs, until the bottom of the legs, and then through the soles of the feet, until the end of the back. ”

Yu Shiji felt a chill on his back when he heard this, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he didn't dare to say a word, only listening to Wang Shichong's voice became more and more gloomy, as if he was telling a ghost story: "There is also a stone inscription under the corpse, on which are written some ancient characters that everyone can't understand. Uncle Ma Mou offered a heavy reward among the people who dug the river, and if someone could recognize this inscription, he could be exempted from his service, but a Xiapi person recognized this inscription, which read: I am a great golden immortal, and I have been dead for a thousand years. Counting a thousand years, there is a flowing spring under it. I had to meet Uncle Ma and bury me on the plateau. Hair grows to mud pills. Wait for a thousand years, Fang Dengtu is the sky. ”

Yang Guang said coldly: "Ma Shumou also reported this matter to me, at that time, I sent a messenger and brought a pair of good Western Regions Baibi to pay tribute to this waiter, and Ma Shumou had already prepared his own coffin, re-entered the corpse, and buried it in the west of the city. But I never thought that this Uncle Ma would dare to swallow my Baibi privately! ”

Wang Shichong sighed and said: "Exactly, after the arrival of the Zhizun Bai Bi, Uncle Ma pretended to open the altar and burn incense, and waited for Zhang Liang to pay tribute, and then moved his body to another place and continued to open the river, but when the memorial was due, it was a strong wind, and the pair of Bai Bi disappeared, and later I learned that it was Uncle Ma who secretly stole this pair of Bai Bi, and in order to extinguish the mouth, he also killed the servant who stole the bi! ”

Yang Guang patted the royal case hatefully: "Even the jade that I used to worship the immortals dared to steal, this Uncle Ma has the courage to make a big plan, Wang Aiqing, you continue to speak!" ”

Wang Shichong nodded and continued: "When this Uncle Ma continued to open the river to the east, and dug until Ningling County, he had a wind disease and couldn't sit up. The Supreme Doctor Chao Yuanfang sent the imperial physician Chao Yuanfang to visit the patient, saying that his illness had entered the stomach, and it could not be cured by taking decoction medicine ordinarily, and the medicine had to be stuffed into the belly of the lamb, steamed and eaten, so that the disease could be cured. ”

When Yu Shiji heard this, he smiled and said: "I'm afraid that Uncle Ma is trying to eat for himself, and he wants to find some new and exciting methods, but I have only heard that some chickens and geese were steamed and eaten in the belly of sheep in the past, and I haven't heard of stuffed medicine." ”

As soon as he raised his head, he bumped into Yang Guang's gloomy face, and suddenly stopped his mouth, realizing that Yang Guang was angry now, and he couldn't joke at all.

Yang Guang snorted heavily: "You can really eat, Wang Aiqing, you continue!" Let Yu Shilang listen, how good this hemp manager is! ”

Wang Shichong's face did not change, and continued: "Uncle Ma Mou has eaten medicine and stuffed lamb tripe for more than ten days according to this method, but the matter of him collecting lambs for treatment has spread all over the nearby counties of Suiyang, Ningling, and Xiangyi, and because the purchase price he paid was very high, the people nearby rushed to sell the lambs. Uncle Ma was addicted to eating tender lambs, and he did not refuse to come, so he accepted all the orders. ”

"There is a bully in Ningling's Xiama Village, surnamed Tao, named Lang'er, the family is very rich, the brothers are fierce, the village where he lives is only two miles away from the river, and the ancestral tomb is on the edge of the river, afraid that when digging the river, it will move his family's ancestral grave, so he stole a three-year-old child from the same village, killed, beheaded and decapitated, removed the internal organs, stuffed almonds, cheese, dates and other things into his abdominal cavity, brushed with syrup on the outside, it looked like a little lamb, and offered it to Uncle Ma for food."

After Uncle Ma ate it, he found that the taste was more delicious than lamb meat, so he rewarded Tao Lang'er, not only bypassing Xiama Village when digging the river, but also making Tao Lang'er his own chef. Since then, Tao Lang'er instructed his brothers to steal children nearby every day, and in less than half a year, he stole hundreds of children, so that Uncle Ma would eat them! (To be continued......)