"Let's go back."

The soil has been sealed, the stele has been planted, Ye Chang knows the road, and the traces that Ye Shu left on this world are only this cemetery.

Fang's family held a pair of children, and reluctantly glanced at the small tombstone, all kinds of lovesickness, a thousand kinds of sadness, after all, they just turned into tears and rolled down. She turned around in three steps, and finally left with Ye Chang.

According to folk customs, when the funeral was held, it went around in a big circle, almost around Wu Ze for a week, in fact, the cemetery was not far from Wu Zepi, and a water gusset separated it. Relatives or sorrows, others have also sang, when everyone returned, some people sang folk songs and slang, and some people talked and laughed in a low voice, even Ye Shu's brothers were no exception.

The only ones who are still sad may be the Fang family, and even the slave and the little lady don't understand what that little tomb means because they are young.

There was originally a wooden bridge above the water, but when everyone arrived, they found that the wooden bridge had been destroyed at some point. Someone scolded: "Yesterday I came here, the bridge was fine, but today the bridge is broken, and I don't know which kid is doing such a scoundrel!" ”

"Go on a raft, there's a raft on the side." Everyone was reluctant to take a long detour, so they shouted and cursed, but soon someone found a way to cross the water pipeline, and I don't know who stopped a raft on the water side.

"Go back on a raft, and then Da Lang, Rokuro, Hachiro, you three brothers and I will go first, plus the carpenter, and together we will take tools to repair the bridge." Ye Dan ordered.

He was naturally the first to take a raft over, and the relatives and friends added by the Ye family were old, and there were dozens of people here, and a small raft could only take six or seven people at most, so he could only walk a few more times.

Ye Chang stayed behind the most, and so did the Fang family. The last batch is only Ye Chang, Fang's, Shanzhi and Cinu, Xiao Niang, plus a raft Ye Yan.

"Beware, the raft isn't very stable." Ye Yan snorted.

Fang's family hugged the little girl, Ye Chang took the slave by his side, the water is not wide, but about four zhang, but the water is very deep, the slave child's family, like to move, if it falls, it will be troublesome.

"Don't move around!" Seeing that the slave was a little restless, Fang said.

Before she could finish speaking, the raft had already stretched out of the shore, four feet away, and turned around, but just as the raft reached the middle of the water, suddenly the water surged, and then a huge thing rose from the water, and with the waves, it swooped straight at the raft.

The thing slammed on the raft, and the raft that had been kept balanced suddenly tilted, and Fang Shi screamed, pushing the little lady in his hand towards Ye Chang, but he planted himself in the water!

Ye Chang hugged the little lady, and the slave beside him screamed and ran towards his mother, but was grabbed by the fast-eyed monk.

Fang Shi fell into the water.

The raft was warped at this time, and Ye Chang stuffed Xiao Niang into the monk's hand, rushed over quickly, and grabbed Fang's hand who was struggling in the water. Fang Shi gasped, keeping himself from sinking into the water, and Ye Yan also came back to his senses at this time and wanted to come over to help.

"Don't come here, it's over there, I'll pull her, it's fine." Ye Chang was afraid that everyone would squeeze over and overturn the raft, and said loudly: "Hurry up, get ashore!" ”

Only then did Ye Yan understand, and after holding it up twice, the raft trembled lightly and leaned against the shore. Only then did Ye Chang exert his strength and pull the Fang clan up from the water.

Fang Shi turned around and squatted on the raft shivering, Ye Chang took off his shirt and draped it on her body—she was still wearing filial piety clothes, and she was a little soaked in water.

Fortunately, today Ye Chang was also wearing a decaying robe, which was wide enough to cover the entire Fang family, so she dared to stand up and turn around. Everyone who had not left before crossing the water came up to comfort them, the Fang people were still a little stunned, and Ye Chang was also worried about whether she was injured, and it was difficult to ask if there were so many people. At this moment, someone suddenly exclaimed: "Wu Ze Dragon Girl!" ”

The crowd followed the sound, but they saw that in the corner of the raft, the thing that had just rushed out of the river and almost overturned the raft was a wooden statue. They are no strangers to this idol, it is the statue of Goddess Wu Zelong who came out early in the morning and lifted it down to act as a bridge!

Almost everyone's faces changed, and everyone thought of Dao Ning's shout at that time: The Bodhisattva will definitely be revealed, and there will be heavenly damnation!

Their eyes turned to Ye Chang, the dragon goddess statue flew up from the water, almost killing Ye Chang and his sister-in-law's entire family, this ...... Is it the divine curse brought by the manifestation of the Bodhisattva?

It's not that the villagers are ignorant, but it's really the era when all kinds of witches and gods are popular, and these villagers have seen this kind of situation when a god statue flew out of the water!

Ye Chang looked at the statue and didn't make a sound at first.

This statue is not carved from a whole piece of wood, otherwise the monk will not be able to move it no matter how strong he is, it should be hollow. Hearing the whispers around him, there were already people muttering, "Is it the Dragon Lady Bodhisattva who is angry?", and some people are suggesting that this idol be invited back to the temple, and then put three sacrifices and six salutes to apologize, Ye Chang suddenly laughed.

"Let's wait here and see if we really make Wu Zelongnu angry." Ye Chang said loudly.

As he spoke, he called Ye Yan and the monk over, and several people muttered a few words, Ye Yan got the benefits of Ye Chang, so he nodded again and again, and the monk grinned even more.

Then Ye Chang said to the people who were a little uneasy: "If there is something, please take it personally, I will stay here and see what else this Wu Ze Dragon Girl can be known for!" ”

When he said this, some of the people who were timid and afraid dispersed first, and only a dozen people remained one after another.

"Sister-in-law, will you go back first?"

"I'm here with you, and if the dragon girl really wants to be punished, I'll bear it with you." Fang's was very determined.

Ye Chang didn't urge her, the person who was originally going to repair the bridge didn't come over for a long time, so he must have gotten the news. Ye Dan stayed, looked at Ye Chang, and stopped talking.

"Uncle don't worry, I have my own opinions." Ye Chang found a dry place to sit down: "Uncle, please sit, during the time I was away, did Liu Fengyin make trouble in our Wu Zepi?" ”

"That old man tried his best to build a temple for his nephew, Dao Ning, who did not abide by the rules and guards, and went to the village to persuade him to donate twice, but he didn't make trouble or anything."

"The last time the Bodhisattva tried the case, the county lieutenant punished him in public, and his reputation in the neighborhood is only afraid of being damaged, right?"

"That's natural, in the past, everyone said that he could pass the county order and the county lieutenant, and he was often scared by the government at every turn, but now they all know that he is the bottom of the road, in the heart of the county lieutenant, he is just a pawn, and he offended the county lieutenant last time!" Speaking of this, Ye Dan felt happy, he was suppressed by Liu Fengyin for most of his life, and it was not until these two months that he raised his eyebrows: "Therefore, he has been very honest in the past two months, except for the construction of the temple, he almost never comes to us to show off his might." ”

In Chang'an City, I almost saw Ye Chang, who was the son of Li Longji today, and now looking at Liu Fengyin, a little Lizheng, it is like watching a child play with mud. Hearing Ye Dan say this, he nodded: "Sure enough, it doesn't work here, can you make up for it there?" ”

"What?"

"Previously, Liu Fengyin was rampant in the township, relying on two things, one is their Liu family, which is a big family nearby, and none of them have their Ding Xingwang, and the team of government soldiers is also controlled by their Liu family; The second is the support of the government, he has been a Lizheng for many years, colluding with the officials in the county, pretending to be a tiger, and concealing and bullying his superiors and subordinates. The matter of the last Bodhisattva's trial of the case shattered one of his dependencies, and now he only relies on the strength of their Liu clan, but no matter how strong the Liu clan is, it is always stronger than the union of our two or three clans, so he must use other external forces to reconstruct a pillar. Ye Chang said: "Dao Ning is an abandoned monk of Shifang Temple and the nephew of the Liu family, so he just uses waste to pretend to be a ghost...... Just let a monk preside over the temple of the dragon girl, after all, it is an obscene temple, as long as it is reported, the court will definitely investigate it. ”

Throughout the dynasties, they all hated obscenity, and in China, nothing could stand outside the ruling system with imperial power as the core, and the same was true for religion. The worship of ghosts and gods without the approval of the government is the so-called obscene shrine, and the local magistrates who are slightly more responsible for it are their duty to crack down on such obscene shrines.

Hearing Ye Chang's analysis, Ye Dan suddenly realized: "It turns out that behind this, it is all the work of Liu Fengyin, this old thing!" This old thing, it's really cunning, if it weren't for Eleven Lang, you would have the guidance of the immortals and have discerning eyes, I'm afraid that we would all have to be deceived! ”

"We shouldn't have interfered in this matter, in fact, Liu Fengyin was playing with fire after all, and now Yaowangguan and Shifang Temple are ignoring him, that's because he didn't make a big fuss, if it was a big fuss......"

Speaking of this, Ye Chang sneered twice, originally he could watch the excitement with a cold eye, but Liu Fengyin wanted to use him to make a name for the Dragon Girl Temple, and even did something that almost endangered the lives of him and his sister-in-law, so he would definitely not be polite.

After chatting for a while, Ye Chang probably felt that the time was almost up, so he got up and said: "I've waited for so long, and I haven't seen that dragon girl Bodhisattva descend on the disaster or anything, I think it's going to be fine, let's go first." ”

Everyone is the only one who looks to him, but everyone is somewhat unimpressed by his words. A few people were still worried in their hearts, fearing that something would happen halfway through.

Sure enough, after walking out of a mile or so, Ye Chang suddenly said again: "Ah, I forgot that the thing is on the edge of the water, let's go back!" ”

Everyone's hearts couldn't help but tighten, but since Ye Chang opened his mouth, he accompanied him to this point, and no one said to leave. It's just that someone said that they wanted to wait here, but Ye Chang smiled and said: "I forgot about the interesting events, if you want to see the excitement, it's better to come with me." ”

In this way, everyone followed him back to the water, and from a distance, they saw that someone on the other side of the water was preparing to climb ashore, and Ye Chang saw it and shouted: "Thief, there is a thief!" ”

The two people who were about to climb ashore looked back and saw that the more than ten people had run back again, and immediately stepped up their efforts to go ashore. They were just about to leave, but they saw a burly monk jump out of the grass in front of them: "Amitabha, the poor monk has been waiting for you for a long time!" ”

The two of them scattered left and right and were about to run, when the monk rushed over, grabbed one of them, and pushed him to the ground. The other took the opportunity to escape from the monk, but when the monk passed by the grass that he had just hidden, he tripped over a piece of wood sticking out of the grass and fell into a sturdy dog gnawing mud!

The man tried to get up, but the log was already against the back of his neck, holding him firmly: "Don't move! ”

The monk grabbed the guy in his hand, and came over to press this one down, Ye Yan took out the rope and tied them up.

Seeing this scene, everyone was surprised: "How can there be people in the water, and when did the monk and Ye Yan return to the other side?" ”

"Just now when we were waiting here, they took a detour from the upper reaches of the water and ran to the opposite bank to hide, just to wait for these two people." Ye Chang replied with a smile: "This is a good show...... Monk, Uncle Kui, bring them here! ”

At this time, the two finally began to shout: "We are good people, what are we going to do with us?" ”

"Good guys? Will a good person hear a thief shouting and run away? Ye Chang sneered: "You are clearly bandits who intercept the river!" ”

"We're not, we're good people, it's just ...... It's just that it's hot, so I just go into the water to swim. ”

No matter how the two argued themselves, the monk and Ye Yan still brought them here, Ye Chang sat on a stone, the two were brought to him, Ye Chang looked up at them, and muttered: "It's too high." ”

The monk didn't understand what he meant, but Ye Yan understood, and swept the knee of one of them with the basket that held the raft, and the man immediately knelt down.

The other knelt down, and at this time, their eyes were very uneasy.

"Does anyone know these two?" Ye Chang turned around and asked.

Everyone shook their heads, who knows these two?

"Then it's a foreigner, a foreigner came to our Wu Zedang to swim and bathe...... Do you think this reason can be true? ”

The two of them glanced at each other, and at this time, they only had a hard mouth: "The two of us are indeed strangers, and I heard that your land is rich in good medicine, so I came to inquire and wanted to collect some medicine back." ”

"The ...... of the medicine Do you know who I am? ”

"I really don't know about this."

"I really don't know? Liu Fengyin invited the two of you to come, didn't you talk about my skills? Ye Chang sneered: "These little tricks, can you hide them from me?" ”

The expressions of the two of them flickered even more, and this time it was Ye Chang, but the rest of the people understood that they had ghosts in their hearts.

"Holding a bamboo pipe shallow in the water, when I take the raft, throw the wooden statue out of the water, and make a false appearance of the dragon girl, such a trick can bluff others, and use it to fool me, it is too underestimate me." Ye Chang saw that the two of them didn't speak, so he continued: "That bridge was also demolished by you, you were the one who went underwater and almost overturned our raft, right?" ”

The two of them were silent, Ye Chang shook his head: "It seems that Liu Fengyin really didn't tell you all about me, let's go, I originally wanted to spare your two lives, but now it seems that I can't spare it." Uncle, you are the head of the village, arresting thieves and arresting criminals, it is your duty to send these two people to the government with the intention of intercepting the river and killing them, and I will repair a letter to Yuan Shaofu, and I will take the lives of these two people. ”

These two people trembled, intercepting the river and killing people is indeed a big crime, and if they are severely sentenced, they will definitely be decided in the autumn, and between Ye Chang's words, he still has a friendship with the local county lieutenant, so this case can be confirmed, if this is the case, wouldn't the two of them lose their lives for a little profit?