323, give Master Zhuo a pillar of incense! (2-in-1)
The boat walked on Tianren Lake for another three days and three nights before entering the territory of Tianqu Mansion.
Compared with Kunling Mansion, this Tianqu Mansion, as one of the forty-four mansions of the Great Black Heaven, has an area five times that of Kunling Mansion. Mountains, plains, highlands, all kinds of landforms, everything, the province is vast, in addition to planting rice, corn and other plants, all kinds of fish and beasts that can be caught and hunted are also a lot, so the population of Tianqu Mansion is very large, even with the number of counties, is more than double that of other prefectures.
If it weren't for the fact that Tianqu Mansion was adjacent to the no-man's forbidden area, the population of Tianqu Mansion would be even larger.
Probably because of the large number of rivers, Tianqu Mansion is far colder than Kunling Mansion, and it has even snowed. After entering Tianqu Mansion, as far as the eye can see, it is covered with snow.
"It's snowing! Little wooden fish, look! The little lord looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and was very happy, and ran up and down the deck of the treasure ship, but the snowflakes could not accumulate, so she ran away.
Tan Mo walked out, he was still wearing the same monk's robe, after all, it was the Six Imperial Realm, the cold and heat did not invade, no matter how cold and freezing it was, it had nothing to do with him.
He looked at the little lord who was running happily, shook his head slightly, and was very amused in his heart, then turned around and looked at the shore in the distance.
After driving this way in the lake, I can finally see the shore.
There are some houses there, it seems to be a small village, some of the houses have collapsed, they are some thatched houses, some of the houses are still intact, faintly, Tan Mo can still see a person lying in the snow, he can only see a rough idea, most of his body is covered by snow.
There is no doubt that this man froze to death.
Tan Mo was silent.
This is exactly what the saying is, the scenery in the eyes of the rich, the bitterness in the eyes of the poor.
Therefore, after docking, Tan Mo got off the boat and walked, and after meeting a few people who were rescued in the snow, he gave them all the silver he had accumulated during this time.
The little county lord wanted to help Tan Mo give more, but was stopped by Tan Mo.
It's his private business.
Moreover...... The money on this scumbag is what he is going to use in the future. After all, as a small county lord, she didn't spend any money except for saving, and in the end he spent it.
Because of Tan Mo's good deeds, the main person among these people came to chat with Tan Mo.
This is a middle-aged man, a cultivator, born in a family, his father and his eldest brother are in the Sancai Realm, and the rest have several brothers and sisters, just like him, they are all in the Six Imperial Realm.
This person's surname is Xiao and his name is March, because he was born in March. From this unobtrusive name, it can be seen that Xiao March's status in the Xiao family, a family in the spiritual realm, is not high.
In fact, this is also true.
After the weak crown, he was sent out by his family to take care of the fields in this area, which was actually "exiled" in disguise.
Because the Xiao family is a family of Daomen, Xiao March originally practiced the method of Daomen, and his Dao name was Feixue. However, more than ten years ago, after meeting a senior monk, Xiao March began to lead the practice, calling himself a Jingzhai monk, which is regarded as entering the Buddhist gate.
Undoubtedly, Xiao March was more inclined to Buddhism in his heart, and after chatting with Tan Mo for a while, he warmly invited Tan Mo to sit down, but Tan Mo didn't have time to delay, so he politely declined.
"This Uncle Xiao March is a good person." On the way back to the treasure ship, the little county lord said.
The climate of Tianqu Mansion is cold, and the winter is very long every year, but in a month, it snows for nearly half a month. Therefore, in Tianqu Mansion, there were not a few people who were frozen to death every year in the past, until a county magistrate surnamed Zhuo came up with something called "grain loan" and forced large local families to "loan grain".
The forces of Tianqu Mansion are very complicated, there is no anti-king in this place, only a few forces are here. These forces are obviously the big clans left over from the Qing court in the past, but in fact, these big clans are all controlled by the spiritual realm families in this place.
People in the spiritual realm, whether they are from a family or a single cultivator, although they will seek wealth and nobility in the world, without exception, they try their best not to get involved in power disputes.
This is not only for one's own cultivation, but also to retreat into one's own way out.
And after these families in the spiritual world found that this kind of "grain loan" measure was good, they joined forces to promote it. However, even so, those who can enjoy the "grain loan" are usually people from the county town, and as for the countryside, unless there is a relationship, it is difficult to enjoy it, and many people still die in the countryside every year.
For this reason, Xiao March will only take people with him, and carry out disaster relief in the places he manages every year.
Within the territory he manages, Xiao March is to see one and save the other. and what is beyond his dominion, he will not be saved. Relying on this method, the scope of the fields managed by Xiao March has been expanding every year.
After all, there are always some people who can't bear it, and they don't have the energy or ability to manage it, so they sell the land to the Xiao family cheaply.
Tan Mo nodded when he heard the words of the little county lord.
After he learned the details of this place, he immediately knew Xiao March's purpose, but even if he had a purpose, he was doing good deeds, so Xiao March's praise from the little county lord could indeed bear it.
Back on the treasure ship, Tan Mo found that the princess had returned.
The princess Bai Susu was to take people to meet the forces to trade, while Tan Mo and the little county lord took the opportunity to get off the boat and leave. After all, after staying on the ship for so long, it is inevitable that it will be a little boring.
The person who made a deal with the princess was a major force in the local area, the Horse Mansion.
The princess and the princess have already been buried in the ground, and now it is the grandchildren of the horse and the princess who are in charge. If such a force can become bigger, it is undoubtedly a "puppet" that has been pushed out.
Behind the Horse Mansion, there are eleven families, among which the Xiao family of Xiao March, whom Tan Mo just met, is one of them.
And there are ten forces on a par with the Horse Mansion.
Each force has at least twenty Three Talent Realms, and the sum of these ten is the root cause of the situation that Tianqu Mansion "Three Talent Realms are everywhere, and the Three Saints are not as good as dogs".
Because there are too many Sancai realms, in general, Tianqu Mansion is a domain controlled by the Spiritual Illusion Realm, and there is no super-large Spiritual Illusion Realm family sitting in this place, and there is no anti-king entrenched in this place, so that people in the cultivation are relatively more free in Tianqu Mansion, and they will not be constrained by anything, and they can even be treated preferentially.
Therefore, there are many small forces in the Three Talents Realm, or the Three Talents Realm alone, who have moved to Tianqu Mansion.
This made the three talent realms of Tianqu Mansion further surge.
The princess's transaction went very smoothly, Tan Mo, as the personal butler of the little county lord, followed him to see it together, and he didn't say a word during the whole process, Bai Susu purely let him come to see for a long time.
Tan Mo was happy to do so, and when the transaction was over, at the behest of the princess, Tan Mo and the little county lord came out to play.
For convenience, Tan Mo deliberately asked the guards to find a guide.
After asking the guide what was interesting, Tan Mo deliberately picked three nearby viewpoints and walked around. Originally, it was a good viewing spot, but at this time, it was covered with snow, so naturally there was nothing to see.
If she hadn't eaten a hot pot of beef in the snow, the little county lord would have thought that the guide was fooling her.
"Anything else?" Xiaojun still had an idea, and asked the guide with a small brow.
This guide is a person from the Horse Mansion, and he is one of the henchmen of the Horse Mansion, and he is also there when he trades, so he knows that the little girl in front of him is a "little ancestor", and there are some dangerous places that must not be brought over, otherwise there will be any accidents, not to mention that his head can move, and his family will be affected.
"There is another place, which is the tomb of Master Zhuo." After racking his brains and being watched by the little county lord, the guide was so anxious that he was sweating, and finally gave such a place name.
"Whose graveyard is it?" Tan Mo couldn't help asking.
"I think the little master has heard of grain loans, and this Master Zhuo is the pioneer of the good deed of grain loans." The guide explained carefully.
The little lord thought it was the tomb of the sages, so he immediately asked the guide to lead the way.
The guide received the order and quickly led the way.
When I arrived at the place, I found that it was a dilapidated old tomb.
Dead branches and leaves mixed with snow covered the entire tomb.
Most of the tombstone is gone, and only the bottom of the monument remains.
If it weren't for the guide, the ghost would have known whose grave it was.
And not far away, is the mass grave, where there are few stone monuments, most of them are tombstones made of rotten wood, crookedly inserted in the geography, and what is even more terrifying is that you can also see some rotten and clean bones, or half-rotted bones, lying in the snow, looming.
This scene of being unattended and able to shoot a Chinese ghost story is not like the treatment that the sages should have.
Tan Mo was expressionless.
The little county lord learned to talk about Mo, and his face was expressionless.
Several of the guards looked at each other, followed by expressionless expressions.
When the guide looked at this scene, he also wanted to be expressionless, but he didn't dare, so he had to cry and mourn.
Tan Mo couldn't look at it, so he took the initiative to break this embarrassment, and proclaimed the Buddha's mouth: "Nan Wu Amitabha, since this Master Zhuo has created the good act of grain loan, why is his cemetery unattended?" Could it be that this old man Zhuo has no descendants? ”
"This villain doesn't know, but although this Master Zhuo has good deeds, his reputation is extremely bad. The villain listened to the villain's grandfather say that the old man Zhuo was full of evil back then, relying on his lady of unknown origin to do evil in this place and suppress people and ghosts. When you come to this place, whether you are a living person or a dead person, you must first honor this Master Zhuo, otherwise, I am afraid that there will be no return. ”
"But what are these things, the villain is not clear, because of these, the villain's grandfather, also listened to his grandfather. Today, this Master Zhuo is at least a figure from two hundred years ago. If there is an unknown old man at that time who is willing to say, then maybe he can ask clearly. The guide said with relief, he wiped the cold sweat that came out in a hurry, looked at Tan Mo's eyes, and couldn't help but be full of gratitude.
Ominous lord, is an ordinary person's name for ominous or something like that.
Tan Mo nodded slightly, although there was nothing to see in a dilapidated cemetery, and there was no story to hear, so he said: "Despite this, if you are here, the little monk will give this Master Zhuo a stick of incense!" ”
Because the little lord thought that he was here to pay homage to the tomb of the sages, when he passed by a Taoist temple, he specially bought some incense from the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple.
Tan Mo, in line with the idea of not wasting it, lit all these incense sticks and inserted them in front of this rotten grave.
A trace of smoke slowly rises upwards, mingling with the falling snowflakes.
No matter what kind of character he used to be, now he is a piece of loess, and even his bones are gone.
Tan Mo couldn't help but shake his head slightly, with a little emotion in his heart, this Master Zhuo is also a ruthless person when he says it carefully, after all, this suppression of people and ghosts is not something ordinary people can do.
Like his senior brother Lotus Monk, he can make demons and ghosts fearful, but he can't suppress people and ghosts.
This is simply the earthly mansion.
The living and the dead must obey the orders of this Zhuo master two hundred years ago.
After the incense, Tan Mo and the little county lord took people back. There was nothing to do, so I went back to the treasure ship.
This is a treasure ship, it can repair itself, and it is naturally nothing to block the cold. Hide in the cabin and close the windows, the formation on the ship will be running, and it will bring a steady stream of heating.
"If it could fly, this treasure ship could indeed be renamed Starship." Tan Mo blew the heater and thought like this again.
He didn't need heating, but the guards on the ship needed it.
The wet and cold climate of Tianqu Mansion is terrible cold!
Because the princess still has to stay in Tianqu Mansion for a while, it seems that it is because the descendants of the Danding Sect came to Tianqu Mansion with the pill, although I don't know if it is true or not, but the princess is going to get one.
Bai Susu wanted to, so naturally she didn't have to go in person, someone would do it for her and send it.
After all, Bai Susu's identity is here.
The daughter of the white family, holding the power of the army.
Whether it is in the spiritual realm or in the world, the power is amazingly strong.
Although Bai Susu was secretive and used King Teng as a cover-up, after Bai Susu fell out with the previous trading party here, this matter was not a secret in the eyes of the high-level forces of Tianqu Mansion.
Therefore, the Water Dragon King and General Chilian of Kunling Mansion made more and more noise, and those high-level forces on the side of Tianqu Mansion looked at these two as if they were looking at fools.
Cranes and mussels compete, and fishermen profit.
However, because Bai Susu is a woman, although the people here are afraid of Bai Susu, they don't care much.
In their opinion, he is the one who dominates the world every day, and it is impossible for him to sit on the throne of God.
Bai Susu was waiting for the elixir, and Tan Mohe continued to go out with the little county lord. Several nearby counties are in the sphere of influence of the Horse Mansion, so their safety can be guaranteed.
On this day, Tan Mo came down from the restaurant and met an old man who surprised him.
"Brother Yun Yizi." Tan Mo knew that Yun Yizi didn't like him, so he deliberately leaned in front of the other party's eyes, and took the initiative to greet Yun Yizi, who looked a little down, to stimulate him as much as possible.
By Yun Yizi's side, there is also Yun Yizi's wild sister Xiu'er. Xiu'er is dressed up in men's clothes at this time, but because she is white and clean, she looks like a little white face.
"Miss Xiu'er, didn't you two come to this Tianqu Mansion?" Tan Mo said hello and asked by the way.
Yun Yizi was born in Qingxumen, and after being usurped by his younger brother, he was driven out to guard a small broken Taoist temple - Qingxuguan, no matter how you say it, it is near Ningjia County, how did you come to Wenluo County in Tianqu Mansion?
It took a few days for the treasure ship to cross over, and it took more than a month for ordinary ships to reach Tianqu Mansion.
But no matter what, when you meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land, you will die first.
"Wasn't he driven over by the current head of the Qingxu Sect?" Tan Mo turned around and continued.
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