Chapter 9 Spring Rain and the South Bank of the Green River
Ren Luduan didn't know what Su Huatian's intention was when he went to Jiangnan, but Su Huatian really came to this rich place in the south. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
You must know that since the time of the Three Kingdoms, Jiangnan has been a famous land of fish and rice, and the place where the rich and wealthy people live.
Not only is it profound, but also because it is located in a corner all the year round, it is more at ease than the people of the Central Plains, and it is also extremely complete for various doctrines and religions.
In the Central Plains, the temple and Taoist temple may be less than half of the land in the south of the Yangtze River, and you can know how prosperous its incense is.
In a small city, there are probably no less than a dozen temples about the gods, not to mention the king of the stove, the land, and the city god, and even some long-lasting trees, or some famous ancestors, have also been sacrificed by the government and later generations to have a god position, and become a god.
There are temples in the city, and temples and Taoist temples in the mountains and forests outside the city, so it can be said that as long as the monks walk in the south of the Yangtze River, there is almost no lack of food, and the believers even if they do not eat have to offer food to these people, which has also caused a lot of people with mysterious thoughts.
After all, the world was initially decided, and there was a general trend, and cultivators did not dare to be presumptuous, but it also gave many people the opportunity to act secretly.
It was the sudden ghost and demon fox in the south of the Yangtze River that began to spread, especially the affair between the female fox and the scholar, which was even more popular, and I don't know how many people became the topic of conversation after dinner.
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Su Huatian, who was dressed in scholar's robes, walked in the land south of the Yangtze River, this time he did not use any supernatural abilities to cover his shape, but only slightly reduced his sense of existence and integrated into the flow of people.
At this time, he was walking in the area of Liangzhejiang East Road (Shao, Xing, Ning, Bo, Wen, Zhou, Jin, Hua), where the literary style was not as prosperous as Liangzhejiang West Road (Hangzhou, Zhou, Huzhou, Zhou, Jia, Xing), and the business was not as developed as there, but the folk customs were more simple, and the academy and society were also established here.
You must know that today's Great Song Dynasty has just been established, and many people who study are either engaged in the society or are working as staff members under officials, and those who can really concentrate on educating people and teaching knowledge are not hopeless partial talents in the imperial examination, or sages who really don't care about fame and wealth, and because of them, they can always have a stable stream of good materials in the early Song Dynasty.
It's a pity that in the back, the imperial examination system and the popularity of heavy literature are all the rage, and the real learning can no longer judge the quality of the college.
The Great Song Dynasty gradually entered the final stage of the established dynasty, and even many times faster than many dynasties that unified the Central Plains.
In the end, it became the poison of the Great Song Dynasty, just like how can a child born deformed confront other countries in a world of great contention?
However, at this time, the Great Song Dynasty only had a hint of the party, among the military generals, Yang Yanlang, Yang Sijie was a mighty and handsome talent, and there were more prime ministers among the civil officials, Kou Zhun, Li Xin strategized, and the civil and military also got along well, far from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the civil and military hostility, and the military generals died for no reason.
In the prosperity of the world, there are many ghosts and ghosts hidden in the hearts of the people, even if Su Huatian has been low-key and extraordinary all the way, he has also reduced his sense of existence, and he does not know how many waves of thieves have been tempted, and there are even ghosts and ghosts.
It is strange to say that the land of the Central Plains is far less prosperous than that of the south of the Yangtze River, but these thieves and ghosts are extremely rare in the Central Plains, and even the appearance of gods in the Central Plains is often a dream, and the real appearance in front of people is almost unheard of.
Where is the same as Jiangnan, wealth is enough, and there are few people who starve to death, but there are thieves and ruffians, ghosts and demons are endless, even the gods appear, and demon sacrifices are endless, which makes people sigh and don't know whether the desire of the human heart has generated the demon, or the demon has followed the human heart to the place of dense desire.
At this moment, Su Huatian stood in the crowd and watched a group of rural villagers gather together, surrounded by a girl wearing a garland on her head and drawing various colored runes on her face, a high platform built of simple wood, surrounded by a goddess wearing fur and also painted with potions of various colors, constantly chanting words and not knowing what to pray.
"The dragon king is peaceful, all the people are blessed, the water waves are not prosperous, and the wind and rain are smooth!"
"Ding Ding Lingling!"
The sound of bells sounded in the hands of the goddess, and a large flag hung with countless bells kept waving, and the goddess was constantly twisting and shaking with the rhythm, with a mysterious and evil rhythm.
It made the surrounding rural people even more fanatical.
'Knock knock'
The sound of kowtowing is endless, and many people are so fanatical that they don't know that their foreheads are broken and bleeding, as if they have fallen into some kind of magic barrier.
And the surrounding spectators who didn't join in didn't even have the slightest objection to this, as if they really didn't care about themselves at all.
In this age when the imperial power does not go to the countryside, if there is no old gentry in the countryside, it is even a dead person and a private settlement, not to mention that such sacrifices have become a precedent since ancient times.
However, now that the Great Song Dynasty is flourishing and the political situation is clear, even if it is this kind of rural ritual, there will be people who will come out to intervene.
"What are you waiting for?"
I saw a scholar dressed in coarse linen clothes suddenly cut through the crowd and shouted at the fanatical rural villagers.
Su Huatian's eyes turned to look at the scholar, and for a while, the brilliance flowed, this scholar had all kinds of past, and the joys and sorrows of the future fragments were all in his eyes, and a trace of clarity flashed.
It was him, and it was the perfect fit, but why was it here? ’
Then his breath moved a little, and he had some guesses, and his eyes kept staring at the scholar's movements.
"The country has its own laws, and the gods have its rules!"
The scholar shouted at the goddess and the others: "Since the Tang Dynasty, the law of human worship has been cut off, and all those who are not divided by the Son of Heaven and call the immortals belong to the wild worship, but the evil gods and foreign ways, you are simply violating the law of the country, sinning against the gods, and taking the way of death!" ”
"Even if there is really any monster making trouble, it will be reported to the county official, and the nearby officials and soldiers will be captured and killed, you are simply not a son of man if you do this!!"
Angry eyebrows, the scholar's righteous and awe-inspiring posture really shocked the people in the countryside, but the goddess was obviously not easy.
He said in a hoarse voice: "Huangkou Xiaoer, how do you know the power of the Dragon King?" No sacrifices, let alone normal travel to and from rivers and lakes, even a radius of thousands of miles is in danger of drought and flood, can you afford to be a little scholar at that time? ”
Hearing the words of the goddess, the villagers who had just been shaken also became firm, you must know that the people of these villages live on the land, to put it bluntly, they live on God, once the harvest is not reconciled by drought and flood, it is a common thing for people to starve to death.
"What bullshit dragon king, although I am only a scholar, I also have a passion and courage, I want to see who is the demon who is causing trouble here!"
The scholar's words were categorical, and he walked towards the rolling waves on the opposite side of the altar...