Chapter 253: Tribute
Since the Yellow Wind Monster came to this county seat of Lichang a few years ago, the people in the city have been terrified.
He demanded that the people in the city should never harm rats, not even cats and dogs, and that the firewood, rice, oil, salt, pots and pans in the family, and the food in the pots and pans should be honored if they could not eat them.
Moreover, every festival, each family must offer enough sesame oil, pour it into a large vat, and the Tiger Pioneer under his command escorts the oil drum to Huangfengling for the Yellow Wind Monster to enjoy.
At first, the people in the city did not cooperate, and the government also sent soldiers to go up the mountain to exterminate the demons.
However, the yellow wind monster has great powers, only one mouth, and in an instant, the wind and sand flew in the dark, and the soldiers sent by the county lord were directly wiped out, and they were blown away by a strong wind.
In order to deter the villagers, the Yellow Wind Monster personally went down the mountain and blew and killed many men who dared to resist, so that no one dared to resist the demon again.
The imperial court was furious and successively dismissed several county magistrates, until Chen Wenju, who had just been in office for half a year, arrived, and he negotiated with the demons on the mountain, and finally set seven rules to protect the rights and interests of rats in the city, forming the current situation where people and rats live in the same city.
Because rats carry a lot of filth and filth, and they multiply rapidly and no one dares to take care of them, they are infected with epidemics in the city from time to time, which is why the coffin shop is better than the restaurant business.
"Amitabha. In order to prevent biased listening and belief, Su Yi read the memories of several villagers in a row, and finally found out the general situation of this place.
On the surface, it is a human city, but in fact, this Lichang County has been invaded by rats, and even the law is to protect rats.
Wukong rubbed his golden eyes lightly and said to Su Yi: "My old grandson just saw the misery of the people in this city, so he went up the mountain to find the goblin's bad luck, I didn't think that this guy had a poisonous wind, it was so good, alas......"
Boom!
Zhu Bajie waved his big hand like a fan, gently leaned it around, and turned around three hundred and sixty degrees, and those villagers who came to attack him were smashed into several pieces by him, and fell to the ground in a mess.
Now that he has been separated from Gluttony, his cultivation has not fallen much, and he has maintained it at the peak of the Golden Immortal, with such strength, as long as he touches a finger of those villagers, he can break the opponent's tendons and fractures, but his life is not guaranteed.
As a monk, Zhu Bajie naturally can't do his best to deal with the people.
"Hmph, a bunch of Diao people, get out of the way quickly!" he snorted coldly, put away his palms, and only waved his sleeves to fan the ground with two gusts of wind.
This method of generating wind in his sleeve was only the most indecent spell he had mastered, but even this kind of subtle spell blew everyone to the ground, and several thin people were even blown up, and their loose belts hung on the branches of the trees, dangling from each other.
"Youkai!"
"This fat monk is a monster!"
"Run. ”
......
A dry of villagers were so frightened that they fled, they had been slaughtered by demons here, and they were afraid of the evil and powerful power like a tiger, they thought that Zhu Bajie just looked weird, and he had no strength in a fat body, but he knew that this person was terrible when he really fought.
Seeing Zhu Bajie's method of fanning the wind, some people fled for their lives rampantly, and a few shrewd-looking villagers had already seen their eyebrows.
The king on Huangfeng Ridge is the best at blowing wind to take people's lives, and the tiger vanguard and ox commander under his command are also good at wind spells.
Now the demons and monsters in a radius of thousands of miles are all looking at the horse's head on the Yellow Wind Ridge, this pig-faced monster, Lei Gongzui monster, and their attendant human monks, must also be sent down from the mountain, thinking that the season is the day to hand over the sesame oil, could it be that these people are coming down the mountain to urge the sesame oil?
They knelt down to Su Yi and the three of them, clasped their hands together and kept kowtowing: "The little ones have eyes but no beads, I don't know if they are the messengers sent by the king of the mountain, how offended, please spare your life." ”
There were so many people taking the lead, and other men, women, and children also showed a look of sudden realization, and one by one they prostrated on the ground, kowtowing to the master and apprentice to apologize.
"Amitabha. Su Yi knew that this was because the other party saw them as monsters.
Perennial bullying by the demons on the Huangfeng Ridge, where do the people here still have backbone, in the face of absolute power, there is only surrender, only begging.
Knock!
A gong sounded, four guards with knives in front opened the way, and a red sedan chair in the back was carried by eight strong men in front of the four in the back, and they rushed towards this side steadily.
After walking a few more steps, an old man in the sedan chair wearing a black gauze hat with gray hair and more than a sixtieth birthday opened the sedan curtain and stretched out his head to look.
This person is Chen Wenju, the parent official of this county, he glanced at the appearance of Zhu Bajie and Sun Monkey, and then at the villagers who were blown to the treetops by the strong wind, and he already understood in his heart.
"This lord forgives his sins!"
He stepped forward with his body bent, walked in front of Zhu Bajie, quickly lifted his placket, knelt down despite the pain in his old knees, and beckoned to the left and right to present a gift box, which contained a line of golden ingots, as well as agate pearls and other rare things.
"Forgive me, sir, these children are not sensible. Beg you to have mercy and spare their lives. Old and incompetent, these objects are not respectful, please smile. ”
Seeing the appearance of Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, he also guessed that this was a messenger sent by the mountain to collect sesame oil, but weren't all tiger pioneers who usually collected sesame oil?
However, whether it is the pig pioneer or the tiger pioneer, it is far from what he can offend, and he must be treated well, and if he is treated slowly, the lives of people in a county may not be guaranteed.
Zhu Bajie smiled and was about to step forward to pick up the gold and silver gift box, but fortunately, Su Yi stared at him with a cold gaze and stopped stupidly.
But immediately, the foodie's eyes rolled and he thought about it: "You old man is knowledgeable, but gold and silver are useless to me and other monks, you can take it yourself." If you really want to be filial, first bring 100 white-flour steamed buns to your grandfathers, and then 10 tables and 8 tables of good wine and good food, let me wait to be happy and happy!"
Zhu Bajie smirked and said with drooling in his long mouth.
Seeing the other party's greedy look, Chen Wenju chuckled in his heart: "What? Don't want gold and silver to eat? Could it be that the monster on this mountain has changed its nature?"
He touched his gray beard: "But that's okay, after three rounds of drinking, when you are hearty, there are some things that can be said." ”
Today is the day to hand over sesame oil, but their Lichang County is not the production area of sesame oil, and they have to spend gold and silver to buy tribute in surrounding cities and counties during the festival.
But in the past two days, it has rained and the road is slippery, and the team that went outside the city to buy sesame oil has not yet returned, so it is necessary to ask the monster master to be accommodating and relax the deadline for two days, which is why he specially brought a gold and silver gift box to meet here.
Wukong Su Yi and others traveled long distances, and they were also tired and hungry at the moment, and under the strong invitation of the county official Chen Wenju, it was not easy to cheat.
And they had the intention to get rid of demons for this place, and they should be entertained, so they followed the old county official to a gorgeous restaurant called Qicuilou, and they ate and drank a lot of nonsense.
When he was eating, a dark cloud suddenly rolled in the sky, and a tiger-headed demon on it, holding a silver hammer with eight treasures, led a group of mountain spirits and wild monsters, and pressed the cloud head to land in Lichang County.
"Chen Lao'er is here, let's collect sesame oil. ”