At this moment, the moon is shining, and the shore is shining with sparkling light. Hundreds of people reverently knelt on the beach, folded their hands, and bowed down in the direction of the Green River.

Far near the water's edge. There is a square-shaped incense table, which is full of tributes for ordinary sacrifices, roast suckling pig or something.

A thin man in an apricot-yellow robe stood at the table, looking like a roe deer, holding a peachwood sword, and chanting words in his mouth.

It started out as a muttered murmur. Immediately afterwards, I saw him slam the wooden sword into the sky and slam it down the mountain, and shouted violently: "Hurry like a law." The Jade Emperor Taishang Laojun quickly appeared! ”

After roaring, he suddenly shook his whole body, then closed his eyes tightly, and his whole body began to dance and tremble violently. The wide Taoist robe on his body was whirring in the wind, and it was very terrifying to look at.

Let's put it this way, it's similar to the case of a sheep epileptic attack.

And the crowd that bowed down to him saw this. It is even more religious. He shouted loudly in his mouth.

At this time, a woman in her thirties, holding a box in her hands, walked around the crowd, and everywhere she went, the crowd generously donated 10 yuan and 5 yuan into it.

Although the middle-aged Taoist man closed his eyes, he seemed to have pinched the time, and after that, the woman turned around, and he gradually returned to normal.

After another nonsense, he withdrew his wooden sword as if he was seriously ill.

And the crowd shouted: "Thank God for a long kindness!" Save people from fire and water! ”

The middle-aged Daoist bowed slightly: "Poor Dao's mana consumption is too much today, and the water demon has been subdued by Poor Dao." The calamity is gone, and you and other good men and women can go back on their own. ”

The crowd bowed their heads in thanks.

Just when the merits of a Dharma service are complete. More than a dozen lights suddenly lit up in the distance, seemingly hands.

"Secretary Chen, this is it."

Said the bespectacled man who led the way.

The man behind him quickened his pace, and in a few moments he came to the chief.

Followed by more than a dozen uniformed policemen at the same time, the scene was arrested.

Obviously, these people who came in a hurry were Chen Yang and his party.

Chen Yang, who was busy with Ji Xian'er ** in front, received a call from his secretary Wan Wei, saying that he was after work tonight. went back to Dawang Village where his wife's mother's house used to live to eat, and ate until it was up. Hearing someone shouting outside that there were a few children in the village playing by the river, he was frightened by the water demon, so he went to the village clinic to look, and sure enough, one of the children was black and purple, lying unconscious in the simple ward of the village clinic.

The rumor of this water demon began to spread widely in the neighborhood a few years ago, and it has a large audience. The people in the village were superstitious, so they invited the respected Tianyi Elder to do things to eliminate disasters and drive away water demons. The people in the village are already very poor, and they have to pay for the filial piety of the king on weekdays, but if they want to do things, it is a lot of expenses. As a party member, when he saw this kind of thing, he immediately called the police, but no one at the police station paid attention to him at all, so he had to call Chen Yang for help.

Chen Yang had long heard that illegal religious organizations were rampant in the countryside around Xinzhuang. There are as many as the old illegal religious organizations such as the Lingling Sect, the Shouting Sect, and the Tianyi King in the whole region, and the number of believers is overwhelming. A small number of administrative villages were even controlled by some illegal religious organizations and feudal clan forces.

Before he could clean it up, it started again.

This kind of illegal activity is very headaches, for example, what kind of "Tianyi Wang" Taoist name is called Tianyi Chang, he is a listed Taoist priest of the China Taoist Association, claiming to belong to a Taoist priest who has a Taoist record, and whenever someone from the police station arrests him for the crime of disturbing social order, as soon as he shows the amulet of a religious person, the police will not take him seriously, and he will have to be released after a few days. Besides, those good men and women are not easy to mess with.

Hanging up the phone, he immediately called Director Peng of the Development Zone Bureau of the Jiaozhou Public Security Bureau, and Director Zhang immediately called the police station under his jurisdiction.

It was already over. Unexpectedly, not long after, Wan Wei called him again, saying that the people at the police station were not useful, and there were too many people, and they didn't dare to arrest people at all.

At this moment, Chen Yang was really surprised. Without saying a word, I hung up the phone and rushed here. For the sake of safety, he also deliberately brought more than a dozen policemen from the substation.

The dirt road is potholed, and the road is difficult to navigate, so it has been delayed for a long time.

By the time he arrives here. The discovery has come to an end.

glanced at the money box in the hand of the little dao boy, and then glanced back at the crowd here, at least no less than three hundred, ten yuan per person, this is dozens of yuan in hand, this business is very profitable.

Tianyi Chang seems to be familiar with this situation. Unhurriedly packed up his things.

Chen Yang said to a police officer beside him: "Captain Jiang, call this old man over." ”

Not for a while. Captain Jiang led the old Dao over, he didn't panic, and made a gesture to Chen Yang: "Poor Dao Law Tianyi, I don't know what advice this leader has?" ”

"Where are you from?" Chen Yang asked.

"The poor Taoist is under the long door of Wang Liansheng Dao of the Yanjing City Pass Temple, and the Taoist registration number is Luqing." Speaking of the division, Tianyi's long face shone brightly.

Chen Yang frowned when he heard this, he remembered that the teaching staff should have wanted to "propose the local Taoist association" for approval, but listening to this Tianyi's accent, he was fluent in the local dialect.

He wanted to take the priest back and ask what was going on, but now although the crowd was separated by the police, they were all staring at him. If you don't have any excuse, pull someone away. I'm afraid it will cause a civil uprising, and it will be a bit difficult to do for a while.

asked Tianyi: "Since your Taoist temple is in Yanjing." It's not good to cultivate there, what are you doing here? ”

"The poor road is now traveling all over the world, purifying all sentient beings. There is no fixed place yet. "The day is long, and the answer is like a stream.

Chen Yang almost wanted to vomit, but he didn't want to get into trouble with religion, so he went back to check the foundation of this old way, so he said politely: "Tianyi is long, right?" In this way, you return the villagers' incense money to the others, and then go back to your master's door to cultivate the Tao. I don't want to hold you accountable for your bewitching here, but if you take advantage of that water demon six again

When Chen Yangwang said this, a seven-foot wave suddenly rolled up on the originally calm river in the distance, and he turned around.

At first glance, a huge gray object about three or four meters long was faintly revealed on the surface of the river, like a small submarine, and it was slowly paraded in a position near the riverbank, and it was a little similar to the sound of whimpering

Hell yes!

Could it be that there are sharks in this green river?

Chen Yang's face changed slightly.

"The water demon has appeared, the water demon has appeared!"

I don't know who roared, and the crowd on the shore suddenly became a mess, some fled, and some immediately knelt down to worship.

"Don't anger the water demon, or the village will be in trouble.

"It must be that the official just now grabbed the Taoist chief, and the Taoist chief was angry, and he showed his powers!"

For a while, there was a lot of shouting and shouting on the shore, saying everything, and even many * women hugged their children and cried.

Even Tian Yichang, who had been calm and relaxed, panicked, and his face instantly turned pale. Immediately pulled out his legs and wanted to run.

Chen Yang was worried, and he turned back to give orders to the police officers, but he found that the police officers also retreated again and again, and Wan Wei, who had been promoting that he did not believe in evil, really believed in evil this time, and ran over and said: "Secretary Chen, run, the water demon is here!" ”

"Bastard, run, run!" Chen Yang snorted.

He doesn't believe in this evil, the Loch Ness Monster has been confirmed to be probably a rotten piece of wood, and there are really any water monsters in this small river?

Without further ado, he quickly gave an order: "Captain Jiang, leave two people to maintain order on the shore, and everyone else will follow me to the riverside!" He said. threw the captain of Tianyi, who refused to leave, to a police officer on the side, and strode to the river.

There was no boat on the shore, so Chen Yang had to shine a flashlight on it, and found that the monster saw that someone was coming, so he hurriedly turned his head and swam back in the direction of Jiangxin, and disappeared into the deep water in the blink of an eye, without a trace

I waited by the river for another ten minutes, but I didn't see the monster appear again. Chen Yang couldn't help it. I had to call everyone back.

When I turned around, I found that the crowd on the shore was still bowing three times and nine times.

It's almost the 21st century, why these villagers are still so ignorant, it's really unreasonable.

"This leader, forgive me for being blunt, if you anger the water demon this time, there will be disaster in Xinzhuang." I don't know when the day is long, and I don't know when I will regain that dignified appearance.

Chen Yang didn't catch the monster, he was already unhappy, and then he heard this old Taoist chirping crooked and crooked gossip here to confuse the public, Teng became angry, and ordered left and right: "Captain Jiang, arrest this Taoist priest back, confiscate all the sesame oil money, contact Yanjing tomorrow, if you can't find this person, immediately put him in prison." ”

Tianyi shouted again and again that he was wronged. A group of ignorant people also came up to snatch people from the police, but fortunately, Chen Yang brought a large number of people. Otherwise, I really can't go.

The next day, Chen Yang had a number of warning signs erected by the river, warning the crowd not to swim in the river.

In fact, he was too worried, the Green River to Xinzhuang section, because the silt along the coast has not been cleaned for many years, the river has become very narrow, and his work to control the Green River has just begun, and the current Green River is not much different from the stinky ditch. That is, only ignorant children will play by the river, and adults may have long been far away.

Not long after, he personally contacted the Geography Office of the Jiaozhou Municipal Government to see if there were any large fish in the Green River. However, the other party quickly replied, I have never heard of any large fish species in the Green River, the largest fish is a few catties of grass carp, and the strange fish that is more than three meters long and nearly four meters long is even more unheard of than Chen Yang.

After more than a week like this, the comrades sent to the shore to search for them found nothing, and Chen Yang put this aside in advance.

The only good news is that after investigation, there is no person named Luqing in the China Taoist Association, and his teacher is also made up. Yanjing City Long Temple also does not have a Taoist called Wang Liansheng

This Tianyi is called Wang Cong, who is basically a villager in the mountains near Dawang Village, after going out to work for a few years, he came back and became a Taoist chief, and the female believer who helped him collect money that day was actually his wife.

The police have officially filed a case to detain Wang Cong and his wife, and the case is under review.

By mid-August, Jiangnan Province began to rain torrential rain in the whole province, and the annual flood season arrived as scheduled.

Jiaozhou is no exception, and it is in dire straits every day.

After returning from the flood control meeting in the city, Chen Yang also took urgent action and established the Xinzhuang Flood Control Headquarters, and personally served as the commander-in-chief. At the same time, all cadres and masses were mobilized to raise the embankment. I can't help it, look at the rain. It is estimated that this year's flood control form shì is enough.

However, while organizing flood control, a rumor suddenly began to circulate among the people. It was rumored that this heavy rain was caused by Chen Yang's illegal detention of the Heavenly Chiefs and the expulsion of the water demon, which led to the curse of heaven.

In this regard, Chen Yang laughed. Mobilize the police. Arrested all the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods who walked the rumors. In just a few days, the leaders of illegal religious organizations that were quite famous in the countryside, such as the leader of the Spirit Sect and the Heavenly King of the Shouting Sect, were arrested. In fact, it is not very difficult to catch these demons, these people are active in the fields all day long. One catches one accurately. It's just that no leader has had such an iron fist as Chen Yang before, he will catch it when he says it, and he doesn't care about you at all.

However, in this way, it has also caused great resentment among the people. Many foolish believers came to the district government to make trouble, and Chen Yang forcibly dispersed them.

At 11 o'clock in the evening of the old August, the water level had climbed to the warning line of Daomi.

Many places on both sides of the strait have burst their embankments, but fortunately they have been blocked by Chen Yang and others. It's just that Xinzhuang slandered Yan zhòng, and the stagnant water on the streets was generally up to his knees.

Chen Yang and all the members of the district party committee gathered in a small conference room on the third floor for a meeting, paying close attention to the progress of the water situation.

"Director Liu, is there any news from the Municipal Flood Control Office?"

Chen Yang's face was grim, and he asked Liu Rong, who rushed into the office with Xiang Wang.

"Yes, secretary, Director Tian of the Municipal Flood Control Office just called, saying that Hong Feng will pass by Xinzhuang at about 0:00 tonight." Liu Rong reported anxiously.

Nine?

Chen Yang raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was already a quarter past eight o'clock, and Hong Feng would arrive soon, after several days and nights of continuous fighting, the embankment along the river had been raised to Ermi, as for whether he could bear it, it was up to God.

Next, Chen Yang asked about the situation in several places where the embankment was broken, and the people below reported that the party member commando had been blocked.

After receiving the report, Chen Yang breathed a sigh of relief. Then all the cadres were arranged to go out to patrol their posts.

He sat down and pressed his forehead hard, he hadn't slept for two days and two nights, and now he was sleepy as soon as he sat down.

Just as he was ordering a cigarette to relieve his fatigue, his phone rang. took it out and saw that it was Ji Xian'er calling.

"Is there something wrong, Xian'er?" When the flood season arrived, Chen Yang had already driven Ji Xian'er back to the provincial capital. At that time, Ji Xian'er also had a chain restaurant to open, so she had to go back.

"Husband, I took it and said that Hong Feng will pass through the Guò Green River at 0:00 tonight, are you still safe there?"

"Hehe, you can rest assured, it's a sleepy point. The other qiē is good. Chen Yang smiled. He said, "Okay, I'm very busy on the phone, I have nothing else to do, so I'll hang up first." ”

Boom!

There was a knock on the office door, and Wan Wei hurriedly rushed in: "Secretary, secretary!" ”

Chen Yang's face changed, he was most afraid of hearing the news of the embankment breaking, and hung up the phone with a "snap". He got up and asked, "What's wrong?" Is there something missing? ”

"No, husband, I still want to talk to you. Don't you first" Ji Xian'er was halfway through her words when she heard a busy beep she held the phone and fidgeted a little in the room after a while. She couldn't bear the torment any longer, got up and put on a raincoat, picked up a flashlight and rushed out of the house.

in the office.

Wan Wei gasped breathlessly and said: "No, it's not good, secretary, the village chief of Dawang Village in Dawang Village has gathered hundreds of villagers to petition near Ditan, saying that he wants the government to release Tianyi Chang immediately, otherwise they will not die and will not go down the embankment." ”

"Nonsense!"

Chen Yang's face changed drastically, and he slapped the table fiercely.