Chapter Seventy-Five: Li Wu
Because Li Peng's injuries were too serious to walk, and there was still a long distance from Juxian, Master Qingxin had to take him and the children to a nearby ruined temple to rest.
On the way, they also met a dog, which seemed to have been scratched by some wild beast, and when they saw them, they barked, and there was a person lying not far from the dog, and that person was Zhang Tude, who had fainted.
The rest of the story is the same as what Li Peng said to Zhang Tude in the broken temple, Zhang Tude launched a madness as soon as he entered the temple, but fortunately he was stopped by Master Qingxin.
After knocking the crazy Zhang Tude unconscious and tying him up, Master Qingxin first bandaged Li Peng briefly, and then went out again, and when he came back, he got a few bowls of millet porridge out of nowhere, and he fed the porridge to the children who had been hungry for several days.
After the children woke up, Li Peng asked Master Qingxin to send the children to Juxian, then report to the officials, and ask his family to send a carriage to take him back.
Master Qingxin agreed, and before leaving, he saw that the dog beside Zhang Tude looked sick, which should be related to the scratches on his body, and he also took it away to heal by the way.
After that, Zhang Tude also knew that after he woke up, he and Li Peng met Chen Jiu, who had become a monster, because after Li Peng took those children out, he was still worried about whether he would be retributed by the Rain King, and it was a rainy day at the time, so he didn't even see Chen Jiu's appearance and directly regarded him as the Rain King.
"In this way, have the people from the county order and the prison heaven department gone to check the Rainy Heavenly King Temple in the past few days?"
After listening to this, Zhang Tude asked Li Peng, not to mention the matter of the living sacrifice, just because ordinary people have become that strange appearance inexplicably, and the people in charge of the Heavenly Division should also be in charge here.
"Lord Liu said that he wrote it down, and when he finished tracking down the red-eyed stranger, he would go to deal with the matter of the Rain King." Speaking of this, Li Peng glanced outside the door, and when he saw that no one was approaching again, he whispered to Zhang Tude:
"In the eyes of Qian County Ling and Lord Liu, the matter of that red-eyed strange man is much more important than that of the Rainy Heavenly King.
Because a big man's convoy was attacked by those weirdos when he passed through Juxian, I heard that the big man was still a relative of the emperor, otherwise the Qian County Order would not have reported it to the Jian Tian Division so quickly. ”
"That big guy was slaughtered by the red-eyed weirdo?"
"No, no, no." Hearing Zhang Tude's words, Li Peng was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again and said:
"There are dead people, but they are all red-eyed strangers, and the lord has several strange people with magical powers under his command who have killed all the strange people who attacked the convoy.
However, the adult was angry, and asked Qian County to tell the people of the Prison Heaven Division that they must kill all those red-eyed demons, and after leaving this sentence, the big man left Juxian. ”
"Ugh." Zhang Tude only sighed after hearing this, and didn't say anything more about Qian County's order and Lord Liu's practice of giving priority to red-eyed weirdos.
After all, the red-eyed monster attacked not only the convoy of the big man, but also the people passing by, no matter which of these two things is dealt with first, it will be beneficial to the people here, and after a while, Zhang Tude said again:
"I hope this is just the first time that those villagers have performed a living sacrifice, if there have been before, I don't know how many people have been killed."
"The previous county magistrate of Qian County Commander had investigated the matter of the Rainy Heavenly King Temple, and also invited someone from the Heavenly Supervisor Division to come over, but in the end, there was no result."
"Then they will do the work of sacrifices?"
"It's not." Li Peng shook his head, and then looked at Zhang Tude: "Brother Tude, do you remember when I said before that the relief food that Juxian County was going to give to the surrounding villagers was missing?" ”
"Remember, is this still related to the Rain King?" When he heard Li Peng say that the Rainy Heaven King conjured grain for the villagers' homes out of thin air, Zhang Tude felt that something was wrong.
"Yes, I also eavesdropped on what my brother and my father said, at that time my brother was just a catcher, he said that after the drought, Lu County ordered to report it as soon as possible, and also called the big households in the county to gather relief food.
But the wagons carrying the grain disappeared on the way to the affected villages, and the former head catcher and dozens of government officials and migrant workers who were in charge of escorting the grain were all crazy, and no one knew what was happening.
After Lu Xianling learned about this, he fainted on the spot, and after waking up, he sent someone to investigate the matter, but he couldn't find out the result, and the surrounding villagers were going to starve to death, just waiting for food to save their lives.
So at that time, Lu Xianling said that he was going to open the official warehouse to release grain, and he would bear all the responsibility, but he didn't expect that after Lu Xianling said this, he hanged himself the next day.
After that, there were rumors that Lu County ordered to embezzle grain and commit suicide in fear of crime, but my brother didn't believe it and kept checking where the grain went.
It wasn't until they heard that there was food out of thin air in the villages that worshiped the Rain King, and some people speculated that the lack of food was related to the Rain King, and when the new Yan County Commander took office, they told him about the situation. ”
"And what about later? Didn't you find anything in the new county order? Zhang Tude asked, the county orders of Ju County have been replaced by Qian County orders, and the Rainy Tianwang Temple is still there.
"There is no food in the first place, and the Temple of the Rainy Heaven King should also be demolished, because according to the law of the Four Qi, it is illegal to worship this kind of evil shrine." Li Peng thought for a moment, thinking that he remembered something before continuing:
"The first thing Yan Xianling did after taking office was to let people go and demolish the Rainy Heavenly King Temple, but thinking that the Rainy Heavenly King had strange abilities, he was afraid that it was not an evil spirit, so he reported it to the Supervisor Heaven Division again.
I have also seen the person who supervised the Heavenly Division, he looks strange, he has two mouths on his face and four hands on his body, unlike Lord Liu and Brother Tude, although he has magical powers, but he looks the same as us ordinary people, when he came, he frightened the people of the whole county.
The first thing the lord of the prison heaven division did after he came was to go straight to the best flower building in the county, and he drank and had fun in the girls' pile for several days, until Yan Xianling couldn't stand it anymore and came to persuade him in person, and the lord reluctantly went to the villages where the rain king was worshipped with a drunken body, and he didn't let Yan Xianling and other officials follow.
But in less than half a day, the lord came back and told Yan County Ling that there was nothing evil in those villages, just a group of mortals worshipping there, and let Yan County Order take care of it, and left Ju County directly after speaking.
In the end, the Temple of the Rainy King was not demolished, because the Yan County Order resigned a few days after the adult left, and then it came to the current Qian County Order, he didn't want to demolish the Rainy King Temple, and even the surrounding bandits he didn't dare to offend, so the Temple of the Rainy King has been left until now, and the incense is getting more and more vigorous. ”
"Did the Yan County Order say that it was because of what resigned?"
"No, at that time, Yan County Ling directly said that he handed over his resignation to Shangguan, and after leaving the official seal, he left with his family, and he didn't even go through the normal handover process, some people said that he was scared away by the Rainy King.
I just hope that Lord Liu can take care of this rainy king after dealing with the red-eyed stranger. ”
The water in this county seems to be very deep, but this is not something that he can manage, Zhang Tude said secretly in his heart, now he is unable to protect himself, and he can't help others. Anyway, there are people from the Heavenly Division, so let them take care of it.
"And what about the children you rescued from the Rainy Heavenly King's Temple?"
"They are all in my house, and after a while, I will see if I can find a few good families to adopt them."
Before Li Peng could continue, a person walked in outside the door, and Zhang Tude took a look and found that it was the head catcher who fought with Chen Jiu that day, that is, Li Peng's eldest brother Li Wu.
Li Wu was still wearing the head-catching suit, but he didn't carry the knife, he walked in with a food box in his hand, and Li Peng saw his eldest brother coming, so he quickly got up and greeted him:
"Brother, you're back."
Li Wu handed the food box in his hand to Li Peng, and then said:
"When I came back, I happened to pass by the kitchen, and they said that Mr. Zhang was awake and was cooking for him, so I waited for them to bring it to Mr. Zhang when they were ready."
After speaking, Li Wu came to Zhang Tude and bowed to him:
"Thank you, Master Zhang, for saving my brother."
At this time, Zhang Tude didn't speak, nor did he look at the fragrant food box, he only had one thought in his mind, Li Wu went out with Lord Liu of the Prison Heaven Division, since he came back, that Lord Liu should also come back, right?