Chapter Eighty-Four: Baojiang and Yu'er
At the dinner table, Zhang Tude and Li Li began to talk about the recent events in Ju County, and the atmosphere slowly relaxed, and when there were more and more refugees from outside Ju County, Li Li looked at Li Peng:
"Have the children you rescued found someone willing to adopt them?"
Li Peng took a bite of the food, and when he heard his father ask, he quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and replied:
"After I came back from the temple that day, I asked my friends to find a few good people who were willing to adopt them, three of the four children have found someone, and there is still a boy missing, I will look for it again in the next few days."
After hearing this, Li Li touched his beard and said:
"You should be careful when you find a family for those children, I heard that some people in the county have adopted refugee children, and they treat them as cattle and horses, so that they can't have enough to eat every day, and do the work of several people, don't do bad things with good intentions."
"Mmmm, my father is right, I'll pay attention."
This time, because of Li Peng, the Li family was bleeding heavily, and the silver for Master Qingxin to repair the temple was only a small matter, and in order to heal them, he also gave out two family heirlooms.
However, for the sake of Li Peng doing good deeds and saving the lives of several children, Li Li did not punish him too much, otherwise if it was something else, Li Li would have to wait for him to recover from his injuries before beating him seriously injured.
Speaking of refugees, Zhang Tude also remembered the group of people he met on the road, he first knew that the red-eyed stranger was told to him by this group, and they also said that Juxian was driving away outsiders, and even killed people, so he also asked:
"Brother Li, I heard that Juxian drove out all the refugees from outside the county a few days ago? Is this true? ”
"Well, it's true, this was ordered by Qian County, and those who didn't want to leave were ordered to be beaten by him.
For this matter, my brother fell out with Qian County, and he planned to resign from this arrest after accompanying Lord Liu to investigate the red-eyed strange man case, fortunately, this Qian County Commander ....."
Before Li Peng finished speaking, he was glared at by Li Wu, so he didn't say anything about the killing of Qian County's order later.
Zhang Tude poured some tea into his cup while listening to Li Peng's speech, perhaps considering Zhang Tude and Li Peng's injuries, he replaced wine with tea at the dinner table, and waited until he drank some tea to moisten his throat before continuing to ask:
"Why did the Qian County Order do this? Was he afraid of the refugees? ”
Because he was worried that Li Peng would speak nonsense, Li Wu answered Zhang Tude's doubt before he opened his mouth:
"Lord Zhang, this is because some of the refugees from Daliang have people from the Fajiao, these people had a conflict with a group of Zhao people a few days ago, which caused a lot of trouble to the county, and then the Qian County Order arrested the Fajiao people in prison, and this conflict stopped.
But within a few days, two refugees went to Qian County's house to assassinate him, but they were discovered and unsuccessful.
It happened that there was a red-eyed weirdo incident at that time, and the Qian County Commander reported the Fajiao and the red-eyed weirdo to the Jiantian Division together, and at the same time asked people to drive out all the refugees in the county.
At that time, I and several colleagues in the county government felt that there were only a small number of people in the Fajiao, and most of the refugees were innocent, so we advised Qian County not to do this, but he just didn't listen. ”
Zhang Tude nodded after listening, he knew what the Fa Sect was, because he had heard Gao Wen talk about the Fa Sect, and during the time he lived in Weishan County, he would occasionally hear someone discuss this.
Fajiao is an emerging religion from Daliang, brought into Siqi by people who fled from Daliang, and they worship an existence called Yu'er God, claiming that the natural disasters that occurred in Daliang are the incarnation of Yu'er God, and in the territory of Siqi, this religion is equivalent to a cult and is forbidden to preach:
"Then why did the people of the Fa Sect fight with the people of Zhao Guo?"
"Those Zhao people also believe in any god like the people of the Fajiao, but the gods on both sides are different, and the people of the Fajiao let them convert to Yu'er God, but they don't follow, and the two sides fight."
This made Zhang Tude interested, and hurriedly asked:
"What is the origin of those Zhao people?"
"They came to Juxian a few years ago, opened a medical clinic here, and the consultation fees were very cheap, and many poor people in their families went to them when they were sick, and after the illness was cured, they also sent some food to the patients.
Later, many big families in the county also went to them, because the medical clinic was not only cheap, but also their medical skills were very high, especially for those who had suffered external injuries, and I used to have a good friend who was injured in the arm, and after the medical center put some ointment on him, he was cured within a few days.
It's just that the people of Zhao in that hospital have to worship a god called Baojiang every day, and they say that their methods of saving people come from this Baojiang god, and over time, many people in the county follow them and believe in this Baojiang god. ”
"And that kind of thing?" Zhang Tude naturally didn't believe that the medical hall would give benefits to patients for no reason, it was estimated that he did it in order to make people believe in this Baojiang, but just from the perspective of treating diseases and healing injuries, these Zhao people do have some real skills, maybe there are people who know how to do it:
"Then the Qian County Order only arrested the people of the Fajiao, and those Zhao people will not be arrested?"
Before Li Wu could answer this question, Li Li stood up, poured some tea into Zhang Tude's cup, and then sat back in his seat and said:
"Master Zhang, these people can't be arrested, a few boys in my martial arts hall also believe this, I heard them say that the Baojiang Sect is already the state religion in Zhao State, and it has been recognized by Zhao Guo and our four Qi two countries' Heavenly Supervisors, and besides, they haven't done anything illegal."
"That's it." Since it is the state religion of another country and has been recognized by the Prison Division, they should not do anything out of the ordinary to the people of Juxian.
Several people finished the meal while chatting like this, and Zhang Tude was quite satisfied with the meal, not only tasting the food, but also learning some information.
After eating, Zhang Tude and the others chatted for a while and then got up to say goodbye, seeing that Zhang Tude was leaving, Li Wuzhan also got up and said:
"Master Zhang, shall I send you back?"
Zhang Tude declined Li Wu's help, and after waking up, he found that his body was much better, at least he didn't have to hold a cane to walk, although he hurt for a while when he summoned Master You, but after taking the Xiao Yun Blood Pill, he slowly got better.
"That lord, I have already asked people to prepare your medicinal bath, it is in the house closest to the gate of the courtyard, maybe you will feel painful and itchy when you soak it, but please be sure to stay in it for half an hour, this is Lord Liu's request, he said that this is the medicinal bath to have an effect."
"yes, I see."
Zhang Tude left the living room of the Li family and returned to the courtyard, and then came to the room that Li Wu had said, in which a large wooden barrel and a few pieces of clothing were placed, and in the wooden barrel was a white liquid.
The liquid smelled a little pungent, Zhang Tude first reached into the wooden barrel with his hand to test it, the water temperature was very suitable, and it was no different from ordinary clear water to the touch, but when the injured position of Zhang Tude's arm touched those white liquids, it did feel painful and itchy as Li Wu said, and it was very uncomfortable.
After feeling that the medicinal bath was not dangerous, Zhang Tude took off his clothes and walked into the wooden barrel, and the uncomfortable feeling quickly spread to his whole body.
"Whew, enough."
How to say this feeling, it's like being beaten all over the body, and then immediately being stung all over the wound by a large group of mosquitoes, and you can't help but want to scratch it, but it hurts when you touch it.
Fortunately, Zhang Tude was able to persevere, and as time passed, he slowly got used to this feeling, but at this moment, the barrel shook as if something was over.
Zhang Tude sensed that something was wrong and tried to get out of the barrel, but the white liquid in the barrel grabbed him as if it had become a substance, and then soaked his entire body, including his head.