Chapter Ninety-Six: Evil Sacrifices

On the official road, the two people walked side by side. A person in a green coat holds a dust, and a person in a coat carrying a long sword.

Xue Zhenye expected that Li Xuangan was arrogant and difficult to deal with, so he simply kept silent all the way. This move was light, but it made Li Xuanjian feel depressed enough.

Li Xuangan has the same name as Tang Shi, but in fact, it is because he is a generation of Shangqing Xuanzi. This person is the great disciple of the Xuanzi generation, who entered Maoshan ten years ago, and has cultivated to the peak of refining and refining Qi for more than ten years, and is only one step away from stepping into the realm of refining Qi and transforming gods.

This kind of cultivation is also outstanding in the cultivation world! This time, I got the order of the master, and went to Shenjing to invite the true martial artist to go to Maoshan Mountain, and I accidentally heard that the Taoist person was born with a fairy bone!

Li Xuangan immediately felt resentful, and he wanted to lose Xue Zhenyi's majesty. Who would have thought that Xue Zhenye didn't leave his hand behind, except for the initial greeting, he didn't say a word along the way.

Li Xuangan thought that he had to think of a way to do it with Xue Zhenye, and peeked at it, but saw Xue Zhenye walking around, looking around curiously, leisurely, so uncomfortable.

Li Xuangan followed Xue Zhenye's gaze and saw the green cows mooing in the fields, the farmers shouting, ploughing the paddy fields little by little; There are shepherd boys squatting on the ridges of the fields, blowing the sound of the flute; And the woman who was in the cloth and the head of the cloth carried a basket and planted the seedlings in the paddy fields.

"What are you looking at?"

Xue Zhenye came back to his senses and said with a smile: "What an idyllic song...... Brother Dao, forgive me, Xiaodao has been infected with illness since childhood, or confined to his family house, or practiced penance in the mountains, this is the first time I have seen such an idyllic scene."

"I see."

Xue Zhenye was interested and asked, "Brother Dao is a high road in Maoshan Mountain, and he often goes down the mountain to get Jiao when he wants to come, so he is quite familiar with the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River?"

"The junior brother has won the award, but the poor road knows a little bit about it."

Xue Zhenye asked, "I don't know how the harvest is every year in the small farmer's family in Jiangnan?"

"Huh?" Li Xuangan began to scratch his head. He usually devoted himself to cultivation, where did he have the heart to care about the people's suffering? It is a plain Jiao, and it is mostly walking in large households. Small people and small households ask to go to Maoshan Mountain, and they will probably give a spiritual rune.

Even if small people and small households have to do things, most of them are done by the disciples of Xia Mao Mountain, where can they use him to make a move like this?

Li Xuangan felt a few years older, thought about it slightly, and said, "It's not easy to say it in general...... The family has five acres of paddy fields, and each year can get thirteen or four stones of grain, and the woman can get about eleven or two stones of grain per year."

Xue Zhenye began to frown. A homesteader with five acres of land can get 25 stone of grain and brown rice for 4 taels of silver per stone a year, and the income at the end of the year is less than 10 taels of silver!

This is still a yeoman farmer, so wouldn't the tenants and hired laborers fared worse?

He blurted out, "How can you survive with such an income that is only enough for food and clothing?"

Li Xuan said, "The world is like this, what can I do? The poor road heard that the villagers ate in the fields, the spring moon weaved, and the cloth was easy to rice, and there was no grain left at home; In May, when the fields are pressing, winter clothes are exchanged for rice; In autumn, there is a little rain, and the sound of the machine is all over the village, hugging the cloth and eating rice; In March of winter, and the rent has been repaid, the remaining rice is placed in the spring white, and returned to the library to barter clothes.

In this way, if the family suffers a disaster or illness, I am afraid that the family will be ruined, and I will have to pawn my children and sell my daughter."

Sell winter clothes in May and redeem them in winter...... It's also miserable! It is said that Jiangnan is rich, but the yeoman farmers are living like this, so wouldn't the tenants and hired laborers live even worse?

Li Xuangan said that, seeing Xue Zhenye frowning and thinking, he persuaded him: "Since the junior brother is a cultivator, this mortal world should be less polluted, so as not to mess up the Dao heart."

Xue Zhenye bowed slightly, and was silent. The two walked for a while, and then they saw that the blowing and blowing in the distance were not lively.

I saw the villagers wearing red and green, carrying a female paper figure towards the mountain.

"Brother Dao, why is that? But a yin marriage?"

Li Xuangan looked at the past, his face suddenly turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Evil sacrifice Yin worship! The people of the countryside are really ignorant and ignorant."

"Yin?"

"Five-way God!" Li Xuan sighed: "This must be a move to borrow yin debts!"

Wutong Shen Xue Zhenye saw it when he was looking through the Daozang, but this borrowed Yin debt

First time I heard of it.

Xue Zhenye was curious in his heart, and said, "Brother Dao, the left and right Maoshan Mountains are not far from here, why don't you and I take a look at them from a distance?"

"This ...... Real people are urging ......."

"Brother Dao, it's not that Xiaodao doesn't go, but if you take a look at Yin Xi, if you want to be reasonable, you will definitely understand Xiaodao."

"Well, let's take a look."

The two immediately turned around and chased after the group of villagers.

Li Xuangan was impatient, but Xue Zhenye had always been polite, and Li Xuangan was stunned that he couldn't find a reason to be mad. Xue Zhenye kept asking, and Li Xuangan said two sentences, revealing his nature of being a good teacher.

According to Li Xuangan, these five gods have long been worshipped. Maoshan Daozang records that there were five gods in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

In the second year of Tang Guangqi, five gods descended from the sky in the north of Wuyuan City. These five are talking about the five gods.

There are many names of Wutong gods, such as Wuxian, Wulang, Wusheng, Wurampant, Wuge, etc., all of which are Wutong gods.

During the Xuanhe period of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Song saw that the Wutong God was powerful, so he simply came to an official endorsement and enshrined the Wutong God as Tongzhenhou, Tongyouhou, Tongzehou, Tonghuihou, and Tongjihou; Later, he was awarded the title of "Xianying Gong, Xianji Gong, Xianling Gong, Xianning Gong, Xianyou Gong".

The official family of Zhao and Song Dynasty endorsed it, but the Daomen at that time scoffed at it, and only regarded the five gods as just mountain spirits and wild monsters, and they were never sealed at all. So the discussion will rise, and these five gods are still Yin worship.

On the fifth day of the first month of each year, the God of Wealth is welcomed, and it is these five people who are welcomed.

Xue Zhenye secretly said good guys, dare to love the people who welcomed the God of Wealth in his previous life, but the Ying was not a righteous god at all.

These five gods are not sealed by the Daomen, but because of the people's incense and willingness, they are in a good way at the beginning. Some people have a famine, and they ask for five gods, and the rice jar at home is suddenly full of rice grain, and they don't eat for several days.

Later, the great monks began to make things bad, saying that these five gods were originally Buddhist slaves. The Song Dynasty Buddhist classic "Five Lantern Huiyuan" records: The monk asked: How is the ancient Buddha dojo? The teacher said: There is no incense burner in the Wutong Temple." Since then, the Wutong God has been equated with the Buddhist Wutong Immortal.

According to the Huayan Sutra, Wutong Immortal is a symbol of "Yin Desire", "Wutong Immortal is a great virtue, and the loss of supernatural power is due to women", "Women call for bathing together." When the woman's hand touches it softly, her heart becomes Yin's desire, that is, she loses her powers."

In this way, taken out of context, the five gods have become evil sacrifices. So now there is the saying of borrowing yin debts.

The so-called borrowing of yin debts is a move by people who seek the five gods and lose their yang longevity and get a windfall.

Xue Zhenye was amazed when he heard it: "Strange, what does the Wutong God want Yang Shou to do?"

"Mountain spirits and wild monsters, how do you know what you think and what you think?"

Xue Zhenye frowned and said, "This place is quite close to Maoshan Mountain, how can ten thousand people not care?"

Li Xuan sighed and said, "How to manage? The villagers and that Yin worship you and I will, how can I manage it?"

The two stopped while talking, there was a temple standing on the hillside not far away, the villagers blew and blow, and offered the paper people into it, and then many villagers came forward to kowtow to incense, and there were words in their mouths, which were quite religious.

Suddenly, a person shouted, and jumped on the spot: "Meaning! I borrowed it, I borrowed it! The five-way god said that there will be a windfall tomorrow!"

The villagers were all in amazement.

Some villagers said, "Su Er, how many years have you given up your longevity?"

Na Su Er said without hesitation: "It's only ten years!"

Another admiration, everyone said that Su Er's life was good.

Na Su Er arched his hand left and right, turned his head joyfully and ran down the hill. Xue Zhenye saw that Na Su was about twenty or thirty years old, with a dark complexion, and thought that he was a farmer in the township. immediately took a step to block the way, and said, "Mercy, this old man is invited, there is something I don't understand in the poor way, I don't know if the old brother can solve the puzzle for the poor road?"

The villager took a step back and said with great vigilance, "What are you going to do, a Taoist priest?"

Xue Zhenye blinked, turned over his hand and took out a piece of broken silver, threw it over and said, "Don't let the brother be busy in vain, just answer a few questions from the poor road, and this silver is the brother's."

The villager weighed it slightly, immediately put it in his mouth and bit out the tooth marks, and then said happily

"The Lord of the Five Paths God appeared, and there was indeed a windfall! Monk Wuna, if you have something to say, I still have to return home."

Xue Zhenye said in a harmonious manner, "The poor Daoguan brother just borrowed the Yin debt...... I wonder if you've ever seen that five-way god?"

Su Er began to frown and said, "I don't know if I've seen it or not, just now I prayed with all my heart, and the smoke suddenly rose in front of me, and there was a sound of a young child in Or. said that a windfall could be exchanged for ten years of longevity, and asked me if I would allow it. I answered, and the smoke dispersed."

Li Xuangan snorted coldly on the side, "Pretend to be a ghost!"

Xue Zhenye thought for a while and asked, "Brother is beaming, how can he not spare Yang Shou so much? Ten years is a lot of longevity."

The villager raised his eyebrows and said, "What is ten years of longevity? If you don't borrow debts, the whole family will be forced by Liu Dahu to pawn the land. If you don't have a family business, you go to work as a tenant for a big family, and you can't eat enough all year round after giving up your life, where can you live for ten years?"

At this time, another villager came down the mountain, and an old farmer praised from afar: "Su Er is so lucky, he actually borrowed a yin debt."

There was someone on the side: "It must be because Su Erniang has a bit of a look. I can't say that this guy will be the eighth king tomorrow!"

The old farmer shook his head and said, "It's better to be a king than to have no property. Hey, that's good luck."

Xue Zhenye asked, "Did my brother borrow money from Liu Dahu's family?"

"Where's the money? There was no way to continue at home, so I had to ask Liu Dahu and borrow two stones of grain. Liu Dahu is quite black-hearted, this year I received more than ten taels of silver, not counting, but now the capital has doubled to five taels."

Li Xuan, who was on the side, said, "Poor Dao heard that the loan from Dabao'en Temple is quite fair......

Su Er immediately said, "I don't know the monk of Dabao'en Temple, why did the monk lend me money? And the great monks are all full of fat, and I heard that the loan from the Dabao'en Temple is not much less than that of Liu Dahu."

Xue Zhenye lamented in his heart, fortunately, he was born in a large family, if he wanted to live in the family of ordinary people, even if he had a thousand skills, he was afraid that he would not be able to continue. This is still the prosperous era of Yankang, and it is still so difficult for the small people to survive.

In the coming day, when the flood and drought and locust plague catch up, where will the small people still have a way to live?

"One last question...... The five gods can say when they will come to take the ten years of yang life of the old man?"

"I didn't say that...... But I have heard that whoever borrows a debt will be seriously ill every three or two days. But there is no need for treatment, and it will get better in a few days."

asked Su Er's hometown again, and Xue Zhenye sent him away.

Xue Zhenye looked at the hillside again, and under his concentration, he vaguely saw a three-foot green-clothed villain crouching on the top of the temple, and the thief head and thief head looked down to worship the villagers.

Relax your mind, the little man in green suddenly disappeared. Xue Zhenye secretly thought, thinking that it was most of his divine sense, so he couldn't see clearly.

Turning around and bowing slightly at Li Xuangan: "Brother Dao, I'll wait to go."

"Oh...... Huh?" Li Xuangan was extremely surprised, he thought that Xue Zhenye was going to be nosy, and he didn't want to continue on the road after just asking a few words.

The two of them traveled all the way, and seeing that Jurong County was in sight, Li Xuangan couldn't help but say, "Senior brother, that Sujiazhuang is not far from here, doesn't the junior brother want to rush there with magic when he rests?"

[To tell the truth, I've been using it lately.]

It's going to turn the world upside down.

The big servants have been peaceful for a long time, and the imperial power only goes to the county, and the countryside is the countryside of the gentry and local tyrants. In the long run, the small people will no longer have a place to stand, how can they not rebel?

I only hope that Yu Qian will enter the court again and be able to save the sky in one fell swoop. Otherwise, in the troubled times, it will not be easy for the small people of Shengdou, and it will not be easy for them to live as cultivators.

Li Xuangan was silent for a while and said, "Why don't you go to Sujiazhuang, it's not too late to kill that evil god and leave."

Xue Zhenye stopped and said with a smile: "Brother Dao, it's easy to kill that evil god, but how can Su Er and the others borrow yin debts in the future?"

"Without the evil god, naturally there is no need to borrow Yin debts."

Xue Zhenye sighed and said, "If you can't borrow a yin debt, Brother Dao thinks that a man like Su Er can support him for a few years? I'm afraid that Liu Dahu will be able to swallow Su Er's entire family to the blink of an eye."

Li Xuan was speechless, always feeling that it shouldn't be like this, but he didn't know how to refute it.

After a pause, Xue Zhenye said, "It's also strange, why doesn't my Daomen learn from the monks of Dabao'en Temple and also engage in loans?"

Li Xuangan suddenly said in disgust: "How can my Dao Sect learn from those pickled monks and eat the flesh and blood of the small people?"

Xue Zhenye stopped, glanced at Li Xuangan in great surprise, and then took out a piece of silver, a silver ticket, and said, "This is ten taels of silver, this is ten taels of silver tickets from Da Bao'en Temple, Brother Dao, look, they are all ten taels, which one is noble?" Which one is dirty?"