"That's it...... You can look at these corpses or something, don't cheat the corpses halfway, it's so good. The boatwoman poured hot medicinal tea for everyone, and her eyes were full of fear of the corpse, but she did not regret receiving the money, so she simply covered the corpse behind the boat and covered it tightly with linoleum cloth.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law." When boarding the boat, the boat people and their husbands reported their homes, according to the rules of the industry, the male is called Zhu Fushun, and the female is called Ma Yanghua.

Lan Ruling drank all the ginger tea to dispel dampness and avoid the cold, and explained: "These corpses are the remains of salt hunters, they benefited the villagers when they were alive, and if they die, can they still harm the villagers?" We just want to send their bodies back to Xiu'an County, you can rest assured that they are all tightly wrapped, and there will never be the situation you said. "The matter of the salt beater, the news on the rivers and lakes circulates very quickly, Yueyang is the southwest trade port, and the news spreads rapidly, but if the government harms the good people for no reason, it will lead to a scolding of the children of the rivers and lakes, Ma Yanghua heard that it was the corpse of the salt beater, and the vigilance on his face gradually faded: "Oh, little sister, that sister-in-law can rest assured, you drink tea, we will start the boat soon." Ma Yanghua put the teapot on the stove, went out of the hall to help Zhu Fushun shake the white sail, and a black mist rumbled out in front of the boat, and the drift boat was already shaking, gradually leaving the shore of the lake and drifting forward towards Dongting Lake.

After the boat was far away from the dock, several people came out of the hall and leaned on the railing to look at Dongting Lake, when the distance was too far, the ancient city of Yueyang behind them had turned into a black line, gradually disappearing into the dark clouds, and the fleets everywhere sailed in an orderly manner, like thousands of flying insects floating on the lake.

"A boat like this should be an inland river transport ship, my second uncle and I have also seen this kind of boat transporting wood at the Fengtian Hunhe Wharf, but it used to be mostly manpower paddles, but this ship was changed to steam by Brother Fushun!" Song Siyuan listened to Yue Guanchao's words, stood on the railing and patted the passing barge, and could see in the distance near Junshan, there is a white brick tower with a spire that is taller than the White Fish Tower, with a green dragon relief on the body, and the dragon king temple is under it.

In the ordinary Dragon King Temple, it is rare to stand such a high spire, Song Siyuan asked Ma Yanghua, who was busy on the side: "Sister-in-law Yanghua, what is the white brick tower on Jun Mountain in the north?" Ma Yanghua wiped the sweat on her head, glanced at Junshan with her eyes, and said in a mysterious tone: "That is Dongting Longjun Temple, it is very godly, and it is the protector of Dongting Lake." ”

"Dongting Longjun, can you tell me how this temple was built? I see that the temple and the tower are new, probably recent. Ma Yanghua dusted off her apron a few times, walked up to her and explained, "Oh, girl, then we have to talk about it three years ago." "Time goes back to three years, the rain disaster in Dongting Lake in Yueyang, Hunan Province flooded, directly flooding the nearby villages, a country nearby, ten rooms and nine disasters, I heard that even Yueyang City was flooded by more than half.

This rain disaster came too strangely! The night before yesterday was still a starry sunny day, to the next day the dark clouds overpowered the city and the wind was strong, there was a great momentum of urging the treacherous rod, the heavy rain fell for three days and three nights before stopping, there were Yunyou Taoist people said, this rain is the dragon king angry, the previous Dongting Lake landscape was calm, since the opening of the port after the lake is full of foreigners' giant ships, frightened the Dongting water tribe in the lake, the dragon king can not bear it, specially to punish the mortal people!

People are not afraid of ghosts, they are afraid of ghosts muttering, these gods and goddesses said so godly that no one dared not believe it, they invited the Taoist to do the practice of peace, and when the practice was over, there were suddenly waves in the lake, and there was a huge coffin with chains floating out of the lake.

In order to stabilize the people's hearts, the squire and politicians stepped up the patrol of Yueyang City, and at the same time paid a lot of money to the salvage people who crossed the river, so that they could salvage the jade coffin of the corpse king.

After the coffin came ashore, it can be seen that the bottom of the coffin is wrapped around a long-haired corpse with a stiff body and dry flesh, and the corpse is carrying the coffin in a carrying posture, as if carrying the coffin in the water.

After the coffin was overstayed, the water ghosts opened the jade coffin, and a pair of men and women wearing ancient costumes appeared inside, and they were exposed to the air for a short time, and suddenly turned into two blue-scaled dragons wearing human clothes, and the dragon's head even wafted out the smell of corpses.

The Taoist took out a pair of golden wat boards from the jade coffin, engraved with the words of Dongting Dragon Monarch and Dragon Monarch Niangniang, and the people saw this scene, no longer doubting the identity of the corpses, and regarded them as the Dongting Dragon King who protected Dongting Lake.

Under the leadership of the squire, the people donated money and incense, reclaimed the lake near Junshan on the northwest shore of Dongting Lake, built the Longjun Temple, and enshrined it with a jade coffin, but the Taoist warned the surrounding people that the Longjun Temple needed to be served by the government for three years before it could accept the people's feast, and at the same time, in these three years, it was necessary to demarcate the Dongting Lake fishing ban area, so that the water tribe near the Longjun Temple could recuperate and recuperate, and could not be fished and hunted.

Although I don't know whether it's true or not, this kind of thing involving strange forces and chaos, the Yueyang government does not dare to treat it hastily, and simply protects the fifty miles around the Longjun Temple, and no fishermen are allowed to go hunting without authorization, and can only go out of the fishing and hunting lake area to resume normal fishing and hunting.

"This year is the third year, and it is estimated that there will be a hundred dragon king sacrifices during the Qingming Festival, and you can go and see it when you come back, but it will be lively." After Ma Yanghua finished speaking, she dusted off her apron a few times to do other things, and Song Siyuan looked at Yue Guanchao: "How do I feel, it is the same way as the Tanuki Langjun Temple in the Ancient Town of Jade Bottle." "The Tanuki Langjun Temple in the ancient town of the jade bottle, at first it was also a god who appeared to give Jin Xiansheng, but the result was just a beast demon pretending to be a ghost, if it was placed in the past, Yue Guanchao really believed in what kind of fairy apparition, and now he looked at the image of the dragon of Longjun, he didn't believe it at all, it is estimated that it is taking advantage of the chaos in the Republic of China to deceive the world and steal the name of some crooked heresy.

Thinking about this, he shook his head with a tooth flower: "I guess, what kind of crooked and evil way, you must not get involved again, if your brother hadn't come to escort him in advance last time, a few of us would have died." ”

"What do you think, I'm just asking you what you think." Between the words, cold water droplets fell on the top of her head, and Song Siyuan raised her head to stretch out her palm, and she could see the raindrops falling.

"Sister, hurry up and go to the house, the rain on Dongting Lake is cold, don't catch a cold."

"Let's go, when can I take pictures, let's come back when the weather is fine." Lan Ruling pulled Song Siyuan, and several people walked into the hall together, they just stepped into the house with their front feet, and saw the rain falling with their back feet, and the eaves were so hard that the eaves were like mice and birds crawling, and the thunder was rolling like an iron bucket rumbling endlessly, and the basins were placed around the water seepage place in the corridor of the house, and they were soon dripped, and the eaves were even more water splashing bead curtains, and they were flowing.

Yue Guanchao took advantage of this moment to look at the guest rooms near the hall house, except for the four connected halls, the right side is their private room, the guest rooms are mostly concentrated on the left side, facing each other's doors, connecting to the leftmost wall through the middle corridor, and opening a glass square window.

The room is quite tidy, but due to the shaking of the boat, there are really not many room supplies, only beds, mats, quilts, tables and chairs, all of which can be fixed to prevent the active shaking from hurting people.

"Look at it, what am I talking about, the rain in Dongting Lake is falling urgently, we are wearing robes, and our clothes are almost soaked." The boat man and his wife finished their work, walked into the back room and changed into clean clothes, and walked to the stove to lean against the fire: "It is said that this year is the year of the Dragon King Temple to accept the folk sacrifice, the Dragon King is afraid that he is going to wake up, and he can pour the spring cold with a yawn, and it should not be cold at this time in the future, you see that the stove that has just been put away will be moved out again, if it is cold at night, we will also light the stove for you, that is, don't close the door so tightly, in case of poisoning, there will be a lot." It can be seen that Zhu Fushun is not good at words, he doesn't squeak like an old scalper, he doesn't speak when he changes his clothes, he opens the inner hatch and walks into the helm warehouse, leaving Ma Yanghua alone to start a family routine with them.

When the windows and doors were closed, there was only a hazy crackling outside, like a rainy night under a quilt.

"Sister-in-law Yanghua, you guys often carry passengers!" They had no children, and so many rooms were built on deck, mostly for people.

Ma Yanghua rubbed her hands, her eyes were a little evasive: "Oh, the official master has demarcated a fifty-mile forbidden fishing area, and the area is wrapped in Yueyang City, if anyone wants to fish near Junshan, it is against the government, and the arms can't twist the thighs, how dare we disobey this kind of boat people, close to Yueyang and Junshan, it is impossible to fish, so you can only go to the southwest far lake." ”

"There are many fishing boats in the domestic business, the government has long demarcated the fishing area, the boat is big and the net is big, our kind of small fishing boat can't compete at all, a net can not catch anything, and have to be made difficult by the big boat, simply change the boat to a few more rooms to solicit customers, if there is that want to take advantage of the lake, we also take them to go around, our ancestors surnamed Zhu surnamed Ma have been on the lake for three hundred years, and they know where to come from when a leaf floats in the water, and they can also take them to play for a few days."

"How can this group of people suffocate urine, the government has the statutes of the government, and we also have our way of living." Ma Yanghua didn't finish the meaning of the words, Yue Guanchao probably knew that the government would demarcate fishing and hunting areas on the lake in order to make more money, and let the major businesses donate tribute, whoever gave more tribute would be able to choose a large fishing and hunting area first, if they couldn't afford to pay tribute, they could only choose the small ones, boat people like them had a small business, and they couldn't even get on the card table, and they could eat other people's leftovers before, and even the rest of their mouths were gone after the fishing ban was demarcated.

It is estimated that these boatmen will either become fishermen or go ashore to find another job, and the two of them can buy a boat to navigate the lake, which is already considered wealthy!