After listening to Yue Guanchao's words, Yue Qingshan slightly let go of worry in his eyes: "It's okay, try to solve the things on your body when you are young, but don't be like your second uncle, who has dragged on for most of your life, and when you are old, you still have to drag your old body and bones to start again." ”

Sun Daqiao couldn't cry and laugh for a while: "Everything is fate, and it is not up to anyone, since the golden rat will be a sin created by our brothers, even if there is no big curse, it should be solved by us, this kind of thing dragged underground, it has become a merit book in the hands of Lord Yama, and two evil words cannot be written with one stroke." ”

"Second uncle, then how do we check?"

After Song Siyuan finished speaking, Lao Yuetou sensed the meaning of her words, and immediately glanced at Yue Guanchao meaningfully: "Girl, I have spent a night with your Uncle Sun, since we are all villagers near the Dragon Monarch Temple, let's go to the field to see what is going on." ”

"This matter is too eye-catching to investigate, the two of us are old men of the Golden Rat Club, we are afraid that we will be monitored in the dark, so we still let Sun Daqiao pick up the old business of fortune-telling and elephant touching, and go to the neighborhood to explore the wind first, and a few of us will be just people shopping nearby, so as not to be discovered."

"Okay, let's go see it tomorrow."

……

Dongting Lake, Junshan Island, Dragon King Temple

After the Qingming Dynasty was stunned, the silted paddy fields on both sides of Dongting Lake were completely budded and grown, just like the waves of green velvet wheat rippling on the lakeside, and the weeds and forests in the distance had already been covered with the sky and the sun, as if there was a tendency to welcome the midsummer.

On the Junshan Peninsula on the north shore of the Dongting Lake, you can see the towering white brick tower with a towering spire in the distance, the spire of the tower is like a jade shoot, the jade white tattoo is in the sky, the green dragon relief carving that coils around the body of the tower is vivid, under the body of the tower, it is the temple of the dragon king who is exquisite and exquisite, the temple of the dragon king that is majestic and sacred, the lacquer carving and painting everywhere, the golden owl at the corner of the eaves, in the endless lakeside gauze fog, the green dragon seems to be swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, the clouds release the rain, it is quite strange.

Speaking of which, there is a saying about the location of the Dragon Monarch Temple.

Three years ago, the black clouds along the coast of Dongting Lake pressed the city, it rained heavily for three days and three nights, and when the clouds stopped and the rain was harvested, the water area of Dongting Lake expanded by as much as half, and the villages along the coast were even more of a country, ten rooms and nine disasters, and even Yueyang City, which was slightly higher, was directly submerged in most of the city, and even the White Fish Tower was lost.

After the catastrophe, there will be a great plague, because there are too many corpses to burn, the villagers have to wash the corpses into Dongting Lake, because the water is full of filth washed down by the nearby inland river, the corpses accumulate for several days, and finally cause the plague, even with Yueyang City began to appear bleeding, coughing and vomiting patients, and caused a lot of deaths and injuries, for a time to make people panic, a picture of the end is approaching.

At the time of natural disasters and man-made disasters, people were panicked, and some people took advantage of this to spread rumors, first there were beggars who claimed that the dragon king was angry, and then some people began to add oil and vinegar, saying that the Dongting Lake was calm before, and since the opening of the port, the lake was full of giant ships of foreigners, which frightened the Dongting aquarium in the lake, and it must be that the dragon king was dissatisfied with the foreigners.

Some people also say that now the people along the coast have lost their money, and they catch fish day and night, these water tribes are the dragon sons and grandsons of the Dongting Dragon King.

What's more, it is rumored that the 800-mile Dongting Lake was originally as high and deep as the sea, but now there is not even a decent Dragon King Temple...... All these things are mysterious.

Countless beggars and goddesses, and Taoist priests in Langzhong rendered these rumors more tortuous and bizarre, and then there were rivers and lakes juggling and walking Langzhong selling anti-epidemic herbs along the street, all saying that their medicine was very effective, and they had the true legend of the Dragon King, as long as they took their medicine, they would be blessed by the Dragon King.

At that time, although the governor of Xiang Province did not believe that there was really any dragon king angry, but people were not afraid of ghosts and were afraid of ghosts muttering.

The provincial capital had to invite a Taoist to ask for peace, and when the practice was over, there were suddenly waves in the lake, and a huge coffin with chains floated 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, this corpse is covered with golden hair and teeth, like a giant rat, carrying the coffin on its back, as if carrying the coffin in the water.

Since then, this coffin has been named the corpse king camel jade coffin by the Jianghu Taoists, and because the dried corpse is very similar to a mouse, it is also called the golden mouse camel jade coffin.

It is already unlucky for a corpse to come out of the river, and it is even more unlucky to add a coffin, but such a large coffin floating in the lake at will is not a way, and the Yueyang Government Yuan had to send water ghosts to catch the coffin and salvage it ashore.

The Taoist priest exceeded, the monk chanted the scriptures, and after pretending to be a ghost, the water ghosts pushed the jade coffin open the coffin, which was nothing else, it was a pair of middle-aged men and women wearing gorgeous clothes, they were exposed to the air for a short time, and then turned into two green scale dragons wearing human clothes, and the dragon head even floated out of the fishy smell of the water tribe.

The man took out a pair of golden wat boards from the jade coffin, and engraved the words of Dongting Longjun and Longjun Niangniang, and the people saw this scene and made it clear that it was Longjun's manifestation.

The dragon head dragon is in front, who dares to question that the dragon lord is angry is a rumor, the provincial city government wanted to break the superstitious legend, and carried out the lake sacrifice ceremony with great fanfare, but it was self-defeating, but it helped the rumor, after that, there was news of the dragon king in Dongting Lake, and it couldn't be stopped.

People, not to break with ghosts and gods, it is disrespectful to win, and if you lose, you will be punished by God, the provincial city government has the heart to break superstition, and you have to take into account the hearts of the people, helpless, so you have to change the direction and begin to follow the people's will to raise a temple for the dragon king.

Since ancient times, building temples and monuments are a great merit, grass people may be considered to be dedicated as long as they shout, the squire and the sage are hindered by the affection and the reputation of the township, it is impossible to pull out a dime, under the leadership of the provincial city government, the gentry donated money and incense, and the people contributed to the people, and decided to build a temple for the dragon monarch.

There is a place to build a temple, but the Dongting Lake basin is a country, you can't build it into the water, since you can't find a location, you can only continue to ask for help from the chief of the golden road.

Under the fortune of this old Taoist priest, he took a fancy to the Jun Mountain on the northwest shore of Dongting Lake, which sits in the north and faces south, the terrain is high, such as the emperor embracing the river and lake, and the nearby mountains are surrounded by shelter and support, it is really easy to build a temple.

However, there is a problem, most of Junshan is submerged under water, if the temple is built at this time, then it must be filled in to make land, so that the vicinity of Junshan will leak out of the water first.

This point, it is indeed more difficult, half a year later, the lake retreated to the foot of the mountain, Yueyang City began to recruit manpower, in the cofferdam near Junshan to make fields, towards the lake around the silt field for several miles to drain the river water, landfill dry soil, this is at the foot of Jun Mountain to pile out the highland, rammed earth leveling for the construction of the Dragon King Temple.

Half a year later, the construction of the Longjun Temple began, and it was not completed until the end of the year, and the people filled the jade coffin into the temple and took the jade coffin to worship.

After everything was done, the Jindao people also 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 feasts, and at the same time, during 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 no fishing and hunting were allowed.

The official feast is different from the folk feast, the folk feast is to absorb the incense of the hundred families, and the official feast is to absorb the merits of the main family, and in the next three years, the government will invite monks and Taoists every year to hold the Baiwu Dragon King Festival in Junshan near the Dragon Monarch Temple.

On this day, all kinds of officials and commissioners from the provincial capital and Yueyang City had to sell their faces to the Longjun Temple to buy a stick of incense and supply melons and fruits, so as to make Yueyang City and Dongting Lake have a smooth weather.

During this period, although it is forbidden for the people to enter the incense and offer fruits, they are not forbidden to participate, how many people come to the temple, with their own paper boats to burn outside the temple, only to ask the dragon lord to smile, bless their own fishing and hunting, family and people.

Where there are many people, there are temple fairs stalls and department store juggling, Longjun Temple has been more lively year by year in the past three years, as for this year, the official feast has ended, and you can accept the people's feast since this year, although it is said that the Baiwu Dragon King Festival has not yet begun, and a lot of department stores have been gathered, and the vicinity of the Longjun Temple is blocked, lively and messy.

At this time, Yue Guanchao and the others were wearing rustic clothes, carrying burdens and guises, and blending in with the three sects and nine streams who came to the temple fair.

Walk to the vicinity of Longjun Temple, you can see that Longwang Temple stands at the foot of Junshan Island, the white tower in the backyard just corresponds to the top of Junshan Mountain, Junshan is verdant, surrounded by Zhou Mountain, quite a feeling of cave heaven and blessed land.

As mentioned earlier, the Longjun Temple is a land reclamation lake, this temple only occupies half of the area at the foot of the mountain, and the remaining half is completely silted by the lake, and the convex land connects the islands and extends into the boundless sea lake.

Along the ground, you can see the traces left by the weir around the lake, at this time, most of the weirs have been removed, and a variety of trees on the weir embankment consolidate the river bank, if there is still a real cofferdam, it must be used for drainage on the island.

Most of the temple fairs are concentrated around the wide field of the cofferdam between the Longwang Temple and the lake, and the wide field is crowded with three religions and nine streams, juggling rivers and lakes, and Baixing Department Store.

Yue Guanchao saw at a glance that Sun Daqiao, who was sitting near the cofferdam embankment, had already prepared a suit, wearing a gray robe and a road gown, a melon hat on his head, a pair of one-eyed sunglasses, and a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone gathered on the table.

In front of him, there was a reckless man with five big and three thick, sitting on a stool and rolling up his sleeves, waiting for him to look at palmistry.

Yue Guanchao and the others understood, found a cold noodle stall nearby, pretended to be diners and sat in the shed, leaning against the window to observe Sun Daqiao.

"How many are you here to catch the temple fair?"

Some people died, but not completely......