Wang Qilin looked at the person who came out to speak, it was an old man.

The old man frowned slightly, pursed his lips, and his face was majestic, not smiling.

Looks like a superior person.

Wang Qilin remembered the voice he heard earlier and asked, "Are you the elder here?"

The honorable chief, like the patriarch and the clan elder, is the honorific title of the local clan for the leader boss.

The old man arched his hand and said: "Exactly, Xia Guan Yin Neng, who used to be Cangcao in Zhending Mansion and is now the chief of the Yin family of Hanyangmen, I don't know what to call my lord?"

Xu Da walked out with his chest straightened and said, "This is Lord Wang, but the bronze captain who listens to the heavenly prison." ”

The old man gasped on the spot.

Bronze Captain!

Wang Qilin also puffed up his chest and introduced: "This is Lord Xu, and he is also the bronze lieutenant who listens to the heavenly prison, and we are all listening to the heavenly prison on an errand." ”

The old man was stunned.

Ran into two bronze captains at night?

Now the officials of the imperial court are so diligent? In the middle of the night, they don't sleep, don't drink flowers, don't go to the concubine, and go to the Dawei River to handle the case?

As a local, he naturally knew about the strange things that happened in the Great Reed River, and he also knew what the officials who listened to the Heavenly Prison came to the Great Reed River for at night.

Fat Wuyi whispered: "Seventh Master Xu, introduce me." ”

Xu Da turned around and said, "Didn't the Seventh Master introduce it?"

"Huh?"

"He said 'I'll wait', and you and Dao Ye were included in that 'wait'. ”

Fat May Day was immediately depressed and couldn't show his face.

But then he lifted his spirits again: he had just joined the Heavenly Listening Prison, and he had not made an inch, so what was the use of being introduced? Therefore, he had to work hard, make meritorious contributions, punish evil, promote good, and spread good names!

Thinking like this, he hugged his arms and stood behind Wang Qilin, with his head held high and his face serious.

Gotta prop up the shelves.

They were talking to Yin Neng, and Xie Toad suddenly turned around and flicked his sleeves to stop Lao Ming: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!"

Lao Ming suddenly shuddered, he turned his head blankly, and heard Wang Qilin ask, "What's wrong?"

He subconsciously said: "My sister-in-law is calling me, what's the matter with her, I'll go over...... Not true!"

Xie Toad slapped a talisman on his forehead and said in a deep voice: "Stabilize your mind, what you see is illusory, and what you hear is also unreal!"

He took out a small black hole seed and threw it to Lao Ming, and said, "This is a Heavenly Master Sword Seed, hold it." ”

On the afternoon of May 5, the Heavenly Master rode Ai Hu, holding the calamus sword, and the evil returned to the underworld.

Calamus is grass, and the blades of grass are like swords, and it is also known as the calamus sword.

May 5th? The calamus in every Taoist temple is extremely yang? It will be collected by Taoist priests to make tools.

At this time, the calamus leaves are called the Heavenly Master Sword, and the largest calamus among them will bear seeds? It is called the Heavenly Master Sword Species.

Xu Da immediately sighed when he saw this thing: "Heavenly Master Sword Species? Master Dao, when you dealt with the rune-covered ghosts in the yamen last year? You gave one to your uncle, remember?"

"Remember? Where did you put that Heavenly Master Sword Seed?"

Xu Da was stunned: "Huh? When did you not have it? When did you let the uncle eat it?"

Xie Toad was disdainful: "What a rice bucket!"

Xu Da said stupidly: "Uncle is a rice bucket but Uncle doesn't deceive people, you told Uncle at the time that you only have two Heavenly Master Sword Species, why do you take out another one now?"

Xie Toad said calmly: "Because of the fifth day of May last year? Lao Dao has obtained a new Heavenly Master Sword Species. ”

Wang Qilin asked Lao Ming, "What did you see and hear just now?"

Lao Ming looked at him with a wrinkled face? He said in a low voice: "Lord Hui, I didn't see anything, I just heard the call of my family, so I couldn't help but want to go home......"

Wang Qilin looked at Xie Toad: "He is the third person?"

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "Let's go back and talk about it, his matter should have little to do with what we want to investigate." ”

Wang Qilin gave him a look to show his understanding? He looked at Yin Neng again and asked, "You don't sleep at home in the middle of the night, and then build a bridge over the river? Hurry up and build a bridge in the evening?"

"Yes, sir. Yin Neng said calmly.

Wang Qilin pointed to his face and asked him, "Are you looking here?" Who do you think this official is?"

Yin Neng was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "The adult is heroic, fresh and handsome, and has an extraordinary appearance? Xia Guan feels that you are a good official and a good person. ”

Wang Qilin said: "It seems that you don't have old eyes and faint? I didn't think of this official as a fool. Now that you know that this official is not a fool? You're still fooling around here?"

Yin Neng hurriedly saluted and said: "Please Lord Wang and Lord Xu to be clear, the lower officials are obedient to the people, how dare they deceive the officials of the imperial court?"

Wang Qilin said: "There is something strange in the Great Reed River, I am afraid that you are not willing to approach this river during the day, why are you willing to come to build a bridge at night?

Yin Neng said helplessly: "Xiaguan asks Lord Wang to investigate again, our Hanyangmen is too far away from the upstream and downstream bridges, and it used to be all by boat to cross the river and enter the city." ”

"But our boatman died a few days ago, and the work of supporting the boat is so hard that the young people are unwilling to do it, so that now it is difficult to cross the river, and the villagers have to take many unjust roads to enter the city. ”

So the official took the lead, asked the court to allocate funds, and asked the squires to donate money, and finally gathered the money and hired craftsmen to buy bricks and wood for building the bridge, and the money we collected was spent at this point, and the rest of the money for handymen and small workers was gone. ”

"Fortunately, the people understand that as long as there is a bridge here, life will be much more convenient, so they are willing to come to help......"

His face was sincere and he answered fluently, and there was no problem with his expression or words.

But this is the question, Yin Neng's answers are all without hesitation, without thinking and organizing language.

Obviously, this answer was something he had prepared for a long time.

Wang Qilin nodded at Xu Da, Xu Da jumped ashore to catch a man, and said: "Since your elders are unwilling to tell the truth, then you can say it, if you don't say it, then the uncle will take you to listen to the heavenly prison, and you should be happy to say it when you get to the cell." ”

Fat Wuyi found a chance to perform, he stepped on the canopy boat with both feet, jumped several feet, and after landing, he reached out and grabbed the man's shoulder and said excitedly: "Master Xu, I'll take him to the post house!"

The man was stunned, and after reacting, he turned his head and shouted at Yin Neng: "Old Venerable Elder help, help." ”

Wang Qilin handed over Lao Ming and the two to Xie Toad, and he also jumped ashore to find a young woman with red eyes, and shouted, "You say, what's the matter?"

The young woman's hair is scattered, but her eyebrows and eyes are enchanting, her body is plump, and she has a different country style.

She subconsciously took two steps back, and then Gollum knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and she kowtowed repeatedly, but didn't say a word.

Wang Qilin knew that she was jealous of Yin Neng, so he sneered and said, "Someone once said to this official that the power of the local clan is greater than the sky. ”

Yin Neng lowered his eyebrows and clenched his fists and said, "This is unreasonable. ”

Wang Qilin said: "You have opened my eyes now, and it is unreasonable for you to say this? This official told you that there is a big treacherous thing in this big reed river, and it is the official sent by the saint today to investigate this matter!"

"You sneakily build a bridge over the Dawei River in the middle of the night, it must be related to the ghosts in the river, hum, this official acts on behalf of the Son of Heaven, if you dare to deceive this official in this kind of thing, it is the crime of deceiving the king!"

"Be beheaded according to the crime!" Xu Da took the initiative to answer, already experienced.

The people around Yin Neng subconsciously said: "My lord misunderstood, we have nothing to do with the ghosts in the river, we haven't slept at night to build a bridge in this river these days, just to fight to suppress the ghosts in the river." ”

Hit the shackles!

Hearing this, Xie Toad on the boat snorted: "Grass, Lao Dao saw them build a bridge at night, and he knew that he wanted to do this kind of forced thing!"

Wang Qilin had heard of this terrifying and terrifying method.

There are many relevant accounts in the records of the Heavenly Supervisors, and when people in many places break ground in the mountains and rivers, they are worried that they will destroy the feng shui and anger the local ghosts, so that if an accident occurs during the construction period, they will die.

One of the most common is to use children to make offerings, saying that the boy's yang energy is not discharged, the girl's Xuanyin is complete, and the ghosts like it, and it is best to use it to make offerings.

But the vast majority of people who do this kind of thing are people who have lost their conscience, and they don't know anything about occultism, and they just want peace of mind when they do this kind of thing.

The reason why they use children to fight for life instead of adults is that the street children are not as good as the owner's dog, and no one will hold them accountable if they die if they die.

So after determining the true purpose of this group, Wang Qilin slashed out with a sword, and five flying swords swished in front of everyone.

He looked coldly at the woman kneeling on the ground and asked, "Are they going to use your baby to do this?"

The woman sobbed and kowtowed to her knees.

Wang Qilin asked, "Do you want to watch your child drowned in the river, buried at the bottom of the river, and never be born?"

The woman kowtowed vigorously, thumping, and the dirt on the ground scattered.

Wang Qilin shouted angrily: "Ignorance! This kind of thing has always been the nonsense of lawbreakers! It is of no use at all, and you want to kill a child to bless you to build the bridge smoothly?"

"Bullshit!" he went up and grabbed Yin Neng and asked, "If you are killed by someone and suppressed in the bridge pier and become a ghost, will you bless the safety of the bridge, or will you harm people to vent your grievances?"

Yin Neng said calmly: "If Xiaguan's old bone can still bless the safety of the bridge, Xiaguan will voluntarily enter the river." ”

Xu Da spat at him: "You can catch fire in the lantern - wax down, uncle tell you, what kind of livelihood is a group of old eunuchs having a meeting, all nonsense!"

Wang Qilin waved his hand and said: "Master Xu, don't speak yet, that old elder, please, you go, this official swears here, if you volunteer to make a living, then I will listen to the heavenly supervisor to ensure that your bridge is built smoothly, and there will be no ghosts and monsters in a hundred years!"

Xie Toad said coldly: "The Seventh Master can relax his age, as long as the old elder is willing to sacrifice himself, then the old Tao is willing to lead the Big Dipper Star Monarch to descend the star power to protect this bridge, no matter a hundred years or a thousand years, the bridge is not rotten, and the ghosts and evil will not invade!"

Hearing this, Xu Da was energetic, and he beckoned to Fat Wuyi: "Come, Fat Boy come over to help, let's send the old elder to the river together." ”

The two of them really wanted to make a move, and several juniors rushed out to push them.

Xu Da can't deal with ghosts, isn't it a pinch to deal with these ordinary young people?

A set of dog fists reappeared in the rivers and lakes, and it was a vicious dog pounced on the food and a male dog stood up, and he finally came to a dog and jumped over the wall and jumped on a young man, pressing the young man to roll his eyes.

The scene was a little chaotic, someone wanted to mobilize the people to fish in troubled waters, Xu Dayi shook his hand and released Shangong Yufu.

A one-zhang high mountain Gong Yufu!

After it appeared, it looked cautiously around, and found that the opponents were all ordinary people, and then they were strong, jumping and smashing their fists on the ground, frightening the people around them to flee with pale faces.

Shangong Yufu proudly stretched out his hand to Xu Da to ask for money, and Xu Da said slowly: "Uncle is to let you come out to breathe the wind, not to let you work, you still want to collect money? Dream of marrying a mountain girl, it's beautiful!"

Wang Qilin pointed to the bridge that had been built on both sides of the river and said: "There is also work for it, let it go and demolish the bridge for me!"

As soon as they heard this, the local people were anxious.

Yin Neng said excitedly: "My lord, you don't think about the people as an official, you don't worry about the people's anxieties, and you don't want to solve the people's difficulties, but you just want to ......."

"You can shut your mother's stinky mouth," Xu Da interrupted him and pointed at him and scolded, "What a good official my seventh master is, what do you say that you are not anxious about the people's urgency? You insult him? You are really a woman holding her breath and giving birth to a child - you want to spew blood!"

Someone said loudly: "In short, we Hanyangmen people have built this bridge with great difficulty, and no one is allowed to destroy it!"

Yin Neng began to sing red at this time, and he said: "Lord Wang, this thing is not a decay or a bad trick that the villagers came up with by themselves, this is a means left by the ancient master Lu Banye. ”

"And what you just said is not right, if we deceive people or kill people and throw them into the river, this will give birth to resentful spirits, but we did not force the child to make a living, this matter has to be voluntary, he voluntarily went to appease the ghosts and gods in the river, and he voluntarily sacrificed himself for the villagers!"

Wang Qilin asked the kneeling young woman, "Is it?"

The young woman raised her head, revealing tears streaming down her face: "Lord Qingtian, help!"

Wang Qilin said to Yin Neng: "Didn't you just say that you volunteered to sacrifice yourself?"

Yin Neng said: "If the old decay is useful, he will never be stingy with this more than 100 catties of old bones, but the old decay ......"

"You're absolutely good, you're better than a child. Wang Qilin took his words and said, "So please, you go down quickly, the ghosts and gods in the river are waiting for you." ”

Yin Neng was blocked and speechless.

Wang Qilin glanced at him coldly, and continued: "Folks, I heard from this official, this kind of thing has nothing to do with Lu Ban, and it is true that Lu Ban left the aversion to victory, but this aversion to victory is a defensive technique, not a harm technique!"

"Lu Ban is a member of the Mo family, a hundred schools of ancient times, the Mo family seeks both love, non-attack, Shangxian, Ming ghosts, funerals, and festivals, how can such a sect leave such an evil art of fighting for life? It is someone who does bad things in the name of Lu Ban!"

The people are not all ignorant, and some people nodded approvingly: "The Mo family is indeed the most particular about the interests of our common people in the ancient hundred schools, which my master often said when I was studying." ”

"To build a good bridge, it should never be a matter of labor and money, let alone harm the lives of the people, you have been making a fool of yourself these days and nights because there are bad people doing it!" Wang Qilin said loudly.

"Obviously, there are bad people among the masses, and if you want to live a good life, you must drive the bad people away!"

"Where's the bad guy?"

While asking a question, he clearly stretched out his finger and pointed at Yin Neng.

Yin Neng couldn't suppress the anger in his heart and asked, "What does Lord Wang mean by this?"

Wang Qilin said: "The official said that you are a bad person, and you are not convinced?"

"Not convinced ......"

"I'm not convinced!"

Wang Qilin looked at Xie Toad and asked, "Dao Ye, you say something, why are you so quiet tonight?"

Xie Toad smiled lightly and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Lao Dao has been observing and searching, wondering who is presiding over such an evil thing as beating a living tree. ”

At the outermost end of the crowd stood an old monk in a robe, Xie Toad's gaze looked over, and the old monk quietly lowered his head and walked out slowly.

A toad jumped next to him and shouted, "Slow, where do you want to go?"

The old monk folded his hands and bowed: "Amitabha, where did you come from and where are you going?" ”

Fat Wuyi said, "Who told you to go?"

The old monk smiled and said: "Where the Buddha's heart is, that is, the direction, everything has a sound, and the sound of water and wind is the voice of the Buddha, which is the ......."

"What do you have, talk about people!" Fat Wuyi dragged him and punched him, "Let me tell you, no one is allowed to leave until the seventh master of my family lets you go, is this a golden rule?"

Wang Qilin was almost worried about his abuse of idioms, and said: "Fat boy, you drag him over, what, our officialdom has rules, I won't let you speak in the future, you can't interject." ”

Fat Wuyi nodded and said, "I understand, Seventh Master, we have to be smiling in our officialdom......"

He thought about it and probably felt that this idiom was not used correctly, so he changed another sentence: "We must stick to the rules in officialdom!"

Wang Qilin picked his ears and motioned for Xie Toad to speak, and Xie Toad asked the old monk, "Where is this master practicing in the jungle?"

The monk folded his hands and said: "Amitabha, the old monk is in great difficulty, when he was young, he took refuge in the Reclining Buddha Temple, and after serving the Buddha in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, he walked in the world on the order of the Buddha to relieve the suffering of the people. ”

Xie Toad asked, "That's when Master Guang Nan instructed Yin Neng to come and make sacrifices to the gods and ghosts in the river?"

The old monk showed a compassionate look on his face: "Amitabha Buddha is the Buddha's guidance, and the old monk is just a messenger." The so-called great compassion is everywhere, not an ordinary person's good deeds.

Everything is a reality, and Mojiao is easy to say Zhuang Guang. ”

Xie Toad asked again: "How did the Buddha instruct you to make a living, and how did you choose the children?"

The old monk was about to speak, when Xie Toad pointed to Yin Neng and said, "Lao Dao is asking you, Lao Venerable, and please come to answer Lao Dao's doubts." ”

Yin Neng said: "The master chooses a calm afternoon and leads my Hanyang disciples into the water to cross the river. During this period, the children could walk on the water to cross the reed river without taking a boat, and those who could cross the river safely were obviously not stopped by the ghosts and gods in the river, and those who could not cross the river were favored by the ghosts and gods in the river as sacrifices. ”

Tie Yaojian said: "The child that Ah Wu saved at that time was a sacrifice?"

The sky was dark, the river was foggy again, and Tie Yaojian and Lao Ming had been sitting on the canopy boat, and the people on the river bank had not noticed the two of them before.

Hearing Tie Yaojian's voice, Yin Neng looked at him carefully, and then said: "It turned out to be a friend of the dart game, and the old man remembered that he fell into the water when Genzi crossed the river that day, and it was one of you who rescued him." ”

Lao Ming stood up and asked in a deep voice, "Did you make a sacrifice to the dart master and give it to the ghosts and gods in the river first?"

Yin Neng said: "Of course not, the sacrifice of the beating tree must be our local native children, and your dart master is not from our Hanyang Gate, how can it be regarded as a sacrifice?"

Lao Ming nodded silently and sat down again.

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "This method of choosing sacrifices for the ghosts and gods in the river is not appropriate, why can't the children who tread water to cross the river be favored by the ghosts and gods in the river as sacrifices?

"It's the children you send into the river who are so poor that the spirits think you're dealing with them, and they're not happy with the sacrifices you've sent them to choose. ”

"And Genzi's qualifications are particularly poor, and the ghosts and gods in the river look down on him even more, and even think that you are insulting the ghosts and gods by letting him as a sacrifice candidate. ”

"So the ghosts and gods got angry, and they rolled up the waves and slapped the roots into the water!"

The young woman who knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the ground crawled forward violently, and said in a panic: "Yes, yes, yes, the old master, yes, that's it, the root is not qualified, he is so stupid, how can he serve the old man of the river spirit and river god?"

"It's the old men who don't look down on him, it's the old men who are angry!"

Xie Toad said: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, for the benefit of the official for one term, when the official is not the master of the people, why not go home and herd the pigs?"

"My lord Wang is sympathetic to the people and loves the people, since you sincerely want to choose someone to make a living to build a bridge, then why don't you use a spell to summon the ghosts and gods in the river and let them choose people themselves, how about it?"

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "This method is good, Dao Chief, please cast a spell." ”

Xie Toad glanced at the old monk and smiled contemptuously, he threw out his hands, flying talismans all over the sky, and the rune paper turned into silver and white dragons surging in the mist, with a wanton posture and a divine figure.

At this time, the fog on the surface of the river becomes thicker and thicker, as if the water surface has vaporized into water vapor.

The dragons turned the clouds and spit out the fog and entered the water one after another.

The sound of the water is murmuring, and the waves are protruding.

Gradually, a group of figures appeared on the water.

His clothes were ragged, his body was covered with aquatic plants, and his skin was pale and full of fishy smell.

It's a bunch of water ghosts!

The people on the shore were so frightened that they turned around and ran away, and the cowardly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Xie Toad shouted: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, the river spirit has appeared, why don't the people hurry up and kneel down to listen to the spiritual message?"

"Please open your mouths, and please choose a person as a sacrifice!"

Water ghosts appeared on the surface of the river, and the mist lingered and loomed.

More and more water ghosts appeared, and the surface of this section of the river was a little crowded.

Xie Toad said three times in a row, asking the river spirit to show the oracle, and then all the water ghosts spoke together:

"Yin Neng! Yin Neng, the head of the Yin family, please enter the river!"

"Guang difficult! The high monks of the Reclining Buddha Temple, please enter the river!"

The voice rang out, continuously:

"Yin Neng! Yin Neng, the head of the Yin family, please enter the river!"

"Guang difficult! The high monks of the Reclining Buddha Temple, please enter the river!"