On the way back, Wu Jingzhan couldn't help but say, "Seventh Master, you know that the person who wants to invite you to dinner is eating for the sky, right?"

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "I know." ”

Wu Jingzhan asked again: "Since you know, why do you ignore the kindness he released to you?"

Wang Qilin said: "Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief." Jing Ye, why do you think he wants to release kindness to me for no reason?"

Wu Jingzhan looked at his face carefully and said, "Maybe it's because you're handsome?"

Wang Qilin was silent for a moment and said, "There is this possibility, I didn't think about it just now." ”

In fact, he knew that eating for the sky was close to his true purpose.

He is the fifth grade, and the other party enters the ninth grade, only in terms of quantity, there is still a difference between the two sides, and I don't know how many Xu Da are missing.

In terms of the strength of the two sides, there is still a difference between the two sides that they don't know how much.

So what is the purpose of Shi Weitian approaching him in private? Want to let yourself be a sparring partner for him? If you agree to this request, it will be a rat licking the cat, and you won't die!

If a nine-grade master wants to break through the acquired and enter the innate, he must need a sparring partner, but he definitely doesn't need a five-grade sparring partner.

So why did he release kindness to himself and take the initiative to invite himself to come to the door if he had nothing to do?

It's very simple, for the sake of the Eight Heavenly Dragon Sword Formation!

The Wu father and son may also have guessed about this, so they didn't persuade anything later, and the two sides parted ways when they arrived at the intersection.

Wang Qilin returned to the post house, Jiuliu and Eight Meow were sleeping happily together, one was grinding his teeth and the other was snoring, but he was a match.

He opened the food box and shook it in front of the two little things, and Hachimeow jumped up with his eyes closed......

Turn around overnight, Laba Festival.

This is a very important festival in the whole area of the county, not as simple as drinking Laba porridge, up to the royal nobles, down to the common people, the big guys have to sacrifice to the ancestors and gods, praying for a good harvest and good luck in the coming year.

In addition to this, there is an additional project in Uehara Prefecture, which is to fight the epidemic.

From just after midnight into the new day, the bell and drum tower rumbles to the sound of drums, and in the morning at sunrise, the drums are even louder, and the sound can be heard throughout the city.

Black Bean shouted outside: "It's a war, it's a war! The war drums are beating, quickly pull the war horse over - mother, don't beat me!"

Wang Qilin yawned and pushed the door open, and the sweet taste of eight-treasure porridge wafted in the courtyard.

When Wang Qiaoniang saw him get up, she put away the broom and hurriedly returned to the kitchen to lift the lid of the pot, she hurriedly came out and said, "Xiao Qi, you will drink porridge by yourself later, I have to help." ”

"How can you help?" Wang Qilin asked casually.

Wang Qiaoniang smiled: "You, you don't care about Suisui at all. Sui Sui got up very early today, she set up a soup kitchen, many people came to receive porridge, father and mother they have already gone to help, but there is definitely not enough manpower, I also went over. ”

Black Bean shouted, "Mother, I'll go too." ”

Wang Qiaoniang straightened up and said, "You go to study." ”

Black Beans hung their heads.

Then he saw Wang Qilin and asked hopefully: "Uncle, didn't you say to buy me a pig and let me be a pig herder?"

Wang Qilin sighed and said, "Now there are regulations in the imperial court, and those who are illiterate are not allowed to herd pigs......"

"I'm literate, eighty or ninety words!" said Black Bean hurriedly.

Wang Qilin secretly said hastily, and he also hurriedly said: "The imperial court regulations say that you must learn at least a thousand characters to write, otherwise you can't raise pigs." ”

"Why?"

"Because now the imperial court has put forward a slogan, called scientific pig raising, you don't know how to raise pigs. ”

Black Bean froze.

Is it so hard?

He asked hopefully, "What about raising cattle?"

Wang Qilin said: "You have to learn the Analects and Mencius to raise cattle, the cow is too big, and there is a lot of knowledge involved." ”

Black Bean cried and asked, "What about raising chickens?"

Xu Da stabbed and drank the eight-treasure porridge and said: "You have to have money to raise chickens, you have to have dozens of gold baht to build a building, and you have to get dozens of gold baht to get some people, you can't afford to build a chicken farm without a hundred gold baht." ”

Black Bean made a difficult calculation, and finally felt that the thousand-character text was better to solve, so he took heavy steps to the study.

Xu Da sang behind him: "The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will not ...... when he goes"

"Eat your porridge honestly. Wang Qilin kicked him, "Why don't children want to study? ”

Xu Da asked, "Then have you read it?"

Wang Qilin shook his head regretfully: "My family is poor, and I haven't read it." ”

Xu Da nodded and said, "That's why you dream of studying, okay, uncle finished drinking, go and arrange our porridge shop." ”

"Spinach, are the grains ready? and let's listen to the banner of the heavenly prison, hold it up for the uncle, it must be a scene!"

Lu Bocai said helplessly: "Master Xu, our porridge shop has been set up since Yinshi, what time do you think it is?"

Wang Qilin quickly drank a bowl of fragrant and sweet eight-treasure porridge and walked around the street with his hands behind his back.

Fucheng soup kitchen is a regular activity, the surrounding county and village people are dragging their families to come to the city to drink porridge, large households, yamen departments have opened soup kitchens, but there are still many people queuing up in front of each soup kitchen.

The common people are still living a hard life, wearing thick but shabby clothes, carrying bowls from this porridge shop to that porridge shop, and their stomachs are swollen and they don't want to stop.

It was probably the first full meal they had since the heavy snowfall.

Tingtianjian's porridge shop is set up far away, there are a total of four porridge shops, two at the foot of the mountain in the north of the city, one at the foot of the mountain in the northeast and one at the foot of the mountain in the east.

Wang Qilin went to the porridge shop in the northeast corner, Xu Da's second brother Xu Xiaoda was here to read a book and give porridge, he was very generous, his eyes read books and did not look at people, no matter who came to give a bowl of porridge, all a big spoonful, impartial.

The pot is cooked with multigrain porridge, there is not much rice and millet, mainly sorghum rice mixed with dried sweet potatoes, the people who come here to drink porridge are dressed in tatters, and some people have a bunch of hay tied to their legs and go down the mountain.

According to the rules of the porridge shop, each person can only drink one bowl of porridge in a porridge shop, and if you want to drink it to other shops.

But there is no such rule in the shop of the Heavenly Supervisor, and the big guy gets a bowl of porridge and immediately goes to the back of the line to line up.

Wang Qilin looked strange and asked questions: "Second child, you serve snacks, don't always read books, you have to watch people, many people have finished drinking a bowl and went to line up." ”

Xu Xiao laughed and said: "Seventh Master, this is the rule given by the Dao Master, it is said that the people who come to us to drink porridge are poor people in the mountains, they can't bear it hungry after walking on the mountain road, and it is not easy to hold on to our shop, so we can't stipulate how much they are allowed to drink, it is important to save people's lives." ”

Wang Qilin was also born in poverty, but he didn't know that the mountains were poor like this, so he asked: "Isn't there someone walking on the mountain road who is hungry and can't get out?"

One of the women in the team said, "Yes, my lord, you walk in along the mountain road to see, the old people and girls are all walking and resting, and they haven't come out yet." ”

Wang Qilin went back to Xu Da and asked him to find someone to carry the burden and go into the mountains along the road to give porridge directly.

Xu Da has been in the market for many days and has rich experience, he waved his hand and said: "Seventh Master, this is unacceptable, the people in the mountains are like a pack of wolves when they are hungry, they will directly rob the porridge bucket, and even kill people to rob the porridge!"

Wang Qilin said: "Hang the banner of listening to the heavenly prison, and there are still people who dare to rob us of the things of the heavenly prison?"

Xu Da smiled bitterly: "People are about to starve to death, do they care how to die? ”

Wang Qilin had experienced the taste of starvation, and the taste was really unpleasant.

He said: "Let Chen Weiyue, Shu Yu, and Wu Dasan enter the mountain, anyway, today is Laba, and no one should come to report the case." ”

Xu Da continued to smile bitterly: "Seventh Master, you don't care about anything, since we came to Shangyuan Mansion, we haven't taken over the case, and they have not solved the tricky case before they deal with it." ”

Wang Qilin frowned and said, "There are quite a lot of backlogs?"

Xu Dadao: "Just one word, Qian Xiao is a rice bucket!"

Wang Qilin said: "That's not a bad day, today let them go to the mountain road to deliver porridge, and then you go to contact a few bunks to buy food, and send them relief food to the mountains." ”

Xu Da looked around and whispered, "Wouldn't this be a bit swaggering?"

Tingtianjian is not a Qingshui Yamen, but they don't care about money and food, so it stands to reason that they will not be very rich, so when they buy food everywhere to help the people, it will indeed make people with a heart doubt the source of their money.

But this point is easy to solve, Wang Qilin squeezed his eyes and said: "Learn the Taoist, don't let the people know who gave them the food, throw a bag of grain to the poor people's homes at night and paste a toad, isn't this okay?"

But do good deeds, don't ask about the future.

Besides, the gold they got from the Golden Buddha's secret room was also the people's fat and people's anointment, which was taken from the people and used for the people.

Wang Qilin went back to arrange this, and Chen Weiyue learned that he was going to let him deliver porridge, and his face was like a dead man's face.

How can a scholar do such a thing?

Wang Qilin said: "Your daughter-in-law is kind and generous, she must be very happy to take her to soup porridge with her." ”

Chen Weiyue immediately flew out.

This is what the reader must do!

Wu Wu handed him a booklet and said, "Seventh Master, this is the squeezing case we have sorted out, and we have arranged them according to the time and urgency of the case. ”

Wang Qilin took it and looked at it, and as soon as the case was introduced, I am afraid that there must be a hundred cases in the whole city!

This stunned him, did Qian Xiao sit in Shangyuan Mansion to do business or to catch ghosts and punish evil spirits?

He rubbed his temples helplessly and said, "So many cases? Damn, I feel a headache at a glance." ”

Shen Yi asked with concern: "Are you infected with the wind and cold?" Spray monk go buy you some medicine? Seventh master, you have weak bones, it is best to wrap it tightly when you go out." ”

Wang Qilin said angrily: "Get out, who is weak in bones? Your seventh master and I are full of blood, and there is a volcano sealed in my body, or an active volcano!"

Shen Yi asked: "Then why are you still drinking whip corpse wine? Besides, what are you yelling at the spraying monk? It's not that the spraying monk says that you are false, but the people outside say so, are the people wrong to say it?"

Wang Qilin knew that he couldn't make sense with him, so he stretched out his hand and pointed at him and said, "If you chirp for me again, will I beat you or not?"

Shen Yi took out his wand and said, "Amitabha, the spray monk has now also advanced to the five-grade boiling essence realm, so let's try it!"

Wang Qilin was surprised: "Aren't you in the fourth-grade realm? When did you enter the fifth-grade refinement?"

Shen Yi said solemnly: "It's been a few days, that night the monk recited the Buddhist scriptures, chanted and recited the heart, and then entered the five-grade boiling essence realm." ”

Wang Qilin asked suspiciously, "It's so simple?"

Shen Yi said inexplicably: "Isn't it so simple to break the realm? No one will think that it is difficult to cultivate to break the realm, right? ”

He also taught Wang Qilin his experience: "Sometimes it will be more difficult to break through the realm, so I have to shout Amitabha Buddha a few more times." ”

Wang Qilin silently pushed him away, and finally understood why Master Wufeng, who had cultivated into a golden-bodied arhat, would choose a fool to be his disciple.

No way, the fool is too talented, and he has to accept him with tears.

He went to the courtroom, sat behind his desk and looked at the two books in a daze.

Wu Hanlin transferred him to Shangyuan Mansion in order to maintain order, and the remnants of the previous dynasty wanted to cause turmoil before the New Year not only Huang Junzi knew, but Wu Hanlin even knew about it.

Zhong Wuji transferred him to the Shangyuan Mansion in order to clean up the personnel related to the Xingtian Festival.

Then Qian laughed at this dog's day and left him the boss with a mess.

None of the three things is easy to solve.

Wang Qilin rubbed his face and decided to string three things into one thing, he first saw if the people involved in the case left by Qian Xiao were related to the Xingtian Festival.

The two books were compared and flipped, and he really found a related person.

Or rather, he found a related family.

There are many mountainous areas outside Pingyang Prefecture, and the common people have to rely on the mountains to eat in order to have something to eat.

They come to the fields around the mountains, and the ridges of farmland that go up and down dozens of circles on a mound often belong to a large family, which is the landlord model characteristic of Uehara Prefecture.

Under this model, the financial resources of the landlords are demonstrated by owning a few agricultural mountains.

The landlord who came to report the case was the most wealthy family in the surrounding area, surnamed Feng.

Because their family has many mountains, the head of the family is called Feng Duoshan, and because the old gentleman likes to do good deeds, he is also called Mr. Duoshan.

In October, a child of the Feng family came to report the case, saying that there was a strange incident on a road in their mansion, and it would fog up every time they arrived.

Fog is quite common in winter, but this Feng family has fog on a small road at night, and it is not ordinary winter fog, it is smoke!

The smoke rose quickly, revealing the smell of old leaf smoke, like dozens or hundreds of old smoking guns coming together to swallow clouds and spitting smoke.

In the smoke, there is often a black shadow that looks like a man and a beast, and it crawls with difficulty against the ground, and someone has entered the fog and heard it say repeatedly: pull a poop.

This sentence spread, and some knowledgeable people said that it was a troublemaker.

The Feng family was rich and powerful, and they were naturally not afraid of meeting a small number of ghosts, so they immediately invited a well-known Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits.

But the Taoist priest entered the smoke and never came out.

He just disappeared.

Seeing that the Taoist priest was not good, the Feng family invited another monk.

This monk is more famous, the law name is Marigold, it is said that he is a disciple of the Qingjing Mountain of the Great Buddha Gate of Dongzhou, and there is a family in the Uehara Mansion that has been entangled by a century-old evil ghost, which is what he solved with a Zen staff.

Then, when the monk entered the smoke, he was gone.

Now the Feng family was scared, a child of the Feng family came to report the case, Qian Xiao took someone to take a look, and it is said that he also fought with the ghost, and finally ran back in a gloomy way.

Wang Qilin frowned when he saw it, he called another small seal left by the post office over, and asked, "Have you been to the scene of this Feng family road ghost fog case?"

Xiaoyin's name is Yu Mengzhong, and he is a pilgrim like Xiaoyin Sun Miao in Wang Qilin's hometown of Archway Township.

But the small seal in the big place is different, and people practice the righteous path incense spectrum in their dreams, called "Thirty-six Incense Ways of Rewarding Good and Punishing Evil".

Yu Mengzhong was loyal and upright, and after listening to the questioning, he hugged his fists and said: "Lord Hui, Lord Qian did not take the lowly position to the Feng family, but I have heard about this case. ”

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "Say." ”

Yu Mengzhong said simply: "Lord Qian took his concubine into the smoke, and then saw that there were indeed ghosts in the smoke, but after they made a move, they fell behind, so they fled back in horror and sealed the case. ”

Wang Qilin slapped the table and said angrily: "Lord Qian is really kind!"

There was no detailed account of the case, so he had to take Yu out of the city to Feng's house to see the scene in his dream.

The place where the Feng family is located is called Feng Jiaying, and he explained to him in a dream that Feng Duoshan, the old man of the Feng family, dragged his family to open up the barren mountain when Emperor Taizu was thirty years old.

"My lord knows, the previous dynasty tossed my Jiuzhou ten rooms and nine emptiness, the people of Shangyuan Mansion were fierce, and the people couldn't survive to become bandits, until Emperor Taizu ascended to the throne for more than 30 years, the mountains outside the city were still occupied by bandits. ”

"At that time, it was a chore to work in this barren mountain range, not only tiring but also dangerous, and from time to time there were bandits who patronized it. ”

"How can the common people have the ability to fight with the bandits? The yamen and the guards cannot garrison the mountains to shelter them, they can only deal with the bandits. ”

"The thieves come to the door to ask for food, and they give money when they ask for money, often working hard for a year, but in the end they can barely eat enough to starve people to death. ”

"The Feng family opened the mountain in this situation, and finally earned a place name of Fengjiaying, and now Fengjiaying has jurisdiction over more than 400 households in nine mountains, all relying on Feng Duoshan, the old man of the Feng family, to eat. ”

"Old Man Feng is benevolent and righteous, and he treats the tenant farmers and the servants in the village very well, and their family collects the least rent from the tenant farmers within a radius of 100 miles. ”

"And whoever is sick in the Feng family's camp, he will ask the children of the family to bring snacks to take a look, this year's snowstorm, the old man Feng gave the camp twenty catties of coarse grain according to the head of each person, enough for the people in the camp to survive this winter. ”

mentioned this old man Feng Duoshan, and he was full of praise in his dream.

Wang Qilin heard something else from his words, so he asked, "Do you know that there is a collusion between the Feng family and the Xingtian Sacrifice?"

Yu Mengzhong smiled bitterly: "Many people in Shangyuan Mansion know that the Feng family had a hard life in their early years, and in order to survive, they had to sell their children for money. This is the old lady of the Feng family has been hurting in her heart, after the Feng family's life is better, she will live in the Buddha hall every day to eat fast and recite Buddha to atone for the family's sins. ”

He added: "Lord Wang, the Feng family is really a good person, and they didn't sell their children just for themselves in the early years, they already had servants in their family at that time, and they sold their children for money to buy food to support the servants. ”

Wang Qilin said lightly: "Don't worry, this official will investigate this matter in detail." If they were not connected with the Heavenly Sacrifice but only sold their children to support their families for more money, then the official would not have punished them. ”

Fengjiaying is very close to the city, it is a suburban area, after walking out of the city, you can see some terraced mountains when you walk two incense sticks, this is the area of Fengjiaying.

The Feng family's house is on the top of the largest earth mountain, the house area is very large, and it is a Taoist temple in the former dynasty.

The previous dynasty did a lot of evil, Emperor Taizu rose up, and the heroes of Jiuzhou responded one after another.

The Taoists among the monks are known to help the world and save the people in troubled times, and the big and small Taoist sects have sent people down the mountain to support Emperor Taizu, and finally after a troubled time, many Taoist sects have broken off the inheritance.

This Taoist temple on Datu Mountain covers an area of more than ten acres, and the houses inside the outer wall are demolished and newly built, and the people of Fengjiaying live in it, just like a small village.

Along the way, there were porridge shops at several intersections, and the flags on the trees had the word "Feng" on them, which were all soup kitchens in Feng's camp.

Wang Qilin went to take a look, and the coarse grain porridge mixed with wild vegetables was cooked in the pot, which was quite viscous, which was already very conscientious for the folk soup kitchen.

They came to the door, and Feng Duoshan, the head of the Feng family, came to greet him in person with his two sons.

Feng Duoshan is seventy years old this year, but his body is very strong, probably because he personally worked in the field in the early years and exercised, he still has strong muscles, walks with the wind, has a loud voice, his eyes are not flowery, his ears are not deaf, and he is more like a squire.

Although he lived outside the city, he had business in the city and often dealt with the official yamen, so he recognized his identity when he saw Wang Qilin's official uniform, and hurriedly bowed to the ground: "The grass man Feng Duoshan has seen Lord Tiewei Wang. ”

Wang Qilin smiled and said, "Feng Shanren doesn't need to be polite, this official came this time to check on the tricks in your house, and the matter hasn't been resolved yet, right?"

Feng Duoshan shook his head with a wry smile and said, "There is no solution, but the foggy path has been blocked by the grass people, so if there is no such road, it will be safe, so it doesn't matter." ”

One of his sons said, "Dad, how can you ignore it? The smoke is getting bigger and bigger, it's twice as big as the earliest time, what if it can finally cover our entire Feng family camp?"

Feng Duoshan frowned and shouted: "Shut up, Dad is talking to Lord Wang, are you not talking to each other?"

He apologized to Wang Qilin again: "I'm sorry, the grass people have no way to discipline them, and the dog is so powerless at such an old age, so let the adults see the joke." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Feng Shanren is polite, Ling Lang is right, the trick must be solved, how can it be done if it is not solved? ”

Feng Duoshan asked, "There's no need to be in such a hurry, right?" Why don't you sit down and drink a cup of hot tea to get rid of the cold?"

Wang Qilin waved his hand: "Let's take a look at the situation first, the official still has something to ask you later, and then there will be tea time." ”

The path where the accident occurred was the main passage of Feng's camp, and there were twenty or thirty families around the front and back.

The first to find the haunted are these people, the trick has not been solved for a long time, they are afraid to start to put all kinds of town objects, what Taishan stone dare to be, Zhenwu Emperor Zhen Demon Map, Zhong Kui statue and so on.

There are also children who come out to pee, and they are asked to urinate in circles around their houses to ward off evil spirits.

The most powerful thing is that a family hangs a piece of red and black cloth at the door, and Feng Qiuzhen, the second son of Feng Duoshan, said that this is a riding cloth.

Yu almost fainted in his dream, and he said: "Riding a horse cloth is evil, it is the best way to attract ghosts, okay? ”

Wang Qilin looked funny, what the hell is this?