Chapter 35: The Statue of Huli
After Yang Ying exhaled out of the school palace, she came to a manor adjacent to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and when she walked in, the guards on both sides clasped their fists and saluted.
She kicked open the side door and entered the inner courtyard, but when she saw that the hall was empty, she pulled a servant and asked strangely, "Where is my brother?"
The servant hurriedly replied: "Mr. Yao is here, as if he is teaching what kind of knowledge he protects." ”
"Mr. Yao?"
Yang Ying was startled and unconsciously lowered her voice.
At this moment, a seventy-year-old man slowly walked out of the inner hall, his expression was calm, and his eyes seemed to be soaked in the world.
When Yang Ying saw him, she saluted and said, "Mr. Yao." ”
Mr. Yao raised his hand and returned the salute and said, "Yang Weiwei." ”
Yang Ying hurriedly said: "Mr. Yao came out so early, is it wrong for my brother to do something?" Mr. told me that I came to teach him a lesson. As he spoke, he waved his small fist.
Mr. Yao said: "No, the capital is very good, I am here to tell the capital to take a leave, recently my father is unwell, I need to serve in front of the bed, I am afraid I can no longer teach the capital protection." ”
Yang Ying was stunned, with a worried look in her eyes, and said, "Is Old Man Yao's health bad again?"
Mr. Yao said calmly: "I have been coughing since the beginning of spring, and then I recovered a little, and I barely passed the meeting, and now my condition is showing signs of getting worse." ”
Yang Ying hesitated for a moment and said, "But, but, my uncle is there, and my uncle is ......."
Mr. Yao said calmly: "Du Wei agreed. ”
Yang Ying was suddenly disappointed.
Mr. Yao glanced at her and said, "I heard that Wei Wei went to class today?"
Yang Ying immediately raised her head and said, "Yes, my uncle arranged for me to go to learn a foreign language, and my husband is also very good, but he is a little strict." ”
Mr. Yao said: "Then study hard, Mr. be strict, it is a good thing for you." ”
He paused and admonished, "Take care of Duhu." ”
Yang Ying snorted heavily.
She turned around and watched Mr. Yao walk out, looking at the somewhat gloomy back, for some reason, her nose was a little sour, and she always felt a little empty in her heart.
After a while, she snorted and said angrily: "It must be the little brother who made Mr. angry, otherwise how could Mr. leave!"
She turned around and strode inside, and the attendants next to her didn't dare to stop her when they saw her like this.
Rushing to the inner hall, I saw a handsome boy about ten years old sitting on it, with single eyelids, slightly golden eyes, wearing a majestic Dadu governor's uniform, and wearing a crown with a dazzling crown on his head, looking like a little adult.
When the child saw her, he put down the things in his hand, stood up and saluted, and said, "Sister." ”
Yang Ying rushed forward in a few steps, grabbed her brother's collar, and said fiercely: "Say, did you do something bad and make Mr. Yao angry!"
Xiao Tong's eyes widened in astonishment, and then he hurriedly said, "Sister, Mr. is leaving by himself, and I can't stop it." ”
Yang Yinghu looked at him suspiciously a few times and said, "Really?"
The boy nodded vigorously.
"Alas!"
Yang Ying let go of her younger brother and sat down on the couch covered with thick brocade cushions in frustration, she was inexplicably a little upset, and her eyes were a little more confused.
Xiao Tong walked up to her and asked cautiously, "Sister, are you okay?"
Yang Ying glared at him angrily.
Xiao Tong glanced at her a few more times, and asked curiously, "I heard that Sister Ah went to the school today, I don't know what it is like there?"
"It's what it should be. ”
Yang Ying replied impatiently, but then thought that she still had homework to do, and suddenly felt that her head was about to explode.
She looked at her brother, rolled her eyes, and said, "Do you want to know what I learned today?" ”
The little boy crawled to the desk, took the pen and paper, and then looked at her.
Yang Ying coughed and began to dictate.
In the past, she learned everything in her left ear and out in her right ear, not as smart as her brother, she could teach everything once, so she was prepared to write as much as she could remember, and if she couldn't remember, she let her brother play casually, and it would be over if she was confused.
It's just that she was surprised to find that she actually remembered everything taught in the school today, and said it without thinking.
After finishing speaking, she felt like she was in a dream, snatched the pen in the child's hand, poked her cheek, well, it hurt a little, she secretly doubted, "Am I very smart?
Xiao Tong looked at the words he wrote, and his little face was full of admiration: "This gentleman is as powerful as Mr. Yao." ”
Yang Ying said angrily: "You didn't go to class again, what do you know?"
Xiao Tong retorted this time: "But what Mr. Yao said, Sister sometimes can't remember, but Sister can memorize what this gentleman said." ”
Yang Ying was stunned, and then fell silent.
Xiao Tong was a little at a loss, pulled her, and said, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Yang Ying shook her head and said, "It's nothing." She stood up, stepped forward and hugged her brother, and said, "Mr. Yao told me to study hard and take good care of you, and I will do it." ”
Zhang Yu has also returned to his residence at this moment, and today from the background of these students, it is not difficult to see that the Metropolitan Protectorate attaches great importance to this matter.
Originally, as an assistant teacher, he also had the obligation to teach kindergartens, but now in order to let him focus on this, he doesn't have to be responsible for it for the time being.
However, when he finishes teaching Jianclaw language, he must also have to fulfill the responsibility of assistant teaching.
When he came to the study, he picked up the newspapers of the past few days from the table and looked through them one by one.
It's not just one newspaper here, but more than a dozen.
Today's newspaper office is not open by a random person, it must have a deep background, and if anyone dares to publish the news of other newspapers in private, the Sikou Office will come to the door the next day.
In this way, the same thing may not be the same in different newspapers. And he compares them with each other and observes and analyzes them from multiple angles, which is conducive to making more accurate judgments on some key news.
He noticed that most of the newspapers had recently appeared in the news of the hunt and killing of cultists of other gods, and the density was very high.
As he was flipping through it, he found a tabloid in it, which looked a little familiar, and recalled that it was very similar to a certain newspaper he had seen on the docks when he arrived at Ruiguang that day.
However, the above content is very eye-catching, saying that a village of hundreds of people somewhere outside Ruiguang City disappeared overnight with people and livestock, and it is suspected that it was lured away by some alien believers. But there are no specific dates, places, or village names, making it hard to believe that they are genuine.
After thinking about it, he called Li Qinghe in and asked, "Where did you buy this newspaper?"
Li Qinghe replied: "Sir, it was sandwiched in a certain newspaper, and Qinghe thought that it was also a newspaper, so he didn't take it." ”
Zhang Yudao: "If you see it again next time, don't throw it away, and bring it back as well." ”
Li Qinghe said: "Sir, I remember. ”
Zhang Yu flipped through it again at this time, and just turned to the newspaper printed by the Hanmo Newspaper Museum, he looked for it, and saw an article in the lower right corner, which was handed over to An Luju by Li Qinghe before, and many people should have seen it now.
Ruiguang East City, a mansion covering an area of more than ten acres, in the grand and gorgeous main building, Duan Mo was wearing glasses and was looking at today's newspaper.
It's just that he found that the place where clothes and food were originally introduced was replaced by an unfamiliar article, which felt a little strange and regretful. I was about to see what kind of doorway this article had, when I heard a clear bell ringing, and a waiter outside the door reminded: "Yajun, Shaolang is back." ”
When Duan Mo came to the window, he saw a carriage driving in from outside the house, and a round little fat man came down from above, but instead of heading towards the main building, he went straight to the kitchen.
After waiting for a while, a servant in his thirties came up and said with some embarrassment: "Yajun forgives the sin, Shaolang, he is also hungry, he has eaten a lot of things along the way, and he is still hungry." ”
Duan Mo smiled: "It's okay, I know that I am hungry, this is to use my brain! Hmm, today's gentleman is a bit of a doorman." He said to the servant, "Let him eat and then I will come here, and I will ask him something." ”
The servant bowed and retreated.
Duan Mo returned to the recliner, picked up the newspaper, and flipped back to the article.
It is written that many indigenous tribes like to worship the god of cleansing, "Onnu", and place statues of the god Onnu in their homes. Even some villages under the rule of the Metropolitan Gofu have special altars.
Not only that, but now many Tianxia people also have this habit, although the capital has repeatedly issued bans, but the effect is not great, the reason is that this statue has the effect of expelling rats, snakes, and poisonous insects.
But at this point, the following pen turns around, saying that many people think that this is a gift brought by divine power, but in fact it is a "scam" that has lasted for thousands of years.
Duan Mo looked at the front, and originally thought that this was another rebuke issued by someone in the capital hall prohibiting the worship of other gods, but when he read this, he suddenly became a little interested. He sat up straighter, took a sip from his teacup, unfurled the newspaper, and continued reading.
As mentioned below, the god "Onnu" actually uses a type of wood called "Huli Wood" to do all of this.
"Huli wood" is a type of wood that grows near Ansan and is usually used to make furniture, and almost everyone has it in their homes. But few people know that the core of the pot Li wood that is more than 200 years old will give birth to a weak grass and tree spirituality because of its age, so it has the ability to repel rats, snakes and poisonous insects.
The article says that perhaps the ancient indigenous ancestors discovered the effect of the core of the Huli wood and carved it into a statue of a god, and later thought that the gods blessed themselves, but in fact, it was actually themselves who blessed the people, and nothing else.
In the last paragraph, the article also teaches people how to distinguish the specific age and authenticity of the pot, as well as various ingenious ways to expel insects and ants when there is no such wooden core.
After Duan Mo finished reading it, he was also suddenly in his heart.
He thought it was very interesting, most of the things published in the newspapers in the past were righteous and strict, even if the food he liked before, the language was very rigid, and it was rare to see this kind of article that was both interesting and invisibly able to destroy the supernatural.
And the whole article is logical, the sentences are in place, and it is funny, and there is a lot of knowledge involved, which is definitely not something that ordinary people can write.
He couldn't help but move his gaze to the bottom, and saw that the signature there was "Tao Sheng".
He thought about it, he had never heard of this name before, and guessed in his heart that the other party should be the teacher or academic order of the Taiyang Academy, otherwise it would not be published in the newspaper of the Hanmo Newspaper Museum.
While he was thinking, there was a knock on the door, and a man who looked like a steward hurried in.
He looked up and said, "What's the matter?"
The steward waved his head and said, "Yajun, Si Kou Yamen has asked the arsenal to allocate a hundred firearms. ”
Duan Mo took off his glasses and frowned, "I just gave them a hundred last month, why do you want them again this month?"
The steward sighed: "I don't blame them, I heard that a few days ago, the Sikou inspector found a place of worship for heretists, and there was a battle between the two sides, and it is said that more than 50 people were killed and wounded, and more than 30 firearms were snatched away. ”
Duan Mo frowned and said, "So serious?"
The housekeeper said helplessly: "There are also complaints from the Sikou Ya Bureau, because this kind of matter should have been handled by the Divine Lieutenant Army, but the Yajun also knows that after this meeting, the Divine Lieutenant Army said that he would be trained and transferred all the manpower back......"
Duan Mo sighed: "This is putting pressure on the Dutang, it seems that there is another one in the Dutang who is going to stand up and take up his post to appease the Divine Captain Army." He thought for a moment and said, "Give them a dial, and give them another hundred sticks!"
The steward was taken aback and said, "Yajun, is it too much?"
Duan Mo said in a deep voice: "It's not much, if the weapon is broken, it can be rebuilt, and if the person is gone, there is nothing, and the lives of my Tianxia people are much more valuable than those so-called alien gods!"
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