Later, when they hit the road, Fat May Day was more careful, and directly found a rope to tie their necks around their waists.

The people stared at him, pointing fingers and discussing.

Wang Qilin said in a low voice: "This is not good, it will make people pay too much attention, and then see that there is something wrong with the image of the two brothers." ”

Cheating and drinking is not a mule, but it is very much like a mule, and many details are different if you look closely.

Xu Da had no choice but to help, and Fat Wu looked at the tube and drank it, and he took care of his cheating.

The two brothers were already honest after getting the pie, and they had pies to eat all the way.

The pie under the basket is clean, and the pork and green onion filling is fragrant.

So when they got to the back, they changed to a pie and the two brothers followed to eat one, and in the end the pie was so delicious that it was changed to people eating and they were watching.

When they walked to the post house, the wrestlers at the gate of the post house saw this scene:

The four of them ate the pie with a happy face, and the two big strong mules stared covetously.

Wang Qilin ate the last pie in twos and threes, deceived and drunk, and let out a sad and angry cry when he saw this: "Quack!"

A wrestler's eyes widened: "Wu Cao, this donkey's cry is so strange!"

Fat Wuyi shook his hand and slapped the mixer, and shouted, "Don't scream." ”

Xu Da also said: "Okay, it's almost over, I'm full after we have eaten this way, but you two are not full?"

The wrestler next to him stopped them with his waist knife and asked, "Slow, everyone, slow down, what's the matter with you donkeys? They are not screaming right, I'm afraid they are not monsters, right?"

Xie Toad said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, their bark must be different from that of ordinary donkeys, this is normal. ”

Lux asked vigilantly, "How can it be normal?"

"Because they're not donkeys. Fat May 1 rolled his eyes.

Another wrestler smiled: "Deng Dazhi, you are really a young master who has lived too long, I'm afraid you haven't seen a donkey......, right?"

"This is not a donkey, this is a donkey cub, a mule!" Deng Dazhi, a wrestler, reacted fiercely.

The two brothers began to roll their eyes at this wrestler.

Xu Da was afraid that the two of them would be demons, so he hurriedly pressed his neck and said, "They are indeed mules, but they are ancient god mules. ”

Mules are more common in the countryside and not very common in the city.

China has a long history of raising mules, and there were no donkeys in the Central Plains in ancient times, let alone mules.

The original mules also came from the Western Regions, and the army of the Shang Tang era advanced into the northwest, and the small countries of the Western Regions surrendered, and the mules were presented to the emperor as a tribute.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Qin and Han dynasties, donkeys and mules were still treasures? Lu Jia of the Han Dynasty said in his "New Language": "Donkeys, mules, camels, corals, jade...... Born in a reservoir? Choose a place to live. ”

It can be seen that in the Han Dynasty, the value of donkeys and mules was comparable to that of treasures such as coral and jade. Who has a donkey and a mule? That's really a girl from ten miles and eight towns casually picking up a daughter-in-law.

During the Jin Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, celebrities and scholars even took learning donkey barking as a trend? Although there are more donkeys and mules in Gain, there are not so many? Many sons of the family treat them as little treasures.

Time has passed to the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty? The imperial court set up pastures in the northwest to breed donkeys and mules, and at this time, the agricultural properties of donkeys and mules were discovered, and they began to circulate throughout Jiuzhou, which became more and more common.

Speculation confirmed? Deng Dazhi suddenly said, "Oh? It turned out to be a mule, and it was the first time I had seen it, and I had only heard of it before. ”

Then he straightened his face again: "How dare the people dare to fool the official? The official has never eaten pork before, but he has seen a pig run, he has never seen a mule but he has heard a mule howling, how can a mule call like this?"

"I told you, this is the ancient god mule!" Xu Da said impatiently.

Deng Dazhi was furious: "What is your attitude?"

Xu Da took out his bronze lieutenant seal and threw it on: "What's the matter?" Official, do you have to kneel on the ground to talk to you?"

The bronze lieutenant seal sparkles in the sun.

Deng Dazhi held it in his hand like holding a fish? He shivered with just one glance at his hands, and the bronze lieutenant seal jumped in his hand:

"Your Excellency? I have seen my lord! My lord forgives my sins, please forgive my sins? The crime of despicable duty deserves death......"

The wrestler next to him blew up when he saw the copper lieutenant print? Hurriedly ran to the post house with chrysanthemums.

Wang Qilin pointed to the two brothers who cheated and ate and drank and said to Deng Dazhi:

"Okay? You don't have to be afraid, although you didn't have a good attitude just now, you also suspect that these two mules are monsters in front, and it is your job, and the official will not hold you responsible. ”

"Now you go and get them both to the stables, remember, to the cleanest stables possible. ”

Deng Dazhi puffed up his chest and said:

"Lord Hui, the lowly family is right next to it, how can the divine mule go to the stable? The lowly is willing to send these two divine mules to the yard of the house to be kept in captivity, no, let them rest, let the two divine mules rest!"

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "It's okay, but be careful, don't let the two of them run away." ”

Deng Dazhi took away the deception to eat and drink and walked home, his family has a large courtyard, which is cleaned up, and it is indeed very suitable for raising mules.

Seeing him return, his wife asked strangely, "Boss, how did you come back with two donkeys?"

"No, it's a mule. Deng Dazhi said disdainfully.

"And it's an ancient god mule, very powerful, they were brought by a bronze captain, and they were raised in our house first, you can watch them carefully, don't let them have any accidents, otherwise my career will be over." ”

The woman pouted: "Career, tsk." ”

Deng Dazhi heard the irony in her words, so he glared at her angrily and said: "The woman's words, long hair and short knowledge! Forget it, there is nothing to say to you, you just need to take care of the child, what about the son?"

The woman lazily said, "I went out with my father." ”

Deng Dazhi snorted, tied up the two brothers and turned around to leave, but when they arrived at the door, they were about to open the door, and a mule squeezed in front of him and blocked the door.

Seeing this, Deng Dazhi was stunned: Didn't I tie the two of them just now?

He subconsciously looked back and saw another mule in front of his kitchen door, peering in.

The woman shouted, "Master!"

Deng Dazhi hurriedly led the mule around him back to tie it again, and another mule leaned against the door at the kitchen door and grinned at him - laughing?

He is also well-informed, and immediately reacted, and a guess appeared in his heart:

"It's worthy of an ancient god mule, this is still a spiritual wisdom. Alright, Lord Mule, you are no longer bound by your humble duties, and you two can move freely in the courtyard. ”

The mule at the kitchen door shook its head and whistled, and the mule beside him sped over in two steps, crowded in the door to look at the kitchen, and then turned around and squeezed his eyes.

Deng Dazhi walked over blankly and looked inside, and saw a pot of pork hind legs with sauce on the stove.

Seeing this, he was shocked: "Don't you?

The two mules nodded and smiled at him together: very savvy.

Sauce pork hind leg meat is a good thing, and it is also a delicacy that ordinary people can't afford to eat, so he closed the door decisively.

Seeing that the two mules pouted and turned around, Deng Dazhi breathed a sigh of relief, and as a result, the two of them each raised a hind leg and kicked out, and the two kitchen doors opened together......

A mule lifted its front legs and put it on Deng Dazhi's shoulder, and winked ambiguously at him: You are not sensible.

Deng Dazhi understood what he meant, and was shocked by his intelligence, so he had to take out two pieces of pork hind leg meat in sauce and distribute them to the two mules:

"Okay, okay, you are a divine mule, I obey me!"

Trick each of them to swallow the sauce meat and start chewing, and look into the sauce basin together: What else?

Deng ran over in a panic and shouted, "Are you crazy, how do you feed the donkey with sauce meat?"

Deng Dazhi was also distressed, but what could he do?

He must serve these two mules well, otherwise once the god mule sues him to Lord Bronze Captain, what will he do about his career?

So he pushed his wife away and said with a tiger face: "The woman's words, with long hair and short knowledge, are they just a few pieces of sauce meat?

He hardened his heart and handed over the sauce and meat, and the two brothers were very satisfied with the relish.

But the sauce was very salty, and after two bites, he snorted and shook his head, and he looked at the water tank.

Deng Dazhi hurriedly smiled: "Lord Mule wants to drink water? Wait a minute, I'll fetch water for you." ”

He was about to carry the bucket, and he stuck out a hoof to block his way, and then looked at a jar in the corner.

Deng Dazhi was stunned: "That's wine!"

He pursed his mouth with his tongue and happily stretched out his head to see: What, there is still wine?

Deng stopped his man and shouted, "Are you crazy? That's Daddy's wine, you want to feed the donkey?"

"This is a mule, a divine mule, and a divine mule brought by Lord Bronze Captain. Deng Dazhi glared at her angrily, "Long hair and short knowledge, don't talk nonsense, don't displease Lord Mule!"

The cheater glared at the woman like a dog, and then continued to lick his mouth at the wine jar.

Deng Dazhi sighed, he didn't want to sacrifice the wine, so he rolled his eyes and made a heart.

He pretended to move the wine jar, but after bending down and snorting a few times, he got up and shook his head helplessly: "I'm sorry, Lord Mule, this jar is too heavy to move, otherwise you should drink water, right?" ”

He opened his mouth, and a tongue flew out like a roll of cloth, rolled up the wine jar and was sent to the door.

They were so burly that they accidentally hit their butts on the kitchen cabinet and knocked the cabinet door open.

Cheating and eating turned his head to look at it, grinning.

Deng followed and cried.

A bowl of flatbread that had been baked in the morning appeared in front of them!

Deng Dazhi's face was as pale as earth, and he pushed out the deception and took out the flatbread and distributed it to the two mules.

Seeing this, Deng was distressed and shouted, "What are you doing......?"

"Shut up, woman's opinion!" Deng Dazhi glared at her angrily, "Hurry up and serve these two ancestors and close the kitchen door, otherwise the two of them can eat up our family's lard!"

Deceived and drunk, he looked back at him in surprise: What's the matter? And the lard?

Deng was honest.

The two of them hurried out with the flatbread and locked the kitchen door tightly.

Eating and drinking, eating flatbread, looking at a string of salted fish hanging on the wall......

Eventually, everything that could be seen in the yard was gone.

Deng Dazhi said dejectedly: "The two god mules, the food from the humble family has been given to the two of you, and now there is really nothing." ”

After deceiving eating and drinking, he looked at the empty yard regretfully, and then lay down in disappointment, and it was time to go to bed after eating and drinking.

Deng Dazhi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, he pointed outside and said, "Those two gods and mules will rest first, and go back to perform their duties?"

The two brothers nodded: Go ahead, go ahead, you are busy with yours.

Deng Dazhi sighed and walked out, and as soon as he opened the door, a child's surprised voice sounded: "Dad, why are you back?" Look, Grandpa bought me the marshmallows!"

Hearing this, Deng Dazhi looked back in horror.

The Mule was already behind him......

Deng Dazhi's scalp suddenly tingled: "What, why is this coming again? Is it over? No, I have to hurry up to find the bronze captain." ”

Two bronze lieutenant orders appeared on the desk in the lobby of the Zhending Mansion Post House, and Mao Yiqi, the iron captain of the mansion, hurriedly saluted Wang Qilin and Xu Da.

Wang Qilin is indeed famous, he introduced himself, and Mao Yiqi immediately used the case he had investigated to pat himself on the back.

After getting to the point, he raised the same question as Hu Yi, the iron lieutenant of Huaiqing Mansion:

"Lord Wang, are you now going to take up our Jingchu land, so let's investigate the case of the Great Reed River first?"

Wang Qilin sighed, and routinely took out the big chapter of Guanfeng Wei to show him: "Now this official is the head of Guanfeng Wei, investigating the world's suspicious cases. ”

Mao Yiqi subconsciously rubbed his eyes, and said in surprise: "Your Majesty has restarted the Guanfeng Guard?

Wang Qilin said: "This official is not clear, but if you suspect that this official is acting pretendically, you can send an order to Tianting Temple to inquire about this letter of appointment." ”

Mao Yiqi hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "Don't dare, don't dare, the adults have misunderstood the humble position." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Let's talk about it first, what's going on with this big reed river? It seems that there have always been inexplicable dead people in recent years?"

Mao Yiqi smiled bitterly: "That's true, my lord is really a god and a man, the Great Reed River is a big river, it's not strange that a big river drowns people, which river hasn't drowned people? But what is strange is that since about ten years ago, a group of people have always drowned one after another. ”

"Take the group of people who drowned in the first lunar month, they were five people who were friends, and on the day of a banquet, someone threw themselves into the Great Reed River, and about ten days later, the other four people also jumped into the river intermittently. ”

Wang Qilin asked, "This is a law, isn't it?"

Mao Yiqi nodded heavily.

Wang Qilin asked: "Then the incident of these five people throwing themselves into the river and dying happened one after another, and the Heavenly Supervisor and their families did not find out the strangeness, and locked them up and guarded them in advance?"

Mao Yiqi sighed and said: "Lord Wang's meaning is understandable, but it is not easy to guard them. ”

"Because when only one or two people died, we don't know who will die later, after all, there are many gatherings in the New Year, and they come into contact with many people!"

Wang Qilin nodded, this is true, after people die, they can get the list and find that they have gathered, but it is too difficult to find the commonalities of this group of people without taking the list.

Mao Yiqi explained frustratedly: "In fact, after the death of the three people this time, we compared the behavior trajectories of the three people in the first month, found several gatherings that the three of them had attended together, and guarded all the relevant people. ”

"But you can't send these people to prison, can you? At most, they are imprisoned at home, but they are all human beings, they can move, sometimes they go to the hut, sometimes they have to go out to relax, and when they can't stand it, they will throw themselves into the river!"

Speaking of this, Mao Yiqi couldn't help but rub his temples: "Please forgive Lord Wang and Lord Xu, I am really desperate in this matter, every time there is a problem with the Great Reed River, I have a headache!"

"Your problem is actually quite easy to solve. Xu Da said suddenly.

Mao Yiqi hurriedly looked at him, could it be that Lord Xu was hidden and was also a master of solving cases?

Xu Da said: "If you have a headache, you can use Chuanxiong, this flavor medicine can give you ...... from head to toe."

Wang Qilin kicked him away and asked Mao Yiqi, "You also have a headache now?"

Mao Yiqi said with a solemn face: "Yes, there is a problem again, and another group of dart masters in Shu have an accident!"

He couldn't help but rub his forehead.

Seeing this, Fat Wuyi added: "Xu Ye's words are correct and round, I have studied the pharmacopoeia, 'Chuanxiong must be used for headaches, if it does not heal, add menstrual medicine', you can use Qixiao Xiongshu decoction to treat headaches." ”

Mao Yiqi smiled bitterly: "Thank you for your concern, let's pay attention to the case first." ”

Even if the dart master has no cultivation, he still has kung fu, and these people are often strong in blood and yang, and ordinary ghosts can't haunt them.

However, there were a total of eighteen dart masters in the accident this time, and all eighteen people were afraid that they were all entangled, which shows the horror of the Great Reed River.

Mao Yiqi said: "Now that two dart masters have been drowned, and sixteen of them have all been sent to prison by their humble positions, so we can only use this to imprison them first. ”

Wang Qilin said: "Take me to meet them." ”

This time it was the dart master from other places who had little contact with the locals, so after finding that someone threw himself into the river, Mao Yiqi immediately took care of the dart team and arranged for people to go to the Dawei River to guard and fight against the river from two directions.

The prison area where the dart team is located is cleaned up, and there are flower pots in the prison with Yueji, magnolia flowers, and peach blossoms and pear blossoms to welcome spring.

Wang Qilin went in and looked at it and was stunned, the local listening to the heavenly prison was quite emotional.

Mao Yiqi is a good person, the prison is quite complete, and there is no smell after coming down, there is the smell of wine and food.

A group of men stayed in silence in the cell, some were sleeping, some were tearing the thatch, and some were looking at the wall with expressionless faces.

Seeing the officials of the Heavenly Prison coming in, these people hurriedly got up and spoke one after another: "My lord, is there any news?"

"Master Mao, when can we leave?"

"Lord Mao is full of us guys here, it's too boring, can you ......?"

Mao Yiqi clapped his hands and said: "Friends, be quiet first, these two are Lord Tongwei Wang and Lord Xu, who I listened to the heavenly prison, they are coming for the treachery of the Great Reed River, you must cooperate with them, so that we can solve the matter in the river as soon as possible, and we can get out as soon as possible." ”

The men looked at Wang Qilin with blank eyes, very well-behaved.

Wang Qilin smiled when he saw this, and said: "Master Mao is very skillful, our brothers in the rivers and lakes come and go in the wind and rain, and they should be the most unruly, and it is not easy to make the big guy give up his business and stay in prison honestly." ”

Mao Yiqi hurriedly said: "Lord Wang's false praise is not because of his humble skills, but because they have suffered losses!"

Two of the eighteen people in the dart team died, one was called Ah Wu and the other was called Bingzi, and the first to die was Ah Wu.

Knowing that the dart master threw himself into the river for no reason, the Heavenly Supervisor immediately dispatched to take care of them all.

At that time, the dart team was not convinced by one and the two were not angry, they had heard and seen many tricks in the north and south, and they boasted that they were many and powerful, and they were not afraid of ghosts.

And they also have to transport dart carts, and they don't want to stay in Zhending Mansion to delay the time.

Then the day after they left the Heavenly Prison, Penang also died......

Interestingly, at that time, Bingzi wanted to stay in the Heavenly Prison, but he was an ordinary executioner, and he had no way to influence the decision of the dart team, and if the big team wanted to continue on the road, he could only follow the road.

As a result, he really went on the way, on the way of hell.

If Bingzi dies again, the rest of the people will obey, they know the rumors of the Great Reed River, but there are many similar rumors on the rivers and lakes, most of them are false rumors, and the three of them become tigers, and the dart team originally thought that the rumors of the Great Reed River also came from this.

If Penang dies again, they will not dare to rebel again.

Wang Qilin asked, "Does Bingzi want to stay here?" Have you ever asked him why he wants to stay here?"

The burly man was the head of the dart, and he shook his head gloomily and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Wang, I was too arrogant at that time, I didn't take this matter to heart, and I didn't pay special attention to Bingzi." ”

Wang Qilin asked, "How did you take the route to Zhending Mansion?" Have you ever encountered any strange people or strange things on the way?"

Dart head looked left and right and said: "It's not the first time we've taken Zhendingfu, the route has not gone through a hundred trips before, but there must be fifty trips, and we haven't met strange people or strange things on the way......"

His gaze swept over, and the eyes of the dart masters dodged.

Wang Qilin touched his chin.

"Is it a strange thing to save people?" a man suddenly spoke, "I have saved people in the Great Reed River." ”

Wang Qilin nodded.

"When we crossed the river and entered the city, we saw a child struggling in the river, and there were many people on the bank but no one went down to save him. ”

"And then?"

"Then Ah Wu walked for a while and suddenly he walked back and jumped into the river, we thought he was joking, so we teased him by the river, and it turned out that Ah Wu was struggling in the water, like a real person who fell into the water. ”

"But we all know that Ah Wu is a good swimmer, he is a white fish in the waves, we think it is wrong, and we rescued Ah Wu, and Ah Wu spit out the water after coming up, and the man looks fine, but he is a little lost and depressed. ”

"A few more steps, Ah Wu is dead. "The dart head said that there was no expression at this point," he suddenly burst out of the water, and then died. ”