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Chapter 1408 The Mystery of Shencheng
Li San smiled bitterly and said:
"The full name of this Chenzhou is Chenzhou County. At that time, when the world was in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people in this small county did something harmful to the peace in order to avoid the military disaster. Looted by a gang of rebels, but they were punished by God."

"That night there was thunder and lightning, and the surrounding residents said that there was a sound like the sky falling and the earth cracking. It should be that the earth dragon turned over, causing the nearby Mata Lake to flood, and then the entire county town of Chenzhou County was directly submerged by the flood, and all sank to the bottom of the lake. go."

"Of course, that happened hundreds of years ago. No one knows if it's true or not. However, one of Li Ju's subordinates named Sai Zhangfei's hometown is in Mata Lake. If you ask him to ask, you will know. .”

So soon, Fang Linyan and Li San found someone from Xiangjiao, but that Sai Zhangfei didn't sell Li San's face. Fortunately, Li Ju took a lot of money from Fang Linyan at this time and was here in Tianjin Whoring and gambling.
Cough, don't look at Li Ju, who looks gloomy and indifferent, but who can bypass the four major barriers of wine, sex, wealth, and qi?Even a man as bright and upright as Wang Wu is good at wine and saves face, lest he damage his reputation of righteousness.

As soon as Li Ju came forward, Sai Zhangfei must have known everything he said, saying that there is indeed an ancient city under Mata Lake, but usually there is no chance to see it, it must be in winter when the water is shallow and the weather is bad Only when it is sunny, can you vaguely see those meandering buildings under the water, which really look like the buildings in the county town.

Hearing such a strange thing, not only Fang Linyan, but also Li San and others were amazed, Li Ju couldn't help but said curiously:

"Since this is the case, why is no one going down to hunt for treasures? The water in Mata Lake is only two or three feet deep? I heard that there are people in the south who grew up by the sea and lived in the water since they were young, so they are also called water. Ghost, this kind of person can make air bags out of pig urine, and with two or three air bags, he can stay underwater for half a day."

Sai Zhangfei shook his head and said:
"Since I was a child, I have heard of people going treasure hunting, and even people from the navy have been attracted, but without exception, they all died underwater!"

"The elders said that the underwater city is very evil, and the residents inside have already turned into hundreds of evil spirits and waited for someone to go into the water to find a substitute!"

"However, these rumors are all rumors and cannot be counted. However, my uncle always likes to go fishing during the slack season. He once experienced a wicked thing and later became seriously ill because of it. But ask He wouldn't say anything."

Fang Linyan continued:
"Then brother Zhangwangzhuang, do you know where it is?"

When he asked this sentence, he knew that there should be no way to get the answer easily. After all, Chenzhou in this address actually refers to an underwater ancient city.

Sure enough, Sai Zhangfei shook his head:

"I have never heard of this."

After getting this information, Fang Lin Yanxin had a bottom line, and he took out the silver ticket very simply, and resorted to the silver bullet offensive:
"200 taels, I wonder if you are interested in accompanying me to my hometown?"

Then Fang Linyan looked at Li Ju next to him:

"If senior brother Li is willing to go, it will be 1000 taels."

Li Ju raised his chin slightly, and looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle with his eyes. He looked very arrogant, but he shouted in his heart:
"Why don't you go, you bastard? You'll only pay 1000 taels if you run away, and that idiot Wang Wu will pay you 90 taels for a trip out of the mouth!"

In fact, under normal circumstances, if the head of the escort goes out of the mouth, at least two or three hundred silver can be credited to the account, but Wang Wu is bold, generous, and loyal, even if he just came here, he can get it. To get a full amount of reward money - under normal circumstances, the chief escort can be considered kind if he can give some bonus money to his subordinates.

Therefore, Li Ju just held back for two or three seconds, then coughed and asked the subordinates next to him:

"Are we all right now?"

But this subordinate has a solid eye:

"Returning to senior brother, didn't the senior sister over at Huadengzhao make an appointment with you to talk about something important tonight?"

Li Juxin immediately hated this bastard so much that he decided to go out to preach next time, perform nail-rolling, boulder-breaking chest, and invulnerability. Said sensually:

"Earlier, Eldest Sister had sent someone to tell me that the date was changed, but you didn't know about it. If that's the case, then let's make a trip."

***
a day later,
Fang Linyan has already arrived at Mata Lake. The size of this lake is not small. Although it is not as big as the famous [-]-mile Liangshan Lake, it is not much worse than it.

It was noon at this time, the sun was shining on the lake, and the shadows of sails could be seen. The sea of ​​reeds was endless, swaying in the wind, and the scenery was very beautiful.According to Sai Zhangfei, there are at least thousands of fishermen living on the lake around the Horseshoe Lake, so it should be easy to inquire about the situation.

After a round of visits, the location of the underwater sinking city was directly locked. After all, in the current jargon, this place is about to become a popular spot on the Internet. Every year there are treasure hunters. People come here to inquire about it.

As soon as Fang Linyan smashed the money, the country people here immediately knew everything and said everything, but there were various theories:

Some people say that there are thousands of scapegoats below,
Some people say that the water looks calm there, but in fact there are many undercurrents, and it is easy to get caught in the water and cannot escape.

The most exaggerated statement is that there is a water eye below, which leads directly to the East China Sea. Once it is accidentally involved, it will be difficult to survive.

In short, it can be said that there are different opinions.

But it’s all here, Fang Linyan still wants to hear what Sai Zhangfei’s uncle said, this is his own person, a person who witnessed the underwater sinking incident, from his mouth, he should be able to get first-hand information ?
Soon, Sai Zhangfei came over with his uncle, whose surname was Liu, and everyone called him Old Man Liu.

This is a Chinese farmer who is honest and friendly at first glance. After seeing so many people, he is trembling. Fang Linyan walked over to comfort him, and then lured him, and soon the old man described his experience in detail. Talked up.

It probably means that when he took five ospreys and went fishing on the lake, he didn't expect heavy fog, so he accidentally strayed into the waters of Shencheng, which is very evil. According to word of mouth, there is also a restricted area, and I never go there at ordinary times.

Because of this, the old man downloaded two nets at that time, and was very happy to find that both of them were rewarded, which is very rare!You know, he came out for a long time today and returned empty-handed, and the family is still waiting for him to buy two catties of rice for dinner after he fishes and sells it.

Before, Fang Linyan thought about it with the thinking of modern people, and thought that even if he couldn't catch fish in this good place, why can't he sell eels, frogs, mussels, snails, loach and the like?Why do you have to point at the fish and sell it for money?
Later, when I went to the fishermen’s house, I found out that this is an era of extreme scarcity of materials. The following seafood should be cooked deliciously, with more oil, such as spicy millet, watercress, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, chicken essence, pepper, and five-spice powder. There must be no shortage of classes.

Cough these seasonings, can these poor people have them?

The way they cook fish is either to boil it in water and add salt, or to steam it with salt, and frying it with oil and salt is the way to treat guests!

Therefore, things like eel and loach, unless it was urgent at the time, no one would really eat it. Think about the taste of this stuff after being boiled with salt.

Another important point is that logistics was not well developed at that time, even if the fish came up, buyers were still a big problem!
You said that you sell it near the surrounding villages, and everyone’s life is very tight. Hehe, if they want to eat fish, won’t they go to the lake to catch it by themselves?Even if someone is willing to pay, it must be extremely low.

The nearest county town and the like take at least three or four hours to walk. If you take the fish there to sell, nine out of ten the fish will die.

So at that time, some fishmongers specially bought that kind of special fish transport boat. A living water tank was specially separated in the bottom of the boat. The bottom of this thing is only a net of vines, and fish can be caught in it at any time. Interact with the outside river water, so live fish can be transported to the county towns adjacent to the river.

Therefore, at that time, after the old man had harvested two nets in a row, he was thinking of another net, but after he lowered this net, he found two fish in the net and broke a piece of the bottom of the water. Vatan was scooped up!
This immediately frightened him out of his wits, because there are not many places where you can pick up broken tiles on this vast lake. Not only that, but there are fish in three consecutive nets, which shows another thing. Fishermen have never been here to catch fish.

Obviously, the old man realized that he had caused a catastrophe. He probably broke into the restricted area of ​​the underwater sinking city through the mist, and he found that the mist seemed to be getting bigger.

Under such circumstances, the old man suddenly thought of a method passed down in ancient times, first release all the fish caught, because it is said that the fish here are all transformed by the ghosts in Shencheng.

Then, with tears in his eyes, he could only kill the ospreys he was carrying, cut their throats one by one to let the blood out, and then sprinkled the blood into the water.

Of course, I kowtowed and bowed non-stop on the bow of the boat, pleading in my mouth.

In the end, when four ospreys were killed, it actually worked.

The fog began to dissipate, and the old man hurriedly rowed away as if fleeing for his life. After returning home, he realized that there was one thing he forgot to throw back into the lake, which was the half of the tile he had picked up.

The whole family was starving, and when the child was crying from hunger, there was no end to the sky. His wife's natal brother came to the door and said he came to ask his sister to borrow a jar of medicine. The ancient tiles suddenly lit up, and they said they wanted to take them away together.

Uncle Sai Zhangfei was taken aback immediately when he heard it. It's easy to talk about other things. Can this evil thing be borrowed?
If I turn around, I have to punt the boat to the vicinity, and then throw it down, otherwise, I am afraid that ghosts will knock on the door in the middle of the night.

Unexpectedly, my brother from my natal family also said that my life is at stake here. It turned out that several villages near his home were hit by the plague, and men, women, and children were all vomiting and diarrhea. A famous doctor was invited to see it, and he also prescribed prescriptions. medicine.

In the end, the doctor said that this prescription is the right medicine, and it will definitely cure the disease, but there is one thing that is a little difficult to do, that is, to find old bricks and ancient tiles with a long history to make the primer and decoct the medicine together.

The longer the primer of this medicine is, the more powerful it is to restrain the plague poison in the body!
At this time, the doctor prescribes prescriptions, and the medicines are full of strange things, so the villagers have become accustomed to this, and even think that the medicines are good.

In the end, I don’t know if the prescription is effective or if it’s just luck. After the natal brother used Napowa as a medicine primer, the medicine really cured the disease, but the plague was not very serious, and died in a month or two. Not the kind of person.

Seeing that the natal brother had recovered from his illness, the rest of the village also came to ask the natal brother to borrow the medicine, and it turned out that it was really effective.

After curing more than a dozen people one after another, Sai Zhangfei's uncle was also worried about throwing this thing into the lake, so he took the initiative to go to the door to get it back.

As a result, the next day when my uncle was about to go out and get on the boat, someone came to borrow this "medicine introduction", probably because he heard that the curative effect of my natal brother was remarkable.

Uncle of course refused, saying that I will take this thing back to Shenhu immediately, so as not to be haunted by grieving ghosts, the life of your patient is life, and mine is paper?

The sick man had no choice but to pay for it, and wanted to buy it. At this time, Sai Zhangfei's uncle was a fool. Seeing that the price was very high, he refused, saying that he only wanted to borrow it and not sell it. , bring this broken tile to his door to make medicine for him, the sick family has to pay for it, and has to take care of his food.

As a result, the patient's illness was really cured by drinking the medicine. As the reputation of this Powadang spread in all directions, this thing began to be called Yinwa, and more and more people came to ask for medicine. Many, the key is that although its curative effect is not [-]%, it has a recovery rate of almost [-]%.

Sai Zhangfei's uncle also became rich because of this, and relying on this shady tile, he stepped into a well-off life where he can eat without hard work.

And his experience has also led many people to want to make a fortune with a broken tile or brick. You must know that this thing is not a high-end commodity, but a cornucopia of cash cows!If it is picked up, it can even be passed on to the children and grandchildren, so that they can live comfortably.

However, those who went there either returned empty-handed, or directly overturned the boat to sacrifice to the lake god. However, there were still a few people who killed thousands of knives and found a tile at random to pretend to be a Yin tile, which made them uncomfortable.

Hearing what the old man said, Fang Linyan knew the meaning behind his words, so he laughed and threw out an ingot of twelve taels of silver:
"Show me this tile of yours. I don't want yours either. It will only take two or three days. Your nephew will keep it for the whole process, and then let your nephew bring it back. Is this enough money?"

(End of this chapter)