Aggrieved Fish Sprite

When you are away from home, it is rarely smooth sailing.

Even old Jianghu will encounter accidents.

The people in the caravan looked at the closed city gate, and at the sun that had not yet fully set in the sky, and they couldn't help but stamp their feet.

——The gate of the city was closed early, and they hurried all the way, but they still failed to enter the city.

Although there is a fixed time for opening and closing the city gate every day, it is normal to delay it by a quarter of an hour, especially in the counties below the state capital, the city gate officials are a little lazy, and the people have nothing to reason with.

Sheds and houses are not allowed near the city, and there are few trees, mainly moats and trenches.

The rain in Yuzhou this year is quite sufficient, the fields are green, and there is water in the moat, but it is relatively turbid.It is obviously impractical to find a sheltered place nearby to stay up all night. Not only do people have to sleep, but mules and horses also have to drink and rest.

The person who made up his mind in the caravan discussed with the bodyguard and decided to try his luck in a village more than ten miles away.

Not only this caravan was turned away by the city gate, but Meng and Qi also failed to catch up.

The ink carp didn't intend to climb over the wall either.

——It is easy to climb over the wall, what about horses and carts?Just throw it outside?

Mo Li checked the dry food he was carrying, and found that there was still a pack of fried chestnuts, a pack of sugar cakes, and four hard buns.

The chestnuts and sugar cakes were bought in a larger town yesterday, and the taste is far worse than those in Taijing.But for Meng Qi, something is better than nothing, so what are you picky about?

Those pastries brought out by Taijing were eaten up early, and they would spoil if they were reluctant to eat them, so it is better to eat them early, Meng Qi said.Let's not mention the matter of him stuffing Mo Li's hand and mouth while talking.

Even at this moment when Meng Qi saw Mo Li taking out the dry food, he couldn't help but touch two pieces of sugar cake, and each of them took a piece.

"It's too nasty." Mo Li refused.

There are several types of sugar. The cakes in the capital shops use fine soft white sugar, which has uniform particles and a fine taste, and then there is maltose. As for the small towns in the countryside, there is no such good sugar, and there are many impurities. Hard, but also very greasy, eat must drink water.

Although they had enough dry food, they were running out of water.

Although Mo Li thinks he is a fish, he doesn't drink raw water. There is no reason. This is the result of Mr. Qin's precepts and deeds.As early as hundreds of years ago, many medical books and famous doctors in Xinglin knew that some diseases came from raw water.

The people are poor, and most of the firewood is for cooking. They drink the water from wells and rivers directly. If they boil all the water before using it, the expenditure on firewood will immediately double. It will also add a heavy burden.

So it is useless to understand this truth. If the people have no money, they will drink raw water all the time. If an epidemic breaks out, it will be shocking.

However, for hundreds of years, the imperial courts of all dynasties have not always been idlers. Now the larger state capitals have "water shops", that is, shops that sell hot water, and there are also shops that carry burdens to sell in the streets and alleys. The habit of buying water is cheaper than burning it yourself, and it is not troublesome. You can buy it and use it immediately.If you don't have much money at home, you can go to the tea stand. The worst rough tea is a penny and a big bowl, which quenches your thirst and is clean.

Now there are no shops here, and they can't even find firewood to make a fire. Mo Li thinks that Meng Qi can eat this piece of sugar cake by himself.

In other words, eating such a sweet thing without drinking water is considered a skill?It's just that I don't know whether this advantage belongs to the dragon vein itself, or it is unique to the masters of internal skills.

Mo Li couldn't figure it out, because he obviously had both, but he still didn't have this kind of talent.

Perhaps this is the difference between fish and fat rats.

"It's really not as good as in the capital city. By the way, which shop in the capital city does the doctor like sugar cakes?" Meng Qi gave Mo Li seven or eight names in one breath, all of which Meng Qi had bought back.

Mo Li wondered blankly, do the sugar cakes come from so many shops?He seems to have only noticed one difference, one is sweet-scented osmanthus and the other is rose marinade.

"Different flours have different tastes."

"……yes?"

Looking at Mo Li's confused eyes, Meng Qi silently swallowed back what he hadn't said.

He originally wanted to tell Mo Li that Taijing sugar cake is really delicious, even if he traveled all over the world and ate it all over the country, he still had to go back to Taijing to taste the taste.How good it is to abduct the person back again without making a fuss!If the doctor wants to go back to Zhushan County, Pingzhou, he can still pass by Taijing!

As a result, the conversation had just begun, and I couldn't continue it later.Meng Qi ate the sugar cake in frustration.

"Eat less." Mo Li couldn't help but wonder what a dragon with all its teeth broken looks like.

Can only think about it, basically can't see it.

The true appearance of a dragon is transformed by spiritual energy. If the spiritual energy is lacking, the dragon may be very lethargic, with dark scales, dull eyes, and even broken horns.

The carriage swayed along, it was getting dark, and the mules and horses in the caravan seemed restless.

Because they didn't feed the fodder in time, the speed of Moli's car also slowed down, and the horse pulling the cart kept shaking its head, as if turning its head to urge the people on the cart.

"Jingle Bell."

There was a faint sound of bells in the wind, Mo Li didn't pay attention to it at first, he stopped the car and began to rummage for beans, which were used to feed the horses.A horse is just like a child, it loves to eat, drink and play. If you let it eat bad forage after it has been fed well, it will not agree.

These bean materials are mainly bean cakes that are easy to carry. They can also be used as rewards for horse training on weekdays, so that it can avoid detours and tow the car conscientiously instead of always thinking about going to the fields to have fun.

The sound of the bell gradually became louder, mixed with high and low shouts, and the ink carp raised its head suspiciously.

The speed of the caravan was slower than them, and the bodyguard and the trainer were pulling the mules and horses forward, trying to get to the next destination as soon as possible.

At this time, a few horses ran past them quickly. It was the young man who had accosted Mo Li on the way. He seemed to be going to ride a horse to investigate ahead. Behind him were three men dressed as guards. It is very different from the clothes worn by escorts.

The young man was a little surprised when he saw Meng Qi's figure. He didn't expect that there was another person in the car.

It's just that it was dark, and Meng Qi turned his back to this side again, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

"Damn it!" A bodyguard cursed loudly from behind.

The wheels of a loaded wagon sank in the dirt.

The pit was originally not that big, but the goods they carried were relatively heavy, and the people pushing the carts didn't see it when it was dark, so they fell into it.Everyone panicked and hurriedly tried to push the car out, but the pit got bigger and bigger instead.

"The jingle bell rang..."

Listening to the voice, Meng Qi asked strangely: "Could it be that there are walking corpses here too?"

There are very few people ringing bells on the night road, and this is not the Gobi outside the pass, the caravans are all hung with camel bells.

Especially when there is only sound and no fire, this is very bizarre. Who still walks in the dark?

While talking, the young man on horseback came back again, this time he didn't have the heart to look this way, but hurried back to the caravan.

"There is a congregation of the holy lotus altar in front of us. We can't avoid it, so we have to change the way."

"What? It's really bad luck. I can't go to that village or town."

Mo Li frowned, never expecting to hear these three words in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Seeing the change in Mo Li's expression, Meng Qi patted the back of the doctor's hand as a comforting gesture, got up and went to the caravan.

Although he was wearing a bamboo hat, but Chunri's clothes were becoming thinner, and he was tall and tall. He looked like an ordinary person. He came from the darkness, and the riders and driver of the caravan's outer caravan became alert and were about to speak. The question stuck in his throat, but he instinctively clenched the hidden weapon.

"Everyone is invited. I am going out with my friends. This is the first time I have set foot here. I don't know where the holy lotus altar came from? What's going on with the puja?"

There are people who are ready to ask, if Meng Guoshi can be lazy, he will be lazy.

Everyone in the caravan looked at each other, and after a while, the young man squeezed over. He looked Meng Qi up and down, with obvious surprise on his face.

"The holy lotus altar...is a group of poor ordinary people who believe in the true Buddha and the way in a daze. Their village will be chased away." The young man casually said a few words, and then couldn't help muttering, "It seems that there have been more and more in the past two years, obviously it was not like this here before."

Meng Qi's expression froze when he heard this.

He cupped his hands to thank him, and without saying anything else, he turned around and went back to the carriage.

"What kind of person is this? He's so abrupt and rude. He didn't know how to say hello when he saw an old man here." The servant beside the young man complained.

"Okay, don't look for trouble when you go out! Do you know who the other party is from?" The young man slapped the boy's head down.

"What's the background, can it be a relative of the emperor?" The boy muttered.

Even if it is a strange old man, if a young man wants to talk to this side, he must first salute and ask the old man, otherwise he does not understand etiquette.There was indeed an older steward in the caravan, who was also the one who made the decision this time, he was considered the leader of the caravan. Although Meng Qi ignored him the whole time, he still nodded when he heard the young man's words: "Young Master Qiu is right. That’s right, that person looks unusual, let’s get out of the car and turn around.”

Meng Qi returned to the car, and sure enough, Mo Li also looked heavy. The number of congregants in the Holy Lotus Altar is increasing, which is definitely not a good thing.

Meng Qi didn't delay for a moment, and immediately suggested that he go to the village and town over there to check.

Mo Li wasn't worried about him, and such a small place would hardly be dangerous. He just felt that the Holy Lotus Altar or the Heavenly Granted King might be plotting something, so he warned, "Don't startle the snake."

Meng Qi waved his hand to indicate that nothing happened, and his figure disappeared into the darkness in a flash.

The sound of copper bells, gongs and drums came from afar, and Mo Li could distinguish carefully, and he could also hear the voice of worshiping the Big Dipper Ziwei Xingjun.

Ziwei Xingjun should be a Taoist god.

Taoism pays attention to the nature of heaven and earth, even if it worships the gods, it is not so noisy.Everyone in the holy lotus altar holds magic tools, and they don't shave their heads but only let their hair loose, but they take the same way of worshiping Maitreya in the past, so they look like monks or monks, more like things created by evil ways in the world.

When Meng Qi arrived, he saw that everyone in the village was kneeling on the ground, and a dozen people in white clothes and robes were dancing around shaking their tambourines, chanting words.

There are three animals on the table, as well as wine and fruit.

It's not a living sacrifice, and there's no idol, just a sandalwood tablet with Ziwei Xingjun's name written on it.

The holy lotus altar believers in white robes looked like villagers. They said they were white, but they were all yellowed. None of them knew martial arts.Meng Qi circled the village and found that except for the elderly with limited mobility, everyone else gathered at the entrance of the village to pay homage to Mr. Ziweixing.

Congratulations are very common, nothing more than good weather, family happiness and so on.

Noticing anything strange, Meng Qi's expression did not change for the better.

He returned to Mo Li without saying a word, and shook his head at Doctor Mo.

"Not the holy lotus altar?" Mo Li was puzzled, he didn't hear the sound of fighting, and the sound of the tambourine continued.

Meng Qi said with a sullen face, "They are all ordinary people... they just believe in the holy lotus altar."

The ink carp was thoughtful.

It is inevitable for the common people to believe in gods and Buddhas, the only difference is what they believe in.

"The whole village believes in Lord Ziwei Xing of the Holy Lotus Altar." Meng Qi frowned, thinking deeper and further than that.

It doesn't matter what the common people believe in. If you don't allow others to believe in something different from your own, or you can only believe in one god in the same village, it is very dangerous and abnormal in Meng Qi's view.

"I don't know if it's a single village or town, or there are such trends in the vicinity..."

"Even if the holy lotus altar is in trouble, they want the people to give up their comfortable life and revolt. I'm afraid it will be more difficult to rebel." Mo Li thinks differently from Meng Qi, and feels that the matter has not reached the point of no return.

"They don't need to do anything here, as long as they cause trouble to the Qi Dynasty, such as making rumors that the land tax has risen, or simply killing people, and framing and planting money on the officials, they can incite people. At first, the people may just beg for a According to the saying, the conflict will be unexpectedly large immediately after, and when the two sides quarrel out of control, no matter who comes forward, it will not be quelled."

Even if Meng Qi knew, there was nothing he could do.

I don’t know how many villages and towns like this exist, and they are not as evil as the townspeople in Qinghu Town. They just worship Ziwei Xingjun. After hearing the bewitching words, if someone comes forward to stop them from doing this, they will arouse rebellious hearts , On the contrary, it is easy to do bad things.

"The emperor Lu Zhang is really confused. Are all the officials in the Qi Dynasty a bunch of idiots? Don't you discover the shortcomings of the holy lotus altar early and let them grow!"

Meng Qi got angry. When he quit his job, how could there be so many hidden dangers in the world?