The daily life of the retired devil

Ten years ago, after Xie Feiyan had a few nights of talking with the immortal in the moonlit night, he already roughly understood that the size of this small world was beyond ordinary people's imagination.

According to the fairy, there are nine continents and thirteen regions in this world, and the Dazheng Dynasty where Xie Feiyan lived was located in Wuji Qiongzhou, one of the nine continents.The Dazheng Dynasty has a vast territory, divided into thirteen prefectures, and it considers itself a kingdom of heaven, so that the surrounding countries come to the dynasty, and one side is prominent. However, such a Taisho Dynasty only occupies the land of Wuji Qiongzhou in this world. It's only half - this alone is enough to see the vastness of this small world.

Xie Feiyan made a rough calculation, and felt that if every continent in the Nine Continents and Thirteen Domains had the size of Wuji Qiongzhou, then this planet would be truly terrifyingly large, at least two Earths in size!

However, just as an ant cannot grow to the size of an elephant under the constraints of gravity and exoskeleton, in the same way, under the scientific cosmology, a planet suitable for human survival will also be limited in volume under such and other constraints. within a certain range.Therefore, from Xie Feiyan's point of view, there must be other secrets in this planet that is obviously beyond the "normal" range!

And if you want to explore this secret, what better way is to measure the world with your own feet?

So Xie Feiyan became interested and decided to go to the nearest "Dongtu Daqin", which is the Daqin Empire in Jingzhou of Dongji.

However, the official roads in Dazheng territory are not horizontal and vertical roads, and after leaving Dazheng, Xie Feiyan encountered mostly winding trails, so a month later, when Xie Feiyan walked through countless small towns, he did not see what he expected When he saw a continuous and surging river instead, he felt bad, so he held on to the donkey, pointed at the sun in the sky, and counted his current range——

Oh, sure enough, I went the wrong way.

Xie Feiyan couldn't help but laugh, there happened to be a fishing boat stopped by the river, so Xie Feiyan smiled and talked to the fisherman, saying: "Old man, do you know how to get to Haiping City?"

Haiping City is the easternmost sea city in Wuji Qiongzhou, and it is also the only city that regularly sails to Dongji Jingzhou.For ordinary people, if they want to go to Jingzhou, they cannot avoid Haiping City.

The old fisherman who was accosted by Xie Feiyan was originally sitting on the side of the boat smoking a hookah, but when he heard the sound and turned his head to see Xie Feiyan's face, his eyes lit up, and he felt that the world in front of him seemed much more pleasing to the eye .

"Young master, are you going to Haiping City?" The old man said with a smile, "Haiping City is far away! If you follow the official road, the road will be uneven, even if you travel day and night, you will have to travel half a year; and you If you take a big boat and walk along this river, you can get there faster, and you can get there in about a month, but it's a pity that the nearest Zuixian River is not accessible by boat!"

Xie Feiyan smiled helplessly: If I knew it earlier, I shouldn't let the donkey run around by itself, and at the same time use the method of shrinking the ground to make an inch.

This is really the faster you run, the farther you go.

"This river is called the Zuixian River? Why does the old man say that this river is too short for boats?" Xie Feiyan asked curiously.

"I heard that Lord Jiang Shen is angry." The old fisherman shook his head and said, "There is a vortex at the bottom of the river more than twenty miles to the east from me, which disturbs the river flow. Normally, although this turbulent current makes us Those who make a living on the water are a bit of a headache, but it doesn't affect anything, but just a few days ago, the turbulence at the bottom of the river suddenly increased, and it continued downstream, making it impossible for all boats to sail to the center of the river. Those of us Fishing boats for small businesses are okay, if you don’t go to Jiangxin, you won’t go, it doesn’t hinder anything, and there are actually quite a lot of catches on the shore—hey, look, my lord, are the fish on my boat okay?”

Xie Feiyan heard the words, and when he took a look on the fishermen's boat, he saw several large and fat fish either piled up in the cabin, or hung in the water by the fishing nets.

Xie Feiyan couldn't help smiling, and said, "The old man is very skilled!"

The old fisherman smiled, a little complacent, but still pretending to be modest: "It's okay, it's okay, if the chaotic river currents in the middle of the river didn't drive these fish out of the deep water, I wouldn't be able to catch so many fish, old man!"

Xie Feiyan asked curiously: "Since this is the case, the current of the river doesn't seem to hinder anything, and it is also good for everyone who earns a living by the river. If so, why is the Zuixian River suddenly overwhelmed by boats?"

In Xie Feiyan's view, this Drunken Immortal River stretches for thousands of miles, and its width is not trivial. The so-called turbulent flow in the heart of the river is only limited to a small part.

In terms of today's productivity, no matter how big a big ship is, it will only be a small one on the drunken fairy river. The turbulence in the heart of the river should not have much impact on these people, so why stop the ferry?

The old fisherman shook his head: "My lord, you don't know something. Although our small boats are not affected, those big boats carrying people will never be able to cross this vortex. It's strange to say that the vortex in the center of the river seems to recognize ships. We When these small boats are on the water, when they encounter turbulent currents, they can just push their poles and pass. However, if the big boats are on the water and cannot walk for a mile, the turbulent currents will inevitably find them. Tear the whole boat apart! Old man, I have seen with my own eyes that a three-storey boat went up the river and walked along the shallows. Before it had gone two miles, it was found by the turbulent current and torn into pieces. The sawdust boats and sculls are all floating on the river, it's too horrible to see!"

Xie Feiyan heard the words, the smile on his face became lighter, and his brows were slightly frowned: "Why does this sound like a monster?"

The old fisherman looked around and whispered: "We are actually talking about this matter in private, and we all think that this matter is probably not caused by monsters, but the punishment of Lord Jiang Shen!"

Seeing that the old fisherman circled around the "Jiangshen Lord" again, Xie Feiyan no longer thought it was the reverence of mortals for the world as he had heard at first, but felt that there really was a so-called "Jiangshen" in this great river .

Xie Feiyan nodded lightly, and said, "Why did the old man say it was 'Jiangshen's punishment'? Where did this come from?"

The old fisherman hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't really want to talk about it, lest the trouble come out of his mouth.

But he looked at Xie Feiyan's face.

Take another look.

Take another look...

"Young master, I only tell you these words, you must not say that this is what I said, the little old man!"

So, under the old fisherman's eloquence, Xie Feiyan gradually became clear about the cause and effect of this incident.

It turned out that there was a Mengxian Village not far from the Drunken Immortal River, and this old fisherman was from that Mengxian Village, and whether it was this river or the village, there were rumors about it.

It is said that countless years ago, an immortal traveled here, lying drunk on a stone in the village, and happened to hear that people in the village complained about the recent natural disasters, and it was difficult for farmers to live only by farming, and envied those who lived by the river, saying It would be great if there was a big river beside our village.The immortal heard it in a drunk dream, laughed and said, "What's so difficult about this", and then with a stroke of his finger, a huge river was drawn outside the village, connecting the upstream river and the downstream sea.

From then on, the river was named Zuixian River, and the village on the edge of Zuixian River was named Mengxian Village.

For so many years, every household in Mengxian Village has enshrined the "Drunken Immortal" and "Jiangshen", living off the catch of this great river. Although there is no great wealth, there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, and life is peaceful and peaceful.

However, the good times did not last long.

Decades ago, there came out of Mengxian Village a smart and unreconciled person named Jiang Huo.Later, when he was about sixteen or seventeen years old, Jiang Huo, who was working in the town, got lucky and suddenly became rich. He met a nobleman in the town, took a piece of gold, and returned home with great glory. Some people got on the line and started the freight business.

The business of shipping freight by water seems simple, but the water is very deep, and people on land and water have to manage it. People with no background are absolutely unable to do it.But this Jiang Huo, obviously looks like a bachelor, and there is no one behind him to support him, but he has successfully done the water transportation business. For decades, he has been stable and has never made a mistake. He has made a small unknown fisherman In addition to Jiang Ye, who is now well-known along the coast, he has controlled nearly ten thousand miles of waterways up and down the river!

He is an official on the river, a water bandit on the river, and a "god of the river" living in the world!

Such a Jiang family and Jiang Huo, who can't help but praise it? !

However, the good luck and prosperity of the Jiang family seem to last only one generation.

A few days ago, when Jiang Huo was seriously ill and died at home, there seemed to be something wrong with Zuixianjiang—the whirlpool that was not an obstacle at the bottom of the river suddenly expanded, disturbing the river, and did not follow the small fishing boats on the river. Unable to make it through, he focused on the damage caused by the Jiang family's big boat, and overturned how many boats of the Jiang family's boat.

To the outside world, although everyone only said that there was a problem with this river and that all the large ships could not cross it, but anyone who knew the inside story would know that this river was controlled by the Jiang family, and that all the large ships floating on the river belonged to the Jiang family. ?

If the Zuixian River couldn't pass the big boat, wouldn't it mean that Jiang's family couldn't cross the boat? !

Hearing this, Xie Feiyan frowned slightly: "In this way, isn't this more proof that it is a demon? Or is it that Jiang Huo was actually rich and unkind and harmed one party during his lifetime, so the Jiang family suffered retribution immediately after his death and was punished by Jiang God? "

The old fisherman pretended to be mysterious and smiled: "Being rich and being unkind doesn't really count, but my son, you are a foreigner, so you don't know——When Jiang Huo made his fortune, we were discussing how bizarre the process of his fortune was." , the ingot of gold I got probably came from a wrong place, not to mention that Jiang’s family has been offering sacrifices to wild gods every year, and the shrine at home is neither a drunken fairy nor a river god, but a wild fox!”

"Wild fox?"

"Yes, wild fox! Although logically speaking, what other people's family sacrifices has nothing to do with others, and there is no reason to say that people who live on the river must sacrifice to the god of the river, but every year during the sacrifice, the Jiang family will slaughter There were two hundred live chickens, but the blood of the live chickens was discarded, and they were poured into the river, which almost dyed the entire Zuixian River red! The red color took three days to fade away. Old man, I was terrified when I saw it—Young Master, you look like a scholar, you come to judge, if you are that Jiang Shen, are you angry? Will you make trouble for that Jiang family?"

Xie Feiyan's heart skipped a beat. It's not like the old fisherman who just thought it was Jiang Shen who was angry. Instead, he heard some other clues, and asked in a deep voice: "The Jiang family pours blood into the river every year during the sacrifices? Bloody three days? Fading? Old man, are you sure about this?"

"Old man, I'm sure!" the old fisherman said with certainty, "Every time the Jiang family sacrifices, there is a lot of movement, and the red color of the river is also very evil. Count the days and avoid it in advance!"

Xie Feiyan frowned: "Then what happened later? Why did Jiang Shen not get angry for so many years, but suddenly became angry this year?"

The old man said: "Perhaps the Jiang family has offered sacrifices three times this year."

Xie Feiyan was surprised: "Three sacrifices? Within a year?"

"Yes." The old man said, "In the past, Jiang's family sacrificed at the beginning of the year, but a few months ago, Jiang Huo was seriously ill, so he held on and sacrificed again. Help from the great immortal enshrined in his family. But life, old age, sickness and death are human nature, and the great immortal can't control this kind of thing, so Jiang Huo really died of illness. Later, after Jiang Huo died, his son may want to take over Jiang Huo’s career seeks the blessing of the Great Immortal, so he sacrifices to the Great Immortal again—within one year, the Drunken Immortal River became popular for nine days! I don’t know if the Great Immortal has appeared or not, but we all know that Jiang Shen is angry. knew!"

As he said that, the old man looked very emotional: "In the past, Jiang's family had a quarrel once a year, and Jiang Shen had a good temper and didn't bother to pay attention to them. My lord, it's easy to bully, no, everyone in the river is living well, only the Jiang family has been punished. The Jiang family that Jiang Huo has supported for decades, is now on the verge of dying in just a few dozen days. It’s useless to pray to as many gods as you want and worship as many Buddhas as you can, so you must not be greedy!”

Xie Feiyan listened quietly until the old man's emotions were over, and then asked: "Dare to ask the old man, where is the whirlpool, and where does the Jiang family live now?"

The old man asked curiously: "Why do you ask this? Does this young master also think that the Jiang family has provoked demons and wants to visit the Jiang family?"

Xie Feiyan sharply said: "Really? Could it be that someone else has been to Jiang's house before?"

The old man replied: "Yes, those of us who earn a living by the river know that Jiang's family angered Jiang God, and that's the end of the disaster. Lu Shenfo came to practice. So these days, I don’t know how many mages, monks, and young talents have come here-but it’s useless! Young master, I saw you looking good, so I told you so much about it. , Lord Jiang Shen must have lost his anger, there is no other way, so you must not get involved in this matter!"

Xie Feiyan nodded thoughtfully, and smiled at the old man: "I already know, thank you for letting me know."

So, after asking the direction, Xie Feiyan led the donkey and walked all the way to the whirlpool in the lower reaches of the river.

The system watched the whole process and asked questions curiously.

【how?Are you really going to take care of this?Do you think this is a demon or is Jiang Shen angry? 】

Xie Feiyan sighed slightly: "It's hard to say, you have to confirm one thing first."

【What's up? 】

"Determine whether the river god of this Zuixianjiang is still alive."

The author has something to say: I originally planned to update two chapters in one go, and wrote about the appearance of the small mirror, but I don’t know why I ran to the toilet all day today...

Uh, let’s do it tomorrow, let’s see if we can get the double update_(:з」∠)_