"Then why did those officers and soldiers go to the island in the middle of the lake? They went to get weapons to rebel, right?"
Qingyan asked doubtfully.
Chou Chou: "They did go there to transport weapons. I saw that when they negotiated with the person in charge there, they wanted to take away a batch.
However, the quantity they mentioned was not large, just two hundred sets. It was probably not about taking action, it was probably just replacing the old ones. "
Qingyan nodded, "That's okay, otherwise we would have sent an urgent message to Zhao Rixin. Otherwise, the cucumbers and vegetables would have been cold before they came over."
In this case, the cave mentioned by Chou Chou seems to be useless. They must go to the island in the middle of the lake first. After all, making weapons privately is more serious.
It will depend on the situation at that time. If it is impossible to find a place to put these in, this matter is probably very involved. When the time comes, we can find a house where they can put it in the house of the official who searched and ransacked his house.
Qingyan tore up the previous letter and wrote a new one, focusing on the theft and exchange of relief funds discovered earlier, as well as the weapons workshop on the island in the middle of the lake.
She didn't write down the gold and silver in it, so it didn't matter whether he came in person or sent someone reliable.
As long as he intervenes, she can let Chou Chou mix these things in for him. There is no need to give them to him specially, and she can save the time to find excuses.
This way they don't have to wait here, they can leave the next morning and continue going south.
It just started raining heavily at around eleven o'clock in the evening. This rain didn't even seem like it would happen in winter, but like a summer shower.
The place where they are now is relatively low-lying, and they are afraid that it will be flooded if it rains for a long time, so they enter the space together with the wooden house.
Unexpectedly, it started to rain lightly in the space. This was the first time it rained in the space. Qingyan called Chou Chou and Yuan Bao and went out to see what was going on.
Chou Chou also told her that it was raining heavily outside, which was a bit abnormal. I don’t know if the rain in the space had anything to do with it outside.
Qingyan called Jin Yang and asked him if he had discovered anything. After all, the space was now his, and he should be the most aware of any changes.
Jin Yang was meditating in the space before and didn't notice it. It sensed it carefully and then said: "Shui Lingzhu said it sensed something calling nearby, because it was not so obvious in the space, but it could still sense it. arrive."
Qingyan said nothing and looked straight at the two fruit trees in the yard that they had transplanted before. They were sprouting new buds rapidly.
Chou Chou and the others also followed her line of sight and looked over. This was what they had just moved in from the mountain today, a small orange tree and a loquat that were no thicker than a wrist.
Qingyan thought the trees looked good in the courtyard, so she planted them beside the courtyard wall. Both trees were found nearby.
Although the leaves on the tree were still green before, they no longer sprouted buds because of winter.
Now that the sprouts are visible to the naked eye, it must be abnormal. Even if there is spiritual energy in the space, it will not cause plants to grow. Otherwise, the previous vegetables would have ripened long ago.
"This rain is spiritual rain. There is a lot of spiritual energy condensed in it, which is comparable to spiritual spring water."
Chou Chou reached out to the door and felt it.
Jin Yang: "This rain is the first time, and it has brought down the spiritual energy floating in the air in the space. These two trees have just come in, so their reaction to this spiritual energy is greater. Other flowers, plants and trees are already used to it. , so nothing changes.”
Sure enough, they stared at the two fruit trees for a while. Except for taking out some green buds, there was no change after that.
Qingyan was a little disappointed. She thought space rainwater could accelerate the growth of plants. She was thinking about using a container to catch some before using it.
Sighing, he looked at Jin Yang and said, "The Shui Lingzhu said it was summoned. Could it be that there are its kind outside?"
After all, the dragon clan is responsible for the movement of clouds and rain. Maybe there is another dragon outside making rain.
Chou Chou and Jin Yang both felt the outside and found nothing different, so they finally let Shui Lingzhu go out.
Anyway, it has been refined by Jinyang together with the space, so there is no fear that it will not come back after it goes out.
Shui Lingzhu came back quickly, sent a message to Jin Yang, and then went back to the ground.
After hearing this, Jin Yang said to them: "Shui Lingzhu said that there was a dragon outside that was going through the tribulation of transformation, so it caused heavy rain, but it seemed to have failed. The tribulation thunder did not come. Now the dragon has gone back to the cave to continue practicing. ”
Qingyan looked at Chou Chou and saw that the monster was going through the tribulation. How could it not sense it? Even Shui Lingzhu, who was much weaker than him, noticed as soon as he went out that something was wrong.
Chou Chou understood her thoughts and sent her a message to explain: "After all, we are not the aborigines of this world. Sometimes we are rejected by the way of heaven, and our feelings may not be as strong as those of people here.
The other water spirit bead is originally a dragon bead, and has stronger control over water. The dragon's attribute is also water, and it can also know many things through the water vapor in the air. "
Qingyan nodded, so that's it. From now on, they have to be more careful, lest they accidentally offend the heaven of this world and be in trouble again if the other party slips into their shoes.
Because the dragon left quickly, it was really raining outside, and it stopped within twenty minutes.
They came out of the space, took the spirit stone and looked around. There were no big changes. There was not much water on the ground, and it had all flowed to lower areas.
They didn't take out the wooden house anymore and went back to the space to sleep. The rain in the space had stopped long ago.
The next day they came out from a branch road not far from the official road, which was only two or three miles away, so that no one on the official road could see this way.
The main reason is that there are many villages here. It is not easy to find a place with roads and no one. You can't drive a carriage directly down from the mountain.
For example, this road now leads to several villages in the east. If you follow this road to the east, there will be several villages.
The carriage has been hitched in the space, and they are now heading west. They will not encounter the village again until they reach the official road.
As a result, the way was blocked at the village in front of Shangguan Road.
It's not that they were stopped specifically, but many people were doing some activities there, blocking the entire road.
They used their spiritual consciousness to look across the crowd and saw that it was a Taoist priest performing a ritual.
I saw a middle-aged Taoist wearing a gray-blue Taoist robe, holding a bell in his left hand and a mahogany sword in his right hand. He was shaking the bell while stepping on the Gangstep, and muttered incantations.
Qingyan listened carefully, and what he read was:
Xuanzong of heaven and earth, the root of all things.
I have cultivated extensively for hundreds of millions of kalpas to prove my magical power.
Within and outside the Three Realms, only the Tao is supreme.
There is golden light in my body, which reflects my body.
Out of sight, out of hearing.
It encompasses heaven and earth and nourishes all living beings.
If you uphold it thousands of times, your body will be bright.
The guards of the Three Realms and the Five Emperors will greet you.
All gods pay homage and use thunder.
Ghosts and monsters become frightened, and spirits lose their form.
There is a thunderbolt inside, and the name of the thunder god is hidden.
The wisdom of the cave is clear, and the five energies are soaring.
The golden light appears quickly and protects the real person.
Qingyan asked Chou Chou curiously: "What kind of curse is this? Are they exorcising ghosts?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "I don't have much research on spells. This spell sounds like it is used to exorcise evil spirits."
"This is a golden light magic spell that can drive away evil spirits. Looking at them like this, they must be exorcising demons. To exorcise ghosts, they should be at night or at noon."
Huang Jin explained on the side that it grew up in the gym and was very familiar with these.
"Does this work? Can you memorize it? This spell is quite long." Qingyan looked at it and asked.
Huang Jin nodded, "Of course it works, but it depends on the user's Tao Xing. The higher the Tao Xing, the better the effect.
I know most of these spells. The master asked us to memorize them before. These are commonly used spells. "
Qingyan is quite interested in these things, but now is not the time to discuss them. We can talk slowly when we have time.
Watching the excitement was more important now, so she asked Chou Chou to drive the carriage directly to the front, got off the carriage, and squeezed into the crowd.
"Auntie, what's going on?"
She asked a kind-looking old lady next to her.
The old lady turned to look at her and saw a strange little girl. She looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so she quickly pulled her out of the crowd.
After pulling her to the back of their carriage, he lowered his voice and said, "Young lady is not from here, it's best to leave as soon as possible and don't stay here too long, lest you get hurt."
Listening to the other party's words, Qingyan knew that there must be something going on here. She also lowered her voice and said, "We want to leave, but we can't get out. We don't know when this ritual will end. Why don't you follow me?" Let me tell you, what is going on?"
The aunt saw that the two carriages were together and there were several people there, so she thought there should be no problem.
Then he said: "We have a snake demon here who specializes in harming young and beautiful women and children under six years old. A dozen of them have been killed before and after.
In the village, those who had daughters-in-law or married women from outside the country sent their children and little girls there and did not dare to stay at home.
But even so, the snake demon didn't stop. It caused heavy rain last night, which destroyed several thatched houses and took away many chickens and ducks..."
The more Qingyan listened, the more strange she felt. The snake demon that the aunt was talking about could not be the snake that failed to transform yesterday. Has its true form been revealed in front of the villagers?
Jin Yang, who was listening on the side, sent a message to her: "It shouldn't be that dragon. I just asked Shui Lingzhu. It said that the dragon was focused on practicing and wanted to transform. It has been at the bottom of a deep pool in the mountains, and Never came out.
If it had someone's life in it, it would not have escaped unscathed last night. Even if the calamity thunder didn't come, it would definitely be punished by lightning and destroy it into ashes. "
Since it wasn't the dragon, there might be other spirits here, so Qingyan asked the old lady about the specific situation of the snake monster.
He also said that he and his group were also practitioners, but they did not wear plain clothes like Taoist robes just for the convenience of walking outside.
Huang Jinxiao was also allowed to show off his skills by making a talisman that spontaneously ignited without fire, which frightened the old lady into believing it.
The old lady followed Qingyan into the carriage, sat inside and told her carefully about the situation here.
"You should have noticed that it is obviously a crossroads, but this crossroads is only in our village, and the other three sides are empty spaces.
You must know that this is the best place next to the official road. You can build a tea shed or do a small business and sell food and other things to passers-by.
In fact, there used to be several villages here, and there were homes on both sides of the intersection.
This starts from fifteen years ago. That year, it suddenly rained heavily one night, with lightning and thunder, and a thunderbolt collapsed the mountain on the left. The rolling rocks directly buried the three villages on the other side. under!
It rained heavily for three days and three nights. When it stopped, when we came out, we could no longer see the houses over there, and it became a small rocky mountain.
The government also called people to dig out, after all, there were hundreds of lives. It's just that the stone is huge and hard, and it can't be opened at all. If you finally dig some, it will soon be filled with the stones next to it, so you have to give up in the end.
The villages to the west and our side are safe and sound, but we are afraid of another emergency and are ready to move the villages to the east.
The two villages to the west have moved, but as soon as our village prepares to move, strange things will happen. Either the village chief will fall ill or the strong laborers of each family will be injured.
Anyway, there are all kinds of difficulties, but as long as we are not ready to leave, we will become stable again.
At first, I thought it was because our ancestors refused to let us go. After all, it was the place chosen by our ancestors. The wind here is really good, the weather is good every year, and there are almost no major disasters.
We were frightened by the buried villages opposite. We thought it must be our ancestors who blessed us. Since our ancestors wouldn't let us go, we would just stay.
It was indeed stable after that, but who knew it would only last ten years. Five years ago, children began to disappear inexplicably, and then a young and beautiful girl.
We searched all over the place but couldn't find it, and even after reporting it to the authorities, there was no result. Until a traveling Taoist passed by our place and asked us if anything strange was happening here.
We told the story about someone missing. The Taoist made some calculations, took out a compass, and took the young men from our village to the opposite mountain.
He found a cave there, and inside was a pile of bones, some big, some small, new and some old. He said this was the monster's cave, and these bones were the missing children and girls.
The Taoist priest inspected the cave and said that the stone walls inside were slippery and smelled fishy, so it should be a snake demon.
It's just that he doesn't have enough virtue to kill the monster. He can only wait for it to come back and seal its cave so that it can't come out again for the time being.
He went back to the Taoist temple and asked his master to come over and see if he could capture the snake demon.
It's just that there was no news about the Taoist leader as soon as he left, and he never came back after that. The snake demon did not appear again in the first two years, but starting from last year, people began to disappear in the village again.
Everyone went to the nearby Taoist temple to find Taoist priests, but to no avail, so they had to send the children and girls away first.
Today's Taoist priest is the sixth one we have found. He was found by the village chief's son from the Seven Star Temple a hundred miles away. I heard that Taoism is profound and can directly drive away evil spirits. "
(End of chapter)
