As he spoke, Huang Zhiyuan kowtowed heavily several times.
His forehead was already red, and he cried even louder.
Originally, the wharf was close to the town entrance. Although no one was working here, after Jiang Pan and I came out, there were always people looking at the town entrance.
Huang Zhiyuan already had a large number of followers, and his cry attracted some townspeople at the entrance of the town to come closer to the dock to take a look.
I didn't speak.
After all, the Red River is Jiang Pan's territory, and Jiang Pan had objected to the way I wanted to deal with Huang Zhiyuan.
If I say anything now, I might conflict with him.
"Master Huang, Jiang doesn't understand what you mean." Jiang Pan finally spoke first.
Huang Zhiyuan wiped the tears on his face, raised his hand, pointed at the boat outside the pier, and said with a choked voice: "A few days ago, I picked a batch of grain from the upper reaches and ordered people to bring it to the Red River to distribute it to the townspeople. I will also send some more. Go to the surrounding countryside.”
"I gave my servants seven days to do this. As a result, these few wine bags and rice bags didn't know what they were doing. It took until the last day yesterday to bring the boat to the Red River Pier. They forced the boatman to do it last night. We need to unload all the food.”
"I just heard this morning that something big happened on the Red River last night. Water corpses were at work, and all six boatmen died!"
Huang Zhiyuan raised his hand and slapped himself on the face.
He turned around again, pointed at the dozen or so servants behind him, and said bitterly: "You are just drunkards! You are killing people, just waiting for Mr. Jiang to be punished!"
Jiang Pan's brows frowned even more tightly.
He looked at the people behind him and then at Huang Zhiyuan, his eyes becoming even deeper.
My pupils narrowed by two points, but my eyes glanced at the surrounding townspeople.
The townspeople watching the excitement were all whispering to each other, saying that Huang Zhiyuan was benevolent and righteous...
My eyes fell on Jiang Pan again.
Jiang Pan lowered his head, closed his eyes, shook his head again, and said, "Those who don't know are not guilty. The Huang family leader is kind-hearted and considers the townspeople, so please come up."
Huang Zhiyuan stood up tremblingly.
Before Jiang Pan could speak, Huang Zhiyuan coughed again and said: "You losers, what are you waiting for?!"
After he finished speaking, the servants of the Huang family behind them all took off a cloth bag from their backs. After opening it, they each held a large yellow croaker in their hands!
Huang Zhiyuan said complicatedly: "Mr. Jiang is kind and can't bear to blame me or punish the servants. They are wrong and it is also my Huang family's fault. These large yellow croakers can be regarded as compensation for the townspeople. They are divided among the whole town. I Let these people serve their crimes and make things right for the families of the boatmen."
In an instant, the townspeople watching from behind all cheered loudly, and some even took the lead in applauding.
I looked at Jiang Pan, who lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
Huang Zhiyuan ordered those people to walk into the townspeople, and there were only three of us left in front of the pier.
Huang Zhiyuan bowed and hugged Jiang Pan, then turned and walked towards the townspeople.
"Brother." I whispered.
Jiang Pan snorted.
"If you don't let Daochang Liu come, I'll go check it out. I'm going to Huang Zhiyuan's home to check on the problem." I said directly.
Of course, Huang Zhiyuan had already gone far by this time.
"His eyes never wandered, his mouth never had any pitch, there were no ghost teeth, his head never moved, his tongue never blackened, and his words were as clear as his eyes."
"Without lies and treachery, what he said just now was not a lie. I also saw the servants behind him and the same was true." Jiang Pan said.
My body stiffened slightly.
In fact, I just noticed the faces of Huang Zhiyuan and his servants.
Just like Jiang Pan said, none of them lied...
I just find it strange.
Did Huang Zhiyuan really not plot against Jiang Pan? Is this a coincidence?
Too much is not a problem, but it is the problem...
"Yin Yang, don't worry, even if his thoughts are on the people of Honghe Town, I will not betroth Mu Nu to him."
“Take it from the people and use it to the people, as if he is paying for the evil deeds done by those servants in the past.”
"As for whether there is a husband behind him, do you think my eldest brother's eyes can't see through whether he is deceiving? In the past few years, I have never caught him lying." Jiang Pan said again.
I didn't know what to say for a moment.
Tianyuan's physiognomy is definitely not bad. Jiang Pan has paid attention to it a long time ago and didn't find any problems. Could it be that the problem really lies elsewhere? !
"We can't find any clues about Feng Shui for the time being, so we can only wait and see what happens." Jiang Pan put his hands behind his back and signaled that we should go back to the courtyard and focus first on teaching He Pheasant's Yin and Yang Technique and the Escape and Liu Zhengdao Talisman Techniques.
Leaving the pier, walking through the crowd, we headed back to the yard.
As a result, just halfway through the journey, the sound of horse hooves was heard from behind.
Jiang Pan and I stopped, moved toward the roadside, and looked back at the same time.
"Hush!" came the sound, and a horse stopped behind us, and a man immediately turned over. The man was wearing tattered Taoist robes, with many wounds on his face, and he looked extremely embarrassed.
"Mr. Jiang..."
He lost his balance, staggered, and fell straight forward.
Jiang Pan immediately stretched out his hand to support his shoulders, frowned, and said, "Dao Zhang Lu?! Why are you..."
Before he could finish speaking, the Taoist priest's face turned red, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and he was about to faint.
I quickly raised my hand and pinched him directly.
Thick blood stuck to his hands, but the Taoist priest finally regained consciousness.
His body shook even more.
Jiang Pan whispered: "Go to my residence first and speak slowly."
The Taoist priest grabbed Jiang Pan's wrist, and his breathing became heavier.
"It's too late to talk. Please come with me quickly."
My eyelids twitched slightly. It seemed that something had happened to the Taoist priest's temple? !
Jiang Pan's face became much more serious and he whispered: "Master Lu, let's go? How can you hold on with your appearance? My younger brother and I will go together. One horse is not enough. Go to my residence first and say Now that we know what has happened, we will prepare the carriage and set off again."
Hearing this, the Taoist priest calmed down a little.
Jiang Pan and I helped him walk back together.
On the way, he said something intermittently.
Seven days ago, something happened to the village under their Taoist temple.
A foolish woman drowned at the entrance of the town.
As a result, strange things began to happen to the river. Anyone who passed by at night would definitely fall into the water and drown directly.
They sent Taoist priests to deal with it, drained the river, and pulled two corpses out of the water.
It happened to be a boy and a girl.
The woman is the foolish woman who drowned in the river, and the man is a person in the village who disappeared many years ago.
They took the body to the Taoist temple and prepared to save it, but something went wrong inside the Taoist temple. A Taoist priest hit him and seriously injured many other Taoist priests. Even he was seriously injured.
The pair of corpses disappeared again, probably back into the river.
When the Taoist priest finished speaking, we had already reached the front of the courtyard.
I frowned.
A pair of corpses haunted a Taoist priest?
There is something wrong with this matter no matter how you hear it.
Although ordinary Taoist priests are not as good as the Liu family, are they so easily haunted? !
