The land produces grains, and the grains feed the people, so people worship the land.
The Tutu Temple is not very sacred, its shape is rough and simple, and even a little shabby, but it is very popular, and there is an endless stream of people who come to offer incense and worship.
Zhao Lin and Liang Song walked into the temple gate and saw two naive clay statues in front of the hall: Tu Gong and Tu Tu Po, who looked like ordinary old men and women in rural areas.
There is a couplet on both sides of the shrine. The first couplet reads: My father-in-law is very fair, and the second couplet reads: My mother-in-law is caring.
Horizontal comment: Earth protects God.
There are also statues of Buddha and Taoist ancestors standing on both sides of the lobby, and several monks and Taoists are also busy begging for incense and money.
Zhao Lin was not surprised. There are also Buddhists and Taoists in this world, but their influence is far less than that of the previous life. Most people use them as spiritual sustenance or psychological comfort.
Interestingly, both Buddhism and Taoism claim that if you believe, you will be effective, and if you don’t believe, you will not be effective.
But the mentality of the people is just the opposite: if it works, they believe it, if it doesn’t work, they don’t believe it. In other words, don’t ask me if I believe it, ask you first if it works.
Zhao Lin observed the monks and Taoist priests and found that they were ordinary and no different from ordinary people. He thought that after all, this was a world of martial arts, not a place where one could cultivate immortality.
When the two of them came out of the temple, they saw a sea of people in front of them, and it was very lively.
There are opera singers, people performing Shehuo facial makeup, walking on stilts, performing hand gestures, asking for fortune-telling, making candy figures, paper-cutting, batik, and carving... It's dizzying to watch.
The two of them walked around and watched, and came to a tea stall near noon.
There is a table in front of the tea stall, and a man who looks like a storyteller is holding a folding fan and is talking:
"The clear blue sky cannot be deceived. Heroes are born with courage. Although it is not an easy business, there are quite a few people here today."
Saying this, he slapped the eye-catchingly:
"Everyone, please listen to me. What I am going to talk about next is the serial rape and murder case in Qinghe County. Zhao Captou outsmarts Wen Gensheng..."
Liang Song looked over with a smile: "Brother Zhao, I'm talking about you."
Zhao Lin couldn't help but smile, he didn't expect that he would become a celebrity.
The two of them stopped and listened for a while, and gradually looked strange.
I don’t know where the storyteller heard the jokes from, and he made the already tortuous case full of ups and downs, and added many "magic changes" plots.
In the lyrics, one of Zhao Lin and Wen Gensheng is a god descending to earth, and the other is a demon descended from heaven.
Zhao Lin had his life hanging by a thread several times and had narrow escapes. Finally, he worked up his courage and used the magic from the bottom of the box to capture Wen Gensheng.
Although the story was outrageous, the people quite bought it and applauded and cheered one after another.
"Captain Zhao is really powerful. If he hadn't taken action, I don't know how many innocent women would have been brutally murdered."
"Yes, I heard that his family used to be from Paektu Mountain, so he and I are half fellow villagers."
"You don't know, right? Capt. Zhao and I are from the same village. I used to urinate for him when he was a child..."
Zhao Lin was startled and glanced at the speaker. He was a rough man with a red scarf on his head. He didn't recognize him at all.
Shaking his head, he was about to leave when he suddenly heard a whisper.
"Shitou, I heard that Captain Zhao still has his parents and brothers at home. Do you know where he lives?"
He didn't speak loudly and was far away, but Zhao Lin had developed a habit of turning on all his hearing to scan his surroundings every few breaths. No sound within a radius of nearly a hundred meters could escape his ears.
There is something wrong with this sentence.
Now that you are famous, it is normal for people to inquire about you, but why do you want to inquire about your family?
Zhao Linxun looked around and saw a man in black standing under the stage, talking to a man dressed as an official.
He immediately walked to a less crowded place, his Adam's apple vibrated, and a concentrated ultrasonic wave was emitted in the direction of the two of them.
The soap official said: "Long San, why are you asking about this?"
The man in black laughed "hehe" twice, "Shitou must also know that our Hutou Gang is in Dongcheng and is under the jurisdiction of Capt. Zhao."
"Our gang leader wants to establish a relationship with Captain Zhao, so he asked me to inquire."
The official said "Oh" and said, "That's right. To be honest, I don't know where Captain Zhao lives. He sleeps in the Yamen every day. I wouldn't have known he had a family unless he told me."
"It's okay, I just asked casually."
The man in black said no more and watched the show for a while before quietly leaving.
Zhao Lin stared at the man's back, frowning.
The man in black's rhetoric seems reasonable, but in fact it cannot stand up to scrutiny.
I often patrol the streets in Dongcheng. If the Hutou Gang wants to build relationships, it is not a troublesome thing for them to invite me there.
If you ask about your own family and you immediately know that you have parents and brothers, there is definitely something wrong!
"What's wrong?"
Zhao Lin suddenly fell into a "daze". Liang Song felt that something had happened and asked with concern.
"Wait for me here, I'll go do something."
Zhao Lin confessed and quickly followed.
The man in black casually watched the performance for a while, ate something for a while, and stopped to look around wherever he went.
However, Zhao Lin had echolocation and knew where he was without looking, making it effortless to track him.
After following him for an hour, Zhao Lin had already determined that the man in black, or rather the Tiger Head Gang, had ill intentions towards him.
During this period of time, the man in black talked to three more people: a Dongcheng merchant, a Dongcheng toothpa, and one of his own police officers.
The topics they talk about are all about their families!
If this is okay, then it’s really damning.
What do the Ax Gang want to do?
Zhao Lin is now the police chief of Dongcheng, with nearly thirty police officers under his command, and he knows the details of the gangs in the area.
He had long heard that the leader of the Tiger Head Gang had something to do with the beard outside the city. Although it was just a rumor, it was groundless and there must be a reason for it.
The beard again!
It seemed that Huzi couldn't help him and started to play dirty tricks.
Although the whereabouts of his family are secret, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and nothing can withstand inquiries.
Once the family fell into the hands of Huzi... Zhao Lin felt cold and shuddered when he thought of the methods they used to deal with Zhou Paotou and Zhu Dachun.
"It's not over, is it?"
Zhao Lin gritted his teeth, turned on his hearing, walked through the crowd, endured the dizziness and discomfort, and collected everyone's conversations.
It didn't matter. He soon discovered that it was not only the man in black who was asking about his family, but also two people who were also doing the same thing.
One is from the Hutou Gang and the other is from the Shuilong Gang.
Why is there still a Water Dragon Gang?
The Shuilong Gang is not in the East City, but in the North City, it is more powerful than the Hutou Gang.
It's really not difficult for the two gangs to work together to find out something.
"The Tiger Head Gang and the Water Dragon Gang, right?"
Zhao Lin thought silently in his heart, "Since you are willing to act as Beard's minions, don't blame me for being rude!"
The temple fair was still lively, but he had no intention of watching it...
