As his name suggests, Gao Tianzhang was more than ten feet long. He stood in front of Feng Zigui, who was only four feet tall. Regardless of others, he firmly had the upper hand in terms of momentum alone.
Feng Zigui raised his head with difficulty, his ugly face covered with galls was full of shock, as if he couldn't figure out why the mountain spirits were rude to Dao Chenghuang just a moment ago, and why in the blink of an eye he turned into Gao Tianzhang and attacked him.
The wood spirit wind monster who said "Three sticks couldn't make a sound" in Hu Da's mouth was mooted for a long time. He couldn't say a single word, so he had to turn his eyes for help to Daocheng Huang who was sitting not far away.
In fact, it's not just Feng Zigui who is looking at Dao Chenghuang, but also the child with a keen eye on Dao Chenghuang. The pair of ferocious vertical eyes glared fiercely at the host of tonight's banquet.
The same is true for Gao Tianzhang, who has many eyes and ears. He intimidated Feng Zigui with one face, and the other three faces and six eyes were also busy, staring at Daocheng Huang, two pairs of black and white road gods, and the unknown Lishan Guangye. Even the tables Qi Jingzhi and Dead Man Yi are also under its surveillance.
Qi Jingzhi watched with cold eyes, how could he still not see the key point?
Gao Tianzhang's sudden attack on Feng Zigui was clearly the three mountain spirits asking for directions, intending to test the strength of the Lu Shen lineage, and also wanted to see the stance of the guests in the hall.
Under the gaze of everyone, Daocheng Huang's face was as dark as water, and he was silent for a moment before speaking: "The Road God lineage is the buffer between the Great Qi court and the mountain spirits of Meizhou. If you extend your hands into the roads between officials and people, it seems that your power will increase. In fact, it’s just self-destruction.”
Seeing that Dao Chenghuang seemed to have given up, Jin Ping Boy chuckled: "In the eyes of the imperial court, how much better are you Dao Jing Lu monsters than us and other mountain spirits?"
"I can't control other people. Since the road god lineage is no longer useful, then obediently let the roads in Baqiu Town get out! The people in the town have my protection, and there will never be anything like Sakabi hurting people again. I can't blame me The Golden Ping child also has a taste of the incense of the human race!"
A greedy smile appeared on the face of Zhu Yan Po, and she said sharply: "My old woman has Xia Shan, which is enough. There is no need to increase the territory, but... the Lu Shen lineage must give my old woman a piece of filial piety every month. Thousand pounds!"
As it spoke, it stretched out its hand and pointed at Lishan Guangye beside it: "If you are like him, one pound of meat can be worth two pounds!"
"It's not right, it's not right!"
Before Daochenghuang could answer, Lishan Guangye shook his head like a rattle: "One thousand kilograms is too much! If so many people are missing every month, it will definitely attract investigation and even encirclement and suppression by the Demon Suppressing Institute. It's really not worth the gain." .If you rely on me, five hundred kilograms will reach the sky!"
He paused, stretched out his hand and patted his rosy and plump face, with dissatisfaction in his tone: "It's hard for the poor people to have enough to eat. They are so skinny that they don't even have a ounce of flesh on their cheeks. They How can your meat be compared to the fat body of my young master? One pound of my flesh...is worth ten pounds to others at least!"
Zhuyanpo was startled when she heard this. She never expected that this little fat guy was so delicious, but crazy, and wanted to bargain with him for the price of his meat.
However, Gao Tianzhang smelled something different from Lishan Guangye's abnormal behavior and immediately became alert.
It immediately stretched out a palm towards Fengzi Ghost: "Fengzi Ghost, although you made some mistakes before, you are still of the mountain spirit lineage, and your crime does not deserve death. So, I heard that you have given birth to several galls in these years. The bottle is almost ripe by the looks of it, so hand it over as an apology!"
"Gall bottle?"
The two round eyes of Lishan Guangye were shining brightly, and he said with great interest: "The ghost of Fengzi in the mountain village, the god of Shilang in the Jiangmiao. Thousands of borders hold the urn garden, and one drink of wine from the gall bottle."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I heard that this gall bottle is the essence of Fengzi ghost. It can enhance the aroma and stimulate the aroma of wine. Drinking with it regularly can prolong your life. It's not easy for this coward to give birth to a gall bottle. Now he is forced to hand over all of them. Going out is like cutting off flesh and bones, even if you don’t die, you will still have to lose half your life!”
Hearing this, Feng Zigui trembled all over, tears burst out of his eyes first, and his face, which was already less human, became more and more distorted.
Seeing that only Lishan Guangye said a few harmless words, and no one among the guests in the hall came to stop him, Gao Tianzhang took the initiative without hesitation and pressed down the largest gall on Fengzi Gui's bald head, like a knife blade He dug out the gall with his sharp nails.
When many eyes gathered together, they saw that a big hole had appeared on the top of Feng Zigui's head. Thick amber juice splashed out and fell all over his head. At the same time, a faint scent of frankincense spread out.
There was a strange-shaped object in Gao Tianzhang's palm.
It simply peeled off the dead skin on the outside of the object, revealing a strangely shaped, natural wood-carved wine glass inside.
Fengzi Ghost stared blankly until Gao Tianzhang handed the gall bottle to Jin Ping Boyer, and then it finally let out a heart-wrenching scream.
However, the scream just started, and the two large galls on the back of Fengzi Gui's neck were dug out by Gao Tianzhang one after another.
"enough!"
Seeing that Gao Tianzhang refused to give up and reached out to Feng Zigui's heart, Daocheng Huang, who had been indifferent until now, finally said: "Gall bottles are of no use to the mountain spirits who have grown up. You have already been allocated one. Don't ask for it." If you are greedy, you should not kill them all."
"Daocheng Huang personally begged for mercy. Naturally, I have to give him face and spare this guy." Gao Tianzhang stopped speaking very politely.
It looked in six directions, and one of its faces turned towards Cheng Deqi behind the counter, which frightened the shopkeeper Cheng and almost caused him to tremble all over and almost fall off the wooden stool.
Immediately afterwards, Gao Tianzhang said slowly: "It's like a garden with a thousand urns and a bottle of wine. Now that we have gall bottles, all we need is good wine. As a shopkeeper, it seems that You happen to be the one who becomes the essence in a wine vat, right?"
The smile on Cheng Deqi's face was uglier than crying. He pointed to the wine jars that had been served with the dishes and spoke with a vibrato: "These are old wines that have been stored in our store for many years. They are the most sweet and mellow. In the past, travelers would always rest their horses after smelling the fragrance, which is also the origin of the name of Xie Ma Zhan.”
But Gao Tianzhang shook his head: "No matter what kind of wine, I have long been tired of it after drinking it for so many years."
"I heard that the shopkeeper Cheng was the best wine drinker in his life. He always hated that his stomach was not always full of wine. Every time he drank three shi, he was only half full. He had to drink five shi and fill his stomach with good wine before he could be peaceful and happy, even singing and drunkenly. Dance and joy are endless.”
"That much Xiema old wine has entered your belly. After years of refining, it must have turned into alcohol. As the saying goes, it is better to enjoy alone than to enjoy everyone, so it is time for shopkeeper Cheng to share it with us."
Gao Tianzhang paused, and his tone became more serious: "Feng Zigui's fate is right in front of us. Shopkeeper Cheng must not let me do it myself. My actions are never serious, but it is inevitable that there will be bumps and bumps."
Cheng Deqi was born in pitch black, and there was no such change in his face as red or white, but he was obviously very frightened. The wooden stool under his feet shook violently, and the legs of the stool quickly hit the floor tiles, making a clicking sound. A continuous crisp sound.
It was crying sadly, not knowing whether it was out of fear or hatred, and even its teeth were chattering: "Cheng's success today depends entirely on the grace of nature. Alcohol is a rare treasure, and Cheng's virtues are so small, so how dare he keep it to himself? "
"That's right! For shopkeeper Cheng to have this realization, he is truly enlightened!"
Gao Tianzhang praised him, and as if he had thought of something, he put the gall bottle that belonged to him back into Feng Zigui's hand.
It pointed at the amber juice flowing down from the top and neck of Fengzi Ghost, and smiled strangely like a ghost crying: "These are maple balsam, right? It is said that it can be used as both incense and medicine. It can activate blood circulation, relieve pain, detoxify and promote muscle growth, but I wonder what it would feel like if you put it in wine and drink it. Speaking of which, these maple balsams are also the essence of your body, so don’t waste them easily."
Now that things have come to this, Feng Zigui has no choice but to accept his fate.
He put the gall bottle into the big hole on his head, gritted his teeth and endured the pain, and scooped out half a cup of maple balsam, and the frankincense in the lobby of Xiema Inn became more and more intense.
Seeing this, Dao Chenghuang sighed, shook his head and said, "Why is this so important! We are all of the same generation in this hall, so why bother with each other?"
It pointed towards Gao Tianzhang's seat and said, "Please come back and take your seat. If we don't open the table, it will be almost dawn."
Gao Tianzhang, who always listened to advice, felt that the purpose of establishing authority and testing had been achieved, so he immediately took back the gall bottle containing the maple balsam, and then sat down in a condescending manner.
However, it did not forget the alcohol in Cheng Deqi's belly, and even set aside a pair of eyes to wait for the poor shopkeeper.
Dao Chenghuang, on the other hand, acted as if nothing was wrong and naturally picked up what he had said before: "Now two pairs of black and white road gods have disappeared for no reason. In this situation, the three of you want to re-contract with the road gods. This is a matter of course. However, before that, we still have to watch and help each other, otherwise such a tragic disaster may not happen to the three of us, and it will be too late to regret it by then."
Seeing that it was showing weakness, the other two mountain spirits stopped being aggressive. Jin Ping Boy even stretched out a finger and pointed at Lishan Guangye and Qi Jingzhi one by one: "Since we are discussing such a big matter, how can we separate unrelated people?" Let me in? I have never seen these two new faces of unknown origin before, they are nothing but comrades!"
Lishan Guangye gave up as soon as he heard this. He pointed at his nose and said, "How come we are not the same people? Some of you look at me with a strange face, but I look at some of you with a friendly face!"
"Let's just talk about your golden bottle child. Judging from your breath and appearance, you should be like the rainbow spirit in the mountain stream, but you also have the breath of human blood on your body, so you should be half human and half demon. One of your parents is a rainbow spirit, and the other one is a rainbow spirit. It’s the human race.”
Hearing this, Jin Ping Boy's expression immediately changed, and the eyes on his head suddenly flashed with fierceness.
Looking at its appearance, all the guests in the hall knew that what Lishan Guangye said was true, and all of them showed surprise, even Gao Tianzhang and Zhu Yanpo were no exception.
Lishan Guangye smiled proudly: "The rainbow is the emperor's bow. The unique arrow-blocking stele in Meizhou is often engraved with the eight-character inscription 'the bow is broken, the arrow is blocked by the stele'. It is naturally restrained for you. No wonder the Lushen lineage is now You are so arrogant when you are weak."
"When you heard that the two pairs of black and white road gods might have been killed, you immediately spoke out and wanted to redefine the territory. You clearly regarded the two comrades Gao Tianzhang and Shu Yanpo as arrows on the string. This is a bit unfair. kind."
Lishan Guangye provoked him so blatantly, even though Jin Ping'er's face was filled with uncertainty, he didn't even say a single word of refutation, because in the face of such heart-wrenching words, it was not enough to deny it outright.
"Jin Ping kid, I heard that your old mother lived in Baqiu Town and lived mixed with the cross-eyed people. I felt strange in my heart. However, you insisted on not allowing me to visit you several times. It turns out that she is because this!"
The vertical-eye woman looked at the Jin Ping child up and down with burning eyes, not hiding her salivation: "The old mother you regard as life is actually a cross-eyed woman! Even you are half a cross-eyed woman!"
Hearing this, Jin Ping Boy was furious: "You old guy, don't you want to die?"
Lishan Guangye hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt, smiling a bit treacherously: "You two have been friends for a long time, how can you fall out just because of a few words from me?"
He stopped smiling and suddenly said to Gao Tianzhang: "If my guess is correct, your real name should not be Gao Tianzhang..."
Gao Tianzhang immediately sneered: "My name is for people to call me. Others call me Gao Tianzhang, and I agree since I opened my mouth. Gao Tianzhang is my real name."
Lishan Guangye did not answer, but turned to look at Dao Chenghuang: "I dare to ask Chenghuang, why is there a custom of erecting an arrow-blocking monument here in Meizhou?"
Daochenghuang took a deep look at the chubby young man. Although he didn't know why he suddenly asked this question, he answered without hesitation: "Most people in Meizhou believe in the theory of numerology and attribute all disasters in life to Guan." When you encounter setbacks, you have to find a way to overcome the evil spirits. Among them, the evil spirits that children may encounter have the most numerous names and are the most eye-catching."
"As the saying goes, there are three types of unfilial piety, and the worst is to have no heirs. The world attaches great importance to heirs, but it is difficult to feed children. If you want to truly survive and grow up, you need to pass thirty-six passes and resolve seventy-two evil spirits. Among them, General Evil is the most important The tabooed Guan Sha can easily lead to the death of children."
"This general's evil is also called the general's arrow, and its song goes like this: Spring is not prosperous at the time of Youxu, and death occurs in the middle of summer at the end of Maozi. Autumn is also taboo at the time of Yinwu, and it is a disaster when Haishen is in winter. One arrow will cause injury and death at the age of three. A child with two arrows will die at the age of six. A child with three arrows will die at the age of nine. A child with four arrows will die at the age of twelve."
When Dao Chenghuang said this, all the guests in the hall were still confused, but Gao Tianzhang's aura suddenly felt a little unstable.
If it were only Gao Tianzhang, Daochenghuang would not be afraid. Seeing this, he just glanced at him and continued: "For this reason, once a child in Meizhou is destined to commit the crime of General Sha, his parents will seek help from the monk Taoist witch. Others use spells such as talismans and substitutes, among which the erection of arrow-blocking monuments is the most common."
"At first, the arrows blocked by the arrow-blocking stele were specifically directed at generals. However, over time, as the method of erecting monuments to avoid evil spirits became popular, the arrow-blocking stele became wider and wider, and could block any evil. It also gave rise to specialized There are all kinds of people who build monuments to seek longevity and wealth."
Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly interjected: "The people's demands are so mixed. No wonder the black and white road gods are difficult to distinguish between good and evil, and may even deliberately lead people astray."
Daochenghuang was startled, and then he was about to speak, but Lishan Guangye beat him to it.
The chubby young man raised his hands towards Qi Jingzhi and praised: "Brother, you really hit the nail on the head!"
"Since ancient times, the human heart has been the most unpredictable. The Black and White Road God is not a royal official, but was born after the thoughts of the world. It will naturally change with the world and people's hearts. Whether it is good or evil cannot be completely controlled by itself."
"Although the local government and the Demon Suppressing Institute were aware of the dangers caused by road gods, public opinion was fierce, so they simply turned a blind eye. Unless the road gods in any place were really causing trouble, they would take action to kill them. However, the old Even if the monument is destroyed and a new monument is erected, the roots cannot be eradicated.”
Qi Jingzhi knew that Lishan Guangye meant to explain for him, so he immediately nodded appreciatively: "That's it."
Lishan Guangye's smile became even brighter, and he looked at Gao Tianzhang and said: "You have many traces of evil spirits entangled in your body. It is most likely that you are the general evil spirit in Meizhou Mountain. If you really want to give yourself a name, you can't." It should be General Gao Tian!"
(End of chapter)
