Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Wu Laoxian's Adventure in the Vegetable Garden

Guo Deyou, the god of the river, is most afraid of others mentioning his nickname all his life. He is nothing more than fishing for river drifters in the river patrol team and earning a bowl of food by working hard. He asks himself how dare He De be called "the god of the river"? I couldn't figure it out at first, but later I figured it out. Since ancient times, there have been sacred and virtuous people. They have a skill and real ability. Such a person can be regarded as a capable person. A sage can't just have ability, but must have both ability and integrity. The world is in peace, and the saint is a perfect person who has no choice. Only this person can become a saint. Confucius, the sage of literature, and Guan Yu, the sage of martial arts, are close to gods. People who eat whole grains are called river gods. How much life will be lost, and how much blessing will be lost?

Ding Mao often persuaded Master Guo: "Brother, you think too much. It's just a nickname. If nothing else, there are three or five of the good guys in Water Margin who have nicknames with gods. Why are they all right?" Master Guo said: "What do you mean it's okay? How many of the Water Margin 100 and 8 will get good results? Besides, they are from the lower realm of Tiangang Disha. After they die, they will go back to be the star king. I am a river patrol team to catch floating corpses. Jide only does this business, if you want your brother and me to live a few more years, let's not mention the word "River God."

That's what Master Guo said, one can't change one's temperament, and one must take care of things that have to be settled. Since the dead body was found at the mouth of the Sancha River, the title of "God of the River" has been called. Bad luck started. After the zombies at Laolongtou Railway Station, Li Daleng came to urge Master Guo again, asking for clues about the sinking corpse case at the mouth of the Sancha River. He was thinking about the money promised by rich man Shi. If he didn't care about this matter, he took him and Ding Mao to the warehouse of the river patrol team to look at the iron lump, peeled off the rust, and found a few lines of ancient characters engraved on the pig iron lump. I don't know him either, and this pig iron lump has a strange outline, it looks like an animal with a round head and a long body, but it has been at the bottom of the river for a long time, and it is mottled with rust and moss, so I can't recognize what it is.

Master Guo wondered if this thing might be an ancient relic from Zhenhe, maybe someone in the older generation knew it, so now he can only ask the old man who sells medicine candy. Speaking of this old man who sells medicine and candy, he is called Wu Laoxian. In terms of seniority, Master Guo would call him "Master Uncle". He has bad legs and feet and needs crutches to walk. Medicine sugar for a living. Let’s first talk about what this medicinal candy is. Medicinal candy can’t be eaten as medicine. It was a snack in the old society. Now there are very few people selling this kind of thing. The so-called medicinal candy is usually in boiled granulated sugar. Add various medicinal materials, such as amomum, cardamom, mint, fresh ginger, etc., and then cut into small pieces, and hang a glass box around your neck to sell along the street. Whoever wants a few pieces can take it out of the glass box with a bamboo clip and wrap it up. Pass it to others.

In the early years, most of the people who sold medicinal candies had unique skills. Everyone was different and each had their own skills. When selling medicinal candies, they had to use their unique skills to attract customers to buy them. I can't drink it. There were so many masters who sold medicine candy back then, they were called unique. The first one was called Li Ma Li. Master Li could play car skills. The easy-to-understand allusions of dramas are often nonsense, and then perform bicycle stunts. Although he has a big idiot belly, his movements are really clean and neat. Zhang Fei gallops a horse, a golden rooster stands alone, catches a toad in eight steps, and hides in stirrups. He can also do somersaults on the car with a big top, so as to gather passers-by, and he will start trading when there are more people watching the excitement, selling while shouting, with a transparent and melodious voice, which sounds like eating a piece of ice cold in the dog days Watermelon is so refreshing, and you can call it a set, such as: "Xiangtao is peach, Shaguo grape, kumquat is green fruit, clears phlegm and fire, orange and mandarin, yam kernel pill, apple and banana, almond tea Ointment, cherry pineapple Yantai pear, sour plum, red fruit mint cold candy, what are you eating?"

One is Li Mali, and the other is Wang Daha. He sells medicine and candy in the streets and alleys. , a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a missing leg on the bridge of his nose, and the missing leg is put on the ear with a rope, yelling and grunting indistinctly, pretending to be crazy everywhere, no one has ever seen him laugh, in the car Hang an iron cage with two little squirrels in it, which can do various actions according to human commands. No matter where Wang Daha goes, he is always booing with a group of children behind him to watch the fun. His tea paste candy sells well. Besides, Wu Laoxian, who has bad legs and cannot walk, sits in front of the Chenghuang Temple in the northwest corner every day, sets up an iron pot for boiling sugar, and several long tables are filled with various Chinese herbal medicines, boiled on the spot, while boiling When dispensing soup with medicine, while explaining the efficacy of each medicinal candy, the eloquence is often endless, and he also said that President Li Yuanhong loved his medicinal candy the most, and he would buy it for dozens of dollars every month. Otherwise, he would say "Three Heroes" "Sword", the main characters in this set of books are three knights and three swordsmen, collectively called the Three Swordsmen, and it is about the heroes and righteous men headed by Kunlun Xia Shengying of the Thirteen Provincial Escorts outside Nanjing Shuixi Gate during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Capture the forest thieves in the caves of various mountains, rivers, islands, this set of books is very lively, Mr. Wu knows how to kung fu when his legs are not broken, and knows everything about the rivers and lakes, so this kind of bunt storytelling is the best, even Talking and gesticulating, it sounds particularly fascinating. Whenever it comes to a lively place, he stops talking and starts selling his medicine candy. When the candy was almost sold out, he went on to talk about it. Master Guo wanted to inquire about the clues of the green-haired female corpse. Who to ask was a problem. After thinking about it, if only one person in Tianjin Wei knew, This person should also be Wu Laoxian.

On the same day, Master Guo took two brothers to trace the words on the Tie Tuozi according to the gourd painting, and took it to the Chenghuang Temple in the northwest corner, and asked Wu Laoxian to see if he could recognize what it was.Li Daleng was very puzzled, Wu Laoxian was just a seller of medicine and candy, how could he know such a thing?Master Guo said: "My uncle didn't have your number when he handled the case. You will know when we meet." The three found Wu Laoxian, and Master Guo said that uncle, don't do business today. Let's find a place to have a drink or two. Our brothers have something to ask you for advice.

Wu Laoxian said: "That's a good thing, your uncle and I are gluttons." After finishing speaking, he asked Ding Mao to help put away the sugar pot, and found a small restaurant nearby to eat instant meat, and it was not time for dinner , there was no one in the shop, four people sat in the corner of the wall in the room, and asked the buddy to set up a charcoal stove, put a large casserole on the stand, took a few plates each with louvered pork belly, sliced ​​meat and vegetables, and made two pots of cold wine. After eating shabu-shabu, I was born sweating and soaking in the bath hall. In those days, mutton shabu-shabu was not a good thing, and it was simple and easy to not sit in the table. People like Master Guo didn't have much money, so they usually only came to this cheap shabu-shabu restaurant.

Master Guo said to Wu Laoxian: "Uncle, you don't know him yet. This fat monk is Li Daleng who hangs out in Nanshi. He is also Ding Mao's and I's brother." Li Daleng hurriedly poured a glass of wine for Mr. Wu, and said, "Guo Ye and Ding Ye are my two elder brothers, and I will follow them to call you uncle. If you need me in the future, just say a word .” Ding Mao said: "Li Da is stunned, don't lift the curtain and just deal with it with your mouth, you will settle the bill after dinner, it's better than saying anything." Wu Laoxian said: "Okay, what else can we see, let's just say it, I will know what it is when I see you come, are you here for the Sancha River estuary case? "

Li Daleng said: "Oh, I dare to love you, Uncle, you are a prophet. In addition to selling medicine and candy, you can also tell fortunes. No wonder the second brother came to ask you for advice." Wu Laoxian laughed dryly and said, "I have heard about the case of the dead body at the mouth of the Sancha River. I set up a stall outside every day to sell medicine and candy. Have you not heard of it?" Ding Mao raised his thumb and said, "Uncle Shi, you are still so wise." Wu Laoxian waved his hand: "No way, my legs are not good, and I am getting old, and my body is getting worse day by day. I am afraid that I will not have a good life for a few years. Let's get back to business, don't talk about it, you are really for the case of the Sancha River estuary. here?"

Master Guo explained the whole thing to Wu Laoxian in detail, and asked Wu Laoxian to look at the handwriting on the iron lump. Wu Laoxian stared straight at his eyes, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, and told the three brothers: "This iron lump is an iron tiger, and the words cast on it should be - iron can control water, and dragons hide far away." , only gold can restrain wood, and this state will be forever. Many of them sank into the river and filled the eyes of the river, and this iron tiger is one of them." Ding Mao said: "It's so muddy, we are worried that this iron lump is something from Zhenhe, and taking it out from the bottom of the river will cause disaster." Li Da was surprised: "The female corpse at the mouth of the Sancha River is a river demon?" Master Guo saw that Mr. Wu's face was not right, as if he remembered something, told the two brothers not to interrupt, and asked the uncle to explain the reason. Wu Laoxian drank two glasses of wine, and told the three soul-stirring stories of the past. There was no female corpse at the bottom of the Sancha River, and there should be only the iron tiger at the bottom of the river. According to the legend in the early years, it was in the Jiajing period of the former Qing Dynasty that floods should have flooded when the river eyes were filled. On the Mogu Road, there is a strange book that records the sorcery and sorcery, and it has been scattered among the people, killing many people. The case of sinking corpses at the mouth of the Sancha River may be related to this incident. Speaking of which, this happened more than ten years ago. At that time, Wu Laoxian’s legs were not broken. He used to be a bodyguard and practiced martial arts. Trample team, tramp means to follow and chase, interview means to inquire about news, it is equivalent to the plainclothes detective team of the police department, it is called the tramp team in the old society, it is in charge of catching thieves and criminals, one night, he pursued a case, I met a monster in the vegetable garden. The vegetable garden where Wu Laoxian encountered the monster is nowhere else, just behind Li Gongci Temple. There is an ancient building called Li Gongci Temple in Tianjin Wei. One hundred mu, magnificent and ancient, until today, it is still largely preserved. The whole mansion faces south, and there are stone lions and watches outside the main entrance, as well as stone archways, stone men and stone horses. When entering the gate, there is a garden first. Then there is the Toudao Temple. There are three halls in the front, middle and back in sequence. Showing the grandeur of the inner courtyard of the palace, Ligong Temple was changed into the Workers’ Cultural Palace after liberation, and later became a second-hand book market. In recent years, it has not been open for free. You need to buy tickets to visit. Ladies and gentlemen, this Ligong Temple There is a strange thing in it, if I say you can't notice it, if I say it you will find it strange. The strange thing is that the layout of Ligong Temple is unconventional. The gardens of other houses and mansions are all at the back, and the emperor's palace is also the same. Only Li Gongci's big house has a garden at the entrance. You have to walk through the garden before you can go to other places. There is no other house like this in the world, so this place is not good in Fengshui. relation. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were two sayings among the folks that "one province in the south is poor, and two families in the north are rich." The warlord Li Chun was one of the two families in the north. He burned so much money that he didn't know how to spend it, which made him uncomfortable. He thought of his ancestors on a whim, and decided to build a family temple. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the entire village in the former Qing Dynasty from Beijing. The Wangfu was demolished and moved to Tianjin Wei as it is. The wood and glazed tiles are all the best. He built his Li family’s family temple according to the layout of the Wangfu. Gai, because when someone demolished the Yu Palace a few years ago, they took out a lot of gold and silver that had been buried more than a hundred years ago. . Li Dujun spent a lot of money to build the family temple and ancestral hall. He also asked Mr. Li to take care of the Fengshui pattern in advance. The garden is naturally at the back. Unexpectedly, something happened when it was half built. Some people talked behind his back, saying that the Li family ancestral hall was built like a palace. , Does this warlord have any big ambitions?Dujun Li noticed that the ancestral hall was built beyond the specifications. There are three halls in the front, middle and back, surrounded by a moat, and a garden in the back. It really looks like a palace, but it can't be demolished. The money is all wasted ?Someone gave him an idea to move the garden to the front. This would avoid suspicion, so Li Dujun had no choice but to do so, but he ignored the fact that the situation in Li Gongci Temple was reversed, which was a big taboo in Feng Shui. Not long after the family temple and ancestral hall were built, he was shot and killed by his subordinates in the Governor's Mansion. He was forty-six years old at the time. To give birth to a son, one of the aunts secretly bribed a horse bien in order to compete for favor, and secretly slept with this horse bien, hoping to borrow a seed to conceive a child, and then pretend to be Li Dujun's flesh and blood. Unexpectedly, one night, this concubine was having a tryst with Ma Bian, when Dujun Li suddenly came back from other places, and broke through the adultery, Ma Bian was flustered, robbed and beat Dujun Li to death, and concealed the truth from the outside world, saying it was a sudden death. It can also be regarded as the omen of the reversal of the feng shui pattern in the Yangzhai, so that the following disasters occurred. After the decline of the Li family, the Ligong Temple was also deserted. At that time, there were no people who worked on shifts. There was a large vegetable garden behind the ancestral hall. In autumn, when the cold wind blows, the dead branches of wormwood rustle, and the sound of toads and crickets can be heard from time to time, people nearby dare not come here in broad daylight. At that time, children were always lost in and out of the city, and they couldn’t be found when they were lost. At the beginning, there were rumors that there were kidnappers who took pictures of flowers. People from the trampling team squatted everywhere. The village began to lose children again. There are few people in the countryside, and an outsider is easy to attract attention. After interviewing, I gradually learned that in the places where children were lost, some villagers saw a woman of unknown origin. This woman was covered with a blue cloth. The turban could not see the face, and the clothes on the body were long sleeves, so the tramping team cast their nets to find this person. Although there were not enough people, one or two people was more than enough to deal with a woman who was stalking and stealing a child, and so was Wu Laoxian. Careless, one day he went to a nearby village to stay alone. During the day, most of the villagers go to work in the fields. The autumn is high and the air is crisp. The thick sorghum in the field wears a red hat. There is a saying in the countryside that spring is not as busy as autumn. Farm work is the busiest when harvesting crops. Usually, they go to bed after work. In rural areas People go to bed early, finish their farm work during the day, go home to eat, and go to bed as soon as it gets dark. One is to be tired all day, and the other is to save lamp oil. The situation was different this day. Several landlords in the village paid for an opera troupe and set up a stage at the head of the village to sing opera. Because at that time, the big families with a lot of fields were too busy with their own farm work in autumn, so they had to temporarily hire some opera troupes. Helpers are paid for food and drink. The farm work is very hard, and they put in a lot of effort. After the busy work, the owners of several hired people often pay for the theater troupe to come to the village to perform a few plays to reward the helpers. The villagers Followed by Zhanguang, people from nearby villages all ran to watch. The dramas performed were mostly fighting dramas, and the literary operas were only listened to by old people singing there. The villagers didn't like to watch it, and they couldn't understand it. The martial arts show was so lively and enjoyable to watch. The drama that day was "Zhong Kui Marries a Sister". Although it is a country opera troupe, it is best at singing, and its costumes are not simple. There are more than 20 people and horses, flags, gongs, drums, umbrella fans, and sedan chairs. Zhong Kui has a red face and a red beard. Pretty, the little devils who saw off the relatives were in strange shapes, and the performance was really lively. From the sunset performance to the lantern party, the villagers watched the play in the dark, and slept late. Watching a play to join in the fun, in the countryside, no one plays watch at night, after the play at the head of the village is over, it is about two watch to three watch, a bright moon is in the sky, and the village is completely silent. Wu Laoxian was so fascinated by watching the play that he even forgot the time. When the play ended, it was the second watch of the night and he couldn't go back to the city, so he spent the night in the village, and the next day he had a stomachache. In the afternoon, I rushed back to the city and ran all the way to the south gate. The crowds gradually became thicker. There were vendors selling vegetables and steamed cakes on the roadside. There were a few pedestrians along the way, some with burdens and carts. It was about to set, and it was still dark. He was walking, feeling hungry, and his stomach didn't hurt anymore, but he didn't have time to eat, so he took out some money and bought some hot steamed cakes. Steamed cakes should be said to be steamed cakes, white flour wrapped with bean paste stuffing, steamed on the basket, steamed and sold on the side of the road, Wu Laoxian bought a few to satisfy his hunger, paid for them, and took them in his hands, eating them As he was walking home, he just took a bite when he saw a woman walking up the road, wearing a coarse cloth garment, a toga with large sleeves, and a headscarf on her head, which covered her head completely and tied a knot at her chin. It's not surprising that women in the old society dressed like this. The woman lowered her head and couldn't see her face. She walked in a hurry and passed Wu Laoxian. Wu Laoxian's eyes are not vegetarian. When he saw the woman's figure, she was quite similar to the rumored human trafficker who was shooting flowers. He was stunned for a moment, and the woman walked past. He turned his head and looked from behind for a few times, but he didn't dare to go directly to grab the woman. He was the leader of the trampling team after all. A mouth full of teeth can't be discerned, and the whole body is covered with a mouth that can't speak clearly." Even if you jump into the Yellow River, you won't be able to wash yourself clean. He has always been cautious and steady in dealing with the world, and he never does things he is not sure of. He secretly thought, why not follow this woman from behind, see where she goes, and make up his mind, follow behind secretly, and find this woman When people enter the city, they only choose the small alleys where there are no people. At this time, the sky was dark, the golden sun was sinking, and the moon was rising. Wu Laoxian was even more puzzled. He followed the woman around, and saw that there was no one living in this place. What does the woman do in the deserted vegetable garden after dark?Mr. Wu Xianxin said that this was a coincidence. If he hadn't been watching a play in the village and had a stomachache and delayed returning until then, he really wouldn't have met this person. Regardless of whether this woman was a kidnapper who stole a child in a flower shop, I would first Stop her and ask. Thinking of this, Wu Laoxian quickened his pace and chased after the woman, wanting to call out to tell her to stop, as long as the woman turned her face, he could see what she looked like, who knew that the woman was walking behind The front, less than three or five steps away, suddenly disappeared. Wu Laoxian's heart trembled, he suddenly felt a dark wind behind him, he quickly turned around, and saw that the woman was standing behind him, although there was moonlight in the sky, the woman's face under the kerchief was still almost dark It seemed that there was nothing at all, but the eyes on that face released two fierce lights, and at the same time stretched out two big hands covered with hair, and grabbed Wu Laoxian's neck. Wu Laoxian was taken aback. Seeing that the opponent's hands had rough skin and sharp fingers and claws, they were hidden by the wide sleeves before, and it was not until he stretched them out that he realized that they were not human hands at all. At that time, Wu Laoxian was a man of few words and few words, but his ability was unambiguous. He was taught Tong Bei Quan and had a deep foundation in kung fu. During the trip, he found that the woman was something he had never seen before, and he did not know what kind of monster it was. The woman's two big hands were similar to two iron tongs, she suddenly grabbed Wu Laoxian's neck and strangled him to death, while screaming strangely like a night owl. Wu Laoxian was taken aback, but he remained calm in the face of danger. He kicked the woman with a series of mandarin duck legs, kicked her away from the front, and took a few steps back with his own strength. This woman in an old robe and turban wrapped her face, before Wu Laoxian could stand firm, she rushed forward again with a strange wind. In the desolate vegetable garden under the moon, her figure was strange, as straight as a plume of black smoke. Wu Laoxian saw that the other party was going to put him to death, and his subordinates were merciless. He stretched out his hand and pulled out the big cigarette bag and pot inserted in his back. There was a big heavy copper bump on the front of the cigarette bag and pot. In an emergency, it can also be used for self-defense, so he swung it round and hit him hard. The claws stretched out by the woman caught Wu Laoxian's cigarette pipe and pot squarely, and he let out a scream, and quickly withdrew his hand. Wu Laoxian's pipe and pot didn't stop, he didn't care about the indiscriminate and indiscriminate, just beat around the head. Seeing that the situation was not good, the woman turned around and wanted to run away, but the moment she turned around, she hit Wu Laoxian hard on the head, immediately blood spattered, her gait was staggered, and she stumbled and fled desperately.Wu Laoxian didn't let the woman get away, and chased after her. The large vegetable garden behind Li Gong Temple was used to grow melons and vegetables many years ago. Later, the water flow diverted and the vegetable garden was deserted. The fields were full of weeds, and under the moonlit night, the smoke and weeds were everywhere. A desolate picture. If this woman hadn't been hit by the cigarette pot on her head, she would have thrown away Wu Laoxian a long time ago, but she was seriously injured, and she only escaped a few steps in the deserted vegetable garden, and Wu Laoxian had already caught up with her from behind , Tore off the turban, revealing the face that had been covered all the time, under the moonlight it was clearly visible, this face was actually half as long as the average person, not only the face was long, but the mouth was also surprisingly big. Although Wu Laoxian was on guard in his heart, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. That strange face was covered with blood, which looked even more eerie and frightening under the moonlight. The nose and eyes were human-like, but the face was too long. , like a donkey and a horse, with white fangs in its mouth. This thing was chased to nowhere, and it opened its two long arms full of hair and turned back. Wu Laoxian saw its face through the moonlight. It turned out to be an old horse monkey walking on its feet. In the old society, adults frightened children, always mentioning this thing, saying that if you don’t hear about it, you will let the old horse monkey catch it and eat it. In fact, this is a primate similar to a mandrill or a mountain ape. The lower half of the face is extremely long. It is also rare among apes. Wu Laoxian never imagined that this horse monkey has already understood human nature, can put on clothes, wrap a headscarf, and walk on the road pretending to be a woman. He was surprised and amazed in his heart, and after a moment of daze, the horse monkey jumped in front of him Now, Wu Laoxian couldn't dodge in time, he was caught with several cuts on his body, his skin was torn open, his flesh was dripping with blood, his cigarette bag and pot fell to the ground, and he was eagerly tore with the monkey monster with his bare hands. Unexpectedly, there was a dry well behind him. He stepped on the ground and fell down immediately. After the vegetable garden was abandoned, the mouth of the dry well was blocked by weeds. Wu Laoxian only stared at the monkey monster, but he didn't notice that there was still a dry well in the vegetable garden, and the monkey monster kept using the dry well as its hiding place on purpose. To lure Wu Laoxian, he will push this man into a dry well and fall to his death. Wu Laoxian fell down the dry well, but he didn't let go of his hands, and the monkey monster couldn't get away. You grabbed me, I grabbed you, and they fell to the bottom of the well together. Facing this critical moment of life and death, Wu Laoxian couldn't stand it. Without risking his life, the hard work he had practiced in the past many years from climbing at midnight in the middle of the night came into play at this time, causing a cloud to turn over in mid-air, and at the same time as he fell, he pressed the horse monkey under his body, and just turned around He fell to the bottom of the well, with a muffled "snap", his bones were shattered, and his flesh and blood flew everywhere. The dry well has been dry for many years, the stone walls are bare, and there is no water at all. The horse monkey fell to the bottom of the well with its head upside down, and hit its head into the cavity on the spot. It was broken, and he passed out from the pain. When he woke up, his vision was pitch black, and he happened to be wearing a torch, and it shone brightly in the dark. At the bottom of the well, apart from the corpse of the monkey demon, there was also an old man dead. , just now, the old man's head collided with the head of the monkey monster that fell from the well, and it exploded on the spot, and the brains flowed all over the ground. There are still many children's bones at the bottom of the dry well. It is estimated that the case of throwing children in and out of the city was all done by one person and a monkey. Wu Laoxian found a tattered ancient book from the old man's dead body, He didn't take a closer look at the black light, he put it in his arms, endured the pain of broken leg bones, climbed up the dry well alternately with both hands to find someone to help, went out and opened the book, it was full of weird magic and evil There are no words on the cover, only a white lotus flower is drawn. Wu Laoxian knows that when the White Lotus Sect rebelled, the government strictly punished people who knew sorcery and evil methods from all over the place. A strange book recording sorcery was left behind. After Mogu Dao was wiped out by the government, this strange book fell to the people, and was accidentally found by a monkey trick artist. , drove an old horse monkey to steal children everywhere, and then sold them to other places. He took the unsold children as apprentices, or strangled them to death in a dry well, and then buried them in the vegetable garden. Although the case It was broken, and Wu Laoxian's leg was also crippled, and he couldn't eat public food anymore, so he set up a stall in front of the Chenghuang Temple in the northwest corner to sell medicine and sugar to survive. At that time, the case of losing the child was considered solved. Master Guo and Ding Mao knew that Wu Laoxian had been a headhunter and the leader of the visiting team. He had solved countless major cases in his life, but it was only now that they heard him talk about the encounter in the vegetable garden of Li Gongci. As for the demon thing, it turned out that the uncle's two legs were crippled at that time. Li Daleng was even more convinced when he heard it, and he poured wine for Wu Laoxian again and again: "Master, who has that strange book that records Mogu Dao and demon methods?" Ding Mao said: "It is also a disaster to keep such sorcery and evil methods. Uncle Shi, you should have set them on fire at that time." Wu Laoxian said: "It's time to burn it. If it had been burned in the first place, I wouldn't have to talk to you anymore." Back then, Mr. Wu climbed out of the dry well to eliminate demons in the vegetable garden. The pain from his broken leg caused cold sweat to break out on his forehead. The years when the Ligong Temple was abandoned was very desolate. No one came to greet him for a long time. He remembered that he still had a book in his arms. , I found it from the dead body at the bottom of the well. I took it out and looked it up under the moonlight. I saw that it was all heresy sorcery. . Hearing the rustling of wormwood on the wall at this time, Wu Laoxian watched intently, and saw a beggar-looking boy under the moon, that is, sixteen or seventeen years old, lying on the back wall of Li Gongci Temple, Probing into the vegetable garden, this little beggar is probably homeless, so he climbed over the wall and lived in the empty house of Li Gongci at night, when he heard the movement, he stuck his head out to watch. Wu Laoxian said to the little beggar: "Don't be afraid. I am the official of the visiting team. I fell into the dry well in the vegetable garden and broke my leg. You should find someone to help me." Hearing this, the little beggar jumped down from the back wall, and walked carefully to Wu Laoxian.Wu Laoxian saw the appearance of the little beggar through the moonlight. He had pretty features, but there was a villainous look in his pretty face, and his face had a strange appearance. There was a single eyebrow on his forehead, and the two eyebrows were long in succession. Pupils, most people have one pupil in one eye, but this person has two pupils in one eye, and four pupils in two eyes. There may not be one pupil like this in tens of millions of people. According to physiognomy, this kind of person has Odd luck, but there is another saying that single eyebrows and double pupils are short-lived little ghosts. Seeing the evil look on the little beggar's face, Wu Laoxian recalled that the strange book was still in his hand, he lay on the ground unable to stand up, and subconsciously moved the book under his body to hold it down. This caused the idea of ​​the little beggar, the boy rolled his eyes and said, "Master, what kind of treasure is that, and you have to hide it so that no one will see it?" Wu Laoxian said: "It's nothing, it's just a broken book, you go to the street in front of Li Gongci and call some people to help, I will benefit you." The little beggar said: "Hey, what should I think? It turned out to be a torn book. Seeing that you were seriously injured, you were lying in the vegetable garden and be careful not to be bitten by a snake. I will help you sit up first and then go find someone." Wu Laoxian thought the same thing. I was too worried just now. This little homeless beggar can't even read a few words. Why should I worry about him seeing this book. At this time, the little beggar wiped his dirty hands on his body, bent down to make a gesture to help, and suddenly kicked Wu Laoxian's broken leg.Wu Laoxian was seriously injured and was unprepared, let the little beggar kick his broken leg, and his eyes went dark from the pain. When he realized that the book in his arms had been snatched away by the other party, he said in his heart: "No, I have been hunting geese all day long but I was pecked by geese." Blind!" Both of Wu Laoxian's legs were broken, he couldn't take a step, and he was kicked on the broken leg again, almost fainting from the pain, but he is a veteran of the Gongmen after all. Seeing that the little beggar's legs were light and fast, he fled three or five steps away, and immediately shook his hands and threw a noose. When he went out, he immediately caught the little beggar by the waist, Wu Laoxian pulled his wrist back, and immediately pulled the other party around. It was also because the other party was young, so he was merciful, and did not let the noose strangle the other party's neck, but as long as he If you don't let go, the little beggar won't be able to escape even if he spreads his wings. Unexpectedly, the little beggar fell to the ground without saying a word, suddenly grabbed a ball of things, threw it at Wu Laoxian, and shouted in surprise: "There is a snake!" Wu Laoxian made him jump, Hastily raised his hand to push the thing away, thought it was really a snake in a trance, fell to the ground and realized that it was the tattered grass rope used by the other party to tighten his trousers, in such a moment of distraction, the little beggar had already dragged the noose, It seemed to fly away. Afterwards, the team found out that the monkey juggler in the dry well and other apprentices were arrested and arrested, and all of them were killed after being prosecuted. According to those apprentices, the monkey juggler got a strange book in the ruined temple. According to the heretical technique of raising corpses, find the right place to salvage the iron lumps of Zhenhe, and abduct a pregnant woman and press them to the bottom of the river. It is said that the dead corpses in the river can suck up the earth's energy. Dashui, the monkey juggler claimed to be a master of Taoism, and found the female corpse out of the river in front of people, and used this superstitious method to collect money. As for how many people were killed by the monkey juggler, and where did the female corpse sink? The few apprentices caught by the government can't explain clearly. Until the river patrol team discovered the case of the sinking corpse at the mouth of the Sancha River, the story was widely circulated in the streets and alleys. The three master brothers came over and said it face to face, and it can be concluded that there is no doubt that the little beggar who snatched the strange book in the vegetable garden of Li Gongci was the little apprentice of the monkey old man. Only the monkey master and his apprentice Lian Huaqing knew about it. Back then, the government sent people to search and arrest for several months, but this little beggar named Lian Huaqing was nowhere to be found, and he didn't know where he hid. Tang, his brothers in the river patrol team were still thinking about arresting Lian Huaqing, but all the people who found out some clues died inexplicably, and then they didn't dare to look for this person again , Some people even say that Lian Huaqing is a river demon, whoever touches him will be unlucky, so many years have passed in a blink of an eye, Wu Laoxian thought that he took this matter into the coffin, but he didn't expect to drink too much at the shabu-shabu restaurant today. All the words have been spoken. Wu Laoxian knew that he didn't have to say it, but once he said it, Master Guo and Ding Mao would go to find Lian Huaqing, and the persuasion was in vain, so they had to repeatedly ask: "Lian Huaqing must have changed his name and surname to hide from him. In a certain place in the city, this person has a lot of eyes, and I am afraid it is even worse now, he is a hundred times stronger than his master who was a monkey-playing master, if you encounter Lian Huaqing in the future, don't be careless." Ding Mao was puzzled by one thing, and asked: "Master, if I were to replace Lian Huaqing who was facing the case, I would definitely go far away and never come back after I got this wonderful book. How can I conclude that this person is still around?" Wu Laoxian said: "Firstly, Tianjin Wei is a treasure land, surrounded by a total of twelve treasures of Zhenhe, the atmosphere of the earth is extremely strong, and his heretical methods cannot be used here, and secondly, he is going to a place he is not familiar with. It is also easy to reveal whereabouts, unlike our place which is a water and land dock, there are many pedestrians coming and going, I think Lian Huaqing is very cunning, he thinks that he will hide in the busy city he is familiar with, but he will not be found." After listening to Master Guo and Ding Mao, they secretly made up their minds: "If Lian Huaqing is hiding in Tianjin Wei, even if he digs three feet into the ground, he must try his best to dig him out." Protecting the Three Villages", they have this responsibility, but only because of this idea, later came the "Evil Dog Village Catching Monsters". When talking about this matter in the early years, it can be said that everyone knew about it, it was too bizarre, Why do you say that Lian Huaqing is a river demon?Is it human?Just look down and you'll find out.