God's Taoism is free and easy, starting with taking in the clam girl

Chapter 115 Heatstroke
"Big……"

As soon as Yuan Bin opened his mouth, he saw his lord gave him a wink. He suddenly came to his senses and quickly changed his words:

"Brother, it is true that the government has blocked water, but as far as I know, the water source of the Anyuan River is currently supplied to each household."

"The rich and the country gentry have more people in their families, so the water share will naturally be more. However, the actual water share is still equal to each person's head."

Hearing this explanation, Mr. Geng didn't speak, but there was a trace of evil spirit on his calm face.

Yuan Bin's heart skipped a beat. Given his understanding of his lord's character and handling style, even though his lord didn't refute on the spot, this matter must have been kept in his mind, and it can't be exposed in a sentence or two.

The reason why he didn't get angry now is that there are outsiders present, and the second is that getting angry at this time will not solve any problems.

It's just the calm before the storm.

When Mr. Geng returns to the county government, the Anyuan County Yamen may set off a storm that will shake the officialdom.

The woman looked at the two suspiciously, and she always felt that the two men in front of her looked and behaved a little strangely, and they didn't look like decent people.

Taking advantage of the fact that the two of them were not paying attention to themselves, they couldn't help but quietly backed away two steps, and retreated to the gate of their own house, with one hand resting on the door frame, as if any disturbance would close the door.

Her small actions did not hide the truth from the two of them, Mr. Geng sighed in his heart, knowing that the explanations by the two of them not only failed to resolve the misunderstanding, but made others more vigilant.

After thinking for a while, he took out a bunch of copper coins from his pocket, threw them lightly towards the woman, and said loudly:

"The eldest sister answered her doubts. Geng has nothing else on her, only these copper coins as a thank you."

"Swish"

The string of copper coins fell firmly into the door, and spread out in a circle. The woman looked at the string of copper coins from the corner of her eye and silently counted them. The string of copper coins was about twenty to thirty. .

"It's just a few words to give so much reward, it doesn't look like a bad person..."

The woman was slightly taken aback, and her mentality changed unconsciously. She was about to say no, but she changed the way she said it.

"What else do you want to know? If you don't believe it, there is nothing that I, Wang Xiaoya, don't know in this Qinquan area. As long as you can think of a question, I can give the answer..."

Seeing this, a disdainful smile appeared on Yuan Bin's face, and he turned to look at his lord, only to see that lord Geng had an amiable smile all over his face, and said with a smile:
"Oh? So this place is called Qinchunye? Then you might as well tell us, what is so special about this Qinchunye, which god presides over this water pool, and how many people are there in our Qinchunye? If I What should I do if I want to settle down here? How many refugees can this place accept..."

Master Geng uttered a series of questions like a cannonball, and the woman's confident smile suddenly froze on her face.Immediately, her eyes rolled for a while, and a sincere and indescribably sly smile appeared on her face again.

"Brother, you are asking the right people. I am not bragging. In the whole Qinchunye, no one else knows so many questions except me. I can answer some of them immediately. As for some questions, I am a woman." People can't make decisions on their own, and they have to wait for my guy to come back before I can give you an answer."

"If you are not in a hurry, you can take a short rest on the spot, and my guy will be back in an hour or two."

Mr. Geng and Yuan Bin looked at each other and nodded silently.

As the sky was getting dark, a group of sweaty men returned, and they happened to see two people sitting at the wooden table at the gate of their house.

Seeing that there were more people on her side, the woman opened the door to welcome them out.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on Qinchun Lake, dyeing the sparkling water surface golden.

Beside the water lake and in front of the wooden house, a bonfire was burning fiercely.

A group of people gathered in front of the bonfire, and the reflection of the fiery red light kept twisting on the faces of the people, as if they had life.

One person sat upright in the middle and kept asking some questions. Behind him, a tall man stood breathlessly, and the others sat around him on the ground and answered the question of the person in the middle tirelessly.

Not long after, Lord Geng finally understood the essence of this so-called blessed land.

After Mr. Geng's doubts were answered one by one by everyone, he glanced at Yuan Bin behind him. Yuan Bin took out several strings of copper coins from his arms and handed them to each other according to the number of times he answered the questions.

After everyone returned satisfied, Mr. Geng touched his bearded eyes and stared in a certain direction in a daze.

It took a long time before he let out a deep sigh.

"What a stone village!"

"What a Qinquan Water God!"

……

the next day,
The sky was slightly bright, and just as the sun emerged from the horizon, a rooster in a stone village began to crow.

The villagers get up early habitually, but suddenly find that they have nothing to do.

As early as a few days ago, when someone had the sudden whim to dig a few more times when digging the ground, he discovered the secret in the field ridges - there is an underground canal under each field ridge, and the height of the underground canal is just right. Can obtain moisture by itself.

Since then, watering, a major problem of arable land that has plagued everyone for a long time, has disappeared unconsciously.

Everyone has long been familiar with the miracles that happened in the village. As long as they silently attribute it to the god stone and Qinquan Water God, there will be no big mistakes.

After all, something even more outrageous than this happened earlier.

No one will forget that about a month ago, the group of crabs that appeared in the rice fields and field ridges to help everyone weed and catch insects.

If Wei Wu hadn't worried that the villagers would become useless rice bugs who only knew how to pray and eat and wait to die all day, those crabs would have wished to take care of all the farming tasks.

Even so, the villagers almost lost the honor of their labor. In the entire cultivation process, only the two processes of sowing and fertilizing need to be done by themselves.

Even in the modernized agriculture on the Blue Star, it is estimated that only a very small number of people can match the level of leisure of the villagers of Yiyishi Village.

The villagers were suddenly idle like this,

Then, after resting for a few days, everyone felt that something was wrong all over their bodies, and they always felt that something was missing.

Below the sacred stone altar,

Early in the morning, people in twos and threes came to light incense and pray for blessings.

A man as strong as a calf twisted his body uneasily, as if he hadn't vented all his strength and felt uncomfortable all over.

"When will this day be a head? I really want to work in the field."

"What else is there to do? Everything that can be done has been done." Another man let out a chuckle.

A woman next to them couldn't see it anymore, she snorted and said: "If you two are really in a hurry, go to the village with Er Gou to catch bamboo rats, don't think that those things are not big and meaty."

"Eating bamboo rats?" The two strong men were startled, looked at the sacred stone altar cautiously, and said in a low voice:

"Are you crazy? The Rat God is the most serious god in our village. How dare you secretly eat her people?"

At this moment, a group of children ran over from not far away, the leading child was carrying a big mouse that kept struggling, and a group of children followed eagerly.

One of the children, holding an ancient book in his hand, hurriedly chased after him, shouting:

"Er Gou, put down the bamboo rat in your hand, it looks alive and kicking, it doesn't look like it has heat stroke."

While speaking, the group of children had already run past the strong man, and Li Ergoutou, who was running at the front, did not reply:
"It's just that I don't have heat stroke, but I saw it bite the fence today. If it dares to bite the fence today, it dares to tear down the fence tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow it will lead all the bamboo rats we raise to rebel. We can't keep this kind of rat in troubled times. , must be taken home and eaten, otherwise there will be endless troubles."

The child holding the ancient book was obviously not as physically strong as Li Ergou. After running a few steps, he began to pant heavily. He couldn't keep up with the figure running directly in front of him. He watched Li Ergou's figure run farther and farther.

He stomped his feet and shouted with all his might:

"Even a three-year-old child wouldn't believe such a low-quality excuse. Are you not afraid of being blamed by the gods for such willful nonsense?"

Li Ergou seemed to be frightened by this sentence, he paused, turned around slowly, walked back a few steps, and stood in front of the child holding the ancient book, with a rather helpless expression:

"Brother Tao, if you say you're stupid, you still don't believe me, so you insist on chatting with me, talking about this and that all day long."

"Let me ask you, is the place where we are now called a stone village?"

Wei Tao nodded in a daze.

"This brother Tao is not completely confused..."

Seeing this, Li Ergou couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and continued: "Then, is our stone village under the jurisdiction of Grandpa Shenshi?"

Wei Tao was still in a daze, not knowing what fallacies Li Ergou was going to come up with.

"So, all the big and small things that happen in our village are under the control of Grandpa Shenshi..." Li Ergou said calmly.

"If Master Shenshi really doesn't want to see me eat this bamboo rat, why would you chase after me? Grandpa Shi would have secretly sent me a message."

The more he spoke, the more confident he became, and he said with joy:
"It is true that there is a rat god in our village, but that is also the rat god of our village."

As he spoke, he raised the struggling rat in his hand and placed it in front of Wei Tao's eyes:
"This is just a bamboo rat I caught myself. The place where I caught it is in the bamboo forest to the west of the village. As we all know, that bamboo forest is not the territory of our village, so, strictly speaking, the bamboo rats we raise are not Under the jurisdiction of the rat god of our village..."

"Now do you understand? We can deal with these bamboo rats as we like, and we don't have to put them in the sun until they suffer from heat stroke..."

Wei Tao stared blankly at the bamboo rat with its teeth and claws in front of him. What Li Ergou said just now kept flashing in his mind. Suddenly, he felt that all his previous efforts seemed to be in vain.

"Didn't my father say that everything should take care of other people's faces..."

'Why Ergou can live so free and easy, except for his parents and his most respected Grandpa Shenshi, he can not care about anyone else's face and thoughts. '

"I heard that your village is the most blessed place in the entire Anyuan County. The people live and work in peace and contentment, and never worry about drinking water and food. How could it fall to the point of feeding on rats?"

Just when Wei Tao fell into self-doubt, a voice full of surprise sounded from the side. He heard the reputation and looked around, but saw a middle-aged man with extraordinary bearing appearing beside him.

I saw the man wearing a cyan suit, with a Chinese character face and an amazing beard on his chin. He was holding a bamboo hat in his left hand and a skinny horse in his right hand.Beside him, a tall and thin man in black clothes stood firmly on his side like a drawn sword.

"Bah, bah, what are you talking about, old man? What we eat is the delicious bamboo rat, which is not the same species as the disgusting rat in your mouth."

As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, Li Ergou's exasperated voice sounded like a shadow.

How could Li Ergou not be angry? He managed to organize a well-received rat extermination team in the village. Unexpectedly, not long after the rats were wiped out, Master Shenshi announced that the rat god joined the village and became a god to protect everyone. .

It is an order issued by Master Shenshi to grant the Rat God. Naturally, he, Li Ergou, gave his full support, and the rodent control team announced their disbandment on the spot.

Fortunately, he immediately thought of the strategy of raising mice in captivity. In addition, the bamboo forest in the west is rich in delicious bamboo rats, so he coaxed and tricked a group of children to transform the rodent control team into a mouse breeding team.

Under his mediation, the rat raising team of his family contributes delicious bamboo rats on various occasions in the village from time to time.

Seeing that the influence of his rat-raising team is getting bigger and bigger, and even attracting his uncle to join the team, who knows that he will be questioned by an unknown stranger in his own village.

So, he became angry on the spot, and under the anger, spit stars blurted out and flew all over the sky.

The middle-aged man took out a brocade handkerchief from his arms and touched the saliva on his hands with a blank expression. If it wasn't for the child's immature growth and only grown to the height of his waist, it might be because his hands were wet with saliva. easy.

The tall and thin man beside him had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and he took a step forward to restrain the Ergou who was baring his teeth and claws with excitement.

However, he saw the middle-aged man staring at him with his eyes slightly frowned, and then abruptly stopped his movements.

The middle-aged man squatted down and kept his eyes on Li Ergou's. With a smile on his face, he wondered: "So there is such a saying. Is this mouse called Bamboo Mouse in your hand really as delicious as you said?"

Seeing that the other party was actually curious about his bamboo rat, Li Ergou's heart beat faster, and the unhappiness just now was forgotten, and the whole person was beaming with nonsense:
"Isn't it? Don't look at the word "rat" in the name of this bamboo rat. It is actually a kind of livestock. Our family has dozens of them. The taste is much better than livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep. "

"Grandpa, do you want to try it? You only need ten, oh, twenty copper coins, and you can take this healthy and lively bamboo mouse away. We will never lie to you."

Covering his face, Wei Tao corrected him, "It's a child without deceit."

After Wei Tao corrected him, Li Ergou was happy instead of angry. He nodded and smiled, and said:

"That's right, that's it. What we pay attention to is to be innocent."

A smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face when he heard the words, and he said cheerfully: "Didn't you just discuss whether it has heat stroke? How come it has become a lively and strong bamboo mouse again."

"That's right, it seems to be suffering from heat stroke. You outsiders should give the Mouse God a little bit of a treat..."

Li Ergou suddenly realized that he mentioned the bamboo rat and handed it to the middle-aged man:

"This is a healthy bamboo mouse that just suffered from heatstroke, Cheng Hui, 21 copper coins..."

(End of this chapter)