No taboos

Chapter 83 Dafu
The two captains' faces changed drastically, and they quickly followed the woman and were about to leave.

Xu Yuan heard everything the woman said, but for some reason, he didn't believe it!
Xu Yuan frowned secretly, and suddenly understood: this is the resistance of "No Taboos" to trickery.

So I opened "Wangming" and saw that it was indeed an evil spirit!

The life of an evil spirit is different from that of a living person.

Xu Yuan quietly held the Jiangdan in his hand, with a look of panic on his face, and hurriedly followed the woman.

The woman turned around and led the way. Xu Yuan pulled out his gun and stabbed the woman to death with one shot!
"what--"

The woman screamed and her body turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared, but her main body shrank and fell into the grass, and she moved around wildly, like a live fish that had come ashore, struggling to rush into the river.

The two captains suddenly woke up and took a closer look. They found that the thing in the grass was actually a scarlet tongue more than a foot long!

Xu Yuan didn't care about that and just let out the anger in his stomach.

call--

In the billowing flames, the tongue twisted and tumbled in pain. In an instant, the gossips of all kinds of gossips from the surrounding area and the divisive words were heard behind people's backs, making a noisy and chaotic sound, making the two captains dizzy.

The sounds disappeared only when the fire in Xu Yuan's belly completely burned the tongue to ashes.

Old Yan looked at the stream and sneered, "You're just sending a tongue-wagging ghost? You're at your wit's end."

The black fog seemed to be enraged, and huge evil faces emerged from it. Some looked like monsters, some like evil spirits, and some were just a few huge eyes.

They stared at the two of them coldly from a height of several dozen feet.

A gurgling sound came from the black fog, as if a starving person suddenly smelled the aroma of meat.

With a "bang", the door of the big house opened and a very tall woman walked out.

He looked about the same age as Uncle Mao, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, rough hands and feet, and was wearing a faded piece of clothing with seven or eight patches on it.

Xu Yuan didn't recognize the clothes, but it looked familiar to Old Yan.

As soon as the woman came out, she glared at the black fog fiercely. The beings in the black fog revealed expressions of extreme disgust and fear, and disappeared one by one.

The woman walked towards the four people, but stopped halfway in front of a stone tablet in front of the door. She patted the stone tablet with her hand and asked in a somewhat unfriendly tone, "What are you people from the Exorcism Department doing here?"

Xu Yuan and the other three walked closer and took a closer look at the stone tablet, which contained a line of large characters:
Canal Yamen and Miaopo Village Office.

Old Yan slapped his forehead and remembered that the clothes the woman was wearing were the uniforms of the "water supervisor" of the Canal Office.

However, the Canal Yamen had changed to new uniforms more than ten years ago, but the woman was wearing the old ones.

Xu Yuan looked at the woman with a strange expression and asked tentatively, "Wang Laoshi?"

"It's me!" the woman said gruffly, "If you have something to say, say it. If you have to fart, fart quickly."

Xu Yuan remembered and laughed, "Auntie Wang, don't you remember me? You bought me candy when I was a kid. I'm Xu Yuan from Hegong Lane. Uncle Mao asked me to come here."

Xu Yuan was about four or five years old at that time. There was a woman who always came to see Uncle Mao, and every time she came, she brought a bunch of gifts to each household.

Xu Yuan also always received three pieces of candy.

During that time, Xu Yuan really looked forward to this "Auntie" coming every day - he just didn't know that Auntie was such a sincere name.

But suddenly she stopped coming.

Now that I think about it, there was something going on between Uncle Mao and Aunt Wang!
Wang Laoshi looked at him carefully and obviously couldn't recognize him. Xu Yuan quickly took out Uncle Mao's brand.

When Aunt Wang saw the sign, her expression became complicated. After a while, she took it and said softly, "Come in with me."

The room was spacious and bright. Aunt Wang asked them to sit wherever they wanted and went to pour water herself.

Xu Yuan looked around and said, "Your place is nice."

The room was filled with all kinds of furniture, and Xu Yuan could tell at a glance that they were all the work of Uncle Mao.

Aunt Wang smiled and said, "I built the house myself. I even dug the kiln and fired the bricks and tiles myself."

Xu Yuan gave a thumbs up: "You are awesome."

Aunt Wang poured a few bowls of water and sighed helplessly, "I've been here for decades, and nothing has happened. The government won't close this office, so I have no choice but to find something to do." Old Yan was full of questions, and finally had the chance to ask, "Why is there an office of the Grand Canal Government here? You've lived by the river, fighting the strangeness of the river alone for decades?"

"How could I possibly have that ability?" Aunt Wang stood up and said, "Come with me."

She led the four of them to the back of the house, which was built along the riverbank.

Behind the house there is a small four-cornered stone pavilion with flying eaves sunk in the water.

There is a stone tablet in the pavilion with the word "Ping" engraved on it, and water level lines on the side.

It is forbidden to go near the river today, all the river water is as black as ink!
The narrow river surface rolled up huge waves, and the sound of the waves was like the howling of ghosts and wolves.

But this stone pavilion is ten feet in radius, and the river water is clear and calm.

Aunt Wang said, "This is the water regulation stele that the Canal Office erected here. The characters on it are said to be written by the Dragon King of the Canal!"

Xu Yuan and Old Yan were surprised: "Is this the thing that suppressed the strange things in the river?"

Aunt Wang nodded and said, "When Jiaozhi was conquered, the canal was also opened to Guiwu Mountain. The canal government built 37 offices nearby to monitor the local hydrology.

However, the evil spirit in Haunted Mountain could not be eliminated, and the canal had to take a detour.

But because this water stele is in this office, it concerns the reputation of the... so it cannot be removed."

Aunt Wang didn't need to say anything else, Xu Yuan also understood.

Since they couldn't withdraw it and there was no point in keeping it, they sent a poor guy to guard it.

Aunt Wang took a deep breath and said, "The water supervisor I met before me died of old age here."

Xu Yuan shook his head secretly, not knowing how to comfort her.

Aunt Wang waved her hand: "Forget it, go back."

Back in the house, Aunt Wang said, "Back then... I had an agreement with Mao Si. If you bring his sign, I'll give you something."

Xu Yuan nodded: "My fourth uncle asked me to come and get something."

"follow me."

Aunt Wang took them out and to the side of the house, where there was a cage made of bamboo with seven or eight big geese in it.

Aunt Wang grabbed one, thought for a moment, and said, "Never mind, I'll give you that one."

After releasing this one, he called out to the cage, "Da Fu."

A white goose, which was much larger in size, staggered out from the innermost part.

His eyes were fixed, and he looked arrogant.

The other geese quickly moved aside.

Aunt Wang pointed at Xu Yuan and said, "He will support you from now on. Go ahead."

Dafu tilted his head and stared at Xu Yuan for a long time. His eyes finally focused - as if he wanted to remember the appearance of this future fan in his mind. Then he stepped out of the cage and stood beside Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan saw that when this guy came out, he didn't know what he had just eaten, and there was a trace of blood on his flat mouth!
"Fourth Uncle asked me to come and get something..."

“Who says something can’t be a goose?” Aunt Wang said, “Don’t worry, my geese are easy to raise. Just feed them whatever you eat.”

Xu Yuan had a headache. "I'm going to Guiwu Mountain to investigate a case, and it's very inconvenient to carry a goose with me."

"Can I...can I leave Dafu here for foster care first and take him away when I come back?"

Aunt Wang said without hesitation, "No, Dafu is stubborn. I just told you that if you raise him from now on, he will only eat what you feed him. If I feed him again and he refuses to eat, he will think I have bad intentions and want to fatten him up and kill him for food."

Xu Yuan: ...

　There are a lot of foreshadowings in here, so please be patient, there will be arrangements later. If I explain it in the comments, it will be boring, right?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)