Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 72

It was written in the divorce letter that Aunt Yuan committed disobedience to her parents, jealousy, and gossip. Except for the childless one, which cannot be used as a fuss, everything else that can be arranged has been arranged.

Aunt Yuan was illiterate, her and her husband's fingerprints were pressed on the divorce letter, and after it was sent to the yamen for registration, the marriage was considered real. The Hai family may not want their daughter-in-law and granddaughter, but they don't even want their grandson, Lin Qingran I find it unbelievable, the only possibility is that other women have given birth to a son for Aunt Yuan's husband, and their status should not be low, so they would do such a thing of abandoning their wives and children.

"Aunt Yuan, you can stay in the mansion and continue to be a cook. If one day you get news of your husband, will you go to him?" Lin Qingran returned the divorce letter to her, and Aunt Yuan wiped her tears and shook her head , "Don't look for it, treat him as dead."

"Then why don't you change the surnames of the two children to be under yours." Hearing what she said, Lin Qingran decided to help her, "Since you divorced and the children were brought out, you put them all in Under your household registration, avoid unnecessary competition in the future." In this world, Lin Qingran is too clear about what a son means, not now, but in the future, maybe she wants to go back, this is a son and a grandson.

Aunt Yuan raised her head, she hadn't thought of going there yet, "But mine before is not here."

Lin Qingran smiled, "You go to the yamen and report first, and you will naturally be transferred from your hometown. If you end up here in Pengcheng, your son can also study here in the future. Don't you want him to be successful?"

Aunt Yuan was startled, and looked at Lin Qingran gratefully. Lin Qingran waved her hand to stop her from speaking, "Go back and think about it."

The days in Pengcheng are much busier than in Luodu City. The magistrate has to take care of his affairs, whether he wants to see his wife who came to visit, and gradually gets used to the life in Pengcheng while he is busy.

At the end of April, less than half a month before the River God Festival, fish lanterns have been set up in the streets and alleys of Pengcheng. The River God Festival is held on May 45th and [-]. These two days are lively gatherings .

The magistrate Zhong Siqin and the others just learned how to tie fish lanterns, they are so lifelike and cute, they hang in the corridor, and when they come out holding Brother Han, he wants to reach out and grab them.

A child of more than four months is really heavy, much heavier than a child of the same month. Li's mother said that she is chubby and cute. Lin Qingran looked at her son's appetite. Fatty's words will not be pleasing at that time.

Someone from the house brought fish over again. These days, the family collected a lot of fish, and it was too much to eat. Aunt Yuan killed the dried fish even if she was alive. Wrapped in oil, it can be stored longer.

The rest of Lin Qingran was sent by Shao Ziyu to other people in the yamen, but after sending them away, those people sent them back fish, Lin Qingran couldn't laugh or cry.

Shao Ziyu has also been busy since the end of the month. Before the arrival of the River God Festival, he will go to visit the counties first.

I went out early and came back late. Ten days later, it is already May [-]th. The streets and alleys of Pengcheng are full of the atmosphere of the River God Festival. These days, the people are shopping and playing in the market, and there are fish everywhere. Lights, sacrificial platforms on the pier have been set up, and there are also sacrificial boats. When Lin Qingran went out on the afternoon of the thirteenth day, the market was already very lively.

On the day of the [-]th, there was a parade team from the city gate to the pier early in the morning. Shao Ziyu went to the pier. There were many officials there. Shao Ziyu looked up at the island on the other side of the river and invited two of them. Take a look on the island, what kind of scene is the sacrifice in the whirlpool.

Those who have been officials in Pengcheng for more than ten years can understand why Shao Ziyu wanted to do this. The previous officials who took up the post also made such a request.

On the fifteenth day, Shao Ziyu took a group of people to Wuzi Island by boat early in the morning, and landed on the shore. The atmosphere of the River God Festival here was stronger than that in Pengcheng.

One of the village chiefs of Wuzi Island took them to the sacrificial site, and introduced to Shao Ziyu in a very proud tone that the three huge eddies on the water surface were done by the river god.

And on the high platform set up by the river bank, several people in strange costumes danced there wearing ghost masks.

Several small boats have been prepared below, on which there are strong animals, such as cattle, sheep and pigs, whose feet are fixed with ropes so that they stand firmly on the small boats, waiting for the people on the stage to finish dancing, and a man in full costume walks onto the stage , worshiping the sky and the river, and after shouting loudly, the boat was pushed out.

Standing tall, Shao Zi saw the boat slowly drifting out and into the vortex, then speeding up and slowly approaching the center of the vortex, one, two, waiting for all three ships to enter the vortex In the circle, the people on the bank of the river knelt down and cheered. This is the river god accepting their sacrifices, and the weather will be good all year round.

Soon the boat entered the center and went down. Shao Ziyu looked around Wuzi Island. There were five small islands in total. The whirlpool was in the middle, named Wuzi Island. These islands were occupied by robbers in the past. place.

This vortex already existed when the robbers were entrenched. It is recorded in the file that these robbers have special methods to hijack ships, and Mr. Xu said that every year there will be so many ships disappearing in this vortex. Shao Ziyu has some The whereabouts of these ships are suspected.

There was a celebration dinner at the end of the sacrifice, Shao Ziyu stayed, and the dishes served were very rich. Several village chiefs came to pay their respects to Shao Ziyu, and among them was the most dressed person on stage today who presided over the worship.

He is very tall and burly, in his thirties and forties, wearing clothes with rolled up sleeves, and tattoos are still faintly visible on his arms.

And like the village head, many young people in Wuzi Island are tall and tall, and they say that they are stronger than ordinary people because of fishing, but in Shao Ziyu's view, this is already a very special group of people Yes, he also remembered very clearly that the robbers here were all so burly and strong ten years ago.

From the beginning to the end, Shao Ziyu didn't see many women, nor did he see many children. The island and distant mountains were all dark at night, only the fire pillars standing on the side of the open-air dinner party looked bright.

The village chiefs of several villages came to toast in turn. Shao Ziyu could hold back a glass, but he couldn't hold back everything. There was also a respectable old man who came to thank him with a slight trembling. Even if Shao Ziyu replaced wine with tea, he had to drink it.

These wines were extremely strong. Although Shao Ziyu didn't fall down at the end, he couldn't get up after lying down in the residence. It was because he wanted to get up in his consciousness, but his body didn't listen to him at all. Chaotic chaos.

The two guards, Eleven and Ah Jiu, did not drink, but drank tea. After helping Shao Ziyu back to the house, villagers brought them hangover soup and hot water for washing.

Eleven and Ah Jiu held back their anger and spit out the tea they drank. The adults are so drunk, who knows whether this hangover soup is a hangover or makes him sleep more deeply.

Ah Jiu took out a bottle from his bosom, poured out a pill for Shao Ziyu to swallow, after a while the villagers came to bring tea, Shi Yi quickly poured the hangover soup out the window.

The two looked at each other, and after half an hour, the lights in the room were turned off, and someone really opened the window to see.

Ah Jiu and Shi Shi lay motionless by the table. After waiting for a while, they saw Shao Ziyu on the bed. A gesture, you can't go out from the door, someone is guarding in the dark.

Eleven pushed open the window on the other side of the forest, and the two quickly dived out, heading towards the place where they worshiped during the day.

In such a quiet night, it should also be a quiet village and a quiet river bank, but at this time there are many people holding torches. Eleven and Ah Jiu dare not get too close. It was the man who presided over the sacrifice on the stage today.

There was the sound of sobbing, and the two women fell to the ground crying and watched their children being sent to the boat. They were only two or three years old, dressed in nice clothes, and a man and a woman were sitting on the boat, holding on to the boat. While eating, he looked at the people around him in a daze.

The leader made obeisance, burned incense and eulogized, and the boat pushed away.

Ah Jiu held down Eleven, who was rushing forward, and shook her head lightly. Although there was anger in both eyes, there were so many people over there, not only would they not be able to save people, but they would also startle them.

They watched helplessly as the boat was sent over to the vortexes, and watched as the boat was sucked into the vortex. In the end, neither the boat nor the children could see it.

Careful Eleven saw a few people coming out of the water. When the vortex was so fast, there were still some people entering the water. They seemed to be grabbing something from the bottom of the water. They waited for everyone to leave. Only then did Eleven and Ah Jiu appear. Ah Jiu stood guard and went to see the place where someone had just come up on Eleventh. She sank half of her body into the water while holding onto the rocks on the bank.

Half-body-deep underwater, he couldn't touch anything. Eleven didn't dare to let go of his hands and explored the water. He poked around with his feet, and it seemed that something thick was fixed on the shore.

After getting out of the water, he hurried back to his residence, but no one came to check. The next morning, Shao Ziyu woke up.

The headache after waking up was just like a hangover, and it was the same for several officials. The village chiefs visited them again early in the morning and sent them to the boat.

On the boat, Ah Jiu and Eleven told Shao Ziyu everything they saw late at night, and when they mentioned the underwater things, Eleven judged, "My lord, the vortex is so big, and there are still people who can move underwater. It's a very strong chain."

"You need a strong person to be able to hold the iron chain." If it is an iron chain, where is the iron chain connected to and what is it used for?

In March, he sent the chief bookkeeper to check the residents on the island. He believed that they had already made preparations to hide the sacrifices. The people on Wuzi Island were not ordinary people at all.

"That village chief's skill will not be inferior to yours." After a while, Shao Ziyu said, "And those young people."

"My lord, these people should have a lot to do with those robbers."

"It's not related." Shao Ziyu squinted his eyes and looked not far away, "They just didn't clean up the robbers."

After returning to the Yamen, Shao Ziyu immediately went to the prison to interrogate the prisoners who had been held for many years

(End of this chapter)