Tea smoke curls and the dark fragrance floats.

With Ji Fangyuan's narration, an old incident appeared in front of Ding Ermiao.

- Eighty years ago, Ji Fangyuan's ancestor, Ye Xi, the head of the Xianweng faction, drifted on the Cangdu River south of Horseshoe Town on a passenger boat.

It is the season of spring and Jingming, along both sides of the river, birds and flowers. The boats were full of passengers, men, women and children, about seventy or eighty people.

Ye Xidao was dressed in a Taoist uniform, standing at the bow of the boat with his hands in his hands, looking at the surrounding scenery and mountainous terrain, and was content.

Suddenly, the ship shook and stopped. The passengers on the ship were caught off guard, and they all fell and turned on their backs, shouting everywhere.

Rao is Ye Xidao has a long kung fu body, but he didn't pay attention for a while, and he stumbled slightly.

Ye Xi was about to come to ask the reason, but the hull of the ship was sideways and turned in a circle on the river.

"What's going on? There are youkai underwater?! ”

"There is no wind and no waves, why is the ship spinning?"

“……”

The passengers of the boatload were all panicked, and even more timid women and children were already crying loudly.

Ye Xidao squinted his eyes and stared at the surface of the river to watch the wind and argue, but he saw that the wind and waves above the river were calm, and there were no monsters underwater.

"Oh no, no, no!" The captain of the boat ran from the bow of the boat, panicked, waved his hands and shouted:

"There must be someone on our boat who has offended the river god, so the river god won't let us go."

Ye Xi frowned and said nothing, thinking to himself in his heart, he was on the boat, he didn't hear anyone say anything, why did he offend the river god?

Thinking of this, Daoist Ye Xi asked, "Boat boss, who offended the river god, and how did he offend him?" ”

The boss's eyes swept over a group of women, and he said:

"It must be that the moon on the eldest sister is not clean, so it angers the river god! In this river, once a woman with unclean menstruation gets on the boat, the river god will be angry! Big sisters, what happened to you, you know for yourself, whose sunflower water is not clean? ”

There were about twenty or so young and middle-aged women on board, and as soon as they heard this, three or five of them immediately turned red, bowed their heads and said nothing, and their faces were terrified.

"Elder sisters, when you got on the boat, my wife asked one by one, if anyone is not clean, don't come up."

The boat boss stomped his feet anxiously and said, "But you didn't listen, now it's okay, I'm afraid that the lives of a boatload of people will be affected by you!" ”

All the passengers were frightened and blamed the big sisters for being unclean. I can't wait to throw these women into the river one by one.

Only Ye Xi sneered.

When a woman comes to Kwai Shui, can't she get on the boat? It's a ridiculous joke!

"Boat boss, it's useless to complain now, these big sisters have no intention, the boat is in the middle of the river at present, you can't drive them into the water, right?" On the boat, an old man was calmer and said, "Is there any other way to pray that the river god can calm his anger and let us go with a boatload of people?" ”

The boat owner sighed and said, "Now this boat can't go!" It depends on the river god, whether he can be merciful, allow us to worship and burn incense, and then let us go. ”

As he spoke, the boat owner looked at everyone again and said loudly: "Everyone, now that the river god is angry, I'm afraid he will let everyone break the bank!" ”

The old man clenched his fists and said, "What should I do, the boss of the boat, you just say it, everyone just do it!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, we will do it, as long as we can go back alive!" The passengers on the ship all shouted.

The boat was still spinning on the river, and some of the passengers had already spit up. The river is wide and far away from both banks, and it is almost impossible to swim over.

Therefore, in a critical situation, everyone cares about saving their lives and does not think about anything else.

"Okay, how many people are there on the boat, no one has gathered a piece of the ocean, and then we turned around and went to the shore to find the mage Guo Daochang of Horseshoe Town, and asked Guo Daochang to open the altar and help us accommodate the river god. This is the only way, let's discuss. ”

The captain looked at everyone and said in a loud voice.

"One man, one ocean? So much? The passengers on the ship began to talk.

At that time, the purchasing power of a piece of ocean was still very strong, and it could be exchanged for a load of rice. It is said that in the capital at that time, buying a set of courtyard houses was only 50 taels of silver. If you pay in Ocean, it's about 80 yuan.

So when they heard that they were going to have a piece of ocean, the passengers were surprised.

There were even some poor and misers who cried on the spot. The poor are because they don't have a piece of furniture on their bodies, and the miser is reluctant to cut the meat.

"Is money or life important? Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, everyone, this piece of the ocean, I gave it! The talented old man took the lead in taking out a piece of ocean, held it up in the air for everyone to see, and then handed it into the hands of the boat boss.

In Ye Xi's heart, there was another sneer, it turned out that the mystery was here!

It is expected that the boss of this ship has colluded with that Guo Daochang. And this old guy who looks like an elder must be a nursery. A group of people colluded to pretend to be a ghost and cheat money.

Sure enough, Ye Xi squinted his eyes and looked at Horseshoe Town on the north shore, only to see a line of black gas, faintly shooting towards the cabin. It is expected that there must be a setting in the cabin, echoing the north shore, so the ship will hover when it comes here.

Driven by the old man, the guests on the ship donated one after another. The poor people gave everything they had and handed over all their belongings.

If there is no money, there is only Ye Xi.

"This Taoist master, please also help for the sake of the lives of a boatload of people." The boat boss walked up to Ye Xi and stretched out his hand.

In fact, Ye Xi was not very old at that time, not yet thirty years old. But the car and boat shops, this kind of small business, are good at petty intentions and know how to flatter people. So the boss of the boat said to Ye Xi and called Daoye.

Ye Xi frowned and said, "Master Dao, I was originally a monk, and I ate ten thousand homes with my feet on the four sides, where can I have the money to give you alms?" ”

"Master Dao, if you have a shipload of people's lives, please be merciful." The boss of the boat was also blind, and he was even stalking, not even letting go of a Taoist priest.

It is really the Buddha face scraping gold, the needle sharpening iron, and the goose plucking.

"Okay, since that's the case, Master Dao, I have to break the bank a little bit." Ye Xi pretended to be helpless, fumbled in his pocket for a long time, and finally found a copper coin.

"Just a copper plate?" The ship's face changed suddenly.

"Haha...... you don't want to underestimate this copper plate. As long as I give the copper plate out, I will keep it and teach you smooth sailing and safe journey! Ye Xi held the copper coin between his two fingers and sneered.

The captain of the boat probably knew that something was wrong, and changed color and said, "Dao Chief, what do you want to do?" ”

"What do I want to do, you can see it!"

Ye Xi sneered, suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, wiped the copper coin in his mouth, dipped it in the blood on the tip of his tongue, popped it out with his fingers, and smashed it into the cabin!

"Taiqing Jiuding, Sanyuan returns to the truth, urgent as a law, breaking the ......!"