Chapter 137: Return to the City God's Pool
Legend has it that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River six times, and each time he generally went to Jiangning (Nanjing), Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other regions. Although the places and things done in the south of the Yangtze River are not the same, they generally include the following aspects, namely, rewarding the people, inspecting the river workers, observing the people, adding grace to the gentry, cultivating scholars, and parading and sacrificing the tomb. However, they all bypassed this Louyi area and changed its name to Kunshan County at that time.
The root cause of this is that the then prefect of Kunshan was involved in the case of "thieves colluding with pawn merchants to defraud the poor". At that time, in the face of the fire of a pawn shop in Kunshan County (in fact, it was a fire elsewhere and did not really burn the pawn house), and the magistrate county actually believed it to be true under the bribery of the pawn merchant, which caused dissatisfaction among the local people, and even appeared "Thunder God is clever, the fire god is more clever", and there was also an incident of protest that "the people are in an uproar in the school palace, and there are no less than a few cadres", and it is believed that the pawn merchant took advantage of the night to transport the goods entrusted by the people in the house to another pawn shop in Suzhou City.
The prefect of Kunshan was afraid that Emperor Qianlong would visit Kunshan and expose his feet, so he reported to the higher authorities that he would come to Kunshan to drill 800 miles of wild cat holes and cross thousands of zhang ponds, and he would have to pass through the place of "human ulcers".
When Emperor Qianlong heard this, he thought that the 800-mile wild cat cave was not terrible, no matter how many wild cats there were, there were their own royal forest troops to resist, and there were dragon boats to cross the pond, but this "man" land did not dare to enter rashly, and people would "sore" and erode to death. So he went down to the south of the Yangtze River six times and made a detour to Kunshan.
It can be seen that the terrible nature of this "man-sore" place has also been around for centuries. If it weren't for the fact that Mengsheng went to the land of "human sores" to fight against the poisonous yin, transported the poisonous spirit true qi to protect his body, and the dead wood to heal his wounds, and finally removed it, maybe it would still be the case now.
Mengsheng packed up his mood and went to Chenghuang Pond.
Chenghuangtan is a busy scene, and Mengsheng was shocked by an uplifting atmosphere when he entered the boundary of Chenghuangtan. Around several pools, men are casting fishing nets, women are fishing with pennies with dustpans or rakes, and children are busy handing tea and water. The loud trumpets came and went one after another -- "Folks, hey, hey, hard, hey, salvage, hey, oil, heyha"
Mengsheng knew that the villagers were all salvaging for him. He felt all this, tasted all this, and his heart was so excited that he couldn't help but fall from the sky and come to everyone.
When everyone saw Mengsheng's clothes fluttering from the sky, they fell to the ground one after another, and kept praying in their mouths: "Immortal bless." ”
Only then did Mengsheng realize his carelessness, and his casual actions seemed to be like a god descending in the eyes of mortals. He swept his sense to find Uncle Zhang, walked to Uncle Zhang, pulled up the simple old man, and said affectionately: "Uncle Zhang, it's me back." ”
"Thank you for your favor, please avoid the disrespect of the people. Uncle Zhang hurriedly kowtowed.
"Uncle Zhang, I'm a dream, I'm back from 'human ulcers'. Mengsheng continued.
"Ah, it's the lad, you're back. Uncle Zhang raised his head, saw that it was really a dream, and said happily, "Folks, hurry up, it's the young man who treated us is back." ”
Everyone hula surrounded Mengsheng, and their eyes showed gratitude and surprise.
"Young man, you've been away for January, and we feel like the north-west sky is getting clearer. Uncle Wang said.
"Yes, the elders said that there is a big mountain in the northwest of this place, and it will rise to the sky after the rain, and we finally saw it after the rain yesterday. A little girl said happily.
"Young man, have you removed the plague from the 'human sore' place?" asked Uncle Zhang, "So, the sky in the northwest is clear, and you can see the floating mountain after the rain that was previously blocked by smoke?"
"Yes, folks, you can rest assured in the future, the poisonous yin smoke of this 'human' land in the northwest will no longer poison you. Mengsheng said, "That place will be called 'Renyang' from now on, and it will always be full of sunshine." ”
Everyone heard that the crowd was excited, and although they didn't know how Mengsheng drove away this ulcerative and erosive smoke, everyone knew in their hearts that this young man's ability was extraordinary.
"Uncle Zhang, the 'human ulcers' poisonous yin and smoke are all caused by the local people themselves. "Not only did he harm himself, but he also harmed others, but in the end, he cultivated a demon that poisoned the entire village and caused the neighboring villages to be corrupted. And analyze all the harms caused by smoking.
When the villagers heard Mengsheng say this, several people in the crowd threw their crooked cigarette guns into the lake.
"This laborer is exciting and sleepy, and it turns out to be a deadly thing. Someone screamed and hurriedly broke the cigarette gun and threw it away.
Since then, the villagers of Chenghuangtan have become extinct in tobacco, and there are very few smokers.
"Young man, go and see what everyone has been salvaging these days. Uncle Zhang pulled Mengsheng and said.
"yes, see if there's the wreckage of the lower body you're looking for. The villagers said excitedly.
"Well, boy, I'm here to thank you very much. Mengsheng bowed to everyone and thanked them, and then followed everyone to the large field in front of the City God Temple.
I saw that the large field in front of the temple was piled up like a hill salvaged from the pond and the things sent by each family from home, which was really varied.
Mengsheng took out the occipital bone of the cranial kiss and pointed it at this pile of mountain-like things, and found that there were countless bright spots flashing on the occipital bone of the skull, Mengsheng was very excited, and picked one by one according to the bright spots, and finally counted, and the villagers actually salvaged sixty-eight pieces of the remains of the lower body of the mantine kiss, plus the original two, that is, seventy pieces of wreckage have been found.
"Young man, there are only two pools that we dare not dig deep into, it seems that these two pieces are missing. The old man said with some regret.
"Thank you so much, folks. "Mengsheng can't imagine that he has only been away for a month, and the villagers have actually salvaged the remains of sixty-eight pieces of mantises, if they rely on themselves to find and salvage, I don't know when. Mengsheng said sincerely, and then put these things into the Xuantian Bead, and took out a large amount of gold and silver treasures from the storage bag and placed them on the stone table in front of the temple.
The villagers were not surprised, and knew that Mengsheng had a storage utensil that could hold many things, but when they saw a large pile of gold and silver treasures piled up on the stone table in front of the temple, they all showed a look of refusal. Uncle Zhang came out of the crowd and said: "Young man, you have cured this 'human ulcer' disease for us, and went to Renyang to eradicate the source of poison, we are also idle during this time, and we went to the pond to salvage, in fact, we also benefited a lot, so we are too late to be grateful, how can we still ask for your gold and silver?"
"The old man said before, you can take it. Mengsheng said sincerely.
"Well, that's all there is to it. Uncle Zhang called a young man and instructed, "Go to the Chenghuang Temple and ask the master of good fortune to come out, and these gold and silver treasures will be donated to the temple, so that the temple can be rebuilt, expanded, and rebuilt with a golden body." ”
Everyone said yes.
In the middle of the night, Master Shanyuan came to everyone, saw a large pile of gold and silver treasures on the stone table, knew everyone's intentions, and knew that everything was done by Mengsheng, and couldn't help but say to Mengsheng: "Good, good." Then he took out an object from his bosom and handed it to Mengsheng and said: "Donor, this thing has been stored in my place for an unknown number of years, and now I can finally fulfill my brother's last wish, 'The virtuous live in it, and the most virtuous people embrace it, and one hundred and eight will be complete from now on'." I wonder if it's you?"
Mengsheng was surprised to take the thing handed over by Master Shanyuan, which turned out to be a night pearl the size of a child's fist. Mengsheng was about to take a closer look, and suddenly the pearl disappeared that night, and he swept his senses and found that the pearl went straight to the bead chain in his storage bag. Mengsheng had already discovered that there were a total of one hundred and seven bead chains given to him by the Divine Turtle, and he always felt as if there was one missing, but it turned out that the missing one was in this City God Temple.
Mengsheng took out the bead chain, only to see that the night pearl had been connected to the blank position at the head of the chain at this time, at this time, the entire bead chain was integrated, and suddenly the golden light was sheng, and the bead chain flew into the sky, turning into a giant dragon flying up and down, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and then burrowed into Mengsheng's body and disappeared.
Everyone was amazed, but the master of good karma laughed heartily: "Good, good, the things are returned to their original owners, and I should go back." ”