Chapter 149 Sang Gu (Part 1)

The county town has a newly built town.

There are many residents in the town, with thousands of households. Because these residents are all people who have moved from the four counties of Longjian, the local county magistrate gave them a lot of preferential treatment when resettling them.

The county magistrate mobilized this year's labor service.

Labor refers to the imperial court ordering ordinary people to work as laborers.

In fact, since the establishment of Shu Hou, the law was established and restored. Wang Hongyi did not mean to establish a new law. This new law was not suitable for establishing a great fortune, and it was not suitable for now.

Therefore, in fact, it is generally followed by the Yan system. The "Shu Law" said: "Any people who have no merits and reputations are eighteen years old and will serve forty days every year. They will be given food in the county, and will not be given any taxes for fifty days."

It means that people who have no fame and fortune, who are eighteen years old, have to serve forty days in the county every year. This is free labor, and the state only provides food, not wages.

The Great Yan Fu method starts at the age of fifteen and ends at the age of fifty-five. Wang Hongyi ordered the past and future to shrink his age, which is already a benevolent government.

Wang Hongyi liked the Han system very much, "The country was always destroyed by weakness, while the Han was destroyed by strongness." "Shu Law": "The people who entered the Gengzhang camp for 18 years, practiced military discipline, practiced shooting and fighting against Chen, and for one year, and for the second year, the Beijing camp, one person must guard the border for one year!"

The Gengzhu camp was to import soldiers into the army every year, so the name of this camp was named Gengzhu Order, which means that if you are eighteen years old, you must enter the county Gengzhu camp to study militia.

He also said: "I am old at the age of thirty, so I will not be a commoner and go to the fields."

This is the plan of the whole people being soldier. This is a long way to say that if you only serve labor, every county can recruit people for forty days. Therefore, the county magistrate recruits people, builds this town, and relocates houses in the homes of the people, and builds them.

From a poor place like Long Jian, they suddenly moved to such a place with fertile land and abundant water resources, and their own land and houses. These people couldn't help but be happy.

In the first days, they were inevitably a little homesick. What they missed was not the land in their hometown. The poor land was difficult to support the family and the elderly. They would not want to go back after leaving.

What they miss are their relatives buried there for generations.

When moving to Shu, it was difficult to bring children and daughters, so it was impossible to take away the corpses of our ancestors together. That is, we brought the tablets, but it was still different.

Zhou Xiaocheng missed the hometown of Long Jian especially. The reason he missed was different from others. What he missed was the feeling that his neighbors needed when he was in Long Jian.

With the continuous migration, fewer acquaintances were found here. After settling here, only a few old friends were still there. This feeling made him feel very uncomfortable.

Especially I did not serve as an incense sacrifice.

"Oh, it's different from the past. Although the temple was built, there were so fewer pilgrims from Sang Gu. I wonder if Sang Gu would blame him?" After sighing deeply, Zhou Xiaocheng muttered something, supported his hands and stood up again from the ground.

Without even slapping the faint dust on his knees, Zhou Xiaocheng went to the cleanest wooden table in the room and re-covered a clean red cloth on the palm-sized statue on the table.

I keep muttering words, and if I listen carefully, I will hear the words "Don't blame" and "please protect Sang Gu".

After praying to the statue of the god covered with red cloth, Zhou Xiaocheng picked up an empty wine gourd from a much shabby table next to him and walked out swayingly.

Because he was single and had no valuable assets at home, he just turned the door and walked out of the courtyard slowly and walked towards the street.

There is only one street in the town, and it is the south end of the town, with many residents. Walking towards the north end of the town, you will see a restaurant where he has been drinking, and today is no exception.

"Isn't this Zhou Xiaocheng? Going to have a drink again?" On the way, I occasionally met someone I knew and would greet him like this.

Zhou Xiaocheng just waved his hand casually, muttered a few words, and would continue to move forward.

Most people here don't care about his somewhat rude behavior.

Although Zhou Xiaocheng's fame is not as good as when he was in the Dragon Sword, some of the people here moved from the same place as him, and there are many people who believe in the god Sang Gu.

He, a person who has some ability in the eyes of his fellow villagers, can use grassroots to cure patients. He is gradually spread by others and can communicate with Sang Gu and get the protection of Sang Gu.

Therefore, no one dared to offend him. No one had any headache or fever, in the eyes of believers, Zhou Xiaocheng was an extraordinary person.

Maybe when will it save your life.

In fact, it was just a few secret recipes that Zhou Xiaocheng accidentally got, and he could eat them in the village.

But he was indeed a believer of Sang Gu. He lost his wife in middle age and had no children. Although he had never received the favor of the gods, he was indeed a devout believer who had three incense sticks in the morning and evening.

This sounds a bit strange, but most folk believers are like this. After a person suffers for too long, he will have no thoughts and will only become less and less interesting when he lives. Some of these folk beliefs have flourished from this.

"Isn't this Brother Zhou? Come here to make a drink again?" When Zhou Xiaocheng arrived at the restaurant, there were more and more customers.

The boss was about the same age as him. When he saw him coming over, he greeted him with a smile, and his tone was very familiar.

It was already sunset, and it was almost dusk. Some men who had been busy all day and had a little bit of money would come to the restaurant and buy a bowl of wine to drink.

Although the wine is turbid and the energy is very strong, all the men in the town are good at this.

Zhou Xiaocheng now planted five acres of land and was doing some things to ask about incense and cure diseases. He is doing pretty well now. He has no daughter-in-law and children waiting to be fed, so he can afford to drink every day.

The owner of the wine shop was a fellow villager. After Zhou Xiaocheng sat down on the wooden stool in the shed, the boss reached out to take the empty wine gourd he handed over and skillfully poured the wine into the wine gourd.

"This time I'll get half a pound! Cut a few taels of cooked meat and go back and eat with wine." Zhou Xiaocheng said suddenly.

The boss was happy that he had done more business and responded quickly: "Okay."

On the wine gourd that had been filled with wine, I took out the cooked meat very carefully, cut a few pieces, chopped them up, wrapped them, and handed them over with the wine gourd.

"I heard that Brother Zhou came out again two days ago. The boy from the Liu family was pulled back from the gate of hell by your brother. I'm afraid the Liu family gave him a lot of rewards, right? Otherwise, you could have such a generous meal to enjoy?" When he took the coins handed over by the other party, the boss said with a smile.

"Brother, I have no ability, I rely on Sang Gu's blessing." Zhou Xiaocheng said with half-squinted eyes, often talking about this.

The boss was also a pilgrim who believed in Sang Gu. After hearing Zhou Xiaocheng, he was very convinced and nodded repeatedly.

"No, if it weren't for Sang Gu's blessing, the boy of the Liu family would probably not be able to survive this level. This is a fat boy who has been raising for more than ten years. This time it's really gone. Will his parents still cry to death?"

"Oh, in the past, Sang Gu protected you in time, but after moving to this place, the original neighbors were scattered... I heard that several families converted to other gods, wouldn't the Liu boy be implicated by them, right?"

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhou Xiaocheng with a hint of envy: "It's not too much to worship Sang Gu like Brother Zhou."

"Look at what my brother said, you are diligent in your daily worship, and Sang Gu will also protect you. Isn't the current life more powerful than one day?" Zhou Xiaocheng said with a smile.

The owner of the wine shop was very happy when he heard this and nodded repeatedly: "It's Brother Zhou, unlike us who are rough people, what they say is extraordinary and makes people feel comfortable."

Zhou Xiaocheng just smiled and responded casually, carrying the wine and meat, his body swayed slightly, and walked out of the wine shop.

When he returned home, he placed the wine and meat on the table. Zhou Xiaocheng washed his hands and started eating and drinking.

Before this, he had not forgotten to put incense sticks on Sang Gu.

The little statue was enjoying the incense, and a mud-wort was a puppet. When Zhou Xiaocheng turned around, the incense head lit up and then returned to normal.

Due to hunger in his stomach, Zhou Xiaocheng did not notice this change.

He sat at the table and started eating.

Not far behind him, Ranran Baiyan hung straight up, and when he reached a height of one person, he began to slap the small spiral puff.

The twisted smoke turned into a blurred portrait, staring at the man not far away, and then was blown by the wind outside the door and dissipated into the air.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, Zhou Xiaocheng was tired and had almost eaten. He quickly washed up and fell directly on the wooden bed.

There was no fire in the simple room. Fortunately, the quilt was thick and the room was newly built, without any air leakage and not cold.

But when he was lying on the bed, he always felt something was wrong, but he was alone and had little savings, so he was not afraid of stealing, so he fell asleep in a drowsy way.

When Zhou Xiaocheng woke up again, he found that it was not yet dawn and the room was pitch black. I don’t know when the moonlight outside was gone, and it was cloudy, and there was not even a trace of starlight.

The whole room was filled with no fingers.

"When is it? It's so dark?" He groped and wanted to get out of bed.

At this time, a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of the bed. He suddenly saw it and was shocked.

"Who?" Zhou Xiaocheng said shrillly with fear.

It seemed like a woman standing in front of me.

"Zhou Xiaocheng, I will be in trouble. I will set up a boat tomorrow night and transport me across the river." The black shadow hurriedly said this sentence, not sure what he was afraid of, and a scream soon disappeared.

Then a ball of black gas rushed towards him.

Zhou Xiaocheng wanted to shout, but couldn't speak. He opened his eyes suddenly and sat up from the bed.

There was light coming in on the window paper, and it was already dawn.

"It turned out to be just a dream." Zhou Xiaocheng gasped and secretly thanked, but after a moment, he calmed down but couldn't sit still.

This dream was too real. Zhou Xiaocheng was suspicious. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure out who the woman was? However, the other party was not a living person, but how could he show up in this strange situation?

Even in dreams, it shouldn't be like this.

Originally, Zhou Xiaocheng would lie on for a while when he woke up every day, but today he really couldn't lie down.

Early in the morning, he left the house and worked all day long. When it was almost dark, he returned. He put the things aside, cooked some food by himself, and ate randomly. Zhou Xiaocheng lay on the bed again.
Chapter completed!