Everyone's eyes fell on the ancient elm tree in the center of the village.
When Liu Zexi sacrificed his body, he definitely didn't want to hang himself under a tree. What he was thinking about before he died was definitely not the happiness of his family, the peace of the country and the people.
But revenge!
Take revenge on those who put you in this situation!
If he is unable to take revenge, then he should offer himself as a sacrifice to his powerful godmother and let her take revenge for him!
And these Xinxiang County government officials in front of him are the targets of his revenge!
Chen Shi looked at the small temple in front of the tree. The little girl in the temple was still sitting there, eating various offerings with relish, turning a blind eye to the scene.
However, the leader of the government officials could not see the little girl. Instead, his eyes fell on the ancient Yuqian tree and sneered: "If the godmother intends to avenge Liu Zexi, she is going against the Xinxiang County government and against the Ming Dynasty! The power of the countryside is not as good as that of the king.
Once the Ming Dynasty King's law comes out, it will be easy to eradicate the godmother! By then, Fangdian Village will not have the godmother to protect it, and everyone will be exposed to the evil gaze and will be unable to escape!"
Chen Shi was slightly shocked. This leader of the government officials dared to threaten the godmother of Fangdian Village!
He looked at the little girl. The little girl in the temple was still eating the offerings, as if she didn't care at all about the situation in front of her.
"That's right. The godmother of Fangdian Village can naturally tell which is more important, avenging Liu Zexi or protecting other villagers in Fangdian Village." Chen Shi said sincerely.
Seeing that the ancient elm tree had not moved for a long time, the head of the government office smiled slightly and asked: "Although Liu Zexi is dead, he has to pay taxes after death. This is the law. Where are the other people in his family?"
A villager said: "There is no one else. He originally had a son and a daughter. The daughter was sold, and the son went into the river to take a bath and drowned. There was also a woman who became crazy and silly after this change. One day she sang and danced
After leaving the village, he disappeared. He was probably dead."
The head of the government office pondered for a moment, waved his hand, and said: "After death, everything will be over. The past mistakes will not be held accountable, but the tax still has to be paid. Come here, move out all the valuable things from Liu Zexi's house, and we will go back."
Good deal."
A group of government servants rushed into Liu Zexi's home, but Liu Zexi's family was really poor and had no walls, so they had to move out some pots and pans in the hope that they could exchange for some money.
Seeing this, the head of the government office shook his head and said: "It's pitiful. I'm afraid I can't make up for the hole with this little money, so I have to use the money from the government office to make up for it. The world only thinks that we errands are getting paid, but they don't know that it's a big deal.
Misunderstand!"
He was filled with emotion and stood up slowly, saying: "This tax is a tax collected by the Ming Dynasty. What does it have to do with our yamen? The tax we collect, even if a copper plate falls on our waist, there will be thunder all over the country."
Damn it! On the contrary, we and the master have to pay for these taxes that cannot be collected from our own pockets, otherwise we will be committing the crime of deceiving the emperor! My fellow villagers, don’t panic!”
He looked around and said with a smile: "You should pay taxes honestly and don't think about using a knife. Liu Sanyin, take out the knife from your crotch, be careful if the knife slips and cuts off the bird!"
He regarded many villagers as if they were nothing, walked directly among the villagers, and said loudly: "These brothers of mine are all scholars who have participated in the county examination, and have been blessed by the true God and refined into divine fetuses! You can't beat us.
Why commit the crime of assaulting an official? Put down the knife, put down everyone. If you have something to say, say it!"
The government servants behind him activated the Tianxin Zhengqi Jue one by one, and the divine light lingered behind their heads, forming shrines that were about a foot tall. In the shrines, there were divine fetuses sitting there, solemn and solemn.
The villagers in Fangdian Village looked gloomy and silently put down their kitchen knives and axes.
The leader of the government officials waved his hand and asked the government officials to go door to door to collect taxes, while he walked up to the talisman stall of Chen Shi's grandfather and grandson.
Grandpa had already prepared the tax money and sent it over, saying, "Master Lu is so majestic."
The leader of the government office was named Lu Tiannan, who was obviously familiar with his grandfather. He accepted the talisman tax and said with a smile: "I don't dare, I'm just doing things for the court. Mr. Chen has a strong body, I'm afraid I will have to charge you a few more years of talisman tax."
Woolen cloth."
Suddenly, he smelled a slight odor. He couldn't help but shrugged his nose and said in awe: "It's corpse odor!"
His eyes fell on Chen Shi, his face suddenly changed, and he said: "Mr. Chen, is this that child? The most talented child in the fifty provinces back then?"
Grandpa said nothing.
Lu Tiannan hurriedly took a few steps back, distanced himself from Chen Shi, looked at Chen Shi up and down repeatedly, and said with a smile: "It's amazing, Mr. Chen, you are really amazing! Stealing the secrets of the world, the impossible thing, was actually done by you.
We’ve done it! But don’t break the law, or you’ll fall into my hands!”
He turned and left.
Chen Shi felt confused and said: "This six-door seems to be afraid of me. Grandpa, I used to be the number one child scholar in fifty provinces?"
"Why bother mentioning the past?"
Grandpa spread out the yellow paper and took out the cinnabar and pen and inkstone. Chen Shi took out the mahogany tablets and jade embryos from the car. Grandpa took out the knife and waved to Hei Guo to come forward. Hei Guo whined aggrievedly and held his tail between his legs.
Come forward.
"Pfft."
Grandpa stabbed Hei Guo. Chen Shi immediately took a small basin to collect the blood of the black dog. After a while, Grandpa threw Hei Guo a piece of meat from a strange beast. Hei Guo took the meat and hid under the car, eating and licking the meat.
Wounds, pain and joy.
The grandfather and grandson were at the market, drawing various talismans and selling them.
The government officials in Xinxiang County went from house to house to collect taxes, causing Fangdian Village to panic and panic. From time to time, cries could be heard, which was quite miserable.
Even if there are all kinds of suffering, there will always be moments of happiness.
There are still many people coming to the talisman stall to buy talismans.
Chen Shi and his grandfather were busy for a long time, and suddenly there were two calls from the black pot. Grandpa looked up at the sky, closed his pen and said: "It's getting late, it's time to go."
Chen Shi raised his head and looked at the sky. The sky was clear for the second day, and there was no sign of the sun setting.
The grandfather and grandson packed up and got on the wooden cart to drive out of the village. Chen Shi sat in the cart and looked towards the small temple in front of the ancient elm tree. The girl in the temple was still sitting on the shrine, very quiet.
In Fangdian Village, Xinxiang County government officials collected the taxes paid by each family and loaded them into carriages, which totaled four vehicles. Several government officials were tying armor and horse charms on the horses' legs so that the horses could run faster.
"Pack up quickly! Return to the county before dark!" Lu Tiannan urged loudly, "We have to go to other villages tomorrow!"
"Sir, it's still early. You can go back in time. What's the rush?" A government official smiled.
Lu Tiannan shook his head and said: "This countryside is not as good as the county town. There are no evil spirits in the county town at night, but there are many such things in the countryside. Although there are only a few evil spirits that can threaten us, if you sail carefully, you might
We met."
As the wooden cart drove out of Fangdian Village, Grandpa sat in the cart sorting out the medicinal materials he bought at the market. They were all poisonous snakes, insects, ants, centipedes and the like, and some were herbs that seemed unsafe.
Chen Shi felt horrified as he looked at it. These things were his dinner.
The wooden cart traveled six or seven miles, when suddenly grandpa raised his head and looked at the sky, changed his color and said: "No! It gets dark a quarter of an hour earlier than before!"
Chen Shi quickly raised his head and looked up, only to see the two suns in the sky closing slowly like eyelids. They were no longer perfectly round and had become elongated!
This is the sign that the true god outside the sky closes his eyes and the night is about to fall!
"Could it be that the black pot reported a quarter of an hour late?" Chen Shi looked at the black dog leading the way in front of the car and asked suspiciously.
Grandpa also looked at the black dog: "It's possible. The sun cannot set a quarter of an hour earlier, so the blame can only be shouldered."
The black dog barked aggrievedly to express dissatisfaction.
Chen Shi suggested: "Grandpa, this dog is useless, but the meat is still very fresh."
Grandpa nodded and said: "Next time I tell you the wrong time, I'll eat the stew pot."
Black Pot holds his tail between his legs and laments the difficulty of dog life.
Within a moment, fire began to flow in the sky, and the flames formed thousands of miles of sunset. Although the grandfather and grandson hurriedly hurried, they did not have time to return to Huangpo Village.
Chen Shi looked around, suddenly pointed to the left side of the road, and said happily: "There is a temple over there!"
Grandpa looked around and saw that there was a hillside not far from the post road. There was an ancient temple on the hillside, which was very dilapidated.
"Do you still remember whether there was this hillside and this ancient temple when we came here?" Grandpa suddenly asked.
Chen Shi recalled carefully and exclaimed, when they came, this place was obviously flat land and there was no ancient temple on the hillside!
This mountain seems to have emerged from the ground!
This scene is as if the ancient temple and the mountain were buried underground, and the mountain grew and arched out the ancient temple and the mountain!
He has never seen or heard of such weird things!
"Let's go to an ancient temple and spend the night."
Grandpa played with the compass, and the wooden cart swayed up the hillside.
The temple is in disrepair for a long time. The ground is full of broken rubble, broken bricks, collapsed gate towers, and broken stone pillars. The roof of the temple is also riddled with holes and air leaks everywhere.
Grandpa took out his pen, ink, paper, inkstone and knife. Heiguo obediently stepped forward and was stabbed by the knife. Then he held a piece of exotic animal meat in his mouth with tears in his eyes, found a corner, slowly ate the meat, and licked the wound.
Chen Shi didn't go to help. He took out some wooden nails from the car, picked up the wooden boards on the ground, and quickly blocked the broken doors and windows one by one.
The door bolt was rotten, but there was a huge boulder outside the temple. Chen Shi came to a boulder weighing several hundred kilograms and was about to call his grandfather to help. Unexpectedly, he pushed hard and the boulder was lifted by him. It was not as heavy as he imagined. Chen Shi immediately raised his eyebrows
Lifting the huge boulders bit by bit into the temple, blocking the temple door.
He looked up at the ruined temple roof, squatted with his legs bent, and jumped up. The next moment, he jumped almost as high as the temple roof!
Chen Shi was startled, but then calmed down: "I can jump so high, and I can naturally land safely. I don't have to worry about falling to death."
He put his palms on the pillar next to him and slid down smoothly.
He collected wood and finally patched up the hole in the roof of the temple before dark.
Grandpa also drew the peach charms and hung them on the doors, windows and on the roof of the temple, and then started to light a fire to "cook". The so-called meal was to stew a pot of medicine with the medicinal materials bought during the day.
At this time, there was the noise of carriages and horses outside. Chen Shi looked through the window and saw that the flaming sunset glow in the sky had disappeared, the moonlight was shining coldly, and Lu Tiannan and other government officials were escorting four carriages towards this direction.
"Head, something is wrong!"
A government official looked up and said, "The sun shouldn't have set so early! We can't get back to the county government in time, should we return to Fangdian Village?"
Although everyone is a monk who has cultivated to the Divine Embryo Realm, they have also heard that the night in the countryside is extremely dangerous. There are several evil spirits that are so evil that even a Divine Embryo Realm monk can be easily killed.
Lu Tiannan was also a little worried. He suddenly saw the ruined temple and said with a smile: "There is a temple over there. Let's go in there to rest first and then leave tomorrow morning."
The officials said yes and drove the carriage towards the ruined temple.
Chen Shi stood by the window and could see clearly under the moonlight. He saw a thin figure appearing behind the carriage team at some point. He was holding a red apple in his hand and was eating while approaching the team.
"The godmother of Fangdian Village, the little girl in the temple!"
Just when Chen Shi thought of this, he saw a government servant suddenly stiffened in front of the little girl eating an apple, as if his body was cramping, and his body was bent backwards and trembling.
Then there were two pops, and sharp branches penetrated from his chest, bringing with them bloody flowers.
"Enemy attack——"
Lu Tiannan was the first to react. Divine light swirled around the back of his head, forming a shrine. The divine fetus was sitting in the shrine, and his true energy was circulating. But the next moment, he saw countless branches swaying, like black poisonous snakes under the moonlight, shuttling and spreading in the air.
!
One of the branches has reached his eyebrows!
Lu Tiannan hurriedly backed away, feeling a sudden pain in his back and the sound of broken bones. When he looked down, he saw blood-stained branches coming out of his chest!
"Too fast!"
Lu Tiannan's heart was pierced by a branch, and blood quickly poured into his lungs, throat, and into his mouth.
He twisted his neck with difficulty, and saw that some of the government servants who followed him had just offered sacrifices to the shrine, and were penetrated by branches before they could mobilize the divine power of the divine fetus. Some of them only had time to run a few feet away and were pierced by more than a dozen underground roots.
The roots need to penetrate!
Even the horses were pierced by the branches and roots that suddenly appeared, and died instantly.
There was a gurgling sound in Lu Tiannan's throat, and blood poured out of his mouth.
Under the moonlight, the corpses of dozens of Divine Embryo Realm government officials and eight horses floated in front of the ruined temple on the barren mountain. If it weren't for the moonlight, those black branches and roots would be almost invisible.
The little girl stepped on the moonlight and shuttled between the branches, quietly and without making any sound.
She came to Lu Tiannan, took a bite of the apple, and carefully examined Lu Tiannan's face.
"My godmother will never give up the wishes of any of her subjects, especially those who sacrificed their bodies."
The little girl nodded slightly, "It's indeed you. I didn't kill the wrong person."
Countless branches shrank, and corpses of government servants and horses fell from the sky, thumping to the ground.
Chapter completed!