Qian Chen stood in front of the door waiting, but found a small head hiding behind the door and peeking. It was a seven or eight-year-old boy, who was a little cute and cute. Perhaps it was the old man's grandson, who was hiding behind the door and looking at him. Qian Chen smiled at him slightly, but scared him to shrink his head back. After a while, he poked his head out again.
The old man didn't let Qian Chen wait for long, and soon changed his clothes and came out.
He led Qian Chen to find Li Zheng, asked Qian Chen's origin and name. Li Zheng looked at Qian Chen's conversation and dressing, but it didn't look like an ordinary family. He also heard that Qian Chen and the county magistrate who was about to take office had old age. Qian Chen asked him to take a look at Cui Dan's prayer letter, and Li Zheng hurriedly guarded Qian Chen.
"Since he is a friend of the county magistrate, how could he be a bad person? Weng Jiang is too worried!"
The old man was obviously 'Jiang Weng', and he said calmly: "Be careful, there is always nothing wrong with it."
"Your Madam is going to visit Jiuzhen Lake?" Li Zheng said with a congratulation: "But you need to arrange the staff for the young. Although the scenery of Jiuzhen Lake is good, it is very large. It is very inconvenient to not be led by someone familiar with the waterway."
Qian Chen smiled and said, "No need for this... it's just the village chief, I have something to ask about."
"Please tell me..." Li Zheng didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly served tea and water.
Qian Chen didn't refuse, carried the Tianluo umbrella behind him, and said bluntly: "When I came down to Jiuzhen Lake, I heard that the lake has abundant products and many medicinal materials are produced. I wonder if there are hunters and herbs nearby who are familiar with this lake and can go deep into the Daze?"
The little Taoist said: "If you want to visit the lake, there are naturally some familiarity with this hundred acres of water surface, and there are often fishing nearby fishing houses. But if you want to collect spiritual medicine, take rhinoceros horns and ivory, and precious medicine and shiny skin... it is very difficult. The people here dare not go deep into the big zodiac, which has many miasma, snakes and beasts."
"There are also dragons and giant crocodiles, ordinary fishing boats, and they overturned the crocodile before going deeper and ate all the people on the boat."
"Every year, we go deep into Daze, we either take advantage of the local powerful gangs, and invite those strong people who have high martial arts to take action, go deep into Daze, hunt crocodile spirits, collect precious medicines and spiritual materials, or we are local big families. For example, the Wei family in Jiaobu Town, or even the Gu family in the county town, the Tan family... Every year, these aristocratic families will drive a hundred-foot dragon boat and go deep into Daze to collect the materials."
"Only these people know about the waterways of Daze. We ordinary people really dare not interfere."
"Oh?" Qian Chen was also mentally prepared. Going deep into Daze to collect herbs was a matter of working hard. The greater the profit, the greater the risk. The nearby villagers are honest people who only want to have food and clothing and live and work in peace. Such a life-long business will naturally stay away from it.
No wonder the villagers are so vigilant. If Jiaobu Town is the best place to settle in the ze, then the desperate people who enter Daze to collect herbs and hunt animals will pass here every year. Even if most of them settle in the town, it will be enough to make the nearby uneasy.
These gangsters have money and knives, and do business with their heads on their heads, so it is normal to do anything.
Qian Chen was considering whether to find trouble for the gangsters, and he made a map inside the Daze. The magistrate was still looking at Qian Chen. The county magistrate was Bailihou, not to mention the son of the Cui family in Qinghe. If he could curry favor with the new county magistrate who had not yet taken office through this little Taoist priest, Li Zheng might be able to get rid of the service, get a member of the official, and go to the county town to serve as a job.
The village is so beautiful, but where is it comparable to the city?
Unfortunately, Qian Chen asked about Jiuzhen Daze, so he reached out to find a small gold ingot from Qiankun bag, and now he pinched two gold leaves and threw them to Li Zheng and the old man. After thanking the two for their reception, he said goodbye and left.
Ancient villages had a simple and simple life that Qian Chen had never seen before.
At this time, the fog had dissipated and the light rain had stopped for the time being. Three or two nerdy boys in the village ran past the road, stepping on the puddle from time to time, lifting up water splashes to water the companions next to them. Those who were splashed were never angry, but laughed louder, then ran to the companions and stepped harder.
Qian Chen saw that Jiang Weng’s grandson was also among the naughty boys.
"We... let's go to the big plum tree behind the village to play!" Tong'er said to her companion stumbled.
"Yeah, don't let me go..." Old Man Jiang's grandson said with his thumb.
"It's okay... We don't eat the plums, we won't be poisoned... How high is it to jump under the tree!" The slightly taller child laughed and said, "Let's go under the tree to compete with who's jumping."
The group of children immediately responded and whistled away.
The old man Jiang's grandson also limped and wanted to follow, but was stopped by Qian Chen. The little boy looked up at the little Taoist priest he had seen earlier, and asked in confusion: "Who are you? Why are you looking for me?"
Qian Chen smiled and said, "You don't listen to Yeah again. Do you want to go to the big plum tree to play?"
The little boy covered his mouth with nervous little hands and whispered: "Don't tell me yes!"
Qian Chen was amused by him and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't tell you yeah, then you should also tell me where the big plum tree is? What are you going there to play with?"
The little boy saw him smiling brightly and heard that he would not tell his grandfather, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You don't look bad? The big plum tree is behind the village. I have to walk for a while and see it is that tall..." He pointed his hand at the tiled house next to him and compared the height of three floors: "The big tree with red plums on it is."
"But the plums on the tree cannot be eaten... Uncle San had stolen the plums on the tree before, and then..."
The little boy licked his mouth: "Everyone will go to his house for dinner together!"
Qian Chen blinked, touched the dragon bird ring on his hand, and intentionally or unintentionally put the jade ring into the child's sight. The shiny jade ring really attracted the attention of the child. When he looked at him, he heard Qian Chen ask, "Since the plums above are poisonous, why do you still want to go?"
The little boy hesitated and refused to say it. He thought he had been warned by his companions, so he could not tell the adults if he had any secrets.
But Qian Chen took off the dragon bird ring, waved it in front of his eyes, and said temptingly: "If you tell me, I will lend you this bracelet to play with..."
Tonger said excitedly: "Really? Don't lie to me... There is a strange wind under the plum tree, which can make people jump very high!" He couldn't wait, almost screaming and telling the secret that the children kept together. Qian Chen took off the dragon bird ring and flashed in front of the child's eyes. The jade ring suddenly became the size of two bracelets. The little boy screamed even more excitedly.
Qian Chen only put the jade ring on his neck, and finally asked casually: "Didn't there be any birds on the big plum tree?"
The little boy was still able to answer seriously, and grabbed Yuhuan and said happily: "There are no birds on the tree... Magpie, sparrow, and old trolls don't build nests on the big plum tree, and the tree is so high that we can't climb up."
"Fortunately you can't climb up!"
Qian Chen didn't ask anything else and walked away with an umbrella.
The little boy grabbed Yuhuan and wanted to call him, but when he saw Qian Chen walking away, he hesitated for a moment, and simply turned around and ran away!
After running for about a meal in the back of the village towards Jiuzhen Daze, you can see a big plum tree beside the road. The trunk of the plum tree is extremely large, about as thick as two children. The crown spreads like a big umbrella, covering nearly two acres of land. The branches of the plum tree are twisted and curved, vigorous and powerful.
The green plums in the dense tree canopy look green and cute, making people feel salivated.
There was indeed not a single bird on the tree... There were seven or eight children laughing sharply under the tree, playing games.
They stood under the tree, and the two of them hugged a child's legs and threw it towards the canopy. The child who was thrown was six feet high and almost immediately threw it to the height of a person. A strange wind came from the canopy, as if he was carrying their hair up. The child screamed, laughed, and drifted high. In the end, the strange wind was weak and made him slowly fall to the ground.
The children played a few more times next, but these times did not cause any strange winds, but fell to the ground.
After repeated this several times, the strange wind that appeared quickly in the past stopped strangely for a long time this time.
The boy in the lead seemed a little impatient. He pointed to the youngest little grandson of the Jiang family and said, "You are the lightest, I'll throw you away!" The boy wearing a jade ring seemed to have new toys and didn't care much about these traditional games. He hesitated and said, "What should I do if I throw it so high?"
"I will catch you!" The eldest child grinned his teeth, "You won't be timid and scared!"
"I'm not afraid!" The little boy of the Jiang family could withstand such excitement. He gritted his teeth and climbed onto the two older children, stepped on their legs with his feet. The two older children supported his feet. After preparing for a while, he counted three numbers in unison and threw the little boy of the Jiang family up.
This time, the strange wind was extraordinary. The little Jiang family's child was entangled by the huge suction force and actually rose higher and higher, flying towards the canopy of the plum tree.
There were shouts of envy or panic under the tree.
The older children watched the Jiang family's children rise higher and higher. The strange wind sucked their hair up and raised them up, and the dead leaves on the ground were also curled up. They couldn't help but feel a little scared. Some people ran away, while more people wanted to jump up and grab the Jiang family's feet and drag him down. But at this time, the Jiang family's children had already flown to a place they could not reach.
The closer it gets to the tree canopy, the more violent the wind becomes, the faster the Jiang family's children fly up.
When he approached the canopy, he saw that there was a dark tree hole at the fork of the trunk, only three slaps across, and the strange wind came out of the hole.
When the child was sucked into the hole, his body was slightly larger than a tree hole, and finally blocked the hole.
At this time, the Jiang family's child saw two small lanterns lit up in the hole, and a smell of a scent came to his face. In a panic, his hand slid into the hole and touched a slippery and cool thing. Before he could come back to his senses, a red letter as thick as a bowl poked out of the tree hole...
In the distance, Qian Chen, who was looking at him with his hands behind his back, showed a true sneer...
Just as the thought came, the jade ring on the Jiang family's child's neck suddenly fell off his neck and fell into the tree hole. The child still reached out to try to catch it, but he didn't know that the jade ring grew in the wind and quickly grew to the size of a water tank. A sword light flew out of the ring and penetrated into the plum tree. The jade ring set up again and pulled out a big snake as thick as a water tank from the trunk of the plum tree.
The big snake with red spots all over his body, with red spots like plum blossoms, was nailed to seven inches by a black gold hook.
Still struggling dyingly...
The big snake was pulled out of the plum tree by the jade ring, and the Jiang family child at the entrance of the cave shook and fell down. But when he was about to fall down, his body lightened and he actually fell to the ground lightly.
But no one noticed this at this time!
When the big snake was pulled out of the plum tree by the jade ring, the children under the tree screamed in screaming and ran away like a rabbit. Two brave ones were just staring at the big snake.
Dragon Bird Huan put away the corpse of the snake, fled in an instant, and fell into Qian Chen's hand in the distance. He put the Huan'er back on his wrist, looked at the sky, and set up a Tianluo umbrella.
The Qingming Festival rain began to fall again. In the misty rain, Qian Chen held an umbrella and left without looking back...
"Don't get off the clothes, let me lead an old horse after sunset."
"It's like passing by the Yan Village, it's like the flowers flying in my hometown in the past."
His figure gradually drifted away, and soon left the village behind...
After hearing the children's screams, the young and strong village rushed out of the village with a hoe and a wooden fork. At this time, they had just protected their children.
Chapter completed!