Chapter 2208 The Battle of Flowers (One Hundred and Seventeen)

There is such a group fan painting, which was painted by Li Song of the Southern Song Dynasty. The central figure in the picture is a skeleton with a hooded head. It sits on the ground and holds a small skeleton in the right hand. , opposite a toddler.

   The child was lying on the ground and stretched out her hand to the little skeleton. Behind the child was a young woman. She stretched out her hands as if to stop her, but she had a smile on her face, so it seemed like she was playing.

Behind the big skeleton is a pick, which is full of goods, as if he is a salesman. Next to the pick, there is a woman who is breastfeeding a child. She looks at the scene in front of her with a strange expression, as if she can't bear to watch it. It seems to be numb.

During the reign of Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a strange and sensational case in Shaanxi, because the plaintiff in the case was an invisible ghost. The general plot was that a young child was harmed by a demon. The Taoist priest used the young child to do some bad things. Tong's ghost denounced him.

The "Skull God" was mentioned in the "Huhai News Yijian Xu Zhi" written by the Yuan Dynasty people. Although this book was compiled in the Yuan Dynasty, it actually wrote the story of Jin and Song Dynasty. The "Skull God" happened in the Southern Song Dynasty. During that time, a certain villager had a ten-year-old grandson, who suddenly disappeared and disappeared. A list was posted and everyone searched around, but there was no news.

One day, the villager went out to look for it, but encountered a heavy rain. Just when he was sheltering from the rain under the eaves of the house, he suddenly heard the child calling for grandpa. After realizing that the voice of his grandson was indeed his own, he immediately reported to the officials to arrest him. The child was found in the closet at home.

At this time, the child was already withered, and he was only dying. After being carried to the government, he could barely tell the whole story. It turned out that he was taken care of after being secretly taken away. Not only that, but every day the person who kidnapped him was driving nails on the top of his head and the joints of his heels, and he died soon after.

  There is a kind of "Chorus Willow God" in folk witchcraft. It is said that it is a small puppet carried by a fortune-teller for fortune-telling, in which the soul of a child is imprisoned. In the Song Dynasty, salesmen and fortune-tellers were as vigilant as fortune-tellers. The painting was about someone trying to hook the child's soul to make camphor, but the mother who watched the child didn't know it, and thought it was a frolic.

   In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were still people who made camphor trees, mostly rumors, just like when Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, many parents let their daughters marry early.

  The northern nomads like the Han people very much, especially the women in the Suzhou area. Parents are afraid that their daughters will be recruited to the capital to "appreciate the borders", so they marry their daughters early.

   There are such legends along the entire Grand Canal. In fact, similar rumors also existed in the Ming Dynasty, when there was no draft system. Even if the vast majority of the "legends" didn't take it seriously, some people took it seriously, causing panic.

A few days ago, there was a new legend in Hefuli. At noon the day before the Tiankuang Festival, the group of people who repaired the dam went back to work and found a young woman walking on the dam carrying a burden, as if she could not walk. I went to rest under a willow tree, and dozens of workers also came under the tree in twos and threes. One of them saw her beautiful and went up to talk to her. The young woman said that she was going back to her mother's house, and only one younger brother drove the donkey to send her off. The donkey was frightened and lifted her off. The younger brother went to look for the donkey, but he couldn't find it since the morning. She had to walk along the dam by herself. The home is still four or five miles away from here. Who can carry the burden and send her away? Just give him a hundred bucks.

  A young man thought to himself, even if he didn't get a few bucks in return, he could make fun of this woman on the way and send her away. Along the way, he said a lot of light words, and the young woman did not refuse and did not pay much attention to it. After walking three or four miles, suddenly seven or eight people blocked their way.

   "Where is the madman, dare to beat my wife's idea?" So the young man was tied up.

  The young woman then recounted what the young man said, and one of them said, "It's too troublesome to send him to the government to file a lawsuit, so it's better to bury him alive."

  The young man kept begging for mercy, when someone said, "I'll spare you for now, I'll punish you to dig up this ridge and drain the stagnant water."

   So he handed him a shovel, and everyone sat down and watched the young man dig.

He dug until midnight, when the waterway was open, and the few people suddenly disappeared. He looked around and saw reeds growing, but he couldn't see the village at a glance, so he ran back and forth along the embankment and went back to his residence. sick. People nearby suspected that the fox cave was flooded, and tempted the young man to clear it for them. As for his illness, it was because he was charmed by a fox, and he almost asked a Taoist priest to feed him talisman water.

   There is a person named Wu Haishan. He is the son of Wu Sijue, the governor of Nanhe in the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong, and the younger brother of Wu Jing, the former governor of Nanhe. Wu Sijue is Wu Jing's father and is responsible for the soil. After hearing about this, I rushed to the shed and found that the dam worker was indeed ill, but he didn't look like a fox, but malaria.

   There is also a set of regulations for preventing a major epidemic after a major disaster. The officials of the River Governor’s Office dealt with it quickly, but some people still insist on going to the fox hole.

  What does a fox spirit look like? Really beautiful? Like Su Daji?

  Sick Hefu remembered that the young woman walked on tiptoes. At first, he thought it was because her feet were bound, and it was really inconvenient to walk, so he had to ride a donkey.

   Anyway, the fox hole was not found, but it angered Mr. Wang. There are also officers and soldiers in the Governor's Mansion of the River Road. Shandong Wanglun wanted to take advantage of the collapse of the old dam and was stopped by them when they entered Qingjiangpu. The dam workers who were looking for the fox cave were taken back to the Governor's Mansion, and they were charged with sabotage. Dam, these people shouted injustice in the hall, and when they confessed, they told the story by the way.

The admiral was very impatient. He just got up and wanted to leave, but he said "wait a minute", and then told the admiral about the case of Qianlong's thirty-three years of summoning the soul. This major case that swept the country started from the monks of the two temples. Small conflicts begin.

   If you want to use cash-for-work, you must have work to do. If you have work, you must build a dam. If you build a dam, Gaoyou will protest. If you don’t work, these rivermen will have nothing to do.

   So I came up with an idea, don't you want to find a fox hole so much? By the way, check the dam for potential cracks and possible ruptures. If the dam breaks this year, there are places they have been to, but they have not been found. The responsibility is all on these people.

Those few people kept kowtowing and even said they couldn't bear the responsibility, but Juren handed them over to President Wang Pao and asked him to supervise them strictly, so President Wang Pao brought these people who wanted to see "Fox Fairy" with them. down.

   Then he told Nick about the vixen walking on pads.

   With some external force, the limbs will change, will there be a back-heeled mandrill that turns the feet around?

  As for the appearance, the mandrill is really scary, and her face is covered by her mouth, but will she wear a human skin mask like a painting?

   This conjecture became more and more outrageous, and Nick couldn't help laughing at him in person.

   After he finished speaking, he also thought it was ridiculous, and then he discussed the recruitment of "substitute writers".

"Substitutes" are not scribes, they do not need "reputation", their job is to write papers for the people who go to the county government to file lawsuits. "Litigation stick" adds oil and vinegar to it.

   What happened today can be big or small. In case those rivermen find the fox hole and just dug the weak spot of the dam, it may indeed cause the dam to collapse, but it is not worth it.

  Some unnecessary lawsuits can be avoided at all, but some people rely on instigating lawsuits to make a living, and such brokers increase the workload of the government. They don't care whether the judgment is fair or not, and the bitter master is convinced or not.

  The rule of law does not mean that there are many lawsuits, and that everything must be resolved through legal means. Nick was very curious about whether he could apply for a proxy book, but Juren refused after reading his words.

   Nick's writing is "shivering". It is not horizontal or vertical. The children in the private school can write better than him. If he passes the exam, he will definitely pass the test. Juren will not recommend Nick.

   Then he started trying to get Nick to learn to hold a writing brush. Lin Gua also did this, just like Nick tried to get Lin Gua to correct the posture of holding a pen, and they "lost both" in the end. In the end, Nick agreed to try writing "calligraphy" with a quill pen. It was not as difficult as he imagined, but he couldn't write the regular script in Yan style of Juren, so he could only imitate Song style. There are similarities.

   Originally, he thought this was his main job during the rainy season, but this was definitely not a peaceful season. Like mildew, in this humid air full of water vapor, it continued to spread on the paper.

   (end of this chapter)