Everyone’s eyes fell on the ancient elm tree in the center of the village.
Liu Zexi's sacrifice of his body was definitely not as simple as hanging under a tree. What he was thinking about before he died was definitely not happiness for his family, peace for the country, and peace for 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 supernatural godmother, and let her godmother avenge 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.
The head of the government office could not see the little girl. Instead, his eyes fell on the ancient elm tree and sneered: "If the godmother plans to avenge Liu Zexi, she will be against the Xinxiang County government and the Ming Dynasty! The power of the countryside is not as good as the king's law. As soon as the king's law of the Ming Dynasty comes out, it will be eradicated. Godmother, it’s easy! By then, Fangdian Village will not be protected by the godmother, and everyone will be exposed to the evil gaze, and there will be no 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 heartily.
Seeing that the ancient elm tree had not moved, 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 bathe and drowned. There was also a woman who went crazy and silly after this incident. One day she left the village singing and dancing and disappeared. She is probably dead." : "After death, everything will be over. The past mistakes will not be held accountable, but the tax still has to be paid. Come, please move out all the valuable things from Liu Zexi's house, so that we can do business when we go back."
Seeing this, the head of the yamen servant shook his head and said: "It's pitiful. I'm afraid that this little money can't make up for the hole, so I have to use the yamen's money to make up for it. People in the world only think that we, the errands, are asking for money, but they don't know that it's a big deal. Misunderstanding! "
He was filled with emotion, slowly stood up, and said: "This tax is a tax collected by the Ming Dynasty, what does it have to do with our yamen? Even if a copper coin falls on our waist, the tax we collect There is a thunderstorm all over the country! On the contrary, we and the master have to pay for these taxes out of our own pockets, otherwise we will commit the crime of bullying!"
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. If the knife slips, you will cut off the bird!"
He regarded many villagers as if they were nothing, and walked among them, saying loudly: "My brothers are all scholars who have participated in the county examination, and have been blessed by the true God and refined into divine bodies! You can't beat us, so why are you guilty of attacking an official? Put down the sword, put it down. If you have something to say, please 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 high. In the shrines, there were divine fetuses sitting in solemnity.
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 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 yamen leader's name was Lu Tiannan. He 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 charge you a few more years of talisman tax."
Suddenly, he smelled a slight odor, and he couldn't help it You shrugged your nose, feeling awe-struck: "It's corpse odor!"
His eyes fell on Chen Shi, his face suddenly changed, and he said, "Mr. Chen, is this the child? The most talented child in the fifty provinces back then?"
Grandpa did not speak.
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! You have managed to steal the mysteries of the world and the impossible, but you can't break the law, or you will fall into my hands!"
He turned and left.
Chen Shi felt puzzled and said: "This six-door man seems to be afraid of me. Grandpa, I used to be the number one scholar in fifty provinces?"
"Why do I need to mention the past?"
Grandpa spread out the yellow paper, got cinnabar and a pen and inkstone, and Chen Shi took out the mahogany plaque and jade embryo from the car. Grandpa took out the knife and waved to Heiguo to come forward. Heiguo whined in grievance and stepped forward with his tail between his legs.
The grandfather and grandson were in the market, drawing various talismans and selling them.
Xinxiang County government officials 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 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, and closed his pen and said: "It's getting late, it's time to go."
Chen Shi looked up at the sky, and there was no sign of the sun setting in the sky.
The grandfather and grandson packed up, got on the wooden cart and drove out of the village. Chen Shi sat in the car 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. There were four carriages. Several government servants were tying armor and horse charms on the horses' legs so that the horses could run faster.
"Hurry up and pack up! Return to the county seat before dark!" Lu Tiannan urged loudly, "We have to go to other villages tomorrow!"
"Sir, it's still early, we can go back in time, what's the hurry?" A Yamen servant laughed.
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, we must be careful when sailing. Maybe we'll meet one. "
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 some herbs that didn't look very safe.
Chen Shi looked at it with trepidation. These things were his dinner.
The wooden cart had traveled six or seven miles when suddenly grandpa raised his head and looked at the sky, and said with a change of color: "No! It got dark a quarter of an hour earlier than before!"
Chen Shi quickly raised his head and looked up, and saw that the two suns in the sky were 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, expressing dissatisfaction.
Chen Shi suggested: "Grandpa, this dog is useless, but the meat is still very fresh."
Grandpa nodded and said: "Next time the wrong time is reported, I will eat the stew pot."
In just a moment, fire was flowing 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 sure enough, there was a small hillside not far from the post road, and 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 the ancient temple to spend the night."
Grandpa played with the compass, and the wooden cart swayed up the hillside.
The temple is in disrepair. 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 a pen, ink, paper, inkstone and knife. Heiguo obediently stepped forward and was stabbed by Po Chi. 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 did not 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.
The door bolt has rotted, but there is a huge stone outside the temple. Chen Shi came to a huge stone weighing hundreds of kilograms, and was about to call his grandfather to come for help. Unexpectedly, he lifted it hard, and the huge stone was lifted by him. It was not as heavy as he imagined. Chen Shi immediately lifted the huge boulder into the temple bit by bit and blocked the temple door.
He looked up at the ruined temple roof, squatted with his legs bent, jumped up, and 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 land safely without worrying 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 on the roof of the temple before dark.
Grandpa also drew the peach charms and hung them on the doors, windows and the roof of the temple, and then started to light the fire again to "cook". The so-called rice is a pot of soup made from 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, and the moonlight shone coldly. Lu Tiannan and other government officials escorted four carriages towards this direction.
"Head, something is wrong!"
A yamen servant looked up and said, "The sun shouldn't have set so early! We can't get back to the county yamen in time, why don't we return to Fangdian Village?"
Although everyone was a monk who had reached the Divine Embryo Realm, they had also heard that the night in the countryside was extremely dangerous. There were several evil spirits that could easily kill a Divine Fetus Realm monk.
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 there to rest first and then leave tomorrow morning."
The government officials agreed and drove their carriages towards the ruined temple.
Chen Shi stood by the window and saw clearly through 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 the apple, as if his body was cramping, and his body was bent backwards and trembling.
Then there were two pops, and sharp branches pierced through his chest, bringing with them bloody flowers.
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, countless branches were seen swaying, like black poisonous snakes under the moonlight, shuttle and spread in the air!
One of the branches has reached his eyebrows!
Lu Tiannan retreated hurriedly, 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 sacrificed themselves to the shrine, and were pierced by branches before they could mobilize the divine power of the divine fetus. Some of them only had time to run a few feet, and were pierced by more than a dozen roots from the ground!
Even the horses were pierced by the branches and roots that suddenly appeared, and died instantly.
Lu Tiannan had a gurgling sound in his throat and blood gushes from 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 looked carefully at Lu Tiannan's face.
"The godmother will not give up the wishes of any of her people, especially those who sacrificed their bodies."
The little girl nodded lightly, "It is indeed you, I did not kill the wrong person."
Countless branches shrank, and corpses of government servants and horses fell from the sky, thumping to the ground.
————Thank you to the leader of the Fengqi Reed Alliance for your support of 360,000 points. I wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival~