Emperor Shentongjian

Chapter 516 The Political Council: The Red Dust Refining the Heart (12)

The four of them walked there along the rugged mountain road, and gradually saw a terraced field filled with water, looming in the clouds and mist.

Suddenly a shout came from the terraced fields, "Who are you!"

Looking up, he saw a man in a coir raincoat with a short beard, his trousers pulled up high, stepping barefoot in the paddy field, with a fish basket hanging on his waist and a harpoon in his hand.

Jin Xiu said to him, "The new law of the imperial court, in order to prevent the enemy's spies from lurking, everyone must take a photo of their body and record it with their household registration. It is not easy for you to go down the mountain here. I will go up the mountain to register for you in person."

The man heard this, and there was no doubt about him. Since the Dagan Mingtang confrontation, Cangyan Mountain has been sealed off, and outsiders are not allowed to come in and out at will, so he trotted down all the way, "Everyone, laborers, are you still fighting outside?"

"It will end soon," Jin Xiu saw that he still wanted to ask something, and said first, "won't you let us go in and have a rest?"

"Look at me," he slapped his forehead, laughing loudly, "Dear guests, all honored guests, follow me quickly."

On the way, this man called himself Ah Fu, and introduced the seven or eight families to him one by one, old and young.

From him alone, one can see the simplicity and purity of this ancient mountain village. Yi Changsheng asked, "Others have moved away, why don't you go?"

Ah Fu rubbed his hands, "Hey, born here, grown up here, inseparable."

As he got closer to someone's house, he shouted loudly, "A guest is coming!"

Those who wash and choose vegetables in their own yards, those who cook and embroider in their houses, and those who play with clay figurines by the roadside all look up, and then enthusiastic laughter overflows to them.

"Where do the guests come from, and the battle is over?"

"Come and sit at my house, it happens that dinner is about to be served."

"Well, that's a good thing, I've got to kill a chicken."

Ah Fu brushed aside the grandpa and aunt who joined in the fun, and led them to his home, "I haven't seen outsiders for a long time, the villagers are a little rude, don't be surprised."

"Ah Fu," a beautiful young woman came out of the house, put her hands on the door frame, and looked at Yi Changsheng and the others curiously, "They are"

"These are adults in the government office, my lady, hurry up and get a pot of good tea." Ah Fu said with a smile.

Fang Chiu looked at the [-]-year-old young woman, then at the aging Ah Fu, patted him on the shoulder and joked, "Your name is really nice."

The corners of Ah Fu's eyes were smiling, and he was shy like a boy, "That's my wife, just call her Yunniang."

He let a few guests into the house, "rest in my house first, after dinner, I will let them do something, what."

Jin Xiu: "Take a photo of yourself."

"Yes, yes, but what exactly is this for?"

"It is a piece of bamboo board pasted with kraft paper, on which your head portrait is drawn, your hometown and office are recorded, and the seal of the official government is stamped. Without this thing in the future, you will not be able to stay in the hotel, you cannot leave the county you are in, and you cannot enter other places. Counties."

Ah Fu felt that it had nothing to do with him, anyway, they had lived in this mountain all their lives, so he just curiously said, "New method, I haven't heard of it before."

Jin Xiu's words were profound, "The six states in the east have been practicing it for a long time, now it's your Qingzhou."

Yi Changsheng left Jinxiu to deal with the villagers, and his fellow Yuan Juefang went out to go shopping. In fact, you can see all the places with seven or eight households at a glance. Chicken coops, pig pens, vegetable gardens, small courtyards, every place is ordinary and comfortable, and this is exactly , is what they feel the most wrong.

Yuanjue kindly asked the aunt who fed the chickens, "Benefactor, what strange things have happened to you here?"

"Hey, strange thing?" The aunt shook her head, "I've never heard of it."

Her son came out of the house, and when he heard Yuanjue's question, his expression froze for a moment, and a trace of guard flashed in his eyes, "Why are you asking this?"

Yuan Jue didn't miss his change, "The poor monk is just."

"He was just too anxious. The five of us went up the mountain, but one of us got lost in the main village, and we haven't found him yet."

Yi Changsheng suddenly took over his words, Yuanjue could only lower his eyes, recite Amitabha, and listen to her nonsense.

The young man's eyes relaxed when he heard the words, and turned into sympathy, "A lot of people died there, everyone said it was not clean, we will not go there, so don't go there again, finish your business, go down the mountain early, I can lead you to another mountain path."

Yi Changsheng nodded, "I'm sorry."

"Where is it?" The young man stroked the back of his head and said with a smile, "Then I'll go to work first, call me when the time comes."

The villagers, regardless of gender, age or age, were obsessed with the portraits. When Jin Xiu drew their portraits, they all looked at them curiously, secretly commenting on the portraits, laughing and beating and scolding.

"Look at your eyebrows are raised here."

"Really?! Oh, you first, I'll go back and fix it."

"Ha, it's so ugly, it's not as good-looking as mine."

"A face full of pockmarks doesn't look so good, hey, I'm missing a front tooth."

"Li Daniu, go and wash your face before you come back, you'll embarrass my mother."

"Come on, good boy, tie up your braids."

When Yi Changsheng went in, he gave Jin Xiu a look, and Jin Xiu understood. The heads of more than a dozen people were drawn for three hours with "exquisite perfection". It was getting dark early, not to mention the short days in the mountains.

The last ray of sky was about to die, Ah Fu looked at Jin Xiu who was going to tear up the painting again, his face couldn't help being anxious, "It's all scattered, adults are tired all day, and they need to rest."

After driving all the villagers away, Ah Fu said to them, "I don't have many vacant houses, only two rooms are allocated, and the four adults will make it. Oh, by the way, I have prepared the food in the kitchen. How about going to eat now?"

"Alright." Yi Changsheng replied.

Ah Fu also specially prepared vegetarian dishes for Yuanjue. After finishing the meal, he chatted casually, and repeatedly told him, "My lords, there are many wild animals in the mountains, and they like to come out at night to make noises. Be sure to block the doors and windows, and go to bed early. "

With everyone's consent, he packed up the dishes and went back to the house.

"What does His Highness the Crown Prince think?" Yuan Jue fiddled with the Buddha beads with various intentions.

"Rest early."

Yuanjue didn't look at her leaving back, and whispered the Buddha's name, "Naturally, I will come when I should come."

Fang Chiu stood up and said, "Brother Yu, you have to share a room with us."

After turning off the lights in the kitchen, several people went back to the house.

Na Fu reminded them to close the doors and windows, but Yi Changsheng saw that the windows inside the house had been sealed with wooden strips. Looking closely at the old and new sections, it was estimated that they were sealed within half a year.

"Is there any problem with these families?" Zhan Changfeng slanted the window frame, leaning on a Yihua sword in his hand.

"I'll find out after a while." Yi Changsheng broke off a piece of wood with his bare hands. The pane behind it seemed to have suffered some kind of attack and was almost completely damaged. He could directly see the scene outside. The sky at night was a bit thick and sticky. It was dark and silent.

At a glance, every house is closed and there is no light.

"It's not time to rest, it's too early to rest." Yi Changsheng didn't care about the broken window, turned off the light, sat cross-legged on the couch, the wind didn't move, just closed his eyes slightly, leaning against the window repose.

After waiting for another two hours, seeing that the night was still quiet, Yi Changsheng went out quietly, sneaked into the courtyard of a certain house, touched the door, his hands were cold, and there was an iron lock on the door.

Zhan Changfeng raised his eyebrows, "Why?" Didn't these people all enter the house, who locked them up.

I checked a few more houses, and all the doors were locked from the outside, and the windows were even more airtight.

Yi Changsheng lightly jumped onto the roof, opened the mud tiles and looked down. In the darkness, he vaguely saw a figure lying on the couch wrapped in a quilt.

At this time, a gloomy wind blew up from behind, she turned around and saw dozens of shadows staggering towards here on the rugged mountain road leading to the main village under the dim moonlight.

Yuanjue, who was meditating in the room, suddenly opened his eyes, and Jin Xiufang had no intention of going to sleep at all. Seeing him open his eyes, they all stood up, pressing their hands firmly on their weapons.

Jin Xiu, "Master Yuanjue, what happened?"

Yuanjue nodded and walked out of the room first.

Jin Xiufang followed closely.When Fang Zuo stepped out of the door, he couldn't help looking back, and saw a piece of paper with a head drawn floating down from the table. For a moment, he felt that the head on the paper was pale and empty, and with a strange smile, when he looked again, The head is still the same head, there is no abnormality.

Perhaps too nervous.Fang Chiu shook his head and hurriedly chased after Yuanjue.

(End of this chapter)