Chapter 281

It started to rain from day to day and lasted for three consecutive days.Although Yan people live in water, most of them don't like rain, so they seldom go out for activities, and they all play in their houses.Gu'erwan used to live in the wild in the mountains, and mostly took shelter from the rain in the mountains and grottoes, but now seeing Jingshi's complexion is not good, he still stays in the official inn to accompany him.He was bored in his free time, so he said to Jing Shi: "When the old officials were here, they were bored on weekdays. They just liked to sing operas with the old man Huozhou. Do you like singing?"

Jing Shi was sitting at the table writing, and responded, "Have you seen a play? Is it a local play?"

Gu'erwan scratched his head and said: "I have never had any theater here, but there are dancers. But the old official is a fan of theater. That strange man has a thick and low voice, and he wants to pinch and hum. It's so interesting that he is also called the villager. Sing with him. What king, general, daughter, every time he watched the music, he said that this is the grass troupe acting. Jing Guaner, what are you laughing at?"

Jing Shi turned his head and said, "I never laughed."

Gu'er Wan refused to follow him, and asked and entangled him in every possible way. Jing Shi couldn't hold him in his arms, so he pushed him away and said, "Actually, the origin of opera comes from the ancient ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens. Transforming gods, singing and dancing to sacrifice music, thinking of praying for blessings, and then spreading and deriving, it became a custom of hundreds of operas. The so-called opera performers are nothing more than fake imitations, which have the same origin as the worship of gods. Although it is not opera on your island , There are similarities when I think about it. I can take a look at the Spring Festival in the coming year. But according to what Mr. Huozhou said, your country does not worship the god of heaven and rain, nor does it worship the god of earth and five directions, but only believes in the god of sea. Is that so? "

Gu'erwan nodded yes, and said again: "Actually, I have never seen those gods and sea gods since I was a child. I don't know if they are true or not, but I heard that all the people on my island are born of sea gods, and they come out of the water. When you die, you go back to the water. Jing Guaner, I heard that when you die in the land, your remains are slow to melt, and you have to bury them in the soil for several years. When the time comes, will you dig them out again? "

Jing Shi said: "Why do you want to raise the corpse again?"

Gu'er Wan said: "I worship the sea god on my island because it is a living thing, and it is enough to sacrifice to the sea. If you don't dig it out to worship your ancestors, how can you sacrifice?"

When Jing Shi heard his question, he didn't know how to respond for a while, because the customs in the land are different, there are both burials, celestial burials, and cremation, and the customs of worshiping temples are very different.He was taught by Qingdu, and he despises the customs of life and death, so he didn't want to talk about it. He just said briefly: "In Luzhong, there is no need to dig up human corpses. If you are curious about this, you might as well take a look at it yourself. .”

Gu'er Wan said: "I want to see novelties, but I can't go on land. It's okay for a day or two, if I stay for a long time, I will lose my life."

Jing Shi knew that it was referring to the strange disease of Yan's homesickness, and he had nothing to say.But thinking about what I have learned in my life, I really don't know why the Yan people have this strange disease. It is speculated that the local climate has hidden strange qualities, and the Yan people rely on it for a living without knowing it. Once they leave the country, they will develop a rare disease.Even though he made this assumption, he suffered from the fact that there were no dead bodies for the Yan people, and there was no way to investigate. He thought about it for a long time, and asked casually, "If you can go to land in the future, do you feel reluctant to leave this place?"

Gu'er Wan said: "How do I know whether I'm willing to part with it or not? I've never been outside, at most I can go to the big city for a day and a half, and it's not very uncomfortable. It's very comfortable without the old woman's nagging."

Jing Shi responded without comment.Gu'er Wan said again: "Jing Guan'er, I think that when the old Guan'er was here, he could eat meat and drink wine, just like the people on my island. Why don't you drink? Do you think you can drink wine on land? Is the wine better?"

Jing Shi said: "The brewing in the land can be divided into five types and three types of wine, and there are more types of brewing methods than on your island. But I don't like wine, it's because of my nature, not because of the brewing method."

Gu'er Wan said: "You don't like drinking?"

Jing Shi laughed when he heard this, and could only say: "What other people like may not necessarily be what you love. Your country regards gold as dung, but in the eyes of Lu people, it is even more strange than not enjoying wine."

Gu'er Wan said: "The yellow stones can't be eaten, can't be drunk, can't help beating, and can't be planted, what's so good? It's because you have a weird temper."

The two talked to each other and chatted intermittently, all because of the heavy rain, they were bored, so they had to talk all over the world without seeking to understand.It was so boring for several days before the rain gradually stopped.Jing Shi saw that most of the lead cloud in the sky had dispersed, so he packed his bags again and wanted to go out to do some errands.Although the Gu'er Wan was also suffocating in a stuffy house, but seeing Jing Shi resting for a few days, his complexion did not improve, and now he was about to travel far away, he felt sad in his heart, hugged the wooden stick and said: "Jing Guaner, I used to Seeing that the old officials do their business, they always stay at the roof by themselves and tell the old woman Splash to deal with it. Although I don’t see many outsiders in the city, they don’t like to go out for activities. Why do you hang around all day long, and you don’t look like it?”

Jing Shi packed his bags in his hands and replied: "I am the island official sent here, no more honorable than those envoys in the city, and naturally there are fewer rules. If you think this is not good, I can cast a spell, as long as you Kneeling to me in the morning and evening will greatly increase my majesty."

Gu'erwan was very surprised, looked at him and said: "Why do you have dignity when I kneel to you? Is this method serious?"

Jing Shi hummed and said, "Of course it's fake."

Gu'erwan said angrily: "How are you lying!" He raised his stick and wanted to hit him, but he didn't dare to strike, and had to jump on Jingshi's back and scratch for a while before giving up.

When the rain stopped in the morning, the two drove out of Zhongcun and went straight to Dongquan Village.Because of the heavy rain, Jingshi delayed his journey for several days, he was traveling in a hurry and didn't want to go halfway, but when he saw the scene in the middle of the road, his brows gradually furrowed and his face was like sinking water.Seeing his strange expression, Gu'er Wan asked, "Jing Guan'er, are you sick again?"

Jing Shi said: "No. This road is different from last time."

Gu'erwan heard his words, immediately looked around, scratched his head and said: "I don't see much difference."

Jing Shi was silent for a moment, and said: "There seems to be more vegetation here than before. The color and luster are also different, and it seems to be longer than a few days ago."

Although Gu'er Wan has lived on the island for a hundred years, he usually comes and goes from a high place, and rarely travels on a serious road. What's more, there are so many vegetation on the island, how can he remember it exactly.Hearing Jing Shi's assertion, he couldn't help being skeptical, and said: "I don't think it's very different. Maybe it's the rain these few days, which made the grass grow taller."

Jing Shi shook his head and said: "No." But he didn't say anything else, he just hurried to Dongquan Village.When they arrived in the village, they gathered people to check the treasury, and ordered the officials of the three treasuries to submit it to the treasury for verification.Although Jing Shi could speak the language well, his throat was limited and it was difficult to utter long words, so he ordered Gu'er Wan to change his language.He saw that the three treasury officials were hesitant to speak and their eyes were flickering. He expected that he did not follow his own orders, so he didn't show any emotion at the moment, and only urged the treasury record to check.

After such a long time, I took the library record in my hand, opened it, and saw that the piles of items and the number of subjects were all clear and distinct.Jing Shi used to be extremely powerful in calculations, so he glanced at it for a few breaths, and he knew that everything recorded in the book was in line with his original order, and the details and total scores were all in line, which is not like the ability of people to suppress people.At present, the book records are combined, and the counts are counted in the warehouse, and the leftover food is also combined with the book records, and there is no half of it for multi-use.

Seeing this, Jing Shi didn't look happy, so he asked Gu'er Wan to turn around and say, "You guys are doing very well, how do you arrange the recording?"

The three were obedient, pushing each other, each pushing others.Jing Shi asked a few more details, but the answers were not what he asked.He asked this several times, but the Sankuguan didn't see what happened, Gu'erwan was so impatient that he couldn't stop scratching his head and rubbing his feet.

Jing Shi asked for a while, but finally got no results. He just spread out the book in his hand and asked, "The words on it were written by the three of you?"

Sankuguan looked around, shaking his head, nodding, shaking and nodding, so confused for a long time, he never remembered.Jing Shi saw that there was nothing wrong with his few questions, so he sent the three of them down, walked around the village alone, and sat under a tree to lose consciousness.

Seeing him like this, Gu'erwan didn't dare to play around. He had a lecture with the Sanku Guansheng before he came to Jing Shi's side, Qiqi Ai Ai said: "Jing Guaner, don't worry about it."

Jing Shi shook his head and said, "I'm not worried."

Gu'er Wan said: "I see your face is like this, it's because they didn't listen to you. Just now you flipped through the book and asked them a lot of questions. Although I don't understand what you asked, I know how much he asked." One answer is wrong. In fact, the people on my island were not good at writing and counting, but when you forced them to twist and turn like that, I thought they couldn’t do it.”

Jing Shi said: "I thought they couldn't do it."

Gu'erwan stared and said: "Then why do you still ask them to do it?"

Jing Shi said: "Rules must always be established. I thought that there must be shortcomings in checking the inventory today, so I can calculate the mistakes and punish them according to the amount. I can make them remember clearly in the future to avoid shortages in winter. I never thought about checking today. There is no place to get more branches, I am afraid it is not a good thing."

Gu'erwan was also very surprised to hear his words.He was born on the island, he knows the nature of his compatriots, if he wants to keep the rules of Jingshi, it is absolutely impossible.Immediately slipping back to the village, looking for the third treasury officer to ask quietly, then seeing Jing Shi again, hesitatingly said: "Jing officer, I think you must have made a mistake in counting."

Jing Shi shook his head and said, "There are tens of thousands of counts, I can't count them wrong."

Gu'er Wan said: "Don't you know that you have a good brain? But the three I asked just now said that they just took what they wanted, and they didn't follow your rules. Wouldn't it be too much? He's going to bully you." You are from Lu, if you don’t tell the truth, you dare not talk nonsense to me.”

Hearing what he said, Jing Shi didn't show any surprise on his face, he nodded and said: "I also expected so, the records in the book and the amount of food in the storehouse are probably not made by them."

Gu'er Wan said: "It's not them, but who is it? I have lived on the island for a hundred years, but I have never seen a ghost."

After he said this, Jing Shi smiled, and suddenly said: "Maybe it's not ghosts, but cats."

When Guerwan heard this, his golden hair stood on end, and he held a stick in his hand and said, "There is a cat in this place? You are not allowed to come to the village for such a thing, and I will beat it!"

Seeing him like this, Jing Shi just shook his head and smiled, got up and went back to the storehouse, carefully inspected the accumulated grain everywhere, and took small grains from everywhere.He also ordered the Gu'er bowl to catch a few birds and feed them with grain one by one. It was verified that the grain in the storehouse was non-toxic, so he felt at ease.But thinking that this matter is bizarre and unpredictable, even with what he has learned in his life, it is still difficult to understand the truth, he can't help but feel helpless, with so many clues in his mind, he can't sleep all night.

 No update yesterday, need to make up.If there is no second update tonight, then the supplementary update will be postponed.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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