chewing dragon

Chapter 136 Chess Pieces
Otter saw Qi Jingzhi took the chicken wings, and his smile became even wider. After hearing the young man's words, the light in his eyes just disappeared, he laughed and said: "Brother is really extraordinary! But since old people are masters and they are servants, the little ones should respect me a little bit, and the word 'sacrifice' can't be mentioned."

Wei Yingdian listened to the conversation between the two, forgot to chew the chicken in his mouth for a while, and then suddenly said: "The sacrifice ceremony in Qu'a Town is really unique..."

Hearing this, Mr. Ottoman and Qi Jingzhi turned their heads to look at him at the same time, and then looked away at the same time.

Qi Jingzhi pondered for a moment, then asked bluntly: "I don't think Mr. Otto is a greedy and arrogant person, but I heard that Mr. Otto is the only one who can catch and sell fish here. I don't know why?"

Hearing the young man's question, Mr. Otter showed no sign of change on his face. He seemed to have expected this, but he didn't rush to answer. Instead, he stood up and yelled at the otters on the shore, "Go!"

These little guys immediately gathered the whole team and plopped into the water again.

Among the people waiting not far away, a few people immediately went to pick the river fish, and packed most of them in a short time, leaving only a few small and poor quality ones.

Qi Jingzhi saw that these people were all dressed as buddies, and he didn't pay any money. He saluted Mr. Otter and left happily. Only one of them, who hadn't filled the barrel, stood at the end of the crowd resentfully. .

Just at this time, the clerk of the restaurant hurried over with a jar of wine, two bowls and two oiled paper bags, and he couldn't help showing disappointment when he saw this.

Mr. Otter took the wine and meat, handed him back the empty fish basket, raised his hand and pointed to the waiting crowd: "You stand at the front."

Only then did the waiter in the restaurant show a happy face, and hurriedly thanked him and left.

Mr. Otter sat down again, put the wine and meat in front of Qi Jingzhi, shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother, I neither drink alcohol nor eat meat. I think that if Lao Shi is a bully who oppresses the village, you will eat my food." If you have a short mouth, it's not easy to turn your face?"

Qi Jingzhi nodded without hesitation: "During the Sacrifice earlier, I saw that the five colors in the sky and the earth flowed and each had its own place, so I finally determined that Dagong has nothing to do with this Xunjiang River, but has a lot to do with Qu'a Houhu Lake. Shen, those little fellows offering sacrifices to you are like offering sacrifices to a lake. In this way, Mr. Otto has neither the ability nor the need to monopolize the fish in the Xunjiang River, so I have doubts in my heart and have this question."

Hearing this, Mr. Otter suddenly looked at the young man with a little surprise: "Although my brother is young, his vision is unique. He must have a long history. The old man lives in the countryside and hasn't seen a real person for a long time. Disrespectful!"

Although he said so, he neither got up to greet the boy, nor did he ask about the origin of the boy's identity. Those who live in this section of the river are not allowed."

Mr. Otter paused, and then added: "Not to mention human beings, even those wild otters who are cruel by nature and waste fish have been driven out by that one long ago, and only those who have been tamed by the old man can go into the water, but every now and then You can’t catch more than one day, otherwise there will be retribution.”

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help frowning: "If the water god of Xunjiang doesn't allow it, fishing should be banned in the whole Xunjiang River. Since the only people who have this rule are around Qu'a Town, it can be seen that the one that Mr. Otter mentioned is not very powerful. Does no one care?"

Mr. Otter shook his head: "All the counties and counties will share the water of Xunjiang to form a lake. Although it is beneficial to both parties in the long run, Xunjiang will suffer a little in the first few years, so we have to do something. Compensation. No one is allowed to fish, and it only involves such a small area of ​​water, so no one wants to care about such trivial matters."

Qi Jingzhi was taken aback when he heard the words, he didn't expect that there would be a rule in Qu'e town that no fishing and selling of fish would be allowed. One of the costs of opening up Qu'ahou Lake even got the tacit approval of county officials.

As for the people in Qu'e Town, although they cannot fish, they have benefited from the flood control and irrigation of the Qu'e Back Lake. In addition to the people's living in peace and the benefit of the farmland, the ancient well spring accidentally gave birth to the famous wine making business in the state. There are gains and losses, but it is not simply a victim.

Thinking of this, Qi Jingzhi thought about what he saw just now, and suddenly a thought came to his mind.

He hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Does Mr. Otto want to occupy the god seat of Qu'ahou Lake?"

Wei Yingdian who was at the side had already neglected to eat and drink, and was engrossed in listening, when he suddenly heard this sentence, he was stunned.

"How can the old man be so good, how dare he covet the throne of God?"

Mr. Otter glanced at the young man, turned his head to look at Xunjiang not far away, and said something unexpected: "I spent my time here, but I was just guarding the gate for the old county guard. The old man's life's fame , All my heart and blood are tied to that piece of lake water, how can I easily take advantage of the Xunjiang Aquarium? He is an old man who will die as a god, and the old man will be able to retire!"

Qi Jingzhi's heart was shaken when he heard it. It turns out that not only the mountain gods are gradually declining, but even the power of the gods in the water palace, the Daqi court is trying its best to share it. out of the lake.

However, this is an overt conspiracy on the bright side that cooperation will benefit both. The gods of the Water Palace are not monolithic. In order to expand their own strength, there are naturally many who are willing to cooperate with the court. Xunjiang Water God is an example. The person sitting on the seat of God is the person appointed by the imperial court, but the area that the Xunjiang water system can affect has indeed increased.

On the other hand, on the side of the human race, the position of Lake God of Qujiang Houhu is not only a reward given by the Lord of Daqi to the former county guard, but also a chess piece laid by the court in the Xunjiang line. No matter how you look at it, it is extremely cost-effective.

Under such circumstances, it was only natural for the Xunjiang Water God to send a not-so-talkative subordinate to sit outside the mouth of the Qujiang Back Lake. Yang County has already benefited, so why care about such trivial details?

As for the otter man in front of him, although he is not the future lake god, it is extremely easy to be a god of the water mansion like Master Meng after death.

Qi Jingzhi finished thinking, and immediately raised his finger to the jujube bag on the ground: "Since Mr. Otter is responsible for guarding the water mansion, he must know very well about the ghosts near Qu'a Houhu Lake. This bag of jujube was lost in my room last night by a child." Outside the door, that kid is four feet tall, wearing a maroon dress, what is the origin of that?"

Wei Yingdian had never heard Qi Jingzhi talk about this festival, and it had something to do with Zao's dates, so he immediately regained his energy after being surprised, and stared at Mr. Rex with piercing eyes.

While speaking, more than a dozen otters had surfaced again, and the spectacle of the previous otter festival reappeared.

Mr. Otter and the waiting people also repeated the previous process, and it was orderly from beginning to end.

Just got up again and yelled, Mr. Otter sat down slowly, with a look of hesitation on his face for the first time.

He thought for a while before answering: "Although I know the origin of the child, but it is a personal matter, so I don't want to speak indiscriminately. The old man only said one thing, that is, since the child was born, there has never been a starvation near Qu'a Town. people."

"Whether it's a passer-by or a local villager, if someone is dying of hunger, he will definitely show up and feed him jujubes to continue his life. Over time, the villagers call him to feed jujube boys. Although the old man doesn't know why he will This jujube sac was left outside my little brother’s door, but there is absolutely no malice in it. In the future when the Lake God returns to the throne and the temple is completed, among the gods who accompany the sacrifices in the temple, there will definitely be a place for this jujube boy!"

These words said that although Otter Gong did not reveal the origin of Hezao Boy, the meaning of protection is very obvious.

Qi Jingzhi nodded in understanding, and then said without thinking: "There are really sages in this world who have no evil karma and a clean mind!"

When Wei Yingdian heard the words, he was stunned for a moment, and then a bit of shame appeared on his face.

Mr. Otter took a deep look at Qi Jing, and while smiling gratifiedly, he couldn't help saying with emotion: "Of course there are such sages in this world! In fact, the one in Jiangli also has some merits..."

He was still waiting to elaborate, when his complexion suddenly changed, and he turned his head to look down the Xunjiang River.

Qi Jingzhi and Wei Yingdian followed suit and saw a fleet of ships going up the river from west to east.

The fleet was headed by a fast boat, followed by two boats paralleling each other, and a huge fishing net was dragged between the two adjacent boats.

Wei Yingdian just heard about the ins and outs of the ban on fishing in Qu'e Town, and he couldn't help but look at the lake guard with a strange expression on his face.

Mr. Otter and Qi Jingzhi fixed their gazes firmly on the leading clipper.

On the bow of the ship, a sorceress dressed in brightly colored clothes and a bright corolla on her head was dancing, her posture was weird and distorted, and she was still shouting something loudly, but there was still a distance between them, so it was hard to hear clearly.

As the clipper boat got closer and closer, I saw that the river water around it suddenly seemed to be boiling. Countless fish and turtles emerged one after another, all facing the clipper's direction, densely covering the river surface, and letting the clipper follow in a daze. Afterwards, the fleet set up nets to fish.

At the same time, the river not far from the three of them was also churning. More than a dozen otters scrambled up to the shore, ran up to the three of them, pointed at the fleet on the river, and squeaked angrily.

After seeing this strange scene clearly, Mr. Otter stood up slowly, gestured to the little ones, and then pointed to the caves in the crevices of the rocks on the bank: "Go back!"

These dozen or so otters immediately picked up the scattered river fish on the ground, and immediately formed several queues, and went back to the cave without any disorder.

Mr. Otto walked over and inserted the pheasant tails he had pulled out one by one back in front of the cave before turning to look at the river.

There was no trace of anger or panic on his face, instead he sneered: "These people are so bold, they dare to curse fish and turtles in this water area, I'm afraid they will be in bad luck!"

Sure enough, not long after Mr. Otter said these words, a huge vortex suddenly appeared on the surface of the Xunjiang River, blocking the front of the wanton fishing fleet.

Before the fast boat in the lead could react, a macaque-like monster covered in black scales jumped out of the river vortex. Its fangs were exposed, its eyes glowed golden, and it uttered a hoarse crow-like cry.

The monster boarded the fast boat with a single leap, and the muddy river flowed down from between its black scales.

As the clipper boat got closer and closer, Qi Jingzhi could already see clearly that this macaque-shaped monster was obviously not tall, but it suddenly sank the bow of the clipper boat, and the sound of planks breaking was clear and recognizable. distinguish.

The sorceress, who was dancing, froze, and her screams resounded through the sky.

The screaming didn't stop, the sorceress turned around and wanted to escape, but the monster leaped onto her shoulder as fast as lightning, and slapped the back of the head with a paw, blood spattered immediately, and she fell to the ground.

The rest of the people on the clipper were terrified and inexplicable. Several of them held their harpoons and surrounded them, trying to save the witch, but they were clawed one by one by the monster. fell and flew out.

This time the boat was full of horror, no one dared to take the initiative to go forward, on the contrary, many people jumped out of the boat to escape in horror, and became company with the densely packed fish and turtles on the river, and even the fleet behind them slowed down one after another. Exclamations and screams can be heard endlessly.

Seeing the monster wantonly chasing and killing the people on board, the people on the river bank waiting to buy fish were also agitated and screamed.

At this moment, I saw the young swordsman who was sitting and laughing with Mr. Otto suddenly got up and strode towards the river.

"Wait a minute, little brother! That is the golden-eyed water scorpion under the water god of Xunjiang. He has always regarded the fish and turtles in the river as his descendants, and those who catch and kill indiscriminately will be punished by them! Now that it has been ordered by the water god to sit at the mouth of the lake, it is even more unacceptable." No offence!"

Mr. Otter repeatedly dissuaded the young swordsman: "The situation is unclear at the moment. It is not yet known whether these people are just stupid young people who do not know the inside story and covet the many fish and turtles here, or are they driven by people with ulterior motives to come to test the question of Xunjiang Water God. Lu Shi, brother, it's better not to intervene rashly!"

"Grandpa Otter's kindness, Qi Jingzhi accepts it!"

The young swordsman kept walking, and responded loudly: "No matter what these people's intentions are, in my opinion, there is nothing wrong with them fishing in the river. Even if they violate the laws of the river god, they are not guilty of death!"

After a few words, he hurried to the riverside.

Looking at the torrential river and the turbulent current in front of him, the young swordsman suddenly took out a waist card from his pocket, held it high above his head, and at the same time let out a bad breath from his chest, spreading the sound far away.

"Qi Jingzhi from the Demon Academy of Linzhou Town is here on business, if you don't stop this bastard, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Hearing this, Mr. Otter was startled inexplicably. Although Linzhou Town Demon Court could not control Junzhou's affairs, he couldn't say any more words of persuasion.

More than ten feet away, the golden-eyed water slug who was raging on the clipper suddenly turned his head, and his pair of golden strange eyes instantly aimed at the young swordsman by the river.

The next moment, it kicked up suddenly, kicking out a boatman in front of him whose head was covered in blood, and slammed into the door panel of the cabin.

The door trembled violently, but it was not knocked open, but returned to its original position immediately. At the same time, there were several panicked shouts from the cabin, obviously someone was struggling to reach the door from the other side.

"Dumb dumb dumb!"

The golden-eyed water squirrel let out a strange cry like a crow, and showed a contemptuous and mocking smile on his face.

"It's really not a son of man!" Until this moment, Wei Yingdian finally came back to his senses, his face was full of anger, and for a while, he couldn't choose what to say.

Seeing the former doctor of the Ministry of Rites of the Great Qi jump up from the ground, he pointed at the golden-eyed scorpion and cursed angrily: "The evil beast is rampant, and there is a way to kill it! Please also use your virtuous brother's means of subjugating the devil quickly, and kill him!" This fang is skinned and boned to make an example to others! If Jiang Shen will punish you in the future, and the foolish brother is not talented, I am willing to share it with the virtuous brother!"

　The author who traveled back a few days later made a statement: The latter part of the plot involves the relationship between humans and aliens in this book, which has caused a lot of controversy. Some book friends think that the protagonist or the human race is bullying monsters and doing colonization, like Western colonists. Engage in genocide and species extinction.I have debated with some book friends in the comment area for several days, and some agree and some do not agree. Now that I think about it, it may affect the reading experience of new readers. I would like to say sorry in advance.Regarding my point of view, I made a final statement in the author's statement of Chapter 140 (this statement has not yet been written...), and I will not debate this issue with book friends in the future.If you really can't accept my point of view, it can only be said that our personalities are different, our three views are at odds, we hate each other, and leave early and get better early (manual dog head).If you can accept it, then please continue to pay for the subscription honestly, and let's continue to be friends happily.above.

　　
　
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