The Ferry of the Heavens: Hong Kong Comprehensive Start

Chapter 403 Investigate the news
Ge Dafu loves his son eagerly.

When it was daylight.

The housekeeper was called out by him, and went to Tiangou Ridge to inquire about the situation of the land master.

Ge's family is in Nantou Town, Xiangshan Mountain.

Tiangou Ridge is in Dongsheng Town.

There is a Dongfeng Town in the middle.

When the steward of the Ge family came to Xitou Village at the foot of Tianguling Mountain in Dongsheng Town with a entourage, it was already high in the sun.

Ge Dafu's housekeeper is called Ge Youfu. Although he is called Youfu, he is indeed a middle-aged man with dark skin and thin body.

When he entered the village, he asked someone, is there a land temple in the village?

It was a local old man who was questioned by Ge Youfu.

He was taken aback when he heard Ge Youfu's words, and then slowly replied, "This village doesn't enshrine the Lord of the Land, but there is a temple dedicated to the Lord of the Mountain God. People in the village will go to the Mountain God Temple to worship regardless of their important or insignificant matters. Fan. If you have the heart, you can also go and offer a stick of incense to the mountain god grandfather. It is very spiritual."

After the old man finished speaking, he walked away slowly.

"Ah?" Ge Youfu frowned slightly. His master asked him to find the land master, not the mountain god.

But will the Lord of the Land be enshrined in the mountain temple?
Ge Youfu changed his mind and thought.

He felt that there was such a possibility, so he greeted his followers and walked towards the village head mountain temple.

Not long after, Ge Youfu came to the mountain temple.

This is a small temple, but the size of a house.

If you think about it, this is just a village, after all, it is not a town, and it doesn't look rich. How can you afford to build luxurious temples? Just do what you want.

Ge Youfu walked into this small mountain god temple.

The mountain temple is not big, and the layout inside is naturally very compact. There is an altar in the middle shrine, and on the top of the altar is a wooden statue of a god.

This is naturally the statue of the mountain god.

This mountain god looks fierce and fierce, with fierce eyes, more like a murderous bandit than a god.

But unlike the Land Lord, the Mountain God has always had a bad image.

In some places, the statues of mountain gods have green faces and fangs, and hideous faces, which can make children dare not sleep at night after seeing them.

Compared with them, the mountain god in Xitou Village is considered [kind-browed and kind-eyed].

But what Ge Youfu was looking for was the land master.

He looked around the mountain temple and only found the statue of the mountain god, but no other gods.

A crippled old man with triangular eyes and dusty clothes came over, "Is Xinke a foreigner?"

"Huh?" Ge Youfu turned his head. He is the housekeeper of a big family in the town, and he still has a little bit of arrogance when facing the people in the small village.

"It's very simple. I know all the villagers in Xitou Village, and I have never met the two trustees." The old man chuckled, but Ge Youfu felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

Ge Youfu asked, "May I ask who you are?"

"The little old man is not talented, but he is the temple priest in the Tiangouling Mountain Temple." The triangular-eyed old man said, a hint of arrogance flashed faintly in the depths of his eyes.

It's Miao Zhu!

That's someone with status.

Ge Youfu put away the disdain in his heart, and politely greeted the triangular-eyed old man.

He said, "We belong to Ge Yuan's family, the richest man in Nantou Town. My master heard that there is a land master in Tiangouling who is very effective. He specially asked us to come here to offer incense and pray for blessings."

"Oh, it turned out to be Yuanwai Ge." The triangular-eyed old man's eyes flashed strangely, and then he said, "But the little old man has stayed in Xitou Village for many years, but he has never heard of any earth temples?"

"There is no Earth Temple?" Ge Youfu was stunned for a moment, and he said, "Impossible! This is what Yimei Taoist said himself. Yimei Taoist won't lie to us."

"The Taoist priest with one eyebrow? Is that the Taoist priest with one eyebrow in Jiuquan Town?" asked the old man with triangular eyes.

"Old man, do you know him too?"

"The Taoist leader of the Maoshan sect is very capable. Who doesn't know him from all over the world?" said the triangular-eyed old man.

"That's right! That's why my master asked him to come over to show my newborn young master." Ge Youfu's face was slightly smug, "It was Daoist Yimei who instructed us to come and look for the land master."

"It's like this~" The old man with triangular-eyed temple Zhu rolled his eyes and fell silent for a moment. He suddenly said, "Actually, my mountain god master is also very effective. Could it be that Taoist Yimei made a mistake and asked you to It is my mountain god master who we are looking for."

Ge Youfu frowned and didn't answer.

"Xinke still doesn't know the magic power of my mountain god master?" said the old man of Triangular-eyed Temple Zhu.

"Oh, I would like to hear the details." Ge Youfu said.

"A few decades ago, Tiangou Ridge was actually not peaceful. There was a group of bandits entrenched here. They murdered like hemp and committed all kinds of crimes! Even a nearby village was slaughtered. I heard that those villagers who died unjustly could not be reincarnated. On that piece of land, a ghost village was formed, and now no one dares to approach it."

"Which village?" The servant who came with Ge Youfu couldn't help asking.

"Shatian Village." Triangular-eyed Temple Zhu old man grinned strangely and said.

The male servant shrugged his shoulders, and a look of unnaturalness flashed across his face, "Are those bandits still there?"

"It's been decades, and of course he's gone. Later, because he accidentally killed a certain nobleman, the local magistrate, together with the gentry from all over the country, put together a team to lure the bandits out and bury them." Triangle-eyed Temple Zhu old man said lightly.

"I seem to have heard of this matter..." Ge Youfu said, "But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the God of the Mountain, right?"

"I haven't finished yet!" A trace of dissatisfaction flashed in the old man's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it, and he said, "When those bandits died, they were full of resentment, and they swore to take revenge. It turned into a ghost and attacked the nearby villages."

"A ghost?" Not only the manservant, but even Ge Youfu was taken aback, "Really?"

"Really! At that time, a group of ghosts came out of the cage, and people in this village were sucked up and died every night. It was terrible." Triangular-eyed Temple Zhu old man said darkly.

"Didn't you invite a mage?"

"Please! But they all died tragically at the hands of the ghosts. Those ghosts are too fierce, especially..." The old man with triangular eyes Miao Zhu had a strange expression.

"Especially what?" asked the valet.

"It's nothing." The old man with triangular eyes Miao Zhu shook his head.

"Then it was because of the mountain god?" Ge Youfu was able to become a housekeeper, and he still had some wit.

"Yes! At that time, there was a hunter in the village who was forced to make a living and went hunting in Tiangou Ridge. It happened to be a cloudy day, the sun was blocked by dark clouds, and he was hunted down by ghosts."

"By chance, the Orion found the statue of the mountain god. He prayed sincerely and begged the mountain god to save his life. As a result...he really returned to the village safely."

"After the news got out, many villagers also worshiped the mountain god and prayed for protection in desperation. Guess what happened?" The old man of Triangular Eye Temple Zhu suddenly looked at Ge Youfu.

"Are these villagers okay?" Ge Youfu was not sure.

Triangular-eyed Temple Zhu old man looked proud, and said, "That's right! All the villagers who worship my mountain god have never been killed by ghosts since then, and those who don't believe in my mountain god are not so lucky."

"...Later, the villagers felt the powerful spirit of the master of the mountain god, so they set up a temple for the master of the mountain god in the village, and worshiped it in the morning and evening. After so many years, there have been no more ghost attacks in our Shatian village."

"So that's it!" The manservant exclaimed, "If you say that, this mountain god is really effective."

"Yes." Triangular-eyed Temple Zhu's face turned into a chrysanthemum, and he said to Ge Youfu, "Butler Ge, if you want, the Ge family can come to the temple and ask for a god tablet to go home to worship, pray day and night, and pray to the mountain god master I believe there will be rewards for your protection. The young master of the Ge family can also grow up in peace."

"This...I want to go back and report to the master." Ge Youfu said.

"This is what it should be." Triangular-eyed Miao Zhu nodded, and he took out a red talisman paper folded into a triangle from his pocket, and handed it to Ge Youfu.

"This is?" Ge Youfu asked suspiciously.

"Meeting is fate. This is the peace talisman of the mountain temple. It is placed in front of the master of the mountain god to worship day and night. It has already been opened." Triangular-eyed temple wished the old man said, "Butler Ge can take it back and put it on the young master of the Ge family. , you can keep safe and be protected by the mountain god master."

"Thank you. I have a heart." Ge Youfu took the peace talisman and glanced at it, only to see that the red talisman paper was as scarlet as blood. A trace of unease flashed in his heart, but this feeling was only fleeting.

The triangular-eyed temple Zhu old man smiled and said nothing.

Ge Youfu thought for a while, and together with the male servant, bought incense in the temple, lit it, knelt down, and put it on the incense burner.

The wispy blue smoke circled and spun upwards, and finally disappeared under the dark roof.

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Ge Youfu and the male servant left the mountain temple.

The male servant asked, "Steward Ge, shall we go back and report to our orders now? The temple has already said that there is no land master here."

"Let's take a look again." Ge Youfu walked in front, without turning his head, he said that what was just said by Miao Zhu's family was not so easy for him to believe.

Ge Youfu asked several people in the village, and all the villagers and farmers said that there is no land temple near Tiangou Ridge, and the surrounding area is dedicated to mountain gods, and there is no land god. If you want to worship the land god, you can Going to town.

The land master in the town is not the land master of Tiangouling that Ge Youfu is looking for.

He also didn't expect this mission to be so unsuccessful, and he felt a little hazy.

Irritated, he and his servant came to a small pond in the village.

Beside the small pond, there is a big banyan tree that cannot be hugged by several people. The green crown of the tree is like a canopy.

A few elderly people sat idly under the tree to pass the time.

Among them was a slow-moving old man, Ge Youfu, who was the first to ask about the land master.

Ge Youfu's heart moved, he walked over, and asked these old people about the land master.

Some of these old people ignored Ge Youfu, a foreigner, and completely ignored them, while some asked Ge Youfu's purpose with a hostile face.

From this point of view, the first old man who spoke slowly turned out to be the one with the best attitude.

Ge Youfu was displeased, but he still took out a few copper coins from his pocket and handed them over.

The attitude of these old people suddenly changed a lot.

They told Ge Youfu that Xitou Village does not have a land temple or a land temple, because the Tianguling Mountain God had sheltered Xitou Village decades ago and had shown great kindness to Xitou Village, so Xitou Village only has a mountain temple .

Well, it seems that what Miao Zhu said is true.

Ge Youfu felt sorry for those copper coins.

These days, the average annual salary of landlords and parents is about 10 taels. He is a housekeeper, and his income will be higher, about 12 taels.

Inflation during the Guangxu period, when one tael of silver was exaggerated, it could be exchanged for 2000 Wen copper coins.

At that time, prices were high, an egg cost 3-5 yuan, meat was more expensive, fish was 20 yuan a catty, beef was 25 yuan a catty, and pork was 30 yuan a catty.

If you want to make a set of clothes, an ordinary robe needs about 20 feet of cloth, a foot of cotton cloth is about 10-20 cash, silk is very expensive, and a foot costs 50-100 cash. 400 texts.

In this era, one penny is equivalent to the purchasing power of 0.2 yuan in later generations.

Ge Youfu gave 10 Wen before and after, which is equivalent to 2 yuan, and he can buy two to three eggs to supplement his children.

He was not willing to eat it himself, and it hurt a little when he thought about it.

This still does not include the incense and sesame oil bought at the Shanshen Temple.

Ge Youfu took a deep breath, and was about to go back home, at this moment, an old man sitting relatively far away, with tattered clothes, unkempt hair and beard, all glued together suddenly shouted , "There is a land master in Tiangou Ridge."

"What?" Ge Youfu froze as soon as he took a step, he suddenly turned his head and looked at this somewhat withdrawn old man.

The other old men were laughing at him, "Zhang Erdan, you're going crazy again, where did the land master come from in Tiangouling? Only the mountain god master."

"There is a land master in Tiangouling." The lonely Zhang Erdan ignored the other old men, but looked at Ge Youfu and said word by word.

Ge Youfu walked towards the withdrawn old man, and asked with a pleasant face, "Old man, where is the earth temple you mentioned?"

The withdrawn old man said indifferently, "Give me the money, and I'll tell you."

Ge Youfu was upset, but he still took out five copper coins.

The withdrawn old man shook his head, "Not enough!"

"How much do you want?" Ge Youfu asked.

"Five hundred Wen." The lonely old man said.

"Too much." Ge Youfu shook his head.

"Then you can ask other people." The lonely old man closed his mouth.

Ge Youfu's expression was very ugly. He only brought money with him when he came out this time.

He turned his head and glanced at those old men, and found that they were all frowning in thought, hesitated for a moment, and took out half a dime, "You better not lie to me!"

The lonely old man put away half of the money, and then said, "On the Tiangou Ridge, on the yellow dirt road with a dead head, there is a statue of the land god. I think he should be the land master you are looking for!"

When the old men heard the words, they slapped their thighs, "Why didn't I think of that!"

"It's been decades!"

"Who remembers!"

(End of this chapter)