On the Avenue

Everyone's eyes fell on the ancient elm tree in the center of the village.

Liu Zexi sacrificed his body, and it 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 powerful godmother, and let his 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.

However, the leader of the government officials could not see the little girl. Instead, his eyes fell on the ancient Yuqian tree and sneered: "If the godmother intends to avenge Liu Zexi, she is going against the Xinxiang County government and the Ming Dynasty! The power of the countryside is not as good as that of the king." Law. Once the King of Ming Dynasty comes out, it will be easy to eradicate the godmother! By then, without the godmother's protection, everyone in Fangdian Village will be exposed to the evil gaze and will be doomed!"

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 sincerely.

Seeing that the ancient elm tree had not moved for a long time, 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 take a bath and drowned. There was also a woman who became crazy and silly after this change. One day she sang and danced They disappeared after leaving the village, and they were probably dead.”

The head of the government office pondered for a moment, waved his hand, and said: "Everything will be over after death. The past mistakes will not be held accountable, but the tax still has to be paid. Come here, move out all the valuable things from Liu Zexi's house, and we will go back." Good deal.”

A group of government servants rushed into Liu Zexi's home, but Liu Zexi's family was really poor and had no walls, so they had to move out some pots and pans in the hope that they could exchange for some money.

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. The world only knows that we errands are just asking for money, but they don't know that it's a big deal. Misunderstand!"

He was filled with emotion and stood up slowly, saying: "This tax is the tax that the Ming Dynasty will collect. What does it have to do with our yamen? The tax we collect, even if a copper plate falls on our waist, the sky will thunder all over the world." Damn it! On the contrary, the master and we have to pay for these taxes out of our own pockets, otherwise we will commit the crime of deceiving the emperor! "Fathers and fellows, don't panic!"

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, be careful if the knife slips and cuts off the bird!"

He regarded many villagers as if they were nothing, walked among them, and said 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 fetuses! You can't beat us, Why should you commit the crime of assaulting an official? Put down the knife and say something."

The yamen 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 tall. 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 have to charge you a few more years of talisman tax." Woolen cloth."

Suddenly, he smelled a slight odor and couldn't help but shrugged his nose. He said in awe: "It's corpse odor!"

His eyes fell on Chen Shi, his expression suddenly changed, and he said, "Mr. Chen, is this that child? The most talented child in the fifty provinces back then?"

Grandpa said nothing.

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! Stealing the secrets of the world, the impossible thing, was actually done by you. It’s done! But don’t break the law, or you’ll fall into my hands!”

He turned and left.

Chen Shi felt confused and said: "This six-door seems to be afraid of me. Grandpa, I used to be the number one child scholar in fifty provinces?"

"Why bother mentioning the past?"

Grandpa spread out the yellow paper and took out the cinnabar and pen and inkstone. 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.

"Pfft."

Grandpa stabbed Hei Guo. Chen Shi immediately took a small basin to collect the blood of the black dog. After a while, Grandpa threw Hei Guo a piece of meat from a strange beast. Hei Guo took the meat and hid under the car, eating and licking it. Wounds, pain and joy.

The grandfather and grandson were at the market, drawing various talismans and selling them.

Xinxiang County government officials went from door to door 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 moments of 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, closed his pen and said: "It's getting late, it's time to go."

Chen Shi looked up at the sky. The sky was clear for the second day, and there was no sign of the sun setting.

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 officials collected the taxes paid by each family and loaded them into carriages. There were four carriages. Several government officials were tying armor and horse charms on the horses' legs so that the horses could run faster.

"Pack up quickly! Return to the county before dark!" Lu Tiannan urged loudly, "We have to go to other villages tomorrow!"

"Sir, it's still early, I can go back in time, what's the rush?" A Yamen servant said with a smile.

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, if you sail carefully, you might Encountered it.”

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 the like, and some were herbs that didn't look very safe.

Chen Shi felt horrified as he looked at it. These things were his dinner.

The wooden cart traveled six or seven miles when suddenly grandpa raised his head and looked at the sky, changing his color and saying: "No! It gets dark a quarter of an hour earlier than before!"

Chen Shi quickly looked up and saw that the two suns in the sky were slowly closing 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 you report the wrong time, I'll eat the stew pot."

Black Pot holds his tail between his legs and laments the difficulty of dog life.

Within a moment, fire began to flow 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 hillside not far from the post road. 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?" 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 top of the mountain!

He has never seen or heard of such weird things!

"Let's go to an ancient temple and spend the night."

Grandpa fiddled with the compass, and the wooden cart swayed up the hillside.

The temple is in disrepair for a long time. 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 didn't 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 one by one.

The door bolt was rotten, but there was a huge boulder outside the temple. Chen Shi came to a boulder weighing several hundred kilograms and was about to call his grandfather to come for help. Unexpectedly, he pushed hard and the boulder 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, and jumped up. The next moment, he jumped almost as high as the temple roof!

Chen Shi was shocked, but then calmed down: "I can jump so high, and I can naturally land safely. I don't have to worry 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 in the roof of the temple before dark.

Grandpa also drew the peach charms and hung them on the doors, windows and on the roof of the temple, and then started to light a fire to "cook" again. 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 in the sky had disappeared, and the moonlight was shining coldly. Lu Tiannan and other government officials escorted four carriages towards this direction.

"Head, something is wrong!"

A government official looked up and said, "The sun shouldn't have set so early! We can't get back to the county government in time. Should we return to Fangdian Village?"

Although everyone is a monk who has cultivated to the Divine Embryo Realm, they have also heard that the night in the countryside is extremely dangerous. There are several evil spirits that are so evil that even a Divine Embryo Realm monk can be easily killed.

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 in there to rest first and then leave tomorrow morning."

The officials said so and drove the carriage 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!"

Chen Shi just thought of this, and saw that in front of the little girl eating an apple, a yamen runner suddenly stiffened, as if his body was cramped, and his body was bent backwards and trembling.

Then there were two puffs, and sharp branches pierced through his chest, with blood flowers.

"Enemy attack--"

Lu Tiannan was the first to react. The divine light behind his head was lingering, forming a shrine. The divine fetus sat in the shrine, and the true energy was running, but the next moment, countless branches swayed, like black venomous snakes under the moonlight, spreading in the air!

One of the branches had reached his eyebrows!

Lu Tiannan hurriedly retreated, and his back suddenly stabbed. The sound of broken bones came. He looked down and saw blood-stained branches breaking out of his chest!

"Too fast!"

Lu Tiannan's heart was pierced by the branches, and blood quickly rushed into the lungs and throat, and rushed into his mouth.

He twisted his neck with difficulty, and saw that some of the yamen runners who followed him had just offered sacrifices to the shrine, and before they could mobilize the power of the divine fetus, they were pierced by branches, and some only had time to run a few feet, and were pierced by more than a dozen roots that pierced the ground!

Even the horses were pierced by the branches and roots that suddenly appeared, and died in an instant.

Lu Tiannan's throat gurgled, and blood gushed out of his mouth.

Under the moonlight, the bodies of dozens of yamen runners in the divine fetus realm and eight horses floated in front of the deserted mountain temple. If it were not for the moonlight, the black branches and roots would be almost invisible.

The little girl stepped on the moonlight and shuttled through the branches, quietly and without making any sound.

She came in front of Lu Tiannan, took a bite of the apple, and carefully examined Lu Tiannan's face.

"Godmother will not give up the wishes of any of her subjects, especially those who sacrifice themselves."

The little girl nodded gently, "It was you, I didn't kill the wrong people."

Countless branches contracted, and the bodies of the yamen runners and horses fell from the sky, thumping to the ground.