From Yishui to Tai'an, the peaks are winding and the screens are endless. Su Yang walks slowly in this mountain. Most of the roads he walks on are on the ridge. There are occasionally mountain paths, which are extremely steep. Both sides are connected with the walls, steep and steep, winding and twisting. Looking up from the cliff, you can see that the sky is hazy.

Liu Xiucai was anxious to go to Tai'an to watch the temple built by Emperor Dongyue to polish his manuscripts. Su Yang knew that the land of Tai'an would be hidden and hidden now. All parties must have stood here, so he was not anxious. His steps seemed slow and fast, and he was free to travel between the mountains, heading towards the northwest.

Before arriving in Tai'an, Su Yang wanted to go to another place.

After walking out of the ridge and wading through the thorns, Su Yang walked to the official road.

This place is far from Yishui and is very close to Tai'an. Su Yang takes a light step towards the road outside Tai'an.

The official road was deserted, the sky was in a daze, the wind was endless, and the sight of it was endless, there was no life everywhere. There were two pedestrians on the official road, one man and one woman, like a couple. Su Yang's eyes looked at them a few more times. The two people hurriedly covered their packages and accelerated their crossing with Su Yang.

“…”

Su Yang turned his head and looked at the two people just now. He saw that the two people were walking in a hurry and would not look back. Seeing Su Yang looking over, the two of them were even more eager to leave.

Now Su Yang has the cultivation of a god. Even if he maintains the physical sense of a mortal, after Su Yang's profound practice, his affinity for everything has become stronger and stronger. When ordinary people see Su Yang, he is a handsome and very friendly person. Even at a glance, he can label him a good person in his heart, and naturally feel close. However, Su Yang is avoided by two pedestrians.

This is not because Su Yang’s magic power is insufficient, or because these two people are different, it is purely because the people here naturally do not trust the people they meet when they pass by.

They are insecure.

"Crazy la la la la la la la la la la la..."

The sky covered with clouds suddenly started to rain. Such heavy rain made Su Yang, who was walking on the road, get wet. Su Yang looked at the young couple who were just now, and the two of them hid far away under the tree.

This is a mess in the East China Sea.

Su Yang knew that the weather changes in Shandong were entirely caused by the confrontation between Chi You and Guan Sheng in the East China Sea. Now there is heavy rain, and there is another change on the other side.

"well……"

Su Yang sighed, reached out to draw the talisman, then reached out and waved his hand and hung it on the young couple to protect the young couple from suffering in this heavy rain that stretched the sky and the earth.

Opening the paper umbrella, Su Yang walked in the rain, the soil under his feet was soft and the wind was like a knife, making Su Yang feel cold. Walking on the muddy road with an umbrella, Su Yang also saw some people under trees and under stones hiding from the rain. After seeing Su Yang, these people turned their backs, not facing Su Yang, or just hugged the package tightly in their arms, and looked at Su Yang with caution.

"The road of life is like a smooth road, and the wind and frost on the road are dry..."

Su Yang hummed a few lines, then shook his head. What he saw recently was a scene where everything was thriving and flourishing, but when he walked here, he encountered such a declining environment for people's livelihood. Su Yang couldn't help but hum these lines and sighed: "The people are still suffering."

In the capital, Su Yang issued a government decree, and all this was going to the right place, but it took time from top to bottom. Among the officials who implemented it, a small number of people also lit the yang fire and fan the cold wind, distorted a good government decree, and tried to mess with the people in a different way, and seized the interests.

“Huhhhhhhhhhh…”

A gust of cold wind blew violently, and the paper umbrella in Su Yang's hand rustled, and the heavy rain outside the paper umbrella blew on Su Yang. Su Yang pushed the paper umbrella in his hand towards the direction of the cold wind and slowly moved in the soil.

After walking for a stick of incense, Su Yang saw a dilapidated temple. There were fireworks in the dilapidated temple. Several people were watching the heavy rain in front of the dilapidated temple.

"Youngsheng, it's raining so heavily, what are you still rushing?"

An old man at the door saw Su Yang and shouted loudly: "Come here quickly and come to us to avoid it!"

Su Yang looked up at the people in front of him and walked towards the dilapidated temple. When he arrived at the entrance of the temple, Su Yang put away the paper umbrella and looked at his body. From his chest, he was all wet, but the above was protected by the umbrella and not wet by the rain.

"Why did you let someone come in..."

"I think this young man looks like a good person."

"Don't look at his face, look at his clothes, he is obviously a rich man. Are you afraid that he will go over and report the news?"

"It's okay, after such a rain, they can't chase us."

A middle-aged man whispered to the women around him, and the people next to them also heard these words, nodded, and felt reasonable.

"Then aren't you afraid that he is a ghost?"

Another person said.

After saying this, it suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at me, and then looked at Su Yang.

"I have a shadow."

Su Yang pointed to the shadow behind him and said to everyone present.

This small temple is simple, with a wooden statue of Tathagata Buddha on it. There is only a door in front, a straw roof, and a few grass nests around it. It is obviously used by these people to sleep at night. There is a ball of fire in the center of the statue of Tathagata Buddha. There is no longer much dry firewood and it is on the verge of extinguishing.

There are men and women, old and young in the temple, a total of eight people. The middle-aged man and woman are obviously a couple, with a son and a daughter next to them, and an elderly man, a young man in his teens, and two old ladies.

"Young people, bake it well in front of the fire. Never catch a cold anymore. If you catch a cold, it will be dead."

The old man said to Su Yang.

"I'm pretty healthy and won't catch a cold easily."

Su Yang sat in front of the fire, looking at the people in front of him, most of whom were wearing thin clothes, and greeted: "You all come here too. If you catch a cold, you will really be dead."

In this time when the cold has not yet dissipated, poor people may lose themselves after they catch a cold.

When these people heard Su Yang's words, they all came to the fire and felt a hint of warmth in front of the fire.

"Young Master, where are you going?"

The old man asked Su Yang.

Su Yang saw that the old man was in his sixties and was thin all over, but his eyes were quite energetic and his eyebrows were full of kindness. He smiled and said, "I'm going to go to the deserted grave in front of him to take a look."

A deserted grave...

When the old man heard Su Yang say these two words, the old man's expression became dim, and even the few people around him changed their expressions, and then they all looked sad.

"Where are you buried with your loved ones?"

The old man asked Su Yang.

"No."

Su Yang shook his head and said, "It's just that I heard that Qi thieves are doing serious evil, so I go and have a look."

This desolate tomb does not refer to a tomb, but a bunch of tombs, and this desolate tomb still has its origin. Among the generals who entered the pass with the King of Qi, there was a murderous general named Zhang Yuanyi, who was holding a public resentment knife and was about to kill Su Yang. He once slaughtered the people in Qixia and Laiyang, allowing the people there to support the sky and the ground with blood. When they gathered their bodies, they made the plants and trees in the two places empty, and at that time, all the people were buried in this "desolate tomb".

In the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, this place is also written in a special way. Pu Songling’s original notes record that this place was a place where farmers were killed and buried after the Yuqi Uprising. In the world where Su Yang was located, there was no Qing Dynasty, that is, after the King of Qi entered the pass, Zhang Yuanyi suppressed the rebellion and killed here.

There is a famous ghost town called Laixiali, and there is also a sad female ghost here called Gongsun Jiuniang.

Su Yang was coming here just to see if Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had ever been here in a ghost town like Laixiali.

When the old man heard this, he nodded heavily and said, "This is a blessing, it's not like me..."

The people around them also looked sad, and their relatives and friends were more or less trapped in at that time.

"Qi Thief is really hateful!"

The old man said, then looked at Su Yang again and said, "Youngsheng, you only have one person. If you are joining in the fun, don't go there anymore, as there is no peace there."

"oh?"

Su Yang looked at the old man and asked, "Where is no peace?"

“All things are not peaceful.”

The old man sighed and said, "The landlords and men over there suddenly started to add rent and directly took away all our food. Many people were there to become bandits and rely on robbers to survive. People like you, who come there alone, will probably be snatched by them. And there are many strange things happening there recently, and you can see ghosts on the road in the sky and the sun..."

"We all couldn't live there anymore, so we escaped overnight."

If it is not that there is no choice, no one wants to leave their hometown.

When Su Yang heard this, he sighed in his heart. The landlords here suddenly began to add rent together. I guess they knew that they would not have their seats in the future, so they began to abuse their rights crazily. The reason why these people ran out overnight was to escape from the landlords.

In later generations, there were rules for moving overnight, and there were also some signs of tenants who could not live on in ancient times and fled with their families overnight.

"It is precisely because you want to hide from the landlord that I saw that I had better clothes and thought I was a landlord."

Su Yang knew the reason for the attitudes these people towards him and said with emotion.

It is precisely because of his clothes that people here avoid him.

"I'll ask you, after you left here, where are you going to escape to settle down?"

Su Yang asked, he wanted to know if these ordinary people had any plans.

These people looked at each other. After talking to Su Yang, they already felt Su Yang's affinity. So after asking for advice from each other, they said to Su Yang: "We are going to Tai'an. Tai'an is in charge of a clean official. We are not afraid of those landlords who can't escape."

The people also have a scale in their hearts when they are good or bad officials.

"Good Tai'an."

Su Yang nodded and said, "I haven't gone far. When the corrupt officials and landlords die, you can come back quickly."

Some people sleep in the open, beg for food, and run for hundreds of miles. It is difficult for them to go home in their lifetime. Now, after Su Yang goes to rectify the trouble, they can come back quickly and get the fields at that time, so as not to delay spring plowing.

"I'm afraid that we are all dead, and no one else will die."

When the old man heard this, he sighed deeply, and had no hope for this matter.

Su Yang just smiled.

The fire in this ruined temple became smaller and smaller at this time. The dry firewood on it had been burned out, and there was not much charcoal on it.

"It's so rainy outside, let's go there to find firewood."

The middle-aged couple looked at the rain outside and said worriedly, "They are all thin clothes. If they can't find the firewood, they will let it rain all the time outside, and the cold will come over, for fear that the elderly here will not be able to bear it."

"Isn't there firewood here?"

Su Yang stood up, moved the statue of Tathagata Buddha, reached out and broke off the two hands of the statue, and threw them into the fire.
To be continued...