Chapter 133 Received the sacrifice

Author: Dragon Slaughter

Chapter 133 Received the sacrifice

Qi Jingzhi suddenly woke up, reached out and grabbed the scabbard of the bull's ear sharp knife, and jumped up from the bed.

He swept through the house like a big bird and rushed straight towards the door that had been opened at some point.

In a glance, a child about four feet in a maroon dress screamed in a low voice and flashed through the crack of the door.

Qi Jingzhi pulled open the door without hesitation and rushed to the corridor to look around, but the figure of the child was gone. There was only a maroon cloth bag as big as a palm on the ground in front of the door, which was bulging inside, and I don’t know what was loaded.

Qi Jingzhi frowned and looked around again, but he saw that the night was dark, and the doors of the surrounding rooms were closed, and there was no candlelight. There were only faint snoring sounds, teeth grinding sounds, and dreams, mixed with a few curses in the middle of dreams and half awake.

Although Qi Huchan's sword sound was loud, it was extremely short and did not alarm a few people.

He looked down at the lobby below, and saw that the door had been tied up and the stools were neatly pressed upside down on the table. The floor was clean and there were traces of wetness. I thought that after closing, the shop's shop had carefully swept it over.

There were two tables next to the door, and a guy was sleeping on his head wrapped in a quilt, and the snoring sound could be heard even on the second floor.

Qi Jingzhi stared at him for a while, but there was no abnormality in the mate. Then he bent his knees and squatted out, using the tip of Qi Huchan's knife to lift the strap of the cloth bag under his feet.

The cloth bag immediately tilted, and a few crimson red dates rolled out from the mouth of the bag, each with full particles, and a faint fragrance of date mixed with the fragrance of wine floated out.

This kind of wine is very familiar with the fragrance of the wine. It was the Qua Huangjiu that I drank with Wei Yingdian in the evening.

Qi Jingzhi's heart sterned, and immediately held his breath, sealed his mouth and nose with the aura of pine, cypress, Jiamu, and carefully sensed it for a moment before he was sure that there was nothing unusual around him.

He felt a little relieved, and then he inserted the sharp knife of the cow's ear into the jujube bag and stirred it. He did not find any abnormality. Then he covered his palm with Yanxia feathered clothes, picked up the dates scattered on the ground one by one, tied the rope and took them back into the room.

He closed the door tightly, picked up the wood on the ground and tied it behind the door. Although this thing was of no use, and he was not aware of a gentleman or a villain, he finally got better than nothing.

He casually put the date bag on the table, Qi Jingzhi sat back on the bed, and continued to sit quietly and visualize. As for the child who pried the door late at night and gave him jujube food, since he did not show obvious malice, he did not have the courage and ability to do evil, so he did not need to investigate the root cause.

This Qua Town Committee is a bit weird, and it is not a wise move to go out late at night to pursue it.

At this moment, there was nothing to say until the morning light was dimming, and Qi Jingzhi never noticed anything unusual again, and Qi Huchen was always quiet as usual.

The inn guys started a busy day. Someone went up to the second floor and knocked on the door to wake up the guests who wanted to get up early. The tables and chairs were bumped, the doors and windows were opened and closed, and the sound of walking and talking gradually filled the inn.

Suddenly, a loud voice suddenly started to yell in the lobby downstairs, which clearly came into Qi Jingzhi's ears through the door: "Shopkeeper, I never expected that your store was a lust! If I don't give an explanation today, I will sue the government and seal your store door!"

The inn shopkeeper immediately cried out: "Don't say anything nonsense. Our store is a famous inn far and near. We have always been a regular businessman. How can we start with the word "despicable nest"?"

"Hmph, there was a disheveled woman last night. She came knocking on my door with a naked woman. I see that she is not a resident of the store. You, the store, letting such a shameless woman go to the door, dare you say it's not a lustful nest?"

Qi Jingzhi opened his eyes and couldn't help but feel a little surprised: "There are quite a lot of tricks in this inn at night."

He got up and picked up the date bag on the table, went out to look down at the railing, and saw a young scholar standing in front of the counter, glaring at the inn shopkeeper.

There were already many alarmed residents watching upstairs and downstairs, some of whom were surprised and excited, some of whom despised and disbelieved, and most of them were full of envy and fascination.

The inn shopkeeper and several friends standing in the hall looked at the scholar up and down, looking strange and unrestrained.

The young scholar was quite uncomfortable and asked calmly: "How rude is this shopkeeper? I'll come to you to ask for an explanation. Why are you staring at me?"

The shopkeeper did not hesitate after hearing this, and he kept a careful tone: "Didn't the guest let that woman come in?"

Hearing this, the young scholar's face suddenly turned red and his voice became a little lower: "Student...students just wanted to refuse harshly, so she got in by herself. It was really...it was really shameless!"

As soon as the scholar said this, he immediately burst into laughter in the classroom.

The inn shopkeeper also couldn't help laughing and shook his head and said, "Customer, aren't you doing good deeds when you get a cheap one?"

The young scholar had a blushing face and said nothing, but he became angry when he heard this and said angrily: "I see that she is not covered in clothes. Although she is lewd and running, she is a bit pitiful, so she gave her a jade pendant with her. She originally wanted to let her stay for a while and then be a district office after dawn. I didn't want to get up early this morning, and this woman and my family's jade pendant were gone!"

He paused, pointed to the inn gate and said, "After closing, your house will be closed and the bolt will be left. But the woman can enter and exit freely. She must be colluding with you, the store, to seize the wealth of customers!"

Speaking of this, the young scholar turned around and bowed to the guests watching the fun in the hall: "The students endured humiliation and were willing to ruin their reputation and told them in public, just to warn you not to be ruthless in this store and end up losing both their personal wealth!"

After saying this, many guests immediately changed their faces and started to clamor. There was a stance that the shopkeeper would smash the inn and send the shopkeeper and the staff to the official court without giving him an explanation.

Seeing the crowd's affection, the inn shopkeeper finally changed his expression and hurriedly said: "Please be careful, please be impatient, listen to what the villain said!"

As he said that, he gave a deep bow to the young scholar and said seriously: "Your regarding a lewd girl, you said that she had a night run last night. This kind of thing happened from time to time in our Qua Town, either at night or during the day. Speaking of which woman... that woman is not a human being!"

When the young scholar heard this, he was startled and then furious: "What are you talking about, the shopkeeper? That woman is as warm as jade, and there is a shadow under the lamp. Why is it that she even wrong with you?"

The onlookers also buzzed, and the conversation started everywhere.

The inn shopkeeper did not have any intention of joking: "There are many otters in the mountains and rivers of Qu'a Town. Otter women are lustful, and they often look for the young and handsome young people. This is common in the local area, and there is also a record of the "otter female lead husband" in the "Yunxiang County Chronicles". If the guest officials do not believe it, they can go to the street to find someone from the hometown to inquire, and they will naturally know it once you ask!"

After hearing what the inn shopkeeper said, the young scholar's face suddenly became a little shady and unstable.

Seeing him like this, the shopkeeper immediately smiled and said, "If the villain guessed correctly, the woman's fingers last night should be much shorter than ordinary people, and maybe there is still a bit of a fishy smell on her body..."

At this moment, the young scholar could no longer bear it and turned around and ran back to a room with doors and windows on the second floor.

But after a moment, he came out in a daze, holding a ball of green things in his hand. When everyone looked closely, they turned out to be aquatic weeds such as the algae apple.

The inn shopkeeper looked up and saw a smile on his face: "I guess this is the clothes that the woman was wearing."

The audience in the hall was stunned at first, then laughed again, and some even cheered loudly: "The scholar gave him a jade pendant and the otter girl returned to her skirt. It's really a good story! The shopkeeper, can today's affairs be written into the county annals?"

"Haha, this guy is so honest. Don't believe it if you ask others to say anything! The otter girl gave the scholar a close-fitting incense clothes. Now we have seen it, so it's true! But it's hard to say whether the scholar gave him a jade pendant! Maybe he was afraid of being poor, so he didn't want to give up the money from the inn with this handful of water plants!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the audience laughed and clamored again, and the sky became more and more boiling.

The smile on the inn shopkeeper's face could not be concealed by any means, but he just bowed to the four sides and said nothing.

Seeing this, the young scholar couldn't help but feel ashamed and angry. He suddenly threw the water plants in his hand at his feet, then covered his face with his sleeves and hid back into the room.

Seeing that there was no excitement, the spectators upstairs and downstairs gradually dispersed, each busy with his own business and going his own way.

Qi Jingzhi turned around and closed the door, walked down the stairs with his jujube bag, and stood in front of the counter.

The shopkeeper who had already looked down at the account looked up and immediately asked respectfully: "What are the instructions for the guest?"

Qi Jingzhi was about to speak, but someone behind him spoke first, his tone was very anxious: "Shopkeeper, you just said that there are many otters between the mountains, rivers and lakes, and there is a lake near Qu'a Town?"

Qi Jingzhi's voice sounded quite familiar to the person who was talking. When he looked back, he found that it was Wei Yingdian who was smelled of alcohol and had a tired face.

Seeing that the old man stared at the bloodshot eyes, as if he was about to eat the inn shopkeeper, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Brother Wei, are you?"

Wei Yingdian bowed to the young man indiscriminately, but his eyes remained unavailable from the inn shopkeeper. He asked again: "Where is a lake nearby? My ancestral home is Xunyang County, Junzhou. Although it is not Yunxiang County, it is also on the banks of Xunjiang River. The two waterways are less than 200 miles apart. Why have you never heard of any lake nearby?"

Upon hearing this, the inn shopkeeper showed a sudden look on his face. Although Wei Yingdian was so concerned about this matter, he nodded and responded: "The guest official doesn't know that there was no lake in Qu'a Town, but just five years ago, the former county magistrate promoted water conservancy and fell in love with the land surrounded by mountains and depressions in the southeast of the town, next to Xunjiang."

As he said that, he reached out to point out the east window of the inn, and could see a shadow of mountain shadows in the southeast direction.

In fact, Qi Jingzhi and Wei Yingdian had seen that mountain from afar when they were blowing the wind on the bow.

I heard the inn shopkeeper continue to say: "After the county magistrate personally inspected the terrain, he ordered the use of manpower in the three nearby counties. It took more than three years to dig soil in that depression and build a 40-mile embankment, lure the water from Xunjiang to irrigate it, and create a large lake with a radius of dozens of miles to regulate the accumulation of mountain torrents, irrigate and transport."

"Because this lake is located behind Qua Town, it was named Quahou Lake by the county magistrate. This lake was just created shortly after, and the guest officials must have been away from their hometown for many years, and it is not unusual to have never heard of it."

This inn shopkeeper is worthy of being a leader in the industry in a place where business travelers gather. He is quite knowledgeable and well-organized in his words. He can clearly explain the origin of Qu Ahouhu in a few words.

At the end, he glanced at the room where the young scholar was before and said with a smile: "Speaking of this, since the Quahou Lake, rumors about the otter female calligrapher in the town have gradually decreased. On the contrary, there are often beautiful women carrying boats alone on the lake, seducing the middle-aged man to make peace in the boat, and even the frivolous prodigal sons from all over the country are rushing over there, and the town has lost much less nuisance."

Hearing this, Wei Yingdian's eager expression was slightly slowed down, and for some reason he was a little stunned. After a while, he nodded gently and said, "I wrote a letter from my relatives and friends in the town, and he did mention that the county has developed water conservancy in recent years. The county government has also recruited civilians to build dikes and dams. I didn't expect that Yunxiang County has such a scale."

He paused and asked hesitantly: "You dare to ask the shopkeeper, is there such a house next to the embankment of Quahou Lake? There are two extremely tall jujube trees planted in the yard. The crown not only covers the entire courtyard, but also extends to the lake. The dates produced on the trees are as big as walnuts, and they are all deep red and full. From a distance, they look like red clouds all over the tree?"

Wei Yingdian finished speaking in one breath, and looked at the shopkeeper with confusion and unconcealed expectations.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper suddenly showed the strange look he had when he looked at the scholar before, with a look of surprise and desire to speak.

Wei Yingdian was obviously unable to bear the appetite when he was staring at him like this. He immediately coughed, took out the temperament of the Beijing official returning home, and asked in a deep voice: "Do you have it or not?"

The inn shopkeeper had a vicious look and almost immediately set his position. His already hunched back was a little shorter: "Yes! The house mentioned by the guest official is also famous for the two jujube trees."

Wei Yingdian's pupils shrank, and he almost broke his skills, and his tone became a little higher: "Where is that house? Who lives inside?"

"Just next to the lake embankment in the southwest corner of Qu'ahou Lake, there is only an old woman living in the courtyard. Because the dates on her tree are very good, they are not only fresh, sweet, fragrant, but also stranger. They are born with a scent of Qu'a yellow wine. Everyone who has eaten them praises them. Over time, everyone calls her Juju Woman."

"The wine is fragrant? The date woman?" Wei Yingdian's expression changed, and it made people unable to tell whether it was joy or sorrow.

When Qi Jingzhi heard this, he couldn't help but look down at the jujube bag in his hand, and he faintly noticed that something was wrong in his heart.

He reached out and pulled Wei Yingdian aside and asked in a low voice: "Brother Wei, you don't even know Qu'a Houhu, how do you know the house with jujube trees?"

Wei Yingdian was a little hesitant, but suddenly saw the jujube bag with his mouth open in Qi Jingzhi's hand, and immediately widened his eyes.

He snatched one and stuffed it into his mouth. He only chewed it a few bites, and before he could even swallow it, he asked in surprise: "Brother Qi, where did you come from this date?"

Qi Jingzhi shook his head: "Please ask Brother Wei to answer the question below first!"

Wei Yingdian looked at him calmly, as if he finally remembered the extraordinaryness of the boy in front of him.

He no longer hesitated, looked around and pulled Qi Jingzhi to the uninhabited corner of the inn lobby. After considering the words, he said seriously: "This matter is a bit ridiculous. Last night, my brother Yu fell asleep after drinking and saw an old woman burning incense under two jujube trees in the yard to set up a sacrifice. The offering was this kind of date with the fragrance of wine!"

"Um?"

Qi Jingzhi was surprised when he heard this: "Brother Wei could dream of a person he had never set foot on the ground and never met. This matter is magical. But where did the word "absurdity" start?"

Hearing this question, Wei Yingdian twitched his lips and immediately pressed his voice to the lowest point: "Brother Yu woke up in a dream and his mouth was full of wine, but there was still a jujube fragrance between his lips and teeth! I asked the servant who followed him. There was no such thing in the things you and I had to drink last night! In this case, it was Brother Yu who set up a sacrifice at night, and the one who went to enjoy the sacrifice was Brother Yu!"

"I have worked in the Ministry of Rites for many years. Whether it is evil gods' desolation or rituals that exceed the system, I have heard and seen a lot. I didn't expect that overnight I became the spirit of sacrifice for some reason!"

Speaking of this, the former doctor of the Great Qi Rites reached out and stroked his cheek, and his tone became ethereal and unpredictable: "Brother Qi, do you think Brother Yu is dead? Or... he has become a god?"
Chapter completed!