Chapter 51 The Canal Past
After coming out of the "Ghost Realm", Yu Xin and I were a little dazed and felt that everything around us was very strange. In addition, I was like a clockwork, tightly tight. After being beaten behind me, under the conditioned reflex, I jumped up and turned around suddenly, and instinctively sprayed a mouthful of Hu La Tang in my mouth as a "weapon"...
All the soup was sprayed on the face of the man behind him, and the man jumped up with a strange scream...
I looked carefully and saw that the man had bulging eyes, but it was the man I had saved his son before.
"Your mom..."
The man forced himself to hold back the swear words he blurted out and wiped his face with a 'Pu Lala'. His whole face was red, not sure if it was hot or because of embarrassment.
"Why...why are you, brother? I'm so sorry, look at me..." I forced a smile and stammered. Yu Guang looked at Yu Xin, and Yu Xin glared at me.
The man smiled awkwardly and gave me a thumbs up, "The little master is the little master, and his reaction is not comparable to that of ordinary people..."
"Hehe..." I scratched my head.
The man said that he saw us having breakfast here, so he came over to say hello to us. As for his son, he said it was completely ready.
As he said that, he looked at the table, "What's the good food here? Let's take you to eat donkey meat firewood!"
"No, brother..."
I refused repeatedly, and the man refused to do it and insisted on treating us. It was also the greedy donkey meat that was cooked. I finally nodded. When I lifted the bag from the table, I grabbed half of the sesame cake that I had not finished before and took a bite.
Following the man around, we came to an old shop located at the intersection. The shop was dark, not large in size, but very clean, and the tables and chairs looked quite old. Since breakfast time had passed, there were not many diners.
As soon as I arrived in the corner of the wall, two young men in the shop brought the fragrant firewood and the hot donkey soup. The firewood skin of the shop was golden, and it was so sniffed that fragrance that made people drool. After eating two firewood in a row, drinking half a bowl of soup, I finally got back to my soul, and they looked at each other and smiled at each other, surviving death, feeling that life was so beautiful. I burped for a long time and patted my stomach.
Yu Xin pouted and smiled, "What a master of wine bags."
I laughed "haha" and opened my mouth at her, "Ah..." exhaled. Yu Xin frowned, raised her feet, and stomped on my feet.
"Ouch!"
The man sitting opposite him smiled "hehe" and Yu Xin turned red. She lowered her head and drank the soup in a depressed manner. I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and cursed in my heart. This man didn't even wink at all, laughing at you sister...
In order to cover up my embarrassment, I took out a bent and shrunk cigarette from my pants pocket and threw it to him. Then, I lit one myself, took a sip, and sprayed out a long smoke.
"Little Master."
The man screamed violently, and I was choked by the cigarette, and I arched my waist forward and coughed with a 'huh slap'.
"What a fool." Yu Xin whispered, then got up and patted me on my back.
"What...what?" I finally stopped coughing, and I said to the man.
"Will my son never have any more trouble?"
I nodded.
"That's good, that's good... It's weird to say that, how could such a thing run out of that dilapidated temple..." the man muttered.
As soon as he mentioned the temple, I remembered the hole in the city wall behind the temple... I thought to myself that night, I couldn't find the reason for the weird magnetic field in the temple. Could it be that the reason why the weird magnetic field was related to the hole behind the temple? Also, was the thing attached to the child not ran out of the temple, but came out of the hole?... It shouldn't be that the one attached to the child was obviously a divine object, but the hole was connected to the "ghost realm"... But it is hard to say whether the "ghost realm" is so big, is it all dead ghosts inside, and whether there are other things besides dead ghosts, such as divine objects. Who can tell clearly?
"Little Master..."
"Um?"
"That 'thing' has penetrated into the city wall and shouldn't have run out again..."
I said vaguely, and my eyes suddenly lit up. Before casting that night, I calculated that the "Nine Land" fell to Dui Palace in the west, and the city wall was located in the west of the temple, and the top of the city wall was the best place to cast. And the nine-cluster grid I drew at that time was that hole... It seems that even if the thing did not run out of the "Ghost Domain" along the hole, it would probably run into the "Ghost Domain" along the hole... No matter what, the hole is a dangerous existence. Just blocking the entrance of the hole, it would probably not be useful at all by relying on the small array I set up. When I returned to Fengyang Town, if I can't do it, I will take the master over to see if he can completely seal the hole...
"A Leng, what are you thinking?" Yu Xin pushed me gently.
I came to my senses, smiled at her, and said to the man, "Brother, when was that city wall built?"
The man scratched his head and thought, "It's been many years, I don't know when it will be... It seems that it's about the same age as the canal..."
Yuxin and I looked at each other.
"It's about the same age as the canal, but it's thousands of years old?" I asked with a frown.
"It seems so, I heard from the old man..."
I nodded and asked again, "Where is that land temple?"
"That temple is not old in the city walls, it is said to be from the Ming Dynasty."
"The reason why the temple was built there was to bless the city walls to protect the strong and defend against foreign invasions?"
"Yes, I heard people say yes..."
I frowned, subconsciously picked up the soup bowl, "gu", and took a sip of the soup. Before I could swallow it, a sarcastic sound suddenly came from behind me.
"No..."
I was shocked, and my whole body was shocked. I suddenly squirted out the soup from my mouth. By chance, I happened to spray the man's face again...
"Your mom..."
"I'm sorry, brother, I'm sorry..."
I hurriedly stood up and waved my hands at him. The man smeared his face and looked like that, so angry that he wanted to jump up. But he suppressed his anger and made a smile, but the smile was even worse than the bitterness, and the tone sounded strange...
"It's okay, little master, it's okay..."
I smiled awkwardly and turned around and saw that the one I was talking about was an old man. The old man was at least eighty years old, with a long white beard on his chin and a curved crutch.
"The land temple is built under the wall, not because of that, to bless the wall," said the old man.
"Who is this?" I pointed at the old man.
"This is the owner of the fire shop." The man said.
"Ohhh." I nodded.
"Grandpa, please sit down."
Yuxin gave him her stool, but the old man was not polite and sat up tremblingly.
"You sit down." I stood up and pushed the stool.
"No need, I'll stand for a while." Yu Xin said.
"Then I stand like you." I smiled and looked at the old man, "Grandpa, do you know what the temple was built for?"
"Of course." said the old man, "the temple was built there for the town...hehe... town..."
"What's the town?"
"Cough cough cough...relieve evil..."
"Suppress the evil?" I widened my eyes.
“Ahhh…yeah.”
"What evil is it to suppress?"
Although this old man is old, he is not confused. His thinking logic, and expression ability are very clear and organized.
"This is a long way to say it, and I have heard from people in my old age..."
The old man told us that we should start from the Ming Dynasty. After summarizing the old man's words, combined with history, and summarized them, it is roughly as follows.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing. Zhu Di was the King of Yan before the rebellion. Beijing was called Yanjing in ancient times, and it was his old nest. He was used to living there. In addition, the border troubles were severe at that time. Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was located in the south of the Yangtze River, which was not conducive to controlling the situation in the north, so the capital was moved. From a human point of view, any good person in history could not be a good emperor. Zhu Di was not a good person, but he was a good emperor. Without Zhu Di, there would be no Beijing today. Without Zhu Di, there would be no "Yongle Encyclopedia"...
It was far away. When Zhu Di just seized power, he had the idea of moving the capital, so he began to build his own nest in Beijing, which is today's Forbidden City. Before building the Forbidden City, he had to do one thing, that is, to clear the canal transportation. At that time, Beijing was not sufficient at all, especially wood and stone. These materials for building the Forbidden City were even short of them, and they could only rely on the Grand Canal to transport them from the south. Due to years of war, many sections of the northern section of the canal were silted and had long been blocked.
Therefore, in the second year after Zhu Di usurped the throne and seized power, he established the Governor of the Grain Transport, as well as a series of large and small official positions to rectify the canals and clear the Governor of the Grain Transport. After investing a lot of manpower and material resources, the river management work progressed very smoothly. As time went by, sections of rivers were opened. However, when they came to this section of ×× County, they encountered inexplicable obstacles. First, it rained heavily for three days and the work could not be carried out. After the rain stopped, heavy fog floated in the river, and there were a lot of shouts in the fog. Several river management officials were frightened and reported to the Governor. After the Governor came, he ordered a small official to take people down to see what was inside the fog. Unexpectedly, after those people went down, all disappeared, and none of them came out of the fog...
As a result, no one dared to go down. The fog did not dissipate for three consecutive days, and the river control work could not progress. Just when the governor was at a loss, a young man suddenly came and volunteered to go down and take a look. So that night, the young man did not bring a single follower and walked towards the river alone... Everyone thought that the young man would definitely not come back when he went there, but he never thought that at noon the next day, the young man suddenly appeared in the governor's house.
He told the Governor that he already knew what was going on. However, no matter how the Governor asked, he refused to say what was going on. He only said that as long as the Governor did what he said, he would guarantee that the fog in the river would disappear...
"Then the Governor built a temple under the wall as the young man said?" I asked.
"Ahhh, yes." said the old man.
"Don't anyone know the origin of that young man?"
Chapter completed!