"Grandpa the beast, it's been raining all the time recently, so our family went out to town." The child grinned, dripping water on his wet forehead.
"Mom said, we're going to move, we don't know when we'll be back." The child seemed very distressed, bowed respectfully to the river three times, and then sat down on a pile of pebbles.
"You can smell the smell of chicken legs and steamed buns, then I'll start eating them." The child took out the chicken legs from the enamel cup and gnawed on the steamed buns.
This kid... he's quite frugal.
Fu Li looked at the child like a black-skinned monkey, eating the sacrifice cleanly, turned his head to look at the scorpion, and found that the other party's face was not strange, as if he was used to this child's behavior. worship.
"They all said that I fell into the river and didn't drown, because I was lucky. But I know that you saved me." He stretched his head and looked at the water, as if he could see the rescue through the deep river. My own divine beast, "Grandpa divine beast, what do you like to eat, you can dream of it for me, and I will bring it to you to smell."
Fu Li turned his head to look at the cockroach, and said in his mouth that he would destroy the sky and destroy the earth, how could he save a child who fell into the water
"I just don't want the corpses of humans to make the bottom of the river more dirty." Seeing Fu Li staring at him, the cockroach was a little unhappy, "What do you think I do?"
"Then let's talk about revenge." Fu Li looked around, "Human books can't record this history, but the mountains here, the trees here, and the demon cultivators here may still remember."
"Aren't you here to stop me from taking revenge?" The cockroach took his eyes away from the child. "The dragon beside you, I'm afraid it's the fate of the country, and he will let me take revenge."
Zhuang Qing glanced at him and Fu Li, but did not speak.
"However, this golden light of merit is somewhat familiar." Although the beast was incarnated by the resentment of the auspicious beast, he inherited the memory of the beast, so he was both a beetle and not, "When that fool was alive, he must have seen you. "
Zhuang Qing said calmly: "Lord scorpion is a great auspicious beast."
"Then you know, how did this great auspicious beast in your mouth die?" The scorpion laughed, "He is ill, and his body is so weak that it is difficult for him to transform into a human form. Humans, these human beings received his favor, but they sincerely served him until death. However, after his death, these human beings showed greed, and even his bones were unwilling to let go."
Looking at the fast-flowing river, Zhuang Qing moved her throat, but she couldn't say a good word for human beings.
Ingratitude, nothing more.
The child sitting on the cobblestone stood up and waved his hand towards the river: "Sir, see you next time." He turned around and took two steps, slipped his feet, and leaned into the river.
Before Zhuang Qing and Fu Li could react, the cockroach flew out, plunged into the water, and lifted the child out of the water. Seeing the child fainted, he nervously stretched out his hand and sniffed, and after confirming that he was okay, he took off all the wet clothes on his body, made a big thick blanket, wrapped him up, and laid it on for him. In a clean place, and then walked back.
Fu Li thought silently, according to this situation, the cockroach's wish to destroy the sky and destroy the earth may not be fulfilled.
"Among all the sons of Father Dragon, I am the fastest." The cockroach returned to the enchantment and defended with a stern face.
"I understand." Fu Li nodded solemnly, "You were able to save the child one step ahead of us because you were fast."
Pitfish:…
Zhuang Qing: …
The atmosphere was unspeakably awkward.
"This is for you." Fu Li glanced at the sky, took out the jade bone umbrella from the Qiankun bag, and handed it to the cockroach: "I will accompany you to investigate those ungrateful human descendants."
Smelling the dragon smell on the umbrella, the cockroach didn't pick it up: "Umbrella made of keel?"
"Don't worry, this kind of dragon is a degenerate dragon, not as good as your dragon father's auspicious beast that can guard all directions." Fu Li shoved the umbrella into his hand, "You are full of resentment, I'm afraid you haven't No matter how far you go, Tianlei will split you apart."
"That's right, most of these dragons now have weak limbs and low cultivation bases. Compared with the dragons of the past, they are really far behind." The cockroach took the umbrella, "The dragon beside you is still worth seeing."
Zhuang Qing asked blankly, "Should I thank you for your compliment?"
"If you juniors understand these manners, it's okay to say thank you." The cockroach stepped out of the thick fog, stepped on the muddy road, looked back at the child lying next to him, and put a slap on him with his sleeves. Safe Boundary.
I heard that in the human world, child abduction is popular now.
The people here live by the river, but because the local area is relatively poor, most young and middle-aged people go out to work, leaving the old and weak women and children to farm at home. Since the government has urgently demolished the people, the whole village is deserted, with brick houses and two-story buildings scattered around, which looks very withered.
In his memory, there are many people in this village, the old man weaving cloth and fishing nets, the women planting crops, the men going to the river to fish for money, and the most wonderful gift of nature to them is the one that drowns him 1,500 river of the year.
The most dilapidated part of the village is that the original village temple is no longer in tatters. When Fu Li and others came to the village temple, they found that the stone steps in front of the village temple had been weathered a lot, the blue tiles that covered the rain had fallen off, a few pieces of rotten wood were swaying, and weeds were overgrown.
Waving away the weeds in the temple, Fu Li saw a stone statue placed in the house. He didn't know what kind of stone it was carved from, but he could barely tell that the stone statue was an animal that looked a bit like a lizard.
It seems to be... the real body of a cockroach
Are cockroaches so ugly
"The three boys in front, it's dangerous, don't linger." A middle-aged man holding his trousers stood not far away and waved to them, "You are from out of town? Don't know there's going to be a flood here, why don't you hurry up?"
Zhuang Qing walked up to the middle-aged man and took out his documents: "Hello, I'm from Kyoto. I'm here to check something."
"Are you here to investigate the stone statue?" The middle-aged man glanced at the documents, and immediately understood Zhuang Qing's intention, "I am the village director here, and I came back and ran for a while because an important document was left in the village committee. Go. If you want to know, I can answer you, but it's dangerous here, we'll talk as we walk."
Zhuang Qing looked at the scorpion, and the scorpion nodded.
"Thank you." Zhuang Qing thanked the village director.
"You're welcome, you are also doing things for our common people." The village director turned to look at Fu Li and the cockroach who were following, and grinned: "You choose staff in big cities based on their looks."
Zhuang Qing was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what the village director meant: "No, it's just a coincidence."
"Then the soil and water in your big city support people." The village director sighed, "It's not easy to find a few water spirits like here, where people are poor for generations."
"Director, what is enshrined in that ruined temple?" Fu Li took the opportunity to ask.
"I don't know either, the ruined temple was like this when I was young. It is said that when the feudal superstition was broken down, some children were ignorant and went to demolish the ruined temple. How could they know that when they came back, they would have a high fever that would not subside, almost Even his life is gone." The village director looked back at the ruined temple, "Since then, no one has touched this place again. The village goddess said that there is a god in this temple, if anyone offends He will be rewarded."
The village director realized that he had said too much, and hurriedly said: "Of course, as a grass-roots cadre, I will definitely not believe in this kind of feudal superstition. But the opinions of the masses still have to be heeded. Anyway, there are few people in the village. I kept it, and it didn't get in the way."
Fu Li: …
Village director, your political consciousness is very high.
"How can you be sure that you are worshiping a god?" the cockroach sneered, "maybe not?"
"I don't know this." The village director was stunned for a moment. "These are all words passed down from the older generation. Who knows what's true or false." What's wrong with this young man, it doesn't rain and doesn't see the sun, What umbrella do you use
The cockroach did not speak with a straight face.
"But we really have a legend here, which is related to the god in the temple." The village host rubbed his hands, "If you are interested, I will tell you." The children in the village are tired of hearing these legends. After finding outsiders to brag a few times, the village director was in high spirits.
Seeing his eagerness to try, Zhuang Qing nodded, "Let's talk."
"It is said that a long time ago, it rained heavily for many days, and there was a flood in our nearby village. Back then, it was not like now, when something happened, the state would try its best to manage you and save you. At that time, the sky was high and the emperor was far away. The county magistrate would not care about the lives of the people. After several villages were flooded, the people called Tiantian no. Who knew that a dragon suddenly descended from the sky and rescued all the people to the top of the mountain and gave them a lot of food. Maybe it was the dragon who saved them. There were too many people, and it took a lot of energy. He died of illness not long after, and the villagers nearby built this temple to commemorate him." The village director said, "The old man said that as long as our descendants worship every day, the dragon will live. Come, go back to the sea."
The cockroach sneered.
The village director thought he was laughing at this ignorance, and said a little embarrassedly: "It's just a legend, it can't be true. In all these years, except for some old people and children, no one has come to worship."
"Not all human beings are like this, forgetful and fickle." The cockroach looked at a mountain in the distance, where "he" saved those humans and settled them.
"Ah?" The village director looked at the cockroach in a puzzled way. The people in the city are so interesting now that they dislike the entire human race.
Fu Li glared at the cockroach, and said to him through a voice transmission: "Lord cockroach, when we scare this ghost away, we won't be able to ask any more valuable things."
The cockroach snorted and said nothing.
The four climbed onto the road. The village director saw a motorcycle flipping over in front of him and ran over nervously: "Someone had a car accident!"
Zhuang Qing and Fu Li stood there and didn't move, looking at the village director with a bit of pity in their eyes.
The village director ran to the motorcycle, feeling a little strange in his heart, isn't this his motorcycle, who hit his motorcycle like this
However, when he saw the man lying on the ground covered in blood, he was stunned.
Isn't that... himself
He stared blankly at the corpse, then turned to look at Fu Li and the others, as if looking for an answer. He opened his mouth and dared not speak for a long time: "I, am I dead?"
He had no wife and no children, and his death was not too painful, not a big deal. This time he went back to get the local people's subsistence allowance materials. Those who are having a hard time will wait for the money to buy rice and cook. He died, and I am afraid this matter will be delayed again.
And this road should also be repaired. When it rains, it is muddy and slippery, which is prone to traffic accidents. He is an obvious example.
"Yes, you are dead." The scorpion said unceremoniously, "Are you stupid, and you don't even know whether you are dead or alive?"
"Hehe." The village director was so ridiculed that he was not angry, he scratched his head and smiled a few times. Those who do grass-roots work are sometimes scolded by the people pointing their noses at them, and sometimes when they encounter people who are sloppy and rolling, they also want to talk about civilization and create a new style. So after working in this position for a few years, my temper gradually became better.
"Then what should I do now?" The village director was a little worried. "When someone dies, where should I go?"
"There will be a messenger to take you to the underworld." Fu Li took out his mobile phone and called the police. In order to avoid causing the police to suspect, he also called the medical emergency.
"Oh." The village director sat cross-legged by the road. "Then you can go, I'm here. I'm a ghost and I'm not afraid of floods, but you can't help flooding."
"Who told you that we are human now?" The cockroach sneered, "How can people see ghosts?"
The village director jumped up from the ground in fright: "Then what are you?"
"I'm… "
Fu Li stretched out his hand to cover the cockroach's mouth: "He's joking with you, the three of us have learned a little magic from an expert, that's why we can see you."
"So you are masters." The village director looked at Zhuang Qing suspiciously, "The documents you just showed me are fake, what are you trying to do in our village, steal the idol?"
Zhuang Qing frowned: "Why steal a stone, take it back and use it as a stool?"
Village director: "..."
That is true.
The cockroach glared at Zhuang Qing, Zhuang Qing was unmoved, lowered his head and took out a handkerchief, pulled Fu Li's hand and wiped it: "You have mud on it."
"Ah?" Fu Li smiled and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Zhuang Qing glanced at the scorpion and said to Fu Li, "It's almost impossible to retrieve things from a tree more than a thousand years ago, because there are no trees here that have lived for so many years, and these mountains are also They are all ordinary, and there is no mountain spirit."
"Then what?"
Hearing the sound of bells in the distance, Zhuang Qing said: "The clearest way of life and death of the local people is the shadow of the underworld."
"Mr. Fu Li, Minister Zhuang, why are you here?" Li Xu was also a little surprised when he saw Fu Li and Zhuang Qing.
"We have something we want to ask the clerk, but I wonder if the clerk can answer the question." Fu Li bowed to Lixu. Li Xu quickly avoided the ceremony and said with a smile, "Please tell me."
"I wonder if the underworld can find out the records of life and death of the people here 1,500 years ago?" Fu Li turned to look at the cockroach, "This matter is very important to us, please help me."
"One thousand five hundred years ago?" Li Xu thought for a while, then took out his mobile phone and said to the village director who was sitting next to him, "You wait."
"You are free, you are free." The village director watched with relish. This is a bad thing, and he has never seen it in his whole life.
Call up the birth and death book work system, search 1,500 years ago by time, and then enter the location, which jumps out of the local people's birthdates, life trajectories, and causes of death.
A person's life, in the book of life and death, is only a few short crosses.
"1,500 years ago, around 520 AD, almost all the villagers here were killed by robbers, and more than 200 people died." Li Xu said, "According to the original trajectory, they should not have died, but the local people , It seems that a forbidden technique was used to change the fate. That is to say, it was condemned by God."
"God's scourge..." Fu Li said in surprise, "So many people, all suffered from god's scourge?"
"Yeah." Li Xu recalled the records of the scourge incident, sighed, shook his head and sighed, "After these ghosts went to the underworld, they said they were blessed by the dragon, but the dragon died because of them. I don't know where they heard it. It is said that as long as the corpse of the dragon is buried in the water, a temple is built for it, and it is worshipped with incense every year, the dragon will have a day to live."
"They... want to save Shenlong?" Fu Li suddenly turned back to look at the cockroach, but the cockroach lowered his head, and he couldn't see the expression on the other's face.
"If there really is a dragon here, how could the dragon die of exhaustion because of saving a few people? It can only be said that the dragon was about to die." Li Xu put away his phone, "The dragon that was destined to die, but these people tried to bring it back to life. This is contrary to the way of heaven, and will naturally be punished by heaven.”
"Maybe these people are lying, they just want to keep the bones of the dragon and suppress the river water to avoid floods?" Fu Li said, "In this way, will there be divine condemnation?"
"Dead bones, even if they are used as waste, what kind of punishment can they have?" Li Xu shook his head and said, "Why is Daojun Fuli interested in what happened back then? Could it have something to do with the impending flood?"
"There's going to be another flood here?"
"According to the records in the book of life and death, there should have been a flood here long ago, and many people will die." Li Xu sighed, "As a result, I stayed here for a day, and I only watched a hapless ghost who fell to his death on a motorcycle. ."
He took out the office system of his mobile phone and looked at it again, and snorted: "In modern society, changes are fast, and the records in the life and death book have also been changed. There will be no more floods here, so I should get off work." With his body locked in a chain, Quxu, whose workload has been reduced, is refreshed, "I'll take him back, and I'll get off work. Goodbye everyone."
"Farewell." Fu Li looked at his cheerful back and didn't know what to say for a while.
The cockroach looked at the mountain in the distance, tiptoed a little, and flew up. Fu Li and Zhuang Qing saw this and followed.
Because of the policy of returning farmland to forests implemented in the past few years, the vegetation is lush and there is almost no way up the mountain, and naturally there are not too many traces of human beings.
There was a stone cave on the mountainside, and the beetle stood at the entrance of the cave and did not go in.
Fu Li took out three huge luminous pearls from the Qiankun bag, and divided one between the scorpion and Zhuang Qing, and the entrance of the cave suddenly lit up.
Walking into the cave, Fu Li saw the crude and almost abstract stone carvings on the wall.
Long rivers, flooded humans, and divine beasts descended from the sky.
This is a thank you letter that spans thousands of years.
The people here look forward to the dragon being able to wake up again, return to the sea, and return to the blue sky.
But in the most ignorant way.