Wang Jin and You Xiaoqing can live and study normally during the day, so I don't have to stay with them all the time. In the past few days, I have also obtained the county annals of the Xia County where Wang Jin is located through some connections organized by Master Liu. copy.
Although it is a copy, it is sufficient for reference.
This county chronicle was compiled and drafted by the masters of the county government since the early Ming Dynasty. It mainly records some major events and important cases in their county, but there are also vacant years, and I compared those years, almost all of them are times of war.
That is to say, except for some vacancies during the war, which were not filled later, the other news is quite complete.
Because Wang Jin said that the pagoda in her village was built in the Ming Dynasty, I focused on the part of the Ming Dynasty.
Finally, a clue was found during the Jiajing period. In the 40th year of Jiajing, a county magistrate came to this county. The surname was Hao Mingkui. This magistrate was not from Kejia, but a Taoist priest. , still got the personal acceptance of Emperor Jiajing, but unfortunately he disappeared after serving as a county magistrate for less than a month, and his disappearance happened to be related to the solid tower.
I have read some historical books, the Jiajing Emperor was a good emperor in the early days, and he brought a rejuvenation to the gradually declining Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, the good times did not last long. In order to manage the government, he even sent many Taoist priests as officials to collect materials for alchemy all over the country, and this Hao Kui was afraid that he was one of those Taoist priests.
The county annals record that the day after Hao Kui arrived at the county office, he brought a few servants to Wanghu Village, which is now Wang Jin's village. As for the water beast, as for what is "Lianqi", the master who compiled the county annals said: "In my county, under the county magistrate, no one knows this thing, or whether it is a heavenly thing, and it is unknown."
When I saw this, I felt that the so-called Lianqi was mostly made up by Hao Kui to bluff people, because after seeing the name, I also checked a lot of information, but I didn't find anything about it. The records of things are not even recorded in the Shanhaijing which records many strange things.
Hao Kui took some people to Wanghu Village, and he led the local squires to the "Wanghu" near Wanghu Village, which is the small lake that was later merged into by the reservoir.
After arriving at Wanghu Lake, Wang Kui ordered fishermen to be dispatched to the local villages to start catching the water beast, Lianqi, day and night.
Although the people of Wanghu Village had never seen such a thing as Lianqi, it was an official order, so they dared not disobey. They could only follow the requirements of the county magistrate Hao Kui and the local squire, and kept casting nets in Wanghu Lake day and night. Hao Kui directly ordered the fish that came up to be cooked and distributed to the local villagers.
At first, the villagers here didn't catch anything except some fish, but after half a month, the fish in the lake became less and less, and the fish caught also became smaller and smaller. Some local elderly people That is to say, we can no longer fish, otherwise the fish in the lake will become extinct. Even if we fish, we must put the fish back. Anyway, the villagers have eaten enough fish these days.
For this reason, an old scholar named Wang Xi in Wanghu Village also wrote a petition letter to Hao Kui. After reading the letter, Hao Kui smiled and said: "This is the emperor's life, the holy edict, and there is no fish in the lake. Why not? Ruxiu is surprised."
Later, Hao Kui told the old scholar that the reason why he wanted to catch all the fish was so that Lianqi, who feeds on fish, had nowhere to find food, and then got into a trap he set up in the north of Wanghu Lake. Use fish as bait to lure Lianqi into the bait.
It seems that Hao Kui knew from a long time that the so-called Lianqi was not easy to catch, so from the very beginning he went to this Wanghu Village with a "plan to kill the fish".
Seeing this, I don't believe that Hao Kui is a Taoist priest. Although Tao is not as strict as the Buddha's "killing" precepts, he will never do anything as vicious as Hao Kui.
Seeing that the old scholar could not persuade Hao Kui, he went to several local squires, hoping that they could help to persuade Hao Kui, but those squires only wanted to hold Hao Kui's thigh, so they all agreed to the old scholar. , but actually no one mentioned this to Hao Kui.
The old scholar is not stupid. Knowing that he can't stop these people, he went to the ancestral temple in the village to change his surname. He also said that Wang's surname had caused a big crime, and he just didn't want to be implicated in his surname change.
The old scholar's surname was naturally reviled by the villagers, so he moved out of Wanghu Village. As for his whereabouts, the county annals did not record it.
On the third day after the old scholar moved away, the villagers who captured Lianqi in Wanghu started to have accidents one by one. He drowned, and the next few were all because when he went out to fish, he didn't check the boat properly. After reaching the middle of the lake, the boat began to leak, and then sank with the boat.
Seeing this, I feel a little weird. Those villagers have lived by the lake all the year round. The water is definitely good, and they will never drown because of the sinking of the boat. Could it be that Lianqi in Hao Kui's mouth is responsible
The villagers did not dare to go fishing in the lake because of successive accidents. On the night when the villagers went fishing, the county magistrate Hao Kui disappeared out of thin air, and then several villagers in the village were bitten by strange things in the neck. Some villagers said that they saw Hao Kui turned into a monster, and went to the village to catch people to suck blood at night.
Later, a group of two monks came to Wanghu Village and performed a seven-day ritual on the edge of Wanghu Lake. At the same time, they summoned local squires to build a solid tower to suppress evil. Since then, there has been no incident of monsters hurting people.
After reading the story recorded in the county annals, I probably understand why this incident was included in the county annals, because a county magistrate was missing in this incident, which is a big deal in a county or even a state capital. .
However, this record was too crude after all. It didn't say Hao Kui's last whereabouts, nor did it say whether the monster who bit and sucked blood was Hao Kui, and the so-called Lianqi was not mentioned again.
In addition, there is no record of the ritual process of the two monks.
Although there are still many problems that have not been solved, I at least know why the solid tower was built.
It's just that I don't know whether that evil spirit is the so-called Lianqi or a monster that looks like the magistrate Hao Kui.
After I found out this story, I called Master Ge as soon as possible, and Master Ge said, "When you were looking for the county annals from the organization, someone already gave us a copy, so you said We also saw that part.”
Originally I thought it was my own discovery, but I didn't expect that Master Ge knew it long ago, so I was a little disappointed, but Master Ge said again: "But Xiaoyong, I still praise you, you know more and more. How to solve it."
Since Master Ge knew what I was going to say, I asked Master Ge whether they had obtained the research results of that thing, and knew what it was. Master Ge said, "It's a kind of corpse, if it doesn't come out, it's a corpse. Accidentally, I am afraid it is a fierce corpse. The last time we met it, it didn't come out to find us, and we were really lucky."
I was curious and asked how fierce Master Ge was, and Master Ge just laughed dryly and said, "Maybe it's a scorpion!"
After listening to Master Ge, I couldn't help being taken aback. Master Liu once said that a dragon with great supernatural powers can easily kill an ordinary dragon. With this level of "corpse", there is only one way for Taoists to go, and that is to fight.
At the same time, I was extremely entangled in my heart. Master Liu said that this time he was going to test me, but if he were to test me with a scorpion, then I would definitely not be able to handle it. After all, I can no longer get the upper body of the ghost king.
Listening to me being silent, Master Ge said again: "You don't have to worry too much, I'm just guessing at the beginning, if it is confirmed, then the old monsters of your foster father's heavenly master level will always come, no Let those of us do it alone."
I asked Master Ge when I could fully confirm it with an "oh", and he said it would be three more days.
Then I called Master Liu again and told the general situation, Master Liu said: "Xiaoyong, I probably won't go this time, and Lao Cao probably won't go either, but don't worry, Master Tian One will be sent, if it proves that the underwater thing is really a monster."
I didn't ask who would be sent, but instead asked Master Liu why he couldn't come. Master Liu said, "Because it's not convenient for me to leave Beijing during this period of time. As for the reason, you will understand later."
Well, Master Liu always has such secrets, so many compellations, I'm used to it, so I don't continue to ask.
For the next three days, I will go to Wang Jin's house every night, and of course You Xiaoqing will also go there. The two of them have not met two little ghosts in the past few days, and I have become less concerned about those two little ghosts. Because there may be something hundreds of times more difficult to deal with than the two little ghosts under the water, and there are still a lot of questions waiting for us to answer.
As for Wang Jin's younger brother and the child who wants sandals, most of them are things that we solve along the way.
However, I also felt faintly in my heart that Wang Jin's younger brother Wang Chen and another kid seemed to have some clues that were not discovered by us. Of course, this was just my simple feeling. At that time, I couldn't think of anything.
In the past three days, the "love" between Li Jiahao and Qu Xiaoyou has also progressed rapidly. I heard that Li Jiahao has brought Qu Xiaoyou to his father's company. Of course, I just know a little about these things. Just a moment.
As for Yang Xiaohui, it seems that he doesn't care about Li Jiahao's new love.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Master Ge called me on his own initiative, saying that the research results had come out, and it had been confirmed very accurately that the thing under the water was a corpse of the first class. The origin of this corpse has not yet been verified, and it is initially suspected that it is the missing Hao Kui recorded in the county annals or the Lianqi he was looking for.
But Hao Kui died a few days after disappearing and turned into a "魃", which seems a little impossible!
Since the former is impossible, the possibility that Lianqi itself is a corpse is extremely high.
In any case, there are more and more stories in it, and we have to unravel them one by one to get the final answer.