Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 213 Receiving Jining City

In the past few days in Jining City, first Jiang Muchan visited Lu Wangfu at night, then Xiao Wuji broke into the Qinglian Hall alone, and then there was a pair of cute and playful corpses.

For the Fire Lotus Sect, this is undoubtedly an eventful year.

But there are some things that they should do or have to do...

As we all know, those corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry in ancient times loved to make troubles and make money during the festivals.

Let's take the officialdom as an example, except for some extreme examples that are familiar to everyone, such as Hai Rui, generally speaking, even if you are an upright official, can you not accept some congratulatory gifts and red envelopes when you catch up with the "three festivals and two birthdays"?

Not to mention the local tyrants and evil gentry, some shameless people hold birthday banquets all year round, when the nephew of the eighth wife of the eighth aunt and eighth uncle has a birthday, they have to invite all the neighbors around, if they don’t come Just don't give face, here we come, even if I give you some "Huamaoyiyi", you still have to pack a big red envelope.

Don't think it's outrageous, this trend still exists to this day, and now it's not local tyrants and evil gentry who do it, but anyone can do it, maybe some of your relatives do it.

As for the Fire Lotus Sect, they are even more arrogant. They don't even treat guests for dinner, and just ask you for money and things.

What are you looking for?

The Cold Clothes Festival in front of us is a hurdle that the people in Jining have to pass every year.

According to tradition, on the day of Cold Clothes Festival, folks have the custom of "burning cold clothes" for the souls of the dead.

The so-called "burning cold clothes" generally refers to burning the five-color paper that symbolizes cloth and silk, and then burning some Ming paper incense foil or something. .

But in the territory of the Fire Lotus Sect, the rules of the Cold Clothes Festival are different...

According to the "rules" of the Fire Lotus Sect, on the Cold Clothes Festival, every household in Jining must conduct a "burning sacrifice" under their organization.

What is "burning offer"?
That is, you have to "offer" some real property and hand it over to the Fire Lotus Sect, and then the Great Immortal Fire Lotus will "do the magic" for you, bless your deceased relatives, and bless you too.

If you don't "dedicate" less, then your family will be in bad luck, because you are not pious... If you suffer "retribution" in the future, for example, someone digs up your ancestral grave, and someone comes to your house in the middle of the night Stones are thrown in the window, chickens and dogs are stolen every now and then... Don't be surprised.

Of course, if you really don't have money, if you have a big girl or a daughter-in-law who is willing to dedicate it to the leader for "blessing", that's fine.

And if you can't contribute anything, and your attitude is still very uncooperative, then I'm sorry-"burn".

Nothing else, just say that your home has bad geomantic omen, it is a place of great evil, full of evil spirits, if you leave it alone, your home will become a "ghost hole" on the night of the Cold Clothes Festival, and the neighbors will not care if there are any Those who have "gifted" things will be "unlucky" in the future.

Therefore, for the sake of "good morning everyone", the Fire Lotus Church set your house on fire before dark, and did not allow the neighbors to put out the fire until the fire was almost over.

What?Do you think this is unreasonable?
In fact, there is another situation that is even more unreasonable... That is, if you have reached the step of "burning" and still resist stubbornly, then you are a "ghost upper body", and you will be burned together.

Burn alive, the government doesn't care.

But... like this situation, except for the first year of the establishment of the Fire Lotus Sect, it has disappeared in the past few years. After all, there are lessons learned from the past. "Yes, it's better than burning down the house before winter.

Some families really can't do anything, and they don't want their female relatives to be captured and ruined by the Fire Lotus Sect. They simply hang themselves before the Cold Clothes Festival, so as to keep their innocence and a whole body.

Don't think it's an exaggeration, and don't say something like "why didn't the whole family leave Jining?" At that time, it was not like it is now, and it was extremely difficult to move to another place.

If you are single and have no seniors or juniors, then it’s okay to find a distant relative to join, even if they don’t accept you when you get there, you can still stay there to work or get a meal.

But if you want to move your whole family from one place, the difficulty is as high as trying to immigrate with a family whose monthly income is just enough to maintain the minimum standard of living.

Do you have any relatives you can go to?Can your relative take in your whole family?You go to the government to say that your family's household registration will be moved out, and you have to issue a road document... Can you get it without some money?And where did your family get the travel expenses for food, drink and accommodation along the way?Do you have the money mentioned above and still need to run?Wouldn't it be over if you just "donate" a part?
In short, in the past few years since the rise of the Fire Lotus Sect, as soon as the common people heard the three words "Cold Clothes Festival", their scalps became numb, and they wished that God would wipe this day away.

This year, just in time for that cadaver who encountered unpleasant things one after another a few days ago, he wants to use this "burning offer" to make a good fortune so that he can "recover the loss".

So, early in the morning on the first day of October, the Fire Lotus Sect began their "collection" work in the city.

Since the master and chief officer of the Qinglian Hall were all killed a few days ago, the corpse has not arranged for new replacements for the time being, so this year the disciples of the Qinglian Hall can only be assigned to the other four halls as followers. up.

As for the other four halls, they seemed even more frenzied because of the lack of a family sharing the "meat". After all, this was an errand for purely extracting oil and water, who wouldn't want to take the opportunity to earn more?

Those big families are fine, because the richer and more powerful the family, the more polite the Fire Lotus Sect is to them; when they come to "collect donations", the Fire Lotus Sect members usually wait at the door and do not enter the house , Waiting for the housekeeper to send out the money to see if there is enough, it will be sent.

But for those ordinary poor people, the more they have no money and no power, the more ruthless the fire lotus sect will be - that is, they will enter by kicking the door, wanting to open their mouths, robbing people's things and arresting their wives if they have no money. If you resist, you will burn your home, and you will be more robber than robber.

Just like that, in just one morning, the entire city of Jining was in turmoil, and the people were in dire straits.

In a blink of an eye, it's the time of the end. According to the present, it will be around two o'clock in the afternoon, and the "collection" of the Fire Lotus Sect is finally over.

At this time, at the market entrance in the city, the crowd slowly gathered.

What are they doing here?

Look at Daxian's "how".

As I said earlier, after the "collection", the Fire Lotus Immortal will "bless" everyone.

Some people may ask, is the corpse really going to protect the common people?

how can that be possible……

Where in this world is there any spell that can "bless" the people of the whole city at once?If there is, it is not called magic, but social insurance.

So what method is Zhanzi going to do now?
It's simple - juggling.

For one thing, since he has said that he will protect the people after "collecting the donation", then why not just pretend to show it to the people?

Secondly, performing a few tricks that have no practical significance but seem very exaggerated and show them in front of the people is also a kind of deterrent in itself.

As for the common people... the "offers" are all handed in, so let's take a look. From a certain point of view, they are also consumers, and they don't want to see it for nothing.

At the first moment of Shenshi, finally, the figure of the corpse appeared on the altar at the entrance of the market.

This "Fatai" is tall and large, and it was completed two days ago; the Fatai is surrounded by squares and roads, even if there are thousands of people watching, people from a distance can see the situation on the stage.

At this moment, with the appearance of the corpse, the originally noisy square quickly quieted down.

His sense of presence and oppression is indeed strong, just standing on the stage, looking around, can also make people who are far away from him feel terrified, and immediately become silent.

"Huh..." After standing on the stage for a while, when the surroundings were silent, Shi Yanzi curled up the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, and then said, "My dear disciples, fellow countrymen... It's the first day of October, and it's dark. On Ghost Festival, I will pray for the people of Jining as usual, appease the dead, and protect all living beings... I am very pleased to see so many folks come to witness."

Speaking of which, he flicked the whisk in his hand and put on a fairy demeanor, as if he was waiting for the crowd in the audience to applaud his hypocritical nonsense.

"The leader is alive!"

"The leader is merciful!"

"Fire Lotus Great Immortal! His merits are overwhelming!"

"Fire Lotus Immortal! Immortal magic is boundless!"

The grandsons of the Fire Lotus Sect were not slow to react. The hall masters and the chief officials standing by the stage immediately took the lead in shouting. Once they shouted, the other minions followed suit.

As for the common people, those who stood closer to the Fire Lotus Cult members on the side of the stage naturally had to shout twice, or they were afraid of being remembered for their appearance, and those who were far away... at most I moved my mouth, but no sound came out of my mouth.

After the group of people yelled for a while, Shi Yanzi waved his hand again, motioning his subordinates to stop, and said again: "Hey~ I just did what a cultivator should do, What a shame, I am ashamed to be loved so much by all of you."

And his speech similar to "please step up efforts" undoubtedly led to a second round of flattery.

When the second wave of shouting was almost over, Shi Yanzi walked slowly to the side of the altar, came to a table with several ritual artifacts, picked up a bell casually, and said: "Okay, that matter It should not be too late, I will open the altar right now..."

Just when the corpse was about to start its official performance, unexpectedly, a loud shout came from across the sky: "Demon! Have you finished farting yet!"

The voice fell, and the figure rose.

But he saw a person flying out of the crowd.

With outstanding lightness skills, this person stepped forward on the heads of the Fire Lotus Cultists like a dragonfly on water, and jumped onto the towering altar in a few leaps.

Before the person could stand still, the corpse had already recognized him by his figure... If this is not Jiang Muchan, who is it?

"It's you again..." Shi Yanzi was very upset when his "performance" was interrupted, not to mention that the other party was someone he wanted to kill before, so he said unabashedly at this moment, "Why? ? Did you come here specially to lead the death today?"

"Heh... I won't even die if you die." Jiang Muchan sneered, "I'm here to kill you today!"

"It's up to you?" When Shi Yanzi responded to these words, many of the Fire Lotus disciples in the audience had come to their senses and pulled out their weapons one after another.

"It's impossible to rely on me alone." Jiang Muchan didn't care about the actions of the gangsters around the stage, but continued, "But if you add another one, it will be more than enough to deal with you."

Hearing the three words "another", Shi Yanzi immediately thought in his heart: It is probably the "Old Immortal Xudong".

But the corpse remained calm on the surface, and asked in a deep voice, "Oh? Who is it?"

"Good question!" Jiang Muchan seemed to be waiting for his words. The next second, he suddenly took out a copper gong and a small cloth-tipped hammer from his arms, and knocked like a gong, bang bang, bang bang It's like that street performer, and after knocking, he said, "He is that...the chief disciple of the old fairy Xudong, the living golden body of Beitian Dangmo Tianzun——Zhang Baoguo!"

When the corpse heard this, he thought to himself: "Who is this? Could it be the one who played with the dung fork that day?"

But after hesitating for a while, Shi Yanzi still asked, "Then where is he now?"

Snapped--

Before Shi Yanzi could finish his words, a trident's halberd edge broke through the wooden plank under his feet, and suddenly rushed out from under the high platform, striking towards his crotch!

(End of this chapter)