Half-demon peasant girl has space

Chapter 154
Changfeng Town is a small water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It is built by the water and close to Taichang Lake. Because of its beautiful scenery, it has attracted many literati to visit here.

Although there are not many fish in Taichang Lake, it is difficult to sell the fish because of the fishy smell, so the people in Changfeng Town mostly make a living by ferrying pearls or growing lotus roots. As for the fish caught in Taichang Lake, they eat them by themselves. Just eat it.

Qian Lian and Bei Cheng were sitting in the black-covered boat, and the old boatman smiled and said to them, "This is the young girl's first visit to our Changfeng Town, right? But this young master looks familiar."

This time when he came to Changfeng Town, Beicheng didn't wear Taoist robes, but a brocade robe with a moon-white plain face and carved silk. The Fengshen Junyi on his side was as bright as the sun and stars, which attracted Qianlian to take a few glances involuntarily.

Beicheng replied with a smile when he heard the words: "The old man has good eyesight. The last time I came here was two or three years ago, but this friend of mine is here for the first time."

"Haha." The boatman said with a smile: "Let me tell you, I've been on a boat near here for decades, and I've seen a lot of people coming and going. , As long as I don’t have any impression, it’s basically the first time to come to our Changfeng Town.”

Qian Lian also laughed and said, "The old man's eyesight is really good."

"That's it." The old boatman said proudly: "We have a beautiful scenery here, and there are many people who come to visit on weekdays, especially the lotus pond next to Taichang Lake. Every year in June and July, many scholars go there specially. When reading articles, even in Taichang Lake, there are many people who like to sit on a boat and watch the scenery on the lake..."

Speaking of this, the old boatman's expression darkened, and he warned: "However, let me tell you, Taichang Lake has not been peaceful recently, so you must not go there. It is the lotus pond. If you want to go, you'd better go there." Go during the day, don’t go at night.”

Qian Lian asked curiously, "Old man, what happened recently?"

"Hey!" The old boatman sighed, and said, "There are water ghosts in Taichang Lake who are taking their lives. They have already drowned several young men, all of whom have excellent water quality."

Beicheng then asked: "I remember my aunt said that many people in Changfeng Town make a living by fishing pearls, but those pearl fishers?"

"That's right." The old boatman nodded and looked at Beicheng again: "Your aunt also lives in Changfeng Town?"

Beicheng pointed to a pier not far ahead and said, "Yes, that's the third family in the alley, go up that pier."

The old boatman looked in the direction Beicheng knew, nodded and said: "It turns out that it is Old Tang's family. Hey, his family is full of disasters. The wife at home is too sick to get out of bed, and the second boy almost broke up." In that Taichang Lake, that kid was lucky enough to survive, but he was covered in blood and looked like a human being, and now I don’t know if he can survive.”

He said, sighed, and said to Beicheng: "It's good if you come, you can also comfort them, and, about your aunt's second son, don't talk about it when you see her, I heard you My aunt is seriously ill, and the whole family hides it from her, if they find out, won't it kill her?"

Beicheng was startled when he heard this: "What, my aunt is sick? My aunt's son was also injured?"

"That's not true!" The old boatman sighed, "Your aunt has been ill for some time, and a lot of money from the family has been filled in, but it's not getting better."

Beicheng's heart tightened, the nanny treated him very well, he didn't know that the nanny was so seriously ill.

Seeing this, Qianlian tugged on Beicheng's sleeves and whispered, "Don't worry, I'm here."

Beicheng said gratefully: "Qianlian, I will work hard on you this time."

The old boatman didn't pay attention to the movements of the two, and he still said with emotion: "If you say that this Taichang Lake has really hurt a lot of people these days, only two escaped with their lives, and the others were all folded in the lake. "

Qian Lian hurriedly asked: "Did the person who escaped tell us about the situation under the lake?"

"Until now, no one has woken up yet." The old boatman sighed, "It's hard for us common people now."

"Didn't the government invite the Taoist chief to subdue the demon?" Bei Cheng frowned and asked.

Generally speaking, if a ghost appears in a place, the local government must invite Taoist priests to come and subdue the monster. However, it seems that Changfeng Town has been haunted by ghosts for a long time. Why is no one coming?
"Still talking about it." The old boatman said this, a little angrily said: "At that time, people from the government came to see and said that they would invite the Taoist priest to come to subdue the demon when they went back, but until now, there has been no movement. Those of us in the town How can the common people know the Taoist priest? There is no other way but to avoid it as much as possible, and they don’t come out at night, so they just hope that the water ghost will not chase them to the shore, alas, it’s difficult!”

While speaking, the awning boat docked.

Beicheng put an ingot of broken silver in the hands of the old boatman: "Old man, you have worked hard."

The broken silver was probably in twos or threes. The old boatman saw it and hurriedly said: "Why is it so much, but it's only a few dozen cash, my lord, I'd better give you copper coins, this... I don't have so much silver to give you."

Beicheng smiled: "It's okay, old man, just keep it, you don't need to look for it."

After saying that, he and Qian Lian went into the alley.

The old boatman hurriedly called to stop them, but seeing them leave without looking back, he looked at the broken silver in his hand and said with emotion: "This is a good man I met today."

But Qian Lian followed Bei Cheng to Old Tangtou's house, and on the way Qian Lian asked Bei Cheng in a low voice: "Doesn't anyone in your nanny's family know your identity?"

"Yes." Bei Cheng said: "My identity cannot be made public, only the nanny knows, so I wear ordinary clothes every time I come here, and everyone in the nanny's family thinks that I am the distant nephew of the nanny. Walking around and selling groceries for a living, by the way, my mother’s surname is Wen, they all think my name is Wen Heng.”

"Okay, I see." Qian Lian nodded, no wonder there was a ghost in Changfeng Town, but the nanny's family didn't spread the news to Maoshan. Yes, and the nanny's family didn't know Beicheng's identity, so naturally they wouldn't pass any news to Beicheng.

After a while, the two arrived outside the courtyard of Old Tangtou's house.

Beicheng patted the courtyard door lightly.

"Who is it?" Following Beicheng's knock on the door, an old voice came from the yard.

After hearing this, Beicheng said loudly, "Uncle, it's me, Ah Heng."

"Ah Heng!" Upon hearing Beicheng's voice, someone hastily opened the courtyard door and said excitedly, "Ah Heng, you are here."

The person who opened the door was a 50-[-]-year-old man with a slight burden on his back. Although he was talking to Beicheng with a smile, he couldn't hide the sadness on his face, and a deep vertical line between his eyebrows was even more extreme. obvious.

Seeing Bei Cheng and Qian Lian standing outside the door, the old man said again: "Ah Heng, this is your friend, come in quickly."

(End of this chapter)