Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 83 Temple Fair

The land produces five grains, and the five grains nourish the people, so people worship the land.

The earth temple is not high in godhood, rough and simple in shape, even a little shabby, but it is very popular, and there are an endless stream of people who come to offer incense.

Zhao Lin and Liang Song walked into the gate of the temple, and saw two cute clay statues in front of the hall: the land lord and the land woman, who looked like ordinary rural old men and women.

There is a pair of couplets pasted on both sides of the shrine. The first couplet reads: The father-in-law is very fair, and the second couplet reads: The mother-in-law has a heart.

Horizontal batch: The earth protects God.

There are also statues of Buddha and Taoist patriarchs standing on both sides of the lobby, and several monks and priests are also busy begging for incense money.

Zhao Lin is not surprised. There are also Buddhism and Taoism in this world, but their influence is far less than that of the previous life. Most people regard them as spiritual sustenance or psychological comfort.

Interestingly, both Buddhism and Taoism claim that belief leads to spirituality, and non-belief leads to ineffectiveness.

But the mentality of the people is just the opposite: believe it if it works, and don't believe it if it doesn't work, or don't ask me whether I believe it or not, first ask you whether it works or not.

Zhao Lin observed the few monks and priests, and found that they were ordinary, no different from ordinary people. He thought that this is a world of martial arts after all, not a place where one can cultivate immortals.

When the two came out of the temple, there was a sea of ​​people in front of them, and it was very lively.

Singing opera performers, performing Shehuo facial make-up, walking on stilts, playing tricks, fortune-telling, sugar figurines, paper-cutting, batik, lettering... It is dizzying.

The two walked and watched, and came to a tea stand near noon.

There was a table in front of the tea stand, and a man who looked like a storyteller was holding a folding fan, and was talking eloquently:
"Zhan Zhan Qingtian can't be bullied. Heroes are born with courage and courage. Although it is not a good business, there are quite a lot of people here today."

Saying "snap" and clapping eye-catchingly:
"Listen carefully, everyone. The next thing I want to talk about is the serial rape and murder case in Qinghe County. Zhao catcher Zhidou Wen Gensheng..."

Liang Song looked over with a smile: "Brother Zhao, what about you?"

Zhao Lin couldn't help but smile, he didn't expect to become a celebrity.

The two stopped and listened for a while, and gradually became strange.

I don't know where the storyteller heard the jokes. He told the already tortuous case with ups and downs and hype, and added many "magic reform" plots.

In the libretto, one of Zhao Lin and Wen Gensheng is a god descending from the earth, and the other is a demon king descending from heaven.

Zhao Lin's life was hanging by a thread several times, and he escaped from danger. Finally, he was brave enough to catch Wen Gensheng with the magic at the bottom of the box.

Although the story was outrageous, the people bought it quite a lot, and there were applause and cheers one after another.

"Capturer Zhao is really powerful. If he hadn't made a move, I don't know how many innocent women would have been murdered."

"Yeah, I heard that his family used to be from Paektu Mountain, and you and I are half of the same village."

"You guys don't know yet, Zhao Butou and I are from the same village, and I even peed on him when he was young..."

Zhao Lin was startled, and glanced at the speaker. It was a rough guy with a red scarf on his head, and he didn't recognize him at all.

Shaking his head, he was about to leave when he suddenly heard a whisper.

"Shitou, I heard that Chief Zhao has his parents and elder brother at home, do you know where he lives?"

The voice is not loud, and the distance is far away, but Zhao Lin has developed a habit of turning on all the auditory senses to scan the surroundings every few breaths, and the sound within a radius of nearly [-] meters cannot escape his ears.

There is a problem with this sentence.

If you are famous, it is normal for someone to inquire about it, but why do you inquire about your family?
Zhao Lin looked around and saw a man in black standing under the stage, talking to a man dressed as an official.

He immediately walked to a place with less traffic, his Adam's apple vibrated, and the ultrasonic beam was launched in the direction of the two of them.

I just heard the official say: "Long San, why are you inquiring about this?"

The man in black "hehe" laughed twice, "Shitou must also know that our Hutou gang is in Dongcheng, and it is under the jurisdiction of Chief Zhao."

"As for our leader, we want to have a relationship with Captain Zhao, so let me inquire."

The Zao official said "Oh" and said: "Well, to be honest, I don't know where Catcher Zhao's family lives. He sleeps in the yamen every day. If you don't tell me, I don't even know he has family."

"It's okay, I'll just ask casually."

The man in black didn't speak any more, and left quietly after watching the play for a while.

Zhao Lin stared at the man's back, frowning.

The man in black's rhetoric seems reasonable, but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

I often patrol the streets in Dongcheng, and if the Tiger Head Gang wants to make connections, it is not a troublesome thing to invite me to go there.

Asking about my family members, and knowing that I have parents and elder brothers, there is definitely a problem!

"what happened?"

Zhao Lin suddenly fell into a "trance", Liang Song felt something happened, and asked with concern.

"Wait here for me, I'll go do something."

Zhao Lin explained, and followed quickly.

The man in black would watch the show nonchalantly, eat something for a while, and stop and look around at every place he went.

However, Zhao Lin has echolocation, so he knows where he is without looking, and it is easy to track him.

After following for an hour, Zhao Lin was sure that the man in black, or the Tiger Head Gang, had bad intentions for him.

During this period of time, the man in black talked to three more people: a merchant in Dongcheng, a prostitute in Dongcheng, and a policeman under his command.

The topic of discussion is, without exception, about my family!

If it's okay, then it's hell.

What does the Ax Gang want to do?
Zhao Lin is now the head of the Dongcheng police officer, with nearly [-] policemen under his command, and he knows the details of the gangs in the area under his jurisdiction.

He had long heard that the leader of the Tiger Head Gang had something to do with Huzi outside the city. Although it was just a rumor, there must be a reason for it.

Another beard!

It seems that Hu Zi couldn't do anything to him, and started to play tricks.

Although the whereabouts of my family members are secret, there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and nothing can withstand inquiries.

Once the family falls into Huzi's hands... Zhao Lin thinks of the way they dealt with Zhou Paotou and Zhu Dachun, and feels chills in his heart.

"It's not over, is it?"

Zhao Lin gritted his teeth, fully turned on his hearing, and walked through the crowd, resisting the feeling of dizziness and discomfort, and collected everyone's conversations.

It didn't matter what he heard, he soon discovered that not only the man in black was asking about his family, but two other people were doing the same thing.

One is from the Tiger Head Gang, and the other is from the Water Dragon Gang.

Why are there water dragon gangs?
The water dragon gang is not in the east city, but in the north city, it is more powerful than the tiger head gang.

It is really not difficult for the two gangs to work together to find out one thing.

"The Tiger Head Gang and the Water Dragon Gang, right?"

Zhao Lin thought silently, "Since you are willing to be Beard's minions, don't blame me for being rude!"

The temple fair is still lively, but he has no intention of watching it...

(End of this chapter)