Judgement

Chapter 11 The Qiantang River

Chen Mengsheng's fish selling business is getting more and more prosperous, and his reputation is getting bigger and bigger.This made Chen Yougui and his wife in Chenjiazhuang feel like their bones were in their throats, and they couldn't sleep or eat.During the past five years in Chenjiazhuang, Chen Yougui and his wife were ridiculed and ridiculed, and no one gave them a good look.A few months ago, Aunt Zhu went back to her natal Qiantang Village to eat vegetarian wine from an old girl. On the way home, she happened to meet Chen Mengsheng who had just sold the fish.Mrs. Zhu almost didn't know Chen Mengsheng, who was tanned and strong.

Aunt Zhu was invited to her home by Chen Mengsheng. Aunt Zhu did not expect that Chen Mengsheng had already built three large tile-roofed houses after five years of absence. The rooms were fully furnished.Although it is not a wealthy family, it is many times stronger than the house in Chenjiazhuang.

Aunt Zhu asked with concern: "Son, how have you been living these years?"

"Thanks to Aunt Zhu, I have been running a small business here these years, and the business is pretty good."

"Qingzhu, I haven't seen you in the past few years, but I talk too much. Your house is really big, and the furniture is fully furnished. Did you spend a lot of money?"

"Aunt Zhu, I'm just kidding. There is still some savings accumulated in the past few years. Back then, my father often mentioned being taken care of by the neighbors, especially you, Aunt Zhu. Meeting Aunt Zhu today just happened to put an end to my worries." After finishing speaking, she got up and took out a bundle from the house and handed it to Aunt Zhu. Aunt Zhu opened it and found that it contained 300 taels of silver.Aunt Zhu quickly declined, but in the end she couldn't hold back Chen Mengsheng and had to agree to go back to Chenjiazhuang for Chen Mengsheng and distribute it to everyone...

After returning to Chenjiazhuang, Aunt Zhu distributed 300 taels of silver to the people in the village, except Chen Yougui.

Chen Yougui and his wife also knew that they were outraged by the public and did not dare to ask Aunt Zhu for money, they could only stand at the door pointing at Sang and cursing Huai.Chen Jiazhuang knew very well that no one wanted to talk to this couple.

The more Chen Jiujin thought about it at home, the more he got angry. He thought he could get some benefits from Chen Mengsheng, but he didn't expect his family to pay 50 taels of silver for Chen Youfu's funeral.This anger caused Chen Jiujin to suffer from a serious illness, and he had to lie at home for several months before recovering.It is said that the heart of a bad person is the most poisonous in the world. Both Chen Yougui and his wife are old people, but they feel uncomfortable when they think of Chen Mengsheng getting rich.

In the middle of the night, Chen Jiujin woke up Chen Yougui. "Damn, I figured it out."

"What do you want to understand?"

"Back then, Chen Mengsheng took away the black ruler hanging on the door without taking anything else. I think the black ruler must be a hidden secret."

Chen Yougui thought for a while: "No way, I asked my brother before, and he said it was used to ward off evil spirits, and if the black ruler was an expensive thing, why would it be hung on the door where everyone can get it?" outside?."

"You are so stupid, this is your elder brother's intelligence. Otherwise, where did Chen Mengsheng get the money?" The more Chen Yougui thought about it, the more he felt that what Chen Jiujin said made sense. village.

It's early autumn, and it's still very hot. Chen Mengsheng also knows that there won't be many people buying his fish after the morning, so he has to go to the market before five o'clock.Along the way, Chen Yougui and his wife asked the driver to deliver food, and after asking a few people, they finally found out the compound of Chen Mengsheng.

Chen Yougui and his wife came to Chen Mengsheng's residence. At this time, it was still dark and they tapped the bronze knocker on the vermilion lacquered gate, but no one answered.Chen Yougui and his wife opened the door and entered the courtyard. They only saw green bricks and green tiles, and the three big rooms were spacious and loud.A big iron lock locked the door, and Chen Jiujin looked in through the window lattice of the yard, the room was too dark to see clearly.With the combination of Chen Jiujin and Chen Yougui, you can't just return empty-handed when the door is locked...

Chen Yougui found a large sharp-edged rock in the courtyard, and was about to break open the iron lock on the door. "Crack, clap", when Chen Yougui was smashing the lock, a thunderbolt shot out from above his head with a "canopy" and struck the courtyard.

Chen Yougui and Chen Jiujin were drenched in cold sweat. He looked up and saw the black ruler hanging three feet above his head.Finding a big stone next to the door for a pad, Chen Yougui reached out and took off the black ruler, turned around and ran away.

At this time, the sky was turning white, and the number of pedestrians running up gradually increased.Chen Yougui wrapped the Jiangmo ruler in his undress, hired a donkey cart and went straight to Chenjiazhuang.

It was past noon, and I just returned home after selling fish and drinking wine.It was strange to see that the gate of his own courtyard was wide open, and there were still a few big stones hanging on the gate beam, and the subduing magic ruler had disappeared.Chen Mengsheng went into the room and saw that there was nothing missing in the room.

Besides, after Chen Yougui and his wife got the magic ruler and went home, it was the tiger biting the tortoise and they couldn't do anything.After grinding on the whetstone for a long time, I was so tired that I was panting like a cow, but the magic ruler was not damaged at all.Take an ax to chop, and the ax broke a big hole without leaving any traces.

Chen Jiujin brought a large bundle of firewood from under the stove and piled it in the yard: "Old man, it is said that real gold is not afraid of fire. Let's burn it to see if there is really firewood in it." gold."

Chen Yougui also thought it was a good idea, and the two of them carried the firewood together, put the magic ruler on top of the firewood, took out a fire pocket from his pocket and lit the firewood.The husband and wife watched anxiously as the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and it was about to reach the magic ruler.The Jiangmo ruler is a treasure of Taoism, and among the five elements it belongs to fire.It's really hard for these two couples to come up with the bad idea of ​​burning the magic ruler. This is undoubtedly because the old birthday star hanged himself and got impatient.

There was an earth-shattering loud bang, which frightened everyone in Chenjiazhuang, only to see that Chen Yougui's house was in flames.

"It's water, it's water..." Someone in the village was knocking on a basin and yelling, and people from all around came to put out the fire, carrying buckets and basins and everything.It was not for saving Chen Yougui, but for fear that the fire would spread and burn other people's houses... Just when everyone was not trying to put out the fire, a black object suddenly rose into the sky from the fire.The fire was finally extinguished, and Chen Yougui and his wife were completely burned by the fire, not even a scum was left... Chen Yougui and Chen Jiujin died, let alone someone came to hold a funeral for them, even came to There are no hanging words.

Chen Mengsheng had been waiting for Sun Tianci by the river since the beginning of his shift, but it was midnight and he still couldn't see Sun Tianci.These days, Chen Mengsheng and Sun Tianci have become confidants who talk about everything.Although it is said that people and ghosts have different paths, in Chen Mengsheng's eyes, Uncle Sun is already his relative.

During the conversation, I learned that Sun Tianci was also a scholar before he was alive. He was admitted as a scholar. people.There was a cool breeze blowing by the river, and Chen Mengsheng and Sun Tianci unconsciously fell asleep lying on the table.Not long after falling asleep, Chen Mengsheng was awakened by a wave of water.Open your eyes and see "Oh, my mother..."

In the Qiantang River, a big turtle was fighting with a red finless porpoise. The big turtle was more than one foot long, and its sharp teeth and sharp claws were biting the belly of the red finless porpoise.The finless porpoise did not show any sign of weakness either, and slapped the large turtle with its table-sized tail fin, stirring up a three-foot-high water wave.

Chen Mengsheng fixed his eyes and saw that there was a copper chain tied around the neck of the giant turtle, which was as thick as a beam, and there was a one-foot-long rectangular black box under the copper chain.The finless porpoise dodged the sharp claws of the giant turtle, and turned around to attack the copper chain.There are three bone spurs growing on the finless porpoise's tail, the bone spurs hit the copper chain and a series of sparks exploded, the turtle's neck was actually harder than the copper chain.The copper chain was broken by the bone spur, and the black box was thrown into the air, and fell into Chen Mengsheng's fishing net impartially.

Seeing that the black box on the copper chain was blown away, Da Yuan frantically bit towards the finless porpoise.On the surface of the river was turbid waves, and the finless porpoise was bitten by a large turtle, and blood gushed out of its dorsal fin.The giant turtle raised its three-inch-long sharp claws and stabbed into the fish maw of the finless porpoise. When the finless porpoise was dying of pain, it hit the turtle's head with its tail heavily.Da Yuan was knocked unconscious, and dragged the dead finless porpoise to sink to the bottom of the river.

Chen Mengsheng was so frightened that he hid under the table, and only leaned out when the weather calmed down.Quietly pulled up the fishing net, took out the black box and went back to the house.Under the lamp, Chen Mengsheng managed to pry open the black box, only to see a bronze mirror inside, with gossip engraved on the back of the bronze mirror, and two yellow watch paperweights cross-sealed on the front to seal the mirror.A chicken is drawn on the yellow paper on the left, and the yellow paper on the right is full of incomprehensible symbols...

Chen Mengsheng turned the bronze mirror over and looked at it again and again.Out of curiosity, he removed the yellow paper on the bronze mirror.There seemed to be circles of ripples on the bronze mirror, and as the ripples accumulated, there was a strong vibration on the mirror.Chen Mengsheng couldn't hold the bronze mirror in his hand anymore, and when he lost his hand, the bronze mirror fell on the green brick.The bronze mirror was smashed into pieces, and a white lightning flashed out of the bronze mirror. There was a huge black shadow in the lightning. The black shadow looked at Chen Mengsheng and went straight to the north.

Seeing the monster leave, Chen Mengsheng heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat off his head.

It's past three o'clock, and Sun Tianci probably won't be here tonight. When Chen Mengsheng was about to go back to his room to rest after washing, there were a few crisp knocks on the courtyard door...