[Sword Three] In the days when I was forced to become Wanhua

This is a story that happened during Su Qian's travels.At that time, Su Qian was still living in Yangzhou and working as a traveling doctor for his Lao Shizi. With the jingling of the bell, Fang came out of a restaurant with a full stomach, with a relaxed expression on his face.

Su Qian walked back with three steps and three alleys, and passed through three alleys. Because she walked too slowly, the woman in the alley opened the door and spat, and yelled at her: "I carry a broken bell all day long, and you can't let it go!" Make people take a nap! Roll on!"

When Su Qian heard it, she thought it made sense, and she didn't get angry. She raised her hand and stuffed the bell into the medicine basket. Fortunately, she was no longer a medical doctor, so she concentrated on walking the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City with her shoes on.Before I walked out of this alley, I heard several women gathered in front of me and whispered together.

With Su Qian's hearing ability, even if she didn't do it deliberately, she could hear what they were saying clearly at such a close distance.

"His third aunt, what do you think the old widow Yu's family has done? It's been a year since the man's death, and the patriarch is going to sacrifice their dragon and phoenix twins to the great immortal..." The old woman Su in yellow Qian recognized that Su Qian prescribed medicine for a cough a while ago, and her husband's family name seemed to be Zhao.It seems that this alley is full of people surnamed Zhao. I heard that the ancestor was an official. The family business prospered for a long time, and then gradually declined, but the number of descendants made people crazy. this alley.

A purplish red woman in her forties was still holding a sewing dustpan in her hand, and said with a full face of regret: "No, isn't the eighth uncle's family going to have no children or grandchildren? But there is no way, who told us to be so big?" In the Zhao family, she was the only one who gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins."

"Didn't Mrs. Ma in the west of the city say that twins! The Immortal likes twins the most!"

"The patriarch is also ruthless!"

The old woman in yellow slapped the arm of the woman in jujube clothes, winked and said: "Why is he so ruthless, there are so many cubs in his family, and when Lao Ba's family dies, it would be wonderful to adopt one in the past." ?”

"That's right!" The two were still muttering, when a group of Chuicui Dada came from outside the alley, many men were wearing gray robes of the same color, carrying an open sedan chair with two sitting upright boys and girls.Seeing that the head was approaching, the two women didn't care about anything else, so they hurried over to have a look.Su Qian also followed behind. The five-color silk was hung on the sedan chair, which was very valuable at first glance. The pair of boys on the sedan chair were both upright.

"Huh, Mr. Su? Are you here to watch the fun?" The old woman in yellow spotted Su Qian and greeted her repeatedly.Because I was kind, I hurriedly gave you the excellent seat I grabbed to Su Qian, who was chatting the whole story beside him.

Su Qian had listened carefully just now, and listened absent-mindedly, but her eyes followed the sedan chair.The two boys were afraid that they didn't know what they were going to do, they sat upright, neither fighting nor making trouble, nor afraid of people, they held each other's hands.

He was sharp-eyed and startled.The pair of boys were not sitting upright by themselves at all, but their legs were tied to the sedan chair, and the hands of the twins were firmly tied together, so it looked like they were holding hands.

"Sister, don't cry." The boy said inarticulately.

There were tears in the girl's eyes, but her twin brother was by her side, trying not to cry.The sixth uncle and grandmother said that if they cried and offended the great immortals, their mothers and their tongues would be cut off.

Su Qian didn't hold any hope, and asked casually: "What is the method of offering sacrifices to the Great Immortal?"

"Hey, that's not the case." The old woman in yellow said with flickering eyes, "I'm afraid it will stain Mr.'s ears if I say this."

"Tell me." Su Qian asked.

The old woman in yellow replied: "It is this pair of children who walked around our Zhaojiaxiang three times, and then carried them to the Daxian Temple. There is a well behind the Daxian Temple. It will dry up before this time. Throwing people into it It's...at night, the immortals will naturally enjoy it."

"Is he still alive?"

"I don't know about that either. This big festival only happens once every 30 years, and it's said that it hasn't been held in the past hundred years."

"Does the government not care about such prostitutes?"

"We are a big family like us, how can they have the qualifications to point fingers? Just put more money and it will pass."

After hearing this, Su Qian thanked her and stepped back.People were watching the bridal sedan chair, Su Qian found a stone step and sat down, couldn't help but took out Luofeng and lit it, and took a slow puff.The bridal sedan chair was lifted and shaken vigorously by the people, the boy on it was kept from flying out by the ropes tied to his legs, the bridal sedan chair gradually moved away, Su Qian smoked a whole pot of cigarettes in the back, until the bridal sedan chair passed in front of him Three times before he left.

Although he is strong in martial arts, he is still weak, if he went up to snatch people directly, he might not be able to catch anyone, and he would not be able to save them.So he turned around and went back to Zhaojia Lane, and asked where the widow and mother of the couple were.

It was also a coincidence that it was the house where a woman spat out just now.

Su Qian went up and knocked on the door, and there was a sound of quick footsteps inside the door, and the door was pulled open, and it was the woman who had just scolded Su Qian inside.The woman's face was full of joy, but she changed her tone the moment she saw Su Qian: "Is it possible that my Feng Niu Hu Ge can be rescued...why is it you?"

The woman changed her face so quickly that Su Qian thought she was dazzled.The woman's eyes were slightly red, but she said with distaste: "Why are you the doctor again, there are no patients in my house, go away quickly." After finishing speaking, she planned to close the door.

Su Qian tapped Luofeng lightly in his hand, and the wooden door seemed to be blocked by something, and it couldn't be closed.The woman's complexion changed, and she shouted: "Why, even a low-grade man like you came to bully me, a widow, because I lost my only seedling? If you don't leave, be careful, I'll call someone!"

"Ma'am, don't panic." Su Qian said softly, "Your family has a sick person, and it's not serious."

"If you talk nonsense again, I will call someone!"

"If there is no disease, how can you fill the well with a good living person?"

"You!" The woman grabbed Su Qian's sleeve and closed the door tightly while no one was around to pull Su Qian into the door.After the woman finished all this, she knelt down with a plop: "Sir, forgive me for being rude earlier, sir, can you save my two children? As long as I have it! Just take it, sir! Even if it is Take my life to fill the well!"

"Get up, you don't need to sacrifice your life." Su Qian helped the person up, and said, "Hurry up and pick up the important ones. Someone will come to pick you up in a while, so you just run. If it succeeds, I will see you before dawn." Bring your two children to play with you, and you take the children and leave quickly."

The woman nodded desperately, turned around and pulled out a bundle from the pile of firewood beside her, saying: "Little lady has been prepared for a long time, but the Zhao family guarded my two children tightly, so they can't get away."

Su Qian took a look, and was also satisfied that the woman still had some ideas and didn't sit still. "Very well, send me out as usual in a while, if someone asks, just keep silent, cover your face and close the door."

"it is good."

After Su Qian finished speaking, she went out, turned around and looked for the black-faced yamen servant leader, and asked where the Temple of the Five Immortals was, and left quickly after asking.The Temple of the Five Immortals is not far from the outskirts. It is said that it is magnificent and full of incense, which is very effective.

With his lightness kung fu, he arrived at the Temple of Five Immortals in a short while.The well behind the temple is indeed dry, but the well wall is damp, and it has really dried up in recent days.Su Qian touched a firework and lit it, then threw it down to see the situation in the well.After the well was emptied, there was a lot of silt in it, and the most terrifying thing was that there were still some unmelted bones in it, some people and some livestock, mixed together with the black silt, making people sick.

Su Qian looked cold, and calculated the depth of the well based on the time from when the fireworks fell to extinguishing. If the two children were thrown straight in, the corpses would be collected immediately. Even if he jumped from that height, he would have to It took some work to get out of the way.

The top priority is to save the lives of the two children first.

Su Qian circled around the well a few times, and finally chose to dive down, punched a few holes in the well wall, and set up a very deep net.As soon as Su Qianpu entered the well, he felt that the jade plaque on his chest was very hot. He knew that the place was really not very clean, so he jumped out immediately after setting it up, and the jade plaque was better.

The closer the sound of knocking and beating outside, Su Qian knew that it was the priest who walked in, looked around, and then hid in the main hall of the Five Immortals Temple.

As soon as he opened the door, he was taken aback. The guard said that the Temple of the Five Immortals was magnificent, and he really believed it at this time.There are no god statues in the main hall of the Temple of the Five Immortals, and colored silks of yellow, white, gray, black, and red are hung everywhere, which are very similar to the colored silks on the flowery sedan chair.Su Qian closed the door and walked a few steps, only to hear someone exclaim, he heard the sound and looked around, only to see an old lady coming out from inside, dressed very colorfully, with a phoenix coronet and a xiapei, she looked very graceful and luxurious.

The old lady didn't panic when she saw Su Qian, she smiled and said, "Where did such a handsome young man come from?"

Su Qian came here to spoil people's family affairs, so naturally she couldn't make people vulnerable at this stage, so she smiled and bowed her hands in a salute: "I dare not do it."

"It's been a long time, my old lady, I haven't seen such a handsome young man like you!" The old lady still praised Su Qian repeatedly. She came up and pulled Su Qian's sleeve with one hand and walked inward, saying as she walked, "Old fellows, come and have a look." Look at this young man, the skin is white and the meat is tender."

As soon as Su Qian was touched by her, she felt numb all over, knowing that she might be in someone else's game again, and the jade plaque on her chest was hot, but Su Qian didn't feel unbearable.Two people entered, the inside is very simple, there is only one surrounding kang, and there are four old people sitting on it, all of them are dressed in gold and jade, and they look very happy.

One of the old ladies stood up quickly when she saw it, and said that it was not suitable for an old lady, her face was not too much for Su Qian, her white hair and childlike face were just like this, and she was wearing a bright red dress, which did not look abrupt.The old lady reached out to touch Su Qian's face, but she withdrew her hand as if it had been burned, and said, "Old sister, why did you bring this person in?"

"Isn't this white skinned and tender...well..." Before the old lady finished her last word, someone hit her on the head with a fruit. The person who hit her was a man in gray sitting beside her. The old man has a few beards on his face and some monkey cheeks. He said: "Eat whatever you want! You know how to eat it! You can bring back such a tricky thing, you can eat it, I won't eat it!"

"Isn't it just that there is a sign with the surname Xiao... We still love him?" The old lady pointed at Su Qian's nose.However, the old lady didn't dare to touch Su Qian directly, and her fingers were still a finger away from him.

Su Qian looked enigmatic and did not speak.

The five people in front of me are probably the rightful masters of the Temple of the Five Immortals.