Chapter 934 Locking the Resentful Soul

The crying sound in the hall stopped a little, and Zhu Gaoxu said a few more words to the man in gray short clothes on the next table and asked if there was anyone named Tang in this neighboring place.

The man immediately responded, saying that there was a place called Xiguan to the west, and there were many people with the Tang surname living in the lake.

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly became interested and asked if he knew there was a woman named Tang Sai'er.

The man didn't know, but he still kindly suggested that there was a matchmaker in Xiguan and that he knew many young ladies and young ladies, so he could go and ask the matchmaker. It would be better to ask her than asking Li Zheng, because Li Zheng most of them knew males under his jurisdiction.

Duan Xuehen seemed a little curious about Zhu Gaoxu's question of the famous woman, so he turned to look at him, but she said nothing.

After the villagers brought the food one after another, Duan Xuehen ate it first and then put it into the bowl in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

After lunch, Zhu Gaoxu asked Hou Hai to say goodbye to the master's house, and then left the place with a dozen people and followed the road to the west.

I saw the lake soon. Zhu Gaoxu leaned on the shore of Lake Ma, watched for a while, and then ordered the scouts to find someone nearby to ask where Xiguan was.

At this moment, I saw a group of people coming to the lake on a dirt road.

Among them, there was a Taoist priest wearing Taoist robe and wooden swords. The other people were wearing black cloth scarves on their arms, and they looked like they were the ones who were doing funerals just now.

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the horse's back, wanting to see what they were doing.

When those people saw Zhu Gaoxu and others, they bent down from afar and bowed to worship because there were people wearing official uniforms in the team.Then a long-faced man walked towards this side, and the others continued to walk towards the lakeside.

The long-faced man walked up and kowtowed to Hou Hai in red robe and the fifth-ranked Binzhou Tongzhi in green robe, claiming to be a lord.

This is a title habit left by the Yuan Dynasty and is still used by people today.

The man with a long face is here, and his surname is Tang.

Hou Hai asked him: Where is Xiguan?

Li Zheng replied respectfully: This place is called Xiguan for several miles.

Hou Hai was very concerned about the things Zhu Gaoxu was concerned about, regardless of whether it was reasonable or not. He immediately asked: Do you know that there is a little lady named Tang Sai'er?

Li just thought for a while and said: The little man will ask you immediately.After saying that, he got up, and then bowed again and left in a hurry.

Those who rely on the government to make a living are very obedient and have a very respectful attitude. On the contrary, those who do not pay much attention to the government are mostly not very polite.The villagers who arrived by the lake put down their things without making any noise.

Suddenly, an old man with gray hair and beard grabbed a handful of things and threw them towards the lake. A rustling sound of water as fine as a shower.

The old man repeatedly threw the fine things and stopped for a while.

Then several people lit a fishing net and sprinkled the ashes into the water again.The Taoist priest then came up. He held the wooden sword, lit the talisman paper, and muttered something there.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't understand what they were doing.

After the villagers packed their things and were about to leave, Zhu Gaoxu jumped off his horse and walked up.

Zhu Gaoxu had not shown his identity, so he was quite polite to these villagers and stepped forward and asked: What are you doing just now?

The Taoist priest bent down and said: Lock the resentful soul.

oh?Zhu Gaoxu made a sound.

The Taoist priest explained: The place where the eldest son of the master fell into the water yesterday was here; and in the same place, a woman drowned the year before.Before the woman can die, her resentful soul will be trapped in the water and cannot be reincarnated in the underworld. She must pull someone into the water before she can be reincarnated.The woman had gone to the underworld for the past year, and the resentful soul of the eldest son of the master's family is here again. The next time the person who harmed him is a woman, and he cannot repay him with this.

To stop the resentful soul from continuing to harm the surrounding villagers, you must lock it.Throw iron filings and ore sand into the water, throw them into the bottom of the water and do not turn over, and then tie them with a fishing net.If I use a talisman to lock it, the resentful soul will not be able to move and will no longer harm the world.From then on, this place will no longer drown.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded thoughtfully.

Duan Xuehen's voice suddenly said: Can the resentful soul trapped at the bottom of the water be reincarnated?

Taoist priest said: Of course, it cannot be, it will only be trapped here forever.

At this time, the old man who threw iron filings sighed.

The Taoist priest hurriedly said: This is the old father who died. I have come to do the Dharma with the consent of the master's family.Say goodbye.

The group then bent down to greet each other and went back along the dirt road.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at their backs, then turned to look at the waterside.

Duan Xuehen’s voice said behind his back: Why do you have to do it?Let him continue to pull people into the water, and everyone can be reborn in the future.The villagers' lives are so hard, it is better to die early and be reborn early.

It makes sense.Zhu Gaoxu turned around and said.

Asari, the semen man, was stunned and dazed when he heard Duan Xueheng's words.

However, these superstitious things are obviously not only in the countryside of the Ming Dynasty, but also on the grasslands. After all, people are very imaginative.

When Zhu Gaoxu saw Duan Xueheng's depressed look, he said kindly: Not to mention whether there are ghosts, even if there are such things, something that transcends the world's knowledge, it must be not that simple. I'm afraid that it can't be trapped by a few gestures.It's just self-deception, you don't have to care too much.It is not the ghost, but the human heart.

Duan Xuehen shook his head and said: I don’t understand why the deceased’s father is willing to do such a thing.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't answer for a while.

On the contrary, Hou Hai said: Depin Mingjian, there is a difference between yin and yang, and it is a father and son who are alive, but it is not the case if he dies.What's more, they call themselves "the eldest son" or not sons. Obviously, there is more than one son in the old man.

Duan Xuehen ignored Hou Hai and fell silent in depressed.

Zhu Gaoxu understood her thoughts very well.

Mainly, when lunch was about to be had, a woman in the mourning hall cried and told the deceased that her life was particularly miserable and boring, and Duan Xuehen also heard it.

The drowned villager was poor and burdened since childhood, worked hard all his life and served labor service. Then he drowned, or it could be regarded as liberation, but his soul was locked at the bottom of the water and could never be reborn.

There is really no bottom line between the misery and suffering in the world.

Even if Duan Xueheng had been an assassin, she couldn't stand it. She was not a cold-blooded and ruthless person.

Perhaps women are prone to soft-heartedness, while Duan Xuehen was born in the Mu family. Even his adoptive mother, Duan Yang, was paranoid and at least a member of the Duan family in Dali, may not have much knowledge of this other kind of suffering.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu didn't believe that a country Taoist priest could have any magic. Therefore, the deceased was trapped in the water behind it, which was just a fantasy of a living person, and he believed that death was the end.

The group rode slowly by the lake and waited for a long time.

Li Zheng, who was surnamed Tang, finally returned. Li Zheng approached and knelt to Hou Hai in red robe: Sir, there is indeed a young lady named Tang Sai'er in Xiguan, who is the only daughter in the family, and she is fifteen years old.Unfortunately, before her father left, she had already engaged her to marry the third son of the Lin family in the neighboring village.

Zhu Gaoxu was a little surprised. He did not think in advance that he had a great chance of finding Tang Saier. Unexpectedly, the place he chose to station in Binzhou this time was a coincidence and was not far away.

Moreover, the daughters of the people usually have no name. He originally thought that Tang Sai'er might have changed his name after becoming the leader of the rebel army; but now it seems that perhaps Tang Sai'er has called this name since he was a child.

Li was talking to Hou Hai, so Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything.

The countryside is in charge of dealing with local county officials, so it is more knowledgeable than ordinary villagers.

He should know that the person wearing red official uniforms is a high-ranking official, and the person wearing blue official uniforms is a middle-level official. In fact, even a clerk wearing a green round neck can be able to subdue a Lizhengzhi.

Zhu Gaoxu was wearing ordinary martial arts uniforms and it was impossible for him to know the emperor. He should think that Zhu Gaoxu was the son of a high-ranking official, and in comparison, he recognized Hou Hai as a bureaucrat even more.

Hou Haidao: Lead the way, let’s go and have a look.

Everyone followed the street, talking a lot along the way, and talking about Tang Sai'er's family again.

It is said that her family was not poor in the local area before, but in Tang Sai'er's generation, there were no males in the family, so the family's background is getting worse and worse.

Li Zheng asked Hou Hai again, how could he know the name of Tang Sai'er?

Of course, Hou Hai couldn't say it, so he made an excuse, saying that a slave had received help from Tang's father in another place.

If you look for it temporarily, there will be many loopholes.

Li Zheng quickly said, "Tang's father went out to work as a labor force, how could he know a noble man?"

Zhu Gaoxu finally spoke and said: Her family only has his father, so why do you still have to do corvee service?

Li Zheng hesitated and looked at Hou Hai quietly, saying: How many Ding soldiers should be transferred in the county? The youngest is just passing messages. It depends on the local fellows to find people.

Zhu Gaoxu thought that the current rules must be entrusted to the moral cultivation of local villagers and gentry to a certain extent to ensure relative fairness; but so many officials and villagers in the Ming Dynasty were unreliable to rely on morality, and it is inevitable that such favoritism and transfer burdens would occur.

He can manage the villagers and the family members in this place, but he cannot rely on such stupid methods of personally inquire about it.

So Zhu Gaoxu's tone was not very strict, but he just said quietly: In the future, the officials and officials of the county government should supervise more, and do not force the poor to death.The court has ordered the reduction of labor service and grain tax in Shandong for three years, and asked the county to find Tang Saier's father back so that he could farm at home with peace of mind.

The Tongzhi of Binzhou Prefecture hurriedly bent down and said: Yes, yes.

The official glanced at him with extremely dissatisfied eyes.

Zhu Gaoxu guessed that after he left, the local villagers and even the county magistrates would be in trouble.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty directly ruled the county town, but if they wanted to rectify a specific citizen in the village, a few clerks could find many ways.

The posture of the green-robed official in the middle was right, and it seemed that something was wrong, and he was observing Zhu Gaoxu from time to time.

However, Zhu Gaoxu stopped saying a word and just rode his horse and moved forward slowly.