Chapter 917

The next day, the Sanchahe Mouth exploded!

There were already many idlers in Dagukou, and the common people loved to watch the excitement. Many customs in this place revolved around the three words "watch the excitement".

But in the past few years, there has been no excitement greater than last night!

It is rumored that a red ship passed the bridge last night, and overnight, the tax pass floating bridge was covered with big red lanterns.

Where the red lanterns hung, hundreds of tax clerks and two big military ships locking the bridge on both sides all died...

Speaking of the tax clerks in the three floating bridges and two passes, the merchants and common people coming and going in Dagukou were all full of complaints, hating them to the bone.

But this kind of terrifying big case made people feel cold in their bones. An idler who got up early and saw it told others about the scene, spitting and flying, and at the same time, there was a kind of horror with blue and black eyes.

If it weren't for the common people of Dagukou loving to watch the excitement, ordinary people would not dare to provoke such strange things.

The cart puller pulled the guests across the tax pass early, but he saw the dead people on it with his own eyes, and said to the neighbors: "That's really evil! There are eighteen sea-suppressing beams under the floating bridge, which are Yin-sinking wood transported from the south."

"When the Temple of the Heavenly Empress was piling, half of our Dagukou went to see it. The first nine pillars couldn't be driven in no matter what. The two-thousand-jin hanging hammer hit the water with blood water. Later, people died! The Daoist priest of the Temple of the Heavenly Empress did a ritual for three days, fished out five and a half stone people from the bridge foundation, invited the treasure mirror of the temple, and only then drove the piles in."

"That's right!" The old neighbor also had something to say: "It is said that the Canal Gang found nine boys and girls with matching birth dates overnight, and sank them overnight, only then driving the piles in!"

"The bridge foundation of the floating bridge is also powerful. It is four big iron ships, bought by the government from foreigners, filled with waste copper materials, burned with cinnabar, and poured into the iron ship's cabin until the iron ship sank by itself, only then was the bridge foundation stable. It is said! Four dragons were poured into the iron ship with copper water. They were all big pythons caught when opening coal mines in the West Mountain, fed for three years, and grew horns, only then were they alive and poured to death in the iron ship with copper water!"

Speaking of these, the neighbors of old Zhigu were well-versed, and there was no secret they didn't know.

"There are often water ghosts and water monsters under the old floating bridge. Water ghosts grab those passing by at night to be substitutes, and water monsters are even more evil! Those who pass by at night can see a pair of eyeballs as bright as foreign lamps. Who in old Zhigu doesn't know!"

"Since the floating bridge was rebuilt in the Jia-Zi year, the next year a turtle with a head as big as a millstone and a back shell as big as a ship floated up from the river."

"It is said that it was a ghost turtle eaten by dead children in the river, and was bought by several foreigners at a high price. Later, the medicine head of the Three Emperors Association in the city raised tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy the turtle shell, and threw the rotten meat to the foreigners! It is also said that the pharmacy dug six pearls from the turtle shell, each worth five thousand taels of gold, and was bought on the spot!"

"The foreigners held a puddle of rotten meat and were still happy to transport it back to their West, where it is said to be eaten as medicine, which can strengthen yang."

The onlooker who said this saw the neighbors' eyes light up, and happily said: "Foreign devils are not good to look at, they can't do without this thing! It was offered to their Queen back then!"

"Queen? Why isn't it a man!" The onlookers were all disappointed and laughed.

"Because she couldn't give birth to a boy, so she needed this medicine!"

Everyone shouted and made a scene, and it became noisy.

The cart puller watched the Zhigu people who could speak well lead the topic astray, and had to reveal the answer early: "When I passed the floating bridge early this morning, I saw several people standing by the bridge from afar, and some were even waving at me!"

"Originally, I didn't take it seriously. Since the floating bridge was rebuilt, the sea-suppressing pillar was stuck in the river, and the iron ship suppressed the demons, the floating bridge didn't have many strange things!"

"But looking from afar, the person waving was wrong!"

"His upper body didn't move, but his lower body was floating... Just as I was wondering, the guest in my car shouted to stop. He said, don't go! There are dead people there!"

"I was telling him that the floating bridge had great magic power after being rebuilt, and had suppressed many river demons and water ghosts. He told me that there are many girls in their place who are afraid of getting married, and many hang themselves in the sedan chair or on the roof beam after discussing the marriage. He had also seen it several times, the bride hung herself in the sedan chair, looking from the outside, her feet seemed to be floating..."

"That's the look!"

"He also said, looking at the shadow, the one who hung herself should be a woman..."

"At that time, the floating bridge was covered with red lanterns, but the lanterns were not lit, and the fog on the river was also heavy. I saw many shadows standing there, thinking that there were hundreds of men on the tax pass, and two big ships, what were they afraid of water ghosts?"

"We Zhigu people are also bold, so I put down the cart and walked up to scout. The closer I walked, the more I felt the shadow looked like a woman, and she was even looking back at me! A big braid hung down on her chest, but her feet were floating just like the guest said."

The cart puller's face finally showed a trace of horror when he said this.

He shivered and said: "When I walked close, I shouted: Sister? Where are you going? At that time, the wind blew, and the fog dissipated, revealing a dry dead person, wearing the tax clerk's patch, hung on the railing of the floating bridge with a red satin. Beside it hung two red lanterns."

"At this time, the fog on the bridge dissipated, and dead people were hung on every railing! Their feet were dangling outside the bridge, their bodies were a section shorter, and they all looked like dry corpses, so they all looked like women..."

Hearing this, the neighbors who were watching the excitement stopped talking!

Dagukou likes strange things, strange things, admires capable people, and also likes to watch the excitement, but this time the excitement was played big! Hundreds of tax clerks were hung on the floating bridge. Even if water ghosts pulled people, they had to avoid crowds!

To be able to kill so many people in one breath, what kind of fierce ghost must it be!

At this time, news also came from the Canal Gang. The ships waiting outside the tax pass yesterday ran away more than a dozen, all saying in unison that a flower boat covered with red lanterns drifted on the river last night.

The old Zhigu people were so scared that they didn't even dare to watch the excitement. Several heads of the Canal Gang were already discussing asking people from the Temple of the Heavenly Empress to come and see!

On the two military ships outside the floating bridge, Lao Guangming covered his nose and followed the head to investigate on the ship. Everyone on the ship had already sunk into the river, their legs standing straight, sinking and floating in the river, just like pillars.

They were also connected by big red silk, lined up in two rows, just like... just like a row of bridge piles, like a living floating bridge.

Lao Guangming had seen many floating corpses, but not many were as strange as this.

Old people by the river often say, don't be afraid of floating corpses, be afraid of sinking corpses, half-sinking and half-floating, standing like a pole.

It is said that floating corpses standing like poles are the most evil and fierce.

"Let the corpse-fishing team fish these up!"

The head of the Five Rivers Patrol Division, who was overwhelmed, kept wiping the sweat from his head and shouted at the patrol team.

The patrol team was also in a dilemma: "The corpse-fishing team has come to see it once, and turned around and left without saying a word! I looked for him three times before he was willing to say three words—Can't do it! It is said that this thing is fiercer than water ghosts, called Yin Corpse Borrowing the Way, and even the Dragon King can borrow the water path. The most terrifying thing is that the water path of the Yin Corpse Borrowing the Way floating bridge broke after passing the tax pass! This shows that the way was not borrowed, and there is something fiercer under the Sanchahe Mouth."

"Not fishing corpses at the Sanchahe Mouth is an old rule!"

"So, unless the Temple of the Heavenly Empress goes down first, the corpse-fishing team won't dare to go down..."

"Your mother..." The head cursed angrily: "Damn it... you damn it, call the head of the corpse-fishing team over to me, a bunch of stinking corpse-fishers, dare to bargain with me!"

Just at this time, the Daoist priest with a bandage on his forehead and holding a compass boarded the big ship.

"The Imperial Observatory people are here!" The head's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly squeezed up.

The young Daoist priest's face was not good, showing blue and black, looking weak, and there seemed to be a protrusion under the bandage on his forehead, vaguely oozing blood.

He had just come to see the row of floating corpses, and opened his mouth: "Yin Corpse Borrowing the Way, crossing the river to drive piles, humph! The magic of the side-door and left-path."

Then he looked at the red lanterns hanging on the ship.

This time he pondered for a long time: "Red lanterns shine, Bai Lian arrives..."

"There are many magic spells for red lanterns, but the Red Lantern Shine of the Bai Lian Sect is the most powerful. Red lanterns and white candles, walking in the six Yin, white bones as the frame, human skin as the cage. This thing detains fierce ghosts, and every lantern is a gateway."

"Burn all the lanterns!"

The Daoist priest ordered.

He had only walked two steps when he suddenly rushed to the side of the ship, staring at the pale floating corpses sinking and floating in the river, their hair disheveled like seaweed covering their faces.

Suddenly asked the head beside him: "Does this look like a woman?"

The head couldn't answer for a while. He looked carefully for a long time and found that if it weren't for the clothes, no one could tell whether it was a man or a woman. Even if they were wearing the soldier's jacket, they looked more like women than men...

"Is the adult saying that it is a female corpse?"

The Daoist priest's face changed completely: "Yin Corpse Female Phase... This is the Bai Lian Saintess!"

"The Bai Lian Sect wants to take the water route into Dagukou, Yin Corpse Borrowing the Way, causing such a big mess, what do they want to transport in? Or are they testing the thing suppressed by the Temple of the Heavenly Empress?"

"Drifting guests from the south and north, nothing is more evil than the Temple of the Heavenly Empress! The north and south sects and the Temple of the Heavenly Empress have always been well water not offending river water. Even if passing by, they respectfully worship and sink sacrifices. But this time the Bai Lian Sect made such a big battle to invite Yin Corpse Borrowing the Way..."

"Yin Corpse borrows the Yin Soldier Way! When the Yin soldiers pass the border, gods and Buddhas do not open their eyes. What kind of thing is suppressed by the Temple of the Heavenly Empress, even the Yin soldiers don't give face!"

The more the Daoist priest of the Imperial Observatory said, the more afraid the patrol head became.

But he heard a nightmare-like message.

"This time the borrowing of the way failed, the Bai Lian Sect will not give up easily. They may come again tonight, humph! Evil cults and heretics, dare to be so rampant. Usually, you make trouble in Qilu, the Imperial Observatory turns a blind eye, that's all! Dagukou is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and cannot tolerate her again and again!"

"And that Profound Truth Dao occupying the Luo Temple, this time the Imperial Observatory people from the capital have come, let's clean them up together!"

The Daoist priest touched his forehead, his face twitching, left a ruthless word, told the head to bring people to guard the tax pass in person tonight, and then withdrew!

The head stood there blankly, his face blue and white.

For a long time, he roared at Lao Guangming: "What about the civil corps? What about the pot gangs? What about the Canal Gang? What about the Changchun Association? Damn it, the county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. Today, all of you must go to the floating bridge!"

There are two civil corps in Dagukou, and the pot gang is where the idlers of Dagukou stay. They gather pots into gangs, and everyone mixes food in spoons and basins, so a group of idlers is a pot gang, bandits are called mountain heads, idlers are called pot gangs, that's the principle.

The Changchun Association is the support for those who walk the rivers and lakes from the south and north in the local area.

Local idlers set up an association. Those who walk the rivers and lakes are too bitter and bullied, and they are willing to pay some money to have local support, and they are willing to obey management.

Dagukou is a northern hub, raising more than 100,000 idlers who eat by the canal.

Dozens of pot gang big idlers, dozens of business places, north and south Canal Gangs, two major civil corps, corpse-fishers, Buddhist and Daoist feet, rivers and lakes eight schools—inner eight schools, outer eight schools, eighteen martial arts schools, dozens of trade associations under the General Chamber of Commerce, there is no other place more mixed with fish and dragons than here!