Chapter 273: Dragon Boat Race! Surprise!

The annual Dragon Boat Race in Anshun County kicked off today.

As contestants in Lingshui Village, Mr. Xu and Mr. Xu set off early in the

morning.

After Mr. Xu had breakfast, he drove the car. Mrs. Xu took Fubao and was going

to see the excitement.

In this regard, Fubao is also very interested.

Dragon boat racing, I don’t know if it’s as exciting as she had seen on TV

before.

But the three daughters-in-laws of the old Xu's family unanimously chose to

stay at home. Although they also want to watch the dragon boat race, the group

of little dolls in this family, they are mothers, they can't leave it alone,

right?

Lu Mudan was also not interested in this dragon boat race, so he simply stayed

at the old Xu's house and talked to Zhou and the others.

On the contrary, Uncle Lu looked very interested.

Therefore, in the end, the people of old Xu's family who went to the dragon

boat race were Uncle Lu, Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu, and Fu Bao, and Li Chun would also

travel with him with diapers, clean clothes and other things that Fu Bao might

use.

The four little girls of the old Xu family, Lichun basically followed Fubao.

Early Xia, Qiuxiang, and Dongxue complement the Zhou family, the Li family,

and the Wang family respectively.

This time Lichun could follow the dragon boat to see the dragon boat, but the

other three little girls were envious.

...

The carriage left Lingshui Village, and Father Xu drove the carriage.

Uncle Lu disliked that the ride was too slow, so he simply rode a horse and

took a step ahead.

Along the way, Fubao was full of energy, constantly looking at the situation

on both sides of the road.

Everywhere is lush, green and gratifying.

Drought, with that heavy rain, completely became a thing of the past.

On the way, Mr. Xu would greet people from time to time.

However, no one rubbed the carriage.

Knowing that the woman sitting in the car is a family member, even in this

rural area, people know that they should avoid suspicion.

Even when they met the purely women's team, they didn't have the idea of

rubbing a car.

As a result, Mr. Xu drove a brisk carriage and quickly arrived at the venue of

the dragon boat race.

Jiuqujiang!

This is a big river spanning Xiangyi Mansion and Jiangcheng Mansion.

The annual dragon boat race is held on the Jiuqu River.

At that time, people watching the game will gather on the embankment of the

Jiuqu River to watch this grand event.

During the dragon boat race, there will be many vendors on the embankment of

the Jiuqu River. They sell snacks, small toys, even rouge gouache, clothes and

fabrics.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Race, the Jiuqu River Embankment is a super-

large market.

This day is the most important day of the year for the people in Anshun

County, even exceeding the New Year.

Because if this is to win the final championship, the village can have a fat

year.

In addition, on this day, many girls will come here to see each other.

Most of the dragon boat racers in the dragon boat race are young guys from

various villages, many of whom have yet to make a decision. Today, there will

be many girls in the dark, bleating and comparing.

Therefore, this dragon boat race is not a trivial matter for people in each

village.

...

On the stands erected by the Jiuqu River, Zuoqiu, the county grandfather, was

smilingly accompanied by Zhao Bingxuan.

In previous years, his parent official was the speaker at the dragon boat

race.

But it won't work this year.

With Zhao Bingzhen, the newly rich and wealthy man, here, Zuoqiu can only be

second.

"Master Hou, are you satisfied with this?"

Zuo Qiu half arched his waist and asked Zhao Bingzhen with a gentle smile on

his face.

"The county magistrate Zuo has a lot of experience. It's good if you call the

shots. Benhou is just a watcher. If you figure out the specific situation, I

won't talk too much!"

Zhao Bingzhen smiled and replied.

He came to see the dragon boat race, not just to watch the excitement.

He came with a plan.

It's just that before the time is up, he won't tell anyone what he's here for.

"grown ups!"

Just when Zuoqiu was about to wave the flag and order the preparations for the

preliminaries of the dragon boat race, Li Tuo, who was particularly cautious

and cautious lately, hurried over.

"What's the matter?"

"My lord, here comes the prefect!"

Li Tuo quickly answered.

When Zuoqiu heard that Shen Wansheng had arrived, he immediately informed Zhao

Bingzhen, a rich man.

"For these official matters, the magistrate Zuo doesn't need to tell Benhou,

you just do it yourself."

"Xiaguan Xie Hou Ye is considerate!"

Zuoqiu left immediately to meet Shen Wansheng.

Only when he met Shen Wansheng, he realized that his beloved second brother

was not the only one coming.

The three officials sent by the court to investigate the disappearance of Xu

Yuanzun have all arrived.

"The lower official has seen the teacher!"

Seeing Dai Duo, Zuoqiu immediately stepped forward to bow and bowed to his

disciples.

And seeing such a scene, Shen Wansheng was also stunned, he really didn't know

that Zuoqiu and Dai Duo still had this relationship.

"It's Dingshan, yes, you have done a good job these years!"

Dai Duo looked at Zuoqiu and raised his hand, "Get up, let me introduce you.

This is Chen Zheng, the capital of the Inspectorate. His name is Lingzheng. In

the future, you can get closer. !"

"I have seen Brother Lingzheng!"

Hearing Dai Duo's words, Zuoqiu immediately hugged Chen Zheng, and the

brothers were commensurate, instead of calling him an official title. This is

the closeness that Dai Duo said.

Chen Zheng also clasped his fists and replied: "Brother Dingshan."

As for Liu Zhongda, Dali Temple Cheng, Dai Duo directly ignored him.

However, even so, Liu Zhongda did not dare to complain.

Because of him, Xu Yuanzi lost his life.

Waiting for the news to reach the capital, and then waiting for the will to

come, he, the Dali Temple Cheng, has done it well. If he is almost lucky, he

may have to go to prison or even lose his life.

Now that he is just being left out and ignored, what is his dissatisfaction?

Knowing what Shen Wansheng and Dai Duo came from, Zuoqiu could only express

his apologies.

The Yizhuang where the eighteen corpses of horse thieves were stored has now

been burned. It was not that someone set fire maliciously, but a man who

couldn't think about it because of the death of his wife and children. He was

holding the bodies of his wife and children and set himself on fire in

Yizhuang.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to check the horse thief's body.

"Dingshan, how can you be so careless with such important evidence!"

"Master, what does this mean?"

Zuo Qiu was stunned, "A few horse thieves, kill them when you kill them, how

come they become evidence? What kind of evidence?"

"Duke Dai, this mansion never told the place about Xu Yuanzun's case."

"The magistrate Zuo didn't know, and he is not to blame."

Shen Wansheng came out decisively to help Zuoqiu out of trouble.

"Master, prefect, I don't know what happened?"

Zuoqiu looked serious, "The corpses of the eighteen horse thieves were indeed

burned, but the clothes they were wearing, their mounts, and the murder weapon

in their hands were kept in the county government office."

"Okay, okay, it's really an inexhaustible road!"

When Zuoqiu said so, Dai Duo's face suddenly beamed with joy.

As long as you see these things, you can get a rough idea of the identity of

these horse thieves.

"My teacher, the prefect, today is the big day of the annual dragon boat race

in Anshun County. If you are not in a hurry, can you wait for half a day and

let me finish the dragon boat race?"

"Oh, by the way, Fu Gui Hou is in the front stand at the moment."

Zuoqiu raised his finger and pointed to the stands on the river embankment in

front of him.

"No hurry, no hurry, go, and follow the old man to see the rich and the rich!"

"You have to pay respects!"

Shen Wansheng chuckled, "Xiangyi Mansion has a severe drought this year. If

there is no wealthy Hou Zhanyi, under the rule of this mansion, I don't know

how many families will sell their children and daughters. This mansion owes

the rich and honorable a great favor!"

As a result, a group of people, led by Zuoqiu, went to the stands.

Zhao Bingzhen sits firmly on the Diaoyutai, even facing Dai Duo, the elderly

servant of the Xing Department, Zuo Shi Lang, he sat there very steadily.

"Dai Gonghaihan, Benhou hasn't recovered from his injury. I can't stand it

after sitting down and then standing up!"

"Wealthy Hou does not need to be polite!"

Dai Duo smiled, raised his finger to the surface of the river, "Let's take a

look at the excitement!"

"Okay!"

Master Zhao Er laughed harmlessly.

As soon as Zuoqiu saw this picture, he immediately waved the flag in his hand

to signal that the dragon boat race was about to start.

Then, the ambassador who passed the order quickly reported the news to the

dragon boat race teams on the river.

There are six towns and seventy-two villages under Anshun County.

Seventy-two dragon boats are impossible to line up on this river. Therefore,

the preliminary round of the dragon boat race is divided into eight games,

each with nine teams starting.

Seventy-two dragon boats, seventy-two serial number plates, the numbers on the

serial number plates are one to eight.

Before the start of the game, the drummers of each team will draw a serial

number. Then, the game starts according to the drawn serial number, and the

serial number plate with the same number is the same game time.

Following Zuoqiu's command, each team drew their own serial number cards.

The number on the serial number plate of Lingshui Village is six.

In other words, they will be the sixth batch of participating teams.

Eight preliminary rounds, each round only takes the first place to enter the

finals.

If it is bad luck, even a strong team may not make it to the finals.

Boom——!

Boom——!

Boom——!

Accompanied by bursts of drums, the dragon boat race officially opened.

When the drums stopped and a gong sounded, the first preliminary round began.

The nine dragon boats are all like arrows from the string, moving forward at

speed on the surface of the river.

On the embankment, Fu Bao sat on Mr. Xu's neck, his eyes staring round and

round, and he was inexplicably excited as he watched the dragon boats moving

forward fast on the water.

For a moment, Fubao almost yelled out the words "Come on" excitedly.

Fortunately, my mother said at a critical moment, Fu Bao recovered from his

excitement.

"Master, can we win?"

Mrs. Xu looked very nervous and asked such a question abruptly.

Old man Xu chuckled and said, "At present, it should be very promising. The

speed of these dragon boats is not good. Compared with the bosses, they are

not one and a half stars."

"It's good to win!"

Mrs. Xu sighed.

Fu Bao was awakened by the words of his own mother, and naturally he lost his

previous excitement.

In these nine boats, there is no dragon boat in their village, so what do you

call? Do you have ambitions and destroy your own prestige?

Fu Bao wanted to understand, but there were still others who didn't

understand. There were bursts of shouts on the shore, and people kept cheering

for the villages.

In the end, in this first batch of teams, the winner was Shangxi Village, who

almost fought Lingshui Village because of water grabs during a severe drought.

"reward!"

At the end of the first batch of preliminaries, Zhao Bingzhen suddenly said,

"All teams will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver, and the winning team will

reward 40 taels of silver."

"The teams behind, all follow this reward!"

"All the dragon boat racers under the official generation, thank you rich and

honourable!"

Zuoqiu, as the local parent official, really had to come forward to thank Zhao

Bingxi under this situation. After all, the dragon boat race teams still have

to compete!

"The magistrate Zuo is polite, I just watched the excitement, I am happy to

watch, and I will reward a few dollars at will. I must not thank you!"

What is money and waywardness?

Look at the rich and honorable Master Zhao Er, this is it!

When Zuoqiu asked people to convey the news below, all the participating teams

were boiling.

Even if you can't make it to the finals, you can still get silver. Although

not much, it is silver after all!

In the next race, all the dragon boats are accelerating, accelerating, and

accelerating continuously.

And as the speed of the dragon boat increased, the wealthy and willful Master

Zhao Er once increased the silver reward to fifty taels, and the first place

directly got one hundred taels.

Everyone is boiling, cheering.

However, no one noticed that Zhao Bingzhen's eyes were not very excited.

"Not enough, still not enough, almost, almost!"

Zhao Bingzhen whispered to himself, using a voice that only he could hear,

while his hand was trembling slightly.

"Left county magistrate, are you the sixth batch of preliminaries dragon

boats?"

Zhao Bingxi looked at Zuo Qiu who was next to him, who was the last one, and

smiled slightly, "Please go and say to the dragon boat racers behind me, if

there is a dragon boat in the qualifiers, I can get faster, I will reward you

with 500 taels of silver! "

Five hundred taels!

As soon as this number came out, everyone was not calm.

Dai Duo turned his head to look at Zhao Bingzhen, and said solemnly, "Fugui

Hou, what do you mean by this?"

"It's not interesting, I just think it's too slow!"

"Don't Dai Gong feel that this dragon boat race is not enthusiastic enough?"

Zhao Bingxun smiled slightly, "I once watched a dragon boat race on the Chu

River in the south. It is really a dragon boat like an arrow from a string. It

can fly at any speed at any time."

"This, the old man has heard of it, saying that this Chu land dragon boat is

the fastest. However, I have never seen it with my own eyes. What a pity!"

Dai Duo nodded after hearing what Zhao Bingzhen said. He also heard about the

dragon boat in Chu.

...

On the embankment of the Jiuqu River, Uncle Lu suddenly jumped out of Mr. Xu's

side.

"Master, where were you just now? You have missed several dragon boat races.

You haven't seen it. The speed is really too fast. It's simply not so fast in

previous years!"

"Wealth can make ghosts grind!"

Uncle Lu glanced at Mr. Xu, "However, it's not the time to talk about this.

You should hurry up and take your wife and Xiao Fubao. Go to the small **

over there and hide for a while!"

"Huh? Hide for a while? Why hide?"

"Master, is something going to happen?"

Father Xu listened to Uncle Lu's words, but instead of retreating, he became

very interested.

"Is there a master here?"

After inquiring about Lu Shu's congenital and acquired martial arts theory,

Mr. Xu was quite interested in these things.

For Mr. Xu, those words of Uncle Lu made him discover a whole new world that

he had never touched before.

Curiosity, everyone has it.

Like Mr. Xu, who can practice such a good martial arts himself, he is

naturally obsessed with and interested in these things.

What Uncle Lu said is really attractive to Mr. Xu.

Sitting on the neck of Mr. Xu, Fu Bao listened to his father's enthusiastic

language. Thinking of the truth of her beautiful master's words in the

morning, he really couldn't bear to see his father be so stupid.

However, she is unable to stop her now.

So, continue to watch the excitement of the old man!

When Fu Bao made up his mind to be a small audience, he suddenly noticed that

the water of the Jiuqu River in front was a little different. It was hazy, as

if it was going to be foggy.

"what!"

"what!"

Fu Bao quickly reached out to grab his father's hair, and his attention would

turn to the Jiuqu River.

Father Xu, whose hair was grabbed by Fubao, turned his head and looked at the

river.

"go!"

Uncle Lu saw the changes in Jiang's face and immediately glared at Old Man Xu,

"Quick!"

"Oh!"

This time, Mr. Xu was not angry anymore.

The sun is shining brightly and the surface of the river is nice. It seems to

be foggy for no reason. There is a problem at first sight.

Father Xu held Fubao in one hand and his wife in the other, shouting to

Lichun, squeezing out of the crowd as quickly as possible, and heading

straight to the hillside that Uncle Lu said earlier.

When I reached the hillside and looked back, I could still see the surface of

the Jiuqu River, but the fog on the surface became denser.

"Zuo county magistrate, evacuate the people immediately!"

At this moment, Zhao Bingzhen, who had been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai,

also stood up abruptly and gave orders directly.

"what?!"

Zuo Qiu was stunned and looked at Zhao Bingzhen in confusion.

Zhao Bingzhen immediately opened his mouth and said, "Do it right away!"

"If time is delayed and life is lost, you can't afford this responsibility!"

"Dingshan, go quickly!"

Dai Duo also spoke at this moment.

Although Zuoqiu didn't know why, but Zhao Bingzhen and Dai Duo both said so,

he could only do so.

The gongs are ringing.

The government officials from Anshun County appeared one after another and

began to disperse the people on the river embankment.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the people on the river embankment were

driven away.

At the same moment, the mist on the Jiuqu River had reached the point where

you could not see your fingers.

...

Fu Bao was held by Mr. Xu, staring at the thick mist all the time. Slowly, she

felt that the mist seemed to be alive, faintly, as if something was hovering

in the mist.

"Tweet—"

Just as Fu Bao stared at the thing in the mist, a pierced arrow soared into

the sky, making a sharp sound.

The next moment, a carriage appeared on the river embankment, and the driver

got out of the carriage, drew his knife, and relentlessly pierced the back of

the carriage with a short knife in his hand.

The horse was in pain, and ran toward the front with four hooves.

The galloping packhorse rushed into the Jiuqu River directly with the

carriage.

The barrels pulled by the carriage flew up.

An unknown liquid flew out of the wooden barrel, and the stench quickly

permeated.

"expensive--"

As all this happened, a painful neigh faintly came from the mist, but I didn't

know what was yelling.

"What the ** is it?"

When Mr. Xu saw the strange scene in front of him, he believed the things that

Uncle Lu told him more and more.

Fubao originally heard what his master said, and thought that the bad old man,

Master, was a big liar. But now, she is also a little skeptical.

The sound of the neigh just now looked like a dragon yin!

Fu Bao had never seen a dragon, and naturally he had never heard of a dragon.

But in many TV dramas, it seems that Longyin looks like this.

But is there really a dragon in this world?

What was the wagon that rushed to Jiuqujiang just now, and what was broken out

of the empty barrels?

boom!

rumble!

Just when everyone's attention was attracted by the fog, the day was

unknowingly, and the dark clouds gathered above the Jiuqu River.

Lightning, thunder, roaring constantly.

"This Nima isn't crossing the catastrophe, right?"

Fu Bao swallowed.

The sand sculpture netizens on the Internet, whenever they see lightning and

thunder, they always ridicule that there is a daoist who crosses the

catastrophe. Now, looking at the magical scene in front of him, Fubao can't

help but wonder, is there something really going through the catastrophe?

If crossing the catastrophe is true, isn't it possible that there are such

things as immortals and monsters in this world?

Unfortunately, facts have proved that crossing the catastrophe does not exist.

When the thunder stopped, it rained.

Fortunately, Mr. Xu took them back to the carriage early, so that they were

prevented from getting wet by the rainstorm.

The rainstorm came suddenly and ended quickly.

At most half a quarter of an hour, the clouds are gathering and the rain is

scattered, and the sun is in the sky.

The family came out of the carriage, and Fubao was held by Mrs. Xu. As soon as

she got out of the car, she unconsciously looked at a puddle in front of him.

In that puddle, there was a pure golden carp swimming. Thumb size.

"fish!"

"fish!"

"support!"

"mine!"

The moment when he saw this golden carp, the idea that came to Fubao's mind

was to raise it. It must be raised.

"Good, good, raise, raise!"

Mr. Xu followed the direction of Fubao's finger and found the little carp in

the puddle.

"It looks pretty, so you can raise it if you raise it!"

Mr. Xu didn't wonder why there was a golden carp in the puddle.

Because this kind of falling fish from the sky is really not a rare

occurrence. And what the situation is, Mr. Xu doesn't know, but this does not

prevent him from knowing the existence of this situation.

After the rain, the dragon boat race continued.

In the stands, Zuoqiu, Dai Duo and others had big questions, but no one asked.

They could all see that there was Zhao Bingzhen's handwriting behind this

incident. No matter what Zhao Bingzhen is doing, they are not qualified to

ask.

Even if there is any doubt, it can only be reported to the clan mansion, which

will continue to investigate.

Not long after Mr. Xu collected the golden little carp in a porcelain jar

filled with water in a carriage, Uncle Lu appeared on Mr. Xu's side.

"Master, just now, what was it?"

"Have you played against each other?"

Seeing Uncle Lu's return, Mr. Xu was immediately intrigued.

"Just now it was the method of the remnants of the previous dynasty. The

teacher did not find the bull nose that casts the spell, so he escaped!"

Hearing Old Man Xu's question, Uncle Lu was a little angry.