At this time, there were already quite a few people pointing and talking on the shore.
"Are the people from the Six Gates exorcising demons? I didn't expect that there are so many powerful demons in Jiujiang County."
"This doesn't seem like the Six Gates' style of operation. When the Six Gates drop the key, they will first seal off this area, and then a large number of people will enter to directly sweep the area. There won't be such a situation where we are watching."
"Yes, when the Six Gates take action, people from other government offices will cooperate with them to seal off the area. We can only watch from a distance, how can we get so close? We can't touch the monster at all. Look, I can even touch such a big monster now."
Then, a young man among the crowd was the most daring. He walked directly to the crocodile that had been brought ashore first, stood next to the crocodile's head, and held it with one hand. He smiled at the middle-aged scholar holding a cardboard and a paintbrush, his face full of fear and anxiety, and said, "Paint it quickly, paint it quickly! I didn't expect to encounter such a big event while out collecting folk songs. If I can paint this scene, I'm sure they will envy me when I return."
The painter had a bitter face and his legs were shaking. He was extremely scared.
The waves in the river surged continuously, one after another, and the flashes of swords and the roars of monsters could be heard from time to time. In such a horrifying scene, no normal person would have the mind to paint here.
But the young man calmed the middle-aged scholar down with just one word.
"Ten times the original price. Once you finish the painting, I'll give you three taels of silver."
The painter gritted his teeth and his legs stopped shaking. He looked carefully at the young man's position, shook his head, turned around and asked Yang You to borrow the wooden sword in his hand and put it in the young man's hand.
Let the young man stand on the crocodile's head and strike a pose, with the long knife pointing diagonally at the crocodile's wound. Combined with the young man's green shirt, it's not to mention that he looks like a martial arts master.
Originally, he wanted to borrow a real long sword from someone else, but the man from the martial arts world gave him a look, and the middle-aged painter didn't dare to say anything.
The young man was a little dissatisfied at first, but after he finally equipped himself with the wooden sword and pointed it diagonally at the wound on the crocodile's head, he naturally had a different charm, which made people feel more extraordinary than a real long sword.
The surrounding environment seemed to be more comfortable and relaxed than before.
Yang You was stunned. These people really didn't care about their lives.
But some of the young men and women around who were dressed in the same luxurious manner had eyes that flickered with envy and admiration when they looked at the young man standing on the crocodile's head and the painter standing not far away who was painting. They also wanted to try it.
The people who were closer were wearing tattered linen clothes with many patches on them. They held simple iron tools in their hands and were trying to cut a little meat from the toad thrown out of the water and a fish-like monster, and to collect a little blood in the rough pottery jar.
Yang You looked at them with a more friendly gaze, but he was also worried about these people.
However, these people were as prudent as ever, picking up only some small pieces of meat and a little bit of scattered blood from the huge body of the monster.
He didn't dare to touch the main body at all. He pretended a little and ran away quickly without looking back.
Yang You had seen people in the village do these things when he was young. At that time, his family had not yet suffered from the flood, but a large ship sank on the river bank.
After all the people on board died, the villagers rushed into the big ship as quickly as locusts, brought the food and related goods on the ship back to the village, and buried them in the cellar, without revealing a single bit.
That big ship brought a fulfilling year to their village.
Unfortunately, the village was hit by a flood and was completely destroyed.
He followed the people from the village who had gone out to make a living earlier and came to Jiujiang County. Under their leadership, he joined the Green Gang and carried heavy bags at the dock every day to make a living.
Both poverty and wealth can foster completely different kinds of courage and pride in people.
The wealthy young man wanted to show off his extraordinary courage in such an incident, so he asked the painter to draw his heroic posture among a group of demons falling to the ground.
Another group of courageous people collected blood and flesh directly next to the monster's body. After collecting them, they quickly handed the relevant things to their wives, children and daughters who were somewhat sad on the shore.
Yang You could understand them very well. After all, their family lived by the river. There were many shipwrecks on the river, but few of them could allow them to live a good life for a year.
He remembered that the most painful time was when they rescued a ship, and they also rescued several people and cargo on the ship. But not long after, the rescued people came to find them with government officials, took away all the cargo, and called their leaders robbers.
Since then, there have been fewer young and strong men in the village. I heard that they were all captured and exiled.
Since then, people along the river have become more vigilant about salvaging cargo on the ship, especially about salvaging living people from the river.
If they are from a foreign place, most of the time they will ignore them.
If the goods obtained are large enough, they will be hidden in a special cellar in the mountains or a special cave in the home under the guidance of the village chief or the elders in the village, and will not be taken out for common use until a long time has passed.
Many times they don't want to fish something out of the river, but if they are not old, often people in their family may starve to death due to their own harvest. They always have to make a choice between dying now and dying later, and most people will choose the second one.
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