Chapter 23: Bending the Law for Bribes
The villagers of Pinecone Village busied themselves for a day, but didn't wait for the imagined great flood.
The river water spreading from the Songliu River stopped just outside the village, not even crossing the cofferdams.
Li Shoutian waited for a long time. Finally, unable to wait any longer, he asked his son Li Guangmao to take two people to the river to see the situation.
After a long time, Li Guangmao returned excitedly, shouting loudly: "So we have a Water God of Songliu protecting us here! Four flood discharge channels appeared overnight and passed the flood peak!"
"Water God of Songliu?"
The villagers looked at each other in dismay. They had passed down from generation to generation here, but had never heard of such an immortal deity.
Li Guangmao was tall and sturdy, especially his two arms, which grew like an ape's.
He also had a lot of body hair. When he was about ten years old, he already had a face full of whiskers.
Now at thirty years old, his beard was even denser.