Yun Yu and the others stood on the shore and watched the return of the fishing boat full of aquatic products, and their hearts gradually filled with chills and anger.
Wu Xiaohuan said that Pei He was sent to sacrifice to the river god, and it should be here. They guessed that at least two lives would be thrown into the river every year for sacrifice. On the surface, it was used to sacrifice to the river god, but who knows What the hell is it about
Yun Yu was furious, and some of her anger could not be suppressed. She couldn't help but take two steps forward. Long Qixiao held him back and said in a low voice, "Don't be impulsive."
Yun Yu pursed her lower lip, lowered her eyes and said, "I see."
Qin Yusui held her hand to protect the person behind him.
In addition to the villagers of Jiaopo Village, the people around here are also fishmongers, who came to collect fish on purpose.
Someone noticed a few of them and said with a smile, "Are you here to travel nearby? That's really bad luck. If you could have seen the fish king picked up by the rich family two days ago, it was auctioned for 580,000 yuan. The price! This is the first time I have seen such a big fish in these years, which is a good sign."
Long Qixiao stepped forward and patted the brother on the shoulder, "Brother, are you here to buy fish?"
The man said excitedly: "No, although I can't take the fish king, but the fish raised by Dafu is delicious and the meat is fresh and tender. Every year we fishmongers come to buy fish from him, and even the rich, small fishmongers buy from him. , he also gave it, today is almost the last day, a lot of people came, this is the last wave, you came at the wrong time."
"Isn't it just a few fish, how good can it taste? Can it be compared to shark's fin and bird's nest?" Long Qixiao said meaningfully.
"Why can't it be compared? I can tell you that the aquatic products we eat around here are all fished from the river in Dafu, and the aquatic products in the nearby restaurants are the best selling, and many people buy them back and make their own. to eat."
This fish didn't know what to eat to grow up, so Long Qixiao immediately decided not to order aquatic products when he went to a nearby town for dinner at night.
The fishing boat had already docked, and everyone was busy, pushing Yunyu and the others to the back.
In the crowd, an old man in his 60s noticed a few people and walked over quietly and said, "Dolls, what are you doing here?"
Yunyu saw the old man Yintang with evil spirits, and there were lives on her body. She didn't want to speak, and quietly huddled in Qin Yusui's arms.
Long Qixiao glanced at the old man and said with a smile: "Old man, we are here for a tour. We heard that the scenery in the nearby mountains is beautiful, so we came here to play."
The old man relaxed a little and smiled, "Yes, yes, we are indeed beautiful here, but if you want to go to the mountains to play, it is best to go up in the morning, after a walk around, you can go to town for lunch at noon, now it's three or four o'clock. Now, it will be dark soon, and it is not safe to go up the mountain."
"It's alright, we'll go around at will, don't worry, old man."
The old man said: "That's fine, but we don't keep people in our village at night, and we don't keep any money, and there's no place to eat in the village. You'd better leave the village early."
Long Qixiao said yes, and then asked the old man, "I don't know who the old man is?"
The old man stroked his gray beard, "I'm the mayor of this village." As he was talking, he glanced at Yunyu who was shrunk in the back. Seeing her slightly bulging belly, his cloudy eyes instantly lit up. , just noticing the number of them, the old man's eyes faded.
"It's the village chief." Long Qixiao laughed and asked, "Village chief, I heard that there is a Taoist temple in your village. We want to go to pay homage, but I don't know if we can go?"
The old man became vigilant, "What are you doing at the Taoist temple?"
Long Qixiao sighed, "What else can I do? I've been unlucky recently. I heard from the people nearby that there are Taoist temples here, so I thought of saying goodbye when I went up the mountain to see the scenery, and I hope to bless us well."
The old man sighed, "That's right, but our Taoist temple here generally only allows people from our village to worship. For foreign guests, the Taoist temple's main character is very casual, not asking for pilgrims, just looking at fate, you will meet in the mountains if you have the fate. See you."
This is really perfunctory, it is the first time I have seen a Taoist temple that does not seek pilgrims.
Long Qixiao sneered inwardly, without showing her face, thanked the village chief and left.
Leaving the river, several people wandered around the village.
Song Ziming said: "That village chief is eccentric, and there is a problem at first sight. The Taoist Dongfu will definitely stay in the Taoist temple. As long as the Taoist Dongfu is removed, the remaining villagers should not be afraid."
Long Wenyin nodded, "What we mainly deal with is the Daoist Dongfu people. She should have created the sacrifice of the living people. The line that my cousin found out, the Daoist people in Dongfu seemed to disappear at that time, and then the village gradually became richer. stand up."
"Then when will we go up the mountain to find someone?" Long Qichen asked.
"Tomorrow morning." Long Qixiao walked slowly, looking very leisurely, "It's not convenient to go up the mountain now when it's dark, after all, it's the old witch's territory, it's safer during the day, we'll just go around the village. Let's go to the town to eat and rest in a while, and tomorrow morning we'll go hiking." He glanced at Yunyu, "Is there any problem with my brother and sister?"
Yunyu was pregnant, so he was quite worried.
Along the way, Yunyu didn't speak, and now she said softly, "It's alright."
Long Qichen and Long Wenyin were hesitant to say anything. They are both still in a trance now, and Yunyu is also their friend. They joined a group at the Imperial Capital Exchange before, and occasionally the group chat started to fly, but now their good friends are not. became a cousin.
Several people wandered around the village, which has a large ancestral hall.
The surrounding old trees are shady and ghostly.
Too many people have died in this village, and they have all been killed in various ways.
This clan ancestral hall belongs to Jiaopo Village, with red walls and green tiles, and a two-entry house.
The whole ancestral hall looks majestic and imposing.
In fact, such a place can easily become a scenic spot, and many people will come to visit, but the villagers here regard it as a private place and will not allow outsiders to visit.
The gate of the ancestral hall is locked, and on weekdays, only clan events and various sacrificial festivals will be opened.
They just wandered outside the ancestral hall for a few minutes before someone heard the news and came to chase them away.
Long Qixiao and the others didn't care, they left after being chased away.
At about five o'clock, several people left the village and went to a nearby town.
There are quite a lot of people in the town. Several people found a place to eat. They didn't order aquatic products, but ordered a few vegetarian dishes.
Because they told the village chief of Jiapo Village that they had been unlucky recently, and that they were safe and did not go to a good hotel, so they randomly found a clean hotel.
Tourists often come to play, and the hotel here is fairly clean.
There were six of them, Yun Yu shared a room with Qin Yusui, and the rest were one room per person.
Song Ziming looked at Yunyu, he was a talker, and he liked to talk to Yunyu very much. Now that he couldn't sleep, he really wanted to talk to Yunyu, but he also knew that something happened to her family. She was unhappy and could only bear it. Down.
When Qin Yusui led Yunyu back to the room, Song Ziming sighed softly and was knocked on the head by Long Qixiao, "Let's go back to the room and play a couple of games."
It's only seven o'clock, and they can't sleep so early, so they bought a deck of playing cards.
The four followed Long Qixiao into his room, a large double bed.
The four of them are very familiar, three of them are still from the same family, Song Ziming is also very close to the Long family, in a circle, everyone is not restricted, took off their shoes and sat on the bed playing poker, Long Wenyin looked blankly With the card in his hand, it took a long time before he said, "Brother, do we want to tell Grandpa about my cousin?"
Long Wenyin is from the second room, and General Long is her grandfather.
Long Qixiao and Long Qichen are the grandsons of General Long, but they are not the same father.
Long Qixiao's father is Long Qichen's uncle, and their father and Qin Yusui's mother are brothers and sisters, both children of General Long.
Long Qixiao bit a cigarette and threw out a card, "What are you talking about, how it used to be, and now there is no change, Yunyu is your good friend, right? You don't object to this marriage, right? It's fine if you don't get involved, anyway We will definitely go when they get married, let the old man figure it out for himself."
"I have no opinion." Long Qichen also felt that it was fine to let the flow take its course. A cousin and a good friend, but these two combinations are really weird.
"Okay, then I understand." Long Wenyin didn't bother about this anymore, and planned to make the grandfather trouble himself.
It's that she couldn't help but think of Yunyu's pregnant belly, doesn't it mean that she was pregnant at the time of the exchange conference? At that time, the person who looked like a cousin was actually a cousin.
Hey, my cousin is really a blockbuster. I thought he couldn't even find a wife, and now he has children.
"Hahaha, Wang Zhai!" Only Song Ziming played the cards very attentively, threw a pair of Wang Zhai, and then threw the remaining string of straights in one fell swoop.
He almost happily akimbo akimbo laughing.
The three looked at him speechlessly.
Yunyu lives in the opposite room.
She was not in high spirits, and went back to the room to take a hot bath, lying in Qin Yusui's arms and talking to him in a low voice, "Qin Yusui, I'm homesick, and I want to take my sister home quickly."
Qin Yusui kissed her forehead, "We can go home tomorrow."
"Yeah." Yun Yu's voice was a little low.
She was just not in the mood. She thought countless times that this time it was only the people that her sister cared about, and she would feel uncomfortable.
She couldn't imagine what she would do if something happened to the family she cared about
Qin Yusui hugged her tightly, guarding her abdomen carefully, "don't worry, it'll be alright, everything will be fine."
He could see that her mood was not quite right.
"I know, it will all get better." Yunyu murmured.
That night, the two went to bed early, and the next day the biological clock woke them up on time.
Yun Yulei couldn't stop practicing, Qin Yusui would also exercise on weekdays, and now he lives in a hotel, he doesn't move, just guards Yunyu.
At seven o'clock, Long Qixiao and the others also woke up, came to knock on the door, and everyone went out to have some breakfast at will.
At eight o'clock, I went to Jiapo Village again, and the village was very quiet in the morning.
There are not many villagers in this village, and each family lives in large villas with single-family houses. These villas are not next to each other, but are separated by a lot of distance.
They walked up the mountain from the wide road built by the village.
There is a continuous mountain nearby, the stone steps repaired by the predecessors are covered with moss, and there are lush trees on both sides, which is quiet and deep.
After walking for a while, she encountered a few forks in the road, Yunyu pinched her fingers and said, pointing to the middle: "Let's go this way."
Everyone chose the middle path and continued to walk into the forest.
After walking for about 20 minutes, I could vaguely see a Taoist temple on the top of Xieshi Mountain in the forest. After removing the heavy weeds, a gloomy Taoist temple appeared.
The Taoist temple is very well repaired. It uses the same red walls and green tiles as the clan ancestral hall in the village. It covers a large area. There are two stone statues in front of the Taoist temple. , Jinding Taoist Temple.
The door of Taoism is closed.
Several people looked at each other and knew that they had found the location.
Such a Taoist temple stands in the deep mountains, surrounded by green forests, and the morning fog has not yet dissipated.
Long Qixiao stepped forward and knocked on the door. After a while, the door of the Taoist temple was opened. It was a man in a Taoist robe, about forty years old.
The man's eyes were sunken, and he stared at several people and said, "What are you doing?"
Long Qixiao said: "We are donkey friends. We climbed halfway up the mountain and saw a Taoist temple here. Thinking of the recent bad luck, we came in to say goodbye, Taoist priest, is this Taoist temple still open?"
The man didn't speak, just turned sideways to let a few people in.
When a few people entered, the man noticed Yunyu who was walking behind him, and suddenly asked, "Are any of you pregnant?"
Long Qixiao turned around and said, "Yes, what's wrong?"
The man glanced at Yunyu and said, "It's nothing, you can go to the main hall and say goodbye."
"OK."
The man kindly helped them point to the location of the main hall, and then said, "I'm going to do something, so please say goodbye yourself."
The man left, and a few of them walked towards the main hall and walked inside. The layout of this place is similar to that of other Taoist temples, but I don't know which immortal the golden lacquer statue standing on the stone platform is dedicated to, and it can be seen that it is a human being. The appearance of the slanted long and a bit thirsty.
Song Ziming clicked his tongue twice and said boldly, "What is this worship?"
It is not a Taoist orthodox idol at all. When they come into contact with this, they naturally know which gods are enshrined in the Taoist temple, and they are familiar with the appearance of these gods, but what is this
The stone statue seemed to understand Song Ziming's words.
His expression was a little grim.
Of course they wouldn't incense something like this.
After looking around it carefully, he walked out of the main hall.
There is obviously a problem with this Taoist temple. Taoist temples all need people to worship and incense, but they don't need it here. They even want to hide it. The fewer people know about it, the better.
They guessed that the thief-eyed thing that was enshrined should be something that became fine.
I don't understand what Dongfu Daoist does for a ghost.
They walked around the Taoist temple, found the backyard, and found that the previous man was chopping wood in the backyard. They came for the Taoist people of Dongfu, and now they have no one to ask.
It was Long Qixiao who stepped forward, grabbed the man and asked, "Daoist, I actually want to ask if there are any leaders of your Taoist temple or something, that's it, I've encountered some strange things recently, So I want the headmaster to help me see."
The man hesitated: "Our head has no guests."
Long Qixiao said: "Daoist, I beg you to help, it is a really serious matter."
The man looked at the faces of Long Qixiao and the others, and hesitated. He studied with the Taoist priests of Dongfu, and could barely show the faces of others. He knew that these people were very lucky people, if they were used to work for the gods Festival is the best.
He said: "Then wait a moment, I'll go and talk to the head."
The man went to the sect master. The sect master lived in the most remote part of the Taoist temple, and it was difficult to walk. When he passed by, he vaguely heard the sect master's voice coming from the room, "No, there are several of them, and the goal is too high. It’s not suitable for you to live sacrifice to you.”
After a while, the head continued: "We have finally come to this step, and we have to be careful. That's fine."
The man didn't dare to listen, so he walked over and knocked on the door, and the head let him in and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"Master, there is a group of people outside asking to see you." The man said: "They said that they could not solve some things they encountered, and they wanted to ask the master for help. They looked very good."
His cultivation is too low and too low, and it is impossible to see that these people are people with cultivation.
Daoist Dongfu hesitated and finally said: "Okay, don't talk about it, I will let them come over."
The man knew that the head was communicating with the gods, his face flushed with excitement, and he did not dare to disturb.
"Go get them here."
The man was excited, turned around and led the pedestrian over.
"Our head lives here, you go in." The man said and then retreated.
A few people pushed open the door and entered, and finally saw the Taoist Dongfu, who was supposed to be in her sixties, but she only had gray hair and few wrinkles on her face, only the corners of her eyes and mouth drooped a little. With white hair, he looked like he was in his forties at most.
Daoist Dongfu asked kindly, "Why can't you solve it..." Halfway through her words, her face changed, and she said in horror, "You are also cultivators!"
Long Qixiao didn't say a word, she just took a slap when she went up, and the Taoist Dongfu was embarrassed to dodge, she said angrily, "I'm really careless, how did you find this place?"
She hid for 40 years, and she was considered a rookie when she was young, but only she knew that her ability was given to her by the spirits around her, not her real ability. When she learned that the ancestor of the Long family wanted to kill her, She took the spirit and hid back to the Pu family clan.
At that time, the Pu family had several hundred families.
When she came back, it was a little difficult, but gradually, everyone knew that she was capable.
At that time, the Pu family was very poor, and many people did not want to live a poor life, so she helped them build bridges and used human sacrifices. At that time, the people in the clan were very afraid, but she told everyone that only By offering human sacrifices to the gods, everyone can become rich.
Many people believed her, and some people didn't want to be so cruel.
The soft-hearted people gradually moved away. She asked the spirits to help and cursed these people. The matter of human sacrifices should not be revealed to the public, otherwise the whole family would die without a place to be buried.
They are all ordinary people, they are afraid of death, of course they dare not talk nonsense.
Later, there were only dozens of families left in the village, and they all believed that human sacrifice could lead them on the road to prosperity.
At the beginning of the human sacrifice, the Daoists of Dongfu looked around for people, and then took Sister Pei as their apprentice. Sister Pei and Mazi were both from the Pu surname and from Jiapo Village, so they took over the business. Villagers give money, they look for tribute.
At the beginning, they found very few living people, and gradually they began to increase. The Taoist priests of Dongfu warned them that they would rather get less tribute than let people know about the living sacrifice.
But she didn't expect Sister Pei to find Xiaolong and Wu Xiaohuan one after another for money.
Sister Pei is earning more and more money from the villagers, and the villagers are used to offering sacrifices on various festivals. They have become insensitive. For them, as long as it is not their own family, there is no problem with anyone making tributes.
In fact, there is no such thing as a god, but that god is very capable, giving them luck and letting them make a lot of money.
Moreover, the fortune path used is still the descendants of the villagers. This monster can cultivate as long as it absorbs the anger of the living. It is said that it is a sacrifice of the gods. In fact, it is all given to this monster, and she also got a lot of benefits. The monster helps her practice, Her cultivation has improved a lot, and she has even begun to rejuvenate. She is very satisfied, and feels that as long as she is so careful, she will be able to cultivate the Tao.
And she and the monster lived in seclusion in such a forest.
She also seldom receives guests. Occasionally, she will help Jingwei keep guests when she likes Shangxiang's guests, but she didn't expect to encounter a cultivator this time.
She couldn't figure out what went wrong.
Song Ziming sneered, "Why do you ask so many people, you've got so many lives on your hands, let's die quickly."
He actually pulled out a peach wood sword from behind. When he came from the imperial capital, the master heard about it and lent him the old man's peach wood sword.
Daoist Dongfu is also a kind of evil cultivator. Naturally, he is very afraid of this thing and hides in embarrassment after being stabbed by the peach wood sword.
Dongfu Taoist stared at several people and said hatefully: "You all deserve to die, none of you will be spared, let you all sacrifice here today."
Long Qixiao sneered, "Let's see if you have the ability."
A few people were besieged, and the Taoist Dongfu couldn't stand it and shouted: "Daxian, please help."
At this time, a short man walked out of the house, with a quizzical look.
Song Ziming groaned, "Isn't this the fucking golden lacquer statue in the main hall just now, what the hell is this?"