"My name is Zhang Yunshu. I was born in Zhangjiacun since I was a child. Zhangjiacun is isolated from the world and has existed in this ravine for more than a hundred years."
Zhang Yunshu told the story from the beginning bit by bit.
Everything starts from that river.
This is a magical river that will never dry up even in dry weather. The villagers of Zhangjia Village and Lijia Village on both sides of the river rely on this magical river water to live happily and peacefully.
Everyone believes that there are gods living in this river, and this gods will always bless them.
There are many legends about the river god circulating in the village, and the rituals of worshiping the river god have also been passed down many years ago.
In fact, the method of offering sacrifices is very simple. Every year, the two villages select young and beautiful young women and let them bathe in the river and pray. This shows all the villagers' respect for the river god and prays for a good harvest that year.
This custom has lasted for hundreds of years, and people in both villages firmly believe in it.
Until that year—
"That year, my cousin and I were selected as goddesses to worship the river god. I was only sixteen years old at the time, and my cousin Li Yan was seventeen. My cousin was the most beautiful in their village, and because my cousin was chosen as the goddess, The people in Lijia Village respect her extremely. People who propose marriage have to queue up in a long line. The goddess here represents the most outstanding and beautiful among her peers. Historically, the goddess will marry well and have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life. .Actually at that time... I had already been engaged to Yanzi's father. Of course, as long as we were still pure virgins, the engagement would not affect our sacrificial ceremony that year. But my cousin refused to go to the village for some unknown reason. Everyone here proposed marriage. At that time, everyone thought she was too ambitious. I also thought that my cousin had not found anyone she liked. Who knows... "
Speaking of this, Zhang Yunshu's expression was very painful and tangled: "On the day of the sacrifice, everything was going well and smoothly. Who knew that just at dawn, my cousin suddenly fainted and she was taken away by people from Lijiacun , and then someone asked a doctor to treat my cousin, and then everyone knew that my cousin was not sick, but that she was pregnant!"
A daughter of Yunying who was chosen as a goddess is actually happy
Isn't this deceiving the gods
Moreover, this kind of unmarried pregnancy was absolutely not allowed to happen in Lijia Village at that time.
"At that time, my aunt and uncle begged hard, but the patriarch of Lijia Village still decided to sink my sister to the bottom of the river. Firstly, he wanted to preserve the reputation of Lijia Village, and secondly, he wanted to apologize to the river god!"
As he spoke, Zhang Yunshu suddenly laughed: "Miss Ning, you must think we are ignorant, right? In fact, at that time, I also thought that the people in Lijia Village were simply crazy. They were completely unreasonable. They said that my cousin had committed blasphemy. The gods said that her body was unclean, so they forced her to fast and bathe for seven days, and buried her body after seven days. At that time, my cousin was closely guarded, and no one could approach her. I also spent a lot of effort, Li The guard in my village allowed me to say a few words to her outside the door. I was still young at the time, and I would get confused when something happened and would just keep crying, and kept asking her who the man was. But my cousin just wouldn’t Said that no matter who asked her, she would not say a word about that man."