Chapter 333: Cause

They finally found it, and now the village is in trouble. The village chief shook his lips, but still didn't dare to squeak.

The little girl was put on the shore by Qizai, her eyes closed, her face pale, and her belly bulging. Her aunt cried and was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Ning Xiaoxian.

She expanded her senses and probed her whole body, and realized that she had indeed fainted from drowning, but fortunately there was not much water in her lungs, probably because she was in a relaxed mood when she drowned. If you are in Huaxia, you will need acupressure plus artificial respiration, but fortunately there is no need for such trouble.

She picked up the little girl, put her palm on her back, and crossed her divine power.

Stimulated by the divine power, Raj's hands and feet moved, and he suddenly leaned forward, and spit out a small half bowl of water. This is fluid trapped in the trachea and lungs, and there is no way to get into the stomach.

However, she was also saved. Ning Xiaoxian slowly put her down and ordered the villagers: "Carry it into the house and cover the quilt, she needs to be cared for!"

The people around didn't understand what "nursing" meant, but no one dared to disobey the order of the fairy girl, and someone immediately came up to lift the wounded. Raj's aunt rushed to her daughter's side, opened her tearful eyes, and stroked her daughter's hair over and over again.

Raj also knew that it was the beautiful fairy girl in front of him who saved him, so he said with a faint breath: "Thank you Fairy Gu for saving your life." ”

Ning Xiaoxian shook his head: "It's not worth mentioning trivial matters, but the wound on your body has been blistered and needs to be remedicated." He turned to the village chief and said, "What about the medicine I told you to give her yesterday?" ”

The village chief took out the jade bottle with a screech, and was snatched by Raj's mother.

Ning Xiaoxian said lightly to the village chief: "Why do you use a living person to sacrifice to the lake god?" Recruit from the truth. If there is a word of falsehood, I will use you as a sacrifice in her place. ”

The village chief shuddered, and hurriedly explained the reason.

It turned out that the ancestors of Xinghuang Village had made an agreement with the lake god. As long as the villagers regularly offer sacrifices and do not go to the lake to fish, the lake god will keep the village safe. This agreement has remained unchanged for hundreds of years.

Ning Xiaoxian didn't feel strange when he heard this. The so-called river gods and lake gods are actually monsters or spirits. On this continent, youkai are not all evil, some are close to people, and some will even become the protectors of villages and even cities. They made a pact with humanity. Take what you need from each other, and the village can survive with the protection of the monsters. And the monsters also regularly get pigs, cattle and sheep to improve their food. In the underground river of Iwaki City, where she had been, the dragon had made a contract with the first city lord to protect the waterway.

Xinghuang Village is also hundreds of miles away from the nearest city. It's just a legacy and independent. This world is not peaceful. If there was no "lake god" to protect it, I am afraid that the small village would have been flattened by other monsters.

The agreement between the lake god and Xinghuang Village was recently broken by Raj.

It turned out that in addition to Xinghuang Village, there was also a village in each of the twenty and thirty miles in the vicinity, and the relationship between them was not harmonious. In particular, the villagers of Yibei Village would always secretly go to Tianhu Lake to fish during the famine years, and the god of Tianhu Lake was furious and ordered the villagers of Xinghuang Village not to make friends or intermarry with Yibei Village.

But Raj, a girl in Xinghuang Village, somehow met Kambu, a young man from Yibei Village. The two have a crush on each other and often secretly travel together. This kind of thing is always on fire. Xinghuang Village soon knew. The village chief was furious and asked Raj's aunt to take her home and grounded her for half a month.

It was also during this time that strange things happened.

The beast began to wander around the village, looking at the villagers with bad intentions. A few days later, a leopard took advantage of the night to sneak into the village and take the babies of two families. You know, this has never happened in the past when there was a lake god guarding it, so Xinghuang Village has never guarded against wild beasts.

A few days later, the team returned from hunting in the wild. Most of the men were wounded, and they all confessed that the lions, tigers, bears and leopards in the jungle had become particularly active and fierce for some reason, and the villagers were caught off guard and several people were bitten.

Then the worst thing happened.

A man in the village suddenly fell ill with a headache and brain fever, followed by a high fever. If the foam from the corners of his mouth touched someone, that person would then fall ill! Naturally, the sick were all taken care of by relatives and friends, and only one person became ill at first, but as a result, he was implicated in this way, and by the time the village chief found out that something was wrong and isolated all the sick people, seven or eight days had passed, and ten of them had been lying down.

What's worse is that the witch murderer in the village didn't sleep for three days and three nights, tried seventeen or eight methods, and finally could only shake his head and say that he couldn't cure the disease.

There are two things that the villagers who live in the mountains are most afraid of, one is to get sick, and the other is to give birth. In the poor countryside, the medical conditions are too poor, and the seriously ill patients and mothers-in-law who are about to give birth may directly kick their legs into the ghost gate. The disease was not only menacing but also contagious, and immediately caused panic among the people in the village.

When mortals are helpless, they can only do one thing: ask God. The village poured a large number of sacrifices into Tianhu, and almost even the old hens that had been raised by the village chief for more than ten years were thrown into it, but there was not even a sound of water - the lake god of Tianhu was silent!

Without the blessing of the lake god, it would be a matter of minutes for Xinghuang Village to be erased from this world. The village chief panicked, and the villagers panicked, but Raj left the village without permission at this time and went to have a tryst with his lover!

How could this not make everyone believe that it was Raj who angered the lake god and made him unwilling to protect the village anymore. The only way to do this was to throw her into the lake as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of the lake god.

After listening to the village chief, Ning Xiaoxian pondered for a while before asking, "What does the lake god look like?"

Who knows, no one in the village has seen it, at least not anyone who is alive. The qiē about the lake god has been passed down from generation to generation. She was amused and angry: "Then how do you know that the lake god really exists?"

On this point, it is reasonable to say: "There are often huge black shadows swimming in the water, stirring up whirlpools and splashes, and each time they swim to feast on the sacrifices we have put in. "A few people also swore that they had seen huge fins and tails.

Of course, the most powerful proof of this is a huge fish scale placed on the altar in the village, on which there are often flashes of multicolored light. When Ning Xiaoxian saw this fish scale, the light was gone, and only the dark color remained, which was no different from the scales of ordinary big fish. The village chief said with a white face, "Since the scales of the fish given by the god of the lake have become like this, the beasts in the forest have begun to stir, and the disease has begun to spread. "So, this is evidence that the lake god abandoned Xinghuang Village.

The role of this fish scale, Ning Xiaoxian knows better than the villagers. Because this is the token left by the lake god, when it is still effective, it can deter the surrounding monsters and beasts, so that they dare not approach Xinghuang Village. Its effect is the same as the Ding'an Pillar she encountered when she traveled with the Yunhu caravan. However, now the scales have changed color, indicating that they are no longer valid.

When Ning Xiaoxian heard about the illness of the villagers, he decided to stay. Because in her and Changtian's opinion, the disease that these people were suffering from was probably the plague that ravaged the central and southern parts of the Southern Ganbu Continent! Xinghuang Village was a small village that had no quarrel with the world, in other words, this place was completely isolated from the world, where could the plague spread from?

And what does this suddenly silent lake god have to do with the plague?

In her thoughts, she walked into Raj's house. The little girl had a very flat face for the rest of her life, but when she saw her, there was a look of excitement in her eyes. Ning Xiaoxian let her aunt out of the house first, and then sat down on the side of Raj's bed, and while helping her change the dressing, she whispered: "Are there any sick people in other villages?" Since she has a little lover in other villages, it is impossible not to talk about this matter.

"Yes!" Raj said softly, "The Yibei Village side is even more seriously ill, and more than twenty people have fallen ill. ”

Sure enough, the plague was not only spreading in this village. "Did you see anything unusual when you went out this time?"

Raj thought for a moment and shook his head. Ning Xiaoxian had no choice but to say: "If you think of anything, sue me." The medicine she prescribed to Raj contained sesame powder, and the little girl soon fell asleep in a daze, when Tu Duan walked in and erased the memory of the wild boar in her mind.

At this time, Ning Xiaoxian had already found the village chief and offered to see the patient. The village chief was not surprised by her request, and had already appointed someone to guide her, the thin black man who had taken Raj from her hand in the field yesterday.

The mortal's footsteps were slow, and the mountain road was rough, and the black man walked for half an hour to lead her to the place. The patient was placed in the ancestral temple in the mountains, far away from the village, and the black man was still about 500 meters away from this ancestral temple, and his face was frightened, and he refused to approach it again. Ning Xiaoxian frowned and said, "None of you are close, so who will bring them food?"

The black man muttered: "Every afternoon, we put the food on the ground, turn around and leave, and our own patients come to get the food. We didn't come until the next day to collect the basket. Instead, she pleaded, "Fairy Gu, there are also my relatives here, please try to save them!" she silently waved him away.

It is understandable for the village chief to place the sick in the mountain shrine, after all, the first element in dealing with infectious diseases is isolation, isolating the sick from normal people, and cutting off the source of infection. However, in the case of ineffective treatment, these patients can only be left to fend for themselves.

It is located in the middle of nowhere, and the ancestral hall has no protective power, and if a wild beast approaches, these patients will not even have the power to protect themselves. The way the villagers do it is actually a bit ruthless. But what about them as mortals?

Ning Xiaoxian sighed lightly and walked closer to the ancestral hall. This ancestral hall is very small, but fortunately, there have always been people stationed and cleaned in the original village, so it is not dilapidated. But on the loess wall outside the ancestral hall, I don't know who wrote the words "don't approach" with blood-red paint, the font is crooked, and the color is crimson and dazzling. (To be continued......)

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