As soon as the words fell, the footsteps outside the door also stopped, and changed to the sound of unlocking.

Thinking that the fanged mask was back, Yeyu quickly lay back on the ground, closing his eyes and stretching his legs.

Play dead.

Soon, the lock was opened, a woman pushed the door open, cautiously walked in, she looked around the room, when she saw the person lying on the ground and tied up by five flowers, her eyes showed a touch of joy, closed the door with her backhand, and hurriedly walked towards Yeyu.

Yeyu has been pretending to be dead with her eyes half-open since she was just now, so naturally she saw this woman, and her every move was in her eyes.

The woman came to Yeyu and crouched down, reaching out and nudging her body.

"Girl? Girl? How are you, are you alright? ”

Yeyu was pushed, opened her eyes in a daze, and when she saw the person squatting beside her, she said with a panicked face: "You, who are you?" ”

"Girl, don't be afraid, the little girl's name is Qinglian, and she is the bride you saved by the river yesterday, do you remember?"

The bride?

Yeyu was stunned for a moment, and carefully looked at the person in front of her.

This woman is only fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a light blue dress, with a tassel on her head, a fair complexion, and delicate eyebrows, but she is also a beautiful embryo, but she looks three points more mature than her.

Compared with her, Yeyu looks much more immature.

"You, what are you doing here?"

Qinglian took out a bag of things wrapped in yellow paper from her arms and put it aside, and reached out to help Yeyu untie the rope: "I'm here to bring you food, I was also locked up here by Grandpa Hua two days ago, and no one came to deliver food for a day and a night, so, I guess you should be hungry too, so I'm here to bring you food." ”

With a rope, Ye Yuyi rubbed his numb wrist: "Then how did you know that I was here?" ”

Qinglian put the things in Yeyu's hand: "I've been living in Grandpa Hua's house for the past few days, so I've heard a little bit about what Grandpa Hua knows." ”

While Qinglian was speaking, Yeyu had already opened the yellow paper, and it was actually a chicken leg and two steamed buns, as soon as she saw this thing, Yeyu unexpectedly felt kind, picked up the chicken leg and ate it in a big gulp.

It's not as important as eating big things.

Qinglian continued: "Just now I was having dinner with Grandpa Hua in the front hall, and Aunt Huo suddenly came over and told Grandpa Hua that she had found a new sacrifice, as long as she gave this sacrifice to the river god, then there was no need to send sacrifices to the river god in the future......

Yeyu said while eating: "So, that sacrifice is me." ”

"I actually didn't know that the person Huo Gu said was the girl, but I just came in and saw you."

Yeyu took a bite of the bun, stuffed his mouth and said, "What is the river god you just said, you tell me, I don't want to die and I don't understand how I died." ”

Qinglian hurriedly waved her hand and said hurriedly: "No, I won't let you die, girl." ”

"Oh? What does this mean? ”

Qinglian bit her lip and looked at Yeyu fixedly.

"I was originally going to sacrifice to the river god, but I also affected the girl, so Huo Gu caught her back as a sacrifice...... I, I've already decided, wait for the ceremony in two days, I'll go for you, girl, and when the time comes, no one will know, and girl, you just need to change into my clothes and run away. ”

Yeyu's hand eating chicken legs paused, and she raised her eyes: "You're not afraid of death?" ”

"I should have died yesterday, but I was fortunate enough to have the girl's life-saving grace, so I stole the time of these few days......"

Qinglian said, lowered her head and bit her lip and said, "That day, I didn't say goodbye to my mother before I was locked in, but now I have taken care of everything and have nothing to worry about." ”

Yeyu bit the piece of meat, and suddenly felt the same taste as chewing wax for a while, she quietly looked at the chicken leg in her hand, and after a long time, she took another bite and said, "No one will die, and neither will you." ”

Qinglian looked at the girl in front of her with some surprise, only to see that the bottom of her eyes seemed to be covered with layers of gray, seemingly clear but bottomless, all kinds of emotions were intertwined, not at all like the look that a fifteen-year-old girl should have......

Just when Qinglian was stunned, Yeyu said, "Okay, you tell me, what's going on." ”

Qinglian came back to her senses, probably because she felt too tired from squatting, so she simply sat down next to Yeyu, and then said: "Girl, you should be an outsider, and you don't know the situation in our Wanshui Town, but we are surrounded by clear water in Wanshui Town, you are obvious to all, right?" ”

Yeyu took a bite of the bun and nodded: "Well, the green mountains and green waters are a beautiful place." ”

Qinglian lowered her eyes, covering the loneliness under her eyes: "Our Wanshui Town is close to the frontier, in fact, it is also a perennial drought place, more than ten years ago, Wanshui Town was drought, many crops could not live, the people in the town because there were no crops, starved for several days, the mayor of the town also reported this matter to the government, but has not received a response from above." ”

Yeyu bit the hand of the bun for a moment, and suddenly thought of the scene she had just seen, and couldn't help but think in her heart, could it be that what she saw just now was the scene more than ten years ago? But...... How could she see such a long memory?

Qinglian continued: "Later, there was a person in the town, that is, Huo Gu, she told the mayor that it would not rain all year round, because the people of Wanshui Town only knew how to take, not how to give, which angered the river god, so the river god sent a drought to punish them for being insatiable. ”

Speaking of which, Yeyu can faintly guess what is going on, it is nothing more than asking people to send a woman as a sacrifice and begging the river god to rain, and the woman ......

If nothing else, of course it is the woman in Tsing Yi.

Sure enough, I only heard Qinglian say: "Huo Gu gave the town mayor a method, saying that as long as a woman with a gentle woman is sacrificed to the river god, you can get the river god's forgiveness and give rain to Wanshui Town." This method was rejected by the mayor at that time, after all, it is a matter of human life......"

Yeyu chewed the bun and sneered, according to the fact that she will be locked up here today, it can only show that this method was still used later, not only that, but it was also regarded as a holy act by these stupid people, and it continues to this day.

Qinglian: "Later, the people in the town died of thirst several people in a row, and the mayor agreed to this method, at that time, he chose Granny Chen's daughter as a sacrifice, and the woman was pushed down the dry river by Huo Gu, and was given a living ...... by the mud."

Qinglian said, and suddenly hid her face and cried: "She was only fifteen years old at the time, so she went like this......"

Yeyu quietly ate the buns without saying a word, after all, more than ten years ago, Qinglian was just a child who could just walk, and it was difficult to see all this with her own eyes, and it was difficult to think that there was no psychological shadow, not to mention, today, she was also chosen as a sacrifice......

Qinglian choked up and said: "After the ceremony was completed, it really rained on the third day, which made people more convinced of this, Huo Gu also said that in the future, a woman will be sacrificed every three years, and the river god will give us rain...... The mayor had already seen Huo Gu's strength, so he naturally chose to believe her, so for so many years, the people of Wanshui Town have been following this ritual until now......"

Yeyu finished solving the two buns in three or two clicks, clapped his hands and said, "Heh, it's just a trick, and I can actually deceive you for so many years." ”

Qinglian still had tears in the corners of her eyes, and looked at Yeyu in a daze, as if she didn't expect her to eat so quickly: "Girl, what do you mean by this?" ”

Yeyu directly ignored the surprise in Qinglian's eyes, and opened her lips and said: "I have seen the weather of your Wanshui Town, although it is close to the border, it is not an arid place, do you know that even if Huo Gu did not appear at the beginning, if you wait for three more days, it will naturally rain?" ”

"She just borrowed the form of the time and used you to provide her with sacrifices."

"Auntie, girl......"

"Just listen to me." Yeyu interrupted Qinglian's words, and the story that Master had told her became clearer in her mind.

"There is a kind of cultivator in the world, and the cultivator only takes the safety of the people in the world as his responsibility, but there is also a kind of person with bad intentions, who cultivates evil arts and harms the common people, Huo Gu is an example, she was originally a cultivator, but she took the crooked path and took away her lifespan for her own use, which is a great rebellion."

"Also, this kind of person must not be killed, and will lose her life, so she borrowed the drought in your Wanshui Town at that time, and lied to you that she wanted a woman to be a sacrifice, but in fact, it was all a disguise, and the rituals she did before pushing people down the river were all to let the bride's life after death be attributed to her!"

"In this way, not only can she get the lifespan of those women without killing, but she can also be served and admired by people, and she will gain fame and fortune, which is simply killing two birds with one stone."

After saying these words in one breath, Yeyu really wanted to slap the fanged mask to death.

She had vaguely guessed it from the time the fangs mask said that she had taken her life, and after hearing Qinglian's words, it confirmed her thoughts.

However, this Huo Gu has been taking her life since more than ten years ago, and a ceremony has to be held every three years, and by now, there may have been no less than four women who have been murdered, right?

Yeyu suddenly remembered a sentence she had seen in Princess Qi's memory.

The most poisonous woman's heart......

Qinglian blinked blankly, and said after a while: "Girl, I don't understand what you said, but you want to say that there is no river god in this Wanshui Town, and all this is Huo Gu deceiving us?" ”

Yeyu was only angry, and seeing that she analyzed it clearly, she nodded vigorously.

Qinglian didn't seem to be able to digest Yeyu's words, and she still sat on the ground with a blank face, unresponsive.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Qinglian will be like this, a person has accepted a bloody concept since birth, you have been afraid from the beginning to being forced to face its existence, and slowly accepted it, but until one day many years later, someone suddenly told you that the Tao you believe in is false, it does not exist, and anyone will be like this, no matter how bloody and terrifying it is, once you accept its existence, you will not be able to believe the fact that it never exists.

What's more, this is still a bloody concept imposed on life......