Sacrifice?

Xue Chen and Su Qiange instinctively glanced at each other, as if they wanted to find the same doubt in each other's eyes.

The people in the back listened to the words of the person in charge of the lamp in front of them, not only did they not be careful, but they were very angry, "The village chief has not been like this for a day or two, and he used to not be able to sacrifice, but now in this year of great drought, he does not sacrifice, I think he just wants us to die." ”

When the person in charge of the lamp heard this, his footsteps stopped, and the people behind him also stopped.

"We're not doing the right thing, we just want to live, and the village chief is right, he just doesn't want to sacrifice any of us."

"Okay, okay, what you say is what you say, anyway, I'm trying to survive to do this."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, another person who had been silent spoke and lowered his voice, "Okay, don't quarrel, if Chuntian'er can't walk tonight, it will be difficult to leave, and when the people in the village can't eat, they will definitely not be able to spare you." ”

The other two people were at a stalemate when they heard this, but in the end they put aside the dispute between the two and left with the person named Chun Tian'er.

Seeing this, Xue Chen's hand swung twice in the void, and the big guy immediately appeared beside Xue Chen.

"Master."

"Keep up with that team, focus on keeping up with that Chuntian, what happened, where it went, write it all down and come back to report."

"Yes."

According to what Xue Chen heard just now, it is very likely that Chuntian is the one who is going to be sacrificed, although this matter should not be taken care of by Xue Chen, but Xue Chen inexplicably remembered the father who was full of hoards in Soybean Village.

Moreover, sacrifice is a superstition, and if such a thing is allowed to develop, I don't know how many people who should not have died will die.

"Isn't it common to believe in a god when it comes to sacrifices?" Seeing that everyone was gone, Su Qiange spoke.

"yes." Saying that, Xue Chen turned his head to look at Su Qiange, and found that Su Qiange's expression was very complicated, so he asked, "What's wrong?" Did you think of something? ”

"If there is a temple, according to custom, it will generally be placed on a path, we came all the way from Liao County, and it was a small road, but this way, I didn't see any gods, and Xu Zhanwen is the kind of person who wants people to believe in him more than gods, so there are no temples or sculptures in Liao County."

After a pause, Su Qiange said, "They said that they want to eat a full meal, not to mention that we have already let people distribute food, in Liao County, what can we eat if we disobey Xu Zhanwen?" Could it be that this village has any other beliefs in private? ”

Su Qiange usually doesn't use his brain, and when he moves his brain, it turns quickly, and Xue Chen couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"It may be an evil god who is enshrined outside the village." Xue Chen speculated.

What serious god would take a man's life.

Hearing this, Su Qiange nodded thoughtfully, and then turned his head to look at Xue Chen, "Then shall we still take a walk?" Will the evil god take advantage of our walk at night to kill people? ”

Xue Chen, "......"

Reached out and rubbed Su Qiange's head twice.

"I think you just don't want to walk, so you deliberately talk nonsense." Sighing angrily and funny, Xue Chen looked like he couldn't do anything about Su Qiange, "I'll send you back to rest now, so that you can sleep until dawn, okay?" ”

Su Qiange nodded very naturally, and then walked towards the courtyard where they lived with his hands behind his back, and Xue Chen quickly took two steps to follow when he saw this.

Walking to the door, when Su Qiange was about to enter the house, he suddenly looked back at Xue Chen, his eyes were very serious.

Xue Chen was stunned.

"What's wrong?"

"Will we stay in this village tomorrow?"

After being silent for a while, Xue Chen seemed to understand what Su Qiange meant, she should still care about what happened just now, the matter of Huangdou Village before, Xue Chen did not investigate the whereabouts of Manchu's father, although Su Qiange didn't say anything on his face, but now it seems that he still hasn't put it down.

It's like Su Qiange just saved Li Xi by the way, but he still didn't feel at ease, and he wrote a letter to Xue Chen to reveal that he was worried about Li Xi.

In the final analysis, Su Qiange is still a soft-hearted person, and after such a comparison, Xue Chen suddenly felt that it was a good thing for him to be hard-hearted, saving Su Qiange from being used by others.

"It depends." Xue Chen said, "I have to see what the big guy says when he comes back." ”

Su Qiange nodded, looking at it as if he didn't care, but he refused to turn around and enter the house for a long time.

She didn't go in, Xue Chen didn't leave, and after a long time, Su Qiange opened her arms to Xue Chen, Xue Chen naturally stepped forward and took Su Qiange into his arms and hugged him, rubbed his head, and advised, "Go to bed early." ”

Only then did Su Qiange turn around and go back to the house.

The sky is about to break, and today's sun burns a fiery red on the horizon, and Fang Ken pokes his head out.

The big guy returned to the village before the sun poked his head out, and reported to Xue Chen what he had seen that night.

"After leaving the village, the group did not go to the town of Liao County, but went to Tong County." "From their conversations, I heard that they should want to sacrifice a piece called Haruta to the river god in exchange for food and a document to enter the river. ”

"River God? Irie Bunmu? ”

"Yes." Da obediently said, "My subordinates don't understand why they still need Wen Mu to enter the river, but those people don't say much along the way, and I can only hear this." ”

Hearing this, Xue Chen waved his hand and ordered Da to go down, "You go to the car to rest for a while, and when Qiange wakes up, we will set off." ”

After leaving, Xue Chen thought about the connection between these things for a long time, and suddenly remembered the words of the village chief.

The village chief said that the Songjiang part of Tong County is now under the jurisdiction of Wu Jingang, so this matter must be inseparable from Wu Jingang, thinking about this, Xue Chen decided to speed up the pace of going to Tong County.

At the end of the day, Su Qiange woke up, and Xue Chen took Su Qiange to say goodbye to the village chief's family.

Before leaving, Xue Chen thought about it again and again, and still said to the village chief as if he was inadvertent, "Is there a city god temple or any temple on your side, we want to say goodbye, it can bless us all the way." ”

It is a hint to the village chief, so as not to suddenly lose so many people in the village, and the village chief will blame them on a few people from other counties, and at the same time test the village chief's love for these things.

Sure enough, when the village chief heard this, he immediately frowned and shook his head, and said very repulsively, "The people in our village don't believe in any gods and Buddhas. Besides, peace is not something to ask for from others, so you should ask your chariot master to pay attention! Just pay attention. ”

It seems that this village chief is really rejecting these things.

Seeing this, Xue Chen nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, thank you for your hospitality, let's go." ”

After saying that, Xue Chen took Su Qiange into the carriage and left the village, Su Qiange didn't say anything after getting in the car, it looked a bit like he hadn't woken up yet, and he had a temper, but Xue Chen could feel that Su Qiange had doubts about them leaving so quickly.

So Xue Chen told Su Qiange about the big report, and Su Qiange slowly "woke up".

"So we have to hurry up to Tongxian and go to the vicinity of the riverbed in Songjiang to see what is going on?" Su Qiange confirmed the next itinerary, and by the way, he took out shredded squid and ate it.

Xue Chen saw that she kept taking out all kinds of things from the treasure bag, eating vigorously, and suspected that her treasure bag was not a treasure bag at all, but a big snack shop.

"If we speed up, it will probably take three or four days, the northern wilderness is not complete, there is no one in many places, we have to spend most of the next time in the car, and sleep may also be in the car."

Xue Chen gave Su Qiange a preview in advance, so that Su Qiange could make a decision or do psychological construction for himself.

I didn't want to, but Su Qiange didn't care much and said, "Isn't there a carriage in the back?" At night, let's two rock-paper-scissors, and the loser goes to sleep there. ”

Xue Chen, "......"

At night he went to sleep in the carriage.

After four days of travel, Xue Chen and the others did not meet the group they had met in the village before, but they also arrived at the riverbed of Songjiang as they wished, and it was the turn of day at that time.

Xue Chen specially put a cloak on Su Qiange before he dared to let Su Qiange get out of the car.

Before the two came to Songjiang, the Songjiang River in the early morning was sparkling, the whole river flowed not like water, but like mercury, and the flowers and trees on both sides were obviously much stronger than the withered yellow plants and trees that the two of them saw along the way, and it was incomprehensible vitality for people who had never seen it.

Su Qiange was immersed in such an environment all of a sudden, while Xue Chen looked down at the riverbed under his feet.

"It seems that the amount of water in Songjiang has been reduced by at least half." Saying that, Xue Chen glanced back at the small hill that the two of them had just walked down, the original Songjiang water could at least reach the height of the small hillside, but now, although Songjiang still looked calm, it was a certain distance from the feet of the two.

Xue Chen was estimating with the naked eye when he heard a noisy noise.

Afterwards, Xue Chenbai saw a group of people dressed in linen, with a team of well-trained guards coming down from the other side of the hill, but the guards were obviously not wearing official clothes.

is not a person from an official family, can still be relied on like this, Xue Chen speculated that this group of guards, eighty percent should be Wu Jingang's people.

Thinking about the village chief's control of Songjiang by Wu Jingang, and the group of people said about the entry into the river, it seems that these people should be the people under Wu Jingang's command who are responsible for taking care of the fishermen entering and leaving Songjiang.

The leading man in sackcloth said to the guard, "Captain of the guard, look, those are those two people, when we were about to come fishing in the morning, we saw them get out of the car and go to Songjiang, you see! Sure enough, there it is! ”

A group of people quickly approached Xue Chen and Su Qiange, and Xue Chen subconsciously took Su Qiange into his arms.

The chief of the guard came to the two of them and said in a deep voice, "Who is the person who trespassed into the Songjiang riverbed?" ”

Xue Chen said unhurriedly, "Foreigner, when I first arrived in Tongxian, I heard that Songjiang is the mother river of the entire north, so I wanted to come and take a look, I don't know if it offended you?" ”

The captain of the guard didn't speak, but the man in sackcloth said, "Who believes this?" This year, what are two strangers doing in our north? Play! Even if you're here to play, don't you know the rules of our county? People who know the rules, who will be close to Matsue without any trouble! ”

The man in sackcloth spoke aggressively, without giving people any room to breathe, Xue Chen thought that the chief guard would take care of it, who had ever asked the chief of the guard seemed to be persuaded by the man in sackcloth, so he looked at Xue Chen and Su Qiange, waiting for the two of them to give him an explanation.

How can this be explained? Xue Chen turned his head to look at Su Qiange, and found Su Qiange's eager eyes, obviously she had met an opponent, so she was rarely excited.

The man in sackcloth said, "Do you two have any bad ideas?" I tell you, in Tong County, no one can do anything under the nose of Lord River God! ”

It's this river god again, Xue Chen frowned, could it be that Wu Jingang established a religion in Tong County to unify the hearts of the people?