He Yunsheng interrupted me: "Wait, Yulan, why do you think her father knows the inside story of the river god's marriage?" ”

"Because her father knows Shen Shu." I said, "When we first talked about the sunken tree, Yune said that they called it the incense tree, and they didn't know what it was used for, and they didn't even know that the sunken tree was not close to mosquitoes, so it can be seen that the villagers here didn't see it as something sacred, and they didn't know what it was for, just because it had a fragrance, and called it a fragrant tree. But Yu Ne said that her father told her that this wood was called Sinking Wood, and that it must be someone from outside who knew about Sinking Wood and what it was used for. There are also a lot of trees in the village, so why do you have to use submerged wood to make wooden tubes? The sinking wood is not close to the fish, which has a contradiction, assuming, there really is a river god, something that the fish are not close to, why should the river god be close? Let me give you an analogy, if a pig refuses to eat something, will He Yunsheng eat it? ”

"Hey Zhou Yulan, you declare a personal vendetta!" He Yunsheng patted me, "Speak well." ”

"What do you think? Deliberately made of submerged wood? Deliberately... Don't let the fish get close? Sun Yuji asked.

"Yes." I said.

He Yunsheng suddenly said: "Oh, I know! It's not that the river god wants to marry, it's the village chief who wants to marry a beautiful girl, right? So, he secretly hid the pretty girl in a wooden tube, sank it to the bottom of the water, and then fished it up again at night, and hid the girl in some hill, or maybe there was a cave in the water, and hid there..."

"Our village chief is a woman." Liu Yunne interrupted He Yunsheng's hand dance, "She has a husband and two children." ”

"Huh? Oh..."He Yunsheng bowed his head.

"But He Yunsheng's statement is not completely impossible." I suddenly figured it out, "I mean, maybe the girls weren't dedicated to the river gods, these girls have other uses—but certainly not as little wives." Can you gather the characteristics of these chosen girls? ”

"I only know the sister Tiancheng ten years ago, and Zizhu this year, if you want to say what the two of them have in common... I really can't think of it. Liu Yune thought seriously and said, "Hmm... If I have to say, it's water-based. Both of them are water-based. ”

"Good water... Why choose a girl with a good water nature? Isn't a girl with a good water nature more likely to escape back? He Yunsheng said.

"Sealed with submerged wood, which girl can escape?" Sun Yuji raised her eyebrows, "Do you think they are you?" Breaking the wooden tube with bare hands? ”

I thought about it, and I always felt that something was wrong, and I always felt that something was missing, so I had to say: "He Yunsheng!" A mission has been sent to you! Go find that underwater cave! ”

He Yunsheng glared at me: "Big brother, I just said casually, how can there be an underwater cave?" ”

"There must be, otherwise it doesn't make sense." I said, "Give you two days, you have to find it!" ”

"Hey, why are you like this..."He Yunsheng was still scolding behind him, I went to the room and lay down, and rummaged over and over on the bed to think about Liu Yune's father, and whether there was a surname Liu in the circle of friends between my father and my uncle.

In the middle of the night I had a dream that I was put in a wooden tube and then eaten by fish.

When I got up the next day, He Yunsheng was gone, Sun Yuji was helping Liu Yuni choose vegetables, I proposed to go to Lin Zhonghe to see, Liu Yuni told me that it was best not to go during the day, and the villagers might be kicked out if they saw it.

I had to help them choose the food at home, I had never done this before, it took a lot of effort, so I just had to kill the time and wait for the pigeons. I didn't think that the pigeons would arrive late in the afternoon, and they would land on my hands and coo. Sun Yuji was surprised to see the pigeon and asked the pigeon: "Where did you come from?" ”

"When I was in Yushu, I asked Lord Hashu to fly a pigeon for me on the night I came here, and I sent back what I wanted to ask last night, and I have news today." I laughed.

"Ouch, you're pretty smart." Sun Yuji praised me very rarely, and also came over to watch.

"I see, there is. I asked the Cong Adults to find out the more famous people surnamed Liu in Wucheng in the past fifty years from the Hades team, and then asked the Cong Adults to rule out the war, the children of the family, and the Sheng Rumored to be dead, and this person was left, Liu Jiuqin. Yu Ni, your father may not use his real name to live here..."I said, and found that a small portrait was attached, Sun Yuji unfolded it, Liu Yune was stunned for a long time, and said, "He is my father." ”

"Hey, I know this person too." Sun Yuji said, "Liu Jiuqin is my father's friend, and he is also from the Tai Hospital, and he was sent to the front line during the Three Kingdoms Rebellion, and later I heard that he died, I don't know, I was not born when he died, he has a younger brother, and now he is also in the Tai Hospital, I have seen his portrait, in my father's study." ”

"Liu... Oh! It's the son of the old lady Liu who rejuvenated with his hands, right? I asked.

"That's right, but I heard that Liu Jiuqin was not born to Mrs. Zhengmu, he was born by his father outside the house, and he didn't live in Liu's Mansion before, but lived with his mother in a small mountain village in Qingzhou at the junction of Chen, Yin, and Si, and his mother died when he was ten years old, and his father took him to Wucheng, he was very smart and had excellent medical skills, so Mrs. Liu liked him very much."

"Tatsuin Si Three Kingdoms Junction... It's ridiculous, Siguo Yin often fights, and the harvest over there is not good, and everyone cannibalism, which makes sense. I said, "The days in the wilderness were very hard, but they also gave him the experience of survival, so he was able to survive on the front line and escape here." ”

Liu Yune didn't speak all the time, just quietly listened to us talk about the father figure that she was not familiar with.

In the evening, He Yunsheng returned.

"Did you find anything?" I asked.

"There isn't a hole, but I found this." He Yunsheng took out a book from his arms and threw it to me, "You can read it yourself." ”

"Oyu Village Chronicle?" Liu Yuni said, "You stole the village chief's things? ”

"Don't talk about stealing, I went in and got it in the light, and there was no one in the room." He Yunsheng said, "Zhou Yulan, hurry up and take a look, there are incredible things in it." ”

I quickly opened it to read, and after reading a few pages, I felt weird, and a sense of fear arose.

"This Weisheng Village, why do you want to do it, Miss Liu?" He Yunsheng asked.

"Huh? Because back then, there was a young man in the village, who repeatedly failed the exam, and everyone called him Osheng, and one day he fell in love with a girl, and the girl joked that he wanted him to wait for her on the riverside bridge on the night of the full moon, and he went. That night the tide was rising, the girl did not come, Osheng refused to go, hugged the pillar and died, in order to commemorate this poor infatuated lover, the people changed the name of the village to Oyu Village. ”

"No, no, no, you've been deceived, it's the opposite! It's the girl who likes Oyu, it's Osheng who made an appointment with the girl, the girl came, and Osheng actually came, he didn't show up, just hid aside, watching the girl drown, and then he took the girl's body, I don't know why, he got rich and became the richest man in the village, he became the village chief, so the village is called Osheng Village. The story you know must be a lie. He Yunsheng said, poking the book, "You can see for yourself, it is written in black and white, that is, since then, there has been a tradition of marrying river gods in the village." ”

"But the question is, how did Oyo get rich? Why did he drown the girl? Sun Yuji said.

"The girl has something on her body, and that kind of thing is what Miss Zizhu and Miss Tiancheng have." I said, "You didn't find an underwater cave?" ”

"What underwater caves, nothing underwater and what can I see underwater? You think I'm a fish? He Yunsheng rolled his eyes, "And the clothes are still wet, I have been drying on the lawn for a while, if I catch a cold, I will blame you......"

I suddenly realized and patted He Yunsheng: "You are really a critical moment, and it will definitely come in handy!" You're amazing! ”

He Yunsheng looked at me dancing, looking inexplicable, looking at Sun Yuji, and then at me: "What did I do?" ”

I sat on my lap and looked like I was about to solve the mystery, and said, "Let me tell you a story first, have you seen the "Naturalist"? ”

"Call back, don't tell me this." He Yunsheng rolled his eyes, "Say what matters!" ”

"The naturalist chronicle said that there are mermaids in the South China Sea, and their tears become beads, so some people in the south specialize in catching mermaids, but they don't know that the tears of mermaids are not the most valuable."

"Gold is the most valuable thing!" He Yunsheng said.

"Shut up." I said, "It's the eyes." ”

"Eye-catching? Isn't it just eyelids? Sun Yuji pointed to his eyelids and said.

"No, no, no, there are pearl divers in the south, and they have one thing in common with the mermaids, that is, they can see clearly underwater, so they can collect pearls, and you can't." I pointed to He Yunsheng, "Because sharks and pearl divers have different eye structures than us, similar to fish, and have a thin layer of eyelids, so they can be seen clearly underwater." ”

"Oh, what do you want to see?" Sun Yuji said, "No matter how you look at it, pearls are valuable." ”

"That's what you think." I looked at her proudly, "The eyes of the pearl diver or the merman, grind it into powder, soak it into soup and drink it, you can live underwater, think about it, if you have this ability, are you still worried about not having pearls?" ”

"Reasonable." He Yunsheng touched his chin, "So what does this have to do with Osheng Village?" ”

"Yu Ni said that Zizhu and Tiancheng, the water nature is very good, the water-based people, often underwater, the eyes will grow such a layer of eyelids, this can be established, and I see Zizhu's face is fair, almost transparent, because she often soaks in the water, and her night vision is very good, it was so dark that day, she could see me by the window, indicating that her eyes are more like fish, not like people, I think that girl is too, Tail Sheng must be to ask for her eyes, knowledgeable people, pearl divers' eyes, is very, very valuable." I said, "He may have passed down this secret, and every village chief would find a girl in the village who had such a change, or, intentionally, cultivate such a person, pretending to marry a river god, as He Yunsheng said, sink to the bottom of the water first, and then catch it again at night, take the eye, and throw the girl into the river to feed the fish." ”

Sun Yuji could already afford goosebumps when he heard it: "This is too disgusting." ”

"So the fish eats the flesh of the dead, of course, only the girl's meat can't feed the fish, and the outsiders who have tried to enter Weisheng Village over the years should have been thrown in to feed the fish, except for Liu Jiuqin. We can guess that eating fish directly will hurt the stomach, but pickled fish will not, Xingfangzhai's pickled fish is hollowed out of the internal organs of the fish, so the people in the village use pickled fish to sell. And you need an outsider to attract outsiders, to translate, to dispel the doubts of outsiders, so your father is alive and well..."The more I talked, the more scared I became, "Wait, Yune, you won't... I want to too..."

Five.

Liu Yune smiled: "No, I hate this evil custom, I must not let it continue." ”

Suddenly heard a noise outside the window, Liu Yune's mother came in in in a panic and said something to her, Liu Yune's expression changed greatly: "Oops, it's a villager!" ”

Outside, torches were held high, and there was a shouting sound, and an old woman walked in, looking majestic, I thought she was the village chief, and was thinking of asking Liu Yune to be the translator and talk to her, so she saluted me and said, "Prime Minister, Master Hou, the old man is rude." ”

"Do you speak Wucheng? That's a lot more convenient. "I said in my heart that it was quite standard, "Village Chief, please stop this behavior immediately and let the purple bead girl go home!" Otherwise, I will tell your villagers about this and report it to Your Majesty. ”

"As long as you are all dead, this matter will naturally not be revealed to the world." The village chief smiled, "You don't understand how hard it is to maintain a village!" ”

I said in my heart, what's so hard about your small village? I'm going crazy every day sitting in the prime minister's seat, okay?

He Yunsheng gave me a look: Do you want me to do it?

I shook my head: don't worry, I have my own arrangements.

"Village Chief, as the village head, and I as the prime minister, our task is to make the people under our rule happy, but do you think the villagers of Osheng Village are happy? Do you think Zizhu is happy? As long as there is a person who is not happy, it cannot be considered success, nor can it be regarded as the completion of merit, I know that death is always necessary, sacrifice is inevitable, but we should try to avoid it, not to cause it. I said, "If you don't listen to me, I'll have to deal with it by force." ”

"Is it just the three of you?"

"Of course not." I laughed, "Do you know that there is a kind of thing called the National Regular Army?" ”

The ending is quite satisfying.

Yuzhou Mucong took over the village of Osheng and moved the sunken tree, Liu Yune also became famous, and the newspaper said how powerful and capable this girl was, and Liu Yune was also taken to Wucheng by her grandfather, Mrs. Liu, together with her mother. Because of her extraordinary courage, she was exceptionally qualified to participate in the Zhenying exam.

He Yunsheng continued to be his idle prince, Sun Yuji continued to be her imperial doctor, and I continued to be my prime minister, but He Yunsheng and Sun Yuji returned to Wucheng for many days, and they still didn't dare to eat fish.