In the area where Zezhou and Chuzhou meet, it is basically the kind of area covered by rivers, and only a few higher areas are inhabited by humans.

The Dongchuan River is the name of this generation of rivers, and the river here is as wide as a lake and as deep as the sea.

Even within the boundaries of the Dongchuan River, there is still no shortage of human villages.

There are no taxes here, and there is nothing that makes people unable to live, such as the tigers and bullies, and the people here are very poor, and the strength of human beings is not strong, but the people here have still lived here for nearly a hundred years.

Here, there is no shortage of people who die of disease and starvation, and there is no shortage of people who disappear after falling into the water, and in general, it is still a very peaceful and backward place.

There are as many as 1,000 people living on the Dongchuan River, which can be divided into several villages of different sizes, and these people do not all gather together, but each has its own fishing area and living land, and only communicates on a fixed number of days a year.

Today is one of the few days.

More than 200 villagers from different villages gathered at the head of the Dongchuan River, most of these people were the elders and stewards of their respective villages, and the one standing on the edge of the cliff in front of them was the main owner today.

Most of them were far away from the cliff and stood a hundred meters away from there, talking to each other as they looked at the few people standing on the edge of the cliff.

"Is that the man?" A woman whispered to the woman next to her, and as she spoke, she looked carefully at the silent, honest-looking girl on the edge of the cliff in the distance.

The woman next to her nodded, and said in what she thought was a low voice: "That's right, it's her, this is a matter that has been decided a long time ago, and our villages donate food every year!" ”

The woman felt a little unreliable, but looking at the falling drizzle and the constant east wind, she sighed and said, "If this rain continues, the villages downstream will really suffer......

"Who's to say it isn't! I just asked people from a few villages downstream, and I heard that the worst affected villages were already flooded to the roofs! Now several nearby villages are trying to find a way to move! The woman spoke of the gossip she had heard from others as if she were there.

The men next to him listened to the conversation between the two women and felt annoyed, so they glared at the two of them, "Be quiet!" The village chief is here! Shut your mouths for me! ”

The two women were so frightened by the men's words that they immediately closed their mouths and did not dare to talk to each other again.

The elderly village chief slowly walked to the cliff with the support of his son, and after stopping, he looked at a man and a woman standing next to the girl, "Dongsheng, Dongsheng daughter-in-law, you also know what is going on in the village below, now the water god has rained down, and the villages below have been flooded, and if you continue, you will die." ”

The village chief paused, looked at the girl who had always maintained a calm face, and finally continued to the two couples who were bent down and smiling at themselves: "The year the child was born, it happened to be the time when there was a flood in the village, and the day after the child was born, the flood stopped, and then slowly receded, I remember that my grandson was not born that year, and now my grandson has been a father for more than a year, this is not many years, right?" Several villages have been taking turns to support your family, so that today! ”

The girl's face was still unwavering, not the calm and disregard of anger, but the kind of calm that couldn't think of what to do, didn't have any purpose, and didn't pay attention to the outside world, or didn't know what to do.

The calm of losing hope, calmly facing the torrent below, calmly looking at the branches washed away by the torrent and the muddy lake below, this is where you belong.

The village chief sighed, and then squeezed out a smile and looked at the girl, "You can go with confidence, the village will continue to take care of your parents, don't worry about your parents' affairs, remember your mission, is to become the woman of the water god, after meeting the water god, say some good things for the village, calm the anger of the water god, and let this flood recede as soon as possible." ”

The woman standing on the side wiped the corners of her eyes, looked at her daughter distressedly, and comforted: "When you get there, you have to be obedient, there is good food and beautiful clothes, don't think about coming back, as a woman of the water god...... Good...... ...... to live"

At the end, the woman lowered her head and began to weep quietly.

The man couldn't laugh anymore, and after glancing at his daughter and seeing that the girl was still as calm as death, he unconsciously took a step back, and finally turned his head to look at the other side.

"Okay, the village hasn't let you live a hard life in the past nineteen years, and now that Lord Shuishen has asked the flood to pick you up, you can hurry up!" The son of the village chief is a middle-aged and elderly person, and he has better health and bones than the elderly village chief, and he is also the future village chief.

The future village chief said to the Dongsheng couple next to him: "Hurry up, don't let Lord Water God wait!" If you miss the hour and Mizujin gets angry, will you be able to bear it?! ”

The man and woman glanced nervously at each other, and in front of them was a cliff of more than ten meters, and behind them were more than two hundred people from various villages.

Even though he was mentally prepared nineteen years ago, and he had eaten nineteen years of help from the village, he still couldn't help but have a trace of regret at this time.

But after all, it is only the last struggle of human nature, and the two people who have eaten relief food for nineteen years have long lost something called backbone.

The girl's body was a little weak in the not very strong wind, and after the two hands behind her approached tremblingly, the thin body fell forward.

Closing her eyes, the girl felt that time passed so quickly, she was nineteen years old in a blink of an eye, and she fell from the nineteen-meter height into the cold water in a blink of an eye.

The head...... It hurts......

The pain was only a matter of moments, and after the suffocation and the pressure of the river gushing into her mouth and nose rose, the girl slowly sank down weakly after struggling.

At the last moment, she no longer felt any pain, and the girl opened her eyes and didn't think about anything, just calmly looking at the bright world that was getting farther and farther away from her.

Slowly, in the process of descending, the girl found that the passage in front of her eyes, that is, the passage facing the bright world of the river, was obscured by a large green mass of water passing by.

Instinctively, the girl raised her right hand with the last of her strength.

The girl was unconscious, and she probably didn't know what she was doing.