Chapter 14. Worship the god of the river

After bidding farewell to Kong Qian and the others, Lu Zhi set off from Guobei County and went all the way north, wanting to go to Naxiguang Province to find Yan Chixia and ask him about the cultivation sect in this world.

There are many strange things in the world of Liaozhai, ghosts and demons emerge in endlessly, and naturally there are many legends of strange people and strange people.

But Lu Zhi hadn't heard of any rumors of a cultivation sect, nor had he seen a few cultivators, and he didn't know if it was because the cultivators in this world were used to seclusion, or because of the chaos in the world, the mountain could not be closed.

But in any case, Lu Zhi is also going to visit them one by one.

He has the heart to sweep away the yin in this world and calm the demons and ghosts in the world, but it is difficult to do it with his own strength, so he found Kong Gan, trying to use the general trend of changing the world in the future, and sweeping away the yin of the world with the general trend of Huanghuang.

And those cultivators in this realm are also a big help, if they can unite those cultivators of various sects to jointly sweep away the demons and monsters in the world, the process of this matter will naturally speed up a lot.

However, what made Lu Zhi a little puzzled was why those cultivators in this world would choose those demons who were rampant in the world to turn a blind eye, so that this world was almost turned into a world of demons and ghosts, and every night, it was a group of demons dancing wildly.

If those big cities and towns are okay, after all, they are popular, humanity and luck gather, and the city is also enshrined in the city to protect the city god Guan Sheng, and other idle demons dare not come to the city to make trouble, even if there are occasional demons and ghosts, they usually can't set off much storm.

But in that wilderness, it has almost become the territory of demons and monsters, and I don't know how many dangers are hidden in the darkness.

Coupled with the inaction of the Great Zhou Dynasty, I don't know how many people have died because of this troubled world for decades, and I don't know how much resentment has been brought to this world, making this world about to turn into that gloomy ghost domain!

If you don't clean up this world by thunderbolt, you can't imagine what this world will become in the end.

Maybe it's really at that time when I can't bear to tell it, it's not impossible to have no living people in thousands of miles, and all the scenes of sneaky demons are rampant!

On this day, Lu Zhi came to the vicinity of Guangping County, Beihe, and happened to meet the celebration of worshipping the river god here.

On the avenue, the villagers formed a procession, and eight people carried a large red sedan chair in the procession, followed by two ox carts.

On an ox cart sat a pair of boys and girls of four or five years old, with large strips of red cloth tied around their heads, and wearing festive red belly pockets.

On the other was a sacrificial object such as the head of a pig, and a large red cloth strip was also tied to the head.

Lu Zhi didn't care much about it originally, just glanced at it casually, thinking it was a local wedding custom or something, and deliberately moved to the side of the road to get out of the way, so as not to miss the good time of the bride.

But.... As the team passed by him, Lu Zhi noticed that something was wrong.

The woman in the sedan chair was whimpering and sobbing...

Lu Zhi subconsciously glanced at the sedan chair, only to find that the woman in the sedan chair was actually tied in the sedan chair, and a strip of cloth was stuffed in her mouth to prevent her from crying.

He couldn't help frowning, and took a closer look at the team, and always felt that the expressions on the faces of those people were not at all as happy as the family sending team, but very solemn and heavy.

Seeing that at the end of the line, there were several strong men carrying several bamboo rafts, and the direction of the team seemed to be all the way to the river, and it was only then that Lu Zhi faintly noticed that something seemed to be wrong.

Lu Zhi's eyes condensed slightly, he turned around and glanced at the team that sent relatives, and followed with a step, he wanted to see if he was thinking too much, or if it was really as he thought!

After a stick of incense, the team really stopped by the river, and there were already people waiting for them on the bank of the river.

A thin old woman with half-black hair and not white hair was standing by the river dancing with her hair scattered, wearing a bracelet made of brass bells on her hand, jingling and shaking, and it really attracted a few points of water vapor and yin qi on the river surface, and gathered towards her.

Lu Zhi raised his eyebrows, the goddess who danced the great god seemed to have some tricks to pretend to be a ghost, and it depended on what she was going to do.

I saw that the goddess was muttering a spell of unknown meaning in her mouth, and after dancing for a while, a burst of black gas suddenly appeared on the surface of the river, and it rushed to the green pine branches in the goddess's hand.

Visible to the naked eye, the emerald green pine needle branches immediately decayed and rotted, emitting a disgusting rancid smell.

Then I heard the goddess suddenly let out a cry of surprise.

"Oops! Oh no! Lord Egami is angry! Lord Jiangshen, he thinks that the sacrifices we offer are too few, and we must add two more pairs of boys and girls, otherwise, the Jiangshen will be angry, and the river will rise, and it will surely drown our entire Guangping County! ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the rest of the people also changed drastically.

"Granny Yu, what should I do? This time, we only bought this pair of boys and girls, if... If Jiang Shen is not satisfied..."

The goddess said in a deep voice, "There is no other way now, we... Only use the children of the village in the village to get together, otherwise, the Jiang God will be angry, and he will definitely Zeguo for thousands of miles! ”

"It's... How can this work! The children in our village, who is willing to give it, and ask Granny Yu to help us make peace with the god of the river. ”

"Yes, Granny Yu, you are also from our village, you can't ignore the villagers!"

The goddess's face was embarrassed, and she said, "But... Anyway, the old body will fight to break his life for ten years and help everyone make peace with Jiangshen. ”

"But you have to make up a hundred taels of silver and hand it over to the old body, and then the old body will go to find Yazi to buy two pairs of boys and girls, and make amends to Lord Jiangshen afterwards, otherwise, this favor, the old body can't help!"

The leader of the villagers couldn't help but turn his head to look at each other, and the eldest old man in the first grade stepped forward and said, "Xiaoyu, this boy and girl, you can buy one for more than ten taels of silver, one hundred taels... Isn't it too much? ”

The goddess squinted: "Brother Wei family, the old body is not deliberately trying to take advantage of the villagers, but this matter has to be solved with a hundred taels of silver." ”

"After all, even if the old body is willing to fight for ten years and make peace for everyone, don't you have to be filial to make up for Master Jiangshen afterwards?"

"When the time comes, the old body will not only have to carefully select two pairs of boys and girls, but also have to prepare another three-life sacrifice, incense and candle ingots... One hundred taels of silver is actually not enough, and the old body has to subsidize some furniture in it. ”

"Besides, the old body is also for the sake of the villagers, otherwise... If the villagers don't want to, they just need to make up for two more pairs of boys and girls, so as not to lose ten years of life in the old body..."

The villagers and the goddess were still talking over there, and Lu Zhi had already figured it out from their conversations... Sure enough, it's an evil god blood ritual!

Lu Zhi's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he looked at the goddess and the villagers with an unkind expression.

But he was not in a hurry to do it immediately, but still watched from the sidelines.

Since it is a sacrifice, then presumably the so-called river god must also show his face, he wants to see what kind of fish spirit and shrimp monster the so-called river god is, and he dares to force the villagers to worship it with blood!

However, the goddess's next actions made Lu Zhi unable to endure it.

After some bargaining with the villagers, the goddess seemed to have negotiated and began to dance again.

And this time she didn't deliberately use that crooked and evil means to deliberately summon yin qi to erode and pollute the pine branches in her hands, after all, her purpose has been achieved, and the villagers have also accepted it, and they will make up eighty taels of silver and hand it to her afterwards.

Then, I saw the goddess instructing the villagers to carry out the woman in the sedan chair and put it on the bamboo raft.

The goddess circled around her, shook the rattle in her hand, and after doing a ritual of pretending to be a ghost, she directly took out a dagger and stabbed it towards the bride's heart!

Well?! Lu Zhi's eyes froze, and he immediately froze the movements of the goddess, freezing her whole person in place.