The sun was fine today, and the ground was still covered with white snowflakes last night, but now it was already clean, and someone must have gotten up in the middle of the night to collect all the snow.

Without the snow in this place, the street looks less cold and more humane, but there are still very few people selling on this street, and there are fewer people doing business in the market, and there is a lot less liveliness.

Xie Chuyao took Shang Jingcheng around the street, and then took him out of town and walked to those remote villages, and when he saw a pedestrian coming, he grabbed people and asked if there was a river nearby, but the answer was no.

It seems that there is no river near this village, so how much less fun is this, those babies have less experience of going into the water to catch fish, but think about it, if it is really so easy to have a river, then it will not be so many years to solve the problem of water source, this town is only afraid of the river is very few, even if there is, it should be dry now.

Shang Jingcheng looked at her expression and slowly became a little serious, and couldn't help but say: "Yao'er, we will find the river, so don't be discouraged, as long as you find the river and bring in the water source, this water will be there." That's his guess.

Xie Chuyao couldn't help but look at him with some surprise and said, "So you know." ”

Shang Jingcheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "I guess, but I'm afraid that Shangguan Yang has not thought much about this idea, if he can attract water so easily, then he won't be able to figure it out for a few years." ”

Xie Chuyao nodded and said, "Indeed, this is a difficult matter, let's go, let's ask again, there won't be a town without even a river, right?" ”

They went to a few more villages and asked some people, but they all said that they had never seen a river, let alone knew that there was a river nearby.

Seeing that the sun was rising higher and higher, and when noon came, they still found nothing, Shang Jingcheng couldn't help but be a little worried that if they continued to look for it like this, they would still not be able to find it, and couldn't help but say: "Yao'er, why don't we go back to the mansion and ask Shangguan Yang, he always has a map of this town, and the map will always mark the place where there is a river, and it will be much more convenient for us to take the map out and find it when the time comes." ”

Xie Chuyao shook his head and said, "No need, I'll continue to go to other villages to ask, if you feel tired, go back first, I can do it alone." Since she said that she would find it, she would not ask for help from Shangguan Yang.

Seeing her stubborn appearance, Shang Jingcheng couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Then you have to eat first now, it's noon, I'm afraid I'm hungry, right?" "It's just a little early in the morning, where can I fill my stomach, it's better to eat something at noon and then find it."

Xie Chuyao shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry, you go eat first, and I'll look for it later." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, but he caught him.

"I don't care, I won't leave until I eat." Shang Jingcheng's attitude was a little tough, he couldn't watch her hold up like this, and his face suddenly became serious.

Seeing him like that, Xie Chuyao could only sigh and let him pull him towards the inn.

It was still the original shopkeeper, and when he saw them, he was obviously a little surprised, and asked after a long time: "The two guest officers haven't left yet?" "Did he think the man had already left? I didn't expect to live here, but where do they live? This entire Winter Town is his inn, but after thinking about it, this matter has nothing to do with him, so don't be nosy.

Shang Jingcheng ignored him, but Xie Chuyao smiled at him and said, "Ma, please ask the shopkeeper to order us the three dishes from yesterday." With that, she picked a ventilated spot and sat down.

Shang Jingcheng turned back to the shopkeeper and said, "The price is still the same, right?" ”

"It's the same, hehe, I just ate it yesterday, and the price must be the same today, you see, let's settle the bill first." He came to them with a smile on his face.

Without saying a word, Shang Jingcheng put a piece of silver on his table, and then walked to Xie Chuyao's side and sat down.

"I said I wouldn't eat it, you still have to come and eat, the things here are expensive, it's better to go back to Shangguan Yang's house to eat." It wasn't good early, but the fruit from last night was good.

Shang Jing admitted that he really said: "People are iron and rice are steel, how can you do without eating, I know that you are anxious to find the river now, but you also have to eat this lunch." ”

"I'm not in a hurry, it's just that this thing is not done, I always think about it, you see, I said that I will get the water source out of the house within five days, but the river has not been found, haven't I been talking in vain for the past five days? Then will they really let us leave the snow behind? Xie Chuyao said with his cheeks on his hands.

Shang Jingcheng smiled and said, "Then didn't you think about it at that time, could this thing be done in five days?" I think you're just dazed with blood. Although he believed her, he only believed it, and he now knew that this girl was not very sure at all.

Xie Chuyao glanced at him and said, "Didn't you say believe me?" Is that what you believe? Hmph, Shang Jingcheng, Shang Jingcheng, I always understand you, you're just laughing at me now, right? She didn't say anything very seriously, that is, she was laughing at herself.

Shang Jingcheng waved his hand and said, "Where do I dare to laugh at you, you are my wife, my heart, where do I dare to laugh at you?" He said this aggrievedly, as if she had accused him of a great crime.

Xie Chuyao couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Okay, okay, I'm just talking, if I can't find the river today, I think this matter will be difficult to do." "She didn't think there was even a river here, hey, it was so difficult.

"What are you looking for the river for?" The shopkeeper came up with the food, and when he heard their words, he couldn't help but ask with a heavy face, his face was a little cold, as if they were some kind of bad people.

Shang Jingcheng glanced at him and asked, "Could it be that the shopkeeper knows where there is a river?" He was a little curious about his attitude, why he seemed to have changed his attitude all of a sudden, as if they had asked him about the snow yesterday.

Could it be that the river here is also a taboo?

Xie Chuyao also looked at the shopkeeper curiously, and his eyes were full of doubts.

The shopkeeper was a little uncomfortable by them, the look on his face eased a little, and he said seriously: "There is only one river here, you can't find it, you can't find it, that river is a taboo in our whole town, no one mentions it, and now that the river is dry and there is not a drop of water, it's useless for you to go there, there will be no ice there." ”

"Where is that river? Tell us about the location. Xie Chuyao was interested, she didn't expect that there was only one river in this town, and it was a forbidden river, what was going on? Why is it a taboo? What kind of story does the river have?

"There are people dying there every year, and the death is extremely miserable, you better not go, that place is regarded by us as a place of demons, and we can't let people pass over casually, in order to prevent people from passing, the county commander ordered someone to break through a wall by the river, blocking our town and that river, and ordinary people can't get through."

Ordinary people can't get by, but they are not ordinary people, Shang Jingcheng's martial arts can always jump over.

"Why are people dead? When did the dead begin? What the hell is going on? Can you tell us more about that? Xie Chuyao's face was full of curiosity.

Even Shang Jingcheng looked at him, expecting him to continue.

When the shopkeeper saw that they were interested, he couldn't help but look around, and when he saw that there were no outsiders, he pulled a chair and sat down, looked at them and said, "Don't say that I said it, we don't let anyone talk about that river in this town, in previous years, outsiders came, and there was an accident in that river, and we didn't dare to go over to salvage, I heard that the place will be haunted now." ”

When Shang Jingcheng heard his words, he couldn't help frowning slightly, he never believed in these ghosts and gods, these things must have been deliberately caused by someone, but why did he do this? What is the secret of that river?

Xie Chuyao couldn't help asking, "When did the dead start?" "She had to get to the bottom of it.

"About five years ago, that is, after the last heavy rain, it didn't take long for a fatal incident in the river, when the daughter-in-law of the Li family in the East Village was killed and thrown into the river, and someone went to the river to wash clothes and found the body, so frightened that she fainted on the spot."

After the death of the daughter-in-law of the Li family, it didn't take long for the river to become haunted, and then there were often dead people in the river, and several people died every year before they stopped, so the county magistrate made people make a wall to separate the river, and now I haven't heard any news of anyone dying in these years, but the river just didn't dare to get close again.

"How did the daughter-in-law of the Li family die?" Shang Jingcheng asked.

"I don't know, at that time, the body was salvaged and sent directly to the county office, the murderer went to turn himself in, It was a flower thief, and he was asked to be beheaded on the spot, but the cause of death was not heard, and the county magistrate also saw that someone turned himself in, and he didn't interrogate it." As the shopkeeper spoke, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

Xie Chuyao pondered for a moment and asked, "Are all the women who died after this?" ”

"I don't know about this, but as far as I know, they are all female dependents, and as soon as they died, those family members moved away, so over the years, there have been fewer and fewer people in our town." The shopkeeper couldn't help but sigh as he spoke.

Xie Chuyao and Shang Jingcheng glanced at each other, and then asked, "Where exactly is that river?" Can you show us the way? ”

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment and said, "It's not that I won't tell you, but that place is really weird, so it's better not to go there."