She hurriedly sat up and looked around in horror, "Snake, snake......"

"It's been driven away. Seeing that she seemed to be really frightened, her tone softened a little, and brought her a set of clothes that had been prepared, "You can change your clothes first, and we'll talk about what is going on later." ”

The girl took the clothes in a daze.

At this time, Feng Linglang had already changed his clothes and walked over.

When she saw Feng Linglang, the girl was obviously stunned again, and then a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes, she lowered her head slightly and grabbed the blanket, seemed to be a little shy, nodded and walked behind the big stone with her clothes, and when she passed by Feng Linglang, her footsteps paused, her cheeks were red, and she quickly said thank you and ran behind the stone.

Feng Linglang frowned slightly, and walked to the fire without pause.

Mu Ran had already started to fry the fish fillet, and he didn't change his clothes when he had no clothes in his hands, and he didn't ask, he just squinted and smiled.

The girl quickly changed her clothes, walked over cautiously with a blanket, glanced at Feng Linglang, and slowly walked to a stone not far away to sit down, her eyes glancing at Feng Linglang who was seriously grilling fish from time to time.

Mu Ran looked up and saw her eyes, couldn't help but squint her eyes, and said, "Why are you on the river, and what's the matter with that snake?"

The girl came back to her senses when she asked, and when she heard the snake, her face turned pale in an instant, and she looked at the river not far away in horror, and couldn't help but move in the direction of Feng Linglang.

A dark light flashed in Mu Ran's eyes, and his voice was a little colder, "What? I can't say, I still don't know?"

"I, I, my name is Xia Yuan, and I am from Xiajia Village, Leiyang Town, downstream. ”

"Then why are you on the river like this?" asked Mu Ran impatiently.

Hearing this, the girl finally couldn't help but start crying again, crying and talking.

The downstream is Leiyang Town, because it is far from the next city, and it is close to the river, so it gradually forms a ** individual.

Leiyang Town consists of five villages, namely Xiajia Village, Xujia Village, Huangjia Village, Niujia Village and Zhangjia Village.

Originally, it was very self-sufficient to live in the mountains and rivers, but since seven years ago, there has been a sudden flood from time to time, and the fish are often not found in the river, which is rich in aquatic products.

And people who often go to the river to fish will disappear for no reason, and even the body will not be found.

This period made the people of Leiyang Town fall into extreme panic and could not live.

Later, many people in Leiyang Town moved away, and the whole town was empty all of a sudden, leaving a small number of stubborn people who were unwilling to move out of their hometowns.

Then one day, the village chief of Zhangjia Village invited a Taoist chief.

After reading it, the Taoist chief said that there were water demons in the river, and it was the water demons who were making waves everywhere, not only driving away the fish, but also those who were missing were also confused into the water by the water demons and eating them.

As soon as everyone heard it, they lied, they were all ordinary people, and ghosts and ghosts were still very deterrent and intimidating to them.

The Taoist said that their river was a Fu River, and that there was actually a dragon king living in the river, who could protect the river from any harm.

But they have been catching aquatic products here for so many years, and they are not grateful for the protection of the dragon king, so the dragon king is angry, as long as they can let the dragon king protect them again, eating the water demon will return to the previous wind and rain.

Everyone seemed to believe it or not, but they were also sick and rushed to the doctor, and they were all handed over to the Taoist chief.

The Taoist chief did the ritual, and in front of the people, he actually carved a way in the river, and then walked to the bottom of the river, saying that he wanted to help them negotiate with the dragon king.

When he showed such a hand, the people of Leiyang Town immediately believed in it, and kept praying that he could come back safely.

The Dao Leader has returned, and he has also brought news that the Dragon King is willing to forgive them for their previous rudeness, but they also need some expressions.

The people of Leiyang Town proposed to worship the Dragon King every year, and asked what the Dragon King liked.

The chief went down to the river again and brought the words of the dragon king.

The dragon king said that he didn't want to eat, nor did he want gold and silver treasures, he only liked beauties, as long as Leiyang Town sent a cardamom virgin to it every year as a concubine, he would always keep the wind and rain here.

Sending the girl to the Dragon King, the people in Leiyang Town were still a little resistant at first, but for the safety and survival of the town, and the persuasion of the Taoist chief beside them, in the end they could only agree.

Then sure enough, since the girl was sent in the first year, there has been no flood in Leiyang Town, and there are even more aquatic products in the empty river than before.

Since then, this custom of sacrificing beauties to the dragon king has been preserved.

It's now in its sixth year.

And Xia Yuan is this year's sacrifice.

Unexpectedly, the so-called Dragon King turned out to be an ugly giant snake, and I am afraid that the people in Leiyang Town have been deceived.

Xia Yuan cried as she spoke, crying extremely sadly.

If she wasn't lucky enough to meet a noble person today, I'm afraid she would be buried in the mouth of the snake like the previous girl at this moment.

"It seems that the Taoist chief also has a problem, and he is still in your village?"

"No, that Taoist leader often has to travel around, and every year he will only come back to help pray for blessings when he prays to the Dragon King, and then he will leave after praying, and he often comes and goes without a trace, which is estimated to be no longer in the town. ”

Mu Ran raised his head and communicated with Feng Linglang in code.

"Do you think it could be that the demon and the snake spirit conspired?" or that the snake spirit was actually kept in captivity by the demon way?'' The two are inseparable. "I just don't know what they want the woman to do, if they just eat, they can't make such trouble, and it's only once a year, and this snake spirit has too little appetite." Feng Linglang didn't speak, because the woman who was crying with pear blossoms and rain didn't know when she rubbed next to him, her red and swollen eyes that were crying looked at him with gratitude and a little shyness, and whispered, "Thank you big brother for saving me before, if it weren't for the eldest brother, Yuan'er would have become the belly of the giant snake, I don't know the eldest brother...... And what is this sister called?"

A strange dark color flashed in Mu Ran's eyes, and he suddenly hooked his lips and said with an easy-going smile, "His name is Wind Wolf, you can just call him Brother Feng, my name is Lin Mu, you can call me Sister Lin." ”

"Oh, Brother Feng, and Sister Lin, where are you from, where are you going, and are you brother and sister?"

If Lin Xiaoxiao was here, he would have complained immediately.

All reported their names, men and women with different surnames are alone, and they usually think of being partners at the first time.

Mu Ran hooked his lips and chuckled, "Why do you think it's brother and sister, Ling Lang, it seems that we really have husband and wife." ”

"It's husband and wife. Feng Linglang replied.

Mu Ran glanced at the girl with a slightly gloomy look in her eyes, and said with a smile, "You guessed wrong, we are partners, and this time my husband left home to travel, so I will accompany him." ”

"Oh, huh, yes. The girl stiffened the corners of her mouth, and then hugged her knees and stopped talking.

Mu Ran put the fried fish fillet on the leaf and handed it to her, "You should be hungry, eat something first." Wait until dawn to go back. ”

When the woman heard this, her lips trembled, her eyes were tearful, and two tears rolled down so easily, "I, I don't want to go back, I don't want to be food for the giant snake anymore, woo, can you take me away." ”

"Actually, you can go back and explain the reason to them, this lie must be exposed, otherwise there will be innocent people sent to death in the future. ”

"No, no, no, they won't believe me, they will definitely take me again and feed the snakes, please, please, take me away, even if it's just to take me out of here, please. The girl got up, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the two of them.

Mu Ran frowned, a little impatient.

She got up, stretched out her hand to help the girl, and sighed, "Well, let's go back with you, find a way to expose this lie, and then leave when this matter is resolved?"

"This ......" The girl was stunned, subconsciously looked at the man who had not reacted, pursed her lips, a dark light flashed under her eyes, and nodded, "Okay." ”

Mu Ran saw all the changes in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth drew a subtle arc without a trace.

Leiyang Town is actually a relatively closed small town, which is probably related to what happened before, and it is generally a bit xenophobic.

When they entered the town, everyone who saw them was immediately wary and repulsed. A pair of eyes just stared at the three of them like this, especially one of them was tightly wrapped and almost only showed his eyes, which always looked a little weird.

"Excuse me, who are you?" They didn't walk long before they were stopped by a few middle-aged men walking towards them, someone should have seen them and looked for them.

However, I probably saw that there were two weak women, and the three big men didn't look so fierce at first, but they could still hear the unwelcoming attitude from their tones.

The middle-aged man originally asked Linglang, but Mu Ran spoke first.

She smiled and said apologetically, "I'm sorry to disturb your land, little woman Lin, my husband Jun Fengwolf and my sister are from Fancheng, we are from Fancheng, and we want to go to Nancheng, but we are not familiar with the road, and we only saw Guizhen after walking for a few days, so I came here without permission, please forgive me if you disturb." ”

Seeing that she had a modest attitude and didn't seem to have any malicious intent, the middle-aged man looked at the other two, his eyes stayed on Feng Linglang, and he turned around before he said in a deep voice, "There are many roads to Nancheng, you turn right and go straight to the first trail to lead to the official road." ”

It means that they don't want to pass through the town.

"Oh, I see, thank you big brother for telling me, then we won't bother. Mu Ran thanked with a smile and turned to leave.

Xia Yuan, who was suddenly wrapped tightly, shook and fainted directly.

"Madoka, Madoka, what's wrong with you. Mu Ran nervously swayed the fainting girl, her face pale and helpless.

"I have a fever. Feng Linglang, who was holding the girl, frowned slightly.

Originally, the plan they discussed was that if she was denied entry, Xia Yuan would pretend to faint, but she didn't think that she would really faint.

But also, after all, she is just an ordinary person, and now the weather is a little cold, and she was frightened by the wind and water at sea last night, and it is normal to be cold.

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