Yan Laosan hid it deeply, the dark-faced old man was silent, and in the end, it was the ugly orange who interjected and asked:

"Isn't it murder to sacrifice a living person to the river god?"

The old farmer frowned, and glared back at the woman.

"Don't listen to her nonsense, it's been thirty or fifty years since the river sacrifice, what age is it now, no one does it like that."

The woman rushed again and said, "If you don't do that, you can't cross the river, the big strong man who came before last, didn't he drive the ox up the bridge without believing in evil, and was not swept into the river by the waves and drowned?" ”

If she didn't let her speak, she said partially, the old farmer's face was a little unbearable, and he turned around and scolded her a few words, but he didn't think that this old couple almost started to move when you said a word.

The ugly orange hurriedly pulled the rack, and the woman finally turned around and walked out of the house with a curse.

Seeing that the two of them were out of control, Yan Laosan was not embarrassed to continue asking, the old farmer's face was flushed, and he relieved the old man for a long time before saying:

"You go to find the goddess, she is a disciple of Taishang Laojun, there must be a way!"

Hope pinned on this goddess, we finished eating steamed buns, Yan Laosan asked the ugly orange to go to a relative's house in the neighboring village to inquire about the situation, Lao Qin and the three of us went to the village to find the goddess, on the way, they just walked with their heads down and no one spoke, the atmosphere was very cold.

Lao Qin still has that dark face, Yan Laosan can't see the joy when he hides it, and the two people who work together intrigue and put me in the middle, which is really uncomfortable.

But according to the current situation, the statement that you need to sacrifice to the river god to cross the bridge has been hammered, just wait to hear what the goddess says, if there is really no other way than to sacrifice the living, I estimate that this Yan Laosan will definitely push me.

As for why this dark-faced old Qin told me this, I still can't guess. Thinking of this, I raised my spirit, and I also made a plan for myself in my heart.

The goddess did not live in the village for Qing Xiu, so she moved her family to a secluded place far away from the village. On the way, we found a fellow working in the field to confirm the specific location, and the fellow had a short chat with the fellow, according to the fellow, this goddess is big, not only this village, who has something to do with the nearby ten miles and eight stores.

Such a word of mouth has increased the mystery of this goddess, if she is really a disciple of Taishang Laojun, she should not advocate the use of living people to sacrifice to the river god, with this bit of luck, we finally found the courtyard of the goddess's house.

The generous brick house, the flat cement floor, the appearance of a rich family!

The goddess looks like she is only in her fifties, her spirit is very good, her eyes are slippery, and she really looks like a big fairy.

When she entered the house, she was sitting cross-legged and practicing, and it was not strange to see our faces, so she asked in a low voice, "Something?" ”

Yan Laosan replied politely: "Eldest sister, we are passing by, and we have come to you for a favor if we encounter some trouble." After speaking, he took out 200 yuan from his pocket and put it on the edge of the kang.

Before the goddess could reply, she suddenly heard a shout outside:

"Goddess, is Goddess there?"

In the middle of the night, a tall and strong man entered the room, who looked at us for a circle and knelt on the ground with a "plop".

I was startled, and was about to step forward to help, but Yan Laosan grabbed me and shook his head to signal me not to move.

"Goddess, please save my daughter-in-law." This man cried a handful of snot and tears.

The goddess went down to help him up, and asked him about his situation with concern, and according to the man, his daughter-in-law was working in the field yesterday and suddenly fell into an evil spirit.

When I got home, I started talking gibberish, and then I was in a coma until now.

After hearing this, the goddess didn't say a word, put a cloth bag on her back and hurriedly followed the man to his house to see a doctor. She has the reputation of being a disciple of Taishang Laojun, so we naturally can't afford to miss this opportunity to see the real ability, so we hurriedly followed.

The man's wife was lying on the kang with black eyes, purple lips, and her body trembling from time to time, as if she had fallen into an evil spirit!

The goddess sat on the edge of the bed with a frown, stretched out her middle finger and index finger on the woman's forehead, slowly took it away for a while, shook her head and said:

"Oh, this girl is messing with the fairy family?"

The man thought for a long time when he heard it, and whispered: "Goddess, I and my daughter-in-law were working in the field the day before yesterday and met a green snake, do you think it will .....?"

The goddess nodded.

The man's tears came out again: "Please save my daughter-in-law, you also know that we have only been married for a few months!" ”

The goddess patted the man on the shoulder: "Don't worry, give it to your aunt!" ”

After the goddess finished speaking, the god rummaged through her cloth pocket for a long time, took out a papier-mâché doll, asked the man about the woman's birthday, took a cinnabar pen and wrote on the papier-mâché doll, and muttered something he didn't understand.

After going back and forth around the woman's head a few times, he took out a lighter, put the paper doll in a bowl and burned it, and stirred water with paper ashes for the woman to drink.

Half an hour later, the woman gradually improved at a speed visible to the naked eye, the dark circles under her eyes became lighter, and her lips returned to blood!

If I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that someone who was so seriously ill could recover so quickly after a series of rituals by the goddess! This disciple of Taishang Laojun is worthy of his name!

The man was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly turned around and handed the god woman a wad of money, which was 10,000 yuan!!

I saw so much money, and when I thought of the two hundred that Yan Laosan had just taken out, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

After seeing the doctor here, it was finally our turn, and when we returned home with the goddess, Yan Laosan took back the two hundred yuan on the kang, coughed awkwardly and said:

"Goddess, please do me a favor!"

The goddess looked at us carefully and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Yan Laosan told the goddess what we wanted to cross the bridge, I noticed that the goddess's face was getting more and more ugly, and finally before Yan Laosan finished speaking, he interrupted him bluntly: "No, this bridge, you can't cross it!" ”

Yan Laosan took a deep breath and discussed: "Eldest sister, we have seen your magical powers with our own eyes, think of a way!" ”

The goddess still waved her hand, sighed and said, "Our river, since the first few years of the river god's anger, the bridge has been abandoned, and we can't cross it!" ”

Yan Laosan was silent for a long time and asked, "Is it possible to cross the bridge by sacrificing a living person to the river god?" ”

My head "buzzed", and I scolded in my heart: Yan Laosan, you really didn't have a good heart!!

The goddess was also stunned, nodded and said, "There is such a saying, what's the matter, you want to kill someone?" “

Yan Laosan looked at me and then at the old man with a yin face, and laughed.

He opened his right palm and gestured: "Sister, no matter what the way, as long as you help us cross the bridge, I will give you this number!" ”

The goddess seemed to be a little moved, and hesitated for a long time and asked, "Just cross the bridge?" Aren't you coming back? ”

Yan Laosan nodded patiently: "We are in a hurry and will not come back!" ”

The goddess nodded and said, "Okay, then I have to discuss with the old man of the river god, you can go to the river with me at eight o'clock tonight!" ”

The goddess promised to help us cross the river, and this matter is even a matter of eyebrows, but my heart is still very nervous, and I am worried that the last resort will be to sacrifice me!

When she returned to the old farmer's house, she happened to be there, and the news she got in the neighboring village was the same as ours, and she praised this goddess as godly!

During this period, Yan Laosan said that he never came back after going out for a trip, and after the sun set at eight o'clock in the evening, the old farmer accompanied me, and Lao Qin and the ugly orange went to the bridgehead to meet with the goddess.

A stone bridge spans both banks, and the grass and trees on the opposite side of the bridge are lush and the road is not clear. This is an old bridge, the bluestone bridge deck under the moonlight is white and weird, because no one passes all year round, it has been crawling with moss everywhere.

The goddess leaned over and took out some steamed buns, fruits and other tributes from her backpack and laid them out by the river, then sat on the ground and began to speak.

The weird atmosphere arises spontaneously, and the ugly orange and the old yin are naturally not afraid of walking at night all year round, and I really feel panicked.

Time passed minute by minute, and the goddess was still muttering, and suddenly, the old peasant's face changed, and he pointed to the bridge and whispered:

"Look, the river god is out!"

We looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, there was a figure on the bridge!!

The goddess was very calm, stood up confidently, and said to the figure on the bridge:

"The south and the north of the world are spirits, and the river god gives way to pass...."

The figure on the bridge did not react.

The goddess was stunned for a moment, raised her voice and shouted again, but there was still no response!

At this time, the ugly orange muttered in a deep voice: "Strange, how do I think this river god is a woman?" ”

The ugly orange didn't say that we didn't pay attention, but if we looked closely, the figure on the bridge was facing away from us, and there was faint hair flying, what a woman! But doesn't the goddess say that the river god is an old man?

The old peasant also noticed that something was wrong, and asked the goddess tremblingly:

"Goddess, something is wrong, did you invite the wrong person, this, this is not the old man of the river god?"

I looked next to the goddess and noticed that she was also a little panicked, and kept pulling things out of her pocket, shouting over and over again the spell that didn't work at all.

The old peasant took a step back, swallowed and whispered:

"Oh my god, how do I look like a ghost!"

In this terrible environment, as soon as the ghost words came out, the atmosphere suddenly changed.

The goddess squinted her eyes and craned her neck to look at the bridge, and said in a trembling voice:

"I, I forgot that the ghost door is closed today, let's go back first!" After saying that, he turned his head and ran, and when the old farmer saw that the goddess had run away, he was frightened and chased after him.

Seeing this, Lao Qin snorted coldly: "It's really lively, the fake god has met the real ghost!" ”