On the opposite bank of the river, a wizard dressed in strange clothes jumped around in the middle, surrounded by dense people in a circle, everyone was silent, pious and respectful, and did not dare to come out.

At the sorcerer's swaying bells, four stout men carried a sturdy woman tied up and walked into the river.

The water did not pass the woman's waist, chest, and soon reached the neck.

"Patriarch, please, let Ah Hong go, it has nothing to do with her, the patriarch please......" The man's pleading voice pleaded from low to high, pleading over and over again.

The man knelt on the ground, kowtowed, his forehead was already broken and bleeding, and there was a pair of children kneeling beside him, the boy looked like he was five or six years old, and the girl was only about two or three years old.

The man hugged the two children, helpless and desperate: "Patriarch...... Please, for the sake of the two children......"

When the water gradually reached the woman's mouth, the half-grown boy finally couldn't help it, and suddenly broke away from the man and rushed out, "Mother......"

However, before he could run two steps, he was pulled by an old lady with a serious face: "Huan'er, don't!" ”

"Grandma, mother, she ......" The boy who was called Huan'er cried without a sentence.

The old lady gritted her teeth and said, "This is what the river god pointed out to want your mother to sacrifice alive, don't embarrass the patriarch." ”

When Shen Lingjun and the others came over, they saw this scene.

Zhao Qi sighed twice and said, "This old lady is hard-hearted." ”

Ye Qingzhi didn't believe in this kind of pretending to be a ghost, and felt ridiculous, and frowned slightly: "It's not like words." ”

On the contrary, it was Shen Lingjun, who was used to wandering the rivers and lakes, and said indifferently: "The older she gets, the more pedantic she becomes, not to mention that her daughter-in-law is not as important to her as her gods." ”

Su Musha also nodded: "That's true." ”

During the play, he poked Luo Cheng's arm, pointed to the woman in the river who was about to be annihilated by the water, and asked, "That woman is going to drown, can we save her?" ”

"Save, must be saved, can't you still see death and can't be saved." Los Angeles saw too many dead people on the battlefield, and he was even more in awe of life.

As he spoke, a strong gust of wind suddenly blew up the sand and dust on the ground and danced in the air. The wind is so strong that people can't open their eyes, and everyone habitually covers their eyes with their hands, and they can only take them away after a while when the wind is light.

Los Angeles spat on the ground, and there was a lot of mud and sand mixed in the saliva: "Bah, eat my mouthful......"

Before he finished speaking, a scream of "Ah......hhhh

The crowd followed the voice, and someone shouted, "Wizard...... The wizard is dead!! ”

"The river god is angry, the river god is angry......"

"Kneel down and pray to the river god......"

……

The sudden change shocked everyone and filled them with panic, and the shouts kept coming. In the end, everyone knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging the river god for forgiveness.

Taking advantage of the panic caused by this accident, Zhao Qi asked Luo Cheng and the two of them to rescue the woman in the river ashore.

Ye Qingzhi leaned over to check it out, and ordered, "Help her to a clean place." ”

The kneeling man had been paying attention to the situation in the river, and now he saw it, and hurriedly pounced: "Ah Hong, Ah Hong, how are you?" ”

The boy in the old woman's hand was about to pass, and his grandmother hugged him, stamped his feet, and said in a loud voice, "O iniquity, this is iniquity." ”

"What are you doing?!" A villager noticed something unusual and came over when he heard the noise.

Immediately after, more villagers gathered around.

Someone said, "It must be them, it is they who have alarmed the river god and made the river god angry." ”

Shen Lingjun plucked out his ears, touched the skin of his mouth up and down, and said with a poisonous tongue: "I said why are you so ignorant, if you have the words of the river god, I will also slaughter you first and give it to his old man to enjoy, but you have more fat and thick body than her woman's meat, and you are strong to chew." ”

At this time, a white-bearded, emaciated old man frowned and walked forward, scanning a few people with a cloudy gaze, with his experience, it can be seen that this group of people has an extraordinary temperament, and they must not be ordinary rich people, but looking at the carriage and other lines behind him, it should be just passing by accidentally.

The old man clasped his hands into fists and said politely: "The surname is Ling, it is the patriarch of this village, everyone, this is a matter in our village, please don't worry about it when you pass by, that woman is from our village, please return her to us." ”

During the play, he felt that what the old man said was unreasonable, but he watched them throw the woman into the river, and immediately jumped to his feet and said, "That's how your village treats your villagers?" ”

Seeing that they were unmoved, the patriarch surnamed Ling stiffened his tone: "There is no need to explain more to you about the affairs of our village. ”

Turning his head, he said to the two middle-aged strong men behind him: "Second child, seventh child, bring Ah Hong back." ”

Ah Hong's man hugged his daughter-in-law, afraid that they would snatch it again.

Zhao Qi took a step forward and stopped with one hand: "Slow down, make your words clear first." ”

Although Zhao Qi's voice was always lazy, he was used to giving orders all year round, with a natural domineering spirit, which made the two people in front of him hesitate.

"Second child, seventh child......" Patriarch Ling urged again.

The two men were about to rush over and push Zhao Qi away and grab it, but Zhao Qi stood still and didn't move, just waiting for the two men's hands to touch, and when he was on the side of Luo Cheng during the play, he kicked the person out with his foot.

Mainly watching a group of people bully a woman, they couldn't look past it, this kick was a bit strong, and the two men fell down for a long time without relieving their breath.

At this time, Patriarch Ling was angry, what he said just now was clear enough, and he said with a straight face: "Where did you come from, why are you embarrassing my villagers." ”

Shen Lingjun felt funny, knowing that such a person had always been stubborn, and he couldn't understand it at all, so he didn't bother to say it, so he simply said ruthlessly: "In a word, if you don't have anyone, unless you are all impatient." ”

Ye Qingzhi fed Ah Hong a medicine in her mouth and whispered to Shen Lingjun, "I want to see that wizard." ”

"Okay," Shen Lingjun nodded, ready to make a move.

The villagers gathered around and said, "Patriarch, we can't let them continue to offend the river god, otherwise we will all be finished." ”

Someone chimed in: "Yes, Patriarch, the death of the wizard is an example. ”

Others said, "Drive them away, they have offended the river god and are going to kill all our village." ”

Then all the people started shouting, "Drive them out, drive them out." ”

Su Musha is the most experienced in rivers and lakes, and he grew up in a water town since he was a child, and he understands that these people's belief in the river god can't be persuaded for a while.

Therefore, Su Musha walked to Shen Lingjun's side and said in a low voice, "Let's leave first." ”

"Well," Shen Lingjun was helpless, they were all ignorant villagers, and they wouldn't really kill them.

Zhao Qi had a headache, and the battlefield commander of thousands of troops and horses didn't have a headache in the face of a group of unreasonable villagers at this moment, "Lao Tzu has never seen this kind of person." ”

Ye Qingzhi saw that the woman on the ground was pale, her eyes were closed, and she was very weak, and the names of this group of villages were clearly difficult to entangle, so she said, "Let's go first, that woman needs treatment." ”

So, everyone stopped pestering the group of villagers, and left the place with Ah Hong and her husband first.

Originally, the villagers wanted to stop it, but when they saw that the second and seventh children lying on the ground had not yet gotten up, they immediately cowered and did not dare to step forward.

Several people divided into two ways, Ye Qingzhi and Zhao Qi sent Ah Hong and them back, while Shen Lingjun and Su Musha entered the city.

Ah Hong's house is in the third family in the east of the village, two simple brick houses, which are very clean.

Ah Hong's man put her on the bed carefully, turned his head and knelt down, tears rippled: "Thank you heroes, thank you, if it weren't for your ......"

Zhao Qi was quite disdainful, and pouted: "You are a big man who kneels around at every turn, and if you have any chance, your daughter-in-law can't save you, what else can you do?" ”

The man didn't expect Zhao Qi to speak so directly, and he froze a little.

Ye Qingzhi pricked Ah Hong's needle, glanced at it, and said, "As a man, you should protect your wife and children first, why don't you do it." ”

The man regarded them as life-savers in his heart, but he really didn't expect them to speak so coldly and hard, and opened his mouth a few times before he promised: "This is the rule in our village, I ......"

Hearing this, Ye Qingzhi's clear black eyes were full of disdain, and she snorted coldly: "Rules are dead, people are alive, if we don't show up, you will watch her drowned?" ”

The man who said this was dumbfounded, his hands were mixed together, and he was a little embarrassed.

The two children who teased the family during the play outside the door took out an oiled paper bag from their arms and opened it to see a few pieces of exquisite osmanthus cake. The two children saw it and licked their mouths, they had never seen such a beautiful pastry.

"Here's one, well, you take one too." During the play, I wiped the corner of the little girl's mouth with pastry crumbs, and I like the appearance of children.

Luo Cheng listened to the conversation in the door, shook his head, and muttered to himself: "Alas, this is also a cold-faced and cold-hearted lord." ”

When I heard it during the play, I hurriedly said, "What, what? ”

Luo Cheng stroked his head and said with a dry smile: "I mean, the snowy mooncakes are delicious." ”

When I said this, the gluttonous worms in my stomach were hooked up during the trick, and I immediately nodded: "That's not it, next time I go back to Luoyang, I will buy ten catties!" ”

In the room, Ye Qingzhi took the acupuncture bag and got up, "She hasn't eaten for a few days?" ”

The man followed behind Ye Qingzhi in fear, and his voice was weak: "The patriarch asked Ah Hong to be taken away three days ago. ”

Ye Qingzhi's face was even colder, this man was angry when she looked at her, she was impatient to talk to him, and said coldly: "Go and get her something to eat." ”

The man glanced at his daughter-in-law on the bed, and hesitated, "Ah Hong, she ......"

"Don't worry, you can't die, most of you are hungry, plus you are in a coma due to exposure to the sun and fright, you can wake up after a little cultivation," Zhao Qi tapped his fingers on the table and glared at him: "What are you rubbing, why don't you go quickly?!" ”

The man was startled, turned around and shuddered out the door, and almost tripped over the threshold as he crossed the threshold.

"Eh......" Ye Qingzhi still wanted to call him, but the person had already run away, so he didn't get angry, kicked over, and said angrily: "I haven't finished my words yet." ”

"Shhh...... You're too unreasonable. Zhao Qi touched her ankle, this girl was ruthless and knew where to go.

Ye Qingzhi pursed her lips and pointed out the door: "You, go out and tell him, prepare some porridge, the patient can't eat other food now." ”

Outside the door, Luo Cheng patted the boy named Huan'er, took him aside, and asked, "In your village, you used to use living sacrifices?" Why did you choose your mother? ”

Huan'er is a half-grown child, so some things are also ignorant, he stirred his hands together, facing outsiders, obviously a little shy, but these beautiful brothers and sisters just saved his mother, they must be good people.

Thinking so, Huan'er honestly explained: "It was Grandpa River God who personally named him." ”

"What, river god?" L.A.'s eyes widened in disbelief.