Chapter 35: Sacred or Taboo
Since returning to the house, Song Yu's expression has not been very good, Gu Chong also asked her if she was uncomfortable with concern, Song Yu just said that she felt a little tired after walking a little more.
Of course, this is not true, and Gu Chong didn't ask much, after all, it is normal to be on guard in the inner world.
"You don't want to sleep with me tonight," Lu Qiu said to Gu Chong without words.
"Why?" Gu Chong asked puzzled.
"I crossed that river tonight, something might happen, and if you slept with me, it might hurt you."
Gu Chong was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "It's okay, in that case, I should be with you, if something happens, we can take care of each other." โ
"Fool, how can this kind of thing be taken care of," Lu Qiu patted his head speechlessly, "It's not the first time you've experienced this kind of thing, what's the use of having too many people, maybe we'll be wiped out by then." โ
"Aren't you afraid?" Lu Qiu looked at him wordlessly and said lightly.
Gu Chong didn't say anything more, just shook his head stubbornly.
Lu Qiu suddenly smiled, and a light smile bloomed on her face.
"Okay, stupid big guy."
"But I think there are so many people in that river today," Lu Qiu said silently as he made his bed, "and we should be last in line." โ
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Song Yinan was lying on the bed, looking at Xie Jinyu curled up on another bed, and was very unhappy.
Didn't this stinky woman just hold hands with her friend and hug her? It's purely the intimacy of "friends", so why all the fuss?
If she knew about the things between him and Fan Qin, Xu Shu, Zhang xx, and Lin xx, she wouldn't be mad?
Women are such a nuisance.
Song Yinan slandered in his heart.
As his girlfriend, but he didn't let himself touch it for more than a month, isn't that forcing himself to cheat?
After all, it is still said that this woman is stingy.
When I go back, let's talk to Fan Qin about life.
Song Yinan thought so.
"Uh-mm-mm-mm-mm~" There was a crisp humming sound outside the house, listening to the voice, it was a girl in the mood for love, wandering outside.
For some reason, Song Yinan's spirit was particularly active tonight, and after listening to this sweet humming, he became more and more sober.
Who's singing?
Song Yinan sat up straight and looked out the window. It stands to reason that he has also experienced several worlds, although they are all low-level worlds, but he should not make such a mistake, but he still did it.
On the white paper, unable to see anything clearly, Song Yinan walked down from the bed and stood still in front of the window.
Xie Jinyu did not wake up.
"Ah-Ah-Ah-"
The female voice that was still humming suddenly changed, and she began to keep chanting the word "Sister", because she really wanted to see who was singing outside, Song Yinan stretched out a finger.
"Poofโ"
The paper was soft, as if it had been soaked in water, and the fibers of the paper were glued together.
poked a small hole, Song Yinan looked out from the position of the small hole, and the first thing that caught his eye was the huge locust tree, gently shaking its branches in the moonlight, and the shadows scattered on the ground also swayed.
Because the hole is not big, Song Yinan can't see all the scenes clearly, he can only see the big locust tree, but he can't see the girl singing.
The humming began again, still the crisp and sweet female voice that seemed to be like a spring in the mountains.
The voice slowly approached, and Song Yinan's whole face was pressed against the window, wanting to see what the singer looked like.
Close, close.
A brightly colored skirt slowly appeared in front of Song Yinan.
It was a set of skirts embroidered with intricate and beautiful patterns, and each silk thread was glowing faintly, and it looked very good material.
It's just that this dress is also soaked, and with every step, water droplets fall to the ground.
"Sister-"
You can see it right away.
A pure white face appeared in front of Song Yinan.
"You're not a sister!"
A sharp finger inserted into Song Yinan's eyes, he covered his eyes in pain, let out a miserable scream, and blood splattered on the window paper in front of him.
"Men, disgusting men, all die!"
Blood splattered the room.
Even so, Xie Jinyu didn't wake up.
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Song Yinan was chopped up, broken into pieces, and piled up in the window, if you only rely on this pile of "people", you can't recognize this as Song Yinan.
Xie Jinyu's crying pear blossoms brought rain, and was comforted by others, Lu Qiu wordlessly found that where the pile of meat was piled up, a small hole was poked out of the window above, and it seemed that someone was peeking out through the window.
Judging from the height, it should be the hole that Song Yinan poked himself.
The people who were in the river yesterday should not have Song Yinan, but why did Song Yinan die?
Could it be that rivers are not the trigger for death? Lu Qiu pondered speechlessly, she carefully looked at Xie Jinyu's expression, this little girl looked like she had just become an adult, at this time, her face was full of tears because of fear and sadness, and her eyes were red and swollen from crying.
But Lu Qiu looked at it carefully without words, but found that Xie Jinyu seemed to have a trace of relief and pleasure in his expression.
This girl is not simple.
Because Song Yinan died, Xie Jinyu became a person, and someone wanted to invite her together, but she refused. She said that she was reluctant to leave this room, and she believed that Song Yinan would not harm her.
What an infatuated girl.
"Yesterday I went near that river, today let's go ask the NPC," Lu Qiu Wuyan and Gu Chong walked out of the courtyard, because Song Yu said that he felt unwell, so Song Yu stayed in the house alone.
"It wouldn't be a problem to leave her alone, would it?" Gu Chong asked.
"Probably not, we have searched all the places in the house, and after looking at it in the past few days, she is not a scheming person, there is no problem."
The two walked into the village, and the entire Huaishui Village was now sparsely populated, although it was not as empty as Gu Chong's first world, but only a few villagers could be seen wandering in the village sporadically.
Lu Qiu Wuyan and Gu Chong walked around the village and found a strange phenomenon.
In the whole village, there was not a single woman, no, not a single young woman to be exact. Most of the villagers I met were men, and the few women I saw were all in their seventies and eighties.
Is this some hint?
Gu Chong thought to himself.
"Uncle," while Gu Chong was pondering, Lu Qiu had already walked in front of a male villager who looked to be about forty years old.
The male villager glanced at Lu Qiu speechlessly, did not speak, and continued to weave the bamboo basket in his hand.
Lu Qiu wordlessly took out a pack of cigarettes from his pants bag, yes, it was a pack of cigarettes. The bright red bottom shell, with a large gorgeous peony flower painted on it, and the word "peony" written on it, looks very old.
Lu Qiu wordlessly took out a cigarette and handed it to the uncle, who put down the bamboo basket in his hand and took the cigarette.
lit a match and took a deep breath, and the uncle said leisurely: "Say, little girl, what do you want to ask?" โ
Lu Qiu asked the river in the village wordlessly, and the uncle's answer was similar to the answer on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village, and he asked why there were no women in the village, and the uncle said that their village was poor, and no woman wanted to marry in.
"What about the women in the village?"
The uncle spit out a puff of smoke, "I haven't had a girl baby in the village for a long time, and even if I gave birth to a girl, I would have run away with it a long time ago." โ
"Ran away? Why? โ
The uncle shook his head, not going to answer that question.
"The earthen temple on the river in that village......" Lu Qiu was silent and just opened his mouth, but was interrupted by his uncle, "Don't go near that place." โ
The uncle's swarthy face suddenly looked at Lu Qiu speechlessly, "For your sake, girl, I advise you not to go near that place." โ
Lu Qiu raised his eyebrows wordlessly, and did not continue to ask.
After thanking the uncle, Lu Qiu wordlessly asked the other people in the village one after another, either to blow them away, or to divert the topic.
Without exception, the people of the village are running away from the earth temple.
"That's weird," Gu Chong thought about it and said, "According to the inscription, that earthen temple is dedicated to the river god who blesses Huaishui Village, it should be a sacred place, why the villagers are avoiding this place, as if this place is a forbidden existence." โ
"Do you remember what I told you about the ancestral hall I went to?"
Gu Chong nodded.
"It's strange that the ancestral hall is full of women's tablets. And there were many houses on the other side of the river, but almost all of them were deserted, and there were no people living in them, as if they were hiding from something. โ
"River God, sacrifice," Lu Qiu muttered to herself wordlessly, and suddenly, as if she remembered something, she raised her head to look at Gu Chong.
"I might have guessed it."