"Where is this? This old man is unreliable. Throw us here in one fell swoop. The fourth child asked, looking at the endless crops in front of him.

Li Shidong didn't answer, just tried his best to move forward, intending to find a big road, just found the ditch, he heard someone talking not far ahead, it was a girl's voice, "Second aunt, whose baby is it that attacked the river god this year?" ”

"The Li family in the east." The other party replied.

"Huh? Is it his button, it's a pity, such a cute big fat boy. The girl continued.

"Who says it's not, such a pitiful child has to be left in the river, and you don't know what evil has been done!"

"Are you alright, second aunt? I'm done, so hurry up! ”

"Look at your child, you can also urge you to pee, I'm not too old!"

Li Shidong just thought about it, and as soon as he heard that it was convenient in front of him, he retreated. Seeing an old man and a young man in front of him coming out of the crop field and seeing himself and the fourth child, and then screaming miserably, the young girl said, "Who are you?" What are you going to do? ”

The old and the young are all dressed similarly, with plain hair wraps, soapy blue cotton robes, and the most surprising thing is that they are all wearing self-contained shoes, and they are obviously wrapped in feet.

The young girl was obviously frightened when she looked at Li Shidong's strange dress, Li Shidong quickly shook her hand and said, "That, we are not locals, we are outsiders, we got lost here when we passed by, where is this?" ”

When the young girl heard him say this, her mood eased a lot, and she slowly stood up and said vigilantly: "This is Huailai County, Dengzhou, Shandong, you are dressed so strangely, where are you?" “

The fourth child would come forward and say with a hippie smile: "Huh? Ten roads are not customary, we are close to the side, naturally and your dress is different, we are going to visit relatives in the Central Plains, you know, we are poor there, there is no train, this is not just walking, but also by the way to enjoy the scenery around the country? ”

"Trains? What is a train? The village girl scratched her head, the train didn't know, Li Shidong suddenly patted his head and seemed to remember something? Hurriedly asked the village girl: "This ..... Sister, we've been gone for too long, I don't know what year it is? ”

"Now?" The village aunt glanced at the second aunt, stretched out her hand and calculated, and said, "It's now the fourth year of Dazhong Xiangfu and the tenth year of Xining." ”

This sentence stunned Li Shidong and the fourth child, "What year is that?" The fourth asked after pondering for a long time.

The village girl seemed to be very surprised, and whispered: "You are from the side, I don't blame you, but you can't ask like this when you go to a crowded place, it's the sin of killing your head!" As he spoke, he attached himself to Li Shidong's ear and said: "It's the era name of Song Zhenzong, don't talk nonsense, how can it be good for others to hear it?" ”

"Oh," Li Shidong nodded, it seems that it is now the Northern Song Dynasty, Dazhong Xiangfu, it is the three years of Song Zhenzong, a total of nine years, it seems that now this is the time to cross this, Li Shidong smiled slightly and said: "I don't know if you can take us back to the village to rest." ”

The village girl pondered for a moment and nodded, "Okay, I'll tell my father, you can go with me." ”

The village aunt's home is a mud tile farmhouse, there are a lot of vegetables and big yellow dogs, chickens and ducks in the yard, the village aunt and the father who is working in the yard told Li Shidong their intentions, the old man stood up, looked at the two of them and said: "Come in, they are all passers-by walking outside, it's not easy, come in and sit." ”

There is a small village aunt living in this house, and there is a younger brother, an old family of four, and the food at that time seems to be particularly fragrant, although there is no big fish and meat, but it is full of a kind of vegetable fragrance that modern society does not have. It is definitely a real rural green food, Li Shidong and Lao Si drank some wine with the old man, and they talked more and more.

Li Shidong opened his mouth and said, "Old man, what do you mean by sacrificing to the river god just now?" How is it that there are still people who take the living as sacrifices? ”

"Hey," the old man blushed, took a sip of wine and said, "You don't know such customs, we here, the past few years have been smooth, who knows that about five years ago, the river at the head of the village rose wildly every month, flooding the whole crops, what do we farmers eat and drink without crops?" So the old and young masters are looking for the government, worship the dragon lord, but it is useful, the water still does not retreat, just when everyone has no choice, there is a Taoist, the Taoist said that it is a real person who cultivates the Tao on the mountain behind us, we didn't know that there is a Taoist behind the mountain, people say that this is the river god is angry, saying that the people in our village have done evil, and we have to throw down the child who was born less than two years before it can be calmed. We studied it, and after waiting for more than ten days, the water did not recede, so we ........" the old man said and drank another glass of wine, "The village chief threw his little baby into the river, who thought that the water would really recede, we went up the mountain to find the Taoist, offered incense to him, and from then on every year to take turns to select millions of children from the homes of the people in the village. ”

Li Shidong and the fourth child glanced at each other and said, "Old man, can we go to the river to take a look?" ”

The old man looked at Li Shidong strangely and said, "You doll from a foreign country, what are you doing there?" There are river gods there, and it's dangerous. ”

Li Shidong smiled and said: "Old man, we are from the border, since ancient times, there have been many strange people and strange things in the frontier, you see that we are carrying magic weapons to catch ghosts and drive away evil spirits, let's try to see if we can solve this problem?" ”

"Eh", the old man waved his hand again and again and said, "You can't offend the river god, that will kill more people." ”

Li Shidong hurriedly explained: "No, we are foreigners, we just go to see, if we can solve this problem, it is naturally good, the third is that we repay your kindness, if we can't look at it, we will definitely not make trouble for the villagers." ”

Following the road pointed by the old man, the two of them came to a big river that was not very wide, but it flowed very dangerously, as soon as they walked in, the two of them felt extremely cold and thick yin, this kind of cause was the kind that Li Shidong had felt very little before, if you want to describe it, it is somewhat similar to the breath of the silver fox lady.

Li Shidong carefully checked the river water, it was so filthy that he couldn't drink it, and there was no sign of any living creatures in the water, Li Shidong pulled out the jade sword and threw it high in the air.