Chapter 120: Strange Things in the Mountain Village
Faced with Luo Qiaoqiao's desperate words, I shook my head and said, "No, I won't let you kill me." With that injury on your leg, you won't be my match for the time being. β
I'm not wrong, I did bite hard yesterday, and that's why too. I know that Luo Qiaoqiao's personality is a bit crazy. You have to keep a hand at all times.
Luo Qiaoqiao sighed, she asked how to get out, and I said that since I was already on the shore, I could find people by following the current. We'll know where we are now. She stood up and changed her clothes, saying that without further ado, she would go back to Yuanmen on an errand. This time, I got two big yin things, which can be regarded as qualified.
Listening to Luo Qiaoqiao's words, I understood that there were at least four great yin things in Yuanmen, and there should have been a way to summon the five ghost slaves. Otherwise, how could Luo Qiaoqiao say that she was qualified?
But that's also someone else's business, and I'm not qualified to ask too much about it. As we walked down the river, I realized that life is really impermanent, and I had made a lot of plans, but when I saw the village half an hour later, I realized that plans can never catch up with changes.
It is a small mountain village around Shanghai, and the terrain is flat. Look at the size of the village. The population should not exceed five hundred, but this is already good news for us.
There is a small store at the entrance of the village, which is run by an old man. I bought a pack of cigarettes in the store and asked the old man how to get to the city, but the old man didn't speak Mandarin. Considering that Luo Qiaoqiao was a native of Shanghai, I asked her to talk to the old man, and Luo Qiaoqiao said a few words to the old man. Then he told me: "He said that there is a boat directly down from the entrance of the village, and the ticket is ten yuan, which can take us to the city pier, every morning and noon, and we can take the noon train." β
I put my mind at ease and walked with Luo Qiaoqiao to the entrance of the village. This village is not big, and it is impossible for us to get lostβ΅ out of the village, it is a mountain road, and at the end of it is a simple dock.
It is said to be a simple dock, but in fact it is a few wooden stakes driven into the ground.
And in this dock, there is something strange happening.
On the shore, five middle-aged women were kneeling on the ground, with chickens, ducks, fish, and pig's heads and cow's heads placed in front of them. I look at it and feel strange, rural people are saving to death, and the degree of care for pigs and cows is simply indescribable, but what is the situation?
I frowned, and couldn't help but make eye contact with Luo Qiaoqiao. But she sat on a rock on the shore and said calmly, "Don't worry about it." β
I thought about it, so I sat on the shore and rested. The middle-aged women were crying while worshipping. After a few minutes, a woman trembled and took out the paper money to burn, and the other women saw it, and suddenly snatched the paper money, and a group of middle-aged women scuffled together, crying heartbreakingly.
Luo Qiaoqiao looked at all this with a cold face, but I finally couldn't help it, and whispered: "I'll go and ask what's going on, you see the head office, right?" β
"Just ask." She said casually.
I walked up to a few of the women and asked them why in confusion, and they cried even more.
It turned out that they were here for their children.
Two days ago, the children and adults came to catch fish using the village wooden boat, which was the boat that could take us to the dock. Milestone fork technique.
Everything was fine, but when the boat reached the middle of the river, the situation changed.
Somehow, the boat was standing on the edge of the river and couldn't move. But at that time, the engine was obviously starting, and it kept making splashes, and the ship just couldn't move forward half a minute.
People thought it was strange and went to watch the propeller at the stern of the boat, and for a while did not notice the child. A five-year-old child was lying on the side of the boat and accidentally fell into the water.
This frightened the adults, and the old fisherman hurriedly jumped in to save them. Who knew that the child did not even drown, but swam quickly into the distance in front of a group of people, as if equipped with a propeller, which was faster than normal people running.
The sudden strange thing frightened the villagers on the boat, and several large fish suddenly swam on the surface of the river, and these big fish looked very strange. The teeth are sharp, and the face is very human-like, especially the fish's eyes, which actually have eyelids, and blink in front of people.
Who in this world has ever heard of fish and eyelids?
At this moment, several children on the boat jumped into the river happily as if they had been evil. And those big fish immediately swam over to catch the children, no matter how the parents cried heartbreakingly, the children did not look back, and were carried away by the big fish quickly.
And when the children jumped into the water, the big boat regained its composure and continued to row ahead. But where do people still have the heart to catch fish, all the way to the children, but the river is so long, who knows where the children were taken by the big fish?
It was dark when they were found, but they couldn't get the children back.
The old people in the village said that they had disturbed the carp god and brought punishment to everyone, and they had to make amends first no matter what.
I told Luo Qiaoqiao what I heard, and she said in a deep voice: "Only do it to children...... Weird-looking big fish...... And the ships that couldn't move...... This is not something we can deal with, so leave as soon as possible so as not to be implicated. β
"But......" I hesitated, "these villagers definitely don't know the real Taoist priests, why don't we help solve it?" I remember that when Taoist priests entered the industry, didn't they all swear to Daode Tianzun? It is said that it is to kill demons and save the suffering people. β
Luo Qiaoqiao sneered: "Do you believe that? If people do not do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. Jiang Cheng, if you want to be a good person, go by yourself, I won't accompany you. I can tell you that the big ship can't move because the corpse is holding the boat, you know what it is? It was a corpse that walked straight underwater, dragging the boat with both hands, so the boat could not move. And the big fish, apparently doing what he was told. With your ability, you will be exhausted to deal with a little minion, not to mention the mastermind behind it? β
Her words hit my confidence hard, and I sat on the ground and sighed helplessly: "I just feel a little reluctant to see a few mothers so sad for their children." β
Luo Qiaoqiao stopped talking, she quietly looked at the five crying mothers.
The woman took out the paper money just now, probably because she was afraid that her child was dead, and wanted to burn some paper money to let him go on the road. The other mothers were unwilling to accept this fact and were stunned to let her burn.
I looked at the weeping women and whispered, "Who would want the white-haired to send the black-haired unless everything collapses?" β
"A mountain village man, when he says exclamation, he also says something charming."
Luo Qiaoqiao was lying on the stone, she sighed lightly, and suddenly said: "Go and ask them for the child's birthday, if you are a mother, you can't even remember the child's birthday, then don't blame anyone." β
I looked at Luo Qiaoqiao in surprise: "You want to help?" β
"What the are you talking so much nonsense?" She asked rhetorically.
I touched the back of my head, smiled awkwardly, and then ran up to a couple of middle-aged women and asked them about their children's birthdays.
Several of the women were surprised by my question, and I had to explain that I was a Taoist priest.
There were puzzled expressions on their faces, and in order to prove their identity, I pinched my fingers and said to the woman who took out the paper money just now: "Your parents died early, and the life of the husband and wife is not happy. β
The woman nodded her head and said yes, and several women said it was correct. They hurriedly begged me for help, and told me the child's birth date, and I sincerely said that I may not be able to guarantee that I will find the child, but will do my best. Rao was like this, and these middle-aged women also cried and thanked me again and again.
After taking the birthday eight characters, I returned to Luo Qiaoqiao, she glanced at me, and said indifferently: "I can't see it, you still have research on fortune telling." β
I whispered in Luo Qiaoqiao's ear: "I can't learn fortune-telling at all, it's just that a few of them were fighting just now, I accidentally saw that the woman had a lot of bruises on her body, some of which were still old wounds, and I knew that it must have been beaten by my husband." Everyone in this mountain is fierce, whose parents want to see their daughter beaten so badly, I just guessed casually, and sure enough, her parents had already gone. β
"It's a bit brainy, but you don't have a good ......," Luo Qiaoqiao said softly, "You look for a mirror to look at yourself, Yintang is black, painted with cow tears, and you will find that there is black gas around." It is estimated that because of this idle matter, his life will not be long. β