Two days later.

Something bad happened.

Whoa!

It's raining heavily!

The cold ice rain slapped indiscriminately on the face.

It rained all the time.

After a little while, it turned to sleet again, and it did not stop until the second half of the night.

By the next day.

It's a big trouble, the road is muddy, and the road condition is worrying.

When a person's foot stepped on it, one foot was deep and the other was shallow, and the soles of his feet were covered with mud, and he couldn't shake it off.

Not to mention the heavy carriage full of grain, the wheels of the cart were more than three inches deep in the mud, the cattle and horses were pulling in front, and the people were pushing hard in the back, and the people, horses and cattle were tired enough.

The long queue of escorts, who couldn't go fast, suddenly became as slow as a turtle, almost moving forward little by little.

Fortunately, this kind of thing is not a sudden situation, the escort workers have already had countless experiences, and if they go slowly, they will go slowly, and they will just walk slowly.

Seeing this situation, Dian Wei's heart was churning for a while, what cement roads, asphalt roads, and viaducts appeared in his mind.

Then he found out that he actually didn't know how to build roads at all, and he was not a professional in his previous life.

If you want to repair cement concrete pavement, you have to have cement first, but how to do cement? It looks like limestone and clay were burned, but how did it come from?

It's all unclear!

Suppressing these miscellaneous thoughts, Dian Wei got off the horse to help push the cart, he has great strength, and he claims to be able to move mountains, but it is not a waste of fame.

When encountering a carriage in the pit, more than a dozen escort workers couldn't push it with all their strength, and he could move the whole car out alone.

After such a difficult march, everyone suffered for two days, and most of them were so tired that they wanted to die.

However, after that, the road was unobstructed, and the small goal of walking 100 miles was easily achieved every day.

this day.

In the distance, Dian Wei faintly heard the sound of gongs and drums, and looked up, the trees on both sides of the road were tall, and the pines and cypresses were verdant, and he couldn't find where it came for a while.

"Oh, it's smoulned, it's almost 'Mirror Lake'."

Old man Zheng pointed to the front and said, "If you walk a little further, you should be able to see a fork." ”

After a while, sure enough, a fork in the road ahead.

The escort long queue turned a corner.

Suddenly, a huge lake came into view!

The lake is like a mirror, the sky and the water are the same color, and the vastness is boundless.

Under the sunlight, the lake is quiet, bright, turquoise and turquoise, like a flawless jade.

A gust of wind blows, microwaves appear, ripples in a circle, at this time, the surface of the lake, like a wrinkled satin, the sun shines, sparkling, full of broken gold.

Old man Zheng said with a smile: "Look, this is Mirror Lake, a magnificent scene in the world, beautiful." ”

"It's a nice view."

Dian Wei nodded.

Meanwhile.

The beating of gongs and drums became louder.

Dian Wei glanced at it, and happened to see a group of people walking towards a long causeway leading to the lake, these people were dressed in colorful clothes, like dancing gods.

A wooden bed was carried in the crowd.

Above the bed, it is filled with colorful flowers.

In the midst of the flowers, sat two children, a man and a woman, undressed.

Dian Wei looked inexplicable: "What are they doing?" ”

Old man Zheng was silent for a while, "What else can you do, sacrifice." ”

Dian Wei raised his eyebrows: "Sacrifice? ”

Old man Zheng looked at the vast lake and sighed: "There is a banshee living in this mirror lake, and the towns and villages around the mirror lake must sacrifice to the banshee once a year, and the tribute must be a living person, as little as a pair of golden boys and girls, and as many as ten young men or women. ”

Dian Wei chuckled in his heart when he heard this: "Such a scourge, why didn't anyone get rid of her?" ”

Old man Zheng fell silent, and only after a while did he explain depressedly:

"It can't be said that this banshee is a scourge, this mirror lake has a fertile water and can support millions of people, but the lake is inhabited by a vicious beast called 'Yaksha', which is extremely fecund, and there will inevitably be a beast tide every once in a while.

The 'Yaksha' can run to the shore, like a locust, and eat nothing, and wherever it passes, there is no grass growing, and people and animals will be killed, and the harm is simply endless.

It wasn't until a certain female warrior got out of control that she turned into a demon and entered the mirror lake, fed on the Yakshas, and became the natural enemies of the Yakshas, that the Yaksha was suppressed, and there was no harm from the beast tide.

But the banshee must eat people to be rational, or one day she will become a monster that is even more terrifying and harmful than Yaksha.

As a result, the Shangyang family reached an agreement with the banshee, ordering that anyone who lived around the mirror lake must sacrifice to the banshee once a year, and over time, a fixed custom has been formed. ”

Dian Wei was speechless for a long time.

Old man Zheng pointed to the people who danced the great god, shook his head and sighed: "Look at those people, singing and dancing, how happy they are, because the Mirror Lake Banshee is like a god in their eyes, respectable and terrifying." They and the Banshee of Mirror Lake have been tightly bound together, forming an interdependent relationship, and neither can do without the other. ”

Dian Wei has nothing to say about this, what can he say.

In scientific terms, this is ecological balance, interdependence, and everyone is on this food chain.

At this time, the team of jumping gods came to the end of the causeway.

Dian Wei watched as a group of people thumped gongs and drums, and in the midst of enthusiastic calls, pushed the planks full of flowers into the lake.

Pity the two children on the bed, still not aware of the impending death, and think it is fun to dance there hand and foot.

The plank bed drifted a little bit.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves galloped over, and Song Jincheng, who was in charge of the palace, caught up, looked at the sacrifice scene with interest, and said in surprise: "Is this the sacrifice of Mirror Lake?" It's the first time I've seen someone in Song. ”

Old man Zheng tilted his head and said, "You have also escorted grain before, haven't you seen it?" ”

Song Jincheng: "No, we are all passing by, how can it be so coincidental." ”

Old man Zheng thought about it, suddenly!

There was a bang, and a behemoth burst out of the water.

Dian Wei's pupils shrank, and he couldn't help but hold his breath.

I saw that a tall figure was revealed in the waves of white flowers, the upper body was a woman without clothes, and the lower body was underwater, which seemed to be a serpentine silhouette.

Some parts of the banshee's body, such as the chest, were as smooth as a mirror, and some places were covered with a layer of blue-blue scales.

Her hair is like kelp, her eyes are blue, and her facial features are incomparably marked, giving people a stunning feeling.

"Mirror Lake Banshee, I'm still seeing it for the first time." Song Jincheng took a deep breath and lowered his voice.

Old man Zheng was expressionless, and there was coldness in his eyes.

Dian Wei thought of something, withdrew his gaze, and glanced at Old Man Zheng.

Presumably, at this moment, Old Man Zheng thought of his child, the child who was eaten by demons, and in this situation, the taste in his heart must be mixed, and it is difficult for others to understand.

On the causeway, as soon as the group of people who danced the gods saw the Mirror Lake Banshee, they all prostrated on the ground and kowtowed again and again.

The next moment!

The Mirror Lake Banshee raised her hand and grabbed the plank bed, pinched the two children who were already scared, and put them in her mouth like candy.

Dian Wei couldn't bear to look at it directly.

The Mirror Lake Banshee swallowed the two children, and suddenly looked up at Dian Wei's side, and found the escort dragon.

The next moment, she suddenly swam over.

"This ......"

Old man Zheng's face changed drastically.

Song Jincheng was also startled and nervous.

Seeing this, Dian Wei's first reaction was to pull the reins, clamp the horse's belly between his legs, and prepare to slip away.