Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lake God Takes a Wife
There were a few pine trees on a hill, and Lin Feng Qingxue stopped here, and there was a village not far away.
"Senior sister, according to the map, the village we are in now is called Niulan Village. Lin Feng gestured the location on the map in his hand and said.
"Why is there no one in this village?" Qingxue said strangely as she took a few steps forward.
"There is a chimney smoking in the village, there shouldn't be no one, let's go, senior sister go in and have a look." Lin Feng saw that several chimneys were still smoking, and as he spoke, he walked towards the village.
At this time, the two of them had been away from Fengdu for nearly a month, and they had traveled most of the distance from Longyin Mountain, where the spiritual courtyard was located.
"Strange, where have all the people in the village gone?" the two walked side by side in the village, puzzled that the village did not look like it was uninhabited, and there were dried fish and fishing nets hanging in front of the houses, and the air was filled with the smell of fish, but there was no one to be seen.
"There's a voice over there. Qingxue pointed to the back of the village entrance, and at the same time, Lin Feng also heard the small words.
The two of them walked through the village in search of sounds, and after walking a short distance, they could see an ancestral hall, and the sound came from the ancestral hall, at this time the door of the ancestral hall was closed, and the sound inside was a little noisy.
"No, don't, mother, I don't want it!" Suddenly, a girl's frightened cry came from the ancestral hall, and then the door of the ancestral hall was suddenly opened, and a woman in a blue cloth ran out in a panic.
"Quick, catch her!" At the same time, another old man's impatient voice sounded, and he saw several middle-aged people chasing him out of the ancestral hall.
"Ling'er, run!" But at this time, a middle-aged woman blocked the door of the ancestral hall, but then she was pushed to the ground by several middle-aged people.
"Help, help me!" The place where the girl escaped happened to be where Lin Feng and the others came.
Qingxue Lin Feng glanced at each other, and then Qingxue pinched **** in her hand, and a transparent wall of water blocked behind the girl.
"Are you okay!" Lin Feng saw that the girl ran a few steps and fell to the ground, and hurriedly rushed up to help the girl up.
"Help me, I don't want to marry the god of the lake. The girl had tears in her eyes and begged Lin Feng.
"Lake God?" Lin Feng frowned slightly, there were many strange things along the way, but most of them were people pretending to be ghosts, and even if there were a few little ghosts, they were vulnerable in front of Lin Feng and the others.
"Why can't this water hang directly in the air? At this time, several villagers who chased after her, when they rushed behind the girl, they were blocked by the water wall, and they slapped the water wall with their hands!
"This, this must be the anger of the lake god!" As the villagers in the ancestral hall continued to appear, one person suddenly stammered, which immediately terrified the entire village.
"The lake god is angry! The lake god is angry!" An old man knelt down directly on the ground with his hands, and then the villagers also knelt on the ground, constantly shouting that the lake god was angry.
"Don't be afraid, we are disciples of Tianfu, this is just an ordinary spell of Tianfu, I will cancel the spell now. At this time, Qingxue walked in front of the villagers, and with a slight wave of her hand, the water wall disappeared without a trace.
"The village chief is really gone!" The person who rushed to the front before touched his hand and shouted to an old man behind him in surprise, but the girl next to Lin Feng unconsciously moved behind him, and grabbed Lin Feng's clothes with both hands, his arms trembling from fear.
"Tianfu, but the Tianfu of the Dao Tianshan Mountain?" an old man got up and walked up to Qingxue with a strange face, and asked at the same time.
"Exactly, this is the Tianfu token. Qingxue slipped a token out of her cuff and handed it to the old man.
The old man looked at the token, and at the same time, several people whispered in front of the village chief, but these words could be easily heard by Lin Feng and Qingxue.
"Village chief, what should I do now? Seeing that these two Taoist priests seem to have some spells, it will not be easy to do if they interfere!"
"Tomorrow is the day when the lake god marries his wife, and they must be deceived quickly!"
Lin Feng and Qingxue glanced at each other, but at this time, the woman who was blocking the road behind also got up, hurriedly ran to Lin Feng and knelt down directly.
"Two immortals, please save my daughter!" the woman knelt in front of Lin Feng, grabbing the side of Lin Feng's pants with both hands, and pleaded with tears.
"Hurry up, what's going on?" Lin Feng hurriedly picked up the woman.
"They are brutes, bullying our orphan mothers and widows, and drawing lots to send my daughter to death, and I can't live if my daughter dies. The woman turned to the people in the village and cried.
"I said Zhang Lan, what you said, in the past hundred years, the wife of the lake god has been selected according to the lottery, and this time it is also the will of the lake god to draw your daughter, and you should feel honored to be chosen by the lake god. One of them said indignantly.
"Then why don't you marry your daughter to the lake god!" Zhang Lan said angrily.
"This... Isn't this the Lake God who didn't choose my family?" the man retorted in a low voice.
"Don't say any more, the two Daoists still don't meddle in our village's affairs!" the village chief pondered for a moment, handed the token to Qingxue, and interrupted.
"Village Chief, can you tell us what's going on? If it really gets in your way, we won't interfere. Qingxue asked rhetorically after putting the token away.
As soon as Qingxue asked, the village suddenly quieted down, as did the mother and daughter beside Lin Feng.
"This kind of thing, which happens every three years, has been going on for hundreds of years, and you are not from the village, so you naturally don't know it. The village chief spoke for a long time, and then sighed, "Niulan Village used to be a big village within a radius of dozens of miles, but since the lake god asked to marry a wife, the people in the village who are a little more economic have moved to other villages, and the rest can only rely on the lake god to survive, which is also a helpless thing!"
"Lake God, what the hell is going on?" Lin Feng asked.
"The god of the lake is the god of Niulan Lake, the magic power is boundless, and he can call the wind and rain! A young child on the side of the village chief said first, and then a person next to him covered his mouth and didn't let him say more.
"There is indeed a lake not far from this village. Qingxue took out the map and glanced at it, and said to Lin Feng.
"That's right, that's Niulan Lake!" the village chief continued, "Our whole village has relied on this Niulan Lake for fishing for generations, which is also a blessing from the lake god, and Niulan Lake is very safe for the villagers to go into the water because of the existence of the lake god, and the lake god often shows up to save some drowning villagers, but the lake god requires a wife to be married once every three years, and the lottery is also set by the lake god, so this kind of thing is not a bad thing in the village, and I hope that the two Taoists will not interfere in the affairs of our village." ”
"Marry a wife once in three years?" Lin Feng and Qingxue frowned at the same time.
"Liar, that lake god is an ugly monster, I've seen it with my own eyes, I don't want to marry the lake god, don't!" Ling'er grabbed Lin Feng's clothes and cried constantly.
"Senior sister, what do you think?" Lin Feng signaled to Ling'er not to be afraid, turned his head and asked Xiang Qingxue in a low voice.
"It should be similar to the situation in the North Depression Jungle. Qingxue replied.
Half a month ago, when Lin Feng and Qingxue were passing through the Beiwa jungle, they had recovered a tree demon for the local villagers, and the local villagers also called the tree demon by the mountain god, and the situation was somewhat the same as at this time.