"What a water bead, the demon pill of the water demon." Nan Jinyi stuffed the bead into the cat demon's hand.

The cat demon swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart that the demon pill of this water demon is too beautiful, unlike the inner pill of their cat demon, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a cat stone.

Liu Hanshan has a dossier in his hand, which records the customs and customs of Dongze Township, and the most striking of them are the two local customs.

The first is when the dragon king marries the bride.

Whenever there is a drought in Dongze Township, the villagers will select a local woman who is to be married and has good looks, put on a new wedding dress, and put it on a canoe and go down the river. These chosen brides are actually sacrifices, and once chosen, there is only one way to die.

According to the dossier, the last time the dragon king married a bride was 20 years ago, and since then, the wind and rain have been smooth in Dongze Township, and the villagers naturally do not need to sacrifice to the dragon king.

The second is the son of the river god.

As long as there is a river, there are more or less records of the river god, but in most records, the river god is a man, only the river god of Dongze Township is a woman, and it is a dark old lady.

This river god doesn't care about the livelihood of river transportation, and is in charge of other people's children, which is also new enough.

Seeing that Liu Hanshan couldn't help shaking his head, Qin Ye, who was driving the car, stepped back, looked at the file in his hand and said, "I have inquired about all the things recorded above. ”

"Tell me about it!" Liu Hanshan closed the file in his hand.

The custom of marrying a bride for the dragon king in Dongze Township has been around for a long time, and there are hundreds of brides in this sinking river alone, but because of the age, there is no way to verify who the bride is. But the bride who sank into the river twenty years ago is still remembered, and this bride climbed up from the river!

"Climbed up?" Liu Hanshan frowned: "How did she climb up?" ”

"Don't worry, listen to me." Qin Ye waved his hand and slowed down the speed of driving.

Twenty years ago, in the summer of Dongze Township, there was not a drop of rain, and the summer-sown crops withered in the continuous drought. This drought will be followed by a locust plague, and at the turn of summer and autumn this year, locusts that cover the sky and the sun swept the entire Dongze Township. Wherever the locusts passed, the seedlings in the fields were swept away. Seeing that God still refused to rain, Li Zheng panicked, and convened a meeting of the village chiefs to discuss the sacrifice of the bride to the dragon king.

Everyone has no objection to this sacrifice to the dragon king, the question is who is willing to take the girl out as a sacrifice?

The person who did not have a girl in the family was the first to stand up, saying that this matter is not a question of whether he is willing or not, but a question of who is blessed.

The second girl in the family who was ugly stood up and said that to marry the dragon king, you have to choose the best looking girl, if she is too ugly and angers the dragon king, it will be even worse.

The wealthy people in this family stood up for the third time, saying that to marry the dragon king, you have to choose the kind of sensible and good-tempered one, and you can't choose the kind of pampered one, in case you get to the dragon king, wouldn't you offend the dragon king.

This selection came and went, and Li Shuixian, the only daughter of the old Li family, was chosen.

First, this Li Narcissus is indeed born beautifully, as his name suggests.

Second, the Li family is a single family, and they are neither related to other families in the village, nor do they have a reason.

Third, this old Li Tou lost his wife in his early years and had a strange temperament, and those in the village who were worried about Li Shuixian were scolded by him. With the mentality that I can't get it, you don't want to get it, everyone thinks that it is the best to dedicate Li Shuixian to the Dragon King.

Seeing that everyone recognized Li Shuixian, Li Zheng no longer tossed, directly agreed to this candidate, and sent someone to send the bride's wedding dress to Li's house overnight. Lao Li Tou learned that his daughter had become the sacrifice of the Dragon King, and he took a kitchen knife and killed the village chief's house.

This person's evidence and material evidence are all there, and the county magistrate has no choice, so he directly asked Lao Li Tou to be locked in.

Without Lao Li Tou to rely on, this Li Shuixian has become meat on the board.

On the day of the sacrifice, Li Shuixian did not cry like other brides, but was shy and timid like a real bride. When everyone saw her cooperating, they thought that her old father who cared about her accepted her fate, so they didn't embarrass her anymore.

The boats used for the wedding in Dongze Township are all paper boats, and in order to prevent the bride from escaping when she falls into the water, she will be tied up before boarding the boat. But the village chief was too confident, he thought that with the old Li Tou in hand, Li Shuixian would definitely obey. Before sending Li Shuixian on the boat, he just symbolically gave a few words of advice and pushed the person up.

Li Shuixian did not struggle, and after getting on the boat, he sat down obediently and let the paper boat go down the water.

When the paper boat was first launched, it was guarded by villagers, who would follow the paper boat until it sank, and then returned. This time it was the same, they saw that the paper boat sank, and then returned by boat, but what they didn't know was that Li Shuixian's father, Lao Li Tou, was a corpse digger, and it was after his wife died that he brought Li Shuixian to this village.

Lao Li Tou had no other skills, and after hearing that Dongze Township had the vice of sacrificing brides, he began to train Li Shuixian's water nature. This girl can be said to have grown up in the water, and the river outside Dongze Township is the place she is most familiar with. After confirming that the villagers were gone, she followed the undercurrent to the lower reaches of the river, picked up a sparsely populated spot, and climbed up from it.

In case the villagers found her, she took off her bridal dress, wrapped it in a stone and threw it into the water, and then walked towards the county seat.

"Then how did Li Shuixian's landing be known?"

"This is another case." Qin Ye said: "My lord has looked through the files of Anping County, but do you still remember how the county magistrate died twenty years ago? ”

"Are you talking about that Xue County Order?"

"Isn't it strange that a small county magistrate was killed for the crime of collaborating with the enemy?" Qin Ye said: "Our Anping County, although it is on the border, it is not an important town, why do the generals of those enemy countries want to buy a small county order, and this county order is still a foolish county order with no foundation, what good is it for you to buy him?" ”

"What do you mean—"

Although Liu Hanshan has looked through the file, there is very little record of this matter in the file. The Liu family has been in business for generations, although they have some interests with the imperial court, but in order to avoid suspicion, the ancestor has never been involved in court politics, and he knows very little about these things in the court, and only vaguely remembers that a general was mentioned in the dossier.

"That general's surname is Cheng, the word Huai'en, born in a reckless manner, relying on an ancestral iron knife to expand the territory." Qin Ye said: "He used to be the most important general of the previous emperor, if it weren't for his wife, I am afraid that he would still be sitting firmly in the position of a general until now." ”

"Who is that lady of his?"

"Li Shuixian is the Li Shuixian who was sunk by those villagers in Dongze Township."