"Idiot, you don't remember what Miss Nan just said." The cat demon grabbed a fish bone and threw it towards Liu Hanshan: "Miss Nan said that the Dragon King was forced to marry a wife. ”

Nan Jinyi nodded: "The so-called dragon king marrying a wife is just doing shady things in the name of the dragon king. ”

The first girl to be sacrificed to the Dragon King was called Maizi, a person from Chenjiazhai in Dongze Township.

This Chenjiazhai was later incorporated into Dongze Township, and it is also the farthest village from the river bank in the entire Dongze Township. The people of the village make a living by farming, living a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

Maizi is a well-known diligent girl in Chenjiazhai, just over fifteen, someone came to the door to propose. Maizi looked through the crack in the door, and the person who came to propose marriage was not the one she liked.

At the age of sixteen, Maizi finally waited for her sweetheart. The happy word was bought, the red candle was bought, and even the wedding dress and wheat had to be sewn. Seeing that the day of marriage is getting closer and closer, Maizi's sweetheart has been dragged to serve as a soldier.

After another half a year, someone sent a message to Maizi, saying that her sweetheart had died on the battlefield and asked Maizi not to wait for him any longer. When the news spread, the people who came to Maizi's house to propose relatives broke through the threshold again, including the village chief of Chenjiazhai.

For the wheat, he is bound to get it, in order to marry the wheat into the door, he divorced the wives who have been with each other for many years. Maizi was unwilling, and would rather hold the tablet of his sweetheart to marry a ghost husband than marry the village chief. The village chief was annoyed and angry, but he couldn't do anything about the stubborn wheat.

After the beginning of autumn that year, the first drop of rain did not fall in the village, and some people proposed to dig a well in the village and use the well water for irrigation, some people proposed to ask the heavens for rain, and a story of worshipping the river god was told. The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional, and the village chief found Maizi and asked her if she would marry himself or marry the dragon lord.

Maizi picked up a broom and drove the village chief out directly, saying that she would rather marry the dragon lord than marry the old bastard of the village chief. The village chief touched his beard and found Li Zheng overnight, saying that the wheat in their village was willing to marry the dragon prince to ask for rain for the entire Dongze Township.

In this way, Maizi was forcibly pushed onto a paper boat and became the first victim of the dragon king's marriage.

"Maizi is so pitiful, why didn't Long Qi save her?" The cat demon asked, throwing stones into the river.

"I wasn't there when the wheat sank into the river." Long Qi came out of the water, "Although I am staying in the river, I am not staying on the boundary of Dongze Township all year round. Occasionally, I would go out for a walk. Also, you have seen in this river, every year there are countless boats, fishing, and swimming, and if you don't leave a little left, there will be drowning, just eating those unjust souls is enough for me to be busy, where do I still have the mood to care about anything else. ”

"Liar!" The cat demon turned back into the appearance of a little girl, and pointed at Long Qi with his finger: "Miss Nan just said, this wheat is what you told her." ”

"I told Miss Nan." Long Qi touched his head: "But what I know is also what Maizi told me, and she told me when I was eating her." She begged me to let her go, saying that she was going to wait for someone, for his sweetheart. ”

"Did she wait?" The cat demon asked curiously.

"Nope!" Long Qi shook his head: "That village chief lied to her, and her sweetheart didn't die in battle at all." Because of his good cooking skills, he was arranged by the general to be a husband, and he didn't go to the battlefield to fight at all. Later, when the general was victorious, her sweetheart came back to look for her, and learned that she had been sacrificed to the dragon king, and followed the general without even coming to the river. Later, he married a maid in the General's Mansion and gave birth to a well-behaved and intelligent son. He was seventy years old and buried in a cemetery on the outskirts of the capital. ”

"Does Maizi know?"

"You should know." Long Qi looked at the riverbank: "These things are all said by those who wash clothes. When the wheat was there, it floated on the bank of the river all day long, and I heard it, so how could she not hear it? ”

"Is she still there?"

"It's gone, she's a lonely ghost, and she doesn't want to find a stand-in, so she floats and floats, and her soul is gone."

"I thought she was the river god grandmother in this river." The cat demon said, pointing to another temple on the riverbank: "You are neighbors with the river god grandmother, you should know who she is, right?" ”

"I'm the only one in the river!" Long Qi said: "The so-called river god grandmother is actually a human tooth. ”

Long Qi said, touching his stomach: "She was found when she was running away, and in order to avoid the pursuit of the villagers, she lied that she was the river god Niangniang, and she came to send children to the villagers." It just so happened that there was a family in the village who couldn't give birth, so she gave the child she had stolen to that person. In order to convince the villagers that she was the real river god, she jumped into the river with a "plop" in front of everyone. ”

"And then?" The cat demon asked with a wink.

"She saw me." Long Qi pointed to himself: "I really don't blame me for this, I just watched the excitement on the riverbank and came to take a look." Who would have thought that in the middle of the night, someone would jump down from the riverbank, and by chance, they just jumped in front of me. I was afraid of scaring her, so I left. By the time I saw her again, she had become a lonely ghost floating on the riverbank, trying to do something to a child. ’

"You ate her?"

"Eat!" Long Qi patted his stomach: "She's the most unpalatable one I've ever tasted." ”

"How did she die?" As the county magistrate, Liu Hanshan was more concerned about the cause of that person's death: "Shouldn't you be scared to death?" ”

"I wasn't scared to death." Long Qi touched his face: "She is a thief, when she stole people's children, she stole other people's ornaments." The gilded, dead and sinking, directly fell her into the water. ”

The ornament that Long Qi said, the cat demon and Liu Hanshan have seen it, and where they fell into the water, they were used as a hiding house by those small fish and shrimp.

The dragon king is not the real dragon king, and the river god is not the real river god, and the cat demon who learned the truth just wants to meow twice to the sky.

The Dragon King's marriage has been explained clearly, and they all know the secrets hidden behind the river god, and there is only one mystery left that has not yet been revealed, that is, the secret of Qin Xiaodie and Jade Butterfly.

It's also strange to say that Long Qi remembered all the brides who sacrificed, but he didn't remember this Qin Xiaodie, but he told Nan Jinyi a secret, these dozen brides were different from the previous brides, they didn't drown after falling into the water, but died before they fell into the water. Also, none of these dead brides have any souls.

"Are you sure?" Nan Jinyi pinched the jade butterfly in his hand.

"Sure!" Long Qi smiled bitterly: "I have eaten these things for nearly six hundred years, even if my eyes are wrong, my nose will not be wrong. The girl is a tall man, and she can also see the unusual surface of the river. This river is already a dead river. ”

"Something to do with those brides who wear jade butterflies?"

"I don't know." Long Qi shook his head: "The girl asked these questions, and Long Qi had no way to answer." ”