The old fisherman took Shu Yueji and Mu Hanyun around Zuimeng Lake for a day, but he didn't see any monsters.

Shu Yuechen was a little depressed, she thought to herself: It would be good if Han Sheng of the Xianxia Sect was here, he would definitely be able to figure out where the monster was.

The Drunken Dream Lake is too big, according to the old fisherman, if you want to visit the whole Drunken Dream Lake, it will take half a month.

Mu Hanyun didn't have any worries, chatted very happily with the old fisherman, and also tasted the specialty of Zuimeng Lake, the small whitebait, and praised it as a delicacy that he had never seen in his life.

The old fisherman was reluctant to spend the night in Zuimeng Lake, so he rowed a small fishing boat to a ferry.

There were seven or eight unmanned fishing boats tied to the ferry, and behind the ferry was a village, and at sunset there was a puff of smoke rising from the village, and it was clear that the people of the village had not fled.

The old fisherman was in a hurry to go home, and wanted to invite the two distinguished guests of the county order to return to the county seat and go to Zuimeng Lake tomorrow.

Mu Hanyun took the old fisherman's hand and said, "Uncle Tang, why do you want us to leave, we want you to stay in Tangjiazhuang for one night." ”

Uncle Tang glared and said, "You are all distinguished guests, and our small family can't afford to entertain them." ”

Mu Hanyun said with a smile: "Uncle Tang, you are out of sight, we hit it off on the boat, although we haven't known each other for a long time, I have already regarded you as a New Year's friend." Why don't you let us stay overnight? ”

The old fisherman's surname is Tang, with a single name, and his name and life experience were previously set out by Mu Hanyun on the boat.

He lived in Tangjiazhuang all his life, fished for a living, and did not marry a wife, but had a nephew in the village.

Tang De was pulled by Mu Hanyun, and had no choice but to lead Shu Yueji and Mu Hanyun back to the small courtyard where he lived.

He hurriedly cleaned two rooms for two to live in.

Shu Yuechen looked at the rat in the corner and the cobwebs on the roof. She had never lived in such a rotten room in her entire life.

She asked Mu Hanyun, "Senior brother, why do you have to live in the old fisherman's house?" ”

Mu Hanyun said: "Senior sister, don't you think it's strange? Chang Youwei said that the villagers in other villages were afraid of the monsters and fled, why did the people in Tangjiazhuang not be afraid of the monsters and stay in the village. ”

Shu Yuechen asked, "Maybe it's because it's hard to leave the homeland?" ”

Mu Hanyun said with a smile: "It may also be that the people of Tangjiazhuang have something to rely on and feel that the water demon will not harm themselves." ”

"You suspect that the water demon and the people of Tangjiazhuang are colluding with each other, so what are we waiting for, immediately arrest the people of Tangjiazhuang for interrogation."

"Senior sister, don't be in a hurry, let me investigate carefully."

After the old fisherman Tang De waited for the two guests to turn off the lights and go to bed, he went out lightly. He didn't notice that Mu Hanyun and Shu Yueji were following him.

The old fisherman went to the house of Witch Zhang in the village.

He brought with him the bounty given to him by the prefectural order.

He handed the cloth bag containing the bounty to Witch Zhang.

"Witch Zhang, I handed over all the money to you, you can't let my nephew go as a human sacrifice."

Witch Zhang poured out the money in the cloth bag, counted them carefully one by one, and smiled.

"Okay, this money is enough, I will ask the village chief to find someone else as a human sacrifice."

The old fisherman Tang De sat on the threshold, a little worried: "Witch Zhang, if we sacrifice human sacrifice, the adult in the lake will not harm us?" ”

Witch Zhang smiled: "Naturally. It has been 300 years since we built a village in Tangjiazhuang by Zuimeng Lake, and our spirit witches have been passed down from generation to generation, how to serve the lord in the lake. She is very talkative, as long as our village can provide human sacrifices in time, that adult will not harm us, and we don't have to abandon everything to flee like other villages. ”

At this time, someone said: "Witch Zhang, do you know that sacrificing monsters without permission is a capital crime?" ”

Witch Zhang and Tang De were both frightened and stood up.

Mu Hanyun and Shu Yueji walked in, and the sentence just now was asked by Mu Hanyun.

Tang De glared and asked, "You guys didn't sleep!" ”

Mu Hanyun said with a smile: "Don't dare to sleep, your Tangjiazhuang actually colluded with the water demon, this has to be told to Chang County, and your consequences are very bad." ”

Tang De had a stubborn temperament and said angrily: "You monks who come and go can't get rid of the water demon, so what should we do if we ordinary people who have lived in Zuimeng Lake for generations?" ”

Witch Zhang was so frightened that she grabbed Tang De: "Old man Tang, if you don't say a word, you don't want to die, the rest of the people in the village still want to die!" ”

Tang De gasped, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, he didn't dare to speak anymore, he also had a nephew in the village.

Shu Yueji and Mu Hanyun were not angry, and Mu Hanyun told Witch Zhang: "Witch Zhang, if you truthfully explain the details of the water demon in the lake, we will not report to Chang County Decree about your private sacrifice to the monster." We only want to get rid of the demons, but we don't want to mind the idle affairs of your village. ”

Witch Zhang hurriedly said, "Okay! ”

According to Witch Zhang, three hundred years ago, there was no one living around Zuimeng Lake, and it was the world of water demons.

Later, there was a war in the north, and a group of refugees went south, passing by Zuimeng Lake, seeing that Zuimeng Lake was rich and wanted to live here.

Among the refugees is a spirit witch who can dance and talk to the gods and monsters.

The water demons of the Drunken Dream Lake promised them that they could live here, and the price was that they would hold a human sacrifice every year and find ten people to be eaten by the water demons.

The group agreed, and they settled around Lake Drunken Dreams.

About two hundred years ago, a sword fairy passed by the Drunken Dream Lake, saw the water demon in the lake cannibalism, and was furious, and killed all the water demons in the lake.

Since then, Zuimeng Lake has become a human territory, and later with the multiplication of the population and the establishment of county towns, the water demons in the lake have gradually been forgotten.

It's just that at the beginning of this summer, a water demon suddenly appeared in Zuimeng Lake, and the water demon killed a lot of fishermen in Zuimeng Lake, and also killed a lot of monks invited by the county order to eliminate demons.

Tangjiazhuang was unwilling to leave his hometown and fled again.

The villagers asked Witch Zhang to communicate with the water demon in the lake, and the water demon in the lake promised the villagers of Tangjiazhuang that as long as they fulfilled the promise of their ancestors, offered human sacrifices to the water demon in the lake, and helped the water demon find a person named "Xiaoba", they would be allowed to continue living by the lake of drunken dreams.

After listening to the story, Shu Yuechen asked, "You mean Sword Immortal?" ”

Witch Zhang said: "Our spirit witch also has a heritage, and the one who killed the water demon in the lake was the sword immortal of the Xuantian Sword Sect, and the water demon in the lake asked us to find the "little eight", and finally followed the sword fairy out of the Drunken Dream Lake. ”

Shu Yuechen and Mu Hanyun glanced at each other, and asked in unison, "Xuantian Sword Sect?" ”

Witch Zhang said: "The inheritance of our spirit witch is special, and the seniors can pass on some important memories to the younger disciples, that is, the sword immortals of the Xuantian Sword Sect except for the water demons in the lake. ”

Shu Yuechen and Mu Hanyun didn't expect that the water demon in this lake was actually involved in the ancestors of the Xuantian Sword Sect.

The "Little Eight" taken away by the Xuantian Sword Sect's predecessor Sword Immortal may also become a disciple of the Xuantian Sword Sect.

(End of chapter)