Chapter Forty-Six: Sacrifice to the River God?
Sacrifice, pay?
Hearing that he wanted to pay money, Liang Qu frowned subconsciously.
In the old days, due to the backwardness of production tools, the fishermen's personal safety on the water was greatly threatened by storms, so the legendary gods of the sea were worshiped as the gods of life protection and the blessing of good harvests.
The frequency is very high, twice a year, once in the spring, and once in June.
If it's like last night, it's going to be one.
But you have to tell me the money......
Liang Qu can be sure that the river god in Uncle Li's mouth is the big demon he saw last night, but for ordinary people, there is no difference, they are all powerful creatures that cannot be fought against by manpower.
He was not very reluctant in his heart, but there was no way, he didn't pay for the sacrifice to the river god, and people like Leper Zhang didn't dare to do such a thing.
"Uncle Li, how much is it going to be?"
Li Dakang thought for a while: "I haven't heard of a dead person this time, and there is a middle-aged man in the family who will pay about 100 yuan, right?" In previous years, this number was basically the same, and it was more solemn on June 6, and it would be more. ”
It's not too much, Liang Qu breathed a sigh of relief, there were three taels of silver left from Master Yang last time, which was more than enough.
It's just that the ship still has to come out.
There are "many" stays on the shore, but not all, there are many people on the port who don't care about being eaten by the so-called river god in order to make a living.
In the face of Li Dakang's kindness, Liang Qu apologized.
"Eh, you kid, why don't you listen to persuasion, what will happen two days later?"
"Uncle Li, I'm afraid you don't know, Brother Shui went out to fish last night when it rained heavily, didn't he come back smoothly? I'm afraid I haven't seen what the big demon looks like. Lin Songbao walked over from the side and shouted at the top of his voice.
"Songbao? What nonsense, it's the river god, the river god! ”
Some fishermen were anxious, and they were about to cover Lin Songbao's mouth when they came up, but Lin Songbao ran away in a flash, and he didn't cover it at all.
"Aren't they all the same, last year I saw that big wide fish, taller than the building boat, and bigger, you also say that it is the river god, and last year, the pirana, a tooth bigger than a person, can't hold it.
Every year, from birth to now, I haven't seen the same, I wonder how there are so many river gods in a river, all of them are river gods who can't fight, isn't it a big demon? ”
Li Dakang thumped his chest: "No awe, no awe!" ”
Chen Cheng on the side reacted and hurriedly asked, "Ah Shui, did you go fishing last night?" ”
"yes."
Liang Qu didn't shy away from it, and it wasn't a big deal, there must have been a lot of people who saw the big demon, otherwise it wouldn't have been known to everyone now.
"I was quite close last night, and the 'river god' fell into the water with such a big wave, if I hadn't caught it steadily, the boat would have capsized, and then I hurried back and didn't catch a single fish."
Li Dakang said fearfully: "It's too dangerous, it's really too dangerous, fortunately you're far away, isn't it going to be eaten if it's close?" ”
Lin Songbao laughed: "It's so exaggerated, how big the talent is, how big the big demon is, eating a person is like eating a grain of rice, I'm tired of opening my mouth so big." ”
Li Dakang listened very uncomfortable: "You kid, how can you speak?" ”
Lin Songbao plucked out his ears, pretended not to hear, and stepped forward to lean against Liang Qu: "Brother Shui, I've been waiting for you for a long time, if it weren't for your sampan on the port, I would have wanted to go to your house to find you." ”
Brother Shui?
Liang Qu was a little surprised.
Lin Songbao has never called him that, even if he sells fish that day and says that he will make it up in the future, he is also called Ah Shui, after all, Lin Songbao is older than him.
"So you've been waiting for me? Something? ”
"Hehe, come and ask if you have time lately, my dad wants to treat you to dinner, how is it? He said that the time and place are all for you to choose. ”
"Did you hear something?"
"I don't know." Lin Songbao scratched his head, "My father didn't tell me, he said that I have a big mouth and can't hide things, and he won't let me know the news if you don't tell me, but he told me that you have a great future in Pingyang Town, and I want to call you Brother Shui when I meet." ”
Liang Qu was thoughtful.
Yixing City and Pingyang Town are very close to each other, but in the end they are separated by more than ten miles, and the incident happened very closed that night, only the apprentices of the martial arts hall are known, and most of the apprentices are staying, and it will take a while for things to ferment.
Lin Di, the head of the fishing pen, obviously has his own news channels.
Lin Songbao urged: "How about it, okay or not, give me a word, I'll go back and tell my father." ”
"Then tomorrow night, the place is arbitrary, just come and tell me."
Liang Qu didn't refuse, he missed his awning boat a little, maybe this was an opportunity.
The sampan is too small, there is no roof, and when it rains, the cabin is full of water, so it is not as good as the canopy boat.
"Good!"
"Then I'm out on the boat."
"I'll come to you tomorrow morning."
"Hmm."
The surface of the river is calm, and the river reflects the brilliance of the stars and the moon.
The oars stirred the surface of the lake, and the water rattled.
Bang, bang, bang.
The oars hit the water, and a dull sound was heard far along the waves.
The surface of the water rippled, unable to move and surfaced, and the scales glowed with a cold and hard blue light, which reflected the sparkling moonlight.
After not seeing each other for a day, the immobile body grew again, reaching an exaggerated level of nearly three meters, and wandering by the side of the boat was enough to make any Jianghuai fisherman daunted, and ordinary people would not believe that it was a Taihua crocodile at all.
However, at this time, he couldn't move and floated calmly on the water, with a small crab monster that struck Shuangao.
The crab monster spit bubbles, the jade-white shell is much harder, the color begins to bluish slightly, and the sound of tapping is becoming more and more metallic, the size is much bigger, it used to be the size of a fist, and now it is bigger than a fist.
After seeing the real demon last night, Liang Qu knew that the crab monster was just the existence at the bottom of the spirit ecological chain.
Its young are bound to grow rapidly, especially with adequate nutrient supply, otherwise it is difficult to survive in the highly competitive deep waters.
Perhaps the mother of the Fist came to the shallow water to try to lay eggs and hatch her cubs in a safer place.
At the current rate of growth, it will take less than two months for Riot to come in handy, and it is no longer a headless pendant.
It's also interesting to say, thanks to the inability to move the scales on the body, which makes it very easy for the fist to fix the body, and the two are almost inseparable.
On the other hand, the green back of the fat catfish is too smooth and cannot stand on its feet at all.
Crash.
Cao Cao Cao said that Cao Cao arrived, the fat catfish surfaced, and the water flowed down its smooth cyan back into the lake, and it raised its head, spit out a water arrow into its fist, and knocked its fist into the water.
Seeing that his plan succeeded, Ah Fei turned over, revealing his white belly, as if he was "laughing", and his long beard kept trembling.
The fist that fell into the water swam like a lobster, curled up its lower body, and swooped to the edge of Ah Fei's mouth, and was a clamp on its long whiskers.
Ah Fei's catfish whiskers are meat whiskers, and they suddenly feel pain and are thrown in the water.
It was already huge and exceeded the three-meter mark, and came to three meters three, with thick muscles hidden under its thick skin, and its explosive power made it dare to be provoked in the water.
At this moment, he shook himself up, like a water dragon, which was very amazing, and the water splashed over.
Only if you can't move like an old monk in your mind, you won't be moved by the side.
Seeing that the two beasts were getting bigger and bigger, and the cabin was full of water, Liang Qu immediately stopped drinking, and the two beasts stopped fighting.
"Ah Fei, help me catch fish, try to catch as many expensive ones as possible, carp, yellow croaker, you know?"
Ah Fei shook his long beard to show that he knew.
The growth of the two beasts has brought higher intelligence, and now they can not only recognize the treasure fish with "abnormal appearances", but also some expensive fish species.
As a disciple of Master Yang, Liang Qu took a boat trip and caught a fish of 300 Wen, isn't it too much?