Chapter 229: Descending the Yellow River
Mo Xuan immediately waved his hand and refused, "I'm afraid of water, so don't get on the boat......"
"Hehe, that's it......" Jin Carp smiled faintly, "Friends around you, whoever wants to go up and take a look can also do it." ”
"I'll go, I'll go, I've never been on a boat yet!"
Mo Xuan grabbed the wind, turned his head and said, "The city lord still has something to do, let's wait for the sacrificial ceremony to end, and then it's not too late to sit......"
Feng Wuxian instantly understood, clapped his hands and said: "Oh, the city lord can't help it, I haven't been on a boat, so I'm curious for a while...... It's still an adult's business. ”
The ruler dragon was expressionless, with his hands behind his back, and led the army to follow directly.
Seeing this, the golden carp smiled slightly, and did not force it anymore, but continued to walk in the direction of the water temple, and in the river on the side, the boat seemed to be led by something, and also walked along the river bank towards the water temple.
"What's wrong?" asked Mo Xuan in a low voice.
"It's okay, I see that the boat is not strong...... Mo Xuan didn't have time to follow the trend and explain everything, and there is no direct evidence to prove that there is a problem with the golden carp, so it's better to say less.
Feng Wuxian glanced at Mo Xuan suspiciously, and followed in confusion.
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The villagers knelt for hundreds of meters, crossed the river embankment and weeping willow forest, and finally reached the water temple.
Mo Xuan finally saw the appearance of this water temple.
The temple has only one floor, and the whole body is poured in mud and stone, and there is no door in the front, so you can directly see the plaques and stone statues placed inside.
The top of the temple refracted the skylight, the gold was dazzling, Mo Xuan thought that a layer of gold was poured on it, but when he got closer, he found that the roof was actually paved with irregularly placed scales!
The scales were as large as a basin, slightly glowing yellow, and it was the sunlight that made them look very dazzling, and if you looked closely, you could even see the traces of cracks in the corners of the scales.
Jin Libu ordered everyone to stop ten meters in front of the temple gate. The sacrificial crowd knelt deeply in worship, and even the farmers and fishermen who were watching around joined in one after another, kneeling on the ground and saluting.
When the ruler dragon saw this scene, he became more and more unhappy.
Those people who watched the excitement of Fengqiu City, it was appropriate to see the city lord also kneeling and bowing so consciously? But today, when he saw the stone statue in the temple, he knelt down and saluted without anyone saying anything, which made the city lord of Qilong, feel that he had no face at all.
"Kneel down the villagers, and offer your other tribute!"
Jin Carp stood in front of the temple gate and pointed to the big tripod carried by several young people. With a slight finger, a turbid water rose from the bottom of the tripod, holding the big tripod and slowly floating to the front of the temple gate, and then slammed into the ground with a muffled sound.
When the old man at the head heard that the priest wanted tribute, he hurriedly beckoned the people behind him, and presented all the cattle, sheep, melons and fruits he was carrying, and placed them in front of the tripod.
The golden carp glanced at the tribute, his face expressionless. "Wait for the villagers, worship the god of water, what do you ask for?"
"I ...... My family sealed the city of Qiu for about 100 miles, just in the lower reaches of the Yellow River...... "The old man ignored the fatigue of walking on his knees. Panting and breathless, he said: "In the past few days, the river has been fierce, and it has flooded many fields of our clan, and now there is no harvest! Please beg the priest to the god of water, don't send any more water!"
Listen to the golden carp. Without saying a word, he took out two pieces of white bone from his sleeve and flicked his fingers. Then he threw it into the big tripod and said to the old man: "Pick the hair of your people and cut it into the tripod!"
When the old man heard this, he hurriedly beckoned the people behind him to cut their hair, gather together, and then put them in the big ding.
Seeing that some people were sincerely afraid of cutting off most of their hair, Jin Carp nodded with satisfaction, while some people only cut off a little symbolically, Jin Carp's face sank again, and he pointed at those people and said to the old man: "The water god sent a flood to flood your land, it is because you are at fault first! Now I want to intercede with the water god on your behalf, but you are so dishonest?"
"Don't dare! Don't dare!" The old man was about to cry in fright, and hurriedly turned around and scolded those clansmen who didn't cut much hair, and dragged their hair and cut it off a lot.
"Those two bones...... Doesn't it look like cow bones?" Zi Yu's family makes a living as a butcher in Chaoge, so he is naturally more familiar with cow bones.
Feng Wuji frowned, "How do you look like a human leg bone......"
When the ruler dragon heard this, he glanced at the wind, "How does Childe know that Lu Dao is a human leg bone?"
"I grew up in the Ghost Side, where there are many deserts...... It is not surprising to me that slaves often fail to escape, have their knees cut off, have their flesh peeled off and dragged back to their prisons to die. Feng Wuji's eyes sank slightly.
"You are a prince, how can you be familiar with these things...... Zi Wei listened to it furiously.
Feng Wuxian half-jokingly said, "Because I live with those slaves, okay?"
"I don't believe it!" Zi Yu smiled, "Which country's prince will live with slaves......"
Mo Xuan listened to this information and secretly wrote them down one by one, without saying a word, only looking at the golden carp lightly to see what he was going to do next.
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"The clan will prosper, the water god will help it! The wind and rain will be harmonious...... Jin Carp took out a grain of fire from the lamp in the temple, stood in front of the big ding, and said loudly: "The clan will decline, and the water god will punish it!
After drinking, the golden carp threw the fire into the ding.
"Hoo ......"
In an instant, a flame burst out of the ding, rolling like a whirlwind of fire, directly burning the hair of those people into ashes. The two bones stand upright, keeping the flame burning.
"My generation, pray to the water god Yu King, forgive the common people, eliminate the flood ......"
The golden carp seems to be singing, and it is like chanting, sometimes high and sometimes low, and accompanied by the tone, it began to do a lot of strange movements before the big ding.
The ruler dragon heard that the golden carp worshiped Dayu, and snorted low in his nose.
Behind him, some of the sergeants looked at the golden carp with disdain, and some at the sacrificial ceremony, quite curious.
Mo Xuan glanced at it, most of those who disdained these ghost and god methods were some age, and their eyes were sharp, like old guys who had been on the battlefield. And those who are curious are mostly young people who have a natural curiosity about these things.
The soldier's attitude towards witchcraft and divination was actually very clear to Mo Xuan.
When he joined the army in his previous life, although he was Wen Zhong's personal soldier in charge, most of the time he would be safely located in the core position, and he would be protected by the formation and soldiers and horses together with Wen Zhong.
But being protected doesn't mean that you don't know the state of those who are charging into battle.
Before going into battle, the army would invite priests to divinate the people.
At first, everyone would wait with great anticipation for the priest to give him the omen, and then they would know if they would survive this battle.
The more wars they fought, the more the veterans disbelieved in these priests.
The battlefield on the front line is a place where you kill with a knife, stab a sword, and play with your life. After the battle, many soldiers would find that the priest had said he would live, but had been hacked to death with a knife. The priest said that he would die, but he killed the enemy without his life, but no one dared to fight against him, and he survived!
What's more, sometimes the priests will make mistakes in divining the victories and defeats of the army, which makes the soldiers less and less trust these priests, and instead trust the weapons in their hands and the command of the commander.
As in the case of the scene, few veterans would have believed that the golden carp could actually recede the floodwaters, including the ruler dragon. Even if this priest knew how to do immortal arts, it would never be possible to resist such a surging Yellow River.
"Hmph, if you really want to invite the water god to retreat from the flood, what else do you want this embankment for?" Behind the ruler dragon, a veteran said the truth, and Mo Xuan couldn't refute it......
"Master, Duobao Toad is in some trouble, we have to go down. Suddenly, the voice of the witch slave came.
"What's the trouble?" Mo Xuan's heart sank.
"Duobao Toad didn't hold back, and wanted to get those treasures, but it touched the formation prohibition ...... laid down"
Mo Xuan instantly raised his eyes and glanced at the golden carp.
At this time, the golden carp seemed to be completely immersed in his prayer ceremony, and did not pay attention to the outside world at all.
"Where are we going?" Mo Xuan said secretly.
"Launching ......"
Mo Xuan was stunned, "I'm not very good at swimming...... Aren't you looking for death in the Yellow River......"
"It doesn't matter, the witch slave has the art of avoiding water, and this small river has no master. ”
Mo Xuan took a deep breath, "Okay, that fish demon is still presiding over the ceremony, let's go and come back quickly!"
Saying that, Mo Xuan greeted him and signaled himself to leave for a while, and the two thought that Mo Xuan was going to go for convenience, so they naturally continued to come up without much attention, and continued to look at the golden carp with great interest.
Fortunately, there were many onlookers, dozens of layers inside and out, and Mo Xuan squeezed out of the crowd, and no one noticed.
"Just find a place to go into the water, and we can get over, right?" Mo Xuan was still a little apprehensive in his heart.
"The witch slave can bring the master over, please rest assured. ”
With the promise of the witch slave, Mo Xuan naturally didn't think much about it, found a river beach with dense willow forests, and walked directly towards the boiling Yellow River......
At this time, in front of the water temple, the movements of the golden carp and the words in his mouth came to an abrupt end.
A pair of orange-yellow eyes opened violently, and his eyes sharply pointed at the nearly 100 people kneeling in front of the ding, and scolded sharply, "......The water god has a life!"