There are mountains in the north, and rivers are divided.

In the Northland, the largest river is called Linjiang.

Rolling eastward, galloping into the sea, thousands of miles to the west, far away.

It is reported that the Linjiang River originates from the sacred mountain of the grassland, flows from the east, flows into a river, has many lakes, and nourishes the livelihood of millions of people on both sides of the strait.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, the people mostly live in the fertile land of the water, and many places on both sides of the Linjiang River can be the land of fish and rice.

However, people have no normality, water has no permanent shape, the sky is ever-changing, non-human can control, and the flood season is consistent, which often leads to the rise of rivers.

Once the embankment is difficult to support, the torrent roars in an instant, and its momentum is unbearable, flooding the fields and villages, and the people are suffering.

In the past 100 years, there have been several major floods, each time with more than 10,000 casualties and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people displaced.

However, after the floods, the people still need to live, and as time goes by, people who have left their hometowns have returned, but everything has remained the same for several years, also because their ancestors have lived here for generations, and it is difficult to leave their homeland.

The Linjiang River flows for thousands of miles, and there are many large tributaries, and the Henghe River is one of them.

The Yokogawa River is a very important tributary that rushes out of the mountains, but this river is not an eternal river, and to some extent it was formed by manpower.

It is said that hundreds of years ago, the place where the Yokogawa River was located was the place where the two countries fought at war with Wu and Liang, when the two countries fought for several years, the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the soldiers were endless, and in just a few years, the two countries had fought hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

However, the strength of the two countries is equal, if it is said that the city is conquered, step by step for the battalion is still acceptable, if the short day decisive battle, then both sides have famous generals and ministers, under the stalemate, the final troops are stationed here, and it is difficult to decide the winner for a long time.

In the end, Wu had a strategist to offer advice, and at the time of the spring flood, he broke the embankment of the Linjiang River to flood the enemy army in order to win a decisive victory.

Initially, the general of the main army of Wu State did not adopt this policy, believing that once the Linjiang River bursts the embankment and the water overturns, it will be uncontrollable by manpower at that time, and hundreds of thousands of people along the coast will not be innocent, and it will be a poisonous policy.

But in the end, the lord of Wu issued several orders, and sent his cronies to supervise the army, and ordered the general of Wu to break the embankment to defeat the Liang state.

In desperation, the general of Wu Guo received the order, and finally the commander of 20,000 troops was about to fight a decisive battle, and personally appeared in front of the battle.

In the end, under the torrent of thunder, nearly 300,000 troops were wiped out, followed by millions of lives in the two coastal countries.

Wu won this battle, but he also lost, and after winning this battle, he lost the hearts of the people.

And Liang lost the war, but won the hearts of the people.

What's even more dramatic is that after this battle, Wu did not take the general momentum to conquer Liang, but after the flood, a major epidemic broke out in the army, nearly seventy percent of the soldiers fell ill, their morale was low, and they were unable to fight again, which gave Liang a chance to breathe.

And Yokogawa was left over after that levee burst.

There are also many stories of ghosts and gods in Yokogawa, and people on both sides of the river can often see pairs of soldiers walking side by side at night, and it is said that the souls of those who died unjustly are on the way to find their homes.

When someone crosses the river, they can hear the sound of people crying in the river, complaining and crying, and those who hear this sound often fall seriously ill.

Since ancient times, the Linjiang River has always believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and on both sides of the Yokogawa, there are many theories of ghosts and gods, and almost every area has a different version.

............

At the edge of the wharf of the Yokogawa, it was already full of people, and a high wooden platform was built in the open space, on which incense tables, yellow paper and golden bells were placed, and all kinds of offerings were placed.

In the center sat a river woman dressed in a black robe and wearing a red mask, shaking her head, chanting words there, and waving a lacquered mahogany sword in her hand from time to time.

Flags fluttered, and sixteen shirtless men stood in an orderly manner around the altar, each with a large drum in front of him, his arms swinging vigorously, and the beating of the drum was extremely loud and resounding in all directions.

In front of the altar, there were nearly a thousand people standing densely, although there were many people, but none of them dared to make a loud noise, even the children brought by the family were tightly hugged by their own adults, not to make any noise.

When the sun hung high at noon, the river woman suddenly jumped up, and the wooden sword in her hand waved wildly, and her cloak was scattered, if under normal circumstances, she still felt a little happy.

With a strange step, he swirled up and down the altar, grabbing a handful of fine sand from the table and throwing it into the air from time to time.

After leaning over a little, he picked up a stack of yellow paper on the table with a wooden sword, and shook it violently, and the yellow paper suddenly ignited, but it was the cyan flame, which was indescribably strange under this clear sky.

"......Woooo Haha......"

With a flick of the Hepo wooden sword, the flames were thrown out, and they were accurately thrown into the four braziers at the four corners of the altar, igniting the oil fire inside, and the flames in it suddenly rose and jumped, reaching half a zhang.

The people below have all knelt on the ground, bowing their heads silently, with different complexions, and at the forefront are more than a dozen white-headed old men, well-dressed, who seem to be the leaders of the clan and the like.

These clan elders are the most pious, and a few of them still keep prostrating, not daring to be disrespectful in the slightest, for fear of angering the ghosts and gods.

"The mountain has a spirit, and it accompanies me in Chang'an...... Aquatic spirits, pregnant Ze Wanyu ......"

"The wind is blowing, the rain is coming, and the four directions are coming...... Yugo Changxing...... The wind is blowing, the rain is shining, and the ...... is in all directions Yugo Fengkang ......"

"The water is full of water...... This year's abundant clothes ......"

The sound of the river, accompanied by the sound of the wind and water, and the sound of beating drums, spread in all directions for a long time.

At this time, I don't know when a flower boat came from a distance, no, it should have been slowly carried over by more than a dozen big men with five thick wooden poles, everyone's arms were bruised, and their heads were sweating profusely.

The boat was full of red lanterns, an oil lamp was lit in the bow, and inside the boat there was a bride wearing a red wedding dress with a big red hijab, but the whole person was tightly tied to the boat from head to toe with hemp rope.

The bride's body trembled incessantly, thinking that she knew what was about to happen.

The crowd had long since parted a way, and the people were silent, allowing the boat to be carried straight under the altar.

There was some commotion in the crowd, but it quickly subsided, and the people's expressions were different, complicated, indifferent, unbearable, etc., but in the end they all came down to indifference.

On the altar, the river woman's eyes widened violently, and she shouted in an unknown tone, and the wooden sword in her hand pointed downward, and a flame jumped into the air along the sword body, and finally jumped into a brazier at the stern of the boat, and the flames rose to the top.

Then she put away the wooden sword, and took out a small drum in her hand, and a golden bell was wrapped around it.

"Bang...... Bang......"

He Po flapped the round drum in her hand, accompanied by the clear sound of the golden bells colliding, forming a strange rhythm.

The river was stirring, the drums were shaking, and the wind was blowing more rapidly.

"Sacrifice to the river god!"

Hepo's hoarse voice suddenly sounded and spread to all directions, as if to wake up people.

At first, people were still a little sluggish, as if they were a little caught off guard, but soon, there was a sound of response.

"Sacrifice to the river god!"

Voices slowly sounded in the crowd, one, two, and finally joined together, and the sound resounded on both sides.

"Sacrifice to the river god!"

"Sacrifice to the river god!"

“......”

The people below stood up, raised their arms high, and the crowd was excited, and many of them shouted loudly with a kind of fanaticism on their faces.

He Po half-narrowed her eyes, and the whole person shook back and forth, as if she was swinging, and the speed of the drum in her hand became faster and faster, and then she suddenly shouted.

"Flower boat!"

As the river woman shouted again, the drumming stopped, but the cheers of the crowd became louder, and the people were excited, and the procession of flower-carrying boats came to the edge of the river.

The big men of the Confucian Dynasty lowered the boat into the water, and then four of them, with a red cloth on their heads and a red stripe around their waists, stepped out and slowly pushed the boat into the river.

After the flower boat was launched, it slowly drifted downstream along the current, but it was not far away, the flower boat was slowly sinking, and several large holes had already been carved into the boat, and the river water continued to pour into the cabin.

The river slowly wet the bride's wedding robe, and the bride's body began to shake and struggle, but how could she break free from the thick rope, it was only in vain.

Little by little, the river overflowed the bride's ankle, soaking the bride's whole body into it, and the bride's struggle became smaller and smaller, and finally the whole person was immersed in the cold drinking water.

On the shore, there are still gongs and drums and shouts.

And the flower boat has gradually sunk, carrying the bride, forever silent in the darkness......

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