Fengluo Town, the wharf by the Yellow River in front of the town, the voices of the people are boiling, the altar is cast high, the gongs and drums shake the sky, the river woman is wearing a big white sacrificial robe, wearing the face of the river god and ghost, holding a sword in her right hand, holding a bell in her left hand, and praying in bursts.

"The mountain dwells and wants to take away my body; the water dwells and ghosts, and wants to eat my soul; feed my heart, feed my gods" "Knock! knock!" "Feed to the gods, become Xi, become Xi, return to the void!"

On the sacrificial platform, the river woman holds the sword and rattles the bell, the foot steps of the sacrifice, while dancing, while chanting the sacrificial words of the river god, the voice is long and long, as if there is a mysterious magic, falling in the ears of people, such as the morning bell and dusk drum, echoing for a long time, impacting the heart, in front of the high altar, it is the eight-sided cowhide drum placed, eight upper body shirtless, the head is tied with white silk, the muscles are pierced, the strong man waving the drumstick in his hand vigorously, with the singing of the river woman to beat the drum surface, the drum sound is shocking, mixed with the chant of the river woman, reverberating on both sides of the Yellow River, the sound is resounding for a long time。

And on the shore behind the altar, there are also dense figures, all of them are people from Fengluo Town, whether they are men, women, young or old, they all look solemn at this moment, and chant the prayers to worship the river god with the river woman.

"The mountain dwells and wants to take away my body; the water dwells and ghosts, and wants to eat my soul; feed my heart, feed my gods" "Knock! knock!" "Feed to the gods, become Xi, become Xi, return to the void!"

This is a shocking picture, the townspeople of the whole Fengluo town chanted prayers in unison, standing on the pier, mixed with the sound of vibrating drums, the sound shook both sides, and on the water in front of the people's wharf, there was a flower boat full of red lanterns, the flower boat was not big, only one floor, in the middle of the square shed similar to a sedan chair, powder yarn as a curtain, and in the middle of the shed, two brides wearing red bridal robes and red hijabs sat inside, motionless, but if you look closely, you will find that the hands and feet of the two brides are tightly tied, and the whole body is fixed on the flower boat, unable to move。

The flower boat is fixed with several ropes, one end of the rope is tied to the wooden stake of the pier to prevent it from being washed away with the current, and at the bottom of the plank of the flower boat, there are several leaky holes, which are not very big, but there is a thin flow of water from the bottom of the boat to the flower boat to penetrate up, it is foreseeable that as long as the time is long, with the increase of water seepage, the flower boat will slowly sink into the water.

"Wow-" "Wow-"

With the progress of the river god sacrifice ceremony, in the depths of the Yellow River, which is invisible to ordinary people, there seems to be something in the dark to open their eyes, and a violent whirlpool undercurrent appears from the bottom of the water, spreads to the surface of the water, and finally, the undercurrent whirlpool rises to the surface of the water, setting off a large splash and a piece of river whirlpool in the center of the river, as if to devour everything.

On the altar, the river woman who presided over the sacrifice also seemed to feel something, and a pair of cloudy eyes in her sunken eye sockets glanced at the surface of the Yellow River in front of the wharf, and suddenly stopped, and her voice stopped.

"Knock!" "Knock!" "Knock!" The eight drummers in front of the altar saw the movement of the river woman, and finally knocked on the drum four times, and then stopped, and the others behind the altar also stopped in unison.

"Sacrifice to the river god!" "Send the bride!"

Finally, after a few breaths of silence, the river woman on the altar suddenly changed her voice and shouted in a long and high-pitched voice.

The words of the river woman fell, and immediately, two men with machetes stepped forward, and a few knives directly cut the rope that fixed the boat, lost the fixation of the rope, and the flower boat also floated downstream from the dock with the current at once, at this time, the river woman on the altar shouted loudly and sharply-

"Sacrifice to the river god!" "Send the bride!" "Knock! knock! knock knock——"

The heavy and mighty drums also sounded from the wharf again, shaking both sides of the Yellow River.

"Wow!"

In the vast Yellow River, a splash of water swayed, and something seemed to poke its head out in an instant, leaving a large wave and a ghostly black shadow, chasing straight towards the flower boat.

At the same time, in the lower reaches of the Yellow River in Fengluo Town, by the wharf, Lin Tianqi and his party of six people, who had been waiting for an hour or two, finally waited for a boat.

The boatman, a fisherman who had passed by for fishing, was thin and dark-skinned, and looked to be forty or fifty years old, and after agreeing on the price, he agreed to send Lin Tianqi and the six people across the river.

"By the way, uncle, is there a bridge across the river around here?"

After agreeing on the price, Lin Tianqi asked the other party again, the main reason why he asked this was because there were more than six of them, and there were two carriages and a lot of salutes in the carriage, the boatman could send them over, but the carriage was not, which was the main reason why they had been blocked here, if it was just people, more than 100 meters of the river, Lin Tianqi still had the confidence to take people over.

"Bridge, there is no bridge around here, there is no water in this section, only boats can cross. ”

The fisherman opened his mouth and told Lin Tianqi and the others that there were no bridges in this section of the Yellow River Basin, only boats.

"Then abandon the carriage, take the important salute with you, cross the river and find a place to rest for the night, and buy two carriages for the next day. ”

Immediately, Uncle Jiu directly opened his mouth and decided, and everyone nodded when they heard the words, indeed, the carriage can't cross the river, they can only discard it, Lin Tianqi and his master are also completely the same idea, since marrying Bai Ji, money is completely only a number for the master and apprentice, but Xu's father and Xu's mother have a slight heartache in their hearts, the two elders have been living in the village, and they have always lived frugally, how could they have been so wasted.

With this decision made, the men immediately removed the important salute from the carriage again and began to cross the river.

The boatman's fishing boat had limited space and could not carry all the six people and luggage at one time, so everyone divided it twice, and the ninth uncle, Xu's father, and Xu's mother got on the boat first and brought some luggage.

It took more than ten minutes before and after, and after the boatman sent the three to the opposite shore, he turned back to pick up Lin Tianqi, Xu Jie and Xu Dongsheng.

"Xiaojie, you sit in the middle. ”

got on the boat, Lin Tianqi let Xu Jie sit in the middle, Xu Dongsheng was in front, Lin Tianqi was behind, and the boatman was rowing on the stern plywood.

Because it is not the kind of diesel-powered boat in later generations, it can only be rowed by manpower, so the boat runs very slowly on the water, but the river surface of 100 meters takes several minutes, just like a turtle crawling, looking at the rolling Yellow River under the boat, Xu Jie is a little scared, his hands tightly grasp Lin Tianqi's arm, Xu Dongsheng is very curious, and his eyes look at the river from time to time.

"Senior brother, do you think there will be monsters in the Yellow River? In the past, I always heard some people tell some strange stories and legends in the Yellow River, I don't know if it's true?"

After looking at the river for a while, Xu Dongsheng turned his head to Lin Tianqi and said, looking a little curious, Xu Jie was also a little interested when he heard this, and looked at Lin Tianqi.

"The rumors in the rivers and lakes are not enough to believe, but it is not completely unbelievable, but the Yellow River has a long history, and it is reasonable that there are some things in it that we ordinary people do not know. ”

Lin Tianqi said with a faint smile when he heard this, he naturally knew about the legend of the Yellow River, and he had heard a lot of it in his previous life, of course, he had only heard of it, as for whether it was true or not, he had not seen it, but he knew that with the long history and situation of the Yellow River, there were some things hidden in it that were inevitable, and the only difference was whether they could meet it or not.

"I heard that most of the people who live in the upper and lower basins of the Yellow River believe in the river god, so senior brother, do you think the river god is real?"

Xu Dongsheng asked again, thinking of the saying he had heard before about the people by the Yellow River believing in the river god, and asked.

"River God. ”

Lin Tianqi smiled slightly when he heard this, the so-called gods, in fact, many of them are just titles given by ordinary people who are afraid of ignorance.

Just like some people believe in fox fairies, some people believe in Wong Tai Sin, in fact, in the eyes of people in their cultivation, they are just monsters such as fox spirits and weasels who have opened spiritual wisdom practice and have some Taoism, but ordinary people are afraid of ignorance, so they believe in them and call them immortals gods, and the river gods, in fact, are the same reason, and some goblins and ghosts in the river are worshiped as gods, and they are called river gods.

With a faint smile, he was about to speak, when suddenly, Lin Tianqi suddenly stared at the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

"Senior brother, what's wrong?"

Noticing Lin Tianqi's expression, Xu Dongsheng was also puzzled, and then looked upstream with Xu Jie.

"There seems to be something. ”

When the two of them looked upstream, they both looked at each other slightly, and saw that in the distance of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, a small red dot appeared in the line of sight, but because the distance was too far, Xu Dongsheng and Xu Jie could only vaguely see what seemed to be a red thing, and it seemed that some of it had sunk into the water.

"Senior brother, what is that?" Xu Dongsheng looked at Lin Tianqi and asked.

"A ship. ”

Lin Tianqi said, his eyes also looked at the red dots upstream, Xu Dongsheng and Xu Jie couldn't see clearly, but with his eyesight, he could naturally see clearly, on the river surface upstream, there was a big red flower boat, and even he could clearly see that on the flower boat, there were two people wearing red bridal clothes and red hijabs, which seemed to be two brides.

By this time, however, a large part of the boat had sunk into the river, and the two brides were only exposed above their chests and were still sinking.

"This is, sacrifice. ”

Lin Tianqi's eyes froze, and he instantly thought of some legendary sacrificial activities that used living people as sacrifices.

"Sacrifice to the god of the river, this is to worship the god of the river. ”

At the stern of the boat, the boatman who rowed the boatman looked at the big red flower boat upstream, and his face was so pale, he spoke.

"Sacrifice to the god of the river. ”

Xu Dongsheng and Xu Jie were stunned when they heard this, they just talked about the river god, but they didn't expect to meet the river god, no, it should be a sacrifice to the river god, I can't help it, the two sisters looked upstream again, in order to see clearly, the two sisters stood up directly and looked upstream, at this time, the flower boat flowed down a big section again, and the outline could already be vaguely seen by the sight of the two, but in the next moment, a sudden change occurred!

"Wow!"

In my sight, a large huge splash suddenly appeared at the river flower boat in the upstream direction, and then, the big red flower boat seemed to be pulled by something, and sank all at once.

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