Seeing Meng Xueyao sticking to Yang Zilong like this, Ding Yueqin couldn't ask for it, and immediately agreed to Meng Xueyao's request, and it was not bad for them to cultivate a relationship together.

As long as the old lady Ding Yueqin agreed, Yang Zilong naturally didn't dare to say no words, so he had to take Meng Xueyao with him.

Lu Mengmeng's home is in a village thirty miles away, called Qinghe Village, because there is a very famous Qinghe River there.

Yang Zilong took Meng Xueyao with his things and went straight to Qinghe Village.

came to Qinghe Village and found Lu Mengmeng's home, but found that Lu Mengmeng was not at home, and her father Lu Dayong was not at home, but the door of the house was wide open.

Today is Lu Mengmeng's birthday, and their father and daughter should be at home, it's impossible to go out.

Yang Zilong and Meng Xueyao searched for a while in Lu Mengmeng's house, and found that their house was a little messy, five hard-boiled eggs were put in a bowl, and they didn't have time to eat yet, this should be specially prepared by Lu Dayong for Lu Mengmeng in the morning, and when a child celebrates his birthday, adults will boil a few eggs for her to eat.

Looking at this situation, Lu Dayong and Lu Mengmeng's father and daughter are very likely to encounter some urgent matter and go out.

"Let's ask our neighbors here. Meng Xueyao said.

The two hurriedly found a neighbor and asked the neighbor about the whereabouts of Lu Dayong and Lu Mengmeng as relatives.

The neighbor saw Yang Zilong and Meng Xueyao holding large bags and small bags, all of which were children's food and clothes, so he believed that they were relatives of Lu Mengmeng's family.

The neighbor first cautiously looked at the surrounding people and saw that there were no idle people, and then cautiously told Yang Zilong:

"You don't know yet, Lu Mengmeng was arrested early this morning by Xiang Wencai, the eldest son of the Xiang family, saying that he wanted to dedicate Lu Mengmeng to the Dragon King to ask for rain. ”

Hearing that Lu Mengmeng was caught by Xiang Wencai, the son of the big landlord here, to beg for rain, Yang Zilong and Meng Xueyao suddenly fidgeted and became angry.

Everyone knows that all the young girls and girls who are caught to ask for rain, used for sacrifices, and used for practical deeds will be ...... Dead.

Since ancient times, this world has the custom of praying for rain, borrowing wind, praying for blessings, disasters, and burials, etc., and various gods and goddesses in legends like this pure and immature young girl or girl.

Most of these young girls are children of poor families, and some are female dependents who have been plundered from war.

To use young girls or girls to ask for rain is to put them into a delicate bamboo cage, and then sink them into the river, saying that it is given to the dragon lord and pray for the dragon lord to rain.

Yang Zilong knew that this was outright superstition, and there was no science at all, Yang Zilong had witnessed a rain prayer ritual when he was a child.

On the first day of asking for rain, he put a young girl into a bamboo cage and sank into the river to offer it to the dragon lord, but the dragon lord did not appreciate it and did not give rain.

The next day, he continued to beg for rain, saying that the dragon lord was not satisfied with the young girl, so he continued to put a young girl into a bamboo cage and sink into the river, but it did not rain yet.

So on the third day, the fourth day, and on the fifth day, it rained.

In five days, two young girls and three young girls were sunk into the river, which were five fresh lives.

In order to wait for a rain, five innocent young girls and girls were harmed, even if they didn't have to be sacrificed to the dragon lord to ask for rain, it would rain when God should have rained.

And this "credit" is attributed to the damned wizard, who killed someone, and was especially happy and mad in front of others.

As for the results of those young girls and girls after they sank into the river, it is conceivable that the Dragon King will not be able to receive them.

"It was Xiang Wencai who captured Lu Mengmeng and gave it to the Dragon King, how could he be like this, Lu Mengmeng is so young, Xiang Wencai, the turtle son of the dead landlord, is really mad. Yang Zilong scolded violently.

Xiang Wencai is the eldest son of Xiang Shicheng, the largest landlord in Jinjiang County, and the land in dozens of villages such as Yuling Village and Qinghe Village belongs to his family, and the villagers here have to pay land rent to Xiang's family every year.

The people of the Xiang family occupy their own rich and powerful families, and they are big families in the county, and it is common to bully the common people and these small families.

And Xiang Wencai is a well-known playboy, seeing that the woman is a little better-looking, whether it is a married woman, he always wants to harm others, even if he can't do it, he will make other people's homes restless.

I didn't expect Xiang Wencai to bully a child like Lu Mengmeng today, arrest her to beg for rain, this is not Lu Mengmeng's life, can Yang Zilong not be angry.

The neighbor said: "Do you know, we heard that Lu Mengmeng's mother used to be a maid in Xiang Wencai's family, so Xiang Wencai said that the child of their maid girl is still their maidservant, and they caught Lu Mengmeng to ask for rain, which is a matter of course." ”

Yang Zilong heard his parents talk about Lu Mengmeng's mother.

Lu Mengmeng's mother's name is Lan Yufang, and she was bought by her family to be a maid in Xiang Wencai's family since she was a child.

Such a servant girl is a very lowly existence, completely deprived of personal freedom, very pitiful, equivalent to the private property of the master's family.

The host family can use her as a cow or a horse, give her as a gift to others, or sell her as a commodity to others. If it's the kind of lustful owner, you can even spoil them at will.

In short, such a servant girl completely loses her personal freedom, and without the consent of the master's family, such a handmaid is not allowed to marry, and when she is old and decrepit, she will be kicked out by the master's family.

Lu Mengmeng's mother is such a maid.

"Then Lu Mengmeng's father, Lu Dayong, will watch her being arrested?" Yang Zilong asked uneasily.

Lu Dayong is also the head catcher in the county government, and there are more than a dozen brothers under him, with Lu Dayong's vicious and hateful character, how could he watch his daughter being caught by the evil landlord to beg for rain.

The neighbor said: "Lu Dayong was called to handle the case early this morning, he may not know that his daughter was arrested to beg for rain now, if you are a relative of Lu Mengmeng's family, you quickly find a way to save Lu Mengmeng, she is so pitiful." ”

Take Lu Dayong away first, and then arrest Lu Mengmeng, this was obviously planned by Xiang Wencai in advance, but Lu Dayong was kept in the dark.

"Where did Xiang Wencai arrest Lu Mengmeng?"

"That's it. The neighbor pointed to a high mountain and said, "The source of the Qinghe River, above the Qingfeng Ridge." “

Qingfeng Ridge is the source of the Qinghe River, and there is a dragon king temple on it, which is a place where people usually pray for rain and blessings.

However, Qingfeng Ridge is far away from here, and the mountain road is steep and extremely difficult to walk, if you walk to Qingfeng Ridge at the usual speed, Lu Mengmeng may have been killed by Xiang Wencai sinking into the river, not to mention that the sun is still hot now.

"What should I do, hurry up and find a way to save your godsister. Meng Xueyao was sad for a while when she heard these things, and she was also quite anxious.