Chapter 16: The First Move
"......Huh," the old witch opened her mouth and spat out a puff of black smoke, and said to the fishermen's leader in a strange tone: "I have communicated with my god, and the group of outsiders killed the messenger of my god, which made my god very angry, and he said that the blood debt must be paid with blood!"
After a while, a strong wind will blow on the river to prevent those outsiders from leaving, and at night, my god will exert great magic to punish those sinners, Zhang Heiyu, you quickly go and prepare three animals, organize fishermen to worship my god, and at the same time you ......"
The witch quickly whispered a word. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Ah, this, this ......" Zhang Heiyu was shocked when he heard this, and stammered speechless.
"Hmm, what? Zhang Heiyu, are you going to disobey the oracle?" the witch asked when she saw Zhang Heiyu stammering and refusing, and her face suddenly darkened, and she asked in an aggravated tone.
"This, the villain doesn't dare, it's just that the villain doesn't know where to find the boy to sacrifice alive?" Zhang Heiyu was forced by the witch and immediately compromised.
"I don't know where to look? The witch opened her mouth and let out a series of terrible laughs, and said, "Those little beggars on the dock have been taking a fancy to them for a long time, and you will catch one as a sacrifice later!"
"This ......" Zhang Heiyu hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and said: "Although those beggars have no relatives and no relatives, after all, there are several parents in the township who still know the villain, and the villain really can't do it." ”
"Can't do it, then use your son as a sacrifice!" The witch shouted impatiently, "Why don't you go quickly, you must prepare the sacrifice before dark, or a great disaster will befall you!"
"This, yes, the villain will retire, this will retire......" was drunk by the witch, and Zhang Heiyu ran out of the small temple with a stream of urine.
Looking at the back of Zhang Heiyu leaving in embarrassment, the witch couldn't help but shake her head, scolded "waste", and said secretly, if it weren't for your cowardice and obedience, how could the old body choose you, a waste, as the leader of the fishermen?
After Zhang Heiyu left the small temple in embarrassment, he gathered all the fishermen worriedly and arranged the things that the witch had ordered one by one.
He didn't notice that a few second-rate people who were usually idle in the village and did not do their jobs suddenly became active, actively participated in various tasks, mixed into all aspects of the preparation for the sacrifice, and inquired about all kinds of news.
Not long after, the news heard by several second-rate people gathered through various channels in a bland courtyard on the north side of the dock.
In the upper room of the courtyard, Liu Ying, a small flag of Jinyi Wei, sat in the middle, and after reading the information collected and sorted out by his subordinates, he couldn't help but scold him.
"Dare to plan human sacrifice, really don't know whether to live or die, annihilate human nature, you and other evil sacrifices and obscene shrines should be skinned and cramped to set an example, and now at this critical juncture, you dare to sacrifice the living, you are really looking for death!"
"No, I can't sit back and watch this happen!" After Liu Ying scolded angrily, he paced back and forth angrily and thought, "It's time for the Holy Lord to move to Nanjing, and all the yamen are strictly investigating, if something like this happens in the area I inspected, then ......"
Thinking of Jinyi Weinan's methods of calming the Division, he couldn't help but shudder.
"It seems that this matter can't sit idly by, but we have to stop it, I heard that the witch also has means, she is a cultivator, this official is not her opponent, she has to find a master to deal with her!"
"If you want to find a master, there are a lot of Jinyi Guards, but this matter is very urgent, I'm afraid I can't wait for someone to be sent from above, it seems that I can only report it on the one hand, and find someone nearby from the outside......"
Thinking of this, Liu Ying couldn't help but have a headache, although because of his identity, he knew a lot of high-ranking people, but these people were either not moved by him, or they were opposed to his position.
And among the people he can invite, there is no one who can be a witch, and even if there is, people may not be willing to fight to the death with that witch, and he can't afford to pay the price of inviting those people.
Thinking about the nearby masters, Liu Ying's eyes suddenly lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "There is!"
On a large berth on the south side of the pier, a brig clipper was moored there, and two inspectors of the Inspection Division with four or five assistants firmly guarded the road between the berth and the pier, isolating the silence of the clipper from the noise on the pier.
Suddenly, several Tsing Yi men with hats separated from the patrol inspectors and boarded the clipper.
Dong Rengui had just dealt with the spiritual materials on the fish demon's body, and was discussing with the big herring how to use these spiritual materials to refine a sword box, when he suddenly got the news of Jinyiwei's visit, which surprised him very much.
"Please let them in!" Although it was unexpected, Dong Rengui still asked people to invite people in.
"What is the matter with Your Excellency?" he asked the people to come in, and after reporting the news by name, he greeted him slightly, and then asked directly after the servant served tea.
"This," Liu Ying was a little surprised by Dong Rengui's straightforward approach.
But he immediately understood that if Dong Rengui really had the ability to kill the hundred-year-old fish demon, then he did have an identity and status that was not in harmony with himself, and his family power was not small, and he was afraid that he would not be in his eyes if he was just a brocade guard.
Thinking about his position, Liu Ying immediately lowered his posture, he has seen a lot of second-generation officials like Dong Rengui, he has always been arrogant, if he offends him today, he will inevitably cause trouble for himself in the future, and today he has a request, so he has to put on a low posture.
"Don't hide it, Dong Gongzi, the lower officials are here to ask for help......"
Liu Ying thought about it for a while, and came up with a way to deal with Dong Rengui, only to see him talk about the matter of the river temple in the fishing village with a lot of words.
In the end, he mentioned it as if he had inadvertently said, "I heard that the river god enshrined in the river temple has a divine envoy who is the same as the fish demon killed by the prince today, and today the river temple suddenly held a big sacrifice, and took the risk of human sacrifice, I am afraid that he has bad intentions towards the son!"
"Well, Ben Gongzi knows. Dong Rengui took a sip of tea and said noncommittally: "You said that you came to ask for help, how do you plan to let this son help you?"
"Uh," Looking at the indifferent Dong Rengui, Liu Ying couldn't help but have a headache, he was most afraid of these second-generation shrewdness, you can already eat from the background, and now you are so shrewd, how do you let others live?
Fortunately, Liu Ying is also her husband, and she is well prepared, and at this time, seeing that Dong Rengui is not easy to fool, she directly took out her hole card, took out a gift slip from her arms, and presented it with both hands.
"This time, I really had to disturb my son, and I didn't pay tribute to mere courtesy. ”
"Hmm. Dong Rengui quietly took the gift list, glanced at it quickly, and saw that it was written five beautiful jade directions, five hundred years of medicinal materials (one each of pearl grass, Ganoderma lucidum, Poria cocos, and two mountain ginseng), one pound of cold iron, and one pearl......
"In this way," Dong Rengui looked at this valuable gift list, gently knocked on the armrest of the Taishi chair, pondered for a moment, and said, "You will bring the details of the river temple and the witch one by one, and don't miss the slightest omission!"
"Yes, Xiaguan is here!" Liu Ying was overjoyed when he heard this, he knew that Dong Rengui was going to promise him, so he immediately released the information collected about the River God Temple one by one......