On the twelfth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, during the autumn harvest, the sunshine becomes shorter, and the sun has begun to set in the west just after the Shen hour.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, two golden boys and girls dressed in red wedding clothes were being carried by four strong men in the direction of the river temple.

The two children look like they are five or six years old, white and chubby, pink and tender, put it now, an absolute pair of cute babies, but the weird thing is that these two children actually wear two skull necklaces around their necks.

The child was unconscious, sitting on a small sedan chair built on a bamboo mat, being carried by others, but he felt that it was funny and let out a "hee-hee" laugh.

Suddenly, a sturdy man rushed out of the tiled house behind him, crying loudly as he ran: "Huzi, Niuniu! Let go of my child, you can't do this!"

The man rushed very violently, but as soon as he went out, he was stopped by two strong men, and he could only keep waving to the child.

The man's hair was disheveled, and there was a bloody mark on his forehead from the blow. Apparently just in the house when the resistance was beaten.

When the two children heard their father's shout, they looked back and saw their father waving to them, and thought that their father was playing with them, and they all smiled and waved at the man, shouting "Daddy" in their mouths.

Hearing the child shouting "Dad", the man was even more painful, and he tried desperately to rush out several times without success, but was punched and kicked by the two annoyed strong men and knocked to the ground. There was a group of villagers around, but although they were sympathetic, no one dared to step forward.

It is "children are innocent, ignorant and fearless, and their parents are powerless and powerless to protect them?"

Next to the two strong men stood an old witch no more than five feet tall, with a slumped back, a thin face and a pointed face, and a thin body, wearing a black and gold-rimmed robe, with a necklace made of skulls and animal bones around her neck, and wearing gold and silver, jewelry, but vulgar. The eyes are like protruding goldfish eyes, and they are extraordinarily large because of their thinness. At this time, seeing the man's miserable appearance, the eyes of the goldfish flashed with resentment and strange happiness!

The man got up from the ground, saw a pair of children walking farther and farther, suddenly "plopped" and knelt down, and kept kowtowing to the villagers surrounded in all directions, and every time he knocked on the ground "dongdong", and after a while, it was red and swollen and bleeding.

But the man didn't care at all, he just kowtowed and pleaded: "Fellow villagers, fathers and elders, people's hearts are all flesh and blood! Your family also has children, and the evil god is insatiable, this time it's me, and next time it's your family's turn!"

At this time, two white-clothed women rushed out of the house, one in his thirties and the other in his early twenties. It's just that my face is full of tears of sadness, which adds to the weakness I see pity.

After the two girls came out, without saying a word, they also knelt down, and kept kowtowing, as hard as if they were playing drums.

The surrounding villagers looked at this grief-stricken family who kept kowtowing and begging, and they couldn't help but feel a feeling of sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox.

So there was a lot of discussion, and there was some commotion.

"Ahh

When the old witch saw this, she let out a piercing scream, and pointed at the man who kept kowtowing, and a black light flashed, and with a "plop", the man fell face down and fell to the ground without moving.

Then the old witch turned to the crowd and swept her vicious gaze one by one, until everyone present lowered their heads, then nodded with satisfaction, and said gloomily: "This Wang Bin is disrespectful to the Great Witch God, and has already suffered divine punishment, and will definitely be devoured by the evil ghost for a hundred days and die...... Dead ......"

The last word "death" is spoken, like a hard object scraping glass, piercing people's hearts and lasting for a long time!

When the older woman saw it, she immediately rushed forward, lay on the man's body, kept shaking, and cried loudly: "Wang Lang, what's wrong with you......?

Crying and shouting, the woman seemed to be unable to stand the blow, rolled her eyes, and fell to the ground!

The younger woman raised her head and saw such a miserable scene, using her hands and feet together, crying and crawling to the side of the fainting couple, and hissed: "Brother, sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Wake up, wake up, wake up......

But no matter how she cried and shook, neither of them reacted at all.

In the distance, the boy and girl who had been looking back at their father and mother were ignorant, but when they saw their parents suddenly fall to the ground and did not move, they didn't know if they had a feeling, and cried with "Wow Wow", fighting to climb down the bamboo mat, but they were held down by the two big men who took care of them next to them, and they gradually moved away, but the crying became more and more sad!

The woman's head was disheveled, her forehead was covered with bruises from the dirt, and tears welled up, and she looked up to the sky and cried, "Open your eyes, God, the evil god is about to eat people...... God has no eyes, God has no eyes!" A huge resentment then rose into the sky, and the Daqing River, which was not far away, disappeared, and even the river water became a little muddy.

Looking at the woman who was crying and grabbing the ground, the old witch's eyes flashed with resentment, and she snorted coldly: "Hmph! If it weren't for the king's eyes on you, you would have tasted the pain of a hundred ghosts!"

When the people around heard this, their hearts were cold, "This is going to ruin people's families!" Although they sympathized with the family's suffering, after all, the matter had not yet come, and their patience in the past made them habitually silent.

There were a few young people who were about to move, but they were also held by their old people, and then they were swept away by the vicious dead fish eyes of the old witch, and they lost the courage to resist.

This is the inferior nature of these lower-class people, who always think that big things will be turned into small things and small things will be turned into nothing; things that have nothing to do with themselves will be hung high; as long as they do not come to themselves, even if they know that one day it will be their turn, they will still remain silent, and they are accustomed to tolerating and withdrawing from luck with luck.

If it sounds good, it is called "hard-working", and if it is not good, it is "stupid", and it is obedient and has no own opinions!

However, they can't be blamed for this, it is the result of thousands of years of feudal rule.

As the saying goes, "the people can make it, but they can't know it." Whatever the original meaning of the sage who said this sentence was, it didn't matter at all, the feudal rulers just wanted them to break off like this!

Foolish people, this is the ruler's means of rule, and only in this way can their rule be consolidated: as long as they are fed, they will not rebel.

......

Night, cool as water.

As the last rays of the sun set, the sky darkened completely, and the village, which should have been quiet on a normal day, was bustling with activity.

On the bank of the Daqing River, hundreds of torches illuminate the river surface red, in front of the river temple, a bunch of bonfires several people high are burning, a skinny, less than five feet tall hunchbacked old witch is wearing a black robe with gold edges and constantly dancing around the bonfire, there are words in the mouth, dancing with hands, but it seems to contain some kind of law, people can't help but tighten up when they see it, a feeling of panic lingers in the heart, lingering, but more and more entangled.

Suddenly, the dancing old witch stopped, and shouted to everyone: "The auspicious time has come, worship the great witch god." ”

As soon as the words fell, someone immediately carried melons and fruits and other sacrifices to put them up, and then under the leadership of the old witch, they knelt down one by one, and continued to worship the statue of the river god in the river temple.

After three bows and nine bows, the old witch got up first and walked towards the riverbank, and everyone got up to follow.

The old witch came to the riverbank and stopped, turned to face everyone, waved her thin hand like a chicken's claw, and said gloomily: "The messenger of the river god has arrived, and the sacrifice is served!"

As she spoke, a cruel pleasure flashed in her eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, but the smile was attached to the corner of her wrinkled mouth, and under the reflection of the firelight, it looked extraordinarily bloodthirsty.

Hearing the old witch's order, the crowd immediately separated, and a raft was pushed out, on the raft sat a pair of boys and girls, I don't know if they were tired or what, the boy and girl seemed to be asleep, but there were still wet marks on their faces!

Despite this, in order to prevent the children from waking up and struggling in fear, a bowl-thick wooden stick was erected in the middle of the raft, and the two children were tied to the stick with their backs to each other.

With the old witch's sharp voice, the raft was pushed into the water. Under the light of the torches, slowly drift towards the middle of the river!

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