"Injustice, injustice...Zhutai must have known the truth, so he took revenge on us and the village." Da Zhuang's mother cried.
Hearing this, everyone was immediately happy. It was really hard to find a place after wearing iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it.
"Da Zhuang Mom, can you tell us?" Niu Hong asked softly.
"The village is like this now. Is there anything else that can't be said? What Da Zhuang told you is indeed correct. However, it's not that the girl from the Zhutai family is unwilling to marry the second son of the Niu family, but that she is destined to have a fate. That
Cao Liang was not a good guy either. He said he was a young man from the city, but he was actually a liar. He went to the village to get food and drink, and even stole the village's sacrificial utensils. The boss beat him to death not because he owed money but because he had any evil intentions.
I wanted to get the stolen sacrificial vessel back, but I didn’t expect that the boss saw that the sacrificial vessel was gold, so he secretly took it out and sold it to pay back the money. When he came back, he said that he had not found it. The sacrificial vessel was very important. Without the sacrificial vessel, the Lake God would be angry.
The whole village will suffer, so in order to appease the lake god, Lang Tu proposed the only way, which is human sacrifice."
"Is Zhutai's daughter the target of human sacrifice?" Lin Haoming asked in surprise.
"Yes, this incident was entirely caused by her, so she must be held responsible. And there are only three people who know the truth about the boss. That damn guy in my family, his eldest brother who is the village chief, and me. Even my old sister-in-law only knows how to communicate with her.
Da Zhuang knows the same thing." Da Zhuang's mother sighed bitterly.
"So Lang Tu was also killed by Zhu Tai?" Lin Haoming said.
"Did Zhutai's daughter wear red clothes when she died?" Malan asked at this time.
"Yes, human sacrifice means marrying a young girl to the lake god. Naturally, she has to wear red clothes." Da Zhuang's mother said.
"No, the people's wisdom was enlightened three years ago, and the second son of the Niu family was willing to sacrifice his wife?" Niu Hong asked with some confusion.
"Why do you think the village has to offer sacrifices in the Spring and Autumn Period? When I was a child, that was when the people's wisdom was awakened. For the first time, kerosene lamps and matches appeared in the village. At that time, Langtu's eldest brother was still a young man. He felt that the old era was over and the new era was coming.
When the time came, the village thought that sacrifices were too foolish, and they planned to lead the village to reform. Although there were still sacrifices, they did not want to follow the traditional rules. As a result, people in his family and in the village died one after another. As long as he walked outside in the dark,
, he would lie on the lake the next day, and in the end only Langtu was left, and he has been serving as a sacrifice in order to atone for his sins."
"Is that why there is a saying in the village that people should not walk outside after dark?" Lin Haoming asked.
"Actually, it doesn't matter at ordinary times, but when it comes to the day of sacrifice, it is true that the villagers don't come out at night. The human sacrifice three years ago made the villagers believe it even more." Da Zhuang's mother said.
By this time, everyone understood what was happening before them, but everyone also realized that the red witch, or the secret of the village, was actually not something that happened three years ago, but an older mystery, the red lake.
, and Zhutai is obviously one of the insiders. I am afraid that only by unraveling the secret of the Red Lake can we know what happened. It’s just how Langtu died. We still don’t know. This mission of up to ten topaz will reveal the mystery.
Maybe we have to wait until we find the red witch.
In fact, at first Lin Haoming thought about whether Zhutai killed Lang Tu, but as things developed, Lin Haoming discovered that some things seemed to be different from what he thought.
"Okay, you need to know what I have said. The people who did the work are all dead. Now I just hope that Da Zhuang can continue to speak well." Da Zhuang's mother said bitterly.
"Then do you know the Red Witch? Or have you heard of this name?" Niu Hong asked.
"What about the Red Witch? I've never heard of it." Da Zhuang's mother shook her head.
"I think only Lang Tu knows these things, and Lang Tu is the priest. If Lang Tu dies, Zhutai will take over." Niu Hong's face became a little sad as she saw smoke rising from the village.
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"Don't look at it. Those women must have had a grudge against Zhu Tai and burned down his house. I'm afraid they don't know what was inside." Malan also said a little annoyed.
"I'm going back, Da Zhuang, come with me." Da Zhuang's mother pulled Da Zhuang, as if after saying this, she was repaying everyone's kindness for saving her son's life.
After hearing this, Da Zhuang had no choice but to wave to Niu Hong again and left reluctantly.
"What should we do next?" Zhu Jiang looked at Malan and asked.
Malan glanced at Lin Haoming and said, "Do you have any ideas?"
Lin Haoming looked at the crowd and said, "Elder Ma, do you still remember the first time you were caught in a water tank at Langtu?"
"What are you talking about?" Malan asked.
Lin Haoming continued: "I encountered the same thing before. The other party just grabbed my hand and did not give me a fatal blow. If he wanted to kill me, why bother grabbing my hand?"
"What do you mean?" Ma Lan recalled that night and seemed to realize something.
"Hu Liang and I went to Lang Tu's house and saw the scarecrow. If the scarecrow is the lake god, every time we offer sacrifices to the lake god, we are actually trying to calm the lake god from causing chaos. What do you think of this so-called lake god?" Lin Haoming
asked.
"Ghosts, this village itself was built in a cinnabar mine. I don't believe it if it doesn't contain the ghosts." Niu Hong also said at this time that when things got to this point, they began to get anxious. After all, time waits for no one.
, it is already the third day, and if there is no way to solve the problem in the next two days, and if the main task cannot be completed by then, I am afraid I will die.
"So? Hu Shan, what did you mean by asking me before?"
"I'm thinking about a possibility. The hand in the water tank is not trying to kill us, but is hoping that we can find something or help her. Maybe we made the wrong move from the beginning," Lin Haoming said.
"Tonight is the night of sacrifice. Something must have happened. It's still some time before dark. What are you going to do?" Malan asked.
"If you have the conditions, you can naturally sneak into the bottom of the lake and take a look. While it's still bright, the lakeside, except for a few houses such as Lang Tujia, is filled with fields." Lin Haoming said.
"How to get there?" Those village women now regard us as enemies." Niu Hong asked.
"If you want to get over easily, you can pretend to be a village woman, and I can pretend to be a dead person. You just need to carry me over." Lin Haoming said.
"Are you going to go into the water yourself?" Niu Hong was a little surprised. This is a very risky behavior. Although time is getting less and less, it is really unwise to take such risks.
Malan also looked at Lin Haoming with some surprise. Before, this guy's performance had always been tepid, and he was only slightly better than the Pigmaker. But now he was suddenly so proactive. Ma Lan suspected that Lin Haoming had discovered something.
But just when they were thinking this, Lin Haoming shook his head and said: "I don't have the ability to guarantee that I can survive in the water, so this is impossible."
This chapter has been completed!