The group of people carefully looked after their belongings amidst the crowds of people on the street, and arrived at the inn where Lao Yao stayed.
Wu Qiudao found that this inn was quite prosperous. When the proprietress saw Wu Qiudao's appearance, she ran up and down to prepare everything. She also gave everyone a free oyster cake and steaming fish head soup.
He took the soup cake and frowned. This inexplicable flattery again made him more and more curious. He went directly into the room that Lao Yao had booked in advance, found a bench and sat down, and spread his hands to Lao Yao.
Let him speak quickly.
Lao Yao ate oyster cakes, then talked about the rumors about Yudu Town, and drank some fish head soup from time to time to soothe his throat.
The old mayor, Yuchang, was originally a fisherman from Meidao who worked alone. One day, he got tired of the boring fishing life and found a job as a sailor on an ocean-going ship. He worked as a sailor on an ocean-going ship for several years without any news.
But in the end, no one knew what he had gone through outside, and the residents of the island thought he was dead. Until one day, he brought a short, black-haired vassal girl back to Daomei Island.
He said he wanted to marry her.
You know, our Tang Dynasty has always used Bodhisattva barbarians, Silla maids, and Kunlun slaves as wealth to fight for wealth. He said that he wanted to marry an exotic barbarian girl who was good at singing and dancing, or find a well-behaved and obedient Silla girl.
Forget about being a maid, but how can anyone find a short black Kunlun vassal girl as a wife?
But Yuchang’s parents died young, and there were no decent clans in this rural area, so he actually married her!
It is said that the vassal girl Yuchang married was a witch from the Zhuluo Kingdom. The Zhuluo Kingdom was founded by King Wuyou. The kingdom has been in Zuo for thousands of years. There are many witchcraft and evil sacrifices in it. Yuchang had an affair with the evil spirits that the vassal girl believed in.
He made a deal and brought a group of monsters to Mei Island.
"Evil spirit?" When Wu Qiudao heard these two words, he knew that the matter was probably going to be troublesome. It was purely PTSD.
"That's right!" Old Yao said in a low voice, "The evil spirit is called 'Dragon Girl'. She claims to be the biological daughter of the Dragon King in the sea, and is the god of salvation for fishermen in the world. It was the evil spirit that gave Yuchang a bucket of gold and bought it
The land, and schools of fish came from all over the world, so that Yudu Town keeps catching fish!"
"Dragon Girl?" Wu Qiudao frowned. Is this related to the underwater dragon god he saw in Taixu's dream before?
Lao Yao said that because the catch and the gold were real, the Dragon Goddess’s miracles were so obvious that she gradually won the hearts of the fishermen on Mei Island. The islanders built temples and statues for the Dragon Goddess.
Emblem image.
Over the past forty years, the scale of the Dragon Girl Temple's worship has grown in size on Mae Dao. All Buddhist and Taoist temples and monks and Taoists have been gradually driven away, leaving only the Dragon Girl's evil and lewd priests alone.
That's why Lao Yao wanted Wu Qiudao to pray for him. There were many accidents along the way and he was unlucky. However, when he arrived at Mei Island, there were no serious high-gong masters to do it. He didn't believe in the dragon girl either, so he had to arrest Wu temporarily.
Seek help.
Wu Qiudao narrowed his eyes and glanced at Lao Yao, "Good guy, it turns out that he was so sick that he went to the doctor, and the doctor came to me." But he didn't mind, and asked: "Then why are other people so respectful and flattering to me?
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Lao Yao thought for a while and said that since the Dragon Girl Temple took root here forty years ago, evil practices such as human sacrifice have continued. The locals of Mei Island seemed to have been punished by heaven. Since then, they have gradually developed a strange disease.
Skin lesions all over the body.
This skin disease does not infect outsiders, but is only inherited among locals. The older you get, the more severe the disease becomes, so much so that the elderly in the town stay indoors. Almost no one has seen what the locals look like in old age.
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But only the Yuchang family, the old mayor of Yudu Town, has acquired an unusually beautiful appearance. Every young man of the Yu family is as handsome as Wu Qiudao, as if they were heavenly beings, while the older generation also lives in seclusion.
Everything in the town is handled by the young people of the Yu family.
The young people of the Yu family are all very handsome. Wu Qiudao was wondering, could it be that his original relatives were from the Yu family? But his name is Xu Jian, not Yu Jian! Did he hear the homophony wrongly? Or is his mother from the Yu family?
?There is too little information, we have to continue to explore!
Lao Yao said: "I guess those people thought that the Taoist priest was a member of the Yu family, so they were so flattering."
While Wu Qiudao listened, he stood by the window and observed carefully the local residents of Yudu Town with unique temperaments.
These people are even more disturbing than those gloomy and desolate abandoned houses. Their faces and skin appear quite dark under the years of wind and sun, and most of them have thin and stooped bodies, with weirdly big hands and feet, and they are obviously
It affected their lives.
These locals walk with a staggering gait, like men who are accustomed to going barefoot and suddenly put on high heels to walk. Their weird posture makes people very uncomfortable just by looking at them.
Their faces were gloomy, almost expressionless. There were strange sunken folds on both sides of their necks, their noses were flat, their ears were retracted, as if they were not fully developed, and their lips were very thin, always looking droopy and unhappy.
In addition, they have no beards on their faces, and they even have a lot of bald hair. There are many peeling patches on their skin that are similar to vitiligo. They are listless and look like they are seriously ill.
Even though they have so many appearance features, when anyone looks over them, they will first notice their big, bulging and gray eyes. Their blinking speed is seven to eight times slower than ordinary people. If they meet their eyes, they will keep blinking.
Staring at you.
Wu Qiudao felt uncomfortable with the sight, so he partially covered the wooden window, turned sideways, and hid behind to change the object of observation.
These locals are very vigilant, but children do not react so quickly. A group of dirty, monkey-like children gathered together and ran around in the market. They looked no different from ordinary children.
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Wu Qiudao somewhat agreed with Lao Yao's argument about hereditary diseases. Because there was nothing strange about the children's eyes or noses, but the faces of the adults were basically a little strange.
He already understood in his heart that when it comes to spiritual practice, these changes in appearance are probably the price!
So what is going on with this evil "Dragon Girl"? Is she the vaunted obscene hair-sacrifice god like Mandrill in Shuzhou? Or is she an evil god like Ma Huagong in Pengzhou with a righteous god like Musical God Bodhisattva standing behind her?
Wu Qiudao asked Lao Yao: "Old Yao, do you know where the Dragon Girl Temple is? Is there anything unusual in it?"
Lao Yao hesitated: "The Dragon Girl is evil. Of course, everything is abnormal! The fish floods that never stop all year round are very strange! Although there are Dragon Girl temples everywhere on Mei Island, the largest one is the Dragon Girl Temple.
, it should be the one on the mountain!"
Huh? Wu Qiudao raised his head and looked towards Meishan Mountain. Sure enough, among the clouds and mist, there was a grand temple standing on the mountain, waiting for visitors to visit.