Did you bring his body?" Chilong Zhenren raised his eyebrows and asked Su Wu.
"Never brought it."
Su Wu shook his head and looked at the many shriveled female corpses on the ground. When he saw female corpses placed in the open space, his eyes were a bit horrifying: "I suspect that this matter has something to do with Wutong God and Zhenlu Mountain.
Very deep connection.
Especially when I asked Huang Liuzi,
Both the women who drowned due to the boat capsizing and their wives all made wishes before the Wutong God. After making their wishes, they became pregnant one after another.
Huang Liuzi took a few people by boat to the county town downstream.
The journey through the Shaxi River was calm and calm.
An accident occurred on the ferry when it reached the mouth of the Shaxi River and the Min River. The boat capsized and several women fell into the river. In a short period of time, their bellies swelled one after another. From the very beginning,
There were no signs of pregnancy, and everyone looked as if they were pregnant with Liujia!
Huang Liuzi managed to rescue one of them to the river bank.
The man cried and laughed at him for a while, then turned around and threw himself into the river again!
——At that time, Huang Liuzi also said that when he was driving the boat, he did not feel that the boat hit the rocks. The river was relatively gentle at that time and was not so turbulent, but the boat capsized..."
"We found Huang Liuzi's boat at the mouth of Shaxi River.
The boat was not damaged.
It can indeed confirm what he said - the boat never touched the reef." Master Chilong said to Su Wu.
Su Wu nodded: "Old Miao Zhu's death was strange, and it is probably related to the Wutong God.
I was worried that bringing his body might cause something bad to happen to Huang Liuzi's wife, so I did not bring his body over, and also prohibited the Huangs and his wife from participating in any further sacrifices or rituals related to the God of Five Tongs."
"The God of Five Powers..." Chilong Zhenren muttered, and then said to Su Wu, "You did the right thing."
"Are these female corpses salvaged from the Minjiang River?" Su Wu squatted down next to a female corpse. After careful inspection, he found that the female corpse had been "pregnant." His eyes were shocked, "The corpse here is
Each female corpse seemed to have experienced the same thing as those drowned women - it seemed that their abdomens had swelled as if they were pregnant in a short period of time, and then were "removed" from their bellies in a short period of time.
Just a thing, my stomach quickly shriveled up..."
Chilong's eyes were solemn, he walked to a female corpse in bright clothes, pointed at the female corpse in colorful clothes, and several female corpses beside her who were all wearing more colorful clothes, and said to Su Wu: "These corpses
The female corpses were all dead not long ago.
They should be the women who drowned in the river after the boat capsized.
After a while, Huang Liuzi was asked to come over and identify him.
All the corpses here have the characteristic that the abdomen bulges and shrinks in a short period of time.
Let's go, let's go see Huang Liuzi's wife first.
See how she is doing?"
"good."
Su Wu nodded and stood up from the side of the female corpse.
The two walked side by side towards the row of huts.
This row of thatched huts next to Wutong Ferry was originally built by the boatmen who ran boats here to raise money together, so that the boatmen traveling from south to north could stay here. If it was too late to return from the boat, they could rest in the huts.
one time.
Later, fewer and fewer boatmen passed through this place.
The huts built were left unmaintained and gradually fell into disrepair.
The Taoist boys in Beilu Mountain found a hut that was not badly damaged and simply tidied it up.
Huang Liuzi took the bedding off the cart, spread it in the hut, and temporarily settled his wife on the bed in the hut.
The couple was sitting on the head of the bed, while the other was half-siting on the edge of the bed, both looking preoccupied.
At this time, Master Chilong took Su Wu into the hut.
Huang Liuzi, who was half sitting on the edge of the bed, quickly stood up and saluted the two of them at a loss: "Master, Taoist Master..."
"How is Madam-in-law doing?
I was in a bit of a hurry along the way,
You haven't caught a cold, have you?" Su Wu nodded and greeted Huang Liuzi calmly.
As soon as he spoke,
Huang Liuzi, who was still nervous just now, felt much relieved. He nodded and replied: "I covered her with a thick quilt. She feels pretty good now and hasn't caught a cold. Thank you for your trouble, Taoist Master."
Su Wu shook his head, and led Chilong Zhenren, who was staring at Huang's wife's belly silently from behind, to the front, and said to Huang Liuzi: "Let my master come and see how Mrs. Sister-in-law is doing at the moment. Brother Liuzi, you and Mrs. Sister-in-law don't want to
nervous."
"Hey, okay, okay!"
Huang Liuzi secretly glanced at Chilong Zhenren and felt a little scared when he saw the man's beard.
He quickly turned around, sat on the edge of the bed, put his arms around his wife's shoulders, and whispered to comfort her.
Master Chilong was also standing beside the bed at this moment. He rolled up his sleeves and said to Mr. and Mrs. Huang, "I'm sorry."
Subsequently,
The palm of his hand gently pressed on Huang's wife's abdomen.
Huang Liuzi hugged his wife's head and patted her back.
The bearded Taoist pressed his palm on Huang's wife's abdomen without exerting much force. He stayed on her abdomen for a few breaths and then took it back. He frowned slightly and sat on the small stool brought by the Taoist boy under the door.
Turning her head sideways, she said to Su Wu: "What is the chaotic and unknown thing in her body? It is actually the product of the combination of her hard work and energy and the "power of wish" gathered after she made a vow before God.
I understand a little bit - why did those women on the boat have their bellies swelled rapidly after the boat capsized and fell into the water?
It shrank again in a short period of time!"
"The wishes they had made in front of the Wutong God were fulfilled.
The strength of the will swells for a moment, like the stem of a melon falling off when ripe.
The abdomen naturally swells rapidly.
This "ripe fruit of wish" was returned to the "Five Power God", so their abdomen quickly shrank in a short period of time?" After Su Wu heard what Chilong said, he suddenly understood the key to many problems.
He immediately spoke to Master Chilong.
Master Chilong glanced at him in surprise, then nodded: "You are right.
This is probably the case.
This woman at the moment - Huang Liuzi's wife, if she meets the Wutong Shen again one day, she will inevitably end up with the fate of "falling into a trap" and "dying to fulfill her wish"!
Although I don’t know what wishes those Goulan women made in front of the Wutong God,
But thinking about it, as long as the boat capsizes, then the "Wutongshen" will fulfill their wish.
It’s time for them to “repay their wish”!”
Su Wu sighed secretly.
He had actually already guessed what wishes those Goulan women had made in front of the Wutong God - most of them were wishes to escape from the Goulan and escape from the devil's cave.
Huang Liuzi took them to the Minjiang River by boat.
The boat capsized,
When they fell into the water and died, wouldn't it mean that they were freed from the hook and escaped from the devil's cave forever?
No wonder there was a Goulan girl who had clearly been rescued by Huang Liuzi, but after crying and laughing for a while by the river, she threw herself into the water again - she must have been fascinated by ghosts at the time, thinking that after throwing herself into the river, she was the real one.
Escaped from the devil's cave.
At that moment, Minjiang was regarded as her final destination!
"The incense of Wutong God is very popular, and there are many believers in the surrounding hundreds of miles. According to Lao Miaozhu, during festivals and on the days when the boatmen start work, many people will go to Wutong Temple to offer incense and pray in front of the God. Make a wish.
There are not only women among them, but also quite a few men." Su Wu sorted out her thoughts, and after saying a few words, she turned to Huang Liuzi, whose face turned pale, and asked, "Brother Liuzi, your latest offering to the Wutong God Incense, when do you make a wish before God?"
"Just before this boat trip!
I made a wish in the Wutong Temple, hoping that the gods would bless my boat trip smoothly, not encounter any storms, and be able to safely complete the errands assigned by my customers.
Cui'er went with me!" Huang Liuzi put his arm around his wife's shoulders and hugged her tighter.
Huang's wife also followed
He nodded in agreement: "Yes, we went to the Wutong Temple together. I made a wish in front of the god, asking him to bless my husband a safe journey, to finish his errands early, come home, and stop going out to gamble with others."
Su Wu looked at Chilong Zhenren and said, "Wutong God has a wide range of believers, regardless of gender.
But now the corpses that Master fished out from the river were all female corpses.
Except for the old temple blessings, we have not seen any other cases where men made wishes in front of the Wutong God and finally "fulfilled their wishes" and died - why is this so?
Is it because only women can conceive and raise fetuses?
The Wutong God - or something behind the Wutong God, with the help of the bodies of women who are still in the childbearing age within a radius of a hundred miles, breeds a thing that combines the will power with the bones, blood and essence, and then uses the "Min River" to bring this thing Everything is gathered together?
What is it planning in the end?!"
"After painstaking efforts to lay out such a plot - it is conceivable that the person standing behind Wutong Shen is not just a scheming person, but also someone is planning all this!" Master Chilong sneered again and again, "This matter has nothing to do with the power of God. The forum must be deeply connected!
At present, we still have too few clues.
Based on the circumstances of the current case alone, it is difficult to infer the "Wutongshen" and the real conspiracy behind it.
Huang Liuzi previously informed Lao Miao Zhu and asked him to report the news to Tianwei Taoist Altar on his behalf and send the "Red-headed Master" to save the drowned Goulan women. Now that Lao Miao Zhu died, he asked Tianwei Taoist Altar's "Red-headed Master" to save them. "Master" but this matter cannot be stopped here."
Chilong Zhenren raised his eyes and looked at Huang Liuzi: "How do Laomiao Zhu deliver news to Tianwei Taoist Altar in general?"
"I also asked the reliable boatman who went to the big city where the Tianwei Taoist Altar is located to bring the news and the gift money for the Master to do the rituals.
I know that Zhao Ji and the Chen brothers from Jinxi Village have sent news to Lao Miao Zhu." Huang Liuzi replied quickly.
"good.
I'll ask a reliable boatman to deliver the news to Tianwei Taoist Temple tomorrow.
Tell them that Miao Zhu had his heart cut out and died, and that more than 20 pregnant women jumped into the Minjiang River one after another and died. Invite them to come over to perform rituals. I want to see what kind of tricks these "comrades" can do.
What's the explanation for this?!" Master Chilong's eyebrows were raised angrily, and he asked Su Wu, "Dingyang, what do you think we need to do next?"
"Gather the village chiefs and elders from the surrounding villages and ask them to identify the female corpses.
Count the number of people who have offered incense to the "Wutong God" in each village in the past month, compile a list, list the women of childbearing age separately, and see how many of them are pregnant?
Next,
We must also ask Master to tour each village and conduct "free clinics" for villagers in each village, taking the opportunity to identify whether those pregnant women are carrying real "fetuses" or "wish seeds"?!
Judging from the incident of the Goulan woman who drowned in the river - there is something terrifying and strange about the Minjiang River. We must strictly warn the people in every village, especially women who are pregnant with the wish seed, not to go to the Minjiang River." Su Wu