Chapter 1980: The Geng Family and the Yangtze River!
The great uncle's words made Qin Yu silent.
Because, according to Qin Yu's knowledge, there was indeed a precedent of people being sacrificed to the river in ancient times, mostly boys and girls. However, this was the first time he encountered someone using the Geng family name as a sacrifice.
"Hundreds of years ago, the Yangtze River flooded, and the people on both sides of the river were suffering miserably. At that time, an expert passed by. The expert told the people on both sides that this was the river monster in the Yangtze River causing trouble. He wanted to prevent the river monster from causing trouble.
If we make trouble again, we can only provide sacrifices to the river monster."
"However, the sacrifice cannot be an ordinary pig, cow, sheep, etc., but a human being, and it cannot be an ordinary human being, it can only be a horoscope with fire in it."
Therefore, the people on both sides of the Yangtze River asked experts to search for it, and finally they found it in Gengjiayu.
However, at that time, Gengjia Yun was not called Geng Jia Yun, and the people here did not have the surname Geng. The surname Geng was given by an expert at that time. When the expert came here and saw the people of Geng Jia Yun, he said that the people here fit the bill.
Even if the people of Gengjia Yun were unwilling, they could not be enemies of all the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. In addition, Gengjia Yun was also suffering from floods at that time, so they found a few boys and girls to sacrifice to the river monster.
Don't think this is outrageous. In that era, it was a very normal thing. Moreover, after several boys and girls from Gengjiayu were thrown into the Yangtze River, as expected, there were no more floods in the Yangtze River for a year.
Therefore, the people on both sides of the Yangtze River focused their attention on the villagers of Gengjia Yun, and did not let these villagers escape. Anyway, they imprisoned the people of Gengjia Yun, just waiting for the annual river sacrifice to find the boys and girls of Gengjia Yun.
Throw it into the water.
However, as a result, the people nearby naturally did not dare to marry their daughters to men in Gengjiayu. Within five years, Gengjiayu had almost no virgins. But even so, the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait did not
The villagers who are willing to let go of Gengjiayu, if there are no boys or girls, just use the number of people to make up.
In one year at most, fifteen villagers from Gengjia Yun were thrown into the Yangtze River to worship the river monster. In just ten years, only a few old people and women were left in Gengjia Yun, and it was almost impossible to pick out a few strong men.
Seeing that Geng Jiayun was about to disappear completely if this situation continued, the patriarch at that time made a bold decision to take the remaining men of Geng Jiayun to find the river monster and fight for their lives.
This was a very bold decision, because in that era, the river monster was the same existence as the dragon god, and was unstoppable in the eyes of mortals. If Geng Jiayun had not been forced into a desperate situation, he would not have embarked on this path.
There were a total of fifteen men in Gengjia Yun, including the clan leader, the eldest of whom was over fifty years old and the youngest only twelve years old. These fifteen men from Geng Jiayun came to the Yangtze River overnight.
No one knows what happened to the fifteen men in Gengjia Yun. However, three days later, a twelve-year-old boy, the youngest of the fifteen men covered in blood, returned to Geng Jia Yun alone.
The young boy returned to Gengjia Yun and told all the people on both sides that the river monster would no longer cause trouble and there was no need to use the villagers of Gengjia Yun to offer sacrifices to the river. At the same time, the young boy changed the name of the village to Gengjia Yun. It was at that time that
, this place was called Gengjiayu, and at the same time, all the villagers also converted to Geng.
"That young boy was the first clan leader of our Geng family. This clan rule was also passed down from that time. People in the Geng family are not allowed to go near the Yangtze River, otherwise it will bring disaster to the entire Geng family."
Grand uncle looked at Qin Yu and sighed: "For hundreds of years, although the villagers of Gengjia Yun have been close to the Yangtze River, few villagers are actually close to the Yangtze River, because the fields allocated to Geng Jia Yun are all close to the Yangtze River.
On the other side of the Yangtze River."
"The most important point of the ancestral teachings is that all the villagers in Gengjiayu are not allowed to make a living on the Yangtze River, so I, the villagers in Gengjiayu, never fish on the Yangtze River."
"No, if you really said that, wouldn't Geng Fang have broken the rules?"
After listening to his great-uncle's words, Qin Yu looked at Geng Fang, "Geng Fang is also from Gengjiayu. Don't those who fish for corpses make a living by relying on the Yangtze River?"
"Except Geng Fang. Geng Fang's ancestor was the first patriarch of my Geng family. Geng Fang's lineage is the only one who can make a living from the Yangtze River, and they must be engaged in the business of collecting corpses for generations. This is Geng Fang's.
The family rules of the Fang family."
Great uncle explained, and Geng Fang nodded at this time, "Great uncle is right, my family has a family rule that people must be engaged in collecting corpses from generation to generation. As for why there is such a family rule, I don't know."
After listening to what Geng Fang and Taishu Gong said, Qin Yu fell into silence. From this point of view, Geng Jiayun seemed to be hiding some secret, and this secret was related to the Yangtze River.
The first patriarch of the Geng family must have encountered something on the Yangtze River to make such a decision. But why did he change his surname to Geng?
Hundreds of years have passed, and Qin Yu knows very well that this secret may have been sealed in the long river of history with the death of the first patriarch of Gengjia Yun. It is not easy to unlock this secret.
However, for Qin Yu, the secrets of Geng Jiayun belong to Geng Jiayun. He is just curious, but he does not necessarily need to know the truth of all the secrets. There are too many secrets in the world. If you don’t encounter a secret, you have to know it.
The truth is, I'm afraid he will never be too busy in his lifetime.
Bang!
Just when Qin Yu frowned, the great uncle suddenly knelt down in front of Qin Yu.
"Great uncle!" Upon seeing this, Geng Fang quickly tried to help his great uncle up, but he was thrown away by him.
"I understand the principle of killing people to pay for their lives. I killed Geng Laosan and the others. I will use my old life to pay off the debt. I just hope you can let Fang Zi go. All he did was obey my orders."
That's all, I forced him to do this." The great uncle looked at Qin Yu with piercing eyes, with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
"Uncle, this is none of your business. I did all this. I killed Geng Laosan and Geng Daming. I will plead guilty." Geng Fang became anxious when he heard this and quickly argued.
"Crack!"
The great-uncle slapped Geng Fang on the face, "You bastard, you haven't married yet and have children. Do you want to see your family die? What do you want me to tell your grandfather about?"
Geng Fang was stunned by the slap from his great uncle and didn't speak again for a while.
"I will go to the police station to surrender at dawn and admit everything."
"Do you think the police station will believe what you say?" Qin Yu asked.
The great-uncle was silent, because he knew that what Qin Yu said was true, and the police would definitely not believe it. They would definitely investigate by then, and by then, Fang Zi would be found out by them.
Meng Yao, who was standing next to Qin Yu, had a look of intolerance on her face. When she thought about it, although her great-uncle killed someone, it was Geng Laosan and the others who brought it upon themselves. They held the body and demanded a price. Such people deserved to die.
"Besides, I didn't say I wanted to report you to the police station. I said I just wanted to satisfy my curiosity." Qin Yu spread his hands and said with a smile.
PS: Sorry for the late update. The updates will be a little unstable these days. Let me explain to everyone, but there will be no shortage of updates. There will be another update at one or two in the morning. I hope you can forgive me for some mundane things!
Spoiler alert, the Geng family is not that simple, otherwise it would be called filling a big hole. (To be continued)