The man who invited me was named He Yizhou, and he took me to his home.
Along the way, the villagers surrounded me with smiles on their faces, which showed that they were very happy for me to come.
At the resort before, the villagers welcomed me very well, but not like this. They seemed to be overly enthusiastic, which made people feel a little strange.
I looked at Yuchen doubtfully.
Yuchen also seemed to find it strange and told me that he would go to the village to have a look.
Then it disappeared.
Because I have been with He Yizhou, in He Yizhou's eyes, Yuchen only sent us to the train station. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, Yuchen followed me invisibly, which made it easier for him to move.
He Yizhou's home is also an earthen house, which is extremely dilapidated. There are big cracks in the wall, and it looks like it will collapse at any time. The door is a tattered wooden door, hanging diagonally on the door frame and cannot be used at all. The windows are wooden windows.
The frame was covered with paper, but the paper was torn. The whole house didn't look like it could be inhabited.
The house is not big, with three rooms in total. There is a wooden table and three long benches in the middle living room. These are new.
At this time, sitting in the living room were a middle-aged woman, a beauty in her twenties, and a girl in her late teens.
He Yizhou saw off the villagers and then introduced me that they were his wife and two daughters.
The mother and daughter were wearing sister outfits, all off-white dresses. Coincidentally, the closet of clothes Yuchen bought for me also had this dress. I saw the tag, and it sold for more than 3,000 in the mall.
In addition, Mrs. He is well-maintained and looks to be in her early thirties. It is hard for me to believe that this family lives here.
I looked at He Yizhou and said unhappily, "He Yizhou, if you want me to help you, you have to tell me the truth. If you are still hiding it, I won't care about you, and I will leave now."
I risked my life to help him see things, but he still lied to me. I really don’t want to care about him anymore.
Seeing that I was angry, He Yizhou hurriedly said, "Xiangu, I didn't lie to you. Although we have left here long ago, every five years, all the people in the village, no matter far or near, have to come back to participate in the sacrifice. We also thought that everyone
If he doesn’t come back, he will never offer sacrifices to the River God again. But in the year when sacrifices were stopped, the family who wanted to marry their daughter to the River God all died. Not only that, there were also deaths in the families of us villagers.
.Someone dies in every family. Fairy aunt, there are no such coincidences in the world. This is the river god taking revenge on us."
"Yes, fairy aunt, you must not leave." Mrs. He said, "My youngest daughter is only sixteen years old. You must save her."
Perhaps because she knew what it was like to worship the river god, the little daughter was so scared that she started to cry.
Mrs. He comforted her little daughter.
He Yizhou said to me, "Xiangu, we have been riding in the car all day. You must be very tired. We will start dinner right away. After dinner, you can rest for a while."
After all, He Yizhou's family is not really from the mountains, and his family is considered wealthy, so the dinner is very sumptuous, with meals packed from restaurants.
While eating, I looked outside and saw that it was completely dark. Yuchen hadn't come back yet and I didn't know where he went.
I asked He Yizhou about the situation in the village.
He Yizhou told me that the origin of the name Hualong Ridge is that a long time ago, a snake who had achieved enlightenment passed through a tribulation and ascended to become a dragon. After he successfully ascended, he threw away his mortal body and fell to the ground, transforming into a dragon.
It forms a river. This river is at the end of the village where it enters the mountain entrance. It is called Long River. The river god He Yizhou and the others call is in this river.
I have never heard that after becoming an immortal, you will throw away your original body. I have never heard that your body can turn into a river when it falls to the ground. This is indeed a legend and is pure nonsense.
I didn't take the story to heart either.
After dinner, I wanted to wait for Yuchen to come back and go to Longhe with him. But before he came back, I felt sleepy. I thought maybe I was too tired after riding in the car for a day, but I didn’t
After thinking too much, he listened to He Yizhou and went to the back room to rest.
I was drifting off to sleep when I suddenly felt shaking underneath me, like an earthquake.
earthquake?!
I woke up suddenly and opened my eyes to find that I was not at He Yizhou's home, but by the river.
My hands and feet were tied, and I was lying flat on a bamboo raft. Next to me were fruits, wine, a pair of dragon and phoenix candles, and a lot of paper money and gold ingots. My clothes were also changed.
, wearing a wedding dress made of red paper.
By the river, the villagers were kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to me. They were preparing to kowtow to the river.
Even now, I still don’t understand. They are using me as a sacrifice to the river god!
I found He Yizhou in the crowd and shouted angrily, "He Yizhou, I came to save you, and you do this to me?!"
He Yizhou looked at me guiltily, "Xiangu, I can't help it. I invited three experts before, but not only did they disappear, but they also angered the river god. Tonight is the deadline for the sacrifice. Xiangu, you
With the protection of the immortal family, you will be fine, but if it were my daughter, my daughter would be dead. Fairy aunt, aren't you here just to save my daughter? Saving in this way is also saving, right?
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"You idiot!" I cursed. "You knocked me out and used me as a sacrifice. You call this saving people?! He Yizhou, if I didn't wake up and fell into the water, I would have drowned!"
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He Yizhou ignored me.
The bamboo raft floated further and further in the water. I knew that since the villagers had put me on the boat, they would not be able to put me down. I shouted, "Where is my talisman? Where is the yellow talisman in my pocket?"
It's a life-saving thing, don't throw it away.
It was already midnight, and relying on the moonlight and the few torches lit by the villagers, I could no longer see the expressions of the people on the shore.
I couldn't hear He Yizhou's answer for a long time. I thought he didn't notice the yellow charm in my pocket at all. I was disappointed when I heard a little girl's voice suddenly coming from the shore.
"Xiangu, I put the yellow talisman in your pocket under the fruit plate for you, pressing it with an apple. Look for it!"
Hearing this, I quickly knocked over the apple plate, and sure enough there was a yellow talisman pressed on the bottom of the plate.
I picked up the yellow charm.
At this time, the bamboo raft suddenly floated into a burst of thick smoke, and the surrounding area was completely white, and nothing could be seen. At the same time, all the sounds on the shore disappeared, and the surrounding area fell into a strange silence.
I nervously clenched the talisman in my hand and shouted, "Yu Chen! Yu Chen, where are you?"
The only thing that answers me is my own echo.
The water flowed faster and faster, and the bamboo raft began to shake. My hands and feet were tied. If the bamboo raft overturned, I would be dead!
I was so frightened that I almost cried. I reached out tremblingly and held the yellow talisman towards the candle. Just when the yellow talisman was about to be lit, a ray of silver light suddenly rushed over.
In the blink of an eye, silver light came to my side, it was Yuchen.
When I saw Yuchen, I couldn't hold back my tears any longer, and they started to fall, "Where have you been, and why did you come here!"
Yuchen hugged me and said, "We don't care about things here."
As he spoke, he hugged me and jumped into the air.
Flying in mid-air, I lowered my head and looked down. In the river below, just below the bamboo raft, a huge shadow floated up from the bottom of the river, and the shadow covered the entire bamboo raft.
I asked in disbelief, "There can't be whales in the river, right? What are the things in the river..."
Before I could finish asking, I heard a crash and something in the river rushed out of the water. Along with the huge water column, four small pink snakes bit towards Yuchen.
Yuchen hugged me with one hand, flicked his other hand, and a silver whip appeared in his hand.
He swung his silver whip and the whip wrapped around four small snakes.
Only then did I see clearly that what was flying over was not a snake, but four pink tongues. The top of the tongue was forked, and it looked like a snake opening its mouth. There was mucus hanging on the tongue. Because of the close distance, it could still
There was a rancid smell.
Looking along the long tongue, I saw a huge toad lying on the water. The toad was green in color and had numerous raised pustules on its back. It looked extremely disgusting.
His mouth was open wide, and four tongues were sticking out of his mouth.
I was surprised, "How can a toad have four tongues?"
Yuchen swung the whip in his hand, knocked back the tongue, hugged me and ran away, "A thousand years old and four tongues, a long life with horns. This toad is at least a thousand years old."
Yuchen has also been practicing for thousands of years. If he takes me away, does that mean he can't defeat this toad?
I was thinking about it when suddenly a thick green smoke puffed out.
Yuchen's expression changed slightly, he stretched out his hand to cover my mouth and nose, and said to me, "Hold your breath."
With that said, he took me and sped away.
But before he could escape from the thick smoke, Yuchen's body suddenly stopped and stopped in mid-air. He turned his head and looked over.
I also followed his gaze and saw a tongue wrapped around his ankle, pulling him down.
"Third Master," a gloomy male voice came over, "You can't defeat me unless you show your true form."
Yuchen sneered, "If you let me reveal my true form, are you worthy?!"