O43novel Chapter 234 Sacrifice to the River God
Chapter 234 Sacrifice to the River God
However, the soil here is dry, and they dug the soil for a long time but failed to find a single earthworm.I had to ask Bai Xiaoshi and Bai Xiaojiu to dig some out in the spirit realm.
In the past six months, these two have not often appeared in front of the world because of her southern tour.Therefore, most of the time I stay in the spiritual realm, and I almost grow hairy when I am idle.
Even so, Bai Xiaoshi still refused straight away: "Are you crazy for such a noble and elegant weapon spirit like me to give you such disgusting things as planing earthworms?"
The humble master of the realm has nothing to do with the proud weapon spirit, and he can't always beat it because of these trivial things.
He had no choice but to enslave Bai Xiaojiu.Fortunately, Bai Xiaojiu is a handsome, hardworking and understanding tiger.
As soon as Jiang Yuqing said it, it immediately agreed, took a small bamboo pot in its mouth, and went to dig the soil.It didn't take long to plan a small half of the jar.
Jiang Yuqing looked at the densely coiled molluscs in the jar, feeling uncomfortable in his stomach.He hurriedly picked some soil to cover it, and took the jar out of the spiritual realm.
Before leaving, he threw a bottle of elixir to Bai Xiaojiu as a reward.
Besides, everyone took the small benches and the simple fishing rods they just made to the Jinghe River, picked a place with slow water, sat separately, hooked earthworms and started fishing.
Because bait is produced by Lingjing, it is very attractive to ordinary fish.
Not long after the hook was dropped, fish took the bait one after another, and they were all big fish weighing more than five or six catties.After a while, everyone caught five or six fish.
Such a big harvest really made everyone very happy.The small water bucket he brought couldn't hold it anymore, so Jiang Yuqing simply took out a large water tank, which was enough to hold it.
At this moment, a team in red and green in the distance, carrying a small red sedan chair, came to the bank of the Jing River in a whistling manner. At first, everyone thought they were picking up the bride.
But then it became more and more wrong.
Those pedestrians were not going in the direction of the ferry, and they actually stopped the sedan chair by the river and did not move, as if they were holding some ceremony.
After Jing Yan looked at it for a while, his face suddenly changed, and he said angrily, "Damn it, they are actually sacrificing children to the river."
When everyone heard this, they were all startled. They inserted the fishing rods in their hands into the ground at will, and ran to the place of sacrifice, intending to prevent this tragedy from happening.
Everyone hurried, but it was still a little short.I watched helplessly as the group of foolish people rowed two five or six-year-old children to the middle of the river in a small boat, put them in a small wooden basin and pushed them into the river.
The river was rushing, and when a wave hit, the basin overturned, and the two children were instantly covered in the water.
Without thinking too much about it, Jing Yan flew directly into the sky, picked up the two children from the water, and flew back to the shore.
Others came immediately.Jiang Yuqing stuffed his son into Cang Hai's arms, and Doctor Qiu was in charge of one, giving the children emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Fortunately, the two children did not fall into the water for a long time, and not much water was choked into the lungs. After some rescue, the children coughed up quickly.
Because of the severe fright, the two children cried a lot.
Jiang Yuqing shouted: "Whose child is this? Hurry up and take it back."
After shouting twice in a row, several adults with tears on their faces ran out from the crowd, and each picked up their own children, coaxing and comforting them non-stop.
This sudden change made the worshiping crowd stunned on the spot.After reacting, they all kowtowed to Jing Yan and shouted: "God, I saw a god today!"
Jing Yanhan scolded angrily: "Whose idea is it for offering sacrifices to the River God? Stand up and don't let me do it!"
An old man came out tremblingly and said: "The god is a horse half-immortal. She said that if virgins and boys are used to worship the river god, the Jinghe River will be free from flooding and the weather will be smooth."
"Ridiculous!" Jing Yan was furious: "How long has this been going on?"
The old man said: "It's been three sessions, every three years, and each session requires a pair of virgins and boys."
"Very good!" Jing Yan was furious.When Emperor Taizu founded the country, he strictly prohibited the use of living people for sacrifices.The royal family abolished the system of burial of living people.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, there are still people who would dare to sacrifice a living person.
"Which one is Ma Banxian?" Everyone hurriedly turned their heads to look for Ma Banxian, only to find that she was no longer here.
But it turned out that the old witch found that something was wrong, and while everyone was not paying attention, she ran away quietly.
But after a while, he has already run more than half a mile.
With a look from Jing Yan, Wu Ya immediately used his lightness kung fu to chase after him, and within a dozen breaths he caught Ma Banxian back.
The old witch's face was as wrinkled as dried orange peel, with red cinnabar painted with mysterious runes that others could not understand.
The nails on both hands were left long, and they were all painted a bloody red.
Wearing a patchwork, nondescript "cassock", with a piece of black gauze stretched over his head.At first glance, it does seem like that.
After the old woman was captured, she immediately yelled and tried to stir up the people again.
"You will suffer retribution for destroying the sacrifice. The river god will definitely be angry if there are no offerings of virgins and men. At that time, the flood of the Jing River will submerge all the fields and houses."
Sure enough, the people immediately panicked when they heard this.Wu Ya mobilized his internal energy and shouted: "Quiet!"Everyone was stunned again.
Jing Yan walked in front of the horse half-immortal, glanced at her up and down, and sneered: "It doesn't matter if there are no virgins or boys, as long as you are there.
The God of the River told me that he prefers older, chewy ones, especially ones that can communicate with ghosts and gods, like you. "
Sensing the murderous intent in his words, Ma Banxian was terrified, and struggled desperately: "You are talking nonsense, the river god likes virgins and girls. The old one dislikes his teeth, so you let me go quickly."
Jing Yan didn't want to give her an extra look, and turned to ask the crowd who participated in the sacrifice: "Apart from virgins and boys, did you give anything else?"
The old man who spoke before said: "Yes, each family also paid another tael of silver, saying that it was to buy other sacrifices for the God of the River."
"How many families and how much money did they pay?"
"There are a total of more than 1300 households in the three villages."
Jiang Yuqing chuckled: "More than 1300 households cost more than 1300 taels of silver.
The total of the three sessions was 4000 taels of silver.What sacrifice is so expensive and worth so much money?
She is using you as a cash cow in the name of offering sacrifices to the river god.
But you are still in a hurry to give money to your children, you are really being sold and still counting the money for her, you are so stupid. "
Another woman said suspiciously: "But since the river god was made a priest, it is true that there has not been a particularly large flood in Jinghe River, and the weather has been smooth and smooth for the past ten years."
"That's because we caught up with the good times, not because of the credit of your sacrifices. There is no sacrifice to the River God in other places in Daxia, so the weather is still smooth.
Besides, is the one who needs virgin priests and priests called the river god?The water monster and the goblin are almost the same!Wake up, and stop being fooled around. "
The crowd of worshipers were all reddened by her reprimand, and they remained silent.Thinking of the money I paid, and those children who were thrown into the river to die unjustly, I am really ashamed, ashamed and sad.
Jiang Yuqing turned his head to stare at Ma Banxian and said, "You have cheated so many people and killed so many children, aren't you afraid that those children's ghosts will come back to claim your life in the middle of the night?"
"You, you are talking nonsense. I'm not lying, that's what the River God told me."
Jiang Yuqing snorted coldly: "The dead duck's mouth is stiff, it seems that you will stop crying when you see the coffin."
As he said that, he created a phantom array with the tactic in his hand, covering her up.
Then a wonderful and weird scene appeared.
Ma Banxian didn't know what terrible scene he saw, he looked terrified, waved his arms and shouted: "Don't come here, don't come here, don't come here, don't look for me.
I didn't kill you alone, and Wei Lin, he made me do it.
Only in this way can a large sum of money be received.We split the money equally, and he bought two houses in the city."
Now that the truth is out, there is nothing more to say.
Jiang Yuqing withdrew from the phantom formation with a wave of his hand.
Consciously being fooled, the angry people rushed forward, pinned down Ma Banxian and beat him to death.
Cang Hai hurriedly stopped the crowd and said, "It's easy to kill her. After she confesses all her crimes, it won't be too late for us to settle the score with her."
Jiang Yuqing was also afraid that the old and cunning Ma Banxian would not tell the truth, so he directly pasted a mantra on her body.
Ma Banxian couldn't control himself, and like beans poured out of a bamboo tube, he explained clearly the fact that he and the village chief Wei Lin had fabricated lies over the years, worked hand in hand, and defrauded the villagers of their money.
The villagers wished they could beat her to death on the spot.
In particular, there were children in the family who were chosen as virgins and boys to sacrifice to the river god, and they wished they could be skinned and boned to eat their flesh raw.
Fortunately, everyone still had a bit of reason and said that they would send a team back to tie up Wei Lin for confrontation.
Jing Yan asked Cang Hai to go with them, don't let anyone run away, and get back the money cheated by the villagers.
Not long after Canghai and the others went, they came back with a thin goatee.Come to think of it, this is that Wei Lin and Wei Lichang.
Facing the accusations made by the angry villagers and Ma Banxian, it was useless for Wei Lin to deny it, so he had to resort to simple tricks.
Lynching was not advisable, and Jing Yan followed the common people's rules and asked Cang Hai to go to the county government office to sneak over the county magistrate.
When the county magistrate first saw the golden imperial order in Cang Hai's hand, his whole body trembled.
I also heard that there was a sorceress by the Jing River and the head of the village who cheated the villagers into marrying them with huge sums of money. When they sacrificed their children to the god of the river, they suddenly broke out in cold sweat and drenched their backs.
As the magistrate of a county, he has to bear a great deal of responsibility for such an inhumane thing happened under his rule.
Any "disadvantage to educate the people" or "responsibility for failure to investigate" is enough for him.
The county magistrate took the master and a group of yamen servants, and hurriedly followed Cang Hai to the river.
Seeing Jing Yan, he bent down and bowed: "My minister sees your majesty, long live your majesty, the empress empress, and your highness the crown prince!"
Jing Yan asked him expressionlessly: "This matter is under your jurisdiction, what do you have to say?"
The county magistrate said: "I know that I deserve ten thousand deaths for my crime, so I have nothing to say."
"That's it, let's make an apology by yourself! Now, just wait on the sidelines!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Only then did the common people know that the one who saved the two children and exposed Ma Banxian's tricks was actually Daxia's Heaven, their emperor His Majesty.
There is a child in her arms. The fairy-like beautiful woman is their empress and His Royal Highness.The empress was also helping to save people together.
The people who reacted immediately knelt together and shouted long live.Jing Yan got them all up, and swiftly and decisively sentenced Wei Lin and Ma Banxian to "waterboarding".
Without the help of the sea and the others, the villagers rushed forward and tied the two men tightly with hemp rope.
I rowed to the middle of the river with a boat, kicked into the river, and watched them sink in the river, unable to even struggle.Finally let out a sigh of relief.
In order to cheat money and fool the neighbors, so many children were killed. These two scum cancers finally got their due retribution.
It was already past noon when the matter was settled.The old man who spoke before had the courage to invite Jing Yan to their village for a quick meal.
Jing Yan looked at the nervous and expectant eyes of the villagers, and nodded in agreement.