Those years when I was a corpse guard in Yizhuang

Chapter 49 King Black Horn!

When the two of Li Yu arrived in Changlin County, it was already noon the next day.

After asking passers-by a little, the two came to a small town called "Hedong Town".

This is the place where Wang Yu said that there is a river monster haunting it.

However, the two of them had traveled for a day and a night, and they were a bit busy, so they found an inn after dinner, asked for two rooms, took a hot bath by the way, and took a good rest.

"Man, wait a minute, I have something to ask you."

When Xiao Er entered the room to pack his things, Li Yu stopped Xiao Er from the shop, and slapped a dozen copper plates on the table by the way.

"Hey, my lord, feel free to ask any questions you have, as long as the little ones know it, it's absolutely unambiguous!"

The waiter's eyes lit up, and while talking, he reached out to wipe the table with a towel, and when the table was wiped, the copper plate on it disappeared.

Li Yu smiled and said:
"I heard that there is a river monster in your Hedong town. I don't know if this is true. I hope you can tell me about it."

Hearing the word "river demon", the waiter's expression changed, and he hurriedly put the copper coins back on the table as if his hands were hot:

"Master, it's not that I'm fooling you, it's really about this matter."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yu took out another gleaming broken silver and put it on the table. At the same time, he turned sideways, revealing a long knife with a sheath beside him.

"Go on, you can choose one of these two things. If you don't say anything, I will help you choose."

Li Yu said with a smile, but there was a cold light in his eyes.

Gudong!

The waiter swallowed hard, then decisively wiped it away, and all the copper plates and broken silver on the table disappeared.

He smiled: "My lord, it's like this. About this river monster, it was actually several years ago."

"This matter has to start from our Hedong Town."

"As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water. We in Hedong Town rely on the Baishui River, so most of our people here live by fishing."

"Five years ago, a strange thing happened here."

"At that time, many people had dreams for several days in a row, and the dreams they had were all surprisingly similar. They all dreamed of a burly man wearing black-scale heavy armor and holding a steel fork. , is the river god of Baishui River."

"It requires our town to hold a sacrifice to the river god every three months. Not only must there be three animals, big and small, but also a pair of boys and girls. Otherwise, fishermen will not be allowed to fish in the river."

As Xiao Er was talking, he couldn't stop, and started talking endlessly:

"Naturally, many people didn't believe it at first, and even recruited a mage to subdue that black-horned king."

"Who would have thought that when the sorcerer was doing magic on a boat in the river, the boat would be knocked over by a giant in the water on the spot, and people would fall into the river, and when they floated up, they had lost their heads. Not long afterward, the surrounding The fishermen in several villages also had accidents one after another. Either the fishing boat was knocked over, or the fishermen accidentally fell into the river and drowned while fishing."

"Master, you have to know that these fishermen have been fishing since they were young, and they all grew up soaking in the water. They are more flexible than fish when they fall into the river. How could they drown so many for no reason? It must be the black The horned king did it."

"In the end, after discussing with some clan elders, Lizheng decided to follow what King Black Horn said. Otherwise, without the job of fishing, more than half of the people in Hedong Town would starve to death."

"so."

Li Yu took the words and said:

"So, since five years ago, your town has sacrificed to the river god four times a year? Every time you sacrifice to the river god, you have to throw a pair of boys and girls into the river?"

Li Yu looked calm, but the waiter felt a chill in his heart for no reason, he stammered: "That's right, that's right."

"Tuomeng. Claiming to be the King of Black Horn? Every time you want a pair of boys and girls."

Li Yu rubbed the rough and cold handle of the knife in his hand, silent for a moment, and said:

"Okay, you should have seen this kind of activity of worshiping the river god with your own eyes a few times, tell me about the process, and you can go."

"Hey!"

The waiter in the shop hurriedly said: "Actually, I have experienced this incident several times. Every time I worship the river god, I will draw lots in advance to decide whose child will be used as a sacrifice. After the confirmation, I will put the child in the ancestral hall." ,start preparing."

After the shop waiter finished speaking, Li Yu warned the other party to keep his mouth shut on the matter, and asked the other party to leave directly.

At night, the moon and stars are thin, and it is late at night.

At this time, the gate of the ancestral hall.

Two young men were guarding the door, one of them opened his mouth and yawned, scratched his scalp, looked at the moon in the sky, and muttered:

"It's already three o'clock, it's so late, why hasn't the substitute come?"

"Hmph, I must have gone somewhere to drink and eat meat."

Another person dissatisfied: "If you want me to say that the two of us are really unlucky, we don't have our share in the good things, there are a lot of bad things, even the two little brats in it are not as good. At least the two of them can do it before they die. Delicious and delicious for a few days!"

"Hey! From what you said, these two brats have to become boys next to the River God tomorrow. If you have the ability, you can change with the two of them, and you too will be boys!"

"Forget it then, it's better to live than to die, brother, I haven't lived enough yet!"

The two were chatting when they saw a middle-aged woman walking towards her with a lunch box.

"It's Erya's mother"

"Hey, this is a poor man and a widow. It's hard to support the children. Who knows that both children were drawn in the lottery! This is too bad luck!"

"No way, who dares to violate the rules set by the clan elders?"

"Hmph, rules? Do you dare to say that no one has done anything to those lottery draws?!"

"Shut up. Don't dare to talk nonsense, it will kill you!"

"Hmph, I'm just talking casually."

"Okay, shut up!"

The two looked at each other, and one of them stopped the woman: "Sister-in-law Xianglin, this is you."

The woman looked haggard, with red and swollen eye bags, as if she had cried many times.

She barely pulled her mouth, squeezed out a smile and said:

"Two brothers, we will sacrifice to the River God tomorrow. I will never see Erya and Xiaodouzi again, so I want to see them again tonight and give them a taste of the wontons I made."

The two looked distressed: "Sister-in-law, it's not that our brothers are making things difficult for you, it's just that the elders of the clan have ordered that no one can enter this ancestral hall. If something happens, we brothers can't afford it."

"Can you be more flexible, after tonight, Erya and Xiaodouzi will never eat my wontons again."

The woman's voice was mournful, and as she spoke, she knelt down and kowtowed to the two of them:
"You two just let me in for the sake of how much Er Ya's father took care of you two in the past. My sister-in-law has no other requirements. She just wants to chat with the two children and come out soon. I beg you!"

The two had no choice but to let her in after deliberation, "Sister-in-law, let's talk about our ugly words first, so you can go in and stay for a while, and you must not tell others about this matter."

"Thank you two brothers, I kowtow to you!"

The woman kowtowed excitedly, her forehead was red and swollen, and then she carried the lunch box into the ancestral hall.

(End of this chapter)