I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 132 Fish Wife (asking for monthly ticket)

Hearing Qiao Ying's words, Xu San reached for the cigarette he had kept in his sleeve.

He Buning had instructed that if they found the situation serious and they could not handle it, they should release Xinyan and he would bring Xiaowu and Xiaoliu in to deal with it.

At this time, Xu San no longer hid the secret from others.

"Captain He is outside the village right now. How about we ask Captain He to come in and think of a solution?"

Hearing this, Qin Ze and the others were hesitant. Wan Biao asked directly, "Does this count as a failure in the assessment? Does this mean we can no longer serve as Night Rangers?"

This is the key point. Qin Ze and Zhao Qi both have this concern.

"Brother Xu San, wait a minute, I want to try again." Qin Ze spoke, Wan Biao nodded vigorously, Zhao Qi was sweating, he felt that there was a great possibility that he would not be able to get out, since he was going to die anyway, he might as well fight once before dying, maybe there would be a turning point, otherwise he would just be looked down upon.

Several people looked at Sang Que again, and Sang Que asked Qiao Ying directly.

"When did the fog around the village begin to appear? Why was there no problem in the past few decades, but it has become like this in the past six months?"

Qiao Ying pulled Zhang Yuanzhong and said to him, "The fog in the village appeared a few days before I came back. I don't know exactly what happened in the village."

Zhang Yuanzhong was confused. He looked at Qiao Ying and then at Sang Que. He wanted to say something, but Qiao Ying glared at him and he immediately shut up.

Qiao Ying looked at the shrine in the corner of the main house in the courtyard and continued, "In fact, it was only after I came back this time that I realized that the people in our village openly worship the 'Qingjiang Envoy', but in fact, we have always worshipped the 'Fish Woman'."

This was the first time that Qin Ze and the others heard this word. Sang Que glanced at where Qiao Ying was looking and said to Qin Ze beside him, "Please break open the statue and have a look. Be careful."

Qin Ze nodded, and now obeyed Sang Que's words without hesitation.

He walked over quickly and took out the stone turtle statue from the shrine. He wanted to hit it with a stone, but after thinking it over, he took out the Tokaishi stone dagger and stabbed the stone turtle.

As soon as the tip of the dagger touched the stone turtle, the shell of the stone turtle shattered immediately, and there was indeed a small glass-transparent statue inside, which contained blue-black filaments. At first sight, Qin Ze was so shocked that he threw the statue out, and it fell in front of everyone.

The statue was the size of a fist, half of it was a fish and the other half was a human. It was not like the mermaids with the upper body being a human and the lower body being a fish, but rather a fish on the left and a human on the right, which looked extremely strange.

Sang Que glanced and then looked away. The image of the fish woman was consistent with what Yao Zhen told her.

Qiao Ying continued to say to Zhang Yuanzhong, "We are all descendants of Yufu. No matter how many generations we reproduce, we still have Yufu's blood in our bodies. When I was giving birth, I had a dream that I was summoned by Yufu, asking me to come back and offer the child to Yufu. Originally, after giving birth to Dalang, I would be influenced by Yufu, kill my man, and bring the child back to the village."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuanzhong shuddered suddenly and tried to pull his sleeve away from Qiao Ying's hand. Qiao Ying glared at him again, and Zhang Yuanzhong immediately shrank his neck.

"Fortunately, Yuanzhong asked me to worship the '蓑翁' at that time. Fishermen from the entire Bailong County and several surrounding villages all worshipped the 蓑翁. The 蓑翁 was very popular and temporarily helped me suppress the influence of the fisherwoman, so I was able to give birth to my second mother smoothly. But in the few days before I returned to the village, I dreamed about the village and the lake frequently."

"I found fish scales growing on my body. I was so scared that I pulled them all off, but it was no use. I kept hearing a voice telling me to bring Dalang and Erniang back. When I closed my eyes, I could see the lake and the fish wives. I also kept seeing Yuanzhong holding a knife, calling me a monster and wanting to kill me."

Zhang Yuanzhong suddenly realized, "No wonder you were always angry with me during that period and didn't let me go home. I had already swept the yard and watered the vegetable garden, but you still told me to get out."

Zhang Yuanzhong felt extremely aggrieved, but he could only complain behind her back and didn't dare to say a word in front of Qiao Ying.

Qiao Ying ignored him. "I knew if I didn't come back, something bad would happen in the end, so I had a big fight with Yuan Zhong and left. The day I came back, it was foggy outside the village, but it was fine after I entered the village."

"Then I felt like I was in a daze and couldn't remember anything that happened during the day. I would suddenly find myself standing by the lake, not knowing what to do. I also tried to leave, but I couldn't get out of the fog outside the village. No matter how I walked, I would end up back in the village."

"I don't remember many things, but I remember the former county magistrate, Yan Jiuye, who went berserk after coming to the village and killed all the villagers. I remember being beheaded by Yan Jiuye, but in a blink of an eye, I was standing by the lake again. After that, there were three more day-wandering masters, all of whom killed people in the village."

Qiao Ying couldn't help shaking, with fear in her eyes. Zhang Yuanzhong quickly held Qiao Ying's hand. He wanted to say something but didn't dare to speak. He was always timid. "There was blood everywhere, everyone was screaming and begging for mercy, and there was fire everywhere. I still remember the feeling of the knife cutting into my body, but in the end it was still the same. In a blink of an eye, I was standing by the lake intact, and the village returned to normal. Since then, the village chief has taken us and arrested outsiders and drowned them in the lake, so that the massacre of the village did not happen again."

Everyone finally understood part of the cause and effect of the incident. Sang Que thought for a moment and asked, "In the past few decades, children were born and elders died in your village. Was it also because of the fish wives?"

Perhaps because her beliefs had changed, Qiao Ying was no longer loyal to the fish woman. After struggling for a while, she decided to speak out.

"Yes, it is a reincarnation ritual, leaving the old body and being reborn in the body of a child. Only men and women who have sacrificed their own children and are the most devout believers in the fish woman can have such an opportunity."

"Do you still have memories of your past after your rebirth?"

"The child doesn't look much different. He will have some scattered memories of the old man, but not much. The behavior and preferences of the child who has undergone the reincarnation ritual will indeed become like the old man before. It is because of this that the villagers believe in the reincarnation ritual."

"What does the bottom of the lake look like?" Sangque asked again.

Qiao Ying shook her head. "I don't know. I don't have any memory of the bottom of the lake, and neither does anyone else."

Sang Que felt that Qiao Ying was very organized and smart, so she asked Qiao Ying directly, "Why do you think your village has suddenly become like this?"

Qiao Ying frowned. "In fact, I have been asking about this for a while. Our village held a temple fair to worship the lake on the day of the Dragon Raising its Head on February 2 this year. I came back on February 11, and it was already foggy at that time."

Zhang Yuanzhong quickly added, "I came to look for you on February 18th, and saw the fog returning to Bailong County. On February 19th, I went to the county government office to report to Master Riyou."

Xu San then said, "I checked the temple fair and suspected the ghost troupe, but the troupe at the temple fair was the Liu Family Troupe from Bailong County. I checked everyone and there was no problem."

Qiao Ying nodded, "There's nothing wrong with the troupe. I suspect the problem is with the bell doctor who came that day."

The word bell doctor made Sangque's heart tremble, "What kind of bell doctor?"

"He was just an ordinary bell doctor, a man, who diagnosed the pulses of many people in our village and prescribed medicine without charging any money. This was his third visit to our village, with a six-month interval between each visit. And every time he left, he asked to go to the center of the lake and ask someone to fetch water and mud from the center of the lake for him to use as medicine. He did not go into the water himself the first two times, but at noon on February 2, he 'accidentally' fell into the water and was rescued after a while."

In a flash, Sang Que's mind suddenly became sharp. When Kou Yushan was in the bandit camp in Ziyun Mountain, he heard from the bandits that their second-in-command Qu was a bell doctor.

Those bandits also started raising zombies last year. Yan Daozi's book "Secret Method of Raising Corpses" clearly stated that under normal circumstances, it takes a year to raise a white-haired zombie, but the second leader of the bandit camp, Qu, only took one month.

Professions like doctor are always accompanied by strange medical experiments.

Sang Que had a hunch that the one who turned Pinghu Village into what it is today was that Qu Er the Second in Command!
The situation was basically clear, and the key to the problem lay at the bottom of the lake. Sang Que told everyone everything she knew.

Qin Ze had a strange look on his face. He plucked a new piece of grass from somewhere and held it in his mouth, muttering softly, "It turned out to be the bandit camp that you wiped out."

Sangque was too lazy to explain, "The grass is also from the village, just eat it."

Qin Ze's whole body froze and he quickly threw away the grass. His face turned pale and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. This made him even more panicked.

Sang Que said, "My sister and I are not good at going down to the lake, but I can use the evil fog to protect us until tomorrow morning. At present, it seems that the villagers will return to the lake after dawn. The rest is up to you to decide."

Xu San looked at Qin Ze, Wan Biao and Zhao Qi, holding up a cigarette to indicate that he could notify He Buning at any time.

Qin Ze scratched his head in annoyance. He was hit hard by Sang Que. His competitive spirit took over and he didn't want to be looked down upon.

"Damn it, wealth and honor are sought through risk. We corpse-recoverers do not believe in ghosts and gods, and what we do is a life-threatening job. We will go down to the lake at noon tomorrow!"

See you tomorrow~