While Chen Ling and I were talking, the food was already on the table.
So we had to put aside this topic for the time being and prepare to concentrate on eating.
But at this moment, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a Taoist priest wearing shabby Taoist robes walking in from the door of the hotel, followed by a slim girl.
The girl was wearing a long, slim-fitting dress and was very beautiful. Walking next to the Taoist priest, she felt out of place.
I took a closer look, weren't they Wang Xiaozhe and Long Xinyue?
This guy is not short of money now, can't he get a decent outfit?
If nothing else works, you should at least change into a new Taoist robe, right?
"Taoist Priest Tianxing, this way."
I quickly waved to Wang Xiaozhe.
When this guy saw me, his eyes lit up, and he quickly came over with Long Xinyue.
"Why are you here too?"
Wang Xiaozhe stepped forward, looked at me slightly surprised and asked.
"It's not about the floating corpses in the Yellow River. I came here yesterday. The water seems to be very deep."
I curled my lips and said.
"I came here after hearing the news. How is the situation now? Is there a water ghost or something causing trouble?"
Wang Xiaozhe asked quickly after hearing this.
"I'm afraid it's much more complicated than that. Let's wait until this is over. Have you eaten? Together?"
As I said this, I asked Wang Xiaozhe and Long Xinyue to sit down, and then gave a brief introduction.
"It seems that your last wife was not this one?"
After I finished the introduction, Long Xinyue suddenly looked at Chen Ling in surprise and said.
"Last time? What last time?"
I was immediately confused by her words.
Chen Ling even frowned when he heard this, and looked at me with a questioning look.
"This is the girl you brought with you when you came to Jiulizhai last time? What was her name?"
Long Xinyue said and looked at Wang Xiaozhe.
"That's Liu Xiaoxiao, no... not his wife, don't talk nonsense."
Wang Xiaozhe quickly explained.
It was only when I heard this that I realized that she actually took the words I lied to Long Xinyue in desperation at that time seriously.
But why are you bringing this up in this situation? Isn't this short-sighted?
"Who is Liu Xiaoxiao?"
When Chen Ling heard this, his eyes immediately widened.
"It was a guest who was poisoned. Wang Xiaozhe and I took her to Jiulizhai to find someone to help her remove the poison. She may have misunderstood."
I said and glanced at Long Xinyue.
"What do you mean I misunderstood? You obviously said she was your wife at that time, didn't you?"
When Long Xinyue heard this, she fell in love with me directly.
I almost spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot. What on earth is going on with this guy? On purpose?
"He lied to you last time, otherwise you would have suspected me, wouldn't you? Stop talking."
Wang Xiaozhe quickly explained, and he also looked very embarrassed.
"You men really don't tell the truth."
Long Xinyue said with a slight snort.
This meal was so good that I almost lost my temper.
Although Chen Ling didn't say anything, everyone could see that she was obviously unhappy.
As for Wang Xiaozhe, he has always been in a very embarrassing state.
Only Long Xinyue seems to be okay. I really can't figure out whether she really has no emotional intelligence or is she deliberately trying to trick me?
No matter how you look at it, it feels like the latter?
After dinner, we simply took a bus together and rushed to Niangniangba.
By the time we arrived in the village, it was almost dark.
Moreover, rituals are still being performed in this village. Talismans have been pasted on the doors of every house, and incense is lit in front of the door. It looks quite grand.
Judging from this situation, it should be a large-scale ritual.
There were so many corpses on the river before, and someone died in the Yellow River last night. It was expected that the village would invite people to perform rituals.
After all, rural areas like this are still somewhat superstitious.
However, this kind of ritual is just for peace of mind at best, and basically has no substantive effect. I don’t know where the gentleman in this village hired?
I hope he's not a charlatan or something like that, otherwise the matter won't be resolved and it will easily cause even greater trouble.
We walked around the village but didn't see the gentleman doing the work, so we had to go back to the hotel first and opened a room for Wang Xiaozhe and Long Xinyue.
Hotel rooms here are quite tight now, and the prices have increased several times, making them ridiculously expensive.
For such a small room, you can spend three to four hundred dollars a night, which is almost as good as a four-star hotel.
After settling in, I briefly told Wang Xiaozhe about the situation here and what happened last night.
After hearing this, Wang Xiao frowned deeply.
In this situation, as long as a knowledgeable person hears it, he will know that it is not that simple.
"Is that coffin still floating on the river?"
After Wang Xiaozhe thought about it secretly, he quickly asked me.
"It must have sunk to the bottom of the water. When they went to the scene during the day, they did not find any coffins floating on the water."
I shook my head and said.
"Then the situation shouldn't be too bad. Let's go over and take a look later."
Wang Xiaozhe suggested.
"good."
I nodded.
Then we chatted for a while about the Yellow River.
Wang Xiaozhe seems to know quite a lot of things. Just the bizarre events that have happened on the Yellow River over the years are too numerous to count.
This is actually easy to understand. As the second longest river in China and the main birthplace of Chinese civilization, the Yellow River has always been known as the mother river.
From the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the upper reaches, it flows through nine provinces and regions including Qinghai and Sichuan, with a total length of more than 5,000 kilometers. There are countless fishermen along the coast. Over the years, the Yellow River has supported no one knows how many people.
But everything has advantages and disadvantages, which are always corresponding.
It is said that there are hundreds of floating corpses floating down from the upper reaches of the Yellow River every year. If there is a flood in the Yellow River, countless people will die in it.
So while the Yellow River has nourished many people, it has also taken away many people.
It's like a cycle of giving and taking back.
With so many corpses sinking at the bottom of the river and innocent souls floating in the Yellow River, there are naturally many bizarre and bizarre events.
The secrets buried deep under the Yellow River have been buried for countless years. Of course, there are many unknown things among them. Giant coffins, snake women, water ghosts, etc. that occasionally surface are just the icebergs among them. Just a corner.
I suddenly realized that the more I delved into it, the more complicated it became.
But those bizarre and weird legends have nothing to do with us.
All we have to do now is to figure out what is going to happen here, and then try to ensure that the fishermen along the coast are not implicated.
