She couldn't see her appearance clearly from this distance, but her height and appearance suggested that she was at most fourteen or fifteen years old, no older than Liu Huayan and He Zhi.
Mr. Bai's suona started playing at her and he was shaking his head around her.
The girl approached the coffin with small steps, climbed up on her own initiative, and entered the coffin...
Then, a group of villagers went up to cover the coffin!
After a few clicks, the coffin was tightly covered.
My face was cloudy and there were beads of sweat on my forehead.
Liu Huayan said softly: "This is a major event in other people's villages. It has nothing to do with us. Let's go."
The moment she finished speaking, the faces of the three villagers looked much better.
The tall and lanky villager urged: "Hurry up, let's go! Don't meddle in other people's business, Mr. Bai has a bad temper!"
Liu Huayan turned around and got directly into the carriage.
He Zhi and I looked at each other and got into the car.
With a driving sound, the carriage turned around and headed towards the road we came from.
Originally we had been going upstream, but now we are returning to the lower basin.
The reason is simple, Liu Huayan's meaning just now was also very clear.
It's impossible for the three of us to have a conflict with an entire village, especially Mr. Bai, whose background we don't know.
He dominates the River God Point Girl, so it's definitely not that easy to deal with.
If the coffin is pushed into the river, it will definitely go downstream. As long as we wait somewhere downstream, we can fish the coffin over and save the person without anyone noticing.
After a while, we were far away from the village.
At this time, He Fei was so angry that she gasped, and she whispered: "The river god wants women to kill people, and send good people to drown."
Liu Huayan, who was driving the car, was silent for a moment, and then said: "Master and I have encountered some similar things, where we sacrificed human beings to mountain gods, but the so-called mountain gods are just mountain spirits. The villagers are ignorant. , but it’s hard to tell clearly.”
"We once rescued a man who was sacrificed to the mountain god by the villagers. After a while, we found that the village used someone else to sacrifice him, and another life was lost."
"If they can't change this kind of thinking in their bones, then they can only save them for a while, but not for a lifetime."
"For example, if we rescue people from downstream, we can only prevent them from sending people to unnecessary deaths during this period." After saying these words, Liu Huayan's tone became much lower, and his expression became even more helpless.
I was stunned and my thoughts became extremely complicated.
Liu Huayan was right. This custom has become the instinct of most villages and even races.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters all require protection.
There are gods, Buddhas and even monsters in the mountains. If we don't kill them from the root, then this custom cannot be changed at all.
We can only see one and save one...
At this point, I don’t know what to say anymore.
He Zhi was also silent.
God, I don’t know when it got completely dark.
The moon hasn't come out yet, and the surroundings are eerily silent at the moment. Even the Xuanhe River seems extraordinarily quiet.
I poked my head out of the car window and looked upstream.
In the distance, the village was still filled with fire.
He Zhi jumped out of the car, and she quickly followed the carriage while looking back.
At this moment, He Zhi whispered: "The sacrifices will not begin until dark, and the coffin will not be filled with water until the process is over. Li Yinyang, please quickly find a position and see where the coffin is likely to float, so that we can stop it?"
I squinted my eyes slightly, lowered my voice and said in a low voice: "With this level of current, no matter where I can see the coffin, it won't float away. If we go further, we can't let it float." Those villagers saw us intercepting the coffin."
After I finished speaking, I urged Liu Huayan to go faster.
However, He Zhi stopped getting on the carriage and just kept trotting along with the carriage, looking back from time to time.
Until about a quarter of an hour after we walked out, we could only vaguely see the firelight of the village in the distance, and we could no longer see clearly.
There happened to be a forest here, so I signaled Liu Huayan to stop.
After the carriage stopped, I motioned for Liu Huayan to get off.
I was the only one left in the carriage.
I took out the green hemp gown from the big black wooden box and put it on.
I had no green hemp rope before. When I was on the road this time, I bought hemp rope, steel wire, and a lot of black dog hair and dog blood.
After traveling these past few days, I have used these materials to make a new green hemp rope.
I wrapped it around my waist, checked the divination knife again, and asked the person who had retrieved the body to do something about it, before jumping out of the carriage.
He Zhi was still looking into the distance.
Liu Huayan looked at me with surprise in his eyes.
"Mr. Li, what are you..." Liu Huayan said in shock.
"His father is a well-known corpse collector in Lijia Village. His father is the most ferocious within thirty miles. Before Li Yinyang learned Feng Shui, he was also a corpse collector." He Fei turned around and explained lightly.
She spoke very fast, which made me swallow the words on my lips.
"Mr. Li is very talented." Liu Huayan bowed slightly, as if saluting.
"He still picks up Yin Po." He Zhi added.
At this moment, I was so embarrassed that I didn’t know how to answer the call.
There was obviously a hint of thorn in He Fei's words, but Liu Huayan smiled and said nothing.
In order to break the awkward atmosphere, I raised my legs and walked towards the river.
He Zhi followed me in small steps, while Liu Huayan seemed to slow down on purpose, arriving at the river a little later.
I don't know when the moon hung in the night sky. A bright moon reflected on the sparkling river.
I also looked into the distance.
Subconsciously, I took out my pocket watch and looked down at the time.
It was almost half past seven, which was just after midnight.
After waiting for about ten minutes, a halo of light came from the distant river...
After looking carefully, I realized that the halo was a bamboo raft!
There were countless candles lit on the bamboo raft and it was piled high with things, but there was a coffin parked in the middle of the raft!
My heart was beating wildly and I murmured: "Here we come." He Zhi carefully looked at the road upstream.
Liu Huayan said softly: "There shouldn't be any villagers coming. If there are, we can only rescue people by force."
I nodded and whispered: "That's the only way." But just at this moment, a rustling sound came from behind.
I felt a thrill in my heart. Is there someone behind me?
I turned around suddenly.
Behind our carriage is a forest.
But I didn't see anyone. Instead, I saw a furry white shadow running towards the river.
It has a pointed mouth and sharp ears, and its eyes are narrow and gleaming.
Isn't this thing just a fox?
The strange thing is that after it reached the water, it suddenly stood up like a human and glanced at us.
All right, a fox stands up and looks at you.
Not to mention how weird that scene was...
I immediately got goosebumps all over my body!
