"The legend of Qihuai Empress originated in the late Sui Dynasty."
On the way to the ancestral hall, Scholar Yu said quickly: "At that time, Hedong Road was first hit by war and then by drought, and famine was everywhere.
In some places, there were even human tragedies in which Yi Zi cannibalized people.
Just when the famine was about to reach its peak, heavy rain fell in Bingzhou and the surrounding areas, and a large number of fish fell. "
Guan Anyan asked: "Is it raining fish from the sky?"
"Um."
Scholar Yu nodded, "The rain of fish from the sky has happened since ancient times.
It was not until the early days of Yu that the Academy, through follow-up observation, determined that it was due to the natural phenomenon of dragons absorbing water, sucking lake water or seawater containing fish into the air, and transporting it to places tens, dozens or even hundreds of miles away. , forming the fish rain phenomenon.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was no reasonable explanation. When the fish rained down from the sky, the people in Bingzhou, who were suffering from famine, thought it was the appearance of gods. They cooked and ate the fish, and dried the fish that they could not eat and stored it in the sun.
The drought has also been alleviated a lot due to heavy rains. In the end, the people successfully survived the famine and built a simple Qihuai Empress Temple outside the city.
After the war calmed down, various families contributed funds and efforts to renovate the Empress Temple. "
"Weird, isn't it?"
After listening to Scholar Yu's description, Li Ang asked: "There have been no records or legends about Empress Qihuai before. Logically speaking, even if the people of Bingzhou want to worship at a temple, they should go to the Dragon King Temple.
Why create a god out of thin air?
How did they know it was a woman who summoned the fish? "
"Well..."
After hearing this, Scholar Yu paused and said, "I read these from the county annals, and the reasons are not written on them."
"That painting..."
Yu Yong immediately thought of the portrait that Li Ang had taken out earlier that was similar to the statue of the Qihuai Empress Temple, "Is Qishui Village related to the Qihuai Empress Temple?"
"If I'm not mistaken, there is indeed a connection between the two."
He strode forward and arrived at the door of the ancestral hall.
As all the villagers in Qishui went to participate in the celebration, the eerie ancestral hall became silent and deserted last night.
Li Ang placed the Lotus of Misery inside the body of Mosi's clone, took a step toward the southeast and northwest, and observed the speed at which the petals of the Lotus of Misery fell.
The suffering lotus predicts the owner's life and death. The more dangerous the place, the faster the lotus petals will fall.
Last night, because the ancestral hall was full of evil spirits, Kujinglian could not predict accurately because there were dangers everywhere.
But now that the villagers have left, the misery has regained its ability to predict accurately.
boom!
Li Ang punched open the floor of a room behind the ancestral hall, revealing a secret passage hidden under the stone floor.
He walked ahead and stepped into the secret passage.
The secret passage is quite spacious, the ground is uneven, water drips from the top from time to time, and there are braziers with ceramic covers at regular intervals on the wall.
There are still firewood that has not been completely carbonized in those braziers. It seems that someone just used them some time ago.
Scholar Yu and others were keenly aware of the dangerous atmosphere, silently increased their vigilance, and took out their weapons. Ji Xingwang held several talismans in his hand, ready to take action at any time.
Tick tock, tick tock.
The clear sound of water drops echoed in the tunnel, and the road ahead gradually became twists and turns.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the tunnel finally came to the end. It looked like a simple forging workshop.
There was a pile of huge ceramic jars on the ground, with pieces of coal placed in the jars.
Adjacent to the coal is a furnace, a bit like a forge, but with a wider entrance.
At the back, there was a stone door with a handle that looked like it could be opened.
"This stove was used not long ago."
Scholar Yu frowned and said softly: "It's strange, why should the stove be placed underground when the stove is fine? For making iron? That's not right either.
There is coal but no iron ore, so it doesn't look like a forging furnace. "
Yu Yong remained silent and used his mind power to pick up something from the corner.
It was a pile of wooden stretchers and strips of fabric.
The wooden stretcher was full of stains, and the cloth was green and yellow, looking extremely dirty.
His face changed slightly, and he reached into the stove with his telekinesis, and dug out a pile of scattered items that had not been burned from the depths of the stove.
Wearing jade pendants, burnt black gold and silver jewelry, dark jade bracelets, metal threads, wood chips...
"...This furnace is not used to burn iron ore or cast iron tools."
Guan Anyan stared at the stove blankly and said with a pale face, "It's used to burn corpses."
"To be precise, it was used to burn the clothes and jewelry on the corpse."
Li Ang corrected.
He turned sideways, looked at Shimen, and said calmly: "It's already this time, why don't you show up yet?"
There was silence in the tunnel. Scholar Yu and others noticed something and looked at Shimen with bated breath.
"...This is really boring,"
Li Ang shook his head, "You think so? The murderer who attacked Yu Yuan and killed Liao Kaifeng and Yan Yan, the holder of Zhenghunxiang, Wang Linian."
Boom——
The stone door slowly opened, revealing the middle-aged man standing behind the door - it was Wang Linian, the leader of this team, a Cloud Patrolling Realm monk from the Wang family in Taiyuan.
He was still the same as before, holding a long sword in his hand and looking at Li Ang expressionlessly.
"how come..."
Scholar Jade was stunned. Wang Linian was not killed. He arrived here before them. And according to Luffy's words, he also killed Yu Yuan, Liao Kaifeng, Yan Yan and others?
Didn't you say that we would search and rescue Chu Haoman together?
"Why?!"
Yu Yong gritted his teeth and cursed: "You Wang family people invited us here, why did you attack us again in the sudden change?
Even if your Wang family has some shameful secrets hidden here, you can still come forward and use Zhenghun Incense to let us leave before we discover the secret..."
"Zhenghunxiang is gone."
Wang Linian looked at Yu Yong and spoke slowly, his voice hoarse and rough, like gravel, "Besides, you don't have to act anymore. Your so-called brother Yu Yuan is just a puppet. The fragments of his body are in your hands.
If I guessed correctly, you should have the inheritance of the ancient sect of the Southern Zhou Dynasty - the Xiying Sect. "
Yu Yong's expression changed suddenly, and the thread in his hand trembled.
He turned to look at Scholar Yu again, and said calmly: "And you should have some kind of alienated object in your hand that can turn evil into good luck. No matter whether I am chasing you personally, nor Liao Kaifeng, nor Yan Yan, I can kill you. .”
"..."
Scholar Yu pursed his lips tightly and said nothing, acquiescing to Wang Linian's words.
"As for you..."
Wang Linian looked at Li Ang and said in silence for a long time: "My biggest mistake was letting you join the team. If you hadn't been invited to make up the numbers at short notice, all this would not have been so complicated at all."
"I'll just take this as a compliment."
Li Ang smiled slightly, turned to look at Ji Xingwang and others, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, there will still be some time before the Qishui evil spirits chase us, so let me explain what happened in Qishui Village."
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