"Hmph, you are pretending to be a god!" Shanbei's elder brother Wang said angrily: "You are not talking about your strange powers and delusions, it's all fake."
Li Bai curiously asked in his ear: "Don't you emperors all say that you are the descendants of Amaterasu?"
Shanbei's eldest brother Wang glanced at Li Bai and said, "I don't believe it anyway. My father believes in gods so much. Why did he die in great pain due to illness in the end?"
"So what are you going to do?" Tang Ping looked at the eldest brother on the back of the mountain and asked, "Go and argue with the river god? You can't even swim!"
"I..." Shanbei's eldest brother Wang paused, looked at Meiko, then looked at the room where the old woman slept and said to Tang Ping: "Please help me!"
"Okay!" Tang Ping answered simply.
In fact, even if Shanbei's eldest brother Wang didn't say anything, he would also investigate this matter.
After all, this is the approximate location of Sado Gold Mountain. When the gold mine is really developed, we can't leave such a pretentious river god here, right?
"Do you know how to worship the river god?" Tang Ping asked Meiko.
Meiko looked at Tang Ping and the others with some horror: "You...are you planning to fight against the River God?"
"That's right!" Tang Ping said matter-of-factly: "Have you never thought about fighting against the River God? If you are not afraid of death, why should you be afraid of a so-called God you have never seen before?"
"But...but if not...it will affect other villagers."
"Haha." Tang Ping sneered: "They don't care about your life. They want you to worship the river god. Why do you care about their life and death?"
Meiko didn't know how to answer after hearing Tang Ping's words. After a while, she said: "Two days later, the place where the river god will be enshrined will be. The wizard will bring a boat and wait by the river. The enshrined girl only needs to sleep on the Then just go down the river in the boat."
"So perfunctory!" Tang Ping touched his chin and muttered: "The story is pretty good, but isn't this technique too unprofessional?"
"No one thought about following the ship to see where it went?" Tang Ping asked.
"Yes, some have girls enshrined in their homes, and some follow them all the way, but they find that the boat always turns suddenly at a fork and enters a small river, which leads to an underground river in the mountains."
"The people who followed in never came out again. I heard from the old people in the village that there were many undercurrents there a long time ago, and it was extremely easy to get lost. The wizard said that these people were sent up by themselves to give the river god rations, although there were no It’s delicious for girls, but it’s still good to eat as a snack.”
"Well, looking at it this way, there's something to it." Tang Ping nodded, that's right. It would be too perfunctory if we didn't include some supernatural phenomena.
"Can you take us to see the fork you mentioned?" Tang Ping asked again.
"This..." Meiko hesitated.
Tang Ping pointed at Xiao Luo and said, "The food she made is very delicious. If your grandma falls into the water, she still needs to be recuperated. This is what she is good at, so how about letting her stay and take care of your grandma?"
Meiko thought about how her family was living in poverty, and even if she wanted to get some nutritious food, she gritted her teeth and nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take you there."
If he doesn't deal with the river god, he may not be able to escape death. If he dies, his grandma, who has always been dependent on him, will not be able to live alone.
So she decided to believe the words of these outsiders.
It was still early in the morning, so they followed Meiko along the river where Brother Wang fell into the water on the back of the mountain for a while, and found that the river merged into a larger river.
"This is the place where the river god is worshipped." Meiko pointed to a shrine by the river and said, "The wizard will place a small boat at this location on the day of worship."
"What is that?" Tang Ping asked, pointing to a thin piece of stone protruding from the river.
"It was during an earthquake last year. A thin piece of stone that fell from the mountain was inserted into the river. Later, the wizard said that the earthquake happened because the river god was angry. Then he asked someone to carve it on the stone. With the river god statue out of the way, this place will become a place to worship the river god."
Tang Ping took a look at the stone piece, and there was indeed a rough image on it that was hard to see clearly.
"This river god is quite ugly." Tang Ping picked up a piece of wood by the river, threw it into the river, and watched the wood drift down the river.
"Let's go and have a look at the fork in the road you mentioned." Tang Ping said, and Meiko could only do as he was told. She led them further forward, about five or six hundred meters away, and pointed at a fork in the river. Said: "Every time the boat comes here, it will turn strangely, then enter the small river here, and finally flow into the mountains."
Tang Ping picked up another piece of wood and threw it into the river. The wood did not turn around, but went directly down the river towards the lower reaches of the river.
"Well..." When Tang Ping was thinking, a loud shout came from beside him: "What are you doing here?"
"Witch...Wizard...Master Wizard." Meiko turned pale with fright when she saw the person coming.
"Who are you? Meiko?" The wizard was a pale middle-aged man: "Who are you bringing these people with you?"
"Are you the wizard here?" Tang Ping looked at him with a smile and said, "My name is Oda Nobunaga. I passed by here by chance when I was traveling."
"There is a Lord River God living here. His temper is not very good. For your safety, it is best to leave quickly!" the wizard said.
"Why?" Tang Ping pointed at Lu Yi who was following behind and said: "As the wizard who communicates with the river god, haven't you always asked everyone to enshrine girls? You see, we also have a girl here, and her interest is to be enshrined to the gods. !”
The wizard was immediately stunned. He had always cried to death when he heard that he would be worshiped, but he had never seen someone who was interested in being worshiped to the gods.
"Hey, watch out. Wouldn't the River God not like such a beautiful girl?" Tang Ping's words made Lu Yi blush slightly.
Although Lu Yi's clothes are not gorgeous, it can be seen that she is definitely not a woman from a poor family, and she is indeed a beautiful woman under a little makeup.
The wizard's eyes widened when he saw it: "You...you mean...really?"
"Of course, if you don't believe me, ask her yourself."
After Tang Ping finished speaking, Lu Yi looked at the wizard shyly and nodded.
"Gudong." The wizard swallowed his saliva and said, "Then... then we can enshrine her in two days."
"But you outsiders should not do anything to offend the river god."
Saying that, the wizard hurried into the mountain.
"Sir, why are you..." She looked at Tang Ping and then at Lu Yi.
"Don't worry, by the way, this wizard lives in the mountains?" Tang Ping asked casually.
At this time, Meiko didn't know why Tang Ping still cared about where the wizard lived, but she nodded anyway.
