"Sir, did you find anything?" Lu Yi asked on the way back.
"Hey, Lu Yi, why have you learned the tricks of the adults in the court? You should have noticed it, but you still want to ask me, do you want to give me some hints and let me say it myself?" Tang Ping asked with a smile.
"Lu Yi doesn't dare."
"Okay!" Tang Ping shook his head: "I can see it all, how could you not notice it if you are so careful?"
You must know that Lu Yi was originally transferred to Tang Ping from a place like the Secret Intelligence Service by Li Shimin.
Tang Ping began to analyze: "At the beginning, I threw two pieces of wood at the shrine, and found that the wood had been flowing down the river against the river. It seems that the stone tablets with the statues carved on it formed an undercurrent in the river, and the riverside The boat will follow the undercurrent and stay close to the shore."
"As for the fork, I haven't seen anything yet."
"If it can't be seen on the surface of the river, the secret is probably under the water." Lu Yi said with a slight smile.
"Hehe, that's what I thought too. We'll find out if we go look around at night." Tang Ping said with a smile: "The other thing is that the wizard's skin color says he lives on a mountain, but the vegetation on the mountain is not dense."
"Although it's far north, it gets a lot of sunshine. The sun has been shining brightly for the past few days since we've been here. If he really lives in the mountains, he shouldn't have the kind of skin that doesn't see the sun for a long time."
"So the young master thinks that this wizard probably doesn't live in the mountains, but in the mountains, because the forked river eventually merges into the undercurrent flowing into the mountain."
"Yes!" Tang Ping nodded: "Didn't Meiko say that the old man in the village said it before? There are too many branches there. After entering, I'm afraid only the girl who goes to meet the River God will know where to go, so I thought You can explore deep into the tiger’s den.”
"But don't worry, I will ask some of them to put on diving suits and go in with you."
Lu Yi covered her mouth and smiled: "I'm afraid you may have forgotten how Old Cui and Old Du were beaten to the ground by me."
The few people returned to Meiko's home. Xiaoluo had already prepared a lot of delicious food and was waiting for them to go back.
However, Shanbei's eldest brother, Wang, came up to him and asked, "How are you doing?"
"Don't worry, Luyi will be the worshiper instead of Meiko when the time comes." Tang Ping patted him on the shoulder.
"No, there's nothing wrong with you, right?" Brother Shanbei finally couldn't bear it anymore.
How could he properly investigate the matter of the river god and end up sacrificing one of his own?
No matter how stupid he is, he still thinks this kind of behavior is...sick!
"Then I ask you to negotiate with the River God, but you don't want to, what can I do?" Tang Ping spread his hands, and then said to Xiao Luo: "The food our Xiao Luo makes is delicious, I can smell it from a long way away. "
Xiao Luo smiled and brought the prepared food to Tang Ping.
Because the village was basically empty, after dinner, Tang Ping and the others found a few empty houses to rest.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, the lights in Tang Ping's room suddenly turned on, and then Lao Cui, Lao Du, and Xue Rengui quietly walked out of their respective rooms.
Several people came to the fork of the river again. Lao Cui jumped into the water, and came up again after a while and said: "Just as the young master thought, there is a mechanism below. Although I don't know how it works specifically, those boats must be there when they get here. Because of the change of direction of the agency below."
"Also, the mechanism is quite exquisitely made, and is almost entirely made of copper, so it was neither damaged nor rusted in the water."
Lao Cui also compared the size and shape of the mechanism.
Tang Ping scratched his head and said: "I remember that on the way here, I also saw people selling their sons and daughters. A girl could earn no more than a few dozen coins and no more than a hundred coins. To build such an exquisite copper mechanism, I'm afraid it can I bought hundreds of girls.”
"So why do they go to all the trouble?" Lao Cui was a little confused.
"Perhaps their ultimate goal is not these girls!" Tang Ping looked at Dashan next to him: "We will know the details the day after tomorrow. Let's go back and rest first."
The next day, Tang Ping and the others stayed in the village and did not go anywhere else.
On the other hand, the remaining villagers heard that there were outsiders who were willing to be enshrined to the river god in place of Meiko, so they sent some things to thank them.
Tang Ping took the thing and gave it to Meiko. He had no interest in such a hypocritical thank you gift.
On the morning of the third day, there was a lot of fog, and the wizard came to the entrance of the village as promised.
"The day of worship has come." After the wizard finished speaking, he walked out first.
Meiko looked at Tang Ping and the others, especially Lu Yi.
Lu Yi patted her to indicate not to worry, and then walked out with Tang Ping and the others.
When they came to the shrine by the river, a small boat appeared. The wizard lit incense and candles in front of the shrine, then danced and performed a set of rituals before holding a bowl of water and saying to Lu Yi: "Drink this bowl of talismans." The water, lie on the boat, will naturally guide you to the place of the river god."
"Okay!" Lu Yi didn't object. He took the bowl, raised his hand to his mouth and drank it slowly. Then he lay down on the boat as the wizard said and closed his eyes.
The wizard secretly smiled with some excitement, then loosened the rope of the boat on the riverside, and began to perform rituals again.
"Uncle Pei, we're in trouble." Everyone around him was sent out today, and old man Pei was with him.
Old Man Pei yawned and said, "I told you earlier, I'm already so annoyed by his noise."
After speaking, he took a step forward and hit the wizard with a wooden stick he picked up casually, knocking him unconscious.
Meiko and the villagers were shocked. What happened when the wizard was knocked unconscious before the ritual was completed?
"Little Fatty, you, Xiao Luo and Shan Bei are watching him." Tang Ping tied up the wizard with a tie that he had prepared long ago, and then led Pei Min in the direction of the boat and chased him.
"Old Cui, please pay attention, Lu Yi is coming soon."
"Don't worry, sir!" Lao Cui and the others had already put on the diving suits and scuba lungs that Tang Ping had brought back and lurked at the undercurrent into the mountain.
In less than a moment, Luyi's sleeping boat floated to the mouth of the undercurrent.
Lao Cui and the others approached from the water and found that there was a long pole sticking out of the rudder of the boat, and there was a hook below.
Lao Cui took a look and understood that the mechanism he saw underwater yesterday was that when the boat passed by, the hook would move up, and then the force of the water would pull the mechanism, and at the same time the direction of the rudder would change.
In the end, the boat turned inexplicably.
This thing is simple to say, but the villagers will only be surprised by this phenomenon, but no one dares to find out under the boat dedicated to the river god.
Lao Cui and others hung on the boat with the hooks on their hands, and followed the boat into the mountains.
