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The man repeated it twice, his eyes became more determined, and he took the rope to re-strangle the young woman's mouth and tied her up.
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Listening to the words of the man and the tied young woman, Lian Ge walked to the tree step by step,
Glancing at the man, Lian Ge raised his gaze slightly, and glanced at the village, where there was a trace of yin.
Why did the first poultry die? Lian Ge is not clear yet.
But now the poultry in this village are still dying, but it is precisely because of the traces of yin in this village that after the two young women sank in the river before, they turned into ghosts.
Withdrawing his gaze, Lian Ge looked at the young woman under the tree again.
And at this moment,
A somewhat furtive figure appeared next to the building next to the small square in the village.
The figure is very short, a child of about eleven or twelve years old.
He poked his head out from the side of the building and looked around. After seeing that there was no one else, he opened his legs and ran towards the tree barefoot quickly.
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"Uncle Xu, Uncle Xu..."
The eleven or twelve-year-old child ran under the tree, looked at the young woman tied up under the tree, and looked at the man before him,
"Uncle Xu, can you let her go, can you let this sister go?" the child pulled the man and said.
"Mmm... Mmm." The young woman also struggled with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
"Uncle Xu, please, let this sister go, don't sink her into the river, please!" the child begged, pulling the man.
A trace of hesitation first flashed in the man's eyes, and then his eyes turned hard,
"Get out of the way, or I'll call your lord right now and take you back."
With a wave of his hand, the man shook off the child's hand.
The child's eyes became a little lost and gloomy. He looked at the young woman tied to the tree, looked back at every step, moved slowly, and walked away.
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Glancing at the child who had returned to the building, Lian Ge paused, then moved towards the child.
"...Can you tell me why you want to save that sister?"
Walking up to the child, Lian Ge asked aloud.
Looking at the big brother who suddenly appeared in front of him, the child's eyes showed a trace of doubt at first, but then he became excited again,
"Big brother, can you help me save that sister?"
"Can you tell me why?"
"That elder sister is so beautiful and has a big butt. My mother said that she will definitely have a baby. I want to ask her to be my daughter-in-law!"
"Then do you know which sister was arrested? What if she doesn't want to be your wife?" Lian Ge looked at the child and asked calmly.
"We bought her with money!" The child seemed a little angry at Lian Ge's words, "Why doesn't she want to, she belongs to us! If she doesn't want to, I'll lock her up and beat her! Don't give it to her." Let's eat, see if she wants to!"
Looking at the slightly immature face still covered with fluff, listening to the words spit out from its mouth,
Lian Ge paused and smiled.
Chapter 209 Worshiping Water
"...Big brother, can you help save my sister?"
Next to the building, the child turned his head again, looked at Lian Ge, and asked expectantly.
Hearing the sound, Lian Ge glanced at the child and looked away.
"Big brother……"
The child still wants to continue asking.
And at this time,
On the road leading to the center of the village, several figures appeared again.
A nondescript young man in a yellow robe and leather shoes walked in the front, looking about 27 or [-] years old.
Behind him, followed by two middle-aged men wearing undershirts and rubber shoes,
After the three of them entered the center of the village, they walked straight towards the shade of the trees beside the pond.
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The child beside Lian Ge also noticed these three figures, and looked at the person who walked to the front and wore a yellow Taoist robe, and couldn't help shrinking.
"...Big brother, can you help me? That person has already arrived. Before long, my sister will be... big brother?"
The child was talking, but he didn't hear the sound, so he couldn't help turning his head to look.
Immediately, his eyes became a little puzzled. The big brother who was talking to him just now suddenly disappeared.
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By the pond, next to the shade of the trees that block the sun.
Lian Ge, who had applied the technique of 'invisibility and disappearance', stood at the side, quietly watching the people in front of him,
The man in the yellow Taoist robe had already led the two middle-aged men behind him to the shade of the tree.
The middle-aged man sitting on the bluestone slab stood up immediately when he saw the young man appearing. The young woman who was tied to the tree looked at the man in the yellow Taoist robe with fear in her eyes and struggled.
"No, no, no, no..."
"...You didn't do anything to this sacrifice, did you?" The man in the yellow robe turned his head, looked at the bound woman, then looked at the middle-aged man again, and asked aloud,
"No, no..." The middle-aged man quickly waved his hands when he heard the words, "It was because I saw that she was very thirsty, so I gave her a sip of water to drink."
"Didn't I tell you not to untie this woman's rope!" The man in the yellow robe looked at the middle-aged man, his face suddenly sank, "If it affects the priest..."
"I am, I am..."
As he spoke, a trace of hesitation appeared on the face of the middle-aged man. He looked at the woman who was tied up, and then at the man in the yellow Taoist robe.
"Xiude...Master Hong, offering this...to the water god, will it really calm the village down?"
"Nonsense, of course!" The man in the yellow Taoist robe immediately raised his voice as if his tail had been stepped on.
At the same time staring at the middle-aged man, asked,
"I told you not to listen to this woman's nonsense! Did you listen to her nonsense!"
"No, no..." The middle-aged man quickly waved his hand and said.
The man in the yellow Taoist robe seemed to realize that he had reacted too violently, and the expression on his face calmed down again.
"...Uncle Xu, I know you are kind. But think about the current situation in the village. The livestock are not thriving and the house is restless. According to the notes left by my ancestors, this means that the water god is angry. Now it is just a warning. If we don't After the sacrifice is completed, soon, people in the village will have problems.
Decades ago, when the water god in the village was angry, did my great-grandfather sacrifice someone to the water god? Since then, nothing happened in the village for decades, right? "
Hearing what the man in the yellow Taoist robe said, the hesitation on the middle-aged man's face gradually disappeared, and he nodded.
"I heard it mentioned by the old people in the village."
"...Think about it, when my great-grandfather used to offer sacrifices, he still used people from the village. Now I use the method of stealing beams and swapping pillars to cover up the secrets of heaven, and use people from outside the village instead of villagers to sacrifice to the water god. You pity this woman now, Could it be that you want to sacrifice people from the village?" The man in the yellow Taoist robe stared at the middle-aged man and said.
Listening to the words of the man in the yellow Taoist robe, the eyes of the two middle-aged men behind him changed slightly.
"Let me tell you, if this woman doesn't sacrifice to the river god, then the method I used to cover up the secrets of the sky will not work. When the water god gets angry, it will take at least three villagers to calm down Anger, when the time comes, who will the villagers choose to sacrifice to the water god..."
"...No, no, no," the middle-aged man hurriedly waved his hands, "I didn't mean that, that's not what I meant."
"It's fine if you don't." The man in the yellow Taoist robe laughed, "You have enough time to watch, you can go back and rest. Just wait for the auspicious time tonight and sacrifice the woman to the river god. Everything will calm down and the people in the village will be safe."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man looked at the young woman who was tied to the tree with despairing eyes, looked away, nodded at the heavy point, then moved his footsteps and walked away along the village road without looking back.
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"You two, guard the offering of the water god. Don't untie any of the ropes that bind the offering, and don't feed her. From now until the auspicious time at night, let her fast, Otherwise, it will be unclean and the river god will get angry, but he will have to sacrifice to the villagers." Under the shade of the tree, the young man in a yellow Taoist robe wiped his sweat while talking.
"Okay, Master Hong." The two middle-aged men looked at the young woman tied to the tree and nodded.
"Then I'll go back and get ready, you two will guard for me!"
After saying a few words, the man in the yellow Taoist robe turned around and walked quickly along the village road towards the other direction of the village.
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Beside the shade of the tree, Lian Ge glanced at the two middle-aged men standing under the shade of the tree, staring at the young woman,
Then he glanced at the young woman who was tied to a tree, muttering, but her eyes gradually lost their luster and became desperate.
He retracted his gaze, turned around, and walked towards the young man in a yellow robe who had left the center of the village.
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Leaving the center of the village and walking along the village road, the young man pulled his Taoist robe and collar from time to time, as if he was a little hot.
"Boom boom... boom boom boom..."
Suddenly, the young man's mobile phone rang, and he took out the mobile phone. After the young man glanced at the screen, he turned his head and looked around.
Seeing that there was no one else around, he walked to the side of the road and connected the phone.
"...It's done. I can't fool these idiots? If you say let people sink in the river, let them sink in the river."
"...The money is here? Haha, thank you..."
"...Yes, yes, yes, happy cooperation, happy cooperation."
Listening to the voice on the other end of the phone, the young man gradually laughed,
"...The people in this village are really easy to deceive. If you kill a few ducks, you will panic. I will talk about the water god again, and once I pull out the tiger skin of that old bastard, they will pay for it obediently."
"...Hey, how dare they, if they don't pay for someone, they want to sacrifice the people in the village?"
"Aren't you afraid? If you're not afraid of me, just kill someone and see if they are afraid."
"...Let's not talk about it, you're really good, I'm itching to see it, if it wasn't for those old guys who watched closely, I would have fucked her long ago."
"Buy one, is there any discount?"
"...I'll talk about it when the time comes, I'll talk about it when the time comes...The weather is really hot here."
After hanging up the phone, the young man turned his head again, looked around, walked back to the village road, and continued walking along the village road while pulling the yellow Taoist robe.
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From the side, watching the young man on the phone and listening to the conversation between him and the other end of the phone, Lian Ge paused slightly, seeing the young man walking away, he moved away again.
Chapter 210 Codex
"Ga... bang."
The door was pushed open by a man in a yellow Taoist robe and smashed against the wall behind the door.
"Made, I'm so hot."
Shouting, the man tore off the wrinkled yellow robe and threw it on the floor of the main room.
After stepping out of the main room, the man walked towards the bedroom.
Halfway through, he stopped again and walked towards the end of the main room, in front of the shrine.
There is an altar in front of the shrine, on which there is an incense burner, and plates of apples are placed on both sides.
The incense in the censer has long been extinguished, and the cooled wax oil is stained with incense ash or dust.
The apples in the fruit bowl have long since shriveled, and the surface looks a little wrinkled.
"...My great-grandfather, you really found a good way for my great-grandson to make money." The young man looked at the altar and smiled,
"Come on, have an apple? Don't eat it. If you don't eat it, I will eat it."
The young man was talking, took out an apple from the fruit bowl, took a bite,