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"Pooh!"
Just as he was eating a rotten apple, the young man spit it out on the ground.
"What the hell."
The young man cursed in a low voice, threw the apple with tooth marks back into the fruit bowl, and walked into the bedroom.
……
Watching the young man step into the bedroom, Lian Ge, who was standing beside him, withdrew his gaze and looked at the shrine in front of him.
On both sides of the shrine, there is a picture opposite, written separately,
"Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, loyalty and filial piety."
Looking at this pair of couplets, and at the tablet enshrining the Lord of Earth in the altar, Lian Ge couldn't help smiling.
Withdrawing his gaze, Lian Ge once again looked at the altar in front of him.
There is dust on the altar table, and it has not been wiped for an unknown period of time.
After sweeping his eyes, Lian Ge looked at the slightly larger incense burner on the altar table.
After staring for a moment, Lian Ge stretched out his hand and moved the incense burner to the side.
"Clap."
After the censer, a thread-bound book leaning against the back of the censer fell and fell on the altar, splashing a cloud of dust.
I don't know how long it has not been turned, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the book.
Stretching out his hand, Lian Ge picked up the book, and with a wave of his hand, the dust on the book was stripped off like sand, scattered on the ground.
Picking up the brand new thread-bound book, Lian Ge flipped through it.
On the cover, it says 'Hong's Handbook'.
Pausing his gaze, Lian Ge opened the title page, and saw on it the sincere words left by the ancestors of the Hong family.
"Cultivating the law first cultivates the body, and practicing the practice first be a person."
After a slight pause, Lian Ge continued to scroll down.
Further down is the main content of this handbook, which records some spells left by Hong's ancestors, one's insights, some formations, and some special experiences, which are used to warn future generations.
The comprehension of the technique is very scattered and rough, some places are limited by the comprehension of the technique by the ancestors of the Hong family, and some are vague.
Lian Ge flipped through the pages, looked at them, and got a general understanding of the origins of Hong's ancestors.
According to the content recorded in this handbook, the ancestors of the Hong family studied the law hundreds of years ago. At that time, they were a real cultivator.
After hundreds of years, the Hong family has not achieved any development. Instead, they have lost their fundamental practice and mana, and can only rely on some superficial methods to survive in the countryside.
Flipping through the pages,
Lian Ge turned to the last page, which was also the last content left by the last true inheritor of this manuscript, recording an experience.
"...In the month of Jihai in the Bingxu year, it was a time when soldiers and bandits were infested. A defeated soldier broke into the village with guns, occupied the magpie's nest with doves, threatened the villagers with guns, and provided them with food and shelter.
The villagers are afraid of the sharpness of their guns, fear it, and follow it.
In the second ten days of the month, the soldiers and bandits intensified and took the maid of a good family at the entrance of the village into bed. Her father refused to obey and resisted.
The more feared the villagers, the more rampant the soldiers and bandits.
I saw soldiers and bandits committing crimes in the village, which is really tolerable.
But the rest alone can't beat the gun-wielding bandit.Just when I was thinking hard, it rained heavily for several days, and the upper reaches of the river running through the village swelled and flooded the river.
It was a good opportunity given by God, and I used the theory of ghosts and gods to frighten the villagers, saying that this was the anger of the water god, but in fact the water god was angered by the intrusion of soldiers and bandits.If soldiers and bandits cannot be sacrificed to the water god, the water god will flood the village and destroy the villagers to show its power.
When the villagers heard Yu's words, they were terrified and moved by Yu's words. When the soldiers and bandits were sleeping soundly in the middle of the night, they, together with Yu, broke into the area where the soldiers and bandits were occupying.
Yu Shen was the first, followed by the villagers, but the soldiers and bandits suddenly woke up.
Yu knew that this opportunity must not be missed, so he rushed forward.
Although he was shot in the shoulder, he held back the soldiers and bandits. Afterwards, the villagers stepped forward and restrained the soldiers and bandits together with Yu.
That night, Yu killed the body of the bandit with a gun and threw his body in the river outside the village.
After fearing that the soldiers and bandits died, they would turn into ghosts. Yu relied on the merits of his ancestors and set up formations in the village to stop the ghosts.
Xin, the souls of the soldiers and bandits have not returned.
In the next month of the year, I had repeated gunshot wounds, and I was afraid that I would die soon. I left this article when I was dying, but I would like to remind future generations that the story of the water god is nonsense. If future generations encounter disasters, they must not sacrifice to the water god again. Things.
Although Yu has made this matter clear to the villagers, he is still afraid of...spreading rumors. "
Looking at the last article, whose handwriting was messy at the end, Lian Ge's eyes paused slightly.
……
Closing the book again, looking away, Lian Ge looked at the shrine in front of him again, and paused slightly.
Turning his gaze, Lian Ge looked out the window.
Outside the window, the setting sun had completely sunk into the horizon, night had fallen, and the entire village was dimmed.
Turning around, Lian Ge put the thread-bound book in his hand back to its original position, and at the same time moved the censer, covering the book again as before.
Turning around, looking at the side bedroom, Lian Ge didn't stay any longer, and walked out with shifting steps.
……
After a while.
In the middle of the village, under the tree by the pond, the woman who was tied to the tree no longer struggled, with despair in her eyes.
The two middle-aged men on the side kept staring at the woman without saying a word.
Glancing under the shade of the tree, Lian Ge withdrew his gaze and walked towards the side building, still hiding, poking his head out from time to time to glance at the child under the shade of the tree.
……
Slightly raised his head and glanced at the formation above his head, which isolated the formation inside and outside the village, Lian Ge looked away and looked at the child standing beside him.
"Do you really want to save that sister?" Looking at the child, Lian Ge said calmly.
"what?"
Hearing the sudden voice from the side, the child was startled for a moment, then turned around, and was pleasantly surprised again when he saw Lian Ge,
"Big brother, how did you leave and reappear just now. Just like just now, you can save that sister, right?"
The child turned around, looked at Lian Ge and said,
"When you save that sister, I'll let her accompany you. If she doesn't want to, I'll beat her, and she will!"
Lian Ge glanced at the child, then looked away,
"You don't need me to help you. You take this phone, call the police, and tell them that they are going to sink this sister in the river, and they will come to rescue her."
While speaking, Lian Ge handed the mobile phone taken from the middle-aged man guarding the young woman to the child.
"But, the police are here, won't they take that sister away too?" The child hesitated holding the phone.
"Didn't you say that you bought that sister and belonged to you? If so, why would the police take her away?"
Lian Ge glanced at the child, his voice was mixed with mana, he looked away, looked under the shade of the tree, and said calmly.
"Yes, it's mine, and no one can take it away! I want her to be my wife and give birth to my baby!" The child said, picked up the phone, dialed it,
"Hey……"
Chapter 211 The Villagers
"...Come quickly, they are going to sink my sister into the river!"
"In Banghe Village, come quickly..."
Beside the center of the village, next to the house, the words of the eleven or twelve-year-old child revealed anxiety.
"...Okay, I won't hang up the phone, I'll wait for you to come over."
As he spoke, the child turned his head again and looked sideways, only to find that his big brother had disappeared again.
……
On the side, watching the kid finish the phone call, Lian Ge withdrew his gaze and walked towards the shade of the tree again.
in the shade.
The woman who was tied to the tree trunk didn't make a sound anymore, she just stared at the two middle-aged men guarding her with desperate and fearful eyes.
The wrist that was tightened by the rope had been rubbed with bloodstains during the struggle, and the blood stained the tree.
The shoes on the feet have long been missing. During the struggle, the feet were scratched with scars, mixed with the dust on the ground, and stained on the feet.
The two men guarding her were still staring at her closely,
From time to time, there was a hint of resentment in the eyes of the two of them, but they remained indifferent in the end and did nothing, just staring at the young woman to prevent her from escaping.
Looking at the woman under the shade of the tree, Lian Ge paused.
Withdrawing his gaze, raising his head slightly, and looking at the gradually dimming night, Lian Ge waited quietly.
……
The night is getting darker, under the cover of the dark night,
On the road that was still empty during the day, figures gradually appeared, gathering from all over the place towards the center of the village.
Few lights were lit, and most of the people wore dark clothes, as if trying to hide themselves from the crowd, in the darkness of night.
……
The darkening night had little effect on Lian Ge's vision. Standing under the shade of the tree, Lian Ge watched the figures gathered in front of the tree.
This is the villagers in the village, with different expressions on their faces,
Some people looked indifferent, some looked numb, some looked unbearable, and some were very excited.
Looking at these figures, Lian Ge's eyes paused slightly.
……
And just after all the villagers in the village gathered by the tree one after another, the young man in the yellow Taoist robe appeared again.
"...Are you all ready? As long as tonight's sacrifice is completed, the village will calm down again. Just like my great-grandfather decades ago, when the time comes, our Binhe Village will be blessed by the water god again. Liuhu Prosperous, prosperous population, good weather..."
The young man was wearing a yellow priestly robe during the day, standing in front of the tree, and shouting to the gathered villagers.
"Ready……"
A few excited people in the crowd responded instantly, and the rest followed suit.
There were only a few people who could not bear it, who hesitated and didn't respond, but they didn't do anything.
"Okay, get ready..."
The young man looked at the villagers in front of him with even more excitement on his face, as if he was enjoying the moment.
……
Glancing at the shouting villagers, Lian Ge turned his gaze to the woman tied to the tree trunk,
At this moment, the woman opened her eyes and looked straight at the crowd of villagers shouting in front of her, as if she wanted to remember every face.
Looking at this woman, Lian Ge paused,
Raise your hand, drive the mana, wave lightly,
Then, the hemp rope that strangled the woman's mouth fell out of the knot.
The bound young woman felt her mouth loosen in an instant, and immediately reacted, and spit out the hemp rope in her mouth,
"...Do you think it will be useful! If there are ghosts and gods, all of you will go to hell!"
The woman looked at the group of villagers hiding in the night before her and said angrily,
"You are a group of murderers! Why, you are all hiding in the dark, afraid to see people, you group of murderers!"
The voice fell,