It turns out that just five days ago, an uninvited guest came to the fishing village from the west, and the leader was a man carrying a bamboo basket!
When he said this, the village chief couldn't help but glance behind Yin Ling'er, and still felt that the bamboo baskets between the two were quite similar.
Lao Jiang became suspicious and asked: "Westerners?"
"Yes! The first one was a young man with a gloomy expression carrying a bamboo basket; he was followed by a middle-aged man in a Chinese tunic suit and a beard; and there was an old woman dragging a poor man with injuries all over his body with a hemp rope. That poor man I don’t know where the slave was captured from. He is so submissive and carries a lot of luggage and doesn’t dare to say a word.”
Yin Ling'er and I looked at each other. Needless to say, this poor guy was Ah Shui.
I don’t know what immoral things he did in his previous life. First he was bullied by Zhao Erhu, then he was tortured by the evil ghost in Western Sichuan, and now he has fallen into the hands of Young Master Heimiao. His life is really miserable!
"You see he kidnapped someone, you know the person who came here is not good." Ge Weihan couldn't help but said.
The village chief's face was full of remorse: "I saw that all of them were talking unusually, and I thought they were servants bought with money. I thought it was other people's family affairs, so I didn't ask any more questions... I didn't expect them to be a bunch of beasts!"
We know Young Master Miao Jiang and Ah Shui, but who are the other two people?
I looked at Lao Jiang and saw that his expression was complicated and his right hand was trembling slightly.
It’s broken. Could it be Lao Wu?
The three predictions made in Qingyi Village at the beginning said that Lao Jiang would meet the person he wanted to see but dared not to see. Could it be that these predictions would also come true?
I first reached out to Lao Jiang and asked for a photo of Lao Wu. Lao Jiang didn’t hear me at first. When I asked a second time, he finally took out the treasured black and white photo from his wallet.
In the photo, Lao Jiang and He Lanxue were only about thirty years old. There was a smiling man in the middle with one hand on Lao Jiang's shoulder and the other on He Lanxue's shoulder. His eyes were clear and clean, and he was very happy.
As soon as she saw the photo, Yin Ling'er came over and said, "Hey, who is this in the middle? Why haven't I heard Master mention it?"
Lao Jiang couldn't explain it. He just pointed at the man in the middle of the photo and asked, "Have you seen him?"
"How could I have seen it before?" The village chief frowned: "But... the middle-aged man who left five days ago seemed to have a short knife similar to Mr.'s in his waist, and it was also black!"
"Dad, that's him. Their facial features are very similar! But one is sunny and the other is gloomy. It's so strange..." Long Wa said from the side.
A person's aura can change, but his appearance is difficult to change.
That middle-aged man is Lao Wu!
Although I don't want to believe it, the facts are right in front of me, and the prediction of Qingyi Village has come true once again.
As for the remaining old woman, I probably know it in my mind.
The village chief looked at Lao Jiang with caution and asked, "The one on the left in this photo seems to be you, and you both have the same knife. What is your relationship with that guy?"
"Are you asking before or now?"
Although Lao Jiang was smiling, his eyes were filled with freezing ice, so cold that the village chief immediately stopped talking.
Ge Weihan was a smart man and quickly brought up the topic just now: "Let's get down to business. Do those Westerners want to go to the lake when they come here?"
"Yes, at first they were so kind that they asked us to ferry them to Wawu Mountain by boat! But there is a rule passed down by the ancestors in the village. We can fish on the shores of Yanu Lake for generations, but we can never climb Wawu Mountain."
"After being rejected, the other party did not fall out. They just said that it was getting dark and wanted to stay in the village for one night. Who would have thought, we entertained them with good intentions, but they fell in love with my daughter!"
It turned out that when Qing'er was pouring wine for the man carrying the bamboo basket, his eyes lingered on her unscrupulously.
At that time, the village chief's wife noticed something was wrong and hurriedly asked Qing'er to go down.
Unexpectedly, Qing'er fell into an inexplicable coma that night. When he woke up, he had no hair left. He was insulted!
The most annoying thing is that she doesn't even know who did it. The only thing she can be sure of is a foreigner.
Because the other person doesn’t smell fishy.
The village chief wanted to settle the score with them immediately, but at this time the Westerners also showed their true colors. They actually killed two fishermen on the spot and forced the village chief to send them to Wawu Mountain!
At first the village chief would rather die than obey, but they were too cruel and said that as long as they did not send them away, they would kill one person a day until there were no chickens or dogs left in the village...
At the critical moment, Longwa stood up and said that he would send them into the mountain.
But the other party read the thought of dying together from Long Wa's eyes, so he picked a fisherman with a wife and children and appointed him to deliver it!
The next day, the fisherman sent the group to Wawu Mountain, but never came back. He was probably killed.
On the same day, Qing'er also hanged herself.
The village chief and his family were in mourning. Long Wa was furious and wanted to go boating to seek revenge on them, but found that every family's boat had a big hole drilled into it and could not be used at all.
And I don’t know what they did. Since the beginning of the song, the river god who has been at peace with the village has become angry every day.
"River God?"
Hearing this name, Yin Ling'er and I couldn't help but look at each other.
Lao Jiang suddenly realized: "When I first entered the village, I saw a colorful fish flag hanging in front of every house. Could it be that the big fish with two dragon whiskers is your river god?"
Upon hearing this, the village chief couldn't help but look at Lao Jiang with admiration: "Yes, that is our river god! In the past, the river god was kind. Every time we fished, he would drive fish and shrimps from other waters over to us again. We have had a good harvest every time. With its blessing, our lives are getting better and better. But now, since those few people crossed the river, Yanu Lake has become unstable..."
"From then on, we didn't dare to go near the water anymore, because when women were washing clothes by the river and children were playing in the water, they were attacked by a group of scary shadows! And the day before yesterday, a fisherman was fishing for clams in the water. While fishing for pearls, she was bitten on the thigh by a shadow and almost couldn't come back. Fortunately, she was experienced. "
"Now we have no boat. If the river god no longer protects us, I really don't know how we will live."
The village chief had a sad face, and the wrinkles on his face were like the bark of an old tree. I wonder if the white hair on his temples was caused by worry in the past two days?
Lao Jiang pondered for a moment and looked at the village chief: "I will help you solve the problem of Yanu Lake, let the river god continue to protect the village, and you will be responsible for sending us to Wawu Mountain."
