After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Ceremony to worship the witch god?

Needing so many children's corpses to sacrifice to the witch god, what is this if not a cult?Moreover, Liu Yunxiang inquired carefully and found that the children chosen by the Witch God were all boys, not girls.

"You always say that the Witch God wants to punish the people of Xizhou. What's going on?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

Yesterday the landlady mentioned King Suping, what does this have to do with him?

When this was mentioned, the boss hurriedly came over, sat down at their table, and whispered: "When it comes to this matter, I'm really confused."

"What do you say?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

"Don't they sacrifice to the Witch God every year? On that day, they will deliver the body of the child chosen by the Witch God. It seems to be sent to the Witch God's Temple. We don't know what happens after that. This happens every year, but last year an accident happened."

Speaking of this, the boss sighed, "The child who was chosen by the Witch God, after the messenger took the child's body away, his parents regretted it and wanted to take the child's body back. But the sacrifice was about to be held, and if there was no sacrifice, it would be destroyed. The witch god was angered. The envoy refused to give it, so the child's parents simply reported it to the official. King Suping was in Xizhou at that time, and the matter reached his ears. He negotiated with the witch god's envoy, but they still refused to give it. In the end, King Suping brought The soldiers snatched the child’s body back.”

The boss suddenly stopped and looked at Liu Yunxiang and Liu Yunxiang mysteriously.

"Do you know what happened next?"

"What?" Zijin asked cooperatively.

"The child came back from the dead!"

"Alive again?" Zijin was surprised.

The boss nodded, "It did come back to life, but it also offended the Witch God. Since then, it has never rained or snowed in Xizhou."

The landlady called someone in the backyard, and the boss ran over.

Zi Jin shook his head with goosebumps, "There is no such thing as resurrection from the dead in this world, unless...unless the child is not dead at all!"

Liu Yunxiang narrowed his eyes, "There have always been animals used for sacrifice, but they were all living animals and were killed during the sacrifice. How could anyone specifically go to sacrifice children who died of illness? These witch gods and messengers of the witch gods are just a bunch of people who are destroying lives. The murderer."

Afterwards, the proprietress brought the food and said that these white-robed envoys did not stay in the hotel for free. She gave them a piece of silver when they left, which was really too much.If they meet a few times a year, their inn can stay afloat.

"They will also give money to their parents after taking away the bodies of those children. In this regard, they are kind and righteous." Zi Jin said.

"It's okay not to have such benevolence and righteousness."

Before leaving, Liu Yunxiang asked the resurrected child where his home was. Then she and Zijin went into the city and went directly to find that family.When they were far away, they smelled a stink. The further they walked in, the stronger the stink became.

When I got to the door, I saw a woman covering her mouth and nose with a cloth and washing the wooden door of her house.There were a lot of dirty things on the wooden door. Liu Yunxiang took one look and almost vomited in disgust.

"Is this Huang Liang's family?" Zi Jin asked, covering his nose.

When the woman heard this, she turned to look at them with guarded eyes. She shook her head hurriedly and continued to wash the wooden door.

Liu Yunxiang counted the entrances to the alley again and found that it was indeed the third door, "Are you Huang Liang's wife?"

"Do you have to force our family to death?" the woman said with a sullen expression.

Liu Yunxiang frowned, where did these words come from?

"We are here from out of town and want to ask you to confirm something."

"I don't know anything." Just say that, the woman stood up and walked home.

But then a teenage boy passed by and suddenly took out a stone and threw it at the woman. Zijin acted quickly, and when the stone was about to hit the woman's forehead, he blocked it with the hilt of his sword.

The boy took a sip and cursed: "Selfish, because of you, all of us are going to starve to death!"

The boy ran away after scolding him, but the woman seemed to be used to such scolding, and she turned around and walked home numbly.

"There is no resurrection from the dead. Your child did not die at all, so the other children who were sacrificed did not die of illness, but were finally killed by the messenger of the Witch God."

Hearing this, the woman quickened her pace home. When she entered the door, she turned around and was about to close the door.

Zi Jin pushed it with his foot and said, "My wife has something to ask you."

"I don't know, I don't know anything." The woman shook her head.

Liu Yunxiang took a deep breath, "Panlong City suffered from drought, but the people believed that it was your family's fault. As the situation becomes more difficult, have you ever thought about what might happen to your family?"

The woman's face was pale, she must have thought about it, so she was trembling with fear at this time.

"We...we are already planning to move away..."

Looking at the patches on the woman's clothes, it can be seen that the family is not wealthy, and if the family moves without financial support, it will only fall into an even more desperate situation.

Liu Yunxiang took out a piece of silver and gave it to the woman, "Before your family moves out, tell me what you know, okay?"

The woman looked at the silver. They needed it so much that she subconsciously wanted to reach out for it.But as soon as she stretched out her hand, she looked at Liu Yunxiang alertly.

"who are you?"

Liu Yunxiang thrust the money into the woman's hand, "It doesn't matter who I am, your family needs this money."

The woman clenched the silver tightly, looked around first, and then invited the two of them to come in.

Liu Yunxiang glanced at the dirty things on the ground, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and walked around to her house.The woman waited for them to come in and quickly closed the courtyard door.

At this time, a little boy ran out. He was tall and thin, about seven or eight years old.Perhaps when he heard the noise, he rushed out with a hoe, ready to fight them desperately.

The woman hurriedly stopped her son, saying that they were not bad people and asked him to go into the house first.

The child slapped Liu Yunxiang and the others again. Seeing that their faces were kind, he went into the house.

"Is this your son?" Liu Yunxiang asked.

The woman nodded, "He was sick at the time and the medicine was ineffective. Later, the messenger of the Witch God came and said that he was chosen by the Witch God. He drew a spell on him and left. After two days, the child had no breath. We thought he was dead. So I went to the messengers of the witch god and asked them to take the child away. But when they took the child away, I always felt uneasy, and so did my husband. After discussing it, we decided to take the child’s body back and bury it properly. But they If they don't give it, they will kick us out. We have no choice but to report it to the official. Fortunately, King Suping is in Xizhou and helps us get the child back."

"Then the child came back to life?"

The woman hesitated for a moment and shook her head, "King Suping gave the child a pill. We don't know what medicine it was. But he asked us and our husband to keep it a secret and not to tell anyone else. Not long after King Suping left, the child woke up."

Liu Yunxiangmo, it was obvious that Lu Changan gave the child the antidote. The child was not sick, but poisoned. This poison would make the child appear to be dead.

Lu Changan didn't let the parents tell the truth because he didn't want to anger the people of the Witch God Cult, so as not to cause trouble.

But his thinking was obviously not thorough enough, which caused even greater trouble.