Pick up the Dragon

Chapter 25 River God Sacrifice

When the little beggar followed the three of them back to the inn, his immature face still showed a daze of absence.He stared at the younger sister who was gnawing fingers in Peng Yu's arms, raised his dirty little paws and wiped his face, and wiped himself into a little cat with wet tears.

Peng Yu handed the two children, one big and one small, to the fake shopkeeper, and asked them to wash the two dirty little loaches and send them upstairs.At this time, Jiu Yuan, who was sent out by the Dragon King, came back, and whispered something in his ear, Li Yi narrowed his eyes immediately, and greeted Peng Yu to go upstairs.

"That is to say, those insects first ate carrion corpses and lived in the Chenzhou area, and then fled collectively and moved to the vicinity of Anping, gnawed on the purple rhyme flower field, and finally flowed into the Weishui River, and got into the bodies of the children used for sacrifices—— Then what? Then where did you go?"

Jiu Yuan shook his head: "There is an enchantment at the bottom of the water, I didn't dare to approach it rashly, for fear of scaring the snake."

Li Yi touched his chin, and glanced at Qianyue lightly: "It seems that what you said is true, these bugs are full, and even tasted the dessert leisurely, and swaggered to find a place to rest. But What's the purpose? What are they collecting these bugs for?"

Jiu Yuan: "I just found out that there were seventy children used for sacrifice before, plus this time ten... eleven, a total of 81."

Li Yi instantly understood: "Well, ninety-nine return to one."

He went through everything that happened in these days again in his mind, and he could roughly sort out what the group of "mysterious people" did-let's assume that the same group of people set up bureaus in Chenzhou and Anping. According to linear calculations, the deployment of the Yin-Yang Formation began two years ago at the latest. Firstly, the Songzi Temple was established, and the divine power of the unicorn horn was used to induce children to be born in Anping, and the "soul-destroyed" ones were selected from them to accommodate the "worms". container.

After these preparations were almost complete, they selected Chenzhou, which had many unjust cases, and set up a spirit-binding array, using the magical power of the flying snake to support the operation of the array.Later, the magistrate died suddenly of a serious illness, and the prisoners in the water prison died tragically in the prison. Their corpses may be the place where the first batch of "worms" breed.In the beginning of spring, the insects spread rapidly to the surrounding areas, and the people of Chenzhou had to flee from their homes. Lizhou, which is the closest to Chenzhou, and surrounding villages and towns followed suit.

It wasn't until the pest epidemic worsened that Lizhou closed the city, and the news had to be passed to Peng Yu's ears by the Peng family's caravan of "reporting good news but not bad news".

But in fact, everything is for the final "ninety-nine return to the formation", whether it is the worm, the snake, the spirit-binding formation, or the unicorn horn and the Songzi Temple.This situation that had been buried in the world for at least two years, the yin and yang formation that stretched for hundreds of miles, finally completed its mission today and drew a perfect end.

Oh, there is just one thing that is not so good, he secretly replaced a child, and they have to work hard to find another one.

What the worms take away is not a rare thing, but the "desire" that any living creature with a soul has and buried deep in his heart.These desires include all joys, anger, fears, greed, luck, grievances, and jealousy. They are supremely sublimated in the spirit-binding array that can strengthen people's emotions. From every unwilling soul, every fear of the unknown Pulling out a thread from a mortal body, it becomes a colorful kaleidoscope, and then adding purple rhyme flowers that can make people fall into hallucinations, and finally injects all the most unsightly things in human nature into the purest, most ignorant, and white paper-like young children. Tong's body was covered with a seal, quietly waiting for the next activation.

As for where these 81 children will eventually be used, it is still unknown.

For a moment, none of the four said anything, and the atmosphere seemed to freeze.After a long time, the embarrassment was broken by a knock on the door, and the waiter of the counterfeit store brought over the two cleaned up children, and brought them food and entertainment.

The disgraced little beggar turned into a delicate little boy, apart from being skinny, he could almost be regarded as exquisite.He wolfed down the food, and from time to time he would feed his sister who was eating candy. Peng Yu was very suspicious that the child hadn't eaten anything else since he finished taking his steamed stuffed bun a few days ago.

While he was eating, Peng Yu was babbling out of his mouth and found out that the child's name was Lin Jingping, and his younger sister was Lin Jingan, who was a native of Anping.Asking his parents again, the boy suddenly stopped his chopsticks, lowered his head, hesitated for a while before saying: "Parent and mother are gone, it's just me and my sister."

Peng Yu was taken aback for a moment.

Lin Jingping glanced at his younger sister: "Mother left after giving birth to my younger sister, and my father was very sad. Then one day I got drunk and fell into the river, and... I had an aunt at first, but my aunt didn't want us, so she threw us away from us." The family was blasted out and we were not allowed to go back to live."

He absent-mindedly took another mouthful of rice and wiped away his tears: "My sister was still young at that time, so I had to secretly milk cows, sheep, and dogs in nearby villages for her to drink, and they often beat them out. Just steal a little flour and cook it into a paste, and sometimes kind people will take pity on us and occasionally give us something to eat."

Peng Yu seemed to have nothing else to say except sighing, so he reached out and touched his head: "No one will bully you in the future. But I'm afraid we can't take you all the time. I know a couple who want to adopt a child. , would you like to go?"

The boy looked at him with teary eyes, opened his big eyes, nodded hesitantly, and shook his head violently.

Peng Yu: "What do you mean? Do you want to go or don't want to go?"

Lin Jingping: "I think...but, but, will they really want it? We have never left Anping, I...I don't want to be a burden."

The boy lowered his head, twisted his fingers uneasily, and his lips were red from being bitten by himself.Peng Yu was silent for a while, sighed softly, and said patiently: "Don't worry, they are all good people, and they really want children. They will be very happy when you pass. The host is a teacher. The family is fairly rich, so you don't have to worry about anything, just tell me whether you want it or not."

Lin Jingping looked at his young sister, and finally compromised: "Yes."

"Well," Peng Yu heaved a sigh of relief, rubbed his chin and said, "The caravan of 'Jiazi' should pass through Huazhou this time. I think it will be two days. We happened to be going to Huazhou. They came from Huazhou. Let them take you to Lizhou."

Li Yi twitched his lips and interjected, "Your family's caravans are really all over the place."

"Of course." Peng Yu raised his eyebrows very proudly, "They have traveled a long way this time, and they should have brought back a lot of good goods after going there for half a year—why, would you like to see my Peng family business What rare things did the team bring back?"

Li Yi raised his hand expressionlessly to cover the man's approaching face: "I'm not interested, I've seen more good things than you've eaten salt."

Peng Yu: "..."

Before they left Anping, the inn they were staying in had silently changed their surname to Peng.Master Peng opened a separate room for the two children to rest for the night, and sent guards who didn't know where the cat was to secretly protect them. For the first time in more than a year, the two children slept well with enough food and clothing. Feeling that his future life has settled down, Lin Jingping kowtowed three times to Peng Yu in order to express his gratitude.

Peng Yu grinned like a toothache, feeling that something was wrong.

It was getting late, and the bustle of the day in Anping died down again, and the whole county fell into tranquility and peace again.The counterfeit shopkeeper made calculations against the ledger, and the beads collided with each other crisply, falling into the ears of the slightly drunk guests, like a soothing song with a unique rhythm.

When Li Yi went to find Peng Yu, he found that there was no lamp in the room.

It seems that the time for Peng Yu to hold the lamp these days is getting later every day. He is sitting on the table in a disfigured manner, with his long legs dangling on the edge of the table.Hearing someone coming in, he tilted his head slightly, and then laughed lazily: "It's so late, what's the Dragon King doing?"

"Can't you come if it's okay?"

Peng Yu smiled leisurely: "Are you okay? I thought you wanted to 'talk all night long' with me."

Li Yi looked at him in surprise, he didn't open his dragon eyes, and it was difficult to see in this dim room, Peng Yu's double pupils were dim, and he seemed to know who he was by the sound of footsteps.Can't help asking strangely: "Why don't you hold the lamp?"

Peng Yu hesitated and said vaguely, "Save some lamp oil."

"Ha, do you care about the few pennies of lamp oil?"

Peng Yu turned his head away and raised his face seriously: "What do you know? Today I saw the misery of the three brothers and sisters eating buns for three days. I felt that I was too extravagant and wasteful before, so I decided to start thrifty from today - just make it from this lamp oil. rise."

After listening to this serious nonsense, Li Yi felt that Young Master Peng had taken the wrong medicine again today and was about to light the oil lamp, but the other party suddenly reached out his hand and stopped him inaccurately: "Don't."

The temperature of the man's fingertips seemed to be slightly lower than usual. Li Wei was a little surprised, and his eyelids twitched: "You are not quite right today."

"In your eyes, I'm still 'right'?" Peng Yu made an exaggerated surprised expression, "I thought..."

"What's the matter with you?" Li Yi didn't want to cooperate with his joke, his brows furrowed, and he interrupted him forcefully.

"Hmm..." Peng Yu rubbed his nose and asked suddenly after a moment of silence, "Do you know why I accompanied you to Anping?"

Li Yi didn't seem to have expected this turning point, he was slightly taken aback, and blurted out, "Didn't you accompany me to find the unicorn horn?"

"On the one hand." He faltered for a while, "The main thing is... I want to see the place my mother almost came to."

Li Yi: "Your mother? Almost?"

"My mother almost came to Anping back then." Peng Yu turned his head to the direction of the window, his eyes obviously didn't have any focal length, but his eyes seemed to go back many years ago through time and space, "Actually, I haven't seen her before. She was there when I was born. Gone—is this sentence familiar? I look a bit like Lin Jingan."

Li Yi didn't answer, and waited quietly for him to speak.

Peng Yu remained silent for a long time, and finally found a clue from the thoughts in the sky: "Although my father is a mess, he treats my mother very well, and everyone turns a blind eye to it."

Li Yixin said: It is obvious to all.

"My mother is not in good health. She is sick for about half a year. The doctor said that she would definitely not be able to conceive a child in this state. As long as I and my wife live well. But my family had two generations at that time. Although my mother was mild-tempered, she was a bit stubborn in certain things. She felt that no matter what, she should continue the incense of the Peng family. Their husband and wife We can understand each other in two other matters, but in this matter, no one is willing to compromise."

"and then?"

"Then..." Peng Yu smiled wryly, "My mother wants a child like crazy, but she is just a weak and sick woman who stays at home, and my father has a tough attitude and refuses to follow her wish. She There was no other way, so I had to ask people everywhere, at that time Anping built a new Guanyin Songzi Temple, and she even wanted to sneak out of the mansion to find Guanyin begging for a child—of course, it failed.”

"My father made a big fuss when he found out, and made the guards treat my mother more strictly. My mother had to think of other ways. I don't know who said that carving a wooden chicken and putting it on the wall will be able to Attract a bird that looks like a chicken and has a clear cry, and this bird will give birth to babies."

Li Yi inexplicably felt that this story sounded familiar.

Peng Yu: "At that time, my mother was really a demon. She believed everything she said. It was clear that my father refused to touch her so she couldn't conceive a child, but she had to believe that her efforts could impress God. So she found a piece of wood, Carving the chicken behind my father's back, she has never done this kind of work, and she doesn't have much strength in her hands, so I don't know how many times she failed, but finally she did it."

As he spoke, he took out a small chicken-shaped pendant from his sleeve, which seemed to be bought in a market one day: "It looks like this. She put the wooden chicken on the wall, and when the window was opened I can see it. My father was finally moved by her persistence. One day, he drank some wine, so he was so courageous. He said in his heart that this time, if he can conceive, he will give birth. If he can’t conceive, he will be beaten to death. Bring it up."

Li Yi took the small pendant and looked up at him.

Peng Yu smiled invisibly: "Then there was me."

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