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There was continuous gunshots behind him, Shao Yun went quickly to dodge the bullets, and led Dong Man and his son into the forest.

It wasn't until after running for more than ten miles that the noise of chasing after him completely disappeared.

Surrounded by a dense jungle, Shao Yun casually threw his backpack and long sword on the grass, took out a kettle and followed the sound of water, walked under a boulder, and pushed aside the dead branches and leaves on the puddle, revealing the bubbling clear water below , he unscrewed the kettle and moved it up, and took a small half of the pot of water after a while.

Then I went back to the grass, quenched my thirst with water, and calmed my shortness of breath.

"Want to drink water?" Shao Yun went to pour water into the lid of the pot and put it in front of the orange cat.

"Meow~" The orange cat shook its ears, paused for a while, and then slowly jumped onto Shao Yunqu's lap, lying on top of it, sticking out its small red tongue to lick the pot lid he handed over bit by bit in the water.

Dong Man took her son Zheng Zhao and appeared under a big tree not far away, her already pale face was pallid, she suppressed the pain in her internal organs, smiled, bowed and said: "Little Dong Man will remember the kindness of my brother drawing his sword to save each other, and if there is an afterlife, I will definitely repay my little brother's kindness today."

The reason why the mother and son waited until today to come back for revenge was not only because they wanted to expose the faces of Zheng Junsheng and his wife in full view, but also because they were afraid of Chen Shensuan.It's just that they didn't expect them to suppress their hatred and practice painstakingly for a whole year. When they thought they could easily deal with Chen Shensuan, they were beaten so helplessly.

Chen Shensuan was obviously determined to kill them. It can be said that if Shao Yun hadn't come to rescue them, their mother and son might have ended up in dire straits.

Shao Yun nodded and asked, "What are your plans now?"

Dong Man smiled wryly: "What else can we do? Probably find a place to recuperate. With Chen Shen counting, it may be more difficult for us mother and son to get revenge than ascending to heaven."

She couldn't help but glanced at Shao Yun. Of course, with his help, revenge would definitely be within easy reach.

It's just that Shao Yun has already rescued them once, and Chen Shensuan is obviously not that easy to provoke, and the other party may not necessarily be willing to wade into this muddy water.

And she is not completely without opportunities, Chen Shensuan is over 80 years old, how many years can she live?As long as he died before Zheng Junsheng and his wife, it would be much easier for them to take revenge.

Anyway, they are already ghosts, and they can't afford to wait.

Thinking of this, she didn't ask Shao Yun to go.

"Meow." The orange cat patted Shao Yunqu's thigh.

Finished.

Shao Yun went to pour out the remaining water in the lid of the pot and covered it.

He said: "I can help you, but I have one condition."

Dong Man couldn't help being elated, "What conditions?" After all, having Shao Yun to help is better than their endless waiting.

Shao Yun looked at her fixedly: "I just want to know what is the relationship between the human trafficker who sat at the table with Zheng Haoli and the others at Zheng Junsheng's house just now and Shanxia Village?"

Traffickers?

Dong Man was taken aback, and the joy in his eyes gradually disappeared.

She hesitated for a while, and finally said: "The trafficker is called Wang Laosan. Counting from his father, in the past 33 years, he has sold an adult to four villages including Shanxia Village every year around August. And this person will be presented to the river god by the four villages as an offering on the day of the river sacrifice?"

"River sacrifice?" Shao Yunqu frowned slightly.

Dong Man nodded: "There are only four of our villages within a radius of ten miles. The Wenchuan River passes through the village. It comes from the melting glaciers and snow water on Changbai Mountain. 33 years ago, our four villages were located in deep mountains and old forests , the traffic is jammed, so there is not much contact with the outside world, and some stereotypes and bad habits have not been eradicated in time, and they have been retained.”

"Back then, there was a scandal involving a father-in-law and his daughter-in-law picking ashes in the Zhongjia Village next door. According to the family rules at that time, both of them should be immersed in a pig cage and sink in the pond. Chen Shensuan, who had just gained a foothold in Zhongjia Village, found Zhongjia Village The village chief said that he was a newcomer and was able to settle down in Zhongjia Village thanks to the care of the villagers, and then asked the village chief if he wanted to double his income when he went to the mountains to dig ginseng next year."

"Who wouldn't want such a good thing? Of course the village head of Zhongjia Village nodded in agreement. Then Chen Shensuan said that there are mountain spirits in mountains, and river gods in rivers. Wenchuan River originated from Changbai Mountain. The villagers of Zhongjia Village drank Wenchuan River The river is thriving, and the relationship between them is naturally close. As long as Zhongjia Village is willing to send a servant to Wenchuan River God every year, and let him open the altar, the river god will be kind, and the villagers of Zhongjia Village will naturally bless the villagers to live and work in peace and contentment in the coming year."

"The village head of Zhongjia Village was skeptical. It was a drought that year. Although no one in Zhongjia Village died of starvation, every household lived with their belts tight. They hoped that there would be a good harvest next year to fill their stomachs and support their families. Old and young, Chen Shensuan's words can be said to have touched the heart of the village chief of Zhongjia Village, and there are ready-made offerings right now, so the village chief of Zhongjia Village agreed without saying a word."

"Sure enough, in the whole year after the river festival, the villagers of Zhongjia Village went to the mountains to dig ginseng, and no one had any accidents. As expected, the income has doubled as Chen Shensuan expected. You must know that the mountain road is rugged, and digging ginseng in the mountains is especially important. Dangerous, it is good to slip and break your leg. I am most afraid of encountering ferocious beasts, and carrying a gun may not necessarily save my life... This kind of thing happens once or twice a year among the mountain people in the four villages. That's how my dad is."

"But Chen Shensuan also said that the river sacrifice must be held once a year. Once it is cut off, the good luck will naturally be gone. The village chief of Zhongjia Village has never hidden the other villagers about this matter, and he has tasted the sweetness. I just want to continue tasting. So the village head of Zhongjia Village approached Chen Shensuan again at the instigation of the villagers, and discussed whether they could change the offerings of the river sacrifice, such as ordinary three animals and six animals. They don't mind offering more. After all In the previous river sacrifice, it was because there were ready-made offerings, so he could readily agree to it. But now it’s not working, it’s impossible to throw innocent villagers into the river and drown them.”

"Chen Shensuan rejected the request of the village chief of Zhongjia Village, and then gave him an idea. He asked the village chief of Zhongjia Village to spend money to buy someone back, write it into the genealogy of Zhongjia Village, and count it as a gift from the villagers of Zhongjia Village. To the God of the River. In this way, Zhongjia Village will not have to sacrifice a single life, but also enjoy the benefits of the River Festival, killing two birds with one stone."

"The head of Zhongjia Village was a little hesitant, but Chen Shensuan reassured him. Since he was a trafficked person, he would either be sold to a deep mountain forest to be a wife and be imprisoned for a lifetime; or he would be bought and begged along the street with his hands and feet broken. It would be better for them Buying people and sending them to the river god as servants, so they don’t have to be tortured, so they can be regarded as accumulating virtue.”

"Hearing what Chen Shensuan said, the village head of Zhongjia Village immediately agreed. In the next two years, the villagers of Zhongjia Village gained far more from the mountains than the other three villages. The other three villages inevitably had doubts when they came and went. At that time, a villager in Zhongjia Village got drunk and said that he slipped his mouth..."

"That is to say, since then, the river sacrifice in Zhongjia Village has become a joint sacrifice for the four villages. The four villages take turns to preside over it every four years. This year it happens to be the turn of Shanxia Village."

After saying all these in one breath, Dong Man looked at Shao Yun nervously.

People are selfish, especially the mountain people whose thoughts are still stuck in the last century, and they can do everything for their own benefit.In the past, I didn't think much of it, but with the construction of the road, the fourth village has more contact with the outside world, and the cadres of the village committee know that if outsiders know about this, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the fourth village.

Under the tireless exhortation of the head of the four villages, the villagers also knew the seriousness of the matter. Not only did they hide the truth from the daughter-in-law who married into the village, but they even kept their mouths shut to the next generation and never mentioned it.

Now that she told Shao Yun all these things, she undoubtedly pushed Shanxia Village to the edge of the cliff.But she didn't regret it, the Dong family had long since disappeared, and now she only wanted to take revenge on the Zheng family.

As for Zheng Wenhui, her former nominal husband.After her father died, the family was poor and white, so she had no choice but to marry that idiot.She wanted to live in peace and stability, but Zheng Wenhui would always be coaxed by the Zheng family. If she hadn't tried every means to stop her, the family's money would have been wiped out by the Zheng family long ago.How could such a married life make her have a good impression of Zheng Wenhui.

Now that she is dead, what happens to Zheng Wenhui has nothing to do with her.

So she didn't regret it at all, she was just worried that Shao Yun would dislike her after knowing these things, after all, she was once a member of Shanxia Village.

Shao Yun went to sneer: "So that's the case, when will the River Festival be held?"

Dong Man thought for a while: "It should be three days later." She couldn't help but asked again: "Brother, do you want to get involved?"

Shao Yun went and nodded, his eyes were full of sarcasm: "This so-called river sacrifice, your so-called four villages are probably going to steal chickens and lose money."

Dong Man was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Why?"

Shao Yun went to pick up the backpack, put it on his shoulder, and looked back at Dong Man: "Don't you think that the appearance of the villagers in your mountain village is too different from their actual age?"

Dong Man was puzzled: "Fangshan people have always been like this."

Shao Yun went and said casually: "In the past, the medical conditions were not good. Fangshan people traveled for a long time in the mountains and forests, and they could not keep up with nutrition. It is normal to be short-lived. Now life is more than a hundred times better than before. The villagers in your village are still Do you think this look of youthful hair is normal?"

Before Dong Man could react, he threw out two talisman papers and stuck them on the chests of Dong Man's mother and son: "This is a yin-gathering talisman, which can help you heal your injuries. Now I have to ask you to do me a favor."

"What?" Dong Man came back to his senses.

"Into the mountain—"

Three days is enough for him to finish his own affairs. After three days, he must go to the river festival in Shanxia Village to make a fuss.He originally wanted to call the police to cause some trouble for Shanxia Village, but unfortunately there was no signal in the deep mountains and old forests, so he gave up.