Scumbag: Introduction to Immortal Cultivation[Transmigration Book]

The river god eats people?This is so strange, I have only heard of demons cannibalizing people, but I have never heard of gods cannibalizing people.

"The girls who married the river god never came back. The mayor said that they enjoyed the glory and wealth in the river god's palace, but..." the old man said, "Someone lived in the silt on the river bank during the dry season of the Yao River. Found the girl's...hair."

"Hair?" Xiang Xiaolei was suspicious, "Why is it hair, and how do you know it's those girls' hair?"

The old woman explained, "I found the bride's hair accessories pinned to the hair once, and it was not washed away by the river. Isn't it the bride's hair?"

Xiang Xiaolei suddenly felt his scalp go numb, "Is the hair still in clumps?"

The old man said: "It is attached to the scalp."

Xiang Xiaolei suddenly felt a little nauseous.

He pinched himself to suppress this disgusting feeling, and continued to ask: "Then you just said that you have no money and treat your sister so badly, what's going on?"

Speaking of this, the old woman couldn't help wiping her tears, and the old man sighed again and again, "The mayor and the Taoist...ah, Taoist priest, I'm not talking about you...I'm talking about those Taoist priests who pretend to be gods and cheat money. Those who have daughters secretly send money to him. If you give more money, you will not be selected as the bride. If you donate less, you will be... oh, pity my Lian Er."

The old woman also said: "The mayor's family also has a daughter. If you don't send her to marry the God of the River, let us poor people get married. We can only redeem one daughter with the money we collected, so Xiao Lian said let her go, don't let her go." He killed her sister." The old woman wept as she spoke, "This child is kind-hearted, but he has no rewards! Heaven has no eyes!"

The ins and outs of the matter are probably clear, and there are many doubts, and if those girls are really dead, who killed them?But doubts are doubts, just listen to it as a story.

As a guy with no sense of responsibility and morality, Xiang Xiaolei's first reaction when he heard such a sad story was not that I was going to help them, but not to get involved in it.In real life, Xiang Xiaolei naturally didn't want to cause trouble for himself after hearing more news about helping the elderly to cross the road and being accused of being the driver who caused the accident when he sent the injured to the hospital.

So after comforting the old couple, he went out and walked in the opposite direction of the river mouth.

Mu Tianye followed him, not understanding why the little brother who was eager to watch the fun just now walked in the opposite direction.

"Brother, don't we go there?" Mu Tianye asked.

He glared at Xiaolei and signaled him to boo him not to speak, "What are you doing? Why are you joining in the fun? We're not big heroes, so what are we doing with these nosy things? It's serious to find a place to stay in a top-notch hotel." Naturally, he didn't mean to Wading in this muddy water.If you want to know the taste of pears, you have to taste them yourself.But after tasting the taste, why do you need to know how it came from, and why didn't you get it?

"Oh." Mu Tianye replied in a muffled voice, he had no objection, anyway his little brother did whatever he said.

The heavenly sound of the damn system sounded very "coincidentally" at this time.

【Oh, you know that something is suspicious, how can you let it go?You are given two options, either to investigate what is going on with the River God’s Bride, or to be sent directly to Wuxu Mountain, you choose one~]

The system recites this paragraph with a very cheap Google Translate accent, and the "呗" is still read in vibrato.

The corner of Xiang Xiaolei's mouth twitched. It must be that the lowB author Jack Sususu couldn't think of a plot for the spin-off. If he was asked to walk around the story and take a look, maybe he would find something new?So I want him to outline a thousand ways to kill Jack Su Susu in his mind again.

Anyway, I can't go to Wangxu Mountain!With a dark face to Xiaolei, he tugged on Mu Tianye's sleeve and walked towards the mouth of the river.

The estuary is a section formed by the sharp turn of the Yaohe River. Due to the sudden decrease in water flow velocity and the accumulation of sediment, a triangular sandbar is formed.

At this moment, a Taoist priest was muttering the ritual.He was wearing a yellow Daoist crown, a yellow wide-mouthed Daoist robe, and a black cloak with a Ziwei Eight Diagrams on the back. Standing on the temporary platform on the sandbar, he looked very dignified.

Sometimes he waved the whisk, sometimes rang the bell, sometimes spun around on the spot, and sometimes pointed to the sky.Suddenly, he stood up straight as if struck by lightning, rolled his eyes white, and stopped chanting.

The people around knelt down and kowtowed to the Taoist priest, shouting in unison, "Welcome to the water god of Yaohe River, and show your respect."

The Taoist priest was quiet for a while, rolled the whites of his eyes like a convulsion, and said slowly, "You people of Yaohe, marry your daughter to me, and let me enjoy the joy of fish and water. I am very happy. I am very happy, and I will naturally bless the next year with a good harvest. .”

All the people bowed their heads in worship, and shouted in unison, "Master Immortal, all blessings are in the sky, and we, the people, will be lucky."

After finishing speaking, the Taoist priest rolled his eyes again and lay down on the ground.After convulsing for a while, he sat up slowly, put into a kneeling posture, kowtowed three times towards the Yaohe River, and shouted: "Respectfully, Lord River God."

A group of people who were still kneeling and waiting kowtowed and shouted "Respectfully send off the river god" in unison, and then stood up one after another.

The sound of drums sounded again, blowing and beating, creating a lively scene.

The people carried the sedan chairs down the mouth of the river and began to walk towards the shallows in the river.

Now is the dry season of the Yaohe River, some places have stopped flowing, and some places only have a trickle.The places where the feet step on are all soft river sand, leaving a row of deep and shallow footprints.

When the sedan chair was carried to a place where the river flowed again and the river was somewhat turbulent, they carried the bride out of the sedan chair and made her lie on several strong men, who waded through the water and carried her across the river in turn.

On the cliff on the other side of the estuary, there is indeed a cave.The cave is five or six meters above the river bed. If the Yao River floods, it will be submerged.

The man climbed up the cave with the bride on his back, and after placing the bride in the cave, he left some food.

According to the old man who just explained, tonight or tomorrow, the Yao River will flood, and after the cave is submerged, the bride will be brought home by the river god.When I visited again during the dry season of the second year, the cave was empty, which proved that the river god would indeed take the girl away.If they were drowned, why are there no corpses or bones in the cave or in the silt?

After the bride was settled, the men withdrew to the mouth of the river, leaving only two people watching the cave to prevent the bride from escaping.The rest of the people waited, those who beat the gong continued to beat the gong, and those who played the drum continued to beat the drum. After returning to the village noisily, the ceremony of the river god's marriage was considered complete.

Still weird.

The river god possessed by the Taoist priest is quite weird.The words that the river god possessed said were also obscene/trivial.The weirdest thing is, why can Taoist priests predict the flooding days of the Yao River?Although there is a certain period for the river to rise and dry, but if the Taoist is really pretending to be possessed by the river god, why can he predict so accurately?

After thinking about it, Xiang Xiaolei felt that the Taoist priest was still weird, so he said to Mu Tianye: "You go to the cave to protect that little girl, and I will follow that Taoist priest."

Mu Tianye followed behind him, unwilling to leave, "I am protecting you, not others."

Sighing to Xiaolei, this child is probably still young, and has never experienced such things as the beginning of love.There was a young lady who was as beautiful as a flower and asked him to get close to him. Instead, he followed his little brother behind him, never leaving him.

"Okay, then we'll go together." Xiang Xiaolei thought, if he went alone, he could only inquire secretly.But if there is such a thug, just hang up the Taoist priest and beat it. What is this called?Torture to extract a confession.

The two followed the busy Taoist priest to his house.Seeing him pointing to Xiaolei as soon as he entered the door, Mu Tianye rushed up at a brisk pace and stretched out two fingers to gently press the Taoist priest's neck.He was really very light, and when he touched it carefully, the Taoist priest was pinched until his eyes turned white and he couldn't breathe.

"Who are you?" Mu Tianye let go, the Taoist coughed twice, leaning timidly against the wall.

"Let's talk, what's the matter with the river god's possession?" Xiang Xiaolei asked: "There is more... I can only ask you to answer, not the other way around. If you have any questions, please swallow them in your stomach." .Let me ask again, are you pretending to be a ghost because of the possession of the river god?"

The Taoist shook his head again and again, "My lord, the river god, how dare you lie to me. The little one is just setting up a platform to attract the lord of the river... hey, hey, hold your hand high, slowly... slow... ah——"

Seeing that he was still pretending to be sincere nonsense, Xiang Xiaolei motioned for Mu Tianye to raise a finger, and lightly touched the Taoist's abdomen.The Taoist priest's belly was sunken immediately, and he even vomited out what he ate at night, and it flowed to his chest.

"To tell the truth, the second time he vomited blood, not rice." Xiang Xiaolei narrowed his eyes, looking impatient.

The Taoist knelt down with a "plop", "To be honest, the mayor asked me to do it... I am not a Taoist priest at all, but a poor schoolteacher from a neighboring village. The mayor asked me to play tricks and cheat some money, I... ...I am also blinded by Qian Qian, I, I should hit... I should hit!" He slapped himself in the face as he said, and did not forget to look at Xiang Xiaolei after the slap.

Sure enough, it was a bit weird and said some gibberish words.

"Did those girls be killed by you? Or sold? What about the money sent by the families with daughters? Are you greedy? Or did you give gifts to your superiors?" Xiang Xiaolei asked repeatedly, and Mu Tianye made a gesture to fight .

The fake Taoist was paralyzed with fright and couldn't stand up. He crawled to the bed tremblingly, and dragged out a box from under the bed.When I opened it, there were white silver ingots and some gold bars inside, "The money...the money is here...the girl...was ruined by the mayor, so...sold..."

"That bastard!" Xiang Xiaolei cursed secretly, "The last question, when will the annual dry season end and when will the flood season begin? How do you predict it?"

The fake Taoist replied in a tearful tone: "It's all decided by the mayor... When to start recruiting girls, when to hold a wedding ceremony... It's all decided by the mayor. I'm just greedy for money, money..."

Xiang Xiaolei found a rope to tie up the fake Taoist priest, and after asking the address of the mayor's home, he dragged Mu Tianye to find the mayor.

The mayor's house was dark, and it seemed that no one lived there.

Xiang Xiaolei tried to push the door, but found that the door was not locked, and it opened with a "squeak" after pushing it.

Mu Tianye lit a tree branch and took photos around it.The ground in the yard was covered with spider silks from leftover leaves, and the stone table in the yard was covered with a thick layer of dust, as if no one had lived in it for a long time.Going further inside, there was also a muffled sound at the main hall door, the door hinge was so old that it seemed that no one had ever pushed it open, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the beams.

"Oops, it couldn't be that Taoist priest gave a false address and wanted to divert the tiger away from the mountain." Xiang Xiaolei whispered badly, maybe the mayor will transfer the girl in the cave tonight.There may be another entrance in that cave. When the water rises, the mayor may drag the girl away from another entrance and sell it.

Xiang Xiaolei jumped onto Mu Amano's back, grabbed his neck, put his feet around his waist, "Go to the river mouth."

Mu Tianye's face flushed slightly, and like a gust of wind, Xiang Xiaolei ran towards the mouth of the river.