The waiter sighed again and said with a serious expression: "The River God Festival is a sacrifice once a year in my Baihe Town. It was originally a festive event. But this year it has become a bad thing that everyone avoids. I said before that the town wanted to
He tried all kinds of ways to solve the problem of the river, so he could only invite the immortals in Lingshan. After reading it, he said that it was because the river god was angry and said that our sacrifices in previous years were not pious enough, as long as they were in this year's sacrifices.
Giving a woman who is eighteen years old and born in the year and month of the sun can completely solve the problem.
"It's just nonsense!" When Hu Ling'er heard this, she slapped the table and said angrily: "The river water has turned black, and there must be a source of pollution. They couldn't find the reason, and they actually believed the words of a charlatan and wanted to kill one.
Isn’t living life a careless life?”
"Shh!" The waiter saw Hu Ling'er's excited look, then looked at the shocked diners around him, and quickly pulled her sleeve and said, "Customer, don't be excited. We are not desperate, and this is the only one
The woman who meets the conditions is also the only daughter of our mayor. He is willing to sacrifice his daughter. What else can we people say?"
"What?" Hu Ling'er was even more shocked.
How could such a stupid father in this world actually send his daughter to death?
Although she told herself more than once when she left Lingdu City that in order to prevent Xia Yihan from happening again, she would never be able to meddle in other people's business.
But life is at stake, how could she let a living flower season disappear like this?
Thinking of this, Hu Ling'er took a deep breath and said, "Waiter, where is the place for the sacrifice?"
"What, are you going to see?" The waiter looked at Hu Ling'er suspiciously and advised her: "This is not a good thing. Except for those who are responsible for the sacrifice, the people in our town are unwilling to see it.
, otherwise there wouldn’t be so few people on the street today. So I think you shouldn’t go, it’s just a bad thing.”
After hearing this, Hu Ling'er waved her hand indifferently and said, "It's okay, you've told me."
Seeing Hu Ling'er persisting, the waiter could only point her in one direction.
Following the direction pointed by the waiter, Hu Ling'er soon arrived at the place of sacrifice.
A platform was set up on the edge of the Baihe River, with tributes from sacrifices on it, and the group of people she had seen before had already stood by the river.
It was not until this time that she saw that the things surrounding those people turned out to be a bamboo cage. There was a woman in a bride's wedding robe kneeling in the cage. Because she couldn't see her appearance clearly because she was too far away, she could hear her still.
Crying.
She slapped the edge of the cage while crying:
"Dad, I don't want to die, Dad!"
"Dad, please let me go, okay? I will never disobey you again. I will definitely listen to you."
"father……"
Heart-wrenching sounds, tears-jerking.
The strong men who were guarding her lowered their heads and said nothing, and the atmosphere was quite solemn.
Hu Ling'er's eyes turned slightly, and her eyes fell on an old man standing next to the altar.
The old man was wearing a blue shirt and was thin. He turned his head and didn't dare to look at the woman, but he was secretly wiping his tears.
This person should be the woman's father, the mayor of Baihe Town.
When I saw this kind of plot in modern times before, Hu Ling'er couldn't help but complain a few times. Now, seeing it with her own eyes, her anger can be imagined.
She clenched her fists tightly, and listening to the woman's crying gradually weakened, she was trying to save the woman.
"Qin'er, my Qin'er!" At this moment, a woman suddenly cried and ran over from a distance, and rushed directly to the edge of the bamboo cage.
When the woman saw it, she quickly grabbed the woman's hand: "Mom, beg dad to let me out, mom, I don't want to die!"
Through the bamboo cage, the woman wiped the woman's tears while saying firmly: "Don't be afraid of Qin'er, Mom will definitely save you. Even if Mom fights for this life, she will not give you to the river.
God's."
As she said that, she turned to the mayor and said resentfully: "Today, if you kill our Qin'er, I will jump into the Baihe River with her. Even if we die, we will die together!"
"The kindness of a woman is the kindness of a woman!" The old man was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet, walked towards the two of them, stood beside them and said, "Qin'er is the pearl in our palm. Do you think I am willing to send her to death with my own hands."
?But this is God's will. If she alone can save me a thousand people in Baihe Town, it will be worth it."
"I don't want it!" As soon as the mayor's voice fell, the woman shouted: "I just want my Qin'er to live! I lost half of my life to give birth to her, but now you want me to give me a white-haired person a black hair.
Man, lord, you have such a cruel heart.”
The mayor's eyes were dazzling, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's not a question of whether you want it or not. As the mayor of Baihe Town, if I let the people of Baihe Town ignore it, that would be cruel. That's it.
After making up, someone came, let the wife drive and send her back to the mansion."
After saying that, the mayor shook his sleeves and wanted to leave, but the woman hugged his legs and cried: "Old man, don't, please let us go. She is only eighteen years old,
You haven't gotten married yet. Didn't you say you want to watch her get married and have a child? You can't treat her like this, you can't!"
The mayor closed his eyes, hid the water in his eyes, and gritted his teeth and said, "She is going to marry the river god now, and everyone in my Baihe Town will be her children, and you should be happy and proud.
Come, drag it away!”
The mayor cruelly shook the woman's hand away. The two strong men hurriedly stepped forward and raised the woman and dragged her away.
The crying gradually drifted away, and the mayor's daughter Qin'er stopped crying, looking at the riverside blankly, with a sad smile on the corner of her mouth.
Face mother couldn't save her, she knew she had no hope.
The mayor didn't even look at Qin'er, and walked straight to the edge of the altar, took the incense handed over by the servant, bowed to Baihe three times, and then inserted the incense on the altar, shouting loudly.