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Chapter 49 River God

"Yimu Lian," Chu Zhou called out the name in a low voice, and seeing the other party's gentle response, he also showed a small smile and said softly, "My name is Chu Zhou."

"Chu Zhou..."

Looking at the smile on the other person's face, Yimulian couldn't help but feel joyful. This is the first human being to exchange names with him.

They headed inside the shrine.

Chu Zhou turned his head to look at the other party, and said habitually: "Lord Fengshen..." He was interrupted by the other party before he could finish speaking.

"No," Yimulian wanted to say that he was no longer a god, but seeing Chu Zhou's questioning eyes, he suddenly couldn't say it, and finally just sighed softly, "Call me by my name."

Chu Zhou didn't know what the other party was thinking for a moment, so he changed his words: "Yimulian..." He said "uh" and said, "Then how about I call you 'Lian'?" "A little rusty?I just don't know if the other party will feel offended.

Fortunately, Yimulian was really gentle, and just said softly: "Okay."

The two sat down, Chu Zhou looked at each other's gentle eyebrows, and felt that he couldn't be cold even if he wanted to.

He took out the little wooden figurine that he had been seeing for the past few days—he always carried it with him—and placed it in front of the two of them, and said softly, "Lian is really amazing, the weaving is getting better and better~"

"Yes, is it?" Yimulian's face was a little red, it was the first time he was affirmed by others, there was a gentle wave between his brows, and he said a little shyly: "That's because I practiced a lot."

"A lot?" Chu Zhou was a little surprised, and could not help leaning forward slightly, and asked curiously.

After Yimu even said it, he realized something was wrong, and hurriedly said, "It's just a few more exercises."

Chu Zhou saw that the other party seemed to be really embarrassed, so he changed the subject and said, "Then, teach me how to make up a villain?"

"it is good."

Chu Zhou sat down and started to learn under Yimulian's guidance.

At first he just wanted to find a topic, but later he found that it was really interesting, so he quickly learned it and made up an ugly villain.

"You gave me so much," Chu Zhou put the villain whom he disliked into Yimulian's hands, and said with a smile, "Then I'll give this to you."

"Hmm..." Yimu had almost forgotten many words, and after thinking for a long time, he slowly opened his mouth, "Is this what humans call a token of love?"

"Cough, no." Chu Zhou choked in shock and explained, "This is a gift between friends."

Yimulian smiled slightly, and said, "Then we are friends?" Friends, friends... This is his first friend, and it will also be his only friend.

"Yes," Chu Zhou replied, "We are friends."

After a while, Chu Zhou suddenly remembered the purpose of coming to this forest. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "During the heavy rain last time, I saw the flood disappear...did you do it?"

Yimulian's brows and eyes faded, he didn't need to say it, he has been silently guarding this place for so many years, and no one has ever known.But when he saw clearly Zhou's curious eyes, there was not a trace of impurity in it, he suddenly seemed to be captured, his thoughts flickered, and he nodded his head.

"It's really you," Chu Zhou stared wide-eyed, nodded when he saw Yimu, and couldn't help asking, "Then it was you before?"

The people in the village did not evacuate before the flood came, and the kappa also regarded the sudden disappearance of the flood as normal. That is to say, Yimulian has been doing this before, and others think it is a normal phenomenon?

There was a touch of tenderness in Yimulian's eyes. He nodded, and seeing that Chu Zhou seemed to be angry for him, he smiled slightly, comforted him, and said, "I want to protect this land."

Chu Zhou was really angry, but he couldn't get angry when he saw the other party smiling slightly, so he could only hold his breath and say, "But the others don't know..."

He had never seen the wind god mentioned by the people in the village, and those people would only think it was normal and as it should be, and had no idea that there was such a god silently guarding them.

Yimulian laughed and said, "Now, you know."

Chu Zhou couldn't help but frowned. Seeing the other party's gentle smile, he couldn't help but also smiled.

Forget it, let's ask those people when we go back.

The two talked for a while, and the sun gradually slipped westward.

Chu Zhou suddenly remembered the strangeness of the villagers in the morning, so he bid farewell to Mulian and prepared to go back.

He left in a hurry, but Yimulian stood in the shrine, looking at his figure all the time, his golden eyes were full of tenderness.

The bottom of the river was churning faintly, like a pot of boiling water, which had reached a critical point and was barely suppressed.

Kappa looked towards the direction of the forest from time to time, and when he saw Chu Zhou appearing, he hurriedly said, "You are finally here."

Chu Zhou saw that the kappa was not as depressed as in the morning, and he was still a little relaxed. Hearing what the other party said, he asked in puzzlement, "What's the matter?"

The Kappa sent him across the river, shook his head, only looked in the direction of the village, and said, "It's almost time."

"Time, what time?" Chu Zhou asked suspiciously. Seeing the river rolling oppressively, he asked again, "What is... in the river?"

Kappa frowned, and replied reluctantly: "It's their activity..." He said to Chu Zhou: "You should go back as soon as possible."

After speaking, he went back into the water, and this time he was nowhere to be seen from the surface of the water.

Chu Zhou walked towards the village in a daze.

It was obviously late at this time, and most of the villagers were already at home at this time, but today was completely different from usual.

The villagers clustered together, with suppressed excitement on their faces, talking in low tones and sometimes looking in the direction of the river in awe.

The older couple I saw in the morning were suppressing their sadness. Although there was awe in their eyes, it was more like a kind of helplessness and pain.

Seeing Chu Zhou walking over, the village head winked, and then two young men who looked like Kong Wu stood beside him to prevent him from disrupting the ceremony.

——After all, there were outsiders who happened to participate in the ceremony before, and they wanted to destroy the ceremony.

Chu Zhou looked at the two tall men beside him, and frowned. What is this for?

He didn't wait long before he heard a villager shout, "Come here!"

Then a group of people came from the village, surrounded by a figure, walking neatly.

When they got closer, they could clearly see a woman in the middle, wearing a fiery red wedding gown, with a hijab covering her head, so her face could not be seen clearly.

As they got closer, the woman suddenly lifted her hijab, crying and rushed towards the sad couple.

The woman's face was very young, with dark eyebrows and rouge, she was a young woman that Chu Zhou had never seen in the village.

The woman hugged those two people and began to cry, as if she was crying about something, but her parents cried for a while, and then pushed her away cruelly.

The villagers seemed to know this would be the result, and they didn't pull them away immediately just now.

The woman was a little dazed after being pushed away, and stood there with tears in her eyes. Soon someone stepped forward and dragged her away.Her parents followed behind with sad faces.

Chu Zhou also followed them, and he was even more puzzled when he saw that someone was still carrying incense, bamboo rafts and the like.

Soon we reached the river.

Chu Zhou glanced at the surface of the water. The kappa was still not where he usually stayed, and the river became inexplicably quiet, with a feeling that the storm was about to come and gather momentum.

The villagers first set up the joss sticks, and then lit them one by one.

Everyone knelt down to the river, chanting words, as if they were begging for the blessing of the gods.The weeping woman was also forcibly pressed down.

Chu Zhou didn't kneel down, he just stood there, out of place in this group of people, the others glanced at him, and didn't force him, they just said that this person is not from the village, please don't count him in the gods.

After the villagers finished praying, they put the bamboo raft into the water. The woman cried even more miserably when she saw this, and her parents couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

Chu Zhou's heart skipped a beat, and he sensed something faintly, but he still wasn't sure. After all, these people were all from the same village.

However, the facts were as he had guessed.

The villagers tied up the woman who was shaking her hands and feet and put them on the bamboo raft.

"What are you doing?!" Chu Zhou's eyes widened suddenly, and he raised his foot to save the woman, but before he took two steps, the villagers next to him held him tightly, making him unable to move.

He couldn't struggle, and could only watch helplessly as they pushed the bamboo raft.

The bamboo raft floated along the river for a while, and in the awe-inspiring eyes of the villagers, there was a big wave suddenly, knocking over the bamboo raft even though there was no wind.

Like a flame falling into the water, the woman disappeared on the surface of the water in an instant. Amidst the relaxed breathing of the others, Chu Zhou saw a flash of green in the water.

Is that... Kappa?

By this time he had been let go.

He looked at the village head in disbelief and asked, "Why?"

Obviously that woman is also a member of their village, obviously it is also a living life, why did she sink into the water like this?

"You outsiders won't understand," the village chief said, shaking his head without a trace of guilt, "Only in this way can the gods protect the village from being flooded."

They couldn't bear it at first, but there were heavy rains in those years, and they were really worried that the whole village would be flooded, so they tried to hold this ceremony once.Sure enough, since then, no matter how much it rains, their village has never been in danger of flooding.From then on, if any heavy rain makes the water level of the river rise to a dangerous value, they will hold this ceremony afterwards to thank the gods and continue to pray for the gods to bless them.

gods?

Isn't it Yimulian who protects the villagers?How could he need such a cruel ritual?

Chu Zhou's voice choked, and he forcefully asked, "Who is the god you worship?"

The village chief looked at the river in fear, and didn't dare to raise it loudly beside the river, for fear of causing dissatisfaction on the other side, so he lowered his voice and said, "It's the river god."

"River God?" Chu Zhou couldn't hold back and said out loud. Seeing that other people's expressions quickly became tense, he frowned. Aren't there only kappa boys in the river?

There was never any river god.

He thought that Yimulian was protecting such a group of people, closed his eyes, and asked, "So, what about Fengshen?"

"Fengshen?" the village chief asked suspiciously. Seeing Chu Zhou nodding, he looked at the others, who were as dazed as he was, and replied, "Is that also a god? I've never heard of it."

The others also nodded and echoed.

The sky was about to darken, but Chu Zhou felt a thick darkness surrounding him, as if he had heard the final sentence.

never heard before?

Yimulian gave such a blessing with all his heart, but what he got in return was just a sentence, haven't you heard it?