Zhao Xun was a little confused and asked Xia Yiqian in surprise, "What temple?
Is this a temple? We thought it was an ancestral hall where their ancestors were enshrined, so they didn’t dare to come in!
Generally, large families will have ancestral halls in their hometowns, and there are rules such as one cannot enter the ancestral hall unless there is something important.
The reason they ran here just now was because they thought that if those people really wanted to harm them, they would "use the emperor to command the princes" and each of them would report the tablet of a Li family ancestor to threaten the Li family not to take action.
Xia Yiqian didn't need to say anything, Li Taiping answered very tactfully this time.
“This is not an ancestral temple, but a river god temple.
Our ancestors' ancestral hall is in another place.
There was a rumor before that the river god cursed our family because he had a grudge against our ancestors, so he required us to sacrifice someone from generation to generation.
This is what I overheard when I secretly listened to the clan leader talking in front of the spirit tablet. The rest of the village didn't know and just thought that the men thrown into the river every year were going to be the husbands of the river god.
Everyone present: ...
The amount of information is too large and I have to sort it out at once.
Zhao Xun: "So it's your ancestors who provoked that thing, so you have to pay it back for generations?
Why does this sound familiar?"
Taoist Xuanyi: "Of course it sounds familiar. A son pays his father's debts. Generally, evil spirits cannot find the real owner, so they will seek his blood relatives to pay back. Descendants are the most common.
It has only lasted for hundreds of years, how great must this hatred be!"
He looked at Li Taiping with some hostility, "Do you know what it is?"
Li Taiping shook his head decisively, "I'm not sure, no one in the village knows."
"I think I know."
Everyone looked over in the direction of the voice and saw that Xia Yiqian, who was speaking, was sitting cross-legged on the cushion under the altar, flipping through something that looked like a notebook in his hand.
When everyone saw this scene, they immediately knew that he must have found some clues, and they all gathered around him.
Kong Yanqing: "What clues did you find?"
Xia Yiqian: "There is a diary here, it should be the river god's."
Others also looked at the notebook in his hand. The most common notebook sewn with thread should have been white in color originally, but now after years of erosion, it has turned into a dark yellow color as if it had been soaked in strong tea.
But everyone's eyes were fixed on the notebook and they didn't move away for a long time.
Because they didn't see any words in the notebook, not even a single one.
Kong Yanqing thought for a moment and then said, "I can't see. What's written in the book?"
Xia Yiqian: ???
Xia Yiqian glanced at the densely written words on the notebook, then looked at Kong Yanqing's very beautiful eyes, confirming that he should not be blind, and suddenly felt a little puzzled.
He turned to look at the others, and they also shook their heads decisively.
Li Taiping: "I don't see any words on it. It's just an old, yellowed book."
Bai Lingyu also nodded. "There really is no writing on it. Could it be that there is something magical about your eyes?"
Xia Yiqian decisively rejected it: "I have never practiced pupil skills."
As she spoke, she lowered her gaze to the densely written notebook in her hand.
The characters above are traditional Chinese characters, not the missing characters used today, which proves that this diary was written for a long time, or the person who wrote the diary did not learn modern characters like her.
She didn't feel any evil spirit in the house, the river god was not there.
So why are there words in this notebook that only she can see?
Master Fang Yi looked at Xia Yiqian and said, "Amitabha, my friend Xia, can you tell us what is written in this book?"
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