Chapter 31 Fish Disaster No. 8 Then I am already home in Fishtail Village...
Old Mrs. Yu waited at the door for a long time, but didn't see Chu Ying come out. She turned around and found that the human trafficker from last time appeared again.
The man looked sweaty and uneasy. The short-haired woman next to him looked around as if she hadn't figured out the situation yet.
The old temple keeper came hurriedly from the backyard, his sleeves wet.
Old Lady Yu ignored the trafficker and stepped forward, shouting, "Master, have you seen my daughter-in-law? She just went to the toilet in the backyard."
The old temple keeper showed a puzzled look: "I didn't see him. Maybe he went somewhere else?"
Old Mrs. Yu panicked all of a sudden. She ran to the backyard and the toilet to look for Chu Ying, but she really couldn't find him.
When she thought about the daughter-in-law her son had spent a lot of his savings to marry at Laojun Temple, and how she had run away because of her negligence, Old Mrs. Yu felt panicked. She sat down on the ground and started crying and wailing.
The old temple priest bent down to help her up: "Sister Yu, get up quickly. If the person is gone, you can pray again!"
Old Mrs. Yu didn't feel sorry for Chu Ying, she only cared about the incense money offered to Laojun.
The old temple keeper gently advised, "How about this, since the person ran away in front of Laojun Temple, I feel bad about it. Next time, I won't accept the incense money from your Yu family."
Mrs. Yu immediately perked up and stood up happily: "Really?"
The old temple keeper glanced at the fourth brother and smiled meaningfully, "Since he ran away, it means that the right fate hasn't arrived yet. Look, he's here again."
The fourth brother forced a smile. He didn't dare look at Long Zhu beside him. He just wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and stammered, "Old Yang asked me to send someone up..."
This was like sending a pillow to someone who was sleepy. Old Mrs. Yu's eyes lit up. She looked at Long Zhu with satisfaction and pulled the old temple keeper's sleeve. "Master Zhai, since one of my family members has passed away, how about giving this to my Yu Da?"
The old temple keeper was still arguing when a few curious villagers poked their heads in from the gate and asked, "Old monk, are there more people coming? Why didn't you notify everyone?"
Among them was the one-eyed dragon who was rubbing his hands in anticipation: "This time it will finally be my turn! Old monk, come and draw the lot!"
Old Mrs. Yu was unhappy: "My family lost someone, this one is Laojun's compensation to us, you wait for next time!"
"How can that be true! You didn't keep an eye on the person, yet you're blaming the gods."
Yu Da just happened to come in from outside and was shocked when he heard this: "She ran away? Mom, what happened?"
While this place was in chaos, Long Zhu was strolling around the temple very leisurely, knocking here and touching there, just like he was in his own living room.
Unable to resist the overwhelming force of numbers, the old temple keeper finally compromised and let Long Zhu draw lots to decide for himself.
Long Zhu looked at the stick tube that was handed to him and took one out of it.
The old temple keeper was very satisfied to see her cooperation, and at the same time he repeated the pile of old "rules".
Long Zhu looked at the long stick in his hand, then glanced up at the statue in the temple: "Why is there a fork on it?"
The old temple keeper was stunned for a moment, then took it and looked at it. There was indeed a glaring red cross engraved on the long stick.
Shouldn't it be? Shouldn't this tube be engraved with "Daughter of So-and-so Family"? Hidden beneath the altar is another tube with "Son of So-and-so Family" inside, creating a sense of destiny, yet little do they know that this is all manipulated by the old temple keeper.
But... why is this one crossed out? Does the immortal not want this woman to enter the village?
The old temple keeper looked up at the statue. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but the smile on the statue of Laojun faded a lot, and there was a hint of guilt in his expression.
Longzhu pulled out several of them, all of which were the same big red forks.
The old temple keeper was in a dilemma and had to defend the statue: "Perhaps Laojun sincerely wants to compensate the Yu family boss. In that case, let's go to the Yu family."
Old Mrs. Yu was so happy that she knelt on the futon and kowtowed repeatedly. After that, she pulled Long Zhu's sleeve and said, "My daughter, you are now the daughter-in-law of our Yu family. Come, go home with me!"
Long Zhu looked at her strangely: "Yu family's daughter-in-law?"
Seeing that Long Zhu didn't react as strongly as Chu Ying, Old Lady Yu felt a little happy. She pulled her son over and introduced him: "He will be your man from now on. Don't worry, our Yu family will not treat you unfairly."
Long Zhu was unhappy: "Didn't the old man say that younger generations shouldn't disobey their elders?"
Old Mrs. Yu didn't understand what she meant. She was stunned for a moment and nodded subconsciously: "Yes."
Long Zhu asked grimly, "Then why should I be the junior?"
Everyone: “?”
Her questions were so sincere and natural that no one knew how to answer them.
The old temple keeper raised his voice: "Don't be presumptuous in front of Laojun! This is a blessing from the gods, and we mortals have no say in it..."
Before he finished speaking, Long Zhu raised his head and questioned the statue: "Do you think I can't be an elder?"
Statue: “…”
After a moment, someone screamed, "Look! Laojun has closed his eyes!"
The statue of the wise and mighty Laojun suddenly closed its eyes and rested. Such a bizarre sight caused the villagers to kneel down one after another, believing that this was a miracle.
But the old temple keeper felt something was wrong.
He swallowed and moved a little further away from the short-haired woman.
Long Zhu turned to look at Old Lady Yu and pointed at the statue: "Look, she said I can do it."
Yu family mother and son: "..."
Yu Da was so angry that his face flushed and he rolled up his sleeves. "Where did this stinky bitch come from? You want to be my mother? If I don't teach you a lesson today, I'm not a man!"
As he said this, he raised his fist and was about to hit.
There was a cracking sound, and something seemed to break open, followed by a man's distorted and terrified scream.
Long Zhu crushed Yu Da's wrist bone with his bare hands, staring at him coldly with his right eye, and said in a stern tone: "What did you call me?"
Yu Da knelt on the ground, screaming like a chicken being slaughtered: "Mom! Mom!"
Long Zhu looked at the stunned old lady Yu next to him and said, "How can a person have two mothers?"
Yu Da cried out, "Grandma! You are my grandma!"
Long Zhu looked at Old Lady Yu again, his expression seemed to say, "Shouldn't you also be obedient and show some expression?"
Old Mrs. Yu was already stunned. Her will to survive overwhelmed her rationality. She softly uttered a word: "...Mom?"
Long Zhu withdrew his hand: "Okay."
After a while, she saw that the others all had dazed expressions. Remembering Meng Caiyun's instructions before he came, she scratched the back of her head in confusion and looked around: "Don't we need more soup?"
She looked at the old temple priest unhappily and asked, "Why don't you give it to me?"
The old temple keeper looked at Yu Da, who was holding his wrist and howling on the ground, then raised his head to glance at the statue of Laojun, only to see that the statue's neck had turned 180 degrees and turned away!
"This, this..." Under Long Zhu's gloomy gaze, he groped his way to the water tank, nervously picked up the spoon, and forced a smile that was uglier than crying: "Actually, it's okay not to drink it."
Long Zhu just stared at him without saying a word.
The old temple keeper scooped a spoonful cautiously and handed it over tremblingly.
There was light brown soup in the spoon, and when I smelled it carefully, there was a faint fishy smell.
Long Zhu thought, after drinking this, the process would be completed, so it would be considered as "penetrating into the inside", right?
It’s quite simple.
She took a big gulp and found that it tasted a bit like flat cola, but fishier than cola and the taste was not really good. In comparison, the incense and candles of Changfeng Temple seemed even more precious.
Long Zhu wiped his mouth and said, "So I am a member of Yuwei Village's family now, right?"
No one dared to refute her.
Hmm... what's next?
Oh, lead those people away so that Xiao Meng has a chance to investigate this Laojun Temple.
"What are you standing there for? Go home." Long Zhu looked at the Yu family mother and son, his tone cold: "You don't want to disobey your elders, do you?"
Old Mrs. Yu shrank back: "I dare not, I dare not..."
She helped her son up and, with a frightened look on her face, signaled to the old temple keeper for help, but the keeper didn't dare to respond at all.
After watching the villagers disperse, Meng Caiyun and Feng Jiacai, who were hiding in the bushes behind the Laojun Temple, slowly stood up.
Feng Jia's expression was complicated: "I feel like it's okay to alert the enemy."
Meng Caiyun agreed deeply: "...Indeed."
It was already dusk when the old temple keeper walked out of the gate and locked it from the outside.
No one was allowed to enter the temple at night, not even himself.
Meng Caiyun took out his cell phone and opened the merit map. He found that the spiritual power and resentful power of Laojun Temple were very chaotic. A large number of red dots were densely clustered at the location of the well, and among them, there seemed to be a gray dot looming.
Her eyes fixed: "There are still people alive in the well!"
Feng Jia immediately ran to the well and looked down. He saw a hemp rope tied to the windlass, binding a young woman alive and hanging in the well. Her mouth was blocked, with her back and soles of her feet pressed against the wall of the well. She seemed to be trying to climb up, but she kept slipping.
Feng Jia was shocked: "Yingzi!"
She hurriedly worked together with Meng Caiyun to pull Chu Ying up.
After removing the knot that blocked her mouth, Chu Ying collapsed with exhaustion, tears of relief welling up in her eyes: "Auntie!"
Feng Jia hugged her shoulders and comforted her: "I'm here to take you home. Don't be afraid. Auntie is here."
Chu Ying couldn't hold back any longer, so she hugged Feng Jia's neck and cried aggrievedly.
Feng Jia patted her on the back.
Chu Ying took a deep breath and quickly recounted his recent experiences: "...The fish-man beneath the altar was thrown into the well by the temple keeper. He even gave the villagers water mixed with the fish's blood, claiming it was a magical elixir bestowed by the gods."
Meng Caiyun's expression was solemn. "I've been to Laojun Temples in other places, and they're not like this at all. They're worshipping evil gods!"
"He told the villagers not to get close to the strange shadow. This must be referring to the fish-headed man," Feng Jia pondered. "The temple keeper must know that the fish-headed man has a tendency to attack the villagers."
The "magic medicine" was given by the old temple priest, and the rules were also set by the old temple priest. He used "Laojun" to establish his transcendent status in Yuwei Village and enjoyed the offerings and admiration of the villagers.
However, the evil god requires sacrifices.
Anyone who takes too much of the elixir will turn into a fish-headed person, and the fish-headed person will be sacrificed to the evil god.
If they donate too much, the number of villagers will decrease, and then they will kidnap innocent people from outside the village, and the cycle will continue...
Chu Ying suddenly remembered something: "Aunt, there is a little girl in the Yu family who was also abducted by them!"
Meng Caiyun took out his cell phone and sent a text message to someone.
"Don't worry, I'll have someone take her out first."
Chu Ying was stunned: "Do you have anyone else? That Yu Da is very powerful..."
"Don't worry," Meng Caiyun said confidently, "Our people are definitely more powerful."
That's grandma-level.
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