Before dawn the next day, another notice came from the palace, saying that the high priest had predicted that there would be another change on the night of the blood moon, so the river worship ceremony originally planned for today would be postponed to seven days later.
When Zhuang Tianming heard the news, his originally excited face froze. After a long pause, he still couldn't believe it and asked the eunuch who delivered the message, "Eunuch Luo, are you kidding me?"
"Oh, my Lord General, what is your identity and status? How dare I joke with you? Everything I said is true. Today... no, it should be said that before the hour of the Ox, the high priest came running to the palace in a panic. He told the emperor that his surveying instrument had changed again, and he said with certainty, 'According to my calculations, our Luosuo Kingdom is likely to suffer a great disaster in five days. This must be the anger of the river god, who wants to destroy the entire Luosuo Kingdom!'"
Seeing Eunuch Luo mimicking the high priest's expression so perfectly, Zhuang Tianming was startled. He immediately asked nervously, "Eunuch Luo, what should we do? Does this mean that all the people of our Luosuo Kingdom will die?"
"I don't know either, but from the tone of the high priest, he's still worried about the river sacrifice ceremony that was supposed to take place nineteen years ago. But because of the disappearance of the sacrifice girl, the entire ceremony had to be postponed for nineteen years. He also hinted to the emperor that if a major disaster really happened in Luosuo Country this time, one sacrifice girl would not be enough, and he might even have to sacrifice your daughter..."
Although Eunuch Luo did not say the following words, Zhuang Tianming had already guessed what he meant. According to Eunuch Luo, if throwing Zhuang Zhenmeng into the river failed to appease the anger of the river god, then his daughter Zhuang Yueru would most likely be thrown into the river next.
Thinking of this, Zhuang Tianming felt extremely heartbroken. If he had known this would happen, he should not have provoked Qin Susu. It was precisely because Qin Susu was of his blood that he was afraid that throwing Qin Susu into the river to sacrifice to the river god would anger the river god. So after he knew that Yu Chenfeng had let Qin Susu run away, he secretly paved the way for Qin Susu. If he had known this would happen, he would have really regretted it.
Zhuang Tianming tried to ask again, "Eunuch Luo, is what you said absolutely true?"
"Of course. If I didn't have such a close relationship with you, General Zhuang, I would lose my head if I leaked such confidential information!"
"Thank you very much, Eunuch Luo!"
Zhuang Tianming hadn't even had time to recover after personally escorting Eunuch Luo out of the house when another maid ran up to him in a panic, saying, "Master, something bad has happened! Lvliu is dead!"
"Dead? If he's dead, just let the people from the charity cemetery come and collect the body. Why are you telling me such an unlucky thing so early in the morning?"
Lvliu was a servant girl, and Zhuang Tianming didn't care about her life or death. Right now, he was only worried about his daughter Zhuang Yueru. He really hoped that everything would be fine after Zhuang Zhenmeng's sacrifice to the river, so that his daughter wouldn't have to die. But when he saw the servant girl still standing in front of him, he couldn't help but scold her, "Are you stupid? If Lvliu dies, you'll go to the charity cemetery."
"……oh!"
The maid hesitated for a moment. She was about to run out the door when Zhuang Tianming suddenly called her.
"Come back and tell me how Green Willow died?"
Suddenly remembering that Lvliu was the maid he sent to monitor Zhuang Zhenmeng, Zhuang Tianming suddenly had a bad premonition.
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