Chapter 20 The Lonely Boat Man
On the unnamed riverside of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, villagers from Longxinggou knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the huge waves in front of them.
More than a hundred foreheads kept hitting the dirt road by the river, and the sound of thudding sounds came one after another.
While kowtowing, the old and young people in the village kept shouting:
"Blessings! Blessings!"
"I didn't expect that this time, the Dragon King could show his holy presence in front of so many of us. The Dragon King Envoy was right! The Dragon King really loves us!"
"What are you still standing there? Send the offerings to the river!"
"Hurry! Stop slapping!"
"Where is the cow? Take the cow up!"
After kowtowing each other, more than a hundred villagers by the river quickly fell into a strange phenomenon.
They said loudly, showing loyalty to the Black Water Dragon King, and the movement in their mouths was louder than another.
Even Lin Shuo and Anne on the mountain could hear it clearly.
But under their feet, it was like a root was born, and no one moved.
The big river in front of me was like it was boiling, with huge waves and mist.
Not only that, the sky became gloomy and dark clouds were covered with dark clouds.
They had never seen such a scene in their lives, and they were both excited and scared.
After all, the old hunter met the Black Water Dragon King when he was a child. He was the first to get up from the ground, lit a dry tobacco, and while smoking, he walked to the riverside and looked at the movements in the water.
Except for him, no one in the village dared to approach the river, and they all looked up at the old man.
From Lin Shuo's perspective on the mountain, the Dragon King of Heilongjiang came from the upstream of the river, from north to south. The water here is the narrowest. After passing through here, not far away is where the river and Heilongjiang meet.
At this time, Lin Shuo and Anne could see clearly that the Black Water Dragon King had actually left.
However, from the riverside, this conclusion should not be drawn, because the mud and sand at the bottom of the river were stirred up by the Black Water Dragon King, the water had long been muddy, and the aftermath on the river surface had not yet subsided.
What's even more evil is that when the Black Water Dragon King left, the sky became cloudy again.
Immediately afterwards, strong winds broke out on the river, as if a heavy rain was coming.
The old hunter by the river looked at the water, then looked at the sky, and turned around and waved.
Several sons of the old hunter's family quickly stepped forward and threw the pig he killed the day before yesterday into the river.
If someone takes the lead, things will go a lot.
The villagers bravely stepped forward and threw chickens, ducks, geese and pigs into the river one by one.
The cow was unable to resist the strength of more than a dozen strong men in the end, and was pushed down.
Seeing that the sky was about to change, everyone had not stayed by the river for a long time, so they hurriedly knelt down again and walked back with a blow and beating.
Lin Shuo heard on the mountain that when they went there, the noise of playing and singing was even bigger than when they came, as if they were relaxed to finish a big thing and a sense of confidence to get the long-cherished wish.
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Anne watched the whole process from the top of the mountain, took out a hair rope from his carry-on handbag and tied up his long hair that was blown by the strong wind.
The beautiful woman whispered: "The Black Water Dragon King has left, but they have thrown the sacrifices. I don't know who will get the advantage in the end."
Lin Shuo seemed to be thinking and said softly: "Often people have run away when they encounter such monsters. They can kneel down on the spot and dare to climb to the river without knowing whether the monsters in the water are gone. This cannot be described as bold.
It seems that they sincerely worship the god Black Water Dragon King.
Thinking about it now, the Dragon King envoy was foolish about me. He actually didn't stuff his job into my hands. He just made me think so.
Because even if I expose him, he probably had prepared a speech to the villagers.
He has been operating here for decades, and under the packaging of their people, the Black Water Dragon King has become an unbreakable belief here.
We outsiders can't easily shake us."
"I'm sure what you mean, this Dragon King messenger is a bit of a trick?" Anne asked.
"Yeah." Lin Shuo nodded, "It seems that the threshold he stepped on is higher than I thought before."
Anne glanced at Lin Shuo and said, "Then you let him go, are you trying to fish for big fish with a long line?"
"You don't have to praise me. I did underestimate him before." Lin Shuo smiled and shook his head. "I have some preconceived ideas. I always think that although this person is from the door, since he has fallen to the point of making a living by using tricks in the martial arts world, he must be less wise. I didn't expect that his game of chess is quite big."
"Then he told us what was the purpose of the Black Water Dragon King's injury?" Anne asked.
"I don't know. We have too little information at the moment and random guesses will fall into other people's calculations." Lin Shuo shook his head, "But I have a premonition that we will meet him."
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That morning, the sky was always gloomy.
At noon, the first rain after autumn fell in some parts of the Heilongjiang River Basin.
The rain was quite heavy, and soon, I couldn't see clearly near this Wuming River three meters away.
Since the Black Water Dragon King passed, the waters here have never returned to peace.
The raindrops fell on the turbulent river surface, and the rustling sound became a stable white noise background, and everything around them seemed silent.
In the mist, a canoe slowly turned around the foot of the mountain and appeared on the river twenty kilometers downstream of the Iron Cable Bridge.
Here, less than one kilometer from the intersection of Wuming River and Heilongjiang River, is the widest water area nearby.
A man stood on the canoe, wearing a straw raincoat, a straw hat, and a three-meter-long iron rod.
At the top of the iron rod, there are long hemp ropes tied. These hemp ropes are as thick as wrists, and are wrapped around the man's feet, as high as their knees.
The canoe kept swaying with the waves on the river, but the man stood at the bow of the boat without moving at all. It was as if the joints of his body had been locked and his feet were welded to the bow of the boat.
The rain hit the hat with crackling sounds, and he stood motionless in the rain, as if waiting for something.
After a while, under the river, a huge black shadow came from the upstream of the Wuming River.
The figure passed quickly under the canoe, causing the waves on the river to surging.
Just at the intersection of the two rivers, this long figure turned around under the water and turned around and approached the canoe again.
Then, the boat shook slightly.
The bottom of the canoe was held away from the water by this black shadow, and it stopped until the canoe was five or six meters high from the water.
On the surging river, there were two huge eyes slowly opening.
The pupils of these eyes stand, and the pupils are no less than the size of a canoe, and they look hideous and terrifying.
The man who was on a canoe and holding a long pole seemed to have been accustomed to it for a long time. Not only was he not afraid, he cursed softly:
"Silly guy!"
The two giant eyes under the boat blinked, as if they were versatile in human nature.
The man on the boat looked at the surging river and began to talk to himself:
"What? Do you want to run?"
"Where can you go? Now there are people everywhere in this world. You are such a silly man, where can you not be discovered?"
"What? Are you invulnerable to swords and guns, and aren't you afraid of people?"
"Oh, you fool, don't know how powerful people are now! It's not a hundred years ago when we first settled down here."
"What are you saying?! Our Liu family has been tied to you for more than a thousand years, and those are dozens of generations! If I leave you now, how can I face my ancestors after death?"
"I want to give it up again. It's not easy to set up a home for you, and you can't let it go."
"I know you can't beat it, am I trying to figure it out?"
After muttering for a while, the man stared at the river and changed slightly, and he said, "I won't talk about it anymore, the harvest is coming!"
After saying this, he began to shake the pole in his hand. The hemp rope tied to the pole and was wrapped around his feet, and it went up to the sky with a "swoosh".
It turns out that this is a lasso.
The man shook his lasso, swung his head a few times, and shook it out.
Ten meters away, a cow that kept floating in the water was trapped by him.
"then!"
As soon as the man tried his best, the cow flew out of the water like a cannonball. The monster under the boat opened his mouth and just caught it. With a muffled sound, the cow fell into his stomach.
This man has such a lot of strength! And this monster has such a big mouth!
"The harvest of these days is all yours." The man continued to murmured to himself, "You are injured, please help me."
"What should I do? I'll just eat knot noodles porridge, what else can I do? The world is not peaceful, it's good to fill my stomach."
"What are you doing with a good meal..."
Chapter completed!