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Chapter 479 The River God’s Marriage
When Song Yushan was sensing the situation of the river, a sudden "pop~" sound caught her attention.

It seemed like something fell into the river.

She cast her sights on a tributary in the upper reaches of the Qinglong River.

A girl wearing a new wedding dress threw herself into the river.

The "plop" sound was the sound of her entering the water.

Song Yushan originally thought that the bride had encountered some trouble and committed suicide by drowning in the river.

Looking at that river channel, the river bottom not far downstream was actually dark.

Dozens of female corpses were buried at the bottom of the river. All of them were fierce ghosts in the water. Their resentment was so deep that they had begun to pollute the river and block the river channel.

Some of the creatures on the shore further downstream here should have been affected.

Fortunately, there are no villages near the downstream, otherwise many people would be in trouble in this river.

No wonder the flow of this direct current becomes smaller and smaller from here!
Looking at the shore where the bride fell into the water, there are villagers offering sacrifices. What else does Song Yushan not understand?
This is obviously a sacrifice to the river god!
She looked back at the history of this place and found out that there had been a drought here hundreds of years ago.

The river was completely dry, and when the villagers were anxious, a lame Taoist priest came from the clouds and said that this had offended the river god.

He led the villagers to pray to the river god for rain.

If it doesn't rain, he says that the sacrifices are not enough and the river god has not forgiven him. When it does rain, he says that the river god has forgiven him, but there must be no shortage of sacrifices in the future.

Song Yushan knew that it was the Rain Master God who came to rain, but the people in the village didn't know that. They all thought it was because the Taoist priest led them to pray to the River God.

That lame Taoist priest is just a mortal magic stick. He doesn't know any Taoist skills. He only talks nonsense and deceives people. His feet were damaged by deceiving people.

Because the lame Taoist priest actually prayed for rain, the people in the village became more and more convinced of him. The lame Taoist priest simply stayed here and lived on the offerings of the whole village. After the drought was relieved, he still offered sacrifices to the river god to provide relief. Seek profit for yourself.

There are spring festivals and autumn festivals every year, a small festival every three years and a big festival every five years.

Later, he lost his lust and even came up with the idea of ​​marrying the river god.

The earliest batch of female corpses in the river were not perfect before they were buried.

At that time, the river god married his wife and offered sacrifices only once every five years.

Later, the Taoist priest died, but the sacrificial customs he instituted remained.

But as time went by, the population in the village became smaller and smaller, and they could no longer bear to offer women of suitable age to the river god so frequently, so they gradually changed it to once every ten years.

There was no river god in the Qinglong River before. The so-called sacrifices were just evil!

If this continues, the river will be completely silted up. When the rainy season comes, the river will overflow, and the village may be flooded.

This kind of stereotype and bad habit is harmful to the world and will definitely come back to bite you!
Song Yushan appeared in the river the next moment.

Control the water flow and push the bride out of the water to prevent her from drowning.

This is not enough, the bad habits of the people in this village must be eradicated.

Otherwise, if the bride is sent back, it will be difficult for her to survive.

It would be bad if the people on the shore tried to make assumptions about her intentions and embarrass herself in the river.

But she can no longer communicate to all the villagers like the mountain god did before.

Because she is just a river god, the creatures on the shore are not within her scope of management.

The water spirit domination method cannot control the creatures on the shore.

Although the mountain spirit domination method can still be used, allowing her to travel freely in the mountains, she no longer has the jurisdiction of the mountain spirit.

She can transmit sounds to the creatures in the water, but she cannot transmit the sounds to everyone's ears like before.

In this case, if she wanted to make it clear that neither sacrifice nor human sacrifice was needed, she would have to show up in person and speak out. Anyway, she wanted to see what would happen to these people if they knew that the River God was also a woman!

She rushed out of the water with her bride, and the water rushed into the faces of those on the shore.

The people on the shore were frightened and looked at her speechless.

"I am the River God!" Song Yushan said in a deep voice.

"The river...the river god...is a woman? Impossible..."

All the villagers in Dalin Village couldn't believe it.

If the river god is a woman, then what does the wife they personally sank into the river to marry for the river god count?
Those are their elder sisters, younger sisters, and daughters!

Song Yushan saw their expressions in his eyes.

She really wanted to send the "bride" back without saying anything, to see if these villagers would change their sacrificial habits and switch from marrying wives to the river god to giving husbands to the river god.

She had only heard of marrying a bride to the river god, or offering virgins to the river god, but she had never heard of a strong man from the village being sacrificed to the river god.

In the final analysis, it is because women and children are weak and most easily sacrificed.

In the end, Song Yushan endured it. Although the villagers killed dozens of people, it was still because they were closed to information and too ignorant.

The lame Taoist priest who had died long ago was the culprit.

Whether they are lame Taoist priests or villagers, the evil they have done has been written down by Tiandao, and it will be settled once they return to the true spirit state, and there is no need for her to take revenge.

Death is far from the end.

These people are not worth losing her future.

Therefore, after announcing her home address and admiring the terrified expressions of the villagers, she said:

"The river god does not care about the clouds and rain, so sacrifices are useless, and human sacrifices are harmful to the harmony of heaven and earth.

I didn't know before, but if I throw people into the water again in the future, don't blame me for flooding this place!

You must pay for the sins you have committed before, and bury these corpses properly! "

After Song Yushan finished speaking, he used the water flow to lift all the female corpses out of the river and brought them to the shore.

The bride, who had long fainted from fright, was sent back to her family.

After doing this, she returned to the water.

With this ability to control water, no one dares to doubt that she is not a river god.

After a while, the villagers kneeling on the shore came to their senses.

Song Yushan, who was in the water, saw them shivering and collecting the body, and then left with peace of mind.

If the corpse is in the water and cannot be buried in the earth for a day, the soul will not be able to enter the underworld and can only become a water ghost.

Although Song Yushan also stayed at the bottom of the water, she was a river god. To her, the water was not cold at all. The darkness did not affect her vision, and she could go out of the water during the day.

The water ghost can only stay in the dark water all day long.

Generations of them had killed these women by sinking them into the water. It was only natural that they should bury them.

If they sincerely admit their mistakes, they can also dispel the female ghost's resentment.

If we remain indifferent to our past mistakes, although these evil ghosts will not kill anyone, they will still be enough for the villagers to drink.

It's better to ask them to avenge themselves.