Chapter 29: 29: Ten Years of Life and Death (19)

"My name is Zhang Yunshu. I was born in Zhangjiacun since I was a child. Zhangjiacun is isolated from the rest of the world. I have existed in this ravine for more than 100 years."
Zhang Yunshu started from the beginning little by little.
Everything must start from that river.
This is a magical river. Even in arid weather, this river will not dry up. The villagers in Zhangjia Village and Lijia Village on both sides of the river live happily and happily on this magical river.
Everyone believes that a lives in this river, and this will always bless them.
There are many legends about the river in the village, and the ceremony to worship the river has been passed down many years ago.
In fact, the method of sacrifice is very simple. Every year, the two villages choose quite old and pure women to bathe and pray in the river water to show all the villagers' respect for the river and pray for a good harvest.
This custom has lasted for a hundred years, and people in the two villages are convinced of it.
Until that year--
"That year, my cousin and I were chosen as the goddess to worship the river god. I was only sixteen years old and my cousin Li Yan was seventeen. The cousin was the most beautiful in their village, and because the cousin was chosen as the goddess, The people of Lijiacun respect her very much. People who propose marriages have to wait in a long queue. The goddess here represents the most outstanding and beautiful among the people of the same age. The goddess will always marry very well. .Actually, at that time...I had already booked a marriage with Yanzi’s father. Of course, as long as I was a pure virgin, the engagement would not affect our sacrificial ceremony that year, but my cousin did not know why and refused. Everyone in the village proposed marriage. At that time, everyone thought she had a high-sightedness. I also thought that my cousin did not find anyone she liked. Who knew..."
Having said this, Zhang Yunshu’s expression was very painful and tangled: "On the day of the sacrifice, everything was fine and smooth. Who knew that just before dawn, the cousin suddenly fainted and she was taken away by people from Lijiacun. Afterwards, someone found a doctor to treat her cousin. At that time, everyone knew that the cousin was not sick, she was happy!"
How happy is Yunying's daughter who was chosen as the goddess?
Isn't this deceiving the gods?
In addition, this kind of unmarried pregnancy was absolutely not allowed in Lijia Village at that time.
"At that time, the aunt and uncle pleaded bitterly, but the patriarch of Lijiacun still decided to sink his sister into the bottom of the river. On the one hand, he wanted to preserve Lijiacun’s reputation, and on the other hand, he wanted to make amends to the river god!"
While talking, Zhang Yunshu suddenly laughed: "Miss Ning, you must think we are very ignorant? In fact, at that time I also thought that the people in Lijiacun were crazy, and they were completely unreasonable. They said the cousin had blasphemed. The gods said that her body was unclean, so she forced her to fast and bathe for seven days. After seven days, she was sinking her body. At that time, the cousin was closely guarded, and no one could approach her. I also took a lot of effort, Li The guards of the family village allowed me to say a few words to her outside the door. I was young and messed up when things happened. Fang Cun would only cry all the time, and kept asking her who the man was. But my cousin just didn’t. Said that no matter who asked her, she would not say a word about that man."