During the Tang Dynasty, there was a small mountain village on the banks of the Hanshui River. The village was not big, with only more than 60 households. There is a young woman named Caique in the village. She is a foreigner and moved here just a few months ago. Caique is kind-hearted and warm-hearted. Everyone likes her very much.
In the early morning of this day, Caiqiao went to the river to wash clothes as usual, but he saw everyone in the village holding incense and lining up in a long line to enter a temple to offer incense. When Caique got closer, she discovered that it was a Dragon King temple, and a majestic Dragon King statue was enshrined in the temple.
Seeing that the villagers were so pious, she couldn't help but be curious and asked people who passed by. From his mouth, she learned the truth.
It turns out that the village where Caique lives is not peaceful. A few years before she moved here, the village would suffer from floods almost every summer, and the villagers were miserable.
Until one day, a charlatan came to the village and wandered around the river. He said that the villagers had angered the old Dragon King and needed to sacrifice. The villagers were superstitious and naturally believed this story. They also built a Dragon King temple by the river and worshiped it day and night. The result was really effective, and since then, there have been no more floods in the village.
Caique was very surprised after hearing this. She looked at the crowded Dragon King Temple and then at the calm river, and fell into deep thought...
Half a month later, a steamed bun shop appeared in the river not far from the Dragon King Temple. By the way, the boss is Cai Que. Maybe she saw that the incense in the Dragon King Temple was so good and the number of passengers coming and going every day was so large that she wanted to make money from it. But the effect is indeed very good. Her daily business is very good. Some fishermen who have returned from fishing will also come to the shop to sit and eat some steamed buns.
Not long after, a salesman named Ye Lingfeng discovered something strange.
Ye Lingfeng was a bachelor. He admired the beautiful Cai Que and often visited her house to help her. When he opened the steamed bun shop, he was the first to know about it and he worked hard to solve a lot of troubles for Cai Que. After the steamed bun shop opened, he came almost every day.
That night, Ye Lingfeng returned to the village after finishing his work. He was about to go home to rest when he suddenly heard a sound. He followed the sound and saw that Caique's steamed bun shop was still open. It was crowded and business was booming. Ye Lingfeng didn't think much about it. After seeing Cai Que who was busy in the shop, he took the initiative to say hello and asked for some steamed buns.
After seeing him, Caiqiao's face changed slightly and her eyes were obviously panicked. After giving Ye Lingfeng two steamed buns, she urged her to leave quickly. Ye Lingfeng had been busy all day and was not in the mood to linger, so he turned around and went home. But over the next few days, he discovered that Caique's steamed bun shop was booming at night, with even more customers than during the day.
That night, Ye Lingfeng passed by Caique's shop again. Looking at the bustling crowd at the door, he felt curious and walked over again. Just when he walked to the door, a basket of steamed buns had just been steamed. Cai Que took it out with a smile, and everyone gathered around him excitedly.
But when Ye Lingfeng saw the steamed buns in the basket, he was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. There were no ordinary steamed buns at all, but white heads. To be precise, they should be heads kneaded with flour. They were so lifelike that they gave people chills just looking at them.
But the guests seemed very happy. They grabbed the steamed buns and stuffed them into their mouths, biting the "heads" crazily. Only then did Ye Lingfeng notice that most of these customers were women, and all of them were pale and dull. Only after eating the steamed buns would a smile appear on their faces.
This was not over yet. Ye Lingfeng hid in the dark and observed secretly, and found that the light shining on these women seemed to pass directly through them, and there was no reflection on the ground. Only then did he realize that all the customers in the store were not human beings. It turned out that Caique had opened a "ghost store".
At this time, Ye Lingfeng's whole body was soaked in cold sweat. He turned around and ran back home without caring about anything else. Early the next morning, he spread the news. People in the village were panicked for a while, and they all came to Caique's home to ask about the situation.
Caiqiao couldn't explain it for a while. Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "It's time to sacrifice again soon, let's use her as a sacrifice!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone agreed. It turns out that in recent years, in addition to building temples to worship the Dragon King, the villagers also used young women as sacrifices and threw them into the river to the Dragon King. Through this method, they did ensure smooth weather, but they killed many people.
Looking at the crazy villagers, Cai Que did not explain, but just sneered. After that, she was imprisoned by everyone until the day of sacrifice.
That day, she was forced to put on new clothes and was carried to the river by several strong men. Under the gaze of the villagers, she was thrown into the river and slowly sank. The villagers seemed to have got used to it and looked calm. Just when the sacrifice was over and everyone was about to leave, the calm river surface suddenly became restless.
Immediately afterwards, a water column rose into the sky, and above the water column, standing was Cai Que who had just fallen into the water, and behind her, there were dozens of figures. Someone recognized that those were all women who had been sacrificed in the past few years. The next second, Cai Que's figure changed dramatically and turned into a black dragon with one horn.
It turns out that Cai Que's true identity is a dragon practicing underwater. Because he has been practicing, he forgets to pay attention to the situation on the shore, which leads to constant flooding. After she cultivated into a human form, she discovered that there were many innocent souls in the river for no reason. They gathered together. Over time, the river would turn into a dead river, and the whole village would suffer.
After learning the ins and outs of the matter, Caique decided to help these villagers. If they wanted to eliminate the resentment of the innocent souls in the river, they would naturally use sacrifices. They hated the villagers, so the best way was to sacrifice them. However, using living people is definitely not possible, so Caiqiao came up with a way, which is to use steamed buns in the shape of human heads instead, with the hair of everyone in the village wrapped inside, and their breath. As long as the ghosts eat the steamed buns, they will Slowly let go of your obsessions and reincarnate.
But she never expected that this matter would be revealed by Ye Lingfeng, and the villagers would indiscriminately treat her as a sacrifice. This behavior also made Cai Que completely give up the idea of saving them.
That night, Ye Lingfeng's village suffered serious flooding. All the houses were flooded, all the villagers were killed, and there was no survivor.
