Chapter 92: The Truth of Local Legends
The ship docked in this small town in India, and before docking, Johnny repeatedly confirmed with Wal-Mart: "Are you sure that legend happened in this place?" β
"Of course it can't be this town, to be exact, it should belong to one of its villages, I haven't been there personally, you know, in fact, I'm not lacking courage, because I'm too busy" Before going to the shore, Walmart finally changed out of his Snoopy and put on his usual casual clothes, but I admired him Every time Johnny asked him to confirm, he could dance endlessly.
Uncle Johnny's temporary good temper was finally worn to the end by Wal-Mart, and he grabbed Wal-Mart's collar and roared: "No one cares why you don't go there, I ask you to make the point." β
Walma immediately put away the face of the banquet prince, and said in a very serious tone: "In fact, if you ask the locals, you must know which village it happened. I'm sure it's near this town. β
Uncle Johnny gave Wal-Mart a blank look, let go of Wal-Mart, and took the lead in getting off the Penglai.
Wal-Mart straightened his collar while watching the boat dock to the shore, watching the lively children muttering something in Hindi, but in exchange for the sound of the group of children laughing, and then dispersed in a hurry.
Chengzhen was so curious that he couldn't help but ask Singh, who was busy doing all the chores of stopping the ship: "What did Wal-Mart say?" β
Singh smiled honestly and said to Chengzhen in English: "He told those children that he was a real strong man, but he just maintained the virtue of humility and didn't want to deal with the old man, so let the old man treat him like this, and let those children stop watching the excitement and learn from him." β
"Huh." Seungjin rolled his eyes, then said to Singh, "Walmart is really humorous. β
"Yes, I think so too." The smile on Singh's face was still innocent, and then he whispered to Cheng Zhen: "I think if the master is willing, he can beat 10 Walmarts by himself when he is furious." β
"Haha, that's a very solid idea." Chengzhen couldn't help laughing a few times, and Walmart, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around, looked at Chengzhen with an innocent gaze, and said, "Chengzhen, why don't you get off the boat quickly, what are you laughing at there?" β
"Oh, she laughed at a stupid fish just now, and was hit by this boat, but the fish proudly said to the other fish, I don't want to deal with that boat, otherwise Lao Tzu will knock him over." Xiao Dashao responded loudly to Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart looked incomprehensible, and finally shrugged his shoulders and muttered as he left: "I really listened to Uncle Johnny talk about fish, which made this group of poor people fall into the devil, and they even delusionally thought that fish could talk." β
Then, Xiao Chengqian experienced the same loneliness as Hui Gen'er, for the same reason, Wal-Mart couldn't understand what they were talking about.
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It's a small town, but it has an extremely awkward name, because we are not native to India, and our group really can't pronounce the town, so we just call this town the river town, because Walmart told us before that the name of this town translates to the name of a river god.
The town is really not big, and the main streets are only 4 or 5, and our group walked in it, but we were a little uncomfortable, just because there were too many onlookers along the way, and even some children simply followed our butts.
Personally, I think it's because our group is neatly dressed and dressed more modernly, which attracts these onlookers, and in fact, it's a poor town.
Like many cities in India, the environment here is filthy, with garbage heaps everywhere, cows roaming around who don't know whose family it is, cow dung, and cow dung, which is clearly visible in the sun.
The difference is that the city always has its glamorous side, but it is everywhere here.
Or maybe he was annoyed by the onlookers, Johnny casually sent them some coins and said to us: "I'm sorry to let you see the bad side of my country, I like China, I like Europe, but in comparison, I love it here." β
"Actually, I don't mind." I said seriously: "There are many bad things about Huaxia, but I also love it deeply." "I can't forget the helpless, confused and panicked feeling I felt when the car drove away from the border, Huaxia is my eternal mother.
"Haha, you understand. Then let's go over there and find out the news. Johnny pointed to a place to eat, which looked very simple, but there were a lot of people gathered, and it seemed that the people of this town loved this restaurant.
Under Johnny's leadership, we soon entered the restaurant, inevitably or by the locals up and down the look, I endured this uncomfortable feeling extremely, under Johnny's money offensive, the owner of the store finally agreed to add a table for us in this small restaurant, when I sat down, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, sitting here, it is better than standing in the middle of the store to be looked at.
Compared to my discomfort, Wal-Mart quickly got into conversation with the locals, and when he returned, he was already shouting, "Why do you make the locals love this store so much?" Because there is a stall here The most authentic crepes, with jam, will be delicious and will make you swallow your tongue in your stomach, by the way, the roast chicken in this house is also good, Chengyi, do you know the baked chicken? Actually, it's a famous dish in our India, it's called Tan Doli, I didn't expect such a small town to have this dish, I heard that the owner of this shop is very skilled, in fact I suspect that he is from Punjab (the birthplace of Tan Doli). β
This Wal-Ma was so verbose that Johnny couldn't help frowning at such a big talk, and pulled him to sit down beside him, and warned him that it was better to be quiet, but after the food was served, he couldn't sit still anymore, and went to mingle with the locals again with a cup full of juice.
This time, Johnny didn't stop him, quietly smeared jam on Bo cakes, and said, "I may have been wrong just now, but in fact, with him, I don't have to worry about how to find out the news." As he spoke, Johnny had already rolled up the pancake in his hand, and took a big bite very pleasantly, his voice was crisp, and he chewed it very sweetly.
"Not bad!" Looking at Johnny's sweet food, I couldn't help but get myself a one, and couldn't help but sigh, this is the best crepes I have ever eaten in India.
"Of course it's delicious, what you can buy is generally fire-roasted, and this kind of pan stall can only be the taste of home." Johnny winked at me, and then enthusiastically said, "Try this baked chicken, a famous dish in India, which I can't replicate." β
Under Johnny's warm greeting, we will naturally not be polite, to be exact, this chicken is really good, the skin is crispy and tender, there is a feeling of eating Peking duck, but because of the different spices, it is slightly spicy in the mouth, as a Sichuan person, in contrast, I naturally prefer this spicy, unconsciously, I actually ate a lot.
While we were feasting, Wal-Mart had already managed to mingle with the locals, and after a while, two people came to our table and said to us, "They speak English, and they know the rumors from the past, so I thought we could talk to them?" β
Johnny gave Walmart a thumbs up, appreciating Walmart's approach, and then warmly poured a cup of delicious ginger tea for the two locals, and warmly beckoned them to eat and drink at our place.
The dinner table is a place where it is easy to get closer, and with the presence of a banquet prince like Wal-Mart, in less than half an hour, the two locals have already eliminated the estrangement between us and had a good conversation.
Under Johnny's deliberate guidance, our identity has become the producer of some TV show to discover strange things, so in such an identity, the topic naturally comes to the legend.
Speaking of this legend, the locals naturally knew about it, and one of them even said that he was a witness to the incident.
This coincidence had to be said to be God's help to us, and we immediately warmly invited him to talk about it in detail, and the local did not delay and began to recall the incident.
Everything he said was about the same as what Walmart said, except that it happened more than once, and it happened at different times.
"The first time was many years ago, I think about it, it should have been more than ten years ago, whether it was 15 years, or 16 years, I can't remember, I was still a teenager at that time. That time, a child playing in the water by the river went missing. "That's what the local said to us.
Another local next to him hurriedly added: "Yes, no one has seen how the child disappeared, and you know that it is very normal to drown a few people a year by the river, and it is not strange that the body drifts to other places and cannot be found, and the disappearance of this child has not attracted any attention." β
"It's like this, people are always so numb that one or two children go missing every year or two, and they don't even think about offending the river gods. Only once, about 9 years ago, someone witnessed a child suddenly disappear into the water, and this incident caused people to explore, but it was also a puzzle, after all, unlike the young man who suddenly disappeared, the child suddenly disappeared into the water, and only one person saw it with his own eyes. The local man said the events of these years, and his tone was very emotional.
Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then said: "So this kind of thing has been happening, until 7 years ago, when the young man was dragged into the water, and this matter finally made a big deal so many people to see, and even his lover, it was a thing that could not be suppressed, and then the people in the town, several villages, pooled their money, held a large sacrifice event, and ended this nightmare." β
"So the river god can't be taken lightly, are you asking like this, are you looking for the river god? If so, I advise you to go back, God is unlikely to be caught on camera, and a rash disturbance may cause tragedy to happen to you. After the local finished speaking, another local added a little nervously, obviously this series of nightmares that lasted for more than ten years left a deep shadow on the hearts of the locals.
But Johnny didn't care, to be exact, no one at our table cared, and even Wal-Mart couldn't contain his excitement.
Johnny said to the two locals: "The whole town is pooling the money, and there are several nearby villages, which means that the incident did not happen in one place, one village?" "Obviously, Johnny has grasped the more important point.
"Of course, it happened nearby, and the same thing happened to several villages, including one in the river near the town. For more than ten years, the river god has devoured a whole 12 people! But what kind of attention can 12 people arouse? There are so many people who drown in swimming in the water every year, so we are laughed at by other places to make up unbelievable stories, and they think that the anger of the river god should cost hundreds of lives. Only we locals are convinced that it was a real nightmare, not seeing, not feeling terrible, an unknown presence underwater, so silently, dragging a person into the water at once! There was no cry for help, not even the silent horror of struggle. "When the local guy talked about it, he didn't look good.
It was at this moment that another local inadvertently said, "So, let those who laugh at it feel that nightmare!" I've heard that the river god's wrath spread to other places, and in one place, the river god even dragged down a cow, a cow, you know? β
At this moment, even I couldn't help but be moved, although it was just an unintentional sentence! I quickly asked, "Are you sure this is true?" There are legends like this in other places? β
"No, I'm not sure, I just heard by chance, no one wants such a thing to happen all the time, but I hope that the place that has been affected by the disaster will gratefully hold a sacrifice to solve this disaster." Here's how the local man replied to me, and his expression told me he wasn't lying, that he wasn't sure, that it was just hearsay.
I frowned, thinking about what that meant.
And Johnny interjected: "Where is this hearsay?" β
"Well, I seem to be talking about a place downstream of us, but it's actually another tributary of the Ganges, and I can't tell you for sure." When he said this, the locals took a sip of ginger tea indifferently.
He didn't know how much of a clue his unintentional words brought us.