Chapter 1 Sacrifice to the Mountain God
“Su Yuan, the daughter of the Su family, ordered the palace lord Tiansha, a fierce appearance, to defeat the father and the mother of the clan. Our Hongmei Village has been severely drought for two years, and there is no harvest. It is because this evildoer is here to steal a life, and the mountain god is condemning it! Today old lady I followed the divine will and sacrificed the Su clan to the mountain god to calm the anger of the gods and hope that the gods forgive me, and bless me in Hongmei Village. The weather will be smooth and rainy!” !”
Hundreds of villagers under the altar knelt down in accordance with their words, the heat wave rolled on the cliff, everything was silent, and the hoarse and stern cry of the little girl tied up on the altar almost tore through the sky, echoing for a long time. None of the villagers raised their heads, and they all bowed their heads in silence for the final bowing ceremony. The girl Yuan was the one who they watched to grow up. She is a well-behaved and sensible child, but her life is not good. I won’t stand by…Alas, the village has experienced frequent droughts and diseases in the past two years, and many people have died. They can only pin their last vitality on this sacrifice.
“Grandma! Auntie! Save me! You save me! I still have a mother and sister to take care of! How can they live if I die!” Su Yuan burst into tears and called for help to his family under the altar. But no one answered.
“Get up the stakes! Sacrifice to the mountain god!” the goddess shrieked orders.
Two big men pulled up the stakes and hung them horizontally on the edge of the cliff. Just as they were letting go, suddenly a woman with disheveled hair ran up carrying a hoe, like crazy, crying and screaming. When they saw people, they cut down “You return my garden.” Er! Why do you people have such a dark heart! You want to harm my Yuan’er! My Yuan’er is only fifteen years old, I’m fighting with you!”
The woman was weak and was soon held hostage by several villagers. The Su family’s eldest daughter-in-law, Wang Chunxu, was afraid that a good business would be messed up by her. She stepped forward and grabbed the hoe and threw it aside, and said viciously, “Xie Xiurong! You! Is this crazy lady trying to kill our entire village! You gave birth to a broom star yourself, and you want to cause us to suffer! Our child father broke a leg, and the second brother was also killed by the broom star. With you, take a look at what you gave birth to last month! A monster with two heads and two feet, but fortunately he died when he was born. Or else we in Hongmei Village might be murdered by your children. !”
“No! My Yuan’er is not a broom star!” Xie Xiurong looked at her crumbling daughter on the edge of the cliff.
Wang Chunxu also couldn’t stand it, and hurriedly shouted: “Quick! Quickly sacrifice this evildoer to the mountain god! Quick!”
“daughter!”–
He only heard a heartbreaking cry and then fell straight down the 100-meter-high cliff, the echo was endless, and gradually disappeared among the ridges, leaving nothing but silence.
“Yuaner…” Xie Xiurong seemed to be drained of his last breath, and fell into the mud because he was overwhelmed.
It hurts, it hurts…
Every bone hurts. What’s wrong?
Su Yuan opened her eyes and raised her hand, making her hiss softly in pain. Out of my eyes is a strange green hills and grasses, and there is a clear stream beside him. Where is this? She remembered that she discovered a family tree that was lost when she was sorting out her mother’s belongings. She opened it and read it, and then accidentally tore half of it… Why did it come here in a blink of an eye?
A series of memories of the original owner swarmed in. At a young age, he took up the hardships of life, his father died, the mother gave birth to monsters, and was persecuted by the Su family to worship the mountain god…
“Su Yuan? Meihua Village?” She pondered, isn’t this the first mistress in the family tree of the Zhao family? When I was a child, my mother once told about the legendary life of the mistress. Although it was only scattered, she was just listening to the story, but some of the details still remember clearly. The peasant girl…she, the eldest daughter of the 169th generation of the Zhao family, has passed through? Have you crossed into your own ancestor? She doesn’t have time to think about it anymore. She feels bad now, she can’t open her eyes anyhow, as if she’s about to die.
“Little master, there is a girl here, and she is still angry!” She had difficulty staying awake, only to notice that someone was sniffing her.
Unhurried footsteps approached, and the corner of a moon-white brocade robe brushed the back of her hand, and the touch was soft and watery.
“Master, what should I do?”
“I can’t protect myself anymore. I have no time to take care of other nostalgia. Give her a pill. It depends on God.” His slightly cool and noble voice is like the piece of brocade sliding over the back of her hand. , There is a chilling chill.
“Yes.”
Then she felt a small pill in her mouth, and the entourage who fed her the medicine sighed and said, “Master, let’s go back to rest, I will take the brothers to continue looking for the cemetery.” Then the group of people continued As she set off, her footsteps became farther and farther, and her consciousness became more and more blurred, until she fainted.
“Mother, you have stopped eating or drinking for two days. Mother, you can drink this bowl of porridge. Don’t talk to Chun’er. Chun’er is so scared, and her sister is gone. Chun’er misses her very much.” The year-old Su Chun knelt by the bed and firmly grasped his mother’s hand, crying like a tearful person.
Xie Xiurong’s withered and pale face turned a pair of dark eyeballs, as if there was a trace of consciousness, used some strength to hold the little daughter’s hand, tears lingered in his wide-eyed eyes, and the flow of numbness continued, “Pure Son, mother missed your sister so much, if it weren’t for you, mother really wanted to leave with your sister.”
While wiping her tears, Su Chun cried out of breath, “Mother, where are you and sister going? Chun’er won’t let you go, Chun’er can’t bear you!”
Xie Xiurong stretched out his hand and stroked the little daughter’s head, and slowly rubbed it, “Chuner is good, mother won’t leave.”
It was silent late at night, but suddenly there was a burst of noisy screams outside, and his feet rushed, Xie Xiurong pricked his ears and listened: There is a fire in the house of the goddess!
Xie Xiurong got out of bed with a cold face, and his face was cold. This is all retribution. “Chun’er, help mother go out. Mother must see with her own eyes whether this fire can burn this black-hearted woman.”
The raging fire has swallowed up three brick houses. At this time, the silly son of the goddess was clapping his hands to the fire, singing and dancing. The goddess sat on the ground in embarrassment, crying for help from the villagers, “Go and fight the fire! Hurry up! Go and put out the fire!” There are still dozens of taels of silver in the house and the pork grain that was just bought at the market yesterday. If this is all burned out by a fire, how should their mothers live!
Lizheng Li Da, who is in charge of village affairs, said loudly: “This fire is too big to be extinguished!”
Suddenly there was a loud and clear voice coming through the night, “Don’t the goddess have the power to reach the sky? Since you can ask God, why not ask God to extinguish the fire in your house tonight?”
The villagers all looked back and couldn’t help being shocked. One of them showed fear and called out. Like a silky moonlight, a young girl stood in the pavilion, with curled eyebrows and a thin and indifferent smile. Liangyouyou stared at them, and walked forward like a stroll in the courtyard. It was Su Yuan.
The villagers separated their two sides like low tide, and Su Yuan stared straight at the goddess, stepped forward slowly, stopped in front of the goddess, and said, “Look, the mountain god is not willing to save you, but the mountain god saved me. He wants me to live well to reveal your true colors.”
She turned around, raised the money bag full of silver in her hand, and said awe-inspiringly: “Did you see it! She had collected one or two silver from each household and threatened to use it to sacrifice the mountain god and return Hongmei Village to Hongmei Village? Anning, but she swallowed your hard-earned money, not only that—”
She picked up a package that the goddess had just rescued, and kicked it with her foot, and the cakes and cakes rolled on the floor. “Isn’t this a sacrifice to be thrown down to the mountain god? Why is it here?”
Some villagers seemed to have reacted, and the content of the whispers quickly changed from being a man or a ghost in Su Yuan to a goddess. Is it a scam? After all, in such a year, these two silvers are almost their annual income.
The goddess understands, how could she catch fire for no reason? It turned out that this dead girl was doing a trick and dared to steal her money, but she was really fatal enough to fall off such a high cliff. It was her who came to die!
“Guys, this is a ghost! Su’s female ghost is still here, she came to us for her life!” The goddess screamed, and she took a string of bells from her wrist and began to sway around her.
Su Yuan quickly twisted her arm, and a sharp knife hidden in her hand suddenly fell to the ground. Su Yuan pulled the corner of her lips and said without a smile: “What? The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry and wanted to kill someone?” Planted to the ground all over.
Su Yuan patted his hands on the dirty dust, and said loudly: “Villagers, first of all, I have shadows and feet, not ghosts. Fortunately, God has pity for me to survive. Secondly, you should believe that this woman is a gangster. Are you drinking a liar?”
The goddess got up, her eyes were resentful, and she wanted to swallow Su Yuansheng alive, “Huh, there are 53 families in Hongmei Village, one family of one or two silver, a total of fifty-three taels, there are a total of thirty-two taels in the purse, and the remaining two. Thirteen Liang has already honored the mountain god and his old man. I should have got the rest. People like us have to collect some money to accumulate yin virtue.”
Su Yuan smiled lingeringly, like a wind fiddle, her eyes pierced like needles at the winking Su family among the crowd. Those were her pro-grandmother and pro-aunt, “I have to ask my grandma and aunt.”
Mrs. Su has a ghost in her heart and dare not confront it. Wang Chunyu is a stubborn man. After the money enters her bag, it is impossible to spit it out. The key point is that she points to the money to her son Su Gui to marry a wife. Said: “Your little girl’s mouth full of feces, what can we know!”
She really didn’t see the coffin without weeping, Su Yuan calmly wiped a purse from her body, and leaned closer: “Grandma, aunt, is this money for Su Gui to marry a wife? You colluded with the goddess. I plan to use your granddaughter’s life to deceive the villagers’ money, just for your precious grandson. You are really a good grandmother who has done her duty.”
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