After hearing Li Changyue say that he saw his daughter Xiaozhi, the expressions of Ning Dazhu and Hu Cuihua changed.
After a long time, Hu Cuihua asked cowardly: "How is she? Is she still... okay?"
"What do you think?"
"It should be fine, after all..."
"No, he's dead." Li Changye interrupted.
Ning Hu and his wife were stunned at the same time, and said in horror: "How could she die - even though she..."
Guo Nanjun said coldly: "You abandoned her, why won't she die?"
"She is so young, and she is sick. You abandon her in a deserted pavilion. How do you teach her how to survive?"
"Besides, isn't this fulfilling your wish?"
Hu Cuihua was stunned, and the footbath in her hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Ning Dazhu also looked ashen, his eyes trembling and asked: "My dear friend, is Xiaozhi really dead?"
Li Changyi didn't say anything, but waved his sleeves, and a picture appeared in front of Ning Hu and his wife.
It is exactly the scene of Sansanli Pavilion.
A deserted pavilion stood independently on a hill. In a corner of the pavilion, lay the withered bones of a six or seven-year-old girl.
The little girl's withered bones have no flesh and blood left, but the clothes on them are so familiar.
Even after three years, I can't forget it.
"How could this happen, God..." Hu Cuihua squatted down, covering her face and crying bitterly.
Ning Dazhu looked dull, with unconcealed guilt and pain.
Li went speechless.
Guo Nanjun snorted coldly: "You abandoned her, didn't you just want her to die? Why are you pretending to be here? Who are you crying for?"
"No, you are indeed good at acting."
"At noon, they said that Xiaozhi was lost, and told us to report it to you when we saw him, hum!"
When Hu Cuihua heard these words, she paused, then her shoulders shook and she cried harder, but she couldn't make any more sound.
Ning Dazhu's eyes were red and tears welled up silently.
Guo Nanjun looked even more disdainful.
If Li Xiangyi hadn't been by her side and told her in advance not to be impulsive, she would have kicked them away.
Even kill them.
Animals still have the feeling of licking their calves. Such parents are simply not worthy of being human beings.
Back then... after her father was devoured by a demon, her mother abandoned the siblings and remarried, never to return.
When she was young, she and her brother Guo Hengbei depended on each other. They grew up eating from hundreds of families and even begging on the streets.
She despises such parents who abandon their children the most.
Feeling Guo Nanjun's anger, Li Chaoyi sent a ray of mighty spring breeze to calm her down.
Guo Nanjun turned his back, but he was still furious.
Ning Dazhu also saw the anger and even murderous intent in Guo Nanjun.
Her voice was hoarse and she said: "My benefactor, Lady Guo, we did lie during the day. Xiaozhi was not lost, but we sent her to Sansanliting three years ago. But we left her there, but it was not He wanted to kill her, but..."
"Ah!"
Ning Dazhu couldn't speak any more.
After a long time, Hu Cuihua, who had shed her tears and finally calmed down a little, touched her face and stood up.
She looked at Li Chaoyi and Guo Nanjun with red and swollen eyes, and said: "My dear friend, Guo Nuxia, I know that in your eyes, the child's father and I are abandoned children, cold-blooded and ruthless people, like animals."
"But there's nothing we can do."
"At that time, Xiaozhi was suffering from a strange disease called hysteria. A visiting doctor who was passing by said that only if he had a lot of money and went to the capital to find a disciple of the Imperial Hospital could he be cured."
"At that time, the child's father was injured while hunting and couldn't go up the mountain, so he had to dig some food in the fields. And I had just given birth to Xiaoye, and I still needed to breastfeed, so I couldn't do much work, and my family couldn't afford that much money. , and we have to feed the small fruits and leaves..."
Guo Nanjun turned around and stared at her coldly: "So you abandoned Xiaozhi and watched her turn into a desolate skeleton?"
"I..." Hu Cuihua choked.
After a few moments, he continued with a hint of determination: "Yes, you are right. Haier's father and I did abandon Xiaozhi in Sansanliting."
"But we don't want to kill her, we want her to live!"
Guo Nanjun snorted again.
Hu Cuihua said with a complicated expression: "Nvxia Guo, my benefactor, I didn't lie. Three years ago, Haier's father and I left Xiaozhi in Sansanliting because we really wanted her to survive."
"Thirty-mile Pavilion is an important road in our Xu County. It is passed by two main roads, east-west and north-south. Especially the north-south official road is very busy, with caravans and horse teams passing by all year round. We left the twigs there because we wanted to Those caravans and horse teams took her away.”
"Those merchants and bodyguards passing by are all wealthy and powerful people. Spending a thousand gold to treat illnesses is nothing to them."
"In several surrounding villages, there are often people who cannot survive and leave their children in Sanliting Pavilion for passing merchants and ladies to pick them up and take them back to serve as maids and slaves."
Speaking of this, Hu Cuihua paused for a moment before continuing to say sadly: "Although Xiaozhi was picked up, he had to wait on others and even be beaten and scolded."
"But since passers-by picked her up, they would always treat her and she would survive."
Li went silently.
Guo Nanjun said coldly: "It's so well made up. If we had never been to Sansanliting, we would have been deceived by you."
Hu Cuihua shook her head and said firmly: "I'm not lying to you. If you don't believe me, you can go to the village and ask. There are indeed many families who can't feed themselves, so they leave their children in Thirty Mile Pavilion and let the passing merchants and horses pick them up."
"That's nonsense. The Thirty Mile Pavilion and the North and South Official Roads have been abandoned for at least three years. If you leave Xiaozhi there, don't you want her to die?"
"Abandoned for more than three years? Impossible!" Hu Cuihua shouted in horror, "Three years ago, the official road and the pavilion were obviously in good condition. Even half a month ago, I led Xiaoguo and Xiaoye through the Sanli Pavilion. , I went to the city and bought them a new set of clothes."
Guo Nanjun and Li Chaoyi looked at each other.
Together they looked at Ning Dazhu beside them.
Ning Dazhu shook his head: "It is not abandoned. Foreigners who travel between the county and county towns often rest in the village. I have never heard them say that Sansili Pavilion is abandoned."
"Furthermore, this east-west mountain road is an important transportation road connecting Huqiu County and Xu County. How could the County Sheriff and the County Magistrate let it be abandoned?"
Guo Nanjun was silent.
Li Qingyi was thoughtful.
After a while.
"Benefactor?"
"explain."
"Is Xiaozhi really dead?"
"yes."
"Then my mother and I can pick up Xiaozhi's bones..."
"Not at the moment."
Ning Dazhu shut up. Both he and his wife were a little uneasy, but they felt more guilty.
Li Changyue said: "We will find out about this first."
After saying that, he and Guo Nanjun left.
Ning Dazhu and Hu Cuihua looked at each other and cried silently again.
A six-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl were woken up and came out of the house.
"Dad, grandma, why are you crying?"
…
The entrance to Ningjia Village.
Guo Nanjun stared at Li Chaoyi: "Sir, is this a trap set up by cultivators?"
Li Xianyue nodded, then pinched his fingers to use the [Great Yi Tianji Technique].
After more than ten breaths, he said: "I figured it out."
Guo Nanjun said coldly: "Sir, let me take action this time!"
…
Eighty miles northwest of Sansili Pavilion, there is a Golden Carp Temple.
It has never rained here, and the moon is bright in the sky.
In the view, a middle-aged Taoist wearing a yellow Taoist robe was refining soul pills in a secret room in the backyard. Two disciples wearing Taoist robes but without any Taoist demeanor were waiting on him.
"Master, there are still three months left, and the soul seed in Sanshiliting should be fully mature, right? By then, will we be able to leave this inhospitable place?"
"Yes, Master, I've had enough of staying here. I want to go back to Wangdu City as soon as possible to live a happy life. It's been three years, and we, the wild cultivators, are almost turning into fucking monks!"
The middle-aged Taoist in yellow robe smiled and said, "It's almost here."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang, and the entire Golden Carp Temple exploded.
The middle-aged Taoist in yellow robe jumped up and shouted sternly: "Who dares to come to our Golden Carp Temple to act wild?"
But he saw a woman in red clothes coming from the south, stepping on the moon.
