I couldn't speak clearly and looked dumbfounded.
Grandpa walked up to me and stretched out his hand to help me up, but I suddenly thought of my grandma’s words, and reflexively ducked back, saying, “Don’t touch me!”
Um?
The grandfather froze with his half-stretched hand, and his whole body was frozen there. He looked at me in shock for a while, "How did you..."
I breathed hard, suppressed my fear and shouted, "My grandma told me everything, you... you are also the murderer who caused my mother's death. You were the one who sold my mother to the Zhou family!"
In order to shout these words, almost all my strength was used up. I sat on the ground and kept panting, looking at the grandfather without moving.
Grandpa's gray eyebrows were twitching unnaturally, and he looked away blankly, "Did your grandma say that?"
I got up and shouted, "Yes, grandma will not lie to me. You are the trafficker who abducted my mother into the Zhou family!"
The grandfather stopped talking. The muscles on his old cheeks were twitching continuously, showing an expression of extreme pain and regret.
After a long time, he swallowed, his tone helpless and sad,
"The only wrong thing I have ever done in my life is that I should not have brought your mother into the Zhou family. I am indeed ashamed of her!"
"You admitted it?"
I was surprised. I thought Taihui would be quibbling, but I didn't know he would admit it so quickly.
"There is nothing to hide. If you make a mistake, you must admit it, especially to you..."
The Grand Duke paused and showed a more complicated and tangled expression, "You only know that I brought your mother into the Zhou family, but you don't know why I did it back then... I also have my own reasons. Over the years, I have been observing Your family is also observing you."
"Why, why exactly?"
I almost collapsed. The good person in my mind suddenly turned into a trafficker who abducted my mother. I shed tears when I recalled how my great-grandfather took care of me when I was a child and took the trouble to teach me how to read and write.
What kind of world is this, and who can I trust?
"Zhou Xuan, listen to me."
The grandpa swallowed hard and said with trembling lips, "I have no ill intentions towards you. You have seen it over the years. I have been trying to make up for my mistakes. I set up a school to teach you how to read and write. No matter what your family asks me to do, I have never said no to you no matter what you do, all of this is for you."
"But you hurt my mother!" I yelled, wishing that my throat would break.
"You don't understand anything. It wasn't me who harmed your mother!"
A burst of hatred suddenly burst out in Taigong's eyes, and he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and said, "There are many things that I can't tell you, and even your mother doesn't want you to know the truth. Even if you know these things, it will not be good for you. I am doing this for Protect you, do you understand?"
You kidnapped and sold my mother to the Zhou family to protect me?
I was stunned and shook my head to express my disapproval.
"well!"
The grandfather's voice was hoarse and his face was extremely decadent. He seemed to have aged ten years instantly. He even started to tremble when he walked.
"My child, I admit that I was wrong. I brought your mother into the Zhou family in the first place. I originally wanted to use the shadow of the Zhou family's ancestors to protect you mother and son, but I didn't expect... I didn't expect that the descendants of the Zhou family would be so useless. , it’s a pity that the done deal is done, after I learned about your mother’s experience in the Zhou family, there was no way I could look back.”
He walked towards me step by step, the corners of his eyes were red, and he was so wide-eyed that they almost cracked.
"The death of the Zhou family is not a pity. I am not involved in these things for them, but for you. Even if I risk my life, I must protect you!"
I shook my head in collapse. Although my grandfather explained a lot, I still couldn’t understand.
"Why, since I am not a child of the Zhou family, then whose child is it?"
The grandfather refused to speak, and pressed his lips tightly. After a long time, he sighed and said, "I can't say that even if you know your life experience, you still can't do anything."
He pulled my hand hard and said, let's go. The magic circle in the back mountain is too evil and I can't break it by myself. The only thing I can do now is to try to take you out of this village before they find you.
I forcefully threw away Grandpa's hand and shouted, "No, I won't go with you. I'm a child of the Zhou family. I'm not going anywhere. I have to go back to find my grandma!"
At a young age, I couldn't accept too many complicated things, and my spirit was on the verge of collapse. I didn't want to believe what Taigong said, and would rather be just an ordinary child who was not treated well by my family.
The grandfather stamped his feet anxiously, "Why don't you understand? The Zhou family is extinct, and you have no relatives in this world."
What?
I was shocked again and looked at my grandpa in disbelief, "My grandma..."
"Before I found you, I had already been to Zhou's house. Do you know how your grandma died?"
Grandpa looked at me deeply and asked with fear in his tone,
"She was disemboweled and her intestines were spilled all over the floor. Your third uncle and third aunt were cursed and raised as ghosts. When I arrived, your grandma was already incomplete."
thump!
My eyes darkened and I fell again.
Tai Gong's gloomy words floated in his ears, "In the final analysis, all this is because of your mother... She has a special status and is not an ordinary crazy woman. I brought her to Zhoujiagou to help her. Avoid your enemies.”
"It's a pity that after hiding for more than ten years, your mother's whereabouts were still found by those people. Even though your mother was dead, those people still refused to let go of this village. They even planned to erase everything about your mother. Not only You, even the whole village..."
Grandpa's tone became more and more difficult, as if he had some concerns, and he still refused to explain what he was saying. He grabbed my arm again,
"Now the entire village has been sealed off by evil means. If I'm not mistaken, those people will take action soon. We don't have time to waste."
I looked dull and didn't speak.
The things I have experienced in the past few days have already subverted my three views. I no longer know how to view the world.
Grandpa couldn't help but pull me and strode towards the entrance of the village.
As we walked, our eyes were once again obscured by thick fog, and layers of fog miasma floated over us.
These fog miasmas are like rolling floods, completely cutting off the route out of the village. The inside and outside of the village are almost two different worlds.
Arriving at the suspension bridge at the edge of the village, Taigong stopped and his face became extremely solemn.
"As long as you cross this suspension bridge, you can leave the village boundary, but they have blocked the only passage with the Hundred Ghost Formation, making it difficult to break through."
I looked at Taigong blankly, "Who are they you are talking about?"
The grandfather's face kept twitching and became harder than a stone. He shook his head and said, "Don't ask so many questions. I will take you out of the village first and wait until we are in a safe place."
After saying that, Grandpa opened his pocket, took out a small lantern made of white paper and stuffed it into my hand.
The surface of the lantern is covered with curved lines drawn with red pen, and there are many red chicken blood threads wrapped underneath.
Taigong wrapped the chicken blood thread around my wrist, lit a white candle, and inserted it into the lantern. "Zhou Xuan, remember, this is a soul-inducing lantern. As long as the lantern does not go out, we can follow its guidance." Leave the village."
"When crossing the bridge, no matter what you see or hear, don't pay attention to it, and don't say anything, so as not to reveal your yang energy when you open your mouth, and you will be stared at by dirty things."
The grandfather warned in a deep tone, "If we can get through this level, everything will be fine for us and my father. If we can't get through it, then... alas!"
