Wang Lexin shook his head: "No, I always thought that Li Hongbo and the village chief were performing a show for you, deliberately luring you down, and trying to do you harm. I didn't expect that there was a coffin here!"
To this day, I still can't wrap my head around it.
These people and things are different from what I thought.
I am no longer in the mood to think about what is right or wrong.
My only thought now is to take my children and leave quickly to avoid falling into their trap again.
"We can't let this child be sacrificed in the ancestral hall again. We have to take her out of here!" I said softly.
Wang Lexin nodded: "This kind of thing must not happen under our eyes, no matter what the reason is!"
On this point, Wang Lexin and I still reached an agreement.
He looked at me with a lowered eyebrow and continued, "But have you noticed anything unusual about this child?"
"What?" I looked down at the baby girl in my arms, wondering what he meant.
"Why won't she be poisoned by you?" Wang Lexin said, putting his hands in front of me, and then I saw that his hands had also turned blue.
I originally thought that Bai Zimo was afraid that others would hurt me, so he sprayed poison to hurt others.
But just now Wang Lexin was trying to protect me, so why was he poisoned?
And what Wang Lexin meant was that I was poisonous and would hurt others indiscriminately.
My mind is getting more and more confused.
Why is there poison on me?
Where did this poison come from?
Why won't Yun'er and this child be poisoned by me?
Suddenly, another question came to my mind.
On the surface, I brought Li Hongbo in to find the child. In fact, there were articles in it.
Maybe the village chief knew that the child was not here, so he let Li Hongbo come in to look for him.
And maybe the reason why he asked me to follow him was because he knew that if Liu Yiran chased the child back, he would bring it back to me.
All he had to do was lead me here and wait for the child to be sent back.
But why did he think Liu Yiran could find the child and bring him here?
Is there any connection between this?
He didn't have time to think about it, so he looked at Wang Lexin's blue hands and said quickly: "Are your hands okay?"
"It's okay, I'll just go and take a dip in the pool. Didn't Li Hongbo just take a dip and be fine?" Wang Lexin said, then walked to the pool and soaked his hands directly into the water.
After a while, he walked over as if nothing happened, raised his hands that had returned to normal and said: "Look, the effect is quick!"
I didn't expect the water in this pool to have such effects. It really surprised me.
Could it be that Yun'er and this child were not injured by my poison because they had stayed in the pond before?
I frowned and looked at Yun'er. She seemed to know what I was thinking and said at the right time: "This formation was originally used to deal with Bai Zimo. It can naturally restrain his poison. The poison on your body must be related to Bai Zimo." .”
"But it's hard to say whether this little girl and I were not harmed by your poison because of the water in the pool!"
It seems that these issues will not be clear for a while.
It must not be an accident to have poison on your body for no reason.
I glanced at Liu Yiran's side and saw that he was already entangled with the village chief, so I planned to take this opportunity to leave quickly.
However, before I had time to wait for Wang Lexin to return, I saw the village chief instantly transform into a big flower snake, shake off Liu Yiran's snake body, and rush directly towards the child in my arms with his huge mouth open.
I was so confused that I had no time to react.
I only heard Wang Lexin shouting not far away: "Xinlian, be careful!"
The next second.
Li Hongbo held up the stick in his hand and stopped in front of me. He used his last strength to jump towards the snake's head and knocked it down with the stick.
I did not forget to look at the child in my arms and said: "My child, daddy can only protect you so far. You have to walk on your own in the future!"
The stick hit the flower snake hard on the head and broke into two pieces.
Then, the flower snake let out a hiss, opened its huge mouth and swallowed Li Hongbo whole.
A few drops of blood splashed on my face, and the child in my arms burst into tears at the right time.
From this moment on, she was truly fatherless and motherless.
The change came so suddenly. I thought that with Liu Yi here, the village chief couldn't make waves.
Unexpectedly, he actually swallowed Li Hongbo alive.
Liu Yiran revealed his sharp fangs and roared, wrapping around the flower snake again. The two snakes quickly struggled together, and the air was full of turbid snake smell.
At this moment, my heart is still pounding.
Wang Lexin ran to my side and whispered: "Come on, let's get out of here first."
I also knew that staying here wouldn't help and might even hinder things, but I was worried about Liu Yiran and didn't know what to do for a while.
It was Yun'er who said to me: "Sister, don't worry and leave first. Hua She can't beat Liu Yiran! If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it after we get out!"
I knew Yun'er couldn't leave the ancestral hall for the time being, but I couldn't bear to leave her here alone, so I asked: "Yun'er, what about you? How did you leave here?"
"I can't leave now. I will go find my sister when the time is right. You take your children and leave quickly to avoid a long night of dreams!"
As soon as Yun'er finished speaking, the big flower snake shouted sternly: "No one of you can leave today!"
The village chief turned into a human again, holding a sharp knife and making a cut on Liu Yiran's snake, and then stopped in front of me.
Liu Yiran also transformed into a human body to protect me behind him. He looked down at the injury on his arm and sneered: "Yun Ci, don't do these meaningless things. You can't stop me with the current situation!"
"I don't want to stop anything. As long as you give me the child and let us complete the sacrifice, I don't care about Bai Zimo's life or death!"
It seems that the village chief is determined to carry out the sacrifice to the end.
"It's just you? What can you accomplish by yourself?" After Liu Yiran finished speaking, he waved his hand, and instantly a strong wind blew up.
I was so blown away that I couldn't even open my eyes. I could only hold the child in my arms tightly and let the wind blow up my body.
After a while, the wind stopped.
When I opened my eyes again, I found that Wang Lexin and I had been sent outside the ancestral hall.
I looked at the child in my hands, crying for food, and for a moment I didn't know what to do.
"Xinlian, are you okay?" Wang Lexin also reacted and looked at me anxiously and asked.
I shook my head gently, what could happen if I came out.
It's just pity that this child became an orphan like this.
What makes me even more angry is that she was born for sacrifice.
"Do you think everyone in Yunjia Village knows about the sacrifice? They said before that the child was swept away by a shadow. Is this an excuse to deal with Li Hongbo and us?"
I looked at Wang Lexin in confusion, always feeling that he knew more than me.
"Well, my master has always suspected that there is something wrong with the people in Yunjia Village. Those people who said before that they lost their voices after seeing Yinhua giving birth to a child must be a lie. The real reason for losing their voices is probably Bai Zimo's fault!"
In fact, I have thought so too, but none of this matters now. The child has been rescued anyway.
It would be best to take her out of the village first.
I'm worried that the people in Yunjia Village will come to stop the child if they know that the child has been taken away. After all, they all believe in mountain gods.
If he had known, Bai Zimo should have erased all their memories, but now there are hidden dangers left.
He glanced at Wang Lexin and said: "These things are not important anymore. What we need to do now is how to deal with these things. If the villagers know that the child was taken away and the sacrifice failed, they may not let us leave safely!"
"Don't worry, someone is taking care of the aftermath!" Wang Lexin gave me a naughty smile, pulled my luggage and strode forward.
I don't know what he means.
What does it mean to have someone deal with the aftermath?
Could it be that they had predicted what happened today?
It’s just me and I don’t know anything.
I don’t know why the people of Yunjia Village have to pay homage to the ancestral hall once every eighteen years, I don’t know why the dark shadow tricked me into going down to open the ban, and I don’t know what exactly caused these things.
Things have developed to this point, which is beyond my understanding.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that the village chief would turn into a snake.
But things just happened in front of my eyes, and I couldn't help but not believe it.
The village was extremely quiet. We walked out without meeting any villagers.
So weird.
There are at least a few hundred people in Yunjia Village. Usually there are people working in the fields at this time, but today I didn't meet anyone.
Where have all the villagers gone?
"Wang Lexin!" I called in a low voice: "Do you feel that something is wrong in the village?"
"Don't worry about what's wrong in the village now, let's leave Yunjia Village first and then make plans!" Wang Lexin said and quickened his pace.
I held the child in my arms, and it was a bit difficult to follow.
But I also knew that now was not the time to care about other things, so I speeded up and followed him.
When passing the ancient maple tree at the entrance of the village, I glanced over there subconsciously.
In the past, Aya's favorite thing was to sit under the tree and be in a daze.
But now there is nothing there.
I don’t know how he is doing with Master Mu, whether he can really talk now, and where he is.
Should I watch all this silently from a corner that I can't see, or should I stay away from this ignorant village and become a Taoist disciple?
The suppressed emotions made me very uncomfortable. Looking at the child in my arms who was waiting to be fed, I became even more confused.
What kind of existence is Yunjia Village?
A seemingly ordinary village actually carried out such a barbaric practice of sacrifice for a thousand years.
And who is competing with whom in these matters?
Just when I was thinking about being fascinated, Wang Lexin suddenly turned around and stopped, almost causing me to bump into his arms.
He dragged my luggage with one hand, and took the child in my hand with the other: "Xinlian, please hold the child for me, you are too tired from running around!"
My hands did feel sore, and my shoulders became stiff after holding her for so long.
I thought it would be a good idea to change hands, so I handed the child to him and planned to get my luggage.
But the child who was so well-behaved in my arms burst into tears as soon as he got into Wang Lexin's hands. Before he even took two steps away, his little face turned purple from crying.
"Hey, little junior sister, can you stop crying? If you cry again, I won't take you back to the mountain gate!" It's really funny that Wang Lexin used this coaxing method on a child who was only a few days old.
Don't say that people don't understand, even if they do, it's not coaxing!
I reluctantly took the child over again and said to him: "Forget it, let me hold it. You quickly think about how to send this child to your master!"
Although I am not particularly clear about Master Mu's attitude towards Bai Zimo, I believe that he will take good care of this child.
The little one's parents are now dead, and her grandparents will definitely regard her as a evil star and will not love her. The people in the village only regard her as a sacrifice. If there is no suitable person to take care of her, she will have no way to survive.
Wang Lexin nodded slightly, but suddenly said to me: "Xinlian, if you can only trust one, Bai Zimo and your adoptive father, who will you choose to trust?"
