Lin Xixue felt a little baffled, but she didn't force it. She just turned around and asked others.
Unexpectedly, everyone ran away when they saw her, with no intention of talking to her.
This is really strange. Although my skin is a little pale now, it's not that scary. Besides, if you really think I'm so scary, why would you save me?
Lin Xixue speculated that she probably fell into an underground river and was washed into the large lake with the current. Then she was rescued by a fisherman along the way.
But the top priority is to quickly find out where Bai Qing is. I still have a lot of questions to ask her.
She asked several more people, but without exception, they all ran away in a hurry, and no one dared to answer her questions.
In particular, some mothers with children deliberately kept their children in their arms and even looked back to see if they were following after taking a few steps.
Just when she was about to release her consciousness and find Bai Qing's whereabouts, her father-in-law, who was slowly eating fish and rice beside him, got up and walked towards her.
"Don't blame me, they all think you are a water monster, so they don't dare to talk to you."
"..."
Lin Xixue was speechless at first, but after thinking about it, she really didn't blame these villagers. After all, I must have been seriously injured when they picked me up. Seeing that I recovered so quickly, it is not incomprehensible that they were afraid.
"Haha... After all, they have little experience, but I know that you are one of the gods!"
The father-in-law said with great joy and a proud look on his face.
Lin Xixue smiled and said nothing, thinking that Bai Qing was the true disciple of the Immortal Sect, so how could I be considered one of the immortals?
I can't even tell the difference between a true disciple of the Immortal family and an evil heretic. Fortunately, I was the one I encountered. If I encounter someone with evil intentions like Hong Yanzi, I will be the first to be caught and burned into flesh and gold. I'm afraid that's you.
However, Lin Xixue naturally didn't bother to explain anything, and it was more convenient to act under the name of a fairy.
"Old man, there must be a young girl who was picked up with me that day. I wonder where she is now?" Lin Xixue raised her hand slightly and asked straight to the point.
"Oh, she was too seriously injured, so we sent her to Wuzeng Temple for treatment."
"Wuzeng Temple? Why send it to the temple instead of the medical center?" Lin Xixue was puzzled.
"The great wizard in the temple is much more powerful than the doctor. On weekdays, he not only protects us from good weather when fishing, but also takes care of us when we are sick or in trouble."
"So, this Great Witch Zhu should be very famous in your village?"
"That's natural. The Great Witch Zhu presides over the Lord's Festival every year. Not to mention in our Linghu Village, it is very famous even in villages all over the country."
Lin Xixue frowned slightly. She didn't know where this great wizard came from, but what the father-in-law said seemed to be really magical?
She still had the restrictions planted by Bai Qing, but she couldn't let anything go wrong. She decided that it would be better to go and see for herself.
"Oh, by the way, I just said that the villagers mistook me for a water monster. Could it be that there really is a water monster in this lake?"
The old man chuckled and stroked his beard with an expression like "You asked the right person."
"Actually, most of them are young people in the village who become tigers. They just spread rumors and say there are water monkeys in the lake. In fact, I wasted a month in Linghu Village and I didn't see any water monkeys or donkeys."
Lin Xixue nodded, raised her hands to thank her again, and asked, "Thank you, father-in-law, for clearing up the confusion. I just don't know which family in the village saved the two of us. I will have to come to thank you in the future."
"It was Zhou Sheng who picked you two up when he was out fishing. It was the house you came out from just now. But he has already gone to the market, so you may have to see him in the evening."
"Can I tell you where the Wuzeng Temple is? I want to visit my senior sister." The relationship between the two was too complicated to explain, so Lin Xixue simply said that Bai Qing was his senior sister, which would save a lot of trouble.
"Absolutely not, absolutely not!" The old man waved his hands to stop him.
"Can I ask my father-in-law to clarify?"
"Little fairy, you are not from the village. If you want to go to Wuzeng Temple, you need to inform the Great Witch Zhu first. Then, through the Great Witch Zhu, you can lay out incense and candles to inform the master, the embroidery queen. Only after receiving permission, outsiders can enter."
"Then why can my senior sister enter?" Lin Xixue pointed out the contradiction in the father-in-law's words.
"This... the great witch Zhu said that I had already expected to come to the village yesterday, so I specially ordered her to be introduced to Wuzeng Temple."
Incense and candle offerings? Count in advance until Bai Qing comes back? You also named Bai Qing to be brought in?
Lin Xixue felt a bad aura from it. This description reminded her of the scene when Hong Yanzi took her to worship the statue of Tianzun.
But he quickly shook his head. He had been on the edge of life and death too often, and he was probably a little nervous.
In the memory of my predecessor, there are different folk customs in various places in the world. From large temples and Taoist temples to small local folk customs like Wuzeng Temple, it is a normal phenomenon.
My predecessor also had many experiences of going to popular temples to worship Buddha and seek immortality. There was nothing unusual about the whole process.
Maybe this is a common local custom?
However, Lin Xixue was still a little worried and decided to go and investigate in person. After all, there are evil monsters like Tianzun in this world, so there is nothing wrong with being cautious.
"Old man, can you take me to find the Great Witch Zhu? I won't enter the Wuzeng Temple. I will only check at the door to see how my senior sister is recovering from her injuries."
Lin Xixue originally wanted to say that she wanted to confirm whether it was still safe, but after thinking about it, it was still a bit rude and abrupt, so she changed her mind temporarily.
"It's not impossible to just go to the Great Witch Zhu. It's just that the little old man is old and has many inconveniences in his legs and feet..."
Lin Xixue knew that she was asking for reward, and a cold light flashed in her eyes.
He is so greedy for profit that he deserves to be killed!
But the next moment she suddenly woke up again, what was I thinking just now, what on earth was I thinking!
By killing Luo Si and Hong Yanzi, he could still explain that these two men were full of evil and their death was not a pity.
But now this old man is just asking for reward money in front of me, and I actually have murderous intentions towards him?
No, it’s not me. This is not my real thought. It’s the monster Tianzun who is interfering with my thinking.
She held her head, arched her body and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.
She kept telling herself in her mind: Lin Xixue, calm down and think about who you are. You are a well-educated modern person. Please be clear-headed and don't let that monster influence your thinking easily.
My father-in-law was startled by her performance and ran away with a cane.
Lin Xixue lay on the ground in pain. At this moment, in her eyes, this seemingly peaceful and peaceful small fishing village had turned into a purgatory on earth.
The blood of living creatures dyed the lake red, the black feathers floating on the sleeves obscured the sun, there were piles of bones, and there were mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Wake up, wake up, these are all fake, all illusions!
She drew out her magic sword and nailed her hand to the ground. Firstly, she wanted to seal her actions so that she would not actually commit murder. Secondly, she also wanted to use the severe pain to regain her sanity.
She hunched over and knelt on the ground, her forehead buried deeply in the soil. It took a long time for her to calm down.
There was no bleeding from the wound on his hand pierced by the magic sword, but the linen shirt on his body was soaked with cold sweat.
The sky became clear again and the lake lapped rhythmically against the shore.
She turned over, made a "big" figure, and looked at the sky. The sun was particularly dazzling.
Am I still a murderous monster after all?
The world is so big, but where can a monster like me end up...
