Weird past in the countryside

Chapter 85 The Poignant Love Dream Is Broken

After getting used to the darkness in the wooden house, I saw Mingzhu's sad expression, and I suddenly felt pity, and asked the whole story.

Mingzhu kept muttering: "Why are you back again? I told you to leave."

I said earnestly, "Since I'm all back, just tell me. Maybe I can help you."

Mingzhu sighed: "Okay, then I'll tell you, but you promise me that once you find out, you can go as far as you can. If you stay here, you will only bring disaster on yourself."

In order for Mingzhu to tell the truth smoothly, I had no choice but to agree: "Okay, I promise you, tell me."

Mingzhu said: "I will be sacrificed tomorrow. You can't help me."

I was shocked when I heard that, because I had just experienced the blood sacrifice to the mountain temple in the village. Could Mingzhu also be killed alive?I asked, "Sacrifice? Who are you offering sacrifices to? What gods?"

Mingzhu smiled and said, "I'm not a fairy either. Anyway, I'm superfluous in this village. They wish they could send me out as soon as possible. This opportunity is exactly what they wish for."

Mingzhu's words made me more and more confused.Mingzhu continued: "Our stockade has always been closed to the outside world. Our people can't get out, and outsiders can't come here. But a while ago, a child came to the stockade. This child is very strange. The methods are also very high. On the day of arrival, they made a big fuss in the stockade and captured a person in the stockade. The people in the stockade chased after them with weapons. Finally, they found that the person had been sucked dry by the Langshui River to donate blood. The skin and flesh on his body were also bitten to a bloody mess. Finally, the patriarch led people to surround the child and asked where the child came from and why he wanted to hurt the people in the village. The child said that the women in our village were very shady and suitable for He is picking Yin. And he said he will come again. If we can provide him with a suitable woman, he promises not to invade other people in the village. Of course the patriarch refused and ordered the people in the village to come forward to besiege the child, but although the villagers They are all fierce, but they can't beat that child. That child is full of weirdness, and weapons don't work against that child at all. The child defeated the villagers without any effort. And with a little trick, several villagers were scratched. The child also said that if he did it again, he would destroy our village. The patriarch saw his power with his own eyes and knew what he said was true, so he had no choice but to agree to provide him with a suitable woman."

I questioned: "The child you mentioned just now looks like five or six years old, with many white eyes and small black eyes, and often grinning, and the smile is very weird."

Mingzhu said in surprise: "Yes, have you seen that child?"

I thought to myself, "The child who ran away from the mountain temple will appear here."

After listening to what Mingzhu said, I felt that there were many doubts.I asked Mingzhu: "You mean that tomorrow is the deadline for offering sacrifices, and the village has decided to sacrifice you?"

Mingzhu said: "Yes, otherwise the child will be bad for the village. It's fine if you donate me. Anyway, I have lived a few hundred years longer."

The more I listened, the more confused I became, and I really suspected that my ears were not listening.He hurriedly stared and asked: "Mingzhu, what are you talking about? You are confused. Seeing that you are less than 20 years old, why do you keep saying that you have lived for hundreds of years?"

Mingzhu smiled and said, "I'm not confused. I'm right. The people in our village are already hundreds of years old."

I almost collapsed when I heard it, what kind of village is this.

Mingzhu continued: "Our village didn't live here before, but we also guarded a river called Qingshui River. Then the river suddenly dried up. We lost our water source, so we moved here and guarded the river. A Langshui River."

When I heard Qingshuihe, my heart couldn't help but move.This seems to be the river that the old village head talked about. There was a legend at that time.

I asked, "Is there a stone bridge over the Qingshui River, called Bansheng Bridge?"

Mingzhu said: "I don't know about that. The village moved here when I was born. I never lived there."

I asked again: "I heard that there are two villages on the Qingshui River, one is upstream and the other is downstream. There is also a young man and woman in the village, one is Shengshu and the other is Banxia. People objected, and then they threw themselves into the river and died. The gods were offended, and the river was sucked dry. Is there such a thing?"

Mingzhu's expression became even more forlorn.She whispered, "They are my parents."

"What?" I kept hearing explosive news from Mingzhu's mouth, and I couldn't believe my ears.

I repeated it again: "You mean that Sheng Mi and Ban Xia are your parents?"

Pearl nodded.

My head was completely blown out, and I asked Mingzhu: "Didn't it mean that they drowned in the river and died? Why did you still give birth to you? What is going on? How did you live for hundreds of years?"

Mingzhu said: "Don't worry, the patriarch didn't let us reveal this matter, but I'm going to die tomorrow, so it doesn't matter if I say it, but you know it, don't mention it to anyone again."

I nodded repeatedly, I just want to know the truth of the matter thoroughly now, I have a premonition that everything that happened here must be related to Yin Yang Xue Ruyi.

Mingzhu went on to say: "My father and mother have been secretly in love since they were childhood sweethearts. Originally, they were happy with each other, and the families on both sides also tacitly agreed that they only waited for adults to drink love water and get married after bathing in the love water river. But the two There was a sudden conflict between the two villages, and they swore to each other that intermarriage between the two villages was not allowed, otherwise the whole village would be wiped out. My parents are well aware of the customs of the two villages, and once an oath is made, it will not be easy Changed. Although they couldn't get married, they still couldn't let go of each other, so they met secretly for a tryst, and at the same time sowed the seeds of love. But later, during a tryst, they were discovered by people in the village. This can be regarded as I violated the big taboo of the two villages, and the two people were taken back to the village by the villagers, and they were strictly guarded. It was my mother who had been pregnant with me for five months. The upstream village where my father lived tortured my father every day to make him agree. I will no longer be in contact with my mother Banxia. But my father would rather die than agree. Later, on a moonlit night, my father sneaked out of the village, sighed at the moon in front of the Qingshui River, and finally called my mother's name by the river I threw myself into the river and died. When my mother heard the news, she was distraught and wanted to find her father. Later, she was stopped by the villagers. Considering me in her stomach, my mother endured the grief for more than four months. gave birth to me. But not long after I was born, my mother abandoned me and threw herself into the river of love. It is strange to say that the water in the river gradually receded after my mother threw herself into the river. After a month, it dried up and there was no flow of water. At that time, people said that it was the resentment of my father and my mother, which alarmed the gods in the sky, and then sucked the water of the river. Later, when the villagers saw that there was no water, they would move away if they did not move. There was no way to survive. Later, on the way of migration, I found this Langshui River, which was wider than Qingshui River and had more water, so I settled down here and rebuilt this village."

I interjected and asked, "Aren't there two villages upstream and downstream at that time? You and Banxia are in the downstream village, so this is the original downstream village. What about the upstream village?"

Mingzhu shook her head: "It is said that the upper reaches of the village have also been relocated, but we have no information about where it will be moved for all these years."

I asked again: "But, how can you live for hundreds of years?"

Mingzhu said: "We don't know the specific reason, but it is true that we have lived for so many years. We didn't know it when we first moved here, but we lived a normal life. Our location is very hidden and closed. Gradually, we discovered that we can all live forever. Not only our appearance remains the same, but our bodies also maintain the same shape as when we first moved in. Some elderly people who are getting older can also prolong their lives. We feel very happy It's strange, and I don't understand the reason. At the beginning, everyone can live here in peace, but the environment here is too closed. After we live here for a long time, someone finally couldn't hold back and tried They walked out of the stockade and wanted to go to the outside world. However, when they stepped out of a certain range, they immediately bled from their seven orifices and died suddenly. After death, their corpses quickly turned into mummies. Later we understood that we The reason why we can live forever is because if we stay here, once we get out of this range, we will die suddenly. After everyone knows this confinement, no one dares to go out of here again. Of course, because we are here on the cliff Down below, no one has ever known that there is such a stockade here. During these hundreds of years, occasionally firewood collectors and hunters came here by accident. They caught it and executed it. So after I rescued you, I told you to run quickly, and if the patriarch finds out, you will definitely die."

(End of this chapter)