Verse 269: The grave of a mortal
When the two heard Mu Sheng say this, the expressions on their faces softened, and they glanced at each other, and Ah Lian's father said, "We are just afraid that she will find it for a short time!"
Mu Sheng said: "It's better to do this, I'll persuade her, I have nothing to do with her, unlike you, maybe she can listen to it." ”
Ah Lian's father nodded and said, "Okay, then thank you very much." Be sure to help us and persuade her. ”
Mu Sheng arched his hand and said, "You two can rest assured." As he spoke, he handed a piece of gold in his hand to Ah Lian's father: "Please help me buy some food for this ingot." ”
Ah Lian's father trembled and said, "Where did you use so much money?" ”
Mu Sheng smiled slightly: "The rest of the money will be deposited with you temporarily, and I will buy things from you later." ”
Ah Lian's father trembled and said, "Then thank you, little brother." ”
Mu Sheng smiled, didn't say anything more, turned around and ran in the direction that Ah Lian ran away. At this time, the wind and snow were fierce, and after only a moment's delay, most of Ah Lian's footprints left on the snow were covered, leaving only a confused phantom. Fortunately, Mu Sheng was used to walking the rivers and lakes with the ghost eye Taoist before, so he was able to identify the traces and chase them all the way.
After turning a few mountain passes, Mu Sheng found that Ah Lian who was standing on the mountain peak, the snow covered Ah Lian's head and body, Ah Lian stood there motionless like a snowman, but the cold and desperate and helpless aura emanated, and it looked three points colder than the real snowman.
"Ah Lian, is that you?" asked Mu Sheng softly.
No one answered Mu Sheng's question, so Mu Sheng ran to the snowman and said, "Let's find a sheltered place to talk?"
Ah Lian still didn't answer his question, and Mu Sheng continued: "You don't want to get married, it's not completely impossible? Maybe I can help you?"
Ah Lian turned her head, the tears on her face were not dry, and her eyes were already red and swollen: "Really, what can you do? I don't want to be like my sister and get married early and have children." I think I'm still a kid, I'm only fourteen!"
Mu Sheng persuaded: "I told your father, let him postpone calling you to marry, he should be regarded as acquiescing, right? I want to talk to him again, it shouldn't be a big problem, but what about you? Let's talk about it, is there any way to get you out of here, I think people will succeed as long as they work hard, waiting will have results, look forward, there will be hope ...... ahead." ”
Ah Lian said softly: "Big brother, you are really good at talking, although I also know that what you said is just to comfort me, but I feel better?" As he spoke, he raised his hand and wiped his tears, tears still existed on his red and swollen eyes, and he looked pitiful.
Mu Sheng said: "Speaking of which, it is also the first time I have come to this village, compared to the outside, there are many inferior places, so is there really no way to escape from here, can you go out?"
Mu Sheng led Ah Lian to the bottom of a mountain cliff that juts out from the peaks and forms a natural place to shelter from the snow. Mu Sheng and Ah Lian both stomped their feet, shook their bodies, and shook off the snow on their bodies, although the snow on their clothes was shaken off, the snow on their heads was not so easy to shake off, and the snowflakes wet the buns of the two, and the hair was messy on the heads of the two.
Ah Lian said with tears in her eyes: "If I was born as a person with spiritual power to cultivate, I am afraid that I will be taken away by someone in the morning, but I am just a mortal woman, how can I go out by myself?"
"Why, can mortals give birth to people with spiritual powers?" Mu Shengqi said.
"Although the possibility is small, it is not completely impossible, sometimes the children born to mortals are quite strong in spiritual power. And cultivators may also give birth to children without spiritual power, and if they are sent here, it will be difficult to get out, so this Beiguo Village is the grave of mortals. Ah Lian said hatefully.
"Can this kid be taken away casually?" asked Mu Sheng with a frown.
Ah Lian snorted coldly and said, "Why can't we, how can we mortals fight the immortals." In their eyes, we are just a group of ants, but when they take us away, they will pretend to give us mortals some money and goods, which can be regarded as more or less comfort. ”
"Is there really no way to get out of this mountain and leave this Beiguo Village?" asked Mu Sheng.
"Of course there is, but these methods are too far away for me!" Ah Lian watched the snowflakes flutter in the sky.
"What way? Maybe we can use it?" asked Mu Sheng.
Ah Lian glanced at Mu Sheng and said, "Maybe you can, but it's too difficult for me." ”
"What do you say?" Mu Shengqi said.
"You yourself have just been sent by the Xiuxian family, more or less there will be people in the family who will come to see you, you talk to them, and they can take you out to play, but after a hundred years, if your descendants are still mortals, I'm afraid no one will take care of them anymore. Ah Lian explained.
"Why do you conclude that my descendants must be mortals?"
Ah Lian snorted coldly, and there was a little unwillingness in her expression: "Do you think that cultivators will marry their daughters to you as a mortal? ”
Mu Sheng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard such a cruel truth, he didn't expect that this continent that seemed to be full of spiritual power on the surface, and all of them were cultivators, since it was such a jungle and survival of the fittest, I am afraid that the screening of mortals and people with spiritual roots has gone through several generations before it has become like this, right?
"So, what should a mortal who was born and raised in Beiguo Village do if he wants to leave the village?" asked Mu Sheng.
Ah Lian shook her head in confusion and said: "This is very difficult, unless you are very rich and have bribed the village chief of Beiguo, you can go out of the village at any time and take a look around, but after all, you still have to go back to the village. The Beiguo family where we went out also had to give an identity card, although we didn't use spiritual power to exert it, but it made people know at a glance that we were mortals, and it was inconvenient to go anywhere. ”
"In that case, are you willing to go out, isn't it more comfortable to stay in Beiguo Village?" Mu Sheng asked suspiciously.
Ah Lian looked out of the cliff, her eyes seemed to look at the world outside the mountain through the dark night, and she said for a long time: "But the outside world is much better than ours here!"