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Mother Zhang pondered for a moment and said, "It's not far from the Ye family now, see if there are any villages or towns around, let's go and rest tonight, tomorrow when it's dawn, we will buy some new horses, and then hurry, it should be too late." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Everyone nodded, and immediately began to look for the village.

We were lucky enough to find a village right away next to the woods.

It's not a big village, but we don't have to pick it now, so hurry over.

It was getting late now, and we were worried that when we got to the village, the villagers would have already gone to sleep, but we didn't want to, but as soon as we got close to the village, we saw the lights on.

I was happy.

Unexpectedly, this is still a village with a rich nightlife.

But soon, I wasn't in the mood to joke about it.

When we entered the village, we found that the lights were not inside the house, but outside.

I saw that in the village, at the door of every house, there were several people standing, each of them carrying lanterns in their hands, standing quietly, as if waiting for something.

They soon saw us walking into the village, but no one came to talk to us, just watched us warily.

The flickering lantern light hit their faces, and it looked white and a little weird.

What's going on?

In the middle of the night, what are these people doing standing at the door without sleeping?

We were suspicious, but Mama Zhang still took the lead and said, "That...... Who is the village chief? ”

The group was silent, and after a long time, an old man came out in a hurry.

"I'm the village chief." He whispered, looking at us with an indescribable look in his eyes.

"That's right, our young lady is going to get married." Zhang's mother hurriedly said with a smile, "But it's so late this day, we can't hurry, so we can only come here for one night." ”

As she spoke, Mama Zhang immediately took out a silver ticket and handed it to the village chief.

It stands to reason that Mama Zhang is so generous, and the people in this small village should have never seen so much money, but I don't want to, the village chief is not in a hurry to take the silver ticket.

He just swept behind us quickly and asked, "Are you really here to see off your relatives?" ”

Zhang's mother was stunned.

I guess she wondered as much as I did, what are the people in this village guarding against?

"Of course it's true." Zhang's mother pulled the corners of her mouth and said, not forgetting to say tentatively, "Otherwise, can you still come here in the middle of the night?" ”

The village chief didn't answer, but a woman behind him snorted coldly, and said in a strange manner: "Of course they are here to compete with us, Lord Suzaku's favor!" ”

My eyes widened.

What the?

Competing for Suzaku-sama's favor?

What a mess this is.

Before I had time to wonder if the people in this village were all insane, the village chief spoke again.

"You didn't bring any children with you, did you?"

The village chief had no clue for this question, and asked Zhang's mother and the others all about it.

However, it was this question that made me suddenly realize a strange phenomenon.

The villagers standing there, each of them, seemed to have a child with them.

The children, all about ten years old, stood in the dark, not knowing whether it was because of the cold or something, as if they were shivering.

I frowned.

In the middle of the night, they are standing here with their children, what are they doing?

Zhang's mother was obviously aware of this problem, and her expression was a little strange, but she still said: "We are a team to send relatives, how can there be children?" ”

The village chief didn't answer, just looked at the group of us behind Zhang's mother, and after repeatedly confirming that our words were not deceiving, he finally relented: "In this case, you can come to live at my house, anyway, no one will be at home tonight." ”

As he spoke, he snatched the silver ticket from Zhang's mother's hand, and his attitude was as if he was giving us alms.

We were all stunned.

The head of this small village, should he be so arrogant?

Still, he said, they won't be at home tonight, so what's going on?

While we were wondering, we suddenly saw a man who ran to the village and said in a panic, "Village chief, the time has come." ”

The village chief suddenly became serious, too lazy to take care of our group, and said, "Let's go quickly." ”

The group of villagers all nodded, lit the lanterns, and walked slowly forward.

Suddenly, one of the children in the group began to cry.

"Mother! Father! I don't want to go...... Don't give me to Suzaku-sama! ”

One child hit the head, and the other children immediately followed suit and began to cry.

"Daddy! Mother! Don't send me there! Send my brother away! ”

"Daddy...... Please......"

"Daddy, I'm not going to be naughty anymore, don't send me away."

Looking at those children like this, we couldn't help but be shocked.

Zhang's mother couldn't stand it, and couldn't help asking, "Village chief, what are you doing here?" What Suzaku-sama? ”

The village chief's face suddenly turned cold.

"Since it's just a night in our village, don't ask so much!" He snapped, "Otherwise, you're going to get me out of our village!" ”

As he spoke, he ignored us no longer and just dragged the children and scolded, "Don't you know what to do! It is a blessing for you to be dedicated to Suzaku-sama! ”

Sitting in the sedan chair, my face changed when I saw this scene.

Dedicated to Suzaku-sama?

At this time, I also guessed the situation of this village.

I used to know that in ancient times, and even in some modern and backward places, the villagers would superstitious about some monsters as immortals.

For example, some dragon king, river god or mountain fairy or something.

Confused by the demonic power of those yokai, they will offer their own gold, silver, jewelry, and even children and women, to these yokai, begging for their protection.

Needless to say, this village is also in this situation.

The Vermilion Bird in their mouths couldn't be a real Vermilion Bird Divine Beast, it must be some unknown bird monster that deceived these stupid villagers and asked them to sacrifice their children.

And the fate of these children is most likely to go into the belly of the monster.

Thinking of this, I can't stand it.

It's so many children's lives, if I sit idly by now, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well in the future.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but get out of the sedan chair.

Ignoring Zhang's mother's exclamation, I lifted the red hijab and said, "Wait a minute." ”

The villagers stopped and looked at me in disbelief.

"Are you going to send these children to that Suzaku-sama?" I said coldly, "What kind of divine beast is Suzaku, who wants to eat human children?" ”

I said this so directly, the village chief and the villagers all changed their faces.