Chapter 43 Village Ancestral Hall
Outside, the sun shines on the birds. The spirit beast Qiji hated restraint, and was stubbornly stepping back with strong foot force, and it didn't mind pulling the reins tightly into the flesh. The tree that was used to bind the reins finally broke off with a "chirp". Qi Ji let out a long roar and stepped on his hooves excitedly, holding the broken stump and running around the broken temple.
In the temple, the blue wolf left a living mouth.
The younger brothers were all wiped out, and the second brother's previous momentum was also wiped out. In order to save his life, he knelt down with a shy face and begged for mercy: "The hero spares my life, Qiji, you can ride away...... And also...... And I can give you money. Our eldest brother collects protection money in a nearby village...... There will be lots and lots of money...... And then there's ...... Yes, yes, there are beautiful girls. It's all for you, as long as you spare my life. ”
I have no bottom line to be greedy for money and sex, and I think that others are like them. Such people are simply shameless.
The more he listened to the other party say these unbearable words, the tighter the wolf sword's eyebrows wrinkled, and the expressionless face finally loosened a little, and then panicked.
Village? What village is nearby?! Is the village where Helian Xiaojiang is located the territory of these thieves? The blue wolf has a very bad premonition.
It seems that this protection fee and robbing people's daughters have become a common practice!
"Which village did they go to?" The blue wolf grabbed the second brother's placket and grabbed him from the ground.
The second brother's legs were softly bent on the ground, and the gravity of the whole person was buckled on one of the wolf's hands. He trembled and began to report the names of the villages one by one: "THERE ARE XXX, XX, XXX, XXX, XXX......" The second brother was so frightened that his buttocks urinated, because he was too nervous, and some of the village names were repeated twice and did not know.
The blue wolf heard the familiar name of the village, and his ears exploded with a "buzz".
"Say it again!" He lowered his voice and spit out four words coldly, his eyes sharp and fierce.
The second brother unconsciously reported his name again from beginning to end. Then his eyes flickered, and when the ice release knife fell, he didn't even have time to make his last call for help. The dilapidated temple was finally quiet, and the dead bodies and blood became a hell on earth.
God's face changed again, and it began to rain again, not big, not small, and dripping. After learning this information, the blue wolf was anxious in his heart, and he kept rushing back for a while. Before he could retract his scabbard, he held it in his hand. Qi Ji came back after half a circle, and found that the master blue wolf had left with great merit. Blood dripped down the blade. As the wolf moved rapidly, it landed on leaves, stones, and petals.
"Why did you insist on keeping Helian Xiaojiang in the first place?" Along the way, the blue wolf kept asking himself.
Standing at the entrance of the village and looking at it from afar, the whole village was as quiet as when the wolf left, and it seemed that nothing bad had happened. Maybe it was just that he was thinking too much, and the blue wolf kept running towards the other side of the village as he thought so. It was a thatched house that Helian Xiaojiang cleaned up, and the inside was very tidy, with a thick thatched roof and snow-white walls. Neatly placed tables, chairs, benches, and a handful of personal belongings. But Helian Xiaojiang was not in the house!
The blue wolf turned and walked towards the center of the village with his knife in his hand, the blood stains on the knife had dried, and the ice release knife that had just been soaked in blood shone with a bloodthirsty cold light in the clean sunlight after the rain.
In the blue sky and daylight, there was no one in the fields, village roads, and thatched houses. The villagers of this village disappeared as if suddenly, leaving an empty shell. The bad premonition became stronger and stronger, and the wolf's heart was beating "suddenly", as if it was about to pop out. His steps grew faster and faster with the rhythm of his heartbeat.
The houses were searched one by one, and when they walked to the village chief's house, they heard someone whispering inside, and the blue wolf raised his feet and broke down the door directly.
There were a dozen middle-aged women and two elderly women crammed into the small house. When the wolf broke down the door, the women screamed in fright. The village chief's daughter-in-law should have breathed a sigh of relief when she saw clearly that the person who came was the blue wolf, but the knife in the blue wolf's hand and the expression on his face made her tremble with fear.
"What about Helian Xiaojiang?" He asked, looking at them with scrutinizing eyes.
"That...... She's not here, but she'll be fine...... She'll be back soon......" stammered the village chief's daughter-in-law.
In the face of the sudden appearance of the blue wolf, these amiable, unpretentious, and straightforward women who had previously appeared xiàn dodged their eyes, and they could not answer a simple question that could not be simpler. The village chief's daughter-in-law plucked up the courage to step forward and tried to put her arm on the wolf's shoulder to comfort the other party. In response to her, the Ice Release Knife was bare and directly rested on the woman's neck, and the icy chill from hell greeted her.
"Don't talk nonsense, sue me, where is Helian Xiaojiang?"
During the period when he was recuperating at the village chief's house, the blue wolf spent a long time with the village chief's daughter-in-law, who was a diligent and thrifty housekeeper, and was also taken care of by her. The village chief's daughter-in-law also thought she was familiar with the good-looking, taciturn man who was lying on her bed, with no door out. I didn't think he had such a terrifying side as a ghost.
The village chief's daughter-in-law shrank into a ball, and the whole person froze and couldn't speak.
"Xiaojiang, she is in the ancestral hall in the village." It was a younger woman next to the village chief's daughter-in-law who shouted out in her place.
The women's intuition is sharp and accurate, and now, the intuition of the women in this room is: If the coordinates of Helian Xiaojiang were reported a little later, the knife on the neck of the village chief's daughter-in-law would definitely fall without hesitation.
After the wolf went out of the house, the women did not breathe a sigh of relief, but they were even more at a loss. Because they knew that the scene on the other side of the ancestral hall would only anger the beast of the blue wolf even more.
The houses of every household in the village are not large, and they are all simple and practical. However, the ancestral hall built in the middle of the village is not only large, but also has a large front and back yard surrounded by high white walls. The materials are also exquisite, and the roof of the house is made of fired black tiles, and the four sides of the cornice are even made by craftsmen.
Such a grand and rigorous ancestral hall dedicated to ancestors is now used for strange purposes.
The "big brother" of the group sat on the Taishi chair in the courtyard. Several of his men, some of them stood behind him with their chests held high. Some stood at the entrance of the ancestral hall wearing swords.
The grains carefully planted by the villagers and all kinds of fruits and vegetables are bundled in sacks and piled up into a hill. These are the little things that all the villagers save from their own mouths as a conservation fee for each season. There were also the girls present, who were also an option to cover the cost. The girls were not very old, the youngest was only twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest was no more than eighteen. They were lined up, their thin bodies had not yet developed, and they stood there with pale faces but did not know how to resist.
Leave it to others like goods.