Chapter 8: The Curse
Ming Beilin looked at this girl, and took the initiative to speak, saying that he wanted to send her back.
Uncle Chen looked at us, and he probably thought that we didn't look like bad people, so he agreed for Miss Xiaowei.
"I, Du Xiaowei, even if I die, I won't be a goddess, I don't want it!" She suddenly shouted.
Uncle Chen suddenly raised his hand and covered Du Xiaowei's mouth, his eyes showing panic.
The people around him also had a look of fear in their eyes, and they all looked around, as if they were worried, and the oracle heard this.
"Xiaowei, don't talk nonsense, don't think anything else, don't forget, three years ago." Uncle Chen lowered his voice and said to Du Xiaowei.
When Du Xiaowei heard the words "three years ago", her eyes suddenly widened, and then the look in her eyes began to dim little by little. Then, as if resigned to his fate, he snuggled up to me.
I held her on, and two lines of tears rolled down her eyes, and then she began to stagger forward, as if to rush home.
Beilin glanced at me, and I immediately followed Du Xiaowei.
Du Xiaowei was a little confused, I helped her, and she was about to sit down several times with weak legs.
"Miss Xiaowei? Would you like to take a break? I saw that her face was pale, and I opened my mouth to ask.
She blinked, shook her head, and said, "My father and mother are still waiting for me to send the buds back." ”
As soon as she said this, I realized that the bud was broken, and she was still holding it tightly in her arms.
It seems that this Du Xiaowei is a filial girl.
"Hmm." I replied in a low voice, wanting to take the bud rice for her, but she shook her head, saying that their family has no money, and these bud rice chips will be supported for a long time.
With that, he walked towards an alley next to a shop.
This alley is very dark, and I took out a fire fold to light up the surroundings.
Miss Xiaowei seemed to be startled by this sudden light, and immediately raised a hand to block the light of the fire fold.
"Miss Xiaowei, what's wrong with you?" I looked at her suspiciously.
"I just think it's glaring." She whispered, and continued to walk briskly forward.
Walking deeper into the alley, we finally saw a large row of wooden houses, these wooden houses, extremely low, with a row of more than a dozen households, like tofu blocks.
Du Xiaowei's home is in it, she pushed open the wooden door of her house, and I saw pots and dishes and clothes all over the floor.
These things are neatly placed, but the room is too small, so it looks a little messy.
And, there was a wooden bed in the room, and I could vaguely see that there should be two people lying on the bed?
"Xiaowei, is that you?" A man's hoarse and deep voice came from inside the room.
"Daddy is me." After Du Xiaowei said that, she nodded slightly at me and Ming Beilin, thanking us for sending her back.
"Wait! If you don't want to be a goddess, I can help you. Ming Beilin looked at Du Xiaowei and said with a serious face.
Du Xiaowei smiled bitterly at us: "Help? How can I help? He is a god, and none of us can fight him. ”
After Du Xiaowei finished speaking, another line of tears rolled down her eyes.
"The gods will not plunder the girl into the so-called temple." Beilin's face was solemn: "You are worshipping evil demons. ”
Du Xiaowei's eyes widened, but she did not refute Beilin.
Presumably, these people also have some speculation in their hearts, but no one dares to say it.
"Xiaowei? Who are you talking to? ”
Inside the room, the man's voice came again.
"Let's go." Xiaowei turned her head sideways, glanced at the person on the bed, and asked me to go with Beilin.
"Miss Xiaowei, if you enter the temple, what will your father and mother do?" I think this should be what Du Xiaowei cares about the most.
Sure enough, when Du Xiaowei heard me ask, her eyes became even redder, and she closed the door of the house and stood at the door of her house, talking to me and Mingbeilin.
"Who are you? He is the "god" of the entire South Ridge. Du Xiaowei looked at me and Beilin.
"We are soul slayers." I thought for a moment and said to Du Xiaowei, thinking that if I said so, Du Xiaowei would definitely be able to trust us more.
"Soul Exorcist?" Du Xiaowei looked at us suspiciously.
"Yes, they specialize in killing evil spirits and demons." Again, I explain.
When she heard this, she was even more stunned: "But you? ”
Du Xiaowei probably looked at me and Beilin as young, so she didn't trust us very much, and felt that even if we were spirit exterminators, our qualifications were too shallow, and we couldn't get rid of their big demons at all.
"You'd better go, you can't deal with him at all." Du Xiaowei lowered her eyes, her eyes full of despair.
"Xiaowei, if you don't let us give it a try, how do you know it won't work?" Before I finished speaking, Du Xiaowei shook her head desperately and asked, "Have you forgotten what happened three years ago?" ”
"Three years ago? What's up? "I just heard Uncle Chen say this to Du Xiaowei.
"You're not Feng Linyun, or even from Nanling?" Du Xiaowei raised her head again and stared at me and Beilin.
Presumably, a "big event" happened three years ago, and it made the entire Nanling people remember it vividly, and they didn't dare to disobey the evil demon from now on.
"Yes, we're from out of town." I'll be honest too.
When Du Xiaowei heard this, the corners of her mouth immediately showed a wry smile, and she muttered: "No wonder, no wonder you are not afraid." ”
"Xiaowei, what happened to you three years ago?" The more she said half of it, and kept half of it, the more I wanted to know what had happened three years ago that could have scared them like this.
Under my repeated questioning, Du Xiaowei's pale and chapped lips trembled, and finally told me about what happened three years ago.
Three years ago, it was still the "goddess" who was chosen, but the most powerful daughter of the Ma family was selected by Feng Linyun, the Ma family was a wealthy businessman, who had been doing business in various cities and counties in Nanling.
But the divine envoy chose his daughter Ma Shuting, this old man Ma is usually very respectful to the "gods", but that time he didn't know why, and he refused to hand over his daughter when he died.
He also wanted to impersonate other women and send his daughter to the boat at the old pier, regardless of the saying that there was a demon in the river, ready to send her away.
As a result, it caused a flood, the entire Fenglinwan was flooded, more than half of the dead and injured, and the small towns around Fenglinwan were more or less affected.
After the flood, many elderly people began to get sick, paralyzed in bed, unable to walk normally, Du Xiaowei's mother was paralyzed after that time, and was also delirious, those "divine messengers" said, this is a curse, is a retribution for contempt for God.