Chapter 3: She's a Demon
"Ahem."
The leader of the clan elder didn't seem to be in good health, and he coughed lightly twice with his fist to his lips before he opened his mouth with a difficult face.
"Bai Nanxiang, you are not from my Songyuan Village, you can pack up and leave this village today, our village can't keep you anymore."
The clan elders used to call her Bai Yatou, and calling her by name and surname like this was the first time in Bai Nanxiang's memory.
Bai Nanxiang looked up at the villagers not far away.
The patriarch had a look of embarrassment on his face, but he did not dodge her gaze, and the villagers either turned their heads to look to the side, or looked down at their feet, but no one spoke up to help her.
Even Grandma Zhang just shook her head desolate and didn't say a word.
The woman who was being held heard the words of the clan elder and looked up at the clan elder violently, but her outstretched finger pointed to Bai Nanxiang on the other side.
"Clan Elder, my father-in-law is dead! It's all because of this little slut, you just drove her out of the village?! ”
The woman's voice was already hoarse, and her tone was full of hatred.
She is Li San's wife, because her son is always in a hurry to tie up with Bai Nanxiang, she was a little unaccustomed to this fatherless and motherless little girl in the past, and today she doesn't even want to look at Bai Nanxiang.
Listening to the woman's accusation, Bai Nanxiang kept her head up without saying a word, she didn't have any expression on her face and didn't open her mouth to defend herself, but the fist held in front of her waist was unconsciously used, and the not long nails pressed against the flesh of her palm, stabbing her slightly.
The petite body looked weak and stubborn in the midst of the villagers.
"Ahem."
The woman's voice fell, and the patriarch couldn't stop coughing, and a villager on the side wanted to be smooth for the patriarch, but the patriarch raised his hand to stop him, and endured the desire to cough and held back.
"Li Sanjia's family, cough, you are also an elder who watched the white girl grow up, this child is well-behaved and sensible on weekdays, cough cough, although he is still young, he does not lose to you and me, such a good child, cough, it is unfair to drive her out of the village because of Daochang Zhu's words, what else do you want me to do?"
"The death of Li San and the other villagers, cough cough, I'm also very sad, I can embarrass a little girl, cough, can you resurrect your father-in-law, can you resurrect other villagers? Since Daochang Zhu said that she was ominous, she hurried, coughed, and driven out of the village, why should you be an elder and embarrassed a child? ”
The woman withdrew her hand pointing at Bai Nanxiang, covered her face, and whimpered and cried again.
"Clan Elder! Li San is dead, and the sky in my house has fallen! It's all because of this little slut that my husband died, and there are old and young in my family, how will I live in the future? You drove her out of the village like this, how willing am I! ”
After saying this, the woman rubbed her sleeve on her face and raised her voice.
"Besides, if an ominous person like her is driven out of the village, will the village be peaceful? She has lived in our village for many years, and there are traces of her everywhere here, who knows if it will cause other disasters because of this, and besides, she will cause trouble in other places, and if she can't be held accountable to our village, who will take this responsibility then? ”
The woman's voice fell, and the village chief fell silent, and it took him a long time before he sighed.
"What do you think?"
The woman turned her head and looked at Bai Nanxiang with a cold gaze, but after just one glance, she looked at her son in Grandma Zhang's arms, without thinking too much, the woman looked at her son, and said in a deep voice.
"A scourge like her is naturally a torch to prevent future troubles!"
With a buzz, the woman's words fell, and the villagers suddenly whispered like a pot.
"Ahem."
The clan elder's cough was even worse, and he couldn't speak for a while.
Grandma Zhang, who was holding Li Zigui, suddenly raised her voice and opened her mouth in a panic.
"No, never, this is a human life, the white girl grew up with you, how can you bear to give birth to her life!"
Since Li San's wife appeared, Li Zigui stopped scolding and has been sobbing quietly, at this time hearing his mother's words, he suddenly turned around and subconsciously asked for intercession, but when he met his mother's sad gaze, the words of intercession were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say it.
Bai Nanxiang had always maintained an expressionless appearance, as if they were discussing someone else's affairs and had nothing to do with her, but her palm had been poked by her own fingernails and was almost bleeding.
Hearing that Li San's wife wanted her own life at this moment, Bai Nanxiang stared at the woman's face for a moment, and then looked at the villagers who were buzzing but did not speak for her, and Li Zigui, who was silently watching her mother with her back to her, and finally stopped at a flying butterfly by the wildflower on the side of the road, and her face showed a sad smile.
"Ahem, Li Sanjia's ......"
The old patriarch, who was coughing so much that he almost burst into tears, gasped and spoke, but his words were interrupted by another voice before he could begin his words.
"Mrs. Li is right!"
The sound came from the end of the path, and the villagers turned their heads to look there.
Bai Nanxiang was still staring at the butterfly not far away, and never looked up in that direction.
In just a moment, a middle-aged Taoist man wearing a blue-gray Taoist robe, holding a compass in his hand, and a beard on his chin walked over with one hand behind his back.
"Dao Chief."
"Good way."
As soon as the Taoist appeared, the villagers greeted him respectfully.
"Dao Chief, after all, this is our village's own business......
After the clan elder saw the Taoist, the embarrassment on his face was even greater, but his tone remained respectful.
The Taoist shook his head and looked at the clan elder.
"Clan elder fallacy, although this is a matter of your village, but since the poor Dao is in the heart of the Dao here, you can't see death without saving and seeing demons, this matter is beyond the scope of your ability, and it is the duty of my generation of cultivators."
When talking to the clan elder, the Daoist's voice was quite peaceful, and when he turned his gaze to Bai Nanxiang, he suddenly spoke sharply.
"You demon, Poor Dao almost caught your Dao, the day before yesterday was blinded by you, if it wasn't for the poor Dao who noticed something bad and stayed in the village for two days to investigate carefully, I am afraid that you will be fooled!"
"Today, the poor road is here, and the demon is not yet caught!"
When the words of the Taoist fell, the name of the village that had just quieted down began to be discussed again, and this time the discussion was much louder than the last time.
"Demon? Is there really a demon in this world? ”
"Bai Nanxiang is a demon? Impossible. ”
"It's hard to say, otherwise there are so many places in the village, why did their family choose to build a house at the foot of a remote mountain, the appearance of the Bai family's parents dying is unusual, and they don't look like ordinary people......"
The Taoist was just a word, and the villagers who had been with Bai Nanxiang for more than ten years immediately suspected her identity, and some things that were usually caught in the wind and shadows were also brought out to discuss.
Amid the buzz, the clan elder coughed and raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
When the villagers quieted down, the patriarch looked at Bai Nanxiang, who was not far away with his head sideways and didn't know what he was thinking, and opened his mouth uncertainly.
"Dao Chief, the white girl grew up with my own eyes, and she has been safe and sound for more than ten years, you say she is a demon, don't have any misunderstanding, and besides, one of the demons is ethereal, and no one has ever seen it with their own eyes......"
Before the patriarch could finish speaking, the Taoist had already raised his hand and signaled him not to continue.
"Patriarch, look."
The Taoist interrupted the words of the clan elder, flicked his long sleeves, and a gust of wind suddenly appeared on the flat bottom, and he swept towards Bai Nanxiang with a handful of unknown powder.
Whew-
The wind howled by, blowing the little girl's already unkempt hair and spreading out, and the corners of her pudding's clothes and trousers kept rolling back, and the whole person seemed to be standing in the wind on a typhoon day.
In the strong wind, layers of black gas slowly appeared around the little girl, enveloping her in it, as if an ink cloud had floated in a sunny day.
It was indescribably weird and eerie......