Chapter 82: Reason
The group walked to the patriarch's house in the meager night, and Liu held Ruyi's hand tightly, for fear that a careless daughter would be gone.
Ruyi let her hold it, and she didn't force it to break away, if the last time she first wore it, Liu's crying made her unbearable to leave, and decided to take on the heavy responsibility of this family. So this time after experiencing life and death, Ruyi really began to look at the Liu family as his mother, and this family as his dear and beloved family.
"Mother, it's okay, it's okay......" Ruyi shook Liu's hand and comforted, Liu's tears have not stopped along the way, at this moment, his eyes are red and swollen and his face is full of tears, and Ruyi feels distressed when he looks at it.
Liu looked at these many people, and he was a little embarrassed to cry, so he suppressed the discomfort in his heart and wiped his tears indiscriminately.
When a group of people sat down in the guest hall of the patriarch's house, the patriarch's daughter-in-law brought the steaming tea.
In the heat of the tea leaves, the patriarch and the old man slowly explained the reason.
There is an ancient legend in Longfei Village for generations, "The wolf howls, the disaster comes, if there is no disaster, the great blessing comes", the old and young masters of Longfei Village know this legend, so after the wolf howl that day, the villagers who know this legend in the village are in a strong uneasiness.
No one knows exactly from which generation this ancient legend was handed down, but the old people passed it on by word of mouth, generation after generation to the patriarch's grandfather's generation, and everyone thought that this legend was just a legend and could not really happen.
But the patriarch knows the story behind this, which is the story that his grandfather told thousands of times when he was a child.
Now the patriarch is over 60 years old, but the scenes that my grandfather told are still vivid.
It was more than 100 years ago, when there were hundreds of families living in Longfei Village, and even part of the current Longfei Mountain was houses and fields.
At that time, the grandfather of the patriarch was the patriarch of the clan and managed the affairs of the clan.
On the third night after the wolf howl, it was pitch black all around, and it was foggy with spring rain, the peasants in the village had already rested, and the beasts in the Longfei Mountain poured out in the middle of the night, and they were bitten to death when they saw the domestic animals, and they were even more crazy when they saw people. The whole Longfei Village was terrified, the barking of dogs, the cries of people, the howling of wild beasts, mixed with the sound of spring breeze and spring rain.
It wasn't until the next morning that the sky was bright and the beasts faded away, leaving behind a wailing and scarred Longfei Village.
Hundreds of villagers were killed this night, and countless villagers were bitten and disabled, and after this night, the vitality of Longfei Village was greatly damaged, and many families moved out of here, leaving only dozens of families who were stubbornly guarding this land.
To make matters worse, the budding crops in the fields were also devastated, with crop yields plummeting this season, and the following years were marked by droughts and floods, leaving the village farmers without a few days to live in peace.
The next few generations recuperated, and Longfei Mountain slowly recovered, the land here is fertile, the water source is abundant, and many people have moved here, and the village has slowly grown to the point where it is today.
The patriarch remembered the night that his grandfather told him, as if he had experienced it himself, seeing those wild beasts tearing and biting the villagers' livestock and ruining the crops, and the heartache and resentment could not be quelled for a long time.
Therefore, I must not allow such a thing to happen in this village again.
After the patriarch finished speaking, everyone fell silent, not expecting such a tragic thing to happen in such a paradise.
"Alas! Don't hide it, since the wolves howled in the mountains that day, my heart has not been calm for a day, I am always scared, and I dare not sleep at night, for fear that history will repeat itself! Alas! It's also that I'm dizzy, I shouldn't associate this girl with that wolf howl......" The patriarch sighed a little gloomy!
Ruyi looked at Nan Anwan with his eyes, this wolf howl was evoked by him, I don't know if he knew about the wolf howl more than a hundred years ago?
Nan Anwan didn't seem to feel Ruyi's eyes, and was not moved at all.
Doesn't that say that if it's not a great calamity, it's a great blessing? These few days have passed, and nothing bad has happened, so why can't it be a great blessing? ”
After a half-reckoning sound, Nan'an Wan Fang said this.
Several clan elders glanced at each other, and they all saw the same shock in each other's eyes.
That's right! The first half of this sentence is either a catastrophe or a great blessing, but this Longfei Village has not had any rumors about the great fortune for generations, so everyone will only associate the catastrophe with the wolf howl. After this man mentioned it, everyone considered such a possibility.
"This ...... It's possible...... "The patriarch thought for a while before he said.
The patriarch said this, and several clan elders looked at each other again, and they all saw hope in each other's eyes, yes! There has never been such a thing, but it doesn't mean it's impossible! The first half of this sentence has been fulfilled more than 100 years ago, is it possible that this wolf howl has something to do with auspicious things?
Nan Anwan saw the silence of everyone, and no longer bothered him.
I have a lot to do with the wolves, but I haven't heard anyone mention it, and I don't know if it's true or not.
But whether it's true or not, I can't let these people take that stupid girl!
Regardless of whether this rumor is true or not, this wolf howl has something to do with him, and he can't let this girl be a substitute for the dead ghost in any case, if these people want to treat themselves as demons, they have their own way!
It seems that the stupid girl and her brother didn't confess themselves, what a stupid girl, wouldn't she have to be burned to death if she confessed herself?
These people won't do anything to themselves, obviously they don't know how to run for their lives, let themselves be burned, if they are a step late today, this stupid girl will return to the underworld at this time!
Look, this girl is a very smart girl! I don't know how to cherish it, and when I think that I accepted such a stupid girl as an apprentice, I instantly feel that I have lost!
If Ruyi knew that his cheap master thought of himself like this, he was afraid that he would be so angry that he vomited three liters of blood, who was he for? Isn't it just for the sake of this family who loves him? Isn't it to keep his identity from being revealed?
"In this case, let's observe for a few days first, everyone must cheer up these days, it is not easy to publicize at this time, so as not to make people panic, these days also restrain the big guys a little, don't sleep too hard at night, after a few days to confirm that nothing happened, let's rest well!" The patriarch said in a deep voice, his face full of worry.