Twenty strokes of the board, the feeling of hitting to the end, is numbness.

I didn't expect that I would have such an experience in my life, and it can be regarded as vigorous.

I comforted myself in my heart, but when I was helped to stand up from the wide stool, I found that the numbness had all turned into a pinprick pain at the beating, with a violent sourness, and then suddenly turned into a severe ache all over my body, like a fire, and I couldn't even stand on my feet.

I was held up and stood in the middle of the hall. And Helian Guang and the patriarch had satisfied smiles on their faces.

The patriarch is okay, and it feels like it's still within the normal range, but the strange excitement of Helian Light makes me feel like I want to vomit.

"With such a look, I'm afraid I can't support it today. Let the rest of the girls serve me. As for this... Kindness. Helian looked at the patriarch.

The patriarch hurriedly said, "This sinner-carrying girl is called Shen Shuang. ”

"Yes, it's this Shen Shuang, take it to the yard where I am, let her recuperate for a day, and come to serve me tomorrow." Helian said with a spring breeze on his face.

Even my name was changed to "Shen Shuang", but in the hall, I couldn't sit still, revealing that the patriarch was afraid that he would cause trouble again at this time, and the agreement between them was vaguely reached anyway. Even if Helian Guang finally knew that I was not a woman of the Shen family, it would not be too serious, but it would lose the face of the patriarch.

The patriarch seemed to be very satisfied with my performance, and while promising Helian Guang, he said, "Then I will personally ask someone to take her down." ”

And those women who have soaked in the spiritual spring together finally get the opportunity to get close to Helian Guang, where will they be unhappy? A group of warblers and swallows quickly surrounded them. No one will pay any more attention to me who will be rebuked by the rod.

Soon, the patriarch arranged for two grandmothers to personally escort me out of this hall. In the process, the patriarch whispered in my ear: "If you know each other, remember that you are Shen Shuang." Maybe tonight, with your performance, you will really fly on the branches and become a phoenix. Do you know what the concept of Helian Lord's family is? In front of them, the worldly families of the powerful are not worth mentioning at all. And the promise to Shen Jingyun to keep you from dying, I also did it. But you have to remember that a contract is nothing in the interests of the whole clan. ”

Is this a warning? I watched the patriarch purse the corners of his mouth, but he couldn't speak for a while.

The patriarch squinted at me and said, "I think you know what I mean. You're not stupid, you think I can't see that performance just now? No matter what your purpose is, I've been a cultivator for decades, and I won't be deceived by you. In short, life is like this, whether it is heaven or earth, you choose. ”

With that, the patriarch turned and left.

My heart was bitter, and his words just now stimulated me, and my body was covered with cold sweat. Is it so naïve? thought that the performance was seamless, only Shen Xinglin saw that something was wrong, but he didn't expect the patriarch to also see everything in his eyes.

Next, what should I do?

Helian Guang didn't know why, even if I was scolded by the rod, he wouldn't let me go. He didn't even want to leave me with a chance, and he had to go to his compound to recuperate.

Running away, I naively thought that the worst outcome would be nothing more than trying to find a way to escape. But now that it's a problem to even walk, how can you escape?

Even if I can recover a little tomorrow, I guess I will be able to move slowly at best.

But do I have a tomorrow? The patriarch meant, maybe I will have to face Helian Guang tonight, even if I try to delay tonight, I guess I won't be able to delay tomorrow.

Things seem to have reached the point of despair.

And what does despair mean? It means that a person no longer has a choice, only death may be able to make his own decisions. But now that I'm growing up in society, how can I be willing to face this outcome?

After careful thinking and calculation, I was dragged out of the ancestral hall where the banquet was held and walked on the road in the village. The cultivators in the village were all attending the banquet, and the people were in a hurry, so where did anyone notice me? A subordinate who has been punished.

Only the children of the village, at this time, were relatively idle, and a few children who rarely had the opportunity to go to the upper echelons of the village on weekdays were playing some game in one place at the moment, and when they saw me being helped over, one of the children stood up, looked at me with big eyes, and walked past his eyes.

Who is this kid if he is not Xiaohe? During this process, I tried my best to look at him, for fear that he would come up and greet me. Right now, both my situation and the situation I am about to face are on the verge of extreme danger.

Because the choices I make will definitely not satisfy the Shen clan, no matter what kind of desperate situation it is, I don't want Xiaohe to be affected because of me.

I don't know if it was my eyes on the river envoy that played a role, or if the children of the village had learned to be cautious in the first place, but after all, he just looked at me like this, as if he was curious about it, and never made any sound.

But one of my grandmothers said viciously to the children of the people, "Is this a place where you can play?" Hurry up, don't make a mistake here, and it will affect your parents at that time. ”

Under the intimidation of my grandmother, the children dispersed in a hurry, and I glanced at them, and saw that Xiaohe was looking back at me, but when he touched my gaze, he quickly turned his head and continued to run forward as if he did not see it.

I can't tell what it feels like to feel in my heart, once this child was my only comfort in the village. His mother also has the kindness of persistence, but the environment of this village is like this, which makes the child really a little cold. Seeing that I am a sinner, do you turn away from it?

I can't help but think so, the cultivators here have simply made me see a lot of ugliness in human nature. It is very different from the image of the cultivators I originally imagined, who are mysterious and do not eat the fireworks of the world, and do not participate in the disturbance of the world.

But not all cultivators are like this, I always believe this, at least in Shen Jingyun, Huo Kai, and even Zuo Qiu and Helian Cheng, I don't see the face of this kind of power, and the infinite exaltation, so that the infinite indifference to life and the supremacy of naked interests.

I was taken to a very ornate courtyard, which had several buildings arranged in a staggered manner compared to the usual one-storey courtyard in the village.

I was taken to one of the buildings, where I was thrown off in what looked like a more luxurious room than the average room.

The two grandmothers were not bad, at least they helped me take off my shoes so that I could lie on the bed so that they could leave.

Time became difficult, and I couldn't even take a nap and recover some of my spirits. During this time, a man dressed as a subordinate brought some food, which was much more abundant than what I had eaten in the village this month.

A bowl of porridge, accompanied by four relatively light side dishes, meat and vegetarian, and a stack of snacks, were all eaten cleanly by me. Even if it is uncomfortable, I try to swallow it, I will not give up every hope, I know that my body now needs the energy of food to recover as soon as possible.

After eating, the servants quickly packed up the dishes and chopsticks and left, at least in terms of treatment, I hadn't really flown up the branches, and they also treated me as a master. It seems that my fate is sealed.

I sneered, still thinking about what to do, but at this moment, the door of the room was pushed open again.

A small figure rushed into the room, I looked at the little figure in amazement, and couldn't help but whisper: "Xiaohe? How did you get here? ”

That's right, the person who came turned out to be Xiaohe, I never imagined that he would sneak into this room.

Xiaohe quickly ran to my side, grabbed my hand and said, "Sister Xiaoshuang, the place where they locked you up is much more comfortable than the place where my father was locked up before. ”

Xiaohe's dad was also imprisoned? That's something I didn't know.

But I was just worried and anxious, and said, "No matter how beautiful this kind of place is, it's also a place for people, how can you come here?" Hurry back, or your mom and dad will be implicated too. ”

Xiaohe didn't care, he leaned his nose and smiled a little proudly: "The adults in the village are busy, who has time to care about me?" And I won't be discovered, I'm small, and if I hide anywhere, they won't notice me. In the past, when my dad was imprisoned, my mom secretly asked me to bring something to eat for my dad several times. She said that if my dad didn't have anything to eat inside, he wouldn't be able to hold on and would die. ”

"It's a lot harder to get into. You may not be able to sneak out all day long. Sister Xiaoshuang, what are you here? Besides, no one has time to stare at me today, do you want me to bring you food, Sister Xiaoshuang? ”

Looking at Xiaohe's pure eyes, I was moved in my heart, and I touched his hair with a little choked and asked, "Did you pretend not to recognize me just now just to come to see me?" ”

"Yes!" Xiaohe nodded heavily and said, "When my father was taken away before, my mother and I also saw it on the road, and my mother grabbed my hand and told me, don't shout, and pretend not to recognize my father, these high-ranking people in the village will not know who is the wife and whose child, and they will not notice me." I remember what my mother said, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance to sneak in and see Sister Xiaoshuang. ”

"Good boy." My eyes were red, and I gently rubbed my face against Xiaohe's small palm, maybe in this village, it was the body of those many subordinates that made people not despair of human nature to the end.

Seeing that I was sad, Xiaohe proudly puffed up his chest, patted his chest with his hand, and said to me, "With me here, Sister Xiaoshuang will not starve to death." Sister Xiaoshuang, do you want me to bring you food? ”

Xiaohe once again emphasized that he could bring me food, I choked up, held Xiaohe's hand tightly, and said, "Sister, don't eat." If so, could you bring something for your sister? ”