Chapter 36: Human Traffickers
"I can tell you, don't think I'm a child and just lie to me, if you find anything wrong with you in the village, my sword is not welcome. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Li Ji walked in front with his head held high, and did not forget to say cruel words to Zhao Chengping, who was walking behind.
Zhao Chengping smiled and said: "Yes, yes, the beautiful little girl is right for everything." ā
Li Ji, who originally wanted to add a few more sentences, heard the "beautiful little girl", his little face turned red, he turned his head and snorted, and then strode forward, Zhao Chengping shouted from behind: "Slow down, don't fall." ā
Standing on the high post, Li Ji pointed down: "That's our village." ā
The village is not big, there are only two vertical and two horizontal streets, and there are a number of families scattered in Xingluo, Zhao Chengping asked: "Where does the witch who said that the big snake holds the dream live?" ā
"There." Li Jiyao pointed with his hand, the witch's house is very recognizable, there are only a few magnificent big houses in the village, and the witch's house is one of them, "The one next to it is where the patriarch lives." ā
"Patriarch...... Is he kind? Influenced by film and television dramas, in Zhao Chengping's heart, the patriarchs are quite unreasonable, beating mandarin ducks, either punishing men to kneel in the ancestral hall or dipping women in pig cages.
Li Ji tilted his head and thought for a while: "He has always put the interests of most people in the village first, and he is usually very kind to us, although he agreed to give the girl to the snake demon, but if the snake demon attacks the village, then there will be more than one victim." ā
Sacrificing one in exchange for the happiness of the many? Zhao Chengping was silent, it was difficult to say whether what the patriarch did was right or wrong, who was lighter and heavier between the few and the majority, it was a difficult problem to solve, and it was even more difficult to answer than his girlfriend asking "Who will I save first when I fall into the water with your mother".
If you encounter such a problem yourself, it is difficult to say that it must be better than the patriarch to deal with it.
Now at least I know that the patriarch is a person who can communicate, and it should be much easier to convince him.
"Let's go." Li Ji was about to walk forward, but was stopped by Zhao Chengping: "Wait for a while, don't go home first, don't let others see it, I'll go see the patriarch first." ā
"Hmph, what are your schemes?" Even so, Li Ji listened to his words and stayed very close to the village first, and Zhao Chengping walked along the path until he walked into the village.
Although this village is not a closed mountain village, but there are few outsiders to come, see Zhao Chengping, the patriarch is also surprised, Zhao Chengping said that he is a medicine picker from other places, found that there are many highly poisonous herbs in the mountains here, I want to remind the patriarch, don't let the village people eat by mistake.
The patriarch thanked him for his kindness and sighed, "Originally, there weren't so many poisonous weeds here. ā
"I also think it's strange, if you look at the grass, it's all snakes, but I don't see any poisonous snakes, I don't know why." Zhao Chengping continued to pretend.
The patriarch sighed: "I don't know when two big snakes came to the mountain, swallowing poisonous mist all day long, no one dares to enter the mountain again, most of the villagers in our village are living on the mountain, that's it, for a while, the big snake will come down the mountain to drag chickens and bite pigs, there are more than a dozen pigs raised by families, overnight, all gone, leaving only traces of snakes on the ground." ā
Chang Hao's two mouthfuls can really eat...... Zhao Chengping supported the forehead.
"However, it hasn't hurt anyone yet, and if the villagers walk together during the day, it should be fine." Zhao Chengping made a statement of concern.
The patriarch sighed: "But on that day, the witch of my village said that the snake fairy came to make a dream, and he should send an unmarried woman to eat it every month, otherwise, he would come to the village and eat everyone." ā
"Wu Zhu said that he dreamed, so he dreamed?" Zhao Chengping's face was shocked.
The patriarch frowned: "What Wu Zhu Su Ri said is extremely accurate, praying to the gods and spirits of heaven is not wrong, you are an outsider, how dare you question it!" ā
It's not good, he impulsively said that he missed his mouth, Zhao Chengping hurriedly smiled and said, "That Lord Wu Zhu is here?" I got something strange in the mountains, and I wanted her to show it. ā
As he spoke, he took out the water-proof beads from his pocket, and the patriarch saw that the beads were shining brightly, a little brighter than the oil lamp on the table, and he was surprised in his heart, so he took Zhao Chengping to the Wuzhu house.
That Wu Zhu was a middle-aged woman with a yin and owl breath, she took the water beads, turned them over and over, Zhao Chengping took the opportunity to check her memory, if she didn't look at it, he almost sneered when she saw it.
The girls were not sent to feed the snakes at all, but to another man in official uniform, and she said to the crying girls that she pitied them and could not bear to feed them to the snakes, and would tell the snake demon that they were sick and died, but they were not allowed to go home, otherwise the snake demon would be furious and the whole village would suffer, and their parents would be the first to suffer.
As soon as Wu Zhu said this, the girls who escaped the shadow of death were grateful to Dade, only the joy of rebirth, where would they distinguish between the truth and the falsehood in the words.
It turned out to be a human trafficker, Zhao Chengping sneered in his heart.
However, Chang Hao and his family ate other people's pigs and sheep, and they were so scared that they didn't dare to go up the mountain to make money, and it was not particularly innocent to carry this pot.
Continuing to look at the memory, Zhao Chengping was surprised to find that the Sister Xiao in Li Ji's mouth was none other than Xiao Ling, who was supposed to be in the palace of the King of Xu, what did she do?
Although Wu Zhu didn't know the water droplet, he also saw that it was a treasure, and was thinking about how to forcibly leave it, when suddenly the neckline was grabbed tightly by Zhao Chengping: "Say, where did you send those girls?" ā
"Yes...... The snake demon dreamed ...... "Wu Zhu still forcibly explained.
Zhao Chengping pinched her neckline tightly, lifted her high with one hand, and let her feet kick in the air without wavering. He said coldly word by word: "Say it again? ā
The patriarch who was standing on the side was shocked by this change, who in this village was not respectful to Wu Zhu, this stranger dared to be so rude, and this person was brought by himself, will Lord Wu Zhu punish himself after punishing this foreigner?
"Quickly put down Lord Wuzhu!" The patriarch knocked Zhao Chengping's back of the head with a cane, only to hear a "click", and the sturdy jujube wood crutches were actually cut in two.
Zhao Chengping slowly turned his head to look at him, his cold eyes were full of murderous aura, at that moment, the patriarch remembered the moment when he was young and rubbed shoulders with the tiger in the mountains and forests, he only felt that his hands and feet were numb, and he didn't dare to move at all.
"To say or not to say?"
Wu Zhu only felt that her neck was being tightened more and more, and she was almost out of breath, and she shouted: "I said, I said, they are all in the city, they are well fed and dressed, and they are much better than in this village." ā
"What are they doing in the city!" Zhao Chengping said sharply, although there should not be a large-scale molding industry like Qinglou in this era, but apart from that industry, Zhao Chengping really can't think of any other industry that needs so many young girls.
"Weaving...... It's all weaving ......" Wu Zhu's face was already the color of pig liver, and he was about to die.
Zhao Chengping threw her to the ground casually, and fell her straight "sigh", Zhao Chengping turned his head to look at the patriarch: "Did you hear what she said just now?" ā
The patriarch nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and Zhao Chengping said coldly: "You will regard her as a god because you are watching ants on the ground spell 'Wu Zhu descends to the world, blessing the village', right?" The village chief nodded.
Zhao Chengping found a jar of bees from Wu Zhu's room and splashed them on the ground a few times, and after a while, the honey stains were covered with hard-working ants.
Zhao Chengping sneered: "Is there anything else?" The sword pierces the yellow paper to see the blood, exorcises ghosts and subdues demons, and this kind of deception can only deceive you villagers. ā
With that, he brushed his sleeves away.
Li Ji, who was so cold that he stomped his feet, saw him and complained: "Why did you come?" ā
Zhao Chengping smiled and said, "I'm sorry, it's too late, you should hurry home." ā
Li Jihu looked at him suspiciously: "What about you?" ā
"I'm going to save the girls." Zhao Chengping looked at the sky and was just about to leave, but was grabbed by Li Ji at the corner of his clothes:
"I'm going too."