The land lord didn't understand the meaning of the Taoist's words, and hurriedly explained to him, "He came with others two years ago, when he was only three years old, and when he came, he was thin and skinny. Besides, there are so many magical things in the world, it's not strange to have one more of them. What's more, he is kinder than many people, and I don't think it will have anything to do with him as such a kind person. ”

"Is it because he never gave up on providing for you?" Taoists play with taste.

The land lord said with a solemn expression, "Master Immortal, although Xiao Lao'er is just a humble land, he is not that indistinguishable from wrong. I believe in Him not because he provides for me, but because he is more like a human being than many others. ”

The Taoist didn't care about his solemnity, and continued to ask, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"At the beginning of the drought, only some people left the village, but when the mountain spirits and ghosts came out, those so-called filial sons and grandsons ran away, and if there were old, weak, sick and disabled people in their own families, they would be left here to wait for death." Originally, the child could also follow the army, but he didn't, he would rather stay here and wait for her to die, and he has been taking care of it all the time, and when he finds something to eat and drink, he will let the old woman eat first. Such a human person, I don't believe that all this happened because of him. ”

After the two were silent for a while, the Taoist saw that he seemed to have something to say, so he said, "If you want to say it, say it." ”

Only then did the land lord say, "Even if it is really related to him, I believe that he did not do it on purpose, and I hope that the immortal master must deal with it impartially when he investigates." ”

At this point, the Taoist also understood the meaning of the land lord, and the land lord deliberately pushed the child out as a substitute for the dead ghost in order to prevent him from being the kind of person who wanted to deal with the errands, so he said such a lot of words to excuse him.

However, the Taoist didn't care much, after all, he lived to his age, and he had seen everything he should see. It's just that compared with the two, I am still a little disappointed in this world.

The middle-aged Taoist didn't say anything, and what he heard from his land lord was only a part, which could be used as evidence, but he couldn't believe it. He asked the other party to go first, and then cast the Dao method, only to see that the surrounding scene seemed to go backwards, flowing towards the back of time.

Take that hut as the starting point of the spatial coordinates, and the time is the transverse axis, which is pulled back all the way. Those days were going backwards day by day, from the picture of the child bringing food for his grandmother; When the child found that Grandma was sick and her body was getting weaker and weaker, she could see that his face was full of helplessness and fear; At the beginning of the drought, people began to leave in the village, but the children never left to accompany Grandma; and then the child was excluded by the people around him before, just because his eyes were abnormal; It lasts until the first day the child arrives.

Seeing this, the middle-aged Taoist stopped tracing and pressed his palm lightly forward, and time began to travel at a normal flow rate.

The Taoist carefully observed the child's bone physiognomy, and compared it with before, he found that it could correspond to each other in terms of physical development and time flow, that is to say, the child was at least an ordinary child physically, and he was not artificially changed in age, or he was changed by some kind of perverted old monster.

This was two years ago, when the child was only three years old, and he didn't know where he came from to beg with the fleeing people. The clothes were in tatters, the whole body was either bruised or scarred, and the thin ones were only covered with a layer of skin wrapped around the bones, as if they were about to fall apart when the wind blew. One can imagine how much suffering he suffered when he fled.

People don't have much affection for the people who have fled here, and they will more or less think that it will bring them disaster, so when facing those who have fled, the people in the village will not give a good face, and they are often driven to get out of there as soon as possible. However, because they were afraid that the treatment would be too harsh, and those who fled would rise up against it, they would also give them some food so that they could leave as soon as possible.

But perhaps because his eyes were different from ordinary people, the fleeing crowd did not tolerate him, and the people of the village saw that the child did not tolerate the public, and did not have a good face towards him, and did not even want to give him more food, and the children of the village saw him, and also took stones behind him, and threw vegetable leaves at him, until they were driven to the old woman's door.

The people around him did not see the middle-aged Taoist, and the middle-aged Taoist was silently observing everything on the side, he suddenly found that even if the child was not accepted by others, bullied, and hurt, his eyes would always contain a kind of indifference, as if he didn't care about it, and the child just lowered his head, and kept hiding where he could retreat, before dodging, a stone hit his forehead, Xu because of the pain, he raised his head and looked, the direction of the stone shot was exactly the direction in which the Taoist was standing, this look, It just swept past the Taoist.

The time for the two eyes to meet was extremely short, and the Taoist had some doubts in his heart, but seeing that the child didn't look in his direction again, he thought he was thinking too much, so he put it down.

Until the child retreated to the fence of the hut, the old woman came out of it, pushed the fence and saw a child lying in front of the fence, and saw several children constantly bullying the children on the ground, the old woman said gently but coldly, "Don't throw it away, you go quickly." If you don't leave, I'll call your father and mother. ”

One of the older children said loudly, "Granny Li, this is a person who has fled from outside, and if you look at his eyes, it is so scary, maybe it is a monster." We drove him away for the good of the village. ”

The old woman who was called Granny Li said, "If he were a monster, he would let you bully him like this." That's how your gentleman taught you? Bullying someone weaker than you? Hurry up and let me go. ”

After saying that, he was about to help the child on the ground to get up, but the child's body shrank to the side, as if he didn't want the old woman to help him up. He leaned against the fence and exhaled slowly, regaining some strength.

The noise here alarmed the adults around, and the adults rushed to hear the sound, and the children who were coaxing saw the adults in their own family, and they had confidence in their hearts, so they told their own adults everything that had just happened.

"Sister-in-law Li, it's not that we embarrass him, but you also know that we are all mud bodhisattvas crossing the river now, if we don't drive him away quickly, if the refugees behind know about it, it's hard to guarantee that they won't let them do the same, what can we do ourselves? I see, let's get rid of him quickly. One of the old women, who was about the same age as Granny Li, said.

Before Granny Li's answer, another person said, "Yes, Aunt Li, this child can't help, and if he helps, he will have endless trouble." ”

"Who says it's not, if you don't want to live, don't drag us into the water."

"If you want to be a good person, you can go, why embarrass us."

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This is endless, and although the child is only three years old, he probably understands it. Granny Li just wanted to take a hand before, and didn't want them to embarrass the child too much, so she also planned to let him in and rest for a while, so she prepared some dry food for him to send him away. But when she went to help the child just now, she looked at the child very familiarly, and when she saw his eyes, she immediately determined where she had seen this child.

At this time, the child got up and turned to salute Granny Li, but this ceremony was not very standardized, but he still took it seriously, and then didn't say anything more, and walked outside step by step, probably, he didn't want to embarrass this kind mother-in-law anymore. Everyone showed a relieved look, as if their hearts had finally settled down.

When Granny Li saw the child's appearance, her heart was sour, as if she remembered something, and her face showed a look of reminiscence, plus the fate with the child before. I immediately made a decision in an instant, only to see her walk quickly to the child and squat, then take his hand, in the stunned eyes of everyone and the child's overwhelmed gaze, gently said to the child, "Little doll, I will live with grandma in the future, okay?" ”

The child didn't seem to hear what she said, looked at her in disbelief, and hurriedly wanted to withdraw her hand after coming back to her senses, but her hand was firmly held by Granny Li, and she looked at the child's eyes gently and firmly, as if telling him, "Don't be afraid, Grandma didn't lie to you." ”

This kind of gaze the child doesn't know how long he hasn't seen it, or he doesn't know if he has seen it himself, giving him the feeling that the winter sun is shining on his body warmly, and it is like a bowl of hot soup that he has drunk before, which warms his heart, and then it seems that something melts from his heart, and wants to run out of his eyes, the child doesn't know what emotions and feelings this is, so he has to lower his head and don't say a word, but his hand doesn't want to pull out of his grandmother's hand again.

Seeing this, Granny Li knew that the child was relieved and agreed, so she took his hand and brought him to everyone, saying, "From today on, he is the grandson of my Li Wang." ”

At this moment, many people immediately made a lot of noise.

"Aunt Li, you can't hurt everyone like this. You are adopting him now, but how much trouble will there be in the future, have you thought about it for everyone? ”

"That's right, if you don't want to live, don't hurt us!"

"Who said it wasn't, I'm usually kind, but I didn't expect my heart to be so black!"

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Seeing everyone's indignant appearance, the child was a little scared, perhaps because he didn't want to affect her, so he took her hand, wanted to pull out his hand, and said softly, "Grandma, I'd better go." ”

Granny Li was still looking at the people opposite her coldly, but when she saw him talking to her, after listening to it, she said with some joy, "You can speak, I thought you were a little dumb!" It's good to be able to talk, and you can chat more with Grandma in the future. Then he continued, "Don't be afraid, Grandma is not afraid of them. ”

After everyone quarreled for a while, they saw that Granny Li still didn't say a word to them, and gradually, her voice became quieter.

Suddenly, the crowd didn't know who shouted, "The village chief is here." ”

I saw that the crowd was like a river diverging, and the village chief paced out of it.

"Li Wang, why do you have to fight against everyone?"

Granny Li said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "It's up to you, and they owe our old Li family a life." Now I just want you to come back, you say, not too much? ”

After hearing this, everyone was silent, and after a long time, the village chief sighed and said, "It turns out that you still remember!" ”

Granny Li said indifferently, "I don't want to remember, but you have to remind me." ”

Seeing that she did not retreat at all, the village chief continued, "But have you ever thought about the consequences? ”

Granny Li sneered, "Don't bully the old woman and don't understand anything when she is old, you say that you are afraid that other refugees will do the same, but they don't know what the situation is in our village, even if they have to stay, what do these old and young masters in our village do, and they will really watch the refugees occupy their own paddy fields." You are just afraid of trouble, and it is better to have more than one thing than to have less. ”

Everyone saw that she poked out all the words in their hearts, and their faces were not good-looking, but some people were still unconvinced, and continued to ask, "Nonsense, we are obviously afraid that their refugees will not be clean, let's not say whether they are sick, in case they are not clean and bring something dirty, what do you say?" ”

Granny Li said, "If he is sick, he will poison me to death first, and then you will roll the two of us in a mat and set it on fire." As for you saying that he is not clean. Before she could continue, Granny Li sneered first, and then said, "Who else is more unclean than you?!" ”

Someone was not convinced, and said with a red face, "What nonsense are you talking about?" ”

As if she had said something sad, Grandma said with a sad expression, "Isn't it? Back then, my son was the incense of the old Li family, and in order to save your own child, you tied him up at night and handed him over to the black-hearted people to be burned alive as a sacrifice, and what did you say for everyone's sake, thinking that I didn't know that all this was discussed by you and the black-hearted person in private. Do you think it's easy for me to live all these years? If it weren't for ... In order to... At this point, she slowly did not continue.

Everyone quieted down, because the old woman's words pierced their hearts, and they could not deny that the mountain spirits were in turmoil and the villagers were miserable, and then a Taoist priest came to give them advice, saying that as long as they sacrificed, they could solve their urgent needs. But who will go to the sacrifice? That's the problem. The Taoist priest said that a three-year-old child must be used as a sacrifice, and several families with three-year-old children, who could bear to hand over their own children, one of them said, "Isn't there a three-year-old child in the Li family?" ”

Everyone's eyes tested each other for a moment, and someone hesitated, "Not very good!" He asked us to take good care of them when he went out to join the army. ”

At this time, another person said, "It's been almost two years, and there is no reply, who knows if he is still alive?" What's more, if he handed over his child, and that Li Wang family also took advantage of this to commit suicide, wouldn't it be just right to send their family down for a reunion?! ”

Everyone is coming up with a suitable reason for their evil, and it seems that they can find an excuse to be at ease. If a person becomes bad, there is no degree of difference, only timing.

Later, they took a fancy to the loneliness of the family, and there was no man in the family who could speak, so they secretly discussed with the Taoist priest in private, and asked the Taoist priest to come forward and say that the person who offered the sacrifice was the child of Li Wang.

But where is Li Wang's willing, desperate to the death, but those families are determined to hand over the child, so as to keep their own children, others are also helpless to the reality of the situation and pretend to be stupid, turn a blind eye, listen but do not hear, just one night, those families secretly tied up Li Wang's child and took it away, Li Wang's was pushed to the ground by them in the process of struggling and knocked on the cabinet and fainted, and when she woke up and hurried over, she only saw the end of the ceremony, and the fire in the center of the square was almost burned, and there was a charred corpse inside.

This is an unbearable past, and because of guilt or fear, everyone is polite and alienated from Granny Li, and they all turn a blind eye to what she usually does and what she says, but this is the only difference.

The village chief was also thinking about what to do when they were arguing, and when he saw that everyone was silent, he came out to play a round and said, "It's okay if you want to keep him, but we have ugly words ahead, if he has a problem, we won't care about his life or yours, and even, if he really brings something unclean, we will drive him out of the village with you." ”

At this point, the village chief closed the coffin and made a conclusion, and everyone couldn't say anything more.