The red glow has decayed, the sky is dark, and the village is gradually lit up with lights, and cooking fires are everywhere.

Chen Yue was unwilling to spend the night to disturb these people, so he entered a dilapidated temple in the village. This temple is simply a dilapidated house, the center is a statue of a god, but it has been a long time, the corrosion is serious, and the face can no longer be seen clearly, according to the clothes, it should be a fairy. I just don't know which god it is.

Chen Shiyue gave a trick to strengthen the ruined temple, and picked up some clean straw and spread it on the ground, which was counted as a bed. Chen Shiyue lay on the haystack and fell asleep unconsciously. She always felt that someone was watching her in the middle of the night, and she suddenly woke up and met a pair of swarthy eyes.

Seeing the person clearly, Chen Yue exclaimed: "Yunchuan? ”

The distance between the two was extremely close, and Chen Yue could almost feel his slightly cool breath.

"Hmm." He answered, distanced the two of them, and lay down next to him.

Seeing that the distance between the two was widened, Chen Shiyue's inexplicably nervous mood relaxed.

Chen Shiyue looked sideways at Yun Chuan's side face and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Yun Chuan's voice was a little heavy, and he said, "I don't worry about you." ”

His voice was completely detached from immaturity and replaced with an adult-only voice.

Hearing this, Chen Shiyue's heart softened, and it felt really good that someone cared. It was dark, and Chen Yue said, "Thank you." ”

Yun Chuan didn't answer, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "Why are you avoiding me?" ”

"Huh?" Chen Shiyue said: "I don't have ......"

"You have." Very sure.

Chen October: "I just suddenly don't know how to get along with you, you've changed too much...... And I, as a master, was so unresponsible that I disappeared for five years. Speaking of this, Chen Shiyue felt guilty beyond measure.

Yun Chuan suddenly changed from lying flat to lying on his side, and came face to face with Chen October.

He said: "I am still the same Yunchuan as before, but my body has grown older and my age has become older. You're not disappearing, you're in retreat. I know you've been in the cave...... Nothing has changed! In the end, he was annoyed.

After realizing that he was annoyed with Chen Shiyue, his eyebrows and eyes were even more annoyed.

Chen Yue chuckled lightly and gently patted the back of Yun Chuan's hand in the dark: "Okay, okay, I know that Yun Chuan hasn't changed anything." Not angry, not angry. ”

Hearing her tone as if she was coaxing a child, Yun Chuan's face turned red.

Chen October said: "This time it was a mistake for the teacher, and I will not do it again." ”

Yun Chuan let out an "um".

The two did not speak again, and Chen Shiyue closed his eyes again,

When I woke up the next day, there was no trace of Yunchuan next to him.

Chen October went out of the temple, only to find that Yun Chuan was looking down at a small stone slab next to the temple, the handwriting on it was incomplete, and he could only roughly see that the other words written "Changfu ......" and "Youmin" were seriously eroded by wind and frost, and they couldn't see clearly.

"Changfu True Immortal...... Bless the people......" Chen Yue read: "It seems that the immortal inside is this Changfu True Immortal." ”

Yun Chuan nodded: "It seems so." ”

Chen Shiyue said: "I haven't heard of the immortal Changfu True Immortal. ”

Yun Chuan said: "There are temples in the countryside and villages, and she must have been really loved by the people at the beginning." ”

Chen nodded in October.

This is to say that the greater the influence, the wider the spread. For example, Kannon is enshrined in both Kyoto and remote villages. It's just that Chen Yue knows that this is the world of cultivating immortals, but he doesn't know if there are any so-called immortals here. She read half of the novel at the beginning, and it was all about the heroine's pretending, but she didn't see the final ending, and she didn't know if there was a fairy world.

At this moment, it is dawn, and the village is also very lively, with chickens and dogs barking non-stop.

Chen Shiyue and Yunchuan walked to the town not far away, and were thinking about whether to go into the teahouse to have a cup of tea.

"It's unusual to get married at noon." Chen Shiwan said.

Weddings here usually take place at dusk, but at this moment it is noon and the sun is high, which is unusual.

The old man selling tea next to him said: "This is not a real wedding, but a sacrifice, and a sin!" ”

Yun Chuan: "Sacrifice whom?" By human sacrifice? ”

The old man sighed: "Sacrifice ghosts, sacrifice to living women." ”

Chen Shiyue and Yun Chuan glanced at each other, and she said, "Old man, can you tell me a little more detail?" ”

The old man said, "Then you buy two cups of tea." ”

“……”

Chen Yue pulled out his sleeves and said innocently: "Yunchuan, I didn't bring any money for my teacher." ”

Yun Chuan had already bought two cups of tea and said, "Is this the reason why you stayed in the broken temple overnight?" ”

Chen Shiyue smiled embarrassedly, she was in a hurry, and when she arrived in Hongxia Village, she realized that she was penniless and had no face to go to other people's houses to stay.

She changed the subject: "Old man, tell me what happened." ”

The old man said: "A few years ago, there was a plague in our place suddenly, and the sick people would have ulcerated skin and pus, and their flesh would fall out in large patches ......."

This plague is called the rotting corpse plague, because those who suffer from it will eventually have rotten skin and resemble skeletons. At this time, a ghost gave a dream to the county magistrate, saying that it was necessary to sacrifice a fourteen-year-old girl to it every year in order to remove the rotting corpse plague. Not only to sacrifice, but also to boast and marry a woman as a bride.

The county magistrate didn't believe it at first, but because of the serious plague, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to keep his black gauze hat, so he casually found a beggar girl and gave it to the ghost. Miraculously, the plague disappeared. So far, the tradition of sacrificing a bride every year has survived. Naturally, the sacrificial bride never returned.

Chen Shiyue said: "How many years has this tradition been maintained? ”

The old man said, "About twenty years." ”

More than 20 years means that more than 20 women have been brutally killed.

Chen was silent for a while.

At this time, the sedan chair on the street passed by the tea house, and it stands to reason that the girls who were forcibly sacrificed would cry, but the sedan chair was quiet, perhaps gagged, but it was impossible to have no whimper.

Yun Chuan said: "This girl is a mute. ”

Chen Shiyue listened attentively and understood why Yun Chuan said this: There was a "dong dong" struggle sound in the sedan chair, indicating that she was resisting.

Chen Yue stood in front of the road and said, "Hello, can you stop for a while?" ”

A few big men scolded: "Stop? Do you know what we're doing? Can you afford to offend him? ”

The "one" in their mouths is the ghost.

Yun Chuan stood in front of Chen Shiyue and said, "It's just a ghost, how can you not afford to offend?" ”

The big men looked up and down and two of them, looked at their clothes, and said, "You people from other places don't know what we are doing here, so we won't blame you, get out of the way!" ”

Chen October said: "Let go of the girl inside, she shouldn't suffer this crime." ”

A big man said: "Let her go, do you want to be a bride?" ”

Chen Yue nodded: "Yes." ”

Yun Chuan: "Master......"

Chen Yue said to Yun Chuan: "I have a spell body, and Brahma can't help me. Since I have this ability, I naturally can't see death without saving it. ”