Now that it was winter, the leaves had fallen off, and the whole mountain looked bare, and the cave soon appeared in Qi Chengshuo and Ye Xianya's field of vision.

"Lizheng, the cave in front of you, has anyone in your village been there?" Ye Xianya asked.

Li Zheng was stunned when he heard this!

This princess is really powerful, the cave is still far away from them, he can't see it, he didn't expect the princess to see it.

"Back to the princess, the cave ...... The cave is a cursed place, no one has set foot in our village for decades, everyone farms on weekdays, they are all below the mountainside, and no one dares to go to the place above the mountainside, because the cave is on it. Li Zheng hurriedly said.

Ye Xianya frowned slightly when she heard this: "I asked you if there was anything abnormal in the village before, and you said no, but now I say that this cave is a cursed place, could it be...... Is it to be deliberately concealed? ”

I don't know why, her recent fortune telling, it's not as easy as before.

For example, today's events, all she had calculated before was a blurry picture.

After arriving at Egret Village, Ye Xianya calculated again, but found that there was something abnormal in the cave, and the black shadow came out of the cave, and there was nothing else.

It stands to reason that the stronger her strength, the more accurate and more things she calculates.

This cave seemed to hinder her calculations, Ye Xianya wanted to calculate some things that happened in the cave, but she didn't find anything.

"Princess, the grass people don't dare to deliberately hide it, this cave, it's true that no one has entered it for a long time, and the grass people don't care too much, about this cave, the ancestors have passed down a few words, saying that this cave is a cursed place, as long as people go in, they will be eaten by the cave, and they will never get out again, this cave is extremely evil......" Li Zheng told Ye Xianya what he knew.

"No, you didn't tell the truth." Ye Xianya saw that his eyes were evasive, and she knew that this matter was not as simple as Li Zheng said.

"The grass people don't dare to hide it." Li Zheng said with a look of trepidation.

Ye Xianya looked at him deeply when she heard this, and continued to walk towards the cave.

However, when they were still three feet away from the cave, Li Zheng stopped them: "Princess, prince, this cave can really eat people, you can't go any further, beyond the line we drew with red paint, you will be swallowed by the cave." ”

After Li Zheng finished speaking, he took a fish from the hands of the villagers and threw it forward, and the fish fell to the grass in front of the red line, and suddenly a suction force came from the cave, sucking the fish in.

A few villagers who followed behind hurriedly threw away the chickens and ducks they were holding.

Li Zheng took a few villagers, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and his mouth was full of words: "Immortals, we have come to worship your old man, and after the immortals are full of food and drink, bless us with smooth weather and abundant grains in Bailu Village......

Ye Xianya and Qi Chengshuo glanced at each other, as if all this was expected.

After a while, Li Zhengcai got up and said: "Public office, prince, this cave can't be entered, every once in a while, we have to bring some live chickens, ducks and fish to come over to worship, ask the gods in the cave to bless our Egret Village, the village has been in good weather, everyone has had a good life these years, naturally we should be grateful to the immortals in the cave." ”

"Didn't you just say that this cave is cursed?" Ye Xianya said with a smile.

Li Zheng's expression froze when he heard this, and then he smiled: "Whether it is cursed or there are immortals, we can't say for sure, according to the rules handed down by our ancestors, we have to come here to worship four times a year, and offer live chickens, ducks, fish, etc., so that it is good for our village, and the existence in the cave will protect our Egret Village." ”

"If it really protects your Egret Village, there won't be so many people dead in the village this month." After Ye Xianya finished speaking, she took Qi Chengshuo's hand.

Qi Chengshuo knew what she wanted to do, and nodded slightly.

Ye Xianya tried to step one foot through the red paint line, and suddenly felt a huge devouring force coming from the cave.

But she can still hold on, and with Qi Chengshuo pulling her, it's not a big problem.

"How?" Qi Chengshuo asked.

"It's fine." Ye Xianya motioned for Qi Chengshuo to let go, but Qi Chengshuo took a step forward and stood beside her, still holding her hand and not letting go.

The devouring power in the cave is getting smaller and smaller, and there is no threat to them.

Li Zheng and several villagers were dumbfounded.

It was the first time in many years that they had seen a living creature that had crossed the red line not been swallowed by the cave.

"Go in and have a look?" Ye Xian Ya said.

Qi Chengshuo nodded.

"Princess, princess, don't go, you can't enter this cave." Rimasa turned pale with fright.

If something happens to these two people in the cave, they can't afford to pay for the hundreds of people in Bailu Village combined.

"The closer I get to the cave, the more I can calculate." After Ye Xianya finished speaking, he pulled Qi Chengshuo out of the range of the red paint line.

Li Zheng just breathed a sigh of relief, and Ye Xianya's voice came from his ears: "Li Zheng, for more than 100 years in your Egret Village, you have to choose one person to be sent to the cave every ten years to worship, and the people selected are all children under the age of ten, but is there such a thing?" ”

Li Zheng's face turned pale when he heard this, and the other villagers trembled.

The Great Yan Dynasty had a law that it was forbidden to sacrifice living people, and those who violated the order were beheaded.

However, in some places, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and there are many cases of lynching in the clan, and they have been repeatedly banned.

But Bailu Village is only a few dozen miles away from the capital, and it stands to reason that such a thing should not happen.

With the sacrifice of living people, no one reported to the county government, which shows how afraid everyone is of the existence in the cave.

"Princess, we are also forced to be helpless!" Li Zheng knelt on the ground in fright, kowtowed and said, "Every ten years, we will send a child into the cave to worship the immortals in the mountain, if not...... We...... There are going to be deaths in our village, and a lot of them. ”

"At the end of this year, the ten-year period is coming again, the emperor decreed that the village was lynched, and the population of every household was re-registered, and the county ordered that people should be checked at the end of each year, and if someone in the village disappeared without reason, or died unexpectedly, it must be reported."

Li Zheng's voice trembled more and more: "In addition, there are only a few children under the age of ten in the village, and every family is reluctant to have children, so we ...... We really can't do anything about it, so we have to ...... sent Aunt Shen, who lived in the east of the village, to the cave for sacrifice, and lied to the outside world...... Falsely claimed that she drowned in a cistern. ”

"Aunt Shen has passed the age of six, and has been sick for a long time, there is no money at home to treat her, the doctor said that she will not live long, at most another two or three months, it is Aunt Shen who voluntarily came to the cave to worship, her family also agreed, and is willing to cooperate with the village, to cover up this matter, I didn't expect it...... More than a dozen people have died in our village one after another, it must be ...... The immortals who live in this cave are not happy that we sacrifice a dying man and want children. ”