Chapter Forty-Eight: Face to Face
Now he understood why both the Gara World and the world ruled by the True Immortals allowed the existence of some weak "orthodox faith", and they collected some insignificant sacrifices, and at the same time collected the prayers of some people, leaving their wishes in this world. He remembered the clay sculptures pasted outside the puppets of the Baiyi Temple, and he also remembered the abandoned general temples he saw when he first arrived in Shuanghe County.
Xiao Qianqiu thought of the other direction, the belief in the god of flowers hidden in the temple of wind chimes in Qingzhou City, the corpse god of the Death Cult disguised himself as a harmless orthodox faith, thus infiltrating Qingzhou City, and even stretched out his tentacles to Qiyun Peak, on the day of the fall of the Xiao family, there were still confused Xiao family disciples to offer prayers to their enemies! What is even more ridiculous is that while they tirelessly bowed down to the corpse god disguised as the god of flowers, they did not forget to curse the true immortals and forbid them to worship the god of flowers when the catastrophe was coming!
Do they think that by indulging them to continue worshipping the god of flowers, they will be able to do everything without worry?
The answer is obvious.
When you die, you will not be sorrowful.
In a way, the more you know, the more pain you may have, for example, after Hua Lin absorbed the residue on the tip of the knife, he couldn't help but feel creepy when he thought of what the Yi people had worshiped for generations, and according to Pai Gang Tusi's words, the priest who accidentally glimpsed his strange appearance was also seriously frightened, no, it is better to say that the priest has been in deep fear since he found out that the priest who thought that the generation was only passed down by word of mouth actually has an atlas, and he has been in deep fear when he sees the unknown creatures on the atlas, on the contrary, the other Yi people who are not even priests have not suspected it for generations, and have been worshipping according to their teachings in this dangerous and barren Yi MountainSacrifices, and spend days and nights with these bloody rituals, just as they are at ease with their own clothes.
The soul that traveled to Jiming Village and possessed the body of the surviving brother may have realized this and became even more resigned to fate than this woman in the indigenous world!
It is very difficult and terrifying to get past the life set for her younger brother in Jiming Village, first of all, she must learn some words without attracting the attention of the villagers, and then, she must rely on her own strength to get out of Jiming Village, at least to a place farther than Shuanghe County, because the family that lost her will chase and capture her in the neighboring area like a manor owner who captures a fugitive slave, and there are so many outlaws on the road and even in the county town who will attack a single woman who has lost the "protection" of her family! A single woman, whether she is married or not, as long as she is not accompanied by a man, walking in Shuanghe County is not necessarily much safer than walking in Yishan, where slave hunting is rampant!
More likely, it is not safe than Yishan!
At least, they don't run brothels! It's not because they're benevolent, it's because their commodity economy hasn't developed enough to run a retail business!
They would take any girl who passed by, keep her as a slave or sell her, and nothing more, no more than the surviving brother's parents! They were not smart enough to let the surviving brother work or sell her, claiming that it was all because of the sins of the surviving brother! Of course, when the girls passing by come to them, they can't expect to be a priest or anything like that, and then again, in the kiln in Shuanghe County, it doesn't look like they can prepare any high-level positions for a girl like Cundi - thinking of this, a guy who is not strong enough will choose to give up, it doesn't seem as incredible as when he first came into contact!
Without money, she is not allowed to touch money, there is no knowledge, and she is not allowed to contact knowledge, she can escape to Shuanghe County, and she can find a chance for herself to be independent, how slim it is!
It sounds a little smoother to stay in Jiming Village and accept the "protection" and "promise" of the family!
Just like she once taught her daughter countless times, as long as she works diligently, no matter how strict and fierce her mother-in-law is, there will be a day when she will be moved, even if she dies, there will be a day when she will really die, isn't it? As long as she is obediently beaten, no matter how tyrannical her husband is, there will always be a day when he will not be moved, that is, he will not be moved to death, that ...... As for happiness, having a son is happiness, as long as he keeps giving birth, there will always be a son, this is not difficult, anyway, except for the first daughter, everything else can be handed over to Fumengou, and you don't have to worry about a penny of child rearing!
It seems like it's all very easy to do!
Working is nothing more than farm work, housework, beatings, nothing more than closing your eyes, giving birth, nothing more than ...... You can do it without reading a book!
Happiness that can be obtained so easily!
It's much easier than getting into the wizarding academy in Garo World!, not to mention doing homework and graduation exams!
"No wonder they always have followers. Hua Lin shook his head, there will always be people who abandon orthodoxy and worship those weird and crazy exotic beings, this may be a reason! As long as you worship the god of flowers, or the god of Gruul, or some other great god, and complete their simple rituals that can be completed by illiterate and children, you can get the promise of "happiness", and a high-level wizard like him doesn't even have time to think about "what is happiness"! Dealing with the troubles caused to him by fools every day is enough for him to be busy! He doesn't think that if he sits in place with his eyes closed, and occasionally kowtows to something, everything will be worry-free!
Only the dead have nothing to worry about!
He'd rather confront the source of his troubles and try to fix it, like the thing in the Black Mountain that was crawling out.