The old beggar sighed, "Little brother doesn't know, our Candlemoon Village originally had little rain, and this year is another year of great drought, so this is why we have made such a mess." ”

"Isn't there a way?"

"It's not without a method," the old beggar said, "Every year on the day of the great heat, everyone will hold a sacrifice and offer sacrifices to the water fairy to pray for rain from the water fairy." ”

"Water Immortals?" Chen Mingjie was very curious, "Does Water Immortals really give rain?"

The old beggar stroked the long beard that drooped the ground, "After the sacrifice, the water fairy will give rain, but in recent years, the rain has become less and less, and I don't know what the reason is, everyone says that it is because the water spirit fairy is not satisfied with the sacrifice." ”

"What is the sacrifice .....?" Chen Mingjie saw the old man sigh for a long time, his face was worried, and he felt that this water spirit fairy was very problematic.

The old beggar said, "The sacrifice is the boy in the village.....

"Boy?" Chen Mingjie was shocked, "The sacrifice is a boy.... That's why ......"

Sacrifice of a living man, and a young boy......

This can't be a water fairy!

"This is the tradition of our Candlemoon Village, tomorrow we will draw lots in the Candlemoon Temple, and everyone with boys will come to participate......"

"How can this be....." Chen Mingjie said indignantly, "This is too miserable and inhumane, is there no one to stop it?"

"If there is no sacrifice, there will be no rain, and everyone will die of thirst, what can we do......."

"Old man, have you ever seen the water fairy?"

The old beggar nodded, "I saw it once, that immortal is like Guanyin Bodhisattva, as long as we offer sacrifices, it will rain in a few days......"

"Avalokiteshvara would never need such a sacrifice....."

"Shhhh.....h

Chen Mingjie stood up, "I understand, old man, thank you for telling me this." “

The old beggar said: "The water spirit fairy cannot be desecrated, young man, you must remember this." ”

"Well, I remember. ”

Leaving the old beggar, Chen Mingjie found an inn in the village to stay.

The innkeeper saw that it was the young man who had helped him before, and a sad face suddenly had a slight smile: "It turned out to be Chen Shaoxia, the small shop is simple, and I hope that Shaoxia will not see outside." ”

"It doesn't matter. ”

"Is the young man going to stay in the hotel?"

"Yes. ”

The innkeeper raised the bell in his hand and shook it, only to see a boy of seven or eight years old coming down the stairs.

"Ah Yang, take this guest to the guest room above, don't be lazy. ”

The child's eyes were red, as if he had cried, and he rubbed his eyes: "Yes, Daddy." ”

The innkeeper said politely: "This is Wu'er Ayang, who will help at the inn on weekdays." ”

Chen Mingjie nodded, planning to take the silver and give it to the innkeeper.

The innkeeper hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, "No need, the young man is grateful for his help." ”

Chen Mingjie no longer shirked, "Then thank you boss." ”

The child led Chen Mingjie to the guest room, "Sir, this is your guest room, if you need anything, you can call me at any time." ”

Chen Mingjie nodded, this cute child was so polite, he immediately had a good impression of him.

"Okay, thank you, little brother. ”

"If it's all right, I'll go down first. ”

Although Ah Yang said this, he hesitated, and seemed to have no intention of leaving.

Chen Mingjie saw that he had been holding back tears almost from just now to now.

The child hesitated slightly, but still cried.

"Little brother, what's wrong with you?"

"Big brother, please save me, okay?"

The child pounced and knelt on the ground: "Woo woo..... I don't want to be a sacrifice..... Big brother, can you help me....."

The cry spread downstairs, and the innkeeper rushed to hear the sound and reprimanded: "Ayang, what do you do, don't be unreasonable to the guests." The guests are going to rest, and we are not allowed to disturb them. ”

With that, the innkeeper went downstairs.

Ah Yang cried like a little tearful man, Chen Mingjie squatted down, gently stroked his little head, and said warmly: "Ah Yang, you are a good boy, big brother will help you ....."

Ah Yang cried and said, "Big brother, I'm so scared, what if I am chosen tomorrow, I don't want to be a sacrifice." ”

Although I don't know who this water spirit fairy is, but in the name of the immortal, this is what Chen Mingjie said could not tolerate.

"Ah Yang" Chen Mingjie cupped his little face and wiped away the tears on his face, "Don't be afraid, you won't be chosen." ”

"Really?" Ah Yang was overjoyed when he heard this, "But big brother, how do you know that I won't be chosen?"

"Ah Yang, listen to me," Chen Mingjie said, "You must find a place to hide tomorrow where no one can find it, and the big brother will find a way to solve other things." ”

After all, Ah Yang is a child, and he trusts Chen Mingjie's words very much, and when he heard the eldest brother say that he didn't need to go, he suddenly became happy, "Big brother, don't worry, I will hide it well." ”

In the middle of the night, Chen Mingjie heard low sobs.

It turned out that the innkeeper was weeping alone in his house.

He lost his wife at an early age and had no children under his knees, and Ah Yang was picked up by the river.

He loved the child very much and treated him as if he were his own flesh and blood.

Tomorrow is the day when the lottery decides whose children will be sacrificed, and the rules in the village stipulate that all boys over the age of eight are the objects of leisure, although he is reluctant to give up, but he is helpless.

Six years ago, the people of the village sacrificed a child who was weak and sick and about to die, causing the water fairy to be furious, and the rain decreased in one breath, and many people in the village were thirsty to death.

This was the warning of the water fairy to the villagers, and the villagers were afraid and never dared to do so again.

In this way, Ah Yang was eight years old and became the target of the lottery, and the innkeeper kept praying in his heart that he would not win Ah Yang tomorrow.

The strong men in the village have been conscripted to build the embankment, only the old and weak women and children are left in the village, and the number of boys is decreasing year by year, but in order to survive, the villagers have to endure the pain and take their children as sacrifices.

The innkeeper knelt down in front of the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva and bowed for a stick of incense before falling asleep.

Chen Mingjie already had a plan in his heart, since he came here, he must not let the tragedy happen again.

......

The next morning, before dawn, Chen Mingjie asked Ah Yang to leave the inn and find a secret place to hide.

When the innkeeper woke up, nothing unusual happened, except that the boy was not in the room, but seeing that his luggage was still there, he should have gone out.

He came to Ah Yang's room and saw Ah Yang crying on the bed.

Of course, this Ah Yang was transformed by Chen Mingjie using the transformation technique.

The innkeeper naturally did not have the slightest suspicion, and took the crying Ah Yang out of the inn and went to the Candle Moon Temple.