Encircled Village (1)
Peiyu felt some heat on her face.
She opened her eyes abruptly, and met a pair of big copper bell-like eyes.
Peiyu was shocked, her body stiff, her limbs were rusty, and she almost stopped breathing.
Copper bell eyes were also stunned, poked his hoof a few times, raised his neck and shouted, “Moo-moo-moo!”
Here it is……
Peiyu looked right and left, the crumbling thatched shed, so broken that you could see the big sky of rotten roofs, a few bundles of dry straw, and the little scalper that kept pouting in front of her-She finally came to a conclusion: This is the cowshed where I lived when I was young.
(T/N: scalper refers to a cowardly or yellow cow)
She lowered her head and looked at her arm, as thin as two bones, with the edges and ridges sticking together. She could not pinch a thin layer of skin with her fingers, and it was covered with various bruises.
She stood up and jumped twice without breaking her leg. She should be eight years old now.
Before she was eight years old, her mother was still held in a bullpen.
At the age of eight and a half, she had her leg interrupted by the villagers.
Now that my mother is not there and my leg hasn’t been broken, she is eight years old.
Peiyu squinted her eyes and slightly raised her lips. If you wait ten years later, this laugh will be praised as a bright moon and clear breeze, and you will forget the vulgarity when you see it, and it will make countless immortal men fall over. But now, no matter how dirty the cheeky faces are, they are not pretty.
Eight years old is really a good age, Peiyu thought.
Six months later, Sui Han left Yancun and went to apprentice under Shengren Zhuang. A year later, Gushan’s introductory trial started, and she worshiped under the door of Huaibo.
(T/N: Shengren Zhuang is a school different to the Daoist Immortal school of cultivation)
But now, everything hasn’t started yet, like a lump of clay in front of her, how to knead the sculpture is entirely up to her heart.
Peiyu’s lips are wider.
Really happy.
She didn’t know why she was born again, but after learning the Dao for a long time, she was always calm about such strange things.
She still remembers that when she first entered the Immortal Sect, she heard Huaibo talk about the “Book of Dao”.
Speaking of Chapter 32, “The main road is everywhere, it can be left and right.” Huaibo asked her if she knew what it means.
Little Peiyu shook her head, and was immediately knocked with a thud.
“Do you know why I beat you?” Huaibo asked her with a grin.
Little Peiyu touched the red mark on her forehead, her eyes flickered, “Is it because of my ignorance?”
Huaibai smiled happily, “Come on, let me tell you. The meaning of this sentence is that the way of heaven is a lunatic, and everything can be done. You walk on the road and you are suddenly struck to death by a thunder, or It was a treasure chest that fell from the sky and smashed you to death. This is all normal. We cultivators, we must have a stable mind, you know?”
Xiao Peiyu nodded and asked, “But why are you hitting me?”
Huaibo thumped her again, looked at the wronged child, smiled and said: “Being a teacher is doing my best to preach to you.”
Later, Peiyu understood that the way of heaven is the same as the master, and they cannot be guessed by common sense. In a word, the brain is sick and digging pits everywhere. As a person who has fallen into the pit, her mentality must be as stable as a rock, so that when the mountain collapses, the color remains unchanged.
The sound of firecrackers came from outside the door, overwhelming, and crackling, making her ears hurt.
Peiyu pushed open the broken wooden door, and the cold wind slashed her face. She didn’t have a bodyguard right now, and she couldn’t help but shivered, her teeth smashing.
The sight outside is really weird.
The sky is dull, cloudy and windy, day is like night.
Several red lights passed across the horizon and exploded in the night sky. On the black night, one after another flowers bloomed like brocade.
Peiyu raised her head and looked at the sky, with a pensive look on her face.
This is something like fireworks, its name is Chuanyun blazing feather, which is made from the feathers of the legendary phoenix. Mortals who hold this thing can ask for help from the immortal gate.
But the blazing feather is not common. Yancun can own this thing because of its age and its good roots, and it was favored by a certain elder of Shengren Zhuang early.
Now that ten flaming feathers have been released one after another, could it be that something major has happened?
But in her memory, there was no such time.
Peiyu tightened her lips and walked out of the bullpen slowly. The little scalper ran over with his hoofs and followed behind her.
Every family smoked, but the door was wide open. There was no one in the room. The food had not been moved. It was placed on the table. It seemed that they had encountered something with the meal and all ran out. The fire was a little bit in the southeast, and the figures shook, and the villagers should have gathered at the ancestral hall.
Peiyu swaggered to a house.
There was a plate of fried pork with chili on the table, and only one or two sporadic flesh flowers could be seen in the large green chilies.
She was unceremonious, picked up the chopsticks on the table, picked out the only few pieces of meat in the pepper and eaten it, and walked to the back kitchen by the way, found some good cabbage on the stove, and fed it to the little scalper.
“Lao Tzu, eat quickly, there are still many places waiting for us to be lucky.”
The scalper named Lao Tzu: “Moo Moo!”
After being lucky enough to complete several households, Peiyu touched her bulging belly and hiccuped contentedly. Lao Tzu’s belly is much larger than her. After eating more than a dozen cabbages and radishes, he is still not full, pouting his hooves and screaming.
Peiyu patted him on the head, “Don’t worry, I’ll find you something to eat.”
This scalper who understands words was her benefactor.
Lao Tzu was born shortly after the death of her lunatic mother. He was born as an extraordinary cow. He did not eat the grass and leaves; he did not drink the water in the fields and ditch.
Peiyu had to go to the vegetable garden to steal the cabbage. After washing it well, he was willing to condescend and open his mouth, picking up a few good colors and good shapes, and chewing them. Otherwise, he kept yelling and screaming, making half of the village unable to sleep.
After half a year, Peiyu was beaten and her leg was broken, and she was about to be sold. The scalper ran away from Yancun with her on his back. He ran for thousands of miles in succession. When he encountered mud and black water, he drank and ate hay and rotted vegetables. He ran to the foot of the lonely mountain. She was rescued, but Lao Tzu died, and ascended to heaven ever since.
After coming back to life, Peiyu looked at this delicate cow, only to think it was very cute.
She took the cow to a large family house and let it wait in the courtyard. She touched the back kitchen with two Chinese cabbages in her arms. When she was about to leave, she suddenly heard the woman’s sobbing.
The cries were intermittent and heart-chilling, echoing in the gloomy empty house, looking terrifying.
Peiyu’s footsteps were still not slow, as if she hadn’t heard a whimper, she moved a clean basin, piled the cabbage in it, and then sat down on a small bench and watched the scalper eat.
“Uuuuuu…help me, help me…”
The voice became clearer and clearer, and Peiyu ignored it. After he finished eating, she patted it on the head and signaled it to run back to the cowshed, but walked towards the southeast ancestral hall alone.
Walking near the ancestral hall, Peiyu found something was wrong.
The red mist is like flowing blood, surrounding the small village. Yancun is like an isolated island in a sea of blood, soon to be submerged by huge waves. After listening carefully, there was the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling in the red mist, and I don’t know what demons were hidden in it.
It’s no wonder that the blazing feathers they sent out didn’t work, and they encountered blood fog. Peiyu smiled in her heart, squeezed into the crowd, and quietly watched the excitement.
“Village Chief, the blazing feather doesn’t work, do you think we want to explore in the blood mist?”
Everyone looked at a middle-aged man respectfully. The man in a silk shirt and long gown, with shiny hair draped behind him, holding a small round mirror tightly in his hand, looking a bit nondescript.
The village head’s face was solemn and did not speak.
“Isn’t the immortal gate willing to save us?” Whispers sounded from the corner, and the villagers began to talk about it.
“Immortals, do they care about our life and death? What the hell is this, why would they find us?”
Peiyu mingled in the crowd and said softly: “Will Shengren Zhuang not come to save us?” Her voice was not prominent in the noise, only the words of Shengren Zhuang were bit harder, so that people could hear them. But I don’t know who said it.
One after another, someone echoed and said: “Yes, isn’t the Han girl chosen by the Shengren Zhuang Elder? Isn’t he coming to save us?”
“Hey, I think he has forgotten about it a long time ago, but she’s just a country girl, and those saints don’t care about it.”
“What’s the use of pretending to be arrogant on weekdays?”
The girl next to the village chief was pale, her lips trembled slightly, and she explained in a low voice, “It’s not like this, it’s not like this, Master must have not seen…Daddy, you can help me tell…” She pulled the sleeve of the village chief, her face full of panic.
If Peiyu saw Sui Han’s helpless appearance in the past, she would definitely feel distressed, step forward to comfort, and then punish those who uttered bad words one by one.
But now she just stood in the crowd, arched slightly, covered her lips with her hand, and smiled with a pair of phoenix eyes.
She has always been like this, she will repay her, she turned her face ruthlessly, draped in a human skin, and grew like a wolf. In the previous life, she spent seventy-nine days, peeling and removing the skin and bones of Sui Han, and ground her soul into pieces, leaving her soul scattered in extreme pain.
In this life, she looked at the weak girl not far away, and suddenly thought of a more interesting gameplay.
When the discussion became more and more unpleasant, the village head finally couldn’t help it, and yelled: “Shut up.”
He glanced at the small mirror and said in a deep voice: “It’s not that the immortal gate is unwilling to help. The blood mist is too weird, and the blazing feather could not send the letter. So, Yang Ba, Song Wu, take the blazing feather and go to the blood mist. Take a look inside.”
The two men who were named murmured unwillingly: “It’s so dangerous in the blood mist, you just think we are people of foreign surnames, and you assign us to die.”
As soon as the voice fell, a few years old family members pointed at them and shouted, “What are you talking about?”
People with foreign surnames have long been dissatisfied with the village chief’s name as the immortal gate. They have not been involved in farming and demanded worship. They also hated the domination of the native family and arbitrarily dictate major events in the village. They have been resentful for a long time. At the punch, the two groups of people are holding farm tools against each other, and the conflict is ignited.
At this time, I don’t know who said something lightly—”You cuckold bastards, our women are all slept by us, so what kind of face for Sui Jia?”
The foreigner’s eyes reddened immediately, raised his fist and swiped it, cursing: “You are the bastard! Grandson of the turtle!”
They cannot be blamed for overreaction, this incident touched a secret in the village.
Yancun is poor and remote, with many bad customs, especially patriarchy. Most of the newborn girls who did not eat their first breast milk would be secretly disposed of. After decades, there were fewer and fewer women in the village, and more and more bachelors.
At this time, the Sui family had a bad idea, and they didn’t know what means they used to get women from outside, and then sold them to the old bachelors in the village.
These women were young when they arrived in the village, and they were sold early to become child bride-in-laws. They were originally young children who didn’t know anything, and separated from their hometown by thousands of mountains and rivers, and they would never return to their native family. After that, they would die in depression, or after having children, they gradually forget the old things and merge into the customs.
As a seller of “goods”, Sui Jia will take possession of a good-looking girl first. The villagers knew it well, but they had no choice but to silently put a green hat on themselves and recognized the matter.
(T/N: put on a green hat means get cheated on)
But it is impossible to say that you don’t bear the hate.
In the fight, several people huddled up and wailed on the ground, the dust was raised and the yelling was noisy, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
No one noticed the girl standing in the dark corner.
But if someone comes closer and takes a closer look, they will find that her shoulders are trembling, but it is not because of fear, and her slightly hanging face is smiling with crooked eyebrows.