Your Highness, the Crown Princess is investigating the case again!

Chapter 204 The Uncharacteristic Shen Luo
"Why do you say I'm angry? How can I not be angry when they persecute you so much?" Xie Yunsheng looked at the bewildered Shen Luo, feeling extremely angry.

How can this elm head react so slowly, so slowly?

Couldn't she see what the real purpose of that woman persecuting her was?

The number of times Shen Luo persuaded people did not add up to five, and she didn't even know what she said, which made Xie Yunsheng's anger decrease instead of increase.

The old doctor saw that Xie Yunsheng's anger was getting bigger and bigger, but Shen Luo still looked hazy, got up quietly, and explained: "Mrs. Xie, can't you really see that the young lady of the village head's family has taken a fancy to you?" Is your husband-in-law so grandiose to force you to sacrifice to the Dragon King instead of her?"

Shen Luo suddenly realized: "That's right!"

She walked towards Xie Yunsheng, carefully looked at Xie Yunsheng's side face, and sighed softly: "People say that beauty is trouble, but I didn't expect that a man who is good-looking can cause trouble like this."

Xie Yunsheng looked at Shen Luo who was teasing him, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes, and asked, "Is this the reaction a wife should have?"

"People covet your husband, shouldn't you take action to teach them a lesson so that they can remember?" Xie Yunsheng asked back, and then said: "Whether you do it or not, I can't let them go. "

Dare to hit his idea, dare to persecute his woman.

These people deserve death!
The old doctor looked at the two of them, and persuaded: "You two have nothing to be angry about. When the old man sends you out of the mountain tomorrow, they won't be able to find you, so let's forget about it!"

"One more thing is worse than one less thing!" The old doctor persuaded, not wanting to have any more troubles in this already unsettled village.

Xie Yunsheng looked at Shen Luo, and said softly, "The old doctor is right, all grievances and grievances will be over after we leave this village."

Xie Yunsheng had secretly made up his mind. After they left, they sent people to surround the village.

Compared to Xie Yunsheng's full of anger, Shen Luo's face was calm. She looked at the old doctor and asked, "Old man, can you tell me why your village holds sacrifices?"

Thousands of years ago, the rules of sacrificial offerings and burials of living people were abolished. At the beginning of the founding of the country, His Majesty even banned it. No one is allowed to hold sacrifices in any name, and human life is ignored.

Emperor Yuan was tyrannical, favored Buddhism alone, believed in the divination technique of Qihuang, and because an eminent monk predicted that a man surnamed Xie would take away the country of Emperor Yuan, Emperor Yuan ordered the hunting and killing of babies surnamed Xie, so that countless newborn babies died.

Emperor Cheng experienced various pursuits and killings since he was a child. He hated Buddhism, the art of Qihuang, and divination.

Why does this village dare to defy the emperor's order and use living sacrifices?
The old man stroked his beard and sat down slowly, his straight back slightly bent.After a moment of silence, the old gentleman said, "This matter started 15 years ago."

"The previous dynasty was tyrannical, and the people had no means of living. The ancestors of the village chief Cao Zhengyang led the people to migrate, and we took root here and lived here."

"18 years ago, a fierce tiger suddenly appeared in the mountains and cannibalized people. The villagers rose up to resist, but the tigers were so brave that the people were powerless to resist. A master claimed that the younger brother of Emperor Yuan's national teacher passed by here and told the villagers that there were tigers in the mountains. If you want to suppress them, you have to Please send out the real dragon generals to suppress the evil spirits."

"Under the leadership of the master, the villagers built a Dragon King Temple by the lake. At that time, the tiger seemed to feel the pressure of the real dragon. It never came out of the mountain, and even the villagers who went hunting in the mountain were able to retreat when they met the tiger."

"One year after the establishment of the Dragon King Temple, the tiger in the mountain came down again and killed countless villagers. The villagers had no choice but to seek help from the master again."

Shen Luo held the ceramic teacup in his hand, and asked softly: "The master told you that the Dragon King is far away from the blood relatives in the sea area, and came to Yanshan Village to protect the villagers. He is lonely and needs to sacrifice an eighteen-year-old girl to accompany the Dragon King. Only this King Ling will continue to protect Yanshan Village, right?"

The old doctor was startled and incoherent, and asked: "Mrs. Xie, how did you know?"

Shen Luo looked at the old man with a kind face, and replied: "If the old man has the same experience as me, he will know why I know this."

The old doctor looked at Shen Luo and said softly, "Mrs. Xie, what have you been through?"

However, Shen Luo interrupted the old doctor and asked, "Why don't you tell this junior, what happened next?"

The old doctor swallowed the question in his heart, and replied: "The villagers were really scared, so they followed the master's advice and arranged for a woman of the same age and fair appearance to sacrifice."

"At first, no one believed such absurd things. It was a helpless act to follow Master Huizhi's orders. But after the sacrifice, the tiger in the mountain really stopped hurting people, and the villagers believed in the sacrifice even more."

"This year's age-appropriate daughter is Cao Yueju, the village head's daughter. According to the rules, this year's village head's daughter will put on a wedding dress and offer sacrifices. But the old village head was reluctant to send the village's hunters up the mountain to hunt tigers. For the rest, the two We all know."

Shen Luo looked at the old village head, and said softly: "Your village head is really shameless, and he made a big effort to let his daughter sacrifice, but he couldn't bear it when it was his daughter's turn?"

After complaining softly, Shen Luo asked again: "Dare to ask the old man, what is your last name, and who else is in the family?"

The old doctor closed his eyes and answered, "My surname is Fang, and I have a single name, Jing. This old man has a son named Fang Lansheng. He left home to join the army more than 20 years ago and came back with his pregnant daughter-in-law 16 years ago." , the daughter-in-law is gentle, virtuous, generous, and also added a little granddaughter to our Fang family, who is 15 years old this year."

"After the little granddaughter turned three years old, the old man's son received an order to return to the capital to report on his duties. The daughter-in-law accompanied him, but he never returned."

Fang Jing lowered his eyes, closed them, held back the tears in his eyes, and said after a long silence: "The biggest wish of this old man in his life is to find his son, and ask him where he has been all these years, Why do you hesitate to go home so long, leaving me and my granddaughter to depend on each other."

Shen Luo raised her hand to caress the old man's shoulder, and asked softly, "Old man, are you willing to follow me to Ning'an?"

"Don't stay here anymore. I heard from Cao Yueju that it will be your granddaughter's turn to sacrifice in three years. You leave this village with me and bring your granddaughter with you." Shen Luo saw tears in the old man's eyes, Feeling soft-hearted, he wanted to leave with the old man and his granddaughter.

The old man shook his head and said, "I only have one son, and I can't leave here. If I leave here, how can my son find me when he comes back?"

The old man looked at Shen Luo and said, "If you really want to rescue the old man's granddaughter, you can bring someone to pick up the old man's granddaughter after two years."

"The old man wants to stay here and wait for my son to come back." The old man looked at the bow hanging on the wall, with a slight smile in his eyes: "He is a filial child, he will definitely come back."

Shen Luo followed the old man's gaze towards the wall, and when she saw the curved bow hanging on the wall, she immediately walked to the curved bow and looked at it carefully.

Standing by the wall, her eyes were burning, as if frozen in time, as if the bow carried a seductive charm, she never moved her eyes away for a long time: "This is a good bow, I think your son must have a high status in the army , otherwise you wouldn’t get such a curved bow?”

"Yes." The old man responded immediately, and introduced with a smile on his face: "My son is a general of Zhonglang, and he is highly appreciated. This bow was given to him by an old general. I heard that some old general bent his bow with him. .”

The old man's tone is full of pride and pride!

Shen Luo looked at the old man, then at the longbow, and persuaded again: "Old man, go to Ning'an with us, it will be easier to find your son, isn't it?"

"Ning'an City has a lot of people and a lot of officials. The military department and the household department control the rosters of all soldiers. If you go to Ning'an, it will be easier to inquire about the whereabouts of your son, isn't it?" Shen Luo spared no effort to persuade the old man to join him Go to Ning'an.

Xie Yunsheng, who knows Shen Luo well, has a trace of doubt in his eyes

He didn't understand why Shen Luo, who didn't want to have anything to do with outsiders, would persuade an old man whom he had only known for a few hours to go to Ning'an with her?
(End of this chapter)