Xiaobo's face heated up and he hesitated: "It is true that you have just come back... This means you are lucky. If you had come a day earlier, you would not have seen me."
Shen Qingqing chuckled and changed the subject: "Little brother, can you tell me where all the people in the village have gone?"
Xiaobo glanced at her quickly, rubbed his hands nervously, and asked her: "Can you tell me first, whether the person you are looking for is a boy or a girl, and what he looks like?"
"The man is quite tall, quite strong, and looks...very handsome."
Every time Shen Qingqing said a word, Xiaobo's face became uglier.
At the end of the conversation, Liu Jiejie realized something was wrong, "Xiaobo, what's going on? Have you seen the person we are looking for?"
"Yes, maybe I have seen it before."
Xiaobo picked at his fingers in confusion, his face wrinkled like a bitter gourd.
After a while, he raised his head and looked at the two people in front of him, and asked in a low voice: "Is that person important to you? If it's not important, don't go looking for it. Don't end up losing yourself in it..."
Before he finished speaking, Shen Qingqing suddenly leaned over and grabbed him by the lapel of his clothes, with a fierce look in his eyes as if he was hiding a knife.
"Tell me what you know honestly."
Xiaobo was frightened by her ferocious tone, and turned to Liu Jiejie for help with a sad face: "Brother Liu, please help me, this woman is so cruel!"
"Miss Shen." Liu Jiejie took a step forward and advised, "Calm down first and let's listen to Xiaobo. Xiaobo, just tell me what you know. It's not easy for Miss Shen to come all the way here."
Shen Qingqing clenched the lapel of her clothes tightly and moved her thumb, then let go and said sorry to him, then stepped aside.
Xiaobo straightened his clothes and said helplessly: "Since you insist on going there to die, then I will tell you straight away, the person you are looking for has been imprisoned in the ancestral hall."
"I'm locked up in the ancestral hall? Why are you locked up in the ancestral hall?" Liu Jiejie asked.
Xiaobo shook his head and sighed, "That dead old woman insists that he is the incarnation of the disaster star. He was the cause of the wars not long ago, and she wants to burn him with fire to sacrifice to heaven."
"I ran back because I couldn't stand their barbaric behavior. It's probably too late to rush over and save people now, but there are so many people in the village. You two alone may not be able to save them."
Liu Jiejie looked at Shen Qingqing in confusion, "Miss Shen, what should we do now? How about we go back and ask for help first?"
"This place is quite far away from Xianghua County. When we gather enough people and rush over, he will probably turn into a handful of ashes."
Shen Qingqing walked towards the entrance of the village, "Let's go and check the situation first. It's best not to take action."
Xiaobo looked left and right, and finally asked Liu Jiejie for help: "Then do I still need to go?"
"Please show us the way out, please."
Xiaobo stood up reluctantly, "Okay, but I have to agree in advance that I will only lead the way. Don't take me with you when rescuing people."
Liu Jiejiu touched his shoulder and lowered his voice: "Brother, don't worry, Miss Shen may seem a bit fierce, but she is actually very kind-hearted and will never let you take risks."
"She's kind-hearted, but I didn't realize how kind-hearted she is..."
Xiaobo curled his lips and muttered, and finally climbed into the carriage obediently.
Complaints are complaints, and you still have to help when you are busy. Who makes him so kind-hearted that he can't bear to see a living person being killed by those stupid people?
When he got in the car and met Shen Qingqing's sharp eyes, he was so nervous that he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, for fear that if he said the wrong thing again, she would grab his clothes and beat him.
Shen Qingqing glanced at him and pushed the melon seed bag on the table in front of him.
Xiaobo was startled by her actions. He moved his butt and shrank into a corner, "What are you going to do?"
Shen Qingqing pressed down the edge of the table and said, "Please eat melon seeds."
Xiaobo took a careful look and saw that they were really melon seeds. His heart dropped immediately, "Thank you, but I don't want to eat now."
There was silence in the carriage for a moment. Shen Qingqing touched her chin and slowed down her voice to explain: "I apologize to you for what happened just now. I'm sorry. I was so anxious that I couldn't control my hands. Didn't I scare you?"
Xiaobo sniffed and straightened his back, "How could I be scared? Do I seem to be such a timid person?"
"It's good that I'm not scared." Shen Qingqing nodded, casually hooking the red tassel hanging on the purple gold gourd and playing with it.
Xiaobo looked at her calm appearance despite the rain and asked curiously: "Aren't you afraid?"
"What's there to be afraid of? When soldiers come to stop us, when water comes to cover us up, there is always a way to solve the problem."
Perhaps infected by her calm mood, Xiaobo felt a little more relaxed. He turned his head to look at the passing tree shadows outside, and finally plucked up the courage to say: "Actually, I know a way to save people, but I just don't know.
Can it be successful?"
"Speak directly if you have something to say."
Xiaobo coughed and said, "The idea of burning people to sacrifice to heaven came from that dead old woman. If we want to save people from her clutches, we must first let the villagers see her true face and then clear up the rumors."
Speaking of this, he deliberately lowered his voice: "That damn old woman is not a good thing. She set the rules and did not allow everyone to leave the village without authorization. She said that once leaving the village, it would bring disaster to the whole village, but secretly she secretly
The food we grew and the game we hunted were sold, and all the money she got was hidden in the statues in the ancestral hall."
Shen Qingqing raised her eyebrows, "You're so good at playing?"
Xiaobo looked at her tangledly, "Actually, I don't know whether I should tell you this, because the people in the village really trust her, but they almost don't regard her words as an imperial edict. In case it fails again and makes people anxious,
I'm afraid the three of us will be roasted too."
"If you're scared, just hide in the crowd and I'll go up by myself." Shen Qingqing cast a reassuring look at him.
Xiaobo nodded slightly, his cheeks were hot, and his heart was so heavy that he couldn't breathe.
There was always a voice shouting in his ear: It's time to stand up, Xiaobo, stand up like a man, running away won't solve the problem.
But his reason told him not to stand up. If his secret was made public, what would the villagers think of him?
I'm afraid no one will be willing to accept him by then.
He closed his eyes and blocked his ears in despair.
Forget it, hide for the last time.
If there is a next time, he will definitely stand up.
"Are you OK?"
Shen Qingqing handed him a handkerchief and said, "Wipe the sweat off your head. Actually, you really don't have to be afraid. I can solve this problem by myself."
Xiao Bo clutched the handkerchief tightly, sniffing the faint fragrance of soap locust on the tip of his nose, and said "Hmm", feeling a strange feeling well up in his heart.
What Brother Liu said seems to be true, this girl is so kind-hearted.
The road ahead became more and more bumpy, and the driving speed became slower and slower. Finally, the wheels got stuck in the cracks in the rocks, and I couldn't move at all.
Shen Qingqing opened the curtain and jumped out, "Hitch the carriage to the tree next to it, and let's walk there. Little brother, how far is it?"
Xiaobo put a hand on his forehead and looked into the distance, "Come on, we'll reach the place after climbing over the slope in front." This chapter has been completed!