Wei Zi signaled Su Nian to take her down to the ground, and then asked Ah Qin: "Is the hairpin on the goddess's head also carved by your ancestors?"
Ah Qin thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I have never heard of this, but it is possible that some jewelry carved by the ancestors passed into the hands of the goddess."
Su Nian couldn't help but ask: "Is there really a snow mountain goddess?"
Ah Qin nodded: "Yes, this is not a legend."
Wei Zi slowly asked: "Then do you believe that the Snow Mountain Goddess will return and take you back to the warm spring-like seaside place?"
Ah Qin smiled bitterly and said: "Of course I believe it. But it's useless to believe it now, because all the clan members are gone."
Su Nian asked again: "Now that Yun State does not even restrict people from the northern border, you can move to the seaside by yourself. Why do you have to wait for the Snow Mountain Goddess to take you away?"
Ah Qin rolled up his sleeves, pointed to a bloody scar on his arm and said, "We cannot leave Tianyu Mountain. This is a curse passed down from generation to generation. If we leave, we will not live to be thirty. Some tribesmen did not believe it and insisted on going south.
,The result...ah."
Wei Zi's eyelids suddenly jumped.
Her mother's family also has the curse of not living past the age of thirty!
Is it because they left Tianyu Mountain?
Su Nian was speechless. She felt that this fact was too mysterious.
"Why is there such a curse?" Wei Zi suppressed the shock in her heart and asked.
Ah Qin shook his head: "Some clan elders said that in order to punish us, the human race used strange magic to cast a spell on us, trapping us here life after life; some clan elders said that it was the goddess who allowed us to stay here in order to protect us.
Here. As for what kind of truth it is, it’s been too long and there’s no way to know.”
"Which one do you think it is?" Wei Zi asked.
"First, I don't think the goddess will imprison us." Ah Qin told the truth.
Wei Zi was silent for a while and said: "It's getting late, let's go."
When walking out of the Goddess Temple, Wei Zi couldn't help but look back at the statue.
Amidst the shadows, the goddess stands peacefully. Perhaps due to the light, the expression of the statue seems to be more compassionate.
*
Just as Ah Qin said, it took almost an hour and a half for Wei Zi and the others to walk through the woods and arrive at the foot of Qunyu Mountain.
It was dark all around.
Ah Qin said: "There is no decent place to live. In front of us is a warehouse where we store grain, so we can barely live there."
Wei Zi said "Yeah": "Let's go there."
It's said to be a warehouse, but it's actually just a row of houses, most of which have been destroyed, with only two or three rooms still having roofs.
Feng Qing and the others skillfully lit the fire immediately without Wei Zi's instructions.
As for the house, Feng Danyuan sent someone to come two days ago and took away all the people stationed by Ma Hongfu. Because Wei Zi was coming, he also had people clean it up, and now it is still there.
Pretty neat.
Recalling the inexplicable accidents caused by Feng Su catching wolves and deer before, Wei Zi added: "Just eat dry food, no need to hunt."
After simply filling their stomachs, the group rested.
Wei Zi couldn't sleep for a while, thinking about the girl, the Snow Mountain Goddess, the jade hosta and the jade bracelet.
I always felt that I had touched the truth, but when I stretched out my hand, I was still separated by a thick layer of fog.
Ah Qin didn't fall asleep either, and her whole body huddled silently, as if this way she could resist the endless fear and sadness.
"Aqin, can you tell me more about the story of the Snow Mountain Goddess?" Wei Zi asked in a low voice.
"What do you want to know?" Hearing the sound, Aqin seemed to feel that those fears and sorrows had a place to go, and he also had the desire to talk in his heart.
"Does the Snow Mountain Goddess have a lover or a husband?"
