After hearing Li Changyue say that he had met his daughters Xiaozhi and Ning Dazhu, Hu Cuihua and his wife's expressions suddenly changed.
After a long time, Hu Cuihua asked cowardly: "How is she? Is she still... okay?"
"What do you think?"
"It should be fine, after all..."
"No, he's dead." Li Qianye interrupted.
Ning Hu and his wife were stunned at the same time, and said in horror: "How could she die - even though she..."
Guo Nanjun said coldly: "You abandoned her, why won't she die?"
"She is so young, and she is sick. You abandon her in a deserted pavilion. How do you teach her how to survive?"
"Besides, doesn't this fulfill your wishes?"
Hu Cuihua was stunned, and the footbath in her hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Ning Dazhu also looked ashen, his eyes trembled and asked: "My lord, is Xiaozhi really dead?"
Li Changyi didn't say anything, but waved his sleeves, and a picture appeared in front of Ning Hu and his wife.
It is exactly the scene of Thirty Mile Pavilion.
A deserted pavilion stood independently on a hill. In a corner of the pavilion, lay the withered bones of a six or seven-year-old girl.
The little girl's withered bones have no flesh and blood left, but the clothes on them are so familiar.
Even if three years have passed, I will never forget it.
"How could this happen, God..." Hu Cuihua squatted down, covering her face and crying bitterly.
Ning Dazhu looked dull, with unconcealed guilt and pain.
Li went speechless.
Guo Nanjun snorted coldly: "You abandoned her, didn't you just want her to die? Why are you pretending to be acting here? Who are you crying for?"
"No, you are indeed good at acting."
"At noon, he said that Xiaozhi was lost and told us to report to you when we saw him, hum!"
When Hu Cuihua heard these words, she paused, then her shoulders shook and she cried even harder, but she could no longer make a sound.
Ning Dazhu's eyes were red, and tears welled up silently.
Guo Nanjun looked even more disdainful.
If Li Xianyue hadn't been by her side and told her in advance not to be impulsive, she would have kicked them away.
Even kill them.
Animals still have the feeling of licking their calves. Such parents are simply not worthy of being human.
Back then... after her father was swallowed by a demon, her mother abandoned her brother and sister and remarried, never to return.
When she was young, she and her brother Guo Hengbei depended on each other. They grew up eating from hundreds of families and even begging on the streets.
She despises such parents who abandon their children the most.
Feeling Guo Nanjun's anger, Li Chaoyi sent a ray of mighty spring breeze to calm her down.
Guo Nanjun turned his back, but he was still furious.
Ning Dazhu also saw the anger and even murderous intent in Guo Nanjun.
Her voice was hoarse and she said: "My dear friend, Lady Guo, we did lie during the day. Xiaozhi was not lost, but we sent her to Sansanliting three years ago. But we left her there, but it was not
He wanted to kill her, but..."
"Ah!"
Ning Dazhu couldn't speak any more.
After a long time, Hu Cuihua, who had shed her tears and finally calmed down a little, touched her face and stood up.
She looked at Li Xiangye and Guo Nanjun with red and swollen eyes, and said: "My dear friend, Guo Nuxia, I know that in your eyes, the child's father and I are abandoned children, cold-blooded and ruthless people, just like animals."
"But there's nothing we can do."
"At that time, Xiaozhi was suffering from a strange disease called hysteria. A visiting doctor who was passing by said that he had to have a lot of money and go to the capital to find a disciple of the Taiyuan Hospital in order to be cured."
"At that time, the child's father was injured while hunting and couldn't go up the mountain, so he had to dig some food in the fields. And I had just given birth to Xiaoye, and I still needed to breastfeed, so I couldn't do much work. My family couldn't afford that much money.
, and we have to feed Xiaoguo and Xiaoye..."
Guo Nanjun turned around and stared at her coldly: "So you abandoned Xiaozhi and watched her turn into a desolate pavilion with withered bones?"
"I..." Hu Cuihua choked.
After a few moments, he continued with a trace of determination: "Yes, you are right. The child's father and I did abandon Xiaozhi in Sansanliting."
"But we don't want to kill her, we want her to live!"
Guo Nanjun snorted again.
Hu Cuihua said with a complex expression: "Nvxia Guo, my benefactor, I didn't lie. Three years ago, Haier's father and I left Xiaozhi in Sansanliting because we really wanted her to live."
"Thirty-mile Pavilion is an important road in our Xu County. There are two main roads running east and west, and north and south. Especially the north-south official road is very busy, with caravans and horse teams passing by all year round. We left the twig there because we wanted to
Those caravans and horsemen took her away."
"Those merchants and bodyguards passing by are all wealthy and powerful people. Spending a thousand gold to treat illnesses is nothing to them."
"In several surrounding villages, there are often people who cannot survive and leave their children in Sanliting Pavilion for passing merchants and ladies to pick them up and take them back to serve as maids and domestic slaves."
Having said this, Hu Cuihua paused for a moment before continuing to say sadly: "Although Xiao Zhi was picked up, he had to wait on others and was even beaten and scolded."
"But since passers-by picked her up, they would always treat her and she would survive."
Li went silently.
Guo Nanjun said coldly: "It's so well made up. If we had never been to Sansanliting, we would have been deceived by you."
Hu Cuihua shook her head and said firmly: "I'm not lying to you. If you don't believe me, you can go to the village and ask. There are indeed many families who cannot feed themselves, so they leave their children in Sanliting Pavilion and let the passing merchants and horses pick them up."
"That's nonsense. The Thirty Mile Pavilion and the north and south official roads have been abandoned for at least three years. If you leave Xiaozhi there, don't you want her to die?"
"Abandoned for more than three years? Impossible!" Hu Cuihua shouted in horror, "Three years ago, the official road and the pavilion were obviously in good condition. Even half a month ago, I led Xiaoguo and Xiaoye through the Sanli Pavilion.
, I went to the city and bought them a new set of clothes."
Guo Nanjun and Li Chaoyi looked at each other.
Let’s look at Ning Dazhu next to them.
Ning Dazhu shook his head: "It is not abandoned. Foreigners who travel between the county and county towns often rest in the village. I have never heard them say that Sansili Pavilion is abandoned."
"Moreover, this east-west mountain road is an important transportation road connecting Huqiu County and Xu County. How could the county governor and magistrate let it be abandoned?"
Guo Nanjun was silent.
Li Qingyi was thoughtful.
After a while.
"Benefactor?"
"explain."
"Is Xiaozhi really dead?"
"yes."
"Then my mother and I can pick up Xiaozhi's bones..."
"Not at the moment."
Ning Dazhu shut up. Both he and his wife were a little uneasy, but they felt more guilty.
Li Changyue said: "We will find out about this first."
After saying that, he and Guo Nanjun left.
Ning Dazhu and Hu Cuihua looked at each other and cried silently again.
A six-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl were woken up and came out of the house.
"Dad, grandma, why are you crying?"
…
Entrance to Ningjia Village.
Guo Nanjun stared at Li Chaoyi: "Sir, is this a trap set up by cultivators?"
Li Xianyue nodded, then pinched his fingers to perform the [Great Yi Tianji Technique].
After more than ten breaths, he said: "I figured it out."
Guo Nanjun said coldly: "Sir, let me take action this time!"
…
Eighty miles northwest of Sansili Pavilion, there is a Golden Carp Temple.
It has never rained here, and the moon is bright in the sky.
In the temple, a middle-aged Taoist wearing a yellow Taoist robe was refining soul elixirs in a secret room in the backyard. Two disciples wearing Taoist robes but without any Taoist demeanor were waiting on him.
"Master, there are still three months left, and the soul seed in Sanshiliting should be fully mature, right? By then, will we be able to leave this inhospitable place?"
"Yes, Master, I've had enough of staying here. I want to go back to Wangdu City as soon as possible to live a happy life. After three years, we, a wild cultivator, have almost turned into a fucking monk!"
The middle-aged Taoist in yellow robe smiled and said, "It's almost here."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang and the entire Golden Carp Temple exploded.
The middle-aged Taoist in yellow robes jumped up and shouted: "Who dares to come to our Golden Carp Temple to act wild?"
But he saw a woman in red clothes coming from the south, stepping on the moon.