Fragrance is good for purifying the heart

Chapter 269
That night, Gardenia sat in front of the oil lamp, planning to read the book among the tuberose for a while before falling asleep. Anhe still slept on the nearby floor, quietly accompanying Gardenia.

I originally thought that tonight would pass quickly, but around the tachyon hour, a faint breeze suddenly drifted in from the window. Gardenia's intuition was a little strange, and when she was about to take a look, she saw a light blue paper The crane flew in through the window and flew directly in front of her eyes.

"Zhihe message book?" Gardenia was particularly surprised. She didn't know who sent this message to her, and it was at this time when she was about to fall asleep.

She felt quite strange, but she was still slightly startled. She opened her soft white palms and concentrated some spiritual power. The paper crane message book was opened little by little, and a strange but calm voice gave people a sense of weight. came out from it.

Gardenia listened carefully, and it turned out to be a strange man!

"Sister, do you recognize this person?" An He also felt strange. He didn't understand who would actually choose the time when his sister was about to fall asleep to deliver the paper crane message to her sister.

Gardenia shook her head. She had never heard the man's voice from the paper crane message book. When the two of them listened carefully, they found the following content:

"Destined person, you are still here. The last time we said goodbye, I always felt that your views on this mortal world were very real. I rarely meet people who have the same interests as me, so when you left, I actually felt lonely. I mean, maybe it’s because I live alone in the mountains all year round and don’t see too many people, so I’m looking for you with this paper crane message book. I hope you can tell me some interesting things that happened recently along the way, okay? A person who is still interested in the world. I am a cultivator who is a little attached to me - I would like to express my sincere gratitude."

Gardenia withdrew her magic power, and the paper crane message book returned to the shape of a light blue paper crane. She frowned slightly and put the paper crane away:

"It sounds like it is a letter sent by a practitioner named Yuanqi to a destined person. The magic power in this paper crane message book is not much. Maybe it was sent by a person who has just entered Taoism. Maybe there is an error. Then it will be sent to me.”

Because she didn't know where this paper crane message came from, Gardenia couldn't send it back. She could only treat it as a wrongly sent letter and didn't pay much attention to it. The two turned off the lights and went to sleep. Got off.

When they got up the next day, they both put the matter of sending the wrong message from the paper crane to the back of their minds. After thanking Mr. Huang, they rushed to Xuwu Village near Zhouchang County.

This place already belongs to the territory of the Mowei Kingdom.

As soon as he entered the village, Anhe asked the people at the entrance of the village about Xiaohua's whereabouts. Few people came to Xuwu Village, and every household knew very well who was in each household and what they were doing for a living.

As soon as An He mentioned Mr. Wu and Xiao Hua, the women who had gathered at the entrance of the village showed disdain. At first, An He and Gardenia were extremely puzzled. After careful questioning, one of the women was... Have the courage to speak to the two of them.

"Old Mr. Wu was originally selected to be elected by the Demonic Kingdom of Wei, but I see that he must have used up all the good luck in his family. His wife Yun Niang was originally very good-looking. We have one of the most beautiful beauties here, and they also have a smart daughter, Xiaohua. But maybe because they lived so well in the past, Yun Niang and Xiaohua were actually abducted. Later, Mr. Wu sued many times and found no way. , Yun Niang was not rescued, and Xiao Hua was so frightened that she went crazy..."

Gardenia and Anhe knew very well what happened to Mr. Wu, and how he ended up on the road of human trafficking. Gardenia and Anhe also knew very well, but looking at the people in Xu Wucun In these past remarks, people are filled with jealousy towards Mr. Wu and his family who were once happy.

"Why isn't it a case of dementia? How can we say it's madness?" An He was a little confused.

Several women also gathered around, talking all over the place, "What kind of idiotic disease? She is even afraid of people in the house, and she doesn't recognize people. What else can she do if she's not crazy?" Some women even said with added jealousy. : "It's no wonder that Xiaohua's grandma is raising that crazy girl like a dog now. Who knows what kind of high branches that old Mr. Wu has climbed to? He makes a lot of money every year. People in our village don't Silly, how can you get so much money from an ordinary business?"

"Let me tell you, he must have done something outrageous, so he got retribution... isn't that what he deserves?"

Gardenia couldn't help but look up at the woman who said this, and felt that what she said was wrong. The reason why Mr. Wu turned to human trafficking was because the local government was incompetent and could not rescue his abducted wife and daughter. If Mr. Wu hadn't hooked up with Mr. Bei later, he wouldn't have been able to save Xiaohua on his own, even if he had been a judge.

If it were anyone else, he might have taken this path to save his daughter. For the sake of his family, he could give up all his glory and rub himself into the dirty mud, hoping that his family would get better.

When Gardenia thought about it, although she had never met Xiaohua, she felt that Mr. Wu's daughter Xiaohua, who had committed a similar crime, was not beyond saving.

Fate sometimes does not give people so many choices. Sometimes, it can even force an originally kind person to become a demon and be despised by everyone.

Such is the glitz, and so is Mr. Wu.

Moreover, most people hate the rich and do not want others to live better than themselves. Only if you live worse than others will they be happy and an unbalanced mentality can be balanced.

This kind of hatred of the rich is especially true in a small village. From this, it can be inferred that Xiaohua must have a bad life here, and the people around her cannot see her well. They only hope that she will be tortured by illness all her life. They say This kind of "retribution" she calls because her father became famous or did evil things, so it all comes back to her.

Gardenia sighed. She didn't know why she felt pity for people like Fuhua or Mr. Wu. She always felt that they were different from those who always did evil and caused trouble everywhere. They were not evil at heart, but many of them were The time is “the last resort”.

She didn't want to argue or argue with the group of women, so she and Anhe followed the path they pointed to and found a house at the back of Xuwu Village.

It was a small courtyard, with some chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock raised in the courtyard, and grains of corn and rice were scattered all over the ground.

But what is uncomfortable is that there is a girl about seven or eight years old in the courtyard. Her face, body, and hands are all dirty. She is crawling around on the ground and licking the corn on the ground with her tongue from time to time. , there is a heavy iron chain tied to her right foot, which is always connected to an old locust tree in the courtyard.

Under the old locust tree, there was a copper basin with some cooked rice in the soup. There was not much left.

I think this is how the little girl was raised under this old locust tree by the people in the house.

(End of this chapter)