polar demon

Chapter 67 Hands-on ([-]) Thanks to the book friend "Skinny Monkey" for the reward!

Li Qian lay on the bed, stroking her protruding belly.

The moonlight shone in through the cracks in the window sills and fell on the bed where she and her husband slept together.

She has been married to Shanyin Village for almost a year, and she is already pregnant.Before long, a little life will be born from it.

According to the husband's family, after giving birth to the first child, you have to continue to work hard to have children.After giving birth to the seventh child, you can go to the government to receive reward silver.

Wushe County has always encouraged childbearing, and when it reaches a certain population, there will be related generous rewards.

For the future children, Li Qian has beautiful visions and expectations, but the reality makes her not happy.

Shanyin Village, this is not an auspicious place.

As the name suggests, the village is located in the backlit north of the mountain, and the sunlight received here is far less than that on the south slope, which also leads to the gloomy feeling of the whole village.

Geography is secondary, the most important thing is its reputation.

Shanyin Village is far away from other villages and towns, making it seem isolated and remote.Li Qian had heard all kinds of mysterious rumors when she was still in her natal family.

I heard that Shanyin Village has been doing shady activities and has contacts with many human traffickers.

Li Qian didn't want to marry in this place at first, but her family was too poor, and her husband's family gave her a generous dowry.

It was only after Li Qian married here that she realized that those rumors might be true.

Every other month's night, there will always be a group of mysterious people coming to the village. They bring some bound men and women into the village, and then exchange them for silver taels from the village chief.

Then those bound men and women were taken to the back mountain by the villagers, and the villagers would not return until dawn.As for those men and women who were tied up, Li Qian never saw them again.

Li Qian was very scared. She wanted to go back to her natal home, but found that the village had its own rules—women who married outside the village were not allowed to go back to their natal home.

What scares her the most is that the people in the village are becoming more and more abnormal!

All the villagers began to become nervous, and their tempers became dull and irritable. They slept less during the day and longer at night.

Li Qian finally found out that all of them obeyed an old man called "Guru".

The guru has an extraordinary status in the village, wears a yellow robe all day long, and everyone respects him like a god.

Li Qian once asked her husband who the guru was, but the husband told her without hesitation that the guru was a master of Yijiao.

After hearing this answer, Li Qian was completely terrified.

Ever since she was a child, Li Qian had heard the elders in her natal family mention that there used to be an organization called the Wing Sect. They had mysterious and evil powers, and there were many believers in Wushe County.

Later, Yijiao rebelled and was suppressed by the government.At that time, many people died, blood flowed into rivers, and bones became mountains.

Whenever the elders in the family talked about this matter, they did not hesitate to use various tragic examples to illustrate the cruelty at the beginning.

This has always been Li Qian's childhood nightmare.

And at this time, there is a Yijiao member in the village, which is a felony!
If the government finds out, Li Qian knows in her heart that not only will her family be harmed, but also the child in her womb will be harmed.

This kind of worry that has been suppressed in her heart made Li Qian's sleep worse and worse. During the day, she was listless and always felt sleepy, but at night she was in good spirits.

"Tom, tom, tom, tom!"

A burst of footsteps sounded on the stone road running through the village.

Li Qian began to feel scared, and she couldn't help but tighten the quilt covering her body.

She knew that it was the master of Yijiao who started the activity.

"Jingle Bells"

The crisp copper bells echoed in the village and penetrated into everyone's ears.

Then, the old voice can be clearly heard shouting melodiously:
"Help the saint and help the life, Yi teaches the law!"

The village was dark, but rustling noises could be heard from every house.

Li Qian was even more frightened, she knew it was the villagers who started to get up.

When the moon is full, following the call of Master Yijiao, they will leave the house like a night tour, and follow the master towards the back mountain.

Beside Li Qian, a figure suddenly sat up on the bed, it was her husband.

The husband didn't wear any clothes or shoes, his feet were on the ground, and he was about to head out of the house.

Li Qian usually dare not take care of her husband's affairs, but tonight she was really scared, especially when the baby in her belly was about to be born.

She couldn't help stretching out her hand to hold her husband:
"Not going tonight, okay?"

The husband was silent, and he turned his head slowly.

"Ah!" Li Qian couldn't help but let out a sharp scream, and she retracted her hands as if they were being burned. She kept curling up towards the corner of the wall, trying to stay away from her husband.

The moonlight cast from the window sills shone on her husband's face, which was a terrifying and unfamiliar face.

Her husband's eyes, like nocturnal animals, emitted a green light.His face was as pale as paper, and a few fangs in his mouth protruded from his lips, and saliva dripped continuously along the white fangs.

Li Qian couldn't stop trembling all over, she huddled in the corner and bit her feet tightly, not daring to let herself continue to make a sound.

The sound of the copper bell gradually faded away in the village, and the low footsteps of the villagers followed one after another.

The husband turned his head, opened the door stiffly, and followed the bell.

The soft sunlight began to spread all over the earth, and as the sun rose, some surrounding areas became full of life.

After a night of trekking, Jiang Yuan and his party finally crossed this lush grassland.

Standing on the edge and looking back, there is nowhere in the grassland where there is a hidden danger like last night.

At this time, the grassland is a blue color, like a clear lake fluctuating with the wind, the color between the sky and the earth is distinct, but it seems to be connected as one.

Traveling overnight is not a problem for Jiang Yuan.

But the four children were exhausted, which made Jiang Yuan have to stop for a while.

Fortunately, Jiang Yuan has nothing to worry about at this time, so he is not upset.

Jiang Yuan raised his head and looked into the distance.

On one side is a lush coppice, on the other side is the end of a section of mountains.

Several strands of cooking smoke rose from behind the dwarf forest, and if there was cooking smoke, it meant that there were people.

"Don't rest, it's time to go!"

Although the four children were tired, no one complained. They carried their burdens and followed Jiang Yuan forward.

A group of people walked through the undergrowth, and a pipeline appeared in front of them.

After walking along the pipeline for a whole noon, at dusk, I finally came to a prosperous town.

The town seemed to be holding some kind of celebration, with lights and festoons everywhere, and the sound of firecrackers.

Five people entered the town, as if they were catching up with a temple fair, and there were many vendors setting up stalls everywhere.

Even though it was approaching dusk, people were coming and going, and it was very lively.

The little boy Ding Ze stared at his surroundings intently:

"A lot of people!"

Chen Yin and Li Siyan also looked around:
"Look! There are colorful lanterns for sale over there! And there! There are sugar figures there!"

Qian Luo confessed to the three children in a low voice:
"Don't be like a bumpkin, just look at it and don't talk, you can't embarrass your foster father!"

The three children immediately shut their mouths, but their big dark eyes were still full of curiosity about everything around them, as if the fatigue of the whole day had disappeared.

Suddenly, cheers erupted from the streets behind.

Everyone looked back one after another, and saw a team returning to the town. Some people danced dragons and lions in the team, and some beat gongs and drums. It was very lively.

Jiang Yuan led the children to find an inn, and then walked in:

"Shopkeeper, open two rooms! Prepare another table of meals."

The shopkeeper behind the counter put down the ledger that was being recorded in his hand, looked up at Jiang Yuan, and said suspiciously:
"Outsider?"

Jiang Yuan laughed and said:

"The shopkeeper has good eyesight!"

The shopkeeper touched the two mustaches under his nose, and said with a smile:

"Our place in Erquan Town usually doesn't have many outsiders, so there are more visitors from outside during this period of time. So you can basically tell when you look at the guest officer. Come here, let's do it here first. The room clerk is working Pack up, I'll go and tell the kitchen to prepare meals for you!"

There are many square tables in the lobby on the first floor of the inn, many of which are full of guests who eat and drink.

The shopkeeper brought Jiang Yuan to an empty table and invited five people to sit down.

After sitting down, Jiang Yuan couldn't help asking:

"Shopkeeper, is there some kind of happy event going on in this town?"

The shopkeeper laughed and said:

"It seems that the guest officer must be from outside Wushe County! This is an important custom in our Wushe County. Every year on this day, we hold a sun festival."

"Sunday Festival?" It was the first time Jiang Yuan heard about this celebration.

The shopkeeper nodded and said:

"Every year after today, the days in Wushe County get shorter, the nights get longer, and the weather gets colder every day. So the people hold sun sacrifices one after another, praying that the days will be longer, so that those ghosts will hibernate one after another. , will not endanger the world.”

After finishing speaking, another new guest arrived outside the inn, and the shopkeeper rushed to greet him.

Jiang Yuan pulled the teapot on the table and began to drink tea to quench his thirst.But they found that although the four children were silent, they were still staring at the sugar man's booth on the street opposite the inn.

He couldn't help but smile:
"You want sugar people?"

Ding Ze, Li Siyan and Chen Yin nodded immediately: "Yes!"

Qian Luo hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Jiang Yuan glanced at the sugar figurine booth, and saw that there were so many sugar figurines on it, he asked:

"Which one do you want?"

The four children immediately shouted:
"I want that little butterfly!"

"I want that horse!"

"I want butterflies too!"

"I want that gourd!"

Jiang Yuan took out a piece of broken silver and put it on the table:
"If you want to buy it yourself, you can go alone."

The little boy Ding Ze quickly grabbed Sui Yin and jumped off the bench:
"Thank you foster father! By the way, foster father, which one do you want?"

Jiang Yuan shook his head:
"Father doesn't want it, just go and buy yours."

Ding Ze nodded, and immediately ran out of the inn, holding Sui Yin tightly.

The other three girls couldn't help looking at Ding Ze's back expectantly.

Jiang Yuan poured a full cup of tea and drank it, and couldn't help smiling. It was a little troublesome to bring a bunch of children, but at least he didn't look so lonely.

Seeing that Ding Ze just ran to the door, something unexpected happened suddenly.

A booted foot suddenly kicked towards Ding Ze. Before Ding Ze could even react, his small body was already kicked out and hit the door frame.

Then came a man's voice:
"Where did you come from, you almost hit Grandpa me!"

When Ding Ze got up from the ground, there was already a cut on his forehead, and blood was slowly flowing out from it.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Yuan suddenly stood up from the bench, grabbed the teapot and slammed it on the ground:
"Damn you!"

(End of this chapter)