Author: Xia Mobifei

Tianlu Village, Qiangzhong.

Today is the day to worship He Bo. Early in the morning, the entire Tianlu Village was busy.

Tianlu Village is surrounded by mountains, with only a large river named Qinghu running through it, criss-crossing the four villages, and finally falling into the sea.

Twelve years ago, a sudden flood occurred in this clear lake, and the river surface surged, flooding four villages.

And the floods have not receded.

The people in these four villages were almost driven to death.

Later, an old man ran up from nowhere. The old man pinched his fingers at the flood and kept talking to himself for a long time. He bluntly said that the people in Tianlu Village had offended He Bo and made He Bo angry.

The flood flooded four villages.

People in the other three villages suddenly became furious.

Since it was the people from Tianlu Village who had offended He Bo, and He Bo wanted to take revenge, naturally it was Tianlu Village, so why were their other three villages involved?

The old man touched his beard and told them that it was because there were too many in-laws in the four villages.

When the villagers in the other three villages were furious, the old man said again that Tianlu Village should sacrifice a woman to He Bo every three years, so as to calm He Bo's anger.

The villagers of Tianlu Village are naturally unwilling, but how can the villagers of one village support the people of the other three villages?

The next day after the old man finished speaking, villagers from the other three villages threw the most beautiful girl from Tianlu Village into the river.

And the flood really receded the next day.

The villagers of the three villages were so convinced by the old man that every three years, they forced the villagers of Tianlu Village to sacrifice a girl to He Bo.

Especially after this incident spread, villagers from all over the country were unwilling to marry girls from Tianlu Village, nor were they willing to let their own girls marry to Tianlu Village.

Those girls who were married from Tianlu Village were even more pitiful.

Either he was divorced or he was severely abused.

Didn’t you hear what the old man said? These three villages are like this just because they are in-laws from Tianlu Village——

This year, it has been twelve years since the flood.

Their village is going to sacrifice a fourth girl.

Although they were very reluctant, they could not withstand the pressure from other villages——

Zhao Shifa, the head of Tianlu Village, burst into tears. His wife beside him also covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from sobbing.

The boat carrying tributes has already set off.

The tribute on the boat is the village chief's daughter.

She is his only daughter.

"Susu, I can only send you here."

Zhao Ling took Zhao Susu's hand and said, "Brother has prepared some silver for you. You can run away with the money later. Don't come back again. Walk as far as you can."

"Brother, you are crazy."

Zhao Susu took off her hijab and said it was a hijab, but in fact it was just a piece of red cloth.

"What will happen to our village if I leave?"

"I can't control that much now."

Zhao Ling said in a cold voice, "Anyway, if this continues, our village will be gone sooner or later. It's better to save every one of us." Women from outside don't dare to marry in, and women in their village can't marry out either -

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Zhao Ling was filled with hatred.

He originally had a fiancée, a girl from Tianfu Village, but after the incident in Tianlu Village, her family had someone come to break off the engagement.

He doesn't blame her either. People are moving to higher places and Tianlu Village has become like this now. It's normal that she doesn't want to get married.

But their family shouldn't push his sister out.

"elder brother--"

"I can't leave. If I really leave, our family will have no place in this village. Brother, I won't leave."

Zhao Susu shook her head.

If she could, she wouldn't want to die, but there was no way, no way——

"Zhao Susu, listen to me. Sooner or later our Tianlu Village will be out of stock, and every one who can leave counts as one."

"Brother, what do you mean?"

Zhao Susu's face froze, "You——"

"I let A Ling go three years ago. You see, nothing happened at all." What the old man said was simply nonsense, but the people in these villages couldn't understand it and were unwilling to listen.

.

They just want to see their Tianlu Village suffer misfortune.

"But--"

"There's nothing good to do. You take these things and hide first. This old man's lies will one day be exposed. When the time comes, you can come back."

"We, brother and sister, will meet again one day."

Zhao Ling gritted his teeth and said.

He was furious, but he had no idea what to do.

"puff--"

Just as the brother and sister were talking, a pair of hands suddenly climbed onto the edge of the boat.

"Who?"

Zhao Ling quickly tightened his grip on the oar and stood in front of Zhao Susu.

"Don't be afraid, brother will protect you."

"Brother, is it that He Bo?" Zhao Susu's voice trembled a bit. Although her brother told her that there is no He Bo in this world, but what if? What if this He Bo exists?

"No, this seems to be a girl?"

Zhao Ling quickly moved over.

"Who are you--"

"I am a human being." The man on the bow finally climbed up after losing some strength.

Zhao Qing was breathing heavily and his face was pale.

"Not a monster."

"Why are you in this clear lake?"

Qinghu Lake is extremely deep, the river is turbulent, and there is He Bo, so basically no one will come close to it.

She hasn't even eaten fish for a long time.

I feel a little greedy for no reason——

Zhao Susu shook her head, no, now is not the time to think about this.

"I-I was pushed down the mountain."

Zhao Qing stretched out his hand and pointed at the looming cliff.

"ah?"

Zhao Ling and Zhao Susu's eyes widened in disbelief, "You fell from such a high place and you're okay?"

Is this still a human being?

"Who says I'm fine? I have two broken ribs."

Zhao Qing said depressedly, holding his chest, "It hurts so much."

If the master hadn't tempered her body before, she would have suffered more than just two broken ribs.

Zhao Qing originally thought she was dead. The moment she was submerged by the river and the moment she fainted again, she really felt that she was finished.

Who could have imagined that a random gadget she made when she was young and ignorant could actually save her.

That day, when her senior sister was refining alchemy, she was just having fun and imitated her senior sister and put some materials into the alchemy furnace.

To be honest, this is a pretty dangerous thing.

After all, whether you are refining elixirs or refining weapons, there is always the danger of exploding the furnace.

However, these materials have been screened by the senior sister and will not cause serious accidents.

Therefore, the senior sister just let her play.

Finally, she made two pink beads.

However, she and her senior sister had been studying for a long time, but they still could not figure out what the function of this bead was.

Because the color was so beautiful, the senior sister made two chains from the two beads, one for each of them.

Who could have imagined that these pink beads are actually water-repellent beads——
Chapter completed!