The Tugong didn't understand what the Taoist meant, so he hurriedly explained to him, "He came here two years ago with others who fled. He was only three years old at the time. When he came, he was thin and skinny. Besides, in the world,

There are so many miraculous things, so it’s not surprising that there is one more of him. Besides, he is kinder than many people. I don’t think I would have anything to do with such a kind person."

"Is it because he has never given up supporting you?" the Taoist said playfully.

The Tu Tu Gong looked solemn and said, "Master Immortal, although the little old man is just a humble Tu Tu, he is not someone who doesn't know right from wrong. I believe in him not because he supports me, but because he is more like me than many people."

people."

The Taoist didn't care about his solemnity and continued to ask, "What do you mean by this?"

Tutu said, "When the severe drought first started, only some people left the village. But when the mountain spirits and ghosts came out, all the so-called filial sons and virtuous grandchildren who could run away. If there are old, weak, sick and disabled people in your family who can't be taken away, just keep them."

They are waiting to die here. Originally, the child could have followed the large army, but he didn't. He would rather stay here to wait for her to die. He has been taking good care of her. When he found something to eat and drink, he also let the old woman eat first.

"Such a humane person, I don't believe that all this happened because of him."

After the two were silent for a while, the Taoist saw that he seemed to have something to say, so he said, "Just say what you want to say."

The Tu Tu Gong then said, "Even if it really has something to do with him, I believe he didn't do it on purpose. I hope the Immortal Master will handle it fairly when investigating."

At this point, the Taoist also understood what Tu Tu Gong meant. In order to prevent him from being the kind of person who just wanted to deal with business, Tu Tu Gong deliberately pushed the child out as a scapegoat, so he said a lot of words to excuse him.

However, the Taoist didn't care much. After all, he had lived to his age and had seen all the things he should have seen. But in comparison, he was still a little disappointed with the world.

The middle-aged Taoist said nothing more. What he heard from his uncle's mouth was only part of it, which could be used as evidence, but he could not fully believe it. He let the other party go first, and then used the Taoist method. He saw that the surrounding scene seemed to be going backwards.

Go to the back of time.

Take that hut as the starting point of the space coordinates, time as the horizontal axis, and pull it all the way back. Those days are going backwards day by day, from the scene of the child bringing food to his grandma; to the child discovering that his grandma is sick and her body is getting weaker.

, you can see helplessness and fear on his face; then at the beginning of the drought, people started to leave in the village, but the child stayed with his grandma; before, the child was ostracized by the people around him, just because of his

The eyes were abnormal; this lasted until the child's first day here.

Seeing this, the middle-aged Taoist stopped tracing back. He gently pressed his palm forward, and time began to flow at a normal speed.

The Taoist carefully observed the child's bone structure and compared it with the previous one. He found that both physical development and time flow corresponded to each other. In other words, the child was at least an ordinary child physically, and his age had not been artificially changed.

Or maybe I am some kind of perverted old monster.

This time was two years ago. The child was only three years old at the time. He came from nowhere and followed the refugees to beg. His clothes were in tatters, and his body was either bruised or scarred. He was so thin that only a layer of skin was left to wrap his bones.

It looked like it was about to fall apart when the wind blew. One can imagine how much suffering he suffered when he was fleeing.

People don't have much favorable impressions of people who are fleeing here. They more or less think that it will bring disaster to them. Therefore, when facing those people who are fleeing, the people in the village will not give a good look.

They are usually driven to leave there as soon as possible. But because they are afraid of being treated too harshly and causing those who are fleeing to fight, they will also give them some food to let them leave as soon as possible.

But this child may be because his eyes are different from ordinary people, and the people who are fleeing do not tolerate him. The people in the village see that the child cannot be tolerated by the public, and they have no good feelings toward him. They don't even want to give him an extra portion of food.

When the children saw him, they also picked up stones and vegetable leaves and threw them at him behind him, until they were driven to the old woman's door.

The people around him did not see the middle-aged Taoist, and the middle-aged Taoist just observed everything silently. He suddenly discovered that even if the child was not accepted by others, bullied, or hurt, there would always be something in his eyes.

There was a kind of indifference, as if he didn't care about it, and the child just lowered his head and kept hiding where he could retreat. Before he could escape, a stone hit his forehead. Maybe it was because of the pain.

He raised his head and took a look. The direction in which the stone was shot happened to be the direction where the Taoist was standing. This glance just happened to sweep over the Taoist.

The two people's eyes met for a very short time, and the Taoist had some doubts in his mind, but when he saw that the child didn't look in his direction again, he thought it was because he was overthinking it, so he let it go.

When the child retreated to the fence of the hut, the old woman walked out. Pushing open the fence, she saw a child lying in front of the fence. She saw several children bullying the children on the ground. The old woman was gentle.

But he said coldly, "Don't throw it away. You should leave quickly. If you don't leave, I will call your parents."

One of the big children said loudly, "Grandma Li, this is a refugee from outside. And look at his eyes. He's so scary. He might have turned into a monster. It's for the good of the village that we drive him away."

The old woman known as Granny Li said, "If he turned into a monster, he would still let you bully him like this. Is this how your teacher in school taught you? Bullying someone weaker than you? Get out of here right away."

After saying that, he went to help the child on the ground to get up. Unexpectedly, the child shrank to the side instead, as if he didn't want the old woman to help him up. He leaned on the fence, exhaled slowly, and recovered.

strength.

The noise here alerted the adults around them, who heard the sound and rushed over. The children who were making noises felt confident when they saw the adults of their own family, so they told their adults everything that had just happened.

"Sister-in-law Li, it's not that we are embarrassing him, but you know that we are all like clay bodhisattvas crossing the river now. If we don't drive him away quickly, if the refugees behind him find out about it, there is no guarantee that they will follow his example.

What will we do then? I think we should drive him away quickly." One of the old women, who was about the same age as Granny Li, said this.

Before Granny Li could answer, someone else said, "Yes, Aunt Li, this child can't help. If he does, there will be endless troubles."

"Who says it's not the case? If you don't want to live anymore, don't drag us into this."

"If you want to be a good person, go ahead. Why are you making things difficult for us?"

...

...

The words kept coming, and although the child was only three years old, he probably understood it. Granny Li wanted to help before, not wanting them to embarrass the child too much. She also planned to let him in to rest for a while, and prepared some dry food for him.

She left. But when she went to help the child, she saw that the child looked very familiar, and when she saw his eyes, she immediately determined where she had seen this child.

At this time, the child stood up and turned around to salute Granny Li. However, this salute was not very standard, but he still made a bow seriously, and then without saying anything else, he walked out step by step.

, probably because he didn’t want to embarrass this kind-hearted mother-in-law anymore. Everyone looked relieved, as if their hearts were finally at peace.

Seeing the child's appearance, Granny Li felt sad. She seemed to have remembered something, and her face showed a look of reminiscence, coupled with her previous fate with the child. She immediately made a decision and walked quickly to the child.

Squatting down, then holding his hand, with everyone's astonished eyes and the child's bewildered eyes, she gently said to the child, "Baby, will you live with grandma from now on, okay?"

The child didn't seem to hear what she said, and looked at her in disbelief. After coming back to his senses, he hurriedly tried to pull his hand back, but her hand was held tightly by Granny Li, who looked at the child gently and firmly as if she was a frightened beast.

His eyes seemed to be telling him, "Don't be afraid, grandma didn't lie to you."

The child didn't know how long he had seen this look, or he didn't know if he had seen it before. It made him feel like the winter sun was shining warmly on his body, and it felt like a bowl of hot soup he had drank before.

It warmed my heart, and then something seemed to melt from my heart and wanted to run out of my eyes. The child didn't know what emotions and feelings it was, so he had to lower his head without saying a word, but he never wanted to take his hand out of his grandma's hand.

Seeing this, Granny Li knew that the child was relieved and agreed, so she took his hand and brought him to the public, saying, "From today on, he is the grandson of my family, Prince Li."

Now, many people immediately made a fuss.

"Aunt Li, you can't harm everyone like this. You are adopting him now, but how much trouble will there be in the future? Have you ever thought about everyone?"

"That's right, if you don't want to live, don't hurt us!"

"Who says it's not the case? I'm usually nice and amiable, but I didn't expect that I have such a dark heart!"

...

Seeing everyone's indignant looks, the child was a little scared. Perhaps because he didn't want to implicate her, he pulled her hand, trying to take his own hand away, and said softly, "Grandma, I'd better go."

Granny Li was still looking at the people opposite her with cold eyes. When she saw him talking to her, she said happily, "You can speak. I thought you were a little mute! As long as you can speak, it will be good from now on."

You can chat more with grandma." Then he continued, "Don't be afraid, grandma is not afraid of them."

After everyone quarreled for a while, they saw that Granny Li still didn't say a word to them, and gradually her voice became quieter.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted, "The village chief is here."

I saw a crowd of people branching off like a river, and the village chief walked out of it.

"Ms. Li Wang, why do you need to go against everyone?"

Granny Li said neither humble nor arrogantly, "It's just you and they owe our old Li family a life. Now I just want you to pay it back. What do you think is too much?"

Everyone was silent after hearing this. After a long while, the village chief sighed and said, "So, you still remember!"

Granny Li said coldly, "I don't want to remember, but you have to remind me."

Seeing that she didn't back down at all, the village chief continued, "But have you ever thought about the consequences?"

Granny Li sneered, "Don't bully the old woman who doesn't understand anything at her old age. You say you're afraid that other refugees will learn from me, but they won't know what's going on in our village, even if they insist on staying." , what do the old and young men in our village do for a living, and really watch the refugees occupy their paddy fields. You are just afraid of trouble, and you just think that more things are worse than less things."

Everyone saw that she had revealed all their inner thoughts, and their faces were not good-looking. However, some people were still unconvinced and continued to ask, "Nonsense. We are obviously afraid that their refugees will be unclean, let alone whether they are sick or not."

, what do you think I should do if my body is not clean and I bring something dirty in?"

Granny Li said, "If he is sick, he will poison me first. Then you can roll us two up in mats and set them on fire. As for whether you think he can do it cleanly." Before she could continue,

Granny Li sneered first, then said, "Who else can be uncleaner than you?!"

Someone was unconvinced and said with a blushing face, "What nonsense are you talking about, you old woman?"

As if she was talking about something sad, grandma said with a sad look, "Isn't it true? Back then, my son was a sole heir of the old Li family. In order to save your own child, you kidnapped him at night and handed him over to such evil-hearted people.

He was burned alive as a sacrifice, and he said it was for the sake of everyone, thinking that I didn't know that all this was negotiated privately with that black-hearted person. Do you think it's easy for me to live these years? If it weren't for...

.For..." At this point, she slowly stopped talking.

Everyone fell silent, because the old woman's words pierced their hearts. They could not deny that back then, the mountain spirits caused chaos and the villagers suffered terribly. Later, a wandering Taoist priest came and gave them advice, saying that as long as they offered sacrifices

, can solve the urgent need. But who will sacrifice? This is a difficult problem. The Taoist priest said that a three-year-old child must be used as a sacrifice. There are several families with three-year-old children. Who can bear to sacrifice their own children?

After handing it over, one of the family members said, "Don't the Li family have a three-year-old child?"

Everyone tested each other's eyes, and someone hesitated and said, "That's not good! He asked us to take good care of them when he went out to join the army."

At this time, another person said, "It's been almost two years, and there is no reply. Who knows if he is still alive? Besides, if his child is handed over, and the Li Wang family takes advantage of this to commit suicide, wouldn't it just be a good time to give them away?"

Let’s get together as a family?!”

Everyone is trying to come up with suitable reasons for their evil deeds, and they seem to feel at ease once they have found an excuse. When people become evil, there is no degree of severity, only timing.

Later, they noticed that the family was lonely and there was no man who could talk, so they secretly discussed with the Taoist priest and asked the Taoist priest to come forward and say that the person who was being sacrificed was the child of the Li Wang family.

But the Li Wang family was unwilling to do so and refused to obey, but those families were determined to hand over the child so that they could keep their own children. The others also pretended to be dumbfounded, turning a blind eye and listening to the actual situation.

Just one night, those families secretly kidnapped Li Wang's child and took her away. During the struggle, Li Wang was pushed to the ground and hit against a cabinet and fainted. When she woke up and hurried over,

, only to see that the ceremony was over, the fire in the center of the square was almost burned out, and there was a burnt corpse inside.

This is a terrible past, and because of guilt or fear, everyone is polite and alienated from Granny Li, turning a blind eye to what she does and says, but this is the only difference.

The village chief was also thinking about what to do when they were quarreling. Seeing that everyone was silent, he came out to smooth things over and said, "You can keep him if you want, but we have to talk ugly up front. If he has problems, his

We will no longer care about your life or death. In fact, if he really brings something unclean in, we will drive him out of the village with you."
Chapter completed!