After searching carefully nearby, the two female priests saw a mermaid in a clear spring. It seemed that the nearby spiritual energy was emitted from it. It must be a mermaid who had been practicing Taoism for hundreds of years...

In order to capture this mermaid, the two of them spent a lot of effort. Unfortunately, this mermaid was extremely intelligent and successfully escaped by it several times. In the end, there was no way. The sister of the two remembered an ancient formation called the Immortal Trap... It is said that it can trap spiritual beasts, and it is probably more than enough to capture the mermaids, so they set up a trap in the peach forest and tried every means to introduce the mermaids into the Immortal Trap.

It was too late to find out that the mermaids were trapped in the formation and could no longer escape. Although these two female priests were determined to refine the mermaids into pills, they were suffering from the lack of a copper furnace for elixirs in the barren mountains. However, if they transported the mermaids out of the deep mountains, they were afraid that they would change on the way, so in the end they could only slaughter the mermaids on the spot and ate their flesh and blood...

After hearing the female priests' talk, the ancestors of Taohuawu envied the opportunity of the two of them, and asked if they could teach them the formation that trapped the mermaids, and also gave them the opportunity to live forever.

The two knew that this mermaid was hard to find, so it was not easy for you to encounter it every day, so they taught them the Immortal Trap Formation openly. As time went by, the villagers forgot about this.

But the two of them did not expect the greed of human nature. The ancestors of Taohuawu waited for a while and realized that there should be only one mermaid in the spring, otherwise how could they have never encountered it if they lived here for more than ten years? So it is unlikely that they would achieve immortality by catching mermaids.

But they thought again, if they could live forever after eating mermaid meat, would human flesh that had eaten mermaid meat have the same effect? ​​The two female priests might never have thought that they would have kindly rescued and taken in refugees, and finally put their ideas on the two of them...

Because they were unprepared, even though the two female priests were aware of the Taoist practice, they finally took the Tao of these ordinary people, and the ancestors of Taohuawu also realized their dream of "everyone's immortality" as they wished.

But what no one expected was that all this was just the beginning of a curse. Things seemed to be different from what they imagined. They did not achieve true immortality, but only delayed the lifespan of ordinary people by one or two hundred years... But the price to delay the lifespan was far more than they imagined.

Later, occasionally refugees fleeing here came, and the women tried every means to keep the people, marry and have children, and reproduce... But they soon discovered something terrible.

It turns out that this situation of delaying life span will not last to their descendants. On the contrary, the children born to the first generation of Taohuawu women will even age faster than ordinary people, and even have granddaughters who look older than grandmothers. This is a terrible curse for the ancestors of Taohuawu, and it is also a punishment for their choice of treason for their longevity...

Unexpectedly, in order to break this curse, they came up with a more terrifying way to change the rapid aging of those descendants. So the people in Taohuawu used this method to pass on the genes that delayed their lifespans from generation to generation. But for some reason, their descendants will always be more women and fewer men. Even if there are occasionally one or two boys, it will be difficult to live until adulthood.

Since there are no men, the women in Taohuawu can only "recruit son-in-law to the door". However, in order to strictly keep the secret of Taohuawu, these men basically stay at home after they get back, and they will be kept at home until the other party and they have a common child and are old, they will be completely released from imprisonment...

Because by that time, most men would have to accept their fate. Even if they were allowed to return to their original lives, they would not be able to find their place anymore. It would be better to stay in Taohuawu, live a life of clothes, food, and food without worrying about food and clothing?!

After hearing this, Song Jiang couldn't help but sigh, "I used to hear about trafficking women and children, but I didn't expect that we would encounter trafficking men!? I have another question. What should I do if the man who got back did not have a child?"

"A man who cannot give birth to a child lives is a waste of food. Usually, he is beaten to death and buried in the peach forest as fertilizer..." Cui Cui's mother said without blinking.

Song Jiang felt chills when he heard this. It seems that not all men can enjoy the emperor-like treatment here! Then he looked at Bai Shaofei and said, "Are you so open-minded? You obviously have escaped, why are you back by yourself?"

After hearing this, Bai Shaofei smiled bitterly and said, "You misunderstood. I didn't kidnap back from outside. My body was filled with blood from Taohuawu people... So even if I go out to live, I can't tell the secret of Taohuawu."

When Song Jiang heard this, he realized that Shaofei should be the rare boy, so he was surprised, "Didn't the boys here usually don't live to adulthood?"

"This is not absolute. My brother and I... are the eldest sons of our fourth uncle. We have all grown up smoothly. Because we are rare boys, we are very popular and can even go to the outside world for education. Unfortunately, we still did not escape the curse of fate in the end. Even if we live to adulthood, we will be plagued by all kinds of diseases and cannot enjoy the life of ordinary people." Bai Shaofei sighed.

After hearing this, Song Jiang asked in confusion, "Why has the gene for longevity not been inherited to you?!"

Bai Shaofei shook his head and said, "Somehow, the art of immortality has passed on to women but not men. Even if we eat the previous generation..., we cannot change the fate of short life. Perhaps it is because we Taohuawu have too many lifespans that ordinary people should not have, so God punished Taohuawu for not having men to continue the incense."

At this point, Song Jiang finally understood all the secrets in Taohuawu. When he thought that they had witnessed the terrifying side of the women in Taohuawu last night, he sympathized with Bai Shaofei, the only male child from the bottom of his heart.

(End of this chapter)


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