Although the aunt's cry was full of trembling tone, her thoughts were still very clear, and she told Pei Wende the whole incident without missing any details.

According to the aunt's description, the Zhu family is actually a well-known and wealthy family in Runzhou City.

However, due to the consecutive famines the year before and last, the Zhu family's wealth and foundation were almost depleted. The remaining people died or escaped. Only a dozen people in the main line survived and moved to transport grain.

Settled by the river.

Fortunately, although the Zhu family has declined, their vision is still better than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, with Pei Wende's series of relief measures, the Zhu family, young and old, quickly recovered part of their vitality and regained nearly a hundred acres of land.

Even when Pei Wende wanted to promote the replanting measures, the Zhu family was among the first to respond.

The young ladies of the Zhu family have been going up the mountain to burn incense and pray for blessings, actually to express their gratitude to Pei Wende and the Jinshan Temple for the "rebirth" they had brought to them.

Until not long ago, a "demon disaster" suddenly broke out in the area where the Zhu family settled.

It is said that a ferocious wild boar of unknown origin suddenly appeared and wreaked havoc on and trampled the rice seedlings with the intention of destroying the newly cultivated fields.

In desperation, the local county magistrate decisively recruited brave people and sent people to patrol the area twelve hours a day, so that the ferocious wild boar could not continue to act.

Even so, the seedlings that were previously damaged and trampled could no longer be saved, which directly resulted in this year’s autumn harvest being much smaller than in other areas.

In a sense, this is part of the reason why Zhujiazhuang responded so actively to Pei Wende's call.

Maybe he is unwilling, or maybe he just wants revenge...

The young lady of the Zhu family was abducted by the pig monster that suddenly appeared when she was out on a boat. She has not been seen until today.

The only thing that is certain is that the young lady of the Zhu family was not killed, but simply kidnapped by the pig demon.

As for why the Zhu family are so sure of this?

That's because after the pig demon abducted the young lady of the Zhu family, it proposed "redemption conditions" to the Zhu family more than once.

However, this is where the weirdness lies. The conditions proposed by the pig demon are different every time, and the requirements seem to be lower each time.

From the beginning, they asked the Zhu family to leave collectively, then they asked the Zhu family to return the cultivated fields, and in the end, they even just asked the Zhu family not to continue to cultivate the mountains and forests...

Such a strange situation naturally attracted other villagers to look at it differently.

Among the various rumors and rumors that the Zhu family has suffered, there is one kind of speculation that is particularly harsh.

According to the villagers, the land currently owned by the Zhu family actually belongs to the pig demon.

Before the Zhu family came here, the ferocious wild boar had been entrenched in this land. It was a spiritual creature transformed from the essence of the mountains.

But since the Zhu family came here, the living space of the pig demon has been compressed, until it was finally exposed to everyone.

Of course, if the rumors were limited to this, they would not have much impact on the Zhu family.

The crux of the problem is that the ferocious wild boar changes its "redemption" conditions again and again, and its requirements are lower each time.

The villagers speculated that this might be because the pig demon had taken a liking to the Zhu family's young lady.

As time passed, villagers from nearby villages even joked in front of the Zhu family - if you wait a little longer, the pig demon may take the initiative to reclaim more than ten acres of wasteland, and then give it to your family as a betrothal gift.

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Regardless of the authenticity of this kind of ridicule, everyone in the Zhu family was so angry that the old man of the Zhu family almost couldn't breathe and kicked his legs.

It was under such circumstances that the aunt secretly sneaked to Jinshan Temple for help without telling the men, women and children of the Zhu family.

After all, even in the open-minded Tang Dynasty, few women who were defiled died well, let alone those who were defiled by monsters.

According to the practices of those big clans, situations like the Zhu family's young lady are usually regarded as "death" by default.

So instead of working hard to save him, then let the whole family's reputation be tarnished.

It would be better to treat this daughter as dead from the beginning, so that she can at least have a good reputation.

Only the aunt who had a deep relationship with the Zhu family's mistress couldn't bear to see her mistress "die" inexplicably, so she took the risk of making things worse and went to Jinshan Temple.

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"Pig demon?"

Pei Wende glanced at the aunt with a strange expression, and felt that the other party's description sounded familiar.

If the Zhu family is replaced by Gao Laozhuang, wouldn't this be the Tang Dynasty version of the deeds of the second senior brother and Gao Cuilian?

And he always felt that the aunt's care for the young lady of the Zhu family went beyond the normal relationship between master and servant.

Would a normal cook in a normal family flee with his master?

Would a normal cook do something behind the master's back that would definitely ruin the family's reputation?

Not to mention, Pei Wende could clearly sense the difference in the cook at the moment.

A figure that cannot be concealed even at an advanced age, and hand calluses that are obviously not formed by years of spooning...

This lady is not so much a cook as a swordsman who wields a sword all year round.

Women are different from men. Innate gender differences prevent them from building strong muscles like men.

But women's unique flexibility and flexibility allow them to practice swordsmanship to another peak level.

It is obvious that this lady who calls herself "the cook" is a rare female swordsman, and her swordsmanship has probably reached some peak level.

"Auntie, I think with your skills, you won't be able to deal with a pig demon, right?"

He didn't mean to talk in circles with the other party, and Pei Wende exposed the other party's disguise with just one sentence.

The most important thing is that when Pei Wende said this, he didn't give the aunt any time to react, and made a sword gesture with two fingers to stab the opponent's forehead.

Seriously!

In the faint whistling sound, the aunt's pupils suddenly trembled, and she instinctively turned her head to avoid Pei Wende's finger sword.

【Oops!】

When the aunt realized that something was wrong and wanted to stop her evasive action, Pei Wende had already retracted his sword lightly.

"The mind has been formed, and spiritual awareness has begun to appear."

"With your current level of swordsmanship, Madam, it is not impossible to enter the Tao with a sword and explore the innate world."

"I'm afraid that a spirit that still retains its original form can't enter your eyes, right?"
Chapter completed!