Chapter 340 Sacrifice

"Haven't you noticed there are so few women in the village?"

Cen Miaoying and Wu Gui looked at each other and said to Zhou Yunshu, "I've discovered that there are not many girls."

"Are they all at home?"

Cen Miaoying shook her head. "We have to wait until Chunque and his team finish checking to confirm. It wasn't there during registration."

Zhou Yunshu nodded and waited patiently for the results of Chunque's investigation.

But the result after the investigation made Zhou Yunshu look very gloomy, because all the women who should have existed in the manor were sent to Longwang Mountain by the people in the manor to serve the Dragon God.

When Zhou Yunshu heard the result, she couldn't help but swear.

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Yan Shilei and his group rushed back to Baoyunzhuang before nightfall, and when they came back, they brought with them a 17 or 18-year-old boy of another race.

Yan Shilei carried the young man into the yard where Zhou Yunshu and her group were staying temporarily. As soon as they entered the yard, the young man started to struggle in Yan Shilei's hands, just because he saw Yin Qing sitting on the wooden bench without saying a word. He was the young man who was rescued from the pole by Zhou Yunshu.

Yin Qing raised his eyes and glanced at the boy. The boy broke away from Yan Shilei and ran to Yin Qing's side, then looked at Yan Shilei and others vigilantly.

"I burned it." He said to Yin Qing stealthily, "I was caught."

Yin Qing nodded, and the boy didn't say anything else. He just squatted behind Yin Qing like a stone.

The aroma of food wafted in, and Meng Nan said to Yan Shilei and the others in the yard, "It's time to eat, let's eat first!"

Yan Shilei glanced at Yin Qing and the other person in the yard and nodded, "I'll be right there."

When only Yin Qing and the boy were left in the yard, the boy tugged at Yin Qing's sleeve and pointed stealthily at the gate of the yard.

The gate was open at this time and there was no one guarding them in the yard, so if they wanted to run away, they could definitely escape.

"No."

"Why?"

"The old beast must be waiting for us outside."

The boy curled his lips and calmed down, but soon his stomach started growling. He had to press his stomach hard to try to make it less embarrassing.

But Yin Qing suddenly stood up, and the boy looked up at him, "Ah Qing."

"Let's go eat."

"Ah? Where are we going to eat?"

"Come with me."

When the young man saw Yin Qing going into the house, he followed him obediently.

When Yin Qing walked into the house with the tall young man, Wan Zhong, Meng Bei and others who were eating looked at them.

Yin Qing didn't consider himself an outsider. He just looked at Cen Miaoying and said, "Where should we sit?"

Women are softer-hearted and easier to talk to.

Everyone's eyes turned to Cen Miaoying again.

Although Cen Miaoying is a woman, everyone knows that she is the housekeeper of the team after getting along with her for a long time.

Both the captain of Team 4 and Geng Jiang and Yu Yinghao who joined later respected her very much. After all, she was the one who arranged their food and drink expenses, and it was not easy to offend her.

"Come to our table."

Zhou Yunshu brought a lot of people with her, and most of them camped outside the yard.

Only Zhou Yunshu's confidants, such as the team that had been trained before and Geng Jiang and others, could live in the yard.

Now sitting with Cen Miaoying are Yan Shilei, Wan Zhong and others. It can be said that Zhou Yunshu's confidants are all at this table.

Yin Qing didn't think there was anything wrong with the two of them joining in, so he just casually took the boy and sat over.

Geng Yang glanced at Yin Qing and continued eating his meal.

Yan Shilei and others did not bother with Yin Qing and concentrated on eating their own meals. Later, they even started to snatch food from the two of them.

Yin Qing, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, had a big appetite, and the boy next to him was an even bigger glutton.

The two of them seemed to have no idea what politeness was. Yan Shilei and his group put down their chopsticks, but the two of them were still eating, like two starving ghosts, and finally licked the plates clean.

As Cen Miaoying and the others looked at the two with complicated expressions, Chunque came over and said, "You two, the master wants to see you."

Yin Qing wiped his mouth with his dirty sleeve, patted the shoulder of the boy who was still licking the plate, and followed Chunque to the main hall reluctantly.

The two men walked into the main hall one after the other, and the young man burped with satisfaction behind Yin Qing.

Zhou Yunshu smiled and looked at Yin Qing and the others and said, "Now that you've had enough to eat and drink, can you tell me about Baoyun Manor?"

Yin Qing did not answer Zhou Yunshu's question, but only said: "I feel weak, can you sit down?"

"Can."

Yin Qing sat directly on the chair next to him. The boy behind him looked at Yin Qing, thought for a moment, and then sat next to him.

"My name is Yin Qing, and his name is Ji Yan."

Jiyan nodded and repeated, "My name is Jiyan, and I'm Ah Qing's younger brother."

Although Ji Yan is five or six years older than Yin Qing, he is willing to say that he is his younger brother.

Zhou Yunshu nodded without saying anything, motioning them to continue.

"The people at Baoyun Manor were sick before we came."

Bedrock nodded seriously, "They're crazy."

"We were tricked into selling ourselves into Baoyun Manor. There were 237 other people with us."

Ji Yan acted like Yin Qing's supporting actor and continued, "They are all dead."

"We don't want to die, so we continue to pick up our old ways."

"Charlatan?" Chunque asked.

Yin Qing looked at Chunque and said calmly, "It's a witch."

"That's about right."

Yin Qing rolled his eyes at Chunque and said dissatisfiedly, "It's far worse!"

"My family is a family of mountain witches. We left the mountains because we couldn't stand it anymore. But life down there isn't much better than up there. We were deceived and sold to Baoyun Manor."

Bedrock nodded, "Those down the mountain are all bad guys!"

Wu Gui looked at Yin Qing and said, "But you look like someone from the mountains. Your last name..."

"My original surname was Yin, but the human trafficker said it was unlucky, so I changed it to Yin." Yin Qing's original name was Yin Qing.

Yin Qing knew that Zhou Yunshu was the one who kept her word, so no matter who asked him, he would answer Zhou Yunshu.

"I know Baoyun Manor has an owner, but I don't know who it is. But knowing is useless. The owner of Baoyun Manor can't control this crazy person in the manor."

"How could the whole village be full of lunatics?" Wu Gui frowned and asked, "There must be someone instigating this."

Yin Qing didn't quite understand what Wu Gui meant by this. He only said what he knew, "If he wasn't crazy, why would he tie up a good person and burn him to death in the mountains?"

"In our village, we always use three kinds of animals for sacrifice, but the people of Baoyun Village use human sacrifices to pray for the protection of the Dragon God."

Yin Qing stared at Zhou Yunshu intently and said, "If my parents hadn't stopped us, do you think there would still be these people left in Baoyun Manor?"

"Why offer sacrifices for no reason?"

Zhou Yunshu understood sacrifice as something that people would place their hopes on gods when they could no longer survive due to natural disasters or man-made calamities.

However, she encountered no natural disasters along the way, and the man-made disasters were in Yuncheng and Kuixian, and had nothing to do with Baoyun Manor.

"Who said there's no reason? Don't you know there's a plague in Yuncheng?"