Chapter 52052 Getting Married

Chapter 52

Kong Fan tried again in disbelief, but still couldn't find out Ying Ji's location through the poisonous insect in his body.

She cut off the Tongsheng Gu herself?

Kong Fan stood in the courtyard and pondered for a moment, then turned and walked into Yingji's room, looking at the furnishings in the room again.

Yingji didn't have the habit of keeping things in order, so the traces of life in the house didn't make Kongfan suspicious.

He checked again and saw the residue in the medicine furnace and the half-read book on talismans spread out on the table.

None of this can prove whether she left temporarily on her own or was abducted.

Kong Fan suddenly turned around and strode towards Ying Ji's bed. He lifted Ying Ji's pillow and saw her scimitar hidden under it.

Seeing the scimitar she always carried with her still there, Kong Fan's expression changed instantly, and he was sure that Ying Ji had definitely not left on her own.

Who dares to attack in Puja Temple?

Kong Fan left the place quickly and called the two little monks who usually delivered vegetarian meals to Ying Ji. He learned that the place had been deserted for a long time.

Kong Fan calculated the date and found that it was the time when he just started his retreat.

She has been kidnapped for such a long time!

Kong Fan felt a panic in his heart. He was always calm and composed, but suddenly he became a little confused.

Where is he going to find Yingji?

His palm was empty, without the Life and Death Gu, and the connection between the two seemed to be severed all of a sudden, and he couldn't find her.

He had once thought this trapped world so small, but now he realized how vast the world was. It was empty and boundless.

He once felt that he was capable of doing something, but now he realized how insignificant he was.

·

Yingji sat in the Lin family's courtyard, teaching Xiangxiang to hum folk songs from her hometown.

Several young men in the village passed by the Lin family's door, stretched their necks to look inside for a long time, and then left reluctantly.

The Lin family members were all in the yard.

Lin Xiao was helping Ying Ji make a gourd bottle to hold poisonous snakes and insects.

Aunt Lin is braiding Qingqing's hair.

On the surface, no one paid any attention to the people passing by outside the courtyard gate.

Aunt Lin looked at Yingji, who was not far away, with some concern. This foreign girl was truly stunningly beautiful. Ever since her arrival, countless young men in the village had looked at her with eagerness and... greed.

The village's population isn't large, and by this generation, there are more men than women. Many young men of marriageable age can't find wives...

Aunt Lin recalled an incident from her childhood. She heard from the elders in the village that a foreign couple had come to the village.

Later... Later, the husband died, and the woman became the wife of many people, giving birth to many children with different fathers for the village...

The villagers had lived together for hundreds of years, and many of them were related to each other, helping each other and getting along harmoniously. Most of the girls in the village could still live a peaceful life, but it was different for outsiders.

Aunt Lin sighed.

"Axiao, let's go." Yingji finally taught Xiangxiang the whole song. She stood up and took the shoulder bag and hung it on her body, and put a few wooden boxes and empty gourds into it.

"Right here!" Lin Xiao immediately dropped what he was doing and followed happily.

Aunt Lin looked at their backs and hurriedly reminded them, "Be careful, don't be too late! Come back before dark!"

Ying Ji and Lin Xiao went to the mountains again to continue looking for the poison Ying Ji needed.

"Aying, do you still need a lot of things?" Lin Xiao asked.

"The more the better," Yingji smiled. When it came to making poison, the raw materials didn't have to be that complicated. What she had now was more than enough. But this strange hidden village made her feel insecure. She wanted to find more poisons and make more.

The two had been to this forest several times before. Yingji wanted to find a certain herb, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find any, so she had to continue searching further afield.

After walking for a long time, Yingji felt a little tired and suddenly saw a mountain of graves.

It is not surprising that there are concentrated graves in the village, but what surprised Yingji is that there are no names on the stone tablets on this grave, and they are all empty tablets.

Yingji scanned the blank monuments one by one, then looked at one that was clearly newly erected and asked, "Why are there no names on it?"

Lin Xiao took a look and explained, "They are all graves of babies with evil powers."

Yingji was stunned for a moment, but then quickly realized that the newly-built grave must be the one for the second daughter of the Sun family's newly-born child...

Yingji looked at these densely packed, wordless monuments, and her stomach churned, a wave of discomfort. She turned and walked away immediately.

Not until she had walked quite a distance did she sit down on a fallen tree trunk to rest for a while.

Seeing Ying Ji's unhappy face, Lin Xiao scratched his head and said, "Rest here. I'll pick some fruit for you!"

Without Lin Xiao by her side, Ying Ji no longer hid her feelings, disgust and anger appearing on her face. She wanted to kill the person who strangled the baby. But who in this village was truly innocent?

A pheasant walked leisurely through the grass ahead.

Yingji looked at the pheasant and suddenly thought of something. If the people of the Hidden Village were selected for human beings and forced to stay as ordinary people without spiritual power, then what about the birds and beasts in this vast expanse of mountains and forests?

Why are there no birds or beasts in the mountains and forests?

Who is behind this? Who has the power to sift through the monsters, making it so that all living creatures with spiritual power cannot survive?

Is the Hidden Village really a Hidden Village?

Lin Xiao returned quickly. Ying Ji took the fruit he handed her and asked, "Don't people outside know about this place?"

"Of course!" Lin Xiao said firmly, "Those people born with evil powers definitely don't know about this place, otherwise they wouldn't let us live in peace!"

Ying Ji knew that what Lin Xiao said was wrong.

At least, Wudao knew this place.

Anyone who can control the monsters in the mountains and forests is definitely not an ordinary person, but a spiritual cultivator.

Yingji looked up and gazed at the endless blue sky.

Is this seemingly secluded village a gift from the spiritual cultivators? Or is it their experiment?

Yingji shuddered.

·

In the evening, Yingji and Lin Xiao went down the mountain to go home. As soon as they entered the village, they were surrounded by a large group of men.

Lin Xiao subconsciously stood in front of Ying Ji and asked with a smile, "Brother Sun, Brother Ahe, Brother Ping...what can I do for you?"

The men looked past Lin Xiao, looking at him with undisguised greed.

As a man, even though Lin Xiao was only seventeen, he understood what these people were thinking. He immediately said, "We have things to go home for. We'll meet up with you next time."

He wanted to take Yingji away, but the group of people blocking their way showed no intention of moving aside.

A middle-aged man said, "Aying has been here for a while now, it's time for her to...really settle down!"

"That's right." A young man next to her echoed, "Aying, pick one and marry him. That's how you truly become one of the villagers."

Someone jokingly whispered, "It's okay to pick a few more."

A large group of young men burst into laughter, and one of them even whistled a crooked whistle.

Lin Xiao saw the village chief from afar and shouted for help.

The village chief came over, and Lin Xiao immediately anxiously told him the whole story.

Yingji glanced at the village chief, then looked at the group of men. They all had indifferent expressions, as if they knew that the village chief would not do anything to them.

The village chief listened in silence and said, "Sun Shi is right. It's time for Aying to become a real villager as soon as possible."

The group of men continued to move forward, introducing themselves to Yingji one by one and asking her to make a choice.

This wasn't some kind of courtship; they all spoke in a frivolous tone, with a condescending attitude and overly explicit gazes. A large group of men like this, surrounding a woman and treating her as prey, would only terrify her.

Even though Yingji had met many men with bad intentions like this, she still felt offended and uncomfortable at this moment.

"Village Chief!" Aunt Lin ran over, pushed aside the people blocking her way, and squeezed in. She stood in front of Yingji and said, "Village Chief, you asked me to take Ah Ying back. I've been feeding her well these days. I've been treating her like my daughter-in-law! I can't have been raising her in vain! Now she's fat, and these little brats are here to snatch her away. Bah! You can't do that!"

Aunt Lin, who was always kind, suddenly put her hands on her waist, spoke in a hoarse voice, and became aggressive.

Someone suddenly said, "Ah Xiao is still young, his hair hasn't even grown out yet! It's not his turn! He has to wait in line!"

Lin Xiao tried to argue, but Aunt Lin glared at him, shutting him up. Aunt Lin smiled and spoke to the village chief, "Our Ah Xiao is already seventeen! Isn't it? He'll be eighteen after the New Year! It's a pity my husband passed away early, leaving Ah Xiao as the only male heir in the family. I'm so worried about his marriage! If my damn husband were still alive, they wouldn't have bullied Ah Xiao..."

Aunt Lin sobbed as she talked about the dead man.

The village chief glanced at Yingji.

Aunt Lin's deceased husband was related to the village chief. His death was a tragedy, and the village chief remembered it. When the village chief asked Aunt Lin to take Yingji home, he had intended to keep her in the Lin family.

"Get the wedding done as soon as possible." The village chief gave the order.

Aunt Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Xiao frowned in confusion. He secretly turned his head to look at Ying Ji and saw that she had a calm expression on her face, as if she was completely out of the matter.

·

At night, Yingji always liked to sit on the roof, feel the night breeze, and look at the mountains that she could not escape.

She raised her hand and slowly drew a talisman in the air with her fingers. It was the fireworks talisman that Kong Fan taught her.

Unfortunately, she had no spiritual power, so she couldn't draw anything and couldn't see the fireworks.

Kong Fan should have come out of seclusion, right?

Ying Ji guessed that Kong Fan would not remain in seclusion for too long, as she still had the poison of the Hehuan Yueqing Water in her body. Kong Fan would not ignore her.

But how would he find her? The world is so vast, and it is so easy to miss each other.

Yingji was annoyed when she thought of the Hehuan Yue Love Water. She took her pulse and found that the poison was condensing.

Lin Xiao climbed onto the roof and mustered up the courage to sit next to Ying Ji.

"Aying, don't blame my mother for what she said today. She was trying to protect you."

"I know." Yingji smiled slightly.

Lin Xiao continued, "I, I know you still don't like me. Do you think I'm young and not good enough?"

Yingji looked at him with a smile and said nothing.

"I'm just lying to them!" Lin Xiao looked at Ying Ji with his bright eyes as if making a vow, "Let's have a fake marriage first. As long as you don't like me, I won't bully you!"

Yingji laughed.

If she continues to be trapped here, with the existence of the Hehuan Yue Love Water, the fake marriage will become a real one.

Ying Ji became more and more annoyed when she thought that she didn't have to suffer the pain of the Hehuan Yue Love Water.

She began to annoy herself for having been so careless as to let the Qiankun Bag slip away from her. This loss would haunt her forever!

The wedding is in five days.

The village hadn't had a wedding in two years. A few days beforehand, the women from the village came to the Lin family to help with the preparations, and there was laughter and joy everywhere.

However, the men in the village still looked at Ying Ji with undisguised greed, not at all restrained by her marriage. It was as if... they just wanted Lin Xiao to marry first.

Yingji changed into the red wedding dress that Aunt Lin had worn. Yingji usually wore the coarse cloth clothes Aunt Lin gave her, but today she changed into the bright red wedding dress, and her already beautiful face became even more stunning.

Surrounded by villagers, she and Lin Xiao went to the village entrance to worship the gods.

Looking at the strange stone statue of the god, Yingji felt that it was no different from the cold snow stone of Duxue Country.

The sky had been clear for several days, but today it was covered with dark clouds and the wind was blowing. Soon it started snowing.

Yingji raised her head and looked at the snow.

She suddenly reached out and caught a green leaf in the falling snow.

That is a Bodhi leaf.

Yingji turned around suddenly, and her tassels and beads trembled.