Afterwards, Chen Wei asked the woman to come back in three days, as the medicine on the ancestral prescription would take three days to prepare.

"Remember, don't tell anyone else what we said today."

"After all, it's a folk remedy. Some people have a lot of prejudice against folk remedies and think they're ineffective. If you tell others about it in advance, I'm afraid it will reveal the secret and prevent you from giving birth to a child in this lifetime."

"Just wait patiently. Once you give birth to your child, you will be able to hold your head high and be proud of yourself."

After Shen Wei's persuasion, the woman left with great gratitude.

Some time passed.

Chen Wei waited until he had a clear understanding of the environment before he dared to take action.

I learned from the woman that if a foreign woman got lost, she would be locked up in the ancestral temple if she was caught.

As long as the men in the village need it, they can apply to the village chief and enter the ancestral temple to allow outsider women to continue the family line.

The woman gave birth to several daughters. This time, she saw a man in the village bringing another woman back.

Seeing that her husband was about to apply to the village chief, the woman became so anxious that she hid and came to find Chen Wei to see if she could still give birth to a son.

The moon in the sky was an eerie red, like a bleeding heart, and the surrounding clouds were also a strange red.

In the 21st century, some people have already taken out their mobile phones to take pictures and said that this is a blood moon that is rarely seen in hundreds of years.

But in ancient times, the blood moon was an ominous sign.

When Chen Wei looked up and saw the moon, her heart sank. In a trance, she seemed to see a bloody heart.

Chen Wei slapped herself to stop thinking about it, and then she quickly walked to the ancestral temple.

The houses in the village are not tall and are arranged in a messy manner.

But this ancestral temple was built tall and majestic. Under the cover of night, it looked like a face hidden in the darkness, silently watching the visitors.

The ancestral hall was locked from the outside, and Chen Wei could only crawl in along the wall.

After landing on the ground with a thud, Chen Wei looked around. The printing technology around him was pitch black, like a huge mouth waiting for Chen Wei to enter.

Chen Wei's heart was beating fast, and he silently repeated the great man's words in his mind, then he walked carefully into the pitch-black mouth.

The surroundings were silent, without even the sound of the wind, as if everything had been swallowed up.

Chen Wei was so nervous that his palms were sweating, and he shouted softly:

"Xiao Man."

"Bang, bang."

From inside came the sound of iron chains dragging on the floor.

Chen Wei listened carefully and walked quickly towards the direction of the sound.

"Xiaoman......."

Chen Wei saw Xiaoman.

She saw Xiaoman's hands and feet tied with chains, her eyes full of despair, her messy hair...

The clothes on his body were torn into strips and hung on his body, and the skin that was not covered was covered with blue and purple marks.

Chen Wei's tears immediately burst out and she rushed to Xiaoman and wanted to hug her.

Xiaoman curled up in the corner in fear, looking at Chen Wei numbly.

"Xiao Man, don't be afraid, it's me, I'm Chen Wei."

"I'll take you back."

Chen Wei let the tears fall down her face. She wanted to untie Xiaoman's shackles, but Xiaoman shrank back again.

Chen Wei's heart was filled with pain and guilt.

"I'm sorry, I had no choice at the time. I couldn't save you."

"It's just that the sweet potato vine is more important to us. If we don't find the sweet potato vine, the three thousand women who went to the Xiongnu land will truly become victims."

"Only when we find the sweet potato vines will the imperial court have the confidence to send troops to rescue them."

"Xiaoman, I'm sorry for you."

"You can blame me however you want, but let me get you out first, okay?"

"I've been looking for you these past few days. My thinking is rigid. I always thought you were imprisoned in a cattle pen, but I didn't expect them to hold you in a place like this."

No matter what Chen Wei said, Xiaoman remained distracted.

Staring at Chen Wei with eyes full of fear, despair and unfamiliarity.

Chen Wei took out a thin needle from the cloth bag he carried with him, trying to open the chain that shackled Xiaoman, but found that the thin needle could not enter at all. After taking a closer look, Chen Wei's heart instantly sank.

All the holes are blocked!!!

It is impossible to rescue Xiaoman quietly, and she needs to be chopped with an axe.

But doing so would make a loud noise, and...it would only be able to break the chains, but it would not be able to completely unlock the locks on Xiaoman's hands and feet.

Chen Wei stood up, but Xiaoman thought Chen Wei was going to leave.

She whimpered in fear at the curtain, her voice sharp and piercing in the darkness, breaking the silence of the night and disturbing the villagers living near the ancestral hall.

“Someone broke into the ancestral hall!!!”

Perhaps someone had tried to rescue people before, so the villagers were very alert.

As soon as he heard the noise, he ran towards the ancestral hall with a carrying pole without even putting on his clothes. When other villagers heard the noise, they also ran towards the ancestral hall quickly.

Chen Wei's heart sank, and he quickly closed the door of the ancestral hall.

Outside, she heard the sound of the ancestral hall door being opened, followed by footsteps coming inside.

Chen Wei moved the altar table step by step to block the wooden door, but she knew in her heart that the wooden door of the ancestral hall could not stop the aggressive villagers. As long as they worked together to hit it with something, the wooden door would be smashed in an instant.

There was a bloody taste in her mouth, and before she knew it, her lips were bleeding from being bitten. Shen Wei made up her mind. If she really couldn't stop that group of people, then she would rather...

"Hahaha, what beautiful flowers."

Suddenly hearing Xiaoman's laughter, Chen Wei turned around.

Seeing Xiaoman knocked out the eternal lamp on the ancestral hall, the eternal lamp lit up the ancestral hall, igniting a spark in the darkness, illuminating Xiaoman's crazy, numb and frightened face.

“Boom—”

"You think you're safe hiding in the ancestral hall? Dream on!"

"If you don't open the door, we'll break in and chop the men into pieces and feed them to the dogs, and the women, hehe, will become our exclusive delicacy."

The banging on the door outside became more and more urgent, like a death warrant.

The wooden door creaked as it was smashed, sounding like the grinding of teeth of evil people, as if they were approaching Chen Wei and Xiao Man with a knife and fork.

Chen Wei smiled grimly, his eyes full of determination.

She suddenly walked towards Xiaoman calmly and hugged Xiaoman: "I'll accompany you. This place is not the place I wanted to come to."

She knew that if Xiaoman was still conscious at this moment, she would rather die in the sea of fire than be imprisoned and insulted by men without seeing the light of day.

Chen Wei took the wine from the altar and poured it on herself decisively. She hesitated for a moment and then poured the remaining half bottle of wine on Xiaoman.

In the moment when the flames engulfed the two of them, Xiaoman briefly regained consciousness.

She wanted to push the curtain away out of guilt, crying, "It hurts, it hurts, don't come back."

“Miss Shen, you shouldn’t have come back to save me.”

"You can't die here, someone needs you."