Leng Qingning was so angry at him that the inexplicable sadness that surged up in her disappeared for a moment. "You are a grown man and you are comparing your looks with mine. Aren't you ashamed?"
"Village chief, why is there a dilapidated temple over there?" Yang Fan asked curiously. The village chief's expression changed immediately, and Leng Qingning looked at Yang Fan with great satisfaction.
I didn't expect that this guy looked silly, but every time he asked a question, he would ask the key points.
"To be honest, this was originally a temple dedicated to a goddess. Unfortunately, the goddess passed away hundreds of years ago, and the village has been plagued by disasters and droughts for years. The villagers prayed to the heavens day after day, year after year, but the heavens could not hear their cries for help, so..."
Ji Lize suddenly snorted coldly: "So they no longer believe in the gods, but instead destroy the goddess, right? How can these people be so ungrateful?"
The village chief also sighed, "Ah~ there's nothing we can do about it. Besides, when I was born, the Goddess Temple had already been destroyed a hundred years ago."
After hearing this, several people felt upset and stopped talking about this topic. The moment Leng Qingning followed the village into the house, they seemed to hear a woman crying sadly not far behind them.
She subconsciously turned her head to look at the ruined Temple of the Goddess, and unconsciously touched her chest, which felt blocked and uncomfortable.
"Junior Sister Leng, shall we go in?" Bai Xichen's voice interrupted her thoughts.
"You are such a money-loser. You don't do any work every day. Today you have really become more capable and even steal things. Tell me, are you going to steal food and give it to that little bitch again?" The fierce woman took a wooden stick in her hand and beat the girl with sallow skin and skinny figure.
The girl tightly grasped a steamed bun in her hand, crying and begging for mercy, "Mom, I was wrong. I will never steal anything again. But Sister Li is so pitiful. She hasn't eaten for a long time. If she doesn't eat, she will die!"
"I told you to take care of that bitch who only knows how to seduce men. I told you to take care of that bitch!" The woman hit the girl again and again with the wooden stick, and the girl burst into tears.
The village chief looked at the embarrassed expressions on the faces of the few people and said, "I am so sorry to have made you laugh."
Then, his expression suddenly changed and he shouted, "That's enough. There are guests here. Don't feel embarrassed. It's just a steamed bun. Erya is kind-hearted. Let her give it to that poor girl~"
The woman stopped immediately upon hearing this, and when she saw the room full of strangers, her face instantly fell.
"How many times have I told you that the drought is so severe now? It hasn't rained in several years. We don't even have enough food to eat. And you still bring so many strangers into your home? Do you want to starve us to death?"
As she spoke, the thin woman came over with her hands on her hips and rudely pushed them out the door, "Get out of here, get out! We don't have any food to feed you!"
“Snap—”
A loud slap landed, and the woman covered her face in disbelief and looked at the village chief, "You, Li Erniu, how dare you do this to me? I want to divorce you!" As she spoke, the two began to fight.
However, Li Erniu was a strong man after all, and he quickly subdued the fierce lady.
Leng Qingning and the others stood there looking at each other awkwardly the whole time. For a moment, the room was eerily quiet.
"Big sister, are you here as guests?" Erya looked at her curiously with her dark eyes, her eyes sparkling with surprise in them.
"Sister, you are so beautiful, as beautiful as Sister Li!"
"You silly girl, if you dare mention that bitch's name again! Go and feed the pigs quickly. If the pigs starve to death, you won't have any food to eat!" Li Erya shrank in fear and ran out quickly with the wooden barrel.
Zhou Xuan couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he pulled Erya behind him and took the stick from the woman's hand.
"Auntie, Erya is your biological daughter after all. How can you be so cruel to her? If you keep beating her like this, she'll be beaten to death."
"You little pretty boy, what are you looking at? What does it have to do with you if I teach my own daughter a lesson? Besides, I can't even feed myself. I raised her to this age, so what's wrong with hitting her a few times?" The woman came forward fiercely with her hands on her hips, and her chest almost hit him. Zhou Xuan was so scared that he stepped back repeatedly.
My goodness, this human woman is so scary, she is even more brutal than the women of the tiger demon tribe. Fortunately, he doesn't like tigresses and will never look for such a tigress in the future.
However, I couldn't tolerate her calling herself a gigolo.
"That's enough! You're really messing around. There are so many guests here, and you're not afraid of making a fool of yourself. Arya is your daughter after all, so stop it!"
I, the woman, also stopped what I was doing, but the expression on my face became even more ferocious.
Suddenly, she poked the village chief with her finger, causing him to step back repeatedly.
"They're bringing more people home. We can't even get enough to eat or drink, so how can we have enough food to feed outsiders? I don't care. Get them out of here!"
"Pa--" A loud slap came down, and the woman covered her face and looked at the village chief in disbelief.
"You dare to hit me? You actually dare to hit me. Do you know how much I have paid for my family to have enough food during these years of drought?"
The two of them were pushing each other, you slap me and I slap you, it was so lively, Leng Qingning watched with great interest.
Seeing this, Ji Lize couldn't help but frown, "Since they don't welcome you..." Before he could even say the word "leave", Yan Ci covered his mouth with his hand, "Since it's the village chief's good intention, we naturally can't let him down. Don't worry, village chief, we will take care of the meal ourselves, just stay here for one night."
"Really?" The couple suddenly turned around together, surprise in their eyes.
Yan Ci smiled without looking at his face and said, "Of course it's true." He was born with a good-looking face, and his handsome appearance made it easy for people to mistake him for a gigolo, thus lowering their guard against him.
The woman put her hands on her hips and said fiercely, "Well, you can live in the rooms over there. Remember, don't touch anything in the house. If anything is missing, get out!"
After saying that, they swaggered away. The village chief avoided their gaze and looked at them apologetically.
"I'm so sorry, ladies and gentlemen, for making a fool of myself. It's not my wife's fault. It's just that we haven't had any rain here for three consecutive years, and all the rivers are almost dry."
Bai Xichen said with sympathy: "I didn't expect you to be so miserable."
Leng Qingning looked at Erya who was hiding quietly by the door. When Erya saw that she was exposed, she ran away in fear, holding something.
She covered her forehead with her hands, pretending to be tired. "Village Chief, I'm a little tired. I'll take a rest first."
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