Chapter 170 That Doesn't Mean We Can't Kill You

"Let my son go! Please, let my son go, please."

"Mom, I don't want to leave. Mom."

While walking in the village, just when Xu Ming felt that the village was a little deserted, he heard the crying of a woman and a little boy.

Xu Ming raised his head and looked ahead. The villagers were gathering in front of a house.

A mother holds her son's hand tightly.

But during the constant pulling, the mother was pushed away and fell to the ground.

The mother wanted to rush forward, but was hugged tightly by her own man.

"Let go! Let go! No! Give my child back to me." The woman's hair was disheveled and she kept crying.

Xu Ming frowned and walked forward.

Xu Ming doesn't think he is a good person.

If there are things that I cannot do and that are beyond my ability, then I will not do them.

But there are some things that I can take care of myself, so I will take care of them myself.

"I don't know why you want to separate the mother and her child?" Xu Ming walked into the crowd and asked.

Hearing Xu Ming's voice, many people looked over and found that it was a person from another village: "Why do you care so much? Hurry up and leave!"

A big man pushed Xu Ming, but found that Xu Ming was like a mountain and could not be moved.

Instead, Xu Ming easily pushed the other person to the ground.

Xu Ming easily snatched the little boy away and returned him to the woman.

The woman hugged her son tightly and said "It's okay", "It's okay".

"What do you, a foreigner, know?"

An old man walked forward and pointed at Xu Ming with a trembling hand.

“We took their children away to offer sacrifices to the Dragon King of Huangsha River.

Every year we need to offer a pair of young boys and girls to the Dragon King of the Huangsha River, year after year!

Ask everyone here, is there any family that has not lost a son or daughter?

What? Now it's the Wang family's turn, so the Wang family doesn't agree? Is this fair to others? ! Seeing you practicing martial arts, you must be a knight roaming the rivers and lakes, right? You knights always talk about righteousness. If the son of the Wang family is not sacrificed, other families will take over! If we don't sacrifice, the Dragon King will be angry and the whole village will die!"

Xu Ming: “.”

Listening to the old man's questioning, even if he didn't ask in detail, Xu Ming roughly knew the reason.

The old man asked the woman behind Xu Ming: "Madam Wang! As a member of our village, you should have been prepared! Everyone is the same, how can your family be special?"

“I, I.”

Mrs. Wang pursed her lips tightly and tears dropped down her face.

"Alas," Mrs. Wang's husband sighed, pulled his wife's hand away, and personally led his son forward, "Village Chief, I'm sorry, it's my wife who is ignorant."

"Hmph, it's good that you know." The old man who was called the village chief snorted, "Let's go! To the Luo family!"

"Mother, father. Mother."

The little boy was taken away.

The woman squatted on the ground, covering her mouth and crying.

"Luo family." Xu Ming whispered these two words and looked at the direction they were going.

If nothing unexpected happens, Luo Sanniang's daughter will be the virgin who Jin Tongnian will be sacrificed.

I will definitely go and take a look later, but before that, I have to find out the situation clearly.

"Thank you for your help, brother. But this kind of thing is not something you can interfere with." The man looked very lonely. After all, who would see his son being taken away?

But other families have been doing the same over the years, so what's so special about mine?

"What is the origin of the Dragon King of Huangsha River?" Xu Ming asked.

Only a true dragon dares to call himself the Dragon King. How dare he call himself the Dragon King in such a small place and such a river? "My lord, the Dragon King of the Huangsha River is a long worm that swims in the water. However, after it swims in the water and reaches our Huangsha River, it turns into a dragon and stays there, calling itself the Yellow Sand Dragon Lord.

Twenty years ago, there was a drought and the village chief and others prayed for rain. The Yellow Sand Dragon King sent rain on the condition that a temple be built for him and he be worshipped.

Not only that, on his birthday, we have to slaughter chickens and cows, chickens and ducks, and also offer him a pair of young boys and girls.

After the drought situation improved, we thought about not relying on the Dragon King's protection anymore, or offering sacrifices to him, such as cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc., but we really couldn't offer these boys and girls.

But the Yellow Sand Dragon King refused, saying that a boy and a girl must be present, otherwise he would flood the entire village."

Listening to the man's description, Xu Ming frowned.

Virgin boys and girls are not a great tonic.

Why is this Yellow Sand Dragon King so persistent?

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"The Wu Kingdom's court prohibits private worship of wild gods by the people. This Yellow Sand Dragon King is really bold. Could it be that the court doesn't care?" Xu Ming asked again.

"well"

The man sighed heavily, looking extremely lonely.

"Sir, how can we manage this? Apart from other things, our village is under the jurisdiction of Huangye County, but the county magistrate of Huangye County is in cahoots with the Yellow Sand Dragon Lord.

It’s not that we didn’t report it to the authorities, but what’s the point of reporting it?”

Xu Ming: "The county magistrate is corrupt, what about the county governor?"

"Hey, young master. Our Chenxiang County is a vassal state of King Qing, who is also a leader of the Yizibingjian Kingdom."

Xu Ming: “.”

At this point, Xu Ming understood.

In Wu State, the power of the vassal kings was very great. Although not as great as the feudal states of the Zhou Dynasty in Blue Star, it was not much different from the feudal states in the early Han Dynasty. They were basically autonomous, and the vassal kings had administrative and military powers.

Therefore, the court has been calling for "reducing the power of the vassal states."

The vassal states of Prince Qing are corrupt, and no matter how much these people complain, they will report it to Prince Qing, not to mention whether Prince Qing will do anything about it.

But the fact that the county magistrate was in cahoots with the evil dragon shows what kind of situation his rule is like.

As for moving away.

The Wu State has always restricted the activities of its people.

Their farmland is registered here.

The most they can do is move to the county town. If they go to other counties, they will become refugees.

Those villagers who could move away and live with their relatives in the county town naturally left.

Where can the remaining villagers go? "Brother, do you know what realm that Dragon King is in?" Xu Ming asked. Xu Ming was just asking, and he didn't expect a villager to know the realm of the evil dragon.

"This..." The man thought for a moment, "Last year, that evil dragon seemed to have held a banquet and invited many guests, as if to celebrate entering the Danzi realm?"

"Golden Core Realm?"

"Yes, yes, it is the Golden Core Realm."

“I see.”

Xu Ming nodded.

That doesn't mean we can't kill him.

(End of this chapter)