Chapter 108 Qingbao catches Old Lady Su red-handed
Qingbao arrived at Lijia Village, which is the closest village to Sujia Village.
In the Li family, there was a disheveled old woman who carried a swaddled baby and went around asking people if her child was cute.
As she asked questions, she came up to Qingbao and showed her the ball of dough in her hand.
"My baby, isn't she adorable? Isn't she adorable? Hey, she cries at night, so I feed her milk..."
"Good baby, drink grandma's milk, grow up and be filial to dad and mom..." she said, and sang a nursery rhyme.
Qingbao sighed softly.
There was no child inside the quilt.
“It’s so cute,” she said.
Grandma Li chuckled foolishly, then happily skipped away.
The villagers passing by looked at Qingbao with horror: "Whose little girl is this? Go home right now! Where are your parents? Never mind, I'll take you home..."
He put down the carrying pole and was about to lead Qingbao away.
The dagger at his waist became visible, and the man looked on warily.
Qingbao shook her head. "Hello, uncle. I'm from out of town. I got separated from my family. Can you tell me why no girls come out of the village?"
Seeing her big, bright eyes, the uncle's heart softened. "Child, there aren't many girls in our village. They're basically kidnapped as soon as they go out. We have no choice but to hide them."
"That old woman just now, her child was stolen a few years ago, which is why she went insane..."
The uncle sighed and said to Qingbao again, "If you can't find your family, come and hide at the village chief's house. I'll ask everyone to help you find them."
Outsiders are easy to find in the village.
Qingbao tilted her head, "So many people have been kidnapped, why don't you just squat down and look for the traffickers?"
"I tried squatting, but it didn't work." As the uncle mentioned this, several villagers looked at Qingbao helplessly.
"Once, our village chief's daughter acted as bait, and all the men in the village lay in wait, ready to attack anyone they saw, but..."
Speaking of this, their faces were filled with fear. "But the village chief's daughter just disappeared on the spot! She turned into a ray of light and was taken away by something."
"Everyone was terrified and hid their daughters, but the village chief knelt on the spot, crying his heart out..."
“We have tried our best to hide them, but as soon as people find out that we have daughters, they will be taken away.”
Later, whenever a baby girl was born in Lijia Village, she was raised in a cellar.
Girls born in these years have never seen the sun.
Qingbao suddenly felt suffocated.
"Little one, only when an immortal's magic weapon is used to capture someone will it turn into a beam of light and disappear."
Fu Tu transformed into a wisp of black mist, nestled in Qing Bao's arms, and whispered something.
These vengeful spirits and evil spirits, when they want to take people away, are all shrouded in black mist.
Qingbao was taken by the villagers to the village chief's cellar.
No outsiders know about this place.
As soon as the cellar door opened, countless pairs of clear, watery eyes quickly gathered in one place.
They stared longingly at Qingbao, and at the sky.
The oldest is only six years old.
The youngest was a baby girl in swaddling clothes, held in the arms of a six-year-old girl.
Qingbao looked down and met their gazes. The countless eyes below, yearning for freedom, stirred her emotions.
I felt a pang of sadness.
"Qingbao, you should go inside quickly. It's safe here, no one knows." The uncle told her to go down.
Qingbao shook her head, bit her lip, and said with difficulty, "Cover it up."
Covering the cellar was a routine task for the villagers, but for Qingbao, it was...
The villagers looked at Qingbao with suspicion.
Fu Tu, who was in Qing Bao's arms, appeared gracefully, and the two of them turned into a cloud of black mist and disappeared from Li Family Village.
The crisp, childlike voice left only one sentence:
"If you want to deal with the murderer, go to Sujia Village immediately."
The villagers of Lijia Village stared blankly as Qingbao flew away, their eyes instantly welling up with tears.
They knelt on the ground and kept bowing.
"Thank you, immortal! Thank you, immortal!"
Finally, an immortal, unable to bear the suffering of humankind, decided to intervene and save them.
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Qingbao made a trip to Mengjia Village and then to Wangjia Village.
After gathering all the nearby large villages together using the same method.
She returned to Sujia Village.
In front of the Sihe Courtyard gate, Qingbao carefully sensed...
“Fu Tu, they took away the hoes that my mother and maternal grandfather used.”
It seems they either wanted to cut down mountains and dig up soil, or they wanted to kill someone to cover their tracks.
“Destroy the evidence,” Fu Tu said coldly.
Qingbao clenched her little hands tightly, "She could never have offered only two pairs of eyes at a time, so many girls have disappeared."
"Of course not. Because the General's Mansion was very small, my appearance there threw her into a panic. She then gouged out the eyes of the only two girls in the General's Mansion and, in desperation, offered them as tribute."
Fu Tu's gaze was unfocused, a mocking smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
Xuan Yue...hehe, your eyes aren't better yet.
"So, she only killed two girls because there were only two girls in the General's Mansion. If there were ten..."
Qingbao was absolutely horrified.
I wouldn't even dare to think about it.
The servants also said that the old lady was very fond of the girl.
When she and Su Mengmeng were born, the old lady threw a grand banquet...
Upon learning that one of them was a malevolent star, they wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.
Qingbao's eyes are beautiful, something Old Madam Su often praises in front of others, all to incite Su Mengmeng's jealousy...
If she had been here at that time, and Su Mengmeng had gouged out her eyes, then her eyes would have been gone.
—Then they would become offerings to the two immortals.
Do they even deserve to bear this?
"Go!" Qingbao gripped the judge's pen tightly as Fu Tu swept her away.
They surveyed the area from the air before finally landing on the back hill of Sujia Village.
Qingbao looked at the cave and her heart tightened.
It's the same cave where her mother almost got killed!
It seems that Madam Su's people really know how to pick their targets.
The cave was very large, and four old women were digging with hoes.
After digging for a while, Old Madam Su could no longer dig and leaned against the stone wall, panting heavily.
"If only these were things from immortals, they could help us destroy them all," said Granny Su.
The immortals once bestowed upon her five magic bags, which, when recited incantation, could capture people and bring them here.
After their eyes were gouged out, their souls went blind and could not escape, remaining hidden inside the stone wall.
Now, they must break through the stone wall and burn everything inside to ashes, otherwise... the consequences will be dire.
"Madam, now is not the time to complain about being tired. Hurry up, or the clan leader and the others will find out, and that won't be good."
Auntie Si continued swinging her hoe, the iron object clanging against the stone wall.
The entire cave was filled with pungent dust and the smell of death.
Finally, after they had been knocking for a long time...
A section of stone wall slid down, revealing a small piece of white bone resembling a finger.
“I see. Let’s dig a little bigger and then throw in firewood to start a fire.” Old Madam Su smiled with relief.
Just as their hoes fell again...
"Clang!!!"
The black mist swept away the farm tools in their hands.
Qingbao, holding the judge's pen and exuding an aura of the underworld, slowly walked in.
What are you doing?
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