After examining the person, the woman untied the ropes tied around Xue Huan's wrists and fetched water to wash the dirt off her face.
When the dirt on Xue Huan's face was washed away, a delicate and tender little face was revealed. It was very smart and pretty. The woman took a breath of cold air. She looked like an enchantress at such a young age. What would she look like when she grew up?
How could such a small family like theirs accommodate such a color?
In the corner, the man looked at Xue Huan's uncovered little face with his eyes wide open. Wow, this little slave girl actually looks like this!
The plump woman shook her head and glared at him fiercely, the flesh on her face trembling. "If you dare to look at me again, I'll dig your eyeballs out!"
The man immediately lowered his head and cursed the tigress in his heart.
"Tell me how much she cost you?"
The man cautiously raised four fingers.
"Four taels? Good on you, Li Wencai! How dare you hide so much private money behind my back? You're so bold!"
The woman rushed forward and beat Li Wencai again. The man protected his head and cried out in pain, hugging the woman's legs: "My wife, please stop hitting me. I was wrong, I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again next time..."
The woman grabbed his ear, her eyes gleaming with ferocity: "Do you want to do it again? Hmm?"
Li Wencai hurriedly shook his head: "No more, no more."
"Hmph!" The woman finally let him go. Seeing the man still squatting on the ground, she kicked him and said, "What are you still standing there for? Are you waiting for me to hire you? Can't you find a job for yourself?"
Li Wencai went there feeling frustrated.
The fat woman hooked her finger at Xue Huan and asked, "What's your name?"
Xue Huan shook her head, "I don't remember."
"Don't remember? Could it be that you have lost your memory?" The fat woman frowned.
At this time, a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest with long eyebrows and narrow eyes, holding a Buddhist whisk in his arm, passed by the fat woman's house. He accidentally glanced inside and saw Xue Huan in the yard. A look of surprise appeared on his face.
He rolled his eyes and shook the bell in his hand. When the fat woman looked over, he bowed to her and said, "I am honored to meet you."
"What's the matter, Taoist priest?" The fat woman spoke in a much softer tone as she faced the Taoist priest.
"Madam, this little girl is probably not your daughter, right?"
The fat woman instantly became alert: "How did you know that?"
The Taoist priest smiled slightly, appearing quite profound and unfathomable. "I know a thing or two about physiognomy. You and this little girl don't appear to be compatible as mother and daughter."
Xue Huan heard this and thought to herself, "Does it really need a face-reader? Can't you tell at a glance?"
But she didn't say anything, just stood there quietly.
The Taoist priest continued to deceive the fat woman, "I think this little girl has a noble face and amazing bones. She will definitely become a dragon and phoenix among men in the future! Such a person has strong luck and fortune, and it is not something that ordinary people can control. If you don't have such luck, you will be harmed by it, and you will be plagued by bad luck and everything will go wrong from then on."
The fat woman glanced at Xue Huan and asked hesitantly, "Are you serious?"
"I never speak nonsense. If you trust me, please hand this girl over to me. I will take her to where she should go, so that she won't harm innocent people without knowing it."
When the Taoist said this, he really looked like he understood the righteousness of the matter.
The fat woman felt something was wrong. "We bought her for four taels of silver. How could we just give her to you for nothing?"
The Taoist shook his head. "You only saw these four taels of silver. You're really blinded by one thing. If you continue to keep her at home, it won't be long before your family is doomed to suffer a disaster. At the very least, you'll lose money, at the worst, you'll lose your life. By then, it won't just be a matter of four taels of silver."
"I happened to be passing by here, which means I have a connection with your family. That's why I decided to help you. If you don't appreciate it, then I can't do anything about it."
Having said that, he was about to turn around and leave.
However, before he had taken a few steps, he heard the fat woman's voice behind him: "Master, please stay!"
The Taoist priest, who had his back to the fat woman, curled up the corner of his mouth, revealing a triumphant smile. When he turned around, he looked calm and elegant like an immortal.
The fat woman looked at Xue Huan, finally gritted her teeth, and pushed her towards the Taoist priest: "Master, please take her away."
In this way, the Taoist priest cheated Li Wencai out of the female slave he bought for forty-nine taels of silver.
When Li Wencai learned about this, he almost fainted from crying.
Xue Huan did not refuse to leave with the Taoist priest. After all, the fat woman and Li Wencai's house were not good places for her. The sticky look that Li Wencai gave her when he bought her back really made her feel sick.
As for the Taoist priest, let's follow him for now and see what he has up his sleeve.
If he wants to do something bad to her, she can then find a way to escape.
After leaving Li Wencai's house, the Taoist tied a red rope around Xue Huan's wrist and led her out of the city quickly, as if he was afraid that someone would chase them.
After leaving the city, the Taoist priest finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at Xue Huan with bright eyes, as if he was looking at a priceless treasure.
"I never thought that I, Cheng Tianci, would be able to encounter such a top-grade cauldron in my lifetime. Hahahaha, there is hope for my cultivation to break through!"
Xue Huan was shocked when she heard his words. Dinglu? It didn't sound like a good word. Although she didn't know what it meant, she subconsciously felt displeased and didn't want to become a Dinglu.
This Taoist priest is indeed not a good person.
The Taoist priest, Cheng Tianci, is not a good person, but an evil cultivator. In his early years, he was a simple boy in a mountain village. One day, when he went up the mountain to collect firewood, he accidentally saw two "immortals" fighting in the mountain.
The flying and moving figure, the colorful magic halo, and the magical ability to control objects out of thin air all made Cheng Tianci dumbfounded.
When he came to his senses, one of the two "immortals" was dead and the other was injured.
The so-called immortals in Cheng Tianci's eyes were actually two cultivators. The one who died was an evil cultivator who had committed many evil deeds, while the seriously injured cultivator was a righteous disciple who acted on behalf of heaven.
He found Cheng Tianci and asked him to help him get medicine for his injuries. At this moment, the dead evil cultivator took over Cheng Tianci's body and wanted to kill the righteous cultivator.
The righteous monks saw this and tried their best to help Cheng Tianci.
By accident, Cheng Tianci defeated the evil cultivator and devoured and merged his soul. The righteous cultivator could no longer hold on and died.
The righteous cultivator was only concerned about preventing the evil cultivator from taking over the body of an innocent person. However, he did not expect that after Cheng Tianci merged with the evil cultivator's soul, his temperament changed drastically. He then inherited the evil cultivator's legacy and committed many evil deeds.
However, at the beginning, Cheng Tianci still retained some humanity and did not want to practice evil magic, because those evil magics required the sacrifice of a large amount of blood and human lives.
However, his aptitude was limited. Even if he practiced diligently every day, he was only at the middle stage of Qi Refining after he turned fifty.
Without building a foundation, it means that you are still a mortal and your lifespan will not increase much.
Seeing that he was getting older year by year, Cheng Tianci became anxious, fearing that after practicing hard, he would still not be able to escape the fate of a mortal.
As a result, his heart began to stir, and he couldn't help but practice evil magic.
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