Chapter 133 Back Then
"Why?" Feng Qingge was puzzled. Why couldn't she go back after entering the mortal world? What was the reason for this?
"Back then, I was also human, but I loved the wrong person." The Snow Woman suddenly seemed dazed, with a hint of resentment in her eyes.
It turns out that when the Snow Woman was still human, she didn't have such a beautiful appearance; she could only be described as pretty.
She lived in a small mountain village where the people were simple and honest, leading a self-sufficient life. But one day, a young man came to the village; he had fallen off a cliff, and the villagers rescued him.
After he woke up and recovered from his injuries, he stayed to thank the villagers and taught the village children to read and write. He claimed to be a scholar who had even passed the imperial examination at the county level. Seeing that he was honest and hardworking, the village chief betrothed his daughter to him, who was the predecessor of the Snow Woman.
A few years later, the village chief died of illness. At that time, the Snow Maiden had not yet married him. The village chief's only wish was to see the two of them get married and have children, but he was unable to fulfill his wish until the very last moment.
Since the village chief had no sons and only a daughter, the position of village chief was vacant. However, most people agreed that the man should become the village chief, for the simple reason that he was the village chief's son-in-law and should rightfully succeed him.
Later, the man became the village chief as he wished, but he still did not follow the previous village chief's last wish to marry the Snow Woman.
Some people refuted him during this time, but most people did not have his knowledge, so their opposition was only momentary.
One day, the man suddenly proposed to open up the mountains for mining, saying that this would make a lot of money and that with money, the village could live a good life.
The naive villagers believed him and agreed to the proposal. However, the man then demanded that they sign a document to ensure there would be no future disputes. As he thought, the villagers all agreed.
But what happened next was something no one expected: that man, that man, actually took the signed document and ran away. He abandoned the villagers and ran away.
The next day, the man led a group of soldiers to the village, forcibly occupied the entire mountain, and drove all the villagers out, simply because everyone had agreed in the contract that he would manage all the land.
The poor villagers were not only driven away, but also forced to do hard labor. No one, adults or children, old or young, could escape.
The soldiers were beasts; they would whip them when they were displeased. Some of the elderly couldn't bear it and gradually died. Children, who were protected behind their parents, only received more violent beatings in return. As for the women, they were even used for their own amusement, and afterwards they would be thrown naked into the mountains, regardless of whether there were wild animals.
And so, the villagers watched helplessly as their loved ones were beaten and humiliated, their former homes were destroyed, and they were powerless to do anything about it.
When the mountain was carved out, everyone discovered it was a gold mine. And when the man laughed maniacally, the Snow Woman learned a cruel truth that was both painful for her and for everyone else.
That is, this man knew all along that the mountain was a gold mine. He deliberately fell off the cliff, waited for the villagers to find him, and then deliberately stayed behind, pretending to be literate and a scholar, all to gain everyone's trust, so that he could come to the gold mine in the future.
It was at this moment that the village chief gave him a glimmer of hope, actually betrothing his daughter to him, which was tantamount to giving him absolute power.
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