Chapter 92 Plans
"Alright, Huahua, let's go," Qing'er said, pulling Li Lianhua away. Anyway, they wouldn't dare offer any more sacrifices, so what happened afterward was none of their business.
Watching Li Lianhua and the others leave, someone couldn't help but ask, "Elder, are we just going to let them leave like this?"
"Or what do you want to do? Perhaps we really were wrong." The elder suddenly seemed to have aged several years.
He stopped talking and the people around him also fell silent, somewhat at a loss.
Just as Li Lianhua and her group reached the village entrance, Lin Hua and Xiao Xiang chased after them, knelt down beside Qing'er, and looked at her gratefully. "Thank you, young lady." It was their arrival that saved Xiao Xiang; she had thought she was doomed this time, but unexpectedly, she escaped unscathed.
"Get up. We just happened to be here," Qing'er said calmly. She had no good feelings towards the people in this village. Apart from the girls, everyone else here was innocent. The reason she had said so much earlier was simply to prevent more innocent girls from losing their lives. Although they were not leaving the village now, who knew if, in the future, when their village had no young women left, they might become so heartless that they would go out and find innocent girls to bring back?
The two stood up and began to talk about their story. It turned out that Lin Hua and Xiao Xiang were engaged. Their village had a rule that the age for sacrifice was 14 to 18. If someone was not married by that age, they might be sacrificed. So, they got married as soon as they turned 16.
"Then why don't you get married before you turn 14?" Li Lianhua couldn't help but ask. "Get married first and then consummate the marriage when you're old enough."
"Young master, you may not know this, but our village has a rule that you can only get married after you turn 16," Lin Hua explained helplessly. His parents died when he was very young, and he was adopted by Xiao Xiang's parents. They arranged a marriage between him and Xiao Xiang, waiting for her to turn 16. However, there were only three girls around Xiao Xiang's age: one was already 17 and got married last year, another got married half a year ago, leaving only Xiao Xiang. They were very anxious, but there was nothing they could do; Xiao Xiang wasn't 16 yet. They had tried to escape, but the villagers were watching closely. Just yesterday, with the help of Xiao Xiang's parents, they escaped to the outskirts of the village, but they were discovered and arrested not far away. Xiao Xiang's parents were also imprisoned, which is why they didn't appear just now. To prevent any further accidents, they sacrificed themselves beforehand, which led to what happened just now.
After listening, Qing'er was speechless. Didn't they know to start earlier? They were waiting until the appointed time to start. Couldn't they have figured that out? Couldn't they have started a few years earlier? Oh well, that's their business.
"What are your plans after this?" Li Lianhua asked. Lin Hua looked at Xiao Xiang and said firmly, "We plan to take our parents and leave this place to live in the outside world." They didn't want to stay in this heartless village any longer.
Li Lianhua smiled and said, "Very well, then I wish you a new beginning in your lives. We should be going now." Having heard the whole story, she didn't linger any longer.
After leaving the village, they took out the Lotus Pavilion and continued their journey.
The days that followed went smoothly, without any major troubles. Until this day, an uninvited person came to the Lotus Pavilion.
Li Lianhua looked at the person who had suddenly appeared before her and said irritably, "I say, Alliance Leader Di, why aren't you staying in your Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance? What are you doing here?" She should have known better than to stay here. She had thought the scenery here was nice, so she decided to stay a while, but who knew Di Feisheng would find her.
Di Feisheng sat down without any hesitation, picked up a cup, poured himself some tea, and drank. Then his eyes lit up. "What kind of tea is this?" He felt a warm current flow into his dantian as soon as he drank it, and his cultivation level improved slightly. He had recently emerged from seclusion and heard that the Si Gu Sect had opened a cultivation academy. He wanted to go in and learn about those cultivation techniques, but he figured he couldn't pass the threshold. He knew his own limitations; it was probably impossible for him to get in. He had never considered himself a good person. After the world advanced, he heard that cultivation was possible, and the gap between him and Li Lianhua was widening, so he went into seclusion. After making no progress, he emerged from seclusion.
He then went to find Li Lianhua, but heard that Li Lianhua had gone traveling and no one knew where she had gone. Later, he heard that a moving building had appeared in the martial arts world, and he had a premonition that the building must belong to Li Lianhua.
So they sent people to investigate, but every time they found a building in one place, before they could even get there, it would appear in another place. He went there several times but never encountered it. He had given up hope this time, but he actually did.
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