Chapter 190 Children of Heaven
Gu Ji had heard all those words.
Every time Tao Xiaohong cursed her, her face looked like a monster, saying that she was a money-loser and would be sold for a dowry when she grew up, which was her only value.
At that time, Gu Ji asked her, you are also a woman, were you also sold to Wang Wencai in exchange for a betrothal gift?
Gu Ji couldn't understand Tao Xiaohong's expression at that time, but now she understands.
Tao Xiaohong was hit by the words, so she was upset and angry.
Gu Ji was beaten half to death that day.
She touched Lili's face, as if she was touching her past self, and told her earnestly, "Boys are human beings, and girls are human beings too. Girls can do what boys do, and even do it better than boys. Do you believe in yourself?"
The somewhat shy Li Li nodded firmly, "I believe it!"
"Teacher Jiji, she's actually doing this for our own good. She doesn't want us to get hurt. Can you please not hurt her?"
A girl named Xiaomin beside him spoke.
Xiao Min is the oldest among these girls, although she is only seventeen years old.
Her face is full of the word youth, but her life is forever frozen here.
Xiao Min is very steady. Like all the mothers in the fourth barrier, she plays the role of an elder and is also the last girl to let her guard down.
Gu Ji listened to her continue, "We all had resentment when we died, especially Li Li. Li Li was reincarnated three times, and was aborted three times because she was a girl. She was finally born the fourth time. She was the fifth girl in the family, with four older sisters. They were almost thrown into the cesspool when they were born, but it was her mother who saved Li Li.
Lili was actually very obedient and sensible, and her mother was very kind to her. However, because she was not a boy, her husband disliked her and her mother as well. When the concubine gave birth to a son, she and her mother were thrown on the farm to fend for themselves, and her mother froze to death.
Xiao Min's voice choked with emotion. "Li Li has special abilities. She can communicate with small animals, but her family sees this as a bad omen. Although Li Li has never been loved, she kindly warned her father that the enemy was about to attack the city and urged him to make plans as soon as possible. However, her father misled the others with a false rumor and set fire to her and the manor house."
"She had a lot of resentment and almost killed someone at one point. It was that person who comforted her, created this place, and took in those of us who had no home."
Xiao Min's eyes were very red and her face was full of heartache. Although according to her actual age, Li Li could be considered Xiao Min's grandma, but Li Li still looked like a child, innocent and naive.
Anyone would feel soft-hearted and heartbroken when thinking about such a lovely girl dying so tragically.
Xiao Min held Li Li in her arms, like a mother holding her child. "Teacher Ji Ji, you are different from those people. We could see the first three barriers. In fact, when you appeared, we were very scared because you were so powerful. We even hoped that Sister Snow Girl would kill you. I was afraid that you would hurt us, hurt that person, but I was wrong. You taught us not to judge others by our own standards. We can predict things before they happen, but we can't make malicious assumptions."
Gu Ji: "I understand your fear, so there's no need to apologize."
"No." Xiao Min shook her head. "I used to be just like that guy. I wanted to protect all the girls. I thought, what's wrong with staying here? Over the years, many girls have wanted to leave. They said they wanted freedom, but in the end, they were all... wiped out by that guy. He wouldn't allow anyone to leave. I couldn't understand it. We've all experienced the outside world. It's so unfriendly to us, why do we still want to leave?
Now, I seem to understand a little bit.”
The corners of her mouth curled up into a smile, and there seemed to be some relief in her eyes. "I learned all that knowledge, but I have no place to apply it. The only way to solve the problem is to solve it. If I just leave it there and avoid it, I will encounter it again sooner or later. Avoiding it will never solve the problem. And this place I thought was a utopia is actually just a shackle that imprisons us."
Xiao Min placed her hand on Gu Ji's brow.
The next second, Gu Ji felt that Xiao Min was instantly thousands of miles away from her, and the space was pulled. She saw Li Li, Xiao Min, and those cute girls waving at her.
Her body fell into another space, and after she came to her senses, she sat on a chair.
Gu Ji looked around. The warm cabin was filled with the smell of crackling firewood and a faint floral scent.
It's snowing outside the window, it's winter here.
A somewhat hunched figure stood with his back to Gu Ji, picked up the tea on the stove, turned around, and Gu Ji saw the man's appearance clearly.
The moment he saw it clearly, Gu Ji had a strange sense of familiarity.
The man walked over and poured Gu Ji a cup of tea, "Drink."
She took it, took a sip subconsciously, and looked at the man sitting in front of her.
The dining table lamp finally illuminated the person's face. Gu Ji slowly opened his eyes, "Qingtong...sister..."
The old man smiled, but his voice was a man's voice. "We do look alike, but I'm old now. If I were the same as when I was young, you would definitely mistake me for her."
Gu Ji thought that the person who created such a perfect barrier must be an extremely powerful person, or even a ghost.
But she couldn't detect any scent of the person in front of her. He looked like an ordinary old man. She felt that it would be normal for her to go to the vegetable market with a basket and grab a few handfuls of green vegetables and ask how much they cost per pound.
The old man pushed his reading glasses. "Hahahaha, you're curious about who I am, right? Ye Qingtong is protected by a god, you already knew that, right?"
Gu Ji nodded, then took a deep breath, "You are——"
"Well, it's me. I'm his brother, but my power is gradually weakening. Once I disappear, she will definitely die. So, I reached a cooperation with your parents."
"Are you also from the underworld?"
The old man smiled and shook his head: "No, I don't belong to the underworld. You can understand that Qing Tong and I are children of this world, the children of heaven."
"......?" To be honest, this sentence sounds a bit like a lie.
But he just lightly touched his fingertips, and some memories appeared in Gu Ji's mind.
When this world was first created, Tiandao split his consciousness into two parts, which became two girls and entered the world to experience all kinds of things in the world.
In the reincarnations, they have always been sisters.
But the development of a world is often beyond human control, even by gods.
When the gods discovered that the spiritual energy of this world began to gradually disappear and was replaced by the so-called technological development, they wanted to set things right, so they gave some people special powers.
Ghosts, monsters and demons are also given powers.
But more people have become ordinary people, the average age has also decreased, and more and more people have died in the underworld, and it is even a little too busy to handle it. The dead are no longer immediately taken away by the ghost catcher like before.
Some are still wandering around the world a month after their death.
These ghosts were captured by special, ambitious and malicious people, and their uses varied, but they all practiced some evil magic.
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