Chapter 350: A Strange Journey (5)
Chapter 350: A Strange Journey (5)
"A deformed village like ours shouldn't exist."
Jinghua said this with a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes.
“Why is your village like this?”
"I don't know the details, I just know it's been like this for hundreds of years, I didn't tell the truth before. In fact, Ren Xin is the only man outside the village, and the village chief doesn't like people going out, but in order to let Ren Xin bring in outside men, he had to agree. Our village seems to be cursed, there are very few boys born, and they are usually weak, there are very few like Ren Xin, no wonder he doesn't want to stay in the village. I heard from the elders that my family fled here decades ago and mistakenly came here, and then we were left behind, so there are some things we don't know."
Ning Ning, "He wants to offer me up as a sacrifice for himself?"
"Yes, this time it's Ren Xin's turn to offer a man. If he doesn't bring someone back, he will have to offer himself, but he really doesn't want to, so he begged the clan leader, saying that he could trick someone outside to come back."
"So how are you going to save us?"
"Tomorrow is the day to worship our ancestors. You can only...take over from Brother Wen after the ceremony. You will be locked up, and I will find a chance to release you. We will take Brother Wen with us. You have to listen to my arrangements. Now you must pretend nothing has happened."
"Okay, I see."
Ning Ningqiao silently groped back and pushed open his own door. Suddenly she realized something was wrong and suddenly pulled back the quilt, "Who is it?!"
"Brother Ning, it's me, why are you yelling?!"
Minle got up from the bed lazily, covered his mouth with his hands and yawned.
"Oh, I waited so long for you that I almost fell asleep."
"What are you doing in my room so late?"
"How funny! You're asking me this? What are you doing out here so late?"
Ning Ning remained calm, "I am asking you now. And can't you enter and leave your village freely?"
"You should have understood it now. Forget it. We are all family members from now on. I won't argue with you any more. However, we still have to become family members first."
As she spoke, she stood on tiptoe and breathed her warm breath on Ning Ning, then moved her slender white fingers downwards, sliding down as if boneless, to unbutton Ning Ning's clothes - the next moment, she was thrown out by the ungrateful Ning Ning!
"Wow!"
"Ouch!"
"What happened?!"
Ren Xin and Min Wen heard the noise and ran out. They saw Min Le lying at Ning Ning's door in his pajamas, struggling to get up. They immediately understood what had happened.
Min Wen looked very unhappy, and he slapped him in the face, "What are you doing! Didn't I tell you that I won't argue with you? According to the rules, my family is the first, and I won't argue with you. Why are you still worried? We will worship our ancestors tomorrow, why are you provoking him now!"
"No, he just sneaked out. Who knows if he went to find Jinghua? What's wrong with me keeping a closer eye on him?"
Ren Xin seemed embarrassed by their explicit words, but he gritted his teeth, took a few deep breaths, and calmed down. "Ning Ning, let's talk."
"Okay, I want to hear what you have to say, too."
The two of them returned to Ning Ning's room, and Ren Xin said with a straight face, "Minle doesn't understand you, but I know that you can't be going to have a secret meeting with Jinghua, and you will definitely lose the purpose of finding out why I brought you back. We are friends, and I advise you not to resist. There are hundreds of people in this village, can you still beat hundreds of people? In fact, if you think about it from another perspective, this kind of life is not bad. There is so much pressure outside now, and you stay here, you don't have to do any work, and someone will provide you with good food and drink, isn't it good? There are still many beauties like my sister in the village. Can you sleep with so many beauties at the same time outside and let them give birth to your children?"
Ning Ning said coldly, "Not only your sister, but also your mother."
"You! Humph, your words are useless to me. I grew up in this village and I have seen many such scenes."
Although he spoke toughly, his body was shaking slightly.
Ning Ning, "Since you think this is a good thing, why don't you stay and accompany your mother and your sister."
"Who wants to accompany them? This village looks down on men. I'm fed up with this place! Why should I be discriminated against just because I'm a man? They think I'll be useless in the future except for serving women in bed! Why do I have to go through mountains and rivers to go to high school even though I have good grades? And I have to kneel down to the village chief and promise to trick someone back before I can go out just because I want to go to college!"
The more he spoke, the more ferocious his expression became, as if there was an angry beast hidden in his heart, ready to devour anyone!
Ning Ning, "I guess you never really considered me a friend?"
"Of course. You city dwellers who have had everything you want since childhood are just born into a good family! Why is it that the things I dream of are so easily available to you? You don't have to pretend. I know you don't consider me a friend at all. You just feel sorry for me and want to give me some cold food to show your generosity!"
Ren Xin gritted his teeth as he spoke, his nostrils grew three times bigger, and his nostrils flared.
Ning Ning couldn't help but feel sorry for her original self. What an ungrateful person she had made friends with!
"It's already like this. If you don't agree, you'll only suffer more. In this place, even if they kill you and bury you randomly, no one will know! You've also discovered that there's no cell phone signal here. You can't even make a phone call, so forget about asking for help!"
Ren Xin stood up to leave, but Ning Ning raised her hand to stop him. "Even if I have to die, can you let me be a clear-headed ghost? What's going on in your village?"
Ren Xin stopped and thought for a moment, "It's okay to tell you, but these are all legends passed down by our ancestors. Hundreds of years ago, my ancestor was a famous prostitute. She saved a lot of money and planned to redeem herself. Unexpectedly, she met a very talented patron. She fell in love with him at first sight and they were in love. She didn't hesitate to take out all her money to let the patron take the imperial examination. She also told him about some of the connections between officials she knew so that he could avoid taking detours in the officialdom. Then she waited wholeheartedly for someone to redeem her, but she didn't expect that the patron had forgotten about her and was afraid that she would tell others about it and affect the official's reputation, so she found a crime to punish her. When she heard the news, she hurriedly took a dozen sisters who were willing to go with her and fled to this deep mountain forest, built this village, and the number of people gradually increased."
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