Chapter 8

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Encircled Village (7)

The blood mist is thicker, and a faint mist drifts in the wind.

The people in the village couldn’t help taking a few steps back, for fear of getting infected with such unknown things.

Huai Bai was motionless, still smiling, and her eyebrows were like curved feathers, and she looked innocent and harmless. She pointed to the bound women and asked softly, with a voice like a pearl falling on a jade plate.

Seeing that she was so amiable, the village chief let go of his hanging heart for a few minutes and said: “This madness is contagious, and so many people will be recruited if you don’t check it for a while.”

When Huai Bai heard the words, her face was sad, “It’s really pitiful. It just happens that I’m a little familiar with Chinese medicine. Why don’t you let me diagnose and treat them.”

The village head hurriedly waved his hand and refused, “Where are they worthy? Don’t dirty the immortal chief’s hands.”

Huai Bai smiled, “Jianyi, take out the things in their mouths for them.”

The village head’s face was pale, and the villagers were also panicked.

Zhao Jianyi walked up to a young woman, “Girl, I offended.”

The son of Sui Nong rushed out, “This is my wife, cough cough, what is your big man touching?”

He was named Sui Tiangong, and he had an inhuman tuberculosis disease. He was covering his lips and coughing intermittently.

Zhao Jianyi took a few steps back, pinched his nose, glanced at him, raised his eyebrows with a smile that’s not a smile, and said: “Someone with tuberculosis can still marry a wife?”

He coughed and almost died immediately, anyone else would marry him?

“Ahem, what do you mean?”

Zhao Jianyi paused, and moved behind him in an instant, patted him on the back kindly, “Don’t cough up your lungs.” He took out the cotton cloth ball from the woman’s mouth.

“Immortal chief help me!” The woman was free, and immediately asked for help.

Zhao Jianyi bent over to untie the ropes on her wrists and feet, and said warmly: “You were forced to marry by this man?”

The woman knelt on the ground, weeping, “It’s not just coercion, they kept me locked in the wood shed, refused to feed me, and tried to force me to give in.”

This woman speaks clearly and has clear logic. Where does she seem to be mad?

Huai Bai glanced at the village chief with a smile, walked up to the woman, leaned over and helped her up, and said slowly: “You don’t need to be afraid, speak slowly.”

When the woman saw her with a smile, her expression was amiable, and the tension was loosened. She wiped her tears, and said, “I am from Jiang City, and my name is Chu Xiaotang. I met two old people at the lantern party begging me for a bite. I wanted to give a couple of pieces of silver, but they refused and said that they could not bear it, and then pointed to the small shop in the alley and asked me to go there to buy some steamed buns for them. I went, but the people in that shop took me……”

At this point, Chu Xiaotang burst into tears, and was choked up for a while.

The smile on Huai Bai’s face gradually cooled.

Chu Xiaotang tremblingly begged: “I have been missing for more than a month, and who knows how worried my parents are? I am their only daughter, immortal chief, please help me.”

This is probably the cry for help she heard at Sui Nong’s house, and Pei Yu calmly looked at the people present.

The villagers were in a panic and were whispering. Zhao Jianyi was full of anger. He took advantage of this moment to untie the other women. The villagers wanted to stop him, but he stared at them severely, and they retreated in fright.

“Immortal chief, listen to me to explain!”

Huai Bai smiled and said, “I don’t need you to explain.” She glanced at the crying girls. Except for Chu Xiaotang, the other bound women looked very small, no more than thirteen or fourteen, with immature faces. They were so pale that they could only cry in fright.

“Jianyi, write down their names and places of origin.”

The villagers did not know what they had negotiated, but they united and stopped them, “What are you going to do?”

Zhao Jianyi didn’t have a good face, “What do we do? Naturally, we rescued these people who were taken captive by you. Also, hand you over to the government!”

Pei Yu smiled mockingly at the corner of her mouth.

Yan Village has been trafficking in people for so many years, how can the government not know this?

It’s just a nest of snakes and rats.

“She’s my daughter-in-law! Why are you stealing my daughter-in-law!” Zhang Goudan was a tall man, carrying a hoe in one hand, and shouted with red eyes.

(T/N: daughter-in-law is just another way to say wife)

Sui Tiangong coughed to death, “Cough cough cough, yeah, cough cough, why are you…”

The villagers all agreed, “Yeah, why are you? You come to bully us ordinary people because you are the immortal chief!”

Zhao Jianyi smiled angrily, “Why?” He pointed to the group of girls who couldn’t help crying, “Why did you kidnap them here?”

The villagers still refused to give in.

Zhao Jianyi was too lazy to talk nonsense, and with a wave of his long sleeves, the villagers were fascinated and closed their eyes.

Seeing that the woman was pulled away by Zhao Jianyi, Zhang Goudan threw the hoe and sat on the ground to play a rogue, “This is my daughter-in-law! The daughter-in-law I bought back after spending most of my life savings! I still count on her to give birth for me! What about the baby!”

And the girl he referred to as his wife, hiding behind Huai Bai in horror, sobbed and said, “I don’t know him, I don’t know him. I want my mother, oh, I want to go home…”

Zhang Goudan’s eyes widened, and his red neck yelled: “How can you do this? It took me thirty taels of silver to buy you back! We all slept before, so why don’t you recognize me? No matter, either refund! Or change! Otherwise you don’t want to leave!”

Zhao Jianyi pointed at him angrily, “Do you think you did it right?”

Zhang Goudan said aggrievedly: “What’s wrong? I don’t steal or snatch it. I save thirty taels of silver in my entire life. I buy good products and ask her to lay an egg for me…”

The villagers clamored, “Yes, we are all good people. We bought this. Why should you take it away?”

“Wicked people! It’s lawless!”

Seeing that Zhang Gouda couldn’t stop the boy, he noticed the woman standing by. This woman looks gentle and amiable, she must be talkative!

He thought this way, stretched out his hand to grab the skirt of the woman, howled and said: “Immortal chief, how can you be like this?”

A touch of azure like the sky passed by, Zhang Goudan’s eyes flashed, and his hand was empty. He blinked, and turned his head to see that the woman was already a few steps away, and the person was still smiling, warm as a spring sun.

“Master, these unruly people are lawless. Let’s stop talking nonsense with them, and we will save the women and go out quickly.”

Huai Bai nodded with a smile, looked at the silent child, and said softly: “Peiyu, what do you want me to do?”

The child raised her head abruptly, the water flickering in her round eyes, a look of panic, “I, I don’t know…”

“Then I will rescue only these women, and the others will remain in the blood mist, what do you think?” Huai Bai deliberately slowly teaches Peiyu so that she can learn to treat the wicked without being kind.

The child was silent, squeezing the corners of her clothes tightly, feeling like a cub at a loss.

Zhang Goudan became more and more angry in his heart, and couldn’t help crying.

“Wow, I have lost all the money I saved for a lifetime, and the wife I finally married is also gone, why am I still alive? I’m dead!” He said that while he was really banging his head.

Peiyu’s thoughts moved, taking advantage of the gloomy sky so that everyone did not notice, and sent the red mist to secretly move a sharp stone under Zhang Goudan.

The ground was soft soil, and it didn’t hurt at all to hit it.

Zhang Goudan was knocking very vigorously, and suddenly heard a crisp sound, his brain was like an egg, and it snapped off cleanly.

A pang of pain ensued. He raised his hand in a daze and saw that his hand was scarlet, he yelled “Wow”, rolled his eyes, and passed out.

The villagers suddenly became agitated, “The immortal chief is killing! The immortal chief is killing!”

Huai Bai ignored these bloody scenes, but asked softly, “Peiyu, what do you want to do?”

The child lowered her head and looked stubborn, with a pair of nice phoenix eyes drooping slightly, like a pitiful little beast. She clenched her hands and pressed her lips into a straight line, seeming to be making some kind of difficult choice——

Master wants to let this group of people be so simple? But……

The heart is pure and kind, and the white jade is flawless.

Huai Bai almost wanted to chop off her hand that made these eight characters. Where is it that the white jade is flawless, it is clearly the Virgin Mary’s halo to cover the sky!

She took a deep breath, maintained the gentle smile on her face, and asked: “But have you ever thought about it. If these people’s lives are kept, how many women will be persecuted again, and how many families will be broken?”

She pointed to Chu Xiaotang, “Like this elder sister, she helped the elderly out of kindness, but they pushed herself and her parents into an unbearable situation. Ask her if she regrets it?”

Chu Xiaotang nodded as if pounding garlic, “I regret it very much.”

Huai Bai squatted down and opened the child’s clenched hand. The palm of her hand was bleeding from her nails, revealing bright red flesh and blood. Huai Bai stroked her wound lightly, with thicker pity in her eyes, and said helplessly: “Peiyu, there are good people and evil people in this world. If you are kind to the evil, you are cruel to good people. I know you are a good girl, but…”

But let these wicked people die easily, wouldn’t it be cheaper for them?

Peiyu held Huai Bai back, her eyes sparkling, and she seemed to finally make a decision, “Master, you are right, I listen to your teachings.”

Huai Bai was startled slightly. Seeing that the child was finally resuscitated, she felt as if the spring breeze had passed by, and her body was comfortable. Then she laughed softly, “Come on, I’ll take you out.”

She took Peiyu’s hand, and Zhao Jianyi led the dozen or so women into the blood mist.

When the villagers saw them about to leave, they wanted to stop them, but Huai Bai only looked over slightly, and pressed down an extremely powerful and irresistible force. They immediately shook in cold sweat, and their bodies froze on the ground like a stone, unable to move at all.

Only the mouth is constantly moving, still taking advantage of the tongue, and crying for mercy for a while.

Sui Han said in a loud voice: “Immortal chief, I am a disciple of Zhuangzi Saints, if you ignore me, I’m afraid you will cause trouble to Gushan!”

Huai Bai let out a soft “Ah” again, as if waking up from a dream, and slowly turned around, “You are right.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and heard her continue to laugh and say: “So I want to erase this memory from you. Even if it is Zhang Ru’s call for souls, they won’t find the clue. Back then, Jiang City was surrounded by blood mist and collapsed. Only more than ten golden core cultivators lived, but now it’s not unusual to reappear and destroy a small village.”

Obviously she was smiling softly and mildly, but the villagers couldn’t help trembling all over, as if they were seeing the Asura of the Underworld.

How terrible is this woman!

But they didn’t feel scared anymore. Just when the figures of Huai Bai and her group disappeared in the blood mist, the villagers felt strange. You see me and I see you, but they don’t know what happened.

“Why do you carry a pot behind you?”

“How do I know? What do you do with two chickens in your hand?”

“Where’s that little bastard? Why hasn’t she come back yet?”

Translator here! Just a heads up that I went back and edited stuff from the previous chapters to make things more consistent and easier to understand. Changed Shengren Zhuang to Zhuangzi Saints cause I didn’t know wtf it meant before until Google searching the term and learning that Zhuangzi was a person and since xianxia cultivation is based on Daoist teachings, it makes sense that Zhuang is referring to him.

Also changed the main characters names to Pei Yu, and Huai Bai cause that makes more sense than the single name I used for them before. I was just confused before cause in the MTL, their names were constantly shown as Peiyu and Huaibo when they should have a first and last name like everyone else.

An additional thing I did was add something to the translator’s note at the end of chapter one to explain what was going on in the chapter since it can be hard to understand. There’s flashbacks and some things might seem “off” unless you read the entire novel like I have.

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