Chapter 47

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Wang Dachui led the way without saying a word.

Yin Yin and Ling Long followed him back to the ordinary village house. Yin Yin pondered about the array that Ling Long said along the way. She had heard of this array. Before the Great Heavenly Dynasty (Great China) was established, there was a man named Zhuge Liang who was best at Qimen Dunjia (ancient Chinese divination). It was said that he once trapped the one hundred thousand army of Eastern Wu’s General Lu Xun, using only several broken stones.

Well, these are all she had learned while playing ‘Legends of the Three Kingdoms’ (a popular Chinese card game).

However, aren’t these all fictitious! How can Zhuge Liang be so historically powerful? It is clear that <<The Romance of the Three Kingdoms>> was just telling myths ah!

……It seems that she was now in a fictional novel. So, has the legendary expert finally appeared on the stage?

Yin Yin certainly didn’t think that the array at the entrance of the village was placed by Wang Dachui. Zhuge Liang (military genius; mastermind) and Wang Dachui (King Sledgehammer)…… Their IQ is hidden in their names.

Before she knew it, the door to Wang Dachui’s house was already in front of them.

Following Ling Long to sit down inside the house, Yin Yin felt uneasy. What was the purpose of trapping them in this Baishui Village? It’s not really to fatten them up, kill them, then eat them, right?

Fortunately, Wang Dachui also sat down on the stool opposite them. Looking at his posture, it was like he was preparing to tell a long, tortuous and strange story.

[We sat on top of the high grain pile, listening to mom telling the story of the past.] (a nursery rhyme)

This line of lyrics came to Yin Yin’s mind. Alright, she admits, she was embarrassed.

Unfortunately, the story of Wang Dachui is very short -as short as six words. “There is a Dragon Deity here.”

Yin Yin: “……”

Ling Long: “……”

Even if there are evil dragons here, we are not warriors ah, you jerk.

Yin Yin firmly wiped the expression on her face and looked at Wang Dachui. “Please elaborate properly.”

“Alas,” Wang Dachui sighed. “The array at the entrance of the village is not to trap you, but to trap the villagers of Baishui Village.”

Wang Dachui’s words made Yin Yin and Ling Long frown.

“I would like to know the details.” Ling Long’s amber eyes looked at Wang Dachui, seeming to bewitch people’s mind like magic.

Wang Dachui suddenly opened up like a chatterbox and began to talk incessantly.

“Since my grandfather’s generation, I have lived in this Baishui Village. Counting the time, it has been at least a hundred years. But I think the two of you must have never heard of this place before, right? This is natural. Because in Baishui Village, outsiders can’t come in, and villagers can’t get out.”

Ling Long’s eyes flashed slightly. No wonder he had never heard of this place before.

“As I said earlier, there is a Dragon Deity in the village, right in the bottom of the Baishui Pool.” Wang Dachui’s two eyebrows frowned tightly. “At first, there was no way to verify how everyone came here. But there is an ancestral teaching handed down from our ancestors, saying that one is not allowed to leave Baishui Village without authorization, otherwise it will offend the Dragon Deity and cause disaster.

We dare not disobey the teachings of our ancestors, but in my generation, there was a young person who could not stand the isolation of Baishui Village and wanted to go up the mountain. In the end…… his body was found at the entrance of the village, and his death was particularly tragic. The village chief said that we had offended the Dragon Deity, and if we want to calm their anger, we must hold sacrifices.

So since that year, we will hold a sacrifice to the Dragon Deity once a year, asking them to protect Baishui Village. However, there were still villagers who did not believe in fallacies. They gathered a lot of people and wanted to go up the mountain together, but found that…… they couldn’t get out of Baishui Village at all. The two of you also saw it just now, that is the formation, which is ever-changing. We don’t know when it suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village.

The village chief said that this is the punishment of the Dragon Deity, and we are destined to stay in Baishui Village for generations. And that don’t try to escape from the Dragon Deity. “

Yin Yin and Ling Long exchanged glances. The story that Wang Dachui just told…… there are too many suspicious things!

Yin Yin looked at Wang Dachui. She smiled and said, “Although I have a lot of questions to ask, let me ask the most important one first.”

Wang Dachui was taken aback and said awkwardly, “Girl, please say it.”

“You said that you have to hold a sacrifice to worship the Dragon Deity once a year. How is this sacrifice made?”

Wang Dachui’s face instantly turned white. Although he could also see that the two person in front of him must not be ordinary people, he did not expect them to be so keen that they immediately caught the crux of the problem.

Everything in Baishui Village started with this sacrifice.

Seeing Wang Dachui’s face paling but wasn’t intending to open his mouth, Yin Yin didn’t urge him. Instead, it was Ling Long who opened his mouth and quietly spoke, “There are several places that don’t make sense from what you just said.”

“Where?” Wang Dachui widened his eyes and stared at Ling Long. He thought that what he said just now was perfect, and the important parts were deliberately hidden by him. Where could there be any flaws?

“First of all, because Baishui Village is isolated from the world, the villagers’ thinking is relatively conservative and traditional, and they have always believed in the existence of the Dragon Deity. Then, the first person who wants to go up the mountain to disobey the Dragon Deity, I’ll take him for now as a young and vigorous man -had died tragically. If you see such an ending, will there be any villagers who would want to go up the mountain after this? But according to what you just said, not only there are people who think like this, but there were also many of them. Why? What is the reason that they would rather risk their lives to go up the mountain?”

Ling Long’s words made Wang Dachui’s face more and more pale, and a layer of cold sweat leaked out of his palms. He…… he hates smart people!

“Secondly, you said that everyone can’t get out of the formation at the entrance of the village, which is weird. Didn’t you meet us in Baishui River yesterday?”

Wang Dachui’s fist was tightly clenched.

“Finally, let me add one more point.” Yin Yin cleared her throat. “The village chief who appeared twice in your story sounds very suspicious. Of course, this is just my personal opinion.”

Wang Dachui was completely defeated.

“Are you still reluctant to say it?” Ling Long looked at Wang Dachui quietly. “All these questions can be answered by one thing. Your sacrifice 一what kind of sacrifice is it?”

Wang Dachui stood up, looked at Yin Yin and Ling Long and said, “Since the two of you had already come here, you should just make yourself comfortable. You can’t get out of this village. In addition, I got the instruction from the Dragon Deity to pick you up by the riverside yesterday, so I could walk out of here. The formation at the entrance of the village is changing all the time. Today is different from yesterday, and I can’t go out anymore.”

Yin Yin raised her eyebrows. “Got the instructions from the Dragon Deity?”

Naturally, she would not believe that there was such a thing as a dragon deity, so there was only one explanation for this situation —someone discovered their existence when the two of them came near Baishui Village.

Wang Dachui nodded. “The Dragon Deity knows everything, so the two of you should not waste your efforts. As for the village chief, he is the leader of our village and we all respect him.”

“The two of you take a good rest here, I’m going out to work.” Wang Dachui left after speaking, but the atmosphere in the room was very heavy.

Yin Yin looked at Ling Long who had a solemn expression beside her. “Lingling, have you studied arrays before?”

Ling Long shook his head. He had only seen such things in books.

“Then…… Did you notice anyone under the Yundai Valley yesterday?”

Ling Long shook his head again. Of course, he wouldn’t believe in any dragon deity, so the only explanation he could find is that there was another person hiding around them, and they went to send a letter to Wang Dachui. If this was really the case, this person’s martial arts must be superior to him, because he hadn’t noticed this person at all.

Seeing that Ling Long shook his head twice in a row, Yin Yin’s whole person became unwell. This problem seemed very serious.

“Say, why are they not letting us go?”

This time Ling Long finally didn’t shake his head. “There are two possibilities. One is that they are afraid that we will divulge the secrets of Baishui Village; the other is related to their sacrifice.”

In the end…… what kind of sacrifice is it? Yin Yin really cared about this.

Because she felt that it was closely related to the fate of the two of them.

Ling Long’s intuition is that the person who placed the formation at the entrance of the village was the same person as the one who secretly sent news about them. They are good at array formation and had high martial arts. Looking at the whole Jianghu, Ling Long couldn’t find a person who could match this description.

Gu Ling of Jixiang (Auspicious) House is good at arranging formations, but he is not old and his martial arts are not above him. The person in Baishui Village, Ling Long felt that they should be an elder.

When both of them were frowning, little angel Qiaoqiao appeared on stage again.

Seeing Qiaoqiao coming in from the door, Yin Yin’s eyes ‘bui’ lit up.

“Qiaoqiao.” Yin Yin had never smiled so softly. “Your Big Brother Goudan is looking for you.”

Ling Long: “……”

Qiaoqiao blinked and ran to Ling Long happily. “Big Brother Goudan, are you looking for Qiaoqiao?”

“……” Ling Long took a deep breath. “En…… Qiaoqiao, have you seen the village chief?”

“Village Chief Granpa?” Qiaoqiao nodded. “Qiaoqiao had seen him, does Big Brother Goudan wants to see the Village Chief Grandpa too?”

“……” Ling Long took a deep breath again. “What kind of person is the village chief?”

Qiaoqiao tilted her head and thought. “Village Chief Grandpa is very nice. He often gives Qiaoqiao candies to eat. But…… Big Sister Huihui doesn’t seem to like the Village Chief Grandpa.”

“Huihui?” Ling Long’s eyebrows twisted. “Huihui is Qiaoqiao’s elder sister?”

“En!” Qiaoqiao nodded. “I heard Father say that Big Sister Huihui married Big Brother Dagou (Big dog) from the east entrance of the village.”

“Pu–!” Yin Yin knew that it was a serious time and she shouldn’t laugh, but she really couldn’t help it. “Goudan, is Dagou your brother?”

Ling Long’s cold eyes swept towards Yin Yin. She immediately retracted the smile on her face and asked in a serious manner, “Qiaoqiao, why doesn’t your sister Huihui like the village chief?”

“Qiaoqiao doesn’t know.” Qiaoqiao frowned her little eyebrows. “Every time Big Sister Huihui sees the Village Chief, she would hide.”

Hide? This is more like being afraid of the village chief more than not liking him ah.

“Qiaoqiao,” Ling Long finally remembered a question they had forgotten for a long time. “When you saw us yesterday, why did you tell us to go?”

When this was mentioned, Qiaoqiao suddenly became silent. Yin Yin waited for a long time. When she thought that Qiaoqiao was not going to say anything, Qiaoqiao suddenly raised her head and grabbed Ling Long’s hand. “Big Brother Goudan, Don’t tell Father. Qiaoqiao heard from Big Sister Huihui last time that in our village, one older brother and one older sister are burned to death every year.”

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