Marriage in Troubled Times

"Why don't you be careful, I almost choked on the water, it's still your bath water."

"You think I'm dirty?"

Pulling the person closer to her arms, Li Sisi nestled in Tang Youchen's arms like a kitten. Although she said very strong words, she actually had a very soft temper, at least to Tang Youchen.

The two of them snuggled together in this small bathtub for a long time. His wheat-colored skin made Li Sisi's fairness even more beautiful. A petite woman is a unique characteristic of Beicheng. Although she is petite, her temper is not that bad. docile.

"How are you so sure they will come to you tomorrow."

"If their problems are not resolved, they will always panic. I also said before I left that if this matter is not resolved, they will all die. Compared with death, there is nothing more terrible than death."

How long ago did Tang Youchen imagine such a scene, that she could hold Li Sisi in her arms like this, and she would pounce on him like a little butterfly every day after get off work, but this short-lived happiness was also stolen from them.

It wasn't until the hot water became warm that he took the sleeping woman out of his arms, dried her body, and put her under the bed.

He knew her dream before, but he didn't expect her dream to come true so smoothly.

Seeing her two masters rolling together, Reith excitedly jumped onto the bed and slipped into Tang Youchen's arms. The black kitten licked the hands of the master and hostess fawningly. not enough.

The moonlight poured into the room through the curtains. Although the architecture here is not Tang Youchen's favorite style, it seems that Li Sisi likes it very much. The furnishings in the room are all arranged by himself.

Back then, he thought he could be with Li Sisi, because Tang Youchen had everything Li Wen wanted, but he didn't expect so many troubles to arise.

So the style of his room is not just that kind of black and blue style.

Although there are three floors, the third floor is full of sundries. Although there is a large wardrobe in the room, he thinks that girls should have a lot of clothes. There, very lonely.

Before the next day, the village chief was in a hurry to find Tang Youchen, but was stopped by Xiaobai at the door, otherwise he would have to go to the governor's mansion in the city to find someone on this snowy night.

"You have already signed the agreement, so you are not under my control. I am very busy now and have no time to talk to you."

Tang Youchen stayed here originally to help them, but now that the village chief came here, he just refused.

"You are the Bodhisattva who saves the suffering, please save our village."

"Didn't I give you a chance at the beginning?"

The village chief didn't come alone. The village was so poor that he didn't have a rickshaw or any other means of transportation, so he really relied on his legs to report the crime.

"What's the matter with you, he even said that he won't help us, why are you still slouching like this?"

Although the young man in the village has a backbone, but this backbone is obviously misplaced. If he was willing to tell the truth at the beginning, it would not be like this now. The village is under the jurisdiction of Tang Youchen, so no matter what he does They are going to take care of it, but not now. The people in the village have signed an agreement, and Tang Youchen will not be in charge of their affairs in the future. They can solve it by themselves, but right now, they can't solve it by themselves. They still need to rely on the police station. With Tang Youchen.

"If there is no Governor, we will all die. We violated the rules and it is our fault, but the descendants of the village are really innocent. You will not refuse to save them. Everyone in Beicheng says that Governor Tang is a bodhisattva who saves suffering. Save us from fire and water, you won't be childish with people like us, right?"

The village chief almost knelt down for Tang Youchen, if the young man hadn't stopped him, the village chief would have already wiped his snot and tears on Tang Youchen's trouser legs.

He is not the kind of person who doesn't care about others, so why on earth is he dragging the people in this village at this time?

Li Si thought he didn't understand his political brain, but what he could know was that Tang Youchen must have delayed doing it for some reason, that is, what the people in this village did really violated the normal rules.

"Since you came to beg me today, your village must be on the right track after today, and you must follow the orders of the Governor's Mansion, and you must not do some shady business without permission."

It turned out that it was for this, so what kind of work did the people in this village do? It seemed that they must be more leisurely than farming.

"This……"

When this was mentioned, the village chief hesitated again, saying that he might be beheaded if he didn't mention it, and if he didn't mention it, all the people in the village might die, so it's a word of death anyway.

As the head of the village, no matter whether I inherited this position from my ancestors or what, I have handled this matter by myself after all, so according to the regulations of Beicheng, I will probably be sentenced to death.

"You didn't come here sincerely to ask for our help."

Xiaobai really couldn't stand it anymore. Since there was a problem, he didn't say the root of the problem, unless there was a god who could read minds, otherwise he couldn't help them.

Tang Youchen knew how to solve this matter, but he had to hear it from the mouth of the village chief, otherwise there would be no basis for what to do about it.

"Are you really going to abandon the lives of so many people in the village? Don't forget that you also have a newborn child in your family, don't you?"

When he said this, the village chief's eyes suddenly filled with tears. Thinking of his newborn grandson, he thought that he was over fifty years old and there was nothing he couldn't say.

The old village head was also heartbroken and spoke slowly.

"Our village is called Fucun. People lived and worked in peace and contentment a hundred years ago."

The reason why Fucun is called Fucun is because it is beautiful and rich, and even the resources once made other villages envious or even jealous.

At that time, there were two or three children in the family, not many, but there were also many. People were humble, respectful, filial and sensible.

The old people often laugh every day, and the children run around in the village every day, but laughter surrounds this village loved by nature.

Then everything changed. The village head has always been the village head since their ancestors. Although this system is no longer there, but because the village is lonely and remote, their village head is still of this bloodline.

Although the village is beautiful and rich, men in the village are not allowed to marry women from other places, but women in the village can marry men from outside. Of course, the man must pay a high dowry.

So many people are discouraged. There is no need to make many high-class people go bankrupt just to marry a woman.

The small village is next to a river. One night it thundered and it rained heavily. A woman came to the village.

The mother-in-law said: "This village is really good, but disaster is about to come to this village."

No one took this woman's words seriously, because this village does not allow women from outside to stay for too long, even though she is a woman, so everyone drove her out.

Not long after, something was dug when digging the ground at the west end of the village.

It was something like an ancient tomb. At this time, the witch came again and said that this is a tomb. Don't touch the things inside, otherwise you will suffer retribution.

But although the simple villagers heard what the witch said, they didn't take it seriously, so they dug up that place anyway.

The countless gold, silver and jewels in it are an eye-opener for people, and it is because of this ill-gotten wealth that people in the village have the idea of ​​killing each other.

When he was talking about this, the village head suddenly paused for a moment before he was dragged back to reality by Li Sisi, but it was these gold, silver and jewels that fascinated people, and people couldn’t help but feel greedy because they didn’t have to work hard every day to have more money. read.

But people's desires are endless, how can this little thing satisfy people's selfishness, so they wantonly dig open spaces on the ground, thinking that such a good thing will happen to their heads again.

But they don't believe in witches, but they believe in the idea of ​​offering sacrifices to this underground thing. Anyway, this daughter will always be married off, so it's better to sacrifice directly to their wealth.

"How many innocent girls have you killed because of your greed?

s life? "

Li Sisi understands that people are greedy, but because of her own greed, she wants to hurt other people's lives, and she doesn't know if the parents of these dead children can spend the money comfortably.

"So this is probably what the sorceress said, this is God's punishment for us."

"God bestowed these things on you. They are gifts for you. You don't know how to cherish them, and you don't cherish these things given by God. You deserve to be like this today."

When Li Shu heard what the village head said, she was trembling with anger. How could there be such greedy people in this world.

"How many girls did you kill?"

"From that time to the present, it has been unclear. Probably every family has been sent, and we have never counted."

Tang Youchen stroked Ruisi's smooth hair. He thought about how credible the words of the village chief were. If it was true as he said, then these people's sallow and thin skin should have nothing to do with their diet, drinking water or their food. It's about who goes to that place.

"Has everyone been to that tomb?"

"No, only my family has been there. As the village head, we have actually sacrificed a lot. Over the years, only one daughter was married, and the rest were all sent to do rituals."

"Are you sure?"

According to the village head, if only members of their family have entered, then the rest of the people will naturally have no problem, so the problem should still be in the water source or food.

The food should be bought from the city. They don't have any crops themselves, so there shouldn't be any problems.

Then it is easy to solve if the scope is narrowed, but if it is a water problem, it shouldn't be a recent problem. If it is a recent problem, what did Pei Zhou happen to do?
"Only people from our ancient family went in. You have to believe me, I have already said this, and I will not hide anything at all."

"What did you say your last name was?"

When Li Sisi heard this surname, it was like a thunderbolt. There are only a handful of people with the surname Gu in Beicheng, so they are all a family, a family who came out of this village?