Chapter 119 The Person Selected This Year
The smoke from the kitchen was curling up, and it was time for a meeting again in the quiet village.

The managers of each family gathered around a long wooden table, looking hesitant.

Someone whispered, "Which family is it this time?"

Wherever his deep gaze reached, everyone avoided them as if they were being stared at by a demon, for fear that the fire would burn him.

after all
Who would want to go to--

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Crowded and narrow firewood room.

A dusty girl was nestling there, nibbling a roasted sweet potato.

A pair of smart eyes are looking at the door vigilantly at this time. On the lotus root arms are intricate old wounds, like tree roots lingering on the white ground. The speed of eating is very fast, eating in threes and fives. He casually raised the clothes on his arms and wiped them.

I don't care if the rough clothing makes my cheeks red and swollen.

Her eyes suddenly flickered, and she squatted down and quickly moved under the window. She heard footsteps passing by above her head, and the rustling of fallen leaves, accompanied by the young man's wanton and arrogant words.

"I guessed it was her! It was her turn long ago! After staying in our house for so long, she was as timid as a bug, and she was upset when she saw her, but her father insisted on raising her, and she couldn't lift her hands on her shoulders." If you can’t carry it, it’s not useless.”

Another male voice said flatteringly, "That's not true, you don't need to see Chen Hui this time. I heard that none of the people who went there can come back alive. This must be given to you by her parents before they died. A lot of treasures? Don’t they all belong to you now!”

"Cut," Chen Hui snorted arrogantly and disdainfully, "How can there be a lot, I have used it a lot these years, and my mother said that she will send me out to be an official in the future, how can this be enough? "

Under the window, the girl hugged herself tightly, her lips turned white.If Chen Hui was more careful at this time, he would find that the girl who had always been timid and dependent on others had firm and indifferent eyes at this moment, not the same as before.

She didn't move when she heard the footsteps walking away, she rubbed her fingers against the rough wood, and estimated the time, at this moment, Chen Hui should go to the hillside five miles away to play games.

She pressed her numb legs and stood up slowly. The light outside the window was still warm at this moment, but it couldn't warm the girl's heart when it shone on her body. I was thinking about what Chen Hui said.

He said it was her turn.

Her heart seemed to be stabbed by something, and she gradually sank, thinking with cold hands and feet, this day has come.

During the meal, Father Chen, who came back from the village chief's house, had a gloomy expression on his face, but when he saw the girl, he restrained himself completely, and even let her eat at the table together on a rare occasion.She pretended not to know anything, and timidly only touched the dishes in front of her, not even daring to lift her head.

When she heard a sneer, she froze for a moment, then shivered as if she was frightened, and shrank back in the chair.

Father Chen scolded Chen Hui, and then comforted her warmly.

The girl raised her head hesitantly and gave a smile.

"Don't be afraid, there's nothing wrong." Chen's father comforted her, Chen's mother was not picky, and Chen Hui's eyes were almost rolled to the sky behind her.

The girl accepted all the orders, she seemed to be the same poor guy who was always beating and scolding in the past, but she was watching all this with cold eyes in her heart, and slowly revealed a sneer.

She went back to her little room in the shade, and from the quilt that had been sewn several times, she dug out a little money that she had secretly hidden, counted it, and sewed it back under the moonlight.

She sat by the window and looked up at the moon.Father Chen's anomaly during dinner today made her even more sure that the matter was done, and she was the one chosen this year.

No matter how unwilling she was, she knew that she could not fight against the Chen family and the entire village.

unless--

She runs away.

Once this idea arises, I can't suppress it, and it is stronger than before.It's not like she hasn't done it before, when she was insulted by Chen Hui and covered by Chen's mother, she walked past it twice.

Father Chen found her a few miles away, thinking she was lost.

She also came back from Shanruliu and never went out again, but some thoughts just became more and more suppressed, and she would be desperate if she only waited for a chance.

The girl looked at the moon in confusion, but her heart was full of panic.

Ever since she became conscious, she was sent here by her servants desperately. She only heard that the family was killed by a tragic accident. Teto's former friend took care of her. When Chen's father said so, she couldn't believe it. How could anyone die? Arrange everything?I'm afraid it was not an accident. The parents should have expected it long ago, but there was nothing they could do about it. They just couldn't reverse and stop it.

That's why it happened.

She stroked the red rope tied around her wrist, then clenched her fists tightly, her face still had a calm, wooden expression. After so many years, pretending has become a skill she has perfected. Some real emotions were revealed.

must escape.She, Xiyue, must leave here.

However, everything came so unexpectedly.

The "presentation" that was originally scheduled for three days later was brought forward to the next day.

When the door was broken open, the girl who hadn't slept all night only had time to squeeze her cuff tightly, and then she met a pair of malicious eyes——

It was Mother Chen and that little devil Chen Hui.

Before the performance started, she was shivering and shoved into another room. Several women came to wash and dress her up. The girl frowned slightly at herself in the mirror.

Everything that followed was incredibly fast.

The woman's hands were strong, seeing that she was in a daze, she quickly pinched her arm, pushed her up the car, the silver hairpin on her hair shook, and then fell into silence.

She came to the lake by car.

As usual, the village head spoke beautiful words that hadn't changed in the slightest, and at the end he wished for good weather and good weather for the coming year and the blessing of the water god.

The girl who was pushed into the boat just wanted to roll her eyes.

What kind of water god, what kind of prayer, if there is really any, it should have come long ago.

It is estimated that those who were sent out as sacrifices also escaped halfway, it doesn't matter, when these stubborn old people leave, she will--

The girl looked at her bound hands and feet expressionlessly.

For some reason, the eyes of water flashed across her mind for a moment. She was distracted, and then she was about to struggle, but she was pinched by the old woman, and she couldn't help frowning in pain. The old woman leaned sideways and whispered in her ear. , "Don't think about any crooked thoughts, those who escaped and were caught were all sold--"

The girl under his hand suddenly stopped moving.

The woman squinted her eyes and smiled satisfied, and patted the girl like a cargo, then got out of the boat, and slowly pulled away the rope tied to the stake on the shore.

The water is rippling, the voices of people are drifting away, and the purpose is uncertain.

Those annoying false blessings gradually faded away.

The girl lay in the boat with her back against the cabin and began to rub the rope, feeling the looseness between her wrists, and curled her lips happily.

Water God?Who believes that stuff?

Dogs don't believe it.

 Water God (smiling): I heard you don't believe me?
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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