The fairy world collapsed, and the down-and-out gods were laid off and re-employed.

On the night of the 15th, He Shou took the brides into the main hall of the Zhenjun Temple as he did in previous years, and then exited and knelt in the courtyard waiting for the arrival of the god.

At this time, the Zhenjun Temple was not as lively as it was during the day, there was no sound at all, and the dim candlelight danced in the wind. There is no one else here, only He Shou and the brides.

The girls stood in the main hall, looking at the flickering lights and shadows under their feet through the red cloth. They couldn't help but feel sad when they thought that they had been gone for ten or twenty years without any news, and that they would be different when they came back. They didn't know if they would be able to see their parents again. Come on, sob quietly.

Someone sobbed: "I don't want to get married, and I don't want to go either..."

"I don't want to go either." Another person also said, "I have someone I like."

"Then why are you here?"

"My family is poor, and his family is also poor." She said, "My mother wanted to marry my younger brother and elder brother, so she pushed me out."

"I was pushed out by my grandma." Another person joined the topic, "She said that raising me would cost money, and it would not be as useful to the family as a donkey. I got a good look through my ancestors' virtues, so I want to repay my ancestors. , make sacrifices for your family.”

"I'm different, I volunteered." The fourth person's voice was very high-pitched, as if he was very happy, "My father wants to marry me to an old man thirty miles away from here as a concubine. I heard that that person is a The eunuch tortured people in various ways, and no one who married him lived more than a year.

Originally, I had already put my head into the rope loop, but as soon as I heard that the god wanted someone, I immediately got off the stool and planned to take a gamble. In the end, I was actually chosen. The old eunuch didn't dare to rob someone from the gods, and he didn't even ask for the money back from my house. "

"But how do you know that marrying a god will lead to a good life?"

"It's better than now." She said, wiping away the tears on her face, still smiling under the hijab, "If you are lucky, you can come back in ten or twenty years, and if you have the capital, you will never be able to do anything again in this life." When I get married, I will only be filial to my parents. If I am not blessed and cannot come back, I just ask the gods not to let me be reborn as a human being in my next life, even if I am a human being, I don’t want to be a woman."

"What did we do wrong to deserve this?"

The more people talked, the more sad they became, and their crying voices gradually became louder.

He Shou, who was outside, didn't react much when he heard the crying. He had long been accustomed to it. In previous years, only the families of these people were happy when seeing off relatives. Few people are happy to marry, and even few are willing to do so.

He said that many people in the city were willing to marry, but in fact, most of them were coerced by their families, or had to "volunteer" due to family difficulties.

They don't need to be strictly guarded by He Shou, because what binds them is never shackles or ropes, but life, poverty, and helplessness.

Hearing the third watch of Jiaolou drums in the distance, a pair of black official boots appeared in He Shou's sight. He looked up and saw that it was the "Zhenjun Zhaoheng". He quickly knelt down and saluted, saying that the bride was inside and asked him to take a look.

"According to what you said, except for my daughter, all the people who are going this time are mortals." He Shou pretended to be calm and walked forward with the "True Lord", but he was very nervous in his heart and prayed that he would not notice anything strange for a while.

The two pushed the door open and the crying in the room stopped abruptly. Everyone dared not breathe, waiting for the god to speak.

He Shou accompanied him to lift the hijabs of the brides one by one and let him take a closer look at their appearance. The man then cast a spell on their foreheads to confirm whether they were virgins.

The man kept nodding, expressing his satisfaction. After lifting the hijab of the last person, he instantly lost his soul and bones.

"Who is this?"

He Shou stepped forward and replied: "Sir, this is my...daughter."

He held his palms tightly, looked at the "True Lord", and then at the "Grandma" whose expression was even more arrogant than the "True Lord", secretly praying to "Zhao Heng" not to recognize her, and also prayed to the "True Lord" not to recognize her. Grandma” don’t do anything weird. After tonight, no matter how much trouble they make, it has nothing to do with him.

"Your daughter?" The "True King"'s eyes were full of surprise, "You have such a fairy-like daughter, why didn't you send her to her earlier?"

"She was young then..."

"What's your name?" he said, reaching out to touch her face.

Jiang Zhixia held his wrist, twisted it with her backhand, and then pulled it hard to remove his arm. The man screamed in pain, but before he could fight back, Jiang Zhixia sealed his soul and kicked him to the ground.

Then she held him in place with another spell and asked, "What are you?"

The man who calls himself "Zhao Heng" has low magic power and average appearance. Jiang Zhixia guessed where he should be as a loose immortal, "It has been so many years since he became an immortal, why can't he still get rid of his thoughts?"

He Shou almost didn't come up with a breath, this "grandmother" took action too quickly. Even if she slapped him, why would her colleagues be so cruel?

The other girls were trembling, too frightened to speak. They didn't know what kind of background this woman was. Even gods dared to hit her.

"Bastard!" The man was still shouting while kneeling on the ground: "If you dare to offend me, True Lord Zhaoheng, I think you are impatient with life...ah!"

A lily of the valley flower floated above his head, and the huge spiritual pressure almost crushed his internal organs.

Lin Yi walked out from the side and said coldly: "How many lives do you have to dare to be disrespectful to me, the leader of Lingqing?"

"Ling, head of Lingqing?" The man and He Shou said in unison.

Jiang Zhixia smiled "friendly" at He Shou and said, "We will settle the matter of you bullying my apprentice He Susu later."

He Shou: I'm going to die. It turns out that He Susu didn't lie! ?

She turned around and asked the man: "Didn't you say you were Zhao Heng? Why can't you even recognize me? Do you know him?"

The man followed the direction of Jiang Zhixia's finger and saw a man wearing a white robe with a gloomy face and a white light on his head standing at the door.

"He, he is?"

"Oh, how dare you pretend to be someone who doesn't even know me."

The man seemed to have been drained of all his strength in an instant, and kowtowed repeatedly, "True Lord, have mercy on me, True Lord, have mercy on my life..."

Jiang Zhixia very thoughtfully introduced to He Shou that this person was the real Lord Zhaoheng, Xie Zezhi.

He Shou: Damn it, forget about the destruction of the three realms. Anyway, I won’t be able to survive in the future!

"Girls, you have been deceived." Jiang Zhixia said to the shocked women: "Zhenjun Zhaoheng has never given an order to marry a mortal."

But to her surprise, they didn't care at all whether they were cheated, they just wanted to know whether they could still get married and get money.

Another girl knelt down and begged Jiang Zhixia to let this man go and let her marry him.

"Great Immortal, I can't go back. If I go back, I will marry a eunuch, and I will have no choice but to die!"

Some people also knelt down after her, hoping that Jiang Zhixia would not interfere in this matter.

She sighed deeply in her heart, and she and Lin Yi helped these people up.

"Girls, I know your concerns." She said: "But marrying someone is not necessarily any better than marrying a eunuch. There are not only two ways for you, you should have your own choice. Did you just say that? Wrong, we did nothing wrong and there is no need to suffer this crime.

You go back to He Shou's house with my senior sister first, and don't show your face in public these days. When I come back, I will give you a satisfactory answer. The money will be sent to your home. "

The girls' concerns were dispelled and they followed Lin Yi and He Shou back.

He Shou felt as if he was in a dream while walking on the road. The night was filled with shocks one after another, causing him to lose his ability to think in a short period of time.

Only Jiang Zhixia, Xie Zezhi and that man were left in the temple. The man knelt on the ground and couldn't move. He just cried and asked Xie Zezhi to kill him, otherwise the fate waiting for him would be more terrible than death.

"When they see that I didn't send people to the mouth of the Dark Sea on time, they will definitely think that I betrayed them, and I will be tortured to death by them." He said: "There was a person who was late and didn't catch up with the ship. Skinned alive by them."

"Dark Sea..." Xie Zezhi muttered: "Who asked you to give it to me?"

"I don't know Xiaoxian either. When he came, he used a spell to cover his face, so I didn't see what he looked like.

That day I was practicing in the mountains, and the great immortal found me. He said that he was entrusted by the Emperor of Heaven to ask me to send the person they wanted to the mouth of the dark sea in the name of True Lord Zhaoheng, and then he could get the spiritual energy. If I do well, they will put me in the immortal class. "

"Emperor of Heaven!?"

"Yes! I was just following orders. As for where these people were sent and what happened, I don't know anything about it. The True Lord is clear!"

"You just said that someone was skinned by mistake before. Does this mean you are not the only one who sent people to the dark sea?"

"Yes, there are many people!" He looked at Jiang Zhixia, and after being glared at by Xie Zezhi, he immediately looked away and said, "There are also people who want people under the banner of Lingqing leader, and some who say they are the military commander star master. As far as I know there are ten people.

We are located in different places and send people to the Dark Sea every year. If it is not delivered on time or in quantity, we will not be able to escape the blame. Xiaoxian is really just following orders, please save me, Lord Zhenjun! "

Xie Zezhi and Jiang Zhixia looked at each other, and then she nodded to him.

Near dawn, this man and fifteen people finally arrived at the mouth of the Dark Sea without delaying the final departure to sea. A large ship docked at Haikou. Shivering, he sent fifteen people to the boat, praying that nothing unusual would be discovered.

I heard the man on the boat say: "There is no problem with the number of people. The Immortal Lord can go back."

He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and ran back to He Shou's house, crawling all over the ground, to report the progress of the matter to Lin Yi——

Jiang Zhixia and Xie Zezhi were already on the boat.