The useless second daughter of the Hua family

A long time ago, this was a barren mountain and there was no Changshou Town.

An immortal came here, buried some things, and planted a peach tree.

The mountains were nourished by spiritual energy, and countless peach trees grew overnight, and the entire mountain was filled with brightly colored peach blossoms.

As time went by, the spiritual energy in the mountains gave birth to the first living creature, a little mountain spirit named Xiaoye.

Gradually, more people came here and moved here. Xiaoye warmly welcomed them and helped them build houses. People were grateful for her kindness, built a temple for her, and revered her as the "Goddess of Flowers".

Over the past hundred years, this place has developed from an uninhabited mountain forest into a thriving town. Relying on the gifts of the mountains, people live a well-fed and worry-free life.

The more devout people are in their belief in the Goddess of Flowers, the more popular the Flower Temple is, and the stronger the spiritual power of the Goddess of Flowers is.

But she is still the warm and kind little leaf. When it rains, she will put up a barrier to protect passers-by from the rain. When there is a plague, she will lead everyone into the mountains to find medicine. During the busy farming season, she will change into various identities to help the frail elderly. How can such an approachable god not be loved?

All the changes started when that man appeared. When Xiao Ye was patrolling the mountains, he picked up a wounded man. The man had a stubble on his face and a muscular body. He didn't look like an ordinary person at first glance.

A kind person reminded her that this man was unwilling to reveal his origins and was obviously not a good person, and he might be a wanted criminal. But Xiao Ye didn't take it to heart. She took good care of the man until he recovered from his injuries. Then she made a surprising decision: she wanted to marry him.

Everyone in the town was shocked. It was so against the will of heaven that a god was going to marry a mortal.

The kind-hearted old lady advised her, "Nannan, don't be silly, it's not worth it." The learned scholar told her that the gods should treat all beings equally, so how could she indulge in love between men and women?

Countless objections did not stop Xiao Ye's determination. The man built a small house next to the Flower God Temple, and the two swore an oath to the mountain. Although they did not receive blessings, they still lived a happy life.

That was the happiest day of Xiao Ye's life. One day, Xiao Ye felt chest tightness and nausea, so her husband went to the town to seek help for a long time before bringing back an old doctor. The doctor's face changed drastically after taking a look, and her pulse was flowing smoothly, and her fingers were smooth, like beads rolling on a jade plate, which clearly showed that she was pregnant.

At night, the young couple slept in each other's arms, imagining the happy days ahead as a family of three.

However, that night, a great event happened in Changshou Town. All the peach blossoms on the mountain fell overnight.

The townspeople tried everything they could to reverse the decline, and all the peach trees died in a short period of time.

Gradually, the rumor that "the goddess of flowers married and had children, which was against the will of heaven and she was punished by heaven" spread like wildfire. The townspeople organized themselves, surrounded the door and demanded that Xiao Ye put things right and hand over the criminal.

They were trapped in the house for seven days. Xiao Ye was not an ordinary person, so she could endure not eating or drinking, but the man and the fetus in her belly could not.

She looked at the people outside the house in despair. Their faces, which used to be kind and gentle, now looked so hideous under the light of the fire.

She returned to her room silently, looked at her dying husband, and made a decision in her heart.

She knelt down in a corner of the room and bowed three times, "I know you are always here, please help me."

"What do you want me to do?" a voice asked.

"Please send my husband away. They won't let him go."

“I’m afraid he doesn’t want to.”

"I'll erase his memory. He'll just think it was a dream when he wakes up."

"I can take you all with me."

"I can't leave. I was created from the spiritual energy of this mountain. If I leave here, my spiritual energy will slowly dry up. I'm not afraid of death, but I can't let anything happen to the child."

"But they won't let you keep the baby."

"I have my own way."

"Okay, I promise you."

Xiao Ye Zi saw her husband off in tears, then set the house on fire and walked out without looking back.

"They are all dead, are you satisfied?" She looked at everyone coldly, no longer with the kind face she once had.

"I need to practice in seclusion and rebuild the peach forest. From now on, the Flower God Temple will be closed to visitors." After saying this, she walked into the temple alone, and the door behind her slammed shut.

When she entered the temple, she could no longer hold on and collapsed on the ground, crying loudly.

A sigh was heard in the air, and a few spider silk threads tied a thin blanket and covered her.

After crying and feeling pain, Xiao Ye had to face the urgency of the situation. As long as the peach forest was not restored, people's anger would not subside. But she was just a mountain spirit with low spiritual power. She had gained some cultivation through the incense offerings from people over the years. What could she rely on to support the peach blossoms all over the mountain?

After many days of thinking, she finally made a decision. She split her demon pill into two parts, placing half in the child's body to protect him, and burying the other half in the peach forest in the mountains to gather the spiritual energy in the mountains for the peach trees to grow.

Spring came, and the peach blossoms on the mountain bloomed again. People were delighted and thought everything was back to normal. They wanted to go to the Flower Temple to worship, but found that the temple door was still closed.

Without her demon pill, Xiaoye could no longer carry her spiritual power. She was already at the end of her strength and lived only on the obsession in her heart. She gave birth to a boy, named Su Tao after his father's surname. The voice in the air would still talk to her from time to time, and sometimes help her coax the child to sleep. She once offered to help Xiaoye maintain the peach forest, but she refused.

"It's a bottomless pit. I am already very satisfied that my child can be born safely. I know you always secretly transfer spiritual power to me after I fall asleep, but you also understand that it is meaningless. You don't have to do this for me."

"I understand, but at least if you live one more day, you can spend one more day with him."

However, the demon pill separated from the body is a dead thing after all, and it can't last long. When Su Tao was six years old, the phenomenon of peach trees withering in large areas appeared again in the mountains.

This time, people were no longer polite. They broke into the Temple of the Flower Goddess with weapons in hand.

When they saw Tao Su, the people suddenly realized that their gods had deceived them and abandoned them. The anger of being betrayed overwhelmed their reason. Some people brought kerosene, and some raised torches. They wanted to destroy the source of all sins and beg for mercy from God.

In the raging fire, Xiao Ye finally couldn't hold on and fell down. Su Tao hugged her mother, glared at everyone, and silently memorized all those distorted faces.

"Let's go, I'll take you away."

Countless spider silk came from all directions, wrapped them into a cocoon, and then disappeared into the air.