God's Gift

"Isn't there no suitable person? How can we find someone to replace him?" Fang Ziang asked subconsciously after hearing Song Wenshan's words.

Song Wenshan was silent for two seconds. "The clan leader said that if there are no girls of the right age, then the age requirement can be relaxed. It's OK to find someone under the age of fourteen."

"Their sacrificial requirements aren't that strict, so why don't they have a man?" Fang Ziang snorted coldly. He had no good feelings towards the people in this village.

Song Wenshan shook his head. "I can't decide that either."

Fang Ziang sighed, and immediately noticed the dust on Song Wenshan's clothes. He said casually, "Why don't you clean your clothes? They are all covered in dust."

Song Wenshan looked down at his clothes and saw dust in the seams. "It must have been picked up when I went up the mountain last night."

He reached out and patted it twice, but he couldn't get rid of the dust. It seemed as if the dust had seeped deep into the fabric of the clothes.

Fang Ziang looked at the dust on Song Wenshan's clothes. The more he looked, the more familiar he looked. Gradually, cold sweat seeped out of his back.

"When I first entered the trial, I fell in a cemetery, and this kind of dust that couldn't be removed appeared on my clothes. Later, I encountered a ghost in the cemetery."

Fang Ziang took a step back and swallowed his saliva: "The next night, I was tricked by the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha into going up the mountain and was almost eaten by him."

Hearing Fang Ziang's words, Song Wenshan's face turned pale with fear, "Really?"

Fang Ziang nodded and took two steps back in fear. "Why don't you just not perform any sacrifices? The Thousand-Faced Buddha is not a good thing. It can also devour your spiritual power. If you fail to complete your mission and are eaten by it, you will be in trouble!"

Song Wenshan was so frightened by Fang Ziang's words that his hands and feet went limp, especially after hearing that the Ten Thousand Faced Buddha could devour mental power, his heart instantly began to waver.

Lu Keming glanced at the two of them indifferently, then squatted down, picked up Yu Youyou, who was listening to their conversation attentively, and rubbed her hair.

Yu Youyou looked up at Lu Keming, then looked at Song Wenshan, and suddenly asked, "Who is the girl under the age of fourteen?"

When Song Wenshan heard Yu Youyou's words, he paused for a moment. Fang Ziang also looked at Song Wenshan and asked, "Yes, who is it?"

"The clan leader's granddaughter is just twelve years old this year. She is the girl with the smallest age gap." Under the gazes of several people, Song Wenshan had to answer.

"His own granddaughter?" Fang Ziang's eyes widened. "He didn't even let his own granddaughter go. Does the clan leader's daughter-in-law know about this?"

Song Wenshan shook his head and replied, "I don't know yet."

After getting the answer, Lu Keming lowered his eyes again, chuckled, and began to tidy up Yu Youyou's clothes.

Fang Ziang frowned, "Then what Ali said about the tribe leader's daughter-in-law and her husband quarreling tomorrow is because of this."

"I have to go talk to Ali." Fang Ziang turned around decisively, leaving Song Wenshan standing there. He glanced at Lu Keming awkwardly and muttered:

"It seems that I will not be able to complete this mission. It is more important to save my life."

Yu Youyou looked at him for a long while and said, "Come here."

As soon as she said this, Lu Keming looked down at her, then looked up at Song Wenshan with a somewhat unfriendly look.

Song Wenshan was stunned for a few seconds, then walked towards Yu Youyou. When Yu Youyou saw him coming, she raised her foot and wiped the stained parts of his body a few times, then stretched lazily, "Okay, it's okay, you can go now."

Song Wenshan was puzzled by her behavior. He looked at the stains on his clothes and left in bewilderment.

Lu Keming gritted his teeth and glanced coldly at Song Wenshan's back. Seeing that Lu Keming didn't move, Yu Youyou patted his hand and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Lu Keming lowered his head and smiled at Youyou as if nothing had happened, then carried her back to the room.

Song Wenshan, who was leaving, continued to pat the mud off his clothes, but this time he managed to take it off easily.

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On the fifth day, Shen Minghua and Ye Li went out early and saw the clan leader's daughter-in-law and son quarreling. As expected, the content of their quarrel was because of their daughter.

The clan leader's daughter-in-law scolded the clan leader's son for having no conscience and wanting to kill even his own daughter, but the clan leader's son said that everything was for Lijia Village.

The two parted unhappily. The clan leader's daughter-in-law stood there crying for a long time. When Ye Li and Shen Minghua were about to leave, she suddenly turned around and ran towards the east of the village.

Ye Li and Shen Minghua, who were originally preparing to leave, changed direction and followed the clan leader's daughter-in-law, but saw her running towards Chen Qingqiu's house.

"Doesn't she hate Chen Qingqiu very much? Why would she come to find him?" Ye Li remembered that the clan leader's daughter-in-law even asked her child to take leave and stay at home because of the Chen Qingqiu incident, and did not let her go to school.

Ye Li and Shen Minghua looked at each other and realized that this was not simple, so they followed.

The clan leader's daughter-in-law ran straight to Chen Qingqiu's door and knocked on it hurriedly. After Chen Qingqiu opened the door, she knelt down in front of him and grabbed the hand of Chen Qingqiu, who was still in a state of confusion.

"Teacher Chen, please save my daughter!"

Chen Qingqiu was shocked by the words of the clan leader's daughter-in-law. He quickly supported her and wanted to pull her up, but she insisted on kneeling in front of Chen Qingqiu, tears streaming down her face.

"Don't be anxious, tell me slowly what happened." Chen Qingqiu looked at the panicked daughter-in-law of the clan leader and comforted her.

"My daughter, they want to sacrifice my daughter to the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha!" ​​The clan leader's daughter-in-law cried out of breath and kowtowed to Chen Qingqiu. "I know that Teacher Chen will leave the day after tomorrow. There will be a car in the city to pick you up. Please help and take my daughter with you."

Chen Qingqiu listened to the words of the clan leader's daughter-in-law and thought of the female students who had asked for leave in the past few days. He grabbed the clan leader's daughter-in-law's hand and asked:

"What did you say, some sacrifice?"

"Sacrifice to the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha." The clan leader's daughter-in-law looked up at Chen Qingqiu, her eyes red and swollen from crying, "Lijia Village has been using living people to sacrifice to the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha. All those girls who asked for leave were sacrificed to the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha!"

Chen Qingqiu's face lost all color, and the hand that he had just grasped the clan leader's daughter-in-law also fell down weakly, "It turned out to be like this..."

He originally thought that his problems made those students unwilling to come to school, and the parents of the students also drove him away when he visited their homes. But he thought that they didn't like him, so he didn't dare to ask more questions.

Unexpectedly, it killed those girls.

"Are they all dead?" Chen Qingqiu asked the clan leader's daughter-in-law with a trembling voice.

"No, no." The clan leader's daughter-in-law quickly shook her head, "They are not dead yet. They are all locked up in the mountains. My father will kill them all the day after tomorrow."

Hearing this, Chen Qingqiu's eyes lit up and he asked anxiously, "Where are they being held in the mountains?"

"The village doesn't allow us women to go up the mountain. I only know that the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha Temple is on the opposite mountain, but I don't know how to get there." The words of the clan leader's daughter-in-law made Chen Qingqiu anxious. He looked at the mountain opposite and wanted to go there, but was stopped by the clan leader's daughter-in-law.

"Teacher Chen, you can't go to the mountain. There are too many villagers guarding the mountain. They will kill you."

The clan leader's daughter-in-law grabbed Chen Qingqiu's clothes and begged, "There are still some girls who have not been taken to the mountain. Please save them only. There are too many people and they can't run away."

Chen Qingqiu opened his mouth, his voice was dumb, "Then find a way to save them, are we going to let those girls die?"

The clan leader's daughter-in-law looked at Chen Qingqiu's expression, tears streaming down her face, and she knew that he would not give up.

She lowered her head and thought for a long time, and suddenly thought of someone.

"Ah Chou!"