God's Gift

After saying that, Chen Qingqiu looked at Ah Chou who was being held down, and said, "You are the one who has cost me the most effort among all my students. Now you must obey me and help me send them away safely."

"Teacher!" Ah Chou's vision was blurred by tears. She shook her head and begged, "I don't want it..."

But Chen Qingqiu did not give her room to refuse. He reached out and touched Ah Chou's head and said to her, "Go ahead."

Chen Qingqiu looked at Achou deeply, then turned around without hesitation and ran back the way he came.

"Teacher!" Looking at Chen Qingqiu's departing back, he struggled desperately, but was held down tightly.

"Let's go, Ah Chou." The girl next to Ah Chou was already in tears, but she still held Ah Chou tightly and tried her best to drag her up. "Teacher Chen did so much just to let us leave. Are you going to listen to him?"

"Ah..." Achou's heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. Every breath he took was like swallowing a thorn, piercing deeper inch by inch.

"Achou, let's go." The girl next to him was still persuading him.

Achou took a breath, glanced in the direction Chen Qingqiu left, and closed his eyes in pain.

After a few seconds, she opened her eyes and followed the other girls up the hill.

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Chen Qingqiu ran back laughing all the way, hot tears streaming from his eyes. They froze before they could drop to the ground. His clothes were stained red with blood and covered by the falling snow.

When the villagers caught up, they saw Chen Qingqiu, covered in white snow, running towards them with a smile.

Perhaps because they thought Chen Qingqiu had gone crazy, the villagers stopped.

"Where are they?" One of the villagers looked at Chen Qingqiu warily and asked.

"They..." Chen Qingqiu stopped in front of the villagers, with a smile on his face, "I don't know either."

He gasped and inhaled a few snowflakes into his mouth, which fell on his warm tongue. The coolness passed into his heart and he began to cough violently, as if he was about to die.

The villagers looked at the teacher covered in snow with strange expressions.

Finally, one person couldn't help it and took a step forward. He put the stick on Chen Qingqiu and asked again: "Where are my daughter and the others?"

Hearing this, Chen Qingqiu stopped coughing, opened his eyes and looked carefully at the man in front of him, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again, and gradually he laughed out loud.

"Your daughter..."

He pointed at the villager, his laughter gradually becoming more and more crazy, "So she is your daughter?"

The villager looked at Chen Qingqiu in confusion, but saw Chen Qingqiu pointing at the other villagers behind him and asked:

"Is your daughter there?"

The villager he pointed at was stunned for a second, then slowly nodded.

“Hahaha…” Chen Qingqiu laughed again, a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. He pointed at another man and said, “Is there your daughter too?”

"Is there your daughter?" He didn't wait for the villager to answer, and asked others one by one.

The villagers all fell silent, and only Chen Qingqiu's voice was heard in the snow.

He took a deep breath, looked up at the snow-covered sky, and murmured, "So you treat them as your children, too."

"Stop talking nonsense and tell us where they went?" A villager raised his stick and hit Chen Qingqiu hard, scolding him harshly.

Chen Qingqiu uttered a muffled groan, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth. Then he smiled and looked at the villagers, pointing to the sky and said:

"They...all turned into bluebirds and flew away."

"You'll never find them."

These words completely angered the villagers. They stopped talking to Chen Qingqiu and started hitting him with their weapons.

When Yu Youyou and his group arrived, they saw Chen Qingqiu kneeling in the snow, being beaten by a group of villagers.

The objects held by the villagers were different, some were hoes, some were knives, and some were rakes. Just now, the villagers were irritated and threw all kinds of objects at Chen Qingqiu, as if to vent their anger.

Chen Qingqiu's body was soon stained red with blood. White snowflakes fell on his body and were embedded in his wounds due to being beaten by the villagers, turning into a handful of blood.

His eyes were still looking in the direction the girls were fleeing, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Shen Minghua turned his head away, unable to bear to watch. Lu Keming also frowned slightly. He never bothered to torture anyone. These villagers were obviously torturing Chen Qingqiu.

"I hate them." Yu Youyou stared at the villagers and suddenly spoke.

When Lu Keming heard Yu Youyou's words, he lowered his head and stroked her head, and replied, "It's really annoying."

He glanced at the villagers with contempt.

"It's a pity that they are all dead. There is no way for me to get rid of these people you hate."

As soon as Lu Keming finished speaking, a person staggered towards him in the snow from a distance.

After seeing the man's appearance clearly, Lu Keming's expression changed immediately.

"Grandma Li?" Ye Li looked at the man in surprise, and then as if he remembered something, he turned his gaze to Yu Youyou.

Lu Keming's heart began to beat violently. He hugged Yu Youyou tightly and said, "Youyou, you can't go."

Yu Youyou didn't say anything and just kept looking in the direction of Grandma Li.

Granny Li had already run over. Seeing Chen Qingqiu lying in the snow covered in blood, her expression changed drastically. She hugged a villager's hand and cursed, "You beast!"

"Grandma Li, don't worry about it." The villager pushed Grandma Li away, causing her to fall to the ground, and wanted to hit Chen Qingqiu with a hoe.

Unexpectedly, Granny Li got up from the ground again and hugged the man's legs tightly, "No, he did nothing wrong, you are going to beat him to death!"

"He let the sacrificial girl go and delayed the sacrifice of the Ten-Faced Buddha. He deserves to die." The man dragged Grandma Li back a few steps and kicked Grandma Li away.

"What's wrong with that? Why do we have to offer sacrifices? Can Li Village not survive without the Thousand-Faced Buddha? It's just that you are greedy!" Granny Li was kicked to the ground and said angrily, "He saved them, he is a good man, and he will be rewarded."

The others didn't want to care about him and picked up their weapons to continue beating Chen Qingqiu. Seeing this, Granny Li pounced on Chen Qingqiu and covered him tightly.

Lu Keming looked at this scene and immediately tried to grab Yu Youyou, but found that his body became stiff and he could not move at all.

Yu Youyou crawled out from his arms, stepped on Lu Keming's arm, kicked off the bag that Lu Keming gave her with her front paws, and put it safely in Lu Keming's arms.

"No!" Lu Keming was unable to move. He stared at Yu Youyou's movements. His breathing became rapid and bloodshot appeared in the whites of his eyes. He almost burst into tears.

"Yu Youyou, did you hear me? You can't go!"