Zhenshanhai

When Apu returned to Xiaolin Town, the sound of suona and drums could be faintly heard from the east of the town, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers intermittently, and the voices of people were bustling.

Before returning home, the dirt road in front of the door was already sprinkled with shredded red paper and fried firecrackers.

At this time, a group of people came out from the door of Xiaohua's house next door, and the leader was a short and strong old man with beard and wearing nondescript scholar's clothes.

Satisfied, he was surrounded by a group of hooligans, his face was flushed with the smell of alcohol and joy, and he was about to leave.

A Pu was standing on the side of the road watching the excitement, when he was suddenly pulled behind by the aunts in the neighborhood to cover him, and before he could make a question, he heard those rambunctious sporadic words.

"Brother Wang's happy event is a couple, making the young master soar into the sky!"

"Blessed is this widow! Catch tomorrow, let the daughters-in-law of Xiaolin Town be chosen by Brother Wang!"

When everyone left, A Pu stood behind a group of women and asked puzzledly: "Then Uncle seems to be Uncle Wang from Dongzhen? I can't recognize him dressed like this. Does he want to marry Aunt Hua?"

Wang Da from Dongzhen is a poor hunter. There are only father and son in his family. Wang Da hunts for his old son Wang Musheng to study.

It is not easy to provide for scholars. After Wang Daqian's wife died of dystocia, she had no money to remarry, so she became a widower.Fortunately, people in Xiaolin Town saw that the father and son were honest and responsible, and Wang Musheng was admitted as a scholar when he was still in his teens, and the neighbors also helped him a little bit from time to time.

Aunt Hua became a widow a few years ago and lived alone with Sister Xiaohua and Brother Xiaohua.But Aunt Hua is only in her early thirties now, and Wang Da is probably almost sixty, so she doesn't match her age.

The aunts who blocked Apu in the front waited for Wang Da and Popi to walk away before moving away, curled their lips and cursed: "That screwer is shameless, he wants to marry little Ahua!"

"Ah? Will you marry Brother Mu Sheng?"

"So he is a shameless villain! It's that poor widower Wang Da wants to marry. A fairy passed by the sky the day before yesterday, and he took a fancy to Wang Musheng and said what bones he has..."

"Root bones?"

"That's right, if he has the guts to be accepted into the Immortal Mountain as a disciple, then Wang Musheng will be an immortal in the future. Doesn't Wang Day tremble when he has a son like that? He's going to marry Xiaohua to fill the house as soon as he is teased by those rascals, saying You can't lose the face of the fairy son."

The aunt glanced up and down at A Pu.

"Little Apu, you have to pay attention even when you turn around, don't let that bastard see you."

The other aunt sighed.

"Neighbors in the neighborhood, his family is poor, there is no woman in charge of the house, and the father and son live like beggars. I used to be soft-hearted and asked my head to collect food and send it to help. Obviously, the father and son looked honest and honest, How did it become like this now..."

The uncle who watched the scene next to him answered, "That's because his family used to be poor, had no skills, demanded people, and had to hold back any evil intentions. That Wang Mu was born with the eyes of immortals, so he went to Lijiawan in the west to beat gongs and drums yesterday. Li Xiucai, a child prodigy who is younger than him and did better in the exams with him, is studying hard at home. He heard that the explosion of gongs, drums and firecrackers made him collapse immediately..."

"Hey, what a crime!"

"That's right, it's a big disaster for this kind of villain who is honest on the surface and hides evil in his heart, if he really wants to cultivate to become a fairy!"

"Sister Xiaohua?" Apu climbed from the low mud courtyard wall of his own house to the neighbor's house, and found Xiaohua's room with ease.

The girl was sitting on the edge of the bed wiping her tears. When she heard the cry, she quickly wiped her eyes and opened the window to let the sister next door crawl in.

"You climbed the wall again, and let your father see that he is going to hit you with a broom again."

A Pu looked at the girl's red and swollen eyes like jujubes, and cursed out of anger.

"Sister Xiaohua, I already know! That old man Wang Dacao is shameless! What does Aunt Hua say?"

The girl's eyes were sore and she began to cry again.

"My aunt said that Wang Da is just a little older, and I will be the stepmother of a future immortal when I marry, and I don't want to work hard to have a child by myself, and my younger brother will be able to make a fortune after getting a bit of immortality..."

"She used to say at home that the Orion Wang's family was incompetent and received relief, but now she has changed her mind and wants to be a relative of the immortal! Apu, the old man Wang is 59, and I am only [-]!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Hua threw herself on the bed and burst into tears.

Apu patted her on the back and comforted her repeatedly: "Sister Xiaohua, stop crying, if you don't want to marry that shameless old man, let's find a way not to marry him! I will definitely help you!"

Xiao Hua seemed to think of something, straightened up and asked expectantly: "A Pu, you said that the Wang family is so bad, will the immortals see that Wang Musheng is a bad guy and drive him out?"

Apu shook his head, "It's not that simple. Grandma Ji told me that the current immortals are just cultivators, and they can't read people's hearts."

"Besides, look at how simple and honest the father and son of the Wang family used to be, but now they only reveal their true nature when they gain power. It is conceivable that Wang Musheng must have pretended to be honest when he went to Xianmen, with his tail between his legs."

Back home for dinner, Apo bowed his head and ate without speaking as usual, and only picked up a plate of boiled wild greens in front of him.The second elder brother had recently been working as an apprentice in a neighboring town and did not come back. The younger brother was full of greasy food with the roasted chicken legs that Dad bought alone after returning home from work.

Father and Mother, like everyone else in Xiaolin Town, were talking about the Wang family's fate.

"The old Wang's family in Dongzhen is about to prosper. Being able to produce a disciple of a fairy is a great virtue of the ancestors. Why doesn't my family have such a chance?"

A Niang glanced at A Pu whose head was buried in the bowl.

"The head of the house, you are not here today, so the old Wang came to the next door today and said that he wants to marry the widow's daughter, Xiao Hua, to be the house-filling lady."

"What?" Dad spat out a mouthful of noodle soup, "That old Buxiu is older than me, and wants to marry that ten-year-old yellow-haired girl next door?"

"It's true that you are old and unrefined, but after you get married, you will be the stepmother of the future immortal. Is my Apu worse than her widow's daughter?"

Dad followed his wife's line of sight to look at A Pu for a few breaths. No one spoke in the room, only the sound of his younger brother gnawing chicken legs. The girl buried her head lower and lower amidst the sound of bone chattering, and felt creepy.

After a while, Dad put a piece of fat in his daughter's bowl.

Under the full moon in the middle of the night, the courtyard door of the sacrificial mother-in-law opened, and a small figure walked in.There was no one in the house, Apu bathed in the moonlight and ran to the sacrificial field behind the house.

The Mang Mountain Sacrifice Ground is a large circular arch of white jade that does not grow any grass, and can accommodate tens of thousands of people.There is a slight arc from the surrounding to the center, until a high platform rises from the middle.The ground is engraved with mysterious black lines, extending all the way to the circular high platform.

The ten-foot-high platform in the center of the sacrificial arena is a seamless one, with uncanny workmanship. Standing under the platform, you can only see the raised stone steps, and no one has ever gone up except the chief priest.

Looking from a distance, a silver-haired figure in a cloak and a tall wooden staff in his hand is standing under the high platform.

"Mother-in-law, is there a big sacrifice? It seems that the time has not come yet, do you want me to call..."

The figure in the audience turned back and turned sideways. The beautiful silver-haired woman was wearing a black and red dress and a cloak.The hem of the dress is gilded and colorful, with bright silver ripples faintly flowing.

The nineteen towns in Mangshan Mountain take turns to hold a small festival every year, and only once in 20 years will there be a big festival at the sacrifice ground. Apu had a big festival in the year she was born. She has never seen it herself, but she heard a lot about it from the town’s grandparents and aunts. Second-rate.

Every time there is a big festival, married men and women between the ages of 15 and 45 from nineteen towns have to come, and tens of thousands of people can't fill the festival hall.

"The chief priest is wearing a sacred dress, shining brightly under the moonlight, alas, we dare not look up! The priest is not a mortal..."

The sacrificial mother-in-law that Apu saw before was all graceful and friendly images of beautiful women in common clothes next door, and she has never been able to understand why the old people respect and fear her.

At this moment, the silver-haired priest is wearing a golden cloak and holding a black dragon pan staff, the golden dragon on the top of the staff is vivid.

Suddenly, Shenlong blinked, looked down at the little girl, twisted his body, and circled around the top of the stick.

The dragon's whiskers fluttered in the night wind.

The white-haired woman is smiling, stepping on the void.

Apu's eyes were bright, his heart was surging and he couldn't help himself.

"Grandma, are you... a fairy?"

"I used to be." The priest looked up, and the full moon in the sky was half covered by dark clouds.

"Apu, it's so late, what do you want me for?"

"Ah? I... Sister Xiaohua, my parents...ah no, the cultivators want to accept Wang Musheng from Dongzhen as a disciple. Wang Musheng's father, Wang Da, wants to marry Sister Xiaohua. I'm afraid..." A Pu was taken aback, thinking Chaos, incoherent.

The sacrificial mother-in-law turned out to be a fairy?

"No hurry, speak slowly."

Apo calmed down a little.

"Grandmother, I want to break Wang Musheng's celestial relationship so that Sister Xiaohua and I..."

The officiant interrupted her, "Is it just breaking the fate of the vicious person?"

Apu looked up at the white-haired woman in a silver cloak in mid-air, her eyes shining brightly.

"I also want to practice."

"God's cliff, there is a plant of sacred bone grass on the other side of the cliff, and it will grow up tonight. Do you still remember you asking how to cultivate with a root bone?" The woman smiled, "There are still two steps to go, the first step is to swallow Download it."