Chapter 42 - The lonely village by the river (8) two more
“Come with me, I know a more remote road.” Ye Ming said.
Jiang Xiuxiu listened and quickly followed behind him.
The two passed through the jungle, circled the mountain, and then found a hidden path.
On this mountain, there is still such a road.
It’s just that this road looks more secretive than the road the villagers take to go up the mountain, and few people will take it.
Jiang Xiuxiu could even see the weeds growing on the road, and it was almost impossible to pass the road.
Probably someone walked by a long time ago, only to be forgotten later.
In order to prevent accidents, Ye Ming stretched out his hand to hold Jiang Xiuxiu while he was walking.
The two were closely linked together.
The sound of footsteps that might be villagers in the distance gradually faded away, and the surrounding environment suddenly fell into silence, and even the sound of feet stepping on branches and leaves could be clearly heard.
The birds on the mountain chirped twice from time to time, flapping their wings and flying overhead.
In such an environment, Jiang Xiuxiu walked quietly on the road, and it was inevitable that he would start thinking of something else.
For example, what exactly does Xu Bai want to do, why is he so self-confident, thinking that if he wants her to stay, she can stay?
For another example, what is the connection between the believers in the village and Xu Bai, can she try to provoke it?
…and also, such a desolate path, it is estimated that the villagers do not know, how did Ye Ming discover it?
Since Jiang Xiuxiu saw this road, she has been a little confused in her heart.
But such confusion was quickly disrupted by Ye Ming’s words.
“Jiang Xiuxiu, I found that I like you quite a bit.”
Ye Ming, who had his back to Jiang Xiuxiu, was walking, and suddenly said such a sentence.
His voice was indifferent, as if he was casually speaking, but the meaning of the words left Jiang Xiuxiu at a loss for a moment.
Like her?
Hearing this sentence, Jiang Xiuxiu was stunned.
What does it mean?
Jiang Xiuxiu raised his head in amazement, but saw Ye Ming turned around and smiled at her.
The sunlight fell on his face through the leaf gap, and he still had that faint, gentle smile on his face.
However, in his black eyes, the pupil color became a little darker, like a snake lurking in the dark, silently staring at the prey in front of him.
“Would you like to… be my girlfriend?”
Jiang Xiuxiu: ? ! !
Jiang Xiuxiu: “Huh?”
What is Ye Ming saying, is he joking? ?
Hearing this, Jiang Xiuxiu’s heart jumped suddenly.
She took two steps back and looked at Ye Ming incredulously, but saw that although he was smiling, the expression between his eyebrows was very serious, and there was no sign of joking.
“You promise?” he asked.
Jiang Xiuxiu: “…How can this be agreed!?”
Although they knew each other, they didn’t have any emotional foundation. She didn’t like Ye Ming to that extent.
It’s too sudden to say that.
Besides, how did he see himself?
Jiang Xiuxiu felt that the two did not have any deep friendship.
“Not at all?”
After listening to Jiang Xiuxiu’s words, Ye Ming tilted his head and asked.
“Let me think about it…”
After hesitating for two minutes, Jiang Xiuxiu gave such a reply.
In fact, think about it, Ye Ming’s appearance is already very good.
He has a good temper, and his identity is a teammate determined by Jiang Xiuxiu to be bound. In addition to his usual words and deeds, it can be seen that his tutor is quite good.
If he really wants to talk about feelings, he must be the perfect love object in the eyes of many women.
Jiang Xiuxiu even felt that he might still be the one who made the cheapest money.
But…that’s…
—Ah, forget it.
Facing Ye Ming’s question, Jiang Xiuxiu only felt a mess in his mind.
Her heart was beating so fast, she couldn’t tell how she was feeling.
She thought that she should wait for a while and think about it after she calmed down completely.
Now she really doesn’t have that kind of feelings for Ye Ming. If she wants to agree, she has to look at the situation and confirm her true thoughts.
After receiving Jiang Xiuxiu’s “death reprieve” reply, Ye Ming blinked and raised the corner of his mouth invisibly.
“Okay,” he said.
Putting this aside, in other respects, Ye Ming still did what a good teammate should do.
After not continuing to chat, they quickly followed this path back to the village in the next time.
Afraid of being blocked by the villagers in Wang’s house, Jiang Xiuxiu thought about it and decided to find another foothold.
Fortunately, not far from the Wang’s house, there happened to be an abandoned, uninhabited thatched cottage.
Almost no one would pass there, and she hid inside, very safe.
After going through what happened in the dream, Jiang Xiuxiu found out that Xu Bai couldn’t seem to appear in reality as an entity.
At least for now, he has to rely on the behavior of the villagers to some extent if he wants to hurt the player.
This may also be another **** after he has believers.
It’s just that at the end of the game, whether he is still like this is something that Jiang Xiuxiu cannot guarantee.
However, when the game is released this time, she must report it! Be sure to report it!
Even if Xu Bai killed her, he actually kissed her, which was already harassing!
If she doesn’t make more than a dozen calls to customer service to complain about this abnormal situation, she will no longer have the surname Jiang!
After deciding where to go, Jiang Xiuxiu and Ye Ming divided their work.
Ye Ming went back to inquire about the situation on the player’s side, while Jiang Xiuxiu stayed here to see the villagers’ reactions.
However, before parting, Jiang Xiuxiu thought of something and suddenly asked, “Ye Ming, how did you get the steamed buns you gave me?”
This batch of players seems to be not very good at cooking. How could she think that no one should be able to make steamed buns.
“It was given by the villagers,” Ye Ming confessed honestly. “The Wang family’s fields have long been deserted… This morning, we couldn’t find anything else to eat.”
Jiang Xiuxiu: “…”
Jiang Xiuxiu: “…It’s okay, that’s it.”
Thinking about it, she was forced to accept the betrothal gift in her dream anyway, wasn’t she…
However, in order to prevent Ye Ming from being caught in the dream, she still insisted that even if he stole food from other people in the village, he would not eat what the villagers gave him.
After that, she thought about it, and asked Ye Ming to collect as much as possible the things of Wang Xiaoyue and Wang Xiaoyue’s sisters before their lives, and come here to give them to her.
Her gut told her that there might be a breach in the sisters.
As a BOSS, Xu Bai may not know that players are different from NPCs, and they will not become ghosts because they die in the game.
Now Xu Bai wants her to die quickly, and in order to resist, she has to find something.
Ye Ming agreed one by one.
Then, they separated quickly.
Jiang Xiuxiu hid in this abandoned thatched hut. She didn’t dare to show her head. The thatched hut was quite close to Wang’s house and a little far from the village. No villagers came to probe for a while.
Jiang Xiuxiu had nothing to do, so he simply searched the house.
This search, let her find a very surprising thing.
This room turned out to be the place where the grandparents of the sisters of the Wang family lived!
It didn’t take long for Jiang Xiuxiu to find a diary in the room that might have been written by Wang Xiaoyue’s grandfather.
According to the content inside, about twenty years ago, the owner’s daughter married the neighbor’s child who lived next door and was a childhood sweetheart.
In the second year of their marriage, they gave birth to a pair of twin daughters, named Wang Xiaoyue and Wang Xiaoyun.
Unlike the situation when the Wang family moved out collectively, this house was abandoned mainly because one or two years ago, Wang Xiaoyue’s seriously ill grandparents passed away one after another.
The houses in the countryside are different from those in the urban areas. Since there are fewer and fewer people, the houses cannot be sold. Many times, no one lives in them, which is equivalent to being abandoned.
Jiang Xiuxiu found out that Wang Xiaoyue’s grandfather was someone who had read a few books through these diaries that could still be read clearly.
He knew very well that there was a bigger and more advanced world outside, so he strongly encouraged Wang Xiaoyue to study and take the university entrance examination.
Apart from these trivial matters, there is one more thing that surprised Jiang Xiuxiu.
That is, in the eyes of Wang Xiaoyue’s grandfather, the sisters Wang Xiaoyue and Wang Xiaoyun have always had a very good relationship.
Unlike Jiang Xiuxiu’s previous thoughts, there was no such thing as jealousy between them.
Even though Wang Xiaoyue has been studying abroad, when she comes home every year, the two twin sisters will stick together very intimately and share their clothes with each other, which is very comforting and worry-free for parents.
But Wang Xiaoyue didn’t have much time to come back after all, and when their accident happened, it was already two years after the death of her grandfather and grandmother.
Therefore, based on the rest of the content, Jiang Xiuxiu couldn’t infer anything.
As for the custom of sacrificing brides in the village, it was also mentioned in the diary.
It’s just that in my grandfather’s eyes, this custom was gradually forgotten and abolished decades ago.
At the end of the diary, there is a passage that makes Jiang Xiuxiu ponder:
[In the third year, every year when the harvest is approaching, the river will always be high tide, and then the rain will rain, and the crops will not be harvested. 】
[And every time it rains, we have the same strange dream. 】
[Some people say that this is because the River God is angry, and some people say that the neglect of forty-three years has already made the River God angry. 】
[I hate this kind of remarks, every time someone mentions it, I have to scold it back. 】
[River God, this kind of existence that is reprimanded in elementary school textbooks, and the practice of sacrificing innocent lives, I firmly disagree! 】
【It’s just my old bones, how long can I last? 】
Recorded here, there is nothing else behind the diary.
However, the amount of information in it was enough for Jiang Xiuxiu to ponder it carefully.
According to the records here, the river **** chooses a young girl every three years to get a wife.
Forty-three years of blank period, plus two years after the death of grandfather, that is to say, the days when the river **** did not have a wife was exactly forty-five years.
Divide it by three and that’s 15 people.
Exactly, and the number of players this time is only 1.
Could this be a coincidence?
And, if nothing else, this river **** is definitely Xu Bai.
Well, he actually only recovered in the past few years.
And sisters Wang Xiaoyue and Wang Xiaoyun, what happened a month ago…
Jiang Xiuxiu flipped through the diary and gradually fell into contemplation.
Da da da……
Just when Jiang Xiuxiu was puzzled, suddenly, there was a slight movement outside the window.
Jiang Xiuxiu heard the words, put down the book, and walked gently to the window.
She stuck her head out and glanced at—
I saw two villagers, holding weapons at this moment, sneaking towards the Wang family!