Chapter 8 A Lifetime

The girl's cry lasted for a long time.

She cried more and more sadly, and in the end, she didn't stop even when her whole body was twitching. This desperate and sad cry made the villagers terrified.

The old village chief who was closest to her finally couldn't help it, and hurriedly secretly pulled her sleeve and said carefully.

"Don't cry, Xiao Ai, Lord Mountain God..."

"It doesn't matter," the white wolf mud statue on the altar said lightly, interrupting the old village chief's self-righteousness, "Let her cry. The child has been wronged, if you don't even allow her to cry a few times, it's too cruel."

After speaking, Lu Heng looked at the girl on the rattan sedan and said, "Cry, little girl. Cry if you want to, don't care about the opinions of these mortals, cry out all the grievances in your heart, cry as loudly as you want, and cry as long as you want. No one here dares to hinder you."

Lu Heng's words were not harsh, but the more this kind of understatement, the more scared the villagers were.

The old village chief had huddled into a ball, his hands trembling. A sense of fear that a disaster was about to happen emerged in his heart. He dared not say another word. He knelt there, bowed his head tightly, and was terrified and humble.

The old village chief's actions also shocked the villagers. Although they didn't quite understand what happened, the old village chief knelt down in fear, and they all became nervous. Everyone knelt and bowed their heads like the old village chief, with their foreheads pressed tightly against the ground, not daring to move.

Dozens of people knelt in a ball, listening to the girl's crying in fear and humility.

The girl on the rattan sedan cried for a long time, and finally sobbed and the crying gradually stopped.

"Woo... Mountain God... Woo..."

The girl sobbed, her eyes were already red and swollen from crying. She kept wiping her tears while walking down from the rattan sedan, then knelt in front of the altar and kowtowed hard.

She didn't say anything either, but just knelt in front of the altar, crying and kowtowing.

This scene made Lu Heng on the altar feel helpless.

"Okay, okay, stand up, don't kneel."

Looking at the villagers looking at each other nervously, Lu Heng said, "Since the truth has been revealed, you can take the people back. I don't need boys and girls, and you don't need to pay tribute to me in the future. This matter is over."

"In addition, this girl has been wronged tonight and it's pitiful. I hope she won't be hurt again after she goes back."

Lu Heng's words made the old village chief who had just raised his head speak quickly, "We promise to the mountain god..."

"No need to promise, just do what you should do," the clay statue on the altar interrupted the old man again, "You can go back now."

As soon as these words came out, the intention to drive people away was obvious. Led by the old village chief, the villagers kowtowed respectfully to the altar, then stood up carefully and slowly retreated.

In the mountain temple, the girl who had stopped crying looked at the adults behind her who should have been familiar but were extremely unfamiliar tonight, and then looked at the dark altar in front of her, hesitantly calling softly.

"Mountain God..."

The girl's voice was very low, almost inaudible.

But the white wolf clay sculpture on the altar still heard it. He lowered his head, stared at the little girl in front of him, and asked, "Anything else?"

"..." The girl fell into a brief hesitation and silence. In this short hesitation and silence, the girl seemed to think a lot.

But in the end, she still shook her head in disappointment and murmured, "No, thank you, Lord Mountain God."

She also kowtowed to the mountain god on the altar like the adults, and the little girl slowly walked out of the dark mountain temple.

Behind her, in the dark mountain temple, the clay statue did not move, and Lu Heng returned to the underground to practice again.

The little girl in the dirty red wedding dress walked among the villagers and followed everyone out of the mountain.

The dim torches barely illuminated some of the road. The villagers all slowed down their steps and kept their mouths shut, not daring to make any extra noises, fearing to disturb the terrible mountain god.

Now, they just wanted to leave the gloomy and terrifying Hanyu Mountain as soon as possible, return to the warm home of Shuisheng Village, and share everything they saw in the mountain tonight with their wives and children.

The feeling of facing the gods directly was too terrifying, and the feeling was a little palpitating when I thought about it now. Even the brave young men couldn't be tough at this time, and they all lowered their heads and dared not speak loudly.

The girl walking in the crowd didn't say a word, and even if the misunderstanding was resolved, no one showed intimacy to her anymore. However, unlike the adults around her who were so scared that they dared not breathe, the girl's face did not show any fear or fear.

As she left, she looked back from time to time, watching the mountain temple, which was slightly lonely and dark in the moonlight, gradually disappear into the jungle, with sadness in her eyes.

What happened tonight made her more helpless and desperate than the day her mother died.

She never thought that one day, the kind and friendly elders in the village would show such ferocious and ferocious expressions to her. It was obviously not her fault, and she was not even the one chosen at the beginning. But when everyone found her coming out of the mountain, everyone's expression became extremely terrifying at that moment.

No one believed her, and everyone was fierce and rude to her.

In such a situation, the only one who upheld justice for her and made her feel warm was the ferocious mountain god in the legend of the elders - the man-eating mountain god that adults often used to scare children.

The feeling of loneliness and helplessness spread in the girl's heart. She followed the adults in a daze walking on the rugged mountain road. For a moment, she didn't know where she should go or where she could fit in.

The wind in the forest gradually rose again.

But this time the mountain wind was not harsh, and everyone didn't care. They just quickened their pace and didn't want to stay in the mountains for a long time.

But as they walked, someone found something wrong.

"It seems that something is following us behind us..."

The one who said this was Wang Laoliu, an old hunter who has been in the mountains for many years.

He looked back at the direction he came from, with a nervous expression, "Did you hear it? There seems to be a sound behind us."

Wang Laoliu's sudden opening scared the villagers. Because there is no shortage of wild animals in Hanyu Mountain, in the past, when the wild animals lacked food in winter, they would go down the mountain to the village to take away children and even attack lone villagers.

Although after Shuisheng Village worshipped the mountain god, the wild animals in the mountain never came down the mountain to attack living people again. But if the villagers are encountered by those wild beasts when they enter the mountains, they will still eat people.

If there are hungry wolves in the forest late at night...

Someone among the villagers shouted angrily.

"Wang Laoliu! Don't scare us, okay? There are so many of us. Even if there are really wild beasts, do they dare to follow us?"

"That's right! Wang Laoliu, you always tell lies to scare people. It's time, can you stop doing this? Are you annoying!"

The villagers cursed loudly, trying to give themselves courage by saying such words.

The little girl in the team subconsciously grasped the small wooden sign hanging around her neck, feeling the cold touch. She was not afraid, because the token of the mountain god was still on her.

And the beast following behind her seemed to be able to feel it when she held the token of the mountain god.

"It's a monkey..."

The little girl suddenly spoke in the crowd.

She stared blankly at the dark forest behind her. In a trance, she seemed to see the monkeys that followed them all the way through the heavy trees. She didn't see anything with her eyes, but she had a strong intuition in her heart.

The monkeys followed them all the way.

And why did these monkeys follow her...

The girl stared blankly in the direction of the mountain temple.

In the mountains, the direction of the mountain temple was pitch black. And they were already far away from the mountain temple, and they couldn't see the old temple in the deep mountains at all.

But the girl's sight seemed to penetrate the barrier of the mountains and saw the temple in the mountains and the white wolf clay sculpture on the altar.

Lord Mountain God...

The girl silently clenched the token in her hand and murmured in her heart.

Xiao Ai must burn incense for you every day and worship you for the rest of her life.