The Bad Man was nearly dead at the beginning and was picked up by Yang Shuzi and taken home

Qinghe Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides and stands next to Nanshan Mountain. The spring water from the mountain stream flows endlessly downstream through twists and turns.

Villagers basically rely on it for their daily water use, so water issues have always been the most concerning issue for the villagers of Qinghe Village.

Because of everyone's care, the mountain spring is crystal clear, so it is named "Qinghe", and the name of the village also comes from this.

According to our ancestors, the mountain god has protected all the people of Qinghe Village from generation to generation. Whenever the villagers have any illness or conflict, the mountain god will come down the mountain to solve the problem.

But three years ago, the water of Qinghe River suddenly turned a little bloody.

All the villagers in Qinghe Village who drank the river water developed red rashes of varying sizes. After a long time, their skin began to fester, and they were also diagnosed with a strange disease that emitted a foul odor.

At that time, the mountain god no longer appeared. According to the villagers, the mountain god once came out and said:

"Someone in the mountains did something extremely treasonous, which caused the river to be polluted. Now he is blaming the people and wants the villagers to hand over that person's family, otherwise he will not take action."

There is a doctor living at the top of the village. Her family's medical skills have been passed down from generation to generation. Apart from the mountain god, she is the most respected person in the whole village, that is, Nian Ling's family.

Until that day when this strange disease appeared, Nianling's mother Nianren was at a loss as to what to do. By then, the entire Qinghe Village, except Nianren's family, had this disease.

But here, being different is the biggest problem.

After listening to Nian Ling's story, Zizaitian said angrily, "So those villagers think it's your family's fault?"

Nian Ling lowered her head, making it difficult to see her expression:

"Well, as a native of Qingshui Village, I am able to bear the consequences of my crime in exchange for the hope of survival for the entire village. This is already a blessing for my family."

After hearing what Nian Ling said, Zizaitian finally couldn't help but shouted angrily:

"Ridiculous! How can there be such a bad custom? Just because of a word from a mysterious "mountain god", they would let you be sacrificed alive. How can this be justified?

Besides, who said you were guilty? You didn't even investigate the truth. This is too hasty!"

At this time, Anton, who had been silent all this time, also spoke:

"Nian Ling, do you really think so? Are you really willing to do that kind of thing?"

Seeing that she didn't answer, Anton Jun changed the subject: "Have you ever thought about reporting to the police?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Nian Ling pulled Anton Jun's clothes and slowly spoke:

“It’s useless. Our village is too remote. At this time, the government cannot spare a large number of manpower to deal with a mountain god whose authenticity is unknown.

We also thought about organizing some people to solve the problem ourselves, but the uncles who went up the mountain never came back.”

After a while she added:

"It is past the time for the sacrifice. You must come back to the village with me and explain everything to the village chief."

"...Okay," Anton-Jun looked at Zizaitian, "Miss, would you like to join us? After all, this happened within the borders of Qi Country."

Zizaitian also glanced at him and said, "Of course I have to investigate it thoroughly."

After saying that, the three of them walked towards the village. As for Miao Chengtian, after listening to Nian Ling's story just now, he was called back by Zizaitian to call for help.

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Entrance of Qinghe Village

"Sister Nian Ling!"

"Sister Nianling, where have you been? We haven't seen you for a long time."

As soon as I arrived at the village gate, I saw four children gathered together and looked over, then they surrounded Nian Ling and started chattering.

"Shh~ Didn't sister tell you? Don't follow me, or you will be scolded by daddy and mommy."

Nian Ling seemed very afraid of causing noise in the village, and hurriedly tried to stop the group of noisy children.

However, they didn't feel anything was wrong at all, and just kept saying, "Okay, okay, it's okay, let's go play, sister."

"Yes, sister. Yesterday, daddy said that he might not see you again. We were shocked. Fortunately, we see you again now."

Nian Ling continued to refuse: "No, my sister has something to ask the village chief, so I'll leave first."

"Okay, okay." After hearing her words, the children ran away happily muttering.

While Nian Ling was talking to the child, Anton Jun leaned close to Zizaitian's ear and breathed on his earlobe. However, he did not notice that Zizaitian's cheeks were slightly flushed. He whispered:

"I just observed that these children have different degrees of rashes on their arms and necks. It seems that what Nian Ling said is right. There is something wrong with this village."

After hearing this, Zizaitian's expression changed slightly, his eyebrows tightened, and he retorted in a somewhat unhappy tone:

"You mean to say that you believe in the so-called mountain god? I didn't expect that someone with such high cultivation level would be so superstitious."

"Oh, no, no..." Seeing that she seemed to have misunderstood something, Anton Jun was about to explain, but then he realized that it would be a bit troublesome, so he could only say, "Forget it, just watch me later."

"Humph!"

After saying that, he no longer cared about Zizaitian's cold snort and walked to Nian Ling's side. After the children left, he asked:

"From what they said, you haven't been down the mountain for a long time, but just now a child had a knee injury, and I smelled that the medicinal herbs in the wrapping were not used randomly. What's going on?"

Nian Ling explained: “Since the strange disease appeared, our family has basically been living in the mountains.

Normally, the villagers would not let us go down the mountain unless there was something wrong. Only when they had a minor illness or disaster would they come up the mountain to ask us for some medicinal herbs.”

"I see. After we go to the village chief, take us to your house."

Hearing this, Nian Ling said in a depressed mood: "Okay."

The entire journey was speechless.

A moment later, shortly after they entered the village, they saw an old lady coming towards them with vegetables in her arms.

But when she saw Nian Ling, she felt like she saw a ghost. The food in her arms fell to the ground and she said in shock:

"Why...why are you back?"

Then he seemed to have thought of something and shouted, "Oh no! Nian Ling is back, help!"

Da da da......

Instantly the ground began to shake slightly, and villagers came out of their houses and gathered together, led by an old man who looked to be in his sixties.

Seeing this, Nian Ling knelt down immediately: "Village Chief, I..."

Snapped!

Before she could finish her words, the village chief slapped Nian Ling on the right cheek, and her cheek turned red instantly.

"You evil creature, you are such a coward. For so long, none of the people who were sacrificed have come back. Do you still have any shame?"

"That's right, Nian Ling, don't forget, it's because of your family that the mountain god is angry. Now you're the only one left, and you actually escaped. How dare you?"

"It's obviously going to end soon, why don't you want to die?"

The villagers started accusing each other one by one. Nian Ling's eyes became misty and the corners of her mouth began to tremble.

Just when the village chief was about to pick up his cane to hit Nian Ling, a hand grabbed the cane and threw him out along with it, scolding, "Old man, you're going too far!"

From the beginning, Anton Jun and Zizaitian had been looking very unhappy.

They didn't understand. They were from the same village and the only doctor's family in the village, so why were they treated like this?

Seeing that they had no intention of stopping, Anton finally couldn't help himself and took action.

"Ouch!"

The village chief fell to the ground. The other villagers were obviously stunned when they saw this. They seemed to have not expected that this young man would actually take action. They immediately shouted:

"He actually dared to hit the village chief. Folks, kill him!"

"It's no wonder that he was brought back by that evildoer. Beat this kid to death!"

Anton Jun picked up the huddled Nian Ling and handed her to Zizaitian, saying with a hint of anger, "Keep an eye on her."

Zizaitian also looked angry: "Yeah!"

Anton-kun faced the villagers who were rushing over and slapped the ground with one palm.

Instantly, the ground seemed to have emerged from a dragon, and it shattered over a distance of several feet.

Then, a gust of air created by the palm force directly knocked the villagers down, and they lay crookedly on the ground.

"roll!"