Fortune telling? How do you explain your hand-drawn lightning magic and sword flight?
Chapter 25 The Girl in the Dark Room
[I'm so excited and nervous! I'd trade ten years of my dorm's lifespan for the luck of winning this lucky bag!]
[Haha, I'd trade two years of my period for that!]
……
Amidst the cheers and laughter of the crowd, the first lucky bag was drawn.
Chen Xuan saw the lucky winner of the lucky bag and said, "Congratulations, [Pingpingdandan] has won the lucky bag. Please pay the divination fee before connecting with me on the live stream. If you do not pay the divination fee within ten seconds, you will be considered to have given up."
After Chen Xuan finished his opening remarks, Pingpingdan, who had won the lucky bag, did not respond.
【Huh? What's going on? Is this some kind of random luck test?】
[My God, I've been dreaming about having a Taoist priest tell my fortune for the past two days, but I never thought someone could have such incredible luck?]
[Hey, ma'am, if you're going to have your fortune told, please don't randomly click on lucky bags, okay? Isn't this wasting everyone's time?]
[How do you know that "plain and ordinary" is an older woman?]
[Haha, do you even need to think about it? This kind of username screams "70s kid!"]
[It's true, my mom's online name is "Wealth and Prosperity Blooming"!]
[Ma'am, you've caused a huge karmic consequence by delaying over 200,000 people by ten minutes!]
……
Whether it was the various comments on the screen that had an effect or not, Chen Xuan's phone finally rang with a transfer notification about ten seconds before the deadline.
After the transfer, a request to connect via live stream popped up.
Chen Xuan chose to accept.
The phone screen was then split in two.
It's easy to tell from the background of the house the auntie was living in that it was actually in the countryside.
The woman wasn't alone on camera; she was accompanied by a middle-aged man with short hair who looked honest and unassuming. The two of them seemed a bit nervous facing over 200,000 viewers in the live stream, their hands fidgeting and unsure of where to put them, let alone speak up.
The scene then became awkward.
Chen Xuan was not impatient. On the contrary, he had seen this kind of restraint many times in his previous life and knew that these two were just honest farmers.
"Could you two please introduce yourselves, and perhaps also tell us what you've encountered recently?"
People who cultivate the Dao generally have a kind face, and Chen Xuan, with the added advantage of his Qi Refining stage cultivation, gives people a particularly approachable impression.
Hearing this, the aunt and uncle were not so nervous this time.
So the uncle introduced himself, "My name is Li Chunqiang, and this is my wife's name, Wang Chunhua."
"Yes." Chen Xuan nodded. "Is it because of your daughter?"
Whenever Wang Chunhua talks about her daughter, tears immediately stream down her face, and Li Chunqiang can't help but sigh.
"Taoist priest, please save my daughter!"
Judging from the dilapidated house where the two lived and the simple furniture in the room, it is not hard to guess how difficult it was for them to spend 3000 divination coins. No wonder they hesitated even after winning the lucky bag.
"Tell me what happened?" Chen Xuan asked.
"Taoist Master, please take a look at my daughter, Li Hongyue."
Chen Xuan nodded, and then Wang Chunhua took her phone and walked towards a dilapidated little hut in the side room.
The windows of the small house were boarded up, and there was even a padlock on the door.
Seeing this, viewers in the live stream couldn't sit still.
[Another pitiful person. Perhaps the aunt's daughter has developed mental problems?]
I agree. Otherwise, what parent would bear to lock their daughter in a small room?
[If someone is truly mentally ill, even winning a lucky bag won't help. Metaphysics is actually another form of ancient science, and it's not as mysterious as it seems.]
I agree. I still recommend sending patients with mental health issues to specialized institutions for treatment; otherwise, it would be troublesome if they escaped and harmed someone.
[Yeah, I was in an internet cafe all night a while ago, and a young man with a kitchen knife in his pocket just chopped off the neck of a guy who was sleeping in his seat. Oh my god, I was right next to him, and ketchup sprayed all over my face.]
[Holy crap, I saw that news too. The authorities later caught the murderer, but after interrogation, they found out he was mentally ill. In the end, not only did he escape legal punishment, but he was also readmitted to a mental hospital.]
【Huh? Is it that outrageous?】
If it's that dangerous, I think the uncle and aunt did the right thing.
Amidst the discussion among fans in the live stream, Li Chunqiang finally unlocked the small house. As soon as he pushed open the door, a young girl screamed in fright from inside.
When the camera focused on the source of the sound, everyone saw a beautiful young girl with her hands and feet bound by chains.
Upon seeing this girl for the first time, viewers in the live stream exclaimed that she was a child star in the making, comparable to Guan Xiaotong when she was a child.
The girl had an oval face, a pair of captivating eyes, and a high nose bridge. She looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old, a beauty already blossoming at such a young age.
Although her clothes were shabby, overall, she didn't seem as miserable as those girls who were imprisoned online. The room was relatively clean, so she obviously hadn't been abused.
Every time the old woman brought food to her daughter and cleaned up her excrement, she would be in tears. How could her daughter, whom she had raised with such hardship for fourteen years, suddenly go insane?
"My daughter!" the old woman cried uncontrollably.
The middle-aged man's eyes were also red, and he couldn't stop sighing.
Looking at the girl in the video, Chen Xuan immediately knew where the source was.
"Uncle, Auntie, I already know about the child's condition. Please leave the room; I have something to ask you."
The two quickly returned to the main room.
At this moment, Chen Xuan looked at the two of them and asked, "What was your relationship before you two got married?"
Upon hearing this, the fans in the live stream were stunned.
Of course, Li Chunqiang and Wang Chunhua were also stunned.
The two looked at each other, stammering and not daring to speak.
“If you want your daughter to get better, tell me the truth.”
"Ugh……"
Finally, Li Chunqiang sighed and spoke.
“My wife is actually my cousin. When she was young, she didn’t know anything and never went to school. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, she was curious about the opposite sex, so… When my wife got pregnant, we were very scared. At that time, traditional values were very strong. If our elders found out about this, we would be beaten to death. So I took my wife and lied that I was going out to work. Later, Hongyue was born.”
Li Chunqiang is now not afraid to reveal these shameful secrets for his daughter's sake.
“At first, we were worried that consanguineous marriage would affect our daughter, but as Hongyue grew up, we found that she was not only clever and intelligent, but also very beautiful. So we focused on cultivating her education... Our daughter lived up to our expectations and always ranked first in her class.”
"My wife and I are not well-educated, and with this kind of thing happening, we haven't dared to go back to our hometown. We thought we could continue living this peaceful life forever."
At this point, Li Chunqiang rubbed his red eyes.
"No one expected that when my daughter was in her first year of high school, she would gradually show signs of mental instability. At first, when she was doing her homework at home, she would always say that she saw something in the mirror in her room, but when asked what it was, she couldn't explain it."
"Back then, kids were very active, and we were so busy and tired from working on the construction site that we didn't pay attention to anything else."
"But as time went by, we found that Hongyue's behavior was becoming more and more strange. My family believes in gods, but we only burn incense and pray to Buddha on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month. However, after my daughter turned fourteen, the first thing she did when she got up in the morning was to take incense, candles and paper money and burn them. When asked why, she would not say."
Li Chunqiang said, "We also consulted doctors, but none of them could give a clear answer."
At this point, Wang Chunhua chimed in, "Yes, several gentlemen said it wasn't an evil spirit, so we didn't take it seriously. But after seeing your live stream yesterday, we changed our minds."
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