Favoring a concubine and destroying the wife? I'll abandon my husband and children and wipe out

Several people looked at him.

The Second Elder immediately realized the inappropriateness of his words, coughed twice, and said, "No one else is allowed to enter the forbidden area, but we took into account your concerns, so we allowed your companions to come along. If anything goes wrong along the way, we believe that even without our reminders, your companions will stop it on their own. Are you still not at ease?"

Lang Shu and Abanruo then said, "Since the Second Elder has made his promise, we are relieved. If we do anything that disturbs the elders' work, we hope you will not take offense."

The Second Elder's expression immediately became somewhat strained.

The Grand Elder frowned almost imperceptibly, about to say something, when Nan Rong from the prefecture said again, "I have another question about what the Grand Elder just said. I wonder if the Grand Elder could answer it."

A hint of impatience flashed in the elder's eyes, but he maintained a smile on his face and said, "Of course."

Nan Rong said in the state, "The Grand Elder just said that if the pearl had been retrieved in the past, no one could have survived, right?"

These words surprised the three elders slightly. They didn't understand why he asked such an obvious question, but they nodded and said yes.

Nan Rong's tone suddenly changed in the state: "What about the ancestors of my Buyi tribe?"

The three elders' expressions froze slightly.

“In the past, it was impossible to survive the pearl-retrieving process, so all the ancestors of my Buyi tribe must have died in the Bai Nv tribe. However, there is no record in the Buyi tribe that so many of our people died far from home. All along, the only record is that our people were buried in our tribe’s territory.”

Nan Rong spoke in the state, observing the expressions of the three men.

They noticed that the three elders' expressions darkened, and their smiles vanished without a trace.

"So, I would like to ask, what is going on here?"

"If all the ancestors of my clan who came here died here, where are their bodies?"

Seeing that the three elders seemed to want to say something, Nanrong immediately added, "The Bai Nv tribe values ​​outsiders so much, especially the Mingyue girl who once brought you the pearl. You can offer incense to her. I suppose you would value our Buyi tribe, who has been fulfilling their promise to deliver the Shennong pearl for hundreds of years, even more. Would you also erect a tomb and a monument for her?"

After the words were spoken, the altar fell into an instant of deathly silence.

The mountain wind howled through the air, and the fires crackled and popped in the braziers on the surrounding stone pillars, mixed with the sound of someone's heartbeat, making everything on the altar tense, as if it could erupt at any moment.

The three elders stared intently at Cheng Nanzhi and the others.

A moment later, they burst into laughter.

The Grand Elder said, "How would we know that?"

"Perhaps your Buyi tribe has some special method that allows you to survive after retrieving the pearl and leave the island to return. That's why you have no records of your people dying outside."

"As for the specifics, we really don't know. After all, when we took office as elders, the Buyi people were not the ones who took the pearl; it was Miss Mingyue. We have never seen what happened to the Buyi people after they took the pearl."

The Third Elder then said, “Yes, yes! There are no Buyi people on our island. If they had really died on our island, we would naturally have erected graves and monuments for them, based on their help to our tribe. But in reality, we haven’t.”

The second elder said impatiently, "Have you been wandering around the village a lot these past few days? If there were any Buyi people's graves, wouldn't you have seen them? If you can't see them, then they don't exist."

He curled his lips.

"Besides, your Buyi tribe has suffered a great loss, and the records of your tribe have long been lost. How would you know what happened to your ancestors after they came to deliver the pearl?"

Abanruo immediately stepped forward, "Second Elder, even if we don't know what happened after our ancestors sent the pearl, we can be sure that there is no record of any clansmen dying in other places. Ji Yue and I have lived in the clan since we were young and have read all the clan's records, but we have never seen it."

Lang Shu nodded.

The second elder frowned.

The Third Elder patiently replied, "Then we don't know. The records of your clan are not detailed, and we are not very clear about the past of the White Woman Clan either, because the White Woman Clan does not have the habit of recording clan history. We simply go with the flow and accept whatever comes our way. So we really cannot answer you."

"Gentlemen, let's leave it at that," the First Elder said with a slightly firm tone. "If we continue, we might delay the opportune time to retrieve the pearl. We not only need to retrieve the pearl, but also to cure Young Master Ji's poison, and finally, to relieve the worries of our people. There are so many things to do, and we cannot afford to delay."

The group exchanged glances, understanding each other perfectly.

Cheng Nanzhi and Nan Rong then proceeded forward in the prefecture.

The first one to start is Cheng Nanzhi.

First, we need to remove the pearl from her, and then we need to cure Nanrong of the Gu poison in the state.

The elder stared intently at Cheng Nanzhi, a hint of excitement in his eyes, and made Cheng Nanzhi lie down on the stone platform.

Without a word, Cheng Nanzhi stepped forward, leaped over the grooves, and reached the edge of the stone platform. She saw that there were four iron chains on both sides of the platform, probably used to bind hands and feet to prevent people from struggling.

"Miss Cheng, don't be afraid. The medicinal liquid will soak half of your body in a while, ensuring you can survive until the pearl is removed," the elder said with a kind smile.

Cheng Nanzhi looked at the stone platform; the patterns on it were actually grooves.

It is estimated that when the stone platform falls, the medicinal liquid will seep up through those grooves and soak her entire body.

"Miss Cheng, what's wrong?" The elder asked, seeing that she wasn't moving.

Cheng Nanzhi turned around and saw Nan Rongzai and the others looking at her with concern. Her gaze then swept over the three elders, whose expressions were somewhat subtle, and she asked, "Are you sure you can cure Nan Rongzai's Gu poison?"

“Of course!” the elder answered without hesitation. He looked at Nan Rong in the state with pity, his gaze fixed on his body, and said, “How can someone so perfectly suited to live die? His body should live, not die from the Gu poison. Once the Gu poison is cured, he will be the most perfect person in the world.”

Nan Rong felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this and couldn't help but take a step back.

For some reason, he felt uncomfortable with the elder's gaze.

"Okay, as long as you can save him." Once Cheng Nanzhi had confirmed this, she went up to the stone platform and lay down.

The elder smiled slightly and waved his hand. Two guards who were waiting on the side immediately stepped forward. One restrained Cheng Nanzhi's hands and feet, while the other pressed a mechanism on the side of the stone platform.

The next moment, with a muffled thud, the stone platform indeed fell down until the groove on the stone wall was level with the groove on the ground, allowing the medicinal liquid to flow in, before it finally stopped.

The medicinal liquid quickly overflowed along the groove in the stone platform, and soon rose to the surface of the stone platform.

Cheng Nanzhi immediately felt the coldness beneath her, which made her shiver. However, as more of the medicinal liquid was added, the temperature rose, eventually becoming slightly hot, just right so that Cheng Nanzhi wouldn't feel cold even though she was half-soaked.

“Alright, we can begin,” said the elder.