My dad's lieutenant seems to be a time traveler

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In the middle of the night, avoiding people, I ran from one place to another, which seems to have been happening all the time for the past two months or so.

Before I met Zhang Wensheng, this didn't happen very often. In the middle of the night, my head was usually empty and I fell asleep quickly.After meeting Zhang Wensheng, this kind of situation became commonplace.

So much so that he led me to walk through the bamboo forest behind someone’s yard tonight, and I felt as if I knew the way. The moon was shining on my way, and I was going out of the valley anyway.

But there is one thing: when I entered the village, I didn’t feel that the road into and out of the valley was so long. It may be because they installed people on the road and set up torches. Walking in the field, wet and wet, the road is more than half longer.

Zhang Wensheng kept looking back at me.He seemed to be very afraid that my foot would get stuck in the field and I wouldn't be able to get out.I said to him: Don't worry, I'm used to this kind of thing.

He muttered: ...you're used to shit.

But late at night, we still didn't run out of the valley smoothly.Because this is wrong, there were four people who entered the mountain, but only me and him were left when they fled.

We were halfway there and had to approach the guarded path when I heard their voices.

I could vaguely hear the young men who were vicious before, discussing "how long hemp rope should be prepared".

One of them said that last year the rope was not long enough to reach the water.While hanging in the air, the animal broke the rope by itself, and the matter almost failed.

He said: The animal huddled against the wall and hugged the stone, neither up nor down, and the waves below could not hit him.In the end, I climbed down the cliff with Lao Tzu, stabbed it, and let out a lot of blood before throwing it down.This is disrespectful, you bled the animals, how could the sacrifice be bled in advance...

The wind was a bit cold, and I was standing in the muddy water, feeling leeches and the like getting into my trouser legs, which made me itchy and cold, so I started a cold war.I turned my face to look at Zhang Wensheng. Seeing me trembling, he stretched out a hand and pressed it on the back of my bare neck.

He himself was standing in the water, and in fact, this hand was not very warm.I took his love and trembled slightly.We were close to the field ridge, so I didn't dare to move or talk too much, for fear of being discovered by the villagers.

Zhang Wensheng approached me cautiously and said: I think they are all barbaric.

I hummed lightly with my nose as a response.

He also said: The animal didn't fall into the water and drowned, it was because of its fate, and they actually risked their lives to climb the cliff to make up for the knife...God has the virtue of good life, they may not understand it.

I whispered: What are they talking about?It seems to be talking about offering sacrifices to the water god?Are they getting married as a sacrifice?

Zhang Wensheng said: It should be.

I said: I was sitting on the kang just now, and an old goddess with red flowers on her head came in and chanted curses and sprinkled rice grains.

Zhang Wensheng said: In some places, there are similar customs later on, and rice grains seem to be a folk abhorrence technique related to the soul...

He was about to explain, when we heard a young villager say again: Jing Niang is getting old, she won't be doing this next year, and she is about to find a husband.

The other said: "Sister Zhao's family has someone in her heart. I know that she has taken a fancy to that person with the same surname from a foreign country."Otherwise, why would you let him go twice?The last time Zhao was let go without staying overnight, her father and elder brother almost beat her to death.She has someone in her heart, so it may be difficult for her to marry in the future.

When I heard this, I was both surprised and relaxed. I didn't care about the wet hands, and quickly touched Zhang Wensheng's hand on my neck: Jing Niang doesn't like me, she's looking for Brother Zhao.

There was a chuckle in Zhang Wensheng's voice: Got it, no need to explain.

I was about to turn my head to see if he was really smiling, when suddenly I heard another person say: Zhao Dalang is lucky, this time it's not his turn.If the girl didn't want to stay, Jingniang must be reluctant to let him go, so she temporarily pointed to the boy with thin skin and tender flesh.That kid looks clumsy, he should die honestly, he will definitely not be like the wild man last year, who can twist the rope in mid-air to escape...

The hand resting on my neck suddenly trembled.It was so obvious that I noticed it.

I finally turned my head away, and I saw that there was no smile on Zhang Wensheng's face.

Oops... he murmured.

Crap, I said to him, it doesn't look like they meant to keep me here to get a wife.

Zhang Wensheng looked at me, frowning.He said: Yes, it is a human sacrifice.

This old Zhang covered my mouth and didn't make me cry out. He just half held and half pulled the ground, pulling me to the depths of the paddy field before letting go.

When I first heard that it was a human sacrifice, I wanted to scream, but I was dragged and pulled in the water by him, and my whole body was soaked. At this time, I was too cold to speak, so the screaming was avoided.

I was shaking so badly that my teeth were chattering.Zhang Wensheng saw me like this, because his own clothes were also wet, and he didn't think it was necessary to take them off for me, so he just leaned forward with his whole body, hugged me tightly, and gave me some body temperature.

I heard him say: You are such a bad person, you almost died.

I was trembling, my teeth were chattering up and down, and I managed to squeeze out a word to talk to him.

I said: No, we have to go back and save Lao Cao and Zhao.

Zhang Wensheng let out a snort: You can't protect yourself, and you still have to worry about the ancients.

I said: Actually... I even... want to save Miss Zhao.

Zhang Wensheng said: Oh?She just pointed to you as a sacrifice.

I was so cold that I shivered and said: This place is so good... Cocoa is terrible, I don't want to keep her.

Zhang Wensheng nodded.His jaw was on my shoulder, and he wobbled up and down, sort of nodding.

He was straightforward, and he didn't argue with me about the impossibility of doing it.He simply said: Then save all three people.