Chapter 439

Beiyuan's home is on the mountain, and a group of people climbed a long mountain path, or steps, and could barely see the magnificent building hidden in the dense jungle.

Huge eaves are looming in the claustrophobic dense forest. Looking up hard, you can see another slightly smaller but more dignified and regular wooden building with cornices on a higher place above Beiyuan’s house. , and layers of mahogany torii gates.

"The one that is closer to us is the address of the Kitahara family." Mifune looked up at the cornice building of the torii gate, retracted the hem of his clothes, and bowed respectfully, "The one higher up is the residence of Lord Xie. , Luming Society."

The sacrifices and attendants also imitated the movements of the imperial ship and bowed to salute.

Going up, there is a regular rocky path, winding and leading to the building of Beiyuan's house. There are two stone lanterns standing beside the building. Bai Liu glanced at it from the corner of his eye and found the stone lantern It is very new, it looks like it is only about a year old, and the head of the lantern is carved into the shape of a simple and honest Shiba Inu sticking out its tongue.

The imperial boat knocked on the door of Beiyuan's house.

It opened slowly, and an old servant with gray hair and a steady posture poked his head. He glanced at the imperial boat that was knocking, and then glanced at the things that were following the imperial boat. Sacrifice, lowered his head and retracted his gaze, bent down and pulled away: "Master Yufune, I have been waiting for you for a long time, please come."

Mifune snorted an unintelligible hmm through his nose, and walked away without looking sideways.

Bai Liu walked behind the imperial boat, and what he saw was an elegant and luxurious Japanese-style garden scene, with jagged rocks standing on the left and right sides.

The clear spring water on these rocks is bubbling and flowing, which looks lively and interesting. The spring water should be brought from the mountain, but in this season, the spring water on the mountain should have been frozen and would not flow, but the Beiyuan family actually used it to The stone furnace heated the pipes leading to the spring water, forcing the spring water to flow hotly on the man-made rocks and vegetation in this cold cave.

This kind of stone furnace, which is used to heat the spring water, keep the courtyard beautiful and integrated with the courtyard, Bai Liu took a brief look, and made a little calculation in his heart, thinking that there should be nearly a hundred of them.

Seeing this scene, Cang couldn't help but leaned into Bai Liu's ear and whispered: "Last night, so many attendants and animals almost froze to death in the rain. Even if these stone furnaces were divided into one-third, they would It's not like that..."

The old servant at the side heard Cang Cang's broken thoughts, he turned his eyes sideways, glanced at Cang Cang condescendingly, and said:

"As sacrifices and attendants who have just arrived here, what you need to do is to work hard and be selected by the adults of the Beiyuan family to enjoy the beautiful courtyard made of these stone furnaces, instead of sympathizing with those who can't even see these stone furnaces. Those who don’t even have the ability to burn furnaces are willing to degenerate into inferior animals raised in cages.”

"The stone furnace is for those adults who can endure pain, offer sacrifices to evil spirits, and bring more value to Luming County to watch, not for those servants to keep warm."

"Here in Luming County, these are not painful enough. They can only live in cages. They are animals that cannot produce more value, and should not consume any resources to live."

Cang was so frightened by the old servant's eyes that he shrank his head, lowered his head and answered yes in a trembling voice, and stopped talking.

The old servant withdrew his eyes indifferently, bent over and walked forward in quick steps, and walked to the front of the line, leading the sacrifices through one solid wooden corridor after another.

Turning your head, you can see the scene in the courtyard. The gurgling spring water flows, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant in the courtyard, and the bamboo is knocked on the stone jar, and the petals flow down from the inside and meet in the lake in the courtyard. It looks pleasant and comfortable. Fresh and elegant.

Everyone is constantly admiring the exquisiteness and beauty of the courtyard. Whether it is a sacrifice or an attendant, it can be seen from their eyes that they all yearn for this place.

Walking in the deepest sky, he lowered his head and clenched the umbrella in his hand tightly, feeling an indescribable depression and gloom in his heart, he secretly raised his head and glanced at the person walking beside him, with a calm expression on his face Bai Liu's eyes were dazed.

Bai Liu was also selected by the Beiyuan family... Is he the same as these sacrifices?

Would he...would he agree with the old servant?

"If you have any questions, you can ask them directly." Bai Liu looked forward and said calmly, "You have been staring at me for more than ten minutes."

"I'm sorry!" Cang Yin lowered his head in a panic, then raised it slowly, and asked softly, "Bai Liu, do you also think that what the old servant said just now is true?"

"The stone furnace is used to watch the offerings, is it more important than heating the attendants?"

Bai Liu replied: "Everyone's speech mistakes should be viewed from the other side's standpoint."

"From the perspective of those who are now sacrifices, from the perspective of the servants of the Beiyuan family, and from the perspective of those with vested interests who exploit others at the top of the food chain, they naturally feel that they are innocent."

"They won't get anything from the stone furnace to warm the attendants, but putting it here to watch it is indeed something they can see and benefit from every day."

Cang plucked up his courage: "Then from Bai Liu's point of view? Do you also think they did it?"

Bai Liu turned his head to the side, and he gave Cang He a peaceful look in his eyes, which made Cang He hold his breath involuntarily, and the umbrella in his hand was clenched so tightly that his palm turned white.

"No." He replied flatly, "I don't think they are the ones."

Cang took a long sip, and his eyes widened: "But Bai Liu is also a sacrifice now, and also a person with vested interests, why don't you think they are the ones who did it?"

Bai Liu looked at him, her pupils were dark, and the light in her eyes was shaking, and the broken hair on her forehead covered her eyes scattered in the breeze: "At the top of the food chain built by these people, there is an old man who is supposed to exploit people. Evil."

"But because he chose not to exploit these people, he is now being tortured and exploited by someone else."

"That old evil, that person is my lover."

Cang was completely stunned.

Bai Liu withdrew his eyes, looked at the old man who was walking in front of the sacrifice, and there was no emotion in his words:

"I came here to deal with these people who exploited him, and to remove the food web that was built on him."

"Then I will tell him." Bai Liu paused, "No matter what happened after that, his original choice was not wrong."

Cang's eyes felt a little hot for some reason, he had a lot to say, and he was full of questions to ask, but in the end he just hummed heavily, and strongly agreed in a weeping tone: "Xie Neither your lord nor you are at fault."

"The sacrifice over there." Yufune, who was walking in the front, turned back impatiently and urged, "What are you chatting about? Follow me! I'm going to the living room to choose the sacrifice!"

"Okay!" Cang hurriedly dragged Bai Liu to run quickly, "We're here!"

The living room of the Beiyuan family is also very large, with a very wide field of vision, because it looks a bit like an international meeting place of a gymnasium, the floor is covered with soft silk cloth, and the front is several A servant was kneeling on top of a low table, and sitting in the center was a traditional goldfish hairstyle with a bun on the head and a shaved head in the center.

This person's eyebrows were slanted and furrowed, and his body was strong like a man in his forties or fifties, but the corners of his eyes, forehead, and chin were wrinkled, and he looked aged as if he was in his sixties, with a tense and gloomy expression.

He looked down at the sacrificial album in front of him, flipped through it casually, then raised his head and glanced gloomyly at the sacrificial offering kneeling in front of him, and at the end Bai Liu, who was walking, froze.

"Is there a child named Bai Liu?" He said in a dark voice, "Look up and let me see."

Bai Liu raised his head slowly, looking at Fang Fang impartially.

The Beiyuan Family Media Group nodded with satisfaction: "It's a sign of appearance, with great willpower, and can be trained/taught for a long time."

"If you want this child, his attendants will stay."

Finally, Beiyuan chose Bailiu and another sacrifice, and kept their attendants, and soon some servants came forward to present them with new wooden plaques, with the words [Beiyuan Bailiu] and [Beiyuan Cangyu] written on it. ‌].

The reporter got up and glanced at them: "Since he is the sacrifice of the Beiyuan family, let's stay at the Beiyuan family today."

"I will send someone over to the boat house to bring your pets and luggage. First, let someone take you to familiarize yourself with the environment, know where you can go and where you can't go, and stay at Beiyuan's house and enjoy the Beiyuan family. Everything, what needs to be done for the Beiyuan family."

Saying that, the Beiyuan Family Media looked up and nodded to the old servant who led the way: "Take them to get acquainted."

The old servant nodded respectfully, then turned to Bai Liu and the others and said, "Masters, please come here."

"First of all, congratulations to everyone. From now on, the adults will live in the house of this family that makes people happy and pays the most tax."

The footsteps of the servant are thin and fast, passing through the wooden corridor covered in the shade like a swimming snake. There are broken red maple leaves that have just fallen for less than half an hour on the corridor, trembling under the footsteps of the servant, It fluttered and fell into the water pavilion next to the corridor, and drifted to the roof.

The water vapor floats in the air warmly and sultryly, sticking to the skin of people in such a cold climate is not pleasant at all.

It was a beautiful and bright place, and a gloomy and dark place indeed.

"In the Beiyuan family, the priests are the highest existence. The development of the Beiyuan family to its present scale depends on the great dedication of generations of priests. Without their pain, we would be There is no such beautiful courtyard as the Beiyuan family."

"The first thing for anyone who enters the Beiyuan family to do is to pay homage to these adults who have borne untold pain for the development and growth of the Beiyuan family."

The old servant stopped in front of a very well-built building. He folded his hands and clapped hands, bowed down and bowed, and then stretched out his hand and pushed the door of the building away.

When Cang saw the situation in the room, he couldn't help but gasped.

A huge wooden shelf was placed in the house, with cornices on both sides of the shelf and tails curling up. It was decorated in a corporate style. Dozens of niches were placed on the wooden shelf from high to low, and each niche was There are black-and-white photos inside. The people in these black-and-white photos look like children in their teens, or even a few years old.

The old servant folded his arms and moved away, lowering his eyelids: "These are the offerings that the Beiyuan family bought over the past three years, but didn't make it to the end. They committed suicide because of pain. They are enshrined here."

"If you didn't persevere and committed suicide, you would also be enshrined here."

"Please invite four adults to come and salute them."