Chapter 440

The other one who was selected, the sacrificial book, was very excited to be selected, but suddenly seeing this scene, everyone was dumbfounded, but Bai Liu was calm and stunned, stepped into the room, and asked these The sacrifices of the deceased Beiyuan family bowed slightly.

The old servant pressed down indifferently, but the other two didn't respond. The children bowed to the sacrifices in the shrine: "Salute to the seniors who have served the Beiyuan family."

When the two children walked from the shrine, their expressions were in a daze, and their shoulders were shaking.

This is not the same as they imagined the life of a wealthy and superior person.

The old servant didn't seem to notice the sudden change of expression of the two children, bowed his body and continued to take small steps, walking forward very fast: "The sacrifices, people, the place where the Beiyuan family lives is the best." Earth."

"That place is also the place closest to the shrine. You will see Luming's closest shrine every morning when you get together. It is also the place where you will be sacrificed."

"There are evil spirits and beautiful bodies in the shrine. We can't disturb them often. Only during the hottest and coldest seasons of winter and summer every year, the county will hold a grand evil spirit festival, and the shrine will Open to the outside world."

"Boat houses and sacrifices kept in various families will go to the shrine to meet the evil gods, but the evil gods live in the shrines, and only the sacrifices and tears that are painful enough can make him open his eyes Wake up."

"People don't run to the mountains for sacrifices on weekdays. The evil gods are always sleeping and don't like to be nagged. The doors of the shrine are always locked, so there is no need to do daily prayers."

Bai Liu's eyes moved slightly: "The shrine is locked, so who has the key to the shrine? Is it in the hands of someone from Beiyuan?"

The old servant stopped, and he squinted at Bai Liu: "Yes."

"The key to the shrine will be in the hands of the person who pays the most taxes every year. The year before last, it was the Mifune family, and this year it is the Kitahara family."

The old servant took Bai Liu and the others to a relatively remote and spacious attic, bowed down and raised his hands respectfully to get out of the way: "This is the residence of the sacrifices."

"Although I understand that the priests were very curious about Beiyuan's house when they first arrived, but it's getting late now, I kindly suggest that you don't run around here and there."

The old servant raised his head slightly, revealing a pair of old and cloudy eyes: "After nightfall, the Beiyuan House is very dangerous. If you sacrifice yourself, you will die in the hands of some kind of ghost." Here, the dead body cannot even enter the Kitahara family shrine."

Bai Liu noticed that Cang and the other two children turned pale with fright, and immediately responded: "Yes!"

The old servant turned his eyes to Bai Liu: "Where's Bai Liu?"

Bai Liu lowered her eyes slowly, and her tone was submissive: "I will make good offerings to the evil gods and people here."

The old servant withdrew his gaze with a little satisfaction, bent over, held the door and bowed to leave: "In a while, we will help deliver your things to the boathouse. Please rest early."

The people from Beiyuan's family acted extremely fast, saying that it took a while to say that Bai Liu and the others lived in this attic for less than ten minutes, but they hesitated and said little. The servant moved Bai Liu and the others' luggage into the penthouse.

When Cang saw the little black cat locked in the cage, its eyes lit up, and when it opened it, it was about to hug it, but the little black cat twisted its buttocks and slipped under the cage, and the tone was terrific. With a loud mime, he ran towards Bai Liu, who was sitting by the attic window.

Bai Liu gently stroked the two cats gathered at his feet with two fingers and the back of his hand. The two cats, looking out of the window, passed through the gradually dim yellow and dark night, and fell into the depths of the jungle. In Luming Shrine.

Cang walked up to Bai Liu, and asked in a low voice, "Bai Liu is a lover, is he the evil god who lives in that shrine?"

"It's not." Bai Liu looked back, and his eyes fell on the little white cat in his arms, "It's trapped in that shrine."

"So I'm going to take him here."

"...Just now you asked about the key to the shrine." Cang swallowed nervously, "Bai Liu, are you going to steal the key after dark?"

Bai Liu hummed flatly.

Cang suddenly tensed up: "But that old servant said that there will be resentful spirits at Beiyuan's house at night, Bai Liu, you don't know where the key is at Beiyuan's house, it's dangerous!"

"There are solutions to all these." Bai Liu raised his eyes and glanced at Cang, "As long as Cang is willing to help me."

Cang was stunned: "How can I help you?"

Bai Liu: "Find Beiyuan Xiaokui here."

After nightfall, the courtyard of Beiyuan’s house was dark, and the trees and plants reflected in the corridors were indistinct shadows. Next to the rockery, the stone furnace was working day and night, flickering faintly, like will-o’-the-wisps ‌ Fire, a stream of viscous and hot and humid water vapor transpiring in the air.

Taking advantage of the night to run, Cang Cang lowered his head and ran fast in the corridor, not daring to raise his head to look at the surrounding scene, so he quickly silently recited the matter that Bai Liu told him— —

——Beiyuan Xiaokui was one of the sacrifices of the Beiyuan family, and her younger brother was bought by the Beiyuan family in the first year when they carried out the evil god sacrifice.

And last year, Beiyuan Xiaokui’s younger brother was sacrificed.

This younger brother was deliberately raised by the Beiyuan family, and he has been burdened with pain for more than a year and nearly two years of share. The one-time sacrifice in exchange for his wish directly made the Beiyuan family develop No. 1 in Luming County, which is enough to see. In the past two years, Xiao Kui's younger brother has been living in Beiyuan's house in such a painful way.

That's not to mention how valuable Xiaokui is to the Beiyuan family after three years of pain on her back. This is definitely one of the most important sacrifices in the Beiyuan family. No wonder she was arrested even if she escaped. I'm back.

Bai Liu raised his eyelids, looked straight at the sky: "The key to the shrine should be in Beiyuan Xiaokui, or Beiyuan Xiaokui's younger brother."

Cang was taken aback, full of confusion: "Eh?! Isn't the key to the shrine very valuable? Why did the Beiyuan family put the key on the sacrifice?!"

"Because they are the people who are closest to God." Bai Liu looked up, "This is a family that delusions that they are getting closer to God, and they built their house in a place where they can look up at God's abode. , build the attic where we live so that we can overlook the shrine, they have a kind of extreme yearning and worship for evil gods, so the probability of locking the keys to the gods will be placed closest to the gods. People from the Kitahara family On the body, that is, on the sacrifice."

Cang  still hesitated: "But even if it's on the sacrifices, why is Bai Liu so sure of Xiaokui and his brother? There are more than these sacrifices in the Beiyuan family..."

"There are more than these few." Bai Liu said calmly, "But together, the most important contributions to the Beiyuan family, and the most memorable ones, are their siblings."

"If I guessed correctly, Beiyuan Xiaokui and her younger brother should be the first pair of [attendant] and [sacrifice] in the Beiyuan family."

"They are the first pair to represent the Kitahara family to enter the shrine as offerings."

Cang still can't forget the feeling of goose bumps all over his body when he heard Bai Liu's judgment.

He is walking in the warm night now, flowers are blooming and water is flowing in the courtyard on the right hand side, he takes a deep breath, it is indeed a rich and warm fragrance, but Cang feels that this fragrance is like When the sacrifice is howling in pain, it nourishes things with resentment, showing warmth and warmth on the surface, but in reality it is biting cold.

Bai Liu said that Beiyuan Xiaokui, as the most expensive and most valuable sacrificial offering with a three-year period of pain and maturity, must live in the attic of Beiyuan's home, which is the closest to God.

Cang used various excuses to run around the place where they lived twice, and finally saw a special attic opposite to the attic where they lived.

There is only one room in the attic, like a beacon tower. The lower part is empty wooden frame, and there is only one step leading from the door of the attic to the lower part. There are two servants guarding the place.

Cang secretly hid himself in the vegetation, looked at the two guards, and then looked up at the wooden attic with closed doors and windows, luxuriously built and surrounded by flowers.

Beiyuan Xiaokui lived there.

"It's almost like the place where the princess lives." Cang Qing whispered in a daze, "but it's actually just a sacrifice..."

After speaking, Cang squatted down in the grass and began to wait patiently.

After nightfall, these servants should leave the guard office, because there are resentful spirits wandering in the courtyard, they should return to their residence, or live in the nearest side room to guard Xiaokui.

Sure enough, after a while, the two servants climbed up to the attic, and went to sleep in the side room one on the left and the other on the right.

He breathed a sigh of relief, he dived in the grass, hung on the back of the ladder, gritted his teeth and climbed up ladder after ladder, and then the little boy grabbed the gap of the window sill , knocked lightly.

"Xiao Kui." Cang Xi pressed against the window very softly and asked, "I'm Cang Xi, are you there?"

After a long, long time, it was so long that I thought that Xiao Kui would not open the window, so the window slowly opened from the inside. She was wearing a close-fitting shirt, her face was haggard and pale, and Xiao Kui was now in the window. On the other side, her tone was indifferent: "What are you doing? Is the Beiyuan family playing tricks to coax me to escape and catch me back, and then make me suffer even more?"

Cang was startled, and before he could open it, Beiyuan Xiaokui was about to close the window indifferently again. In a panic, he forcibly turned over and broke into Xiaokui's living room, shaking his head while explaining: " No, I was chosen by the Beiyuan family as an attendant."

"I came here because my sacrificial person, Bai Liu, wanted the key to the shrine."

Cang looked at Xiaokui eagerly, and asked with clasped hands: "He said you would help me, do you have the key?"

Xiaokui was quiet: "Bai Liu, why did he ask you to ask me for the key to the shrine?"

Cang Qing scratched his head, after much deliberation, he still chose to tell the truth: "He said that the evil god in the shrine is his lover, and he wants to elope with his wife."

Although Bai Liu didn't say it so directly, that's pretty much what he meant here.

Xiaokui's expression changed and she was taken aback again, as if she really heard something funny, she clapped her hands and laughed, until tears flowed down her face: "Take The evil god elopes...haha, hahaha!"

This frightened Cang Qing quite a bit, and he knelt down and covered Xiao Kui's mouth: "Stop laughing! It's all over if we recruit the servant later!"

"No." Xiaokui lay lazily on the ground on her back, staring at the ceiling of the attic with her eyes out of focus, and muttered to herself, "I often laugh like this crazy in the middle of the night, they don't care ‌."

"They just have to make sure I'm alive, I'm miserable, and that's it."

Cang's expression was complicated and full of doubts: "What were you laughing at just now?"

"Xiao Bailiu just made up a lie and you just believe it." Xiaokui lazily raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "It's impossible for him and the evil god to be lovers, let alone elope with the evil god."

Cang was dissatisfied, and he retorted: "But when Bailiu people talked about the evil god, I think he is very serious!"

"Seriously..." Xiaokui suddenly whispered, "My younger brother is also a very serious person, and he once said that he would take me away from this place."

After a pause, he hesitated for a while, and then asked again: "Are you and your brother also a pair of sacrifice and attendant?"

Xiaokui closed her eyes: "Yes."

"I am the sacrifice, and he is the attendant."

"My younger brother is three years younger than me. He is ignorant of these things and cannot understand the meaning of many things, so it is difficult to suffer. Even if he is tortured and beaten by the people of the Beiyuan family I was covered in blood, but after seeing me, I burst into laughter again, hugged me and called me sister, and acted like a baby with me."

"He only understands pain, not suffering."

Tears rolled down from the corners of Xiaokui's closed eyes, and her voice became hoarse: "But seeing him like that, I was scared, and I was in pain all the time."

"Even if I was tortured in the same way, my pain was far more than his, as if he didn't understand that the pain was transferred to me, so I have always been a sacrifice."

"I thought it would go on like this forever, and when I was sacrificed one day, he would be exiled by the Beiyuan family, and he might return to the boat house to live in a cage. Even then, I think it is better than staying in the Beiyuan family The sacrifice is better."

"Because he has been in such an environment all the time, I know that even in a cage, he can live a happy life without pain, because this is what he has realized since he was a child." ‌The world, he doesn’t understand anything.”

"He thinks this is what the world is like, and the world is just so cruel."

"But one day." Xiaokui opened her empty eyes, "The Beiyuan family sent teachers to my younger brother and me."

"They set out to teach us what the real world looks like."

"Every day, every day, we have to see many people who are happier than us, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions. They will have a pair of parents who love themselves since they were born, and they will have a very good life. "Friends, study normally, get married, have someone who loves you, marry your partner, have children, and continue to live so happily in this world."

"Those teachers will tell us that this is a normal life. Most people live a life. We are different. Our life is abnormal, lowly, and we have to be tortured to survive." Life."

"Then the people of the Beiyuan family tortured us even harder while guiding us in this way."

"For example, if you tell our parents today that they will love themselves and their children, tomorrow we will invite our parents to watch us being tortured, and then give them a lot of money."

"I told us today that everyone can play with their favorite small animals. I went to see them hanging outside the window tomorrow morning. The sunny doll has changed from a doll to a puppy. .”

"It's so sunny, my puppy hangs under the eaves, with his tongue sticking out, and a collar around his neck. I sew small flowers for him, and flies surround him."

"When my brother and I put down the puppy's body while weeping brokenly." Xiaokui wept numbly, "My brother finally understood."

"The world is not so cruel, it's just cruel to us."

"He said to me, sister, I must take you away from this place."

"He began to torture himself more and more, and he must become more painful than me. He wanted to be a sacrifice. When he was tortured to the point of going crazy, he would come to me, crying and saying, sister, As long as I sacrifice once, we can live a normal life."

"We will definitely live a very happy life, and the evil gods will definitely see our pain."

"As long as I sacrifice pain to Him, after the first sacrifice, let's run and escape from this place."

"He cried and told me, let's escape to the places we saw in books and TV, we can raise many puppies without being hanged, and we don't have to be watched by our parents every day. They were held in a dog bowl and ate dog food while being whipped."

"Sister, there must be someone who loves us very much. The reason we have suffered so much is to meet those happy things in the future. There must be hope."

Xiaokui took a deep breath tremblingly: "I know those teachers taught us all these things just to give us hope."

"Only if there is hope, can torture bring pain for a long time. We will not commit suicide easily. We will exist and endure for that hope until the day of the sacrifice."

"My younger brother really became a sacrifice, and I became his attendant."

"On the day he was sent to the shrine to worship, I repeatedly confirmed to the people of the Kitahara family that my brother would get a lot of money just by offering sacrifices to the Kitahara family once, and they would not limit him. My brother should act, he can indeed leave Luming County at any time."

"I saw him walk into the shrine, and then there was a sound of the shrine being loosened, and everyone around was very excited, saying that the evil god had opened his eyes and walked down from the shrine. I was also very excited."

"Then my younger brother walked away from the shrine with his head bowed and his hands shaking."

Xiaokui turned her head and stared at the pale eyes with tearful, dead eyes, but the corners of her mouth were smiling, wantonly, with a hoarse voice:

"The rest of the Kitahara family were rushing to the shrine to make a wish, but I was the only one who stepped forward to help me who was about to fall. Brother, he raised his head and looked at me with completely blank eyes, his hands were as cold as ice. It’s a corpse, the words are completely incongruous, and the water drips down as soon as it opens, but I still rely on the tacit understanding with him for many years, and piece together what he wants to tell me .”

"He said, sister, this is a hoax, a lie."

"If the pain of the sacrifices cannot move the evil spirits, the evil spirits will not open their eyes and walk down from the altar to fulfill the wishes of the people, and the sacrifices cannot leave here."

"If the victim's pain can move the evil god's person, and the evil god's person opens his eyes, and the sacrifice only needs to look at the evil god's person's silver-blue eyes, we will go crazy and commit suicide .”

"We can't escape."

Xiaokui laughed maniacally, and she burst into tears: "Then my brother, after returning home, hanged himself outside my eaves and died."

"—Like a sunny doll."

"You tell me." Xiaokui twisted and got up from the ground, she stretched her arms, her messy hair slipped from her bloodless side face, she smiled nervously Twice, "I can't even look at it, the evil god——"

"How did Bai Liu fall in love with him and become lovers with him?"