Chapter 101 Curse
Zhuang Ruoyu's face was full of pain.
She said with a trembling voice: "I really didn't expect that my father would knock me out. When I woke up, I found myself on Su Xiaoxiao's back."
Zhuang Ruoyu couldn't stop her tears from flowing down. "Su Xiaoxiao was covered in wounds, but she still carried me on her back and desperately shuttled through the mountains and forests in the rainstorm."
Jiang Lingyin clenched her fists and said angrily: "Su Xiaoxiao, is she leading you to escape?"
Zhuang Ruoyu: “Yes.”
Ye Wenjing frowned and asked, "What happened next? Su Xiaoxiao was tied to the altar herself, how did she escape?"
Zhuang Ruoyu took a deep breath and continued, "I don't know. When I opened my eyes, I saw the villagers of Xiangyun Village chasing me relentlessly. Their shouts echoed in the valley, making people shudder. Su Xiaoxiao ran away desperately with me on her back."
Zhuang Ruoyu seemed to be back in that terrible night.
Her body trembled slightly. "Su Xiaoxiao didn't dare to stop for a moment. Her breathing became heavier and heavier, and her wounds were bleeding, but her pace did not slow down at all."
Jiang Lingyin looked at Zhuang Ruoyu distressedly and said, "Then how did you escape?"
Zhuang Ruoyu shook his head and said painfully, "I don't know. I fainted again. When I woke up again, I was alone in a cave, and Su Xiaoxiao was nowhere to be seen."
Zhuang Ruoyu's voice was filled with sorrow, and she slowly said, "After I rested for a while, I sneaked back to Xiangyun Village again, only to find that there was already a dead goddess on the altar.
I thought it was Su Xiaoxiao, and my heart was in my throat. "
Zhuang Ruoyu's tears rolled down like beads from a broken string, "I waited until dark, and when the villagers on duty left, I couldn't wait to go check, only to find that the dead goddess was actually my brother!
My younger brother and I are twins, a boy and a girl. He has been looking like a girl since he was young and has a handsome appearance.
She looks very similar to me, and with a little bit of dressing up, others would recognize her as a girl at first glance."
Jiang Lingyin and Ye Wenjing both gasped, their faces filled with shock.
Zhuang Ruoyu's voice trembled, and he almost collapsed: "I can't believe my eyes, how could it be my brother? How could this happen?"
She covered her face with her hands and sobbed.
After a long while, she continued, "I immediately ran home, only to find that my father had committed suicide by taking poison at home. At that moment, my world completely collapsed."
Jiang Lingyin patted Zhuang Ruoyou's shoulder, trying to comfort her: "Did you find Su Xiaoxiao later?"
Zhuang Ruoyou said: "No, I didn't go to find her, she came to find me."
Zhuang Ruoyu looked sad and said, "Su Xiaoxiao went to find food. When she returned to the cave, she found that I was not there. She guessed that I might have returned to Xiangyun Village alone to find my father and brother, so she came back to look for me in the middle of the night."
Jiang Lingyin sighed softly and said, "So, Su Xiaoxiao is a man of loyalty and righteousness."
Ye Wenjing asked Zhuang Ruoyu: "Then when you meet Su Xiaoxiao again, have you figured out what happened to your father and brother?"
Zhuang Ruoyu looked sad and said slowly: "Su Xiaoxiao told me that the night before the Tiannu Festival, my brother Zhuang Ruxing secretly went to the altar to find her and untied the rope.
He told Su Xiaoxiao that he had discussed a plan with his father and asked her to escape from Xiangyun Village as soon as possible.
Su Xiaoxiao believed Zhuang Ruxing's words and prepared to escape.
Halfway through the run, he overheard two villagers saying that the Heavenly Maiden Festival was being held as usual, and they were rushing to drink the holy water with their own bowls.
Su Xiaoxiao thought she had escaped, so the celestial being who was sacrificed alive could only be me.
So he returned to Xiangyun Village regardless of everything.
But she arrived a step too late, and the Tiannu Festival had already begun.
Zhuang Ruxing dressed herself up to look like me and wore my clothes.
He was afraid that he would not be able to bear the pain and make a sound, exposing his identity and making people know he was a man, so he poisoned himself to make himself mute.
Jiang Lingyin heard tears welling up in her eyes and said angrily, "This is too cruel!"
Zhuang Ruoyu choked up, "He is obviously someone who is so afraid of pain..."
Zhuang Ruojue shed tears silently, immersed in great sorrow.
Jiang Lingyin asked: "Then how did Su Xiaoxiao bring you out?"
Zhuang Ruoyou said: "Su Xiaoxiao tampered with the holy water, and the villagers drank it and the poison took effect, so she was able to escape.
After my brother died for us in the Tiannu Festival, Su Xiaoxiao rushed to my house.
My father was so grief-stricken that he said it was all his fault and that he had killed his own son, and he committed suicide by taking poison on the spot.
I was still unconscious at the time, and Su Xiaoxiao carried me on her back and escaped. "
Ye Wenjing frowned: "When all this happened, you were still unconscious. Su Xiaoxiao told you everything. Did you really believe it all?"
Zhuang Ruoyu sneered: "Of course I don't believe it."
She pointed to the rotten half of her face and said, "This is the price of finding out the truth, you are neither human nor ghost.
I didn't completely believe Su Xiaoxiao's words at that time, so I turned back to Xiangyun Village from the cave. When I returned, I saw the bodies of my father and Ruxing.
But I didn't expect that Su Xiaoxiao would come back to me again.
She was too kind. The medicine she put in the villagers' holy water was not fatal, so the next day the village chief brought people to surround us.
The village chief keeps saying that Su Xiaoxiao and I stole the village treasure from the ancient temple. Hahahaha, he really can find a pretext to accuse me of something!"
Jiang Lingyin and Ye Wenjing looked at each other.
No wonder the villagers said that the woman twenty years ago stole their village treasure.
So the village chief made it up to deceive people?
Jiang Lingyin asked: "So, in fact, you didn't steal any so-called treasures?"
Zhuang Ruoyu said seriously, "Of course not! How can Xiangyun Village be a treasure? It's just the village chief's words to deceive people!"
Ye Wenjing's eyes fell on Zhuang Ruoyu's face, which was missing a piece. "What happened to your face?"
Zhuang Ruoyu's eyes were suddenly filled with anger: "Back then, the village chief led people to surround Su Xiaoxiao and me in my house, ordered them to pour tung oil on it, and set it on fire to burn us to death.
Luckily, there was a stream not far behind my house, so Su Xiaoxiao and I ran out desperately, but I still got a burn on my face. "
At that time, Su Xiaoxiao looked at the group of villagers in front of her who looked like evil spirits and couldn't believe it.
They were all bewitched by the village chief, who said that as long as they burned to death the two people who blasphemed the Heavenly Maiden Festival, their misfortune would be taken away!
The villagers went crazy with torches in hand.
Su Xiaoxiao said: "I curse you all, generation after generation, to have a bad death!"
Jiang Lingyin asked: "Where did Su Xiaoxiao go later?"
Zhuang Ruoyu shook his head. "After we jumped into the stream, we were separated and we haven't seen each other since."
Jiang Lingyin said thoughtfully: "The prescriptions you used to drug the people in Xiangyun Village over the years should have been written by Su Xiaoxiao at your house, right?"
Zhuang Ruoyou said, "How do you know?"