Chapter 250: Ending (6)
Afterwards, Shen Wei asked the woman to come back in three days, as the medicine on the ancestral prescription would take three days to prepare.
"Remember, don't tell anyone else what we said today."
"After all, it's a folk remedy. Some people have many prejudices against folk remedies and think that they don't work. If you tell others about it in advance, I'm afraid it will reveal the secret and make you unable to give birth to a child in this lifetime."
"Just wait patiently. Once you give birth to a child, you will be able to hold your head high."
After Shen Wei's persuasion, the woman left with great gratitude.
Some time passed.
Shen Wei waited until he had a clear understanding of the environment before he dared to take action.
I learned from the woman that if a foreign woman got lost, she would be locked up in the ancestral temple if she was caught.
As long as the men in the village need it, they can apply to the village chief and enter the ancestral temple to allow outsider women to continue the family line.
The woman gave birth to several daughters. This time she saw a man in the village capturing another woman.
Seeing that her husband was going to apply to the village chief, the woman became so anxious that she hid and came to Shen Wei to see if she could still give birth to a son.
The moon in the sky was an eerie red, like a bleeding heart, and the surrounding clouds were also a strange red.
In the 21st century, some people have already taken out their mobile phones to take pictures and said that this is a blood moon that is rarely seen in hundreds of years.
But in ancient times, the blood moon was an ominous sign.
When Shen Wei looked up and saw the moon, her heart sank. In a trance, she seemed to see a bloody heart.
Shen Wei slapped herself to stop thinking about it, and then she quickly walked to the ancestral temple.
The houses in the village are not tall and are arranged in a messy manner.
But this ancestral temple was built tall and majestic. Under the cover of night, it was like a face hidden in the darkness, silently watching the visitors.
The ancestral hall was locked from the outside, so Shen Wei could only crawl in through the wall.
After landing on the ground with a thud, Shen Wei looked around. The printing technology around him was pitch black, like a huge mouth waiting for Shen Wei to enter.
Shen Wei's heart began to beat fast. He silently repeated the great man's words in his mind, and then he carefully walked into the dark mouth.
The surroundings were so quiet that not even the sound of the wind could be heard, as if everything had been swallowed up.
Shen Wei was so nervous that his palms were sweating, and he shouted softly:
"Xiaoman."
"Bang bang."
From inside there came the sound of an iron chain dragging the floor.
Shen Wei listened carefully and walked quickly towards the direction of the sound.
"Xiao Man........"
Shen Wei saw Xiaoman.
She saw Xiaoman’s hands and feet tied with chains, her eyes full of despair, her messy hair…
The clothes on his body were torn into strips and hung on his body, and his skin was covered with blue and purple marks.
Shen Wei's tears immediately burst out and she rushed to Xiaoman and wanted to hug her.
Xiaoman curled up in the corner in fear, looking at Shen Wei numbly.
"Xiao Man, don't be afraid, it's me, I'm Shen Wei."
"I'll take you back."
Shen Wei let the tears fall down her face. She wanted to untie Xiaoman's shackles, but Xiaoman shrank back again.
Shen Wei's heart was filled with pain and guilt.
"I'm sorry, I had no choice at the time. I couldn't save you."
"It's just that the sweet potato vine is more important to us. If we don't find the sweet potato vine, the three thousand women who went to the Xiongnu land will really become victims."
"Only when we find the sweet potato vines will the imperial court have the confidence to send troops to rescue them."
"Xiao Man, I am sorry for you."
"You can blame me however you want, but let me get you out first, okay?"
"I have been looking for you these past few days. My thinking was rigid. I always thought you were imprisoned in a cattle pen, but I didn't expect that they would actually imprison you in a place like this."
No matter what Shen Wei said, Xiaoman remained distracted.
Staring at Shen Wei with eyes filled with fear, despair and unfamiliarity.
Shen Wei took out a thin needle from the cloth bag he carried with him, trying to open the chain that shackled Xiaoman, but found that the thin needle could not get in at all. Looking more closely, Shen Wei's heart instantly sank.
All the holes are blocked!!!
It is impossible to rescue Xiaoman quietly, and she needs to be chopped with an axe.
But doing so would make a loud noise, and...it would only be able to break the chains, but would not be able to completely unlock the locks on Xiaoman's hands and feet.
Shen Wei stood up, but Xiaoman thought Shen Wei was going to leave.
She whimpered at Shen Wei in fear, her voice sharp and piercing in the darkness, breaking the tranquility of the night and also disturbing the villagers living near the ancestral hall.
"Someone broke into the ancestral hall!!!"
Maybe someone had tried to rescue them before, so the villagers were very alert.
As soon as he heard the noise, he ran towards the ancestral hall with a carrying pole without even putting on his clothes. When other villagers heard the noise, they also quickly ran towards the ancestral hall.
Shen Wei's heart sank and he reacted quickly to close the door of the ancestral hall.
Outside, she heard the sound of the ancestral hall door being opened, followed by footsteps coming inside.
Shen Wei moved the altar step by step to block the wooden door, but she knew in her heart that the wooden door of the ancestral hall could not stop the aggressive villagers. As long as they worked together to hit it with something, the wooden door would be smashed in an instant.
There was a bloody taste in her mouth, and her lips were bitten and bleeding unconsciously. Shen Wei made up her mind that if she really couldn't stop that group of people, she would rather...
"Hahaha, what beautiful flowers."
Shen Wei turned around when he suddenly heard Xiaoman's laughter.
Seeing Xiaoman knocked out the eternal lamp that was offering above, the eternal lamp lit up the ancestral hall, igniting a spark in the darkness, illuminating Xiaoman's crazy, numb and frightened face.
"Boom-"
"You think you're safe hiding in the ancestral hall? Dream on!"
"If you don't open the door, we'll break in and chop up the men and feed them to the dogs, and the women, hehe, will become our exclusive delicacies."
The sound of banging on the door outside became more and more urgent, like a death warrant.
The wooden door creaked as it was smashed, and it sounded like the sound of evil people grinding their teeth, as if they were approaching Shen Wei and Xiaoman with knives and forks.
Shen Wei smiled grimly, his eyes full of determination.
She walked towards Xiaoman calmly and hugged Xiaoman: "I'll go with you. This place is not where I wanted to come from."
She knew that if Xiaoman was still conscious at this moment, she would rather die in the sea of fire than be imprisoned and insulted by men without seeing the light of day.
Shen Wei took the wine from the altar and poured it on herself resolutely. She hesitated for a moment and then poured the remaining half bottle of wine on Xiaoman.
In the moment when the flames engulfed the two of them, Xiaoman briefly regained consciousness.
She felt guilty and wanted to push Shen Wei away. She cried and said, "It hurts, it hurts, don't come back."
"Miss Shen, you shouldn't have come back to save me."
"You can't die here, someone needs you."