He Yuxin brought the paper figures into Aunt Wang's yard. Aunt Wang was very enthusiastic towards He Yuxin. As soon as He Yuxin sat down, she took a clean bowl and filled it with a bowl of grape-like fruit.

"Dear guest, please try it. This is the fruit from my tree. If you like it, you can buy some and try it. It tastes the best. When I used to make sacrifices to the mountain gods, I used my fruits."

The village chief brought He Yuxin here, and Aunt Wang said so. He Yuxin was inevitably a little curious about this kind of fruit.

Of course, before reaching out to take it, she glanced at the paper man next to her and paused for two or three seconds. When the other person didn't respond, He Yuxin took one.

He Yuxin has eaten tree grapes, also known as Jiabao fruit, and can’t say whether he likes or dislikes them.

But after she peeled the skin off, she realized that she had thought too much.

This was not the fruit of her cognition.

Although the appearance is similar, the skin of this fruit is actually very thin, and the inner flesh is dark brown, with a texture somewhat like longan.

She took a bite, and it was very juicy. The pulp was crisp and soft, and it would break apart with a light bite. When she chewed it, the pulp turned into juice, without any residual taste similar to pulp.

And the taste of this fruit is very strange. It has the aroma of potpourri, but the taste is like the taste of blended pineapple and banana. The aftertaste is also a bit sweet and tangerine of watermelon. It is eight sweet and two sour. It is really delicious.

He Yuxin didn't care about food, but she still ate two more fruits. She turned around and thought of Sang Mingyang, who was probably still soaking in the hot spring and didn't eat enough fruits. She thought about it and actually asked. price.

"I like this fruit very much. I wonder how many you have? How do you sell it?" Upon hearing this, Aunt Wang was obviously very excited. She approached He Yuxin and lowered her voice, as if she was afraid of being heard by someone.

"You can buy it if you want. I can take this fruit out with you... Girl, I won't hide it from you. I can sell you some seeds, but the human face tree needs special fertilizer to grow. If the fertilizer is used up, it will die. This fertilizer We only have it here. Without fertilizer, the human face tree will die..."

Aunt Wang's words were garbled, not because she had a problem with her ability to express herself, but because she was excited or afraid.

Of course, it's most likely both possibilities.

Aunt Wang didn't look normal. He Yuxin didn't say she wanted to buy it immediately, but asked her.

"Aunt Wang is in urgent need of money?" Aunt Wang nodded subconsciously. After she realized what she was doing, it was too late to shake her head.

Just when she was struggling, He Yuxin gave Aunt Wang a few gold coins.

"Aunt Wang, don't worry, money is a man's courage. When you meet me, money will no longer be a problem."

Aunt Wang took the gold coin handed over by He Yuxin and squeezed it in her hand.

She squeezed so hard that white marks appeared on her withered and old hands.

She was also very nervous, and some of her skinny and thin body was even trembling.

Fortunately, she quickly stabilized herself.

Meeting He Yuxin's smiling eyes, Aunt Wang turned her head away, then turned back after a long while, and then whispered to He Yuxin.

"I can tell you the secrets of the village. You have to give me money... to buy fruits and seeds. You have to buy seeds and fruits!"

He Yuxin nodded and then asked her.

"You all seem to be short of money."

He Yuxin got the point right with one sentence, but Aunt Wang didn't say anything for a long time.

He Yuxin was not in a hurry. She was even in the mood to give Aunt Wang another gold coin to calm her down.

With the gold coins in hand, Aunt Wang also had a sense of reality.

"I, I have a baby at home."

Well, so what?

Aunt Wang didn't look at He Yuxin this time, but at the paper man standing next to her.

He Yuxin noticed it, and she also looked at the paper man next to her.

This paper man rarely reacted since he entered Aunt Wang's house. He Yuxin thought that Aunt Wang was looking at the paper man because he was afraid that it would hear something and report to others. He Yuxin began to hesitate whether to let the paper man leave, but she didn't expect Aunt Wang to say something again. .

"My baby will be nine years old next year. She is old enough to choose a boy or girl for the mountain god..." She said the last words very softly, so softly that the emotion she projected in this sentence was blurred.

He Yuxin slowly turned back and continued to look at Aunt Wang, but this time there was no smile in her eyes.

What do you mean?

What is she saying?

Aunt Wang smiled at He Yuxin, her eyes fell on the gold coins in her hand, and then she said.

"Women in our village can get pregnant very easily and can give birth throughout their lives. During pregnancy, mountain gods will bless them for a smooth delivery without damaging the mother's body. They don't even have to sit during confinement..."

"But, if the child is born and survives to nine years old, he will be selected, and the selected child will become the boy or girl of the mountain god..."

"The mountain god likes this kind of gold coins very much. As long as the gold coins are obtained reasonably, the mountain god will allow us to keep them, and then use these gold coins and the mountain god to buy places for boys and girls."

"The number of gold coins required by the mountain god is different each time. The highest number of gold coins required is 5,000 gold coins per quota. Usually, a sacrifice requires two pairs of four boys and girls. As long as we buy the quota, the mountain god will not need children this year. A boy and a girl.”

After entering the dungeon for so long, He Yuxin felt for the first time that some of the settings in this dungeon were a bit ridiculous.

"Sacrifice? What sacrifice? This..." This is kidnapping and extortion!

He Yuxin didn't lose her mind, so she didn't say those words directly, but she was still disgusted by the operation of this mountain god.

Moreover, He Yuxin also had a bad guess.

She turned to look at the paper man standing next to her.

This paper figurine is small, with two red balls painted on its face. It looks like an ordinary paper figurine used to burn for ancestors. There are two, one male and one female. Because the image is too classic, He Yuxin I never thought much about it.

But now, she had a not-so-good guess.

"This kind of special paper man...?" He Yuxin's voice was very soft. Aunt Wang heard it and just said 'hmm'.

He didn't say it directly, but he knew it.

Li Da Niu can only make fifty-two more of these special paper figures. It's not that Li Da Niu doesn't want to make the money, nor is it because the materials are so precious.

But there were only fifty-four boys and girls who were successfully sacrificed.

Excluding the pair He Yuxin received as a gift when buying a house, there were only fifty-two boys and girls who could be made into special paper figures.

He Yuxin, who originally knew this, should have felt horrified, because this paper man was not an ordinary paper man, and it might even contain the body of a child.

But thinking about the safe way these little paper figures did things, He Yuxin couldn't get scared.

Then she thought of the fifty-two paper figures she had ordered, and she felt a little regretful.

"I also ordered fifty-two..." Wouldn't this be bad?

However, Aunt Wang looked up with surprise in her eyes, which then turned into warmth.

"That's good. If the boys and girls sent to the mountain god want to redeem them, the mountain god will only allow one thousand gold coins."

Fifth update

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