Beauty Jianghu

Chapter 34 Burning Fairy

Yang Shucheng saw the strange light in Wang Jing's eyes and knew something was wrong. He took Fang Xiaoli's hand and ran down the mountain. Fortunately, we were not far from the bottom of the mountain. Soon we ran to the bottom of the mountain, and there were already people in the village. Only then did we feel at ease and slow down our pace.

There are only a dozen or so families here, with thatched houses and bamboo fences, and the people are simple. The two of them had dinner at a family's house and continued on their way. Walking along the river, the number of people gradually increased. I inquired along the way, but there was no news about the officers and soldiers.

On this day, I came to a larger village with vast fields, roosters crowing and dogs barking, and all the villagers were seen running eastward. Yang Shucheng thought that officers and soldiers were coming, otherwise there would be no such panic. He quickly grabbed one person and asked what was going on.

The man replied: "I want to burn the witch to death." He turned around and ran away.

Yang Shucheng and Yang Shucheng knew something was wrong, so they followed these villagers and ran towards the east end of the village.

There is a big locust tree at the east end of the village. In front of the tree, there is a large group of villagers, men, women, old and young, handsome, ugly, tall and short. There are hundreds of people, and they are so crowded.

Yang Shucheng and the others came closer and couldn't see clearly what was going on inside. They stood on a high place on the other side and looked in. They saw a young woman tied to the big locust tree. She was about twenty-seven or eight years old. Although she was tied up, , with no fear on her face, looked at these mountain people with disdain, her face was beautiful, and there were piles of firewood beside her.

Yang Shucheng thought to himself, such a beautiful woman should be burned alive for who knows what crime she had committed?

Those young men and wretched old men were all extremely greedy as they looked at the beautiful woman who was about to burn to death, but no one came forward to say a kind word to save this beautiful woman.

Those young daughters-in-law and old ladies looked at the beautiful women and chattered, with a look of gloating on their faces.

Yang Shucheng walked down the slope and stopped an old man to ask what was going on.

The old man came late and couldn't squeeze in anyway. He was nagging himself and felt uncomfortable if he didn't speak out, so he simply stopped and told Yang Shucheng and the others the whole story.

It turned out that this woman was a foreigner. According to her, she was hundreds of miles away from here. She was from Huguang and came here to preach.

This woman's name was Song Min. She came to a mountain village to spread the White Lotus Religion. At first, the villagers didn't believe it, but she showed some magical powers. Then the villagers believed her, built her a house, set up a weir, and planted white lotus in the water. She lived there. She preached in the house and the villagers provided her with food and clothing.

Song Min preached in the village and kept the people in the village safe, so that the pigs, chickens, ducks, cows, etc. would not get sick. This has been going on for four or five months. Unexpectedly, she fell in love with a young man from the village, and we caught her and raped her in bed.

This was a big deal. The family tied up Song Min, put her in a bamboo cage, and immersed her in the weir here. Unexpectedly, the next day, she showed her magical powers and walked back from outside the village.

She had a grudge against the village and showed her magical powers, causing thunder from the sky and burning down four or five houses. The villagers were afraid, so they supported her again and worshiped her.

She no longer had any scruples, and became friendly with several young people in the village, which made these young people jealous, and they fought, and one of them was killed.

The family complained to the village chief. The village chief thought she was a witch and ruined the morals, so he led everyone to drive her away, but she stayed here and refused to leave.

The village chief gathered his clan to discuss and decided to kill the witch to avoid future troubles. However, she could not be drowned in the water, so this time he burned her with fire.

The old man finished telling the story. It was already noon and the sun was shining high above his head.

Yang Shucheng stood high and looked at Song Min. He always felt that she was similar to Tao Ling. It was hard to say whether they were sisters. If they were sisters, then the younger sister would definitely come to save her.

Thinking that it would be a pity for such a beautiful woman to be burned to death, Yang Shucheng thought that he would still save her later, even if it meant offending the whole village, he would not hesitate to do so.

At this time, the crowd made a sudden movement and moved out of the way, and the village chief who was in charge of the matter walked over slowly. He was seventy years old, with a gray goatee and a sallow complexion, walking slowly over with square steps.

The village chief walked to the earth platform that had been set up in advance. Everyone already understood the matter, so he simply said more than 20 sentences and went straight to the result: "We cannot let the witch ruin the customs of this village, we must burn her to death. There must be no further trouble.”

As soon as the village chief spoke, several rough men who had been arranged in advance stepped forward, raised their torches and lit the pile of firewood. Thick smoke rose first, and then the red flames burst out.

The dry firewood surrounding the old locust tree started to burn, and thick smoke spread everywhere. The mountain people were choked and stayed away.

Yang Shucheng thought to himself, you are a witch, use your witchcraft to save yourself. He was so nervous that he felt anxious.

Song Min was completely surrounded by white smoke. She still looked at the crowd of spectators around her with that contemptuous smile. The surrounding villagers looked at the witch, some with indifference, some with pride, and some with expressions of pity and pity.

At this time, I suddenly saw a big white dragon emerging from the ancient locust tree, flying like a white dragon, flying above the thick smoke, frightening all the mountain people to retreat and avoid, some fell to the ground, and some were beaten. There was stampeding, crying for father and mother, and it was chaos.

"Giggle..." The demon girl's clear laughter floated out from the firelight.

The mountain people were so lost that they forgot to shout. Those who could move their legs fled one after another, and those who could not move their legs were rolling and crawling on the ground.

The big white dragon passed through the crowd and ran down the mountain like flying. A few of them fell down and fell into the pond where the Demon Girl was drowned. When the mountain people saw the big white dragon falling into the pond, they stopped chasing them. Instead, they became bolder and ran over to watch.

I saw the pond water rolling, as if it were boiling, and the white dragon rolling in the water, as if playing in the water. The mountain people looked at it, forgetting even their exclamations.

I saw the white dragon rolling a few times in the pond, then plunged into the boiling water and never came out again. After a while, I saw that the water in the pond continued to decrease, and a large whirlpool appeared in the middle, as big as a room. It kept spinning and disappeared in an instant, and the water in the pond continued to decrease.

Soon, the pond water disappeared completely, and a big hole was exposed at the bottom of the pond. Apparently the white dragon escaped from the hole.

The mountain people had never seen this white dragon before. Even a ninety-year-old old man on crutches walked over tremblingly. He pursed his lips and said that he had never seen this white dragon before. They all stood by the pond and talked about it. How could they agree? Leave.

Suddenly, the white dragon poked its head out of the hole at the bottom of the pond, raised its head, and was as tall as a man. It looked at the baby in the hands of a village woman, opened its big mouth like a basin, and sucked it in as hard as it could. The baby took off his hands and flew straight towards the dragon's mouth.

People exclaimed, the baby had been bitten by the dragon's mouth and was about to get into the hole. It was too late for the mountain people to save them.

At this time, Yang Shucheng and Fang Xiaoli were standing by the pond. They had the same mind and thought that it was important to save the baby. They saw the two of them flying up and rushing toward the big white dragon. They landed at the bottom of the pond and stabbed the big white dragon in the left and right eyes with their swords. .

The big white dragon became spiritual and saw two cold swords stabbing directly at its eyes. Its body was in the hole and could not escape, so it had to abandon the baby and get into the hole.

Fang Xiaoli picked up the baby, walked ashore, and handed it to his mother. The mother came back to her senses, hugged the baby tightly, and kept thanking Xiaoli and the other party.

The mountain people were very grateful to the two strangers for their bravery in saving the baby. As they were talking, they turned their heads and found that the village chief had fallen to the ground, with blood still pouring from his neck.

The village chief died at some point.

Then he came back to his senses and looked up the mountain. The dry firewood next to the old locust tree was still burning. Everyone hurriedly ran closer. Where was the shadow of the witch under the tree?

"This woman is a goddess."

"I told you before, she is not a witch."

"It's Fairy White Lotus who came down to earth. She shouldn't have been burned, but now she comes out to take retribution."

The mountain people discussed it for a while and then all walked towards the mountain.

We walked to the mountain and walked east. After leaving the village, we walked about two miles away and saw an isolated peak rising. Mountain residents climbed towards the peak. A hiking trail had already been built on the mountain and was paved with white stones. One mile away, when we came to the lonely peak, we saw a large lotus pond on the top of the peak, which was full of white lotus flowers. We walked around the lotus pond and saw three stone houses in front of it.

The door of the stone house opened wide, and all the mountain people knelt on the ground, shouting: "Fairy, please forgive me."

"Do you know your guilt?"

The villagers said, "It's all the village chief's fault. We shouldn't listen to him."

Song Min said in the room: "The village chief was entangled by the evil dragon and lost his true nature. He should not have harmed my life. He will also harm the whole village in the future."

The villager said: "The village chief deserves it. God has punished him and he is dead."

"The main culprit is dead. Get up and don't be fooled by evil words in the future."

"Yes."

Fairy Song Min continued: "You also committed a crime this time and dared to burn the fairy to death. You also know that I can't be drowned by water or burned by fire. I will punish you by building three more stone houses around this fairy house. Come."

"Yes."

"You guys go back."

As if they had received a gift, these mountain people stood up and were about to go down the mountain. They heard Song Min say in the stone house:

"My two or so guardians are staying."

After hearing this, all the mountain people looked at each other with surprise and uncertainty on their faces, wondering who the guardians on the left and right were? What kind of good or bad luck will there be?