My backer is Chinese classical mythology

Although Hengbing City is located near Wuwanghai, but because there is a forest in the middle, it is actually not that dangerous at first.

It can even be said to be prosperous.

Linhai, across the Wuwanghai, the opposite is Nantianzhou.

At that time, Hengbing City once became a transit point between Dongsheng Prefecture and Nantian Prefecture.

When it is busy, thousands of boats travel to and from Wuwang Sea every day.

But 300 years ago, something happened to the seabed Guixu under the sea of ​​innocence. According to this, after the seabed earthquake, as long as the tide is high, there will be sea ghosts and monsters crawling out of the sea.

At first, those monsters could only do evil on the outskirts of the forest.

The monsters that climb up are also small characters.

General government soldiers and celestial masters can deal with it.

But later, those monsters became more and more powerful, and gradually approached Hengbing City.

In the sea of ​​Wuwu, the sails are no longer seen.

The city lord of Hengbing City also began to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the people of Hengbing City.

For 300 years, under the governance of the first six city lords of Hengbing City, the lives of the people in the city have not been affected much.

These city lords have always been the first to fight. Even if they fight, they must kill those powerful monsters first.

Occasionally, the little monsters who rush to Hengbing City will be dealt with by the rear personnel guarding the city.

But as time went by, the monsters became more and more powerful.

"When the previous city lord was around, Hengbing City was almost unable to hold on. Young men joined the army and became soldiers or guards. But it was still useless. As long as the tide rises, those monsters will come. The previous city lord It's not that I didn't want to investigate in the past, but what happened in the past is the same now."

Kui Ziniang's grandfather, maternal grandfather, father, father-in-law, brothers... As long as they are male members of the family, almost all of them joined the guards and soldiers.

Since she was a child, Kui Ziniang knew more about the City Lord's Mansion.

"My grandfather used to be the head of the guard, but he died in battle. Before bringing good life to the family, he lost everything."

Kui Ziniang smiled bitterly. If her grandfather hadn't died, she might not have married her original husband.

Now it is not possible to face the situation of being killed and silenced by the people of the city lord's mansion.

It's just that Kui Ziniang doesn't regret it.

"There are many people like me in the city. It's just that some people have only one male left in their families, so they dare not try again."

They have done what they should do for Hengbing City.

The rest, they can't afford to gamble.

After all, is Hengbing City really at the point of no return?

not really.

As long as the city owner is willing to save face and ask Taiweiyuan for help, Zhou Dingcheng, Pingdao City, Tianmen City... will arrange people to help.

Even Tianjiang City, which is a little farther away, will not stand by and watch.

However, if the city lord asks for help, it will inevitably affect his promotion.

In 300 years, except for Yu Bupo, the previous six city lords either died in battle or were demoted to the wilderness town by Taiweiyuan.

"What about Yu Bupo?" Yan Yan asked anxiously.

Kui Ziniang sneered, the sarcasm was beyond words.

"Yu Bupo? Now the people in the city say that he is the best city lord. During his reign, except for a few disturbances when he first took office, there has been no turmoil in the next hundred years."

"But what do they know?"

Kui Ziniang sighed, "I told Kui Zi's father the same way before, but he thought I had complaints against the City Lord's Mansion because too many people were killed and injured in my family. I'm afraid I didn't know until the moment he died. I really didn't lie." his."

"There has been no turmoil in the past hundred years. It is Yu Bupo who pushes off the cliff with three pairs of boys and girls and six big girls with yellow flowers as sacrifices every year. turmoil."

After speaking, Kui Ziniang sneered a few more times, "After all, under the resistance of the former city lords, there were not many monsters who could rush into the city, and the casualties were all on the battlefield. Now, those monsters just need to wait, and they will be killed." Just wait until Yu Bupo takes the people and throws down the food they want."

"However, the monster under the cliff has been fed for nearly a hundred years, and its appetite has already grown! Yu Bupo has increased year by year for his own reputation. This year it is the turn of the Zhou family girl..."

Listening to what Kui Ziniang said, Yan Yan only felt that people should not be judged by appearances.

When she saw Yu Bupo for the first time, she still thought that he was a competent city lord who took the lead in capturing the head monster.

But now I heard from Kui Ziniang that Yu Bupo's reputation is due to the pile of twelve lives every year.

Compared to Yan Yan, A Niu's mother and son felt the bone-chilling cold.

"You...how did you know?" A Niuniang grabbed the old sister's arm, unable to believe what she heard.

This simply overturned her understanding of the city lord and the old sister!

"How could I not know?" Kui Ziniang wiped away her tears, "It was my Kuizi and Fangfang who were almost selected as virgins. It is more useful to say that my children are twins than ordinary virgins. My father was still there at that time, and he tried his best to let Yu Bupo let my family go. Yu Bupo only thought that only my father knew about this matter, but he didn't. My father told me the matter in secret the truth."

Kui Ziniang's bones are weak and she cannot practice.

But most of the relatives in the family are cultivators, but they are not as good as those disciples from aristocratic families and sects, who have resources and excellent exercises.

If you rely on your own groping, you can only be a soldier.

That is to say, Kui Ziniang's grandfather was more talented and became the head of the guard.

Such a cultivating family naturally has their own method of inheritance.

"After the appetite of the monsters at the bottom of the cliff has grown, twelve people in a year can't fill their stomachs. Yu Bupo then turned his attention to the Zhou family girl."

"In these years, as long as the girls who are married out, if they don't return to their mother's house once a year, they will be thrown down the cliff. I have been watching year by year. Those girls who are married, from the huts in the west of the city , to an alley like ours. In the end, it is like Osmanthus Alley, and there are some families with small fortunes at home."

Kui Ziniang is old, but her mind is very clear.

It can even be said that it was because she was intimidated by Liu Su's sword light, and knew that if she didn't expose the ugly faces of those people in the City Lord's Mansion, she would only die.

So the more you say it, the clearer it will be.

"Think about it, that monster will pick someone to eat now! They want the ones with thin skin and tender flesh, and the ones that are pampered."

Yan Yan only felt sad when she heard it, and before she could sigh, Kui Ziniang said again: "The Zhou family probably knows a lot about the city lord's mansion, so after counting that the sixth girl has been married this year , their family hastily made an engagement for the girl from the Zhou family. Who would have thought that? Just as the deal was made, the fiancé died on the street. The girl from the Zhou family became a widow."

Speaking of these, A Niuniang also knows a lot.

"I know that. The girl from the Zhou family didn't want to marry and was forced into the sedan chair by her family. I saw that day."

A Niuniang never thought that the forced married woman back then would have such an inside story behind her back!

"My Kuizi met me the first day the monster came to the city." Thinking about it now, Kuiziniang regretted that she didn't take the children away at that time.

She has been thinking of leaving all these years.

She just couldn't bear to look at the memorial tablets at home and the graves in her hometown.

If she leaves too, there will be no one to sweep the graves of the family members during the Qingming and Winter Solstice every year.

There is also Kui Zi's father, he joined the government for the first time, and something went wrong after he came back, and he didn't come back the second time.

According to her understanding of her husband, it is very likely that he knew about the city lord's mansion and tried to save those children and girls.

"Kuizi said, that monster is a girl from the Zhou family. I don't know what happened to the girl from the Zhou family. After she came back, she was left with a head, and she still had a little sense. She didn't do anything when she saw him, but rushed towards the Zhou family. "

Kui Ziniang sighed, "The next day, we found out that the Zhou family members were all dead. Later, the Zhou family girls came back more and more frequently, like monsters at the bottom of the cliff..."

Yan Yan sighed while listening.

It is hard to say that the transformation of the Zhou family did not have the participation of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Then..." Yan Yan looked at Kui Ziniang, "What do you want to do? Even if you rush to the street and explain this clearly, no one will believe you."

A Niuniang who has such a good relationship with her was skeptical at first, let alone other people.

"If possible, I would like to kill Yu Bupo myself." Kui Ziniang looked down at her hands.

There are many calluses on it, but most of them are on the palm.

As for her brothers and parents, most of the cocoons are in the tiger's mouth because of cultivation.

She can't do it, she can only think about it.

Kui Ziniang would not beg Yanyan to do this.

Yu Bupo's strength, she grew up with her grandfather, so she can more or less speculate about it.

The girl in Tsing Yi in front of me is very powerful, but she struggles so much in front of Liu Su, let alone Yu Bupo.

"Now I just want my child to come back, and then leave Hengbing City, and never come back for the rest of my life." Kui Ziniang wept silently, sitting by the side, still feeling a sense of grief greater than death.

"Girl, you should leave here as soon as possible. The monsters at the bottom of the cliff don't know when Yu Bupo will take boys and girls there again." Kui Ziniang grabbed Yan Yan's hand, "If you can leave, go as soon as possible Tell the outsiders what happened here, and let everyone in the world know how many lives Yu Busha spent in exchange for the reputation of being a benevolent city lord!"

Yan Yan's hand was firmly grasped by Kui Ziniang, as if she was conveying something.

There was a fiery light in those eyes.

Who said heroes have to take advantage of youth?

Kui Ziniang now dares to tell all the darkness in Hengbing City, even when her life is threatened.

How can you say you are not brave?

"I……"

"You don't have to go!" Xie Yu interrupted Yan Yan, looked at the messy Si Ming Xing Guan Temple, and walked in, waving a folding fan lightly.