sbdcsierra Chapter 438 I Don't Want to Go to the Immortal Palace
Chapter 438 I Don't Want to Go to the Immortal Palace
The carriage was suddenly forced to stop.
The waiter stared in horror at the girl who had collapsed in front of their carriage, stammering, "Are you... are you a human or a ghost?"
Hearing the noise, Lu Yangyang lifted the carriage curtain and looked towards the front of the carriage.
Just then, Luo Jing, who had gone ahead on horseback to scout the way, also arrived. He looked at the girl on the ground in surprise and said to Lu Yangyang, "There are many people who look like villagers ahead, carrying torches and searching for someone."
Hearing this, the girl in her wedding dress trembled with fear. She struggled to her feet and knelt before the carriage, crying, "Please, save me! Save me! I don't want to be taken back. I'm guilty, I'm guilty! But I already have someone I love. I don't want to be a fairy princess. I just want to be an ordinary couple with Brother Anian. I beg you, take me away from here! I'll go anywhere, even as a servant or do hard labor. I don't want to go to the fairy palace. All the brides who went there never came back. I don't want to go! I'm guilty, I'm guilty..."
She cried incoherently and kowtowed to the carriage, while the sounds from afar grew ever closer.
Those people are coming soon.
The waiter was completely terrified. He cautiously turned to look at Lu Yangyang and asked in a trembling voice, "Miss, is this...is this a person?"
Lu Yangyang looked at the girl without saying a word for a moment.
What fairy palace, fairy concubine, fairy bride? It wasn't that she didn't believe the girl, but rather what exactly was the girl talking about?
Sitting on his horse, Luo Jing listened to the approaching footsteps and said to Lu Yangyang, "Why don't I take her to hide first? When you see those villagers later, you can ask them what happened."
Otherwise, it would be too painful to see a young woman like this.
Suddenly, Lu Yangyang remembered something, took the umbrella from the waiter, jumped off the carriage, walked up to the girl in the wedding dress, bent down, and said to her, "Stretch out your hand."
The girl trembled as she stretched out her hand, which was covered in scars.
Lu Yangyang pinched her pulse, then took out a silver needle and quickly drew a little blood from her fingertip. After seeing the change in the silver needle, her expression changed instantly.
"Huan Niang, Huan Niang—" The voice in the distance grew closer and closer.
Lu Yangyang pulled the girl up and said to Luo Jing, "Uncle Luo, take her first. We'll go straight into the city tomorrow morning and meet up there."
Luo Jing nodded and pulled the girl from Lu Yangyang's arms onto the horse: "Miss, please forgive me."
Then, before the group of people came looking for him, he rode his horse away into the distance.
Lu Yangyang looked at both sides of the road, walked to a small tree about the thickness of a thigh, and kicked it hard, knocking it down and blocking their carriage in the middle of the road.
At this moment, the villagers holding torches in the distance also came looking in this direction.
The leader was a middle-aged man, and the group behind him consisted mostly of young and middle-aged men.
The middle-aged man, upon seeing Lu Yangyang and her group, first eyed them warily for a moment before walking over and asking loudly, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Holding an umbrella, Lu Yangyang looked anxiously at the middle-aged man: "Uncle, we are on our way to Yuzhou City to find our relatives. My husband runs a small business there, my sister is sick, and my grandfather is also unwell. We were caught in a sudden downpour and dare not continue our journey. We wanted to find a place to stay nearby, but we were stopped. Uncle, are you from a nearby village? Could you help us? I can give you money."
At this moment, Lu Zhan helped the coughing old man Meng out of the carriage, and they got down shakily. Lu Zhan cupped his hands to the middle-aged man and said, "Cough cough cough cough, my family and I are just passing through your esteemed place. Please, kind sir, show us the way and let us rest for the night. We will leave early tomorrow morning."
The middle-aged man glanced at the elderly Old Man Meng, the young Lu Zhan, then at the two terrified young men, and the anxious Lu Yangyang. He hesitated for a moment, then looked at their carriage: "Who else is in the carriage?"
Wen Qingqing pushed open the carriage door with one hand, sticking half her body out, her voice sinister: "Who~ called~ me~?"
Hearing her rambling voice, Lu Yangyang almost lost her composure. She took a few steps forward, pressed her head back down, and revealed the empty interior of the carriage, where no one was hiding. She turned to the middle-aged man and said awkwardly, "I'm sorry, my sister suffered a bit of a mental breakdown, and we usually don't let her see anyone."
The middle-aged man had already clearly seen Wen Qingqing's appearance, so he looked away and asked, "When you passed by here, did you hear any sounds or see anyone?"
Lu Yangyang shook her head in confusion and said anxiously, "We were blocked by this tree and were trying to figure out how to move it. We finally saw you coming. If there were other people here, we wouldn't be stuck here..."
The middle-aged man looked at the tree. It wasn't a big tree, but with his car full of old and weak people, and two young men who looked useless, it would be difficult to move it. If they kept blocking the way, they would probably have to spend the night in the wilderness.
The middle-aged man thought for a while, looked at the group of people, and vaguely had an idea. He raised his hand and waved: "Go move the tree and take them over."
Then he turned to Old Man Meng and said, “Old man, our village doesn’t usually receive outsiders. But it’s late today, and we’re sorry to see that you’re having trouble getting around, so we’ve made an exception and let you stay for the night. Once you get there, please rest well and don’t wander off. Wild animals often roam these mountains and forests, and we can’t afford to take responsibility if anything happens to you.”
Old Meng, trembling, hurriedly thanked him, saying, "Thank you so much, kind person, thank you so much."
The middle-aged man directed the villagers to move the trees blocking the road, then called two people to lead Lu Yangyang and the others into the village, while the rest of them continued searching for people.
Lu Yangyang and the others returned to the carriage. After the carriage had been traveling for a while, Lu Yangyang opened the carriage window and handed a pot of wine to the person who had led the way: "Young man, it's raining. Why are so many of you out here? Is something wrong? The uncle sounded like he was looking for someone. Is someone missing from your village?"
The young man leading the way was surprised that Lu Yangyang would offer him wine. He exchanged a glance with his brother beside him, both of them extremely excited. They couldn't wait to open the bottle and take a sip before saying to Lu Yangyang, "A girl in our village has run away from her arranged marriage. Tomorrow is a big day for the sacrificial ceremony. If you miss the auspicious time, something terrible will happen. You outsiders don't understand. Anyway, you'd better leave first thing tomorrow morning, otherwise, when the celestial officials come and see you, they will definitely be furious."