For the Miao village, which highly values blood ties, the feeling of betraying one's fellow tribesmen is unbearable, and this decision is not easy to make.
It depends on whether they are satisfied with the conditions offered by Xiao Heng.
Su Rong was full of worries.
After seeing all this, he could no longer maintain his previous composure. The little kid on the road who might have had his internal organs kicked, the children who were silently bled in the ancestral hall, and the old people who were lined up and driven into a deep pit and buried alive, these scenes kept ringing in his mind.
When he returned to the barracks, he felt much heavier than when he came.
Song Xiangyu had just finished his work and was about to look for him, but he heard that he and He Chaoyan had gone out, so he didn't bother to care about it anymore. He just heard his subordinates report that Su Rong had returned, so he went out to meet him. When he saw Su Rong like this, he glanced at He Chaoyan and said, "Did you take him to Beizhen?"
There was no need to ask, in fact he had guessed it right the moment he started. After all, for someone to be in this state, there was no other place for him to go except to Beizhen.
It's really a hellish place. Even when Song Xiangyu first went there, he couldn't eat for many days.
Seeing He Chaoyan nod, he was a little angry that He Chaoyan had rashly brought Su Rong over, but he didn't say much. He just sighed and patted Su Rong on the shoulder: "Let's go, let's talk first."
He Chaoyan stopped, he still had to deal with the Miao doctor's matter.
After they entered the tent, Song Xiangyu threw an egg to Su Rong: "Roll your eyes over, they are so swollen that you can't open them. Isn't that scary?"
Su Rong didn't care about Song Xiangyu's teasing. He took the egg in his hand, looked up at Song Xiangyu and asked, "What on earth do they want to do? Why do they need the blood of so many people?"
This issue really troubled Su Rong and made him unable to find peace.
Song Xiangyu was silent for a rare moment, then he coughed and looked up at Su Rong with sharp eyes: "Speaking of this, I don't know how to tell you. However, this kind of thing cannot be known to the people above."
Can’t let the people above know
Su Rong vaguely felt that he seemed to have grasped some clues. Such a bizarre thing must not be let know to the higher-ups... .
As expected, Song Xiangyu immediately said in a very serious tone, "I suspect they are practicing some evil magic in pursuit of immortality. Otherwise, it is hard to explain. And the little information I got from the Heihua Miao Village also confirms this."
Immortality
Su Rong sneered, thinking that these Miao people were simply crazy.
The First Emperor also sought immortality, and he had the entire Qin Dynasty as his backing, but what was the result? Did he achieve immortality
There is no telling how many emperors there have been throughout history who have pursued immortality, but in the end, not even one succeeded.
But these people are so bad that they are willing to do anything to take other people's lives for such an illusory thing. They are totally out of their mind!
In the end, he suppressed the thoughts in his heart. Su Rong said sarcastically: "You don't know your own abilities. It's a fantasy. It's ridiculous!"
This already shows that he was out of control and angry.
Song Xiangyu did not agree with Su Rong's statement. He looked at Su Rong steadily and suddenly asked Su Rong: "Do you know how old the deposed emperor would be if he were still alive?"
What
Su Rong was stunned, and looked up at Song Xiangyu in disbelief: "Prince, you are... "
Song Xiangyu's expression was very serious. He just looked at Su Rong quietly and waited for his answer.
Su Rong's mind was in a mess, but no matter what he had seen and heard in the past few days or Song Xiangyu's expression now, they all told him one thing, that is, Song Xiangyu was not joking, what he said was true.
Su Rong could only try his best to calm down his emotions and spoke in silence: "If I remember correctly, if the deposed emperor is still alive, he should be more than a hundred years old."
This is simply outrageous. The longest-lived emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was only 81 years old.
Over a hundred years old, what does that mean
Don't tell him that the deposed emperor is really not dead.
And he is hiding in this remote Miao area to pursue some secret of immortality!
As soon as Song Xiangyu saw him, he knew that he was thinking the wrong thing. He laughed and said, "What are you thinking about? The deposed emperor is dead, there is no doubt about that. I want to tell you that it is said that the chief witch of Heihua Miao Village is now over 190 years old."
Over one hundred and ninety years old!
In other words, he had experienced at least six or seven emperors!
But how is this possible
Su Rong couldn't help laughing, and shook his head and looked at Song Xiangyu: "Are you kidding me?"
But from what Song Xiangyu said, he knew that he was not joking. There really was a great witch in Jiangzhai who had lived for more than one hundred and ninety years.
Su Rong found it incredible. He couldn't help but say, "He may not be over 190 years old. Who can prove it? He may be talking nonsense!"
Song Xiangyu had a headache: "I hope it's nonsense, but now it seems that it's not really nonsense. The people in their village have been doing this kind of thing in Block A in the past few decades. After the Black Flower Miao Village revealed this information, we investigated and it turned out that they really have been doing this for many years, robbing children and throwing them to ordinary Miao people to take care of them. At a fixed time, they would take their blood and finally dispose of these children. They are very familiar with these things, as if they have been doing this for generations."
It's incredible.
Su Rong thought about the strangeness of this again and again, but in the end he could only ask: "Did the Black Flower Miao Village tell us how to deal with these people?"
He also realized the seriousness of the matter. If it was really as the Heihua Miao Village said, then doing this was the common goal of all the Miao villages in Miaojiang. It can be seen how big a deal this was.
If their plans were ruined, there was no telling what those old monsters would do.
He couldn't help but feel a headache.
Song Xiangyu shook his head: "Heihua Miao Village hasn't said anything about this yet, they are still negotiating terms with us."
Negotiate conditions, what conditions
Su Rong immediately thought of what Song Xiangyu said before about Xiao Heng saving the Holy Maiden of Black Flower Village. He asked cautiously, "Are you really going to pledge your love to me?"
Song Xiangyu smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that's what the Black Flower Miao Village means now. They want Your Highness to marry their Saint Girl before they cooperate with us."
Su Rong cursed, "I really don't understand what these Miao people are thinking. Is His Highness back?"
They went to Beizhen and stayed there for one night. Logically, Xiao Heng should have gone down the mountain.