The scheming empress starts by conquering men

After waiting for a few moments, she suddenly felt a pain on her face as if someone was pinching her.

Shaodian Sishui remained calm and continued to sleep soundly.

Ada's voice rang in my ears; "See, I told you she was asleep, but you didn't believe me. Do you believe me now? I can't wake her up even if I pinch her, and she doesn't even frown."

"I know her body best. The dosage is enough for her. She must have felt sleepy after taking it. She fell asleep in a short while."

Qingmei hummed, but still warned, "It's better to be safe than sorry. For the sake of our daughter's future, we can't be careless."

The two of them talked, turned around, left the room, closed the door and left.

Go find the patriarch.

Not long after they left, Shaodian Sishui opened her eyes.

He was the first to stand up and check his injuries. His right leg was in a plaster cast and his body was wrapped in bloodstained white cloth.

She lowered her head and analyzed the situation.

Through the conversation between the two people just now, she got a very important message.

Living sacrifice!

Yue Chemu and others were imprisoned and used as living sacrifices.

So, the reason why this family saved her was that they wanted her to become a substitute sacrifice.

Apparently the old woman knew something. Ada also told her that twenty years ago the old woman was also seriously injured and came here. She was taken in and happened to encounter a sacrifice held once every twenty years.

Afterwards, all the people who took in the old woman died.

According to the useful information, the old woman might have been used as a sacrifice twenty years ago.

Afterwards, the fire burned the old couple to death, and then he was forced to burn himself. However, due to some of his methods, the villagers here were afraid of him, so he stayed in this place.

Although she stayed, she would leave from time to time.

As for where they went and what they did when they were away, I'm afraid only the person involved knows, and others certainly don't know.

Shaodian Sishui did not act rashly. From what he heard from their conversation, it might still take some time before the sacrificial day.

She had to take advantage of this time to meditate and restore her internal strength.

Even if he only had 10% of his internal strength, he could kill everyone here and also run away to protect himself.

As for Yue Chemu and others, she had neither the energy nor the ability to rescue them. Whether they lived or died depended entirely on God.

For five consecutive days, Shaodian Sishui slept during the day and meditated at night to recover.

But the amount of internal energy she recovered was minimal. She was injured in many places on her body, and the recovered internal energy was automatically dispersed to the injured parts for repair.

By the sixth day, she could feel that her body had almost recovered and she could walk with her injured leg.

But every step I took felt like being pricked by thousands of needles, and it was numb and painful.

Fortunately, she was able to hold it in, and Shaodian Sishui continued to recover and walk.

It was not until the night of the sixth day, when everyone in the family was asleep, that Shaodian Sishui walked out of the room for the first time, walked out of the courtyard, and headed to the South Village to find the old woman.

She walked carefully, observing her surroundings.

Only then did I realize that the village seemed to be located at the foot of the mountain.

There is a towering tree in the center of the village, it is a locust tree.

The locust tree was very big, so big that when she was standing on the outskirts of the village, she could see the forked branches by looking up, and even reach out and touch them.

Shaodian Sishui followed what the old woman said and limped towards the south of the village.

Fortunately, no one in this era had domesticated wolves into dogs, so there was no barking of dogs. She walked very carefully along the way and no one noticed her.

The further south she went, the less land there was covered by locust trees and the fewer people lived there.

Until the southern end of the village, there was only a lonely courtyard with a dusk lantern hanging at the door.

Shaodian Sishui's forehead was covered with sweat. He endured the stabbing pain in his legs and walked up with a staggering step, preparing to knock on the door.

With a creak, the door opened automatically.

Shaodian Si Shui looked up with slight surprise, and saw the old woman looking at her with a smile in her eyes but an expressionless face.

"Here, come in."

Did she know she was coming?

Shaodian Sishui was a little surprised. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't figure out how she knew she was coming today.

But she didn't ask anything and followed the old woman into the courtyard. The courtyard was very clean and the fragrance of medicine was everywhere.

She limped into the house with her. Although the house was a bit simple, it was filled with many books and seemed particularly crowded.

"Come and sit down."

The old woman pointed to a seat next to her and asked her to sit down.

Shaodian Sishui did not respond, but walked over and slowly sat down.

The moment she sat down, she let out a long breath and unconsciously beat her right thigh with her right hand, hoping that this method could relieve the leg pain.

"It's no use beating."

The old woman looked at her deeply and turned to get the incense.

He took out a few gold needles from the medicine box and gave her acupuncture.

The moment Shaodian Si Shui saw acupuncture, her head buzzed.

She actually knows acupuncture?

How could this be? She remembered that none of the witch doctors in the novels had the skill of acupuncture, and people in this world didn't know about it. But this old woman actually knew acupuncture!

Could it be that...she is also a book traveler, no no no, or could it be that she is a time traveler?

Shaodian Sishui didn't say a word until the old woman finished giving her the acupuncture. The old woman stared at her curiously.

"Why don't you ask whether these golden needles will kill you, and trust me so much?"

When she used the golden needle to save people, even the man she loved didn't trust her, let alone her, the daughter of an old friend.

Shaodian Sishui said nothing, but just stared at her.

The old woman sighed and said, "Since you trust me so much, if you have any questions, I will definitely tell you everything I can."

Shao Dian Si Shui swallowed his saliva, thought for a long time and said, "Odds change but evens don't. The sign depends on the quadrant."

After she finished speaking, she stared at the old woman closely, trying to see from her movements whether she was also traveling through time.

The old woman frowned and looked at her in confusion; "What?"

It seemed that he didn't understand what she meant or what the question was.

Seeing that her reaction showed that she had no idea what she said, Shaodian Si Shui breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head slowly.

"I have very few questions to ask. I just want to know about human sacrifices, what they are about, and when they take place."

The old woman was slightly startled, looked at her suspiciously for a few times, and asked doubtfully; "Is that all you want to ask?"

"Of course." She nodded.

She must be made to know that she is being used as a substitute sacrifice. What is the purpose of the sacrifice?

The old woman sighed deeply; "Ancient tree."

"what?"

Shaodian Sishui was stunned.

"Ancient tree?"

Sacrificing human beings to trees?

This was the first time she had heard of such an evil sacrifice.

She seemed to remember something and pointed outside without saying anything clear.

“Isn’t it that huge tree outside?”

The old woman nodded and hummed.

Shaodian Sishui's three views were simply shocked.

"I am a living person, and I am going to be sacrificed to that old locust tree?"

"Huai tree?" The old woman was stunned; "Why do you call it Huai?"

Everyone here calls it the sacred tree, but she gave it another name, calling it Huai.

Shaodian Sishui explained casually, "That tree has become a spirit and it attracts ghosts. If it's not a locust tree, what else could it be?"

The old woman didn't understand, she didn't understand what she said at all.

Shaodian Si Shui moved his hands, poured some water from the kettle on the table next to him, wrote the word "槐", and explained it to her in detail.

"The locust tree is the ghost among trees. It is also called the ghost tree. According to legend, the locust tree first grew in cemeteries and guarded the souls of the dead, so it was called the locust tree."