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I don't know how long I fell asleep, but when Cong Rong opened his eyes again, there was only a bright moon left in the impoverished sky.

He got up from the bed, lifted the quilt, scratched his scalp and got out of bed.

Even after sleeping for so many hours, he is now [-]% awake, but he still feels a bit disturbed and restless.

What did Bai Yuan mean?

Why do you do this kind of thing to him, don't you know whether a man will accept it or not?

He swore that he had never been treated like this in his life.Not to mention kissing the neck, he has never even kissed the forehead.

He subconsciously raised his hand to touch his lower lip, and he breathed a sigh of relief after the scene in the daytime appeared in his mind.

What a blessing in misfortune!

Although his innocence was almost at risk, but at least his first kiss was not taken away by him, so thank God.

When he came to a round table, Cong Rong poured himself a cup of tea, raised his head and drank it down, glanced out of the window in a strange way, and couldn't help being startled.

All I could see was a long snow-white figure glowing faintly under the moonlight, just like a bright first-quarter moon in the night sky, sacred and not profane.

Bai Yuan has been standing still outside the door for him, and after hearing the slightest movement in the room, he turned slightly sideways and looked in through the window.

He stood outside the door and asked lightly, "Are you awake?"

The tone was calm and calm, but Cong Rong still nodded cautiously and said, "I'm awake."

Bai Yuan leaned forward, pushed open the door and took a few steps towards him.Seeing this, Cong Rong couldn't help trembling in his heart, and took a few steps back.

However, every time he took a step back, Bai Yuan took two steps closer to him. When he was finally forced to the corner and could not retreat, Cong Rong pursed his lips, like a frightened rabbit, and said, "What are you doing?"

"It's nothing, don't be nervous." Bai Yuan lowered his eyelids slightly, and said in a caring and gentle voice, "Does your head still hurt?"

Cong Rong stared blankly, shook his head and replied, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

"That's good, I'll teach you another lesson during the day." He scratched his nose, with a somewhat doting look on his face, and then returned to his usual cold look with a slight smile. He solemnly said, "You If I didn't say it, I wouldn't have done anything to you. There is no reason to take back what you say, and you must be careful when you speak in the future, understand?"

The bright moonlight shone on Bai Yuan's face, reflecting his celestial face very clearly. Cong Rong stared at his face and nodded heavily, unable to say a word.

It turned out that it was only because of this.

Cong Rong still had lingering fears, and still asked tremblingly, "Where's Qu Ling?"

"Asleep next door."

"Oh……"

After being speechless for a while, the corners of Cong Rong's lips parted slightly, and when he was about to say something, a woman's scream echoed in his ears.

The two immediately raised their vigilance without forgetting the danger, looked at each other, followed the voice and chased downstairs.

As soon as he rushed into the inn on the first floor, he saw two or three middle-aged women pulling a woman in a yellow shirt. Their movements were cautious, for fear of hurting the girl.But this woman desperately hugged the pillars supporting the inn, preventing these people from dragging her out of the inn.With tears in her eyes, she frowned and shouted, "I won't go! I won't go even if I die!"

Cong Rong took a closer look and found that the girl who was grabbed by six hands was the one who greeted the three of them in the shop during the day.

He pulled up a piece of Bai Yuan's clothes and hurried down, pretending to be unintentional, and took off the three middle-aged women from the woman in the yellow shirt, and said in a conciliatory way: "Hey...what's the matter, what's wrong at night What are you doing?"

The three middle-aged women frowned when they saw someone stop them, and they suddenly changed their expressions: "Who are you, go to the people who have nothing to do with it."

"Don't say that, aunt." Cong Rong said with a smile, "Is there anything that can't be solved with words, why do you have to touch other girls."

The middle-aged woman suddenly became angry from embarrassment: "Whose aunt are you talking about!"

Cong Rong looked innocent.

Don't call me aunt, should I call you aunt?

It's impossible to call you sister, I'm not an uncle.

"Miss, you've been sneaking out for several days, and if you don't go back, you won't be able to catch up with the Phoenix offering." Another middle-aged woman of the same age urged with a worried face, "Go back with us quickly."

"I don't want to, I won't go even if I die!" The woman in the yellow shirt hugged the entire pillar with her body, and said firmly, "It won't matter if I don't go alone. How could you notice me!"

"You, what are you talking about!" The middle-aged woman was furious after hearing the words, pointing at her and said, "The burning of the phoenix is ​​a once-in-a-hundred-year sacrificial ceremony, and it is my blessing to be able to sacrifice for the phoenix. If I If you don’t, even if you don’t get selected, you will die without regrets!”

The woman in the yellow shirt burst into tears immediately, and cried hysterically: "Wow, baby, I don't want to die yet, I'm still young!"

Cong Rong listened in a daze and couldn't figure it out for a long time. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "What does it mean to sacrifice a phoenix? To sacrifice a living person?"

"That's almost what it means." The people who were drinking tea and eating melons said, "This girl must have come from Li'an City. There is a phoenix burning every 100 years in Li'an City. Girls between the ages of 15 and 20 were all sacrificed. Rumor has it that only one girl in a thousand will be blessed by the phoenix and gain supreme magic power. What can they say will bring happiness to the people in Li'an? Tsk tsk , is really absurd."

Cong Rong said: "Then... what about the other nine hundred and ninety-nine women?"

"Do you still need to ask?" The man half-covered his mouth and whispered, "It must be because he couldn't bear the burning fire, so he died."

That's why this woman is so scared...

Also, only one in 1000 people can survive, and the chances are too small.

"Can't you not participate?" Cong Rong glanced at the woman in the yellow shirt who was holding the pillar and couldn't stop crying, and asked again, "Could it be that she doesn't want to participate in this ceremony, and can't refuse?"

"Of course not!" The middle-aged woman folded her arms and continued, "If everyone can refuse, is there anyone willing to participate? Miss, you really are, don't even think about it, how worthwhile it is to have the opportunity to become the Phoenix Goddess It's an honor, if I hadn't been old and not born in the right way, I would have run for election."

……

It really doesn't hurt to stand and talk.

As soon as the words fell, the three middle-aged women began to tug at her again, this time they were desperate to drag this man out and push him onto the carriage.

"I don't, don't, don't, don't!!"

However, the strength of one person is still no match for three pairs of hands, and there is no one around to help, and Cong Rong himself can't help rashly. In the end, the woman lost her strength after all, and was tied up and sent to the car.

Cong Rong rested his chin in thought for a moment and then asked the group of people who were about to drive away: "How many days will the Phoenix Burning be held?"

"Three days later."

A middle-aged woman opened the curtain and pushed the struggling woman in the yellow shirt in, then closed the curtain, and the coachman flicked the reins and galloped away.

"Li'an City..." Cong Rong murmured while holding his chin, turned his head to look at Bai Yuan and said, "It's too late today, we will set off there tomorrow."

Bai Yuan said: "Are you going?"

Cong Rong nodded, and said with a solemn expression: "Yes, before going to Tianchan Temple, I have to go there. I have never heard of a phoenix burning once in a century. Besides, how could there be such a future?" The strange thing about young women aged 15 to 20 being used as sacrifices is groundless and there must be ghosts."

He and his father once lived in Li'an City for some time in order to find his mother.At that time, the local people had never heard of the "Phoenix Burning" thing, and if it is said that a hundred years is three days later, it should have been rumored as early as in the past few years, but he didn't say anything about it. don't know.

Thinking of this, Cong Rong raised his head and asked Bai Yuan, "Have you been to Li'an City?"

Bai Yuan looked at him calmly, and gave a faint "um".

"Then have you heard of this?" Cong Rong said, "It's about the sacrifice."

Bai Yuan was not much older than him, and he didn't have much hope that he would know more.

"I've heard it a little bit." Bai Yuan said lightly, "Do you want to hear it?"

"Of course."

"Let's talk in the room."

So Cong Rong obediently followed him upstairs and back to the house.

After closing the door and making sure that no one around would hear him, Bai Yuan explained to him: "There is a sacrifice, but it is not made public to outsiders, so basically no one will discuss it. But five years ago After a great battle between righteousness and evil, the story spread."

"Huh?" Cong Rong caught the loophole in what he said, raised an eyebrow and asked in doubt, "It's not made public, so how do you know?"

Bai Yuan lowered his eyelids, his thick and slender eyelashes cast layers of shadows, and there seemed to be water in his eyes tossing and turning, and his voice was as soft as a mosquito, "Because I lived there before I went to Jiuxiao Mountain."

Cong Rong: "..."

To die, seems to know a big secret.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Cong Rong dragged his cheeks and looked at Bai Yuan curiously, "I have been to Li'an City before, maybe you and I passed each other in the streets and alleys. Ha ha ha ha."

What he said about passing by was just talking, just a joke.

It's so far away from Ancheng, how can I really expect that I have met Bai Yuan, even if I really passed by, they didn't know each other at the time, so how could they really know each other.

Bai Yuan was speechless for a while, the eyes under the trembling eyelashes stared straight at him.

He held back for a while, and finally choked out a sentence: "You have seen me. We even talked a few words."

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