I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 383: Bad Lands Produce Nasty Officials_1

Chapter 383: Chapter 383: Bad Lands Produce Nasty Officials_1

Seeing you and Wu Qiyi walking forward together, Xi Yu followed with some helplessness.

Meanwhile, the villagers stood at the entrance to the village, watching the three of you from a distance, clearly everyone was wary of Qinniang and her mother.

Among the crowd, the burly man stared straight at your back, a flicker of ferocity crossing his eyes.

"Master Li, are you confident in removing the curse from them, mother and daughter?" Xi Yu asked seriously, "I don’t want your actions this time to harm our miss in any way."

Turning around, you kept staring at Xi Yu, silent.

Xi Yu, feeling uneasy under your gaze, couldn’t help but speak out, "Master Li, why are you staring at me like this?"

"Xi Yu," you said.

"Yes?" For the first time, Xi Yu turned her head away, not daring to meet your eyes head-on because they were so aggressive at that moment, as if wanting to strip her down to a poached white egg.

"You’re really not cute at all."

Xi Yu shuddered all over.

Seeing her expression, you cracked a mischievous smile.

Heh heh, the feeling of playing a trick on someone for the first time was genuinely delightful.

Wu Qiyi, too, was seeing Xi Yu at a loss for the first time, and she couldn’t help but smile coyly.

In the eyes of others, Xi Yu was just Wu Qiyi’s private secretary, essentially a close maid; but in Wu Qiyi’s eyes, Xi Yu was like a sister, and even though there were differences in their titles, they had never been apart.

If you asked Wu Qiyi who she trusted most in the world, aside from you, it would be Xi Yu!

Soon, you had entered a small depression in the land.

"Mommy, sister and brother are here."

Little Qinniang jumped out of your arms onto the ground, her slender figure hopping and skipping towards a disheveled woman with unkempt long hair.

It was only when Little Qinniang landed that Wu Qiyi and Xi Yu realized she was barefoot; their gaze had been fixed on Qinniang’s tattered clothes before, and now seeing her dirty feet, a flash of surprise crossed both their eyes.

When they looked again at the woman sitting on the ground weaving straw sandals, they exchanged glances, seeing a spark of anger in each other’s eyes.

You gently patted the shoulders of the two women, saying, "There are many things in the world that differ greatly from what you see on the surface."

The woman with disheveled long hair smiled faintly as Little Qinniang approached.

But for some reason, the moment you saw that smile, damn it, something got in your eye again!

"Qinniang, come here, Mommy made you straw sandals, so the stones won’t cut your feet anymore."

"Mmm."

"This can’t be."

Wu Qiyi walked over quickly, and as Little Qinniang was putting on the sandals, she helped her up and grabbed the mud-covered feet. When Wu Qiyi looked at Little Qinniang’s feet, her eyes involuntarily closed.

"Xi Yu."

Hearing Wu Qiyi’s call, Xi Yu also walked over, and when she saw Little Qinniang’s small feet, she too showed a look of shock.

"How can this be? Could it be that Qinniang and her mother have always been treated this way?" Ever since she became sensible, Xi Yu had always been the one above others, never would she have thought that she and Wu Qiyi had been deceived by a group of villagers!

Since the beginning, you had seen through it all with your Sen Luo Eye, and approaching the women, you said with a smile, "Did that white-haired old man and the villagers tell you that they regularly give Qinniang and her mother their share, and she is just pretending to be like this to trick sympathy?"

Wu Qiyi and Xi Yu turned their heads to look at you, with expressions that said, ’How did you know?’

You pointed to your eye: "From far away, although I couldn’t hear, my eyes aren’t blind! Those little girls who came to welcome you, the clothes they wear on the outside might look old, but their undergarments are brand new, and those shoes on their feet cost more than mine."

"Damn it!"

Xi Yu suddenly stood up, but you pressed her back down just as she got halfway up.

"Master Li, don’t stop me, I won’t let these pesky villagers get their way!"

"Trouble officials come from poor, mountainous regions, don’t think the village chief isn’t in authority. Those children, each and every one of them belong to the village chief’s family; of course, they are dressed well. It’s the same everywhere, so-called charity is just for show after all. The truly implemented aid is not much, not much at all."

While saying this, you patted Xi Yu on the shoulder, "Leave it be, no matter what, other people’s children in the village can still pick up what you’ve brought. Having something is better than nothing."

"But..."

"For children, material goods are not essential, education is critical, only with it can they leave such a wretched place. At least in big cities, everyone has equal opportunities."

Xi Yu didn’t say anything more. Actually, she and Wu Qiyi’s original intention was for the children in the village, yet they hadn’t expected that the adult villagers were still as disgusting as one could imagine.

"Brother, Sister, what are you talking about?" Little Qinniang asked with a tilted head, looking puzzled at you both.

"Brother and Sister are saying we’re going to build a big house for Little Qinniang and her mother," Wu Qiyi said as she took Little Qinniang into her arms, her face full of sympathy.

"Really!?"

Little Qinniang shouted with joy: "Mother, Mother, we have a house... Mother!"

When Little Qinniang turned around, she found her mother had already collapsed on the ground.

Seeing this, the faces of Wu Qiyi and Xi Yu changed dramatically. Just as Xi Yu was about to reach out to help Qinniang’s mother, you suddenly called out to her: "Wait a minute."

Xi Yu turned her head to look at you: "What’s wrong?"

You shook your head slightly and sighed, "Don’t touch her."

The Sen Luo Eye had been activated the moment you neared the small thatched hut; neither Wu Qiyi nor Xi Yu noticed that they both had an orange Talisman Paper on their backs, which emitted a faint glow, protecting them from the resentful curse emanating from Little Qinniang.

As for yourself, for some reason, you seemed completely immune to the resentful curse from Little Qinniang and her mother, as if this curse had no effect on you. Moreover, the resentful air would automatically avoid you when approaching.

In your eyes, both of them were surrounded by a dark purple smoke. Little Qinniang’s smoke wasn’t very strong, just faintly scattered; however, her mother’s was different, as her entire body was shrouded in this dense and unyielding dark purple smoke!

"Mother! Mother!"

Little Qinniang, held tightly in Wu Qiyi’s arms, struggled to go to her mother, tears shimmering in Wu Qiyi’s eyes as well.

"Don’t be afraid, Qinniang, mother is just too tired and has fallen asleep. Brother, wake mother up first," Wu Qiyi implored.