The wronged female supporting role made a comeback with a divine reply

Chapter 124: Discuss

Since the girl dared to say so, it must be true. Not only the villagers, but even several village chiefs were moved.

Bai Zhaozhao struck while the iron was hot: "These days, the village has survived only with the aid from the imperial court, right? Do you really want to offend the government at this time?"

This hits the nail on the head. Many villagers are actually unwilling to go against the government. Praying for rain may not necessarily be successful, but there will be disaster relief food!

The tall and thin village chief hesitated and asked, "Miss, what you mean is that if your brother cannot help the villagers survive the drought, his career will be ruined and his reputation will be ruined?"

Bai Zhaozhao said in a loud voice: "That's right! You should remember that my brother's name is Bai Lin. If he can't help us survive this drought, you should go to the capital and report him!"

Bai Lin: ...

Unexpectedly, just when everyone was very excited, the priest shouted: "Great, the top scholar is the legendary Wenquxing! Guiyuan Zen Master is even more of a hermit! Girl, we are willing to release these children and will never sacrifice children again! But you, the top scholar, must pray for rain for us!"

Asking for rain?

The villagers were wavering again. It was easy to let the children go, but it was hard to make it rain! Maybe this top scholar could really lead everyone through the drought, but wouldn’t it be more convincing if it rained?

No one knew who took the lead in shouting "Pray for rain", but everyone started shouting for Bai Lin to pray for rain.

Bai Zhaozhao had not expected this sudden change. She looked at the priest and saw a fierce look in his eyes, as if he had to drag an official into the water to get his revenge!

This suddenly gave Bai Zhaozhao a bold idea.

The original novel says that Magistrate Hu died in a riot among villagers. Could it be this riot? If Magistrate Hu came alone to stop it, would he have been in great danger?

In this case, this priest was really problematic. What good would it do him to incite the people to sacrifice children? In the past, when the weather was good, it would have given him more prestige, but now that a drought had occurred, what could he do if no rain fell after the sacrifices were completed?

No matter what he said, the villagers would be disappointed. What would he get? Moreover, this was not just one pair of boys and girls, but ten pairs!

So, could it be that in the original book, the target of this priest was Prefect Hu, who wanted to start a riot when Prefect Hu was stopping the sacrifice, and then kill him!

The reason why he wanted to find ten pairs of children was probably because he was worried that Magistrate Hu would not come! So he was not deliberately concealing the matter, but pretending to conceal it and then find an opportunity to let Magistrate Hu know about it.

After all, the current Magistrate Hu is not the person whose power has been stripped away as in the original novel, but a powerful official who controls the government soldiers and garrison troops!

If the news leaked out in advance, Governor Hu would definitely bring a large number of soldiers and officers here. How could the riot be stopped then?

The more Bai Zhaozhao thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. It seemed that he should investigate this priest carefully!

Oh no, isn’t Magistrate Hu in danger now?

No, that’s not right!

This priest must have realized that he couldn't kill Magistrate Hu, so he turned his attention to Bai Lin!

Thinking of this, Bai Zhaozhao felt that he could not let the priest speak anymore, so he directly gave him an injection. He immediately fainted on the ground. Then Bai Zhaozhao stuffed him with a pill to keep him alive.

"You, you killed the priest!" a strong man shouted.

"Go!" Bai Lin gave an order, and the soldiers took the opportunity to knock those strong men to the ground.

These actions were so quick and neat that the villagers didn't react for a moment, and then they were all excited. What was going on? They asked him to pray for rain, but his sister killed the priest?

Bai Zhaozhao shouted again: "Don't worry! Your priest will not die! As long as Magistrate Hu returns safely, I will save him!"

Several village chiefs were dissatisfied when they saw Bai Zhaozhao's arrogant look.

A village chief angrily said, "What do you mean? Our priest has promised you not to sacrifice children! Now you just want to invite the top scholar to pray for rain, and you kill him!"

"That's right!" said another village chief, "The girl is really vicious. How could the top scholar have a sister like you?"

Bai Zhaozhao wiped the non-existent sweat and said coldly, "Humph, what if my brother can't pray for rain? Can your priests slander the court officials openly? People like him sacrificed children, slandered the prefect Hu, and plotted against the top scholar. He is not worthy of offering sacrifices to the river god! I will put him in jail!

Several village heads, why don't we discuss this? You take the children home and take good care of them. My brother will be responsible for getting relief food for everyone. As long as the children in your village are all well, my brother will find a way to get you back to normal life!"

One of the village chiefs was about to say something, but another short village chief stopped him: "Stop talking. At this point, even if we rush over to drive them away, we won't be able to continue the sacrifice!"

The tall and thin village chief said unwillingly: "But she wants to take the priest away. What should we do in the future?"

"That's right." The short village chief began to bargain, "Girl, I can agree to everything else, but you can't take the priest away!"

Bai Zhaozhao pretended to be shocked and said, "Oh my God! Are you kidding, old man? He's missing an arm, and you still want him?"

The short village chief held his breath and said, "This is our business. Anyway, the village cannot be without a priest!"

Bai Zhaozhao seemed to be thinking about something: "Okay, I can leave it to you, but I will chop off his legs and make him mute!"

"You!" The tall and thin village chief couldn't hold back any longer. "How can a young girl be so vicious?"

"I am vicious? When this priest killed so many children before, didn't you think it was vicious?"

"I already said it was for sacrifice to the river god!"

"I also told you that the priest deceived you!"

"That's enough!" The short village chief took a deep breath and said, "Girl, leave the priest here. You can propose other conditions!"

Just as Bai Zhaozhao was about to speak, he heard Bai Lin say, "Zhaozhao, Magistrate Hu is here."

Bai Zhaozhao looked forward and saw Lord Ji coming with his men, supported by a middle-aged man. This was Magistrate Hu.

The villagers were already frightened by Bai Zhaozhao, and now seeing so many soldiers coming, they dared not move rashly.

Bai Zhaozhao immediately changed his serious expression, and said with a beaming face: "Let's show our cards now. No more pretending. Brother, take this priest away! Whoever dares to stop us will be killed!"

Several village leaders looked shocked: "Girl, didn't you say you wanted to discuss it?"

Bai Zhaozhao looked at them with amusement: "Just now everyone was wary of each other, so they naturally had to discuss it. Now we have more people and more power, so there is no point in discussing it!"

"You!" The tall and thin village chief's face was distorted with anger.

"What do you mean by 'you'? If I hadn't attacked anyone, would you have discussed it with me? Brother, let's go!"