[EDITED MTL] The Boss of the Escape Game is my Husband

Chapter 36: Ghost Skeleton

In the evening, red clouds hang in the sky, adding a bit of tranquility to the midsummer.

Several children who were herding sheep and grazing by the river were playing with each other, holding puppies woven from dogtail grass in their hands. Their childish laughter seemed to have infected the fish in the river, and they surfaced one by one with smiles in their mouths. Blowing bubbles.

The female sheep led the lamb; they sometimes lowered their head to eat grass, sometimes lowered their head to rub the horns on their head with the hard stones on the ground. When no one noticed, a lamb ran into the woods.

After a few children played for a while, it was almost dark, and they all led their own sheep and drove home.

Awang held the female sheep and counted the lambs as usual: "One, two, three, four..."

After counting, Awang discovered that one lamb was missing.

He had to find the straggler lamb, and Aqin, who was playing well with Awang, followed suit.

The two children searched around but found no trace of the lamb. Awang was so anxious that he almost cried.

Aqin looked at the woods and touched Awang's arm: "Awang, did your lamb go into the woods?"

Awang glanced at the woods and remembered the story his grandma told him, and he was very scared.

But he was even more afraid to go home because he was afraid that his mother would scold him.

After all, sheep are the family's main source of income, and he is still waiting to sell the sheep so he can go to school.

Awang said, "I'm going in to find the lamb. Do you want to come with me?"

Aqin was hesitant. He looked at the sheep in his hand and said to Awang: "when we go in, what will happen to these sheep? If someone steals them, we will be in trouble."

Awang put the rope into Aqin's hand and ran into the woods, leaving Aqin standing outside the woods worriedly.

There is a custom in Heyuan Village.

On every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, the village chief and the high priest would go through the woods and go to the back mountain to pray to the mountain god to give them fairy meat.

Fairy meat, as the name suggests, is the meat of gods.

This meat can be said to be a cure for all diseases. Not only that, even an old man who is sick and has only one breath left, as long as he eats one bite of the fairy meat, he will be half better in less than a quarter of an hour, not to mention a complete recovery.

But this meat is only a little bit at a time.

The village head keeps a piece for his family, the high priest asks for a piece, and the remaining piece is decided by drawing lots. The higher the number drawn, the more fairy meat you get.

Awang's family was given a chopstick last month, but his parents were reluctant to eat it and kept it on the altar table. On the altar table were also placed pork and a few big red apples that the family was only willing to eat during the Spring Festival.

Although there is fairy meat in the back mountain, except for the village chief and the high priest, no one else can go there without permission, otherwise they will be blamed by the mountain god and the family will be blamed.

The power of the village chief and the high priest is clearly demonstrated in this village that is almost isolated from the outside world.

That's why Aqin was afraid, fearing that Awang would be seen entering the woods and cause disaster.