Chapter 1070: The leader of the evil cult is a vampire?
Sitting opposite Shi Li and smiling at her tenderly was the original owner's distant aunt.
The original owner was a miserable girl.
When she was born, her family was well-off. She was not a lady from a rich family, but she was a beautiful girl from a small family. Unfortunately, she lost her mother when she was three and her father when she was twelve.
When the original owner's father passed away, he was worried that the original owner, a little girl, would be bullied, so he went to great lengths to find a distant relative of his and entrusted his daughter and all his property to this distant relative.
It was agreed that as long as I treated my daughter well and gave her a dowry when she got married, the rest of the family property would be given to this distant relative.
The original owner was a naive little girl who lived with this distant uncle and aunt, and she thought they treated her well.
But Shi Li had read the original owner's memories and could easily tell that the original owner had been fooled.
Although her father had left her a large fortune, her own food, clothing and daily expenses were all inferior. However, this aunt was good at putting on a show, and in front of outsiders, she was very caring towards the original owner, and no one could find any fault with her.
Their family was considered a wealthy family with some reputation in this area. They would go to the temple to burn incense on the 15th of every month, and at the end they would donate a lot of steamed buns and copper coins.
Today is the fifteenth day of the lunar month again, and my aunt brought the original owner out to burn incense as usual.
Many beggars who have been begging here for a long time know the family’s habit of giving alms and wait outside the temple early.
Hearing her aunt say that she looked unwell, Shi Li reached out and touched her cheek, smiling blankly.
"I'm fine. Maybe I didn't sleep well last night and made Auntie worried."
"In that case, go back and have a good sleep later. I noticed that you seem to have lost weight recently. I'll ask the kitchen to stew a bowl of bird's nest tonight to replenish your body."
My aunt’s face was full of love and her words were very warm.
only……
Shi Li couldn't help but look at her aunt's pearl hairpins, and then thought about the original owner. There probably weren't so many jewelry on the entire dressing table. Most of them were ribbon hairbands that looked novel but were actually extremely cheap.
The carriage stopped steadily outside the temple. Shi Li followed her aunt out of the carriage and looked around curiously.
Just like the original owner's memory, the quaint temple is crowded with pilgrims.
A number of ragged beggars gathered not far away. When they saw their carriage, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed in that direction.
"Lili will be coming of age next month. In a few days, I will make you some new clothes. You will be a grown-up girl now."
There were a lot of people here, so the aunt naturally didn't give up the opportunity to show off. She reached out and stroked Shi Li's forehead with a gentle and loving look on her face.
Shi Li resisted the urge to twitch her lips. Perhaps only a naive girl like the original owner would feel that her uncle and aunt were truly kind to her.
But she couldn't say anything, she could only nod and thank her, then follow her aunt into the temple to burn incense and pray.
In the past, the original owner was still young and only needed to kneel down and kowtow with his aunt.
I don’t know what my aunt was thinking today. After burning incense, she still held her hand and forced her to draw lots.
"Lili will be coming of age soon, and it's time for her to want to see someone else." These were my aunt's exact words.
Shi Li had no way to refuse, so she just asked for a fortune stick.
"Flowers bloom and fall at their own time, why not cherish the person in front of you?"
Reading the contents of the fortune quietly, Shi Li was slightly startled. She felt inexplicably familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
"Lili?"
Suddenly, her aunt called her, her hand shook, and the bamboo stick fell back into the bamboo tube.
Seeing this, my aunt frowned and said coldly, "It's a waste of time to ask for this lot."
After saying that, he realized something was wrong, and hurriedly took Shi Li's hand and coaxed her for a few words, then made the excuse of going outside to give alms and pulled her out.
Shi Li didn't take the stick too seriously and followed her out.
They had made alms many times before, and the beggars were already waiting outside. When they saw people coming out, they all came forward, but they were careful not to get too close.
As usual, my aunt generously and enthusiastically gave away the steamed buns and copper coins she had prepared in advance, and Shi Li followed her example.
But there were many pilgrims and beggars coming to the temple today. Shi Li was afraid of being bumped into, so she kept dodging and unknowingly was pushed into a corner.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone lying at my feet and I almost stepped on him.
Shi Li was startled and quickly took two steps back.
The man on the ground was in tattered clothes and looked like a beggar. He was curled up on the ground with his head lowered. His messy hair covered his face. It was unknown whether he was dead or alive.
Shi Li couldn't help but feel pity for him and handed the two remaining buns in her hand to him.
"Can you hear me?"
She never expected that the man who was as clueless as a stone the previous second would suddenly raise his head and reveal a pair of frighteningly bright eyes.
Then he bit the finger that was holding the bun hard.