[The Orphan's Love Affair with a Beauty's Rivalry] (Volume 3, Chapter 172)

Chapter 172 The Mysterious Goddess

The rear hall was even more dilapidated than the main hall. There were three crooked wooden huts on the east, west, and north sides. In the middle of the backyard, a high

mountain of snow piled up, indicating it was a long-abandoned temple. Qing'er carefully helped him to

sit down by a thick log pillar. She wandered around the three huts, choosing the slightly more intact east hut,

cleaning it, gathering dry branches to start a fire, and spreading a thick layer of leaves in the corner. Then she helped him inside and

sat him down on the leaves.

Seeing that she had been busy for half a day, panting and flushed, sweating profusely despite the cold weather, Wuyue

said with pity, "Qing'er, sit down and rest for a while."

Qing'er came to his side and was about to sit down when she suddenly frowned and exclaimed, "Oh no! I forgot to bring the water pot from the oxcart

! How am I going to boil water for you? No, I have to go get it." With that, she ran towards the front yard.

Wu Yue hurriedly reached out and grabbed her, shouting, "Are you crazy? There are so many hungry wolves outside,

how can 're practically courting death!"

She cried out, "But I rushed to help you hide inside, and the food bag is still on the oxcart!"

Wu Yue frowned; this was indeed a big problem. After driving the oxen and fighting the wolves all the way, she was

starving , and she guessed Qing'er was in the same boat. She absolutely couldn't go out. Her right foot was throbbing, and her whole body

ached; she was truly powerless. She sighed dejectedly, "Fine, we'll just have to endure this night. Hopefully, the wolves will disperse by

dawn ."

It was completely dark. Qing'er curled up in Wu Yue's arms, wanting only to fall asleep as soon as possible. Years of wandering had taught her that

sleep was the best way to forget hunger. But not tonight. She felt something was very wrong.

She had stayed in many dilapidated temples far more gloomy and desolate than this, but she had never felt this way before.

His stomach was rumbling loudly. Although Qing'er had tried her best to smooth out the branches beneath him, the protruding branches still made him ache

all over , and he couldn't sleep for a while. He started thinking about which direction to go tomorrow and how

to deal with the Liaodong Jurchens. As he pondered, he felt Qing'er tossing and turning in his arms, her stomach rumbling even louder than his own. She whispered:

"Are you hungry and can't sleep?"

She shook her head, weakly saying, "No, I can usually sleep even if I don't eat for three days and three nights. I've

only been hungry for one day. I just feel strange and a little uneasy, but I'm not afraid with you here."

Wuyue asked, "Is something wrong?"

She snuggled closer to Wuyue, looking confused, and said, "I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong, but I

feel panicked, like a disaster is about to strike..."

Wuyue frowned and said, "Can you be more specific? If you feel uneasy, there should be some signs."

Qing'er pondered for a long time, then slowly said, "It seems to be those three statues, three statues... That's right—

the smiling goddess statue. " "Do you remember? You don't know which great god that was either."

Wuyue said, "That is indeed a bit strange. The high priest of the manor introduced all the shaman gods to me in great

detail . My memory is not bad, so I shouldn't have missed anything... But he also said that the shaman gods worshipped by the various Jurchen tribes

are not all the same, so it's normal to not recognize some."

Qing'er shook her head and said, "But I suddenly remembered that the Sun God and the Earth Mother God are not only dilapidated, but also covered in

dust . Only the Smiling Goddess is very clean, as if it was carved and put in not long ago. This temple

has obviously not been visited for many years. Isn't that strange?"

Wuyue thought carefully and realized that it was indeed so. She couldn't help but admire her meticulousness and murmured:

"This is indeed strange... Why don't you take a closer look in the main hall and see if there's anything else amiss?"

Qing'er shuddered. "The main hall is so eerie, I dare not go alone!"

Wuyue glared at her. "If you're afraid, why did you try to rush out the door to get the jar just now?"

Qing'er pouted and said, "I didn't think of that then, but now the more I think about it, the more uneasy I feel, so I dare not

go!"

Wuyue said helplessly, "Alright~ I'll go with you!"

He leaned on a tree branch and, with Qing'er's help, returned to the main hall. After entering the small door, Qing'er said:

"Wait by the door, let me check the floor of the main hall to see if there are any other footprints besides ours."

She walked over carefully, bending down to examine the ground with her torch. After searching the main hall

several times , she returned to Wuyue's side, full of doubt, and said, "The dust on the ground is very thick, but there are no

other footprints besides ours. Based on my experience, this means that no one has been here for at least three years.

What do you think about this statue..." She then snuggled into Wuyue's arms, her gaze fixed on the smiling goddess statue.

Wuyue followed her gaze and said softly, "Help me go take a look. As far as I know,

most of are just people making a fuss. You don't need to be too afraid."

Qing'er nodded, "I'm not afraid with you here." She helped him step by step towards the west side of the main hall, to

the smiling goddess statue.

Wu Yue clasped his hands together and bowed several times. Then, gazing intently, he felt the

deep was incredibly lifelike. The longer he stared, the more dynamic it seemed, as if it were about to

come to life!

Before he could finish his thought, Qing'er exclaimed, "Look at her eyes!"

He quickly looked at the statue's face. Unlike the other two statues, the Smiling Goddess's head was disproportionately large,

and her eyes were even more outrageously large, equally disproportionate to her head. The corners of

her eyes were almost touching her forehead, separated only by a narrow, high bridge of her nose, and the openings of her eyes were wide.

The almond-shaped double eyelids themselves were harmonious and beautiful.

A shimmering light emanated from her jet-black pupils, whether from the flickering torchlight

or .

He asked Qing'er to move the torch to the left side of the statue to avoid glare. He looked again intently, but the effect remained the same. After

staring for a while, he felt a surge of excitement and dizziness! He quickly looked away and turned to Qing'er, who was also

staring intently into the statue's eyes.

Turning back, he saw the goddess statue seemingly gazing at Qing'er as well. A thought struck him, and he exclaimed, "Qing'er,

I feel your eyes look so similar to hers. While your eyes aren't as ridiculously large as the goddess's, and don't quite match her face..."

"Proportionate, but I don't recall ever seeing eyes bigger than yours, and the shape and the width of the eye openings are

almost identical!"

He then disregarded the blasphemy and ran his hand over the entire goddess statue. It was cold to the touch,

indeed from stone. He tapped it, and it made a dull thud, almost solid, but it looked so strange.

A little longer, and he seemed to faintly hear even, heavy breathing.

He turned and glared at Qing'er, saying, "Calm down! Can you stop breathing so loudly?"

Qing'er's eyes widened even more, and she retorted, "I vaguely heard a woman's voice saying something, and I'm

holding my breath to listen. Where is the loud breathing?"

Wu Yue didn't believe him, saying, "Then hold your breath, you won't suffocate in a moment!"

He covered her mouth and nose, feeling that she wasn't breathing. He listened intently again, but it was still the same, and the breathing

was becoming increasingly obvious! He stared intently at the goddess statue, and felt a flash of light and shadow in her eyes, as if she were winking at him.

Accompanied by the continuous heavy breathing in the air of the hall, the statue's body seemed to rise and fall, and the movement became more and more obvious.

He felt dizzy, and felt that the statue was about to leap up!

He looked down at Qing'er's face in his arms. Her face was full of fear and confusion. She gently tugged at his sleeve and

said in a trembling voice, "Let's hurry back to the back hall!"

As they walked out of the small door behind the Sun God, Wuyue looked back at the goddess statue, which was still sitting quietly in

the shrine . He paused for a while, and after moving a distance, the strange breathing sound disappeared, the statue's

movement vanished, and the feeling of unease in his heart disappeared without a trace. The hall returned to calm...

After entering the east room and helping him lie down again on the pile of branches and leaves in the corner, Qing'er snuggled into his arms like a kitten,

her hands tightly wrapped around his waist. She said with lingering fear, "I think I heard the goddess statue talking to me just now.

It was really scary!"

Wuyue felt her small body trembling and quickly patted her shoulder to comfort her, "I also heard

something strange The panting sounds disappeared when you stood a little further away; it seemed to be an illusion. In such a

desolate , in such an empty temple, in the still of the night, anyone would inevitably feel a little paranoid. "Don't worry!"

Qing'er shivered again. "But the longer I looked at the statue, the more familiar it seemed, as if I'd seen

it before It's so strange… Anyway, you must be careful tonight. No matter what you hear, don't go outside,

remember that!"

Wuyue gently comforted her, "Okay~ Don't be afraid, I'm here!"

Qing'er hugged him tighter, as if afraid he would run away, murmuring, "No matter what, you

won't abandon me, right?"

Wuyue stroked her disheveled hair and said, "Of course not."

Qing'er said earnestly, "I believe there are at least two people in the world who would never lie to me."

Wuyue hummed in agreement.

She continued, "One is my father, and the other is you..."

Since Wuyue was too hungry to sleep anyway,

he figured he might as well chat with her for a while, perhaps forgetting his unease and the pain of hunger. So he asked, "Why are you so confident in me? Several people have called me a liar."

Qing'er asked curiously, "How could that be? What have you lied about?"

Wuyue murmured, "I've lied about people's hearts." He

had always had deep doubts about the women he loved or who loved him. Others had asked him, and he had asked himself countless times. You've told so many women that you truly love them. As for Sister Beifeng and Elder Sister, although you haven't confessed to Lingti yet, as Xiaohong said, you clearly love them! But how much sincerity can you truly offer these women? They are all so outstanding; are you worthy of them all? Why are you so greedy 　　　?

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