The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

608: The Mysterious Old Widow

“That’s why Laiya is the most likely suspect.
She has the best motive.” Han Xia whispered after sipping the juice Feng Wu shared.

“That’s true, but this is all still a guess; I’m not sure if it’s her.” Han Jiang said.

“It seems that we have to keep an eye on her.
How is that Laiya now? Is she married to her childhood sweetheart?” Jier pushed his empty cup away.

“They married twenty years ago.
Seven days after the village was sealed, the village head’s family hurriedly organized a marriage for them.
Now their oldest child is eighteen and the youngest is twelve.” Han Jiang said.

Considering what information they had, they decided to keep an eye on Laiya.
Hopefully something useful would show up.

Laiya’s family was an ordinary family; they worked at sunrise and rested at sunset.
Ordinary people who didn’t practice magic and martial qi aged normally.
The traces of age on Laiya’s thirty-eight-year-old face did not detract from her beauty, however.
It was no wonder the sword master spent so much effort trying to marry her; she must have been a stunning woman twenty years ago.

Her husband, a blacksmith in the village, was named Kamen.
She and her husband loved each other deeply and their eyes would fill with love and affection whenever they were together.
No wonder, even if it raised her station in life, Laiya was unwilling to marry the unfamiliar sword master.

“While they’re all out working, let’s go to her house and see if we can find the holy artifact or anything else suspicious!” Han Xia said.

It was a good idea, so they had Han Jiang stand as look out while everyone else snuck inside Laiya’s house.

In the end, they failed to find anything by the time Laiya’s family returned.

They snuck back out and returned disappointed to their hut.
“Why is there nothing? Laiya is definitely the most suspicious person.

“Could you have made a mistake? Is it really Laiya who sealed the village?” Rui Baby said casually while eating a snack.

“Master Rui, did you find something?” Han Xia immediately retreated and ran to Rui Baby’s side to fawn over him.

“This great one has indeed discovered something.
In fact, there was something else that happened here twenty years ago other than what happened with Laiya.” Rui Baby was pleased with the fawning so he shared a bit mysteriously.

“Something else? No way.
I asked about all the major events that happened twenty years ago.
There can’t be something I don’t know about!” Han Jiang thought about it and couldn’t think about the event Rui Baby was talking about.

“Twenty years ago, the old widow in the east of the village had two beautiful daughters, and the three women depended on each other very much.
The old widow, because she was cheated on by a man, told her daughter to never trust men.
Eventually, one after the other, both her daughters fell in love with men outside the village.
The men they loved came to the village to propose, but unfortunately the old widow objected vehemently.

She beat both daughters severely enough to force them to be bedridden.
Then she went out and warned the two men never to approach her daughters again.

Her daughters found her dominance over their lives unbearable, and in the end, they decided to elope.
Unfortunately, the day before their planned elopement, the sword master came to the village and tried to force Laiya to marry him.

Their elopement plans were thwarted because of this.
Then on the eight day the village was sealed and the daughters were trapped inside.
They are still single even now.”

This did happen and Rui Baby would never been privy to such details had he not but fluttering around and eavesdropping on the villagers’ conversations.

“You suspect the old widow sealed the village to prevent her daughters from leaving her and marrying?” If this guess was correct, then the old lady was perverted.

Han Xia felt her scalp go numb just thinking about having such a terrible mother.

“Why haven’t the daughters married in all this time? Even if they can’t marry outside the village, they can still marry someone inside.” Han Xia was puzzled by this.

“Their mother is really perverted.
Just because one man caused her suffering, she thinks all men are evil things.
She doesn’t allow her daughters to approach men, or talk to them, let alone marry one.
Anyway, she just wants her daughters to by alone forever like her.”

Rui Baby rolled his eyes, just thinking about perverted old woman gave him the shivers.

“Let’s talk about sealing the village; if it’s that old woman, then she would definitely do it.” Jier thought of the old widow Rui Baby talked about.

They all agreed the perverted old widow was seriously suspicious.
Her ranking on the list of suspects was even higher than Laiya’s.

They snuck into her house in the dead of night to investigate, but unfortunately, her room was locked up tight, even her window was closed shut.
Finding out if she was responsible for sealing the village would be difficult.

The village was strange so they didn’t know if using magic or scrolls could have unintended consequences.
To be safe, they decided not to use magic or qi.

They searched the yard for a long time and found nothing suspicious.
As for the two daughters who previously tried to run away, if there was a holy artifact, there was no way the old widow would leave it in their possession.

It was probably in the old widow’s room.
She locked it up so tight.

They kept surveillance on the old widow’s family and found, that apart from her two daughters working every day, the widow didn’t leave.
How were they supposed to sneak in and search around if she didn’t leave?!

The widow finally left her house two days later on the full moon.
She wore a black cloak that covered her body completely; not even an inch of skin peeped through.

Rui Baby went out to follow the old widow and see what she was up to so late at night, while everyone else grabbed the chance to sneak inside her house.

They managed to get inside her room using a lock pick.
Inside was pitch black without light or shadow.
Han Xia glanced around at the things inside the room after taking out a flint and lighting it for light.
She screamed out in fright, completely forgetting where they were for a moment.

This immediately brought a burst of footsteps toward the room.
No doubt the people running over were the daughters.

Their mother didn’t even let them into her room, so for there to suddenly be an unfamiliar screaming coming from that direction, of course they didn’t just foolishly rush over without first grabbing a weapon.

“Are you outsiders? What are you doing in our mother’s room?” The sisters watched Feng Wu and the kids in the room warily while still holding onto knives they grabbed earlier.

“Don’t be afraid.
We’re here to find a way out of the village.” Jier raised his hand to show them he was harmless and didn’t have a weapon.