webnovelfull Chapter 282 Spirit Pearl
Chapter 282 Spirit Pearl
The scene shifts to the other side, where a boy named Erfu and others are kneeling obsequiously in front of the Zhang family's gate, waiting to be chosen.
……
The image in the mirror stops here, at this moment.
"Is that all?" Seeing the screen stop, Yun Qingyi looked down at the little boy and asked.
“How could that be? There are two more cuts at different times later on. But now it’s discussion time. We’ll be voting later, so think carefully about who you’re going to vote for,” the little boy said.
"Vote?" Yun Qingyi asked, puzzled. As soon as she finished speaking, many maple leaf-shaped ice crystals appeared in the air. "This is..." Watching the little boy catch one, she also caught the ice crystal maple leaf that floated towards her.
"These are the votes. In a moment, just raise the ice crystal maple leaf in your hand to see who you support," the little boy said.
As soon as the little boy finished speaking, the image in the giant mirror flickered again, then went blank, before several lines of text appeared:
In this incident, who do you think is most guilty...?
Was he the couple's father in the early stages of the incident?
Give me the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to consider this.
The couple's father... Yun Qingyi lowered her head and pondered. He must be referring to the two people who arranged the marriage between the couple's children. Yun Qingyi did not act rashly. She observed her surroundings and saw that only a few people were holding up the ice crystal maple leaves.
Yun Qingyi watched as the ice crystal maple leaves slowly rose and entered the mirror, forming numbers.
There were many people present, but only a few dozen voted for the fathers, as there was still time; the rest were engaged in heated discussions.
“I think the root of the problem lies with these two fathers. If it weren’t for them, the couple wouldn’t have gotten married, and none of what happened afterward would have happened.”
"That's not quite right. The father arranged this marriage for the sake of the child. After all, the two fathers are good friends and know each other well. They've also watched their friend's child grow up, so they feel more at ease."
"That's right, and the couple got along very well in the beginning. How could anyone have imagined that something like that would happen later?"
"Sigh, never mind, I'll vote for this one."
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"Sister, what do you think?" The little boy raised his bright eyes and looked at Yun Qingyi with a mischievous glint in them.
Yun Qingyi squeezed the ice crystal maple leaf in her hand and shook her head. "I'll make a decision later. Didn't you say there were still a few scenes that hadn't been shown? Why are some people so eager to vote first?"
"Because they want more spirit orbs," the little boy said with a grin.
"Spirit Pearl?" Why is it something I don't recognize again?
Seeing Yun Qingyi's puzzled expression, the little boy seemed oblivious to anything amiss. "Oh dear, how could you forget this? Spirit Pearls are the most precious currency in our Snow Region. Without them, you can't move an inch in this Snow Region."
After saying that, the little boy took out a handful of shiny beads from his pocket and showed them to Yun Qingyi, "Look, these are spirit beads."
The bead was very small, only the size of a fingernail, and had a pale yellow hue. Under the reflection of sunlight, it shone brightly, as if it were shimmering with light.
Seeing Yun Qingyi staring intently, the little boy exclaimed in surprise, "You don't even have a spirit pearl anymore, do you? That won't do."
After saying that, he stuffed the spirit pearl in his hand into Yun Qingyi's arms, "Here, take it, don't lose it again."
Looking at the spirit pearl in her hand, Yun Qingyi thought it over and over again, but still decided to accept it. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." The little boy waved his hand. "If you really want to thank me, don't disappoint me."
"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, Yun Qingyi keenly sensed something.
“It’s nothing,” the little boy said. “Didn’t you want to know why they voted so quickly? Actually, they just wanted to take a gamble.”
“In each of the goddess’s judgments, those who are judged correctly will be rewarded with abundant spiritual pearls, and the people who make the first judgment will be rewarded ten times more.”
So those people were just taking a gamble.
"I see." Yun Qingyi nodded.
Before they knew it, the time it takes for an incense stick to burn had passed quickly, and the two fathers' votes had more than doubled, reaching over a hundred.
After the vote was cast, the image in the mirror flickered again, revealing a different scene.
The elderly father lay on the edge of the bed, looking at his son and the daughter-in-law he had personally chosen, and smiled kindly. “My son, you and Xiao Cui grew up together and have a deep friendship. You must support each other in the future, treat her well, and never let Xiao Cui down.”
"Don't worry, Father, I will treat her well." The young man wiped away his tears, forcing a smile as he suppressed his grief. "Father, please don't worry."
"Good...good...don't worry, Father." The old father smiled with relief upon seeing this. "I'm relieved that you're all doing well."
After saying this, the old father closed his eyes with a smile on his face.
Upon seeing this, the young man was stunned at first, then reacted. "Dad!" he shouted and rushed to his father's bedside, but this time there was no response.
At the old father's funeral, the young wife's father also came. He was also old, sitting shakily on a wooden bench, his cloudy eyes staring at the coffin in the main hall of the inner room, lost in thought.
The man assumed that his wife's father was grieving the death of his friend, and despite his own grief, he had been taking good care of him these past few days.
After the funeral, because the woman's father was unable to move around easily, the couple sent him back to a neighboring village.
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The scene shifts, and it seems that several months have passed. Although they have gone through a lot, the couple is still very much in love.
One day, the man discovered that money was disappearing from his home. At first, he didn't think much of it, but as the amount of money missing increased, he began to suspect something.
It was later discovered that the woman had taken it secretly. The man was furious, his mind racing with conflicting thoughts, and all he wanted was an explanation.
But the woman wouldn't say where the pearl coins went, only insisting that she had spent them. She gritted her teeth and said, "Half of the pearl coins in the house were earned by washing clothes for others! Why are you so angry!"
When the woman refused to tell him, the man was extremely disappointed in her: "We are husband and wife, and we grew up together. Why are you hiding this from me?"
But the woman only cried and refused to say anything.
After a few days of cold war, the man's suspicions deepened, and the two became taciturn and stopped communicating.
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The image in the mirror froze at that moment.
"So that's how they fell out," the little boy said with a smile. "Sister, what do you think?"
Yun Qingyi shook her head again, quietly watching the familiar words reappear in the mirror.
This time there are two options: the man and the woman. We'll still have about an incense stick's time to consider them.