Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 1554: Chapter 1538: Entering the Miao Village

Unable to understand, Huo Sining steadily looked at Qibao and asked in a calm tone:

”Qibao, now that you’re here with your sister, do you intend to escape for a lifetime? Haven’t you ever thought of wanting a definitive answer about how your mother and father died? What does that school head want from your mother, don’t you want to know? Are you really prepared to play dumb for life?”

Huo Sining’s words made Qibao’s figure tremble slightly. He lowered his head, biting his lip, not daring to meet Huo Sining’s eyes.

”If you’re not reconciled to it, then go back and get to the bottom of things. Living muddled like this, you’ll surely regret it in the future! If you’re scared, you can tell your sister, but you can’t just be a coward forever. My brother, Huo Sining, must not be a timid coward!”

As soon as these words were spoken, Qibao suddenly burst into tears, lifted his head, and looked at Huo Sining with tearful eyes:

”Qibao is not a coward; I also want to go back, but I simply cannot deal with the school head!”

Qibao’s voice, hoarse and exhausted, was filled with anger and hatred towards the school head. This year, he had been suppressing his feelings, desperately wanting to find out the truth and avenge his father and mother. But he clearly knew that he couldn’t deal with the school head; even returning to the Miao Village would be like hitting a stone with an egg and walking into a trap.

Upon hearing Qibao voice his thoughts, Huo Sining’s expression softened instantly, revealing a hint of a smile:

”Yes, you can’t deal with it, but don’t forget, your sister is here to help you. Don’t forget, you are my brother, Huo Sining. In this world, Huo Sining is your family, your concerns are your sister’s concerns. As long as you want to go back, your sister will accompany you back, and we will surely get to the bottom of this!”

Huo Sining’s firm tone and confident gaze encouraged Qibao. The little guy lifted his head and looked at Huo Sining with anticipation, asking, ”Really?”

Huo Sining nodded with a smile: ”Of course it’s true. Your sister has faced everything from robbers to tricking the police, when have I ever been afraid of anyone? After all, it’s just a school head, one hand with the Ice Spirit Bead and the other with the Rock Spirit Pearl, can we not deal with a mere mortal? Don’t worry, your sister will stand by you on this!”

Hearing Huo Sining’s words, Qibao immediately broke into a smile, wiped away the tears from his eyes, nodded solemnly, and said, ”Okay, then I will go back to the Miao Village and ask the school head for the truth!”

By the afternoon of the next day, Gu Xu was on his way to Magic Capital alone. Huo Sining was already waiting with Qibao at the airport. The three of them took a connecting flight directly into Xiangxi. After landing, they took a car to the county. They rested overnight in a hotel in the county town, and then rented a van early the next morning to drive to the Miao Village.

The Miao Village was completely unlike what Huo Sining had imagined. After entering the mountains, Huo Sining was greeted by two-story houses. The stilted bamboo buildings she imagined were nowhere to be seen.

”Is this really the Miao Village?” A look of doubt flashed in Huo Sining’s eyes. The mountain rooms and the blue-tiled stone roads were so abrupt and discordant, with modernity so strong, it was far from Huo Sining’s impression of Miao Ethnicity settlements.

Hearing Huo Sining’s question, the van driver couldn’t help but laugh: ”What era is this now? Those old houses are hard to preserve; cement buildings are sturdy and they’re windproof and warm. These Miao People, after long exposure to the outside, are no longer pure Miao People, having been subtly influenced by modern civilization, most of the young people from the settlements now go out to work and earn money, leaving behind mostly lonely elderly and children.”

Hearing this, Huo Sining couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.

It’s not just here. So many ancient buildings and historical sites across the country are forced into dead ends by modern civilization’s development. A single order, and they’re torn down cleanly, replaced by towering cold skyscrapers, while historical heritage is discarded like worn-out shoes.

The sparsely built cement buildings made the Miao Village lose its tribal flavor entirely, completely assimilated by modern civilization.

Passing the gates of Miao Village, Gu Xu knocked first on the gorge door, and soon after, two small heads peeked out from the wooden house at the gate. Seeing Huo Sining and the others standing outside, the two kids immediately showed confused expressions, blocking them and asking, ”Who are you?”

Qibao was originally hiding behind Huo Sining but got very excited upon seeing the two kids, quickly stepping forward, grabbing their hands, and shouting, ”Tie Niu, Si Lang, it’s me!”

The two bear kids looked at Qibao, first stunned, then suddenly changed their expressions, quickly shook off Qibao’s hands, hurriedly stepped back two steps, and slammed the wooden gate shut, even bolting it.

Seeing this, Qibao was dumbfounded, urgently tapping on the mountain gate: ”Tie Niu, Si Lang, what’s wrong with you, it’s me, Qibao, why did you shut the door? It’s me, don’t you recognize me?”

”We don’t recognize you. You better leave. You’re a monster; the school head said your whole family were demons. Now that you’ve come back, are you trying to harm us? Leave, you’re not welcome here!”

The two children who closed the door looked at Qibao pale-faced through the door crack, their eyes filled with terror and disgust.

One of the kids even spat in Qibao’s face, cursing hatefully:

”Come on, we’re not afraid of you, the police have guns, let the police shoot you dead! You monster!”

Seeing this, Huo Sining was also somewhat taken aback, but witnessing the child spitting and cursing, the anger in Huo Sining’s heart suddenly flared up, and she exclaimed: ”What nonsense are you kids talking? Who taught you to curse?”

The two kids glanced at Huo Sining, stuck out their hands to make a funny face at her, then turned and ran up the mountain, shouting as they went: ”The monster’s back, the monster’s in the mountains, quick go tell the school head!”

Huo Sining’s face instantly darkened, lowered her head to see Qibao’s little pale face and quivering lips standing just outside the mountain gate, his hands tightly clutching the bamboo railing on the gate, his eyes full of panic and confusion.

Seeing Qibao’s expression, Huo Sining’s heart sank instantly, involuntarily aching.