Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 391: Chapter 391 Heavenly Master 98

As the Moonlight Shadow Technique concluded, on the enlarged detailed national map beside it, the little straw doll representing Zhu Yanling also arrived in front of a small village’s name, clearly indicating this is where Zhu Yanling is located.

The Zhu Family felt both angered by Zhu Yanling’s experience and worried about her current situation. When Zhu Yanling went missing, she was only eighteen, right before attending college. Now Zhu Yanhua has been graduated from college for a year, yet no one can say for sure what Zhu Yanling’s situation is like now.

But everyone tried not to think the worst, and Zhu Yanhua couldn’t help but turn to Situ Shuangshuang, seeking support as she asked, ”Master, my sister is definitely still alive, right?”

Situ Shuangshuang paused for a moment and said calmly, ”She’s indeed still alive. If your sister were dead, the Moonlight Shadow Technique would have shown you her spirit and corpse, but clearly, that’s not the case now, which means your sister has been alive all this time. You just have to go find her.”

Due to the Linzhi Technique within the Nine-character True Words, Situ Shuangshuang’s mood had remained sufficiently calm, a level of peace akin to Buddhist detachment, which previously would have been almost impossible. Without the Linzhi Technique, upon seeing such a situation, Situ Shuangshuang’s anger would have surged to the top of her head!

To ensure that Zhu Yanling could be found one hundred percent, Situ Shuangshuang was to embark on the journey with Zhu Yanhua and her parents to find Zhu Yanling. Primarily, she was worried that if the place were a village entirely united in xenophobia and used to buying brides, without her company, Zhu Yanhua and her parents might not be able to bring Zhu Yanling back.

With a master like Situ Shuangshuang accompanying them, Zhu Yanhua and her parents naturally wouldn’t refuse. After a few hours of rest post-midnight, the group set off at the break of dawn by car, beginning their journey to find Zhu Yanling.

Thanks to the straw doll indicating the direction earlier, the group smoothly reached the village where Zhu Yanling had been staying all along.

At first, Situ Shuangshuang had intended to pose as visitors to the mountains and find a villager’s home to stay the night. Unexpectedly, to the surprise of Situ Shuangshuang and her companions, the folk customs in this small mountain village were quite simple. Although it was deep within the mountains, due to the direct road connection to the outside, it wasn’t isolated.

The scenery in this village was excellent and known as a natural oxygen bar. Moreover, the village chief had good foresight. He had long promoted amongst the villagers the idea of getting rich by building roads. Nine years ago, the villagers themselves connected over ten villages to the outside world, spending a year constructing a road out of the mountains!

Once the road was completed, the goods from the mountains could be sold, and the villagers began to prosper. Coupled with the advantage of the natural oxygen bar, people who love health and well-being frequently visit for short stays, making the village wealthier and wealthier.

There were also foresighted villagers who contracted forest orchards, earning quite a lot from selling fruits to tourists throughout the year.

In this village, no one had trouble finding a spouse. There was no need to buy brides because women from outside didn’t mind marrying into this prosperous village, and girls in the village didn’t favor distant marriages.

One could say that this village had no need to buy wives at all, so if Zhu Yanling was brought here, it could only mean that the man and that driver were working together from the start, and that man likely had a special preference to buy someone in such a prosperous village.

This also explains why Zhu Yanling was secretly brought over by the driver at midnight and taken directly by the man to live in the basement, because in a village where no one buys brides, naturally men can’t openly buy women! So that man probably didn’t dare let Zhu Yanling be seen by the villagers.

If it were in a place accustomed to buying brides, buying a woman would have the whole village offering advice and brainwashing, openly confining her, without anyone meddling. There would be no need to secretly cage a purchased woman.

Moreover, seeing as his basement previously held two other girls, the man might have some secretive preferences!

Fortunately, this village also welcomed tourists, so when Situ Shuangshuang’s party pretended to be a family on a vacation and rented a place, it wasn’t considered strange at all.

The next day, during the daytime, the group led by Situ Shuangshuang wandered about, searching for that man who had taken Zhu Yanling from the driver. At night, Situ Shuangshuang went solo to scout, convinced that house-to-house searching would lead her to the family with a basement.

Perseverance paid off, as on the third day, the group finally found the muscular man seen in the Moonlight Shadow Technique!

This man, named Wang Zhonghai, was wealthy within the village. He was also the first with foresight to contract forest lands for orchards, and the first to build a big house, making him the richest household in the village.

Logically, such a visionary, money-making man shouldn’t have trouble finding a wife. However, Wang Zhonghai was in fact an old bachelor, with no woman willing to marry him.

The reason was simple: Wang Zhonghai was known to beat his wife! Originally, this fault of wife-beating wasn’t considered a problem when Wang Zhonghai was young.

Which man in the village hasn’t slapped their wife, or been scratched back by her? Fights were mutual, and no couple could always keep a good temper without fighting.

But even in marital fights, people maintained moderation. Neither men nor women would really hit hard.

However, Wang Zhonghai was different. Where others might just slap once or twice, he would beat his wife mercilessly, to the point where she had to be hospitalized before he would stop!

Initially, Wang Zhonghai’s first wife couldn’t endure the beatings and ran away. Wang Zhonghai had money, so he didn’t worry about not being able to find a wife. But after two more women, drawn by his wealth and conditions, were driven away by his beatings, he could no longer find a wife.

In earlier years, Wang Zhonghai was constantly pestering people to find him a partner, repeatedly claiming that living alone without a woman was boring, yet no woman dared to marry him.

Then, seemingly overnight, Wang Zhonghai stopped pestering people about finding a wife! He stopped demanding to marry again.

This brought peace to the villagers. But Situ Shuangshuang thought that perhaps the reason Wang Zhonghai stopped was because that’s when he started keeping women in his basement; once he didn’t lack women, naturally he stopped making a fuss.