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Lingguan Town, Dongshan Village.

"Father, Mother, you're back!" A skinny little girl ran out through the door, smiling as she greeted Xiao Ershan and his wife.

"Lingling, didn't I tell you not to go outside?" Xiao Ershan hurriedly scooped up the little girl, as though afraid someone might see her.

"Didn't you say I could go out and play normally once the ritual was over?" Lingling asked in confusion.

"The ritual isn't over yet..." Xiao Ershan shut the door and returned inside before finally letting out a worried sigh. "Someone stopped it."

"Why?" Lingling looked at her father with innocent eyes.

Xiao Ershan fell silent for a long while, then pulled his daughter tightly into his arms. "No matter what, Father won't let anyone take away my precious girl! No one!"

After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth. "Wife, why don't we run?"

"Run where?" His wife's face was equally filled with sorrow. "If we go somewhere else, will we even have work?"

"Isn't that still better than staying here and letting Lingling be sent off for the ritual?" Xiao Ershan said resolutely.

After some time, the family of three had packed bundles large and small. Under cover of night, they pushed open the back gate of their courtyard.

But the moment Xiao Ershan poked his head out, a powerful hand pressed it down. Through the gaps between his fingers, he saw the guards from the town clan chief's residence ahead.

"The clan chief ordered us to help Brother Ershan keep watch over the courtyard. We can't let anything go wrong with tomorrow's ritual again," said the burly man holding Xiao Ershan down in a muffled voice.

Everyone understood that this so-called help in watching the courtyard was really to prevent him from running away.

Xiao Ershan retreated