The word "stew" made many quick-thinking people immediately think of the human bones found last night, followed by frequent vomiting sounds.
"Daddy?"
The sound of Xixi's breasts purring came from behind Zhou Yunshu. Zhou Yunshu turned back to look at the little head sticking out from the car curtain and said seriously: "Go back and sit down."
Xixi pouted her little mouth. She wanted to go out to play. She hadn't been out to play for a long time.
But she also knows that children cannot change what adults decide.
"Oh." Xixi was reluctantly carried back to the carriage by Li Jialan.
Seeing Xixi being taken away, Zhou Yunshu turned around and looked at Wei Zhong and Du Laoer who came to her car, and said: "Take someone forward to check. If they are really those beasts, find a way to detain them first."
Wei Zhong nodded and ran toward the ruined temple with Du Laoer, Huzi and 30 other people.
When they were halfway there, a woman's shrill and desperate scream came from the ruined temple.
Even if the people on Zhou Yunshu's side couldn't see what was happening over there, they couldn't help but feel numb and despair when they heard the shrill scream.
Zhou Yunshu returned to the carriage and held Xixi in her arms, who was so frightened that she got into Li Jialan's arms. Yuan Li and Yuanyi's three little ones were also nestled in the arms of Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen.
Xixi hugged her mother's arm tightly, and asked in fear and confusion: "What happened to that person?"
After saying that, the shrill scream came again, Zhou Yunshu covered her daughter's ears, "It's okay, mother is here."
Perhaps because she became a mother, when Zhou Yunshu heard the woman's desperate scream, she intuitively felt that something had happened to her child.
Half an hour later, Huzi ran back from the ruined temple with a fierce face.
Zhou Yunshu's guess was right before. The people in the ruined temple were indeed the beasts who made fires in the empty village, killed people and ate the two-legged sheep.
At this time, the group of beasts were restrained by Wei Zhong and others. Zhou Yunshu and his party went ahead with their carriages and horses, followed by those on foot.
The closer they got to the ruined temple, the stronger the unspeakable smell of meat became, so much so that Zhou Yunshu stopped the entire team a hundred meters away from the ruined temple.
Zhou Yunshu asked Chunque and Li Jialan to keep an eye on the children, put on a face towel to cover up the nauseating smell, and then led Huzi, Du Laozhuang and others to the ruined temple.
As soon as they arrived at the door of the ruined temple, Zhou Yunshu and his party heard the sound of retching, the irrational cries of women, and the voices of men begging for mercy coming from inside the ruined temple.
Stepping into the ruined temple, Du Mazi and Du Laoer were holding on to the wall and retching. Two or three people from the patrol team shoveled the loose soil on the ground with dry bark and poured it into the large tank in the middle of the yard.
The indescribable aroma of meat came from this vat.
Before Zhou Yunshu could get closer, Wei Zhong stood in front of her with a blue face and said, "Mr. Zhou, stop looking."
Zhou Yunshu nodded with a slightly pale face. Du Laozhuang behind him hit the ground with his crutch a few times and said sadly: "What a sin!"
"Spare us, we will never dare again!"
"We are just very hungry and there is nothing we can do. Please let the officials let us go. We will never dare to do it again!"
"They ate it first, and I was forced to eat it. I am a child, and I have a reputation. You let me go!"
"Fuck you, you eat the most delicious food!" A man with a square face next to him directly kicked the man who was said to be a child. "You said that the meat of two-legged mutton under five years old is the most tender, didn't you say of!"
The boy shook his head desperately, "It's not me, it's not me!"
"It's you. It's you who told us that it's hard for your family to do anything, so you carried your three-year-old daughter in exchange for my unmarried sister. You cheated me of fifty or sixty pounds of less than twenty kilograms of meat. It's you... …”
Zhou Yunshu stood outside the wooden threshold and gritted her teeth as she listened to the beasts inside scolding each other.
She looked at the beasts inside who were wearing loose clothes that could be exposed if they were not careful; looking at their not too thin figures, looking at the pieces of meat on their teeth between their open mouths, Zhou Yunshu could no longer hold back the nausea in her heart, and suddenly He pulled out Wei Zhong's knife next to him and inserted it straight into the man's mouth.
Screams replaced the curses, the tip of the knife turned, and blood sprayed everywhere.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the eyes that almost popped out of her eyes, and with a little force, she directly pierced the man's head.
The world is finally quiet, but it is not clean.
Perhaps Zhou Yunshu looked too much like an evil god at this moment, so the people who were tied together immediately curled up and fled in all directions.
In a panic, one of them accidentally knocked the head of the child in the arms of the somewhat crazy woman. The woman's voice of coaxing the child suddenly stopped, and then she threw herself on the ground to hold her child's head as if she was crazy.
The man was so frightened by the woman's madness that he accidentally kicked the small head away. Before he could run away, the woman threw herself at him with red eyes and a face full of hatred and madness. Biting his neck firmly.
There was more and more blood in the screams, panic and struggles for help.
Zhou Yunshu turned a deaf ear and only saw the child's head that rolled in front of her.
The words she heard before she died suddenly flashed through her mind.
"There is no trace of Madam's body. Young Master Yuanli Yuanyi fell off a cliff and his life or death is uncertain. Young Master Yuanruo was found, but only one head was left."
"Wang...Mr. Zhou, you..." When Wei Zhong saw Zhou Yunshu staring at that head, he thought she was scared to death. Just as he was about to kick the head away, Zhou Yunshu bent down.
"Mr. Zhou." Wei Zhong was puzzled by Zhou Yunshu's behavior.
Zhou Yunshu didn't care whether Wei Zhong could understand or not. She took off the scarf on her face, stretched it out and carefully picked up the childish head, and then walked towards the woman who fell on the man.
"Mr. Zhou!"
Wei Zhong frowned. Seeing that Zhou Yunshu would not listen to him, he had no choice but to wink at his subordinate.
The two subordinates endured their fear of the crazy woman and stepped forward to tear her away from the voiceless man.
After the woman was torn apart, her mouth full of blood was still calling for her child.
Her eyes searched everywhere, and finally she saw a small body wrapped in rags and boiled in hot water on the ground.
"Tong'er, my child, my child!"
The woman struggled to throw herself at her child, but the two grown men barely managed to catch her.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the little corpse on the ground, endured the surge in her chest, gently put down the head in her hand, then took off her cloak and wrapped the little body and head together. , held up his hands and walked to the restrained woman.
The woman never looked at Zhou Yunshu from beginning to end. She only had eyes for her child.
After seeing her child become whole again, she stretched out her hands impatiently, with a ferocious and crazy smile, coupled with the scars on her face and the blood in her mouth, it was as oozing as possible.
But she was unconscious, and Zhou Yunshu seemed unable to see.
"your child."
