"My good son and daughter..."
"Mom, I can't help you..."
"Just take mother away..."
"I'll trade my life for my life, my mother's life in exchange for yours. I just ask you to forgive me..."
"Mom was wrong. Mom really knows she was wrong..."
Jin An and his group of five people.
A large group of villagers accompanied Song Fangping to the open space in the back village.
But before the group reached the place, as soon as they saw the huge torch from a distance, they heard the crazy and pitiful cry of an old woman coming from the other side of the torch.
The old Taoist priest's expression changed, and he quietly came to Jin An and said secretly: "Little brother, is that cry from the crazy Shen family?"
Jin An looked at the distance with a complicated look at half the sky illuminated by the red firelight, and nodded with a bit of heartache.
Shen, who had just been beaten, scolded and driven away by the villagers, came back crazy.
She could never escape her inner condemnation for the rest of her life.
"Hey, why are there crying in the village? Where did the crying come from? Who is Shen?" Li Huwei asked curiously.
"New Headmaster, do you know the Shen family?"
Even Song Fangping asked Jin An in a low voice behind the back of other Taoyuan Village villagers.
At this time, the five people from Jin'an were surrounded by Song Fangping and a total of about 10 or 20 villagers. It was said that Mingfeng was simple and warm to welcome the guests, but it was better to say that they were placed under house arrest to prevent Jin'an and the others from escaping halfway.
The distance between the group and the campfire was not long.
It arrived quickly.
At this time, the atmosphere in the open space behind the village was lively. All the men, women, and children from Taoyuan Village were here, holding hands in a circle around the bonfire, singing and dancing folk dances. Everyone was talking and laughing, and there were roasted whole pigs and Roasted whole lamb... full of aroma, simple and rough folk customs, full of joy, more lively than the Chinese New Year.
If Jin An had not already known that the bonfire was a human-skin flag and drum covered with the skins of men and women, those villagers were all dead, and those villagers were the real culprits who brutally killed Shen Qiu, Shen Shaolin and his brother. This scene would really be deceiving. More than ordinary people.
only.
Outside the campfire.
But one person was left out.
The gray-haired, hunchbacked old woman Shen, who was desperately struggling to rush into the bonfire to commit suicide, was stopped by the patriarch and several big men in the village. The patriarch and others were driving the old woman away with a bad attitude.
"Go away, go away, go away, why are you here again, you crazy woman? Didn't I tell you just now that there is no son or daughter here, so why are you back to make trouble again?"
"I heard that you abandoned your children back then because you thought they were a burden, and then you ran away with a foreigner and a wild man. Why, the wild man is unreliable. The wild man fell ill and died, and you still had the nerve to go back to your hometown to find you. Son, you cry and commit suicide, who are you deliberately trying to show off to?"
The clan leader asked the villagers to expel the people quickly.
"No!"
"It's not like that! It's not like that!"
"It's you who lied to me. It's the patriarch who said that it would be hard to miss our mother and son. You said that you would give my children the first chance to change their lives in the village. That's why I agreed to let you take away Xiaoqiu and Xiaolin!"
"It's obviously you who lied to me!"
"It's you!"
"Everyone in Taoyuan Village is a murderer!"
"Even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!"
"Kill for life! Give back my son! Give back my daughter!"
Shen screamed like crazy. She bared her teeth and claws and tried to fight the clan leader, but she was held back by several villagers who held her back.
"You crazy woman who talks nonsense. If I hadn't seen that you were originally a villager in Taoyuan Village and thought you were pitiful for having no children, I would have been rude to you long ago."
The clan leader waved his hand and asked the big men to send Shen away quickly.
So as not to ruin the village banquet waiting later.
It ruined the enjoyment of several outsiders.
The villagers could no longer stand the stench of the unkempt Shen's body, and began to beat and kick her away, swearing, with disgust and fierce expressions on their faces.
Just when one of the villagers' fist was about to fall on the weak-boned Shen, bang.
A palm grabbed the villager's fist.
The villager tried to pull his hand away several times, but it felt like his wrist was tightly clamped by a tiger's claw, and he could not break free no matter what.
Wait for him to turn around and look.
People were stunned.
It didn't even see who the other person was, because the entire front of its eyes was filled with a pair of cold electric eyes. There seemed to be a thunder pool in that person's eyes, and the brilliance made it immediately avoid looking directly , dare not look at each other.
"Jin'an Road..."
The Taoyuan Village patriarch was about to speak, but when he faced Shang Jin'an's piercing eyes, he subconsciously lowered his head to escape.
Jin An's eyes looked at this moment.
A pair of eyes flashed like cold lightning.
Cold and faint.
When he looked around in which direction, the villagers in that direction all lowered their heads subconsciously.
Jin'an tonight is as domineering as the Five Thunder Emperor inspecting the injustices in the world. The people in this village all have evil intentions in their hearts.
Only one person was not afraid of him.
"Taoist Master, why are you here again? Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
"Didn't I tell you to leave this village quickly?"
"Why are you still here!"
"This is not the place you should come!"
The moment Mrs. Shen saw Jin An, she opened her eyes wide with disheveled hair, grabbed Jin An's hand, and urged Jin An to leave quickly.
"Taoyuan Village is gone!"
"There's nothing left!"
"My son, my daughter, my mother can't help you..."
"People in this village are crazy..."
"No one can save everyone..."
"Taoist Master, you can't save everyone, and no one can save this Taoyuan Village..."
"You have done enough for Taoyuan Village..."
"I was the one who killed you, Taoist Priest..."
Shen was shouting incoherently, crying loudly while talking, and was going crazy.
"Have you ever seen people wearing five-color robes like me come to Taoyuan Village?"
Jin An's face darkened.
really.
His guess was not wrong.
Uncle Yuyouzi did meet Mr. Shen when he first came to Taoyuan Village.
Otherwise, Mrs. Shen would never have mistaken him for Master Jade Youzi, who was also wearing a five-color Taoist robe, and called him Yu Youzi who she killed.
"On that day, what happened to people wearing five-color Taoist robes like me in Taoyuan Village?"
"How did he die?"
But the old woman Shen, who had been speaking incoherently a moment ago, suddenly froze. She looked at Yu Youzi standing behind Jin An, and tears fell from her eyes.
Plop.
She actually knelt at Yuyouzi's feet and burst into tears.
She cried sadly.
Crying in shame.
Crying and blaming myself.
Yu Youzi quickly went to help Shen who was kneeling in front of him, but Shen kept kneeling at his feet and crying, saying, Taoist priest, I am sorry for you, Taoist priest, I am sorry for you.
Mrs. Shen kept crying incoherently, and no matter how much Yu Youzi helped her, she couldn't kneel down. Shen was so frightened that Yu Youzi looked at Jin An with a sense of loss, saying that this was going to shorten his life, and asked Jin An for help.
"Ms. Shen, do you hate it?"
Jin An's voice was heavy.
"Do you hate this ignorant village where people eat people?"
Mr. Shen knelt at Yuyouzi's feet and burst into tears, her shoulders trembling slightly as she cried.
"Are you ashamed and blaming yourself?"
"Are you living in self-blame every day? Why did you listen to lies and send your children to the executioner?"
"If you have ever hated or blamed yourself, then stand up and watch how we seek justice for your family of three today."
"If there is no retribution, I will repay it."
"If you have any injustice in your heart, I will help you settle it."
"If no one sends evil spirits to hell, let me send them to hell."
Jin'an's words are like pearls, each word is more striking and louder than the last, the momentum is rising step by step, and the fighting spirit is burning in the chest and lungs.
The old woman Shen raised her old face with white hair. She stared blankly at Jin An who was standing in front of her and actively protecting her behind her.
At this moment in Jin'an, the Hengdao stood between the villagers of Taoyuan Village and the Shen family, like a stroke of ink in a scroll of heaven and earth, holding up the line between black and white.
Swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger.
Upright.
"tell me!"
"Do you hate it?"
Jin'an's figure stood tall and straight in the sky, and he looked back at the frost-haired old woman Shen who was kneeling on the ground behind her.
He didn't go to help Shen.
sometimes.
One needs the courage to take the first step.
He saved a man's life.
But it can't save a person's heart disease.
Heart disease requires a heart medicine doctor.
He was not only saving Mr. Shen, but also saving Mr. Shen's heart.
A few feet away, the fire burned half the sky red, weeping like blood, and illuminated Jin An's back infinitely tall, standing tall and towering in Shen's already collapsed spiritual world.
Block the darkness in front of you.
Protect the righteous path of the world behind you.
"I……"
The crazy and chaotic eyes of the frost-haired old woman Shen gradually regained some clarity.
"I, I, I hate it so much!"
"Please, Taoist Master, save my poor child!"
"Please, Taoist Master, save us three!"
Perhaps this sentence had been held in Shen's heart for too long. She almost cried out with all her strength. If there really is a god in this world, please ask God to open her eyes once and save the three of them, mother and son.
At this time, Mrs. Shen had been helped up by Yu Youzi, the old Taoist priest, and Li Huwei.
"good."
Jin An's answer to Mr. Shen was a concise and concise one-word sentence, and your words were enough.
At this time, the leader of Taoyuan Village hurriedly defended himself and Taoyuan Village.
"Taoist Master Jin'an and other Taoist priests, please don't believe what this crazy woman says. She is crazy all day long and cannot believe anything she says. You don't know her true face. She can do anything for a wild man outside. , he left his blind and deaf children behind and left heartlessly."
"This crazy woman has been acting from the beginning to the end. Her crying is all fake, and she is deliberately acting it out to outsiders like you who don't understand the reality, in order to gain sympathy."
Jin An's cold eyes flashed like lightning, and the clan leader lowered his head subconsciously, not daring to look directly into those eyes.
He wants to save people completely.
All pretense must be shattered like a mirror.
"You said that Mrs. Shen despised her children as a burden and deliberately abandoned them and ran away with others. Then I ask you, since she despised them as a burden, why didn't Mrs. Shen abandon her children earlier? Instead, she went through all kinds of hardships to raise her two children until they were teenagers. ? There are wild wolves and ferocious beasts everywhere in this mountain. If you really want to abandon a baby, you can just throw it wherever you want, and it will be eaten up by wild beasts overnight, right?"
"Tell me why?"
The word "Jin'an" is Zhuji.
The patriarch lowered his head and did not dare to look directly at Jin An, and argued forcefully: "Maybe, maybe when the children were young, Shen had not met any strangers, so naturally he had nowhere to go. But when strangers came to the village, Shen Shen is a widow, and a few sweet words from a wild man outside made Shen run away with him wholeheartedly."
As the night went on, the night wind in the mountains became colder and colder. At this moment, Jin An's gaze said: "Okay, I'll just take what you said as reasonable for now."
"Then let me ask you again. Your village has always been isolated from the world. In Taoyuan Village, incest has already been intermarried in the past hundred years, and the population is getting smaller and smaller. I am afraid that it is precisely because of this that you are eager to return to the world. Do you want to dig out the cliff path that your ancestors walked on, and want to get out of the mountains again and save the people?"
"Then let me ask you, before the cliff road was built, your Taoyuan Village had already intermarried. The reason why the Shen family's children were born blind and deaf should be the reason for incest marriage, right?"
"Intermarriage between close relatives is likely to give birth to fetuses that are born with diseases or deformities. The closer the close relatives are, the greater the probability of giving birth to sick or deformed babies. Shen gave birth to two babies in a row, both of which were babies with congenital defects. Such a high rate The probability of intermarriage in Taoyuan Village has reached a point where brothers and sisters have to marry to ensure the reproduction of the village population."
"Let me ask you, with such a high level of intermarriage in the village, where are the other babies with congenital defects? Why do I only see the Shen family and not other villagers' homes?"
Jin An looked coldly at the Taoyuan Village villagers who were still holding hands in a circle around the campfire and singing and dancing.
It's like they didn't see what was going on here.
There was still singing, dancing, laughter, pretending to be a peaceful scene.
"So there is only one possibility. The entire Taoyuan Village knows the disadvantages of intermarriage. Therefore, in order to ensure the survival rate and ensure that the village has enough food rations, we can only abandon those babies who are born with congenital defects, leaving only the healthy ones. Babies raise adults.”
"The most indispensable thing in the deep mountains is hungry wolves, tigers and leopards. If you just find a place to throw them away, those babies will never survive a night."
"But there is one woman in the village who is an exception. She knows that both her children are born with disabilities, but she still saves food rations, works hard all her life, and goes through all kinds of hardships to raise her children."
"It is precisely because of this that you are jealous. You are jealous of the kindness of the Shen family of three. You are jealous of not being able to see others well. Jealousy makes you try every means to exclude the Shen family of three who are incompatible with you."
"So you first deliberately deceived Mr. Shen."
"Then I used capital punishment to kill Shen Qiu and Shen Shaolin, my brother and sister, and transformed them into human skins for you. You are both murderous and heart-wrenching."
"So according to me, you people are all worthy of death. The three most innocent people in the entire Taoyuan Village are only the Shen family of three."
Jin An's voice became more sonorous as he spoke, and at the end, he looked in the direction of the bonfire.
He was talking to the poor brother and sister.
When Jin An finished his words and exposed the demonic obstacles in Taoyuan Village, the villagers singing and dancing around the campfire turned into a group of headless dead people singing and dancing.
Human skin appears again in full force.
