Unexpectedly, Kuang Hongyi's reaction was more violent than Yang Xiao's, "No way, I was just waiting outside the door. Why didn't I see any children?"
Not daring to talk back to Kuang Hongyi, Su Tingting had no choice but to explain aggrievedly, "It's true. You must believe me. I was scared to death at the time. By the way, Mr. Chu stopped at the sacrifice stand No. 4, and I even punched him. The staccato lyrics reminded him to come, and those children were right next to him!”
Yang Xiao nodded and gave Su Tingting a reassuring look, "It's true, I have to thank you very much."
Kuang Hongyi looked at Su Tingting's face unkindly, and after a moment his tone became slightly threatening, "I'm warning you, if you have it, you have it, and if you don't have it, you don't have it. I have also encountered newcomers in previous scripts who were seeking for themselves. Guaranteed, it’s a precedent for fabricating lies to highlight one’s own importance. In the end, these people all ended up very ugly.”
"No, I won't!" Su Tingting heard the implication of Kuang Hongyi. Compared with Chu Xi, this Kuang Hongyi was much more terrifying.
"Okay, Brother Kuang, if you scare her again, she won't dare to tell you even if you really have clues." Yang Xiao smiled and turned to look at Su Tingting, "Go on, what are the characteristics of these children? Are they boys or girls? , the more detailed the better.”
"Yes... they should be girls. They are dressed in dirty clothes and have braids on their heads. They are all old-fashioned braids that go up to the sky." Su Tingting recalled.
"Girls..." Yang Xiao had an ominous premonition, "What clothes are they wearing?"
"They were all dirty and dusty, as if they had just rolled in the dirt, but... But I can tell a little bit, they seemed to be wearing... they seemed to be green clothes, yes, yes All the clothes and pants are green!”
Yang Xiao's first reaction was that there were boys and girls. These children were wearing green clothes, so they must be girls, but where did there come from so many girls in Feng Mansion?
"Wait a minute." Kuang Hongyi noticed something was wrong, "You just said that these ghost children are dusty. Why, shouldn't they be wet?"
"No, no, no, these children are different from the ones in the audience watching the opera. They have no water on their bodies, they are all soil and dirty." What Su Tingting originally wanted to say was that they were different from those who were watching the show. Ghosts are different, but maybe out of fear, they temporarily changed into those things.
However, Yang Xiao had seen those drowned ghosts with his own eyes. Their whole bodies were bloated and rotten, their skin was white with blisters, and their faces seemed to be melting away. They were easy to identify.
A new problem arose. According to Su Tingting's description, the girls were different from the other servants and maids in the Feng Mansion. They did not die of drowning.
If they didn't die by drowning, it means that these girls were not killed by Xi Yao, so who killed them?
Since they can be attracted by the ghost show, it means that the bodies of these girls are buried nearby, that is, somewhere in the Feng Mansion. This matter must be closely related to the Feng family!
Suddenly, Kuang Hongyi seemed to think of something and took a breath of air, "Damn it, I know where these girls come from!"
Allowing himself to calm down, Kuang Hongyi slowly recalled: "On the day we went out to collect information, the nearby villagers said that the Feng family had an excellent reputation in the local area, and Mr. Feng was even more warm-hearted, providing disaster relief and first aid. Many people in the town were After being favored by Mr. Feng's family, some of the poor families couldn't survive anymore and were reluctant to buy sons, so they sold their daughters in a grand way."
"When the Feng family heard about it, they would take the initiative to come to the door and buy the girl with money. They told the girl's parents that they would send them to the aunt's temple and let them eat fast and chant Buddha. When they grow up, they would help find a good family. That can be considered a good idea. You have accumulated virtue and done good deeds.”
"It must be these children. I didn't expect that these children all died in the Feng family!"
Yang Xiao was shocked when he heard it. It seemed like this was the case. He didn't expect the Feng family to do such an amazing job.
"Yes, yes, Brother Kuang is right, I heard it at the time!" Su Tingting also remembered, "But... why did the Feng family kill these children? Can these children deal with Xiyao?"
"It's not Xiyao, it's the child in the second young lady's belly." Yang Xiao said suddenly, "No wonder Master Feng is so sure that the second young lady can give birth to a boy. So that's the case!"
Su Tingting looked at him with confusion on her face, her eyes showing fear involuntarily, "You...what did you think of?"
"This is a kind of evil that has been around for a long time, called frightening evil. In order to give birth to boys who can carry on the family line, some wealthy families will buy girls, torture them until they are dying, and bury them alive under the threshold of their homes, upside down. Or in front of the hall of the main courtyard. It is said that this can scare away the baby girls who come to this house to be reincarnated and ensure that the next child will give birth to a boy."
Yang Xiao paused for a moment and looked at Su Tingting, "You said those girls have braids on their heads, straight ones, right?"
"Yes." Su Tingting recalled, "It's straight, with braids that reach into the sky."
Nodding, Yang Xiao sighed softly, "That's right, there is something wrong with these braids, there are nails hidden in them."
Even Kuang Hongyi was shocked now, "Are there nails in the braids?"
"Well, when they tortured these girls, they nailed nails on their heads. The nail positions were specific. They are the spiritual orifices of the human soul. As long as these spiritual orifices are sealed, these girls will never be reincarnated and will only live for generations to come. I'm here to protect the foundation of the Feng family. Of course, I can't turn into a ghost to seek revenge on them." Yang Xiao hesitated and looked at Su Tingting with a complicated expression, "Fortunately you didn't see the faces of those girls. If I hadn't guessed If they were wrong, their eyes would have been gouged out, so they would have to pull one by one and line up in front of the altar to beg for food."
Su Tingting was silent. She was still afraid of those ghost children before, but now after hearing what happened to them, her fear turned into sympathy, "The Feng family deserves to die!"
"They do deserve to die for doing such an inhumane thing, but we have our tasks and don't act out of emotion." Kuang Hongyi advised.
Now that the matter of the ghost child has been clarified, no wonder Master Feng acted so strangely before. After they asked why they were sure they could give birth to a boy, Master Feng immediately interrupted the conversation and urged them to leave. The reason turned out to be this.
The ghost children had no water, only soil, because they were buried alive. As for Kuang Hongyi's statement about not seeing the ghost children, it is easy to explain, because these ghost children did not come from the lake at all. They were buried in the Feng family compound. In front of the hall, Yang Xiao even suspected that he was under the stage.
After thinking about it, Kuang Hongyi lowered his voice and said, "You two, this matter involves too much. I suggest you never tell it. Don't tell Shi Dali yet. The most important thing is not to let the Feng family know."
"They don't know how many girls they killed. This crime alone is enough to kill their whole family three times. If the Feng family knows that we know about this scandal, I'm afraid..." Kuang Hongyi's face turned ugly, " I’m afraid they won’t let us leave alive.”
