"The deceased who turned into a ghost, who is he?"
In the Zen room in the backyard of Tongqing Temple, Zen Master Lingyou, who was sitting opposite Pei Hong, asked this question almost at the same time.
"To be precise, it should be 'she', because the deceased who turned into a ghost was a woman."
"Her surname is Sun, her nickname is Xiaoya, and she is somewhat related to a county captain in my yamen."
"It's just that when Sun Xiaoya was young, her parents sold her to a family in Shilipu, the eastern suburbs, and she became that family's child bride."
With a deep sigh, Pei Hong finally revealed a touch of sadness and worry that he had never shown in front of others when he talked about the ill-fated girl.
"As inhumane as it sounds..."
"But in today's troubled times, being able to survive is considered a blessing."
As the county magistrate of Ningxiang, Pei Hong clearly knows what kind of turmoil is hidden under this seemingly peaceful surface.
Since the "An-Shi Rebellion", the Tang Dynasty has shown signs of falling apart.
The previous emperor was imprisoned in the palace for so many years due to the "Manna Incident", and the eunuchs controlled the power of the court until his death.
Even though the Tang Dynasty had been in a state of renaissance since Li Yan succeeded to the throne, his series of reform measures were too radical and the opposition he provoked was equally terrifying.
Not to mention anything else, just talking about its purpose of "exterminating Buddhism" has offended all Buddhist temples in the world.
If Li Yan lived long enough and was in power long enough, he might be able to single-handedly reverse the decline of the Tang Dynasty.
However, according to the intelligence obtained by Pei Hong, Li Yan is now at the end of his strength, and even his father, who was demoted to Tanzhou, is showing signs of making a comeback.
Under the background of this great era, although Sun Xiaoya was sold as a child bride to someone else's family, she at least survived.
"That girl is good at everything, she's just too kind-hearted."
When Pei Hong came to Ningxiang to be the county magistrate, Sun Xiaoya was the first person to express goodwill to him.
It was through Sun Xiaoya's matchmaking that Pei Hong was able to get in touch with Sun County Lieutenant and use absolute force to punish the evil officials left behind by his predecessor.
From this perspective, Sun Xiaoya can be said to be Pei Hong's benefactor.
Even when Pei Hong went to the mountain to seek help this time, it was difficult to say that it was not out of selfish motives, as he did not want her to be beaten to pieces by the "monster hunters" of Qintian Prison.
"..."
Silently looking at Pei Hong who was in sadness, Zen Master Lingyou did not urge him.
Because Pei Hong didn't need anyone's comfort at this time, he just wanted to take the opportunity to vent his inner depression and resentment.
"Master, do you know?"
"If I had known that girl was the 'Stone Girl', I would never have let her return to the Fang family again!"
Just as Zen Master Lingyou expected, Pei Hong did not vent for long, and continued to speak in a gritted but regretful tone.
The so-called "stone girls" actually refer to women who are unable to have normal sexual life and childbirth.
In ancient China, which valued the inheritance of the family line, there were many "stone girls" who were infertile, usually women who were born with various gynecological diseases.
However, Sun Xiaoya is not this type. She belongs to the kind of "real stone girl" who doesn't even have a normal sex life.
The lower body is naturally closed. In addition to having a female appearance, Sun Xiaoya does not have all the other characteristics of a normal woman, including menstruation.
Stone girls like this are usually drowned when they are born.
Sun Xiaoya's parents didn't know what their mentality was, but they actually kept her and raised her up.
If the Fang family's parents hadn't noticed something was wrong when she was a child bride in the Fang family, I'm afraid she would have hid it like this.
It's a pity that the Fang family's parents are not Sun Xiaoya's biological parents after all. Facing such a "monster" who is infertile and even inhumane, one can imagine the anger in their hearts.
Especially when they think about the energy and money they have spent over the years, everyone in the Fang family feels like they have been cheated.
"So, they found a witch doctor from nowhere and actually planned to turn that girl into a real woman."
Since Sun Xiaoya was born blocked, wouldn't it be enough to create an artificial passage for her?
Behind the seemingly simple words of the witch doctor, what was revealed was a kind of "torture" that was so cruel that life was worse than death.
In order to prevent the artificial passage from healing, Sun Xiaoya has been wearing a prosthesis from that day on, and has to clean and replace it with a new one every night.
Otherwise, once those prostheses merge with flesh and blood, not only will the man-made passages be closed again, but there will also be an extra foreign object in Sun Xiaoya's body forever.
Pei Hong really couldn't imagine how that weak girl could withstand such extreme pain and still act like nothing was wrong.
Even just thinking about it briefly, Pei Hong felt that this was 10,000 times more painful than being cut into pieces.
But Sun Xiaoya had to endure this pain day after day until she truly grew up.
No one can hear her wailing late at night, and no one can imagine the pain she endures with every step she takes...
And when such a strong girl dies unexpectedly and turns into a demon under the influence of evil spirits, the extreme emotions she displays can be imagined.
From the perspective of an ordinary person, Pei Hong believed that the Fang family deserved their death.
Regardless of their original intentions and purposes, bringing so much pain to a little girl is an original sin for which everything must be blamed.
Not to mention that Sun Xiaoya, who had endured such inhuman pain, was destined to be infertile.
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"Hmph! If you can reproduce just by 'tearing' a channel, wouldn't it mean that even stones can reproduce?"
Without hiding the sneer at the corner of his mouth, after listening to Butler Zhong's description, Pei Wende felt that he had underestimated this era without any science and rationality.
The events that Pei Wende encountered in the past, whether they were caused by demons or not, have not escaped his cognitive scope, and cannot escape the basis of reincarnation and entanglement of will.
But everything Sun Xiaoya experienced made Pei Wende deeply feel the horror of ignorance and ignorance for the first time.
Perhaps part of what the Fang parents did was out of anger at being deceived, but more of it stemmed from the ignorance brought about by ignorance.
Because of the influence of ignorant and backward concepts, I don't think it is wrong to do such inhuman behavior to my child bride.
Because of my ignorance about the human body and physiology, I listened to the folk remedies of the witch doctor, thinking that as long as I created a tunnel artificially, I could have children.
"The people are ignorant, it is difficult to distinguish between humans and ghosts, ignorance is constant, and humans are worse than ghosts."
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