Chapter 1672 Beating a Life
The team swayed forward, not very fast. At first, the three of them were frightened. After all, the scene was really scary, but after walking for a long time, they didn’t see any accidents.
"We...we only need to follow the team to the bridge. Don't we need to do anything on the way?"
Li Bai is not here, Huang Jun can only ask Yao, Shun and Yu if he has questions. Currently, among the three He also believed that Yao, Shun, and Yu were reliable, and Yao, Shun, and Yu participated in the previous night's mission. Several people died, but only he and Li Bai survived.
Yao and Shunyu were a little irritable. He was not in the mood to pay attention to such meaningless questions, and changes happened accordingly.
Suddenly, the marching team stopped without warning, and then the crowd following the big sedan began to retreat. After a while, a small open space appeared in front of Empress Zhusheng and the village chief.
This incident instantly alerted Yao, Shun, and Yu, and the illusion in Huang Jun's heart was shattered. He saw several fierce-looking guys dressed up and escorting a person towards them.
The person being escorted was wearing a double-breasted jacket, unkempt hair, and her hands were symbolically tied behind her back. Although she had a big beard painted on her face, she could still tell that she was a woman. She seemed to be deliberately dressed as Like this.
After arriving in front of Empress Zhusheng, someone kicked her knee hard, and the man disguised as a man immediately knelt down in front of the sedan chair, trembling all over.
"Who is in the audience?" The village chief stopped twisting his rosary beads and looked down with a pair of scary empty eyes.
The people in the audience kowtowed, "Huang Qi, a young student, please show mercy to the village chief!"
"Bold thief!" The woman with big arms and round waist next to him shouted sharply, raised his hand and gave it to him. A slap in the face for a woman disguised as a man.
The slap was so hard that it made the man's mouth bleed. After he got up and knelt down again, he became more and more frightened. His body was shaking like chaff, "I'm... I'm the thief Huang Qi, please ask the village chief... the village "Please forgive me!"
"The thief Huang Qi is of low status, but I am compassionate. Please tell me if you have any questions."
"Go back to the village to grow up." As a human being, my two brothers have been married into the Wang family in Heishui Village for some time. However, they have not been able to live up to expectations and have not had any heirs. The head of the family plans to expel us brothers from the Wang family and put them in pig cages. I was immersed in the Heishui River, and I hope... I hope the village chief will be merciful!" The man who called himself Huang Qi kept kowtowing in the direction of the village chief and Empress Zhusheng, "I hope Empress Zhusheng will be merciful!"
The village chief continued to twist the prayer beads on his hand, and after about ten seconds, he suddenly said, "It is a serious crime to have no heirs. It is understandable for your husband to deal with it like this. However, the empress is aware of your shame and is willing to be merciful to you." A chance for your brother to survive , are you two willing?”
“Thank you, Madam, for your kindness!”
Hearing this, the village chief showed a satisfied expression on his face, and then he waved his hand and stepped out of the sedan chair. He took out a floral package and threw it away.
After seeing the package, Huang Qi immediately crawled over on his knees, hugged the package tightly in his arms, showing an expression of ecstasy, and then raised the package high in the direction of the village chief, Empress Zhusheng, "Thank you, Empress, for the reward." , thank you for your reward Give him an heir!"
After hearing this, Yao, Shun, and Yu were all stunned. From the position where Luan Lihui was standing, he could just see the package clearly. The next second, Luan Lihui's expression suddenly changed, and his stomach was turbulent. spit it out.
In that package was actually a dead baby that had been dead for an unknown period of time. The dead baby was wrapped in swaddling clothes, with only one face exposed, and that face had long since rotted and was densely covered with maggots.
The sight of white maggots burrowing in and out of rotten eye holes constantly challenges Luan Lihui's endurance limit.
But then Huang Qi directly opened his clothes, then carefully stuffed the dead baby in, and then wrapped it with clothes. From the outside, his belly also grew bigger, as if he was pregnant for ten years. moon.
Rubbing his belly, Huang Qi showed a doting and weird smile, which made Yao, Shun, and Yu shudder.
Just when Huang Jun thought that this farce should be over, a shout with a strange tone suddenly sounded, "Hit...sheng...!"
As soon as this shout came out, the whole scene instantly became weird. Weird smiles appeared on the faces of all the surrounding villagers. Then the crowd made way for a passage, and five figures came out.
Yao Shunyu frowned. He had seen all five of them. The leader was Elder Sun, and the remaining four old ladies had given them things in the evening.
These five people still have the same make-up as they did in the evening, but their faces seem to be haggard, and they feel horrified even from a distance.
What's more important is that at this time, several people were holding weapons in their hands, including whips, blunt knives covered with rust, wooden sticks, and an axe.
The leader, Elder Sun, was holding a huge pair of scissors and staring expressionlessly at Huang Qi who was kneeling on the ground.
Elder Sun and other five people surrounded Huang Qi. At this time, the surrounding villagers seemed to know that there was something good to watch, and they rushed forward one after another.
Seeing this, Yao, Shun, and Yu seemed to have thought of something. He had heard of the idea of giving birth to a child. In some places, around the Lantern Festival, women who had been married for many years and had no children would go to the City God's Temple with their companions to ask for a child. When the child seeker knelt down to worship the statue, her companions would fold a few bamboo sticks and then gently slap the child seeker on the back. However, the scene in front of him was in great conflict with what he understood.
"If you beat... you will give birth to...! One dozen thieves will have no heirs!"
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"If you beat... you will give birth to...! Two dozen thieves will enter the house!"
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"If you beat... you will be born...! Three dozen thieves will ruin your family!"
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"If you beat... you will be born...! Four dozen thieves will destroy your family!" Blessing!”
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"Beat... raw...! Five dozen thieves are shameful!"
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"Beat... raw...! Six dozen thieves..."
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Accompanied by Watching the villagers shouting like a mountain, the four old ladies kept attacking Huang Qi with whips, axes and sticks in their hands. Some villagers picked up the surrounding stones and threw them at Huang Qi, who was rolling on the ground in pain. Smash.
However, although the scene was terrifying, Yao, Shun, and Yu could see that none of these people had killed themselves. The pain was definitely painful, but it was not fatal. Raising them might not leave any disability. This was more like a way to obtain heirs. Mysterious rituals.
Although it is a bit evil, it is understandable considering that these people are worshiping Empress Zhusheng.
Yao and Shunyu also noticed a very important point. No matter how painful the beating was, the woman pretending to be Huang Qi did not cry out, and she did not protect her head or ribs. , she is always protecting her belly.
To be precise, it should be the dead baby hidden in the belly.
“Abort or not?” Elder Sun asked loudly.
"Live!"
"Does it hurt?"
"No...it doesn't hurt!"
Elder Sun and others were overjoyed and took back their weapons at the same time. They shouted in unison to Empress Zhusheng, "I'm so happy...!" (End of chapter)