Chapter 1673 Paixi
This strange and cruel scene gave Huang Jun and Luan Lihui an ominous premonition, and soon, this premonition became a reality.
Huang Qi, who was beaten and bruised all over his body, lay on the ground and gasped for a long time. Finally, he slowly got up, wiped the blood on his face with the back of his hand, and knelt in front of Empress Zhu Sheng again. He held his belly carefully with his hands.
"Thank you...Thank you, Lady Zhusheng, for the reward. I am so happy for the little man Huang Qi!" Huang Qi, whose face was covered with blood stains mixed with mud, was very happy.
"Don't be happy too early. Whether you can be the last one to be happy and be accepted by the Wang family after returning home depends on your next performance." The village chief was very cold at the moment.
"I understand, I... I will definitely prove that I am better than my brother and can give birth to an heir for the Wang family!" Huang Qi kowtowed to the ground when he said this, and his words were extremely determined.
Hearing this, the village chief's thick face twitched, and the corners of his mouth opened in an ugly grin, as if he was smiling, "Okay, then let me ask you, who is your brother and where is he?"
“Back to the village chief, my brother’s surname is Huang Mingjun, and he is from Cangzhou like the villain. Today... Hehe, now he is here!"
As the last sentence came to light, the woman dressed as Huang Qi suddenly turned her head to look at the stunned Huang Jun, and then everyone present, including the village chief, Elder Sun and others also twisted their necks and looked at Huang Jun in a strange posture.
"I...I don't know her!" Huang Jun was so frightened that he didn't know why this suddenly happened to him, and...and no one told him that there was such a thing in the Blood Empress Society fire. of an item.
However, no one paid attention to Huang Jun's defense. The strong woman who had slapped Huang Qi before came over with a sullen face, raised her hand and slapped Huang Jun, "Damn thief man, how dare you stand and talk to the village chief? Didn't your woman set any rules for you? "
Huang Jun, who had been confused at first, was stunned by this slap. This slap was so severe that Huang Jun's mouth and nostrils were bleeding.
As he spoke, the strong woman grabbed Huang Jun's arm, dragged him to the sedan chair like a dead dog, and threw him to the ground.
"Learn from the man before, your brother Huang Qi!" Yao Shunyu warned in a low voice while Huang Jun was being dragged past him.
As another cry of "beat the life" sounded, Elder Sun and the other five people spread their arms again, and slapped Huang Jun on the head and face, and the onlookers were also there. Heckled and stoned.
Huang Jun covered his head and rolled on the ground, but what he got in return was an increasingly brutal beating. The superior village chief snorted coldly. Huang Jun's actions seemed to anger these people.
"Hold your belly, protect your belly!" Luan Lihui also saw the clue at this time. These crazy women are just like the wealthy families in feudal society. They only care about whether women can have children, but in this ghost place, men and women The positions were swapped.
After Huang Jun protected his stomach, Elder Sun and others moved much softer, otherwise Huang Jun, with his thin physique, would probably have been beaten to death.
Now that things have happened, Yao, Shun, and Yu have also figured out the secret. The strange customs in Heishui Village seem to be not as simple as he thought. There seems to be some shadow of the so-called Paixi.
Taking weddings was once a bad habit in remote areas. It means that if a woman becomes infertile within two years, her husband will ask the men with the most children in the village to come to her door with sticks and beat her on a full moon night. While beating the wife, she would ask questions such as whether she was alive or not, whether she was happy or not, and it was not over until the wife was beaten unconscious or the husband came out to stop her.
It is said that people at that time believed that such beatings could stimulate women to have children, or drive away evil spirits that prevented women from having children.
But Yao and Shunyu knew that these were all hoaxes. This was just an excuse. As far as he knew, many women were beaten to death just because their husbands had new loves and she was an eyesore. But most of them were for childbirth. The problem is that this is the original sin.
What’s even more vicious is that this kind of rumor will not only affect one person. If there are two women in the family who are both barren, the matter will be even more serious. This shows that the door is unlucky and will evolve into what it is today. scene.
The two women will be beaten in turn until one of them can no longer hold on or is beaten to death. In this way, the remaining woman will be considered to have received the protection of her ancestors and will have a better chance of getting pregnant and having children in the future. also increased significantly.
There is also a saying that the surviving woman will take away the luck of the other dead woman.
But Huang Jun finally got over it. After imitating Huang Qi's movements and thanking Empress Zhusheng, Huang Jun gritted his teeth and limped back. What made Yao, Shun and Yu jump, Huang Jun's One hand is always in the clothes.
Outsiders thought it was to protect the belly, but Yao, Shun and Yu knew clearly that Huang Jun's hand was probably clenched on the fuse of the explosive. If he couldn't bear the beating, he would be ready to pull it. Go to hell together, bastards.
Huang Jun's eyes were bloodshot and he spat bloody saliva on the ground. It could be seen that he was also angry.
"Don't be angry, a little impatience will mess up the big plan." Luan Lihui comforted in a low voice. If explosives were detonated here, he and Yao, Shun, and Yu would also be affected.
After this farce, the team moved forward again, leaving nothing but traces of struggle on the ground and some blood stains.
But Yao, Shun, and Yu knew that this crisis had just begun.
In a daze, he suddenly noticed a malicious gaze. This gaze came not from the direction of Empress Zhusheng, but from behind.
Yao Shunyu quickly turned his head and saw that behind the team, about 7 or 8 meters away from him, there was a short guy with his whole body hidden in a raincoat and wearing a bamboo hat. He lowered his head instantly. .
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On the other side, Li Bai and the others finally arrived at the Blackwater River after a long circle. It was not that they were slow, but that the road was really difficult to walk. The most important thing was There was a layer of mist nearby not long ago.
The fog was strange, so Li Bai directed everyone to get closer. She was worried about encountering something similar to the previous one, so she walked ahead to clear the way.
At this moment, there is no saying that men and women are not intimate. Wu Qiang grabbed Li Bai's clothes from behind, Lu Zhangyuan grabbed Wu Qiang, and the three of them moved forward in a column.
When I came to the river, before I could take a closer look, someone came out of the mist, "Oh, why did you people come here? Can you afford to delay the good life of the mother-in-law? ?”
The leader of this group was a dark-skinned woman with a strong build and a thick voice. Li Bai looked familiar to her and must have seen her in the village. She was definitely a villager from Heishui Village.
“Look what I’m doing? Don’t wait any longer, hurry up and build the bridge!”
Following the direction of the woman's finger, the diffuse mist dispersed slightly, revealing a stone bridge across the river. (End of this chapter)