The villagers saw the densely packed ghosts of women in the lake. Some people screamed and fled from the lake quickly. Some people's legs were so frightened that they fell to the ground. The village chief and his mother were petrified. A female ghost came towards them.
He came closer and smiled sadly.
The village chief's mother recognized her, "You are Xiaoqin? Why are you here? Dad said you have become pure again and are qualified to pass away."
The female ghost let out a shrill laugh, which scared the mother and son on the ground to retreat, "I have been staying at the bottom of the dirty lake, but there are many sisters here, look."
The female ghost pointed towards the lake, and all the female ghosts in the lake looked at the two of them and grinned at them. The village chief and the old mother almost lost their minds.
"Sister, when you were pregnant that year, I gave you a child to replace your original one. How about the child I gave you? Isn't it particularly beautiful?" The female ghost named Xiaoqin looked proud.
"It's you, you actually killed my original child and gave birth to this monster! What kind of life have I lived in the past ten years?" The village chief's mother shouted at the top of her lungs while crying, looking like she was a little broken.
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"Hahaha, what kind of life do you live? Have you ever thought about the life I live? I can't break free at the bottom of the cold lake. I'm so hungry every day. Sister, you don't even come to see me." Xiaoqin said as she spoke.
He reached out towards her, as if he wanted to rip the flesh from her body.
The village chief's mother defended herself in fear, "No, it's not my fault. I didn't harm you, nor did I push you into the lake."
"Yes, you were just watching, so I took the life of the culprit and gave you a gift."
"You killed my husband?"
"Shouldn't he die? And I can only kill him, no one else can do anything, so of course I have to attack him. I was so hungry at that time, and your husband happened to be washing his hands by the lake, and I found that I could eat him.
I was so happy at the time! Then I couldn’t find anything to eat.”
Xiaoqin looked regretful and floated towards the village chief, as if trying to see if she could eat him.
"Ah!" The village elder's wife finally couldn't bear it any more, so she left him and ran away.
The village chief collapsed on the ground and could not even utter a curse word. Her mother murmured to herself, "So you are taking revenge on us. You have made me hide for more than 20 years and be disliked by my husband and children."
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Xiaoqin curled her lips disdainfully, "You can't control your husband, so you deserve to be so obedient."
Suddenly, she seemed to have discovered something interesting. She floated in front of Hanba who was being held by Senior Brother Qian, and bent down to look at him, "This is the Hanba we gave birth to together? Sister, sister, come and see, he is so good-looking."
Other female ghosts found their relatives in the crowd and went to scare them. When they heard her cry, they all came to see this natural drought demon and praised them one after another:
"He's so good-looking."
"Huh? He is actually born prematurely. I wonder if he can still avenge us?"
"If we can't take revenge, what will we do? I hate it so much!"
"I hate it so much!" The female ghosts in the lake seemed to be infected with despair at the same time, and they all cried this sentence, and the ghost's voice shook the sky.
The villagers by the lake were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
At this time, a villager helped an old man from the clan over. He struck the cane in front of the open space and scolded the female ghosts:
"You women are inherently unclean people. You have been fortunate enough to undergo the purification ceremony. You should leave. How can you stay and harm your fellow humans? What a sin!"
After saying this, he hit again, and the ghosts seemed to be attacked and were pushed back into the lake by a force, unable to escape from the lake again.
Tang Yue frowned unhappily when he heard the clan elder's words, "Their resentment after being victimized was too great, and it gradually accumulated. They were tied up in the lake and couldn't leave at all."
The clan elder was disdainful, "Obviously we are here to help them regain their clean bodies, so it's okay to be ungrateful. Instead of resenting the village? They deserve to be banned from life."
After hearing this, the female ghosts all let out cries of reluctance, which were extremely sad.
Some villagers breathed a sigh of relief, as the clan elders had a solution.
Duan Yitang secretly asked Tang Yue, "Is this old man a monk? Why can't I tell?"
Tang Yue shook his head, "No, he is just an ordinary stubborn old man with deep-rooted prejudices that have formed obsessions and gained strength." She had read about such things in travel books.
She took a step forward and said to the old man: "It's your fault. These women were harmed and they were the victims. You didn't dare to blame the perpetrators. Instead, you vented your fear and resentment on them."
The clan elder blew his beard and glared, regardless of her status as a monk, "What do you know, little girl? They are all ominous and unclean people, so they have to be purified by immersing themselves in a pig cage. God will not bring disasters, and only women will abide by the ways of women.
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Tang Yue shook his head, "No, you are really wrong, including your ancestors, who have been wrong for hundreds of years. We have already told you that God has never set such rules. It is the people in your village who make their own decisions.
, killing innocent people indiscriminately."
She did not give the clan elder a chance to refute, "I was fortunate enough to go to heaven and listen to the lectures under the seat of Our Lady. She gave me the golden book."
She took out a gleaming golden book. This book was really given to her by the Holy Mother, but the content inside was about anecdotes from the fairy world, not any exercises. The Holy Mother saw that she was interested in these things,
I gave it to her.
The villagers couldn't tell whether the book was a fairy or not. The light was so bright that they couldn't look directly at it. All the ghosts in the lake avoided its light and hid at the bottom of the lake. They thought it was something extraordinary.
"There has never been such a rule in heaven, and there has never been a practice of harshly blaming the victim."
"Actually, you require women to remain chaste just to ensure that the offspring they give birth to belong to their husbands. It does not mean that a woman will become unlucky after being humiliated."
The clan elder looked strange. This was the first time he heard such a statement, "Absurd! Nonsense!"
"There is no other reason. Your stubbornness and ignorance have killed so many women in the past few hundred years. Now this monster is God's punishment for you. He has been sent to punish you, the descendants of sinners." She pointed at Tiansheng Hanba.
The clan elder glanced at the ugly monster with disbelief on his face, "How could God punish us?"
Tang Yue only took out the golden book for a while and then took it back. The female ghost at the bottom of the lake floated upstairs again. The clan elder's belief was shaken, and the invisible force that prevented them from landing disappeared.
The female ghosts floated to the shore again, and they were all curious. It turned out that the children born from their Yin Qi were actually punishments sent by God, rather than being born by themselves through all their efforts.
Tang Yue: Haha, she just made it up casually. Who knows what the original situation of this village was, and whether the resentment could be so strong that the heaven would feel it.
"It was your ancestors and you who indiscriminately killed innocent women in the same village and mutilated your own relatives. Such an ugly and horrific human tragedy made heaven angry and punished Cun Zhang's mother to give birth to Hanba. From now on, your village will become more and more beautiful.
If there is a drought, all of you will be buried in a sandstorm and will never be reborn."
The expressions of the clan elder and the village chief changed. The village had indeed experienced a lot of drought in the past few days. It was supposed to be a rainy season, but it didn't rain at all. The weeds withered and turned yellow, and the crops in the fields withered due to lack of water.
The next moment, the elder's face became fierce again, "Since this monster is the cause of the drought, kill it. We are doing our best for the village, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it! Those women deserve to die!"
Chi He sighed softly.
In an instant, the world distorted like water waves, and the surrounding scene changed. The villagers were no longer just those people lying limply on the ground.
Now the villagers' expressions have completely changed. Everyone is standing by the lake indignantly. Dozens of people in front carry pig cages with more than a dozen women in them.
"Sink these unclean people!" the villagers shouted together.
Murong Hai couldn't stand it any longer, so he used spiritual power on his throat and loudly said to the villagers: "These women are victims. As villagers, you should help them. Why should the victims be guilty? Just to ensure that the next generation will be your own.
Seed?"
Monks have various means to check whether a child is theirs, so they don't value a woman's virginity that much. Mortals are different. They can only gain a certain degree of certainty through this ignorant method.
The villagers were suddenly shocked by such a loud voice, and the content was very crude. How could it be more direct than the mountain villagers like them?
Some villagers were not happy to be said like this, "It's not just because of the ancestral rules, it's for the sake of the reputation of the women in our village. Because of this rule, the women in our village marry very well."
Tang Yue sneered, "Is there anyone willing to marry into your village?"
The man didn't say anything, and the villagers also began to think, as if women from outside were really unwilling to join in. Sometimes they had to use some strong methods, or go to the town to buy someone, in order to get a wife from outside the village.
Suddenly Hu San shouted, knelt on the ground, and murmured: "We are those robbers, and we are not living people!"
The people who were with Hu San were watching a show when they saw something strange about their elder brother. They all stepped forward and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Hu San looked up at them and made a desperate voice, "We are not alive, we have been dead long ago."
Suddenly several people were shocked and became as lost as Hu San, "Yeah, we turned into robbers when we came in. We saw the women playing by the lake. We were itchy for a while and couldn't hold it back...
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Suddenly, he looked frightened, as if he had seen the black and white impermanence that was killing people. "After we left the lake, we were killed by this monster."
Hanbao looked at them with a cold and stern look on his face. He suddenly got angry and broke away from Senior Brother Qian's restraints. Fortunately, he hid quickly.
Its strength suddenly increased greatly, and it swung out a claw, and the attack wave knocked away the villagers by the lake and Hu San and others who were kneeling on the ground. After falling to the ground, its mouth was full of blood, and it kept vomiting.
Tang Yue and others reacted faster. Murong Hai protected Chi He, Senior Brother Qian pulled up Duan Yitang, and she pulled up Ruan Ying, and they all avoided the attack wave.
Tu Yangxing was hit and fell to the ground, making a miserable sound: "My arm!"