Chapter 330 Infertility
After a long moment of stunned silence, Gao Min finally found her voice: "She...she just died like that, and her family doesn't care?"
"My sister's family? They came, but not to seek justice for her; they came to extort money. But there's a saying that evil people will always be punished by evil people. That man was convinced that my sister had cheated on him, so how could he possibly give them money? He beat the people who came out, and they haven't come back since."
Gao Min was speechless. There were really a lot of inhuman people in this world, which made her so angry that her liver hurt!
Ye Wanxi narrowed her eyes and said coldly, "After she died, she was thrown into the river behind Linjia Village?"
Wu Muhong nodded, gritting her teeth in hatred: "That man said that my sister died because she was unfaithful and didn't deserve to be buried in their family's grave. He also said that in ancient times, my sister would have been drowned in a pig cage, so they threw my sister's body into that river."
Wu Muhong paused, as if recalling something terrible: "I wanted to stop them, but I knew I couldn't. I could only secretly follow behind them. I thought that once they left, I would go and bring my sister's body back, find a secluded place on the mountain, and bury her. But before I could even do it, I saw..."
"What did you see?"
"I saw a lot of white bones in the river, and... and a lot of white things, like... like ghosts!"
"No wonder."
Gao Min turned to look at Ye Wanxi in confusion: "No wonder what?"
"He accidentally developed the ability to see ghosts, no wonder he can see things that ordinary people can't."
"The ability to see ghosts?" Gao Min's expression changed slightly, pointing at Wu Muhong, who was stiff with shock. "Then what she saw was... was..."
"You might be scared if I say it directly, so to put it more gently, I should call you... a ghost?"
Gao Min: "..." That's the same thing, I wasn't comforted at all!
“I was a little scared when I first saw them, but then I figured out what they were.” Wu Muhong’s eyes were a little red. “Do you know why there are so many skeletons at the bottom of that river? They are all unwanted children.”
"What?!"
The white bones in the river of Linjia Village were only seen last night by Ye Wanxi and a few others who went there together, along with Wu Muhong. Later, Zou Yiluan and his group took over and immediately sealed off the area, preventing anyone from getting close.
As an outsider, Gao Min didn't even know where that river was, so how could she know that countless infant skeletons were piled up in it?
"Initially, it was just because we wanted a son, and our family couldn't afford to raise so many children, so we gave our daughters away or abandoned them in that river. Some were heartless and drowned them, while others were a little soft-hearted and carried them away in basins. If they were lucky, someone would take them in and raise them; if they were unlucky..."
Ye Wanxi and her companion were ashen-faced. What could they do when their luck was bad? It was nothing more than death.
"Later, I don't know where I heard the rumor, that if you have a daughter and don't want her, you should throw her into the river as a sacrifice, and your next child will definitely be a boy."
Wu Muhong heard all of this from Guan Xiaoying. She came to the village late, and by then no one in the village had given birth to a daughter.
However, Wu Muhong had seen families in the village with both sons and daughters, and the children were only teenagers.
The son is spoiled and does nothing. His grades are poor and he doesn't like to study. The family is still asking around to get him into school, just so he can make something of himself in the future. Even if he gets a minor scratch outside, the family will be worried for half a day and cry out in distress.
On the other hand, the daughter is smart and sensible, but she had to drop out of school early and stay at home. Not only did she have to do all the housework, but if she accidentally slipped and knocked over something that was cooking, she would get burned all over her body and would be beaten and scolded. After that, they couldn't even afford to buy herbal ointment, so they just applied some herbs and let her die on her own.
Therefore, Wu Muhong believed these rumors because she knew these people were capable of doing it!
"Damn it!" Gao Min finally couldn't hold back and cursed, pacing around in anger. "Are these people crazy?! They actually believe this kind of thing..."
"They were crazy to begin with. It's said that at first many people were skeptical, but then those people... all actually had sons as their second child. The rumor came true, and everyone went crazy."
"You beast, you bastard, you scum, this is too much, too much."
Ye Wanxi listened to Gao Min's endless rant and ramble on for a long time, and her expression turned somewhat cold.
The more backward a place is, the more ignorant it becomes, and the more easily it is incited. This is an age-old truth.
Such folly crosses the line of what it means to be human and is destined for self-destruction.
Do you know why so many young women from Linjia Village were sold here?
Gao Min was stunned, then thought for a moment and said, "Because many people can't get married, so they have to buy wives."
"Do you know why they can't get married?"
"What else could it be? It's simply because there are too few women, and they don't even look at them."
Gao Min realized after she finished speaking, "Yes, it's because there are few women and people can't find wives that these people buy women from human traffickers to be their wives."
Why are there so few women?
Seemingly sensing Gao Min's thoughts, Wu Muhong smiled: "That's right, it's because there are too few women. But where have all these women gone? They've all been killed by them. So, what they see as a blessing, I see as retribution, as a sin!"
“My sister told me that no girl has been born in the village for about ten years now.”
It's not that she didn't want the baby, but that she never got pregnant again.
Her sister's two daughters were also born before that. The eldest daughter was kept on, as she could be used in a marriage exchange, while the younger daughter was sent to another village overnight to save her life.
Because of this, she was often beaten by her husband, who felt that if she hadn't taken it upon herself to send their youngest daughter away, he would have had a son long ago.
Ironically, his beating went too far, causing his sister to lose her fertility.
He doesn't have the money to marry a new wife, so he can only endure this. It's all karma.
“Before, people gave birth but didn’t want the babies; later, they wanted to have more but couldn’t. By the time people realized that there were fewer and fewer girls in the village, and that even arranged marriages were no longer possible, it was too late. More and more men in the village couldn’t find wives. Those with a little bit of wealth could go to other villages to find one, but most people didn’t have that option and could only buy wives from outside.”
Gao Min said indignantly, "Even so, they brought it on themselves!"
It's just a pity for those women who were abducted to this place, entering a cannibalistic hell where they couldn't even crawl out before they were trapped and could only sink with it.
"It's not just that they can't have girls."
Ye Wanxi's sudden voice startled both of them in the room: "What?"
"It's not just that girls can't be born; the boys born after those magic arrays are set up are also infertile."
(End of this chapter)
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