Chapter 716 Seeking Death for Others, How Stupid
Aunt Rui said this nonchalantly, waved the spoon in her hand, and then glanced at Zhou Yuchang, who had a white cloth wrapped around her neck and looked thoughtful.
"People have to live. We can't expect others to be tolerant. Besides, I finally escaped from that place. I can't just find a rope to strangle myself just because someone said a few words of gossip. How stupid would that be?"
"How stupid" Zhou Yuchang: "..."
There is connotation.
Aunt Rui seemed to be just saying it casually. Seeing that the pot was boiling again, she scooped another spoonful of cold water and poured it in.
"You don't know how many girls die in vain in our building every year, and how many people are trapped there forever, unable to escape. I'm lucky enough to be able to leave peacefully and live a stable life. This is something that many people can't hope for."
"People should always be content. They can't expect everything to be perfect and everything to be good. That would be too greedy."
Zhou Yuchang was stunned by what she said.
Are you greedy?
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After a large pot of dumplings was cooked, the children who had been waiting outside came to the pot one by one with their bowls and chopsticks. Aunt Rui skillfully scooped the dumplings into their bowls, and then skillfully shouted and drove the person who had taken the dumplings out.
After everyone was eating the dumplings, Aunt Rui scooped out a large bowl and said to Tang Ning and the others, "I'm going to go check on Ah Gou. You guys eat first."
Tang Ning said, "I'll go with you." Turning around, he said, "A Chang, you come too."
Zhou Yuchang was a little confused. She just thought that Aunt Rui was carrying the dumplings to feed the cats and dogs in the Jishan Hall. She was a little puzzled and followed Tang Ning and the others, but Aunt Rui did not go outside. Instead, she walked further and further inside.
The light in the room dimmed, and a humming sound could be faintly heard from inside, like an animal calling, but it was unclear.
Tang Ning asked softly, "How is Ah Gou doing lately?"
Aunt Rui: "It's still the same, but fortunately it recognizes people and won't hurt anyone."
Tang Ning and the others followed Aunt Rui to the innermost part, where there was a separate small room. The humming sound Zhou Yuchang had heard before came from inside, and the sound became louder as they got closer.
Aunt Rui reached out and pushed open the door. The light inside was not bright, and it seemed like something was approaching this side quickly. When Zhou Yuchang subconsciously looked inside, she was frightened by the "thing" she saw. She screamed suddenly, staggered back and almost fell.
Tang Ning quickly pulled her up.
"Agou, stop!"
Aunt Rui, who was walking in front, also quickly stepped inside and gave a low scolding. The "thing" that was rushing over suddenly stopped and whimpered towards the outside.
Aunt Rui walked over to him, took the "thing" inside that was also frightened by the screams into her arms, then touched his head and whispered, "Don't be afraid, Agou, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Aunt Rui is here, it's Sister Aning who came to see you, she's not a bad person..."
The "thing" got down on all fours, and as if it understood, the whining sound from its mouth became quieter. It raised its head and looked outside, revealing a human face.
Zhou Yuchang's face turned even paler with fright, and she took several steps back. Her hand, which was being held by Tang Ning, was also trembling.
"Tang, Tang Ning...he...he..."
She was trembling and could not speak clearly, her lips were shaking, and she did not dare to look inside.
Seeing that she was frightened, Tang Ning quickly moved to the side to block Zhou Yuchang's sight. After turning back to give Aunt Rui a look, he pulled her aside to avoid the people inside, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, Agou is a human being."
"But……"
How could a person look like that?!
Although she only took a quick look just now, Zhou Yuchang could see it clearly. The "person" was covered in black hair and had a tail. He walked on all fours and looked like a wild beast when he pounced on her. If it weren't for the face that looked like a human face, no one would have told that it was a human.
"He...how could he be like this..."
Tang Ning heard Zhou Yuchang trembling and unable to speak clearly, and she knew that she was really scared. When she first saw Agou, she almost fainted from fright, let alone Zhou Yuchang who came without any warning.
She patted Zhou Yuchang's back gently, and when her rapid breathing slowed down a little, Tang Ning said softly: "Agou is a child who was conceived by a concubine."
Zhou Yuchang was bewildered: "Collecting life?"
Tang Ning said, "The art of harvesting life was originally used by some Wu tribes when they hunted and killed living people to sacrifice to their gods. They would take the blood and internal organs of the living for the sacrifice. Because they had to keep the people alive during the sacrifice, they would use secret medicine to prolong their lives. This method was banned by those tribes long ago because it was too vicious, but I don't know how it got out later."
"That secret medicine fell into the hands of some malicious individuals, who then chopped off the hands and feet of children, crippling them, or transformed them into monsters with strange and ingenious skills, hoping to gain alms and money from others."
Zhou Yuchang seemed to understand what he said, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Is it the same as the person inside?"
"Some are the same, some are different. Most of them just have disabled hands and feet, blind eyes and broken tongues. There are very few people like Agou."
Tang Ning's words shocked Zhou Yuchang so much that she stared at Tang Ning in a daze.
Tang Ning knew that she had never experienced this before, so she explained softly, "Agou was kidnapped and sold when he was young. Because he had injured his face on the road and no one wanted him, he was sold to a middleman."
"Those people were beggars from the Southland who would break the hands and feet of children to beg for money. When Ah Gou was sold there, he tried to escape several times, but they pulled out his tongue as a punishment. However, he still wanted to escape and go home. Later, when he tried to escape, he angered those people, and they used him as a human sacrifice."
"He was only four or five years old at the time. Someone used drugs to rip his skin off, peeling off half of it. Then they burned dog hair into ashes and added some medicine to apply on his back. After the wound healed, he grew all over his body..."
The wagging tail and the bent limbs from being beaten are all signs of human sacrifice.
The pain required to do all this was astonishing. If one was not careful, one would get festering and die. If one could not survive the first step of "birth collection", one would die. There were as many as twenty or thirty children who were also born at the same time as Agou, but he was the only one who survived.
After becoming a "human sacrifice", Agou was trained as a puppy for many years and had almost no humanity left.
He could not understand any other names, and only heard others call him Agou. Not only was he trained to live and eat like a dog, he even had the ferocity of a hound. If anyone approached carelessly, he would be bitten as "prey". He had even forgotten that he was still a human being.
Zhou Yuchang had never heard of such a thing. Tang Ning's words shattered the three views she had formed since childhood, and she suffered a heavy blow.
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