Chapter 47 Sin
The word "stewed meat" immediately reminded many quick-witted people of the human bones found last night, followed by frequent vomiting sounds.
"Daddy?"
Xixi's purring voice rang out from behind Zhou Yunshu. Zhou Yunshu turned around to look at the little head that popped out from behind the car curtain and said seriously, "Go back and sit down."
Xixi pouted her little mouth. She wanted to go out and play. She hadn't gone out to play for a long time.
But she also knew that children could not change what adults decided.
"Oh." Xixi was reluctantly carried back to the carriage by Li Jialan.
Seeing Xixi being carried away, Zhou Yunshu turned around and looked at Wei Zhong and Du Laoer who had come to her car. She said, "Take someone forward to check. If they are really those beasts, find a way to detain them first."
Wei Zhong nodded and ran towards the ruined temple with Du Laoer, Hu Zi and thirty others.
When they were halfway there, a woman's shrill and desperate scream came from the ruined temple.
Even though the people on Zhou Yunshu's side couldn't see what was happening over there, they couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling and despair just by hearing the shrill screams.
Zhou Yunshu returned to the carriage and hugged Xixi, who was so scared that she hid in Li Jialan's arms. The three little ones, Yuanli and Yuanyi, also nestled in the arms of Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen.
Xixi hugged her mother's arm tightly, and asked in fear and confusion: "What happened to that person?"
As she spoke, the shrill cry came again. Zhou Yunshu covered her daughter's ears and said, "It's okay, Mom is here."
Perhaps because she was a mother, when Zhou Yunshu heard the woman's desperate screams, she instinctively thought something had happened to her child.
Half an hour later, Hu Zi came running back from the ruined temple with a pale and fierce face.
Zhou Yunshu’s previous guess was correct. The people in the dilapidated temple were indeed the beasts who had previously set fire, killed people and eaten two-legged sheep in the empty village.
At this time, the group of beasts were restrained by Wei Zhong and others. Zhou Yunshu and his group went ahead in carriages, and those on foot followed behind.
The closer they got to the ruined temple, the stronger the indescribable smell of meat became, so much so that Zhou Yunshu stopped the entire team a hundred meters away from the ruined temple.
Zhou Yunshu asked Chunque and Li Jialan to look after the children. She covered her face with a towel to cover up the disgusting smell, and then took Hu Zi, Du Laozhuang and others to the dilapidated temple.
As soon as they reached the door of the dilapidated temple, Zhou Yunshu and his group heard bursts of retching sounds, the irrational crying of women, and the voices of men begging for mercy coming from inside the temple.
Stepping into the dilapidated temple, Du Mazi and Du Laoer were leaning against the wall and retching. Two or three patrolmen were shoveling loose soil on the ground with dry tree bark and pouring it into a large vat in the middle of the yard.
The indescribable aroma of meat came from this big vat.
Before Zhou Yunshu could get close, Wei Zhong stood in front of her with a pale face, "Mr. Zhou, don't look."
Zhou Yunshu nodded with a pale face. Behind her, Du Laozhuang pounded the ground with his cane a few times and said sadly, "What a sin!"
"Please spare us, we won't dare to do it again!"
"We are just extremely hungry. There is nothing we can do. Please, sir, let us go. We will never dare to do it again!"
"They ate it first. I was forced to eat it. I'm a student. I have a degree. Let me go!"
"Fuck you, you're the best!" A square-faced man nearby kicked the man who was said to be a student. "Or you said that the meat of lamb under five years old is the most tender, right?"
The boy shook his head desperately, "It's not me, it's not me!"
"It was you. You were the one who told us that it was hard to kill our own family members, so you took your three-year-old daughter and traded her for my unmarried sister. You cheated me out of fifty or sixty kilograms of flesh with less than twenty kilograms. It was you..."
Zhou Yunshu listened to the beasts cursing at each other inside and stood outside the wooden threshold, gritting her teeth.
She looked at the beasts wearing baggy clothes that would easily reveal themselves if they weren't careful; looking at their not-so-thin figures, and the pieces of meat on their teeth when they opened their mouths, Zhou Yunshu could no longer bear the nausea in her heart, and suddenly pulled out Wei Zhong's knife next to her and thrust it straight into the man's mouth.
Screams replaced curses, and the tip of the knife turned, and blood spurted everywhere.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the eyeballs that were almost popping out of her head, and with a little force, she pierced the man's head directly.
The world is finally quiet, but not clean.
Perhaps it was because Zhou Yunshu looked too much like an evil spirit at this moment, so the people who were originally tied together immediately curled up their bodies and fled in all directions.
One of them accidentally knocked the head of the child in the arms of a somewhat crazy woman in a panic. The woman's voice of coaxing the child suddenly stopped, and then she fell to the ground like a madman and hugged her child's head.
The man was frightened by the woman's madness, and kicked the small head away without paying attention. Before he could escape, the woman pounced on him with red eyes, hatred and madness on her face, and bit his neck tightly.
The blood was flowing more and more amid the screams, cries of terror and struggles for help.
Zhou Yunshu turned a deaf ear to it, and the only thing in her eyes was the child's head that rolled in front of her.
The words she heard before she died in her previous life suddenly flashed through her mind.
"The madam's body is missing. Young Master Yuan Li and Yuan Yi fell off a cliff and are still alive. Young Master Yuan Ruo was found, but only his head remained."
"Mr. Wang... Zhou, you..." Wei Zhong saw Zhou Yunshu staring at the head in a daze and thought she was scared silly. Just as he was about to raise his foot to kick the head away, Zhou Yunshu bent down.
"Mr. Zhou." Wei Zhong was puzzled by Zhou Yunshu's behavior.
Zhou Yunshu didn't care whether Wei Zhong could understand or not. She took off the veil on her face, stretched it out, carefully picked up the childish head, and then walked towards the woman who fell on the man.
"Mr. Zhou!"
Wei Zhong frowned. Seeing that Zhou Yunshu would not listen to him, he had no choice but to give a wink to his subordinates.
The two subordinates suppressed their fear of the crazy woman and stepped forward to tear her off the silent man.
After the woman was pulled apart, her blood-soaked mouth was still calling for her child.
She looked around and finally saw the little body wrapped in rags and boiled in hot water on the ground.
"Tong'er, my child, my child!"
The woman struggled to throw herself towards her child, and the two grown men barely managed to hold her back.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the small corpse on the ground, endured the churning in her chest, gently put the head down in her hands, then took off her cloak, wrapped the small body and head together, held them in her hands and walked to the restrained woman.
The woman never looked at Zhou Yunshu from beginning to end. She only had eyes for her child.
After seeing her child become whole again, she stretched out her hands impatiently. Her hideous and crazy smile, coupled with the scars on her face and the blood in her mouth, was extremely creepy.
But she was unconscious, and Zhou Yunshu seemed unable to see it either.
"Your child."
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