Chapter 197: It’s Hard to Make a Way Through Shouting and Cheer
I've seen this since I was a child. Every family is like this, every household in the village is like this.
Qi Ningzhu seemed to suddenly think of something bad and spoke with gritted teeth.
"That's enough. You're the source of her suffering, that's why she hates you and treats you badly. She's been driven mad! She gave you flesh and blood! But this shouldn't be her life! Your village deserves to be eaten by ghosts!"
She said that angrily, and Yan Weiwan thought the same thing as she did. He walked forward and tried to untie the chains on the woman.
The woman was covered in dirt. The moment she saw Yan Weiwan coming over, she started trembling and hugged herself, saying, "Don't hit me! Don't hit me!"
As soon as she touched it, the old woman came over, pushed her away, and then knelt down.
"Immortal, please don't do this. This is my family's affair. Can I hit her less in the future? She's my daughter-in-law! If you let her go, do you want me, an old woman, to be left alone with my half-grown grandson? Do you want that child to be motherless now? If you do that, the child will hate you when he grows up."
Every word she spoke was tinged with blood. Ajin remained silent and turned his head to the side.
At the door, Bai Yunshu and Nan Lezhi watched all this, with dark expressions in their eyes.
Looking at the child, Yan Weiwan was ultimately unable to help him untie the chains.
The few of them finally walked out. The woman looked at the backs of Qi Ningzhu and the others and mustered up the courage to speak.
"Help me! Please help me! Please!"
Her voice was very soft, but it weighed heavily on the hearts of Qi Ningzhu and the others, making them unable to lift or even touch it.
Yan Weiwan looked back at her, nodded to assure her, and told her with his mouth.
"Wait for us."
After a few people came out, Qi Ningzhu looked at the wedding character on the door that had not faded much, suppressed his inner annoyance and asked.
"When did she marry your son?"
"Three months ago..."
Yan Weiwan was shocked when he heard this.
"Three months ago? How old is the child?"
The child in the rocking chair looks like he is one month old.
The old woman suddenly spoke with a guilty conscience.
"Two months...it's already been planned. There are several other girls from the village who came here together, so we decided to hold a wedding banquet together. It's quite grand and impressive."
Yan Weiwan grasped the key words.
"How many girls came together? Were all the women in your village kidnapped and lured here?!"
Yan Weiwan's voice suddenly became louder, which made the old woman's face turn pale and blue.
"Not all of them. Some came here on their own, and some were sent here by human traffickers. We all spent money. Many even spent their entire life savings to marry their sons. After all, most people only have one son..."
As soon as the old woman said this, she immediately thought of her son and started sobbing.
"I only have one son, and now he's dead. Immortal, please save us. Now, there are only me, my daughter-in-law and I at home with a child. We have no source of income. I, a half-blind old woman, can only make a living by weaving cloth, and I have to raise a hungry child..."
As she spoke, she was about to kneel down again, but Qi Ningzhu hurriedly pulled her back.
"We'll check it out. Now, we're going to check out the other ones..."
After they finished talking, they left, and Ajin took them to the homes of the other victims.
Several families are in similar situations. They all held their weddings three months ago, and now only the elderly and the bought wives are left at home.
There was a house where, when Bai Yunshu and her friends went there, the newly bought daughter-in-law was smiling and kept saying, "It's good to die, it's good to die."
She was covered in wounds and looked like she had been beaten badly, but even so, she was still smiling and clapping, muttering to herself.
"Good death, damn it, God has come to take you away, hahahahahahahaha!"
Looking at her, Qi Ningzhu stuffed a small bottle of medicine for treating wounds into her hand.
The woman looked at it and suddenly started laughing, and tears began to fall as she laughed.
She clutched the medicine bottle tightly, as if it were a straw of hope, a piece of driftwood in a drowning river.
There is another special family, also a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
But the daughter-in-law was not tied up. Instead, she sat at the door picking vegetables and asked her mother-in-law what she wanted to eat for dinner from time to time.
The old woman was blind in one eye and lame in one leg. She sat on a stool, squinting her eyes to bask in the sun. I patiently answered all her questions.
After her son died, her husband also passed away because he could not accept it for a while.
That night, she and her daughter-in-law hugged each other and cried, declaring that their suffering was finally over.
Her eye was blinded by her husband, and her leg was crippled when she tried to escape.
After her son bought this daughter-in-law, she never made things difficult for her.
When her son died, she took out her remaining savings and gave them to her daughter-in-law.
"You are still young, unlike me, who is old, disabled, and unable to go out. I have wanted to go out since I was young. Why don't you fulfill this wish for me? Let's go, take advantage of the night, and go far away from home. Be careful of people's hearts."
But the daughter-in-law burst into tears and said, "Let's save money together and leave together."
When Bai Yunshu and the others arrived, both of them told the truth.
"I can understand their pain, but I was sold to human traffickers by my own parents...so when I get out, I have no home."
"I want to save money and take Grandma away. She was deceived into coming here. I want to take her away from here, away from this cannibalistic place, but I don't have any money now. Not enough for two people... The bastards in the village are always thinking about me, a widow."
She spoke lightly, brushing aside her own suffering.
When Qi Ningzhu heard that she was sold by her own parents, her eyes were filled with pain as she thought of her past.
But now she can't remember what her biological parents look like. Compared to them, she is so lucky.
She made a promise.
"Once this is settled, I'll clear the way for you and give you money. Go and find your home. If you can't find it, you can start your own business. It's better than staying here."
The daughter-in-law smiled sweetly.
"Okay, that's it. Thank you, Immortal. I hope you can save everyone. If you need my help, I will definitely do my best."
The last family is the family of the bride who was arranged to have a ghost marriage.
When Bai Yunshu and the others stepped into the yard, bursts of shouting were coming from inside.
"Hey! Drink! Drink more! I didn't expect that a dead person could be worth so much money."
"Hahahaha, she's just like a chaste woman at home. It's better to die and live in peace. I bought that little girl for only three taels of silver, but she sold it for thirty taels! The Ji family is really generous!"
"Hey? Who are you? What are you doing here?"
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