The woman in the blue-green plaid hummed in agreement. "Sun Ao likes men, and Pu Kui is living like a widow every day. It was fine for the first year or two, but then she realized something was wrong. In her words, even if she stood naked in front of Sun Ao, he wouldn't react. At first, she thought there was something wrong with Sun Ao, so she went to see Boss Sun, but Boss Sun said it was impossible. Sun's parents also told her that Sun Ao had been driving too much and was too tired to rest, and that she should think of a solution herself."
"How are we supposed to figure this out? We can't just force ourselves on her, can we?" Ding Xun complained.
"So Pu Kui filed for divorce. She's still young. If she can't stay here, she'll go to another place. She's quite open-minded. Anyway, I can't accept it. It's so shameful. I've said it a hundred times: she initiated the divorce. Isn't it still because she can't have children and no one wants her anymore?"
Seeing the disgust in the eyes of the man and woman opposite, the woman in blue and green twirled her fingers back and forth and changed her words, "We only thought that way before Sun Ao liked men was exposed. Later... later we also felt that Pu Kui was quite pitiful. How could she give birth without a man?"
Shi Jinzhe: "And then what happened?"
"Later, the Sun family did not agree to their divorce, and Pu Kui's parents also disagreed, saying that the two children just had not developed feelings for each other. Such a beautiful girl should not be inferior to a man. But Pu Kui was unwilling, so the two families discussed that they would agree to the divorce if she could have a child."
"..."
The silence of the three people was enough to show their incomprehension of what was said. Shi Jinzhe wanted to laugh silently, "Divorce could have solved the problem, but they insisted on leaving her with only the option of having a child. Do they want her to have another Sun Ao to end her lineage?"
Shekh corrected him: "That's not a way out."
“You’re right. Of course, you won’t let a woman go after you’ve finally managed to trick her into being a shield,” Shi Jinzhe said, letting the blue-green-grid woman continue. “Is Pu Kui’s affair related to this?”
"...Yes, she tried many times, but Sun Ao eventually wouldn't even let her into the room. Then she said... since the Sun family wants a child so much, she'll have one for them, but if Sun Ao won't have the child with her, she shouldn't ask who the father is..."
The blue-green checkered woman thought this was extremely unladylike, and her expression of disdain returned. Then she heard Shekh say, "Pu Kui should have stuffed Sun Ao's head into his belly sooner."
How did you know?!
Several years have passed since the Sun family incident, and these people are clearly from out of town; there's no way they could know about it.
The woman in the blue-green checkered pattern felt increasingly uneasy. Recalling Sun Ao's miserable state, she gagged and vomited all over the ground. "What is your relationship with Pu Kui?"
Shekh looked away: "None of your business, continue."
"That's all I know... After all, I'm an outsider."
“You can also talk about rumors,” Shi Jinzhe prompted her. “I want to hear what you’ve been spreading, and also your husband’s lover. Tell me about him too.”
"...Rumors? There are no rumors." The bloody scene kept flashing through her mind, and the blue-green checkered woman dared not repeat those unbearable words. She lowered her head and denied the incident.
“I didn’t say anything. It was all those people who said it. No, no.” She shook her head, her back bowed low, like an ostrich hiding its head under its wings.
“…Speak up…”
A soft, charming woman's murmur came from the eerie night. The woman in blue and green was startled and reflexively tried to look up but immediately covered her head.
Don't come looking for me!
Shi Jinzhe and Shehe exchanged glances, both puzzled by the sudden outburst of emotion from the blue-green checkered woman.
Sheh went to look at Ding Xun, but this time Ding Xun had nothing in his eyes. She could only look at the blue-green checkered woman's shrinking body again and again.
"Why... won't you tell me..."
The blue-green checkered woman felt a chill on the exposed back of her neck. The image of Sun Ao skinning and beheading her lingered in her mind. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. For some reason, the fleeting image became more and more detailed in her memory. She could clearly see Sun Ao's broken neck, where a section of the spine protruded and blood was gushing out.
The woman in the blue-green checkered pattern closed her eyes and covered her ears, as if this would prevent her from seeing Sun Ao's miserable state. But the murmuring continued, and a ghostly female voice kept telling her to open her eyes.
The pitch-black night amplified the terrifying atmosphere, and from the half-open iron gate of the roasted nuts shop came a woman's trembling voice, which I didn't say.
The ground was cold and damp, and the blue-green checkered woman, her feet flat on the ground, felt a chill creeping up from her toes.
"I didn't say...it wasn't me...I was wrong...it wasn't me, it wasn't me!"
Shekh stood up from the wicker chair, walked around to her side, bent down and lowered his gaze to the same level as the blue-green checkered woman, but still saw nothing.
"You come and pry her eyes open," Shekh ordered Ding Xun, while simultaneously hearing footsteps approaching from afar.
The blue-green checkered woman's eyelids were forcibly pried open, and the bloody scene in her eyes changed in an instant, from the blood-soaked Sun Ao to Pu Kui in a red dress.
She stood outside the half-open door, her face as white as a freshly painted wall, her lips as bright red as blood, and her eyes, devoid of white, staring intently at the woman in the blue-green plaid.
"Go ahead and say it."
The palm-leaf peacock's red lips opened and closed.
"Speak up."
The blue-green checkered woman was restrained, and Ding Xun stuffed a rag into her mouth to muffle her scream.
The woman in the blue-green checkered glasses blinked and noticed that Pu Kui had taken a step into the doorway.
"Ugh!...A ghost...!!"
Her heart was pounding, her eyes were bloodshot, and she was so strong that Ding Xun could barely withstand her struggling body.
All the three people present could see was the blue-green checkered woman's trembling expression; she didn't even notice that her saliva had dripped from her chin, and she kept shouting indistinctly for help.
As Pu Kui approached step by step, Sher seemed to sense it and stepped back.
Ding Xun, who was standing next to him, felt something very cold and sticky covering the back of his hand. He could vaguely tell that it was a pair of hands.
The blue-green checkered woman watched helplessly as Pu Kui's face drew closer to her. She strained her pupils, pleading with the three people around her for help, but why couldn't they see her?
The arrival of the fan pea seemed to be a terror that belonged only to her.
Red stitches appeared around her eyes and mouth, and Pu Kui was transformed into her most deformed and twisted form. She pressed herself against the blue-green checkered woman and then, with a flick of her finger, pulled out the root of her tongue.
Blood splattered, and this time the other three finally saw the concrete crimson flesh and blood, and truly saw the palm tree.
Several red vein-like threads extended from the flesh behind her, binding the palm tree and pulling it back, as if it were preventing the palm tree from doing this.
Before being completely pulled into the red flesh and blood, Pu Kui suddenly said to the direction where Shekh was standing, "I didn't say that."
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