Chapter 161 Jinjiang Debut
Kong Qingsheng looked at Bai Mian with doubt: "Then tell me, what is the truth?"
Bai Mian spoke slowly: "On your fifth birthday, someone in your family did cheat on you, but it wasn't your mother, it was your father."
Kong Qingsheng instinctively defended his father: "How is it possible? Master, I told you, my mother ran away a long time ago, and my father was single at the time. Even if he really found a woman, it was a free love relationship, not cheating!"
Bai Mian corrected him, "This concept was instilled in you by your father's family. You lost your memory before the age of five, so you don't know when your mother left you. The fact is, on your fifth birthday, your mother was still with you."
Kong Qingsheng scratched his head. "Was she there? I have no recollection of it at all. I remember having dinner with my dad, grandparents, and cutting the cake. It was just us the whole time. I don't remember my mom being there."
Bai Mian: "You didn't see your mother at the dinner table because she was cooking in the kitchen the whole time and never showed up. She only ate a quick bite in the kitchen after you guys finished eating. When you were cutting the cake, she was washing the pot in the kitchen, so you didn't have her image in your mind."
Kong Qingsheng was stunned for a few seconds, and reluctantly accepted Bai Mian's statement: "Okay, then what happened that night?"
Bai Mian looked at the gradually darkening sky outside the window and told the story: "That night, just after you finished eating the cake, it was already very late. Your mother returned to the house to pick up your father's coat, preparing to wash it the next day. As a result, she accidentally found a sexy underwear in the coat pocket. It was a worn underwear, and it was not your mother's size. Obviously, your father cheated on her."
"You were both in the yard at the time. Your father had just lit the lotus candle for you when your mother angrily called him in. The two of them were arguing in the house. Your father was very angry and started to fight. Your mother threatened to tell the whole village about this scandal. Your father was so angry that he simply grabbed her neck and strangled her to death."
Everyone gasped, and Kong Qingsheng's eyes widened: "You mean - my mom - my mom didn't run away on her own - she was strangled to death by my dad himself?"
Bai Mian nodded, and Kong Qingsheng's legs went weak. "Oh my God, this is different from what they told me. I always thought my mother was a bad woman who abandoned me, but it turned out to be... Oh my God, this means my father has become a murderer, this, this, this..."
Kong Qingsheng looked at Bai Mian suspiciously: "Master, are you sure you didn't make a mistake? This is too outrageous. Do you have any evidence to prove what you said?"
Bai Mian ignored him and continued to recount the past: "Your mother's face turned purple and she soon fell to the ground. After confirming that she was dead, your father started screaming. Your grandparents rushed into the house and immediately understood what was going on. As the boy's parents, they must protect their son."
"You were making a wish outside at the time. When you heard the scream, you wanted to open your eyes to see what was going on. Your grandmother was quick to cover your eyes and held you tightly in her arms. Then your grandfather and your father stood together and started to discuss how to hide the body."
"At that time, information was blocked and there were many unknown crimes in the countryside. As long as the body could disappear, your father's crime might not be discovered. After a brief discussion, they decided to dismember the body."
Hearing this, Kong Qingsheng's face turned very ugly, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say a word. Although Bai Mian has not produced any evidence yet, Kong Qingsheng already had an ominous premonition that what she said might be the truth of that year.
Xia Mang said, holding a lollipop in his mouth, "This is too much trouble. There is land everywhere in the countryside. Can't we just find a place to bury it?"
Lu Xue reminded her quietly, "It's not that easy to bury a person. If you don't use a coffin, there will be a foul smell soon. If you use a coffin for formal burial, you need to dig a big pit. These are not things that can be done overnight. Don't interrupt and listen carefully to what the master is saying."
Bai Mian continued, “Before I tell you, you should be prepared—she was cut into pieces and given to the whole village.”
Although he had prepared himself mentally, Kong Qingsheng still found it unbelievable. He stammered, "How, how...how could it be?"
Bai Mian faced the window and began to describe the details of the incident. "The father and son had discussed it and knew that there would be a lot of meat left after the body was cut up. To make it disappear, they had to either throw it away or eat it. At that time, rural families were generally poor, and if a family threw away a lot of fresh meat for no reason, it would definitely arouse suspicion. So they had to eat it. But with just a few people in your family, I don't know how long it would take to eat all the meat, so they just gave it to the whole village to eat together."
"Before dismembering a body, the most important step is to remove the skin. There is a difference between human skin and pig skin. In order to prevent people from seeing that this is human flesh, your father decided to peel off all the skin on your mother's body—"
When Bai Mian said this, Kong Qingsheng suddenly began to hear tinnitus. He held his head and felt dizzy. He accidentally bumped into the corner of the table and hit his head hard. He rubbed his head and squatted on the ground in silence. After a while, he raised his head and said loudly:
"I remember it now. I remember it all!"
Seeing him like this, Bai Mian stopped telling the story. Kong Qingsheng stood up excitedly and said to everyone: "I remember now, what I saw that year was not a female ghost, but - it was my mother."
After saying this, Kong Qingsheng's eyes instantly turned red. He squatted on the ground weakly, without the strength to say anything else. Bai Mian's reminder reminded him of everything before he was five years old, including what happened on his birthday.
That day, after my mother died, my grandfather held my mother's body while my father took a kitchen knife and cut open my mother's skin from behind. Then he pulled the skin on both sides of her back apart. The skin hung under her arms, looking like drooping wings, making her look like a bat.
As for the bright red color, in his memory, the female ghost had blood-red skin all over her body. Now he finally understood - the red he saw that day was not the skin, but the texture of his mother after her skin was peeled off.
Kong Qingsheng shivered from time to time, and the great sadness made him cry uncontrollably, just like on his fifth birthday.
On his fifth birthday, his father killed his mother, his grandfather was an accomplice, and his grandmother held him and witnessed everything from outside the window. Although his grandmother covered his eyes tightly the whole time, there was still a moment of mistake that allowed him to glimpse the scene inside the house. It was the scene of his mother being skinned. Just that one glimpse left him with an unforgettable impression for life.
He remembered a pair of resentful eyes and long black hair. He thought it was a female ghost, but in fact, this was the last appearance of his mother in the world. His mother died with her eyes open, full of hatred.
Then his grandmother covered his eyes tightly. Although he couldn't see anything, he could hear the chopping sounds in the house. Dad swung the knife again and again, chopping hard at Mom's body. The flesh was cut apart, and blood flowed down the chopping board, soaking Dad's shoes. His cloth shoes became wet, leaving one bloody footprint after another...
While my father was doing all this, the lotus candle kept ringing. It was pitch black at night, and it stood alone on the table. The candle had long been burned out, and holes had been burned on the petals, but it was still singing the birthday song in a distorted tune. The song kept repeating like this, ringing all night long... Happy birthday to you... Happy birthday to you...
The song echoed in Kong Qingsheng's ears and was imprinted in his mind. From then on, whenever he heard the birthday song, he would think of that terrifying scene.
Seeing Kong Qingsheng lost in thought, Xia Mang walked up and patted him on the shoulder, which frightened him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat. Kong Qingsheng came out of his memories and looked at the surrounding environment, feeling as if he were in another world.
What happened next?
Kong Qingsheng couldn't explain it either. After all, he was only a child and couldn't see the whole picture. He only knew that from that day on, his mother disappeared from his life. Everyone said that his mother abandoned him and ran away.
Thinking of this, Kong Qingsheng looked at Bai Mian anxiously: "Where is my mother?"
Of course, they all understood that the "mother" Kong Qingsheng was referring to was not his mother as a person, but his mother's body. Where did his mother's body go after that night?
Bai Mian looked at him with pity. "The next morning, your grandparents gave the pieces of meat to the villagers in the name of celebrating your birthday. Because your family usually raises pigs and occasionally kills them, it's not surprising to have so much meat. The larger pieces of meat were given away, and the smaller parts that can be seen as human bodies at a glance, such as fingers and ears, were fed to the pigs at home. Pigs are omnivores, and they will eat whatever you feed them."
"There were some large bones left that were difficult to handle and were buried under the pigsty, where they are still today."
Kong Qingsheng desperately tore at his ears, his head buzzing: "No wonder, I remember that when I was a child, I saw the pigs at home eating meat. I thought it was strange at the time. The family was so tight, the meat should be eaten by people, why give it to pigs? But, but I didn't expect...they ate...actually..."
At this point, Kong Qingsheng was already sobbing and couldn't continue. Bai Mian gently patted his shoulder to comfort him. Xia Mang suddenly said, "If these pigs ate human flesh, and you ate these pigs, wouldn't that be equivalent to indirectly eating human flesh? No, I have a more terrifying guess, maybe... they left some meat for their own family, which means that you have eaten your own mother's flesh!"
After Xia Mang said this, everyone cast condemning glances at her. Xia Mang quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'll shut up now."
Hearing this, Kong Qingsheng's face turned red. He put his fingers into his throat and kept pushing them in until he vomited. Then he lay on the ground, vomiting all over the place. No one dared to help him. Everyone could see that his spirit had collapsed.
Bai Mian picked up Kong Qingsheng's phone and handed it to him:
"You already know the truth of the matter. Now, it's time to make a choice."
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