Chapter 737: Family Massacre 1
Shi Eryi raised his head, glanced at her, and said softly, "To answer your Majesty, something happened in the Shi Mansion that night."
Nan Yan asked hurriedly, "What happened?"
Shi Eryi said in a deep voice, "Everyone in the Shi Mansion, more than a dozen people, Master Shi Ye, his parents, his relatives, and even the servants in the house—all died."
"What!?"
Nan Yan opened her eyes wide.
At this time, Zhu Feng reached out and gently pressed her cold hand.
Nan Yan trembled slightly and turned to look at him. Zhu Feng said, "Don't be afraid, and don't affect the child."
“…”
By the way, I said before that the baby in the belly is sensitive to the outside world.
I was so scared when I heard a story like this, and I wonder if it will scare my children too.
Thinking of this, she hurriedly stretched out her other hand and gently supported her belly.
Zhu Feng listened to this story from beginning to end. Apart from a slight flicker in his eyes, he showed no extra expression at all. He simply said, "Where's Shi Lian?"
Shi Eryi said: "He's dead too."
“…”
"Everyone died overnight."
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"The authorities came to investigate and discovered that they had all died from arsenic poisoning. They couldn't find any signs of outsider involvement, and since Shi Lian had just given birth to a stillborn baby, they suspected she had gone mad and put arsenic in the food, poisoning herself as well."
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"This case can only be considered an unsolved case, but since then, our village has become an ominous place."
Nan Yan listened and frowned.
Indeed, in such a wealthy family, more than a dozen people suddenly died. People around them probably didn't even want to look at the place anymore.
Shi Eryi said, "That house has been haunted since that night. Gradually, people stopped going near it. The surrounding villages felt that our Jufu Village was unlucky and moved away one after another."
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"But people like us, we have nowhere to go."
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"So, our ancestors carved a huge stone tablet and buried it under the house as a way to protect it."
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"Gradually, that stone tablet became the soul of our village."
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"Our ancestors have always told us that we cannot leave this place. Once it loses its human presence, those evil spirits will start to haunt it."
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"So, we can't leave, and there's no way we can leave!"
Having said this, he began to sob.
Other people in the village also cried.
Nan Yan was standing nearby, listening to these people crying, feeling indescribably depressed.
It turns out that the people in this village have been carrying the warnings left by their ancestors, which prevent them from leaving. So, although it is hard and although they are despised, they all stay here and never retreat.
At this moment, she heard a soft sobbing sound in her ear.
When I turned around, it was Little Stone, crying and wiping the tears from his face with his sleeves. His little face immediately became as cute as a tabby cat.
She sighed, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and gently wiped his tears.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered what Little Stone had just said to her -
"Dad also said that no matter where we moved to, we would be driven away."
"So, we still have to stay here."
…
She thought for a moment and said to Zhu Feng, "Your Majesty, I have something to ask Village Chief Shi."
Zhu Feng turned his head and glanced at her.
Then he nodded: "You ask."
Nan Yan looked down at Shi Eryi and said, "Village Chief Shi, I just heard your son, Little Shitou, say that you once told everyone that no matter where we moved, we would be driven away. Is that true?"
Shi Eryi said: "Yes, did I say that?"
"Why do you say such things?"
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"Let's not talk about whether there really are evil spirits here. This time, the emperor is expanding Beiping City. You can see clearly that the city wall has been built here, more than doubling the size of the entire city. When the time comes, tens of millions of people will be relocated to this city. How can it not accommodate a small village like yours?"
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"Why do you say that wherever you go, you will be driven away."
Shi Eryi gave a bitter laugh and said, "My Lady, something like that happened in our village and it's already spread. Others look down on our Shi clan, saying that we have bad morals for such a shameless woman to have come out of our clan and for such a tragic incident to have wiped out our entire family."
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"To be honest, over the years, there are people who don't want to change careers or leave."
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"But we can't change our surname or our clan. Once we enter the city and people find out we're from Jufu Village and the Shi clan, they'll still look down on us."
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"We can only survive by doing this business. People die in the city every day. Even if they are unwilling or spit on us, they still come here to carve tombstones."
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"It's just that when they use us, they use us, but behind our backs, they still dislike us."
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"Now, the Emperor wants to expand Beiping City and move our village into the city. But what good will it do if we move in? We will still be despised. However, the city wall has been built here. If we are driven away in the future, where else can we go?"
As he said this, he began to sob.
The young and strong men around him, who were originally strong-willed and refused to yield to the court officials, burst into tears when they heard what he said.
The women in the crowd burst into tears.
Nan Yan felt a pang of bitterness in her heart.
She began to understand why the people in this village were making trouble with the government. It was not only because of the warnings left by their ancestors, which forced them to stay here for generations, but also because of the grievances of being despised and looked down upon for so many years.
People always need an outlet to vent.
Looking at this village, it really does look like a deserted village. It is so far away from the city that no matter what you want to eat or use, it takes many times longer than ordinary people in the city to get it.
This is how they have been living for so many years.
But this time, they were forced to leave their homes, and this group of people who had always lived in the shadows finally couldn't help but explode.
When Little Stone saw the villagers crying like this, he cried even harder.
Nan Yan suppressed her sadness and said softly, "Good boy, don't cry."
As she spoke, she looked at Zhu Feng who was sitting next to her, but saw that his stern face still did not have much expression, not even a trace of warmth.
But his eyes seemed very deep, as if he was thinking about something.
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