Chapter 138 Gao Xiu was locked in a pigpen
In the yard.
As soon as the village chief went out, he heard some noise coming from the utility room.
He stood still and walked over slowly, and his neck was instantly wrapped by a rope, which was so strong that he couldn't break free.
Qi Yunshen tied the man up in a few seconds and threw him into the open space in the yard.
All the guests drinking in the yard had fallen unconscious, even the women were not spared.
Just then, there was a sound of something falling in the house.
The next moment, Jiang Yunzheng walked to the door and looked at the people in the yard with a smile: "It's solved."
Jiang Yunzheng did not stab Gao Xiu's vitals, but he lost too much blood due to the severe pain. Gao Xiu thought he was going to die. Qi Yunshen threw him into the yard and made him sit in a row with the village chief.
The Gao family’s cellar is big.
Qi Yunshen threw all the unconscious guests into the cellar.
The entrance to the cellar was made of a large iron sheet about two or three centimeters thick, so even if a hole was opened, people wouldn't suffocate.
The village chief's mouth was blocked and he could only watch Qi Yunshen's actions angrily.
Jiang Yunzheng sneered and pulled the rag from his mouth. "Tell me, what's the problem with your village?"
The village chief was shocked and angry: "Who are you?"
Jiang Yunzheng's eyes were extremely cold. "I don't care about the secrets of your village, but since you have lost your humanity and killed innocent people, we have no choice but to intervene."
Qi Yunshen stood beside Jiang Yunzheng. "In recent decades, there have been cases of missing women in various counties in Victoria. Many of these women disappeared after having been in Yin County. Did you kill those women after they were unable to bear children?"
The village chief pursed his lips tightly and glared at us: "Don't talk nonsense! We saved you out of kindness, and you want to harm our entire village!!"
Jiang Yunzheng sneered: "Those who do too much evil will eventually perish."
On the ground, Gao Xiu said weakly, "Did you take Xiaomei away?"
Jiang Yunzheng: "Don't worry about this."
According to Qi Yunshen and Jiang Yunzheng's original plan, the two were planning to drug everyone during the dinner in the evening and then take Xiaomei away.
But at noon, Xiaomei put on Gao Xiu's clothes and took advantage of the heavy rain when no one went out. She ran up the mountain along the path and ran to the kitchen of the ancestral house, where she was seen by Jiang Yunzheng.
The two people's plans were temporarily adjusted.
Jiang Yunzheng replaces Xiaomei.
Village chief: "Where's my son?! What have you done to my son?!"
Jiang Yunzheng narrowed her eyes slightly. "If you want to know, tell me first. Where have all the women in your village gone? You can't have killed them all and eaten them, right?"
The village chief was both angry and amused: "They are useless. The sons they gave birth to all had problems. They all went crazy and committed suicide. Since they committed suicide, why not keep their bodies to nourish the men in our village?"
Jiang Yunzheng felt a chill in his heart.
Qi Yunshen suddenly asked, "Were women in charge of your village before?"
Qi Yunshen was reminded of this when he saw the embroidery on the old woman's body this morning.
As soon as the words came out, the village chief's face froze.
Qi Yunshen continued, "You can't stand women being in charge. All girls born are either abandoned or strangled to death. In order to reproduce the next generation, you started trafficking women from outside."
Qi Yunshen said calmly: "But the children born are all monsters."
Village chief: "You are talking nonsense!!!"
Suddenly, a hoarse female voice was heard. It was the old woman who appeared in the afternoon.
"You have committed too many sins and have brought disaster to the entire Songshu Village. When the woman from the Bai family was the village chief, the village was prosperous and the villagers lived and worked in peace and contentment! But it was you, the Gao family, who ruined it!"
"You drank poisonous water from the mountain behind to give birth to a boy. The baby girl died in the womb, and all you gave birth to were boys. But these little beasts are disabled. This is all retribution for your Gao family!!!"
The village chief's face darkened: "Since ancient times, men have been in charge of the family. Why should you women be the ones to make the decisions?"
Jiang Yunzheng couldn't help but punch the village chief: "Shut up, old man."
Southern Xinjiang is mostly matriarchal. Jiang Yunzheng had seen embroidery in many tribes in southern Xinjiang, most of which centered around the role of the mother. Jiang Yunzheng saw similar patterns on the clothes of old women and in the bridal chamber.
Perhaps the former female village chief of Songshu Village came from southern Xinjiang many years ago.
Most of the people in the village were criminals. Once the government came and took them away, Songshu Village basically became an empty village.
The old woman slowly began to talk about the past.
In the past, women were in charge of Songshu Village.
In the past, the village chief was always a woman from the Bai family. This line of succession lasted from generation to generation until the last village chief from the Bai family married a man named Gao from the village, and then the disaster began.
A man named Gao was hypocritical and cruel. He deceived his wife with sweet words. After his wife gave birth to a boy, he killed the entire Bai family in the name of an accidental fire. He announced to the outside world that the boy was actually a girl. It was the consensus of the whole village that the daughter of the Bai family would be the next village chief.
The man surnamed Gao said that he would raise his daughter and that he would temporarily serve as the village chief. He would return the position to his daughter when she grew up.
During the years as the village chief, Gao gradually eroded and changed the villagers' ideas. They believed that women were not the only ones who could be in charge of the family. Gradually, men in each household began to follow suit, letting women stay at home and letting men make decisions at home.
Later, when the child grew up, Gao announced the child's true gender, saying only that it was a necessary measure to stabilize the people's hearts. Since they all had the surname Bai, the men in the village agreed that the child should be the new village chief.
This is the first male village chief to appear in Songshu Village in several years.
The new village chief had long been led astray by a man surnamed Gao. He looked down on women and thought they were inferior. As a result, there were fewer and fewer baby girls in the village.
After this, the new village chief married and his wife gave birth to two girls in a row. During her third pregnancy, she accidentally drank water from a spring in the mountains behind the village before giving birth, and she gave birth to a boy. To seek good luck, pregnant women in the village went to drink from the spring.
Some pregnant women who drank the spring water had miscarriages on the spot, and all the babies that died were girls. However, the pregnant women who survived all gave birth to boys.
No one attributed the miscarriage to the spring water.
At first, when someone gave birth to a child with three hands, the villagers thought it was a coincidence. But a few years later, these newborn boys were either unable to speak or were idiots...
Even the son of the new village chief was not spared. The last wish of a man surnamed Gao was that his grandson must have the surname Gao, otherwise he would die with regrets.
The villagers began to realize that there was something wrong with the spring water and stopped allowing pregnant women to drink from it.
But what’s the use?
The children born from a union with a fool will still be fools. Occasionally there will be one or two normal ones, but they are very rare.
The current village chief Gao is a descendant of the Gao man from that time.
This old woman was one of the women who was abducted and sold back then.
Her husband was one of the few normal boys, but the child she gave birth to was stillborn. She was not crazy, nor did she seek death, and she was still able to work, so the villagers had no intention of targeting her.
After listening to the whole process, Jiang Yunzheng and Qi Yunshen were silent for a moment.
Jiang Yunzheng: "What should we do with these two people?"
Qi Yunshen carried the two back to the ancestral home and tied them to the pigsty with iron chains.
Jiang Yunzheng: "You never thought about it. These things that were once tied to others are now tied to yourselves."
Qi Yunshen released Xiaomei from the cellar.
Xiaomei was in a dishevel and trembling. When she knew she was rescued, she burst into tears.
Jiang Yunzheng poured her a basin of hot water and said, "Go wash up."
Xiaomei wiped her face clean, looking pretty and smart, as if she had just come to her senses:
"Thank you for saving me. My name is not Xiaomei, my name is Xie Xuan."
Jiang Yunzheng nodded, "My last name is Jiang."
Xie Xuan looked at Jiang Yunzheng gratefully, then looked at Qi Yunshen beside the pigpen.
"Where are you from?"
Jiang Yunzheng: "The capital."
Xie Xuan's eyes lit up: "I was kidnapped on the way to the capital. Can you take me back to the capital with you?"
Jiang Yunzheng smiled faintly: "Of course."
The old woman knew that there was not enough room in the ancestral house, so she groped her way to the door in the dark.
"I have an empty room in my house. This girl can live with me."
Xie Xuan didn't dare to go alone. "I'm sorry, thank you for your kindness, but I..."
The old woman didn't force him and went home on her own.
Qi Yunshen came out of the pigpen, glanced at Xie Xuan, and looked at Jiang Yunzheng, "Your water is in the house."
Xie Xuan didn't want to go to the old woman's house. There was no place to live in the ancestral house, so he slept alone in the kitchen. There was straw in the kitchen, so it wasn't too cold.
Xie Xuan called out to Jiang Yunzheng: "Miss Jiang, can I sleep with you?"
Qi Yunshen said impatiently, "No."
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