The man's face instantly turned purple. If he hadn't been concerned about Qing Wu's identity, he would have cursed at her.
Nowadays, saying that someone doesn’t have a son is like cursing that the person will never have an offspring!
This Princess Yan is so cruel.
Unexpectedly, the woman also became excited, holding her belly and said anxiously: "I am pregnant with a son. The village fortune-teller came to see me and said that I will definitely have a son..."
"The village witch?" Qing Wu looked at her quietly: "Really?"
The woman hurriedly lowered her head, not daring to look directly at Qing Wu, feeling terrified as if she had been seen through.
She was in pain and scared, and her whole body was shaking.
These words were definitely not said by the village witch, but by the Taoist priest Wuchen in the Chuyun Temple, no... now he should be called the demon Taoist priest.
Ever since the incident at Izumo-monastery, the woman has become more and more frightened.
Just because she gave birth to a daughter as her first child, she was always scolded as a money-loser at home. Her mother-in-law and husband heard that praying for children at Izumo Temple was very effective, so they kept urging her to go there to pray.
After all, she went to Izumo Temple to pray for a child for her second pregnancy.
Who would have thought that this time when he took his daughter there, she seemed to be acting strange after she came back, as if her soul had left her body. Then something happened at Izumo Temple.
This time, she heard that her daughter could still be saved, so she threatened the man with the "son" in her belly before he agreed to bring her over.
She was obviously pregnant with a son. She had to be pregnant with a son, otherwise... the woman didn't dare to think about what would happen to her and her daughter in the future.
"The body is filled with ghost energy and the belly is filled with rotten flesh."
Qing Wu said calmly, "You are not really pregnant. Today is the deadline. If you don't get rid of the rotten meat, your life will be over."
The woman's face suddenly turned grim.
Qing Wu said to her eyebrows: "Go to the temple and get a bowl of well water."
Mei Mei hurried to get some water, and after a while the water was brought over. Qing Wu touched the rim of the bowl and motioned for him to pass it to the woman.
"Drink this bowl, it will remove the evil spirits and filth in your stomach."
Unexpectedly, the woman covered her stomach, retreated as if facing a powerful enemy, and kept shaking her head.
The man, who was afraid of angering the rich and powerful, suddenly found the courage from nowhere and, regardless of the fact that the woman's face was turning blue from the pain, he violently dragged her behind him.
"My wife is clearly pregnant. If this man had rotten flesh in his belly, he would have died long ago!"
"We won't drink this water! No one can harm my son!"
Seeing this, Mei Mei was anxious and angry: "You reckless man, the princess is saving your wife's life, what son or no son, if your wife is gone, how can you have a son!"
But the man was stubborn and didn't believe anything.
Mei Mei was also angry, and turned to the woman and said:
"Madam, your husband is not in his right mind. Don't you take your life seriously?"
"This water has been blessed by the mountain spirit. Drink it quickly to expel the rotten flesh and evil spirits and take care of your body. You still have a daughter at home, don't you care about her?"
The woman stared at the bowl of water, then glanced at her still sleeping daughter. She felt as if the sky had fallen down. She froze in place, not knowing what to do.
Qing Wu looked at the dead look on the woman's face and shook her head.
"Put down the bowl. If she wants to drink, I will break the legs of anyone who dares to stop her."
"If she doesn't want to drink, that's up to her."
After saying that, Qing Wu turned around and left. She caught a glimpse of the Shi family's mother and daughter out of the corner of her eye. Shi's mother had a grim look on her face and looked absent-minded.
Qing Wu glanced at her lower abdomen and raised her eyebrows, with an intriguing look.
Shi's mother retreated subconsciously, covering her belly like a startled bird. Shi Cuiwei was only jealous of Qing Wu's face and blurted out: "Princess, you said someone was not pregnant without any evidence and asked someone to abort your own flesh and blood. Don't you think it's absurd and stupid?"
Qing Wu moved her gaze to her face, and instead of getting angry, she smiled and nodded with interest:
"Otherwise, why do people always say that Minister Shit was very smart since he was young? His daughter is no less smart than him."
Shi Cuiwei was stunned, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether the words were good or bad.
She intuitively felt that Qing Wu was insulting her, but she had no evidence.
"So clever! Don't drink the water from the well in this mountain temple." Qing Wu said, laughing with interest, turned around and left.
"Who wants to drink..."
Before Shi Cuiweihua could finish her words, her mother grabbed her arm hard. Shi Cuiwei then noticed her mother's expression and felt an ominous feeling in her heart.
"Mother?"
Mother Shi's lips were trembling and she couldn't speak. All she could think about was Qing Wu's words "rotten meat in the belly". She now felt a dull pain in her stomach.
Shi Cuiwei didn't know that not long ago, her mother diagnosed her with pregnancy, but because the baby was not yet three months pregnant and the fetus was unstable, she kept it a secret from her.
She also didn't know that all the women who went to Izumo Temple to pray for children had a "spring dream" in the temple. In the dream, a man (Wu Chen) made love with them all night long and said that he would give them children.
Shi's mother went to Chuyun Temple to pray for a child, and she had also had sex with Wuchen in her dreams, more than once.
She felt like her soul was about to fly away, and her body was covered in mud. Especially since the disgusting princess had just glanced at her belly with a meaningful look, Mother Shi felt that she was finished...
Just when he was in a daze, he heard the woman's lazy voice again.
"The evil Taoist priests at Izumo Temple do great harm to people. They hide filthy evil spirits in food and water, trick women into eating them, and trick them into having children."
"The well water in the mountain temple can remove the evil spirits in your stomach. If you need it, go find Taoist Priest Mei and get it."
After Qing Wu finished speaking, she went into the temple.
Many women in the crowd breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. Qing Wu’s words just now were equivalent to covering up for them.
If their husband's family knew that their 'praying for a child' was just a dream, they would be doomed. But if they said that they had eaten something dirty and it could be removed by drinking some water from the temple well, then there would be no problem.
But at this moment, no one wanted to be the first to speak out, but they were all secretly thinking that they would go and ask for a bowl of well water when there were fewer people around.
Shi Cuiwei looked at her mother's face and felt as if struck by a bolt from the blue. Could it be that... She began to feel panic in her heart.
Shi's mother could hardly stand now, so she asked her daughter to help her get into the carriage.
As soon as she got up, she held her daughter's hand and said, "That well water, that well water must be given to me in a bowl."
Shi Cuiwei's face changed drastically, and she stared at her mother's belly in horror: "Mother, could it be that you..."
Mother Shi gnashed her teeth and said, "That damn demon is harming me!!"
The adopted concubine's son had died, but Shi's mother was secretly proud of it, because the death of that bastard just made room for the child in her belly, saving her from taking the title of the eldest son.
As a result...Mother Shi covered her stomach and trembled with fear.
She was now just thankful that she was cautious and that not many people knew about her 'pregnancy'.
At this moment, screams came one after another from outside.
Shi Cuiwei subconsciously lifted the car curtain, and what she saw was a horrible scarlet color.
However, the woman with the rotten meat in her belly finally decided to drink the bowl of well water. Just after drinking the well water, she crawled on the ground and vomited loudly. All she vomited out was some muddy rotten meat.
Her swollen abdomen deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The place was filled with a foul stench and everyone was terrified. The man was so frightened that he pissed himself and shit himself. He even left his wife and children behind and turned around and ran away.
When the Shi family's mother and daughter saw this scene, Shi Cuiwei was so frightened that she vomited on the spot. Shi's mother screamed, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
The people around were also frightened. Those who were planning to wait until there were fewer people before going to get the woman in water no longer cared about anything else and all ran to the mountain temple.
They don’t want to die! It’s bad enough that their child was almost killed by that evil Taoist, they don’t want to die miserably like that again! !
When Xiao Chenyan came over, he saw the chaos. He smelled a strong and pungent smell of blood and couldn't help but frowned.
The black-armored guard came over to report the situation. His brows furrowed even more and his gaze fell on the Shi family members who were still refusing to leave.
Xiao Chenyan twisted the Buddhist beads and said calmly: "Go down the mountain."
The black-armored guards took the order and started to chase the people away immediately.
After entering the temple, he did not ask Mei and others where Qing Wu was. As if he had some kind of sense, he walked to the well in the backyard of the Shanling Temple.
He saw her standing alone by the well, holding a red brush, carefully drawing something above the well mouth.
The woman had a cold expression, like a piece of inhuman snow. The lives of the dead were meaningless in her eyes.
But every stroke of the red brush in her hand was filled with vitality.
I have seen through death, but I have not really ignored it.
Just like the pen in her hand, it gives people a glimmer of hope in death.
Xiao Chenyan stared at it in a daze. In his mind and ears, he could hear the sound of his own heartbeat coming from his chest.
Bang, bang.
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