Floating to your side (20)

"You spendthrift woman! Our family has provided you with food and shelter for such a long time, and yet you're pregnant with a girl! I tell you, you can't give birth to this baby!" The old woman glared at the woman washing clothes with a distorted face, but the woman just calmly rejected the other party's request.

"Mother-in-law, this is my daughter. I will give birth to her no matter what. No matter what you say, I will never give up on her!"

"Well, you still dare to talk back, oh how can I be so miserable, to have a daughter-in-law like you!" Seeing that the woman was unwilling to give in, the old woman started to cry and soon led the man out of the house. Although Shen Tang had never seen this man, he lived in this house, and he went up to the old woman to comfort her, guessing that he was the woman's husband.

Shen Tang frowned as he watched the man comfort his mother. He then walked up to the woman and slapped her fiercely in the face. "You are my wife, how dare you talk to my mother like that! Besides, the baby in your belly is not a boy, so what's the use of beating her!"

"So what if it's a boy or a girl? They are all my children and I will make sure that the child is born safely. Besides, what's the use of what that gentleman said? If he says it's a boy, then it is a boy!" The woman who was slapped in the face did not bow her head to her husband. Instead, she became more determined. She stood up immediately and protected her belly tightly with both hands.

The woman's face was full of confusion. She didn't understand why her husband and mother-in-law wanted to take away the life of her unborn child because of a few words from an outsider. Shen Tang saw all of this.

It seems that the ghost baby died not because its biological mother abandoned it, but because of the involvement of an outsider.

"I tell you, I will never give up on this child," sneered the pregnant woman. She threw the freshly washed clothes back into the washtub and turned to walk into the house. However, before she returned to the house, her husband grabbed her wrist with great force and pulled her to the ground, staring at her with a ruthless face.

The man's actions towards the woman were extremely rude. If he hadn't personally admitted that the woman next to him was his wife, Shen Tang would have really thought that the two were enemies with a grudge against each other.

She slowly floated to the woman's side and tried to pull her up from the ground, but her hand passed right through her body, just as weakly as when Wen Ting touched her.

"Host, don't forget that you are now in the afterlife passage in the small world, and your soul cannot affect these people and things." Seeing Shen Tang's actions, Xiao Fudai kindly reminded her, not wanting Shen Tang to waste her energy again.

Shen Tang had no choice but to withdraw his hand, but the next moment, Shen Tang saw the old woman pulling her son behind her, and she approached the woman on the ground with the crutch in her hand.

"You must have this baby, right?" The old woman stared at her daughter-in-law with a vicious face. She raised the cane in her hand high and hit the woman who was sitting on the ground in the stomach. While hitting her, she finally shouted, "Do you still want this baby? Do you still listen to me?"

The old woman cursed viciously, but she didn't loosen her grip and kept hitting the woman's belly with the stick. If the woman hadn't protected her belly tightly and turned her back to the two men, she would have been in trouble after a few hits.

"Don't hit my child, don't hit my child!"

A look of despair and pain appeared on the woman's face. She wanted to resist the beating from her mother-in-law, but the child in her arms and legs hampered her, so she could only endure the beatings over and over again. She tried to escape into the house, but was pulled out by her husband again, and had to endure the beating from her mother-in-law in the courtyard.

Shen Tang looked at what had happened and clenched his palms. No wonder the child had such a strong evil spirit. The mother who was carrying the child was constantly whipped and exhausted both physically and mentally. How could she not feel resentment?

"Little lucky bag, can't things here be changed? Those in-laws are really no good!" Shen Tang looked at what was happening in front of him angrily. The so-called in-laws of the woman were afraid that she would scream out, so they stuffed a piece of cloth into her mouth. It looked like they would not stop until they beat the baby in her belly to death.

However, Xiao Fukudai rejected her proposal righteously: "Host, you must not do that. What happened in the past cannot be changed. Moreover, this afterlife passage is different from a retrospective mirror. It can only reproduce what happened in the past. The host cannot have any influence on what happens here. These people are indeed terrible, but they also suffered retribution in the end. Even if you save the child, the child will not be allowed by time and space in the end and will be forcibly wiped out."

Little Lucky Bag was afraid that Shen Tang would do something out of the ordinary, so he told Shen Tang about the consequences and said, "On the contrary, only by letting the resentment of this baby dissipate can it borrow the power of this channel to reincarnate and become a new life in this world."

Shen Tang bit his lip slightly and gave up the idea of ​​helping the people in the afterlife passage.

Until the woman was beaten to exhaustion and could no longer protect the child in her arms, the old woman's stick finally moved to her stomach. However, the woman could only stare at her husband and mother-in-law in grief and resentment. Her abdomen was hit hard and her whole body began to twitch.

At this time, the man released his hand that was holding the woman, and a bit of tenderness appeared on his terrifying face: "It's okay, this child is unlucky for our family, so it's better to throw it away. We can have a boy next time, and then life will be easier."

Blood gradually flowed out from the woman's body, along with tears on her cheeks. She glared at the man and the old woman in front of her with hatred. The cloth stuffed in her mouth was finally torn off. She began to curse the heartless thing in front of her. The severe pain in her body made her howl in pain and soon fainted. Only then did the old woman finally let her go, but the two evil men let go of the woman's hand, and the woman's friends came to the front of the yard again.

"I was just thinking of buying some more food for you and An An to replenish your bodies, but what happened now? Why is she bleeding? Take her to the hospital right away!" Shen Tang looked at the familiar face that had returned, and recalled the conversation not long ago. She thought to herself that this seemed to be the day the old lady had told her about when she saw her friend lose her child.

"Oh my, our family is so unlucky! We finally have a boy, but how come our daughter-in-law fell down? Look at the blood, eh!" The old woman sighed heavily as if nothing had happened, and she knocked the ground several times with the crutch in her hand, but there was a smug look in her eyes as she knocked at the woman.

The old woman was very satisfied to see that the baby in her belly had no chance of survival, so she asked her son to take the baby inside to rest. She even perfunctorily brushed off the request from her daughter-in-law's friend to send the baby to the hospital, saying, "I know a great village doctor who has treated many people in the past. Now I can just ask him to come and treat my daughter-in-law, so that she doesn't have to spend so much money to be sent to the hospital."

Having said that, the old woman chased her daughter-in-law's friend out, took the supplements that the other party had just bought without any hesitation, and limped into the house on her crutches.

Shen Tang was so angry that he wanted to slap the vicious old woman twice, but since he couldn't cause any harm to anyone in this passage, he could only follow the old woman into their home.

By this time, the baby in the woman's belly had already taken shape, and the old woman had hit her abdomen forcefully, causing the fetus to die in her womb. The old woman did find a country doctor, who treated the dead baby's flesh and bones and put them in a basin, mumbling something in her mouth.

Shen Tang listened closer and heard what the other party seemed to be chanting, and maybe even cursing, "This unlucky baby must be completely eliminated to save our family from bad luck. Next time, that daughter-in-law will definitely give birth to a big fat boy."

After saying this, the old woman waited in a daze for the country doctor to bring her a basin full of the horrible scarlet liquid, and then she walked slowly outside on her crutches.

Shen Tang followed the old woman. Many villagers asked her about the matter along the way, but the old woman lied to cover it up. It was not until she arrived at a mass burial site in the village that she stopped and threw the contents of the basin into an inconspicuous place.

At this time, the mass grave was full of garbage, and the dead baby's bones were thrown there so casually without even a cover. Although Shen Tang was in the form of a ghost now, he still walked to the place where the bones were thrown and prayed silently.

After praying, she watched the old woman walking towards home without any guilt. The road in front of her quickly changed, as if it had arrived a few days later.

Shen Tang was still standing at the grave site. It was still night, but there were some unusual traces inside the grave site.

The dead baby's body disappeared.

This time, Shen Tang saw with his own eyes that a few wolves that came from nowhere in the mass grave ate the piece of meat.

Perhaps they were infected with the resentment of the ghost baby at that time. Several wolves entered the village from the mass grave outside Gushi Village at night and broke into the woman's house.

At this time, the woman's family had heard the news from the friend and had come to take the woman away, leaving only the old woman and her son. The wolves did not let go of the two people left in the house. They bit them one by one as if they were enjoying the painful struggle of their prey. Finally, they killed them and tore their bodies into extremely horrible shapes. Shen Tang did not enter the house, but he could hear the heart-wrenching screams inside.

"Help, save us mother and daughter..."

But the desperate cry for help soon disappeared.

This is really retribution in this life.

After that night, the terrible story in Gushi Village spread out, but the wolves that suddenly appeared also suddenly disappeared, as if the incident that day was just an accident. Shen Tang stayed in the village, and the opening of the passage appeared in front of her again, but this time, the strong evil spirit beside the passage dissipated, leaving only the light at the entrance of the passage.

Shen Tang returned to the hospital along the corridor. The moment of silence seemed to be lifted. The baby floated beside the old woman, and the evil spirit in his body was gone.

Shen Tang turned her head and Wen Ting suddenly appeared beside her again, looking as if he was just able to move.