Grandma Shi didn't understand at all, but she had an instinct to avoid harm, so when choosing a husband for her daughter, she deliberately chose the farthest riverside village.
She even personally inquired about her daughter's in-laws.
Little did they know it was all a lie. The entire village had conspired to deceive them. After the daughter married into the family, she gave birth to two girls in a row. Her husband's family looked down on her and sent both girls to the Girl Infant Tower, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Grandma Shi's daughter initially thought that her two previous daughters had died young, but she completely broke down after watching her third daughter being thrown into the baby tower.
Not wanting to implicate her mother or cause her trouble, and also to avenge her three daughters, she took a knife from the kitchen one midnight and slit the throats of all the culprits, including her husband. Then she stabbed herself and jumped into the baby tower, covered in blood.
At this point, Granny Shi explained, "Although my daughter killed those people, they all deserved to die. These people killed many children."
"Waaaaah..." One of the constables was already sobbing uncontrollably.
"Why, why are there such despicable people in this world! I'm going to wipe out this Linhe Village and do ideological work on everyone!"
Luo Yong turned his head and his eyes widened instantly. It turned out that this was not a constable at all, but the county magistrate who had sneaked in dressed as a constable!
His heart was in his throat, and his eyes were blinking so hard they were almost cramping, but Xu Rurong was completely unaware.
Grandma Shi's gaze softened, and she continued her story.
The daughter jumped into the mother and baby tower but did not die. She found her three children and held them in her arms.
Shi Fu originally thought she would soon die from excessive blood loss, but little did she know that these maternal and infant towers had already accumulated countless resentful spirits, forming new evil spirits.
This evil spirit possessed Shi Fu, attracting more followers to spread the fame of the Goddess of Fertility and grant children to families who desperately wanted them.
Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked. So the source of the Goddess of Fertility was the resentment from those towers containing baby girls?
"So the resentment in this world really can generate evil spirits," Magistrate Xu Rurong murmured to herself.
Wang Qing, standing nearby, wasn't particularly surprised; she had clearly seen this kind of thing before. "You don't need to pity the Goddess of Fertility. Once she became a demon, she was long out of control."
Otherwise, why would this goddess who grants children also kill those poor women?
Grandma Shi nodded, her voice even hoarser.
“You’re right. This evil spirit has indeed harmed many people. I heard rumors of many people being harmed in Linhe Village, and I was afraid that something would happen to my daughter, so I came here alone to take her away.”
"This evil spirit approached me and told me the whole truth. She used her daughter's appearance to deceive me, making me believe that my daughter had turned into an evil spirit."
"It wasn't until I did one thing after another for her, causing one death after another, that I realized this was not my daughter at all."
"It's just manipulating my daughter's body to hurt other people here, trying to gain more power."
“I’ve been planning all of this since then.”
Granny Shi looked first at Wang Qing, then at the government officials, and finally at Cui Ying.
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