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MTL - Okay, I Can’t Eat This-Chapter 65
"Do you have a net at home? Lend me to use it tonight." Xie Chi estimated: "A fishing net will do, the size doesn't matter."
Miss Sister has a bad feeling in her heart, but she still nodded: "Yes..."
Like that kind of small net, many people have it, especially in places that rely on water. There used to be a lotus pond at my sister's house, which was used to raise lotus roots. Later, my father had an accident and sold the lotus pond.
But there are still a lot of things like fishing nets at home, but because they haven't been used for a long time, they have been hanging there for a long time, and I don't know if they are still strong or not.
After dinner, Xie Chi flipped a piece out of the fishing net and felt that the size and other aspects were suitable, so he weighed it in his hand: "Don't go there at night, I'll just go by myself."
"How can that be done..." The little sister seemed to remember how a small dumpling jumped from one side of the river to that side with ease, and then jumped back again, and also remembered how Xie Chi kicked one that was suspected not to be Human beings, if you are worried, you will suddenly be unable to speak.
If you follow the past, you will be dragging your feet...
"It doesn't matter if you want to come over, remember to bring a flashlight and stand a little further away." Xie Chi waved his hand: "We will solve it early and come back early to save your mother from worrying."
"Hey?" The young lady hurried to get the flashlight, and asked while flipping the flashlight, "Will I really not hold you back? If not, I should not go, and if I want you to be distracted to protect me ,Why bother…"
"Don't worry about this aspect, I'm just worried that you are afraid, but everything else is fine." If she and Tuanzi couldn't protect a young lady, it would be a real joke.
"Then... that's okay." Miss Sister was a little embarrassed, always felt that she was holding her back, but she was worried at home and wanted to go over there to have a look.
So in the evening, the young lady took the flashlight, Xie Chi carried the fishing net and the dumplings, and went to the river.
Not to mention at night, no one dares to go to the river during the day. The whole river is very quiet. At first glance, except for the grass, which is a sparkling river under the moonlight, the quietness is a bit scary.
Xie Chi and the others arrived by the river. The young lady was a little nervous. She took a flashlight and looked into the water vigorously. During the day, you couldn't see it. Shadows move around.
In fact, the river is not very deep, but at night, I always feel that I can't see the bottom no matter how I take pictures. Xie Chi and Tuanzi squatted by the side to study the fishing net. Xie Chi has never used this thing, only seen others on TV. , as if it would do the trick.
"Is that so?"
Dumpling: "Mmmm!"
Xie Chi grabbed the fishing net and slid to the bottom.
Miss:…
"You have to spread it out first and try to cover it as much as possible so that you can easily catch fish."
"Is that so?" Xie Chi suddenly realized, then pulled up the fishing net and threw it again. After throwing the net, the dumpling jumped into the water, which startled the young lady.
The moment she entered the water, it turned into a mass of black gas, and the black gas instantly dissipated and completely merged into the river water.
Xie Chi didn't have to worry about her poor casting skills, because the dumplings would help her drive everything in.
Xie Chi waited for a while, then pulled the net up, it was heavy, and dragged it ashore to take a look. After the net was full, Miss Sister's bare hands were trembling slightly, because there was not a single fish in the net. , all of which are bizarre things.
On the surface, they were babies, white and tender, with huge heads that looked like little tadpoles.
But who's baby only has black eyes but no white ones? Whose baby has a mouth full of shark-like teeth? Whose baby makes a shrill, shrill voice that even makes people feel a little shrill?
The little sister saw dozens of strange creatures that looked like babies, and they struggled in and out, and the whole person kept shaking. No wonder she was timid. Ordinary people, who can be indifferent when they see this situation?
Xie Chi poured out all the babies in the net, they immediately thought about running away, and some wanted to attack Xie Chi, but Xie Chi calmed down, pulled out the Demon Slayer Sword with his backhand, and drew a circle on the ground, Then insert the Demon Slayer Sword into that.
"I know you can understand it. Now let me come to the circle. If anyone goes out of the circle, I will acquiesce that it wants to run. It's up to your luck to cut it into a few pieces."
The Demon Slaying Sword has really killed countless evil spirits, and the breath on it is enough to make ordinary little devils weak on the spot, and the babies who had already fled and crawled out a short distance suddenly seemed to be rewinding, and then slowly. climbed back.
They are so good, they dug into the circle honestly, their big heads were squeezed, and they stared at Xie Chi in unison. Every creature that looked like a baby had a pair of big eyes, and they used big eyes. Staring at Xie Chi, all of them were **** eyes, the kind that didn't reflect the light from a flashlight, not to mention scary.
The young lady stood behind Xie Chi, and she felt goosebumps when she saw this scene.
Two of them ran very fast, and they didn't look back after listening to the words. They were shot back into the circle by the tentacles that came out of nowhere, including the one who rushed towards Xie Chi.
The one who rushed towards Xie Chi was the worst, and was slapped in front of the Demon Slaying Sword by a tentacle, and hit the blade one centimeter behind, the whole ghost was too stiff to move.
After confirming that they did not dare to run away, Xie Chi continued to use the net. It took nearly half an hour to salvage the entire river. The dumpling made a gesture to confirm that there were no water ghosts under the water before coming out of the water. .
"Let's queue up according to the time of death. I want to count them." Xie Chi carried the Sword of Slaying Demons. Of course those little devils dared not do anything. It's relatively large, and it looks like it's lined up in order of head size anyway.
After they were lined up, Xie Chi began to count from the beginning to the end.
"1, 2, 3...169, 170, 171..." Xie Chi was a little stunned after counting: "Why so many?"
The young lady said that the situation was at its worst when she was born, and she has rarely done this in the past two years. That is to say, this custom has lasted for about 20 years, and the entire village has a total of four or five. 100 people, why are 171 babies thrown into this river?
"Probably because... the birth rate of baby girls in our village is relatively high." The young lady said embarrassedly: "It may be retribution, the more I want to have a boy, the more girls are found, just like my family, my sister and I. There are 6 or 7 children in the middle, all girls."
"This situation in our village is particularly serious. Normal people usually have three or four girls before they have a boy, plus something like mine..."
171 looks like a lot, but it is actually possible.
Xie Chi didn't know what to say for a while.
In a village with a population of no more than 600 people, 171 girls were thrown into a river in about 20 years!
This is just a village, don't other places have similar customs?
She lowered her head and stared at her with 171 pairs of dark eyes. There was no emotion in their eyes, because all babies were thrown into the river when they were just born, and their minds were not adults. So complicated, but also full of resentment.
It's that simple, direct and pure resentment.
"I said that those people in your village deserve it, aren't you angry?" Xie Chi said suddenly.
"Of course not angry..." Miss Sister scratched her head: "I am also a girl, of course I can feel the same way."
"Abandoning a baby girl just constitutes abandonment, but I don't think those people in your village constitute abandonment, they are murder."
"This is intentional murder." Xie Chi squatted down and gently touched the big-headed ghost baby closest to her. It had a big head and looked very deformed and cold.
171 lives.
It's really too heavy to bear.
Many people have a kind of thinking, follow the crowd without sin.
Xie Chi can probably guess the psychology of those people. What they think is probably that the child is born by us and is our property, and of course we have the right to deal with it.
And everyone is doing that, can they really punish everyone?
But at the moment of birth, a child is an independent life, and no one is qualified to make decisions for them, including parents.
"Then what should we do next?" Miss Sister looked at a loss: "Do you want to call the police?"
"That's for sure." Xie Chi was a little worried: "I don't really want to involve you, but..."
But everyone knows that the two of them are friends. Who knows if those people will dump their anger on the young lady after the incident?
People like them are best at bullying the weak.
If they are really arrested for this incident, there is no way to retaliate against the police or Xie Chi, but the young lady and her mother who live in this village are more dangerous.
"When I came home this time, I was going to take my mother to live in a big city. My mother was always reluctant, but she still wanted to live in her hometown. She felt that she would not be used to going to a big city, but this happened. Son, she is definitely willing to go with me." Miss Sister said with a smile: "Don't worry about me, I will definitely not suffer."
"That's good." Xie Chi breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Then let's go back first. I'll contact the police in a moment. There are more than 170 children here. I'll make sure tomorrow that their parents are Whoever did the sin, don't even try to escape!"
Tuanzi nodded sharply beside her, she reached out to hold her chubby little face, and her eyes were filled with 'Why is A Chi so handsome! ’
This is probably Xishi in the eyes of a lover...
Xie Chi and the others walked to the village, followed by a long string of babies. They consciously lined up and followed Xie Chi to the direction of the village. Tuanzi held a small hand and was next to the 'supervisor'. .
Those who wanted to leave the team or sneak away were forcibly carried back by her tentacles.
It's almost 10 o'clock in the evening. Although it's a bit late, there are still many people who haven't slept. There are even a few middle-aged men who set up a table to play cards at the entrance of the small supermarket in the center of the village.
There were three people sitting on the poker table, because they were playing Dou Dizhu, but there was a circle of people around, watching.
"Hey, hey, is your name the landlord? Why don't you speak?" The person across the table looked up and saw the person opposite him looking behind him, his eyes wide open, looking very surprised.
"You... behind you..."
"What's wrong with me?" At the same time he turned his head, the onlookers also looked back, and then they were stunned.
There is a long row, there is no end in sight, each with its head held high and staring at Xie Chi's back tightly, so as not to walk crookedly, so under the moonlight, their fangs gleamed.
The least timid one screamed and got under the poker table, and the others panicked.
"Fuck! F*ck! F*ck! What is that?"
A riot of troops.
No wonder they were so cowardly, it was because of their guilty conscience that several people had died in the village, and most of them had the experience of discarding babies. Seeing such a scene, it was no wonder they didn't panic.
Xie Chi ignored the group of people and continued to walk forward with a bunch of ghost babies. When a few ghost babies passed by, they turned their heads and stared at the group of men silently.
There was no emotion in their big dark eyes, but their mouths were opened wider.
One of the middle-aged men suddenly sat on the ground and pointed at one of the ghost babies, trembling: "That...that is...that is..."
He could see clearly that the big-headed ghost baby who was grinning at him had a circular birthmark on his arm, as well as his second daughter's neck.
The reason why he remembered it so clearly was because as soon as the little child was born, they took off the swaddle to confirm the sex, and after confirming that it was a girl, he covered his daughter's mouth and nose with the swaddle cloth.
How vulnerable are babies? After covering it for a minute, the little body no longer moved.
He still remembered that when he was covering his daughter's face, the daughter's tender little hand stretched out from the swaddle with difficulty, as if in the last struggle, he waved it gently, and finally landed on his arm .
That birthmark was so imprinted in his eyes.
And that child was thrown into the river by himself.
At this moment, the daughter who was thrown into the river many years ago is holding a big head and smiling silently at him.
He sat on the ground, trembling as if he had been electrocuted. After a long time, he screamed in agony, got up and ran towards his house without daring to turn his head.
There were several other men like him, who might not have recognized the daughters they had abandoned, but the children recognized them.
They fled in embarrassment, not daring to look any further.