White Bone Monkey King

"...Xiaoqiu and Xiaolin are mothers and I can't help you."

"...You can take mother away."

"...I'll trade my life for my life, my mother's life for yours."

"...I just ask you to forgive me, mother."

"...Mom was wrong. Mom really knows she was wrong."

Jin An and his group of five people.

Surrounded by a large group of villagers like Song Fangping, they came to the open space in the back village.

But before the group reached the place, they heard miserable cries coming from the campfire.

The old Taoist priest's expression changed, and he quietly came to Jin An and said secretly: "Little brother, is that cry from the crazy Shen family?"

Jin An looked at the distance with a complicated look at half the sky illuminated by the red firelight, and nodded with a bit of heartache.

Shen, who had just been beaten, scolded and driven away by the villagers, came back crazy.

She could never escape her inner condemnation for the rest of her life.

"Hey, why are there crying in the village? Where did the crying come from? Who is Shen?" Li Huwei asked curiously.

"New Headmaster, do you know the Shen family?"

Even Yu Youzi asked Jin An in a low voice behind the back of other Taoyuan Village villagers.

At this time, around the five people from Jin'an, Song Fangping and the others were surrounded by a total of about ten villagers. It was said that Mingfeng was simple and warm to welcome the guests, but it was better to say that they were placed under house arrest to prevent Jin'an and the others from escaping halfway.

The distance between the group and the campfire was not long.

It arrived quickly.

At this time, the atmosphere in the open space behind the village was lively. All the men, women, and children from Taoyuan Village were here, holding hands in a circle around the bonfire, singing and dancing local folk dances. The villagers were talking and laughing, and there were roasted whole pigs and roasted lambs next to them... The meat was fragrant and the atmosphere was full of joy, even more lively than the Chinese New Year.

If Jin An had not already known that the bonfire was a human skin flag and drum made of the skin of a man and a woman, those villagers were all dead people, and those villagers were the real culprits who brutally killed Shen Qiu, Shen Shaolin and his brother, this scene would really be... Deceive ordinary people.

only.

Outside the campfire.

But one person was left out.

The gray-haired, hunchbacked old woman Shen, who was struggling desperately to rush into the bonfire and commit suicide, was stopped by the patriarch and several big men in the village. The patriarch and the others drove the old woman away with a bad attitude.

"Go away, go away, go away, go away, you crazy woman, why are you here again? Didn't I tell you just now that there is no son or daughter here, why are you back to make trouble again?"

"I heard that you abandoned your children because you thought they were a burden, and then you ran away with a wild man from outside the country. Why, the wild man is unreliable. The wild man died of illness and fell down. Without a man to rely on, you still have the nerve to return to your hometown. Are you desperate to find your children? You cry and commit suicide, who are you deliberately trying to show off to someone?"

The clan leader sneered angrily, and then asked the villagers to drive the people away quickly.

"No!"

"It's not like that! It's not like that!"

"It was you who lied to me back then. It was you, the patriarch, who said that it would be hard to miss our mother and son. You said that you would give my son and daughter the first chance to change their lives in the village. That's why I agreed to let you take away Xiaoqiu and Xiaolin!"

"It's obviously you who lied to me!"

"It's you!"

"Everyone in Taoyuan Village is the murderer of my son and daughter!"

"Kill for life!"

"Give me back my son! Give me back my daughter!"

Shen screamed like crazy. She bared her teeth and claws and tried to fight the clan leader, but she was held back by several villagers who held her back.

"You crazy woman who talks nonsense. If I hadn't seen that you were originally a villager in Taoyuan Village and thought you were pitiful for having no children, I would have been rude to you long ago."

The clan leader waved his hand impatiently, asking the big men to send Shen away quickly.

So as not to ruin the village banquet waiting later.

It ruined the enjoyment of several outsiders.

Those villagers couldn't stand the unkempt and smelly Shen for a long time, and began to beat and kick her, and cursed her with disgust and fierce looks on their faces.

And just when one of the villagers' fist was about to fall on the weak-boned Shen, snap!

A palm grabbed the villager's fist.

The villager tried to pull his hand away several times, but it felt like his wrist was tightly clamped by a tiger's claw, and he could not break free no matter what.

Wait for him to turn around and look.

People were stunned.

It didn't even see who the other person was. It only felt that the entire front of its eyes was filled with a pair of cold and quiet eyes. Five eternal thunder pools seemed to be reflected in that person's eyes. The brilliant brilliance in the thunder pools made it feel ghostly. It subconsciously avoided looking directly and did not dare to look at him.

"Jin'an Road..."

The Taoyuan Village patriarch was about to speak, but when he faced Shang Jin'an's piercing eyes, he subconsciously lowered his head to escape.

Jin An's eyes looked at this moment.

A pair of eyes flashed like cold lightning.

Cold and faint.

When he looked around in which direction, the villagers in that direction all lowered their heads subconsciously.

Jin An was so domineering tonight that no one looked at him. He is like the Five Thunder Emperors who inspect the injustices in the world. The people in this village all have evil intentions in their hearts.

Only one person was not afraid of him.

"Taoist Master, why are you here again? Let's go, let's go, let's go!"

"Didn't I tell you to leave this village quickly?"

"Why are you still here!"

"This is not the place you should come!"

The moment Mrs. Shen saw Jin An, she opened her eyes wide with disheveled hair, grabbed Jin An's hand, and urged Jin An to leave quickly.

"Taoyuan Village is gone!"

"There's nothing left!"

"My son, my daughter, my mother can't help you..."

"People in this village are crazy..."

"No one can save everyone..."

"Taoist Master, you can't save everyone, and no one can save this Taoyuan Village..."

"You have done enough for Taoyuan Village..."

"I was the one who killed you, Taoist Priest..."

Shen was shouting incoherently, crying loudly while talking, and was going crazy.

Jin An's face darkened as he listened to Shen's incoherent words.

really.

His guess was not wrong.

Uncle Yuyouzi did meet Mr. Shen when he first came to Taoyuan Village.

Otherwise, Mrs. Shen would never have mistaken the person, who was also wearing a five-color Taoist robe, for Master Yu Youzi, and called him Yu Youzi who she killed.

"Have you ever seen people wearing five-color robes like me come to Taoyuan Village?"

"On that day, what happened to people wearing five-color Taoist robes like me in Taoyuan Village?"

"How did he die?"

But the old woman Shen, who was speaking incoherently a moment ago, suddenly froze. She looked at Yu Youzi standing behind Jin An, and the tears in her eyes could not help but fall.

Poof, Mrs. Shen actually knelt at Yu Youzi's feet and burst into tears.

She cried sadly.

Crying with shame and self-blame.

Yuyouzi quickly went to help Shen who was kneeling in front of him, but Shen kept kneeling at his feet and crying, saying, Taoist priest, I am sorry for you, Taoist priest, I am sorry for you.

Mrs. Shen kept crying incoherently. No matter how much Yuyouzi helped her, she just refused to get up. Yuyouzi was so frightened that he looked at Jin An in confusion, saying that this was going to shorten his life. What should he do if he asked Jin An for help?

"Do you hate it?"

Jin An suddenly said a sentence without beginning or end.

The voice was heavy.

He looked at the frost-haired old woman Shen who was kneeling at Yuyouzi's feet and refused to get up: "Do you hate this ignorant village where people eat people?"

Mr. Shen, who was kneeling at Yuyouzi's feet and crying loudly, felt his shoulders tremble slightly.

"Are you ashamed and blaming yourself?"

"Are you living in self-blame every day? Why did you listen to lies and send your children to the executioner?"

"If you have ever hated or blamed yourself, then stand up and watch how we seek justice for your family of three today."

"If no one sends evil spirits to hell, let me send them to hell."

"If you have any injustice in your heart, let me help you settle it."

"If good and evil go unpunished, I will repay you."

Jin'an's words are like pearls, each word is more striking and louder than the last, the momentum is rising step by step, and the fighting spirit is burning in the chest and lungs.

The old woman Shen raised her frosty-haired face. She stared blankly at Jin An, who was blocking her and taking the initiative to protect her.

At this moment in Jin'an, the Hengdao stood between the villagers of Taoyuan Village and the Shen family, like a stroke of ink in a scroll of heaven and earth, holding up the line between black and white.

The figure is as majestic as the breath swallowing thousands of miles.

Upright.

"tell me!"

"Do you hate it?"

Jin An looked at Shen who was kneeling at Yu Youzi's feet and was shuddering.

He didn't go to help Shen.

sometimes.

When people are weak, they need the courage to take the first step.

He saved a man's life.

But it can't save a person's heart disease.

He is not just saving Shen now.

It is also to save the inner ailment that has been buried deep in Shen's heart.

A few feet away, the fire burned half the sky red, weeping like blood, and illuminated Jin An's back infinitely tall, standing tall and towering in Shen's already collapsed spiritual world.

Block the darkness in front of you.

Protect the righteous path of the world behind you.

"I……"

The crazy and chaotic eyes of the frost-haired old woman Shen gradually regained some clarity.

"I, I, I hate it so much!"

"Please, Taoist Master, save my poor child!"

"Please, Taoist Master, save us three!"

Perhaps these words had been held in Shen's heart for too long. She almost cried out with all her strength. If there really is a god in this world, please beg God to open your eyes once and save us, mother and son.

"good."

Jin An looked at Mr. Shen who had been helped up by Yuyouzi, the old Taoist priest, and Li Huwei. His answer was only one word, "Donor Shen, your words are enough."

Seeing that the situation was getting worse and worse, the patriarch of Taoyuan Village hurriedly defended himself and Taoyuan Village.

"Taoist Master Jin'an and other Taoist priests, please don't believe what this crazy woman says. She is crazy all day long and can't believe anything she says. You don't know her true face. She can do anything for a wild man outside. , he left his blind and deaf children behind and left with a vicious heart and a ruthless heart."

"This crazy woman has been acting from the beginning to the end. Her crying is all fake, and she is deliberately acting it out to outsiders like you who don't understand the reality, in order to gain sympathy."

Jin An's cold eyes flashed like lightning, and the clan leader lowered his head with a guilty conscience. He had a ghost in his heart and did not dare to look directly at those eyes.

Jin An wants to save people completely.

All pretense must be shattered like a mirror.

"You said that Mrs. Shen despised her children as a burden and deliberately abandoned them and ran away with others. Then I ask you, since she despised them as a burden, why didn't Mrs. Shen abandon her children earlier? Instead, she went through all kinds of hardships to raise her children until they were teenagers? ? There are wild wolves and ferocious beasts everywhere in this mountain. If you really want to abandon a baby, you can just throw it wherever you want, and it will be eaten up by wild beasts overnight, right?"

"Clan leader, why don't you explain, explain, why the 'evil-hearted' Shen family does so much?"

Jin'an's name is Zhuji.

The patriarch lowered his head and did not dare to look directly at Jin An, and argued forcefully: "Maybe, maybe when the children were young, Shen had not met any strangers, so naturally he had nowhere to go. But when strangers came to the village, Shen Shen is a widow, and a few sweet words from a wild man outside made Shen run away with him wholeheartedly."

As the night went on, the night wind in the mountains became colder and colder. At this moment, Jin An's gaze said: "Okay, I'll just take what you said as reasonable for now."

"Then let me ask you again, your village has always been isolated from the world. In the past hundred years, Taoyuan Village has probably had incest marriages, right? I am afraid that it is precisely because of this that it is becoming more and more difficult for the village to reproduce. The population is getting smaller and smaller, so you are eager to re-excavate the cliff road that your ancestors walked, and want to leave the mountains and save the crisis of destroying villages, right?"

"In that case, let me ask you, before the cliff road was built, incest had already been intermarried in your Taoyuan Village. The reason why the Shen family's children were born blind and deaf should be the reason for incest, right? "

"Intermarriage between close relatives is likely to give birth to babies with congenital defects. The closer the close relatives are, the greater the probability of giving birth to sick or deformed babies. Shen gave birth to two babies in a row, both of which were babies with congenital defects. Such a high probability , which shows that incest in Taoyuan Village has reached the point where brothers and sisters have to marry to ensure the reproduction of the village population."

"Let me ask you, the village has always been close to intermarriage. Logically speaking, there should be many babies with congenital defects. Why don't I see any babies in the village? Where have all the babies with defects that so many of you have given birth to gone?"

Jin An looked coldly at the Taoyuan Village villagers who were still holding hands in a circle around the campfire and singing and dancing.

It's like they didn't see what was going on here.

There was still singing, dancing, laughter, pretending to be a peaceful scene.

There is a gloomy atmosphere in this painting style. Even if the bonfire shines in the sky, it can't drive away this cold feeling that makes people feel chilly.

Jin An paused slightly, then continued with a deep voice: "There is only one possibility. The entire Taoyuan Village knows the disadvantages of incest, so in order to ensure the survival rate and ensure that the village has enough food rations, they actively discard those who were born with congenital diseases. The mutilated babies, leaving only the healthy ones to ensure the population of the whole village.”

"The most indispensable thing in the deep mountains is hungry wolves, tigers and leopards. If you just find a place to throw them away, those babies will never survive a night."

"But there is one woman in the village who is an exception. She knows that both of her children are born with disabilities, but her compassionate heart as a mother allows her to save food rations, work hard all her life, and go through all kinds of hardships to raise a pair of children. This is a good example of a human being. Mother’s greatness.”

"It is precisely because of this that you are jealous. You are jealous of the kindness and happiness of the Shen family. You are jealous of not being able to see others well. It is jealousy that twists your hearts. You try every means to exclude the Shen family, who are incompatible with you. If you are a human being, When jealousy arises, countless evil virtues arise from it.”

"You first deliberately deceived Mr. Shen."

"Then I used capital punishment to execute the siblings Shen Qiu and Shen Shaolin, and they were transformed into human skins for you."

"You are both murderous and heart-wrenching."

"If you go by me, you all deserve to die, and none of you are innocent. You are all filthy and should be punished. The most innocent and pitiful people in the entire Taoyuan Village are only the three members of the Shen family."

Jin An's voice became more sonorous and powerful as he spoke. At this moment, his aura had completely reached its peak, and he was like a mountain standing between Shen and the villagers. When he finished speaking, he looked towards the bonfire.

All the words he said above were meant for the unfortunate pair of siblings.

Just after Jin An exposed the evil obstacles that happened in Taoyuan Village, the villagers who were talking, laughing, holding hands and dancing around the bonfire suddenly all fell to the ground.

Phew, the dark wind suddenly rose, and Taoyuan Village turned into that desolate dead village again. A group of dead people with headless corpses were singing and dancing around the pole with male and female skin flags and drums.

The clan leader and other villagers around Jin An also turned into headless dead people.

Headless Corpse Feast! Appear!