Episode 60: No Fee

The good wines that have been aged have been dug up. Although several people repeatedly shirked, they still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the mountain people. After about an hour and a half, a sumptuous supper was served. It's steaming, it's meaty, it's full of bells and whistles, and it's not like what you can have in this backcountry. Jun Aoyan was worried that they would have no surplus food to eat, but the enthusiastic mountain people told them not to worry even though they had open their bellies.

It's been a while since I got the meat of the Eight Classics. The hares, roe deer, and other unknown animals that look edible can be caught on the road, are dry and unpleasant. Although this mountain village is poor, there is still some sugar, salt, oil and vinegar. The few people who had just moved their muscles and bones finally reached out to the meat, trying to regain their strength with food.

Only Bai Ya sat there motionless. From just now to now, he has only eaten some food and drank two bowls of soup at most. His face was cloudy, and his mood looked unpredictable. Qi Huan was still chewing a piece of tendonous meat in his mouth, I don't know what part it was, it didn't taste like it was expected, and he couldn't swallow it all. He squeezed the meat to the side of his tongue, poked Bai Ya with his elbow, and asked:

"What are you thinking, eating? No hands. Aren't you hungry? ”

"It's fresh meat, isn't it?" With doubts in his eyes, Bai Ya turned his head and asked a grandmother next to him, "What meat?" Our Village...... Don't dare to be so extravagant and wasteful. ”

Grandma has a bad mouth, but she just chews on a leftover stick bone from her grandson and tastes it. Grandma smiled kindly and replied:

"It's the youkai you killed."

Qi Huan felt that this mouthful of meat suddenly burned his mouth. It happened to be stuck in the throat, and it was not swallowed or swallowed. Qi Huan coughed vigorously and spat the lump of flesh to the ground. A child suddenly came over and grabbed the piece of meat like a mouse, for fear that someone would come and grab it. He grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth, and immediately ran away. Qi Huan felt nauseous, I don't know if it was because of the child's actions or the meat itself. He's not the only one who eats and vomits. Jun Aoyan was still holding a bone in one hand, and when he heard this, he was stunned for a long time. She felt her stomach tumbling over, and suddenly she threw off her bones and rushed to the grove next to her and vomited. Another child popped out from under the table and reached out to steal her bones.

"Ah, this ...... Not to your liking? ”

"No, it's okay, it's just a little unaccustomed. I may not have eaten meat for too long, and I eat it too violently at once......"

Qi Huan waved his hand violently, and it took a while to squeeze out the words from between his teeth. His Adam's apple was still rolling, trying to swallow back the nausea that had poured into his throat. He asked again vaguely:

"This ...... You're just, uh, everybody, all of you're eating this...... This kind of meat? ”

The rest of the people also thought in their hearts, preferring to understand this kind of monster and list it on the recipe of this village when they are not good. Unfortunately, this fluke was quickly defeated. Grandma still clicked her mouth, and said lightly:

"Yes, these monsters, usually come to the village, or just hang around the neighborhood. I've seen them eat people, but sometimes, the corpse is left there, which is to make us happy, kill casually, and hunt with the old men. Some people can't stand it and run away, according to me, as soon as they go out, the bones are gnawed, it's better to bump into the monster who is having fun, and the village can still collect a corpse. If they kill people, they will kill them, and when things are good, we can kill one or two monsters, it's not a big deal. Everyone rushed to eat it, and maybe who would be blessed. ”

"Blessing?"

What kind of blessing is it to open meat with monsters, this village is poor like this?

Qi Huan subconsciously glanced at Bai Ya, and he remembered a story. Jun Aoyan and Liu Shenghan probably hadn't heard of it, and he suddenly evoked bad memories. At this time, the owner of the memory had a calm face, his face was very bad, and he seemed to have a seizure in the next second. Grandma didn't pay attention, she glanced around a few times, approached them and beckoned: "Our village is in this realm, it must be regarded as inferior." But if you eat monster meat, if you can give birth to some divine power, it will be very different. Occasionally catch a big monster - oh, just like this one, on weekdays, women from the village are always asked to eat, and the divine power on the body must be more than that of the little monster. It's also a rare opportunity to drink more soup. Who doesn't want to climb up and be a good person? Originally, the village also set a trap, and it was all a trick to watch the sky and eat. Thanks to you, you have sent a great blessing, and it can be regarded as a harm for us. ”

She snorted at the meat on the table.

They wanted to throw up again. Bai Yatie's face was blue, as if he had returned to the wild mountain village when he was young, facing the people of the poor mountains, bad waters, and famine. And the people here are not even hungry, but for what seems to him to be a nonsense. "Ridiculous."

"It's true that monsters cannibalism can accumulate demonic power and change human form. But people can have demon power when they eat demon meat, but they have never heard of it. Even Liu Shenghan shook his head slightly, revealing a look of disagreement.

Grandma's wrinkled old face squeezed out a smile, her tone was very kind, hiding a trace of superiority and conviction, such as patiently explaining common sense to an ignorant child: "You don't know much about what is going on in this mountain. But in this village, there is such a benefit. You see, just run around that baby in front of you, white-haired, don't look at him without a father or mother, he can be considered a character in us. At the beginning, his mother gave birth to him and his sister in a fit of anger, and she was so hungry that she had no milk, so she stole the monster's milk and gave the two babies a big milk, and the child's eyes changed color. Where do you say ordinary people have green eyes? When you get older, you can't just eat milk. At that time, the village didn't know that the monsters were good, and there was less meat for hunting, and her man was long gone, not to mention that it was her turn, and not to rob her was considered an extra favor. The two mouths in the family are hungry, crying loudly, and there is no way to be a mother, so when you are not old, you will cut the flesh of the monster you killed. ”

Qi Huan secretly glanced at Bai Ya, who seemed a little stunned. No matter when or where such things are, they always happen repeatedly and repeatedly, and there is nothing to be done about it, and there is no blame. But how is the bitterness of a mother connected to the grotesqueness of a village? Faintly, the answer is coming out in everyone's heart. As far as the eye can see, on the long table that every household patches together in the open air, the original joyful atmosphere has changed in a blink of an eye. To the two of them, it looked like a group of hungry ghosts from the other world, vultures greedily tearing at fresh corpses with their sharp beaks.

"I didn't think about it, but let her beat it crookedly - then the girl starved to death, and I don't know where to bury it. The male doll pulled her bigger, and her body was stronger than other good children, and she was alive like a monster. He has been seen stealing people's fruits, stepping on the thinnest branches, and he is so steady that he is not talking. The little man was slippery like a loach, and the master finally caught him, wanting to teach him some lessons, but he didn't think about it, neither of them could hold him down, and let him break free without paying attention, and jumped on the roof and ran over, as smooth as the flat ground. His mother is also in charge, I heard that she has been trained, and she came to the door on a sunny day another day and told the master that the next day the sky will change greatly, and the fruit must be protected. She said that this was an apology, and scolded people and drove them away. I didn't think about it, the next day it was really a demonic rain, and it was about to blow the tree off. The master's family only half believed it, and when the village met her for advice, they realized that it was the little cub who said it. He's talked about the weather a few times since then, hey, one to say a yes. ”

They all listened quietly, but their hearts were not a good taste. Regardless of the source of this power, whether it is really the meat of youkai; Even if all this is true, in order to pursue power, do you have to move closer to youkai?

Jun Aoyan remembered the ominous sea area of the Yaksha, and the comfort of being at home at the bottom of the sea that he was extremely resistant to when he recalled. She had felt light, free from the pain of her illness, full of strength; I also saw how powerful Yasha was, and how agile he was, even being invulnerable. But when she saw such a strange and sick twisted power, she only felt sick, and she just wanted to resist and escape. What about these people, haven't they seen any ominous signs? Thinking so, she asked.

"It's not unlucky that things are not out of luck." Grandma probably said that there was no taste in her mouth, and she grabbed a piece of meat skin and smashed her slowly, so she couldn't start uncomfortably, "That unlucky child, jumping up and down all day long, thinking about one out is one out, no one can figure out what is tossing." He is different from other dolls, he can't get together, and it's not normal to look at it. You have never heard the child babbling, and he always listened to what he was talking about, and when he asked, he said that he was talking to the dead. Sometimes, when he was deceived by people who knew about the village, he would ask them what they had said to him, and he would say it in a straightforward manner, as if there was something like that. We ordinary people don't understand how long it is to guard against it. ”

She took a sip, and the sloppy skin and yellow hair slammed to the ground without a sound.

"It's just that his mother is in charge, and now it's troublesome - his mother went back into the mountain and didn't come back. What could it be? Ironclad is dead. Leaving that little thing, now that he is more than ten years old, no one dares to care about him, if he is entangled and provokes revenge, which one can stand it? I can only tell him in a good voice that he is now half a monster, the most inferior kind. He can stay in the village, because everyone tolerates him, tolerates him, and protects him, so he doesn't run around and cause trouble for everyone. I have been fooling around like this for two years, and who can say for sure what will happen in the future. It has to be lucky that there are no more people in the village, and it is good to be able to restrain him. ”

Several strangers were speechless for a moment, and they all saw obvious disgust and rejection on each other's faces. In their hearts, they still don't believe it. The child's body may have been boiled out by too many hard days, or it may be that the parents are physically strong. If it comes to predicting the weather, a few of them have been walking the rivers and lakes for a long time, and they can make some inferences.

As for the ghost psychic thing, it is better explained. Since he was a child, he has no partners, he has grown up alone, and there is the stimulation of the death of a loved one, how can a child's personality not have some problems. What's more, after losing their loved ones, they were prejudiced by these villagers, and they should be guarded against monsters, and they should also be guarded against "monsters".

Naturally, these are still subjective speculations based on limited information, just like the villagers' thoughts. All the water, soil, and customs of the Nine Heavens Kingdom were different from what they were familiar with. Even if Liu Shenghan understands more about the surrounding area of Xiangji Country. Whether or not this mysterious mine really has any power affecting the people and monsters here is not something they can say.

If you want to find out about the monsters here, you must ask the local monsters, and it will always be more reliable.

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