Chapter 24: The Truth About Spider Village
"That's it." Tsuiko stopped under a tree outside the village.
"Master Tsuiko go to my house and sit down, and I'll make you a pot of tea."
"No, aren't you rebuilding the house, I won't bother and get down to business." Hee-hee, Cuizi should be afraid that they will be embarrassed if they are too enthusiastic.
"Don't bother, don't bother, it's going to be built anytime in the future, how can you be wronged?" The eldest brother is not only enthusiastic but also persistent, refusing to let Tsuiko stay in the wild. Cuizi couldn't find any excuses, I was about to laugh in my heart when I looked at it.
"Uncle, Cuizi is really anxious to find out what you said, so that she can save you, Lord Shen Ji." I'll help Tsuiko out of the siege. (Here, because the protagonist's body is a child.,In fact, it's a young man in his twenties.,So the title will change.γ οΌ
"What's wrong with Lord Shen Ji?!" The eldest brother's attention really shifted.
"We found out that there is evil in her, and we want to get rid of it, but it is too stubborn to know the root cause, otherwise she will be in danger." I made up a series of nonsense and said that the consequences were very serious, as long as I could coax him to do something.
"No wonder something was wrong with Lord Shen Ji just now, so it turned out to be like this, then I will tell you about that incident from beginning to end immediately."
Get! I fired a "How's it going, I'm good, right?" at Tsuiko. Praise me for being smart", Tsuiko was amused by me and gave me a thumbs up, a gesture I taught her. What the eldest brother said at the beginning was not the way out for what Aggie told us, and the spider was indeed the guardian of this place, but everything changed after the flood.
"We are guilty of this matter, and Lord Shen Ji should be angry." When the eldest brother spoke of the flood, it began to blur, and he seemed to sigh in his heart.
"IβI really regret doing that, and they regret it." The eldest brother's expression was genuinely remorseful, and he looked me anxious, what was the matter?
"Don't be nervous, tell me slowly."
The eldest brother breathed a sigh of relief, "The flood came suddenly, we were all defenseless, it was Lord Shen Ji who rescued us and placed us on the mountain, at that time, people were washed away by the flood, and finally they were all found by Lord Shen Ji, and in the end, no one in the whole village died in the flood." β
I was more and more curious about what made her hate these villagers, and I could think of it as something that hurt her so much that she couldn't forgive her for decades.
"Then she's really doing her best for you." Tsuiko came to a conclusion.
"yes, we were all very grateful to her at the time, and she told us that we could go home when the flood waters receded."
"Did the flood waters recede later?"
"It took three days and three nights for the flood to stop, but the water was still so high that the village was flooded, and we had nowhere to go, so we had to live in the mountains and in the caves, and the main thing was that we didn't have enough to eat. At the beginning, we all relied on the food brought by Lord Shen Ji to go out to satisfy our hunger, but there were so many people in the village that we couldn't eat at all, and it was difficult for us to say it in front of adults, for everyone to have a mouthful to eat, she was tired enough. After a few days, some people were really hungry and couldn't stand it, and while Lord Shen Ji was away, they went to the bottom of the mountain to find something to eat, but only one or two came back, and the others drowned because they didn't have much physical strength. β
Speaking of this, the big brother took out a cigarette and wanted to smoke, "You don't mind if I smoke a cigarette, right?" β
"It's okay for you to continue."
"Huh." Big brother clicked a few times and continued to recall, "Later, Lord Shen Ji knew that we were strictly forbidden to go out again in the future, and an enchantment was also set up, but in fact, we didn't dare. When the water receded completely, we went home happy, only to find that our homes had been destroyed beyond recognition, and most of our food and value had been washed away. Originally, our village was quite wealthy and Lord Shen Ji protected us, and our generations really didn't worry about food and clothing, and we didn't suffer hardships or hunger. The accumulated emotions erupted together, some people even hurt their former neighbors in order to snatch food, and some of them were put into infinity at this time, and then cursed and beaten. β
"Didn't anyone stop it?"
"Yes, the person who advises will be involved and become more complicated, and slowly no one will care."
"You Shen Ji don't care?"
"She also cares, but she made trouble again when she was gone, and she was about to give birth at the time, so she didn't have so much effort."
I was dumbfounded, "Having a baby?!" "What kind of child did she have? Did she give birth?!
"That's right, every messenger in our village was cultivated by the previous one, and when the child is raised to the age of five or six, he can fully accept the divine power and become an ordinary woman again, with his own name."
I've never heard her mention this, there don't seem to be any children around her, no, no, she was born fifty years ago and should be fifty years old now, a little old man, and she is ...... Wouldn't it, wouldn't it?! Could it be that Grandma Fuchun is her daughter?! Forehead drop god, no, no, no, no, it can't be too weird, I can't make up for it anymore or listen to the story.
"Didn't this child be born?" Tsuiko asked a crucial question, if their dispute at that time caused Aggie to have a difficult birth or something, it was indeed reasonable.
"I don't know about this." The eldest brother smoked more stuffy, but fortunately we sat in his upwind position in advance, otherwise we would have been smoked out of smoky makeup. "Lord Cuizi, what happened next is the reason why Lord Shen Ji resents us, we are not human, I, I want to think about what to say."
"Okay, we'll wait for you."
The eldest brother thanked him sullenly and continued to spit out the clouds, looking very depressed and ashamed, I rubbed next to Cuizi and bit her ear.
"It feels like he's going to say something particularly shocking."
"Compared with the change in Aji's attitude towards the villagers before and after, it may be more serious than we imagined, do you remember that Aji said that the villagers were only infected but did not become spiders?"
"Remember, so we thought those spiders were coming to attack us and almost got into a fight." I don't know why Aggie is hiding it from us now.
"That's right, so who turned them into spiders? He threw them into the swamp again. β
Isn't she the only one who can do this? "You're saying it's actually all done by Aggie!"
"I'm just guessing, her expression today is obviously unwilling for me to save them, plus she has this ability, let's listen to what he has to say."
"Tsuiko-sama, don't think I'm a bad person after listening to what I said, I'm truly repentant." The eldest brother turned his cigarette stick nervously, "After going down the mountain, the village will be ruined, the fields that have been flooded will not grow crops and grain, the children are hungry and crying, and the adults can carry it, but the women will not have enough milk if they can't eat, and the babies who are a few months old will starve to death." β
I can't experience that sense of despair without seeing it with my own eyes, and I've never really been hungry until now, except when I first came into this world, even in times of famine, Tsuiko always managed to get me to eat.
Lord Shen Ji dragged her body to the field every day to check, and she couldn't do anything, the power of the adults couldn't save the land. Later, she went to find a monk who could help, but this was the case everywhere at that time, and every time she went to ask them, they were either not there or they were too badly damaged to come. Dragged to the back, many people were so hungry that they couldn't walk and could only lie down, Lord Shen Ji saw that he couldn't live here, and decided to take us to find another home. β
Didn't Aji say that she invited the cultivators to save the villagers, how did she become a land saver again? Could it be that she invited another time when something happened to the villagers?
"We have lived here for generations, and no one wants to leave, but when we see our loved ones who are still alive, we don't want to die. The night before we decided to leave, several villagers fell ill, and we thought it was caused by hunger and didn't pay much attention, but the next day many people developed this symptom, and the plan to move was delayed. β
"Originally, Lord Shen Ji had already found a good place, and he planned to let those who could still go go first, but every family has someone lying down, and no one will care about it this time, and it will definitely die, so there are not many people who agree, so it didn't work."
"After a few days, almost the whole village fell ill, and Lord Shen Ji was about to give birth again, and he didn't have much time to take care of us, and everyone was desperate because of the illness. One day, when she came to take care of us, a villager was delirious and bit the adult, but the adult didn't say anything, just went back to bandage the wound. β
"That person ate the flesh and blood of the adult and actually got better quickly, which made everyone's hearts begin to waver, and everyone was struggling to think, as long as a little bit of the flesh and blood of the adult can cure the disease, it doesn't matter at all, isn't the adult just protecting us, she will definitely not refuse."
Hearing that this can no longer be described as creepy, I thought of the movie "Resident Evil", only inhuman creatures can do such unconscionable things, not to mention that Aji is so good to them, how can they think so?!γ
"How could she let you do this, as long as she thinks you can't do it." yes, she can escape with just a few spells.
"She was giving birth at the time, and every adult is the weakest time when she gives birth, because we want to pass on the power to the next generation, we didn't know it at first, and knelt outside and begged her to give us a little blood. She didn't agree with us, and we didn't dare to break in, so we kept kneeling. Until we smelled the smell of blood wafting from inside, we were shaken again, and inside was the hope of saving the whole village! β
"I don't know who went in first, we were like being lured by the devil and hugged up, and when we reacted, we saw Lord Shen Ji lying in a pool of blood with hatred in his eyes, we were scared, and we crawled away. Finally, a strong wind blew in the place where Lord Shen Ji lived, and I heard the adults roaring angrily, and then my stomach suddenly became very hot and swollen, and it was like something was about to grow in my skin, and I fainted in pain and didn't know what happened for decades. β
This is the truth of Spider Village, the cruel truth, which is more shocking than the corpses I once saw all over the mountains. Aji, she was eaten alive and betrayed by the people she guarded, what was Aji's mood at that time, was she crying and begging them not to do this to her when the villagers were frantically biting, was she desperately trying to give birth to the child safely. We are not her, we can't empathize, and we can't blame her for what she's doing.
"It's already very clear, after you offended Shen Ji, she turned you all into monsters and imprisoned you in the swamp out of resentment, and used a fog barrier to prevent you from coming out, maybe those cultivators who rejected her were also deliberately invited by her to retaliate, and she has been dominated by hatred."
"I also guessed, this is what we deserve, as long as we can make Lord Shen Ji forgive us, we are willing to do anything!"
It's not something that can be forgiven by simply apologizing, and no one has the right to ask her to do it.
"You go back and settle everyone first, don't rush to beg her for forgiveness for the time being."
"But Mistress Tsuiko, if you don't tell her in time, will she think that we have no remorse?"
"She won't see you if you go, so let's wait until we go and see how she's doing."
The eldest brother felt that it was appropriate, "I'm going to trouble you again." β
After we were left, I asked the doubts in my heart, "The whole village seems to have not turned into a spider because Grandma Fuchun has not turned into a spider, do you think it will be because she helped Aji at that time and saved her and the child that she was not retaliated against." "What I want to say is that the two of them are a couple, so Aggie let her go, but no matter what the reason, as long as what I think in my heart is true, so that Aji finally has someone who treats her sincerely.
"If you are rescued, how can you take revenge immediately, rain, it is right to have good in your heart, but you can't be too naΓ―ve to ignore the facts."
"Then, how to explain Grandma Fuchun's affairs, isn't she also a human being?"
"She's a human being, I guess she helped Shen Ji when he was in danger, but it's just useless."
I thought of this possibility, too, but embellished it anyway.
"There's no mutation here, there's a human."
"And?" I thought back carefully to the creatures I had seen along the way, except for the spiders, Aji and Grandma Fuchun, there were no other creatures.
"Do you remember when we first entered the village and met a very dirty old man?"
"Is that the farmer who talks and walks so strangely?"
"yes, he was very close to us at the time, so I immediately concluded that he was human."
"Who else can get Aggie to let him go? Could it be the one who saved her? β
"There are two possibilities, one is the father of the child, but looking at his delirious and crazy appearance, he has not had a good time in the past few decades, maybe he didn't help or hurt her at that time, and Aji just spared his life because of his special status."
"That makes sense, but what about the other possibility?"
"Another possibility is that he was the first person to bite Aggie, so Aji wants to make him worse than dead."
"Hmm...... It's also possible. β
"Which one do you prefer?"
"I'm more inclined to the first one, the old man's appearance is sloppy but not too hurt."
Tsuiko nodded, as I thought. The only thing left is to settle their previous grievances, and now they only hope that the child is still alive, no matter what way, if not, it is impossible to resolve it, either you die or I live. I didn't discuss the child with Tsuiko, and Tsuiko didn't take the initiative to mention it, but I had a hunch that Tsuiko was the same as I expected, and she wanted to be "naΓ―ve" again.