"I—I don't understand this," Lao Ma touched the back of his head innocently, "There is still half an hour to come, and I will take you to Changshou Village for a while." ”

"Okay." Su Zhiyuan returned to the carriage.

The sound of horses' hooves is unusually clear on country roads.

The old man at the entrance of the village greeted the old horse happily: "I'm back!" ”

"Uncle Ma, Uncle Ma." Three or two children circled the old horse.

"Don't make trouble, there are guests in Uncle Ma's car!"

When the old man heard that there was a guest, he shouted at the child to play aside: "The big baby and the second baby are playing at the same time, don't bother your Uncle Ma." ”

The old horse drove the carriage to the gate of his yard.

"Daddy." A boy of five or six years old ran out of the yard.

Uncle Ma picked him up.

Ruyi came down first, and Su Zhiyuan immediately lifted the curtain and jumped down, and then turned around and hugged Banxia down.

Uncle Ma's son hid in his father's arms and watched them secretly.

Banxia's face is hot...... But the face is painted black, and I can't see it. Uncle Ma's wife came out of the house.

"This is my lady, Chun Niang," Uncle Ma introduced to Su Zhiyuan and the others, and then said to Chun Niang, "These are a few of my guests, this little brother is a scholar, ask me to take them to Changshou Village to have a look." ”

The two sides greeted each other, and Uncle Ma said enthusiastically: "Now that the sun is shining, why don't you rest at my house first?" ”

Su Zhiyuan refused with a smile: "We have to rush back at night, we have other things." ”

Uncle Ma's son Xu hasn't seen him for a long time, holding him and refusing to let go, Uncle Ma is in a dilemma.

Su Zhiyuan said: "Multiple children are fine. ”

Chunniang walked over: "Bao'er, come to my mother's place first, and my father will come back to play with you later." ”

Bao'er looked at her father, then at her mother, and came down sensibly.

A group of people wandered along the path, and as far as the eye could see, there were all thatched houses, only a few good families had built earthen houses, not to mention the blue brick houses, there were none.

The villagers who were farming in the fields saw Uncle Ma greeting him warmly, and when they saw Su Zhiyuan and others, they showed curious eyes.

Su Zhiyuan was the first to speak: "How is this year's harvest?" ”

Speaking of this, the villagers are all bitter: "Don't mention it, the hard-earned grain has been destroyed by the flood." ”

"Yes," someone chimed in, "the autumn harvest will be in a while, and I hope God will be merciful, and there will be no floods." ”

"Didn't Lord Zhizhou come up with a solution to the flood?" Someone said.

An old man waved his hand: "I didn't toss before, you see, what's the use, what should I do!" ”

"But Lord Zhizhou is a good official, my son is digging Fushou ditch, and he can get hundreds of Wen a month!"

Su Zhiyuan looked at it, and the person who spoke was actually Zhang Laohan, who was about to kneel at the registration office last time.

Zhang Laohan's words resonated with many people, and the people praised Lord Zhizhou one after another.

Otherwise, the two of them came to Changshou Village on a temporary basis, and Banxia would have thought that it was arranged in advance.

"Boy, where is your home?" Zhang Laohan asked Su Zhiyuan.

"I passed by Qianzhou and wanted to see the cultural features here."

"What's beautiful here, what's not," Zhang Laohan looked at Su Zhiyuan, "Why do I look at you a little familiar?" ”

Su Zhiyuan smiled lightly: "It's the first time I've come to Qianzhou. ”

Someone laughed at Zhang Laohan: "Is it possible that this is still your relative!" ”

Zhang Laohan smiled embarrassedly.

Uncle Ma took Su Zhiyuan and walked forward: "In front is Changfu Village, which is very close to our village. ”

A faint cry mixed with the autumn wind intermittently came into Banxia's ears: "What kind of sound is this?" ”

Su Zhiyuan stopped: "It seems to be a baby's cry." ”

Uncle Ma looked at the big pit in the dense jungle in the distance: "Don't go over there, the yin qi is heavy." ”

Banxia frowned: "Yin Qi is heavy!" Is it a dead man's grave? ”

Uncle Ma is hesitant.

Banxia lifted his footsteps and walked over there: "Then I'll see for myself." ”

Su Zhiyuan also followed, silent.

Seeing that he couldn't stop it, Uncle Ma said with a painful face: "That's the outcast pit!" ”

"Abandoned son!" Su Zhiyuan's words are particularly clear and forceful.

"Woo...... Woo woo...... "The cry was getting clearer and clearer.

Su Zhiyuan and Banxia glanced at each other, and walked towards the abandoned pit in tacit understanding. Standing on the edge of the abandoned pit, the probe looked in, bottomless, dark, even the warm autumn sun seemed to ignore this side, and the slightest light could not penetrate it.

Banxia shuddered, and the baby's cry became clearer, coming up from the black abyss.

"Xianggong, let's ......" Banxia's words were interrupted by a woman's scream.

A young woman stumbled in the distance, followed by a scolding old woman.

The young woman was dressed in white-washed, patched clothes, her hair was disheveled, her face was pale, and her eyes were distracted: "My child, my child, my mother is here, my mother is here." ”

The old woman chasing her pulled her back: "You come back to me, useless things." ”

As she spoke, she pinched the meat on her body with her hands: "The hen that can't lay eggs can't even give birth to a son, give me a roll home, shameful thing." ”

The young woman cried and her eyes were red, and she didn't know where she got the strength, so she broke free from her restraints and rushed into the pit without looking.

The old woman stood on it, and a barrage of filthy words erupted from her mouth.

After a while, a woman's hoarse voice came from under the pit: "My daughter, ahhh ”

Immediately after, there was a loud "bang", and there was a complete silence.

The old woman was still saying something ugly, and Banxia couldn't care about it, so she just looked at Su Zhiyuan: "Xianggong, let's go down and have a look." ”

Uncle Ma's words of persuasion became "I'll go with you too." ”

Ruyi didn't say a word and followed.

A few people climbed down the edge, stepping on some raised stones.

"Lady, be careful."

"Hmm."

Everything I saw at the bottom of the pit absolutely subverted Banxia's cognition, and the horror of people's hearts was not at all compared to the end of the world.

The bottom of the pit was full of corpses, all of them newborn children, the size of two palms.

Some of them hit the stones at the bottom of the pit when they threw them, and the blood flowed all over the ground and turned black and brown; Some of the corpses were decomposed, and their bodies were covered in maggots; Some of them had purple complexions and had not been dead for long......

Banxia saw the woman in Fangcai, her forehead was full of blood, and she was holding a baby girl in her arms.

Su Zhiyuan walked over, reached out and touched her nose and neck, and when he looked up again, the corners of his eyes were red, and his voice was hoarse: "Adults and children are dead......

No one spoke, and with this hellish scene, a chill poured into my heart from the soles of my feet.

Banxia said: "Let's look and see if there are any surviving children, didn't we hear the baby's cry?" ”