After coming to Dali Temple, the night became thicker, the sunset fell in the forest, and the last afterglow was swallowed up by the night.

Sang Huai'an strode in a hurry, Mai Jiu followed behind with some difficulty, and when she saw that the distance was slowly widening, she trotted directly.

Dali Temple dungeon

Mai Jiu covered her nose and walked on the stone road, as soon as she entered, she was shocked by the cold environment of the dungeon, she shrank in fear and followed Sang Huai'an closely.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw one after another dirty, unclothed prisoners lying on straw mats, covered in scars, and the sound of rats squeaking in her ears from time to time.

Some prisoners saw someone come in and dragged their aching bodies to the cell door, stretched out their hands and waved them up and down, their voices weak, and shouted that they had been wronged.

The resentful voice reached Mai Jiu's ears, and she grabbed the corner of Sang Huai'an's clothes and closed her eyes directly.

The dungeon was windy, and she felt the hand reaching out of the dungeon as if it were desperately reaching her feet and neck.

Sang Huai'an noticed the change in the person behind him, he pulled his arm back and took Mai Jiu into his arms, and the two walked in the dim dungeon so intimately.

Mai Jiu could clearly feel that the shouts around him were a little louder than just now, and some prisoners even shook the cell door desperately, screaming and calling.

Almost at the end of the dungeon, Sang Huai'an and the others stopped, and Mai Jiu opened his eyes and saw Daddy Yan in the big guy.

Father Yan's hair was disheveled and disheveled, and he was completely different from what he usually saw, he was leaning against the wall, his eyes were blank.

When Father Yan saw the prince standing outside the prison, he quickly stood up with his body propped up, but his walking movements were very slow.

After walking in front of Sang Huai'an and the others, Father Yan knelt down and kowtowed respectfully: "The grass people see the prince." ”

At this time, I heard rapid footsteps from behind, and I saw Liu Shaoqing trotting all the way.

Liu Shaoqing stopped at Sang Huai'an's side, he gasped and wiped the sweat on his forehead, and after a while, Liu Shaoqing straightened up and saluted: "The lower officials participate in the prince, the princess." ”

Hearing the word princess, his father raised his head slightly, he squinted his eyes slightly and saw the woman standing behind the prince, and he faced the woman who said that he would give twenty taels to save his family in his mind.

Sang Huaian looked at Liu Shaoqing and nodded.

Liu Shaoqing glanced at Father Yan, and Father Yan quickly lowered his head when he saw that there was a look at him.

"Lord and princess, why don't you two come here to inform the lower officials, the dungeon is damp and dark, so as not to dirty your thousand bodies, and the lower officials will send someone to interrogate Hu someone."

There was another sound of rustling next to her, and Mai Jiu vigilantly checked the soles of her feet, for fear that a mouse would suddenly appear at her feet.

Mai Jiu was still lifting his feet from side to side with his hem, always feeling that there was something strange at his feet.

Sang Huai'an said calmly and steadily: "No need, it's too late outside, ask some questions, and the king has to rush back to the house for dinner." ”

Liu Shaoqing replied again and again: "Yes, yes, yes." ”

Sang Huai'an stretched out her hand and patted Mai Jiu, Mai Jiu understood, she lifted her hem up and bent her knees and squatted down slowly, there was some sewage on the ground, she didn't want to stain her clothes.

She looked at her father and asked in a steady voice: "Your child has a permanent personality since he was a child, he is easily provoked, accompanied by masochistic tendencies, and sometimes he will hurt others. ”

Mai Jiu continued, speaking unhurriedly: "When you were young, you discovered his masochistic behavior, you thought it was because of his intellectual problems, and you had carefully enlightened him, and then you found out that he liked small birds and often went to the forest to hunt a few and came back, but..."

Speaking of this, Mai Jiu paused, she was observing Father Yan to prove whether what she said was right or not.

By the dim candlelight of the dungeon, Mai Jiu could clearly see the beads of sweat left on Daddy Yan's sideburns.

Mai Jiu continued with what he had just said: "However, you can always find the corpses of the birds near the yard, those... All of them were pinched to death by Yan'er or... Broke his neck. ”

Liu Shaoqing leaned forward and stared at Mai Jiu, his face was shocked, his mouth was slightly open, and Sang Huai'an, who was beside him, was calm and calm, holding his hands behind his back and smiling in confusion.

Mai Jiu moved his feet to make himself squat more comfortable: "Xi'er, you should be no stranger." ”

Father Yan still lowered his head and didn't make a sound.

Seeing that Father Yan didn't speak, Mai Jiu continued: "Yan'er almost killed Xi'er, is all this too cruel for a child who looks seven or eight years old, but these are real things, right." ”

Mai Jiu's hand touched Sang Huai'an's calf, and then grabbed the hem of Sang Huai'an's clothes.

Sang Huai'an looked down, only to see Mai Jiu wrinkling his cheeks and saying, "No, my leg is numb, you quickly drag me up." ”

Sang Huai'an rolled his eyes, and the cat's waist reached out and pulled Mai Jiu.

Mai Jiu stood up, she gently beat her calf and continued: "After these things happened, Yan'er didn't care, she didn't have a trace of remorse, but felt that the other party was stupid and deserved it. ”

Liu Shaoqing looked at the prince with a dull gaze, and he opened his mouth in a wooden voice: "Princess, this is... Where do you know this? ”

Sang Huaian turned his head slightly, his expression was smug as if he was showing off to others, isn't my daughter-in-law very good!

The calf was no longer numb, Mai Jiu straightened up and stomped his foot: "Actually, this is a disease, a mental illness, the cause of the disease has been unknown, but what can be known is that this disease is related to genetics and living environment." ”

In fact, these were all guessed by Mai Jiu, she looked down at Father Yan who was a little trembling, and the person in front of her didn't look like he had a history of mental illness.

Mai Jiu turned his head to look at Sang Huai'an, and Sang Huai'an also turned his head to look at Mai Jiu, and he nodded slightly.

Mai Jiu mustered up the courage to speak out his thoughts: "Actually... Yan'er's mother is not dead. After speaking, Mai Jiu turned his head to look at Father Yan.

Hearing this, Father Yan collapsed directly to the right on the straw mat, looking at Father Yan's reaction, Mai Jiu knew that he had guessed correctly, and Yan'er's mother was not dead at all!

Father Yan closed his eyes and sighed deeply, he knelt down again and slowly told this secret that had been buried for twenty-four years.

Yan'er's mother's name is Sihe, which means missing the seedlings, which is the name given by the goddess to imply that the crops in the village are thriving.

Sihe's family used to live in a village, and late one night, her mother brutally murdered five people next door, and returned home covered in blood, walked to the bedside and gently coaxed Sihe, who was only eight years old, to sleep.

On the second day, the tragic death of the neighbor was immediately discovered, and the whole village was blocked at the door of Sihe's house, and the villagers also invited the goddess to come to practice, saying that there were evil spirits and evil ghosts in the house.

Sihe's father hid in the house and didn't dare to come out, so her mother ran out to explain, saying that it was not like this, and that she did not kill anyone.

As soon as she went out, she pointed to her nose and said that this woman had been possessed by evil ghosts, and directly splashed Si He Niang's chicken blood, and she was chanting words and dancing and doing spells.

After the spell was completed, the goddess said "The evil ghost has gone" and hid aside, and the people all crowded into the small courtyard of Sihe's house when they heard this.

Si He Niang died in the fire, she was tied up by the villagers, and she was also set on fire by the villagers.

Sihe and her father were driven out of the village and drifted around, and after three years her father abandoned her and flew away.

Sihe begged all the way to the capital, and she had no family and no support for begging in the capital.

After that, she met Yan's father, and the two lived together, and the happy and sweet life was broken by Yan'er's arrival.

Sihe gave birth to Yan'er after using all her strength, and when she was close to falling unconscious, she wanted to see her son, and after a glance, she stretched out her hand to Yan'er's small neck in a daze.

In one year, Yan'er, who had just come to the world, experienced four deaths.

The first time, he was almost strangled to death by his mother when he was born.

The second time, lying on the bed, he was almost gnawed off by a rat.

The third time, he just crawled and fell from his bed to the ground and broke his head.

The fourth time, I had a fever that burned for five days, and finally burned out my brain.

Sihe, as his mother, doesn't care about it, huddles in the corner of the house every day, and thinks about it, saying that Yan'er looks very much like her mother.

Yan's father couldn't stand it anymore, he took Yan'er and quietly moved into the rocky road of the capital, and Liusihe was alone in the village on the edge of the city, occasionally visiting, whenever people asked about him, they said that Yan'er's mother died of childbirth when she gave birth to him.

It's been twenty-four years, and Yan'er looks more and more like Sihe, and Sihe has been crazy for twenty years, and he has forgotten that she once had a child.

As Yan'er grew up, Yan's father became more and more afraid, and after Yan'er almost strangled the next neighbor's child to death, he realized the seriousness of the matter, and he no longer dared to let Yan'er go out.

After that, Yan'er was irritable and began to smash things in the house, and whenever Yan'er fell ill, Yan'er's father whipped Yan'er with a whip, which was the only way he could think of.

After beating a few times, Yan'er tried to restrain himself when he was afraid, and he didn't smash things, and sat in the courtyard every day looking at the birds on the eaves.

Seeing that Yan'er became so obedient, Yan's father made a wheelchair and pushed him every time he went out, afraid that he would hurt others, so he tied Yan'er's legs with a rope, afraid that Yan'er would untie the rope and tie the rope a little more complicated.

Late one night, Father Yan turned over and saw Yan'er who was looking at him intently, he was startled, but no matter how Yan'er was called, there was no reaction.

This situation lasted for a long time, and Yan's father was afraid, he was afraid that one day after falling asleep, a pair of hands would reach for his neck.

After that, he did everything possible to find cartilage, and he couldn't bear to kill Yan'er, which was his own flesh and blood.

He thought that as long as Yan'er couldn't move, there was no way to kill him, and he was willing to take care of Yan'er for the rest of his life.

After saying this, Father Yan knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the three people outside the prison door and said, "Yan'er is dead, and the grass people implore the prince to put the grass people to death, so let the grass people go with Xiao'er." ”

Walking out of Dali Temple, the moon in the sky has been hung high.

Mai Jiu sat on the horse, Sang Huaian waved the reins gently, and the horse slowly walked forward.

After leaving Dali Temple, Mai Jiu was speechless all the way, what was she thinking, everything that Yan Dad said just now seemed to be very reasonable, but it felt full of holes...

Today's questioning was a little too smooth, and it can't help but make people doubt the authenticity of the matter.