"You're saying that people are eating each other away in order to survive?!!" Li Xumu couldn't believe his ears and opened his mouth in surprise.

The rotten face lowered his head, and saliva dripped down his chin because he had no lips. My mind wandered in the famine winter of that year.

The rotten face man's original name was Luo Qing, but he was just an ordinary young man in Jinye Village. At this time, he had not yet broken his phase, and on this cold winter night, he filled the stove with some dry wood.

Luo Qing squatted by the fire and rubbed his hands to roast the fire, a headache that had been bothering him. There is not much food left at home, and for more than a week, I only eat one meal a day, a bowl of rice, and boiled wild vegetables in water. And most of the food was basically evenly distributed to Ah Fang, who had just given birth.

But even so, the undernourished Ah Fang has almost no milk, and the 6-month-old child is hungry every day. Some time ago, in desperation, he also slaughtered the guard dog at home to supplement his wife's nutrition. But now it has almost reached the point of desperation, and if it goes on like this, not to mention whether the child can be fed, even the adults can't hold on.

Luo Qing stood up, his eyes were black for a while due to weakness, and he held on to his head for a while before recovering. Picked up the jar where the grain was stored and shook it, making a crisp sound of rice hitting the wall of the jar. The remaining food was enough for the last night, and I could only cook some rice porridge for the child and Ah Fang.

The child was already asleep, Luo Qing looked at the curved neck, sighed softly, and his eyes revealed indescribable sadness. He gently kissed Ah Fang, who was lying on the bed, and put a bowl of steaming rice porridge on the edge of the bed.

Outside, it was cold and windy, snow covered the glass, and only a dim oil lamp brought a warm light inside. A sharp knock on the door woke Ah Fang up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Luo Qing sitting on the edge of the bed looking at the door vigilantly.

"Who's going to knock on the door at this late hour?" Fong sat up from the bed and wrapped the quilt over her shoulders.

"Don't move, I'll take a look." Luo Qing walked to the door with an oil lamp.

"Who's out there?"

Luo Qing heard a faint response from someone outside the house, but he didn't hear it clearly because the wind and snow outside the house were too loud.

Luo Qing cracked a small crack in the door of the house, and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes suddenly got in, and looked out from the crack in the door, and found that it was Wang Er next door.

Luo Qing lowered his guard and let Wang Er in. Wang Er lives next door, but just a few simple steps, the thick cotton jacket on his body has been covered with snow, Wang Er took off the felt hat on his head and dusted the snow on the ground, and said with a smile: "What kind of wind do you say this god is pumping, there is no rain in summer, resulting in a bad harvest for the banker, but it snows so heavily in winter, which makes us freeze and starve!" It's not going to be a good year! ”

Luo Qing didn't reply, he understood that Wang Er's purpose for coming so late must be to borrow food again.

"Wang Er, there is no food in our house, and I am also worried about what to do, so I can only go into the mountains to find food tomorrow." Luo Qing shook the empty jar, and finally comforted a few words, "With such a heavy snow this winter, next year is estimated to be a good harvest, there is no way, I can only be hungry for a winter." ”

That being said, no one could have imagined that in the next seven years, there would not even be a single snowfall. But that's another story.

Wang Er was not too surprised when he heard this, after all, every family is in short supply now, and it was not surprising for Luo Qing to say this, but Wang Er's expression was hiding something, Luo Qing saw his expression of wanting to speak and stopped, so he asked him what else was going on.

"Well... Is sister-in-law asleep? Wang Er lowered his voice.

Luo Qing frowned, feeling that Wang Er's visit this time was not just as simple as borrowing grain, but obviously there were other things. The two of them walked to a corner of the house and whispered to Wang Er, "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Er cleared his throat and hesitated, but he still leaned into Luo Qing's ear and said, "I have a way to get food, do you want to go together?" ”

Luo Qing saw a little strange, in such a snowy winter, where to get food is so simple, is it possible to plunder other people's resources? Looking at Wang Er's strange expression, he instinctively refused in his heart.

Wang Er hugged Luo Qing's shoulders and shook it, and said, "Brother, think about it, you are a person with a wife and daughter, you have a family to support, it doesn't matter if you starve to death, but can you bear to let a child suffer?" With such a heavy snowfall, what can you find tomorrow when you go hunting in the mountains? I'm afraid that if you don't find food, you yourself will freeze to death and starve to death! ”

Luo Qing touched his hungry stomach, a little shaken, but he wanted to listen to Wang Er's advice.

Wang Er's eyes revealed a dark light, and his voice was a little lower, "I began to wonder, there is such a shortage of food, why did Guo Dazhu and his family look so energetic all day long, and then under my repeated questioning, guess what?" They eat human flesh! It's the corpses in the pit that no one buried. I don't want to starve to death, it's too much to suffer every day, and if I starve to death, I'll be dragged into that pit and end up being food for someone else. This is unthinkable, so tonight, let's take advantage of the darkness to get some. I saw today that lonely old man Qi Tou was dead, and was pulled into that pit, and the flesh was fresh..."

Before he finished speaking, Luo Qing took two steps back in fright, looking at Wang Er in front of him with incredible eyes, unable to believe his ears. Hunger has pushed people to such a point?! Basic ethics have been lost...

"You go, I won't do this kind of thing with you." Luo Qing was no longer willing to look at the other party, and raised his hand to send off the guest.

Wang Er smiled, leaned forward, and said, "Do you think we are the only ones in the Golden Leaf Village who do this?" I'll tell you the truth, a lot of people are doing this kind of thing on the sly! Do you think Qiao Ye will stop this kind of behavior? Definitely not! Because their family is like that! In this world, you can't live without finding another way, and those are all people who have died, although this disrespects the dead, I think it's understandable that they see this below, after all, being alive is the king! ”

Luo Qing sat silently on the side, thinking about it and being terrified, imagining the scene of people eating people, and it was cold from his body to his heart.

"Go by yourself, why do you want to pull me?" Luo Qing replied.

"Aren't I also cowardly in the middle of the night, brother! Besides, it's more difficult to get it alone, so I'll discuss it with you! No, the most important thing is to keep your family from sinning! ”

At this moment the heart-piercing cry of the child was heard again in the room, apparently waking up from sleep due to hunger. Luo Qing listened to Ah Fang's voice coaxing the child, and his heart was mixed.

Seeing that Luo Qing was a little shaken, Wang Er hurriedly stepped forward and pulled him up, and began to further instigate: "Let's go!" Go with your brother, it's all temporary! God knows this tonight, you know and I know, and when we get through this winter, none of us will mention it again! I'm dying of hunger! I guess I won't be able to survive tomorrow night, can you bear to watch your brother die? ”

The child's cries one after another slowly broke Luo Qing's heart, and finally agreed to accompany Wang Er to the corpse pit.

put on a padded jacket, greeted Ah Fang, and walked into the cold wind and snow. Ah Fang hugged the child and didn't speak, looking at Luo Qing who gradually disappeared into the snowy night, as if he also understood what was going on, everything was in wordless acquiescence.

The two of them walked to the corpse pit in the cemetery with trepidation, and the wind stopped strangely at this time, only the snowflakes fell quietly. Luo Qing looked around, and there was only white snow around him, stretching into the endless darkness. Not a single one.

When the flashlight shone into the corpse pit, it was found that there were traces of turning, part of the snow covering the corpse had been swept away, and there were many messy footprints around it.

Seeing this scene, Wang Er greeted Luo Qing excitedly: "Look! I told you that a lot of people are doing this kind of thing! ”

Luo Qing didn't speak, and jumped into the corpse pit with Wang Er.

"This is the old Qi head! It seems that his body was not taken away! It's no wonder that this old man has little flesh on his body. The reason why I chose him is mainly because we knew each other well when we were alive, and we often drank and bragged together, I believe that after eating his meat, he should be able to forgive me for being a ghost, and secondly, this old man is a bachelor, no children and no daughters, even if things fail, no one will trouble us! And I know others, there are no infectious diseases on my body! Wang Er pointed to a ragged corpse.

Wang Er bent down and confirmed again, and silently recited the words of forgiveness to himself, I can't help it, grabbed the sleeve of the corpse, and stretched it hard, and found that this thin old man was surprisingly heavy.

"Brother come to help!"

Luo Qing was taken aback from his stunned expression, hesitated again and again, but still stepped forward to sweep away the snow, found the two pairs of legs of the old man Qi, pulled up the trouser legs, and worked hard with Wang Er, who was holding both hands.

It may be that there is a lot of snow piled up on the corpse, and the fact that he has not eaten for a long time is very weak, and the two of them can't move it out of the pit after tossing for a long time. Wang Er sat panting in the corpse, knocked on the old man's face, and made a crisp sound, and the whole corpse was frozen and hard.

"Why don't we take some of it?"

Luo Qing probably understood what Wang Er meant, and was stunned for a long time and couldn't say a word.

Wang Er looked at Luo Qing, who was hesitant, complained, and looked around for tools. Wang Er planned to cut off one leg and go back, but he came out of Luo Qing's house in a hurry and didn't carry any tools.

But this trip can't be in vain! Wang Er blew on his hand, and slowly lifted one of Old Man Qi's legs, looking also very nervous. After a few seconds, Wang Er roared to cheer himself up, raised his foot and stomped towards his knees, only to hear a sound similar to the breaking of a wooden branch.

A hairy calf was pulled out of the trouser tube, and Wang Er was also stunned, he didn't expect that in this low temperature environment, human bones would be broken so easily.

"Let's....let's go...."

Human flesh was made in Wang Er's house. After taking it home, the leg slowly thawed, and blood flowed out. Wang Er took out a kitchen knife and shaved his leg hair, stomped it indiscriminately, threw it into the pot, and boiled it with water.

Luo Qing sat aside, holding his head and not daring to imagine what he was doing now. After a while, there was a gurgling sound in the pot, and a strange fragrance wafted in.

Luo Qing hadn't smelled meat for a long time, and the more he endured, the stronger the feeling of hunger became. The empty stomach crushed the last vestiges of his willpower.

"I didn't expect... Human flesh is so fragrant..."Wang Er's expression was also confused, looking at the lid of the pot with bursts of aroma.

What kind of scene it was at that time, Luo Qing can't remember it now. Then he packed a bowl of broth and sent it back to the child and Ah Fang. I only remember that Wang Er picked up a foot at that time, and gnawed it up, and he said a sentence that is very fresh in his memory.

"This old man's feet are quite strong, and he can't chew it!"

Li Xumu couldn't calm down for a long time after listening to Luo Qing's story, he looked at Luo Qing's rotten face and couldn't say a word.

"Over the next seven years, things got worse and worse. Eating human flesh has become a well-known secret in Jinye Village. It's just that no one mentions it, no one says it. Luo Qing touched the sores on his face, and his two protruding eyes drooped down and said, "In such a village full of ugly crimes, do you think there is still a need to exist?" ”

Li Xumu glanced at the sleeping girl in the corner, and it was hard to imagine what it was like to live here all these years.

"You're going to kill everyone, how can you and Ah Fang do it alone?"

Luo Qing sneered, "Ah Fang has already gone to find Qiao Ye, and Qiao Ye, who is bent on burning Ah Fang, will inevitably summon everyone to come to the courtyard to execute the stake, but I have already sprinkled fuel oil around the courtyard in advance, and I only need a fire." Hehehe....This nightmare will be over. This fire is not only killing us, but also those sins that cannot be looked back on. ”

"We?!" Li Xumu clenched his fists, and heard that Luo Qing meant to die with the villagers. That means that this little girl and Ah Fang will also be buried in the flames of revenge. There is still Qiao Ye in this village, how did he force a person to be like this? Even one's own life and the most precious thing can be thrown into the plan of revenge. Li Xumu looked at Luo Qing's miserable face, and didn't dare to imagine what Luo Qing experienced later.

"I did the dismemberment of that girl! I did it to kill Qiao Ye's son and throw his body into the well! And I did the poison in the water! My goal is to sink the villagers into deep fear! Let them repent of all the sins they have done in the past! Do you just think all this is revenge on Qiao Ye?! You're wrong! I'm going to let the flames purify this place! ”

"It's all in the past! Even if it's revenge, why take so many innocent lives?! Including Ah Fong and your daughter?! Li Xumu's fists became tighter and tighter, and he knew that Luo Qing had lost his mind now and had completely become a madman who killed people without blinking. At this time, his strength has also recovered a lot, and if he is knocked down now, he still has a great chance of winning.

But then Luo Qing's words made Li Xumu let go of his fist, and he was stunned and stunned.

"Innocent? You mean the little girl? Heh, she's not my child. ”

Luo Qing's voice revealed resentment.