Xiao An was stunned when he heard the name of the Infant Corpse Tower, "Infant Corpse Tower?" What's that? ”

Jing'er sighed and said, "Since ancient times, the phenomenon of preference for sons over women has always been the norm, even in modern times, from the earliest mention of equality between men and women, to later feminism, are the contradictory embodiment of equality between men and women, from ancient times to the present, both men and women have their own opinions, arguing, in fact, what is needed now is the balance between men and women, but the fact will always be like a certain side to fall, in the past, men were inferior to women, and now women are inferior to men, it is not easy for women to live in the past, and now men are carrying too much." ”

Xiao An: "What are you feeling?" I said what is the Infant Corpse Tower! What do you mean by equality between men and women? ”

Jing'er: Of course it has something to do with it, it was recorded in the divination of ancient China! The ancients regarded giving birth to a male as a good person, and giving birth to a female person as not a good person! I'm not a woman, but I'm a woman! I also think it's so unfair to women! ”

Xiao An looked surprised: "So what does it have to do with the Infant Corpse Tower?" ”

Jing'er: "The existence of the Infant Corpse Tower is because of the inequality between men and women!" During the Qing Dynasty, the idea of male superiority and female inferiority reached its peak! That's when the Infant Corpse Tower appeared! As the name suggests, it is a tower that discards babies, because the previous social definition of women was the appendage of men! Foot binding, you know! To put it bluntly, it is also a sacrifice, but it is only a sacrifice in the sense! ”

Xiao An saw that Jing'er was getting more and more excited, so he echoed: "Sacrifice in the sense? ”

Jing'er "In ancient times, women who had not given birth to boys were not able to attend weddings, which made women feel aggrieved at that time, in this environment, if some women gave birth to girls with children, then mothers and daughters would even be despised and bullied by their fathers! Moreover! If you can't give birth to a boy, you keep giving birth, and then there are more and more girls, more and more! But too many girls can't support them, so they can only give them away, and their ruthless parents simply abandon them! Under the ideology of feudal society, the incidents of female infanticide were endless, and finally the imperial court even issued a law that if there were too many female babies, their parents would need to drown! It's drowning!! At least more than ten provinces and cities in the Qing Dynasty had the phenomenon of drowning female babies! In 1659, the inspector Zuodu Yushi Wei Yijie reported that Fujian, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and there were many cases of drowning women, and they were repeatedly banned, hoping that the imperial court would come forward to solve it! But in the end, the court ignored it. ”

Xiao An suddenly vaguely felt that something was wrong, and said in his heart, could it be that all the corpses in the infant corpse tower were female corpses? But Xiao An didn't say it, but continued to listen to Jing'er.

Jing'er "Later, when she came to the Republic of China, although the phenomenon of drowning women has decreased, there are still people, you know Lu Xun!" As he writes in "Huagai Collection: Not Gossip (II)": "There are still 'spoiled women' in some parts of China, just because it is expected that they will always be unproductive in the future. "It's enough to see how rampant the drowning of women was at that time! How ruthless were parents at that time who could throw their newborn baby girl into the water and drown her alive, or suffocate her to death with a quilt? Speaking of this, Jing'er even choked up a little.

Jing'er sighed, "I remember in the late Qing Dynasty, some foreign priests stationed in China couldn't bear it, so they would put a small basket on the bank of the river or the bank of the pond, hoping that people could put the unwanted baby girl in it. And not just drowning! According to a large number of historical documents, the phenomenon of drowning or suffocating children only happens to girls, only girls! There has never been a record of boys being tortured to death! In fact, it's just that the gender is not favored by the family, and it won't be like this, taking a step back, if the family can't afford to support it, then why did you have it in the first place? The root cause was the poor productivity at the time! Men are more productive, but women are insufficient! For example, during the period of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, there was such a law, which stipulated that if a girl still did not marry when she reached the age of fifteen, the family would be fined 600 yuan, which means that the value of women is to have children! So if you don't get married, you have to be fined, and many poor people have never seen 600 yuan in their lives, and this 600 money is enough to crush a family. Therefore, most people will find an in-law for their daughter as early as possible. And this law was born to stimulate population growth, so as to generate more labor and drive economic development, and women in ancient times became victims of politics! ”

Xiao An looked at what Jing'er said endlessly, and interjected in a low voice: "Then let me ask, what do you want to say?" Let's stop talking about it at length, let's talk about what's going on? ”

Jing'er sighed, "Well, the killing of baby girls by people at that time reached an extreme!" If the body of the baby girl is not disposed of, it will also bring a lot of problems, so later, someone built a Yizhuang Tower, which is the Infant Corpse Tower! If a baby girl is born, she will be put into a tower of corpses and left to fend for herself! ”

Xiao An gasped when he heard this, "Fend for yourself? Isn't that like a direct kill? ”

Jing'er: "Yes, the greatest love of parents for those baby girls at that time was to use a basket to gently put the baby girl into the infant corpse tower, and at that time, the parents of that era were the last tenderness for the baby girl. After a long time, the baby corpses are too full, so I will find someone to burn them! Some of the baby's parents really "can't bear" to discard their own children, so they spend dozens of dollars to let others do it for them, and then there is even a special occupation for collecting babies, they will push the cart to "collect children", and then transport them to the abandoned baby tower to discard, incinerate, when the birth rate is high, they have to burn once every 3 days. ”

Xiao An nodded heavily in his heart, "No wonder the resentment is so strong!" After that, Xiao An listened to Jing'er's accusation, and walked towards the bamboo forest, and soon Xiao An saw those dense infant spirits, they were huddled together, as if they were warming each other, and they got out and went in, and Xiao An's scalp was numb!

At this time, a man with a bamboo stick on his back and wearing loose clothes came to Xiao An, "This fellow Daoist, don't go on!" ”

Xiao An looked at the visitor and asked, "Are you a member of the Green Bamboo Sect?" ”

The person who came looked at Xiao An, "Exactly!" Dare to ask Dao Friend is ......"

Xiao An: "Oh, I'm sent by the Demon Burial Sect!" ”

As soon as the visitor heard about the Burial Demon Sect, he put down the bamboo stick in his hand, clasped his fists with both hands, and bowed deeply, "It turns out that he is a disciple of the Burial Demon Sect!" We've been waiting for a long time! Come on, this way, please! ”

Xiao An nodded: "Don't worry!" I'll take care of this first! "Anyway, he stretched out his hand and threw out the soul binding chain, and used his cultivation to overtake these infant spirits! As soon as the infant spirit came into contact with the soul-binding chain, it instantly turned into a point of light and rushed to the direction of the land temple, leaving behind all the crystal clear ghost bones, Xiao An's other hand was bright, and the ghost bones were all absorbed by Xiao An! In just a few tens of seconds, many infant spirits were absorbed by Xiao An's ghost bones! Xiao An said to the doorman of the Green Bamboo Sect, "Let's go!" ”

After walking for a while, Xiao An saw a high-rise building surrounded by green bamboo, although this high-rise building seems to be a concrete building, it is in harmony with the surrounding bamboo forest, and it looks like a fairyland.

Xiao An walked into the building, the building is also a very quiet environment, the door of the Green Bamboo Sect took Xiao An to a house, the guard at the door opened the door, and there was a man dressed in sackcloth sitting inside, the man looked like he was in his fifties, and he was holding a green brush and frowning at something, and the door man reported that "by the head of the door, the people of the Demon Burial Sect have arrived!" ”

When the man heard this, he quickly stood up and looked at Xiao An, and the moment he saw Xiao An, the man was surprised, "Young Master!" How did you come here in person? After that, he hurriedly stepped forward and held Xiao An's hand, "Young master!" I am the head of the Green Bamboo Sect, and I am in trouble, please help! ”

Xiao An: "I already know about the bamboo forest, the problem is relatively long, I won't talk about it, what about your disciples?" Take me there! ”

As soon as he opened the room, he saw seven people, all seven of them were lying on the hospital bed, their faces were gloomy and their expressions were painful, Xiao An saw more clearly, each of these people was wrapped in a layer of black gas! This black qi is the resentment of 100,000 infant spirits! Xiao An sighed deeply and stretched out his hands! Absorb all the grievances that are wrapped around the bodies of the seven people!

The faces of the seven people changed for the better in an instant, and a few of them even woke up directly, and the head of the sect saw that Xiao An's means were so clever and couldn't believe it, "The young master is really a good method!" Is that all right? After checking the situation of the doormen one by one, he found that there was indeed no abnormality, and said to this Xiao An, "I admire it!" Admire! ”

Xiao An: "It's nothing, just help you solve the problem, the boss, I'll help you deal with things, but I also hope you can help me do one thing!" ”

"Don't say one thing, young master, it's a hundred, a thousand things, I promise it!" You've saved my doorman! I'll promise you everything! ”

Xiao An: "What made your disciples suffer from this is a group of infant spirits, they died tragically because of the ancient vices of male superiority and inferiority, so they are extremely resentful, and it is also destined to be touched by you, I hope you can build a mourning temple in the place where something happened, and pay tribute to those tragic death of baby girls!" ”

By the head of the "Okay! Young Lord! The little ones will do it! After saying that, Xiao An smiled and patted the head of the house's shoulder, and disappeared.

The head of the sect also sighed when he saw Xiao An disappear, and immediately said to his subordinates, "Come on, immediately find someone to build a consolation temple where the accident happened, you must make it clear that this temple is built for those infants who died tragically!" Hear no! ”

The other doormen of Luzhumen also thanked Xiao An and willingly "helped" Xiao An, so they also shouted in unison, "Yes!" ”