Daxuannv's sentence

Chapter 96
The north wind outside the door made the holes in the room whistling, but the whispers inside the door seemed to be buried in the wind.

"Exactly. More than 20 years ago, there used to be a village called Lujia Village on Fengbo Ridge. There were about [-] people in the village, and they lived and worked in peace and contentment. Most of them made a living by hunting. But on the day of Liqiu, the whole village was suddenly destroyed. The pack of wolves in the ridge attacked, thirty or so people died, and all of them were eaten by wolves!"

"Wolf?" Zhu You paused, thinking of the pack of wolves on Ridge that day.

"Did they not resist? How could a group of hunters be eaten by wolves?" Ye Ke wondered.

Old Fengtou fiddled with the firewood in the stove with the stick in his hand, crackling, the wrinkles on his face were reddened by the fire, and said in a low voice: "Who knows, I heard that when the government arrived, there were already people in the village. A fire was ignited, and it turned out that there was a survivor, that person was a child, who seemed to have been frightened mad by wolves, and the fire burned the village with crazy ravings, and then he threw himself into the fire and died clean!"

Ye Ke suddenly thought of something and asked, "Where is the village?"

"What's the matter, young man, do you still want to see it? Don't go, the wolves on the mountain are fierce." After a pause, seeing the doubts in Ye Kede's eyes, he sighed and said, "That village is in the same place. It’s hard to find in the woods, there’s a very high slope there, and now you can’t see the houses, if there’s a hollow in the woods with a flat ground, it’s there!”

Zhu You got up suddenly, stared at Old Feng with scorching eyes and said, "Is it full of flat bamboo orchids?"

Old Feng was stunned and said: "Exactly, how did you know? Ah, you two have been there? You can't go there!"

"Why not?"

"Hey!" Old Feng said with gloomy eyes, "That place is haunted!"

These words can't frighten Ye Ke and Zhu You, what they are most afraid of are ghosts and gods, they just sneered and said: "I don't believe what the old man said, where do ghosts come from in this world?"

Old Feng seemed to be in a hurry and got up, "Young people don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth. Since then, there have been few people coming to the mountain, except for the occasional hunter who went to hunt some prey. According to the hunter, sometimes women's voices will be heard on the mountain." The screams and the man's wild laughter, this barren mountain, do you think it is haunted? It must be the ghosts in the village!"

The two of them were silent after listening to it. Seeing that it was getting late, Old Feng said: "You two should listen to a story, but don't go to that mountain, let's just stay here tonight." Then he said He went straight to a nearby ear room to rest.

After a slight snoring sound came from the ear room, Ye Ke looked at Zhu You who was guarding the stove and said in a low voice, "My lord, the screams on the hill"

"It should be the murderer who committed the crime there!" Zhu You's voice was slightly cold. "Compared there, it is indeed a good place to commit crimes. It has a vicious reputation, and no one dares to go there!"

Ye Ke pondered for a while, he instinctively felt that the murderer might have something to do with that village, but there was no clue so far, it was just a wild guess, she felt bored, so she got up, came to the hall, looked through the Looking at the docked corpses, three of them had just been placed here, and there was no dust on them.

Out of professional habits, Ye Ke opened the first corpse. It was a man with his eyes closed, about 20 years old, wearing coarse linen clothes, with an ugly face and a short stature.

Zhu You came to Ye Ke's side, "What's wrong?"

"The complexion is purple, the mouth and nasal cavity have dirty blood flowing out, the abdomen and back have sores, there are no redundant wounds all over the body, and there are m marks on the nails. He died of poisoning, arsenic!" Ye Ke flipped over the man's body, understating it. Then he looked at the man's clothing, shoulders and neck, and said with his legs: "It should be a turtle."

"Oh? How did you find out?"

Ye Ke pointed to the man's right shoulder and said: "The deceased was short in stature, his right shoulder was a little shorter than his left shoulder, his bones were deformed, his spine was slightly curved, and he showed signs of hunchback. Hey, the Gui Gong in the brothel has a mission, that is to send those brothel girls to the house of the client, the brothel girls have bound feet, so they can't walk fast, they carry the kiln sisters on their backs, that's why they got this title."

Zhu You has learned a lot again, and was about to ask a question, but when Ye Ke beeped in a low voice, as if very angry, about the damn foot-binding habit, the damn brothel, why aren't men being prostituted, etc., he didn't dare to go again come to grief.

Afterwards, Ye Ke looked at the other two corpses, and said in a deep voice, "Both are women, one has welts all over her body, bruised and purple, died of beatings, and the other died of abuse." Ye Ke didn't say too much, But Zhu You also understood that these two women are sisters in the kiln, and they just have a hard life. They met the client who had a special hobby, and died in the hands of those people.

Ye Ke's face was terrible and ugly, he looked at Zhu You and said, "My lord, one day, I will abolish this damn brothel habit!"

Zhu Youdao: "I'm afraid there are some difficulties. Even the capital has a Jiaofang Division, which belongs to the imperial court. Brothels have existed since ancient times, and the resistance may not be small."

"Is it reasonable to have it since ancient times? Why is it right for men to be polygamous, and if women are polyandrous, they are sluts? You men have the final say on the moral rules all the time. Why are men superior to women? Women Is your life not your life?" Ye Ke threw out a series of questions with a sullen face, and blasted Zhu You into a mess.

He stood there, speechless for a long while, but finally he only whispered aggrieved: "I'm not going to the brothel."

Seeing his aggrieved appearance, Ye Ke was a little discouraged. After getting along these days, she also knew Zhu You's upright temperament. She just saw the three corpses and felt a little angry in her heart. Then she said softly: " Excuse me, my lord, I was only momentarily angry."

Seeing that Ye Ke's face softened, Zhu You said: "Sister-in-law, I only love one person in my life, and I only marry one person. I have seen too many women's miserable experiences in the past few years as an official, and I also want to change, as long as it is your decision. , I will fully support it.”

"My lord, as long as these brothels exist, there will be women who will suffer. It's fine if they are voluntary, but as long as the court recognizes the existence of these places, then under the temptation of money, there will be people who will violently coerce women. Selling one's body is a crime." Ye Ke said.

"Then according to sister-in-law's meaning?"

Ye Ke looked at the night outside and said in a deep voice: "I met it, so I can't pretend that I didn't see it. Tomorrow, we will go to the smelly water street to see and see, and compete with those murderous dogs!"

(End of this chapter)