Business system: the gods save the world by opening a store

Chapter 96 The Mountain Ghost Prefers Women
"There is a disgusting habit in our small town. If the first child of every family is a daughter, they must be killed. The first child is not allowed to be a woman." The expression on Aunt Li's face became more and more full of hatred. "However, most women's first babies are daughters. They were originally killed by various methods, and then Master Shangui appeared—"

Her voice choked up: "They longed for Lord Mountain Ghost's protection, and were afraid of Lord Mountain Ghost's power, so they threw those children into the mountain stream in the closed mountain, and used the children's grievances to suppress Lord Mountain Ghost."

"Children's resentment is the purest and most terrifying. If after many years, Mr. Mountain Ghost is infected by this strong resentment and becomes a monster... I dare not think."

Aunt Li quickly wiped away her tears, and then said: "You are the only fairy elders who have spent the night in the town all these years without any shortage of people. I hope you can save those children's unjust souls and Mr. Mountain Ghost. And—"

As Wang Deping listened, he couldn't imagine how many children were drowned and swallowed by the icy mountain stream in these long years, and he couldn't help feeling sad for these children.

Everything in the scene did not appear out of thin air, and most of the monsters in the scene corresponded in reality. These children were really killed by this ridiculous custom in the past years.

Wang Deping asked, "What else?"

"Also, and," Aunt Li's voice became more and more quiet and condensed, "There is also Jishan."

The three of them were shocked, this is the name of the scene.

"Sacrifice, human sacrifice with living people as sacrifices."

Aunt Li's voice was a little soft, faint and cold.

But her eyes were full of tears, and her eyes were filled with engraved hatred. The light was like a raging fire, it was beating, hiding in the ordinary body, waiting for the opportunity to burn everything.

"The sacrifice started decades ago, more than 100 years after Lord Shangui appeared, and in the fifth year of our mayor's succession, he said; 'Master Shangui needs sacrifices, and he needs beautiful women to perform human sacrifices. ’, and from that year on, our town started a human sacrifice every three years.”

Her voice suddenly became louder, like thunder on a summer night, and the young couple who listened attentively trembled in fright at such a terrifying voice.

"However, Lord Shangui never needs a sacrifice, let alone a woman she loves!!!"

The young couple looked at each other, and the years of being together for a long time allowed them to clearly understand each other's meaning.

Liu Tian: Da Niang respects and loves the mountain ghosts, and the mountain ghosts have always protected the people in the town.

Yu Wencheng: Yes, but such a good mountain ghost is imprisoned with resentment by dark and evil people.

The eyes that had been carved with many wrinkles by the years finally couldn't hold back the surging tears. Aunt Li couldn't cry, her voice was choked and she spoke intermittently.

"I was, I was chosen, I was chosen to be the bride of Lord Shangui. I was afraid to resist. I was afraid of death. Those who became brides never came back, and their bodies were never found again."

Aunt Li tightly held the small beads hanging around her neck, which was a gift left by her sister.

"My elder sister knocked me out on the day of the sacrificial ceremony. I don't know what she did. She was the one who became Lord Mountain Ghost's bride and never came back."

Aunt Li's voice was extremely sour: "Why was I selected? Because my family has only one eldest brother, and they bully all families with few men, and all brides are selected from such families."

Her sister's gentle face appeared before her eyes, and then everything was torn apart.

No one spoke for a while, and there was silence in the small room.

The little girl who walked to the door and hadn't entered yet supported the girl and stood blankly at the door.

It turned out that she still had an aunt. She thought about the puppet that the family had always enshrined, and suddenly knew who she was.

No wonder, when she was guided home at night, Mother never let her tell outsiders that in order to protect her aunt, Mother's only sister.

After a while, Wang Deping saw that Aunt Li was calmer, and asked suddenly:
"You, why do you know that mountain ghosts don't hurt women?"

Aunt Li wiped away her tears, calmed her voice, and pointed to her eyes.

"After my sister left, I could gradually see different things. I saw more and more monsters in the town. Later, I saw the emissary of Master Mountain Ghost walking in the world."

"I felt the pain and wailing of Mr. Shangui. She was refusing, but the resentment corroded her will all the time. The adult could hardly hold on anymore. She was afraid that she would become a monster in the end and kept telling us to take the children away. Hurry up." escape."

"You said, a person who is willing to be hurt herself and also protects other hurt women, can she be bad? She told us to run away!"

"Unfortunately, there is a curse in the town, and everyone who leaves the town will die untimely."

Aunt Li's mood had completely stabilized. She poured a cup of tea for the three of them and served some snacks, her words were so flat that she didn't seem to be talking about herself.

"In a small town, a woman's life is worthless, and she has been oppressed since she was a child. Lord Shangui is the only one who cherishes us and loves us. We women never have to worry about encountering danger when we go up the mountain."

"That's why we are also the ones who wish Mr. Shangui the best."

Yu Wencheng took a sip of tea and asked, "Do you know where the baby's bones are buried?"

Aunt Li shook her head with a sad expression.

"Women in our small town can't find the mountain stream. Only men can find it. Even if the family doesn't agree to kill the first baby girl, they will take it away."

Aunt Li pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled, very cold.

"If the husband agrees, they will let this man go to the mountain stream to lose his own child, and then he will be one of the men in the town."

Liu Tian was a little puzzled: "Those men?"

Could it be the men who won't be attacked last night?
Aunt Li knew from her expression that they had seen those people before, so she nodded.

"It's the men who won't be attacked by monsters. They have something we don't know, and they can protect themselves from being attacked."

Liu Tian pondered, there are two possibilities for not being attacked, one is disgusting breath, just like the bright one confronting the evil one, and the other is——

Evil fears even more evil beings.

"When did all these changes start?"

Wang Deping asked.

Aunt Li thought for a while and said with some uncertainty:
"I don't know the details. When I was born, the mayor had already succeeded him. My mother once said that it was after a Taoist priest visited the mayor that we started to offer sacrifices to the mountain. All I saw was more and more monsters. And the mountain ghost-sama who is trapped by resentment.”

The same idea appeared in the hearts of the three, and new clues appeared.

(End of this chapter)