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On the surface of the river, a thick black fog floated out from nowhere and became thicker and thicker, so thick that one could not see the yellow sand on both sides of the river bank, nor could one see the souls in the river water below.

I don’t know how long I drove before the scenery in front of me gradually became clear.

Looking around, you can see a clear, winding river at your feet, with streets and houses on both sides of the river.

The buildings with black tiles and white walls, the bluestone paths, the curling smoke from cooking fires... everything was exactly the same as the small town they had seen when they first arrived in the Kingdom of Women.

The only difference is that not all the people here are women, there are men too.

The peddler hawking his wares is a man, the waiter outside the tavern is a man, and the children playing around are also men.

It is less common among girls.

But at least there are men and women, and it seems to be a relatively normal world. Of course, it is only "seemingly" so.

In a blink of an eye, the boat under Sang Feiwan and Yu Beiming disappeared.

They both found themselves standing on the bluestone road of the town without knowing when.

It was early in the morning, just after it rained, and the bluestone path was particularly slippery.

In the distance, a pregnant woman took just two steps before she slipped and fell to the ground.

She held her stomach and her clothes were soaked with sweat from the pain.

After a while, the woman's husband came.

Seeing the wet clothes scattered all over the floor, the man said in a blaming tone: "You can't even wash the clothes properly, and you spilled them all over the floor and made them dirty. You are so useless!"

The woman said, "My stomach hurts so much, I'm afraid I'm going to give birth!"

The man's eyes lit up and he said happily, "Oh, my son is coming out! Ah Ying, let's go home!"

The man held the bucket of clothes in one hand and helped his wife up with the other.

The woman walked with difficulty, and her sweat increased.

But the man could not see her suffering and still said expectantly:

"Your belly is so big, my son must be a fat boy. What should I name him?"

"My mother said that a cheap name is easier to raise, so we should call him Tiewa."

"Aying, what do you think of the name Tiewa? Forget it, why am I asking you? You don't understand!"

"Just call me Tiewa!"

"Please walk faster. You can't give birth to my son on the street."

At the moment when she was about to disappear around the corner, the woman named Aying suddenly turned her head and looked back.

Only then did Sang Feiwan see Ah Ying's face clearly. She looked pretty, without a trace of ghostliness.

This Aying was the boatwoman who brought them here, the poor lonely soul who had been wandering on the Zimu River for hundreds of years.

After wailing in pain in bed for two days and two nights, Aying finally gave birth to the child.

The husband carefully lifted the blanket and saw what was between the child's legs. He grinned:

"It's a boy with a handle! I have a son, I have a son!"

The mother-in-law clasped her hands together and said gratefully: "Thank God, our family has someone to carry on the legacy!"

At this time, the midwife in the inner room suddenly held out another baby and said, "Congratulations, you are having two babies in one pregnancy."

The man took the second child and examined him, and his smile immediately disappeared when he saw the gender of the child.

"Why is it a girl?"

After the midwife left, the good mood of the mother-in-law and her husband was largely destroyed by the arrival of the little girl.

"The harvest was poor this year, and we have to tighten our belts. How can we feed two more mouths to feed?"

My mother-in-law sighed sadly.

"It would be fine if both were boys. Boys can work hard to earn money for the family when they grow up, and they can support the family. When a girl grows up, she will be someone else's daughter-in-law. It would be useless to raise her for more than ten years."

Amid the nagging, the man suddenly hardened his heart, picked up the baby girl and was about to walk out.

Ah Ying heard the baby crying and hurriedly grabbed her husband's arm and asked, "Where are you taking our daughter?"

The man said, "You know the situation at home. How can we have so much food to feed so many mouths? Why not throw it out while it's just born and we don't have a deep relationship with it? Maybe a good family will pick it up and it can grow up safely."

Ah Ying cried and said, "You don't even want to raise your own child, how can you expect him to grow up safely if you throw him out there? Which of the abandoned babies on the ridges of the fields or on the riverbanks can survive?"

"Master, I beg you to spare the child's life! I will eat less in the future and I will be able to raise the child."

"No!" It was her mother-in-law who spoke.

She was also a woman, and had also experienced hardships. But at this moment, facing her daughter-in-law's plea and her granddaughter's life, her heart was so cold that it was frightening.

"It's not that we are cruel, it's just that life is difficult. We suffered a disaster last year and our whole family almost starved to death. Although we have recovered now, food is still scarce. If we don't give up one, it will be difficult to feed both children. If you don't give up the girl, do you want to give up your son?"

"Whether it's a son or a daughter, aren't they my own flesh and blood, born after ten months of pregnancy? How could I bear to give them up... How could I bear to give them up!"

As if sensing their mother's sadness, the two babies in the cradles also cried loudly, crying for being born in such a cannibalistic era and for the tragic fate that was about to come.

After a while, the man suddenly said to his mother, "By the way, mother, I heard that there is a pond god in the Wealth Pond in the back mountain, and praying for wealth is particularly effective. Let's go and pray. As long as we have money, we can afford to have more children and support them."

As he spoke, his eyes lit up: "The family next door, Daniu, was so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat. Later, his wife went to Tanshen Cave, and they could eat white rice for every meal, and occasionally they could smell meat."

Ah Ying said, "But I heard that it takes at least a year to go there, or three to five years. What about the children? It is said that there is a pond god in the pond, who can bring wealth to people. But what exactly is the pond god?"

The man scratched his head, obviously not knowing what the Tan God was. Finally, he looked at his mother: "Mom, you know a lot. Is the story about the Tan God true?"

The old man stopped talking, lowered his eyes and seemed to be lost in some memories.

"Mom, why aren't you talking?"

The old man raised his eyes and looked at his granddaughter in the cradle: "It's true, you will have money if you go there."

She said to Ah Ying, who had just given birth, "Take good care of yourself. After the child is weaned, you can go and serve the Tan God. As long as you are willing to go, this little girl will stay with you."

"Okay, I'll go."

Aying agreed without hesitation.

That night, her husband was called to the next room by his mother-in-law and it was unknown what was said to him.

After coming out, the man looked depressed and squatted at the door for a long time.

For a period of time thereafter, Aying became particularly concerned about the affairs of Tanshen Cave.

In the small town, she would curiously ask about whose daughter-in-law went to Tanshen Cave, whose family suddenly had enough food, etc.

It seemed that this could alleviate some of her fear of the unknown gods.