Can't You Skip Dating? / Can't You Just Like the Body?

"Yes, married, that's my husband."

"Pregnant women may find it difficult to take care of themselves in the last few months of pregnancy and the first few months of their baby, not to mention work. Without the help of husbands and others, as well as certain savings or financial support, it will indeed be difficult for them to take care of themselves. Basic survival is difficult to guarantee.”

Iwanaga Kotoko looked at the men's rain boots that were pressed down on the bottom of the shelf, her eyes wandered for a while, and she continued to ask: "It shouldn't be easy to hold on until the child is born, but you put the child in the river, there is no problem. Does anyone know?"

The woman covered her face in grief and shook her head: "No, there are only two or three residents in this apartment besides my house, and there is very little communication with each other. Except for my husband, no one knows that I am pregnant. ."

"Didn't you tell other family members, what about the hospital? There should be a population registration after birth."

"No, I was married from another town. There is only one mother in the family. We are already very poor. If we let the mother know that we have children, I will definitely worry. I have never said it, and my husband and his My family has been cut off because of conflicts such as alcoholism."

After a brief sob, the woman continued to cry and said, "I... didn't go to the hospital, my husband left no inheritance, and the savings in the family are only enough for the most basic meals, and can't afford any extra expenses... "

That sentence didn't go away, which really surprised Qi Hai for a while. Looking at the small room, he said, "Is the child born here?"

"Yes..." The woman nodded with tears in her eyes, "I was born here myself, but at that time, I also used up my last savings. Although I could apply for subsidies, it was impossible for me to apply for subsidies. For use with children, I really don't know what to do, will, will..."

While talking, the woman's tears could not stop flowing again, and she couldn't stop crying.

Yanyong Qinzi nodded understandingly, and asked without reason: "Speaking of which, did you have a job before?"

"Yes, otherwise the family can't support it at all, but I quit after a few months of pregnancy and inconvenience in mobility."

Hearing what the woman said, Iwanaga Kotoko turned her head and said, "My understanding is almost there, Mr. Ogihara."

Ogihara rubbed his chin and said, "There should be a children's welfare home here, even if it's a little farther away, you haven't considered sending it there?"

"Yes, I also thought about it." The woman said sadly, "But there is a saying that the economic situation is not very good, and it is impossible to raise more children, not to mention the babies who need more care. The milk powder alone is a sum of money. It's a lot of expenses, but I really have no money, I need to find a job, it's impossible to stay at home to feed the children..."

In Neon, child welfare institutions are also considered as a bottom-line guarantee. They adopt not only children whose parents have an accident, but also children who are not suitable to continue to be raised due to parents' mental problems, domestic violence, poverty and other reasons.

Children's welfare homes rely on government funding and social support. Prosperous areas are fine. Many large enterprises will do face projects by supporting welfare homes, but in such remote places, there will be much less charity. Only With government funding, what can be done is really limited.

Ogihara Ming didn't make any more expressions, and said plainly: "I see, let's continue."

The woman mustered up her courage and raised her head, glanced at the ghost baby held in Qihai's arms, then lowered her head in fright, and asked sobbing, "Excuse me next... will you help my child become a Buddha?"

Neon's Buddhahood is not literally Buddhahood, but refers to rebirth and transcendence.

Yanyong Qinzi was originally looking at the phone, when she heard the words, she put the phone away, squatted in front of the woman two steps closer, and said comfortingly: "In this case, we have to help him escape, we can't stay in the world like this. , the purpose of bringing the child to come to you is just to see if he has any cause and effect."

In the woman's repeated thanks, Yanyong Qinzi said like a turning point: "But I just understood the situation just now, and I have some questions to ask you next."

The woman was stunned for a while, and said pleadingly: "I'm true, I can't help..."

"I know, it can be seen from this room, I'm just a little strange, since you know that your husband drowned in that river, then from a normal psychological point of view, it is impossible to have that river as a child Maybe the 'way of life' to survive."

Looking into the woman's eyes full of fear, Iwanaga Kotoko asked in a soft voice.

"It's more like... wanting the child and the father to go on the road together?

Chapter 190 A Not Funny Joke

This curse-like malicious speculation caused the room to fall into a dead silence.

Half covering her tear-stained face, the woman looked at Yan Yong Qinzi in shock, as if she couldn't imagine how she would say such a thing, and then panicked: "I didn't!"

"Be quiet, ma'am." Iwanaga Kotoko looked into her eyes and said, "According to what you said, there are two or three residents in this apartment. If you don't want to be asked by them, you'd better be quiet. Or, there are no other residents here?"

The woman slammed her mouth shut, and after crying bitterly, she couldn't help choking and breathing disorderly, and finally said, "I didn't mean that, I just... I didn't think about it that much, and there is only this river nearby."

Iwanaga Qinzi nodded slightly: "Well, it's really not a big deal, but there are still many things that make me feel strange. For example, according to your description, you have been living alone after your husband died?"

"Yes, it is……"

"Then it's impossible for no one to know about your pregnancy. After all, this is not an urban area, and there is no perfect delivery service. You have to go out to buy no matter what, even if you can cover it with loose clothes before, but in the last two or three months, what do you do? Covering up will also make people see clues, and if you cover up too deliberately, it will look very suspicious."

Iwanaga Qinzi raised a finger, and then raised a second finger under the woman's panicked gaze.

"Then, people who can ignore the poor economic conditions of their families and drink heavily every day, and drink enough to drown in water, can hardly work well. Even if they do, they are probably only part-time jobs in the afternoon, plus the expenses of drinking, there should not be much money left. Said he left no inheritance. The savings that can support you for at least three months before and after giving birth can basically only come from your own savings."

Having said this, Iwanaga Qinzi suddenly questioned again: "Such a man who knows that his wife is pregnant and the child is about to be born, but is unwilling to work hard to save money, if he is short of wine money, will he put his mind on your savings? "

Ignoring the messy hair, the woman shook her head violently: "No! The money he's doing part-time jobs is enough for him to drink!"

"Well, let's put this issue aside for the time being, and then come to the third point."

Iwanaga Kotoko raised her third finger, her eyes wide open without any emotion, and she asked like that: "Your husband died two months before the birth of the child, you should also be able to foresee that your savings will not be enough to support it at all. In the follow-up birth, you did choose to put him in the river to 'float away'. So, what made you choose to give birth to the child instead of aborting it?"

"Obviously, since you still have money for two months, no matter how low your expenses are, it's enough to have an abortion. Oh, it should be called an abortion at that time, and returning to work as soon as possible is the way to minimize financial stress. "

The woman gave a trembling look at the baby in Qi Hai's arms, who had rolled her eyes and was swollen all over her body. She lost control of her emotions again, and said in a suppressed cry, "I can't make up my mind, at that time, the child has already formed, and I can feel it. He was moving, and the doctor said the danger was too high, and suggested that I give birth..."

Yanyong Qinzi's expression softened and his tone softened a lot: "Yes, for a mother whose husband has just passed away and has been pregnant for half a year, such a painful and dangerous choice is indeed very difficult, and it is even more impossible to ask for it. It is normal for some rational considerations to be contradictory.”

Iwanaga Qinzi stood up from the woman and stepped back, pulled over one of the only two chairs in the room, and sat down on her own.

After that, she raised one leg and said briskly: "But at that time, if you are not prepared to abandon your child, the reason for living alone 'don't want your mother to worry about living hard' will no longer exist, because you are no longer There is a family life with the husband, and 'freedom' is restored, and after that, it's obviously better for the mother to come over, or simply go back home."

"The reason for not doing this, I can only think of you, at that time, you were actually preparing to throw away the child."

The woman clutched her head tightly, and after a long while of pain, she softly said one word: "Yes..."

"What about the explanation for the neighbors?"

"Sent to...the orphanage..."

"Very well, it can be explained here."

Iwanaga Kotoko put another leg up and said briskly, "But there are still too many places that make people feel disobedient. If you want to rationalize all those discords, you feel like you pushed your husband into the water and drowned yourself. What about this guess?"

The woman raised her head sharply: "How is that possible! Why did I do that!?"

"Why is it impossible, it is better to say that it is full of motivation."

Iwanaga Kotoko rubbed her temples slightly with her fingers, staring at the woman on the ground with eyes like amethyst. As if she had seen it with her own eyes, she quietly narrated a different story.

"Your husband is an alcoholic man who doesn't work well at all, has been making you regret after marrying, and tried to get his parents to persuade him, but who knows that this has led to a formal break in his already unstable family relationship , and no longer have contact with their parents.”

"After that, you became pregnant with a child, hoping to awaken him to his sense of responsibility as a father, but who knew that he did not restrain himself at all. Instead, he became dissatisfied with the family pressure that was about to be 'brought by you', and not only began to drink more seriously , and acts of domestic violence, oh of course, there may also be an apology from the occasional conscience after sobering up, saying that you must work hard and be responsible for your children - 'the possibility of the other party's repentance', which is the cause of the woman's repeated home The main factor in enduring the violence, and even getting used to it.”

"It's just in this kind of conflict, persuasion, understanding, and patience that you have not gradually become a woman who is used to enduring domestic violence. Instead, you have completely recognized that this man is incurable, and that he is suffering from more serious alcoholism. He didn't have enough money at the beginning of his work, and he stretched out his hand to ask for money to you, who was still working during pregnancy and worked hard to save a little bit of savings - it's useless if you refuse, just grab it with your hands."

"This seems to completely cut off the child's last life, stimulates your nature as a mother-to-be, and becomes the trigger for your outbreak. You realize that if you can't leave this man, or let the man disappear, your own It's impossible for the child to survive, and you don't even know how to live yourself. However, at that time, you were already incapacitated and experienced domestic violence. If you asked for a divorce, you were not sure what the man would do when he was drunk. Maybe Just one punch and one kick can put a child at risk."

"Then the fastest and safest way is to make that man disappear. As for the way to make a man disappear, as long as you know a little habit of a man, it will actually be very simple."

Having said that, Iwanaga Kotoko suddenly turned to Akira Ogihara with malicious intent: "Mr. Ogihara, if you are drinking by the river and you are sure that no one is around, then when you go to the toilet, will you go to the river bank to find a place? Or facing the river?"

Ogihara Ming turned his head away, from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to answer the question, but after a brief silence, he still replied, "If it wasn't that I was too drunk to stand still, it would be facing the river."

Iwanaga Kotoko opened his arm holding the cane and declared, "That's right! That's it! Even if you are so drunk that you can't stand still, you need to keep someone who is sober after drinking in your heart, so as to stay away from the river as much as possible. But for people who drink all day and lose even the most basic sense of responsibility for it, this kind of alertness will be much worse."

"Then all you have to do is go far away and buy a bottle of sake, leave a note on the night he goes out drinking, leave home for the river, and when he returns home and finds you not there, see The note you left asking him to come drink and talk by the river."

Iwanaga Kotoko raised her hand and made a slight shoving motion.

"When he heard that there was alcohol, he would definitely go there happily. After that, when he was going to the toilet in the river, he would just push it lightly and throw the glass sake bottle, which was the 'kill weapon', into the water."

"It's not surprising what happened to an alcoholic man, with the autopsy result showing alcohol, knowing that he was the same as usual when he left the liquor store, and that he didn't have any additional call records on his mobile phone, neither would the police. A mother who has been pregnant for more than seven months, a wife who has nothing to do with her husband's drinking behavior, and who is trying to support her family, will simply end the case with drinking and falling into the water."

"Just like that, you killed your alcoholic husband easily and without a trace."

The woman finally couldn't bear it anymore, and she got up from the ground with a swipe, but when she saw Ogihara Akira's indifferent gaze, the foot that had just taken a step stopped in the same place, staggered and didn't dare to take a step closer.

She opened her mouth wide, lowered her voice vigilantly, and said sternly, "Where's the evidence! You have no evidence at all! You're talking nonsense! Why are you talking about me like that!"

"Yeah, I'm just assuming that there is no evidence at all." Yanyong Qinzi said indifferently, "It's just this way, you will be cornered in the subsequent pain and entanglement, and finally put the child in the one where his father died. The abnormal behavior of 'hoping for the child to be saved' in the falling river can make sense."

"Just like in the [Passing Song], the parents who took their children to the mountains to kill them would be afraid of their children's ghosts coming back with them. You, knowing that the children will most likely drown in the water, are also afraid of being haunted by their children's grievances. Bar."

Iwanaga Qinzi's body slowly leaned forward, looked into the woman's eyes, and seemed to say with a smile: "So you put him in that river, as long as you put him in, say: 'Mom can't do anything, If it's strange, then blame your irresponsible father', this way, you will feel a lot more at ease, right?"

When Iwanaga Kotoko imitated the woman's tone and said that sentence, the woman's pupils suddenly shrank, as if she had heard something terrifying, she fell to the ground with her legs soft, and her trembling mouth did not make a sound for a long time.

Because that sentence was exactly the same as what she said at the time.

"And if you want to talk about evidence, it's not necessarily without it." Yanyong Qinzi nodded his chin and said, "There are two places you can't get around at all, one is that you bought a bottle of wine, as long as the police thoroughly investigate the surrounding area according to the date. In a convenience store, where there are usually only regular customers, the owner of the store may recognize your photo, not to mention that you were a very special pregnant woman at the time. One is that your child is not in the orphanage at all, but in the arms of the lady, With that drowning look that you haven't even dared to hug or even look directly at."

The woman sitting on the ground followed the words, slowly and painfully curled up, and sobbed again.

"me……"

She murmured in a low voice, clutching her hair in more intense pain, and finally burst into tears: "Yes... I killed it, I killed it all... I really don't want the child to die, I don't want to let the child die. Watching the child die...that scumbag, he worked hard for two days when he knew he had a child, which gave me hope, but after that...and..."

Iwanaga Kotoko, who was leaning forward, straightened up, leaned on the back of the chair, and said softly with pity, "It's very painful, I want to use the child to maintain the marriage, persuade my husband to return after getting lost, and I hope again and again to get deeper. Disappointed, until I finally fell into despair, killing my husband for the child, and then having to send the child to death."

"If you live with such a sin, you will be very scared when you hear rumors of water ghosts..."

The woman was curled up in a ball, unable to make any sound other than crying.

Iwanaga Kotoko glanced at Ogihara Akira, then closed her eyes.

"It's over? Then it's up to me." Ogihara Akira, who had been sitting in another chair a long time ago, raised his eyebrows and asked the woman, "Do you feel guilty about your child, and are you afraid of death?"

The woman shook her head vigorously and responded with a barely audible voice: "I should be damned, I should have died a long time ago, I killed people, and even killed children with my own hands, you... call the police..."

Ogihara said indifferently: "Those are not problems. In my opinion, your only fault is to have a child who is not able to support a child for the reason of maintaining the relationship between husband and wife. The consequences of such failure will be very bad. Gambling is the place to truly regret a new life."

The woman grabbed her hair and responded in a painful and subtle voice: "Yes... I understand, I was wrong..."

"Well, you said just now that you should have died a long time ago. I roughly understand that you are not afraid of death. In that case, just hug the child."

Ogihara Ming pointed to the unhappy twisting body in Qi Hai's arms, and said to the ghost baby who wanted to go to his mother: "This child doesn't know anything, he doesn't know what life and death are, and he doesn't know that he is dead, but he still recognizes you. I want you to hold him, and since that's the case, let him become a Buddha in your arms."

"Of course, he is already a ghost who can drag adult women into the river, and his power is very dangerous, so it's just a suggestion."

The woman looked at her child again, at the child she was so frightened and completely unable to face, and after a while, she raised her trembling hand.

Qi Hai approached and squatted down, handing the ghost baby to the woman, watching her with a broken look, slowly hugged her into her arms, and hugged tightly.

The ghost baby let out an unpleasant laugh, and the little hand grabbed happily, scratching the woman's body, the power of the ghost is simply not something ordinary people can bear.

But the woman did not let go, but instead laughed miserably in pain.

It was in such a strange scene that Ogihara's low-pitched singing sounded slightly hoarse.

"Don't cry, don't be afraid

let me take you home

when the song sounds

sleep, sleep..."