After I died, I became a cat

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When he woke up, Chen Erhuang realized that he had fallen asleep.

It was not yet dawn, but a few voices could be heard, all of them lowered their throats and whispered, but it was not the kind of whisper that worried about waking someone up, but the unconscious whisper made by the oppression of the surrounding environment.

"Did you catch it?"

"I didn't see it at all..."

"It's really a ghost to see your mother, where did that girl go?"

Ok?

Hearing certain key words, Chen Erhuang, who was still a little dazed, woke up suddenly, his ears trembled, and his whole body... the whole cat jumped up from the ground.

As soon as he moved, the air that was warmed by the body temperature due to lack of circulation escaped instantly, and the cold air filled in again. The little black cat shuddered and turned around, only to find that he was sleeping with the big orange cat. .

Before the orange cat woke up, Chen Erhuang looked back at the room.

[Detection check, 1D100=46, normal success]

This is the corner of a big house, and there is a high platform in the middle of the room, on which are placed incense candles, incense burners and flowers, and drapes and canopies hang down from the roof, just like a temple hall.But on the high platform, the tribute was not melons and fruits or even Tailao Shaolao, but a goat with its stomach ripped open.

If an ordinary person sees this goat, he may immediately feel that the temple is full of darkness, not because goats should not be used for worshiping gods, but because the dead goat has a strange appearance.

It was a whole goat, placed on a large wooden tray, without even peeling off the fur, with four hooves stretched upwards, and a slash on the stomach, exposing the fur and the internal organs under several layers of texture. How long have you put it, it's already smelly.

The head of the goat was broken off and placed at a strange angle. It can be said that the chin was against the chest. In this way, standing in the middle of the gate and looking in along one of the lines, the enshrined statue just fell on the goat's four legs. between corners.

The smell of fish and stench filled the temple, mixed with the smell of cheap spices, making this place not at all like a sacred place related to gods.

Here, obviously, is the Pu Tao Niangniang Temple in Yongfu Township, which is full of fog.

Chen Erhuang waited for a while, and found that the system did not give him a sanity check.

Speaking of this PU system, it was okay when doing other checks for him, but when giving him a sanity check, it showed that there was always a sense of hatred for iron.

Maybe it's just that customer service 099856's tone of voice was not in place when relaying the results, but Chen Erhuang still felt a little weird.

But at this moment, it was not the time to care about this, the little black cat took a few steps forward.

The statue on the shrine was covered by a hanging curtain, and after taking these few steps, he just bypassed the curtain and got a glimpse of the true face of the "Niangniang"——

It is a clay statue of a Bodhisattva-like woman, wearing an ordinary skirt and shirt, with a bamboo basket hanging on her arm, and holding a handful of ears of wheat in her hand, very ordinary.Limited by the craftsmanship of the craftsman, it is not very beautiful.

The belly is not as round as Chen Erhuang imagined. Chen Erhuang originally guessed that the priesthood of this empress is related to childbirth, and the general worship of primitive reproduction will give the male god a big penis and give the goddess a round belly.

not at all.

There is no round belly, and there are no vines that Chen Erhuang thought there would be.

There are ears of wheat, ears of wheat... In less rigorous semiotics, it is sometimes related to fertility, but more often, it is a symbol of a good harvest.

Ever since Chen Erhuang witnessed the death of the little white cat, he had a few guesses, but now, these guesses are completely inconsistent with the statue.

He glanced outside the temple gate again, and found that the bottom of the slope not far away was probably the ancestral hall of Yongfu Township. Many torches were lit in the square in front of the ancestral hall, and several men were running back and forth inside and outside the square.

Looking further into the distance, there are also a few flames cruising on the field and wilderness, which should be people looking for Teacher Qi Wang.

If he were Teacher Qi Wang, he would have hid directly in the square in front of the ancestral hall, because there are the most people here, and at the same time the least focused, but he glanced at the crowd, but...

[Detection check, 1D100=29, difficult success]

Difficult to succeed, not extremely difficult to succeed, even if the bald teammate is standing below, he can't find it.

Seeing that the villagers in Yongfu Township are still looking for him, there should be no need to worry.

So Chen Erhuang turned back and continued to explore the Niangniang Temple.

He planned to go around behind the statue first to see what was in the apse, but he heard the sound of a dice falling in his ears.

The system did not report the result of the test, but Chen Erhuang looked up and saw it.

That, behind the statue of Pu Tao Empress, there is a wall.

There will naturally be a wall behind the statue. If it is a Buddhist temple, some reliefs of gods and Buddhas in the sky will be carved on the wall behind the golden Buddha statue, making it look like the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss.It is precisely because most temples have such a wall, so when he saw the pattern on the wall before, he didn't care.

But now that he changed the direction, Chen Erhuang realized that the pattern was not what he thought before.

The little black cat hopped lightly, jumped onto the altar, climbed up from the altar to the statue of Empress Putao, and moved directly to the top of the statue.

A cat stood on top of the empress's head. If the villagers of Yongfu Township saw this profane scene, they would probably faint with anger.Chen Erhuang himself has no psychological barriers. It is good for the people's police to respect the beliefs of the masses, but cults, which are harmful to people, must be cracked down.

The position above the head of the Goddess Goddess has an excellent view, and he felt it was suitable when he came up.

Looking closer, the wall behind the statue is even more different.

The buildings here are generally mixed with civil engineering, and the roofs are made of straw, even the rich family Guo's family and the Niangniang Temple are the same.And this wall, although it has been pasted with mud, can be seen to be of blue brick structure, and the murals on it are mottled in color, compared with the color of the statue, it looks dull and old.

In other words, the blue brick wall and the murals on the wall are not created in the same period as the statue of the goddess.

The appearance of walls and wall murals should be much earlier than the statue of the goddess... and even this temple of the goddess.

Chen Erhuang narrowed his eyes to look at the mural.

[Library use test, 1D100=55, normal success]

Because many places were peeled off, it was difficult to identify. It took him a while to realize that the mural was a comic strip.

It is also a comic strip with a plot.

The first painting shows a man and a woman—probably a man and a woman, because compared to one of the villains, the other villain has an extra thing under his crotch—farming the field.One dug the soil, the other watered, and where the water fell, seedlings with two leaves grew.

In the second picture, the seedlings have grown up and become vines. A man and a woman come over with a few wooden sticks. There is also a half-built wooden frame in the picture.

In the third picture, the wooden frame has been covered by vines and leaves, and there are bunches of fruits hanging between the leaves, which should be grapes.Under the wooden frame, men and women rolled together, exchanging an ultimate question about human beings.

In the fourth painting, the vines are extremely lush, and the man and woman are happily—probably very happy, but this simple painting technique does not add expression to the little people—standing under the wooden frame, and underneath are running around like a yard of hens cubs.

. . . for sterility activists, it's suffocating.

Officer Chen, an infertility activist, thought so.

But this mural proved that he was right at first.

Rose apples... or grapes, in ancient China and the West, have always been a symbol of fertility and fertility.

But looking at the statue of the empress at their feet, Pu Tao empress has a different meaning in the hearts of the villagers of Yongfu Township.

What went wrong?

Can't figure it out, and the murals are not finished yet, so Chen Erhuang continued to look at them.

In the fifth painting, more and more men and women come to bow down to the vine, pick the grape fruit to eat, and then have children.

Emmmm…

Too lazy to complain, Chen Erhuang went to see the sixth one.

No, but this sixth painting lifted his spirits.

A turning point has come. I don’t know why. The water on this land is getting scarcer, and there is no rainfall. Even the vines that have not withered with the seasons for many years, in those few years, slowly withered due to lack of water. .

The drought caused famine in this land, people died and fled.The entire mural is recorded here. Thinking about it, after that, this land has been deserted, and the legend about the many-fruited vine has naturally not been handed down.

But there is a problem.

Judging from the frescoes, the fruitful vine may have enhanced a woman's fertility, but this enhancement did not require a sacrifice.

Men and women came under the vine, simply praying.No tribute was sent, and there was no need to kill other pregnant animals.

But if there is no need to sacrifice, what happened to the little white cat he saw earlier?What happened to the women who disappeared and reappeared strangely around Yongfu Township?

Chen Erhuang's doubts were not resolved, but deepened.

He was not discouraged, but was full of energy. He was about to sort out the clues from the beginning, but he heard a loud cry.

【relative!When did you wake up! 】

"You skipped work again?" Chen Erhuang asked without surprise.

But customer service 099856 felt it was insulted.

【What are you talking about!I saw you resting, so I left my seat to look for seniors to read the information! 】

"Oh," Chen Erhuang nodded, "Did you find anything?"

This question made customer service 099856 silent for a few seconds.

[I, I found out that withered vine before, it should be like a grape vine...]

Chen Erhuang looked at the mural and said, "I know too."

【Why?Hey?Ah, that...]

The customer service 099856, who found nothing but grapes, faltered and found another topic after a while.

[Oh dear!There are more than a dozen messages in your team channel showing unread? 】

Although I have a relationship with this 099856, sometimes I still want to change to a smart person as a partner.

Chen Erhuang thought so, called out the system panel, and opened the team channel.

He pulled the interface to the first unread message and looked down.

For a moment, he didn't know what he learned from Ye Weidan's news, his eyes like copper bells opened wider and wider.

***

Ye Weidan, who didn't know anything, was actually at a loss.

He asked, "One child?"

"It means that a couple can only have one child." Guo Sanniang said.

Ye Weidan understood now, but was even more surprised, "Do you still have anti-pregnancy measures here? Have you invented the condom? Do you still take medicine? The medicine at this time...the medicine at this time is not good for girls, right?"

He accidentally brought out modern spoken language, but Guo Sanniang seemed to always want to talk about these things with others, even if she didn't understand Ye Weidan's question, she kept talking.

"Does your lord know that all the villagers in my Yongfu Township fled here at the end of the previous dynasty? After being resettled, they will naturally start to have children. But here is too poor to afford it. My father said that at that time the children were Birth and death, death and rebirth, around the village, there are corpses of lost children everywhere."

"No, since you can't support yourself, why give birth?"

Ye Weidan asked in surprise.

After a while, he and Guo Sanniang looked at each other, only to realize that he asked a stupid question.

Why to have a child is a question that people will ask only when civilization has developed to the point where childbirth is already a relatively safe life experience item.In ancient times, when most children would not survive, no one would ask why they had children.

In this day and age, if you don't have children and have nothing to do at night, what do you do?

Not having children?What should I do next?

Guo Sanniang didn't know how to explain to him, so she could only continue: "The leader who brought everyone here to settle here was my grandfather. He told everyone not to have children first, but everyone didn't listen, saying that it was hard to settle down here. Come down, what do you do if you don’t have children. My grandfather said, if you have too many children, this land can’t support you at all.

"Probably the gods were worried that we would not be able to survive. Afterwards, the empress became holy. The empress said she could bless everyone to have many children, but my grandfather said no, and then asked, can we not have so many children, and only use this piece of land, How about getting richer?"

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Made some edits so it's late

This topic, family planning, demographic dividend, and women's reproductive autonomy