Shi Eryi raised his head, glanced at her, and said softly: "If you go back to your mother, something happened to Shifu that night."
Nan Yan hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
Shi Eryi said in a deep voice: "There are more than a dozen people in Shifu, Master Shi Ye, his parents, his relatives, and the servants at home - all died."
"What!?"
Nan Yan opened his eyes wide.
At this time, Zhu Feng stretched out his hand and gently pressed her cold hand.
Nan Yan trembled slightly, turned to look at him, Zhu Feng said: "Don't be afraid, and don't affect the child."
"..."
By the way, I also said before that the child in the stomach is aware of the outside world.
Hearing a story like this, and being so scared, I don't know if it will scare the children too.
Thinking of this, she hastily stretched out her other hand and gently supported her stomach.
When Zhu Feng heard this story, from the beginning to the end, except for the slight flickering of his eyes, there was no unnecessary expression, and he just said lightly: "Where is Shi Lian?"
Shi Eranyao: "He's dead too."
"..."
"Everyone died overnight."
"..."
"The government came to investigate and found that they all died of arsenic, and there were no traces of outsiders committing crimes. In addition, Shi Lian had just given birth to a dead baby, and it was suspected that she had gone crazy, so she put arsenic into the food and poisoned herself to death together. .”
"..."
"This case can only be regarded as an unsolved case, but since then, our village has become an ominous place."
Nan Yan frowned as she listened.
Indeed, a dozen or so members of such a large family suddenly died, and the people around them were afraid that they would not even take a second look at this place.
Shi Eranyao: "That house has been haunted by ghosts since that night. Gradually, no one dared to approach it. The surrounding villages felt that our Jufu Village was ominous, and they all moved away one after another."
"..."
"But us people, we have nowhere to go."
"..."
"So, our ancestors carved a huge stone tablet and buried it under that house as a way to protect the house."
"..."
"Gradually, that stone tablet has become the soul of our village."
"..."
"Our ancestors have always told us not to leave this place. Once the popularity is gone, those evil spirits will haunt us."
"..."
"So, we can't go, and we can't go!"
Having said that, he burst into tears.
Others in the village also cried.
Nan Yan was by the side, listening to the cries of these people, felt indescribably depressed.
It turned out that the people in this village have always carried the warnings left by their ancestors to keep them from leaving. Therefore, despite their hard work and despised by others, they all stick to this place and never retreat.
At this time, she heard a soft sobbing in her ear.
Turning his head, he saw that it was Little Shitou, who was crying, wiping the tears on his face with his sleeve, and his little face immediately became like a cat.
She sighed, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and gently wiped his tears away.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered what Little Shitou had said to her just now—
"Daddy also said that no matter where we move, we will be kicked out."
"So, we still have to stay here."
…
She thought for a while, and said to Zhu Feng: "Your Majesty, I have something to ask, and I want to ask this Village Chief Shi."
Zhu Feng turned his head and glanced at her.
Then nodded: "You ask."
Nan Yan looked down at Shi Eranyi and said, "Cillage Chief Shi, just now I heard your son Xiao Shitou say that you once told everyone that no matter where you move, you will be driven away. Is that true?"
Shi Eranyao: "Yes, Cao Min said such a thing?"
"Why do you say such things?"
"..."
"Let's not talk about whether there are really evil spirits here. This time, the emperor expanded Beiping City, and you can see it clearly. The city wall has been repaired here, and the entire city has more than doubled. Thousands of people have been relocated to this city, how could it not accommodate a small village of yours?"
"..."
"Why do you say that wherever you go, you will be driven away."
Shi Eryi smiled wryly, and then said: "Mother, what happened in our village has already been spread, and other people despise our Shi clan, saying that there will be such shameless women in our clan. , Such a tragedy of exterminating the family happened because of our bad morality."
"..."
"To be honest, it's not that no one doesn't want to change careers or leave these years."
"..."
"However, we can't change our surname, we can't change our clan. When we enter the city, once people know that we are members of the Shi clan in Jufu Village, they will still look down on us."
"..."
"We can barely survive unless we do this business. Because people die every day in the city, and even if they don't want to, no matter how much they spurn us, they will still come to us to engrave monuments."
"..."
"It's just that when they use us, they use us, but secretly, they still hate us."
"..."
"Now, the emperor wants to expand Beiping City and let our village move into the city, but what if we move into the city? We are also despised by others. However, the city wall has already been built here. If we want to be driven away in the future, what can we do?" Where are you going?"
As he spoke, he began to cry himself.
And those young and strong men around, who were all strong and strong, refused to give in to the officials of the court, when they heard what he said, they all shed tears.
The female relatives in the crowd were even more sobbing.
Nan Yan felt sour in her heart.
She kind of understood why the people in this village had trouble with the government. Not only was it because of the warnings left by their ancestors that they could only stay here for generations, but also because of those who had been despised and despised for so many years. Wronged.
People always need an outlet to vent.
Looking at this village, it is indeed like a deserted village, so far away from the city, no matter what to eat or use, it will take several times longer than ordinary people in the city to get it.
For so many years, they have come here like this.
But this time, letting them leave their homes, this group of people who have always lived in the shadows finally couldn't help but explode.
Seeing the people in the village crying like this, Xiao Shitou cried even harder.
Nan Yan endured her sadness, and said softly, "Good boy, don't cry."
As she spoke, she looked at Zhu Feng who was sitting beside her, but saw that his stern face still had no expression, not even a little warmth.
It's just that the eyes are very deep, as if thinking about something.