Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-One
"Can you tell me the story outside?" The little girl stared straight at Ye Feng, her eyes full of longing, and a hint of...indescribable emotion. Yes, she seemed to have a special feeling for Ye Feng.
His feelings are general, including attachment, reluctance, and...a little helplessness.
Ye Feng was a little surprised. It was obviously the first time they met today, so why did her eyes contain such complicated emotions when she looked at him? This was very strange, or in other words, the whole village was very strange, with mysterious things everywhere.
The smell makes people feel foggy, with an unreal feeling like stepping on cotton.
However, what does it matter if you are short-tongued and soft-handed, and you have to stay at their house tonight and just tell her some outside things? So Ye Feng picked up the tea in front of him and took a sip.
He smiled and said: "What do you want to know? Just ask, brother, I am not a stingy person. Don't tell you, I just invite you to experience it. There is no problem."
The little girl put her hands on her chin, as if she was thinking hard, and then she chose a question with great difficulty, and asked seriously: "I want to know what it is like for men and women outside to get married, or... what do they do before they get married?
Life? What is the word for it?" She frowned, clenched her pink and smooth jade hands into a small fist, knocked on her forehead, and then she seemed to remember, and said: "Love. Yes.
, it’s love, how did they fall in love?”
"In love!" Ye Fengba chimed, looked at Su Wanyu beside him thoughtfully, and said: "Outside, men and women in love will miss each other and are unwilling to separate all day long. Yes.
We go shopping, watch movies, eat delicious food, and go on trips together. The boys will be glib and talkative to make the girls happy, and the girls will hide in the boys’ arms from time to time and act coquettish, or pretend to be angry.”
"Then----" She hesitated for a moment, looked at Su Wanyu, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "Can you take me to experience it?"
"This——" Ye Feng was a little embarrassed. He looked at the little girl in front of him, and then at Su Wanyu who was also surprised. He was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to answer. Love can be experienced.
Yes, but it would be too ridiculous to experience it with a little girl whom I don’t even know whether I like or not.
When the little girl saw Ye Feng's troubled expression, her big longing eyes suddenly became very disappointed. She lowered her head and said softly: "Today is my sixteenth birthday. Don't you even have this wish?"
Do you promise me? At least, I am willing to give birth to a child for you, just think of it as making me happy, okay?"
"What?" Ye Feng was shocked. You can eat this food randomly, how can you talk nonsense! She is willing to give birth to a child for herself? Then she must be willing to cooperate with her, right? At least, Ye Feng is not willing to be with her now
What kind of thing is a child without emotions talking about? He is still a child himself, he hasn’t played enough yet, he is crazy enough! What is the purpose of having a child? He can’t sell it and can’t return it. He scratched his head in embarrassment.
I didn't know how to continue this topic, so I adopted a roundabout tactic. Knowing that the little girl in front of me had never been on a train, plane, or ship, I seduced her: "Falling is something that lovers can only do. This is something I
It’s not easy to take you to experience it
But if you want to experience airplanes, trains, ships, and carousels, I can help."
"But..., but...," the little girl said, tears fell down her cheeks, and she became incoherent: "But... you have already drank my tea, doesn't that prove that you are willing to have children with me? Since everything is
If you are willing to have a baby with me, then what’s wrong with taking me shopping, watching movies, and eating delicious food with you?"
"Ah?" Ye Feng was confused. Didn't the old lady say that this tea has no other meanings? Why did it become the tea for marriage proposals again? We are all rural people, how about we not dig holes like this? What should we do now?
?It’s impossible that just because I drank a cup of tea from your family, I have to be your door-to-door son-in-law, right? This is not an ordinary pit. This is a fire pit, a puddle, and a fucking sinkhole. But then again, if
If he just takes this girl out to go shopping, eat some delicious food, and watch a movie, there is no problem. What's wrong with treating her as a light bulb for him and Su Wanyu?
"Uh..., don't cry yet." Ye Feng cleared his mind. Today is the girl's birthday anyway, so you can't make her cry, right? So he advised: "Go shopping, watch movies, eat delicious food, then
...There is no problem. It’s just that we can’t just talk about having children...,...right? You are still young, and your most important task now is to go to school and learn knowledge. When you grow up and meet the person you love,
Let’s… fall in love, get married and have children, right?”
Hearing what Ye Feng said, the little girl stopped crying, but her little face with pear blossoms and raindrops was full of embarrassment. She said: "It has been a rule in the village for hundreds of years that as long as a girl is over ten
On your sixth birthday, you can hang red flowers to pray for pregnancy and establish a new family."
Hanging red to pray for pregnancy? What does it mean? Ye Feng looked at Su Wanyu next to him, who also smiled awkwardly and said he didn't know. "Establish a new branch?" Ye Feng was a little puzzled and asked: "You said it wrong.
Are you ready? Do you want to start a family and start a business? However, if you are a girl, you can just get married and stay at home to look after your husband and raise your children. You don’t need to go out to show your face and look for a job. As long as you are married to a similar person, happiness will not escape you."
"Marry?...Marry?" The little girl shook her head with a wry smile, and said with a gloomy expression: "Did you see any men in this village? No? There isn't even a man, so who can we marry?"
"Just because there's nothing in the mountains doesn't mean there's nothing outside!" Ye Feng wondered, what thoughts do these people have? His foolish old man also knew how to move the mountains to facilitate communication with the outside world, but they didn't know how to move.
How about living outside? No matter how nice this mountain is, is there internet? Is there a bar? Is there a school or a hospital? It’s really backward. He has been wandering around the village for a long time and hasn’t even seen a single wire. Could it be that in this mountain?
Can we only light candles at night? Oh, it gives me a headache just thinking about it.
"Outside?" The little girl suddenly showed a charming smile, as if she had thought of something, and said leisurely: "I really want to go outside and have a look. Are you... willing to take me there?" She suddenly raised her head.
, looking at Ye Feng again with eyes full of meaning.
Are you willing? Ye Feng thought, she should be willing, if she were treated as a younger sister. He would take her out to eat delicious food and watch movies.
Ying, it's really not a big deal to go shopping in the old streets. It doesn't cost a lot of money anyway, so why not? It's just that look in her eyes that seems to be telling herself how difficult it is to go outside.
One thing. What is the reason why they can't leave this village or leave this mountain? It doesn't seem to be because of inconvenient transportation or lack of money. May I ask? They don't even blink when they see a jade fetus.
People, will they be short of money?
"Okay!" Ye Feng compromised, nodded solemnly, and said to the little girl: "If you are willing, I don't mind taking you out to play. But... you are a girl.
Is it convenient for everyone?"
Is it convenient? The girl raised her eyebrows. According to the rules in the village, if a male guest drinks the tea served by a woman, he can take the woman away to the end of the world, as long as they are willing. However, that damn curse, I'm afraid
The peacock will befall her immediately, and maybe she will age quickly like other women who leave the village, and then be abandoned by men and die in a foreign land. It doesn't matter, she has lived in this village since she was a child, so it's not like she has no chance to go down the mountain.
, but cannot, dare not. There are rules in the village. For the sake of passing on the incense, girls under the age of sixteen are prohibited from contacting male guests, let alone going down the mountain. That is a taboo and a curse.
Hearing their conversation, the old woman in the room had mixed feelings. She couldn't tell what she was feeling at this moment, happy? Sad? Or neither. Today is her daughter Peacock's sixteenth birthday. In the cottage,
It is a happy event. It means that she has reached adulthood. From tonight, she can hang the red bellyband with her name embroidered on it at the door of her room to express formal prayers for pregnancy to passers-by. Interested male guests can
He came to ask for tea, and if he got it and drank the tea, it was acknowledgment that he could enter the girl's room to spend the night; otherwise, he didn't like it, didn't agree to it, and didn't agree with it.
The tea these girls drink is not ordinary tea, but herbal tea carefully refined by the old witch in the village. It is said that after the male guests drink it, they will have a greater chance of giving birth to a girl while sleeping together. In the village
It is not allowed to give birth to male babies. The old witch is responsible for surveying and identifying every pregnant woman. Once it is found that she is pregnant with a male baby, she will use special methods to help medical abortion, and then use cruel methods to seal the aborted baby boy.
It is put into the jade embryo to make the so-called "jade fetus" and placed in the Hidden Infant Cave in the back mountain.
For hundreds of years, any girl who wants to leave the village must first obtain the consent of the male guest, and then learn how to make a "jade fetus" from the old witch in the village, and finally she can follow the man of her choice.
Go down the mountain.
Whether they are married or living together, as long as they accidentally become pregnant with a boy, they must undergo medical abortion according to the ancestral rules and make a "jade fetus" and send it back to the village. Because if they don't do this, the girl they give birth to will be
The child will not live to be twelve years old. Their race is based on girls being the most respected. Even if you really give birth to a baby boy, without exception, they will not live to be three years old. This is the curse in the village.
, there is no escape from generation to generation. Moreover, the aging rate of these girls who left the village is several times, even dozens of times, that of normal people. From ancient times to the present, no one has been spared, and there is no reasonable scientific explanation.
Chapter completed!