Lin Shuyue almost laughed when he saw his 80% good and evil value. He looked at his third grandfather again and saw that his good and evil value, which was originally 25%, had soared after listening to Luo Anping's words, and now it has reached 85%.
Lin Shuyue snorted and laughed. Just now when she was down there, she had been wondering why Luo Anping's sin value was as high as 80%, while this old beast's was only 25%. This was not right at all. Before going underground, Lin Shuyue only thought that it was a cellar where vegetables were stored in the north in winter, but after careful observation, she realized that she was still too naive.
The basement with one bedroom and one living room had a flat floor without a single pit, and the walls had been smoothed with water. And there was a tunnel leading to somewhere unknown. It would take at least three to five years to dig it out?
Lin Shuyue had a bold guess. Perhaps Luo Anping's perversion was learned from Luo Laosan? Or, he was the "successor" that Luo Laosan had cultivated little by little since he was a child!
The man holding Luo Anping slapped him in the face, causing his head to tilt to one side. "He is the old beast, and you are the young beast!"
The customs of the people in Lihua Village have always been good. Not all villagers are good people, but there are definitely no wicked people. When they think of the many children and women who have disappeared in the village in the past few years, they are angry.
They originally thought they had fallen into the pond and was washed away by the underground river, but they didn't expect that they was imprisoned by these two beasts. Who can bear this? Who can endure this?
One person beat Luo Anping, and the rest of the people couldn't bear it anymore, especially those who got the news and rushed over. The families who had lost their children ran over. They didn't dare to go down to the basement, so they kept waiting at the door. But they waited and waited, until the last woman who was investigating downstairs came up, they still hadn't seen their children.
Now everyone knew what was going on. One of the old ladies in her fifties sat there for a while, grabbed a stone, ran over and smashed it on Luo Laosan's head.
"Luo Laosan, are you still a human being? Laowu and I have always respected you as the third brother. Whatever you want to do, as long as you ask, we will help you. When you were first found, you had nothing, but Laowu and I supported you bit by bit, didn't we? How can you be such a bad person? Erxiang is your niece."
Luo Laosan didn't dodge. His head was broken and blood gushed out. Through the blood, his eyes looked around and then fell on Bai Wenhua, Lin Shuyue and others.
"I've always thought that your family was a nuisance, but I didn't expect it to be true." Luo Laosan no longer had the kind look he had before. He had a gloomy look in his eyes, and he looked at people with eyes as cold as a poisonous snake.
Lin Shuyue ignored him because she suddenly remembered that when she was at Luo Laosan's house yesterday afternoon, she had used the Good and Evil Radar to scan it. The Good and Evil Radar did not show that Luo Laosan's Good and Evil value was so high at that time! But when she scanned it again this morning, Luo Laosan's Good and Evil value suddenly increased.
Lin Shuyue frowned and called the good and evil identification system: [ Tongzhi, what's going on with Luo Laosan? How come his good and evil value was normal yesterday, but it became higher this morning? How come his good and evil value soared to such a high level just because of Luo Anping's words? ]
The good and evil discrimination system quickly gave Lin Shuyue a reply: [ In the eyes of some people, what they did was not a crime. They firmly believe that they are not guilty. This idea will affect the judgment of the system to a certain extent. Only when he commits a crime can his guilt value be detected. ]
[ This is a crime in fact. In his heart, he still does not think he is committing a crime. However, if the evil thoughts in his heart rise, his good and evil value will be locked by the system, and the real good and evil value will be unlocked. ]
The reply from the good and evil classification system made Lin Shuyue suddenly realize, but then she felt that Luo Laosan was even more hateful. At this time, why did he still think he was innocent?
The woman who was ignored by Luo Laosan became even angrier. She rushed over and slapped him twice. His face instantly swelled up and blood covered his face again: "Luo Laosan, let me ask you a question. How did Laowu and I, and all the people in this village, offend you?"
Luo Laosan's gaze finally fell on his cousin's wife. He looked at the group of people surrounding him and the police who watched him get hit on the head but did nothing.
He sneered, "What kind of good people do you think you are? Old Fifth's wife, you always say that you are good to our family, but let me ask you, how did my wife die? Isn't it because you used scissors when you delivered her baby that your mother-in-law is using? If you didn't use scissors, she wouldn't have gotten that damn infection, and she wouldn't have died."
Luo Laowu's wife was shocked when she heard this. She looked at Luo Laosan as if she had just met him for the first time. "You are sick, why do you think like this? When your wife was pregnant, you cut some meat every three days and killed a chicken for her every five days. She herself didn't gain any weight, so all the weight went to the child. Your son was born before the full term because the child was too big. She couldn't give birth to him. If he was kept in her stomach, both the adult and the child would die. What should we do if we don't cut the fat? What do you say? What do you say?!"
Luo Laowu's wife and Luo Laosan's wife are from the same village. After they married into the same village, they became sisters-in-law. Their relationship became even better. Because of their good relationship, the two families interacted very closely. When they got pregnant at the same time, Luo Laosan's wife ate too much. The whole village, including Luo Laosan's wife's family, advised him against it. But how did Luo Laosan tell his wife privately?
He said that these people in the village were jealous of her because she ate well, and asked her not to listen to them.
It's hard to persuade the damned ghost with good words. His wife didn't listen to their advice, and he himself maliciously speculated about others. Why is it that now, Luo Laosan is blaming them? In Luo Laosan's mind, it's all others' fault, and he has no fault at all?
At this time, two elderly men in their eighties, supported by their children and grandchildren, walked tremblingly into the Pear Orchard. When the villagers surrounding Grandpa and grandson Luo Laosan saw them, some called them grandpa and some called them great-grandfather. Their seniority could be glimpsed from the way they addressed them.
Lin Shuyue frowned and asked Luo Zhengjun: "Brother-in-law, why haven't the police arrested them yet?"
Luo Zhengjun said: "According to our customs, when we encounter this kind of cruelty to fellow villagers, the police can only take them away after asking the tribe members first. Otherwise, even the police cannot leave the village."
Lin Shuyue looked at the increasing number of people rushing over and waved to Lou Fengqin and the others. Lou Fengqin didn't dare to look at Xiaolan and Xiaojun who were covered in bruises, so she reached out and held Lin Shuyue's hand tightly.
Luo Laosan also saw these people coming. After his crimes were exposed, he looked at everyone with exceptional indifference.
The two old men were helped to stand in front of Luo Laosan. They were already very old, but their bodies were obviously still very strong. They were 80 years old, but their ears and eyes were not deaf or blurry. After standing firmly and taking two breaths, one of them squinted at Luo Laosan and said, "Laosan, I heard about what you did. Now tell me why you did it!"
Luo Laosan felt that everyone in this world was extremely funny. Whenever they did something, there had to be a reason, a justification. If they were not given a reason, it seemed that they would never be able to close their eyes in this life.
Luo Laosan always thought he was a good person. He stared at the two old men and said, "You want a reason, right? Then I'll give you a reason. Why did my father leave this village? Why?"
Luo Laosan's face flushed, his eyes bulged, and the veins on his neck bulged, which made him look particularly scary against the dried blood on his face. Luo Laosan would never forget the night his father died. He held his father's hand as if he was in his last moments, and told him that the village was sorry for him, and that his mother and brother died while trying to escape.
Luo Laosan never thought he was wrong. He always believed that none of the blood on his hands was innocent. It was because their ancestors watched them die without helping them that his family died or scattered, leaving only him. He was justified and had a clear conscience.
The old man who asked him the question raised his eyelids and said slowly, "The whole village was poor at that time. He couldn't stand the poverty, so he said he would go out to make a living. When he came back, he brought you back. He was seriously injured at that time. You were a villager. A handful of rice from one family and a handful of noodles from another. You stayed in this family for two days today and that family for two days tomorrow. They raised you up."
"Even later, when the village chief learned from outsiders that your father was a bandit during those years of trying to make a living, no one in the village said a bad word about you. Ask everyone in the village, those older than you, those younger than you, and the young people now, who would know that you are the descendant of a bandit?"
The system automatically loaded the language translator, and what Luo Laosan and the others said now was as easy to understand as Mandarin to Lin Shuyue's ears. Lin Shuyue was stunned after hearing what they said. She didn't expect that they would bring up such an old story from adulthood.
In her previous life, she was born after the millennium. In this life, she was born in the 1980s. Bandit was a very unfamiliar word to her.
But the people of Lihua Village are no strangers to bandits. Lihua Village is located in western Hunan, where there are many mountains and dense forests. In their county alone, there are two bandit dens, and each of them is not a good person. Counting three generations, who in Lihua Village has not died at the hands of bandits? Who doesn't hate bandits?
Now, everyone looked at Luo Laosan with even more hatred. Especially those families who had a good relationship with him before, they gritted their teeth, clenched their fists, and wanted to come forward and kill him right there.
The old man continued, "Many people disagreed with keeping you, but it was the village chief's family who saved you against all odds. They felt that your father had no choice but to go up the mountain to become a bandit, and ordinary people would not do this unless they were forced too hard. Although you are the descendant of a bandit, you are more of a villager. Luo Laosan, think about it yourself. From childhood to adulthood, have any of us elders ever hit you or scolded you? Even Xiang Jun, who hated the bandit the most, asked his wife to make a pair of shoes for you overnight after seeing that your shoes were broken."
Luo Laosan's father was a bandit, and he didn't say it until he was about to die. At that time, the village held three consecutive meetings to discuss Luo Laosan's fate. At that time, every household had many children and every household didn't have enough food, but they didn't let Luo Laosan freeze to death or starve to death!
Everyone in the entire Lihua Village felt pity to Luo Laosan!
The other old man poked his cane on the ground and said, "Brother Jiu, why did you say so much to him?"
After the old man finished speaking, he squinted his eyes and looked at Luo Laosan. Seeing that he didn't say a word, he sneered: "Why, do you think the village treated your father badly now? What kind of person is your father? Is he worthy of our bad treatment? At that time, every household was hungry. Bandits came to rob food every few days, and the GMD came to collect food every few days. Who didn't have someone starving to death in every family? There were many people like your father who went out to make a living and never came back and left no descendants. What qualifications do you have to complain here?"
"Let me tell you, Luo Laosan, there are many people that the village feels sorry for, but for you, Luo Laosan, even if we argue to heaven or to the palace of Yama, the villagers will have a clear conscience towards you. I used to think you were a good person. Before the village chief passed away, he even told us that you are worthy of being a descendant of our Luo family, you are pure and kind."
"I didn't expect that he would be wrong sometimes. It turns out that the descendants of bandits are bandits, without any humanity. If we had known that you were such an ungrateful person, we should have thrown you into the pond."
The old man fell to his knees with a thud, and the noisy villagers quieted down.
Ninth brother beside the old man also knelt down and kowtowed to the villagers around him: "You are all juniors. According to custom, elders cannot kowtow to juniors. But today, as the sinners of Lihua Village, Ninth brother and I have to kowtow to you on behalf of the elders. Back then, if we hadn't been soft-hearted, we wouldn't have thought that he was just a child raised under our noses and would never become a bad person, and today's incident would not have happened."
"Grandpa Jiu, what are you doing? Why are you kowtowing to the juniors? Isn't this shortening our lifespans? Hurry up and get up. How can you be blamed for this? Who knew he would be such a heartless person?" The village party secretary stepped out from the crowd and helped the two old men up.
Several elderly men also came out. They didn't say anything, but the fact that they stood up expressed their opinions. Two old men were in tears.
Luo Laowu's wife sat on the ground, muttering to herself: "My daughter was only twelve years old when she disappeared. Luo Laosan, you are not a human being, you are not a human being! If you feel that the village has treated you unfairly, go find the villagers. Why are you looking for our Erxiang? Erxiang respects you so much. Every time she sees you, she always call you Third Uncle!"
Luo Erxiang is the daughter of Luo Laowu's wife. She got pregnant when she was almost 40. She has been beautiful since she was a child. Everyone in the village said she was cute and well-behaved. Two years ago, Erxiang said she went out to cut grass for pigs and never came back. The whole village went to look for her, but there was no trace of her alive or dead. The villagers said she was washed away by the underground river, but she just couldn't accept it. She had been looking for so many years and had been to this pear orchard so many times.
In the fall she helped pick the fruits, and in the spring she helped with the flowers, weeding and fertilizing. At that time, her daughter was underground. Could she hear her talking above ground? How scared and desperate she must have been.
"Since you hate the villagers so much, they were already old when you were young. Go ahead and kill them. Every grievance has its perpetrator, so why don't you dare go find them? Why are you venting your anger on children, you wimp, you coward, how can you be so cowardly? Retribution, retribution, people like you should have no descendants!" At the end, Luo Laowu's wife cried and laughed.
Hearing the words "cut off the descendants", Luo Laosan had no way to defend himself, as the police were already here. But he couldn't let his father die. His father's incense couldn't be cut off by him! Luo Laosan glanced at Luo Anping, who had shrunk his neck into his collar, closed his eyes, and said, "I did the whole thing by myself. My grandson didn't know about it. Let him go."
It was very quiet all around, except for a few dogs barking from time to time, no one spoke. They all knew that Luo Anping could no longer stay in the village. They could not make the same mistake that their grandfather had made! What's more, Luo Anping was already fourteen years old!
At this time, Xiaolan, who had recovered, spoke. Before she spoke, she looked at Lin Shuyue, the person who gave them a piece of clothing and covered their only dignity before everyone rescued them. She changed the dialect that was about to come out of her mouth into Mandarin: "Don't let that little beast go. Erxiang was killed by him."
Everyone could understand Mandarin. Xiaolan's words made everyone's eyes fall on Luo Anping. Luo Anping habitually shrank his neck, and his thin face subconsciously showed an aggrieved expression. If someone didn't know the inside story, they would definitely be deceived by his expression, but Xiaolan and Xiaojun, who had been tortured by them for nearly two years, did not show any ripples on their faces.
That beast, when he was torturing them and they were crying out in pain, he would show this expression, then say sorry to them and ask them to be patient.
If they resist, Luo Laosan will come over. Luo Laosan's methods are more cruel than Luo Anping's. The grandfather and grandson are both demons and evil ghosts! They all deserve to die!
She was held by Luo Zhengchang's hand, and looked at Luo Laosan and his grandson with eyes full of hatred: "Erxiang died after he cut off all the flesh on her body. When she died, the little beast Luo Anping was still laughing, and the old beast Luo Laosan told him to cook all the meat and feed it to the dogs."
Luo Laowu's wife screamed, some people covered their mouths, some turned their eyes away, and even the two experienced policemen closed their eyes and dared not listen carefully.
"They haven't committed any crimes in the past two years because everyone is keeping a close eye on their children and they are afraid that their crimes will be exposed."
"Just last night, these two beasts came here. The younger beast said that there were several very beautiful women in the village and he wanted to play with one of them. The older beast told him to wait a little longer, saying that these newcomers to the village were not good people, and to wait a few days. When he found an opportunity, he would get them here."
"The little beast was very unhappy, and the old beast said to him, 'Don't you want to play with Xiaofang very much? Go and bring Xiaofang here tomorrow and be obedient.' The little beast was happy, and he told the old beast that there were too many people in the basement and it could not accommodate them anymore. The old beast asked him to get rid of Xiaojun and me in the next two days." Xiaolan's voice became frightened and hoarse.
She was abducted at about the same time as Xiaojun. When she came in, Erxiang was still there. By then, Erxiang had been tortured to the point of being covered in bruises. Erxiang kept holding her hand, telling her over and over again that she was in pain and felt uncomfortable.
Erxiang was being cut into pieces right in front of her. Xiaolan was so frightened that she didn't dare to refute at all. No one knew what kind of torture she had suffered underground. There was not a single piece of healthy flesh on her body. All the old wounds healed and new scars appeared. In the past two days, she and Xiaojun had been ready to die.
The two of them secretly hid a wooden stick, which she sharpened into a very sharp point. Xiaojun said that when the time comes, she should stab him to death first. He was small and had no strength, so he might not die if he did it himself.
"These two beasts don't dare to attack men. Xiaojun was captured by them purely because he was unlucky. When he came to find the beasts, he saw their secrets."
"There is a lime pool under the old beast's house. The bones of all the people who died at their hands over the years are all there." Xiaolan glanced at Xiaojun who was being held in the arms and closed her eyes in pain. Her husband Luo Zhengchang held her in his arms and patted her back gently.
Following Xiaolan's revelations, another person went down the pit to check. They walked along the long tunnel and saw a lime pool about two meters wide built with cement bricks. There was a dense layer of bones inside.
But in their village, they went up to the ground from Luo Laosan's house. The entrance to the tunnel was under Luo Anping's bed. They confirmed the truth of Xiaolan's words. Someone wanted to beat up Luo Laosan and his grandson, but this time, they were stopped by the police.
The older policeman said, "Don't beat them anymore. If you beat them again, they will be beaten to death."
Everyone looked at Luo Laosan. He was already dazed. The stone thrown by Luo Laowu's wife was quite hard.
The crowd was afraid that someone might be beaten to death, so they stopped moving. There was a roar of a car outside. After more than an hour, the police from the county criminal investigation team finally arrived. They came in two cars, one of which was carrying three forensic doctors. After learning the location of the lime pit, they picked up their professional equipment and went to work, while the criminal investigation team took their notebooks and visited the people.
Lin Shuyue and Bai Wenhua, who found something wrong, were questioned.
Lin Shuyue sat in the car and made this special statement. When she finished the statement and came out, the forensic doctor carried the bones out of Luo Laosan's house in bags.
Ten bags of urea, each weighing 100 kilograms, were transported out.
It was a sunny day, but everyone present felt cold, especially Lou Fengqin, whose hands were shaking as she held Lin Shuxing and Lin Shuyue's hand. She couldn't help thinking about what Xiaolan had just said. She was too scared. She couldn't imagine what her daughters would suffer if they were kidnapped by these two demons. The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. Later, her whole body was shaking. At this moment, she couldn't wait to take her two daughters back to Pengcheng.
This is not a small mountain village with simple folk customs, this is a man-eating den!
The car took the two animals away with the bones. No one discussed or gossiped about such explosive news. Everyone went home with prayer flags and paper money to worship at the Pear Orchard. The dogs raised by Luo Laosan were beaten to death, and the pear trees above the basement were cut down. The families of those killed by Luo Laosan and his grandson sat on the ground, and their grief-stricken voices rose with the smoke from the burning paper.
Lin Shuyue returned to Luo Zhengjun's attic wearing a work vest. When she unpacked her luggage and was about to put on her clothes, she saw a newspaper. A newspaper from the future.
The picture on the newspaper was Lin Shuxing's familiar face. Lin Shuyue's hands were shaking and she could hardly hold the light newspaper.
A few large square characters caught the eye: [ "A young woman followed her husband back to her husband's home, but died in the village." ]