False evidence

Chapter 144 Wolf Child

This town is the same town where Yin Kela escaped.

Yin Kela smeared her face with hot scalding casserole, and once the makeup was gone, people immediately recognized her.

This woman was too vicious. She fled, but secretly harmed the two men she had seduced, causing them to suffer from hidden illnesses. One of them died, and the other was left with a disability.

The townspeople hated her to the core, and no matter how much she begged, they wouldn't let her go this time. They beat her half to death, severed the tendons in one of her legs, dragged her into the deep mountains, gave her only a bag of white sugar, and left her to fend for herself.

Hearing Xiao Shensan say this, Meng Chao couldn't help but frown: "After all, she's still a woman. She's already crippled. Just beat her up and hand her over to the police for legal proceedings. Why go to such extremes?"

Xiao Shen glanced sideways and said, "There used to be a father and daughter living in the back hill valley. Back then, the three masters and disciples occupied their home to protect this precious land."

The old father was left to rot in the mountains and die; it was Yin Kela who came up with the idea of ​​coaxing his mentally challenged daughter to keep walking deeper into the snow-capped mountains.

Yin Kela gave the simple-minded girl a bag of white sugar, telling her to eat it one grain at a time until she finished it before she could go back!

I felt a chill run down my spine when I heard this.

Meng Chao cursed even more, "Is that even humanly worthy of being beaten? She deserves to be torn to pieces!"

Pidan asked, "Isn't that kid stupid? It sounds like he tricked Yin Kela?"

Xiao Shen laughed and said, "As I said before, my eldest brother is a monk, and my second brother happens to be surnamed Xu."

A chill ran through me: "Are you an ancestor of Shen the Shepherd? Which head of the Shen family?"

Xiao Shen San actually nodded. "The day before the ancient town was destroyed, all the residents dreamed of a monk who told them to relocate the entire town immediately, or else they would face annihilation."

I was restless for several days and didn't sleep that night, so I didn't receive the warning. That night, I was worried about my two sons and rushed to the mortuary, which was 20 miles away, to find them. However, I slipped and fell into a mule's egg (a natural pit unique to Yanbian) and became a wandering ghost in the mountains.

Later, with the help of my two older brothers, I was finally able to reincarnate. However, I didn't reincarnate; instead, I was directly reborn into my foolish grandson's body.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Meng Chao's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "You mean...you're your grandson?"

Pidan corrected, "It should be the grandson's grandson, or... the little grandson."

Xiao Shen San curled his lip: "My good-for-nothing grandson got into the business of treasure hunting. One of the taboos in treasure hunting is that you can't get married and have children. But he insists on going against the grain."

Therefore, they suffered divine retribution. Their son died a violent death, and their grandson, who was said to have become mentally disabled shortly after birth due to illness, actually died young because his soul dissipated.

My monk brother said that I had at least accumulated some good karma, so I wouldn't be childless and without descendants. Therefore, he allowed me to be reborn as his grandson!

"My story is finished," Shen San said with a smile. "I know modern people oppose superstition, so whether you believe it or not is irrelevant. Just listen to it as a story."

“I believe you!” Meng Chao nodded vigorously. “At your age, even if your family has been selling DVDs for generations, you’d just be a little precocious. You couldn’t possibly explain the shady things between men and women so clearly.”

Both Pidan and I wholeheartedly agree.

This doesn't mean that Shen San was particularly explicit in describing certain scenes; rather, he handled them with remarkable ease, using only a few words to vividly portray the wicked desires of Yin Kela and the driver.

Even the writer Zhang Xuan probably doesn't have that kind of skill, let alone a twelve or thirteen-year-old child.

Xiao Shen asked me with a smile, "What are your thoughts on this?"

I licked my lips and said slowly, "To be fair, the kid in the story was really wicked."

"Oh? How so?" Xiao Shen asked with interest. I said, "He's not only adept at navigating social situations, but he also dotes on his adoptive father. He understands the struggles of a single man, so even though he knows Yin Kela has ulterior motives, he turns a blind eye and treats this woman as a perk for his father."

Moreover, beneath his childlike appearance lay the wisdom of an adult; if he wanted to punish Yin Kela, it would be a piece of cake. He didn't directly harm Yin Kela, but instead tricked him into returning to that small town. I believe Yin Kela's despair and pain at that time were almost as terrible as being torn to pieces.

Shen San nodded: "It is right to be filial to one's parents, but bringing Yin Kela back to the town was the joint idea of ​​my eldest and second brothers. My second brother understands the law, abides by the law, and hates evil. He knows that without evidence, the government cannot do anything to Yin Kela. That's why he asked me to give him a taste of his own medicine."

Meng Chao became even more curious: "Now that you mention it, I really want to meet your two brothers. Hey, so monks can become sworn brothers with people?"

Shen San laughed: "I recently read a book where the monk not only became sworn brothers with someone, but also apparently became a prince consort. What's interesting is that the monk's father was also an abbot."

We immediately realized which character from the book he was referring to, and we couldn't help but burst into laughter.

At this moment, Li Chuang, who hadn't spoken until now, suddenly said, "Sanqi, you're not human!"

"What?" I was taken aback.

Because Xiao Shensan's story was so captivating, we overlooked Li Chuang's existence for a while.

Only then did he notice that there were two palm-sized clay figures on the table in front of him.

He was still holding a lump of clay in his hand, but his eyes were staring straight at me.

Meng Chao snorted: "We're not that close yet, so don't say anything hurtful."

Li Chuang shook his head: "I'm not cursing anyone, I'm just saying that Sanqi wasn't raised by anyone."

Meng Chao was truly enraged this time: "You'd better swallow those words!"

I stopped him.

Li Chuang seemed to realize he had said the wrong thing, and his face turned red as he said, "That's not what I meant, I meant to say... I meant to say..."

"I understand your idea."

I glanced at Bai Jing and felt even more strongly that the two people she brought were no ordinary people.

Seeing that Pidan was also somewhat indignant, I explained to her and Mengchao, "When I was little, I went to play in the mountains with some friends and forgot about the time."

I was too young then, and once it got dark, I couldn't tell which way was which in the mountains. I led a few children around until midnight, but we still couldn't find our way out of the mountains.

Suddenly, several small green lights flashed in the darkness. All the children cried in terror. Children who grew up near the mountains knew what those were. They weren't will-o'-the-wisps, but wolves.

While wolves eating people is uncommon, it's not unheard of. Even a single adult wouldn't dare venture into the mountains at night, let alone a group of children.

Strangely, the wolves did not attack us; instead, they led us out of the mountains and to the edge of the village.

When I got home, I told my grandfather about it, but he didn't find it strange at all.

The old man drank his wine with peanuts and said to me: When he found me, I had been abandoned in the mountains for some time.

The old man often went into the mountains to collect herbs and was very familiar with everything there. He told me that he smelled a milky, non-human scent on me.

He said that during the time I was abandoned, I must have drunk wolf's milk. Therefore, from as far back as I can remember, he set rules for me: never wear wolf skin, never eat wolf meat, and never harm wolves.

(End of this chapter)