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Chapter 540: The Poor Woman Whose Child Was Sacrificed on the Road to Escape (2)
So, the Ma family started to target Song Qiuyue again.
They found someone to persuade her, saying that Miss Luo was generous and willing to take her back as a concubine.
Song Qiuyue was not stupid and knew that she would be asked to go back and work like a slave for the Ma family.
She had just escaped from the wolf's den and had a few days of peace and quiet. How could she fall into the trap?
Seeing that she disagreed, Old Lady Ma would come and make a fuss every day, making indirect accusations.
When the county magistrate's daughter heard about this, she sent someone to warn her.
Let her, a divorced person, stop bothering Luo Yu'e's man.
Not long after, I heard the good news from the Ma family: Miss Luo was pregnant.
In the following days, peace finally returned.
She lived a simple life with her two children every day. Although her life was not rich, she felt happy in her heart.
I thought I would live like this for the rest of my life.
However, there are unforeseen circumstances.
Three years later, a flood unexpectedly broke the tranquility here.
At first it was heavy rain, continuous heavy rain.
Many low-lying areas were flooded by rain, and villagers fled to the mountains and forests to avoid the disaster.
But there were many rats, insects, snakes, ants, and ferocious beasts in the forest, and there was not even a place to shelter.
Seeing the rain flooding their crops, fields and houses, the villagers were forced to flee.
They planned to go north, where they heard the land was fertile and would not suffer from floods.
Song Qiuyue took her eight-year-old children, a small amount of clothes and food, and followed the large group of people in the village to leave the place where they were born and raised.
Along the way, the heavy rain was still pouring down and the whole sky was gloomy.
Many villagers suffered from diarrhea and fever due to drinking unclean rainwater, and even her two children were not spared.
In addition, their way was blocked by the surging river, so the villagers had to find a place to settle down.
Fortunately, Song Qiuyue knew many herbs because she often went up the mountain to collect them and sold them to pharmacies.
She found some medicinal herbs in the nearby woods and gave them to her two children, and their fever finally subsided.
The villagers also came to ask and took her remaining herbs to look for them in the woods.
Ma Decai's two-year-old son and old man Ma also had high fever.
He ordered Song Qiuyue in an imperative tone to find herbs for him and to take care of the family's food and drink.
Song Qiuyue glanced at the fleeing crowd, and did not see the young lady of the Luo family and her servants.
It turned out that just before the rainstorm, Miss Luo took her servants to the county town for some business and there has been no news since then.
Without servants to serve him, Ma Decai had both an old man and a child, so how could he take care of everything?
He planned to continue to let Song Qiuyue work like a slave for him as before.
How could Song Qiuyue agree? Ma Decai had no choice but to go to the woods to look for herbs by himself.
The heavy rain was still falling, and within two or three days, the thatched hut where they lived by the river was washed away by the heavy rain.
The river water showed signs of spreading, so the villagers had no choice but to go back.
Halfway through the journey, they met Miss Luo, the county magistrate who had come from the county town.
A Taoist priest followed her, and he said with a mysterious look on his face, "This disaster is caused by the anger of the River God. We need to sacrifice 7749 pairs of boys and girls, twins, to calm his anger."
Miss Luo looked at Song Qiuyue's children with strange eyes and said loudly, "Now the Taoist priest has found 48 pairs of children in all the villages and towns along the river, and only this last pair is left. It just so happens that your village also has a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, which makes the number complete."
When Song Qiuyue heard that her own children were going to be sacrificed, she refused to agree.
Unfortunately, when the villagers heard that it was the River God who was angry and that they were offering a sacrifice to the River God, no one stood up to speak up for her.
Even the child's biological father, Ma Decai, seemed to be standing idly by and even had a look of gloating on his face.
Song Qiuyue watched in despair as the children were taken away by the Taoist's men. She chased them all the way and never gave up even though she fell countless times.
Right on the altar by the river, she watched her two children being placed on a small boat.
Then an indistinct monster emerged from the foggy river and swallowed her child in one gulp.
Suddenly, her eyes went dark and she passed out.
When she woke up again, she found that the wind and rain had stopped, and she was back at the Ma family.
Old Madam Ma said with a smug look on her face, "Your mother sold you to our family as a slave, so from today on, you are a lowly thing of our Ma family!"
Song Qiuyue was shocked. She pushed Old Lady Ma away and wanted to find her mother to ask for clarification.
I have clearly already set up an independent household as a woman and have no ties with my parents' family, so why did she sell herself?
She ran wildly in front, and Old Lady Ma, Ma Decai and others chased after her, all the way to the Song family.
At this moment in the Song family, Old Lady Song was preparing to use the money from selling her house to renovate the house so that her eldest grandson could find a wife in the future.
Seeing Song Qiuyue coming, Old Lady Song found a bucket of slop and threw it at her, "You are married and you should respect your husband. If you are divorced, I can be your master! You have no child now, and the Ma family is willing to let you go back. You should be grateful!"
The brother and sister-in-law beside him also echoed, "That's right, marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog. Now you have no children and are alone, and mother is thinking about you."
She went to find the village head, hoping that he would seek justice for her.
However, the head of the village said that they agreed to set up a female household because she had children, one of whom was a boy.
Now that she has no children, she is no longer qualified to be a female household. Her parents have their reasons for treating her well.
She could only smile sadly. Reasonable?
Without the child, she could only be at the mercy of her mother and her brother and his wife.
Next, she was taken back by the Ma family.
She had lost her spirit and was bullied by the Ma family like a walking corpse.
Finally one day, she couldn't stand it anymore and jumped into the well...
She was so angry. She hated herself for being useless and unable to protect her two daughters. She hated the villagers for being so cold and heartless.
I hate the Ma family for being ruthless and ungrateful, and I hate my mother’s family for being greedy and unrighteous!
After her death, her soul wandered everywhere and finally landed at the county magistrate's house.
But he discovered the secret of County Magistrate Luo.
He actually discussed in private with a monster with a human body and a fish face how to collect more boys and girls!
And that monster, judging from its shape and clothes, was exactly the same as the Taoist priest at that time.
In other words, the one who asked her to sacrifice her two children to the God of River was actually a monster!
As for Miss Luo, from her conversation with her mother, we learned that she accidentally learned about the conversation between the county magistrate and the monster after returning home to visit her relatives.
In order to protect her own safety, Miss Luo directly sacrificed Song Qiuyue's two children to save her life, and was willing to bring monsters to find them.
Song Qiuyue hated it so much, she hated it all, but she could do nothing about it.
After absorbing all her memories, Su Li sighed softly, "I know everything about you. I will help you fulfill your wish."
Then, she turned into a white light and disappeared into the original system space.