Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Ning Huanxin was still listening to Zhang Yunshu’s voice as Li Yan’s beautiful and bright face appeared before her eyes again from what she saw at the river. She was really a beautiful young woman. She was also very determined and intelligent, but…
Fate is sometimes too cruel.
“What happened after that? Why wasn’t Li Yan drowned?”
Ning Huanxin had previously seen it clearly and knew Li Yan was also buried alive. Her body wasn’t thrown to sink into the river.
Zhang Yushu heard Ning Huanxin’s question, and her expression suddenly turned even more bitter. “Miss. Ning, do you believe… there is something like a River God in this world?”
“Why would I?” Ning Huanxin replied instinctively.
However, Zhang Yunshu’s smile became even more conflicted with a mix of emotions. “That’s right, I didn’t believe it either, but… on the fifth day when my cousin was locked up, something strange happened. A strange disease started spreading throughout the entire Li Clan Village. That disease was spreading at a rapid rate. It was something that none of us had ever seen before. It was very scary, very horrifying.”
Even now, Zhang Yunshu could still remember the dark clouds looming over the hearts of everyone back then.
Overnight, the entire Li Clan Village looked like it had turned into a ghost village. The village was filled with sick people.
The disease was way too strange. It also scared everyone in the Zhang Clan Village. They thought the River God had become angry after the Li Clan Village offended the River God!
That’s right! Only the wrath of deity would cause such outcomes. If not, how could they explain the strange illness that swept across the Li Clan Village overnight?
“Miss. Ning, you didn’t experience it, so you wouldn’t know how terrified and flustered we were back then. The illness spread very rapidly, and everyone in the entire Li Clan Village became sick. Back then, fear and anxiety gripped the hearts of everyone in the Zhang Clan Village. Everyone was afraid that the fire of River God’s anger would spread on us as well. Therefore, the Village Chief spent a lot of money to invite a master with great spiritual power from outside the two villages. The spiritual master told us that the disease of Li Clan Village was incurable. If we let it spread and not take measures, it would definitely implicate the entire Zhang Clan Village. If we wanted to appease the River God’s anger, there was only one solution, to offer the entire Li Clan Village to the River God! But those people’s bodies were not pure, so they weren’t worthy of being thrown into the river. That would only make the River God angry.”
Speaking up to this point, Zhang Yunshu suddenly became quiet.
“So, you people burned down the entire Li Clan Village, and the villagers who had escaped from the fire, you buried them alive?”
At that moment, Ning Huanxin spoke out the unspeakable truth that Zhang Yunshu couldn’t say.
“Just now, you said that everyone in the Li Clan Village was crazy, but aren’t people in your village as crazy as them?”
This incident, this foolish, outrageous, and extremely immoral incident had actually happened! Ning Huanxin’s heart ached.
“That’s right; everyone was crazy. Even I… I was also scared back then. I didn’t want to die. I was still so young, and I hadn’t gotten married yet.”
In the face of death, everything becomes so insignificant.
To survive, they had lost their minds and became crazy.
“They buried all those people alive. The entire Li Clan Village was wiped out overnight. After that, no one ever mentioned the Li Clan Village, and… after many years, people have intentionally forgotten that incident.”
No one mentioned it because no one wanted to remember the atrocious crimes they had committed.
But could it really be forgotten?
At least Zhang Yunshu would never forget it.
On the day of that tragedy, Zhang Yunshu didn’t go to that village. Many other children and young people in the village also didn’t go there that day.
However, she knew it in her heart. Even if she didn’t commit the crime with her own hands, it didn’t mean that she wasn’t an accomplice either.
All these years, she had trouble sleeping and even lost her appetite. Every single moment of her life, she had been living in pain and guilt.