bookcurios Chapter 376 Reward for the Diligent
Chapter 376 Reward for the Diligent
There was no contraception at that time, and my mother got pregnant many times. Her belly swelled up and then flattened. She didn't look like a human, but more like a caged animal.
If it is a son, I will think twice about it; if it is a daughter, I will put her on the fire and roast her.
That is the custom in the village.
"Put a baby girl on top of it and light a fire to burn her. She will start to cry and then move. After a while, her skin and bones will be burnt and she will no longer be in human form."1
They are also chopped into meat paste and thrown into the river to feed the fish.
There has always been a saying among the people that if the corpse does not have a human form, it will be impossible to pursue the soul and claim the life. This is also to let the baby girl who has not opened her eyes feel the horror of swords, fire, and running water so that she will not dare to come again.
Hua Niang was only seven or eight years old that year. She went up the mountain to chop firewood under the pretext of trying to find a way to escape with her mother.
But there are mountains after mountains, and the continuous mountain ranges prevented them from leaving.
Her shoeless feet went through the four seasons, stepped on fallen leaves and snow, but she still could not find the direction to take her mother away.
...
Until she resisted for the first time and jumped into the sight of the evil men, they did not stop tearing her clothes off because of her small body.
The year she was assaulted, nothing was known.
The next day, my body was still aching, so I got up and looked for a new direction.
When she was fourteen, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child whose biological father was unknown. The mother leaned against the wall looking at the child, tears flowing from her cloudy eyes.
There were still no shackles on her feet, but her legs could no longer walk.
The mother felt that her feet had grown new shackles, and that her newborn child would imprison her in the mountains forever until her death.
...
But she found a way to survive.
In other words, she spent ten years paving a way for herself and her mother.
The mother once asked Hua Niang, "Your child can already walk, are you willing to let him go?"
Hua Niang nodded.
She is not like a mother. Her children will always be her weakness and the shackles that prevent her from leaving.
But Hua Niang has no maternal instinct. She does not love the child she gave birth to with great difficulty, and she refuses to put shackles on herself.
...
They ran for a long time, so long that their mother collapsed. She had selflessly dedicated her entire life to her, but one identity trapped her for her entire life.
Death also created a real way for her to survive.
Hua Niang didn't dare to stop, she kept running, just for that thin freedom2.
...
Mo Zhiyu took a step forward.
Hua Niang clenched her bleeding hands and took a step back. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes were full of fear.
But she didn't make any other moves until Mo Zhiyu walked up to her and reached out to hold her hand.
"not enough."
Hua Niang looked at her in disbelief, tears in her eyes sliding down her bloodstained face.
"If I were you, I would let them feel the heat of fire." Mo Zhiyu said lightly, "If you want the police not to find out about you, there is one more important step."
"Don't panic."】
The heroines in the novels created by Li Wenshu are quite different from the traditional heroines.
At least they are not kind and decent in the traditional sense. They are more likely to follow what they think in their hearts and do what they think is right.
Sometimes it is the choices that determine a person's character.
This is also the method Li Wenshu uses when creating characters in his novels. When creating a character, he will give her a vague positioning, such as whether she is talkative or taciturn, extroverted or introverted...
When you have created the image of the character from the outside, you have almost finished a draft and drawn the outline of the character.
The next step is to add flesh and blood to the character and shape the character's basic color.
If you are still very vague about the character and don't even know what choice she should make in a scene, then the characterization is not enough.
A flesh-and-blood character who can stand on his own feet should have his own life goals, life experiences, things he likes, things he fears...
The next step is to design a few questions and make choices from the character's perspective. The charm of the character comes from every choice in the plot.
For example, in "The Coroner", after Hua Niang's massacre of the village was exposed, Mo Zhiyu chose to conceal it instead of detaining her.
Of course, each reader has a different interpretation of the characters.
[I can say that Pai Gu Jing always shocks me, not only because of the novel’s subject matter and plot, but also because of the characterization. ]
[I thought the heroine would arrest Hua Niang after revealing the truth. After all, according to normal logic, if you kill someone, you must pay with your life, not to mention that she killed a whole group of people. Although none of them were good people, Hua Niang herself was determined to die.]
[It feels a bit like her character is broken. The heroine has been ruthless in dealing with so many cases before. Aren’t some of them just revenges that she had to take? How can she be soft-hearted at this time? Why has she never been soft-hearted before? 】
[How can this be the same? Think about it from another perspective. If your best friend tells you about her miserable experiences since childhood and comes back to seek revenge after suffering so much, I would be lucky if I didn’t hand her a knife.]
[If my best friend suffered such a great injustice, I would drug her together with her. ]
[My bestie is fine with anything as long as she's not in love. ]
[Can the principles in front of strangers and relatives be the same? 】
[First, the killings were not without reason. Those killed were people who should have died long ago. Second, the sufferings that Hua Niang and the women in the village had endured were enough for them to die thousands of times. Third, if it were me, I would really chop them into minced meat and roast them to feed the fish.]
[If it were me, I really wouldn't have such a strong heart to live that long with hatred in my heart. ]
[Each case makes people want to cry. From the elderly to children to women to ordinary people... they all struggled under the times and ended up either being driven crazy or dying of despair. What is scarier than ghosts is the human heart.]
[The beginning of the case was scary, and the truth of the case was also scary. Before, I was afraid of the unknown, and after, I was afraid of the known.]
[Wow, please give them a good ending. I will forgive you for making the college entrance exam more difficult.]
[So far, there has not been a single article in Pai Gu Jing that did not make me cry. ]
[It was this kind of refreshing and painful feeling again. Seeing Hua Niang kill her enemy, I felt happy, but thinking about her experience, I felt very painful. ]
[I've said it before, she has improved to the point where she can harvest our tears and scare us too much at the same time.]
[I suddenly feel that Pai Gu Jing's novels are suitable for women to read, and her female characters are all in pain, but not aggrieved, and their hearts are strong, like the tenacious vitality of wild grass. ]
[She and that vicious-mouthed and uncomprehending toad are definitely having an affair. The characters they wrote have similarities.]
[Don't put the toad and the rib spirit together. One is seamless and diligent, while the other has not posted anything yet and is as lazy as a pig. I told her not to give her rewards. She must have made enough money and doesn't want to come back to write. If you stop her for two days, you will see if she is anxious.]
[What the above person said makes sense. Let's give the money to Pai Gu Jing now. This is a reward for hard work. ]