Chapter 39: Ghost Burial X Fetal Movement

  I hung a red handkerchief on the window, looking at the lush trees outside and said, "Why is the two-faced monster afraid of the red handkerchief? This is really strange."

  Chen Qiuyang said: "After graduating from the police academy, I used to be a web author. At that time, I always hoped to become an overnight sensation and become a web celebrity. At that time, I saw a horror novel called 'Ghost Burial', the story inside was actually written very badly and boringly, but I remember there was a plot where the male protagonist Zhu Shouling and others went to an old house and encountered a big-headed monster baby, this big-headed monster baby is a killer, specializing in killing those who took its red bellyband."

  I and Kui Ruo Lan are not interested in "Ghost Burial", Kui Ruo Lan said: "Qiu Yang, do you also write horror on the website? What's the name? Ghost Blowing Lamp or Grave Robbery Notes?"

  Chen Qiuyang looked embarrassed and said, "Actually, I write for women's frequencies, specializing in overbearing president stories. Hehe, I remember that my 'Overbearing President Falls in Love with Me' had a very high click-through rate."

  I and Kui Ruo Lan were both startled by this sentence, I hate these CEO novels the most, but I didn't expect that Chen Qiuyang had also mixed with women's frequencies.

  One night passed, and the police still couldn't catch the two-faced baby monster.

  The next morning, we followed Ruan Defeng's medical team into Xiayuan Village. This was my idea, and taking advantage of Ruan Defeng's medical team to enter Xiayuan Village was the best choice, making it convenient for us to investigate Lei Yongchang's home.

  We stepped into Xiayuan Village for the first time. After entering Xiayuan Village, I found that those rumors and curses outside were not reliable at all, because Xiayuan Village is a very comfortable village.

  Every household's building is neatly designed, most of them are three-story villas, and the roadsides are planted with beautiful mango trees, wax apple trees, and longan trees. The balconies on each floor are planted with fresh flowers, and the bright red rhododendron is in full bloom, burning like a fiery flame.

  These villages are quite wealthy due to their business of operating Chinese medicine.

  I told Ruan Defeng that I wanted to go to Lei Yongchang's house and take a look at the Vietnamese girl. Ruan Defeng said, "Originally we were going to his house in the afternoon, but since you, the big social director, brought it up, let's go to his house first. To be honest, I'm also quite interested in this 20-month pregnancy news."

  Lei Yongchang's house is located in the middle of the village, it is a three-story building. The exterior of the building is covered with snow-white ceramic tiles, and the windows on each floor are designed to be very classical, with bamboo-shaped glazed tiles, highlighting the elegant and quiet taste.

  The gate opened, and we were greeted by Lei Yongchang. Lei Yongchang had a square face, dark and shiny skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes were clear and bright after being washed by the mountain village rain. At first glance, you could tell he was that kind of honest, simple-minded and kind-hearted rural uncle.

  His laughter was hearty and genuine, saying: "Welcome everyone, come on in and take a seat."

  We entered his house and met the legendary Vietnamese girl who was pregnant for 20 months.

  Undeniably, the Vietnamese girl is really beautiful. Even now that she's pregnant with a big belly wearing loose pajamas, it can't hide her elegant demeanor at all. Her face is small, palm-sized, with snow-white skin and pink complexion, delicate features, hair tied up with a hair clip, simple yet elegant.

  "Sorry for the trouble, sorry to bother you all. Can you help me check on my wife? Thanks."

  The other obstetricians who came with her entered the inner room to help with the examination.

  We sat in the living room drinking tea. Lei Yongchang said, "Actually, I know that people outside are saying she's someone I bought with money. Actually, how would people outside know? We're truly in love and decided to be together."

  I couldn't help but ask: "Sister-in-law's belly, is it really a 20-month pregnancy?"

  Lei Yongchang said, "This is indeed true, although I don't know what's going on." Lei Yongchang thought for a moment and slowly said, "There is one thing, I don't know if I should say it, because I think it has nothing to do with this matter. Because of that kind of Nanyang evil technique, I think it's superstition."

  It turned out that Lei Yongchang and the Vietnamese girl went to Thailand for a trip after getting married. In a small mountain village, they accidentally entered a Taoist temple, where they saw some strange wooden puppets. The Vietnamese girl thought these puppets were very cute, so she spent 1,000 Thai baht buying one back to the hotel.

  That night, they were in the hotel room, and it lasted until morning. The next morning, the owner of the inn saw the wooden puppet in their room and was shocked.

  The owner of the inn was from Hong Kong, so he told Lei Yongchang that the wooden puppet represented bad luck, bringing disease and hardship to children as the son of a pestilence god, and asked Lei Yongchang not to bring it back home, but to burn it with fire immediately.

  Lei Yongchang wasn't a superstitious person, but seeing how serious his boss was, he borrowed some alcohol and set the wooden puppet on fire.

  Lei Yongchang also found a photo from his mobile phone and handed it over to us, saying: "It's this wooden puppet of the cicada shell son."

  The photo shows a beautifully crafted wooden puppet, intricately carved and painted with vibrant colors. However, the puppet's face looks quite ferocious, with eyes like bronze bells and large lips resembling two deep red flower petals.

  In short, I don't know why the Vietnamese girl thought this wooden puppet was cute and wanted to buy it. My feeling is that this puppet is extremely eerie and evil, with an inexplicable aura of evilness hitting me in the face.

  Is it possible that Vietnamese people's aesthetic concept is quite different from ours in China?

  "I've also been to Thailand for tourism. I remember the tour guide told us that if you haven't seen a puppet show, it's like you haven't been to Thailand at all. So that night we watched a puppet show with human performers on the same stage, and it was indeed very impressive. But what you're saying, this is actually my first time hearing about it."

  "Wei continued, 'Giving birth to life is a sacred process. Life begins with the combination of sperm and egg cells, undergoing continuous cell division, gradually growing into a baby. This has nothing to do with any curse.'"

  "Lei Ge, I heard that previously there were media and scientists interviewing you guys, and they also took your wife to various places for examination. What was their conclusion?"

  Lei Yongchang smiled wryly and said, "At first, many scientists and medical experts came to our house, and even a famous TV program team came to film. But later on, they all concluded that this baby was not actually 20 months old in the womb. Some teams even exposed the truth: we wanted to have a second child so badly that we deliberately fabricated this lie. My wife wasn't pregnant for 20 months at all; she was only pregnant for 10 months initially and gave birth to a first child who we kept hidden, and now this one is actually our second child, also born after just 10 months. I was so angry with these stinky experts that I chased them out of my house with a broom."

  "Nowadays, most of these so-called experts are unlearned and untalented, relying on their seniority and age to pretend to be authorities in various fields, haha, it's ridiculous."

  Lei Yongchang's face turned difficult to look at, and he said: "Although our village has rumors outside that the women here give birth to children who die immediately, although this is a rumor, many pregnant women in our village indeed have ectopic pregnancies."

  "Does that mean it has to be disposed of?"

  "Yes, if it's not discovered and treated in time, it may endanger the mother's life."

  Lei Yongchang said: "However, after being treated, these people are likely to become infertile from then on. So the curse that our village has no children born is not unfounded."

  We were chatting when two people suddenly walked in. One of them was none other than Qing Jiang, the innocent and pure girl with a lot on her mind who had been arranged by Zou Guan Jia for me to go on a blind date with.

  Another one was a bit older, very thin, with a waxen complexion, and looked listless. Qing Jiang saw me without any surprise or delight on her face, as if she didn't recognize me at all. She supported the older woman and said to Lei Yongchang: "Third Uncle, I heard that there is a doctor who came to your house, so I brought my sister to check up, take a look."

  Qing Jiang was actually Lei Yongchang's niece, and the other one was her sister, named Qing Cheng. However, it seemed that her sister had a serious illness.

  Ruan De Feng hastily called out the colleagues from inside, bringing in green ginger and green oranges. I couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong with them?"

  Lei Yongchang let out a long sigh, saying: "What a sin! Qinglang has always wanted a child. But she's been pregnant three times, and all three times were molar pregnancies. Heaven is really blind to her suffering."

  This is the first time I've heard of a professional term like "hydatidiform mole".

  Ruan De Feng knew I would ask him, so he didn't wait for me to look at him and said: "A molar pregnancy refers to those fetuses that do not develop normally in the uterus. However, these fetuses have vesicles of varying sizes that are connected by stalks, resembling a cluster of grapes. A molar pregnancy is divided into partial mole and complete mole, which is caused by abnormal fertilization. The cause of the disease is related to the woman's physical condition, nutritional factors, and environmental factors, and must be treated with uterine evacuation."

  I learned new knowledge again, but as a liberal arts student with a richer imagination, he said it was like a string of grapes and felt a bit nauseous.

  "Wei said: 'She has had three consecutive molar pregnancies, it is recommended that she not get pregnant again. This situation is too harmful to her body. Having children is a blessing, but if there are no children, then the mother's safety is what matters.'"

  As we were talking about these things, Ruan Defeng's colleagues came out one after another, some with very serious faces.

  Qing Jiang and Qing Cheng also walked out, nodded at us in gratitude, then supported their sister as they left.