Chapter 50: The Crime of Gender 50
Several people from neighboring villages were pushing two flatbed carts, each laden with several large empty wooden barrels. It was clear that these outsiders had come to draw water from the well at Qin Shuangshuang’s house since the wells in their village had completely dried up.
Qin Shuangshuang’s heart sank. Just a few days ago, she noticed that although her well still had water, the water level had dropped again. But she didn’t expect the wells in other villages to have already dried up!
Seeing outsiders entering the village, Qin Shuangshuang immediately decided not to venture into the mountains anymore. She would stay home to guard her mother, Mrs. Bai, and Qin Miao.
These outsiders had come to fetch water accompanied by the village chief and a few young villagers. Fortunately, the well was drilled deep enough that even though a lot of water was taken, the water level had not dropped significantly, indicating a relatively abundant aquifer below.
After these water-fetchers left, Qin Shuangshuang immediately deceived Fang Yaoyao to come to her home. Qin Shuangshuang didn’t know when Fang Yaoyao had been harmed by someone, but she was really uneasy about leaving Fang Yaoyao in Fang Family Village.
Qin Shuangshuang decided that during this time, no matter what method she needed to employ, she would keep a strict watch over Fang Yaoyao in their home, even as a villain separating a master and his daughter!
A few days later, Qin Shuangshuang heard that a group of refugees was roaming around, capturing isolated people to eat! This made Qin Shuangshuang very uneasy because such incidents had never happened in her previous life.
Although each household’s food supply was dwindling, they hadn’t run out completely, and it was still a long way from needing to eat people out of starvation. Besides, when people first resorted to eating human flesh, they didn’t dare eat the living; they started by eating those who had died of starvation.
It was only after eating dead people’s flesh many times, breaking their psychological bottom line repeatedly, and being driven by hunger, that humans would finally abandon all moral boundaries and hunt living people to eat.