Chapter 947: A Man-Eating World

The old woman continued, "Some who are filial will stand by the entrance and chat when they come up to deliver food; after all, it is too boring and too terrifying inside this Waguan grave."

"But there are also some unfilial ones who find delivering food troublesome and stack all the blue bricks on the first day, sealing the entrance."

A deathly silence swept through the entire mountain forest.

At this moment, almost all the doubts—the disappearance rate and death rate of the elderly in Suiyang Prefecture—all received their answers.

Lv Luo and Shangguan Wan'er stopped speaking.

As the old woman said, she was regarded as a person of ill omen; money alone was useless as long as she was alive.

Any misfortune in the family, or even any hardship, would be blamed on her as the culprit!

If she went out, she would also be subject to the pointing fingers of the villagers.

Gao Yang glanced at the five blue bricks stacked at the entrance and nodded, saying, "In that case, old lady, your sons can be considered among the filial ones."

The old woman's voice held no discernible joy or sorrow.

"That is natural, but not entirely. The first two days after being sent in, they were very filial and couldn't bear it, so they would chat with me when they brought food."

"Things like Zhang San's chicken being stolen or Wang Wu's child falling into a cesspit. But later, perhaps they were busy, or perhaps they had their own things to do, they became increasingly perfunctory and impatient."

"But that white rice was quite fragrant!"

"Yet, who doesn't fear death?"

"I crawled out and went to my eldest son first. My eldest son was very angry when he saw me, as if I had done something heinous, and he beat me out."

"I went to my third son's house; his door was tightly shut, and no matter how I begged, he would not open it."

"My youngest daughter once said she would definitely support me in my old age, but when she saw me, it was as if she had seen a plague god. She said I would bring bad luck to the family and also beat me out."

"They were not like this before."

Outside the Waguan grave, the autumn wind howled.

The group was silent.

Only the old woman's voice rang out.

"Were they very good before?"

Gao Yang asked in a low voice.

The old woman, curled into a ball inside the Waguan grave, felt her dim eyes suddenly light up at these words.

Even though Gao Yang could not see, she nodded heavily.

"Very good!"

Then, as if talking to herself, she recounted the past. ===== CHAPTER 949 =====