The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 748 Feeding the Fish with Children

In a small courtyard in the Shen Mansion, a little boy who had just started learning to walk was being practiced in the house by a maid.

There was a charcoal brazier burning in the room, which was quite warm, but the child's mother sat aside with a sad face, and she couldn't muster any interest at all.

The maidservant beside her asked her, "Why has Aunt Dan been so sad these past two days? Is there something on her mind?"

Aunt Dan said, "I don't have any worries, I'm just worried about how long the snow will stop falling. The climate in Chiyun City is the best, and children can play outside all year round. If our little treasure practices walking in the yard, he will learn faster!"

When the old woman heard that it was about this matter, she also sighed and said, "Who said it wasn't! It was a good day and it suddenly snowed, making everyone panic. Fortunately, we have a lot of fish and vegetables in our house. When the weather gets cold, we can freeze the fish and have enough to eat for half a year! After half a year, the snowstorm will be over, right? Don't worry, we won't starve, and it won't delay the young master's growth."

Aunt Dan felt even more upset when she heard this. She was not worried about the weather at all. The Shen family was a wealthy family, and they had a lot of surplus food, vegetables, meat, and other things. There were six cellars in the house for storing vegetables alone.

Besides, the Shen family was a fishing family, and they had more fish than they could eat. When the weather was good, they would dry the fish for easy storage. When the weather was cold, they would bury the whole fish in the snow and freeze them. When they were ready to eat, they would just stew them in the pot. In short, they would not starve.

She was worried about another thing...

She was the concubine of the third master of the Shen family, her name was Xu Dan, and she was nineteen years old. The third master, Shen Muyu, was not very old either, just shy of twenty-five.

The Shen family is the most famous family in Chiyun City. It has been a prosperous family for hundreds of years. In this area, no one doesn't know about the Shen family. So even though the men of the Shen family would marry many concubines, there are still people willing to marry their daughters to the Shen family. Although she is just a concubine, Shen Muyu treats her very well, caring about everything, and has a gentle temperament. He even takes care of her parents and siblings from her natal family. She likes her husband very much, so she married into the family and they had a child. Now, the child is fifteen months old and will soon be able to let go of the maid's hand and walk by himself.

The child was chubby, fair and cute. The Shen family had a rule that children were not given names before they were three years old, so that they could be raised easily. Only when they were three years old would they be given a formal name, and then they would be officially reported to the government and registered in the household registration of Chiyun City.

Therefore, currently only the Shen family knows about her child, and the government has no idea of the existence of this child.

Shen Muyu had many concubines, Xu Dan was the ninth one. Shen Muyu's two elder brothers were even more exaggerated, each of them married nearly 20 concubines, and also kept many mistresses outside. The wife at home never cared about it, and she couldn't manage it at all. Because of the tradition of the Shen family, not only these three masters, but even the old master above, married 20 to 30 women when they were young.

But there are not many children left. Up to now, there are only three male children born to the old lady Wang. In addition, there are two illegitimate daughters who have already married. There are no more.

Therefore, it is rumored that the reason why the men of the Shen family marry so many women is because their children do not live long and will die within a few years, so they have to marry more and have more children in the hope that more healthy children will survive and continue the family line.

But even so, very few children survived in the end. The generation of Grandpa Shen was an example. He was the only one who survived to adulthood. Fortunately, he had three sons and two daughters, which was the most populous generation in the Shen family over the years.

It's not that no one has ever wondered why the Shen family's children always died, and even the government investigated, but unfortunately there was no result. Later, a doctor said that the Shen family actually had a genetic disease, which was in their fate, and whoever got it would not live long. But not all children would get it, some could inherit it, and some could not, it all depends on who is lucky.

Since then, no one has said anything about the Shen family. Instead, they have sympathized with them and felt that the Shen family was too pitiful. As for why so many people are willing to marry into the Shen family and bear children for the Shen family even though they know that they have a genetic disease, it has to do with the appearance of the Shen family. The Shen family members are all very good-looking, whether they are men or women, they are all very beautiful. In addition to being good-looking, the men of the Shen family are also affectionate. Although they have many wives and concubines, I have never heard that the wife in the backyard of the Shen family treats the concubines harshly, nor have I heard that the concubines fight with each other.

So the girls thought that it would be better to marry into the Shen family and live in harmony with the wives and concubines than to marry someone else and have to endure having three wives and four concubines. Even if the children were unhealthy, as long as the person was alive, it would be enough to have more children, and there would always be a healthy one.

What's more, the Shen family is rich, and they are very generous whether it is marrying a wife or taking a concubine. Not only will they give a large sum of money to the wife's family, but they will also take good care of the wife's family in the future, and the fish they catch will always be provided for the wife's family. In short, if you marry into the Shen family, you will have no worries about food and clothing.

Therefore, the men of the Shen family could take concubines in one after another, and also make those concubines willingly give birth to children for them.

Aunt Dan was one of them. She thought so before she got married, but after arriving at the Shen Mansion, especially after giving birth to this child, she felt more and more that something was wrong with the Shen family. The entire Shen Mansion was filled with evil spirits from top to bottom. All the Shen family members were weird, especially the concubines in the backyard who had given birth to children. They were all either crazy or stupid.

In short, except for the main wife, no concubine could survive to give birth to two children. Either they went crazy after giving birth to one, or they became stupid after giving birth to another, or they committed suicide by hanging or jumping into a well after giving birth to one. There were also those who wanted to escape, but they were caught by the Shen family and kept in prison.

Aunt Dan once met a crazy concubine who grabbed her and said: "Don't give birth to a child for the Shen family, they will catch your child and feed it to the fish." The fish in the shoreless sea are raised by the Shen family, and they are raised with the lives of the Shen family's children!

After a few words, the madman was dragged away. Afterwards, someone always asked her what she heard the madman say. She was cautious at the time and did not tell the truth. She only said that the other person's crazy words were not clear and she did not understand.

No one asked about it later, but this incident left a mark on her heart.

She thought about the madman's words many times, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt it was possible.

Everyone knows that the Shen family is good at fishing. Even in the maze-like sea without a shore, the Shen family can sail far. They can catch big fish that others can't catch. Who would believe that they don't have some special ability? But if the special ability is to feed the fish with the lives of children, then could it be that the fish that I usually eat are all raised by eating the flesh of the children of the Shen family?

She vomited when she thought about it, and she refused to eat fish again.

At first, the Shen family thought it was strange and even started investigating her, but they never expected that she was actually pregnant. The doctor diagnosed her with pregnancy, so people thought that she was vomiting because of morning sickness and that not eating fish was because of the change in her taste due to pregnancy. After all, a woman's taste will become strange after she becomes pregnant, and she will feel nauseous and not want to eat for the first few months, so no one suspected her of anything.

Aunt Dan has been analyzing this matter ever since. No matter how she analyzes it, she feels that there is something wrong with the Shen family. And those crazy and stupid concubines, why are they crazy and stupid? How can a good person be crazy and stupid?

You say that you were traumatized by the death of your child, but when you married into the Shen family you already knew that the Shen family had that genetic disease, and you were mentally prepared that your child would not live long. How could you be so traumatized?

Unless it is not a genetic disease at all, but the child was taken away to feed the fish, this is enough to make a mother mentally collapse.

Until she gave birth and the baby was born safely, this matter was on her mind every day and she could never let it go.

Later, she went to meet a woman who was one of the few women in the mansion who was still alive after losing her child.

That woman was the third master's second concubine, four years older than her. She was quiet and didn't talk much, and she didn't socialize with anyone. She even rarely went to pay her respects to the old lady and the first lady every morning. That woman was a distant relative of hers. She was from her grandmother's family, so she was older, so she should call her cousin.

She went to see her cousin quietly, without bringing any servants with her, and she came back after sitting for a short while.

But in just a short while, she learned a big secret of the Shen family, and from that moment on, she began to calm down and plan an escape route for her children step by step.

It turns out that they were not feeding the fish, but feeding the monster. It turns out that since four hundred years ago, the Shen family has been sending a child under the age of three to the shoreless sea every two years to feed the monster suppressed by the Heavenly Lord in the sea.

The Tianzun is the supreme being in the spiritual world when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth still exists; the Da Yao is the supreme being in the monster clan when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth still exists.

It is said that in the past, monsters were rampant, endangering humans and killing countless spiritual practitioners and mortals. Tianzun could no longer bear it and personally took action to suppress the monster under the shoreless sea. From then on, humans were saved and other monsters dared not come to human territory again.

But then the spiritual power of heaven and earth disappeared, and Tianzun could no longer use his spiritual power. Once Tianzun lost his spiritual power, the big monster suppressed at the bottom of the sea was no longer restrained, so it broke through the formation and restrictions and rushed out from the bottom of the sea.

What’s even more terrible is that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has dissipated. Even the Heavenly Venerable cannot use magic, but the big demon can.

Just when people thought this would be a catastrophe, the Emperor's Master Li Yuan descended upon the Shoreless Sea and repeated the method that the Heavenly Master had used to suppress the big monster, and once again pushed the big monster into the depths of the Shoreless Sea.

It was from that moment on that people discovered that not only the big monsters could use magic, but Tianzun’s first disciple Li Yuan could as well!

Humanity was saved, and Shi Liyuan suppressed the monster in the shoreless sea. But before Shi Liyuan arrived, the monster had already moved to a house in Chiyun City with his great magical power. He threw the house onto the sea, sat on the top of the house and told Shi Liyuan: If you dare to suppress me, you can suppress the living people in this house as well!

That house was the Shen family back then...