Chef's Knife

However, Taotie did not expect that day to come so quickly.

In that remote, closed and conservative village, a young and beautiful single woman of unknown origin, with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old lonely and autistic son who doesn't know who his father is, how difficult life will be beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Poverty and hardship are only one aspect of suffering, but more are the comments and pointers of the villagers.

A woman whose husband has died should follow her husband to death on the head of the stele, only then can she be called a chaste and martyr.Even if she is a widow, she should keep her duty wrapped in black at home and observe the festival, and she should never show her face in public.As for remarriage - that is even more treasonous, and the heavenly law cannot tolerate such a thing.

But in the eyes of the villagers, this woman has nothing to do with the words "women's ways".

The woman raised three chickens, one cow and two pigs, and built a tea shed by the stream beside the river at the gate of the village.There are often some travelers passing by here, including merchants, peddlers, caravans, ronin knights, in short, there are three religions and nine streams in the world, and there are also scholars who go to Kyoto to take the exam in spring. They will stop here for a while, and have a bowl of sake. After eating the meat, he packed his bags and set off on the road again, leaving some scraps of silver behind.

No one knows that no matter in heaven or in the world, the wine made by women is worth a drop of gold, and the soups and dishes made by women are only for the best gods to enjoy.However, the woman is not stingy with her craft, she only enjoys the process of cooking and makes a living from it.

After a long time, when every passer-by arrives at their destination, they forget the name of an unknown small village along the way, and they will still miss a certain warm and familiar taste. That memory must contain a green man with a gentle smile dress woman.

No matter how poor you are, even without makeup and jewelry, a woman will always find a way to dress herself up differently.She rode a Taotie to gather all kinds of strange plants to blend dyes from the mountains, and dyed the plain clothes and linen into different shades of green, green, dark green, lake green, bean green, light green, pine green... Each skirt has a different style and pattern. different.There are picked wild flowers pinned to her neckline, a hairpin made of animal bones is inserted on her head, and grass rings made of vines are tied around her wrists and ankles.

A little widow with her son dressed up in such a gorgeous way, in the eyes of the locals, it can be called immoral.When she went to wash clothes by the small river with a basket on her shoulders, groups of women along the bank drew a clear line from her, poked and poked and commented contemptuously.

"Fox spirit!"

The men in the village were swearing uncleanly, but there was no one who didn't hide ghosts in his heart.In the field where the woman passed by, the young man probed his head, his eyes were fixed on the woman for a moment.

Seeing their husbands being seduced by women, the women were so angry that they spit, jumped up and cursed, but dared not say a word about their men.Those with sons would pick up a broom and find a place to beat them on the head to vent their anger as soon as the door was closed after returning home, and then warned the boy with a straight face not to be stunned by the vixen; Trouble, when the anger is over, I will repeat it over and over again to tell the girl to remember the three obediences and the four virtues and not to learn from that dirty bastard.

The boys who had been beaten up for no reason, naturally held a grudge and were depressed.The vixen in a green dress who eats human flesh and drinks human blood naturally dare not provoke him, but luckily that vixen also has a silly son named Luo Xiaosheng.Naturally, the little wild bastard born to a slut with broken shoes would not be a good thing, so it is just and righteous to clean up.So the boys in the whole village united together, and when they surrounded Luo Sheng, they beat him with fists and kicks.

"Go to hell! Bitch! Go to hell with your bitch!"

——What is death?

Luo Sheng squatted quietly in the corner, clutching his bleeding forehead, and asked Taotie such a question.

Taotie stretched out his tongue and licked away the blood from Luo Sheng's palm, looking at Luo Sheng's wound that healed quickly.

——Death is...disappeared.

——So, how do you die?

Well this...

Taotie thought, people are very fragile and will die easily.

It wasn't until a few days later under the moonlight that Luo Sheng, whose hands were covered in blood, kicked the corpse of the man under his feet and looked at Tao Tie with harmless eyes, that Tao Tie realized the seriousness of the problem.

—Is he dead?

There was no trace of fear or nervousness on the face of the young man in green, he just asked questions persistently.

Taotie sniffed at the man, but could no longer smell the scent of a stranger.

It really is dead.

—Why did you kill him?There are no good, evil, right and wrong thoughts in Taotie's mind, it only cares about motives.

The young man in green had a smile on his face for the first time, and his expression was unexpectedly gentle.

——The bad guys who bully my mother should disappear.

Taotie guessed what Luo Sheng witnessed. This man was a well-known thug in the village, known for harassing women and molesting little girls.After he fell in love with a woman, he had a perverted mind, and came to the door again and again to touch the woman.

The hooligan poured sweat medicine into the woman's water in an attempt to commit crimes, and the boy who ran into the evil act used a kitchen knife to cook him from behind like a cow or sheep.

While the woman was still sound asleep, the boy and Taotie disposed of the corpse.

Taotie hadn't eaten human flesh for a long time, and it swallowed it whole without thinking.

——If you eat bad people, you will become bad.

Almost paranoid, Luo Sheng rinsed the kitchen knife with water over and over again.

Taotie was stunned for a moment, then it suddenly remembered that it was not a kind person in the first place.

Luo Sheng hugged Taotie, tilted his head and murmured.

"Ha, I made the bad guys disappear, and now I'm as bad as you."

The seeds of disaster were quietly planted.