Chapter 163 Differences Between Men and Women
The women in the village were crowded together, distributed in an arc, surrounding a small shrine built near the mountain, and worshiped devoutly.
Every time it hit the ground firmly.
They had nothing in their hands, and they were not wearing the clothes specific to the ritual sacrifice.
There are no tributes or incense candles in front of the shrine. Looking from this perspective, Ran Ran can even see the dark inside of the shrine...
There is no idol.
Shen Dinghai squinted his eyes for a while and found three words written on the plaque of the shrine.
"Evil God Hall?" He murmured, "Evil God Hall? What is this person worshiping? Have you never heard of it?"
"And who doesn't worship good gods and evil gods? You must be the only one who worships like this if you are not a good person!"
"There are indeed no good people in this village!"
Ran Ran chewed these three words carefully, "Evil God Hall."
The flames of the ceremony soared into the sky, illuminating the forest.
The women seemed to be tireless and kept kowtowing.
The loose skin is in contact with the moist soil, and the smell of earth and the fragrance of vegetation are in your breath.
Ran Ran watched for a while and found that their actions were repeated.
After prostrating, they will recite a few words together and then continue to prostrate.
It's just that the distance is far, Ran Ran doesn't dare to use magic rashly, so she doesn't know what the women are saying.
She listened carefully.
The women's lips opened and closed, and a buzzing sound sounded together, like the unbearable sound when people have tinnitus.
Ranran frowned, "It's not a bow."
She said this almost instantly.
"What?" Shen Dinghai looked confused, but this time he was not the only one who was confused. No one knew what Ran Ran was talking about.
"If the villagers are offering sacrifices and worshiping, the chanting to pray for strength from the gods should be peaceful and pious."
"They look quite religious, don't they?" Shen Dinghai scratched his head in confusion.
"Yes, they are very pious and devout, but not peaceful." Ran Ran frowned, "I just calmed down and wanted to feel the atmosphere of chanting, but I immediately felt full of malice!"
"Malicious? Do they have ill will towards God?"
"You can say that." Ran Ran frowned, "If the person they are chanting is the owner of this shrine."
Shen Dinghai frowned, "Then I don't understand. If the people in Gude Village asked for that power, why would they be malicious towards the god who gave them power?"
"Are our previous assumptions wrong?"
Ran Ran remained silent and did not speak.
"Then what should we do now? We have seen where and how we work, but there are more things we don't know and don't understand."
Ran Ran lowered his head and thought deeply, "The situation at work is indeed different from what I expected."
"From what we have seen, the women in the village are obviously very bullied. It can even be said that they are deeply afraid of the men in the village."
"Then why are they so willing to work at the request of men? Aren't these forced by the men in the village? Are they voluntary?"
Shen Dinghai put forward a different opinion, "Cousin, just because we only see the situation of Wang Hei's family, we can't directly infer that the whole village is in the same situation as his family, right?"
He muttered under his breath, "Though other men are perverts too."
Ran Ran explained patiently, "Second nephew, you should remember the situation when we left Wang Hei's house, right?"
"I remember that at that time, almost every household stood at the door to watch the excitement. We were like monkeys in a zoo."
Ranran corrected: "It's a man from every household."
"Except for the woman from Wang Hei's family, when we were walking on the road, there was no woman standing among the people standing on both sides."
"But isn't that because it's going to be night soon and all the women are coming to work in the back mountain?" Ran Ran shook her head firmly, "It wasn't there at that time, at least not women from every household were here."
"How does cousin know?"
"Smoke from the chimney."
A look of memory appeared in Ran Ran's eyes, "It was dinner time at that time, and there was smoke curling up from the kitchens of every house. I kept paying attention."
"From the moment we left Wang Hei's house and all the men in the village rushed to the door to watch the excitement, until we went to Sister Wu's house and were later taken away by the village chief, the smoke in the chimney did not stop."
"I can even smell the aroma of various meals being cooked."
"The whole process, the men have been crowding outside the house to watch the fun."
Ran Ran affirmed: "It's only women who cook at home."
Shen Dinghai suddenly realized, "It turned out to be the chimney and the smell of the food. I really didn't notice it, or I noticed it, but I didn't take it to heart."
Ran Ran continued: "There are probably only a few people like Sister Wu...Wu Mingde's mother who come to the back mountain in advance. Most women in the village come here to prepare dinner for the men."
Shen Dinghai frowned, "This schedule is a bit busy!"
"The front legs have just finished cooking, and the back legs have to go to the back mountain to worship this evil god. Not to mention how difficult it is to walk on the way here, it is a large field of grass, and it is difficult for me to walk with such a large grid!"
"Just talking about this inexplicable ritual, chanting and praying non-stop, it has to last all night! Who can bear this!"
As Shen Dinghai was talking, he suddenly realized something was wrong, "That's wrong! The arrangement of the day shift and night shift is not reasonable at all."
"Men come to worship during the day and have time to rest at night, but women have to worship at night and have to wash, cook and take care of the house during the day. This... there is no time to rest!"
"That's not fair at all!"
As soon as this sentence came out, the scene suddenly fell into silence for some reason.
Shen Dinghai looked at Ran Ran as if asking for help, "Cousin, am I right?"
"That's right." It was Wu Pannan who answered him, "Throughout the ages, haven't there been too many unfair things between men and women?"
"Not only do you have to wash and cook, but you also have to pray to gods. Not having time to rest is just the most superficial injustice."
Shen Dinghai was a little frightened by the cold-faced Wu Pannan.
"Um...actually, I just want to condemn this phenomenon in the village. I don't want to raise it to the whole community."
Wu Pannan sneered, "Then can you say what I said is wrong?"
Shen Dinghai was at a loss, "No."
Wu Pannan's eyes suddenly filled with tears, "As you know, men and women are never fair."
"If it was fair, why would they choose to let me die without hesitation?! Why not choose my brother?!"
"If it's fair, how could they give birth to so many boys after they had no money to support me and sent me to die..."
"It's just unfair."
Her eyes were red, as if soaked in blood.
"There is love without reason in this world, and there is hatred without reason!"
"They are also the children of parents, and they will unconditionally favor their older brother and younger brother because they are boys."
"They will hate me for no reason because I am a girl!"
Wu Pannan's eyes were fixed on something, "Obviously I didn't do anything wrong..." Her lifeless eyes made her look like her soul had been taken away.
Looking at it, she suddenly chuckled.
"Look at me, I'm so stupid. Nothing I say is logical."
Her voice was very soft, like dewdrops shaking gently on the green leaves in the morning.
"There is a reason. The reason why they love my brother and my brother and hate me..."
"Isn't it because we are different between men and women?"
