Chapter 45 Chapter 4 The Baby Girl Slaughterhouse

From Pastor Liang, I learned that Zhou Shaolong got along very well with an orphan named Meilong in the orphanage, and every time he came here to find her, she just appeared in front of our eyes at this time. Following the direction that Pastor Liang pointed, what I saw was a young girl about fourteen years old, with black and beautiful hair that reached to her shoulders, a complexion that was as white as frost and snow, and rosy, black and white eyes, as if they were clear eyes. The lake at the bottom is amazingly beautiful.Such a beautiful woman will definitely be able to overwhelm everyone when she grows up, no wonder Zhou Shaolong would come to her often, if I was born ten years later, I would come here to do volunteer work every day.

However, although she is beautiful, her clothes are very weird. It feels a bit like Middle Eastern clothing. It is a large robe with only her head and palms exposed on her upper body, and only a pair of showy feet wearing sandals can be seen on her lower body.However, although the robe is wide and long, it feels very fit, as if it was tailor-made.And she is also wearing a very special wooden hairpin, which has an alternative beauty in the weirdness.Is this the legendary non-mainstream?I heard that it is very popular among boys and girls nowadays, but she obviously knows how to use this alternative style better than her peers.

Pastor Liang waved to her, and she walked towards us.Before she approached, Zhen Zhen asked Pastor Liang in a low voice: "Is there anyone from the Middle East donating clothes to you?" Pastor Liang said with a smile: "Not yet, Meilong's clothes were changed by her from donated clothes. In fact, many of the clothes donated by kind-hearted people do not fit well. The clothes worn by those children just now were all changed by her. And her barrettes, which she made herself." "She is so capable at such a young age?" Zhen Zhen was slightly surprised. "Yes, this child is very capable and can do many things. Oh, what a poor child, may the Lord bless her!" Pastor Liang sighed and crossed himself on his chest.

As the saying goes, "children of the poor start their own homes early", it is not uncommon for a bad environment to force people to learn to take care of themselves and those around them.However, why did Pastor Liang keep saying that Meilong's life is hard?If it is because she is an orphan, then all the children in the orphanage are orphans, why only say that she is suffering? Just when she was about to ask this question, Meilong had already come to us. She greeted Pastor Liang politely, and then smiled sweetly at us.Pastor Liang gave us a brief introduction, and then asked Meilong to greet us, while he continued to teach the children how to write.

"Do you know him?" I handed Zhou Shaolong's student ID to Meilong, and she asked nervously after seeing it, "What's wrong with Shaolong? He hasn't been here for almost ten days." "Sorry, he has passed away." "He, he's dead? How could this happen?" She looked surprised and took a step back unconsciously.Tears welled up in his eyes, and his pitiful appearance was very endearing. "Although we know you are sad, we hope you can understand that we must investigate the cause of his death and bring the perpetrators to justice."

She nodded with tears in her eyes: "Is there anything I can do to help?" "I want to know if he came nine days ago, that is, last Friday?" Actually, I said this sentence is wrong, because Sunday is the beginning of a week, and last Friday should be two days ago.However, many people think that Monday is the beginning of the week, so I say this, as long as the other party understands what I mean. "Well, he has been here. He came here almost every day after school, but he hasn't come since that day..." She took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.Nowadays, people who have the habit of wearing handkerchiefs are rare, and most people are used to using more convenient paper towels. Maybe only orphans like her have this frugal habit!

"Can you tell me in detail what happened that day? For example, has he ever gotten angry with anyone, or has he mentioned anything special to you?" "He went to the basement that day..." Her face suddenly turned cold, as if remembering something terrible, she slowly told us about the situation nine days ago—— The weather was not very good that day, and it started to rain as soon as Shaolong arrived.We taught the children to write together, and as we taught, he suddenly asked me if there was a basement in the church, because he saw a wooden door on the floor of the inner church.I heard Sister Yuan talk about the basement. She said that before the liberation, the orphans received by the courtyard would be placed in the basement first, but this was not done later, and the basement is now vacant.However, Sister Yuan didn't like us to play in the basement, so neither I nor anyone else in the courtyard went down, and I don't know what it's like down there.

Shaolong seemed to be very curious about the basement, and kept asking me if there would be anything interesting down there. I told him that I really wanted to see it, but I was afraid that Sister Yuan would be unhappy, so I ignored him and went to the basement. In the kitchen to help cook.After the meal was ready, I wanted to ask him if he wanted to eat here, but I couldn't find him, so I wondered if he might have gone to the basement, so I went to look for him in the inner hall of the church. As soon as I came to the inner hall, I saw the wooden door of the basement opened, and Sister Yuan was walking out with him.Sister Yuan also said that he shouldn't be so naughty, and ran to the basement, saying that it had not been used for a long time, the air was turbid and the ground was wet and slippery, and it would be bad if he fell in it.

After Sister Yuan left, I asked him if he had seen anything interesting in the basement. He didn't look very well at the time, and he hesitated when he spoke. He just said that there was nothing down there.However, I always felt that he was lying, so I pestered him to ask.As soon as the rain stopped, he said he wanted to go home for dinner, dumped me and ran away... From Meilong's narration, we can know that Zhou Shaolong went to the basement before he disappeared, and maybe he could find some clues there.So I asked her to help find Sister Yuan and take us to the basement to check.

"Sister Yuan doesn't like other people going to the basement..." Meilong showed a troubled look on her face, but then she approached me furtively and whispered, "Why don't I take you there, actually, I want to see it too. Look, but don't tell Sister Yuan, she won't be happy if she finds out." Although it feels like Meilong is more mature and sensible than her peers, she is still a girl after all, and like most innocent girls, it is difficult to suppress her curiosity about unknown things.Since Sister Yuan might not be willing to take us to the basement, it might as well let this curious girl take us there.

After agreeing to Meilong's proposal, she took Zhenzhen and me by the hand and walked towards the church.For women, fourteen years old may be a dreamy age. Her hands are as slippery as tofu, and it feels comfortable to hold them. Unfortunately, my mother gave birth to me ten years earlier. It was past the worship time, and both Sister Yuan and Pastor Liang went to take care of the children, so there was no one in the church.On the floor of the inner hall, there is a movable wooden door about 120 cm long and 80 cm wide. Its location is not conspicuous, but it can be seen after walking around the inner hall.Like this church, the wooden door should be hundreds of years old, but there is no sign of damage, and it seems to be made of good wood.I pulled the iron ring on the door panel, and it took a lot of effort to pull up this thick wooden board. I think Zhou Shaolong must have struggled to open this wooden door. I suddenly thought of a problem. If the wooden door is closed, even if someone calls for help in the basement, it will be difficult for people outside to hear it.No wonder Sister Yuan didn't like people to walk inside. If something happened inside, it would be a shame. After opening the wooden door, there is a not very long stairway, but due to the angle problem, the light cannot shine into the stairway.Therefore, in front of my eyes is a stairway with the lower half hidden in darkness, and I can't see what is going on in the basement. Zhen Zhen asked Meilong if there was an electric light in the basement, she shook her head and said she didn't know, because she had never gone in, but the last time she saw Sister Yuan came out of it, she was holding a flashlight.This church should have a history of more than a hundred years, and it is not surprising that no electric lights were installed under the conditions at that time. "I know where there is a flashlight, go and get it now." Meilong said and ran away before we agreed.In fact, I have a lighter in my pocket, so I can handle it. After waiting for about five minutes, Meilong didn't come back yet, so Zhenzhen became a little impatient: "This girl has gone there, let's go down and have a look first!" Anyway, Meilong has never been in the basement, so she may not be able to help if she comes, so I took out the windproof lighter, and with the help of the faint light from the blue flame, I walked into the dark basement with Zhenzhen. The basement is much more spacious than I imagined. It should be about 120 square meters, but the height is relatively low, only about two meters high. I always feel that it is easy to bump my head, although my height is less than 1.8 meters.With the help of the faint light from the lighter, it can be seen that there is nothing here, only four walls made of simple stone bricks. There are candlesticks on the walls, but there are no candles.The air here is slightly cloudy, and there are a few mosses growing on the ground and walls. If you come in alone, it will be troublesome if you slip and fall. I checked around and found nothing special. Just as I was about to leave, Zhen Zhen suddenly screamed, pointing to the entrance of the stairs and shouting: "What is that?" I looked in the direction she pointed, and found that there was a black object on the ground moving fast towards us.This thing is dark, about a meter long and half a meter wide, flat as if it is touching the ground.Because of the lack of light, I couldn't see what it was for a while. It felt like a moving black cloth, or a squashed black snake. The black foreign object moved in front of us in a short moment. Zhen Zhen stepped on it, trying to step on its "head", but its "head" was able to vacate a hole in the shape of a shoe print in an instant. Just happened to let Zhen Zhen's foot fail.Its shape seems to be able to change at will, before Zhen Zhen could lift her foot, it was wrapped around the shoe. Zhen Zhen was startled by the vision under her feet, but she is not a vegetarian as a Sanda champion, so she reacted immediately, took off her shoes with a twist of her feet, and jumped back.After the shoes left the feet, they were immediately wrapped by foreign objects, as if the shoes were wrapped in a piece of black cloth.However, when the foreign matter receded from the shoe, the genuine leather sneaker, which was of good quality, became riddled with holes, as if it had been soaked in a corrosive liquid. Zhenzhen and I looked at each other, and we all got a message from each other's astonished expressions - run away! After the foreign object left the shoe, it attacked us, and it could be divided into three parts, blocking the way from three directions.We had to flee inside, but when we got to the corner there was no escape.Seeing that they had come to our feet, a strong light came from the entrance, and I subconsciously covered it with my hands, and so did Zhenzhen.Although my eyes couldn't see the surrounding scene temporarily, my ears were fine, and I heard Sister Yuan's voice: "Why did you run in without telling me?" When the strong light moved away from us, I saw Sister Yuan standing at the entrance holding a flashlight, and Meilong was beside her fiddling with the hem of her clothes uneasily, as if she knew she had made a mistake.Looking around again, the black foreign object has disappeared, as if it has never appeared, leaving only a riddled sneaker on the ground. The sudden change prevented my brain from reacting. If it wasn't for the tattered sneaker, I would have thought it was just a nightmare, but it was clearly not a dream, but something that actually happened.Zhen Zhen and I looked at each other, and the eyes of the other party gave me affirmation, this is definitely not a dream. "Son, you shouldn't be here." Sister Yuan waved to us, motioning us to leave the basement with her. Zhen Zhen hopped back to pick up her sneakers, the shoes were already worn out, but she still planned to put them on.I snatched the shoes and told her to hop on one foot first. The shoes will be handed over to Yue Tong for testing later.She glared at me angrily, and I responded with a "charming" smile. She finally compromised, put down her beautiful feet, which were only wearing white socks, and left the basement with me. When I walked out of the basement, I told Sister Yuan about the situation just now, and showed her the sports shoes riddled with holes.She looked very sad, sighed a long time, and crossed herself on her chest: "May the Lord save these poor souls, Amen!" "Sister Yuan, what's going on in this basement? Is it haunted down here?" Zhen Zhen looked at the dark entrance of the basement, as if what happened just now still left her with lingering fears. Sister Yuan didn't answer immediately, but wanted to close the wooden door, and Zhenzhen and I immediately stepped forward to help.After closing the wooden door, she said, "The reason why I don't want everyone to go into the basement is because there are many ghosts of baby girls in it." "What's going on here? Can you tell me more about it?" I asked seriously. Sister Yuan invited us to sit down, and then slowly told what happened in this mysterious basement—— The orphanage was founded by Pastor Smith at the beginning of the last century. At the beginning, a large part of the funds were funded by the church, so the funds were abundant at that time.Because of sufficient funds, the life of the orphans in the hospital was not bad at that time, even better than most poor people, so many poor people would send their baby girls who could not support them to the church. Later, Pastor Smith returned to the embrace of the Father, and it coincided with the war, and the hospital could not get in touch with the church, and the funds became increasingly tight.Moreover, the war caused more poor people to send baby girls who could not touch them to the church, and the daily expenses were even greater. Because there is no way to take care of so many orphans, but the baby girls are sent in a steady stream.If the baby girls were handed over to the nuns by their parents, the nuns could still explain to them that the hospital is unable to take care of their daughters, but most people choose to secretly leave the baby girls outside the church door, and the only ones left may be the girls. The surname of the baby's father... I was one of the baby girls who were abandoned outside the church at that time. I didn't know who my parents were, but my father's surname was Yuan, so the nuns named me Yuan Siqin. Because it is unable to take care of so many orphans, the hospital can only choose to take in the baby girl with better physique, and the choice is to let the baby girl lie naked in the cold ground room for a day.During this day, not only did they have nothing to eat, they couldn't even get a drop of water, and they didn't even have a piece of warm clothing.Under such harsh conditions, how many fragile newborn girls can pass the cruel test?Those who survived by luck will be brought up by the hospital like me.This situation has been maintained until after liberation... "What's the difference between you doing this and killing someone! It's better to let the baby girls starve to death and freeze them to death than to strangle them!" After listening to Sister Yuan's narration, Zhen Zhen suddenly became excited. "May the Lord forgive our sins, Amen!" Sister Yuan did not refute Zhen Zhen's scolding.In fact, this is not her fault, because she is also one of the baby girls who underwent this cruel test. I told Zhen Zhen this, and let her understand that she scolded the wrong person.She awkwardly apologized to Sister Yuan, and then asked another question: "Why are all the abandoned ones baby girls?" Sister Yuan sighed again: "There are still many people who prefer sons over daughters. Half a century ago, this kind of thinking was even more serious. Now most of the orphans in the courtyard are girls, and the only few boys are some. Defective." According to what Sister Yuan said, the basement was used as a "baby girl slaughterhouse" for quite a long time, and there may have been hundreds if not thousands of baby girls who starved to death in it.So what attacked us just now, could it be the resentful spirits of the baby girls?Did Zhou Shaolong die strangely because of this?