Quick Wear: True and False Life

Chapter 424: The Peasant Girl of Qinghe Village 19

On the tenth day in Jinyang Prefecture, Lian Cheng Jinghao had taken Gu Nan to all the famous places in the city, so there was nothing new.

After asking the innkeeper, Liancheng Jinghao learned that there was a famous Jinyao Temple outside the city and suggested that they go there for a visit.

So after Lian Cheng Jinghao talked to Gu Nan, he rented two good horses and headed for Jinyao Temple outside the city. When he reached the foot of the mountain, he happened to meet a group of villagers who tied up a young woman and dragged her to the firewood pile at the foot of the mountain.

Following behind was a tall man, holding a baby in his hands, but the baby had a cleft lip and three fingers, and was hanging upside down with one breath left.

"Auntie, what's going on with you?" Seeing this, Gu Nan stopped an old lady who was lagging behind the group when he passed by and asked with a curious look.

"What a sin! Liu Daming's wife gave birth to a monster, which was disrespectful to the gods. The village chief ordered to burn it to death as a sacrifice to the gods." The old lady glanced at Gu Nan and said in a bad mood.

"Has there been a similar situation before?" Gu Nan asked after hearing this. The only thing left in his mind was, how ignorant and stupid you are, and how much harm you have done to others!

“Yes, a monster was born in Liu Zhu’s family two years ago, but that monster was missing an ear and had no toes on its left foot.

There are also a few such monsters that appear almost every few years. A Taoist priest once said that the monster was the incarnation of the devil and it was safe to burn it to death.

Earlier it was just a child, and it was passed down from generation to generation. In this generation, the village chief felt that not only the child was a monster, but the mother was the source, so they all burned it to offer sacrifices to the gods and pray for protection. "This lady is the "loudspeaker" of the village. She couldn't keep her words in her heart. When Gu Nan asked, she crackled and told everything.

After hearing this, Gu Nan had a guess in his heart. The people in this village might be the product of inbreeding! But that shouldn't be the case! This place is not isolated. There must be time for intermarriage with other villages. How could there be so many genetic diseases?

"Then, Auntie, are all the people in your village surnamed Liu? Do they rarely intermarry with people from other villages?" Gu Nan had a guess, so he asked again.

"Yes! Miss, how did you know?" The old lady asked puzzledly after hearing this. She thought to herself, I haven't told you yet, so how did this girl know?

"Then why don't you intermarry with people from other villages?" Gu Nan asked instead of answering.

"Hey! Why else? We came here to escape famine. We used to live in the mountains and thought that outsiders were dangerous, so we made a strict rule not to have contact with outsiders. Later, we gradually formed a rule not to intermarry with outsiders.

So later, even if they fled here, everyone was used to the custom of not marrying others, so unless they were unable to marry, they would buy a small number of people from outsiders." The old lady said as she walked.

Gu Nan didn't expect that just because his ancestors were ignorant, they brainwashed the tribe members too much, harming countless descendants.

"Thank you for clearing up my doubts." Gu Nan got the answer he wanted and hurriedly thanked her and hurried forward.

When the two men arrived, the man had been tied to a wooden stake above the fire, and the baby was thrown directly at the woman's feet.

"Please, village chief, Cui Niang is unlucky. You watched her grow up, how could she be a monster? Please..." At this time, Liu Daming knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, just to save Cui Niang's life.

"Liu Dahai, Liu Dajiang, pull him away and don't waste the good time." The village chief didn't intend to pay attention to him. He directly called his two brothers to pull the man away.

"Village chief, are you ready? Shall we start now?" After Liu Lin finished his paperwork, he asked the village chief.

"start!"

Liu Lin took the torch and was about to throw it when Gu Nan and Lian Cheng Jinghao arrived. Lian Cheng Jinghao jumped up and caught the flying torch, then stepped back to stand guard beside Gu Nan.

"Who are you? What are you trying to do?" The village chief shouted angrily when he saw people trying to stop him from lighting a fire.

"Don't be angry, village chief. Why don't you wait for me to explain the reasons before making a decision?" Gu Nan saw that the village chief was very angry and comforted him.

"Okay! Tell me, let me see what you can come up with." After hearing this, the village chief suppressed his anger and sneered with a bad look.

Gu Nan contacted Bai Xi and asked him to sort out the dangers and cases of consanguineous marriage.

The cases are as comprehensive as possible, picking out the most serious ones, the more serious the better.

"Sister knows, I'll be there right away!" Bai Xi put down what he was doing and immediately rushed to the palace to search and make a copy.

"I know why there are always so-called monsters in your village." Gu Nan answered the village chief with a serious face.

"You say!" The village chief was moved and said with some expectations.

"There must be someone in the village who can read if it's about close relatives getting married! You can read it for yourselves! Don't think I'm lying." Gu Nan said, pretending to pull out a stack of papers from his sleeves and motioning the village chief to ask someone to read it. (The text has been translated into Fengchao ancient Chinese.)

After hearing this, the village chief pondered for a while and felt that Gu Nan could not have lied to him. After all, it was impossible for her to collect all the information she had in a day or a night.

"Liu Chenxi, you read it to everyone." After considering it, the village chief pointed a young man who had attended a private school to his side.

Liu Chenxi stepped forward, took the information from Gu Nan's hand and began to read.

Reading again, Dr. Jin Jianhong from the Endocrinology Department of Hangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital will use a recent case to tell you that a common cause of these terrible diseases is - consanguineous marriage.

The 24-year-old patient Xiaoqin (pseudonym) was born in a rural area of Jiangsu Province. She had her first menstruation at the age of 13, and her mother told her that "this is a sign of growing up."

However, for the next four years, Xiaoqin's "period" seemed to have disappeared and never came. The parents then thought of sending the child to the hospital. The doctor found that Xiaoqin not only did not have her "period", but also had no breast development. What was more troublesome was that her voice began to become hoarse and her throat became swollen.

There was a bulge on her nipple, and male-like reproductive organs actually grew on her original female reproductive organs.

The hospital diagnosed her with "congenital adrenal hyperplasia", a condition that causes her body to secrete large amounts of androgen, resulting in symptoms of "female pseudohermaphroditism". This rare disease is caused by either close relatives marrying or a gene mutation.

Xiaoqin's parents happened to be married to close relatives, and the reason was revealed.

After Liu Chenxi finished reading this case, although many contents were unclear, he understood the meaning by combining the context and guessing.

As for why I remained silent after reading it, it was because the baby on the firewood pile was born with two sets of genitals, and his father was close to him.

In the following cases, the symptoms of the monster, which the villagers knew more or less, were mentioned in various cases.

The most terrifying thing is the case summary, which reads: Each of us carries many disease-causing genes in our bodies. These genes are recessive. Only when a couple carries this recessive disease-causing gene at the same time will they fall ill. These disease-causing genes are often hereditary. When a couple is a close relative, the probability of carrying the same recessive gene will greatly increase, thus leading to an increase in the incidence rate in the next generation.