Siheyuan: Hang Jia Dongxu, smash Banggeng to death!

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Aunt Li screamed, and warm liquid streamed down her cheeks, but she didn't bother to wipe it away.

She stared intently at the small, ghostly figure standing beside Lin Feng's corpse, at the axe that was still dripping blood.

"Lin Tian... don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!"

"I'm a woman! You can't kill me!!"

Upon hearing this, Li Tiezhu, who was standing nearby, trembled. He opened his mouth as if to remind him, but dared not speak.

They were afraid of attracting Lin Tian's attention.

What is his wife saying?

Are you so scared you're confused?

Lin Tian was shocked.

This is truly a reversal of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

"Just because you're a woman doesn't mean I can't kill you?"

Aunt Li nodded vigorously.

She didn't know where she got the courage from, or rather, she seemed to have unlocked some strange new ability, but she dared to look directly into Lin Tian's cold eyes:

"Yes! You can't kill me! It's against all reason for a man to kill a woman! You men should protect women! You should give way to women! If you kill me, you're scum! You're an animal!"

As Aunt Li spoke, she became more and more fluent, as if her words were not something hastily pieced together from her mind, but rather truths etched into her very being:

"I've been married into the Li family for thirty years, working hard to serve my in-laws and raise my children. Was it easy for me? What right do you have to kill me?"

What did I do to offend you? That quilt was brought back by my husband, what's it to me?

Lin Tian listened quietly.

After she finished speaking, he agreed, "Aunt Li, you're right. You're a woman, I shouldn't have killed you."

Aunt Li was taken aback.

I didn't expect Lin Tian to say that.

She was even prepared to face the axe, ready to close her eyes and wait for death.

but now……

"Are you...are you serious?"

"Of course it's true."

Lin Tian nodded, put the axe down from his shoulder, and planted it on the ground. "I, Lin, have always been known for my kind heart. My axe never kills women."

Aunt Li's eyes lit up.

It was an overwhelming, irrepressible ecstasy, a feeling of being saved from a desperate situation.

She abruptly stood up from her seat, pushed aside Li Tiezhu who was blocking her way, took two steps forward, and her expression changed from fear to matter-of-fact:

"I told you so! You're just a kid. No matter how ruthless you are, you can't kill a woman. If word gets out, won't you have any shame? How will you ever show your face in Beijing again?"

Aunt Li straightened her back and her voice became louder:

"Let me tell you, you can't do this. You've killed so many people, you'll get your comeuppance sooner or later. I advise you to stop now while you still can."

Go to the police station and turn yourself in, try to get leniency. You're still young, you can still live a normal life after a few years of reform...

Lin Tian tilted his head, listening to the long-winded speech of this 60s version of the fairy.

Li Tiezhu, who was standing nearby, was terrified and desperately tried to signal to his wife to shut up.

But Aunt Li was completely absorbed in her own bizarre world and didn't notice at all.

"Besides, how can you blame me for borrowing salt back then? My family was struggling financially at the time, and I only asked your family for it because I was being kind to you."

Also, the incident where your sister was bullied was done by Yan Jiedi and her gang. What does it have to do with me?

I was cooking inside at the time and had no idea what was going on. You can't put all the blame on me, can you?

"And there's more..."

That's enough.

Lin Tian spoke.

She stopped and looked at Lin Tian.

"Aunt Li, what did you just say? That a man killing a woman is against all reason and morality?"

Aunt Li nodded subconsciously.

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Lin Tian agreed, "But are you a woman? You're clearly an old woman."

Aunt Li was stunned.

Is there a difference between a woman and an older woman?

Not all of them are women.

"I told you, my axe doesn't kill women."

Lin Tian threw the axe aside, and it crashed onto the car floor with a loud bang.

He slowly pulled another item from his waist.

A kitchen knife.

A kitchen knife stained with blood.

The blade was polished to a high shine, gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

There were dark red stains on the blade, layer upon layer, the blood of whichever owner it was.

Anyway, there are Sha Zhu and Qin Huairu.

"But I still have a kitchen knife."

Lin Tian's smile grew even brighter, as if he were showing a child a new toy:

"This kitchen knife is specifically for killing women."

Aunt Li's expression froze.

The ecstasy had not yet completely faded, nor had the fear fully surged forth.

"You...you..."

"How could you do this?! You just said..."

"What did I just say?"

Lin Tian recalled carefully, "I said my axe won't kill women. I didn't say my kitchen knife won't kill women."

He took two steps forward, gently twirling the kitchen knife in his hand.

"Besides, what you just said has really enlightened me."

"It's really not a good look for a man to kill a woman."

"But if you kill a woman with a kitchen knife, then there's no problem."

"After all, a kitchen knife is for cutting vegetables; it doesn't discriminate between genders, killing both hens and roosters."

Aunt Li's legs began to weaken. She took a step back, bumped into Li Tiezhu, and then staggered forward two steps.

She wanted to run, but her legs wouldn't obey her commands; she wanted to shout, but her throat felt like it was being choked.

Li Tiezhu pleaded, "Lin Tian... Lin Tian, ​​please let her go, she's my wife... If you want to kill me..."

Lin Tian glanced at him.

"you?"

"Of course you have to kill them. But don't rush, one at a time."

He took another step forward.

Aunt Li finally broke down.

He knelt on the ground again, all his previous righteous indignation gone, replaced only by fear:

"Lin Tian, ​​I was wrong! I was wrong! I shouldn't have said those things! Please forgive me! I'll kowtow to you! I'll do anything for you!"

Lin Tian scoffed, "Aunt Li, that's not what you said when you were lecturing me earlier."

"Back then you said, 'You're a woman, I can't kill you.'"

"Now you're saying you're wrong and asking me to let you go."

He paused, then smiled:

"Are you wrong or not?"

Aunt Li opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Lin Tian stood up and looked down at her. "Actually, you didn't do anything wrong."

"Your idea that men should give way to women and protect them is not wrong in itself, and I agree with it."

"But my kitchen knife disagrees."

He raised the kitchen knife:

"What makes you think I would follow these rules?"

"You keep borrowing salt and never returning it. Do you think my mother is easy to bully?"

Have you ever considered that she is also a woman?

Why do women make things difficult for other women?

The cleaver fell.

"Pfft!!"

Aunt Li's voice abruptly stopped.

Her watermelon-shaped haircut rolled a few times and stopped next to Lin Feng's body. Their eyes met, a silent conversation taking place.

Li Tiezhu slumped to the ground, staring blankly at his wife's corpse. He neither cried nor cried out.

Lin Tian shook the blood off the kitchen knife, put it away, picked up the axe from the ground, walked up to Li Tiezhu, and looked down at him.

"It's your turn."

Li Tiezhu looked up and suddenly smiled.

That smile was bitter, astringent, yet serene.

"Lin Tian, ​​I... can I ask you for a favor?"

"explain."

"My son, my son is only eighteen years old. He wasn't involved in any of those things. Can you... please let him go?"

no answer.

Only the axe fell.

……

P.S.: I didn't finish writing until 3 AM. Happy New Year everyone, sob sob X﹏X