I made myself the protagonist

Chapter 168 Well

The girl who was chosen as the bride did not die, she seemed to be in a coma, and she remained motionless while the other two men carried her out.

The father said that he saw the village head and his party put the girl on the ground, and then removed the stones that were pressing on the well.

The temperature on the mountain at night is very low, and the mountain wind whistles and blows past my ears, as if someone is whispering behind me.My father was startled with goosebumps all over his body, and the fear continued to spread up his spinal cord to the cerebral cortex. While his body felt cold, his heart became more and more horrified——

The behavior of the village chief and others seemed to reveal evil everywhere. Even ordinary villagers like my father, who had never seen sacrifices before, felt guilty at this moment, and began to doubt whether the ritual set by the ancestors before was true.

Soon, he saw those people tied up the girl with a rope more than ten meters long.Immediately afterwards, a man in a black robe took out a bowl and a knife from the box and came to the girl.

Just when his father felt more and more weird, what happened next made him almost shout out.

As if thinking of her granddaughter, the old woman took a deep breath and said tremblingly:

"Father said... the village chief and the others, they actually gouged out the girl's eyes and cut off the other's tongue. Under the severe pain, the girl woke up. She screamed and begged desperately, but in the huge mountain , how could anyone respond to her?"

The girl's miserable cry was still in my ears, thinking of Xiaolian's well-behaved appearance on weekdays, my father couldn't bear to close his eyes, lying on the spot and not daring to look up.

He knew by nature that once he revealed his whereabouts and learned the secrets of the village, he would be killed and silenced.

By the well, the few villagers were indifferent to the girl's plea. They stood there like statues, not even a trace of guilt appeared on their numb faces.The way they look at girls is like looking at animals that are about to be slaughtered.

Soon, the man collected the girl's blood in a bowl, murmured something, and came to the well.

The father saw that the other party spilled the blood into the well.Not long after, the sound of boiling water suddenly came from below the wellhead.

The eight iron chains jingled and trembled wildly, and the wind was strong. Suddenly, my father heard a low roar coming from his ear. He could be sure that the source of the sound was right below the mouth of the well!

The father was almost scared out of his wits. He raised his head and found that the village head and his party had lifted the dying girl from the ground and threw her directly into the well.

After the girl fell to the bottom of the well, the sound of water and roar gradually subsided; the village head and his party did not leave, and waited at the mouth of the well for more than half an hour.

It wasn't until it was determined that the girl was dead that one of them pulled the rope and pulled her body out of the well.

After doing this, they put the girl's body back into the box, covered the wellhead with stones, and went down the mountain under the moonlight.

"At that time, my father waited for the village head and his party to leave, so he boldly went to the well to check it out. As a result, he said... Looking down through the crack, he saw a pair of red eyes in the dark well! "The old woman coughed emotionally. Seeing this, Ling Yun immediately stepped forward to relieve her.

After she calmed down a bit, the old woman continued: "Father said that the horrifying glance almost made him lose his soul. Following the footprints left by the village chief and others, he went down the mountain overnight. Before I could explain anything to my mother, I fell into a coma."

Father's illness burned for a full day and night.When he recovered a little bit and woke up, he learned through his mother that the village was worshiping the bride of the river god in the ancestral hall.For thousands of years, for those great brides who are willing to sacrifice themselves in exchange for the peace of the village, the villagers must go to bow down to express their gratitude.

My mother helped my father to the ancestral hall, and only said that my father injured his leg while doing farm work.When my father knelt in front of the coffin that had already been nailed on, he felt shuddering:

No one has ever seen the remains of the brides, nor do they know what happened on the night of the sacrifice.

Looking at the devout expressions of the surrounding villagers and even Xiao Lian's mother, Widow Li, his father finally realized that perhaps for a hundred years, everyone had been deceived by the village chiefs.

"It didn't take long for my mother to have me. When I was 13 years old, my father made the decision early and married me off."

The old woman said: "My father didn't tell me this secret until before he passed away. He always told me that if there is a daughter born in a cloudy year in the future, it must be done before the beginning of spring in Jiji (15 years old). Marry her as soon as possible. I know that my father doesn't want his descendants to suffer this crime!"

The old woman said that Li Ying's father died early, followed by her mother because of an accident.Later, I brought up my granddaughter alone, but as I got older, my health deteriorated day by day.

Although she wanted to marry her granddaughter as soon as possible, Li Ying always missed her dependent grandmother. She was afraid that she would not be able to take good care of her after marriage, so she insisted on rejecting several families who came to propose marriage.

"But I didn't expect that this would still hurt Xiaoying!!!! When Xiaoying came back two days ago, her clothes were soaked...she made me medicine and said goodbye. It disappeared. I know, Xiaoying is no longer here. Ah Guang, you are a good boy, if I knew this, I should have let you take Xiaoying away at that time... Son, mother-in-law is sorry for you two in this life, now Xiaoying is gone, you must live well and don't do stupid things..."

The old woman's voice became weaker and weaker. She stretched out her hand and waved it tremblingly in the air twice, as if trying to grab something.

But soon, those dry and skinny hands hung down heavily.The old woman opened her eyes, opened her mouth slightly, and had lost her breath.

"Rest in peace." Ling Yun sighed, got up and sorted out the remains of the other party, and then walked out of the house.

In the yard, a group of people recalled what the old woman said just now, Lin Yuanqi couldn't help but said: "The village chief's old thing is fine, but the method is so vicious! Sacrifice is sacrifice, why do you want to torture and kill those girls?!"

"Do you still remember those dilapidated shrines outside the village?" Zhao Sicheng said thoughtfully: "Now I can figure it out, it is actually a Yin-gathering formation. Only when the formation is broken can ghosts leave the deep mountains. Before entering the house, I I really noticed a trace of yin energy here. From what the old lady said, I'm afraid that Li Ying's ghost has not come back."

According to Zhao Sicheng's analysis, the south of the mountain is cloudy, the north of the water is cloudy, and places with high humidity on the flat land are also cloudy.Therefore, the south of the village, the north of the Yongjiang River and the village itself can form a land of three shades.

And those girls who were selected, including Li Ying, all had pure yin bodies born in the cloudy year and the moon and the moon.

"The ancient well on the top of Qingyuan Mountain is where the formation is located, and there must be something terrible under it. At midnight, red clothes, blood of pure yin... the village chief and his group used extremely vicious methods to torture and kill girls. It should be to suppress the bottom of the well with resentment." Zhao Sicheng said:

"The souls of those girls who died were trapped in the yin-gathering array, and they would never be reincarnated. They had their eyes gouged out and their tongues cut off. Even if their resentment could not be dispelled, they turned into ghosts after death who could not see, could not speak, and were tortured by Blocked by the seal, I can only wander in the mountains and never find my way home."

(End of this chapter)