Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 53 Fire Lotus

  The woman fell into the memory, remembering what happened that day, and paused.

   "Did you see the murderer?" Pineapple asked quickly.

  The unforgettable picture appeared before her eyes again, and the woman took a deep breath, blinked, and continued.

"Before I ran into the house, I heard my son cry. All of a sudden my head exploded. When I ran to the door of the house, I heard my man calling my name in the house. I promised to open the door. , I saw...Oh...I will never forget the scene at that time in my life..."

"The glass was all broken, and the glass ball fell off a bed. Xiaohua's man is like a ghost, with blood on her head and face, holding a knife in her hand, holding my man, and stabbing the knife at him... My son was kneeling on the bed and crying. At that time, my man was still crawling out with his hands. I thought he asked me to help him. I was so scared that I just wanted to turn around and ran away. The whole person was dumbfounded, but he crawled. When I came to our son, pushed him out and called me intermittently, I understood. I rushed to pick up my son, turned around and ran away without daring to close the door. I just hid in the ancestral hall for one night. The next day, the bodies of my man and Xiaohua man were sent over..."

   "Run?" Maple Sugar narrowed her eyes in disbelief. "You left your husband at home?"

"What can I do?" The woman patted her thigh a few times. "He is like him. At first glance, he can't live. I have to live. My son has to live. Otherwise, he will die there with him? "

   "How did Xiaohua's husband die?" The Taoist chief heard that the woman had seen the bodies of the two, and asked quickly.

"I just took a look, and ran out and vomited." The woman's eyes were dizzy, and she shook her head vigorously. "I saw that the two of them were covered in blood. It was so miserable, so miserable. My son was shocked and fainted in the village. People were shocked when they saw us hiding behind the idol. They were driven out without letting us take a closer look.

   "In your village... people who die must be moved to the ancestral hall, right?" Feng Tang asked.

  The woman hesitated for a moment, and said, “The dead people in the village were buried directly. They died miserably like them, and outsiders were burned to ashes and buried by the fire lotus...”

  Pineapple hurriedly asked, "Huolian is..."

   "It's the stove behind the ancestral hall," the woman was surprised that they didn't know the natural answer. "The name given by the village chief said that after the tragic death was appeased by the fire lotus, they could rest in peace like everyone else..."

   "Then...were those two people also burned by the fire lotus?" Xiao Lan asked gently.

  She suddenly thought of the ring in the stove.

"Yeah," the woman looked at the little girl who seemed to be underage carefully, "It was a terrible death. The people in the village didn't want this to spread, so they hurriedly hit the coffin twice and sent it into the fire lotus within a few days. Up."

  "Eldest sister..." Xiaolan thought over and over again, but still asked, "Excuse me, your husband, are you wearing a ring?"

   "Ring?" The woman repeated it suspiciously as if she hadn't heard clearly, "Where do we have that thing, it's all made by the people in the city."

  The ring is not owned by the villagers.

  Xiaolan looked at the Dao Chief, facing the same determined eyes of the Dao Chief.

  It is the Taoist chief’s turn to open his mouth, “Sister, besides these two people, has the fire lotus burned anyone else recently?”

"Other people?..." The woman frowned and thought for a few seconds, then shook her head, "The fire lotus hasn't been burned for a long time. The fire lotus is a big symbol of the village. When it is lit, the whole village can see the smoke. Before the two of them, it has been a long time since they saw the smoke of the fire lotus..."

  (End of this chapter)