Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 646 Stone Punishment

   When Luo Jiutian stood by and asked, the Taoist leader dug down for a while, and after a few seconds, he straightened up, still holding a white flower in his hand.

   "It looks like this is a woman."

   Luo Jiutian took a closer look.

  Dao Master actually held a white human skull in his hand!

   "Dao Master!" Luo Jiutian cried out in silence, "What are you doing?! Why did you get someone's head off?!"

"I didn't pull it off," the Taoist leader smoothed the long black hair entangled on the skull. "Her bones are basically crushed by the stones. When I moved the stone next to it, this head was straight. Fell into my hands."

  So it is the hand that moves the head first.

   "Being stoned... was she stoned to death?"

Dao Chang looked at the skull in his hand, pondered for a while, and said slowly, "Have you ever heard of a punishment called stoning?"

   "Stone punishment?"

The Taoist nodded, "Stone punishment is a punishment of bludgeoning to death. It usually requires burying the victim under the chest in the soil, then smashing the victim to death with rubbish, and the torturer repeatedly throws stones at the victim. Until the victim is killed, it is a very cruel punishment."

   "You mean, this woman was beaten to death?" Luo Jiutian's eyes softened when he looked at the skull, "She was punished?"

   "I think this is the best explanation."

   "But why is this?" Luo Jiutian asked, "Will Lianshui Village lynch the villagers?"

   "Actually, I am not surprised that this kind of thing will happen in Lianshui Village," Dao Master's eyes were a little gloomy, "And I think they might do other things."

  Luo Jiutian sighed, "It would be great if we could know what happened to her."

   "Maybe we can know." The Taoist expression was mysterious.

  Luo Jiutian saw Dao’s full-faced expression, and quickly asked, "Do you have any ideas, Dao Master."

  Dao Chang pointed down, "First, dig out all of her body before speaking."

""what? ! "Luo Jiutian was shocked," Master Dao, take a good look. The well is so big. We have only dug out her head, and the soil has already covered our calves. If we dug out her whole, I guess Both of us were buried. "

Indeed, the radius of the well is too small, the two people’s calves are stuck in the mud and it is difficult to move, and there is an unknown "bad guy" outside the well. When the two dug out the female body, they will half-cut into the soil. The outsider improvises and repeats the old trick. Wouldn't the two become targets for stoning?

   "That's right," the Taoist pretending to be meditative, "Let's do it, nine days, you go up first, I will dig below."

   "...how do I get up?"

"Of course there is a way." Daochang stretched out his right hand, twisted his thumb and index finger a few times, and a folded spell rustled, and the burning spell quickly turned into a long vine, spreading towards the mouth of the well. Go, "It should be strong enough, go, nine days."

  Luo Jiutian grabbed Nagata and tried his strength, "Master, your spell can still be used like this."

   "No trick, you can only transfer the nearby things," the Taoist waved his hand, "Nine days, pay attention to the entrance of the well, make sure that the person is not outside before going up."

  "Tao Master, be careful, too. Tell me when you're tired. I'll come down to replace you."

  Good fellow, use the well as a hotel.

  There was silence outside the well. The person who pushed the road leader down the well was long gone. Luo Jiutian successfully returned to the ground to investigate, and the road leader slumped his head and continued to dig the soil.

  Bone was covered in a heavy garment, and the Taoist chief could not distinguish the material. Although it had been buried under the damp soil for so many years, the Taoist chief could still tell that it should be white cloth.

  The torso of the female corpse was exposed. As the Taoist chief thought, the position below the chest of the female corpse was buried in the soil without being squeezed and deformed by rocks. The chief of the Taoist was more satisfied because it was easy to dig a lot.

   "Dao Master, okay?" Luo Jiutian's voice came from above his head.

   "It's okay," Dao Chang kept both hands, "What about the top?"

   "It's quiet, it looks like the person who attacked you has gone."

"it is good."

   Daochang shook off the mud on his body, and the woman's ribs appeared one by one. Daochang dug, and suddenly stopped.

  He looked at the scene before him, in disbelief.

  Another thing appeared between the ribs on both sides of the woman's body.

  A small, skull.

Daochang pressed his lips tightly, and then dug it down.

  Little spine, little ribs, little phalanges...

  This is an already formed baby, this is a baby's bones.

Luo Jiutian patrolled the well head loyally and vigilantly holding the axe left by the Dao Master at the side of the well. After a while, the long vine at the side of the well shook. Luo Jiutian crouched down to check, the Dao Master’s face appeared. .

   "Dug it out?" Luo Jiutian thought that the Taoist leader would directly take the woman's bones out.

  Dao nodded, and stepped out of the deep well.

   "Uh... nothing special, right?"

   "Nine days," the leader raised his eyes to look at him, "that woman has a child."

  The two stood quietly in the night breeze for a few seconds.

"child?"

   "Yes, that is a pregnant woman," Dao Chang looked into the well, "and the child in her belly is already formed, and that child died with his mother."

  Luo Jiutian gritted his teeth, the Taoist commander saw his trembling jaw.

   "They killed a pregnant woman?"

   "Yes," the Taoist wiped off the dirt that fell on his head. "They stoned a woman who was pregnant with a child."

  This is simply not something that humans can do.

  "Why would they do this..."

   "I don't know," said the Taoist chief, "there are no other clues in the well, but this matter...I think we should look at the wells of other households."

"Do you think……"

  Dao Master stared at Luo Jiutian, nodding deeply.

  The atmosphere fell silent a lot. Before the two left, Luo Jiutian turned his head hesitantly and stared at the well.

   "I want to use Panlongchi to supersede her." Luo Jiutian said.

   "Nine days, calm down," the Taoist leader pulled back Luo Jiutian's shoulders, "It's useless to overstep here, we must solve the problem first, let's go."

The footsteps of the two of them drifted away, leaving only the skeleton in the well that finally saw the sky, and her child, the Taoist commander has restored the original structure of the skeleton intact. Now, the woman is leaning against the wall of the well with both hands. Overlapped on the top of the abdomen, a pair of hollow eyes stared at the child in the abdomen. The child raised his head and looked at the mother as well. This was the first time that the mother and child looked at each other in many years.

  In the middle of the night, a patter of rain fell, and there was a faint sound of rain in the air.

  If you listen carefully, you may still hear the phrase "mother" who has been late for several years.

  (End of this chapter)