When Luo Jiutian stood aside and asked questions, the Taoist priest dug down for a while. After a few seconds, he straightened up with a white thing in his hand.
"It looks like this is a woman."
Luo Jiutian took a closer look.
In the Taoist priest's hand, he actually held a white human skull!
"Taoist Master!" Luo Jiutian shouted, "What are you doing?! Why did you rip off someone's head?!"
"I didn't pull it off," the Taoist priest smoothed the long black hair that was tangled on the skull. "Her bones were basically crushed by the stone. When I removed the stone next to it, the head fell directly to the ground.
It fell into my hand."
So it is the head that moves first.
"Being stoned...was she stoned to death?"
The Taoist priest looked at the skull in his hand, pondered for a while, and then said slowly, "Have you ever heard of a kind of punishment called stoning?"
"Stoning?"
The Taoist priest nodded, "Stoning is a punishment of death by blunt blow. It usually involves burying the victim in the soil below the chest, and then smashing the victim to death with rocks. The torturer repeatedly throws stones at the victim.
This is a very cruel punishment until the victim dies."
"You mean, this woman was beaten to death?" Luo Jiutian's eyes softened as he looked at the skull, "She was punished?"
"I think that's the best explanation."
"But why is this?" Luo Jiutian asked, "Will Lianshui Village lynch the villagers?"
"Actually, I'm not surprised that something like this would happen in Lianshui Village," the Taoist priest said with a gloomy look, "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 find out." The Taoist priest looked mysterious.
When Luo Jiutian saw the Taoist priest's full face, he quickly asked, "Do you have any ideas, Taoist priest?"
The Taoist priest pointed down and said, "Let's dig out her entire body first."
""What?!" Luo Jiutian was shocked, "Taoist priest, take a closer look. The well is so big. We have only dug out her head, and the soil has already covered our calves. If we dig out her head,
If the whole thing is dug out, we will probably be buried."
Indeed, the radius of the well was too small, and their calves were stuck in the soil and it was difficult to move. Moreover, there was an unknown "bad guy" outside the well. When the two dug out the female body, not to mention that they themselves were half buried in the ground, what if the well
The man outside impromptu repeated his old trick, wouldn't the two of them become targets for stoning?
"That's right," the Taoist priest pretended to be deep in thought, "Then let's do it, Jiutian, you go up first, and I'll dig below."
"...How do I get up there?"
"Of course there is a way," the Taoist priest stretched out his right hand, twisted his thumb and index finger a few times, and a folded talisman began to burn. The burning talisman quickly turned into a long vine and spread towards the mouth of the well.
Go, "It should be strong enough, go ahead, Jiutian."
Luo Jiutian grabbed the long vine and tested its strength, "Taoist Master, your spell can still be used like this."
"It's just a little trick. It can only move nearby things," the Taoist priest waved his hand, "Jiutian, be careful when you approach the mouth of the well. Make sure that the person is not outside before going up."
"Taoist Master, please be careful. When you are tired of digging, tell me and I will come down and replace you."
Good guy, you're using the well as a hotel.
There was silence outside the well. The person who pushed the Taoist Master down the well had long since disappeared. Luo Jiutian successfully returned to the ground to investigate, while the Taoist Master continued digging.
The white bones were covered with a heavy garment, and the Taoist Priest could not tell the material. Even though it had been buried under the moist soil for so many years, the Taoist Priest could still tell that it was white cloth.
The torso of the female corpse was exposed. As expected, as the Taoist priest thought, the female corpse was buried in the soil below the chest and was not squeezed or deformed by the stones. The Taoist priest was quite satisfied because it made it easier to dig.
"Taoist Master, are you okay?" Luo Jiutian's voice came from above his head.
"Fortunately," the Taoist priest kept his hands up, "Where's the situation above?"
"It's very quiet. It seems that the person who attacked you has left."
"good."
The Taoist shakes off the soil on his body, and the woman's ribs appear one by one. The Taoist digs and digs, and suddenly pauses.
He looked at the scene in front of him with some disbelief.
Another thing appeared between the ribs on both sides of the woman's body.
A small skull.
The Taoist priest pursed his lips tightly and dug in.
Tiny spine, tiny ribs, tiny toe bones...
This is a baby that has been formed, this is a baby's skeleton.
Luo Jiutian carried the ax left by the Taoist priest by the well, and patrolled around the well head loyally and vigilantly. After a while, the long vines beside the well began to shake. Luo Jiutian hurriedly knelt down to check, and the Taoist priest's face was revealed.
.
"Dig it out?" Luo Jiutian originally thought that the Taoist priest would directly take out the woman's bones.
The Taoist priest nodded and stepped out of the deep well.
"Uh... nothing special, right?"
"Jiutian," the Taoist priest raised his eyes to look at him, "that woman has a child."
The two stood quietly in the night wind for a few seconds.
"child?"
"Yes, that was a pregnant woman," the Taoist priest looked into the well, "and the child in her belly had already taken shape, and the child died together with his mother."
Luo Jiutian gritted his teeth, and the Taoist Master saw his trembling jaw.
"They killed a pregnant woman?"
"That's right," the Taoist priest wiped away the dirt that fell on his head, "they stoned a woman who was pregnant with a child."
This is simply not something humans can do.
"Why are they doing this..."
"I don't know," the Taoist priest said, "There are no other clues under the well, but about this matter... I think we should look at other people's wells."
"What do you think..."
The Taoist priest stared at Luo Jiutian and nodded deeply.
The atmosphere became quite silent. Before the two left, Luo Jiutian turned around and stared at the well hesitantly.
"I want to use Panlong Pond to save her," Luo Jiutian said.
"Jiutian, calm down," Taoist Master pulled Luo Jiutian's shoulder, "It's useless to pray here. We must solve the problem first, let's go."
The footsteps of the two people gradually faded away, leaving only the skeleton in the well that finally saw the light of day, and her child. The Taoist Master restored the original structure of the skeleton intact. Now, the woman is leaning against the well wall, with both hands
Overlapping on the abdomen, a pair of empty eyes stared at the child in the belly. The child raised his head and looked at the mother. This was the first time the mother and child had looked at each other in many years.
In the latter part of the night, light rain fell, and a faint sound of rain floated in the air.
If you listen carefully, you may still hear the words "Mom" that are several years late.