Xiao Nianzhi went ashore, dried his clothes with internal force, and re-examined this place.

An ordinary small town consists of a few houses, a few decent streets, a few unscrupulous vendors on the street, and decent businesses all have storefronts; when the time comes, people will come out on the street and hang out Yes, there are serious shoppers.

Morning is the least crowded time, but it is also the time when the weather is the most comfortable. Many young ladies and sons whose families are relatively well-to-do will go to the streets at this time. It is not hot, and they feel better when they stroll around and take a few breaths of fresh air. .

Opposite Xiao Nianzhi is a steamed stuffed bun shop, the steamed stuffed buns that have just come out of the cage will still be warm, and the white steam from fainting will be wafting upwards, and the aroma can be smelled everywhere.

There is a pawn shop across the road from the bun shop, and a pawn shop is on the right. It is not open yet, and the shops selling silk and satin next to it are also closed. The front of the door is clean, but it is very fresh.

There are a few adults washing clothes by the lake shore, talking loudly, almost overshadowing a few children playing noisily on the road.

Xiao Nianzhi took a deep breath, walked forward along the road for a while, the stone brick houses on the right hand side were cut off at the entrance of an alley, another road was split, and people lived in two rows.

Among these rows of houses, the most conspicuous one is this mansion called Chen's Mansion. At first glance, it is huge and resplendent.

Rich, Xiao Nianzhi thought.

He continued to walk forward, when something hit his foot suddenly, he looked down and saw a rattan ball, inside which he could vaguely see a bell the size of a pebble, and when he moved it, it made a clear bell sound.

Xiao Nianzhi bent down to pick up the takraw ball, looked at it with his hand, and caught a glimpse of a small person out of the corner of his eye.

The child was wearing white washed coarse clothes, his face was also white, white from malnutrition; his shoes were torn, he looked helplessly at the sepak takraw ball in Xiao Nianzhi's hand, and said hesitantly: "Yes, can you give it to me?"

Xiao Nianzhi stretched out the ball in front of him: "Here you are."

The little man stretched out his hand to pick it up, but the little fingernail touched the back of his hand, some broken fragments rushed into Xiao Nianzhi's mind, making his smile stiffen on his face.

He saw a child squatting at the base of the wall, between his waist and thighs, holding a dirty rattan ball; with the other hand, the child was grabbing a wooden branch and scribbling on the ground, with more and more force, and then almost went crazy , The wooden branch was broken, and he still didn't stop until his fingertips were bleeding from the hard soil. He looked blankly at his fingertips, and then moved his gaze to a certain direction.

"Hey——" the boy's weak and inaudible voice gently touched his nerves, Xiao Nianzhi lowered his head, and found that he was holding the sepak takraw ball tightly and did not let go.

"Oh, I'm sorry..." Xiao Nianzhi let go, apologized, and then watched the little man leave.The little man was walking and running with the takraw ball in his arms, and turned into a small road from the end of the street, and walked away in a short time.

Xiao Nianzhi knew that the pictures he saw didn't appear out of thin air, this was the life-and-death barrier of the mirror, Qin An made him come in, just to make him a scapegoat for a wronged soul, so that he could get out alive.

But there is a thin line between life and death, and behind death is life. As long as he finds the key point of the matter, he can save the day and go out without dying.

Xiao Nianzhi thought so, and touched the wall over there, for fear of missing some pictures and clues.

But after touching the little man, no picture appeared in his mind when he touched other things.

Xiao Nianzhi straightened her mind and searched along the small path that the little man walked just now. Although the fragmented pictures obtained there were not enough to piece together anything, there was definitely a clue in this child.

The sun emerged from the east with a tip of its head, drawing out their shadows wherever it reached, and dragging them slenderly on the ground.

Xiao Nianzhi was putting down his feet that were propped on the wall when his shoulder was touched and his body was staggered.

"sorry Sorry."

The man said sorry several times, then squatted down to pick up the rolled tomatoes.Xiao Nianzhi turned her head and saw that the girl who was picking things up in front of her suddenly put on a red wedding dress, her eyes were dull, but she was extremely cold.

However, this fleeting misconception lasted only for a second or two, the girl finished picking up the tomatoes, and apologized to him again, cowardly, clenched the corners of her clothes with both hands, nervously waiting for Xiao Nianzhi to yell.

The girl came from the countryside, with braids and a fair and delicate face, which didn't go well with her muddy shoes.

Those watery eyes seemed to make me feel pity, no one could get angry, let alone Xiao Nianzhi had no idea of ​​getting angry at all.

His heart was turbulent, but his surface was calm. After a while, he smiled and said: "It's okay." Seeing that he was not annoyed, the girl bent down and bowed back and was about to leave. At this moment, Xiao Nianzhi called out to stop her again.

"and many more."

"Where are you going? No, what I mean is that I just came here and I'm not familiar with it. I'm a little hungry. Can you take me to a restaurant for something to eat after you've finished your business?" Xiao Nianzhi said when the girl held him Before being regarded as a hooligan, he lied so beautifully that he couldn't find any faults.

The small town is small, the girl often works in this area, everyone is familiar with it, seeing that this is someone I have never seen before, I hesitated for a moment, and nodded in agreement.

Xiao Nianzhi kept a gentleman's distance from her all the time, watched her walk to the pawn shop, knocked on the door, shouted a few words in a low voice, then someone opened the door and dragged her in.

After about a few minutes, the girl came out from inside, her face was red, and her hands were gone, she approached Xiao Nianzhi, who noticed that her eyes were also a little red.

Walking slowly on the road, Xiao Nianzhi pretended not to care and asked a few questions.

"Girl, which is the best restaurant in this town? Do you go there often?"

The girl didn't dare to raise her eyes to look at him, but she listened to the question, and answered methodically: "The best thing is chicken soup with crispy rice. The restaurant in Xiaodongdao tastes the most authentic. I can make it too, but it's still close."

"Listen to you, have you tried that one?"

The girl paused, and said falteringly: "Yes, I ate it once."

It was difficult for her to speak, as if she recalled a bad memory, and she didn't want to say more after mentioning it.

Xiao Nianzhi had an idea in his mind, and said casually: "Is the mayor the biggest official here? If you want to stay here, should you inform him?"

Generally, where inhumane sacrifices to heaven or cruel customs are maintained, there must be a leader whose position cannot be shaken, and they are often the top of power, the source of evil, and the nightmare of all victims.

Xiao Nianzhi knew that she guessed right.

The girl clasped her fingers, and the veins on the back of her hands protruded, and said intermittently: "Well, yes, actually..." She didn't continue, and sighed, as if she didn't dare to say it.

Xiao Nianzhi didn't force her to ask, she changed the topic and said, "Girl, I'll treat you to dinner, and I'll take it as thank you."

Unexpectedly, the girl's reaction was a little big, she quickly waved her hands, and firmly refused: "No, no need, I'll go home."

Xiao Nianzhi didn't expect her to show a frightened expression, she restrained herself all the way, as if she burst out upon hearing this sentence.

"How about you, I thank you."

The girl continued to shake her head: "No, thank you, I'm home."

She turned around and left, walking in a hurry and even trotting.

Xiao Nianzhi watched her run away, thoughtfully, and left Xiaodongdao.

-

Xiao Nianzhi searched for a long time, and saw a similar execution stand in the valley of the mountain next to the town.

There were two platforms, one was tied with a hanging ring, and the other was a cross; Xiao Nianzhi approached and smelled a trace of blood, which was faint and unpleasant.

He touched these wooden ropes with his hands, and the images of those messy fragments reappeared in his mind. This time, what he saw was more violent than before, all of which were the woman's painful screams, and the desperate calm before death.

Hanging, burning, criticism, and flesh-cutting, everyone who survived suffered inhuman torture before death.

The people around the bottom all had cold faces, raised their hands, and shouted angrily.

Those fragmentary pictures in the morning seemed to have a reasonable explanation. He saw a rich woman outside the door of a room, listening coldly to the shouts inside. He also saw a man standing in the hall of the government with justice On top of that, he pointed at the woman in the hall and said something, and he also saw a man and a woman, with frowning eyebrows, discussing something...

He saw a lot of silent images, and suddenly, he saw a mirror appearing in the middle of the torture rack.

The girl I met in the morning was tied up, her face was covered with bruises, blood was dripping from the corner of her mouth, she was wrapped around her neck with a rope, her toes touched the ground, and she slipped forward from time to time.

On the empty execution ground, many villagers suddenly appeared, all of them were accusing this girl of climbing high, shameless, broke before leaving the cabinet, and shamelessly asking for money.

The so-called victim is the master of the Chen family. He is sixty years old and has only one son. The mistress is in poor health and has never had a child. There are many bad-hearted people in the town, but this girl is unlucky and was caught. up.

"She seduced the master of the Chen family and got pregnant before marriage, ruining the atmosphere of our town."

"If you want to fly up a branch and become a phoenix from now on, there is no door. If the matter is revealed, she should be burned to death."

"Hang her, hang her, let her die in agony!"

"That's right, it's a disgrace for this kind of woman to stay in our town."

……

Xiao Nianzhi heard a woman's shrill voice.

"See? They all want me dead, my brother, my parents, that man, that bitch, and that bad pawnbroker, they all know the truth, but they don't tell it, they lie for themselves, for money lie."

"The old man of the Chen family is a man of no means. He wanted to tarnish me. I refused, but framed me in front of outsiders. His wife knew it, and so did my parents. They used to be servants of the Chen family. They knew everything. , but in order to extort a sum of money, let me suffer this crime, I obviously did nothing, the one who was wrong was obviously not me, and the one who was insulted in the end was the one who was going to die."

"The people in this town are damned. They are selfish and indifferent. They don't want to help. They gobble their tongues. One or two know the truth, but they refuse to say anything."

Xiao Nianzhi was sucked in by the mirror, standing among the group of people, looking at the helpless girl on the scaffold.

The woman's voice sounded again: "A lot of people died here, all of them were wronged. Can you imagine that under your feet, you are stepping on the bodies of countless wronged people, and their souls that can't swallow their anger..."

Finally the woman said, "Will you save me?"

To save one person and kill the others; or to indulge the others and kill one unjustly.

Xiao Nianzhi can only choose one, but he knows that no matter which one he chooses, he will die because this is a dead end.

That girl was just one of many unjust deaths, even though Xiao Nianzhi saved her, he couldn't save others.

In a trance, the sky and the earth were spinning, and the execution ground was overcrowded just now, only the woman tied to the rack was left, she smiled at Xiao Nianzhi, easily broke free from the rope tied around her neck, and walked over in bloody steps.

"Who are you saving?" she asked grimly.

Xiao Nianzhi looked at her calmly as the woman in front of her was oppressing the surrounding air.

"I don't save anyone." He said: "This is a mirror, which reflects your death in life, but you are already dead, and those people are also dead. Whether you save it or not, nothing can be redeemed."

The woman screamed: "Then you want me to die?!"

When she got angry, the yin energy in her body became heavier, stirring up the surrounding air, like ten thousand drawn bows and arrows, anytime, anywhere, it would tear Xiao Nianzhi's body into thousands of pieces.

Xiao Nianzhi's right hand was faintly hot, he looked at the woman sympathetically, and said: "Resentment will prevent you from staying in this world, unable to reincarnate. Although I can't save you, I can give you a chance to start over."

He flipped the spiritual power in his palm, recited the Sanskrit script of Buddhism, and wrapped himself around this resentful woman. The woman seemed not happy, struggling and screaming.

"Why! Why!"

I hope you will never meet these people again in your next life.

Xiao Nianzhi's arm was injured by the woman's ghost power, and she suddenly recited the formula to let her escape, seeing that pair of ghostly hands about to strangle her neck, suddenly a figure rushed over from the side and entangled her A female ghost.

The author has something to say: imagine the story of the female ghost by yourself, I think you can guess a part or two

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