Chapter 17: A Strange Taste
Therefore, the ancestral hall of the Xie family is very spacious, and the annual maintenance cost is showdown to every household. Everyone is very willing to spend money for the sake of their ancestors living more comfortably and for their own comfort in the future.
Before they entered the ancestral hall, Xie Xiang and the others smelled a strange smell, a little fishy. As soon as they approached the ancestral hall, they heard a noise, and they couldn't hear what was said vaguely, but they felt that there were a lot of people inside, and they were very excited.
Xie Xiang was a little puzzled, listening to Uncle Qin, who came to deliver food last time, said that the homeless people in the ancestral hall were very quiet, and they were all lifeless, and Uncle Qin also sighed that it was God who forced them to death.
How does this feel like a tiger locked in a cage? Xie Xiang was taken aback by his analogy, joking, tigers can eat people!
Xie Xiang was not the only one who heard the voice, "Dabao, it looks like a mess inside, why don't we go back?" Xia Xueyi looked at the ancestral hall with some concern, turned her head and said to Xie Xiang.
"What? No, no, no! It's all here, go in, it's definitely fun inside, maybe they're holding the Lantern Festival themselves! ”
Xie Yuan became anxious when he heard Xia Xueyi's words, and hurriedly pushed the two people inside with his hands. If these two men were gone, he wouldn't dare go in alone. Xie Xiang and the others were helplessly pushed in by Xie Yuan, thinking in their hearts, what kind of lantern festival is going on, those people can't even eat.
But come to think of it, it's all at the door, and it doesn't matter if you go and see it.
The gate of the ancestral hall is hidden, and through the gate, you can faintly see that the place inside that was originally an open space is full of tattered tents, and when you get closer to the gate, you can hear the words inside more clearly.
Xie Xiang vaguely heard a few words such as "I don't have a way to live", "God is blind", "Taizu rebelled" and so on. As soon as he stopped, his heart was suddenly startled, his face instantly turned white, he hurriedly grabbed Xia Xueyi's hand beside him, and wanted to pull Xie Yuan behind him.
But he didn't expect Xie Yuan to see that the two of them were not leaving, so he took care of himself and pushed the door of the ancestral hall to both sides. Suddenly, the three of them were exposed to the eyes of everyone in the yard.
Quiet, very quiet.
It was so quiet that Xie Xiang could hear his heart, and the sound of beating faster and faster. It was so quiet that he could feel it, and Xia Xueyi's hands beside him began to tremble.
In the courtyard, there was a bloody stain.
The ancestral hall of the Xie family, on the altar used to worship ancestors in previous years, has a stick diagonally inserted, and the stick is ...... Carrying a human head...... is still vaguely wearing an official hat.
On the ground in the courtyard, a large group of men and women in tattered clothes surrounded them, looking at them with bloodthirsty eyes. And in the direction of facing them, there was a hole, and I saw a few people lying in the circle who didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
Underneath those people, the blood melted the snow, revealing the dark dirt, and the black dirt was constantly soaked with the blood dripping from the people's bodies......
"Far away! Come on! A hoarse shout.
"Catch them!" A hoarse voice shouted one after another: "Otherwise, everyone will die!" ”
In an instant, the world in Xie Xiang's eyes came alive. He reacted suddenly, and saw that the group was no longer quiet, but pounced on them with bloodied hands. Xie Xiang pulled Xia Xueyi's hand and turned towards the door, running desperately.