Chapter Twenty-Three: The Human-Skin Lantern

In the end, Su San still didn't eat the roast chicken. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Because the burnt smell of burnt chicken feathers reminded her of too many terrible things, and smell prevailed over everything.

Wangdui and Luo Yin shared the roast chicken, and offered to share some with the proprietress, but she refused.

"Today, I have to be a vegetarian, there will be some other things, if you hear any strange noises when you go to bed at night, please don't care."

The proprietress said such strange things again.

Luo Yin is not worried about what the boss lady will do in the middle of the night, Luo Yin judged that what she said about herself should be true, and the kind of sadness and pain that envelops the whole body cannot be faked. She had already said twice that there would be something very important in the evening, so what would it be?

Now she has lost everything, and she has to hide all day long, careful not to be discovered by Bai San's people. What else could she have to do?

After eating, Wangdui went out and moved the horses to a warmer place from the wind, and tied them up, and cut some grass with a dagger, these horses were their best companions and had to be taken care of.

Everyone fell asleep around the fire. Su San leaned on Luo Yin, Luo Yin closed his eyes, but his hand kept holding the gun in his pocket. Although he was sure that the proprietress would not be unfavorable to them, he had to guard against others.

Wangdui originally planned to keep a vigil for Su San.

"Miss Su, you can sleep with peace of mind, I'll look at the fire."

He patted his chest and swore an oath.

Su San nestled in Luo Yin's arms and fell asleep with peace of mind.

I didn't sleep well last night, and I had a fever again this morning, so there was a warm fire around me, and after drinking some millet porridge, I could finally sleep well.

The jumping firelight reflected on her face, her whole face was red, her eyelashes were clear in the firelight, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, she must have had some very happy dream.

Wangdui stared at Su San, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled.

At this time, he felt Luo Yin's cold gaze, and hurriedly lowered his head and looked at a dead branch burning in the fire. After staring at one place like this for a long time, my eyelids began to sink gradually, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

Luo Yin was awakened by a burst of cries.

hugged Su San in her arms first, and she slept soundly.

Luo Yin was worried about Su San's body, reached out and pressed her forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever, so touched, Su San also woke up, she was still a little dazed, stared at Luo Yin with wide eyes, and asked for a while: "What sound?" ”

The fire is about to be extinguished. Luo Yin hurriedly picked up a few dead branches and threw them on the residual charcoal that was still red, Wangdui slept quite alertly, and when he heard the click of the branch, he immediately opened his eyes: "What's wrong?" ”

From behind the small temple came the sound of a woman crying in a low voice.

This is what the hostess said that there will be important things in the evening?

The dead branches that were thrown in slowly began to burn. Su San struggled to get up from Luo Yin's arms, stretched out his hand and pointed to the back, meaning that he wanted to go over and take a look.

That place had just been to Wangdui. It is a small courtyard behind the temple, and there is a tall locust tree in the courtyard, which has lost its leaves in winter, leaving only dry branches, and it is even more depressed. Next to it is a small dilapidated house, throwing some tattered household goods, which shows that the people in this temple are in a hurry. Didn't have time to take anything. That's where the crying came from.

Why did the proprietress go there to cry if she was so good?

The three of them quietly hid to the side, staring at the hut with wide eyes.

The room was originally dark, and the tattered window paper was blown by the wind, and the sound of a long cry made people's hearts sour.

After a while, the room lit up, and the proprietress seemed to light a lantern, and the light of the lantern was reflected on the window paper, swaying. The proprietress carried the lantern and walked out quietly, at this moment the moon was just in the middle of the sky, the moon was round and the moonlight was very bright, shining on her face, I saw that the proprietress was wearing the cotton robe, her hair was combed bare, from Su San's side, there was a pitiful taste.

The proprietress carried the lantern to the bottom of the big locust tree and stopped, she put down the lantern in her hand, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the tree a few times, folded her hands, and said something in her mouth, but Su San They couldn't hear what she was reading at all.

The proprietress kowtowed and prayed, stood up, and carried the lantern again, and the sound of a muffled cry sounded again.

At this time, a cold wind blew, the candle flame in the lantern flickered, the bare branches of the old locust tree swayed with the wind, and it looked like a monster with teeth and claws in the moonlight.

What exactly is the hostess doing?

"The soul is coming, the soul is coming!!! Maybe she had been crying for a long time, the proprietress was hoarse, and a sentence of soul came and sounded, Luo Yin whispered in Su San's ear: "She's summoning spirits!" ”

Necromancy!

Su San grabbed Luo Yin's hand tightly, his palms wet.

The proprietress suddenly stretched out her hand, took off the hairpin on her head, and the black hair spread out like a waterfall, and she began to hum a strange tune, I couldn't understand what the lyrics were, and the tone was sad, which made people feel a chill in their hearts.

She shook her hair vigorously while singing, dancing with her hands, and the lantern in her hand was swaying, and in a trance, Su San thought she had seen a ghost fire.

Probably because she was beating too hard, the candle suddenly tilted, and the lantern began to burn.

Su San hurriedly covered his nose: "What a smell." ”

The smell of the lantern burning horrified her.

It's all too familiar. The smell is the same as that of the fire kang cave that day, that is, the burnt smell of human skin.

Su San's hands trembled a little, and she whispered in Luo Yin's ear: "Human skin lantern, that lantern is human skin!" ”

The lantern burned, and the proprietress was in a hurry and slapped it with her hand.

It was a flame, how could her hand beat it out?

Wangdui rushed up and stepped on the lantern hard.

The proprietress suddenly wailed, pushed Wangdui away, and shouted: "Can't step on it!" ”

The flame on the lantern was trampled on by the wangdui, and the lantern was destroyed, leaving only burnt fragments, and oil stars creaked from it.

Luo Yin glanced at the lantern and was sure that it was indeed made of leather.

"You made this lantern out of skinned human skin?"

Su San's voice trembled.

The proprietress was crazy, lying on the ground and trying to put the lantern together, but first it was burned and scattered, and then it was stepped on by Wangdui, how can it be restored?

When the proprietress saw that the lantern was completely destroyed, she hugged the fragments and cried.

When she recounted her tragic experience, she only wept silently, but now she wept bitterly because of this lantern.

"Is this lantern important to you? What are you doing? ”

Su San asked again.

"Summoning spirits, I'm summoning spirits, cutting the skin of the enemy's chest to make a lantern, summoning the soul on the night of the full moon, I've been waiting all these years for this moment, and now it's all burned, it's all burned, there's nothing left! His soul can't be returned. ”

The proprietress cried.

Wangdui looked at the grief-stricken proprietress and whispered, "I'm sorry, I didn't know this lantern was so important. ”

The proprietress held the lantern and shook her head: "It's all fate, it's all fate, there is no way for me and him to see each other again in this life." It's all fate. ”