Chapter 33: Eliminating Demons
"Burn her ......" I don't know who shouted, and finally broke everyone's defenses.
"Burn her...... Can't let her harm the village......"
"Right...... Burn her to death......" One after another, the voices of more than a hundred people came and went, and some people had even begun to roll their arms to their sleeves, intending to catch out the monster who had been held in Shen Zhong's arms.
"Go, put firewood at the entrance of the ancestral hall, and under the witness of the whole village, we will execute this demon." As the village head, Shen Shouxiao represented the attitude of the whole village at this time, and as an era when the law was not perfect, the village chief had the power to deal with the villagers who made mistakes in the village. He has the responsibility to protect Shenjia Village, but he can't let a demon harm a village.
Several men immediately went out of the courtyard and carried out the order.
"Shen Zhong, don't be obsessed." The village head, Shen Shouxiao, gave a signal to the men who were already waiting in the village on the side, and five or six men immediately started to move.
Shen Zhong's family is the opponent of the whole village. Xiao Xia was immediately set up by two burly men. Shen Zhong was also held up by other men, not letting him get close to Shen Xiaoxia.
"Please, my daughter is really not a monster...... Xiao Wang wanted to save his daughter, but she had been pressed to the ground by the village mother-in-law, so she could only cry and pray weakly. Xiaochun doesn't know why her second sister has become a monster, it's all her fault, if she had known, she wouldn't have said anything about her sister going home.
"You let go of the second sister, she is not a monster, grandparents don't burn your sister......"
"You're all bad people...... Woo woo...... "Xiaoqiu saw that her family was caught, she didn't understand it very well, but she heard that she was going to burn her second sister, for her who had just felt the happiness of being because of her second sister, there was nothing more terrible than this, more terrible than having no food."
People looked at the hatred in the eyes of the young Xiaoqiu, and the heart-splitting cries and pleadings of Shen Zhong's family, and they were a little hesitant in their hearts, was it too cruel for them to do this.
"Bring me back both Koharu and Koqiu!" Mrs. Jia looked at the two sisters who were crying and were about to lose their anger, and she was definitely not distressed in her heart, she was afraid that they would do bad things.
Wang and Zhao, as daughters-in-law, received instructions from their mother-in-law and immediately began to respond. No matter how the two children cried and scratched, they didn't dare to beat and scold as usual when so many pairs of eyes were watching. I was angry and threw the two dead girls into their house and locked them up.
"Please move to the ancestral hall." The village chief Shen Shouxiao led the way in front, Shen Xiaoxia was surrounded by a group of people in the middle, and Shen Zhong in the back had red eyes, but his fists were invincible with four hands, so he could only follow behind, watching his daughter being taken away, looking at his daughter's small figure, his heart was dripping blood. Xiao Wang was dragged all the way by the mother-in-law in the village, and she kept muttering and praying in her mouth, and her voice was hoarse.
A short road, in a blink of an eye, you will arrive at the door of the ancestral hall. The efficiency of the villagers was unusually fast, and they had already set up a simple wooden platform, in the middle of which stood a piece of wood, and was surrounded by a sleepy firewood.
When Xiao Xia was tied to the platform, the sky was already dark, and there were two or three stars faintly twinkling. She only showed a small head outside, and her whole body was buried in the firewood.
Xiao Xia looked at the people below, there were two villagers with torches standing on the side waiting for orders, are they the so-called executioners? Shen Zhong and Xiao Wang both knelt on their knees, looking at their already distorted faces, watching their own daughter waiting for death like this, or in this cruel way, in fact, it was the most cruel for them as parents. The senior monk in front of Xiao Xia sat on the ground, closed his eyes and chanted a word, probably reciting some kind of mantra to eliminate demons! The Shen family was standing in front of the crowd, their eyes were full of excitement, could it be that they were really so happy that they had lost their granddaughter and didn't feel a little guilty? The expressions of the others were different, and most of them had hateful eyes, as if she had done something heinous. There are at least a few people with pity and guilt, like Doctor Hua. Xiao Xia also saw Shen Zisheng, who had been frowning and seemed to be very angry.
The people below were in a mess, and she couldn't hear what they were talking about, Xiao Xia thought about a way to save herself, and she didn't want to take out the weapons in the space until she had to, it was a good idea. The consequences of this are really troublesome, and no one who sees her secret can let them live, and if they have to put themselves to death, it is not too much to take their lives, right?
"Demon, do you have anything else to say?" Village Chief Shen Shouxiao made his final speech, and the scene instantly quieted down.
Xiao Xia looked at more than a hundred pairs of eyes and looked at herself, only to realize that this was talking to herself.
"Can I talk to the monk?" Xiao Xia's calm voice was very peaceful. Anyway, she was judged to be a monster, and she didn't pretend to be an ignorant child.
After hearing this, the old monk finally stopped chanting, opened his eyes and looked at the little head on the platform, and met the calm eyes.
"Amitabha...... The old monk will give you excess. ”
Whoever uses you to overdo it, can you still cross it again? "Why do the monks think I'm a monster? If you are a monk, you should know that God has the virtue of a good life, why did you wronged me? ”
Xiao Xia will never admit that he is a monster at this time, and the endings of other people's crossings are all happy, how can he be found out when he arrives, and he will be burned to death!
"Amitabha......" the old monk frowned and did not answer.
"If you don't answer, it means that you have a weak heart, and you must be a liar found by grandma. Daddy save me......" Xiao Xia was tied to a pillar and began to cry.
"You still dare to bewitch the people, the master will execute now! Can't let this monster confuse my son. Shen Shouli felt a little weak in his heart, after all, they provoked this matter.
"Amitabha Buddha ......" the old monk began to chant the sutra again.
"I was wronged, and Heaven will not let you burn me. I'm a good person......" Xiao Xia shouted, venting her unwillingness.
"Hurry up and light the fire...... Listening to Xiao Xia's shout, the Shen family became more and more uneasy.
The person who lit the fire was about to put down the torch but was stopped by Shen Zisheng who was standing aside, he was a scholar, so he didn't believe in the ghostly spirit, just watching an eight-year-old girl burned to death in front of him, he couldn't accept it in his heart anyway.
"Wait! Uncles and uncles, isn't it too hasty to burn a child for no reason! Won't you have a troubled conscience? ”
"Zisheng! You go home......" Shen Zisheng's grandfather is also an uncle of the Shen family, and when he saw that his proud grandson dared to contradict the people of the whole village, he hurried to stop it. This is a major matter related to the whole village, but you can't let him come nonsense, besides, it's not a child of your own family, what does it have to do with him, meddle with things!
"Grandpa......"