Chapter 175: The Rain Rains the Plum Blossoms
After a lot of hard work, we finally saw the main owner who caused us to be unable to leave the Taoist temple. But I didn't expect that the golden python in the dream realm would be so weak, perhaps because it lost its mana.
The little golden python was pierced through the body by the Vajra and curled up on the ground, which looked very pitiful, not at all like a monster that could make a demon.
Suddenly, I saw the little golden python tears dripping, and I couldn't help but feel soft, and my hand stopped moving. And at this moment, the ground in the Taoist temple shook violently again, and it actually caused the vajra with the golden python inserted in it to be thrown directly into the air from the deep pit.
I was shocked and couldn't help but complain about my sudden sympathy. If compassion is used in the wrong place, it is a confused heart that harms others and oneself, I can't remember who said it, but at this time I was really confused by a momentary confusion, and I was miserable.
As the Vajra and the little golden python leaped into the air, the dirt above the pit began to collapse, and I was buried alive by a large amount of dirt in an exclamation.
The feeling of suffocation and oppression immediately swept through the whole body, and a large amount of soil was instantly poured into the mouth and nose, and being buried alive was undoubtedly the most terrifying and painful disaster in the world. The feeling of not being able to breathe immediately came to my mind, and a word called "rain pours plum blossoms".
"Rain pours plum blossoms", what a beautiful and sentimental word, but it is the most torturous and vicious torture in the world. This beautiful name comes from a kind of punishment invented by Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty, which is one of the most cruel criminal laws. It is to fix the limbs of the prisoner on the bed so that it cannot move at all. Then the wet yellow sheet paper was slowly covered over the prisoner's face layer by layer. Plug your mouth and nose and suffocate it.
It is usually used as a means of torture to extract confessions. At the same time, the prisoner will have a burning knife in his mouth, and then spray it vigorously on the face of the prisoner covered with mulberry paper, and a fine mist will be sprayed, which will make the mulberry paper immediately soften by moisture and stick tightly to the prisoner's face. The inmates then put a second piece of mulberry paper on the prisoner's face, and did the same. Generally, when the mulberry paper on the prisoner's face is covered to the fifth. will suffocate to death.
After the dry mulberry paper, as soon as it is lifted, the outline of the prisoner's facial features will be formed on the paper, which is concave and convex, just like the mask of "jumping and adding officials" on the stage, so this kind of torture is also called "sticking to the officials". (Jumping plus official: It means that the actor wears a red robe, holds a mask, and does a drunken step, and the band will play a special "plus official" gong and drum.) It is a remnant of the original performance of the opera. It integrates religious culture, folk culture and artistic culture, it is based on primitive culture, guided by the five elements of yin and yang, and used magic and witchcraft as the hand. It is an important part of the traditional culture of the Han nationality in China and a living fossil of the dance of the Han nationality. Since the Tang Dynasty, jumping officials have begun to be widely spread. )
This punishment is usually used after the execution. There will be no traces on the prisoner's body, and it is the best method of torture to extract confessions.
The rain on plum blossoms will make it more and more difficult for the inmate to breathe. The residual oxygen in the lungs will be squeezed out of the body little by little, and the chest will become more and more stuffy until it is impossible to breathe, exactly like the situation I have now.
Since I was a child, I have always loved swimming and playing in the water, and I was called the "Iron Lungfish Man" by the villagers because I could easily hold my breath in the water for five or six minutes. When I was a child, I held my breath in the stream with the fat man and my playmates in the same village, and the fat man could only endure it for a minute, and then he had to get his head out of the water, but I could easily soak in the water all day without changing the color of my face. The iron lungs that were cultivated in the water as a child are now useful in the soil that were buried alive.
I don't know if I can be saved, but my teammates on the Western Expedition team will never abandon me, as long as I hold on, I will definitely not die. I had great hopes for the Western Expedition, but I suddenly remembered the golden python thrown into the air, which was most likely to cause trouble in the Taoist temple now. Then the members of the Western Expedition who are unable to protect themselves will have no time to rescue me, and in this way, I will most likely be buried in the ground forever.
After silently counting the five hundred, the pain began to gradually come from the lungs, and it immediately changed from the relaxed feeling just now to the life like a year. The pain in the lungs, over time, did not go away, but became more and more intense. The body was crushed by the mud, and he couldn't move, so he could only let his lungs hurt as if they were torn, but he couldn't do anything.
Suddenly, my body involuntarily arched, and then I fell into darkness in severe pain, and walked towards the end of my life.
I've stepped on the Nai River Bridge and seen the horror at the entrance to hell, and I don't want to have the same experience again, and I don't want to open my eyes even when I hear my name called. But the sudden arrival of the blinding light forced me to open my eyes suddenly, and then immediately my body arched from the ground and coughed violently, as if I was about to cough my lungs out of my chest. After coughing for a moment, I collapsed again and lay back in pain. As a result, there was an immediate pain between my ribs, and I felt like rolling on the cold ground.
The cough was so severe that my lungs, trachea, and ribs ached. When the sharp pain gradually disappeared, I realized that I had left the dark ground and came to the bright ground.
With the sun high and towering rocky cliffs on either side, I had left the eerie Taoist temple and entered a strange place.
Escaping from the dark and oppressive underground, I closed my eyes comfortably, enjoying the comfortable and warm sunshine, and all the pores on my body opened wildly, breathing in the cold fresh air.
Suddenly, I felt someone approaching, so I opened my eyes and saw that it was raining. She walked up to me and sat down, and whispered to me, "You woke up, do you feel anything uncomfortable?" If you have a broken rib, it's best not to move it, just lie down and rest. ”
When I saw Tianyu's worried expression, I gently grabbed her hand and asked her, "How was I rescued?" Where did the rest of the people go? ”
Tianyu handed me the kettle and said to me, "This is snow water, you drink some first." Then she began to tell me about what happened when I was buried alive and afterward.
In the blink of an eye, I was buried alive in the ground, and the crowd screamed in horror. At the same time, a small golden python jumped into the air.
The fat man has been very worried about my safety above, and he has been lying on the top of the pit and looking down from beginning to end, but when he saw a golden light shooting out from the ground, he guessed that the demon under the ground had escaped, and immediately waved the short knife in his hand and cut the golden python into two sections.
The demons in the underground were finally killed, but I was buried alive deep underground, and the people of the Western Expedition were immediately frightened and panicked, and began to scramble to dig the dirt in the pit.
As time passed, everyone turned from initial horror to endless worry. If a person is buried alive, if there is a gap created by rocks and trees, etc., it is completely possible to survive seven days and wait for rescue. But I was buried in the airtight earth, which meant that if I wasn't rescued in two or three minutes, it would only be my corpse that would be dug up.
Five minutes passed at once, and everyone was so anxious that they were sweating profusely, and every shovel was sweating like rain.
Tianyu's eyes gradually began to turn red, and the fat man kept shoveling soil while comforting Tianyu and said, "Don't worry, my brother has a big life and will never die." Although the fat man comforted Tianyu at that time, in fact, people were very unconvinced, but the fat man was full of confidence and always believed that I would not die, probably because he thought that my iron lung could hold on until he dug me out.
However, the excavation was not as quick as expected, and soon ten minutes passed. At this time, the fat man's eye circles were also red.
In the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour passed, and just when everyone was feeling hopeless and losing confidence, I was finally unearthed.
When the fat man carefully put his hand on my neck, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to the crowd, "It's still alive, carry it up quickly." ”
The process of my rescue was very simple, and he kept praising my tenacious vitality and being lucky to be rescued alive. But when I saw her dusty face, dirty clothes, and bloodstained hands, I knew that the excavation work at that time could be said to be thrilling, and everyone must have worked hard to save me in time.
Tianyu was originally ten fingers, but now it is bloodstained and hideous, I touched her hands very distressed and said, "Does it hurt?" ”
Tianyu shook her head, and then told me what had happened after I was rescued.
Seeing that I was still breathing, the fifth master immediately began to check my body, and found that my rib was broken, which should be caused by the rapid fall of a large amount of accumulated soil, so he asked others to go to the collapsed courtyard wall in the backyard of the Taoist temple, cut two thick branches, and then used clothes and ropes to make a simple stretcher, and immediately let the fat man and the playboy carry me away from the Taoist temple.
Although the demons in the underground have been slain, there is no guarantee that nothing else will happen next.
The people of the western expedition team quickly stepped out of the newly reappeared mountain gate and carried me all the way to the east, near the cliff where the iceberg snow lotus grows.
As soon as he arrived here, Chen Dong suddenly coughed violently. As a result, everyone found that the blood he coughed up turned out to be black, and it seemed that the residual poison in everyone's body had been flooded. (To be continued......)