The voice seemed to come from the Netherworld, Qiao Xiaojing heard the word "kneel", and couldn't help but shudder, and suddenly felt that her whole body seemed to be frozen, and all organs in her body were extremely stiff, and she seemed to be unable to move if she wanted to.

"Kneel!" Just as Qiao Xiaojing was in a daze, the voice suddenly appeared again, trembling slightly into her ears.

"I ......" Qiao Xiaojing looked left and right, standing on both sides of her were elderly people from Qiaojia Village, all of them had white hair, walking sticks, trembling, everyone's eyes were full of surprise, she wanted to avoid the eyes of these old men, wanted to find the person who gave orders, she was a little curious--- what kind of person could say such emphatic words?

Qiao Xiaojing almost looked at the old man on the stage, but she didn't see the patriarch Qiao Baocai, nor did she find the person who spoke out, to be exact, she didn't know who gave her the order to "kneel" twice in a row.

When Qiao Xiaojing's eyes moved to the audience, her heart trembled, the black pressure under the stage was all members of the Qiao family, they were all dressed in shabby clothes, their eyes were scattered, their expressions were confused, and they looked at her standing in front of the incense altar with eyes like seeing a monster.

"Uncles, uncles, aunts, and brothers and sisters of the same clan," Qiao Xiaojing said in an almost begging tone, "I don't know why I was arrested, but I thought there must be a misunderstanding here, someone misunderstood me, I swear in front of my ancestors and ancestors, I absolutely did not punish the clan rules, and I did not do anything to be sorry for the Qiao family, I hope you believe ......"

"Kneel!" Qiao Xiaojing "I" Before the word "I" was spoken, the mysterious voice appeared again, he hurriedly looked at the sound, only to find that the person who spoke actually walked out of the crack in the wall behind the ancestral tablet, when she was a child, she had come to the ancestral hall with her father Qiao Liang, and she had run recklessly, and her father was scolded for it, but she never found that there was a crack in this wall, which surprised her a lot, and what surprised her even more was that this person was the patriarch Qiao Baocai who had never seen it.

"Still don't kneel?" Qiao Baocai, who was white-haired, skinny, and wrinkled, stared at Qiao Xiaojing angrily, and used the crutches in his hand, which was just a hoe, to slam the ground and stomp his feet heavily.

"Kneel, kneel, kneel......" Qiao Xiaojing hesitated slightly, and the Qiao family behind her yelled at her, the voice was uniform, high-pitched and powerful, and accompanied by the sound of stomping feet like the earth shaking the mountains, it had the potential to swallow thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

"Okay, okay, I'll kneel, I'll kneel......" Qiao Xiaojing was frightened by this formation, she had never seen such a formation, even when she was a child, the elders of the clan didn't care about teaching her to bind her feet and not restrain her from treacherous words and deeds in order to punish her father Qiao Liang, and there was no such formation, she didn't want to make the angry clansmen go crazy anymore, so she had no choice but to kneel down according to everyone's requirements.

"I," Qiao Baocai waved his hand, everyone quieted down, he came to the incense case and grabbed three incense sticks, trembling at the oil lamp, trembling and standing in front of the ancestral tablet, while entering the ancestral tablet into the incense said, "The descendants Qiao Baocai has the trust of the ancestors, did not discipline the clansmen, there are people in the clan who are not accustomed to education, bad morals, and lose morality, so that the ancestors are humiliated and humiliated, it is really my sin." I, the descendant Qiao Baocai, want to receive the order today, so that I can exhort the sinners with all my strength. ”

After saying this, Qiao Baocai raised the three incense sticks above his head, bowed his waist and bowed three times, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner, bowed again, and then knelt in front of the ancestral tablet, three kowtows and three times, the whole process is extremely solemn and pious.

After the bow was completed, Qiao Baocai tried to get up, maybe it was because of too much pain in his heart, or maybe it was because of his old age and infirmity, he didn't stand up, Qiao Xiaojing hurriedly stepped forward to help, but he didn't expect the outstretched hand to be blocked, or he stood up with the support of another clansman.

Qiao Baocai was on crutches, glaring at Qiao Xiaojing, and when he saw Qiao Xiaojing kneeling down again, he came to everyone tremblingly, coughed twice, and then said: "This woman has been a demon since she was a child, and her father Qiao Liang couldn't manage it when he was alive, and after Qiao Liang died, her mother Chunhua was crazy and didn't know how to take care of it, and this baby was even crazier and more demonic, so that it became what it is today." ”

"Uncle Baocai," Qiao Xiaojing said, "Why can't I understand what you say? I am the same as Shuangxi, I was also raised by my mother's father, and I am no different from Shuangxi, how can I say that I have been a demon since I was a child? Besides, since I was a child, I have never dared to violate the rules of the clan, I dare not disobey the teachings of the elders of the clan, and I have always done according to your requirements, and I have not behaved out of the ordinary. Of course, after my father passed away, I didn't spend much time at home, but no matter where I was, I never forgot the rules. ”

"Is that really the case?" Qiao Baocai picked up his crutches and pointed at Qiao Xiaojing and asked, "Since you abide by the rules, why are there so many rights and wrongs about you?" Since you abide by the rules, why are there those ugly things, and they have been written into books, and these ugly things have been spread to the ears of your grandparents, uncles, uncles, aunts and aunts in our Qiaojia Village, I think even the dogs and cats in the village know about it, can you tell me why? Since you are ...... obeying the rules?"

It may be that Qiao Baocai was too excited, talking too much, breathing a little unsmooth, wheezing, coughing again and again, Qiao Xiaojing felt as if he was going to cough out his internal organs, and wanted to get up to help, but seeing Qiao Baocai's indifference, he had to give up. She secretly looked at the people in the audience, only to see that everyone stood indifferently, and no one stepped forward to help him.

"Hit her, hehe, hit her......" Just when everyone was quietly watching Qiao Baocai coughing, suddenly someone in the crowd shouted, the voice seemed to be laughing, but it seemed to be crying. When everyone heard this voice, they all looked at the sound, and a small whirlpool was formed in the crowd, and when the crowd revealed the gap, Qiao Xiaojing saw that this person was the rotten old man Xue.

"That's right!" Qiao Baocai looked at Xue Laohan and nodded, "The family has family laws, the clan has clan rules, this child has been out for too long, her heart has become wild, she will not recruit if she does not punish her, the so-called coffin does not shed tears, does not hit the south wall and does not look back, come here." ”

"Jinxiang~" Two young people stood in front of the stage in response, and Qiao Baocai said to them in a long voice, "Please family law~"

"Yes!" The two young men answered crisply and neatly, they were ordered to step forward, offer incense, bow, and then carry out a long wooden box wrapped in red cloth from behind the incense burner, they were like carrying the body of an ancestor, extremely careful, extremely solemn and awe-inspiring, raised above their heads and stopped for three or five seconds before putting it on the table, layer by layer uncovered the red cloth, and the last crimson wooden box appeared in front of everyone, opened the wooden box, and took out a board with red tassels and a leather whip with red tassels, these two people each held the same, and stood in front of Qiao Baocai and everyone。

"Kill her, kill her......" Everyone suddenly shouted frantically, it seemed that everyone had a common enmity with Qiao Xiaojing, and it was not enough to kill the people.

"These two things," Qiao Baocai coughed a few times, and this kind of shouting gradually subsided, he pointed to the board and the leather whip, and said tremblingly, "They are all left by the ancestors, and they are specially used to deal with those who do not respect the family rules, do not respect the ancestors, do not abide by the ancestors, misbehave, and commit extremely heinous crimes, she is unethical, and insults the ancestors, but since she is a woman, the clan can't ignore it, she should have been beaten on the board, so let's whip her instead! ”

The young man holding the board nodded slightly to Qiao Baocai and the others, put the board into the wooden box again, stood beside Qiao Xiaojing, and shouted in a long voice: "Respect the clan rules, execution! Fifty lashes are beaten, you can't be soft, you can't be more, you can't be less, the ancestors are on top, the fathers and elders of the clan are in front, educate people's hearts, and set ......an example."

"Slow!" Qiao Xiaojing interrupted the words of the young man who learned the "endorsement of the ancients", and cried in front of everyone, "I explained before, I was almost killed by a gangster, and many things in the past were forced to do it helplessly, you should understand the pain and pain of me as a countryman alone, I am a victim, you shouldn't listen to one-sided words, and then punish me!"

"Execution!" Qiao Baocai slammed his cane into the ground and yelled, "Execute me!"

"Kill her, kill her......" The mood that everyone had just eased seemed to be awakened by Qiao Baocai's crutches, and they shouted frantically again, and waved their arms, the momentum was huge and spectacular.

"Fight?" The young man with the leather whip in his hand looked at Qiao Baocai and the other teenager, and the leather whip in his hand trembled slightly.

"Hit!" the boy frowned and nodded.

"Okay, then you're welcome. The young man spat into the palm of his hand, tightly grasped the handle at the end of the leather whip, picked up the leather whip, gritted his teeth and slapped Qiao Xiaojing on the back who was kneeling in front of the ancestral tablet of the Qiao family.

With a crisp whip sound, Qiao Xiaojing screamed "ah", the cry didn't seem to come from a person's mouth, but more like it came from a person's blood and bone marrow, poignant, tragic, desperate, and creepy.

However, those Qiao Xiaojing's uncles, uncles, aunts, and brothers and sisters of the same clan who were standing in the audience seemed to hear those vulgar meat jokes in Qin's dialect, and there were even obscene smiles on their faces, and some people were even whispering applause.

The leather whip kept whipping Qiao Xiaojing's body, and Qiao Xiaojing's scream became much more depressed from the previous terrible.

"Such a rotten woman," Qiao Xiaojing faintly heard a woman's voice, although her head was swollen and numb from pain, she could still tell that the person who spoke was Aunt Hongxing, and Hongxing said disdainfully, "You shouldn't enter the ancestral hall, this place is dirty." Only whipping, it's too cheap, rotten women, if in the past, if they didn't sink into the lake in the pig cage, at least they would have to be burned alive. ”

"Kill her, kill her......" The emotions of the crowd were not alleviated by the flogging, on the contrary, the excitement and enthusiasm increased, and the woman like Aunt Hongxing shouted hysterically, and the sound shook the dust of the roof to fall.

The executioner seemed to be encouraged, and his hand became heavier and heavier, only to see Qiao Xiaojing's back was covered with blood, and the leather whip was already bloody, and he fainted to the ground after a while, but the young man was still waving the leather whip, and the young man next to him shouted loudly: "Thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight......"