Just after the funeral of Hongxing, when the villagers who helped had just returned to the mud baby's house, Qiao Baocai, who was standing on the steps of the main house, suddenly ordered to arrest the mud baby, who was a great rebel and a heinous crime.

The incident happened suddenly, and everyone present was taken aback, and everyone's face showed an extremely shocked look.

"What, didn't you understand what I said?" Qiao Baocai saw that no one moved, they just stood stupidly, and asked sharply.

Everyone woke up like a dream, in the face of Qiao Baocai's decision, combined with the cold bones of the red apricot, there were suddenly private discussions, there were voices in favor of Qiao Baocai's decision, there were voices of opposition, and of course, there was no voice to express a neutral attitude.

"This ......" two young men stood up suspiciously, compared to Qiao Baocai, they were not far from Qiao Baocai, they were his nephews, but they were not their own nephews, they stood behind the mud baby, but they didn't know whether they should follow Qiao Baocai's orders or not.

"Arrest me!" Qiao Baocai stomped his feet fiercely, gritted his teeth, and said, "What's wrong with you? He is a murderer who has lost his humanity, and he killed his mother without caring for the grace of childbirth, and he is even more ferocious than a wolf, shouldn't he accept the most severe punishment? Since the establishment of the village, Qiaojia Village has never had such a heinous person, but unfortunately he was terminated by this beast. For the sake of our ancestors and future generations, we can't have the kindness of a woman!"

"Yes!" Obviously, the two young men were persuaded by Qiao Baocai, and each of them grabbed the mud baby with one arm.

"Tie him up, beat him hard, beat him to death!" suddenly someone in the crowd shouted.

"Hang him, brute!" said another.

"It should be tied with a stone and thrown into the river to drown. ”

"It's too cheap to let this beast die easily. ”

"Yes, he should be cut ...... a thousand cuts"

"Prop up the top oil pot and cook him ......"

Under Qiao Baocai's instigation, the villagers' emotions and inner wildness were completely activated, and they came up with all kinds of methods and torture, bent on seeing the mud baby die. In this case, those who shouted that the mud baby should be put to death immediately are still people with good intentions, and more people want to watch the mud baby suffer all kinds of torture, and want him to taste all kinds of pain that may exist in the world at one time, and then slowly die, they seem to think that this can make their hearts desire and never experience the addiction of crazy torture and killing at one time, it seems that only in this way can they consciously produce a sense of happiness.

The mud baby was in a state of self-blame and guilt, although his arms were about to be twisted into wings and his head was pressed heavily on the ground, he did not resist in the slightest, and suffered silently, tears falling like rain, dripping on the cold ground.

"Folks," Qiao Baocai waved his hand, and the villagers' indignant voices slowly stopped, and he said coldly, "I'm like you, I've been a good person and done good deeds for most of my life, and I can't see this kind of human-faced beast with a well-dressed beast, and I can't pluck its gall, rip off its heart, eat its flesh, and sleep on its skin, but we can't do this, isn't it the same as this beast?"

The villagers looked at Qiao Baocai without blinking their eyes, expecting him to make a decision, expecting him to make the kind of decision they were looking forward to.

"Therefore," Qiao Baocai continued, "I decided to put a big sign around the beast's neck, with the words 'The brute who killed his own mother' written on it, and marched around the village, so that all the men, women, children, adults and children in the village could see it and see the beast's true face." Then he was escorted to the ancestral hall, where he was subjected to the strictest clan rules, and let him have a good taste of the various torture tools left by his ancestors to deal with the beasts......"

"What can I do if I'm half dead?" asked an unkempt old man, timidly.

"That's fate. Qiao Baocai glanced at the man coldly.

"How can this work?" Hearing this, the two middle-aged men standing beside the mud baby bowed their heads and discussed, "If you die like this, you won't have the opportunity to see all the family laws left by your ancestors, what a pity!"

"Yes, yes!" said the other, "what is there to see when you are dead, and it is not that you have never seen a dead man." All kinds of punishments are laid out in one word, both shocked and surprised, after all the punishments, you can't survive and die, that's what you can look at. ”

Anyone who heard these words understood that although they did not directly say their names and surnames, the person they were referring to was none other than the mud baby. Even though many people wanted to let the mud baby be punished the most severely, and completely vent all the hatred that had been silent in their hearts, they were still somewhat surprised when they heard these words. For Qiao Xiaojing, her heart was simply shocking.

"This can't be done," Qiao Xiaojing dragged Qiao Shuangxi aside and said in a low voice, "They want to get satisfaction by torturing the mud baby, and they want to get happiness by slowly dying through the mud baby, we can't just watch the mud baby being tortured to death, right?!"

"Didn't you see it?" Qiao Shuangxi turned his head to look at the crowd and whispered, "How consistent are the thoughts of the villagers, they all want the mud baby to die, and the more miserable the death, the better, in this case, what can you and I do?"

"It's really strange," Qiao Xiaojing shook her head and sighed, "This mud baby killed her mother, it is indeed a great crime, but she didn't do anything to the villagers, why do these irrelevant villagers have to put him to death......?

"It's definitely not reluctant," before Qiao Xiaojing finished speaking, Qiao Shuangxi interjected, "In my opinion, these people are not for Aunt Hongxing at all, let alone justice, but to take the opportunity to satisfy their own ...... How to put it, it's selfish anyway. ”

"That's right," Qiao Xiaojing nodded, "I think so too." It is precisely because they do this for their selfish desires, that is, to ignore human life, that I want to save the mud baby, and I don't want to see him killed by these so-called righteous gentlemen. ”

"It's easy to say," Qiao Shuangxi said with a frown, "With the strength of you and me, how can we save the mud baby from these people? Besides, the people in the village have quite a prejudice against you and me, and I am afraid that we will have already been killed by them before we have been hit by the mud baby." ”

"Then what should I do?" Qiao Xiaojing admitted that Qiao Shuangxi's concerns were reasonable, and there was nothing she could do, she sighed deeply, and then said, "Really think of a way, once you arrive at the ancestral hall, the mud baby will definitely suffer all kinds of pain, and then die a whimper." ”

"I also know this," Qiao Shuangxi bit his lip tightly, and said helplessly, "We can't save the mud baby here, and when we go to the ancestral hall where we kill people under the banner of our ancestors, we don't have the luxury of hoping to rescue him." But my head became an elm pimple at a critical moment, and I couldn't think of anything to do about it. This, this, this is going to kill people!"

"The sign is written, the sign is written......" At this moment, I suddenly heard someone shouting from afar.

"Now that the sign is written, you can march now......" The crowd buzzed again.

"It's bad," Qiao Xiaojing sighed, "they're ready to make it public, it seems that there is really no way to do it this time." ”

"It's such a big village," Qiao Shuangxi said, "It's done in the blink of an eye, and it won't be long before I enter the ancestral hall where I don't know how many people have been persecuted, alas, I really don't dare to think about it anymore......"

"You stay here for the time being, see what else they want to do, I have to ...... There is no other way but this. Qiao Xiaojing pondered for a moment, said a few words incoherently, bowed her head and left the yard of the mud baby's house.

As soon as Qiao Xiaojing entered the village, she heard a noisy sound behind her, and she looked back to see that the mud doll with a big sign on her chest was escorted onto the avenue, and behind him was a huge lineup of villagers.

Not daring to hesitate, Qiao Xiaojing turned her head and came towards the ancestral hall.

"I need to go in. Qiao Xiaojing faced the old man Qiao who was guarding the ancestral hall and said calmly, "Patriarch Qiao and the villagers are about to arrive, I don't want them to see me staying outside the ancestral hall." ”

"Great," said the old man, who opened the lock and pushed the door open, and said with a smile, "You can come back, but you have done me a great favor, and I am still worried about how to explain to my people! ”

"I don't want to bother you," Qiao Xiaojing said lightly, "I don't want to cause trouble, just stay outside the gate." Besides, the patriarch they are coming soon, welcome them, I must go in at once. ”

The old man Qiao accepted Qiao Xiaojing's arrangement without thinking too much, watched Qiao Xiaojing enter the ancestral hall alone, and then closed the door.

Qiao Xiaojing tiptoed back to the gate of the ancestral hall, she looked out with the help of the gap between the two doors, and did not see the figure of the old man Qiao as far as her eyes could see, nor did she see anyone else outside the ancestral hall, so she came to the ancestral tablet with confidence.

"Ancestors," Qiao Xiaojing knelt on the ground and said reverently, "The younger generation is also to save people's lives, and there is nothing to be done to make this decision, if your ancestors have a spirit in the sky, please forgive me!" and then she kowtowed three times in a row.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, Qiao Xiaojing looked through the crack in the door again, and did not find that Qiao Laohan was staring inside the house, nor did she see anyone else outside the ancestral hall, so she picked up the oil lamp on the incense table, lit the silk cloth spread on the incense table, the banner hanging on the pillar, the red cloth tied to the ancestral rank, and other items that could be quickly ignited.

The entire ancestral hall from the pillar to the tablet is a wooden thing, and over the years, it has been dried to the extreme, and it ignited instantly when it encountered fire, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and countless fire snakes are lying on the roof along the ancestral tablet......

"It's on fire, it's on fire...... Seeing that the fire is getting bigger and bigger, even if someone puts out the fire, this ancestral hall will not be able to protect it, Qiao Xiaojing slammed the door and shouted hysterically.

"Ah~" The old man Qiao opened the door, faced the sea of fire in front of him, was instantly stunned, and sat down on the ground with a plop, his mouth wide open but he didn't hear the sound of speech for a long time.

Qiao Xiaojing took care of everything else, and burned down Qiao's ancestral hall, her crime was not small, if all the clansmen were ruthless together, she would definitely be broken into pieces. She ran out of the ancestral hall, panicked, and suddenly thought of the abandoned cellar not far away that Kou had played in when she was a child......