Chapter 23: Purgatory on Earth
Iron chains with thick arms were tied around their necks, and they were chained to the pillars in the house, and their eyes were covered with black cloth, but their soft and delicate faces were faintly visible.
There were a few bowls of water on the ground, and the water was running out.
It looks like no one has been in charge of them for a long time.
A woman was lying on the ground, sticking out her tongue like a puppy, trying to lick the water in the bowl.
Her hands hung limply to the side, and they were broken alive.
Hatsu Tao walked into the room and immediately understood where the smell came from!
Because they were confined here and not free, there was a lot of excrement around the women, and no one cleaned them up. Flies were flying on it, and white maggots were slowly wriggling.
The maggots were crawling in the direction of the women, and the women's clothes below the thighs were worn out and there were many scratches on their knees because of the long crawling time.
What shocked her even more was that their ankles had been neatly severed, and there were many maggots crawling on the festering wounds, writhing their bodies and eating the carrion on them!
Looking at this scene, Chu Tao didn't know when she burst into tears.
The women who heard the movement began to shout and crawl to the pillar, leaning against it, trying to shrink their bodies into small balls, looking very frightened.
"Don't be afraid, I'm also being arrested", Chu Tao hurriedly comforted her, and the women gradually stopped trembling when they heard the female voice, but they were still leaning against the pillar.
"Go to the yard and fetch two buckets of water", Chu Taotou instructed the maid behind him without looking back.
The moment the maid opened the door from the room, she was also captured by the scene inside, and there was a complicated light in her eyes.
It wasn't until Chu Tao called her that she came back to her senses, and when she heard the words, she went to do so.
When she fetched water, Chu Tao asked her to fetch a broom, cleaned the dirt on the ground first, and then scrubbed the ground with water. The maid glanced at Chu Tao in a daze, and immediately stepped forward to help.
"Is there a kitchen?" the maid nodded, "you go and boil some hot water, and get some clean clothes, and by the way, get a knife and liquor, and if you have powder, get some too." ”
After the maid sent all the things, Chu Tao said softly to the women, "I'll help you scrub it first, okay?"
One of the women nodded hesitantly, and Hatsu Tao walked up to her, and after untying the black cloth tied to her eyes, Hatsu Momo couldn't help but let out a low cry
- Under the black cloth, both eyeballs were gouged out, leaving only terrible scars.
Chu Tao sniffed, forced tears and twisted the towel to clean the woman's face.
When the towel touched her face, a tear flowed from the empty eye socket, and then it was like a floodgate, and the tears rained down, but only a hoarse whimper came out of her throat.
After Hatsu Tao helped them clean up a little, she asked if she could help them treat their wounds, and at this time the women had already trusted her and couldn't help nodding.
I don't know how much torture these women have suffered, when Chu Tao helped them remove the carrion with a knife and apply medicine, they just gritted their teeth, and no one struggled.
After helping them clean up one by one, Chu Tao went to the kitchen to cook some white porridge.
They had not eaten for a long time, but could only eat some food that could be easily restrained, and he told the maid to feed it with her to some of the women.
Their chapped lips were like withered rose petals, and their tongues had been amputated, so that they could not even accuse.
Chu Tao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, what did the people behind it do to them?
When Fang Cai inspected, Chu Tao confirmed that these women were ordinary people.
In the mortal world, at this flower-like age, he has a beautiful face, and he should be living happily under the love of his parents.
There must also be those sons and daughters who love them, waiting to come to the door to propose, and from then on, they will join hands to have children and live a stable and happy life......
But now they have been taken captive, tortured, and imprisoned like animals.
After eating, the women gradually fell asleep, they were so weak that they had no energy at all.
After watching them fall asleep, Hatsu Tao left this purgatory-like room on earth.
She cheered up and went back to her room, and sat and waited for the man to show up, and it was already stormy outside.
The maid brought a shirt and motioned for Chu Tao to change into it, and Chu Tao saw that there was a pair of extraordinarily delicate embroidered shoes on it.
Suddenly thinking of the amputated feet of those women, as if I understood something, a wave of nausea welled up in my heart.
At this time, there was a sound of footsteps in the yard, and as the footsteps approached, Chu Tao only felt that his heart was beating faster, and the hairs on his body stood up.
Not wanting to wait any longer, she got up and walked out to see who it was!
I saw a man wearing a hat walking into the courtyard.
It was drizzling at the moment, and the black veil hanging down from the hat made Chu Tao unable to see the person's appearance clearly, but this figure made her inexplicably familiar.
The man didn't look at her, he didn't talk to her, but went to the corner room first, and it was surprisingly clean.
He turned his head to the servant, as if to ask, and the servant glanced at Hatsumoku and lowered his head.
Anger made Chu Tao unable to hold his breath anymore: "Who are you!"
The man still didn't answer her, but walked towards the room, his cold fingers lifting the chin of one of the women.
The woman woke up in an instant, and her whole body trembled violently, as if the person in front of her was the most terrifying demon in the world.
The other women also huddled together and hugged her, even though they knew they couldn't protect her, but none of them hid to the side.
They were close together, like a flock of lonely chicks in a storm.
The man stared at them through the veil for a long time, then suddenly shook off his hand in disappointment.
The maid handed him the towel that had been prepared, and he slowly wiped it with his fingers, until the skin of his hands was red.
He sighed, looked at Chu Tao, especially Chu Tao's eyes, still didn't speak, and pulled Chu Tao's clothes and walked into the room.
The servant did not follow, but looked at the closed door, and her eyes flashed with pity and tears.
The man threw Chu Tao on the bed and quickly placed a ban around the bed, so that Chu Tao could not escape.
He caught a glimpse of the embroidered shoes that had not been changed at the beginning of the peach, and suddenly the whole person became gentle again.
He took the pair of embroidered shoes, squatted at Chu Tao's feet, and grabbed Chu Tao's ankle with his cold and greasy hand.
The snake-like touch rubs back and forth on the skin of the first peach, bringing up layers of chicken skin.
Chu Tao only felt extremely disgusting, and desperately wanted to kick him away, but he took his foot into his arms, and no matter how Chu Tao kicked and beat, he only hugged him tightly.
Chu Tao couldn't see what kind of intoxicated expression was under the veil.
"Don't move anymore, I'm reluctant to cut them off like this", the man finally spoke, and the voice made Hatsumoku frown, as if he had heard it somewhere.
"I know you!" Hatsumomo decided.
"Hehe", the man chuckled, one hand was about to remove the sock on Hatsumo's left foot, "We...... Of course I know, even, it's quite familiar."
With the other hand, he took off the hat and put it aside, picked up Fang Cai's embroidered shoes, and sniffed slowly and carefully on the tip of his nose, as if he was smelling a jar of century-old wine.
There was a thunderstorm outside, and Chu Tao, who saw the man's face clearly, exclaimed: "It's you!"