Looking at the blurry figure in front of her, Bai Lingmiao remembered that the child was her when she was young, and this was something that happened a long, long time ago.
Bai Lingmiao watched as her grandfather picked her up and carried her on his neck, running and jumping among the ceramic figures like a child, shouting and teasing her, making her laugh uncontrollably.
She silently followed behind them, gradually recalling everything that had happened to her in this place.
"Wah wah wah wah~ wah wah~~" Bai Lingmiao watched as her younger self cried, sitting in the corner of the wall with her split pants, crying loudly. Her body and hands were covered in mud.
"What's wrong? Nannan? Who bullied you?" A gray-haired old woman hurriedly walked over and picked up Bai Lingmiao.
"Wah wah wah~~ wah wah" Bai Lingmiao, who was cuddling in the old woman's arms, pointed to the corner of the wall with her chubby finger and said something that only she could understand.
"Oh~ It scared our good Nannan, didn't it? Don't cry, don't cry, look, grandma will give you justice!"
The old woman held Bai Lingmiao's hand and came to the wall, chopping her feet and saying, "Hey! You scared our good Nannan, bad thing, I'll stomp you to death!"
When Bai Lingmiao saw her younger self stop crying under her grandmother's comfort, an extremely terrifying image suddenly came to her mind, and her face changed inexplicably. "I remember now."
"What do you remember?"
"I remember what scared me back then!" Bai Lingmiao rushed over and scattered her past self and grandmother.
She came to the wall, raised the sharp black nail and began to dig into the exceptionally solid rammed earth.
"Liao Liao! What's wrong with you?" Chun Xiaoman walked over, looking very worried about her good sister who was digging the ground.
After asking several times without getting a response, she made up her mind and directly drew out her long sword and stabbed it into the rammed earth, digging together.
Seeing this, Gao Zhijian also rushed over, removing a piece of armor from his body and fiercely inserting it into the soil, using force to pry it up.
"Is there treasure? Is there treasure hidden in the soil?" Gouwa also rushed over, excitedly helping.
This kind of action didn't last long. With Gouwa's scream of horror, everyone's hands stopped.
Bai Lingmiao's trembling hands touched the woman buried in the mud with her eyes closed. Her eyeballs were shriveled and sewn together with thread. Her face was pale and looked extremely frightening.
A big hand reached out and stopped Bai Lingmiao's hand, "...this...this is...this is...a human pillar...pillar...pillar..."Before he could finish his sentence, Bai Lingmiao continued to dig, and more and more dead bodies were dug out of the soil. They were tightly packed together, like bricks stacked closely together.
Not only adults, but also people of all ages were buried in the soil.
After digging for a while, Bai Lingmiao stopped. She could already tell that these people were not buried randomly. Their location was exactly at the edge of the entire hall, and each person had a lotus flower drawn on the back of their hand. It was obviously specially designed.
"They're using people to lay the foundation. How many dead bodies must be buried underground in such a large place? Who could be so heartless?" Gouwa said, shocked by the horrifying scene in front of him.
As soon as Gouwa spoke, he felt that he had said the wrong thing and immediately covered his mouth and looked at Bai Lingmiao.
This place was the ancestral hall of the Bai family. It was obvious that the Bai family was responsible for burying so many dead bodies underground.
Bai Lingmiao tried hard to hold back her emotions, but how could she possibly bear this? She cried loudly, just like when she wore a tiger hat in the past, but this time her grandmother was not there to comfort her.
It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "pawread dot com".
All the beautiful memories of her hometown in Bai Lingmiao's heart collapsed at this moment, and the most tragic thing was that she had no one to question or blame.
They were all burned to ashes by Li Huowang's fire.
"Why? Dad! Mom!! Why did you kill so many people? Why did you become villains? Don't you know that these people might be someone else's parents or grandparents? Do you know how painful it is to lose a loved one?"
Seeing Bai Lingmiao almost collapsing, Chun Xiaoman quickly hugged her and comforted her softly. "It's okay, it's not your fault, it's not your fault..."
Gradually, Bai Lingmiao's crying stopped. She had cried enough, but she also understood that crying would not change anything.
Bai Lingmiao wiped away her tears and said, "No...this is my fault, this is the fault of our Bai family! Since it's our fault, as a member of the Bai family, I must take responsibility!"
One by one, the stiff bodies were dragged out of the dark room and then buried on Niuxin Mountain using a cart.
Their bodies were extremely stiff, as if they were filled with lead and completely solidified like stones. Bai Lingmiao couldn't even give them a decent burial.
Every time a body was buried and a monument was erected, Bai Lingmiao would kowtow and offer incense to apologize. She knew that this might not be useful, but it was the only thing she could do.There were many dead bodies in the hidden chamber, and they were busy for a long time. It wasn't until the Lv family troupe returned from their performance that they finally finished burying them.
By the time they were done, Bai Lingmiao had become extremely haggard, her face thin and gaunt.
After kowtowing three times in front of the tombstones, Bai Lingmiao raised her head, her pink pupils filled with bloodshot veins as she looked at the graves before her. With her cracked lips slightly parted, she asked Chun Xiaoman, who was standing beside her, "Sister Xiaoman, if they could commit such evil deeds, why did they teach me to be kind?"
"If I had become as bad as them, I wouldn't be so sad now..."
Chun Xiaoman couldn't answer this question.
Lv Zhuangyuan, who was helping to shovel dirt on the side, stopped his work, wiped the sweat from his brow, and sighed, "Girl, I'm also a father, and I can guess what your parents were thinking."
"Actually, your parents knew that doing such things would eventually bring divine punishment, so they didn't want you to get involved. And besides, you are a girl."
"A married daughter is like water that has been poured out. As long as they kept you in the dark until you were older and found a good family for you to marry into, whatever happened to your family here wouldn't have anything to do with you. In the end, they were doing it for your own good."
"For my own good?" Bai Lingmiao tried to say something, but the words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't speak.
Chun Xiaoman sighed and gently hugged her to comfort her, knowing that anything she said as an outsider in this situation would be futile.
"Sister Xiaoman..."
"Hmm? What is it?" Chun Xiaoman tilted her head slightly, her hair gently brushing against Bai Lingmiao's white hair.
"Even though my family members were such evil people, I still can't forgive Senior Brother Li for killing them..."
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