cloudy day

Chapter 5 Lighting the Sky Lantern

The whole village was stunned when they saw this scene, and then they all looked at me with indescribable eyes, which were both fear and anger.While backing away, he muttered, "Sangmen star... Freak... Calamity star..."

But at this moment, the village accountant next to the village head added fuel to the fire. He pointed at me and said, "I think this kid is a monster. On the night when it rained heavily more than ten years ago, I saw Zhao Changsheng with my own eyes. This baby got out of the coffin and ate the corpse in the nearby tomb!"

The village accountant's words not only shocked the other people present, but also surprised me. I knelt down blankly and looked at my adoptive father beside me.

The adoptive father finally couldn't bear it anymore, and he said loudly: "Everyone, don't listen to this accountant's nonsense, they and Sun Youde secretly conspired to frame us, and Sun Youde and his son have done a lot of shameful things behind their backs!"

But in this kind of atmosphere, who can believe the words of the adoptive father? The adoptive father looked emotionally at Xiaofeng who was standing alone not far away and shouted: "Xiao...Xiaofeng, you forgot that the father and son of the Sun family were here yesterday." How did the ruined temple treat you? You should say something, this happened because of you!"

Sister Xiaofeng trembled all over, like a frightened lamb, she looked at everyone, and then at me, my adoptive father, and Sun Youde.

Everyone in the village stared at Xiaofeng, she struggled inwardly, her face turned red and then pale, and she bit her lip tightly.

"Miss Xiaofeng..." I called out softly, I knew this was very disgraceful, even if she didn't have the courage to speak up, I would understand.

But what I never expected was that after hesitating for a while, Miss Xiaofeng pointed at me tremblingly and said, "It's Zhao... Zhao Changsheng humiliated me..."

"Miss Xiaofeng, what are you doing..." I was full of anger, helplessness, and sadness. I was so overwhelmed with mixed feelings that I couldn't speak for a while, only seeing Sun Youde's cold smile.

At this time, the whole village cursed me passionately, and some even picked up stones and threw them at me. I was beaten to the point of bleeding, but at this time I could hardly feel any pain.

The adoptive father's face was pale, and his eyes were fiercely staring at Sun Youde, the village chief, and Miss Xiaofeng, but I still couldn't believe that Miss Xiaofeng would say what she just said, feeling like I was having a nightmare at this moment.

A stone hit me hard on the head, my ears were buzzing, and I gradually lost consciousness.

When I woke up, my father and I were carried to the top of the back mountain. We were wrapped in sackcloth and tied to several wooden stakes. The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on our bodies like red blood.

At this time, more than half of the people around had disappeared, only those who were in collusion with Sun Youde and a few strong men remained.

"What are you doing!" I yelled at the crowd.

"Light up the sky lantern..." A hoarse voice came from nowhere, I looked back with difficulty, and saw a man in black hiding in a dark corner.

Before I figured out who that person was?My adoptive father and I were put into the oil tank. At that time, I didn't know what lighting up a sky lantern was, but I saw my father struggling in the oil tank and shouting: "You have no conscience, and you will be punished sooner or later! I admit these things I did it all by myself, it has nothing to do with longevity, you guys put him..."

Before the adoptive father finished speaking, he was gagged and pushed into the oil tank. We were like lambs at the mercy of others, wrapped in sackcloth and bound, and soaked in the oil tank.

The sky was getting dark, and when someone beside me lit a torch, I finally understood what they were going to do...

"Master, everything is ready here, when are we going to light the fire?" Sun Youde said to the man in black behind the crowd, his attitude was very respectful.

"For those who commit the most heinous crimes, they should cut open their stomachs, put in wicks, and then let the ignited wicks burn the fat in their stomachs. This is the real lighting of sky lanterns." The mysterious man said coldly.

"All according to the master's arrangement, hehe." Sun Youde smiled sinisterly, took a butcher's knife from the servant, and approached us step by step.

My adoptive father and I were struggling desperately, but at this moment, the sound of gongs and drums suddenly came from the woods not far away.

Everyone looked back at the same time, and saw a cloud of blue mist in the forest in the southwest corner. I vaguely saw a red sedan chair with eight lifts slowly moving towards this side.

There was an expression of fear and shock on everyone's face, because no one was carrying the sedan chair at all, let alone someone blowing the suona.

The eight big sedan chairs were getting closer and closer to us, and the originally festive playing sound suddenly became mournful...

(End of this chapter)