Chapter 19 (1/2)
Looking at the scene from hell in front of him, even someone as mentally strong as Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help but turn pale and stumbled a few steps backwards. Tang Mianmian cried and screamed in horror, turning away to vomit.
“Why is it like this………..” Xiao Tangqiu muttered to himself. The illusion had dissipated; the river which they traveled on wasn’t actually a river. Maybe it had once been one, but it had disappeared along with the slaughter of the entire village. Had anyone jumped into the river to leave in the beginning, they would definitely have burned alive in the “river” like Yang Bing and the others.
“Are these people……. the villagers?” Tang Mianmian was ghastly pale, “……….. Wait! Look over there! Isn’t that the fucking village chief?!”
Xiao Tangqiu looked in the direction where Tang Mianmian was pointing; in the sea of charred corpses, there was indeed a familiar looking corpse. But this particular corpse appeared to be in a worse condition compared to the corpses around it, because its body had been torn apart and head chopped off.
“It’s him.” Xiao Tangqiu’s heart sank, “Looks like the villagers died a long time ago, just like the village chief. I’m guessing they were also burned to death back then.”
Tang Mianmian proved himself to be Xiao Tangqiu’s long-time buddy; he understood what Xiao Tangqiu was trying to say, “So that’s the case…. It’s no wonder Jiang Zihan and Zeng Jinping died in the same manner! But what’s the reason? Was it because of Fang Lan? Was she the one who burned all the villagers alive?”
“Fang Lan was submerged in the pig cage…… which means she drowned to death. This village only has one river, which is the river we’re looking at.” Xiao Tangqiu stared at the “river” before him and began to speculate, “If someone was drowned to death, then even after turning into an evil spirit, wouldn’t that person still be terrified of water?”
“Is that why she chose to burn everyone to death? But why would she kill all the villagers?” Tang Mianmian frowned, “Even if she wanted revenge, shouldn’t she look for the Yun family?!”
Xiao Tangqiu laughed bitterly, “I’m not sure either. Let’s go back and look for more clues.”
Tang Mianmian nodded, “Let’s go back to Yun Manor first. I wonder if they prepared breakfast. I just vomited my guts out so I’m starving now……”
Xiao Tangqiu felt hungry as well; he rubbed his tummy, “I don’t know why but I have a bad feeling……”
Tang Mianmian’s face darkened, “Fucking hell! Can you stop planting these damn Flags!”
Xiao Tangqiu laughed dryly and wanted to say something when he quickly pushed Tang Mianmian aside. Tang Mianmian fell to the ground and was about to curse at Xiao Tangqiu, but was immediately shocked by the swing of a shovel right where his head had been just a second ago.
Shivers ran down his spine. He immediately turned to look back and saw the paper doll, all the while in that red wedding dress, staring resentfully at the two of them, looking as if it wanted to crush them into dust.
“Xiao Tangqiu!” The moment Tang Mianmian’s lung-busting scream rang out, Xiao Tangqiu, who sat on the ground in confusion, turned around to see what had tripped him – it was actually a tiny, red cotton shoe worn by babies………
Fuck! How did that thing trip him up ah!
Xiao Tangqiu was raging inside but the paper doll had already lunged onto him in the blink of an eye.
He could only watch in horror as that paper doll slammed into him. Just like a slow motion scene in the movies, the paper doll’s lifelike features slowly zoomed into focus in front of his eyes. Then, the paper doll stuck itself onto his body and went right through his chest!
At that exact instant, a thousand images flashed through his mind; one moment, it was two children fishing by the river; the next, it was a young man and a young woman catching fish on a boat; then, it was the both of them underneath the pale moonlight, making a solemn vow to be together for life………
“Ah Hai, they’re forcing me to marry the Yun family’s dead oldest young master. I don’t want to. Take me away………”
On that moonlit night, the young woman summoned up her courage and begged for them to elope. The young man struggled to make a decision but eventually nodded his head.
“Ah Hai! Ah Hai! Let go of me!”
But then on the day they were supposed to meet, the young man never showed up. The young woman, who had waited all night, ended up being dragged home by the villagers.
Forced to wear that red wedding dress, the young woman finally married into the Yun family. After that strange wedding night, she actually became pregnant.