The girl chosen as the bride was not dead. She seemed to be in a coma and remained motionless as the other two men carried her out.

The father said that he saw with his own eyes the village chief and his party put the girl on the ground and then removed the stones that were weighing on the well.

The temperature in the mountains at night was very low, and the mountain wind whistled past his ears, as if someone was whispering behind him. My father was so frightened that he got goosebumps all over his body. Fear continued to spread up his spinal cord to the cerebral cortex, and he felt cold in his body.

At the same time, my heart became more and more terrifying——

The actions of the village chief and others seemed to be evil at every turn. Even ordinary villagers like my father, who had never seen a sacrifice, began to murmur in their hearts at this moment, and began to doubt whether the rituals established by their ancestors were true.

Soon, he saw those people tying up the girl with a rope more than ten meters long. Then, a man in black robe took out a bowl and knife from the box and came to the girl.

Just when his father felt more and more weird, the scene that happened next made him almost scream.

As if thinking of her granddaughter, the old woman took a deep breath and said tremblingly:

"Father said...the village chief and the others actually gouged out the girl's eyes and cut off her tongue while she was still alive. Under the severe pain, the girl woke up. She screamed and begged at the top of her lungs, but in the huge mountain

, how could anyone respond to her?"

The girl's miserable screams were still in his ears. Thinking of Xiaolian's usual well-behaved appearance, his father couldn't bear to close his eyes and lay there without daring to raise his head.

He knew that once his whereabouts were exposed and he knew the secrets of the village, he would be killed and silenced.

Beside the well, the villagers were indifferent to the girl's pleas. They stood there like statues, with no trace of guilt on their numb faces. They looked at the girl as if they were animals about to be slaughtered.

Soon, the man collected the girl's blood in a bowl, muttered something, and came to the well.

The father saw the other party spilling the blood into the well. Not long after, the sound of boiling water suddenly came from below the well mouth.

The eight iron chains jingled and trembled crazily, the wind was strong, and my father suddenly heard a deep roar coming from his ears. He was sure that the source of the sound was right below the wellhead!

The father was almost frightened out of his wits. He raised his head and found that the village chief and his team had actually lifted the dying girl from the ground and dropped her directly into the well.

After the girl fell to the bottom of the well, the sound of water and roar gradually subsided; but the village chief and his party did not leave, waiting at the mouth of the well for more than half an hour.

It wasn't until he was sure that the girl was dead that one of them pulled the rope and pulled her body out of the well.

After doing this, they put the girl's body back into the box, covered the wellhead with stones, and went down the mountain under the moonlight.

"At that time, after my father waited for the village chief and his party to leave, he bravely went to the well to check. As a result, he said...looking down through the gap, he saw a pair of red eyes in the dark well!

"The old woman coughed excitedly. Seeing this, Ling Yun immediately stepped forward to calm her breath.

After calming down a little, the old woman continued: "My father said that that frightening glance almost made him lose his soul. Following the footprints left by the village chief and others, he went down the mountain overnight and returned home.

Before I had time to explain anything to my mother, I fell into a coma."

My father's illness lasted a full day and night. When he recovered a little and woke up, he learned through his mother that the village was worshiping the bride of the river god in the ancestral hall. For thousands of years, those who are willing to dedicate themselves have been paid in exchange for

The great brides who come to the village to bring peace, the villagers must go and bow down to show their gratitude.

My mother helped my father to the ancestral hall. She only told the public that my father had injured his leg while doing farm work. When my father knelt in front of the coffin that had already been nailed, he felt shuddering:

No one has ever seen the remains of the brides, and no one knows what happened on the night of the sacrifice.

When he looked at the pious expressions of the surrounding villagers and even Xiaolian's mother, Widow Li, his father finally realized that perhaps everyone had been deceived by the village chief's family over the past hundred years.

"Not long after, my mother had me. When I was thirteen, my father made the decision early and married me off."

The old woman said: "My father didn't tell me this secret until he died. He always told me that if there is a daughter born in the Yin year in the Yin month in the future, she must do it before the beginning of spring in the hairpin year (15 years old).

Marry her as soon as possible. I know that my father does not want his descendants to suffer this fate!"

The old woman said that Li Ying's father died early, and her mother soon followed him, passing away due to an accident. Later, she raised her granddaughter alone, but as she got older, her health deteriorated day by day.

Although she wanted to marry her granddaughter as soon as possible, Li Ying always missed her grandmother, whom she depended on for her own life. She was afraid that she would not be able to take good care of her after getting married, so she refused several families who came to propose marriage.

"But I didn't expect that this would still hurt Xiaoying!!!! When Xiaoying came back two days ago, her clothes were soaked... She gave me some medicine and said goodbye. At dawn, she was gone.

Just disappeared. I know, Xiaoying is no longer here

Aguang, you are a good boy. If I had known this, I should have let you take Xiaoying away... My child, my mother-in-law will be sorry for you two in this life. Now that Xiaoying is gone, you must live well, Qian.

Don't do anything stupid..."

The old woman's voice became weaker and weaker. She stretched out her hand and waved it tremblingly twice in the air, as if she was trying hard to grab something.

But soon, those dry and thin hands dropped heavily. The old woman opened her eyes, her mouth was slightly open, and she was no longer breathing.

"Rest in peace." Ling Yun sighed, stood up and sorted out the other person's remains, and then walked out of the house.

In the yard, a group of people recalled what the old woman said just now. Lin Yuanqi couldn't help but said: "That old guy from the village chief can do it, but his methods are so vicious! Just sacrifice, why do you still torture and kill those girls?!"

"Do you still remember those dilapidated shrines outside the village?" Zhao Sicheng said thoughtfully: "Now I have figured it out. In fact, it is a Yin Gathering Formation. Only when the formation is broken can the ghosts leave the mountains. When I entered the house before, I

I did notice that there was a trace of residual Yin Qi here. From what the old lady said, I'm afraid Li Ying's ghost has not come back before."

Zhao Sicheng analyzed that the south of the mountains is yin, the north of the water is yin, and the flat areas with high humidity are also yin. Therefore, the south of the village, the north of the Yongjiang River and the village itself can form a three-yin land.

And those girls who were selected, including Li Ying, were without exception born with pure yin bodies in the yin year and yin month.

"The ancient well at the top of Qingyuan Mountain is where the formation's eye is, and there must be something terrible beneath it. At twelve o'clock at midnight, red clothes, pure Yin blood... The village chief and his group used extremely vicious methods to torture and kill the girl.

It should be that he wants to suppress the things at the bottom of the well with resentment." Zhao Sicheng said:

"The souls of the dead girls are trapped in the Yin Gathering Formation and will never be reincarnated. Their eyes were gouged out and their tongues were cut out during their lifetime. Even though their resentment could not be eliminated, after death they turned into ghosts who could neither see nor speak.
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