Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 682 Great Fire

  Into the eye, it is a brighter fire.

  No, it's not a fire light.

   Xiaolan raised her hand to cover her eyes, and slowly looked at the clear light in front of her through her fingers.

  There is no fire.

   has changed.

  I was standing in the middle of a warmly furnished living room. The long yellow wooden table and soft seats were neatly placed in the corner of the window. In front of me was a spacious and soft beige sofa. Above the backrest of the sofa, a cloud of black was exposed.

  Someone.

   Xiaolan took the first step, only to realize that the pain in her body had disappeared.

  Not only that.

  She looked at her hands and her body.

came back.

  I am so touched...

   Xiaolan has an urge to cry.

  She caressed the back of her hand carefully. Although her body is short and small, she still feels good about herself.

  The black ball on the sofa moved.

  Don’t be too happy.

   Xiaolan put away the smile on her face, and walked forward solemnly.

  Sure enough, it was a person.

  Her head, her face...

   is Fire Lotus.

  After seeing the person's appearance, Xiaolan hesitated for a moment.

  Huolian was lowering her head, looking at something tenderly and intently, her long black hair was draped obediently on her shoulders, Huolian's body was trembling regularly, as if she was slapping the things in her arms.

  Seeing that Huo Lian did not look at her, Xiao Lan bit her lower lip and walked a few steps forward, and the whole picture finally came into view in its entirety.

  A flushed swaddle was placed just above Huolian’s knee. Huolian raised his hand and slapped it on the swaddle.

  But among the infants, there are no babies.

  There is only a white Sensen skull.

  From where Xiaolan was standing, you could just see the front face of the skull. The two black holes on the skull were facing Xiaolan, as if observing her.

  Huolian's flapping motion stopped for a while, she smiled and leaned over, leaning her ears against the baby skull.

After a while, she nodded, then lifted her upper body, turned her head, and cast her eyes directly on Xiaolan.

   "You are here." She narrowed her eyes and smiled softly.

   Xiaolan suddenly felt that the fatigue and cold all over her body disappeared, and replaced by warmth and peace of mind.

   "You..." Xiao Lan said, "You are Fire Lotus."

  Huolian curled his eyebrows and stroked the skull, then raised his eyes and nodded, "We are already familiar."

  Curious and wonderful feeling.

  Although they have not met each other, it is true that they are already familiar.

   Xiaolan swallowed and asked, "I just... saw your experience, did you arrange this?"

   "Yes," Huo Lian raised her arm and invited Xiaolan to sit on the sofa, "I guess, you already know something about me."

   "But there are still many things I don't understand." Xiaolan continued Huolian's words.

  Huolian smiled again, "So, let me tell you this story in its entirety, okay?"

   Xiaolan frowned, "Why me? What do you want me to do?"

   "After listening to the story, I will tell you again," Huo Lian raised the tea cup on the coffee table and took a sip, "You will make the decision for the rest of the matter."

  ***

  Luo Jiutian looked at the three people in front of him. In fact, none of them could be called “human”, but out of respect, Luo Jiutian still treated them as adults for the time being.

  The woman stared at the two lying on the bed, silently weeping.

  Luo Jiutian didn’t know if he should react, so he wanted to comfort her? Will there be any consequences? I don't know what rules they have when they die, it hurts.

  Fortunately, the woman took the lead. She turned to look at Luo Jiutian, her eyes were red and swollen.

  Luo Jiutian blinked, "Uh...uh..."

   "This is my father and mother," the woman's shoulders were still trembling, "this is my home."

   "Oh," Luo Jiutian thought for a while, "that...uncle and aunt..."

  The sadness in the woman's eyes seemed to fade a little. She stared at the void in a daze, for a long while, her shoulders drooped, "Forget it, let me tell you."

   Luo Jiutian did not speak, but sincerely waited.

  The woman sighed carefully, her pupils refocused, and she faintly scanned the room, "I'm dead."

"Um."

  Looking at the woman’s appearance, Luo Jiutian felt that his reaction seemed a little cold, so he responded again, "Oh?"

  But the woman ignored him at all, "I should...have been dead for a long time. At that time, my parents weren't this old..."

  "Do you know how I died?" With a bleak smile on the woman's face, she looked at Luo Jiutian in despair.

   "How did you die?"

   "I was buried alive," the woman said with tears in her eyes, pointing to the parents on the bed, "I was buried alive by them, with her own hands."

  The feeling of hearing this sentence is really different.

  The goose bumps on Luo Jiutian's body suddenly stood up, "Why is this?"

   "Because I like a man."

  Luo waited for nine days, but the woman didn't mean to go on.

"that's all?"

"that's all."

   "Is this something heinous?" Luo Jiutian said, "It doesn't make sense."

   "I like him and want to be with him, but they don't allow it," the woman walked quietly in the room, "so I thought, if I had a child, maybe they would agree..."

  Luo Jiutian saw the ending.

"Later, I really had a child," the woman stopped at the southeast corner of the room, and reached out to touch her abdomen. "They pushed me into the well of the ancestral hall and buried me alive in front of the whole village. Now... when I was buried alive, he hid in the crowd, watching silently, without saying a word..."

   "He didn't save you?" Luo Jiutian also became angry.

  The woman shook her head, "He cried and then ran away."

   Luo Jiutian scolded angrily, "He should die."

"I don't care about him at all. At least after waiting in the mine for so many years, I don't care about him anymore. Thinking about it now, he doesn't seem to be a man worthy of trust," the woman said. "At the time, I might just be simply Want to resist, do you understand that feeling?"

"I see."

  Do you want to rebel against your parents? I often have this guilty heart, but I haven't dared to act.

"But I didn't expect that they... they would actually treat me this way," the woman's tears welled up in her eyes again, "I thought I would not be punished like other women, I thought They love me..."

  Other women?

   Luo Jiutian asked, "What's the matter with other women?"

   "In Lianshui Village, many women who are pregnant want to resist, and they will end up like this," the woman said. "This is the customary rule in the village since the fire."

  (End of this chapter)