Chapter 348 - Tombstone

Chapter 348 - Tombstone

Bai Lingmiao recalled everything as she looked at the fuzzy phantom images. That child was her from her younger days, and this was an event that had happened before, a long time ago.

Bai Lingmiao watched as her grandfather lifted her up, carried her on his neck before starting to run and jump among the ceramic figures, shouting and amusing her.

She silently followed them, gradually recalling everything that happened in this place.

“Wa, wa~ Waa waa~”

Bai Lingmiao watched her childhood self cry, sitting in the corner with her open-crotch pants. She was covered in mud.

“What’s wrong, little one? Who bullied you?” An elderly woman with white hair hurried over as she comforted and lifted Bai Lingmiao up.

“Waa waa wa~ Waa waa” Bai Lingmiao was nestled in the arms of the old woman as she pointed her fat fingers toward the wall. With only three teeth in her mouth, she babbled some words that only she could understand.

“Oh~ Did it scare our little one? Don’t cry. Look, Grandma will fight for you!”

The old lady led Bai Lingmiao to the wall, then stamped her foot, “Ah! Who scared our obedient little girl? Bad thing, I’ll stomp you to death!”

When Bai Lingmiao saw her childhood self stop crying with her grandmother’s comforting, another scene appeared in her mind. At the same time, her expression suddenly changed. “I recall now.”

“Recall what?”

“I recall what scared me back then!” said Bai Lingmiao as she rushed over, dispersing the phantom image of her younger self and her grandmother.

She came to the wall, raised her sharp black nails and dug into the solid rammed earth.

Seeing Bai Lingmiao on the verge of collapse, Chun Xiaoman quickly embraced her and comforted her softly, “It’s okay. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault...”

Gradually, Bai Lingmiao’s cries stopped. She had cried enough, and she understood that crying wouldn’t change anything.

She wiped away her suppressed tears and nudged her way out of Xiaoman’s embrace. “No... This is my fault. This is our Bai family’s fault! Since it’s our fault, then as a member of the Bai Family, I must take responsibility!”

After that, the stiff corpses were dragged out from the dark room and laid out on a cart, to be taken buried on Cowheart Mountain.

The bodies were extremely rigid, as though filled with lead. Bai Lingmiao couldn’t even give them a decent burial.

Each time a body was buried, a tombstone was erected. Then, Bai Lingmiao would kowtow and offer incense as a gesture of apology. She knew that perhaps this was useless, but this was the only thing left that she could do.

There were many dead bodies in that dark room, and they worked for a long time, even working until after the Lu Family Troupe returned from their performance.

After finishing, Bai Lingmiao looked extremely haggard, and her face was completely drained.

After kowtowing three times before the final tombstone, she looked up with her bloodshot eyes. With her cracked lips, she asked Chun Xiaoman beside her, “Sister Xiaoman, if they could do such evil things, then why did they teach me to be kind? If I just became as evil as them, then I wouldn’t be so upset...”

This question stumped Chun Xiaoman.

Lu Zhuangyuan, who was beside them, was helping to shovel the soil as well. He wiped off his sweat and sighed. “Girl, as a father myself, I can guess what your parents were thinking about. Actually, they knew that such things would bring about much retribution, and so they didn’t want you to get involved. Besides, you were just a young child. Once the daughter is married off, it’s like water thrown out. As long as they kept it from you until you were older and found a good family for you to marry into, then whatever happens in the family wouldn’t have much to do with you. In the end, they were doing this for your own good.”

“For my own good?” Bai Lingmiao wanted to say, yet the words stuck in her throat.

Chun Xiaoman sighed, embracing her as she tried to console her. In such a situation, whatever she said as an outsider would be futile.

“Sister Xiaoman...”

“Yes?” Chun Xiaoman turned her head, lightly brushing against Bai Lingmiao’s white hair.

“Even if my family was so evil, I still can’t forgive Senior Li for killing them...”Follow current novels at novelhall.com)