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Chapter 53: The Concubine Who Breastfeeds the Child

Chapter 53: The Concubine Who Breastfeeds the Child
The sky seemed much darker than before.

The chilly wind blew through the forest, causing the branches of the trees to rustle.

In the rustling wind, mist is rising faintly.

Father Bai hunched his shoulders and observed the surrounding environment. He saw Zhou Chang still staring at the dark stone tablet that suddenly appeared, and couldn't help asking, "What is written on this tablet?"

In the silence and darkness, Father Bai was frightened by his own voice.

He looked around carefully, fearing that his sudden words would disturb the powerful ghosts and gods in the dark.

Zhou Chang read the sacrificial text on the stone tablet several times. When he heard Bai's father's question, he thought for a moment and replied, "This tablet says that there is indeed a concubine from the Qing Dynasty buried in the Bai family tomb.

However, the former Qing concubine was not buried alone.

There was also a head of a former Qing emperor buried with the concubine."

"Human head..."

Father Bai murmured to himself, looked at Bai Xiu'e beside him, and then whispered: "When you mentioned the emperor's head, I remembered something..."

The mountain breeze blew gently and passed by the three of them.

The Bai family tomb grew colder in the dark night, and the voice of Bai's father whispering was like a candlelight shivering in the cold wind: "Xiu'e's grandfather... my old father-in-law, once worked for the Jingbai family and built the wall of the Jingbai family ancestral hall on the high slope.

One day he worked until midnight and fell ill right after he came back, remaining in a coma the whole day.

It was not until his dying day that he came to his senses.

He told us that he came back late that day because it was already dark and Jing Baishi didn't give them any food and told them to keep working. He was so hungry that he climbed over the wall and entered the Jing Baishi's ancestral hall.

I wanted to steal some of the offerings in their ancestral hall, but I didn't expect to lose my way once I went in. I walked through the doors one after another and finally arrived at the small ancestral hall in the innermost room.

He said that there were no tablets or offerings in the small ancestral hall. He only saw a woman wearing a large hat decorated with flowers. The woman was holding a swaddling cloth and seemed to be breastfeeding a baby.

The woman was sitting on a high altar with her body facing sideways towards him, so he couldn't see what the baby in the cradle looked like.

The clothes the woman was wearing were not cheap either. They were obviously made of silk satin and were embroidered with many festive flowers.

Just looking at the color of the silk, it is obvious that it is very old. It is a very old piece of clothing and many of the embroidery on it have faded.

When the woman saw him come in, she was not afraid. She was still breastfeeding her baby. She just asked him a question without raising her head.

Xiu'e's grandfather said that the woman's voice sounded like she was pinching her throat, shrill and thin, but when he listened carefully, he could only get the general idea of her words, but couldn't hear what she said specifically or even how many words she uttered.

She was probably asking Xiu'e's grandfather: "What do you want?"
Xiu'e's grandfather thought this woman was weird and didn't dare to talk to her at all - who would breastfeed a baby on the altar in the ancestral hall?

What's more, the nested ancestral halls of the Jingbai family are themselves very strange.

So he quickly retreated from that small ancestral hall.

But who knew - as soon as he left the small ancestral hall, the environment of the ancestral hall outside changed. In just a blink of an eye, the ancestral hall outside turned into a tomb built with large stones!
In the middle of the tomb chamber, there is a bronze coffin.

The woman who was breastfeeding her child on the altar was now sitting on the coffin lid.

This time she was not facing away from Xiu'e's grandfather. She was facing Xiu'e's grandfather. The faded silk dress on her body looked just like the clothes of the dead dug out from old graves.

She had her arms and legs open, revealing half of her chest.

That half of the chest and abdomen was a bright yellow color, like gold.

At this time, an adult head wearing a melon-shaped hat popped out from the cradle in her arms, and that big head was drinking milk!
Inside that cradle was only the head of an adult man!
The milk that the head absorbed was like golden water, and it gradually dyed the gray and white skin of the head into golden color!
The head in the woman's arms became like gold, but her chest turned gray and white. At the same time, Xiu'e's grandfather smelled a stench of corpse coming from the woman. He was so scared that he didn't even dare to run.

The woman was seen holding the golden head in the swaddling clothes in one arm, and holding a jade bowl from the side of the coffin lid in the other hand.

The jade bowl was filled with a red liquid with gold hues. She drank the liquid up in one gulp. Immediately, the stench of corpse disappeared from her body. Her chest gradually turned golden again, and the head in the swaddling clothes moved closer to her.

Grandpa Xiu'e said that when he saw the woman drinking the liquid in the jade bowl, he heard many girls crying.

But he had no time to think about anything at that time. He just saw the woman drank the liquid in the bowl, and her face became as red as a flower. She asked Grandpa Xiu'e: "What do you want?"
Her grandfather didn't dare to respond to the woman and hurriedly looked for the exit of the tomb.

The woman didn't stop him, but just sat on the coffin and kept asking him what he wanted.

When he found the exit of the tomb and leaned in, the woman, holding the baby, had been standing behind him at some point.

The woman didn't speak. The head of the person in the swaddling clothes poked out. On the golden face, the eyes without eyeballs stared straight at Xiu'e's grandfather. A shrill and unintelligible voice came out of the woman's mouth: "What do you want?"

"How about letting me use your body?"

The golden head in the cradle opened and closed its mouth, and every time it opened its mouth, Xiu'e's grandfather seemed to be able to see a series of tablets pressed under its tongue.

Her grandfather didn’t recognize the words on many of the tablets. He only recognized the word “Wen” on a tablet in the corner…”

Father Bai's eyes flickered slightly, he sighed, and then said: "After Xiu'e's grandfather saw the golden head, he woke up and was already lying on the bed at home.

He was confused for several days, talking nonsense, and finally died one night..."

Bai Xiu'e listened intently, and she murmured to herself, "So what Grandpa said at that time, was it a dream, or did it really happen?"

She raised her head and looked toward the Jingbai Clan Ancestral Hall on the high slope in the distance.

The towering ancestral hall, with its exterior walls painted dark red, appears even darker and redder under the illumination of the red lanterns.

It was like a wound in the dark night, with blood gushing out.

Bai Xiu'e was startled and distracted. When she looked into the distance, she could no longer see the high slope or the Ancestral Hall of the Bai Family in Beijing illuminated by red lanterns.

There was only darkness over there.

Xiu'e quickly withdrew her gaze and suddenly found that the black stone tablet had disappeared right under her nose.

Her father and Zhou Chang were still standing beside her.

Zhou Chang heard a rustling sound in the darkness.

It was like the sound of someone walking in small steps, the rubbing of clothes and the collision of jewelry.

The sound came closer and farther, sometimes it was silent, and sometimes it started again.

Zhou Chang had no idea where the noise came from. He looked around in the darkness for a long time before lowering his eyelids and keeping his gaze still. The rustling noise continued around him for a while, and before it stopped, Zhou Chang suddenly raised his eyelids and caught a glimpse of something.

He looked towards the darkness where the noise came from, but still found nothing.

But at the moment when he caught a glimpse, he saw from the corner of his eye that there was a woman in an old silk dress, holding a baby, standing silently beside him.

 I had a cold these two days and felt dizzy after taking some medicine, so the update was late.

  We will return to normal update time as soon as possible.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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