Huaiyin Town has a blood contract for generations of ghost marriages, and every ten years a living girl is sacrificed to be married into a ghost house. The Shen family did not want to give away their daughter, so they dragged out the substitute Yin Hengzhi from the cellar - she was covered in burns and her voice was so hoarse that she could not speak. On the night when the sedan chair was brought into Gu's house, Gui Hou lifted his veil and said: "Mute? Just what I wanted." No one knew that Yin Hengzhi was not mute, she just didn't dare to speak. Because the beast whisperer is exposed, he will be burned on the rack. Late at night, a snake hissed from the corner: "The eldest lady of the Shen family is trying on your wedding dress. She laughs that you only deserve to wear what she doesn't want." Yin Hengzhi took out the leather salt and charcoal in her arms and boiled a piece of transparent soap in the copper basin. The next day, Shen Hengzhi came to humiliate her. She handed over the piece of "jade ointment" and said, "Sister, wash your face to get rid of the bad luck." After Shen Hengzhi washed her face, her entire skin was ulcerated and pus-filled. The whole town thought it was witchcraft, but Gu Yelan dragged Yin Hengzhi into the study, with a dark fire in his eyes: "Can you make rotten bone ointment or revitalizing skin cream?" Yin Hengzhi didn't know that he had been waiting for a beast whisperer who could cure the poison in his body for twenty years. And she just wanted to use his tenderness as a knife to cut the throats of everyone in the Shen family.
The chains rang.
When Shen Hengzhi was dragged out of the dungeon, her knees hit the stone steps, gravel embedded in her flesh, but she did not cry out.
The iron ring on the wrist cut into the old injury, and the scab cracked open again. Blood flowed down the forearm, dripping on the blue bricks, and making a small crater.
She smelled the blood on her body mixed with the smell of moldy straw, and the smell of urine in the corner of the dungeon.
Two strong women held her arms on the left and right, digging their fingernails into her armpits, pinching her shoulder muscles.
