A chain hung down from the beam, splitting at the end into two iron hooks.,For six or seven days, every night, an old woman would sit in front of me, silently reciting scriptures and incantations, waving strange talismans. Sometimes she would even subject me to cruel torture, pain like being scalded with boiling oil, peeling my skin off. Then she would feed me some strange meat and medicinal soup.,Over these past few days, he had only seen the eerie old woman and a little girl in red with her hair tied back in a red ribbon within this house.。