Late at night, villagers holding shovels lit flashlights and pounded the soil at the grave mound on the back mountain.
After digging the grave of the eldest daughter of the Xing family under the gloomy moonlight, the villagers carried out the thin coffin despite the horror in their hearts.
After opening the coffin and seeing the strange paper man with blood-red eyes and a smile lying inside, several people froze and felt that the graveyard was gloomy, so they hurriedly sent the coffin to the gate of the Xing Family’s house.
At this time, hundreds of people surrounded the Xing family yard, from the gate of the Xing family yard to the street.
The villagers, who were shocked after hearing the truth of the matter, hurried home to tell their relatives.
Half of the village was here, with flashlights, surrounding the front of the Xing family’s house, and the lights were bright.
Some hot-tempered villagers took rotten vegetable leaves and threw them at Mrs. Xing, who was sitting on the ground in the Xing Family yard.
While throwing, someone cursed: “You black-hearted old woman, you gave birth to a black-hearted wolf cub! You killed your daughter, your son poisoned his wife, and the whole village is in turmoil!”
Although Mrs. Xing was short and thin, she was a hot-tempered person.
She reached for the chicken coop next to her, took out a few warm eggs with chicken shit from the chicken coop where the frightened hens fluttered around, and jumped up to smash the villagers who were shouting at the gate of the yard.
“Bah! You are a bunch of bad guys. Now, you start to pretend to be good people. In the beginning, you guys jumped the highest and cursed the most!” Mrs. Xing put her hands on her waist and cursed in a dialect.
One person was short of breath, but not the hundreds of people:
“Do you dare to tear off the cloth bag on your face? Look at the rotten sores on your face. You deserve it. You’re scolding my son? Tomorrow you will be ‘smeared’!”
‘Smeared’ was a very vicious curse in Watuo Village, which means that the other party’s family would suffer misfortune and all relatives would die.
The villagers who were hit with egg liquid on their faces were angry and annoyed. They were about to rush into the yard to fight. Other villagers quickly stopped them and made way for the villagers who were carrying the paper coffin outside.
Now the hundreds of villagers who were surrounding saw the weird scene in the coffin, gasped, and said ‘sin’.
When the coffin was carried into the Xing Family yard, the village women who had boiled water in the yard had already wiped the body of the dazed eldest daughter of the Xing Family.
When one of the village women walked out of the house, she shook her head:
“You didn’t see, the flesh sores on Sister Xing’s body were bigger than fingers. When we wiped them, the basin was full of blood. It was so miserable!”
“Oh, she was in a daze and didn’t know how to cry out in pain. Master Gu said that her soul had been lost a lot. I don’t know if she can recover in the future.”
“No, they are calling Sister Xing’s soul back now.”
Seeing the coffin in the yard, Lamu sighed: “Aunt Xing, you are ruining the mother-daughter relationship that you have worked so hard to cultivate by doing this!”
Mrs. Xing was unmoved and sneered: “It’s no good for a dog to catch a rat. This is our Xing Family’s affair. The eldest daughter is the flesh that fell out of my belly. What does it have to do with you outsiders, how I arrange her?”
Just then, Gu Zhisang and others walked out of the house.
Daisy and Xi Haihong happened to hear what Mrs. Xing said and immediately said angrily: “The child is not the thing that you can do whatever you want. You are deliberately murdering and illegally imprisoning people!”
Lamu asked: “Masters, how is the eldest daughter of the Xing Family?”
Gu Zhisang wiped her fingers slowly with a tissue and said:
“With 2 souls and 5 spirits missing, there is only 1 soul ‘Youjing’ in her body, and 2 spirits ‘Choufei’ and ‘Queyin’ are hanging on to her life. Fortunately, these 3 are the most important souls and senses, otherwise she would have died now. Even the gods can’t save her.”
People have three souls and seven senses.
Among them, the three souls were ‘Taiguang’, ‘Shuangling’, and ‘Youjing’.
‘Taiguang’ was also called the heavenly soul, which originates from the mother’s body. It was responsible for the vitality of the human body. Having this in the human body for a long time can prolong their lives.
‘Shuangling’ was the earthly soul originating from the father’s body, which was responsible for wealth strategy, and quick thinking.
The ‘Youjing’ was also called the human soul, which was the main soul of a person’s body, controlling all health, human desires, and body functions;
After death, the human soul can either reincarnate or wander around as a lonely ghost.
Two of the three souls in the body of the eldest daughter of the Xing Family were empty. The ‘Taiguang’ and ‘shuangling’ were missing, but the most critical human soul ‘ghost spirit’ was still floating in the body, which prevented her body and fate from completely collapsing;
This was a blessing.
Among the seven spirits, the ‘Choufeipo’ was located in the ‘throat’, controlling breathing;
The ‘queyinpo’ was located in the ‘lower abdomen’, controlling the basic functions and physiology of the body.
These two spirits also happen to be able to maintain the basic activity of the human body. With the blessing of double luck, the eldest daughter of the Xing Family has only one soul and two spirits, and has been lying in the cellar for half a month, neither human nor ghost, and is still alive.
But she was just still alive.
The other five spirits: ‘Tunzei’, ‘Shigou’, ‘Chuhui’, ‘Feidu’, and ‘Fushi’, respectively control immunity, perception and alertness, removal of foul air and excretion, pain, and heat, and thoughts and consciousness.
After all of them left the body, the eldest daughter of the Xing Family was suffering from illness, incontinence, dementia, and other symptoms.
Living like a zombie without dignity was not much better than dying.
Walking to the thin coffin in the yard, Gu Zhisang looked inside and then put two fingers together to hook the center of the paper man’s eyebrows.
She didn’t poke the paper man hard, but the others on the side still saw that the paper man shrank, as if something invisible had been pulled out of it.
After observing for a while, Gu Zhisang nodded slightly: “It is indeed lucky that consciousness can be restored.”
Ordinary people can’t see it, but Xi Haihong and the other four can see that her fingertips are hooked with a misty, translucent humanoid substance.
It was a few scattered souls and spirits, condensed together, and the appearance was the same as the eldest daughter of the Xing Family who was lying in a daze in the room.
These were the souls and spirits of the eldest daughter of the Xing Family locked in the substitute paper man.
They were the soul and spirits of ‘Shuangling’, ‘Tunzei’, ‘Chuhui’, and ‘Fushi’.
After these scattered souls and spirits entered the body, even if the eldest daughter’s consciousness returned, some body functions could be restored, but it wouldn’t have much impact on her daily basic life.
But she still lost the heavenly soul ‘Taiguang’, as well as the two spirits ‘Shigou’ and ‘Feidu’, which were impossible to find back.
Because these souls had been torn apart by the resentful daughter-in-law of the Xing Family, who mistook her for Xing Laoer. She was helping her brother Xing Laoer to ward off disasters, so they could never be pieced together again.
The various sequelae brought about by the loss of these souls will also trouble the eldest daughter of the Xing Family for life and bring various inconveniences to her life.
Gu Zhisang led the confused soul and three spirits and transferred them to the body of the eldest daughter of the Xing Family, saying:
“Wait a few minutes, she will wake up after the soul and spirit are reunited.”
Lamu nodded repeatedly. After a day of tossing and turning, he now does not doubt Gu Zhisang:
“Then what else should we do to make the daughter-in-law of Xing Family calm down?”
The villagers also said: “Yes, Master Gu, we know we are wrong. We shouldn’t have said those gossips at that time. Please let the daughter-in-law of the Xing Family have mercy on us!”
Gu Zhisang said in a flat tone:
“The injustice of the daughter-in-law of the Xing Family has been exposed. I believe you have a scale in your heart about what is right and wrong.”
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