Qiao Guilan's face turned pale in waves.
The fortune teller continued, "Those of us in this line of work generally wouldn't take on such a despicable job, no matter how much money you offered. If it backfires, the consequences could be terrifying."
Song Baogen looked at his own mother, furious. "Mom, are you going to keep this a secret forever?"
Qiao Guilan then told the truth: "Mom didn't know this was harming our family. Everyone in the village is saying that your eldest sister is a jinx, and that your grandparents were killed by your eldest sister."
"After giving birth to her, my mother was unable to have children for many years, and the villagers said it was all because of Yinhua."
“Mom was worried that something might happen to you and wanted to save the whole family’s lives. Your great-uncle said he had a way. He said he knew a very powerful master who could save our whole family, and he asked me to give him the clothes, hair and nails that your eldest sister wore.”
Back then, she would stay up late at night and secretly cut young women's hair and nails with a pair of big black scissors she found at home.
Back then, no household had electrical wires, and she didn't dare to use a kerosene lamp, so she cut the wires in the dark.
Getting a haircut wasn't difficult at all.
But it's too dark at night when I'm cutting my nails.
The scissors have rusted again.
She tried for ages but couldn't cut her nails.
Just then, the young woman turned over again, and with a scissor swung down, she accidentally cut off a large chunk of flesh from the young woman's finger. Blood gushed out immediately, and the young woman woke up suddenly in pain, rolling around in bed.
The third and fourth girls, who were sleeping in the same bed, were so frightened that they screamed.
Song Erzhuang was startled awake and thought something had happened. He rushed into the room and saw the blood on the young lady's finger. He was so angry that he scolded her severely and even hit her in his anger.
He scolded her for coming to trim a girl's nails in the middle of the night instead of sleeping, saying she must be out of her mind!
Can't she cut her own nails? Do you expect her to come and cut them in the dark in the middle of the night?
Song Erzhuang yelled at her at the top of his lungs, and she didn't dare to utter a sound.
Fortunately, he was only angry at the time and didn't suspect anything.
She gave the eldest daughter's hair, her clothes, the blood-stained cloth used to bandage her wounds, and her birth date to her great-uncle.
A few days later, her sister-in-law told her that the matter had been resolved.
When Song Baogen heard his mother recount what had happened, he was so angry that his blood pressure spiked.
When Qiao Guilan mentioned it, he remembered it too.
When I was a child, I suddenly heard my older sister and Cai Xing scream in the middle of the night. When I rushed over, I saw that my older sister's hands were covered in blood.
The father kicked his own mother in the leg.
He stayed up late at night, took scissors, and sneaked into the girl's room in the dark, just to cut her nails.
Only someone with a screw loose would do something like that.
Zhou Xiaoshi comforted Song Baogen, telling him not to get angry.
"It's been decades since then, so let it go and don't dwell on it. You're doing so well now, and you must be earning a lot every year. Those underhanded methods that harm people behind the scenes are all scams and don't work. If they did work, would you be as rich as you are now?"
"Regardless of whether it works or not, you can't harm people like this!" Song Baogen was so angry that his blood pressure soared.
"One should be magnanimous!" Zhou Xiaoshi advised, feeling a little jealous that someone could be so rich despite being treated like that. He thought to himself, "If they hadn't been treated like that, they would be incredibly wealthy."
Song Baogen was so angry he almost vomited blood. "You saw it back then, why didn't you say anything?"
Zhou Xiaoshi: "I was just a kid back then, and I forgot about it after daybreak."
He had told his family about it back then, but they forbade him to tell anyone and told him not to meddle in other people's business.
He still remembers the gloating expression on his mother Zhou's face, waiting to see Song Erzhuang's family suffer.
The fortune teller suddenly paused, "Wait!"
The chef looked at the direction the blade of the cleaver buried in the pit was pointing, and after confirming it again, pointed to Zhou Xiaoshi's house and asked, "Who lives in this house?"
"This is my house, my wife and I live here," Zhou Xiaoshi said. "What's wrong?"
"The blade of this cleaver is pointing towards your house!" The fortune teller pointed to the cleaver in the pit. "Come and see for yourselves, isn't the blade pointing towards his house?"
When others looked at it, they realized it was true.
"It must have been because it was too dark that night, and the cleaver was accidentally placed upside down," the fortune teller said. "It's fate!"
Zhou Xiaoshi and his wife were so angry they almost exploded on the spot.
His family has had a tough time for the past ten years or so.
From his mother, Old Lady Zhou, to his nephews and nieces, one after another, accidents happened to them.
His family used to be so powerful in the village that no one dared to say a word against them. They bullied Song Erzhuang's family as easily as bullying a few ants.
But now, his family members are either dead or have moved away, leaving only him and his wife to guard this old house.
Zhou Xiaoshi was indignant and regretted that he should have exposed the matter back then, so that his family would not have been harmed.
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Two months later, the renovated rural villa was completed.
Song Baogen took a video and sent it to Song Yinhua. Just as he sent it, Li Wenxiu rushed in and told him, "Aunt Qiaoyun's youngest son, Tang Xiaofei, fell off the scaffolding at the construction site and died. Aunt's family just passed by our house on their way to Tangzhuang to attend Xiaofei's funeral."
Song Baogen felt sorry for Tang Youliang and Zhou Qiaoyun. Their eldest son had been murdered by the girl, and now their youngest son had also met with an accident.
Just a few days later, Tang Suxiang and her family went to Tangzhuang to attend the funeral.
Tang Youliang and Zhou Qiaoyun's only grandson was involved in an accident on his way to school. The driver was driving under the influence of alcohol.
The drunk driver was Zhou's eldest son, who is over seventy years old. He was recently diagnosed with an incurable disease and has been undergoing treatment, but he doesn't have many days left.
The Zhou family applied for medical parole.
Less than a month later, Zhou, who had been receiving treatment in the hospital, carried a knife and rushed into Tang Su'e's house while everyone was having dinner, and massacred her entire family.
Tang Su'e and her husband lived with their eldest and second sons; they did not separate their household.
More than a dozen people, with heavy casualties.
They didn't even spare newborn children.
When the police car and ambulance arrived, Zhou dropped the knife in his hand and surrendered himself.
This even made the news.
After interrogation, Old Master Zhou revealed his reasons for doing so.
His daughter, Zhou Baozhu, was deceived into having sex with him years ago. The swindler was someone that Old Man Tang paid Wang Xiaowei to find to frame Song Erzhuang.
This incident also led to Zhou Baozhu's engagement being called off.
After the engagement was called off, Zhou Baozhu sold herself in the village. Later, her family felt ashamed and sent her to the county town, where she then went to sell herself in the red-light district.
Zhou's eldest son, who was the most successful, worked at a television station. He died in an accident many years ago.
Six months ago, he was diagnosed with an incurable disease.
Everything happened because Old Man Tang, Tang Suxiang, and Tang Su'e hired a fortune teller to bury a kitchen knife and harm his family.
He didn't have many days left to live, and he couldn't let the people who harmed his family get away with it, so he came up with this plan to die together with them.
The police found the person who had accidentally buried the kitchen knife on the wrong side of Song Erzhuang's house years ago. This person had passed away from illness more than ten years ago.
His underage granddaughter was raped and murdered, his son couldn't bear the shock and took poison, and not long after, his grandson also drank the poison.
His wife became somewhat mentally unstable after that, and later remarried.
After the incident, the man died of illness.
When Tang Suxiang learned that Tang Su'e's entire family had been massacred, she was so frightened that she hid in her house for a month and didn't dare to go out.
Song Hanwen and Song Xuewen bought burglar bars and installed them on all the doors and windows in their house, fearing that the Zhou family would come looking for revenge.
Zhou Laoda's revenge even made the news.
However, the television station reported that Zhou had been diagnosed with an incurable disease, which led him to become obsessed with taking revenge on society, thus intentionally concealing the real reason.
However, after this case was closed, the entire province launched a special campaign to severely crack down on those who promote feudal superstition and use metaphysics to harm people.
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Song Hanwen's second daughter repeated a year of high school and was admitted to a university in the provincial capital.
When they held a celebration for Han Xiaosi's graduation, Tang Su'e and Wang Yunyun, who had miraculously survived, brought Han Xiaosi to their home to acknowledge their relatives.
Over the years, Wang Yunyun has maintained contact with Song Hanwen's second daughter, inviting her to stay at her home during winter and summer vacations to cultivate their relationship.
Therefore, when Wang Yunyun announced to all the relatives and friends attending the college entrance banquet that this was her biological daughter, Song Hanwen's second daughter did not hesitate to acknowledge Wang Yunyun as her mother.
Song Hanwen's eldest daughter publicly revealed that her younger sister had been having an affair with Wang Yunyun's eldest son.
After Wang Yunyun's attempt to interfere in Song Erniu's marriage failed, she became the old man's mistress, later became pregnant, and married the old man's son.
Song Hanwen has always idolized Wang Yunyun and wants to marry into a wealthy family like her in the future.
When Wang Yunyun invited her to her home during winter and summer vacations, she set her sights on Wang Yunyun's eldest son, hoping to climb the social ladder by marrying him.
Wang Yunyun's eldest son is almost four years younger than her.
She boasted about it to her sister many times afterward.
Now that she has been exposed to the public, Tang Suxiang could not bear the repeated shocks and fainted on the spot.
After that, Song Hanwen's second daughter left with her biological mother, Wang Yunyun, and never returned.
It was only at this point that Han Xiaosi realized she was not Wang Yunyun and Han Zhiyuan's daughter, but Song Hanwen's second daughter.
She was disliked by her own mother and disliked by her relatives since childhood, and resolutely refused to acknowledge Song Hanwen and his wife.
Song Hanwen's eldest daughter also refused to go home because her parents and grandmother had always favored her younger sister.
When Tang Suxiang died, none of her three granddaughters returned.
After attending Tang Suxiang's funeral, Qiao Guilan was depressed for a while.
I feel like I'm getting old, practically halfway to the grave.
A few years later, Qiao Guilan also passed away.
She left the house and money to her son and grandson.
When Song Erzhuang died, he left a will, asking that all the eldest daughter's property be returned to her, and that the old couple's savings be given to the fourth daughter.
Qiao Guilan had long forgotten her husband's dying words.
As she died, looking at Song Yinhua, she still felt it was unfair.
Those who are the bosses don't have good lives.
Why are older women an exception?
But she is still my own daughter.
She's about to die, what's the point of fighting for her?
Qiao Guilan closed her eyes amidst a mix of emotions.
Song Caixing had reservations about the distribution of her mother Qiao Guilan's property.
Following his father's dying wish, Song Baogen used his mother's savings to pay for her funeral expenses and then gave the rest to his younger sister, Song Caixing.
He gave Song Yinhua a key to his old house, promising that the house would be left to her two sons after his death.
Song Yinhua refused.
Half a month after Qiao Guilan's death, Li Wenxiu also passed away unexpectedly.
As Song Baogen and Li Wenxiu grew older, they began sleeping in separate rooms. One morning, when Song Baogen got up, he found that his wife hadn't gotten up. When he went to Li Wenxiu's room, he discovered that she had already passed away.
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Decades later.
The three Song sisters had a meal together.
The three families were having a lively time.
Xiao Xiaohua was in charge of choosing the hotel and booking the private room. She also personally selected the dishes. During the meal, she was busy running around and did not forget to liven up the atmosphere.
She went to university in the city where Song Yinhua lived, and after starting work, she married one of Huo Jianguo's subordinates.
This subordinate was the husband of Han Zhiyuan's daughter in his previous life.
Song Yinhua never dreamed that Huo Jianguo's most valued subordinate would be her son-in-law for two lifetimes.
The three elderly people sat together, chatting about their childhood.
They had so much to talk about.
Song Caixing still liked to follow Song Yinhua around, as if she had returned to her childhood.
The younger generation listened to them recount stories of the past.
The three families stayed together from noon until three or four in the afternoon before parting ways.
Song Yinhua and her younger siblings made a promise to reunite next year.
But she passed away a few months after returning home due to old age.
Xiaohua and her two sons stayed by her side until she closed her eyes. They remained silent for a long time, as if afraid of waking her.
Huo Jianguo, in his wheelchair, held her hand and silently said, "Old woman, wait for me, I'll be with you soon."
He recalled his childhood.
Because his mother was mentally ill, he was often bullied by the children in the village.
Once, in order to protect his mentally unstable mother, he bit off a piece of flesh from his fifth uncle Luo Shixiong's arm. He was then beaten up by Luo Shixiong and dragged to the back mountain by his cousins to be dealt with.
Song Yinhua, who was picking wild herbs in the back mountain at the time, rushed over when she heard the noise.
The girl was tall and strong, with broad shoulders and a muscular build, and she chased away all her cousins.
When they met again, she didn't remember him at all.
The illusory soul floated in mid-air, glanced at its family members who were immersed in grief, and instructed the white spirit beast on its shoulder, "We should go."
In the blink of an eye, the host and the spirit beast disappeared.
A few days later, Huo Jianguo also passed away.
Song Yinhua's children didn't dare tell Song Baogen and Song Caixing about her passing, fearing they were too old to bear it.
The following year, when the agreed-upon reunion day arrived, the children lied to the two elderly people, saying that Song Yinhua was in poor health and could not travel by plane, so the reunion could not take place that year.
Song Baogen and Song Caixing secretly bought plane tickets and went to find Song Yinhua, without telling their children.
We even got lost along the way.
They were taken to the police station by a kind person, who eventually contacted Xiaoxiaohua and drove to the police station to pick them up.
Only then did they learn that their eldest sister had left not long after the gathering last year.
The two went to the cemetery to pay their respects at Song Yinhua's grave.
Song Baogen and Song Caixing agreed to come back to Song Yinhua's grave together next year to burn some paper money.
Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.
Song Baogen took a long car ride to find Song Caixing.
When he finally found Song Caixing's house, he learned that his sister Caixing had just passed away last month. His two sons had kept it from him, fearing that he was too old to handle the shock. He never expected that he would secretly come to find Song Caixing again.
Song Baogen recalled that they had made a promise last year to visit his elder sister's grave together this year, but in the blink of an eye, even Cai Xing had died.
Song Caixing's grandson wanted to drive him to the station, but Song Baogen refused.
An elderly man with a full head of white hair walked with a hunched back, crying as he went.
His older sister and younger sister are both gone; only he remains.
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The entire story is entirely fictional; the plot is entirely from the author's imagination. It's all fake.
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