"After seeing this, the sorceress gave your husband an idea: to make corpse poison water, saying it would allow you to continue living, but you must not go out to see people, especially not during the day, otherwise your body will be eroded by yang energy."
After hearing Ye Xianya's words, Madam Hu said with a pained expression, "They...they traded my life for my child's life. I don't resent them. If I really had to choose, I would definitely choose my child. I haven't seen him since he was born. I just want to see him one last time."
“Your father-in-law and mother-in-law have taken the child to stay with relatives. They went to your mother-in-law’s sister’s house in Zhanggou Village. You’ve been there before; it only takes half a day to get there.”
After Ye Xianya finished speaking, she cast a spell to return her soul to her body, waved her hand and said, "Eat the talisman, stay with the child for three days, and after fulfilling your wish, give up your body and let your soul leave your body. A ghost messenger will take you to the underworld to be reincarnated."
Ye Xianya paused slightly: "If the time comes and your soul refuses to leave your body and lingers in the mortal world, not only will the child be tainted by your ghostly aura and corpse poison and die soon, but the talisman you ingested will also burn you and this body together, turning you to ashes."
Upon hearing this, Madam Hu trembled all over, and after a moment she said, "I...I understand, I dare not stay any longer."
“Madam Hu, your body has become poisonous. After your soul leaves your body, the talisman will burn it to ashes to prevent the corpse poison from spreading and harming others. My talisman can only help you control the corpse poison for three days, so that you can spend some last time with your child. You don’t need me to tell you what to do.”
After hearing Ye Xianya's words, Madam Hu kowtowed to her. As she got up and was about to push the door open to leave, the door was pushed open from the outside.
The one who arrived was Hu Niangzi's husband, Cao Hongyuan.
He only found out that his wife had come here after making inquiries from various sources.
"Wife." Cao Hongyuan grabbed Hu Niangzi's hand and said urgently, "Why didn't you tell me you were going out?"
He was terrified that his wife's body would rot in broad daylight, and that people would discover she was dead and have her burned.
He was even more afraid that the Taoist priests would perform a ritual that would cause his wife's soul to be scattered, leaving her with no possibility of reincarnation.
When Cao Hongyuan returned home early this morning, he found that his wife was missing. He searched for her everywhere in the village. He heard from the villagers that his wife had inquired about talented people in the capital and that they might come to Taoyuan to find Miss Ye. So he rushed over.
He went out last night but didn't find any corpses, so he couldn't concoct any corpse poison.
Without this, my wife's health will be in danger.
Fortunately, my wife doesn't seem to be in any serious condition right now.
He has already found out the location of the mass grave, and he will go there to find the body after nightfall tonight.
“My husband, I am dead… I died three months ago, and I know everything.” Madam Hu looked at her husband, her eyes filled with sorrow.
Her husband treated her very well. In order to keep her "alive," her husband, who was not very brave, actually went to the cemetery every night to dig up corpses and risked being corroded by the corpse poison to make that stuff to "extend her life."
Having such a husband is a blessing she has earned in this lifetime.
But she also knew that her husband was wrong to do this. If she hadn't come to find Miss Ye, her body would have slowly rotted away due to the lack of nourishment from the corpse poison water, releasing the corpse poison and infecting many people.
Many people will die!
She was terrified.
"Qionghua, you're not dead! You're still alive! If you don't believe me, touch your face. Isn't it the same as before? You're not dead!" Cao Hongyuan shouted.
Compared to Madam Hu, Cao Hongyuan was even less able to accept the fact of her death, otherwise he wouldn't have concocted the corpse poison.
“My husband, I know you are reluctant to leave me, but... but you really shouldn’t have done this. Since I died, you have already dug up seven graves. Miss Ye said that this will not only damage your good karma and shorten your lifespan, but also change the fortune and feng shui of those families, bringing disaster to their descendants.”
Fortunately, once a grave is discovered to have been dug up, the family will definitely invite a Taoist priest to perform a ritual. The priest will not only rebury the remains but also perform a ceremony to ward off misfortune.
But this does not mean that her husband is exempt from responsibility.
“According to the laws of our Great Yan Dynasty, this is a serious crime for you, my husband. After I die, go to the yamen and turn yourself in. Try to get a shorter sentence. The child cannot be without a father.” After saying this, Madam Hu pushed Cao Hongyuan away and walked out.
"Wife!" Cao Hongyuan called out and quickly chased after her.
"Miss... should I report this to the authorities?" Shen Furong asked in a trembling voice.
"No need. I've already calculated it. In three days... Madam Hu will go to the underworld with the ghost messengers, and Cao Hongyuan will turn himself in."
As for the corpse poison on Madam Hu's body, it was temporarily suppressed thanks to her talisman.
Three days later, the corpse will be burned to ashes by talismans, and the corpse poison will naturally be gone.
“Miss…this…this Madam Hu is truly terrifying. After a person dies, their soul does not leave their body. Is she a human or a ghost?” Shen Furong asked, mustering her courage.
“Of course it’s…neither human nor ghost.” After Ye Xianya finished speaking, she reached out and gently tapped Shen Furong’s forehead.
Shen Furong instantly felt a warm current spread from her head to her whole body. At this moment, she seemed to be full of strength and was no longer afraid of anything.
"That Mrs. Hu not only did a lot of good deeds in this life, but she did the same in her previous life. It's just a pity... she met a bad mother-in-law. When she was pregnant, that old woman forced her to eat more every day, saying that this would give birth to a big, fat boy. Mrs. Hu was thin and the baby was too big, so she had a difficult childbirth."
A mother-in-law who only cares about the children and doesn't care about the adults' lives is utterly despicable.
"What a pity... She was destined to be rich and noble after accumulating good fortune for three lifetimes, but because of her own obsession, she remained in the human world for three months after her death, and all the merits she had accumulated were gone."
The world is full of wonders, and Ye Xianya encountered many of them when she went down the mountain in her previous life.
There are many things that are even more bizarre than this.
"Uncles and aunties, do you still want your fortunes told?" Ye Xianya asked with a smile after casting a spell to dispel the yin energy in the room and "praying for blessings and warding off disasters" for the group.
“Yes, of course it counts,” the middle-aged man sitting in the back quickly replied.
He had been terrified before, but somehow, he now felt warm and full of energy, as if what had happened before was nothing at all, and he was not afraid at all.
He arrived early today and was waiting. He did indeed have something to ask, so of course he wanted his fortune told.
"Miss Ye, I've been having nightmares lately. When I wake up, I feel like I've been run over by a car wheel, and my whole body aches terribly. Especially last night, I had a nightmare as soon as I lay down. When I got up today, I saw a large bruise on my leg. I wonder if you could do a divination for me and exorcise the evil spirits?"
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