Late at night, villagers holding shovels and flashlights started to dig up the soil at the grave mound on the back mountain.
After digging up the grave of the eldest sister of the Xing family under the gloomy moonlight, the villagers suppressed their fear and carried out the thin coffin.
After opening the coffin and seeing the eerie paper figure with blood-red eyes and a smile lying inside, their faces froze. They felt that the cemetery was filled with gloomy aura and hurriedly sent the coffin to the gate of the Xing family's courtyard.
At this time, hundreds of people gathered outside the Xing family's yard, and surrounded the gate of the Xing family to the street.
These were the people called by the villagers who were shocked after hearing the truth and hurried home to tell their relatives.
Half of the village were here, holding flashlights and surrounding the front door of the Xing family, which was brightly lit.
Some bad-tempered villagers took rotten vegetable leaves and threw them at Old Mrs. Xing who was sitting on the ground in the Xing family's yard.
As he threw the things, he cursed: "You are a black-hearted old woman, and you gave birth to a black-hearted wolf cub! You killed your own daughter, and your son poisoned his wife, making the whole village restless!"
Although Mrs. Xing is short and thin, she is a bold and aggressive person.
She reached for the chicken coop next to her and pulled out a few warm eggs still covered in chicken droppings from the nest where the frightened hens were fluttering around. She jumped up and smashed them all over the heads and faces of the villagers who were shouting at the gate of the yard.
"Bah! You are nothing but a bunch of scoundrels. You are pretending to be good people now. In the beginning, you were the ones who jumped the highest and cursed the most!" Old Mrs. Xing put her hands on her waist and cursed in dialect.
A person is not short of breath when facing a hundred people:
"Do you dare to tear off the cloth on your face? You deserve it for the sores all over your face. You scold my son? You will be 'smeared' tomorrow!"
"冚家肖" is a very vicious curse in Watuo Village, which means hoping that the other party's family will encounter misfortune and all relatives will die.
The villagers who had their faces covered with egg liquid were angry and annoyed, and were about to rush into the yard to start fighting. The other villagers quickly stopped them and made way for the villagers outside who were carrying the paper coffin.
Now the hundreds of villagers who had gathered around saw the strange scene in the coffin, and they gasped and clicked their tongues, saying "what a sin".
When the coffin was carried into the Xing family's yard, the village women who had boiled hot water in the yard had already wiped the body of the dazed Xing Lao Da several times.
He shook his head as he walked out of the house.
"You didn't see that, the flesh sores on Sister Xing's body were bigger than fingers, and when she wiped them, the basin was full of blood. It was so tragic!"
"Oh and, she was so dumb that she didn't even know how to cry out in pain. Master Gu said that she had lost a lot of soul and she didn't know if she could ever recover.
Nuo, the people inside are calling for Sister Xing’s soul right now.”
Seeing the coffin in the yard, Lamu sighed:
"Aunt Xing, you are ruining the hard-earned mother-son relationship by doing this!"
Old Madam Xing refused to listen and sneered, "It's no good for a dog to meddle in other people's business. This is our Xing family's family affair. The eldest daughter is the flesh and blood 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 Old Lady Xing said, and immediately said angrily:
"The child is not your thing that you can manipulate at will. You are deliberately murdering and illegally imprisoning him!"
Lamu asked, "Masters, how is the Xing family's boss?"
Gu Zhisang wiped his fingers slowly with a tissue and said:
"With two souls and five spirits missing, there is only one 'Youjing' in her body, and two 'Xiufei' and 'Queyin' keeping her alive. Fortunately, these are the three most important souls and spirits. Otherwise, she would be dead now, and even gods could not save her."
People have three souls and seven spirits.
The three souls are 'Taiguang', 'Shuangling' and 'Youjing'.
The former 'fetal light' is also called heavenly soul, which originates from the mother's body and is responsible for vitality and the energy of Taiqing Yanghe. Staying in the human body for a long time can benefit people and prolong their life.
'Shuangling' is the earth soul originated from the father's body, it is in charge of wealth, strategy, and quick thinking.
The 'ghost spirit' is also called the human soul. It is the main soul of a person's body and controls all health, desires and body functions.
After death, either reincarnation or wandering around as a lonely ghost is the soul of the person.
The eldest sister of the Xing family lost two of the three souls in her body. The 'taiguang' and 'shuangling' disappeared, but the most critical human soul 'youjing' was still floating around in her body, which prevented her body and fate from completely collapsing.
This is a blessing.
Among the seven souls, the "stinky lung soul" is located in the "root chakra" and controls breathing;
The 'Que Yin Po' is located in the 'Throat Chakra' and controls the basic sexual functions and physiology of the body.
These two spirits are just able to maintain the basic activity of the human body. With the blessing of double luck, the eldest sister 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, but she is still alive.
But it's just being alive.
The other five spirits, 'Swallowing Thief', 'Corpse Dog', 'Purging Filth', 'Non-Poison' and 'Fu Shi' respectively control immunity, perception and alertness, remove foul air and excretion, illness, pain and dryness, and thought and consciousness.
After all of them left the body, the eldest sister of the Xing family began to suffer from illness, incontinence, dementia and other symptoms.
Living like a zombie without dignity is not much better than dying.
Walking to the thin coffin in the yard, Gu Zhisang took a look inside, then put two fingers together and hooked the center of the eyebrows of the paper man.
She clearly didn't use much force to poke the paper figure, but the others on the side still saw that the paper figure deflated, as if something invisible was pulled out of it by her.
After looking at it for a while, Gu Zhisang nodded slightly: "It is indeed lucky that consciousness can be restored."
Ordinary people cannot see it, but Xi Haihong and the other three can see that her fingertips are hooked on a misty, translucent human-shaped substance.
It was a collection of scattered souls and spirits, condensed together, and their appearance was exactly the same as the eldest sister of the Xing family who was lying in the room in an idiotic state.
This is also the one soul and three spirits of the Xing family girl locked in the substitute paper man.
They are the earth souls 'Shuangling', 'Tunzei', 'Chuji' and 'Fushi' respectively.
After these scattered souls and spirits entered her body, even if the Xing family girl's consciousness returned, some body functions would be restored, and it would not have much impact on her daily basic life.
But she still lost her heavenly soul 'Taiguang', as well as her two souls 'Shigou' and 'Non-Du', and it is impossible to get them back.
Because these souls had been torn into pieces by the resentful Xing family's daughter-in-law who mistook them for Xing Lao Er while helping her brother Xing Lao Er to ward off disaster, and they could never be put together again.
The various sequelae brought about by the loss of these souls will haunt the daughter of the Xing family for the rest of her life and bring all kinds of inconvenience to her life.
Gu Zhisang led the confused soul and three spirits and transferred them to the body of the Xing family girl, saying:
"Wait a few minutes, she will wake up after her soul and spirit merge back together."
Lamu nodded repeatedly. After a day of tossing and turning, he now had complete faith in Gu Zhisang:
"Then what else can we do to calm down the Xing family's daughter-in-law?"
The villagers also said, "Yes, Master Gu, we really know we were wrong. We shouldn't have said those gossips at the time. Please ask the Xing family's daughter-in-law to have mercy on us!"
Gu Zhisang said in a calm tone:
"The injustice of the Xing family's daughter-in-law has been exposed. I believe you have a clear idea of what is right and wrong."
"You destroyed and dissected her body, so you need to find a burial site with the best feng shui in the village, build a thick nanmu coffin, shroud, incense, candles, and paper money to hold a funeral for her.
Every household must hang white banners, and during the funeral procession, paper money must be scattered to express one's apologies. This way, the whole village can let it feel your sincerity, and this will resolve the resentment in its heart to the greatest extent possible."
Lamu nodded and said, "There is a master here who specializes in coffins and funeral arrangements. He has written down everything and will do it tomorrow morning!"
"Will holding a funeral like this help the sores on our faces go away?"
Gu Zhisang said: "It will stop spreading, and it won't be impossible to heal. As long as the sore is not too large or the erosion is too deep, it should be healed after applying medicine for half a month to a month."
"But I have to remind you of one thing. Even if the 'human-faced sore' is cured, you still have the 'root of disease' in your body, and it will be easier for you to be infected with karma again than ordinary people.
In the future, you must be more careful when you speak and discuss things, do not talk about things that you are not sure about, and definitely do not create or spread rumors, otherwise you may continue to create "verbal karma."
These sufferings are the legacy of "verbal karma" and will haunt these villagers for some time.
As for the few villagers who had harbored malicious intent and deliberately humiliated, insulted, and even took the opportunity to beat up the daughter-in-law of the Xing family, their "verbal karma" is even heavier. Even if the wounds heal, they will leave scars, which will be difficult to remove in the future except through surgery.
Hearing that the wound on his face could finally heal, the villagers breathed a sigh of relief and expressed their gratitude repeatedly.
Gu Zhisang added, "As for the case of the missing man Wang Lin who was buried alive in the village, we have already notified the nearest county police station. The police will arrive soon to handle the matter. You just need to wait for the investigation and notification."
"If I'm not mistaken, the villagers involved in the incident should still have a large amount of cash and some jewelry hidden in their homes."
The villagers immediately looked at the relatives of several dead villagers in the crowd.
Someone suddenly asked, "Old Sun's wife, you wore a gold bracelet during the Chinese New Year, didn't you? I'm afraid you bought it with this money?"
"And Uncle and Aunt Chen, I heard that your brother Chen is just like my family, he didn't get a penny of wages, so how come your family still buys wine and meat every day and lives so comfortably!"
“Tsk tsk, bury him alive! Wang Lin is no good, this is too cruel!”
The relatives of the deceased who were being stared at felt very uncomfortable and shouted:
"Why are you looking at me? That money was originally the wages for my husband's work. Wang Lin took away the money that our family needs to survive. He deserves it!"
"We still don't know the truth of the matter. No one saw what happened that day. You can't just believe everything a stranger says. Maybe the one in my family didn't participate in the burial at all..."
Gu Zhisang chuckled and said, "This aunt is right, I am just a quack, and what I said are just things I calculated.
Whether these things really happened and how Wang Lin died will be known when the police come to investigate."
"Even if you know nothing, your husband and son brought so much money home. Aren't you curious at all? Do you really know nothing?"
The village woman who was questioned looked embarrassed, and finally muttered unhappily, saying that her man died tragically and was unwilling to pay attention to Gu Zhisang's words.
In fact, as Gu Zhisang said, the relatives of the deceased more or less know some of the truth.
At least we know how Wang Lin died and where the huge amount of money in his family came from.
There were only seven people who shared the money, but there were more than a dozen villagers who did not receive any money.
In fact, that part of the villagers' wages was also tacitly swallowed up by these seven people.
To a certain extent, although these villagers were concealing Wang Lin’s death, their actions were no different in essence from Wang Lin’s.
Soon the local police rushed to Watuo Village under the cover of night.
They found tens of thousands of yuan in cash in Xing's home and the homes of other victims.
Another group of police officers went to the wasteland of another village according to the approximate location calculated by Gu Zhisang to search for Wang Lin's body.
Soon, the police officers dug up the rotten remains in a local forest. The remains had been buried for nearly two years and were unrecognizable.
Even in the middle of the night, Watuo Village was very lively.
The villagers gathered in an open space, listening to the police repeatedly emphasizing public safety knowledge with a loud speaker:
"So many people have died, why didn't you call the police? You think you can solve it, has it been solved..."
Gu Zhisang and others were still at the Xing family. In the early hours of the morning, Xing's daughter slowly woke up.
The police officer who had been waiting there and preparing to take a statement called her name.
She was in a daze for several seconds before she turned her head, which was so thin that her cheeks were sunken, and looked over at me without saying a word.
The police officer glanced at Gu Zhisang, "Ms. Gu, she...?"
Gu Zhisang said, "You can ask directly if you have anything to ask. After all, she is missing one soul and two spirits. The loss of the 'corpse dog spirit' will greatly weaken her reaction ability. To put it simply, she will be a little dumber than ordinary people, but her consciousness and thinking ability are normal."
Although the police officer didn't understand what souls and 'corpse dogs' were, he nodded and asked:
"Ms. Xing, can you tell me some details about your mother's imprisonment? And her coercive behavior towards you, such as whether she forced you to make any promises for your brother through metaphysical or unnatural means?"
After listening to the police officer's questions, Sister Xing shook her head slowly for a while and said in a muffled voice:
"No, I was forced to."
Xi Haihong/Daisy/Police Officer:?
Then the eldest sister of the Xing family said: "I am willing, and I don't want to be imprisoned."
Daisy frowned and said, "Ms. Xing, you don't have to be afraid. Your mother's evil deeds have been exposed, and she can no longer control you.
She almost killed you!"
But no matter how everyone asked, the eldest sister of the Xing family just sat in silence and did not accuse her mother and brother.
Not only the police officers, but even the contestants were confused.
Gu Zhisang, who remained silent, sneered and said, "No need to ask, she did volunteer to protect Xing Lao Er from disaster."
She had lived in an environment that favored boys over girls for many years, and her thoughts had long been tamed by her mother.
Give the bride price to your younger brother and empty your husband's family to give to your younger brother?
It’s all because my younger brother is a boy. He can carry on the family line and is the root of the Xing family!
When Xing's mother asked her to protect Xing Lao Er from disaster, Xing's eldest sister felt sad for a moment, but soon she accepted it "gently".
Who makes my younger brother the only male in the family?
Gu Zhisang said coldly, "But you probably didn't expect that your mother asked you to protect Xing Lao Er from disaster once, but it was not enough. She directly asked you to die for him a second time. You can sense what happened in the outside world these days, and you also know what kind of hell you are living in the cellar."
"Your mother made chicken soup and wiped the body for Xing Laoer every day. Did she ever feel the slightest bit sorry for you in the cellar?
Do you think that if you protect others from disasters, you won't suffer the consequences? You are missing one soul and two spirits, which correspond to your lifespan, agility, and health respectively. In the future, not only will you be dull-witted, but you will also suffer from minor illnesses and your lifespan will be shortened. In addition, you will be easily struck by evil spirits."
Gu Zhisang was not exaggerating.
The soul is the most important thing for a person. Losing one soul will make the body weak and have a high fever, let alone three.
She confirmed again: "Even so, are you going to cover up her crime?"
When she heard her question, a trace of twisted pain and struggle flashed across Sister Xing's face.
The paper figure that Old Lady Xing asked the maid to make was dressed in shrouds embroidered with her own name and her birth date on the chest.
And Sister Xing is her biological daughter. The two are connected by blood, and with some rituals, she can seal Sister Xing's soul in a paper figure, which can easily deceive the senses of the evil creature.
The originally empty paper figure was instantly filled up with a body and soul, and its breath and senses were no different from those of a 'human'.
Then bury her in the coffin, as if Old Mrs. Xing had already been buried.
This allowed Mrs. Xing to escape the revenge of her deceased daughter-in-law.
But Sister Xing was still alive, and her soul was conscious even though it was sealed in the coffin. While her real body was lying in the cellar, enduring skin ulcers and foul-smelling, thin air, her other half of the soul was also suffering from suffocation underground.
Even though she had experienced all that pain and knew that her mother was a vicious person who despised her daughter, Sister Xing hesitated and struggled for a long time, and in the end the expression on her face gradually faded.
Until the end, she kept silent and said that everything was voluntary.
The mother did not push herself.
Seeing her so cowardly and completely brainwashed, Daisy and Xi Haihong were almost mad with anger.
The police officers were also helpless.
Without Sister Xing's accusation, they would be unable to do anything to the old lady of the Xing family.
Looking at the provocative look on Old Lady Xing's face, Gu Zhisang turned a blind eye.
The clown Mrs. Xing could not affect her, but the nameless anger in her heart was aroused by Sister Xing.
The investigation and education of Watuo Village did not end until after one o'clock in the morning.
At three o'clock in the morning, many exhausted villagers had returned home and fallen asleep.
In the dark night, a thin middle-aged man with red spots all over his body lay on the bed, his breathing becoming increasingly rapid.
He seemed to be greatly affected by the dream and woke up suddenly. His cloudy eyes gradually widened in the darkness and his face was full of fear.
Xing Laoer opened his mouth, but no sound came out, as if his mouth was blocked by something.
His face was covered with a dark mass.
It was a human-shaped ghost with thin and twisted limbs and charred skin. Its hideous face, as red as blood, was pressed face to face with Xing Laoer.
It's the ghost of Xing's daughter-in-law.
Even though its soul was severely damaged, and even though it knew that there was a very powerful master near the Xing family, the strong hatred in its heart for Xing Lao Er still made it come.
The thin and sharp sound was like a woman's sad cry:
"Hubby...I've been looking for you so hard..."
"Now that the child is gone and I'm clean, are you... satisfied?!"
The Xing family's daughter-in-law's voice suddenly became sharp, and her strong resentment made Xing Laoer's eyes bulge out and become bloodshot.
His face was distorted with fear, and a tiny voice squeezed out from between his teeth: "I'm sorry... Please, please..."
Old Mrs. Xing, who was sleeping on the same bed with him, was awakened by the noise. When she opened her eyes, she saw her precious son foaming at the mouth, twitching violently in his chest, and his face turned ashen.
She screamed and cried, ran out of bed, took out an exorcism talisman from the drawer and waved it over her son's head.
But it was of no avail this time.
The beloved baby that Mrs. Xing was afraid would melt in her mouth still died tragically right under her eyes, and was in agonizing pain before his death.
Seeing her heart-wrenching appearance, the charred resentful ghost felt extremely happy. A bright, malicious smile appeared on his red face, and he escaped from the wall.
After being criticized and insulted by Old Lady Xing for so many years, it knew very well that compared to killing Old Lady Xing, letting this old woman who loved her son like a child watch her beloved son die with her own eyes was the greatest torture for her.
As expected, Old Lady Xing held Old Man Xing's body and pounded the bed frantically.
He cursed his dead daughter-in-law, Gu Zhisang, and even his own daughter with the most unpleasant words.
She blamed her daughter-in-law for taking her life, blamed Gu Zhisang for not killing her daughter-in-law, and blamed her own daughter for being useless and failing to avert the disaster, which resulted in the death of her beloved son.
Full of resentment, Mrs. Xing trembled as she took out a few little figures made of straw and wood from the drawer. She silently recited some people's names in her heart, and then took out a needle and repeatedly stabbed the little figures' chest, eyes, nose, and stomach.
As she silently chanted Gu Zhisang's name, her wrinkled face twisted: "Go to hell! Go to hell!"
She cursed as she gave him the injection.
After only two stabs, Mrs. Xing suddenly felt that her eyes, heart, and stomach - the places where she had stabbed the little man - were in unbearable pain, as if they were pierced by awls.
She let out a "wow" and a mouthful of smelly blood spurted out of her mouth. She fell to the ground, holding her heart and crying in pain.
In a temporary residence somewhere on the other side, Gu Zhisang, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of indifference and irony:
"idiot."
There is a road to heaven but you don't take it, there is no door to hell but you will fall into it.
If Old Lady Xing behaves herself and doesn't do anything naughty, then as an ordinary person with corrupt morals, she has not violated any serious laws, and there really isn't much that can be done to punish her except verbal condemnation.
But she insisted on seeking death and used the curse on Gu Zhisang.
At this moment, Old Lady Xing changed from an ordinary person to a user of divination. Any defense or counterattack from Gu Zhisang was just a normal fight.
He is not as skilled as others and deserves to die.
She glanced out the dark window, thought for a moment, and got up to go out.
In the dense forest outside Watuo Village, a blurry black shadow was crawling on the ground in a twisted posture.
The resentful spirit, no longer blessed by a corpse, seemed somewhat transparent, but it was muttering something, and countless resentments overflowed from its body and spread toward the entire village.
The Xing family's daughter-in-law has become a fierce ghost. She holds such deep resentment that she has no intention of letting this village go.
Just as it was about to sacrifice its soul and curse the village, an iron chain came flying from a distance and accurately and powerfully wrapped around its upper body, pulling it backwards and causing it to fall to the ground and roll several times.
The resentful ghost was horified and found that he could not break free. He looked down and found that he was tied with a "soul-catching rope".
It raised its head with an ugly expression: "Are you the messenger from the underworld?!"
The resentful ghost is both afraid and hateful.
What it feared was that this young woman was unfathomable. It could still vividly remember the pain of having its head chopped off by a wooden sword and its soul being hurt.
What it hates is that this person has repeatedly prevented it from venting its hatred.
Gu Zhisang said, "That's enough of the trouble."
The resentful ghost had a distorted look on his face and sneered as he thought, 'This sanctimonious master is going to talk about some great principles again.'
Just as it was about to open its mouth, its soul was pulled into the air and thrown directly into a pitch-black ghost door that had been set up next to Gu Zhisang at some point.
Xing's wife:? ?
Gu Zhisang raised his hand and threw the vengeful ghost in. Then he waved his hand to close the ghost gate and disappeared on the spot.
She is also helping the underworld to capture fugitive evil spirits and increase its performance.
As for how to evaluate and judge the daughter-in-law of the Xing family, it is all up to the underworld to decide. It has nothing to do with her, and she doesn't want to care.
Gu Zhisang slowly put away the 'Soul-Catching Rope', feeling the curse that had just formed around him began to dissipate, and left the place with satisfaction.
The next day, screams were heard from the Xing family's yard.
The police officers who came to take Xing Laoer's statement could not knock on the door. After breaking in, they saw Old Mrs. Xing and Xing Laoer lying on the bed in a tragic state of death.
Who could have thought that in just half a night, another murder would happen bizarrely.
But when they went to ask the contestants of the "Spiritual Matters" program and Gu Zhisang, these metaphysical people were all confused and knew nothing about anything.
After the police officers left, several contestants looked meaningfully in the direction of Gu Zhisang.
Bai Ci said slowly: "Finally, we can leave this village..."
Gu Zhisang nodded slightly.
He Mi Tu had a blank expression on his face: "Is leaving a good thing? We are still going to the next case location."
Gu Zhisang: ...
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