Chapter 206: Reincarnation Without Following the Normal Procedures
Su Zhenzhen was already immune to this kind of boring chatter; it was always the same few sentences over and over again, with no originality whatsoever.
He followed Hu Wen straight into the inner room, where the room was filled with bright red objects and auspicious symbols, which filled the antique shelves.
Su Zhenzhen was illiterate in this area and didn't look at it closely, but that was enough to show how much Hu Wen valued this marriage.
As for whether or not they value this daughter, those are secondary matters.
As long as Hu Wen values this marriage, he doesn't want any accidents to happen more than anyone else.
As she was pondering, Su Zhenzhen had already walked to the wedding bed.
Hu Yu'er lay on the bed with her eyes closed, sleeping peacefully.
Su Zhenzhen checked her breathing; she wasn't breathing anymore.
That doesn't make sense.
Upon seeing this, Hu Wen immediately explained, "My wife was terrified when she found out. After being reminded by the servants, she checked Yu'er's pulse. The child's pulse and heart were still beating, and she was warm, but no matter how she called, she couldn't wake her up."
Su Zhenzhen felt Hu Yu'er's pulse; it was very light, but it was indeed still beating.
The skin she touched had the temperature of a living person. As for the heart area, there was some taboo surrounding it, so Su Zhenzhen didn't touch it, lest Madam Hu outside go mad.
The body still showed faint signs of life, but the person was no longer breathing. If this were an ordinary family, they would simply assume the child was dead.
The vital energy in a person originates from the soul. The usual basis for determining death is that when the body's life force ceases and can no longer contain the soul, the soul leaves the body and dissipates. If no breath is detected at this time, bystanders assume the person is dead.
Hu Yu'er's physical body was fine, but her soul had left her body.
In the 906th century, this person would be considered a vegetable.
In this context, they should be called the living dead?
Was anything unusual when your daughter was born?
Generally speaking, if a baby is born on an unlucky day, or if it has offended something, its spirit is easily frightened and leaves its body.
However, Su Zhenzhen did not see Hu Yu'er's soul in this room, so it cannot be ruled out that Hu Yu'er was frightened by something, and her spiritual consciousness was temporarily sealed off, and she followed the thing that frightened her away.
Of course, there is also an extreme case.
Someone performed a ritual to directly extract Hu Yu'er's soul from her body. However, this required Hu Yu'er's birth date and time, as well as her hair and blood.
Su Zhenzhen quickly recounted all of this to Hu Wen.
Hu Wen was shocked upon hearing this. "Are there really such vicious methods of killing in the world?"
“This method kills a thousand enemies but also harms eight hundred of your own, and it’s easy to lose your lifespan if you’re not careful. You can’t easily learn it without decades of experience,” Su Zhenzhen comforted her. Hu Wen looked like a coward. Why go through all this trouble to deal with someone who’s afraid of death? The best way to control people’s hearts is to keep the knife hanging over their heads but not letting it fall.
Hu Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief. If someone had used such a vicious method against him, it would have been impossible to guard against.
"When Yu'er was born... something special happened..." Hu Wen tried hard to recall, "If we're talking about something special, she was exceptionally beautiful from birth, does that count?"
Su Zhenzhen: "..."
I never imagined that such a lame joke existed since ancient times.
What are your special skills? My eyelashes are exceptionally long.
"Extremely beautiful, how so?" Su Zhenzhen was very curious. Aren't newborn babies all wrinkled? How can you tell if they are good-looking or not?
"Other babies are born with rosy cheeks, but Yu'er was born with snow-white skin, like the finest jade. Moreover, she could smile right after she was born, which is why I named her Yu'er."
"Are you sure?" Su Zhenzhen questioned. What kind of baby smiles right after birth? Could this be a tactic used to win favor in the inner quarters? "Did you see it with your own eyes?"
“I’m sure,” Hu Wen answered with absolute certainty. “My wife had a difficult labor when she gave birth to Yu’er. She was in labor for a whole day and night. It shouldn’t have been like this after she had given birth to several children. I was afraid something might happen, so I went to wait outside the delivery room. I saw it with my own eyes when the midwife brought the baby out. At first, Yu’er’s eyes were closed, but when I held her, she opened her eyes and smiled at me. She was so beautiful when she smiled. She’s been a beauty since she was a child.”
Seeing that Hu Wen was about to continue his long-winded speech, Su Zhenzhen quickly called a halt.
"Wait, how much did she weigh at birth?"
Hu Wen was stumped by the question, "Should be, maybe, three, four, five, or six pounds?"
Su Zhenzhen sighed and facepalmed. Due to various limitations in this time and space, newborn babies are not weighed.
So Su Zhenzhen changed her question, "Was Hu Yu'er big when she was born?"
Hu Wen pursed his lips slightly, somewhat displeased. "Miss Su, what are you saying? Which girl isn't born petite and delicate? I've never heard of a family giving birth to a big, burly girl."
"So, Hu Yu'er is short, and there were no accidents during your wife's childbirth, right? For example, no collisions or food clashes."
Hu Wen thought about it carefully for a moment, "No, my wife has taken meticulous care of every pregnancy, not even a single hair has been broken."
Hu Wen was somewhat puzzled. "Miss Su, why are you asking these questions? What does this have to do with Yu'er's current condition?"
“How could there be no connection? There were no problems before the mother gave birth, the baby wasn’t big, it wasn’t her first child, and the baby was in labor for a whole day and night.” Su Zhenzhen looked into Hu Wen’s eyes. “Moreover, Your Excellency, I don’t know if you have ever held other newborn babies? But I can tell you very clearly that newborn babies can’t even open their eyes, let alone smile at people.”
In the 906th century, this was because the baby stayed in the womb with its eyes closed. After birth, the eye muscles needed some time to adapt to the action of opening the eyes, and the baby would usually open its eyes 1 to 2 days after birth.
According to Su Zhenzhen's understanding of the reincarnation theory, when a soul enters the cycle of reincarnation to be reborn, memories of the previous life are completely erased. When the soul enters a new body, it needs a period of time to adjust to the body. Only after it has fully adapted can it control the body to perform actions such as opening and closing its eyes.
Therefore, the fact that Hu Yu'er could open her eyes and smile at people right after birth can only mean that her memories of her past life were not completely erased.
Su Zhenzhen had only ever met one person like that.
Jiang Sijin.
When she was first drowned at the bottom of the lake, her resentment was so great that she transformed from a soul into a spirit, and could no longer follow the path of reincarnation as a human.
Then she set her sights on the pregnant belly and entered the body before the baby was born, which is why she has memories of her past life.
In other words, it is very likely that Hu Yu'er's soul did not go through the proper procedures to be reincarnated.
Such people are more likely to be visited by evil spirits because they can see things that ordinary people cannot; this is also known as having the ability to see ghosts.
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