Chapter 90 Lele tries to get close to the female shop owner
"So, the key to breaking this deadlock is to find Mo Yusheng's soul fragments?" Meng Hanhai asked.
“At least that’s our current assumption,” Lele said.
"In that case, we should split up and inquire about the places that Mo Yusheng liked to go when he was alive."
After the soul is shattered, although it lacks complete memories and the ability to think, the fragments of the soul will still unconsciously drift to places that the original body liked in its previous life; this is a kind of instinctive memory.
Of course, we can't just blindly go to these places, because the fragments of souls are too small to be easily sensed.
"We must use things that the soul likes to attract it to come to us on its own," Meng Hanhai said.
"Soul-Nourishing Wood!" Nie Xiaoxiao and Ni Zhiyong exclaimed in unison.
Both of them are planting experts and are familiar with the effects of Soul Nourishing Wood. In fact, they have two Soul Nourishing Wood plants in their planting department's experimental field.
However, this thing takes too long to mature, and over time, people have gradually overlooked its function and instead regarded it as a symbol of the planting system.
Whenever a certain plant is mentioned, it is said that it is located a few dozen feet to the east or west of the Soul-Nourishing Tree.
“But I don’t have any Soul-Nourishing Wood,” Ni Zhiyong added.
“I have it!” Nie Xiaoxiao, Achen, and Meng Hanhai said in unison.
Ah Chen's Soul-Nourishing Wood came from Ah Jin, the evil dragon in the sea of Lin Dong City in the Flowing Light Star System. In order to keep the soul of his beloved Ah Yao, he specially found a large piece of Soul-Nourishing Wood to nourish her soul.
Now that A Yao's soul has merged into Xi'er's body, this Soul-Nourishing Wood Feather Fan, along with other valuable natural treasures, was given to A Chen when they left Five Elements City.
She was worried that if her son stayed in Wuxing City to study, he might need these things to protect himself in case he encountered a place that required a lot of money.
It's not surprising that Nie Xiaoxiao would have Soul-Nourishing Wood; she's not short of money, and her family has prepared even more rare and precious materials for her.
Meng Hanhai originally thought it was a treasure he owned exclusively, but seeing that the other two also had it, he couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
Sigh! Why is it so difficult for him to stand out from the crowd?
After discussing it, everyone decided to divide the Soul-Nourishing Wood into eight pieces, with each pair forming a group to search for Mo Yusheng's soul.
With many hands make light work. As evening fell, everyone returned to the inn, and each person had collected a considerable number of soul fragments from the Soul-Nourishing Wood they carried.
The fact that so many fragments of souls could be collected in broad daylight in a peaceful and tranquil town is enough to prove that the people in this town are indeed not living people.
However, not all of these soul fragments belong to the same person, so distinguishing and filtering out Mo Yusheng's soul fragments is a real headache.
Because these fragments of souls are very fragile, they can easily be broken into even smaller pieces if one is not careful.
“We should go to the female shop owner and ask her to produce Mo Yusheng’s body. When the fragments of the soul encounter the original body, they will instinctively approach it. Even if the body has been dead for many years and the soul cannot return to the original body, they will still float around the original body,” Meng Hanhai said.
"But Nie Xiaoxiao and I went to the female shop owner's cosmetics shop before, and we found that during the day she had no recollection of ever turning into a vengeful spirit and killing that adulterous couple."
When those two people were mentioned, she would just keep complaining and recounting her grievances.
"If she has no memory of that night, how could she possibly tell us where she buried her daughter's body?" Ah Chen said.
“I’ll go again and sound her out, to see where she might bury Mo Yusheng,” Lele said.
As one of the few adult women in the team, Lele has more life experience from difficult times compared to the other trainees.
She was better able to understand the hardships of ordinary women and could communicate with them on an equal footing, unlike the other female students in the group who seemed kind but actually still had the aloofness of cultivators.
When Lele entered the female shop owner's cosmetics shop, it was already getting dark.
"Miss, it's already past 5:45 PM. If you want to buy cosmetics, please come back tomorrow during the day. It's getting dark now, and it's hard to tell the colors of the cosmetics."
The female shop owner spoke in a gentle tone, and it was clear that she was an honest businesswoman who didn't want her customers to make the wrong choice, but also didn't want to lose this customer.
"Sister, I'm not here to buy cosmetics, I want to buy some personal items for girls," Lele said, feigning shyness.
"Miss, could it be that your period is here?" the female shopkeeper asked in a low voice.
"That's right. I forgot to prepare in advance when I was out, so I'm asking for your help in case of emergency," Lele whispered.
"You've come to the right person for this. To be honest, Miss, every time my period comes, I'm always quite aggressive. If I don't prepare a few menstrual belts, I'm likely to embarrass myself."
I do have a few new ones here. If you don't mind, I'll give you two for emergencies.
"Besides, there are relatively few outsiders in our small town. Even those silk shops usually don't sell this kind of thing. You can't buy it even if you have the money," the female shopkeeper said warmly.
"Thank you so much, sister!" Lele said gratefully.
"By the way, yesterday when my sister told me about her sad past, I couldn't help but think of my heartless father after I returned to the inn. He abandoned my mother after taking advantage of her, leaving us mother and daughter destitute and struggling to make ends meet."
"Sigh! Thinking about all that happened in the past keeps me up all night, and to make matters worse, the Gui water element is visiting today, making me feel very uneasy," Lele sighed.
In fact, she never knew who her father was, but she could roughly guess that he was just a mercenary who slept with her mother but didn't want to marry her.
Of course, she had long since given up on this unknown father and wouldn't be sad for him at all. She was just using this as an excuse to get closer to the female shop owner.
Sometimes, relationships between people are quite strange. When people share a tragic experience, they unconsciously gravitate towards each other, and there is no longer any sense of rejection.
Lele easily gleaned the past of the female shop owner. Her name was Zhang Guiyue, the only daughter of the cosmetics shop owner. Because she was blind to marry that bastard Mo Wuxin, she had a miserable life.
Thinking of how she witnessed last night how she was driven to become a vengeful spirit by those hurtful words, and how such a gentle woman was forced to tear out the heart of that scumbag with her bare hands, Lele couldn't help but tear her eyes out.
"Don't be sad, little sister. Although your father is a scumbag, you still have your loving mother and sister," Zhang Guiyue comforted her in return.
Lele felt more and more that she was a kind and good woman. Even though she was in such a miserable state herself, she still had the heart to comfort others. So she was determined to help her rebuild Mo Yusheng's soul.
"By the way, sister, I heard you say that Sheng'er died at the governor's house. Did they return Sheng'er's body to you?" Lele asked through gritted teeth.
Although I knew that saying such things would hurt her feelings, I had no choice but to ask.
"No, Mo Lang said that the city is far from Baiyun Town, and the body would rot on the way back, so he bought a burial plot in the city to hide Sheng'er."
But when I asked him several times where the body was buried, he gave evasive answers and refused to tell me the truth.
Later, he became the son-in-law of Lin Miaoyan's family. When I went to look for him again, he avoided me.
Prices in the city are high, and after supporting his studies all these years, I have no savings at all, so I had no choice but to return to Baiyun Town.
I'm thinking of saving up more silver so I can go to the prefectural city later and ask around.
"I must find Sheng'er's body and bring her back to Baiyun Town for burial, otherwise I will die with regrets!"
As Zhang Yuegui spoke, tears streamed down her face, soaking her clothes.
"Sister, don't be sad."
I have an idea. Before you find Sheng'er, why don't you take a few of the clothes and jewelry she wore when she was alive, and we can find a suitable place to build a cenotaph for her?
"After we bring her back in the future, we'll buy a good coffin and bury her properly. What do you think?" Lele hugged her to comfort her and made the suggestion.
“Sister’s words make sense! How could I have been so foolish? Sheng’er has been gone for almost half a year, how could I not have thought of building a cenotaph for her?”
Zhang Yuegui suddenly looked up, her eyes gleaming, like a drowning person who had suddenly grabbed a piece of driftwood.
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