With the guests all seated, Wen Li finished Yu Pandi's makeup and told her to proceed as usual. She and Tan Xiaoxiao then went to dig out the remains of Tan Sanjie.
There weren't many people in the village. The graves of Tan Sanjie and the eldest son of the He family were buried under a bamboo grove, a place where the sun couldn't reach, which naturally harbored a lot of resentment.
It belongs to Sister Tan.
Wen Li saw Tan Sanjie in the shade under the bamboo forest. Her black hair covered her pale face, her eyes were blood red, and her fingernails had turned black. Upon closer inspection, she could also see many scars on Tan Sanjie's body.
Seeing that Wen Li was staring in a certain direction, and as if she sensed something, Tan Xiaoxiao choked up and asked, "Xiao Li, did you see my third sister?"
Wen Li didn't hide anything from Tan Xiaoxiao: "Your third sister harbored great resentment before she died, and after her death, your parents arranged a ghost marriage for her. There might be something in the coffin that suppressed her, limiting her to only the area around her. Now she has become a vengeful ghost."
"What!" Tan Xiaoxiao exclaimed in shock, tears streaming down her face. "How could it be a vengeful ghost? Will my third sister still be able to be reincarnated?"
"Sister Tan has never harmed anyone. After we take her remains back, we can enshrine them in a temple or Taoist monastery. Once her resentment dissipates, we can ask her to leave."
Tan Xiaoxiao immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Wen Li took out a stick of incense from her pocket and lit it in front of the grave. Then she lit a talisman with Tan Sanjie's deep eight characters written on it. After Tan Xiaoxiao called out Tan Sanjie's full name, Tan Sanjie, who was standing under the bamboo forest, seemed to sense something and walked straight over.
Wen Li then handed over a calming talisman and quickly chanted a spell. Tan Sanjie's blood-red eyes immediately regained some clarity.
"Third Sister Tan, Tan Xiaoxiao came back this time specifically to take you away. Once the resentment in your body dissipates, you can be reincarnated as a human again." Wen Li took out a gourd, a magical artifact that Su Wanwan later gave her: "This gourd can repair your soul and also help you get rid of the ghost marriage with the He family."
Tan Sanjie was stunned.
Tan Xiaoxiao couldn't see Tan Sanjie, but she knew Tan Sanjie could definitely hear her. With red eyes, she said, "Third Sister, I will definitely take you away."
"Really?" Blood tears streamed down Tan Sanjie's face. She glanced at the grassy grave and then entered the gourd without hesitation: "I would rather never be reincarnated than be the wife of the eldest son of the He family."
After Sister Tan entered the gourd to recuperate her soul, Wen Li closed the gourd lid, picked up the shovel she had prepared earlier, and said, "Dig."
An hour later, they finally dug up the coffin.
On the damp soil was a double coffin, though the surface had decomposed somewhat. It was covered with talismans written in cinnabar, and the coffin was secured with a dense array of nails.
What a powerful Soul-Locking Nail!
This is an attempt to make Tan Sanjie serve He's eldest son like a slave for the rest of her life, ensuring that she and He's eldest son will never be reborn!
Enraged, Wen Li reached out and flipped the coffin lid open with force.
In an instant, a foul stench of corpses wafted over, but Wen Li remained unfazed. Looking at the skeletons at the bottom of the coffin, which were soaked by rainwater, she put on gloves and took out Tan Sanjie's scattered bones one by one.
At the same time, about a hundred people carrying hoes and kitchen knives walked menacingly toward them from a distance.
Wen Li looked up for a moment, but then continued to devoutly collect the remains.
"stop!"
When everyone finally came up, they saw that Wen Li had taken out all the bones. Tan's father's eyes widened in fury, as if he wanted to tear Wen Li to pieces: "What are you doing!"
Wen Li placed Tan Sanjie's remains into a pre-prepared yellow cloth. After seeing that there was no trace of Tan Sanjie's presence in the coffin, she sprinkled a layer of white powder onto the remains without raising her head.
One of the women, a woman in her fifties, rushed up with a knife and threatened Wen Li, saying, "Put my daughter-in-law's remains back, or I'll kill you."
Wen Li raised her head. The woman in front of her was three steps away, and she could clearly see the murderous aura emanating from the woman's face.
The He family, including the eldest son, has a history of murder.
“Sister Tan San is unwilling to be your son’s ghost wife. Since she is unwilling, I will naturally take her remains back.”
"Bah! Tan Sanmei was born a daughter of the Tan family, and she died a daughter-in-law of the He family. I don't care whether she was willing or not, the Tan family took money from the He family!" Mother He said harshly, and then suddenly looked at Tan Xiaoxiao: "Tan Zhaodi, now you are also a daughter-in-law of the He family, get over here!"
Tan Xiaoxiao stood still: "I'm not."
"Well, you think you're all grown up now that you've gone to university!" Seeing how defiant Tan Xiaoxiao was, Tan's mother raised her hand to slap her daughter.
Just as her hand was about to land on Tan Xiaoxiao's face, a pair of calloused hands grabbed Tan's mother's wrist.
Tan Xiaoxiao looked at her mother, then forcefully released her grip on her mother's wrist, her eyes filled with determination: "Mom, I have to take my sister away today, and I have to leave too. From now on, I have nothing to do with the Tan family."
"What did you say!"
Looking at her angry mother and then at the villagers she called uncles and elders, Tan Xiaoxiao felt a mix of emotions.
She shouted, "I came back this time to take away my third sister's ashes!"
"My parents couldn't bear to pay for my third sister's medical treatment while she was alive, and now they want to make money off her remains after she's dead. They even want to sell me! You all watched us sisters grow up, don't you feel even a little bit sorry for us?!"
Tan Xiaoxiao stood in front of Wen Li, pushed away her mother, and looked at He's mother with her chest held high: "My third sister and I didn't receive any money. If you feel you've been cheated, go ask my parents or Tan Yaozu for a refund. But today, I must take my sister with me!"
"You..." Looking at the overturned coffin, He's mother sat on the ground and burst into tears: "You wretched brother-in-law, that's your brother-in-law! You even dared to dig up his grave, you're utterly heartless! I'm calling the police, I'm calling the police!"
"Then let's call the police."
Wen Li, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up: "Today we'll settle accounts for how Tan Yaozu defiled underage girls, for the Yu family's extortion and child trafficking, and for your He family..."
"Think about how you parents helped bury the bodies after the eldest son of the He family raped and murdered several girls from other villages."
"Let's calculate again how you used a ghost marriage to prevent Sister Tan's soul from entering the underworld for reincarnation."
Wen Li watched as a dozen or so police officers in uniforms approached from a distance, looking down at the group of ignorant villagers.
"We'll settle these scores at the police station!"
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