When I was a child, people who grew up in the countryside had heard stories from the older generation. They have experienced a lot and are superstitious. The stories they tell always have fantasy colors. For example, people have three souls and seven spirits, and people will die if they lose their souls and bodies, which is what they often call death. Under normal circumstances, when a person dies, the soul must re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. However, some souls with deep obsessions will remain in the world and wander around the place where they die.
At this time, if someone with a weak body or a weak will pass by here, he may be snatched by the wandering soul, and the original soul will be knocked out of the body. This is called hitting a guest, also called soul out. The following story is related to the soul-breaking.
In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a remote mountain village in the northeast. There was a witch named Huang in the village. Everyone liked to call her Grandma Huang. One evening, Grandma Huang was about to rest, and the village chief brought his daughter-in-law to her house and said that his daughter-in-law had been possessed by evil spirits.
Grandma Huang has no good impression of the village chief. The village chief's surname is Zhang, and he is also considered a force in the local area. However, he is sarcastic and harsh. He often bullies poor families and has done a lot of crimes. Grandma Huang ignored him and just looked at her daughter-in-law. She looked as if she was ashen, her face turned pale, her whole body was stiff, her eyes were dull, she laughed and cried, and her hands seemed to be still gesturing something. It was obvious that she had hit the guest, which was a soul.
Grandma Huang immediately walked into the yard, took out the willow leaves soaked in yellow wine, and applied them on her eyelids, while asking the village chief what was going on.
Village chief looked helpless and cursed: "Isn't my unscrupulous son yet!"
The village chief's son is Zhang Jin, who is also a bastard. He learned to gambling at a young age. He strolls on the streets with a group of friends all day long, and always beats and scolds his wife. The village chief's family has been single-handed for three generations, and he loves his son again, and he is reluctant to beat and scold him, which also leads to him being even more aggressive.
The wife was about to be pregnant, but Zhang Jin refused to listen to the advice and wanted to go out to hang out. In anger, his wife packed her luggage and rushed back to her parents' home overnight.
The village chief was frightened when he learned about it. He was worried that something would happen to his daughter-in-law, so he immediately followed him. As a result, in a small woodland, he found his unconscious daughter-in-law and took him home. But as soon as he got home, he found out that his daughter-in-law had been possessed by evil spirits, so he couldn't contact Zhang Jin, so he had to take his daughter-in-law to find Grandma Huang.
As she spoke, Grandma Huang had already seen the problem. The village chief's daughter-in-law was indeed out of her soul. The two fires on her shoulders were much smaller, and there seemed to be another soul that was not incompatible with her, and she might have knocked down the wandering soul in her body.
Grandma Huang didn't say nonsense, and immediately asked the village chief to go to the kitchen to cook eggs. Taking advantage of this, she brought a piece of yellow paper and a bowl of white wine. But during this period, the village chief’s daughter-in-law bit her fingertips and found a piece of paper and painted it on it. Grandma Huang felt suspicious and walked closer to take a look, then her face suddenly changed.
At this time, the village chief walked out, and Grandma Huang did not make any statement, but silently put the paper in her arms. Afterwards, she asked the village chief’s daughter-in-law to stand in front of her, lit a candle, and then sprinkled white wine in front of her, as a commemoration for the wandering soul that knocked her down.
Immediately afterwards, Grandma Huang asked the village chief to peel the egg and stuff it into his daughter-in-law's mouth, moisturize it with cinnabar, paste the red paper on his forehead, and light it with candles. The magic was that the red paper burned out in an instant. The daughter-in-law, who was originally blushing, had a much rosy face. Grandma Huang squinted her eyes and found that the three fires on her body had recovered a lot. After
, Grandma Huang continued to paste red paper on her eyebrows and ignite it. When the third picture was clicked, the village chief’s daughter-in-law finally returned to her soul and regained her mind.
The village chief was extremely excited to see this and kept bowing to Grandma Huang to thank him. Grandma Huang didn't say anything, and after packing her things, she issued an order to expel her guests.After the two left, Grandma Huang silently took out the blood book from her arms...
The next morning, a group of officers and soldiers rushed into the village chief's home and arrested the village chief and his son Zhang Jin without saying a word. The father and son were confused. When they were taken to the government, a rotten female corpse appeared in front of them. The female corpse was found in the woods where the village chief’s daughter-in-law fainted last night. After an autopsy, it was found that there were deep marks on her neck, which was obviously killed. The officers and soldiers received a secret report that it was not someone else who killed her, but the village chief and his son.
Both of them were shocked when they saw the corpse. They were obviously panicked and couldn't speak smoothly. The two did not admit it at first, and the officers and soldiers were too lazy to talk nonsense and immediately wanted to use torture. The spoiled Zhang Jin couldn't stand this scare and immediately admitted everything.
It turned out that half a year ago, when Zhang Jin was wandering outside, he fell in love with a beautiful country girl. Zhang Jin used a subtle trick to trick him home, trying to do something wrong. As a result, the girl resisted desperately, and Zhang Jin accidentally strangled the girl to death. He was frightened and immediately found his father for help. The village chief didn't want his son to be arrested, so he chose to shelter him. The two of them transported the bodies out of the mansion overnight and buried them in a nearby woods. After the truth was revealed, the father and son were both imprisoned and were punished as they deserved. After the verdict was announced, Grandma Huang silently pushed the crowd away and walked home. It was her who reported the case, and the blood letter was the confession of the murdered girl. She possessed the village chief's daughter-in-law and passed on the truth. Grandma Huang did not hesitate and immediately chose to report the case, which was why the murderer was arrested.
