Qing Dynasty During the Qianlong period, there was a couple in Loujiang. After their marriage, they had no children for many years, so their wife went to Taoist temples outside the village to burn incense and pray. Three years later, she became pregnant and successfully gave birth to a son named Ma Yutang.
What’s strange is that before the age of ten, Ma Yutang was always stupid and could not speak, and he would only smile when he saw people. The couple asked the village Yin and Yang Mr. for help, and then they learned that Ma Yutang was born with a remnant soul, and only half of the soul in his body was. Fortunately, after he was ten years old, Ma Yutang returned to normal, and his parents felt relieved.
More than a year later, Ma Yutang's parents died of illness one after another. Ma Yutang became a hunter. He has superb archery skills and rich experience. He always returns with a full load every time he goes up the mountain. But not long after, he encountered something strange.
That evening, Ma Yutang was about to go home after hunting, but when he was halfway up the mountain, he suddenly heard a cry for help. He followed the sound and found that someone had fallen into an abandoned trap. Ma Yutang immediately found a vine and pulled the man up, but when he saw the other person's appearance, Ma Yutang was stunned.
The man, except for his different clothes, looked exactly the same as himself. The two of them looked at each other and stayed in place. It took a long time to come back to their senses and both said, "Who are you?"
The two were stunned and then laughed. During the conversation, I learned that the person in front of me was Nie Lang, who was a scholar. He was born in a wealthy family. He chose to run away from home because he was dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by his family and fell into a trap.
Although the two look the same, their family background and personalities are completely different. If they don’t understand, they really think they are brothers who have been separated for many years. Compared with Ma Yutang, Nie Lang is more mature and steady, and he is more cautious in dealing with people.
Ma Yutang saw that he had nowhere to go, so he took him home. When the neighbors saw the two, they were quite surprised and came to watch. After all, no one had seen this rare thing before.
Soon, this incident reached the mouth of the local Yin and Yang Mr. When he learned about the situation, he frowned slightly, as if he had remembered something. Instead of joining in the fun, he got into the room and searched around... In the days after
, Nie Lang lived at Ma Yutang's home. The two of them got along very well, and even had a natural tacit understanding, as if the two were really brothers, which made Ma Yutang like him even more. But not long after, Ma Yutang had a strange dream.
In his dream, he stood beside Nie Lang's side. But strangely, Nie Lang's limbs suddenly twitched, and then they expanded wildly as if they were blown up, and finally turned into a giant like a hill. Then, Nie Lang pinched Ma Yutang and threw it directly into his mouth.
At the same time, one night, Ma Yutang woke up from his dream and found that Nie Lang had appeared in front of his bed at some point, staring at him with his eyes staring straight at him, frightening him to the point of being very scared. Nie Lang said that he couldn't sleep and wanted to talk to him. Ma Yutang did not doubt that he had him and took the initiative to chat with him.
It turns out that although Nie Lang came from a wealthy family, he was not happy. He was a premature baby, , and his health was always very bad. In order to let him help the family grow up as soon as possible, his mother forced him to introduce him to the partner. After hearing this, Ma Yutang gently patted his shoulder to show comfort.
Results The next morning, Ma Yutang met Mr. Yin and Yang in the village while preparing to go out for hunting. As soon as Mr. Yin and Yang entered the door, he walked to Nie Lang and said seriously: "Do you really want to kill him?"
As soon as these words came out, Ma Yutang was stunned and looked at the two of them in confusion.Nie Lang lowered his head and remained silent. Mr. Yin and Yang continued, "Yutang, you should remember that when you were a child, you said that there is only half of your soul in your body. Do you know where your other half has gone? It's on Nie Lang!"
Ma Yutang was shocked after hearing this. If so, then wouldn't he and Ma Yutang be the same person, but how could there be two bodies for the same soul? At this moment, Nie Lang, who had been silent, finally spoke: "He is right, you and I do have only one soul." The truth of the matter can be traced back to before the two were born. Back then, Ma Yutang's mother could not get pregnant, so she went to the Taoist temple outside the village to burn incense and pray for her children. Coincidentally, Nie Lang's mother was the same. However, Nie Lang's mother just found out not long ago that she had lost the ability to give birth, but she didn't believe in evil and was always looking for a solution.
After her unremitting efforts, she really got a way to get pregnant, called Half Soul Recruitment. This method is simple to say. It is to forcibly tear a soul that should have been reincarnated into two halves, put half of it into its belly, and give birth to a half-soul baby.
Half-soul baby is no different from ordinary people, but he can only live to thirty-five years old at most. If you want to become a complete person, you need another person to die and let the torn soul return to your position. Nie Lang's mother was separated from the soul of the baby in Ma Yutang's mother's womb, and then she gave birth to Nie Lang, and the two of them looked exactly the same.
After Nie Lang learned about this, because his health had been very bad, he might not be able to hold on even at the age of thirty-five. He planned to come and kill another "self". But when he saw Ma Yutang, he found that except for his appearance, he was completely another living person. He regretted it and could not do it.
After learning the truth, Ma Yutang was extremely shocked. He did not expect that there was such evil magic in this world. But before he could speak, Nie Lang spit out a mouthful of blood and poured it down. It turned out that after leaving home for the time without the support of medicine, his health would have been no longer good, and now it is at the end of his strength.
As he was dying, Nie Lang held Ma Yutang's hand tightly: "Yutang, take my part and live well!"
After saying that, he died. In just a moment, Ma Yutang felt something pouring into his body, and many memories that should not belong to him appeared in his mind, and those memories were all from Nie Lang.
Later, Ma Yutang buried Nie Lang near the village, and he would live well with Nie Lang's expectations.
