The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

"What's wrong with you? How could you fall into the well while fetching water?" Xia Younan teased with amusement while sitting by the well.

Xiong Fei, who was in the well, smiled innocently and said, "I saw there was no water in the well, so I stretched my neck to look inside. As a result, I accidentally used too much force and fell in. But still..."

He suddenly changed the subject before he finished speaking, and murmured in astonishment: "What is this?"

"What's wrong? What did you find?" Xia Younan asked curiously.

"I don't know. It's too dark down there. I can't see clearly. Judging by the feel of it, it should be two packages of paper wrapped with something."

By this time Zhu Li and Chan En had also prepared the rope and threw it into the well for him to pull.

After he pulled the rope tight, several people worked together at the well and finally pulled Xiong Fei, whose head was broken and bleeding, out of the well.

"Your head is broken, and you still say it's okay." Xia Younan frowned and took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood off his head.

"Hehe, thank you for your concern, Boss. I have thick skin and flesh, so it's okay if I get hurt." Xiong Fei smiled heartlessly and showed the things in his hand to everyone.

I saw that he was holding two small paper packages in his hands. The packages looked yellow in appearance and had patterns drawn on them with red paint.

"Is there some treasure in it?" Zhu Li's eyes lit up and he took the paper package and opened it gently.

As the paper package was opened little by little, a small pile of gray-black powder was seen inside, and nothing else.

I opened another paper package and found the same thing.

"Damn it, the package was so good but it turned out to be two piles of dust. What a bummer!" Zhu Li muttered in dissatisfaction.

Xia Younan stared at the paper package carefully for a while and felt that the yellow paper and the red lines drawn on it looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Thinking of this, she poured the powder from one paper bag onto another, then unfolded the empty bag and stood it up to look at it.

When she saw this, her face changed drastically and she threw the talisman away with a trembling hand.

That’s right, the rectangular yellow paper with the runes drawn in red cinnabar in a flamboyant manner are exactly the talismans often mentioned in modern TV dramas and novels!

Several people obviously saw the clues, and they were all shocked and confused, and finally their eyes fell on the talisman in Zhu Li's hand.

Needless to say, that one must be one of them too.

Zhu Li's face turned pale. He held the talisman and the powder on it tremblingly. He wanted to throw it away but didn't dare to. He had to stretch his hand as far as possible and timidly expressed his guess.

"I've seen it in a book. This is a talisman! Legend has it that it's used to suppress ghosts. How come it's here? Here... there can't be ghosts here, right?"

Xia Younan pursed his lips and thought for a while, then looked at Qu Xiaoyou and asked, "Xiaoyou, what's going on? What's the origin of this well?"

This well must be something special, as it is located near a grave and in a man-planted peach forest.

Qu Xiaoyou was also confused and shook her head, "I don't know either. This well was dug by my father specifically for my mother and brother."

"He said they died in a fire and what they lacked the most was water, so he dug a well near their grave, hoping that they would no longer lack water."

Xia Younan's expression immediately became serious when he heard this, and he pointed to the well next to him, "Where's the water?"

Qu Xiaoyou came to the well and looked inside, scratching his head in confusion. "This well was sealed before, and I couldn't open the cover by myself, so I always thought there was water in it."

"How...how could this be done?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Younan looked towards the well and found an octagonal manhole cover on the ground. It must have been opened by Zhu Li and the others when they were fetching water.

The manhole cover is large and thick, carved from stone, and looks very heavy. There is a lotus carved on it, which is smooth and has no holes at all.

Looking at the well again, it was also a bit strange. The well was about half a meter above the ground, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, also octagonal, and each side was engraved with obscure words.

This text seemed familiar. Xia Younan thought about it carefully. After a few seconds, she suddenly realized it. She looked at Zen Mu beside her and asked, "Brother, is this Sanskrit from Buddhism?"

That's right, she grew up in a temple and had seen this kind of text in scriptures many times.

Zenmu stepped forward and took a look at the words on it, and nodded, "Yes, it's Sanskrit."

"So what does this mean?" Xia Younan asked.

"It's the Mantra for Rebirth," Qu Xiaoyou answered, her eyes red as she said, "This is also what my father wanted. He hopes that my mother and brother can be reborn and reach heaven as soon as possible."

Zen Mu frowned, squatted down and observed it carefully for a moment, then looked up at Qu Xiaoyou, "This is not the Rebirth Mantra, but... the Soul-Calming Mantra!"

"what?!"

When he said this, everyone was shocked. Qu Xiaoyou's head was buzzing, and he was shocked beyond words.

"This... this is impossible. My father said himself that this was a mantra for rebirth carved by a master. It is to help the dead escape from suffering." She pointed at the words on the wall of the well, her face full of disbelief.

Zenmu stood up and retorted, "This kind of Sanskrit is very ancient. I also occasionally saw it in the Sutra Library of my previous temple. This is a soul-soothing spell. It is said to be used to suppress fierce evil spirits to prevent them from coming out to harm people."

Qu Xiaoyou was completely stunned. She stared at him blankly, speechless for a moment.

"My goodness, they even used Taoist talismans and Buddhist soul-calming spells. How afraid are they that something might come out into the world?" Xia Younan couldn't help but sigh.

"This...what is going on?" Qu Xiaoyou was completely dumbfounded by the scene before her. She looked at everyone in panic, her lips trembling.

Xia Younan didn't say anything. She looked at the strange Bagua well, then raised her head to look at the branches of the big peach tree above her head. A chill arose in her heart.

Although she does not believe in supernatural things, it does not stop some people from believing in them.

You believed it and did it. Are you doing this for psychological comfort because you feel guilty and afraid?

"Did an evil spirit get into the well, so father made these things?" After a long time, Qu Xiaoyou seemed to have finally found a suitable reason and guessed aloud.

In any case, she didn't believe that the things that happened today against ghosts were directed at her mother and brother.

"There are words here." As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Lu Xiuyuan's voice coming over.

A few people came over to take a look and saw that Lu Xiuyuan picked up the yellow talisman that Xia Younan had thrown away. On the lower right corner of the rune on the yellow talisman, he wrote a few small words in a size that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

Xia Younan squinted his eyes and looked for a long time before he uttered the words one by one: "Geng metal, Yi wood, Geng metal, Jia wood, Xu earth, You metal, Zi water, Shen metal."

Before she finished her words, Qu Xiaoyou's face suddenly turned pale, and she staggered back two steps, almost falling down.

"Xiaoyou, what's wrong with you?" Xia Younan went to help her in surprise.

Qu Xiaoyou shook her head and stared at the talisman in her hand, her voice shaking violently, "This... this is my mother's birth date."

"Ah?" Xia Younan exclaimed, his heart trembling.