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

"I have this one too." Zhu Li exclaimed softly as he stared at the other yellow talisman in his hand.

Xia Younan leaned over to take a look and recited another string of birth data.

Qu Xiaoyou's expression became uglier, and her eyes were filled with confusion and horror. "This... this belongs to my brother..."

Now everyone was silent, and they all lamented in their hearts the evil intentions of someone.

Writing the deceased's birth date on a talisman to ward off ghosts, isn't this meant to damn the person to eternal damnation?

Xia Younan sighed deeply and couldn't help sighing: "Planting peach trees on the graves will prevent the dead from resting in peace; saying they are afraid of fire, we want to give them water, but the bottom of the well is dry, and there is not even a hole on the well cover for rainwater to drip in.

"There is also the 'soul-calming spell' on the wall of the well; and the yellow talisman wrapped with the deceased's birth date at the bottom of the well. All of them are meant to make the deceased's soul fly away and never be reborn."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Qu Xiaoyou with sympathy. Although she had guessed the result, she still asked, "Are all these your father's masterpieces?"

Qu Xiaoyou opened her eyes wide in horror, feeling horrified at everything she saw.

That feeling was like a cold poisonous snake, slowly wrapping around her heart.

"No... Impossible. There are no ghosts in this world. These things are all lies!"

She simply could not accept how her mother and brother were treated by her father after their death, and she argued with him in a self-deceiving manner.

Xia Younan shrugged and said meaningfully, "Yes, none of us have seen ghosts, and maybe there are no such things in the world. But there are people who believe in things that have been passed down among the people for thousands of years.

"If someone does something bad that he shouldn't do, he will be afraid and panic in his heart, and he will do some superstitious things to seek psychological comfort."

After a pause, she seemed to have thought of something, and then continued: "For example, burning incense and praying to Buddha all day long to ask the Bodhisattva to bless you."

She deliberately emphasized the words "burn incense and worship Buddha".

Yes, she suddenly remembered that Qu Zhengyan said yesterday that he wanted to go to the Buddhist temple to burn incense to the Bodhisattva.

Even if most people believe in Buddhism, they only go to temples to worship occasionally. But Qu Zhengyan specially set up a Buddhist temple in his small home, which is a bit unusual.

Just like the Shangshu Tao Fengzheng in the capital, didn’t he set up a Buddhist temple at home and worship there every day because he had done something wrong and was afraid that wronged spirits and evil ghosts would take revenge on him?

Qu Xiaoyou understood what she meant, but she didn't want to suspect that her father had done anything wrong.

After a long while, she racked her brains and seemed to have finally thought of an excuse that could convince herself. She pretended to be calm and found an excuse for her father.

“Maybe… maybe my mother and my brother died so tragically, and they blame my father for not protecting them, or maybe they miss my father and want him to be with them.

"Then their ghosts disturbed my father. My father was frightened for a moment and had no choice but to do these foolish things."

She nodded as she spoke, as if she was trying hard to convince herself.

Xia Younan didn't say anything else. Although she had doubts in her heart, these were just their guesses from a superstitious perspective.

Without substantial evidence, some things cannot be said casually.

"Senior Sister, what is the powder wrapped in this yellow talisman?" Xiao Chanen couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

Xia Younan glanced at the powder on the yellow talisman in Zhu Li's hand, his heart skipped a beat, and he guessed with wide eyes: "Based on what we found, someone's purpose is undoubtedly to calm down the wronged soul."

"And this yellow talisman is sealed at the bottom of the well. It should represent wronged souls. The thing that is most likely related to wronged souls is..."

She paused, glanced at Qu Xiaoyou cautiously, and whispered, "Based on my years of experience reading supernatural novels, this powder is most likely... the ashes of the deceased."

When Qu Xiaoyou heard this, his face turned pale instantly, his eyes were tightly tightened, and his eyeballs seemed to roll out of their sockets.

"Ah!!" Zhu Li was so frightened that he screamed and reflexively wanted to throw away the things in his hand.

Fortunately, Xia Younan had foresight and snatched the yellow talisman and the powder on it before he let go.

Then, she suppressed the goose bumps on her body and looked around, and asked Lu Xiuyuan to pick a banana leaf not far away for her.

After picking the leaves, she carefully poured the powder from the yellow talisman on the leaves and then wrapped them tightly.

Qu Xiaoyou was about to cry at this moment. One horrifying discovery after another destroyed the reasons she had worked so hard to find time and time again, forcing her to think in a certain direction.

But...he has no reason to do that!

He loved his mother and brother so much that even more than ten years after their death, he still burst into tears whenever he mentioned them.

How could he be so cruel to his wife and children, leaving them with no peace even after death?

Xia Younan understood her feelings, and gave the banana leaf wrapped in powder to Chan En to bury temporarily in the ground, then put his arm around Qu Xiaoyou's shoulders to comfort her.

Qu Xiaoyou looked at her with tears in her eyes. The usually strong girl now looked as helpless as a lost child.

Xia Younan patted her hands and led her out of the peach forest, wanting to discuss the matter after she calmed down.

When several people walked out of the peach forest, the scene in front of Qu Xiaoyou's mother's grave once again shocked everyone.

Then, a woman appeared in front of the grave.

The woman was thin, dressed in coarse cloth, with a dark blue cloth covering her face, revealing only a pair of cloudy and tired eyes.

She was kneeling on her knees in front of the grave, holding a stack of burning paper in her skinny hands, and throwing it into the fire in front of her one by one.

There were several more plates of offerings in front of the tomb, which were obviously placed there by the woman.

"Xiaoyou, she is..." Xia Younan turned his head to look at Qu Xiaoyou and asked curiously.

Qu Xiaoyou was even more confused than she was. She shook her head blankly, "I... I don't know her. Why is she worshipping my mother?"

"Could we have gone to the wrong grave?" Zhu Li said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Xia Younan immediately rejected it: "Impossible, there is only one tomb within a dozen miles, it is impossible to go to the wrong tomb."

"Why don't we go over and ask and find out?" Lu Xiuyuan suggested.

Qu Xiaoyou nodded and walked towards the woman.

The couple had not walked far when the woman spotted them. She threw the unburned paper in her hand into the fire like a frightened rabbit, then quickly stood up and ran down the mountain.

However, her speed was very slow because one of her legs was lame. She was unsteady when she ran and looked very tired.

Today's doubts were about to burst Qu Xiaoyou's head. How could she allow that woman to escape? She tiptoed and chased after her like a horse stepping on a flying swallow.

In just ten seconds, Qu Xiaoyou blocked the woman's way.

The woman was panicked and wanted to escape but couldn't, so she asked tremblingly: "Girl, why are you blocking my way?"

Qu Xiaoyou asked straight to the point: "Who are you? Why are you here in front of my mother's grave? Do you know my mother?"