Seeing the familiar embroidery on the corner of her clothes, Wang Mazi's wife was so frightened that she collapsed on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Miss Xiu'er, I'm not the one who hurt you. Don't come looking for me. If you want to find me, go to your grandma. She If I don’t sell you, nothing will happen next.”
Shen Qingqing perked up when she heard this, "You said this girl was sold by her grandmother?"
"Yes, I heard that two younger brothers in her family were going to study at a college in the town. They didn't have enough training, so her grandmother found a way to find my man, Wang Mazi, and exchanged them for two taels of silver."
Wang Mazi's daughter-in-law cried so much that she burst into tears, "It's not like we haven't encountered families who sold their sons and daughters before, but there's no one like Li Xiu'er who can't even think about it!"
"You send an innocent little girl to a brothel, it's so weird that people can't think of it!"
Shen Qingqing rolled her eyes, "Do you know where this girl's home is? Take me there and have a look."
If nothing else goes wrong, the other three souls of the female ghost should go home with resentment to settle the score with the best grandma.
"I know, it's in Zhangjiacun, not far from here."
"Then let's go."
Several people rushed to Zhangjia Village without stopping.
It was already noon when we arrived at Li Xiu's house. The strong wind stopped, the clouds receded, and the sky began to clear up.
Before I entered the door, an old woman ran out.
The old woman's hair was as messy as a chicken coop, her mouth was covered with saliva and rice dregs, her clothes were torn into strips, exposing her thick thighs, her feet were bare, and the insteps were covered with a layer of black blood and dust. She screamed strangely as she ran, Baring his teeth and dancing his claws, he looked like he was crazy.
Soon, a younger woman ran out of the house. The woman said "mother" in her mouth and chased the crazy woman back.
Wang Mazi's wife trembled and shrank to the wall, whispering: "That is Miss Xiu'er's grandma."
My granddaughter was fine when I sold her to her, but after not seeing her for half a year, she turned into a lunatic.
Shen Qingqing turned around and winked at the two men, "Bring Li Xiu's body in."
The two men obeyed obediently.
When the young woman saw a stranger entering her home, she quickly stepped forward to inquire about the situation.
Shen Qingqing asked her: "Do you know Li Xiu?"
When she heard the word "Li Xiu", the woman's eyes widened immediately, her pupils tightened, and she was extremely excited, "Have you seen Xiu'er? Is she doing well now?"
Shen Qingqing turned sideways and raised an eyebrow at the bones on the ground, "Where is your Xiu'er?"
The woman's body swayed, her eyes fixed on the corpse, and she stayed in place as if being tapped. For a moment, two lines of hot tears rolled down her face.
"Xiu'er, my Xiu'er!"
The woman screamed and threw herself at the corpse, her voice was shrill, and she was in pain.
Shen Qingqing looked at her sad look, sighed slightly, turned and walked towards the old woman sitting on the porch.
The old woman stared at the corpse with her eyes wide open, and laughed "ho ho" in her throat. There were tears on her face at the same time. She didn't know whether she was crying or laughing.
Shen Qingqing walked up to her and stopped, "Li Xiu, come out. It's you who will suffer in the end if someone loses his life."
Ghosts with human lives in their hands are called evil ghosts. After descending to the underworld, they have to undergo the punishment of being boiled in oil. In the next life, they can only be thrown into the animal realm. Only after the sins all over their bodies are washed away can they be reincarnated as humans.
The old woman shook her head and laughed even louder, "I'm not willing to give in, I'm not willing to give in!"
Her face was still as old as tree bark, but her voice was that of a young girl.
"They and I are both descendants of the Li family. Why should they be able to eat well and clothe themselves as soon as they are born? They can enjoy the best treatment without having to work. When they are old enough, they can go to the town to study. But I have to sleep. We live in a straw hut, eat leftovers, and have to get up to work every day before dawn, and we can’t stop until late at night!”
"I have been working as a cow and horse in the Li family for more than ten years, and I have never enjoyed a day of happiness. I have been beaten and scolded all day long, and I have no peace. In the end, I have to be sold into a brothel by this damn old woman. Why on earth, why?"
The old woman raised her head and burst into tears, "I thought about it all winter in that dark river, and finally I figured it out."
"It's all because I'm a girl."
"Because I am a girl, I have become a 'loser' since I was born. I deserve to be beaten and scolded by them, and I deserve to be their slave."
"But from beginning to end, what did I do wrong? I obviously didn't do anything?"
"You are not wrong. What is wrong is them and this era."
Shen Qingqing stretched out her hand, "Li Xiu, come out, don't sacrifice your next life for such people, they don't deserve it!"
Li Xiu looked at the palm stretched out to her, tears flashing in her eyes, "Will I have another life?"
Does a person like her who is trapped in the mud deserve to have a next life?
"Yes, you will definitely have a bright future in your next life, and you will be happy and worry-free throughout your life, believe me."
Shen Qingqing spoke firmly and handed her palm to her again, "Come with me, Li Xiu."
Li Xiu was shaken and carefully handed over his hand.
At the same time, the old woman squatting on the ground began to twitch violently, her eyes turned white, and she was in agony. Finally, she screamed and passed out.
And the mutilated Li Xiu walked out.
Shen Qingqing quickly opened the purple gold bottle and released another part of his soul.
The two broken souls merged, and Li Xiu's figure gradually became clearer. What appeared in front of Shen Qingqing again was a petite girl with a childish face, who looked to be no more than thirteen or fourteen years old.
The crying woman on the other side seemed to have been guided. She looked at Li Xiu's position with tearful eyes and asked tentatively: "Xiu'er, is it you? Have you come back to see your mother?"
Shen Qingqing looked at Li Xiu with gentle eyes, "Do you want to see her?"
Li Xiu nodded.
Shen Qingqing took out the umbrella and held it on the woman's head.
The woman looked at her daughter whom she had not seen for half a year, her lips trembled, and she burst into tears, "Mom is so sorry for you, Xiu'er, Mom is so sorry for you!"
Last year, my mother-in-law wanted to send her two nephews to college, but the family didn't have enough money, so she handed over all the dowry at the bottom of the box, leaving only a silver hairpin for her daughter.
Who would have thought that my mother-in-law was still unwilling to be satisfied and actually sold Xiuer behind her back!
If she had been tougher, her mother-in-law wouldn't have dominated the two of them, and Xiu'er wouldn't have died miserably at a young age.
This is all her fault!
The woman cried loudly, covered her face and knelt down, "It's all my mother's fault. She didn't protect you well. It's my mother who deserves to die!"
"Mom, don't do this."
Li Xiugeng swallowed and knelt in front of her, "I don't hate you, not at all. I am lucky to be your daughter."
"But I hope my mother can straighten her spine in the future and stop being bullied."
"In the days to come, my daughter hopes that you can live a happier and more comfortable life..."
"That's it, mother, my daughter is leaving."
Li Xiu bowed down and kowtowed to her three times, then stood up and looked at Shen Qingqing, "Thank you. If I hadn't met you, I don't know how long I would have been a lonely ghost at the bottom of the river."
"This is what I should do, you're welcome."
Shen Qingqing took out a soul-giving talisman, folded it into an inverted triangle, and asked softly: "Are you ready?"
Li Xiu nodded: "Yeah." This chapter has been completed!