Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Soul Is Forever

The woman's crying was still slender and deep, as if she had come from hell, and it made people's hearts tingle to hear it.

Wang Daqiang spat out: "This Zhang Ying too, has been crying for more than a month, isn't it just that a child has died?" It's not endless! ”

When he said this, there was no sympathy on his face.

I'm a little angry.

What do you mean by "a child dies if you don't do it"?

Although I have never been a mother, I know that many women treat their children as if they were their lives. If you lose your child, then your life will lose any meaning.

And then there are exceptions to everything, and the "woman" mentioned above does not include my own mother who left me and ran away.

Wang Daqiang, who was next to me, didn't notice my unhappiness, and only listened to him continue: "This woman only moved here with her child three months ago, and her husband was originally a worker on the construction site, and he died of a work......

Child......

I realized something.

So what Wang Daqiang said later, I couldn't listen to a word, grabbed Wang Daqiang's arm, and asked: "You said that Zhang Ying's child died, how old is that child?" Is it male or female? ”

"It's a girl, about five or six years old, skinny, not very well, and ......"

My head exploded all at once.

Turning around, the door of Grandma Hu's house was closed.

The street lights in the corridor were quietly on, and it was terrifying.

I pushed Wang Daqiang away and staggered downstairs.

All the way around, my mind was messed up, and I didn't know how I got back to the chicken noodle shop.

In front of my eyes, the miserable white face of the girl in the red dress kept appearing, and the palm of my hand seemed to touch her cold skin again......

In my ears, I repeatedly recalled Wang Daqiang's words: It was a girl, five or six years old, who was thin and thin, and suddenly died......

The lights of the chicken offal noodle shop are on, and the door is half open.

Liang Yuan looked excited when he saw me coming back.

He grabbed me, and didn't care if I was flustered at the moment, and said, "Tang Xiaofan, I've figured it out, do you know what the problem is in our store?" ”

Seeing that I ignored him, he said again: "The problem is the funding!" ”

I looked up at him, still thinking about what had just happened, gasping for air.

"Yes, it's money!" Liang Yuan continued: "The shortage of funds is the biggest problem we have now, and if we want to make money, we have to expand our stores. I had already called my loan manager and he understood our situation and said that it was possible to ...... at a lower rate than normal."

It seems that it's been a whole day, and the chicken blood in his body hasn't dissipated yet.

I didn't want to speak, so I excused myself with a headache and went upstairs.

Liang Yuan chased after me and continued to talk to me: "If you want a loan, our biggest problem at present is collateral. Tang Xiaofan, your father's house is not about to be demolished, it should have increased in value recently, or we ......"

With a "boom", I shut him out.

As soon as I entered the door, I rummaged through the cabinets and found the "Autumn Moon Eclipse List".

With the book in hand, I went to bed without even taking off my shoes.

Cowering in the corner, I flipped through the contents, my body trembled very much, and my face became whiter and paler.

I'm not mistaken.

This half of the "Autumn Moon Eclipse List", in addition to writing about some never-before-heard of ways of mutual restraint between foods, also records a terrifying method of preserving corpses.

The book says that in order to live, a person must have a "soul."

The "soul" is the spiritual aura of a person.

The "soul" is the human thinking and intelligence, and the "spirit" is the human feeling and body. Taoism has the saying of "three souls and seven spirits", so the ancients believed that the "soul" is yang and the "spirit" is yin.

The "soul" is inseparable from the "spirit", then the yin and yang are in harmony.

Once the "soul" is separated from the "soul", life is in danger.

After a person leaves the soul, the yin energy on the body, that is, the "spirit", will gradually dissipate. Once the "spirit" is gone, the body will gradually decay.

And the "Autumn Moon Eclipse List" is about a method of forcibly preserving the "spirit" in the human body.

According to the record of "Qi Ming Yaoshu", "onion", also known as "shallot", was introduced to China by Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions as early as the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

But what many people don't know is that in fact, "onion" has another name among folk warlocks - "onion".

In the thirty-six hours after the first death, the yin energy has not completely dissipated.

But at this time, the yang energy has dissipated, and the yin energy is just temporarily staying in the body, and after three days, the yin energy is dissipated, and the person is really dead.

This is also the saying that after a person dies, there is a mortuary for three days.

If you are buried and cremated within three days, your body will feel more or less pain.

Thirty-six hours later, the spirit of the man was exhausted, and the yin qi was dispersed.

At that time, it is a corpse in the true sense, and the corpse whose "soul" has dissipated will begin to rot, stink, and grow insects until it rots.

So, the book says a way to preserve the body:

That is, within three days after death, a person stuffs an onion pickled in red vinegar into the mouth of the corpse, and seals the nose and ears of the person with chopped garlic to prevent the yang air from flowing out.

This whole "shallot" replaces the "soul" of people.

The red vinegar is bright in color, like blood, which can bring out the spicy taste of the onion to the greatest extent, and those spicy flavors are the "yang energy" of the onion.

The yang energy of the person itself comes out of the throat, and the "yang energy" in the onion flows down the throat back to the body, and combines with the yin energy that is not dissipated in the body, and recombines into the "soul" of the person.

Garlic is used to seal the nose and ears, and the yin and yang qi are blocked.

With a "soul", it will no longer be dispersed, and it can stay in the body for a long time to ensure that the corpse does not rot and can be preserved for a long time.

This method of preserving the corpse seemed like a fantasy to me at the time.

I think that the moment a person dies, it is gone. What kind of soul and soul, it's all nonsense.

What Meng Po soup, Nai He Qiao, are all made up by boring people to scare more boring people. Death is like a lamp going out, and death means eternal silence.

I also doubt that Huang Qiuyue, the author of "Autumn Moon Eclipse List", was she frightened when she was writing this paragraph, and she was frightened, so she wrote it in a mess.

Therefore, I just read this paragraph casually, and I didn't take it to heart at all.

But just now, when I was at Grandma Hu's house and saw Chef Zheng stuffing a whole raw onion soaked in red vinegar in his mouth, I immediately remembered "Autumn Moon Food List".

Later, I found the fines of garlic in Chef Zheng's nose and ears.

In other words, Chef Zheng is dead, but at the moment, he is still alive!

At that moment, I felt like I was being pressed into the cold water of a lake in the cold winter months......