Buddhist Cultivation: Starting from Divination

Chapter 70 Restoring the Truth ([-]rd update)

"I heard from the abbot that this woman died in the mountains. The reason why she turned into resentment should be because she felt abandoned by her husband." Lu Wanqiu said.

She inquired a lot about Lantern Girl, so she also had her own understanding.

Zhao Huai shook his head: "That's not the case. I talked with her. Although she got lost in the mountains, she didn't die in the mountains."

"I would like to hear the details." Lu Wanqiu said helplessly, Zhao Huai was already better than her in just eliminating the Lantern Girl, and the other party obviously knew more.

So Zhao Huai said slowly:

"Every lady came out from the mountains, and after finding the middle of the state, she unexpectedly found the former scholar, but the former lover has achieved fame, changed her skin, and became a hot figure.

But she didn't come back to look for her, so she was heartbroken and very sad. She felt that the scholar had forgotten the original oath, so she wanted to come to ask for an explanation, but she was thrown out, and she couldn't even get in. "

"So the scholar killed her to keep his mouth shut?" Lu Wanqiu asked suddenly.

"I thought so too at first, but think about it, if she was killed by a scholar, would this woman still go out of her way to find him?"

Lu Wanqiu nodded, feeling really conflicted.

Lantern Girl has been looking for her husband, which means that her hatred is not on him.

"So there must be a turning point. The turning point is that the scholar never betrayed Lantern Girl." Zhao Huai said solemnly.

The scholar won the first place in the imperial examination and was recognized. Many marriages followed one after another, but he only thought about his wife, and he didn't agree, but he didn't refuse either.

Because he knows that once he refuses, he will never be able to hang out in the officialdom in the future. The so-called fame he got is Nankeyimeng.

Under the restraint of many parties, the scholar naturally cannot find his wife immediately. If they find out that he is married, the result will be the same.

But the woman didn't know it. She wholeheartedly felt that her husband had betrayed her. This hatred became stronger and stronger, and love gave birth to hatred.

The deeper the love, the deeper the hate.

She sneaked into the scholar's mansion and killed him.

Hearing this, Lu Wanqiu questioned: "Leaving aside how the woman entered the place where the scholar lives, it's a bit inconceivable that a weak woman with no strength to restrain a chicken would actually kill someone."

Zhao Huai smiled lightly: "You underestimated the power of hatred. Even if you sell yourself, sneaking in as a servant is extremely simple. As for whether she killed anyone, I think the coffin in the wooden house can explain it. "

"coffin?"

"That's right, I saw a coffin under the bed in the wooden house where Lantern Girl lived. This coffin couldn't have been for her, it must have been for the dead body of a scholar."

Lu Wanqiu was still puzzled: "Since there was a vendetta, why did you prepare a coffin?"

Zhao Huai looked extremely serious.

"Because she discovered everything the scholar did, perhaps because of the diary, or perhaps through inquiries."

"She killed the wrong man."

"So she went crazy."

After the woman killed the scholar, she regretted it very much, but what can she do if the man is dead, she can only throw the body in the wild.

Stories about the scholar began to circulate in the state and county, saying that he had been staying behind closed doors, but he was very low-key when he became an official, and many people were puzzled.

In the end, the confidant housekeeper in the mansion revealed the key point. In fact, he still has a beloved wife, so he has been refusing to marry a wife, and has been procrastinating, refusing to meet those wealthy families.

When the woman heard the news, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue, and countless regrets flashed in her heart. She went to the place where the body was thrown all night to look for her husband's body.

But the scholar's corpse had already been gnawed to pieces by rats, and his whole body was riddled with holes.

The woman was completely hopeless, hated herself, and couldn't accept the fact that she killed the person she loved the most, to the point of paranoia.

So she went crazy. She put the scholar's body in a coffin and put it under the bed.

In this way, you can always be with the scholar.

She hated herself, hated to an extreme, and finally committed suicide in front of the coffin.

This kind of hatred turned her into an evil spirit.

After becoming an evil spirit, the crazy woman chose to forget the fact that she had killed someone, and fell into the grief of losing her husband.

That's why, Lantern Girl has two forms.

One is red and one is white.

Red represents painful memories, while white represents normal, good memories.

After listening to Zhao Huai's explanation, Lu Wanqiu was stunned.

"It was Lantern Girl who killed her husband-in-law and then committed suicide. The person she hates is herself?"

"Yes."

Zhao Huai nodded.

There may be discrepancies in the details, but the idea is definitely not wrong.

"This woman is so pitiful."

Lu Wanqiu's gaze could not help revealing sympathy.

Zhao Huai pondered: "Actually, I still have a doubt that I haven't solved yet."

"what?"

At this moment, Lu Wanqiu only felt her scalp go numb, because this story sounded really scary.

Of course, the man in front of him was even more terrifying. Not only could he think of a way to kill Lantern Girl, but he also revealed the truth.

"That is, where is Lantern Girl's husband?"

"It must have turned into ashes, it's been hundreds of years." Lu Wanqiu took it for granted.

Zhao Huai shook his head again.

He clenched the skull in his hand, knowing in his heart that this bone must belong to Liu Lang, not Lantern Girl.

The rain is cold and the fragrance is haunting the grave.

The word "hanging" in the hexagrams of this sentence is very quintessential.

The Lantern Girl hanged Liu Lang, so he must have been brought to the present by the Lantern Girl in some way.

Otherwise, where did the bone in my hand come from?

"Since she is still looking for it, it means that Liu Lang still exists, whether it's the bones or the grave."

Lu Wanqiu asked suspiciously: "But she is already dead, shouldn't it be over?"

"It shouldn't be that simple."

"Come with me."

Zhao Huai set his long sword and stepped on it.

"Where?"

"The cemetery of Lantern Girl."

The two walked side by side, and soon came to the vicinity of the stream in the dream.

"here is"

Lu Wanqiu obviously recognized this too.

Zhao Huai's footsteps were extremely fast, and he quickly found the location of the wooden house.

There are only plants and trees everywhere here, and there is nothing else.

He circulated the true energy on his body and struck out with one palm.

"Bang!" A huge pit appeared in front of him.

Zhao Huai squinted his eyes, and the skull in his hand glowed red.

Slowly fall into the pit.

"It is so."

Zhao Huai was stunned, suddenly realized.

"What, what?" Lu Wanqiu felt like a three-year-old child, and could only follow Zhao Huai.

"Do you know where Liu Lang is?" Zhao Huai smiled slightly.

"where is it?"

"Liu Lang has actually been by Lantern Girl's side all along, but she doesn't know it, and we have always ignored it."

Lu Wanqiu frowned, tilted her head and said, "Impossible, she has nothing on her."

Zhao Huai pointed to the slowly rising red light and said calmly:
"That lantern is her husband-in-law."

ps: In the new year, add an update, it may be a bit slower, sorry.

(End of this chapter)