Chapter 1706: Seven Days of Soul Returning Night, Changting's Discomfort

"Why am I here?"

Coming out of her trance, Nie Xiaoqian finally remembered that she had died a long time ago.

So, is this the underworld?

The girl looked around and saw that in addition to the men, there were more than a dozen beautiful women in the room.

These women...mostly wore light clothing, exposing large areas of fair skin.

This kind of situation would never be allowed to exist in the Nie family, a family of scholars.

……

"Miss Nie, it was our husband who saved you!"

Seeing that the man was hesitant and didn't know how to talk to the girl, Shaoyao simply took the initiative to help the man explain.

After a while.

Only then did Nie Xiaoqian accept the fact that she had come back to life.

……

Under normal circumstances, the local City God would send ghost messengers to pick up the dead and escort them to the City God Temple for trial.

Among them, those who are kind-hearted will wait for seven days and have a chance to return to the soul and visit their relatives.

If you are an ordinary person, you will be ranked according to the book of merit and reborn into the six realms of reincarnation.

Those who are guilty will be escorted to hell to receive the extreme punishment in the eighteen levels of hell.

……

Today, the Great Zhou Dynasty is controlled by the Imperial Master Pudu Cihang.

In order to promote his own Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, Pudu Cihang destroyed the local City God Temple.

The City God Temples in various places no longer have the support of incense and offerings, and only the City God, the Judge, the Day and Night Wandering God and other registered ghost gods are left.

Most of the ordinary ghost messengers who were in charge of guiding people have basically run away.

Without the ghost messengers to guide the souls, those lonely ghosts are scattered throughout the wilderness of each state.

This situation also indicates that the Great Zhou Dynasty has entered the final stage of its decline.

……

After Nie Xiaoqian died, her soul left her body and no one came to take it away, so it stayed at home.

It was during the half-day she stayed at home that she learned that the cause of her death was not due to an epidemic, but because the medicine her stepmother and her stepdaughter had given her contained a lot of arsenic.

Most people who are resurrected from the dead will certainly be eager to see their loved ones.

However, Nie Xiaoqian thought of her stepmother and her daughter who killed her, so she naturally did not dare to go home.

Nie Xiaoqian didn't know what to do for a moment. She was silent for a long time. Then she suddenly remembered that Su Mingzhe saved her and she hadn't thanked him yet.

"Xiao Qian thanks you for saving my life!"

The girl was about to get out of bed and kneel down to express her gratitude.

Su Mingzhe quickly stopped him and said:

"The poison in the girl's body has not yet been cleared, so just take a good rest. No need to be polite."

……

In fact, yesterday afternoon, when Nie Xiaoqian was force-fed arsenic, Su Mingzhe had already realized that something was wrong.

If it had been stopped in time, there would have been no such thing as resurrection from the dead.

The reason why Su Mingzhe let Nie Xiaoqian die and waited until her body was placed in the coffin by her family before saving her was entirely to sever her worldly ties.

……

Rested for several days.

When Nie Xiaoqian recovered, Su Mingzhe took her back to Niejiazhuang in stealth and let her see her father and stepmother giving her a grand funeral... in a mass grave.

According to local customs and clan regulations, the bodies of people who died of epidemics needed to be burned into ashes to avoid infecting others.

When Nie Xiaoqian died, she had not yet been engaged or married, so this was considered an early death and she was not worthy of being buried in the ancestral tomb.

……

Su Mingzhe looked at the girl's tears sliding down her cold cheeks and said distressedly:
"Do you want revenge? I can help you capture the mother and daughter..."

"Thank you for your kindness, sir. Xiaoqian doesn't want revenge!"

The girl shook her head slightly and rejected the man:

"My father is old, and he just lost his daughter. If another family member in my family were to encounter an accident, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to bear the blow..."

The girl's kindness made Su Mingzhe feel even more pity for her:
"In this case, we must give them retribution and let them know that good and evil will be rewarded in the end!"

Su Mingzhe knew that Nie Xiaoqian was kind-hearted, so he simply didn't ask for her opinion. As the funeral procession was on its way back to Niejiazhuang, Su Mingzhe waved his hand, stirring up a gust of wind.

Several sedan chair bearers were blinded by the strong wind, tripped and fell to the ground.

Nie Xiaoqian's stepmother and sister actually rolled off the sedan chair.

The stepmother fell and became paralyzed, with a crooked mouth and slanted eyes.

Nie Xiaoqian's half-sister broke her face and one leg, and it will be difficult for her to get married in the future.

Seeing her stepmother and daughter suffer retribution, Nie Xiaoqian looked at the man with resentment:

"Master, Xiaoqian said that there is no need to seek revenge!"

Su Mingzhe laughed and ignored the girl's accusation. Instead, he asked with a smile:

"Xiao Qian, let me ask you, do you feel good when you see the mother and daughter suffer retribution?"

The girl was stunned when she heard the man's question that went straight to her heart.

After a long while, the girl opened her lips slightly, and smiled shyly on her cold face:
"……Cool!"

……

Night arrives.

Su Mingzhe helps Nie Xiaoqian and Nie's father meet in their dreams.

This is the 'Night of the Returning Soul'.

In the dream, Nie Xiaoqian said goodbye to her father. Before leaving, she gave her father a bottle of Peiyuan Dan, which could increase his lifespan by 20 years.

Naturally, Su Mingzhe had placed this Peiyuan Pill at the bedside of Father Nie, as a weight to help Nie Xiaoqian cut off her ties with the secular world.

When the dream ended, it was already late at night.

Nie Xiaoqian got up from the bed and looked at the man sitting very close to her, looking at her quietly. She suddenly felt shy and didn't know what to do.

After a few days of getting along.

The girl already understood the man's feelings for her, and in order to repay his kindness, she agreed to marry him.

At this time, no matter what the man really wanted to do, Nie Xiaoqian would not resist.

However, there will always be a little regret in my heart.

After all, without the permission of parents or matchmaker, this would be considered as an affair.

"rest early!"

Su Mingzhe saw the hesitation and resistance in the girl's eyes, gently pinched her soft face, and left.

He has so many women in Lanruo Temple, there is no need to bully a young girl whose heart is still broken.

……

He accidentally entered a secret realm and nearly died.

This incident was a big blow to Shaoyao.

Recently, Shaoyao has no interest in practicing and doesn't like going out for fun.

If Su Mingzhe didn't come to see her, she could stay in the room alone for a whole day.

In order to prevent their good sister from getting bored, Weng Changting and Xiaoqian would sacrifice their practice time and take turns to accompany her.

this day.

Su Mingzhe came to Shaoyao to rest again.

Xiaoqian, who was accompanying Shaoyao, was about to leave but was stopped by Su Mingzhe.

Compared with Shaoyao, Xiaoqian is full of love for life, and she has a simple mind and no moral scruples. She can do anything a man asks of her.

On the second day.

Weng Changting came to accompany Shaoyao. After pushing the door open, he saw three people lying on the bed.

"Changting is here."

Su Mingzhe yawned, put on his clothes with the help of the two women, and before leaving, he did not forget to pinch Changting's face, and then walked out of Shaoyao's bedroom.

After the man left, Weng Changting looked at Xiaoqian curiously:
"Xiao Qian, you didn't leave last night?"

Although Su Mingzhe often slept with women, famous ladies from scholarly families like Weng Changting had always been resistant.

"My husband said, let's rest together, it's lively."

Xiaoqian smiled faintly, and it was obvious that she didn't think there was anything wrong with her sleeping with Shaoyao.

Weng Changting looked at her, then at Shaoyao, and saw that Shaoyao's eyes were also very dull. Then he suddenly realized that Xiaoqian was a fox demon and Shaoyao was a flower fairy, and the two women had a very low degree of identification with human moral values.

Thinking of this, Weng Changting couldn't help but smile bitterly.