Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 13: The Injustice Has Its Cause

Lin Jiang had heard Gong Xuan mention magic before, but since he could neither see any masters flying on swords nor any celestial ships traversing the sky, he regarded magic as a kind of magic trick used by street performers.

Looking at these methods now, it's clear they go far beyond just performing arts.
There's clearly something deeper here!

After being tightly bound, Miss Shen struggled a couple more times before finally settling down and remaining still.

She was wearing that red veil, tilting her head as she looked at Lin Jiang.

Even before the veil was lifted, Lin Jiang could feel the resentful gaze from behind.

Lin Jiang ignored that gaze.

Gong Xuan glanced at Miss Shen with curiosity:
Why is there a dent in her face?

Lin Jiang remained silent.

Gong Xuan realized what was happening, but remained silent.

Miss Shen felt wronged and continued to sob.

Lin Jiang glanced at Gong Xuan: "Did you do the preservation treatment for her?"

“Yes.” Gong Xuan scratched his head.

"Didn't you realize the cause of her death at the time?"

"Huh?" Gong Xuan shook his head: "I don't rely on medical skills to do preservation, I rely on the great effort of my ancestors."

The ancestral master is really useful.

"But despite her deep resentment, I felt absolutely nothing when I performed the embalming procedure on her..."

Something's definitely not right!

The Gongxuan Daoist technique is generally ineffective at detecting the scents of ordinary objects, but it is much more effective at detecting resentment.

How could he not smell that venomous, fishy stench?
With a sense of doubt, Gong Xuan looked around and his gaze fell on the bead on the ground.

I leaned closer, used a piece of cloth to cushion my hand, and picked up the small bead.

After looking at it from all sides, I finally found a string of inscriptions at the bottom of the small bead.

"Tathagarbha Tadyatha... the Rebirth Mantra, this is a Buddhist rosary!"

Gong Xuan clicked his tongue in amazement, then explained to Lin Jiang:
"The owner of these prayer beads must have been a skilled monk. If you take one of his beads and put it in the throat of the corpse, you can suppress the resentment. But this is only a temporary measure. The resentment suppressed in the stomach will only accumulate more and more. Unless the person's obsession in life is fulfilled, sooner or later it will turn into a zombie and harm people."

He paused, seemingly confused, at this point:

"What is the cause of such resentment?"

Lin Jiang briefly recounted what had just happened to Gong Xuan.

Gong Xuan's face turned red:

"Holy crap, Heavenly Venerable!"

After muttering a few curses, Gong Xuan thought for a while, then slapped his forehead:
"Young Master Lin, I know why they want to force you into a ghost marriage!"

"How to say?"

"This girl has two obsessions in her heart. The first is to send her brother to his grave, and the second is to find a good husband to marry. She died unjustly and has a lot of resentment in her heart. The Shen family certainly cannot allow their eldest son to be killed, so they can only think of a way to transfer this resentment."

Gong Xuan clicked his tongue: "They plan to find a scapegoat, but they don't dare to actually kill anyone, so they have to find someone handsome and beautiful enough to appease Miss Shen's anger. To put it bluntly, they are scapegoating someone, but this scapegoating is not for the prosperity of the house, but to appease the resentment."

"After searching for a long time without finding a suitable one, they came to me for preservation work, which delayed things for a while. Just then, something happened to happen to your family, so they dug you out."

"Why are you looking for me?" Lin Jiang asked, puzzled.

Gong Xuan stared at Lin Jiang's face without saying a word.

Lin Jiang understood.

“If it’s delayed for a few more days, I estimate the Shen family will most likely just grab some handsome scholar passing by from out of town and throw him in for this young lady.” Gong Xuan shook his head: “This Shen family isn’t very good.”

Lin Jiang walked up to Miss Shen, who was tied up, and squatted down:
"Miss Shen, your family members are not good people."

Miss Shen remained silent.

"Then why did you come to find me? I didn't kill you. You should go back to the Shen family."

"...I dare not..."

Miss Shen managed to squeeze out a tiny sound from her throat, so faint it was almost inaudible.

"So you dared to come to me?" Lin Jiang raised an eyebrow. "Is it because I'm a well-known good person in the neighborhood? The kind who always gives extra coins to beggars?"

Miss Shen fell silent again, her head drooping so low that her red veil almost touched the ground.

Lin Jiang shook his head helplessly.

Miss Shen has misunderstood.

The original Young Master Lin was a good person, with a gentle and warm demeanor.

At most, Lin Jiang can only be described as "not a bad person".

Lin Jiang didn't like what Shen Da did, so Lin Jiang had to make Shen Da pay the debt of resentment.

However, Lin Jiang himself did not want to cause trouble.

They're moving out soon; causing trouble will only create more problems for themselves and leave loose ends.

Then we'll have to let Miss Shen go home.

Miss Shen could withstand one of my punches, so ordinary servants definitely couldn't handle her. If she goes there tonight, others might not speak for themselves, but Shen Da certainly won't be able to. Gong Xuan seemed to have seen through Lin Jiang's thoughts and shook his head, saying:
“Young Master Lin, you can’t persuade her to go back no matter what you say. Don’t be fooled by her clear and logical answers now. She’s just a zombie, unlike you. She’s only keeping going because of her resentment. If you try to reason with her, she’ll just scream all night about being afraid of her brother.”

"What to do?"

If not words, what can we rely on? Are we supposed to just move this girl there by force?
"I do have some methods."

Gongxuan searched the courtyard and took down the bamboo pole used for drying clothes.

He took a talisman and wrapped it around the bamboo pole, then walked over to the Shen family girl and untied the ropes binding her.

Miss Shen seemed to be hooked by the bamboo pole, and she swayed as she got up, following the bamboo pole.

"The Corpse-Transporting Technique." Gong Xuan handed the pole to Lin Jiang: "With this pole, Miss Shen will follow it."

Lin Jiang thought about it and decided that he couldn't do it, and neither could Gong Xuan. Walking on the street in the middle of the night would easily be discovered by the night watchmen.

The bride who came back from the dead following behind is hard to explain.

So who can do it?
With a change of heart, Lin Jiang went straight into the inner room, and a moment later he brought out the small ginseng.

Little Ginseng was woken up by the commotion. Rubbing her sleepy eyes, she looked at Lin Jiang with a puzzled expression:

"What's wrong?"

"Young hero, there's something I need your help with."

"what's up?"

Lin Jiang thought for a moment: "Punish evil and promote good."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Shanshen immediately perked up:
"Punishing evil and promoting good is great! That's what I like most! What do you need me to do? Who should I hit?"

"It's not about hitting anyone." Lin Jiang handed the bamboo pole to Xiao Shanshen and then took a map from the side and gave it to him. Xiao Shanshen pointed to the specific location: "If you hold the bamboo pole, this girl will follow you. Just take her home."

"Is this what you call punishing evil and promoting good?" Little Ginseng held the bamboo pole steadily in his hand.

“Every step a great hero takes starts with small things,” Lin Jiang said. “This is a small step for you, but it is a giant leap for you to become a great hero.”

"What you said makes a lot of sense, then I'll go right now."

After watching Xiaoshanshen leave, Lin Jiang asked Gongxuan:
"Won't the patriarch be angry?"

“Our ancestor taught me that eating, drinking, and having fun are part of cultivation, so how could he blame me?” Gong Xuan shook his head: “There are countless grudges and favors in the world, who can settle them all? The Shen family has created their own karma, so let them pay for it themselves.”

……

Shen Da had trouble sleeping.

The thought of his sister's body being missing filled him with unease.

He has been restless ever since his sister died.

The restless Shen Da first sought out a monk, who was reluctant to help. Only when forced at knifepoint did the monk produce a Buddhist rosary, temporarily suppressing his resentment. The monk then told him that he needed to settle his grudges first.

He then found a rice-giving old woman, who was willing to help him, but she wasn't very capable. So he asked her for a bad idea, suggesting that he should turn the resentment away by arranging a ghost marriage.

Finally, they found a Taoist priest to perform embalming, and then began looking for people willing to be buried alive with them.

But where can I find it?

They waited and waited, but in the end, they learned that someone in the Lin family next door had died.

This is a good thing!

My younger sister has liked the boy next door since she was little. She asked her crazy father to dig up the boy and arrange a ghost marriage so that the two of them could be a couple in the afterlife.

But who would have thought?

The Lin family boy is alive!

Not only did he survive, but his own sister also ran away!
This made the already restless Shen Da even more restless.

Unable to sleep, he went to the yard.

The wind was really cold today, and the sky was dark. The courtyard was gloomy, with only a little moonlight that couldn't penetrate the clouds.

He was very familiar with this courtyard, with the clutter in the corner, the desk in the middle, and the artificial hill his father had spent a lot of money to acquire. Now, all of this was shrouded in the darkness of the night, and all that remained was a group of shadowy figures standing around him, watching him.

This made Shen Da very uncomfortable.

After pacing back and forth in the courtyard twice, Shen Da felt both cold and sleepy.

After thinking it over, I decided I should go to sleep.

I'm sleepy if I don't sleep.

Just as he was about to turn around and go back to his room, Shen Da suddenly heard a strange noise behind him.

pat.

The sudden sound startled Shen Da, and he turned around abruptly, only to find that there was no one behind him.

Those towering black shadows still piled up together.

The sound came from the shadows.

Shen Xiao cautiously walked towards the direction from which the sound came and found that a bamboo pole had appeared on the ground at some point.

as well as……

The somber red veil slowly rose behind Shen Da, and pale fingers pulled back a corner of the veil, revealing a bloodless face beneath:
"Brother, I'm home."

(End of this chapter)