Severing ties with family to marry the young marshal, his whole family chases me to the crematorium.

Chapter 38 Puppet Making

Shen Qingyao couldn't help but roll her eyes silently as she listened to Meng Shuqin's words.

She noticed that when older generations urged her to get married, they always liked to say that they had to "complete a task."

It is unknown which organization conveyed this mission, but it has been passed down for thousands of years.

"But Ayao, Jingnian said you had something left unsaid at the Huang residence just now. What was it?"

Shen Qingyao's expression turned serious, and Si Jingnian and Meng Shuqin also stopped joking.

"There must be some inside story about Mrs. Huang's body being infiltrated by yin energy. There are only three possibilities for such a dense concentration of yin energy in her body: one is that she is possessed by a spirit, another is that she has been to a large tomb and her body has been invaded by the yin energy there, and the third is that she has been living with a resentful and incorruptible corpse for a long time, and the yin energy has been entering her body over the years."

“When I dispelled the yin energy from her, there was no sign of her being possessed by a ghost. This means that either she had been to a tomb or had lived with a corpse for a long time.”

Shen Qingyao's words made Meng Shuqin and Si Jingnian's expressions turn serious.

Having ruled out the first possibility, all the remaining possibilities, regardless of which one they are, prove that this matter is not simple.

"No, there's another possibility, but it's unlikely."

"What's the possibility?"

Seeing Meng Shuqin's concern for Mrs. Huang, Shen Qingyao felt a pang of envy for this kind of friendship.

"That means someone is using Mrs. Huang as a puppet, but that's unlikely because using a living person to make a puppet is extremely immoral and will result in severe divine punishment. Usually, unless someone has a deep-seated blood feud, it's almost impossible for them to do that."

Shen Qingyao's words left Si Jingnian and his son Meng Shuqin completely bewildered. Although they knew what a puppet was, they didn't understand what Shen Qingyao meant by using living people to train puppets.

"What does it mean to use living people to train puppets?"

As Si Jingnian drove, he would glance at Shen Qingyao through the rearview mirror from time to time, and quickly look away whenever Shen Qingyao looked up.

"The so-called 'using living people to train puppets' means using living people to create puppets that are invulnerable to swords and spears. Only living people can be used to train such puppets, and there are also requirements: they must be women who are all Yin in the Yin year, Yin month, Yin day, and Yin hour."

"Usually, the creation of such puppets is done unknowingly. The creator feeds the person being created with his own blood and something mixed with yin energy every day. When the yin energy in the person's body is at its peak, she will die."

"The soul of the one who is refined after death is tainted with too much yin energy and the blood of the living, so she cannot separate from her own corpse, let alone enter the cycle of reincarnation. In the end, she will be controlled by the refiner, gradually lose her self-awareness, and become a killing tool."

As Shen Qingyao explained things to Si Jingnian, she pulled her clothes tighter around herself; the night was getting chilly, and she felt cold.

Seeing this, Meng Shuqin quickly pulled Shen Qingyao's hand and rubbed it with her own palm to warm Shen Qingyao's hand.

Shen Qingyao was momentarily stunned, taken aback by Meng Shuqin's actions and unsure how to react.

She seemed to naturally pull her hand over and rub and cover it, as if they were a real mother and daughter.

She could always feel Meng Shuqin's kindness towards her, and she knew that Meng Shuqin genuinely loved her. She also did not resent Meng Shuqin's approach.

But at this moment, such a small gesture made her eyes well up with tears.

It turns out that she wasn't really someone everyone disliked. It seems that Meng Shuqin was deliberately making up for everything that Liu Shuyi had failed to do.

"Ah Yao, I don't think it's very realistic to create puppets like this."

Just as Shen Qingyao was lost in her own emotions, Si Jingnian's voice pulled her back to reality.

"How is it unrealistic?"

"It's that condition you mentioned, that the person being refined must consume fresh blood and something mixed with yin energy every day. That would easily be discovered."

Si Jingnian's words were agreed upon by Meng Shuqin, who nodded and then turned to look at Shen Qingyao with a puzzled expression.

“There are many things that carry yin energy. Some of the things dug out of ancient tombs can actually be easily processed into various foods, and fresh blood can also be easily processed to remove the bloody smell.”

Shen Qingyao disagreed, but Si Jingnian's brows remained furrowed.

"How can you expect someone to eat every day? No one eats anything every day, not even rice. What if that person wants noodles or steamed buns one day, or doesn't have a good appetite and doesn't want to eat? Unless it's water?"

Si Jingnian's question made Shen Qingyao raise an eyebrow and smile.

"What if it's medicine that needs to be taken every day? If someone can create an illness even if there isn't one, they can naturally make the person being manipulated willingly take the medicine every day. If those things are added to the medicine, who can detect it?"

Si Jingnian couldn't refute Shen Qingyao's words and nodded thoughtfully.

But Meng Shuqin's expression changed drastically, her eyes filled with surprise and worry.

"Mrs. Huang seems to have been taking medication for the past two months. At least every time I see her, she takes her medicine. I remember her saying that she has been having nightmares lately, so she went to a famous doctor to get some medicine, and she has to take it twice a day. She can't miss even one dose, otherwise she will have nightmares again that night."

Upon hearing Meng Shuqin's words, Shen Qingyao's expression turned grim, and her previously kind gaze became sharp and serious.

"Ah Yao, do you think... what if Mrs. Huang was... murdered..."

Meng Shuqin looked worried, and her tone revealed obvious anxiety and unease.

Her words made Si Jingnian's eyelids twitch, and he quickly stopped the car.

"It might just be a coincidence."

Although Si Jingnian said this, an absurd thought couldn't help but arise in his mind.

Since marrying Shen Qingyao, he no longer felt that there were so many coincidences in this regard.

"Just go to the hospital and you'll find out."

Shen Qingyao felt uneasy; her right eyelid twitched incessantly, and an ominous premonition filled her heart.

Si Jingnian noticed that Shen Qingyao's expression was off, and he kept the accelerator floored the whole way, driving at an extremely high speed.

The three of them remained silent throughout the journey, each with a heavy heart.

The journey, which usually takes an hour, was covered by Si Jingnian's speeding car, taking only half an hour.

As soon as she arrived at the hospital entrance, Shen Qingyao saw a strong aura of yin energy floating on the hospital roof and a very strong smell of blood in the air.

"not good!"

Shen Qingyao's expression changed drastically. She ran into the hospital while taking out talismans from her cloth bag.

Upon seeing this, Si Jingnian and Meng Shuqin hurriedly followed Shen Qingyao into the hospital.

Si Jingnian originally wanted Meng Shuqin to wait for them in the car, but he was really worried about leaving Meng Shuqin alone, so he simply protected her and caught up with Shen Qingyao.