The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Chap 109
His mind was in chaos, buzzing numbness. Mo Ran only felt his hands and feet turn cold. He held Chu Wanning’s soul and went downstairs.
“Doctor …”
“It’s you? What’s wrong? ”
“Are you sure that the one upstairs … is my Shizun’s soul, right?”
Ghost Doctor Zhong was a bit impatient: “Of course it is, how could I be wrong?”
Mo Ran was not willing to give up and asked: “Could it be the Knowledge Soul, or …”
“Or what.” Ghost Doctor Zhong clicked his tongue, “A person has three souls, Earth, Knowledge, and Human. I have been practicing medicine here for 150 years. If I can’t tell the difference between these three souls, wouldn’t the King of Hell have already kicked me out of this world?”
Mo Ran pursed his lips and suddenly had an uncertain thought.
“Doctor, you have been practicing medicine for 150 years. Have you ever seen a person … with two Earth Souls?”
“You’re crazy!” Ghost Doctor Zhong angrily said, “I think your brain is not good. Why don’t you stay and let me take your pulse!”
Of course he could not let Ghost Doctor Zhong take his pulse. Although Master Huaizui had cast a spell, if he was not careful, he would still be found out. Mo Ran hurriedly apologized and hugged the lantern full of Human Souls and Earth Souls and hurriedly ran out of the Sickly Soul Hospital.
The sky in the Ghost Realm was always dark. To distinguish between day and night, one could only look up at the blue dome of heaven. If there was a half warm and half cool sun behind the red clouds, then it was day. If there was a cold moon hanging high, then it was night.
At this time, it was already night and the streets were gradually becoming cold.
Mo Ran hugged the Spirit Guiding Lantern and lowered his head, walking alone on the streets. The more he walked, the more he felt at a loss. The more he walked, the more he felt isolated and helpless.
This feeling of helplessness and loss had been with him since he was young. This feeling made him feel very uncomfortable. He even thought of some of the people he knew when he was still in the brothel. That year, when the Drunken Jade Building burned down, everyone died, only he survived …
Counting the years, other than his mother, the others should not have reincarnated. He did not know who he would meet if he continued walking like this.
Then, he thought of Xue Meng.
He recalled how Xue Meng had shouted angrily and wanted to snatch the Soul-Guiding Lamp from him. He had scolded him, “God of Plagues!”
“How are you worthy? How do you have the face?”
Mo Ran walked slower and slower with the Soul Lamp in his arms. Finally, he stopped by the wall. His eyes reddened. He lowered his head and looked at the gentle golden light.
“Master, do you … do you really not want to go back with me?”
The flame did not answer, but burned silently.
He stood in place for a long time before gradually calming down.
In this vast underworld, he didn’t know where he could find someone he knew. Suddenly, he thought of Chu Xun. Like grasping at a life-saving straw, he hurriedly ran to Shun Feng Restaurant.
When they arrived, Shun Feng Restaurant was about to close. A ghost wearing a mask was preparing to close the door and lock it. Mo Ran hurriedly stopped him and said in panic, “Sorry, please wait!”
“It’s you?”
The masked man was the one who had led him upstairs. He was stunned for a moment and said, “Why are you here again?”
“I have an urgent matter. Please …” Mo Ran was panting. His eyes were bright and anxious. He swallowed his saliva and said in a hoarse voice, “I want to see Mr. Chu Xun again.”
Chu Xun was in the pavilion looking at a begonia flower in a white porcelain vase, lost in thought. Suddenly seeing Mo Ran leave and return, he was very surprised.
“Why did Little Gongzi come back? You couldn’t find him? ”
Mo Ran said, “I did find him, but I … I …”
Chu Xun saw that he was anxious and seemed to have something to say, so he invited him into the room and closed the door. He said, “Sit down and talk.”
Mo Ran was worried that Chu Xun would see something strange with the Soul-Guiding Lamp in his hand, so he put it in his Qiankun bag.
He didn’t think that Chu Xun was an evil ghost, but it was better not to let the ghosts know about a living person entering the underworld unless it was absolutely necessary.
“Did Little Gongzi go to the southeast?”
“Yes.”
“…” Chu Xun thought for a moment and said, “He was in the Sick Soul Hospital, right?”
Mo Ran nodded. He thought for a while and said, “Sir, I saw him in the Sick Soul Hospital, but he was an incomplete earth soul. He couldn’t move or speak. He was even different from other ghosts. He was translucent. You could see him, but you couldn’t touch him.”
“Damaged earth souls are generally like this.” Chu Xun’s expression was a bit gloomy. “Some dead souls who are agitated will have their souls scattered and can’t be reunited.”
Mo Ran bit his lip and said hesitantly, “The doctor in the Sick Soul Hospital said that people with incomplete souls will have some flaws in their lives when they reincarnate. But the person I’m looking for … was clearly fine when he was alive. So I think, maybe there was a mistake somewhere. ”
He paused for a moment and looked at Chu Xun.
“Mr. Chu, is there someone in this world who has two earth souls?”
Chu Xun was stunned. “Two earth souls?”
“Yes.”
He didn’t immediately reject Mo Ran’s words like the doctor in the Sick Soul Hospital. Instead, he lowered his eyes and thought carefully for a moment. He said, “I think … it’s not impossible.”
Mo Ran shivered and looked up. His eyes were very bright in the dim candlelight in the room.
“Sir, are you serious?!”
Chu Xun nodded. “Normal people only have three spiritual souls and seven physical souls. But I once knew a woman who had two consciousness souls.”
“I’d like to hear the details.”
Chu Xun shook his head. His eyelashes drooped down and trembled slightly. He was silent for a moment before he said, “It’s something that happened a long time ago. I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Now that woman has sunk into the seventh layer of hell and is suffering. Once a person with a damaged soul is discovered by a Yama, they will be sent to the seventh layer of hell and slowly stripped away. ”
Hearing him say this, Mo Ran was even more anxious. The light was dim, so he didn’t notice the pain in Chu Xun’s eyes. He asked, “That woman, why did she have an extra consciousness soul? A normal person only needs three spiritual souls and seven physical souls to gather the soul embryo after seven heads. Then, if someone has an earth soul, will they have to gather all four souls to be useful? ”
“It should be so.”
“Then, the woman you’re talking about …”
“After she died, she was used by the nine kings and was forced to go to the world of the living …” Chu Xun paused. The slender fingers on his knees slowly clenched into a fist. “She went to the world of the living and ate her own child.”
“！” Mo Ran suddenly remembered the old story of Lin An that he saw in the Peach Blossom Spring. Only then did he realize that the woman Chu Xun mentioned was actually his wife. That should be the most painful part of the past in Chu Xun’s heart.
Then, Chu Xun stayed in Nanke Village and didn’t reincarnate. Could it be that he was waiting for his wife to strip off the extra soul and return from the seventh layer to reunite with her and enter the reincarnation cycle together?
Mo Ran suddenly didn’t have the heart to continue asking.
Chu Xun didn’t say anything else. “Ate her own child”, this short sentence, was mentioned again after two hundred years. Even if he had a ghostly body, his throat couldn’t help but tremble.
He closed his eyes.
“That woman’s soul was torn apart and merged with the child’s soul.” After a long time, he slowly continued, “So, the extra soul she had was actually the child’s soul. It was stuck between her three spiritual souls and seven physical souls and slowly assimilated with her. In the end, it completely derived her appearance and was difficult to separate from it.”
Whether this person was alive or dead, as long as someone asked him for help, he would always endure the pain and do his best to help others.
Seeing this, Mo Ran felt even more uncomfortable. He couldn’t say it clearly, so he could only say, “Mister, you don’t have to say it in detail. I, I already know.”
“The meaning of my words is to tell you that if the Young Master Chu you’re looking for really has two earth souls, there is still one that shouldn’t be his.”
Mo Ran thought for a while, then asked, “Can’t it be one earth soul that was split in half?”
“Maybe, but in your situation, it’s impossible.”
“Why?”
Chu Xun said, “A soul divided in half, I’ve seen this kind of thing before, but that’s another story. This kind of person is usually extremely evil and kills people like flies. If the three spiritual souls can’t bear it, they will shatter. But in this kind of situation, the one that shatters is the human soul that is in charge of kindness and humanity. It definitely can’t be the earth soul or the soul of the soul. ”
“… So it’s like that.” Mo Ran muttered.
Hearing that extremely evil and kills people like flies, Mo Ran felt that it had nothing to do with Chu Wanning. Instead, it was himself. He thought, if he really died in this life and came to the underworld, would his human soul be split in half and receive the retribution he deserved?
Chu Xun said again, “Moreover, if it really is a soul in half, then the other earth soul will definitely be unable to walk and will be sent to the Sick Soul Hospital. Since Young Master only saw a damaged earth soul in the Sick Soul Hospital, I think that the other soul should be a complete one and won’t be affected. ”
Mo Ran was enlightened by his words and hurriedly said, “Thank you, Mister Chu! Then I… I’ll go look for it again! ”
“Good, just now, besides pointing in the direction of the Sick Soul Hospital, Si Nan also pointed in the northeast direction. Why don’t Young Master go to the northeast and take a look. But in the vast Nanke Village, there are many souls that are waiting to be dealt with …”
Chu Xun sighed.
Mo Ran saw the pity in his gentle eyes and knew what he wanted to say.
In the vast Nanke Village, there were tens of thousands of wandering souls.
Even if one knew to walk in the northeast direction, how could it be so easy to find a strand of earth soul?
If one was not fated, even if the streets were brightly lit and not at night, two people brushed past each other, one going east and one going west, they would not see each other or even look at each other.
In the silent netherworld, it was easier said than done.
But Chu Xun was still gentle. He raised his hand and patted Mo Ran’s shoulder, “Young Master’s heart is burning with sincerity, you will definitely be able to meet again.”
His appearance was very similar to Chu Wanning. When he said this, the candlelight flickered and flowed, making his face even more blurry.
In this blur, Mo Ran seemed to see Chu Wanning’s gentle face and seemed to hear Chu Wanning telling him that they would meet again.
Mo Ran felt uncomfortable for a moment and his eyes were covered with a layer of moisture.
He hurriedly bowed and said in a hoarse voice, “Mister, thank you.”
Chu Xun did not say anything until Mo Ran turned and left, closing the door for him. He was still standing in the same place, a trace of astonishment flashing in the bottom of his phoenix eyes.
He … just saw tears in the eyes of that young man?
Ghosts do not cry, did he see wrongly? Or …
He turned his head and looked at the bunch of quietly blooming begonia flowers in the vase. It was very difficult for mortal flowers to suppress the Yin energy of hell. Even if they were carefully cared for, a petal still floated and fell on the simple wooden table.
Chu Xun walked over and picked up the flower petal. The flower and leaf quickly broke into pieces and scattered into the mud, crushing into fine powder and scattering from his fingers.
“Come in.”
“Mister Chu.” Immediately, a masked man pushed open the door and came in, standing respectfully at the side.
Chu Xun did not turn his head. He looked at the begonia flowers and asked softly, “That person, has he come to Shun Feng Restaurant again recently?”
“No, it’s still the same. Once every ten days, he comes with a begonia flower. He doesn’t dare to enter Shun Feng Restaurant and always sends people to deliver it from afar. ”
“…”
“Mister, what’s wrong? Is there something wrong with the young master who came just now? If that person dares to send people to disturb you, you can ask Yama … ”
“No.” Chu Xun came back to his senses and interrupted him. He turned his head and smiled faintly at his subordinate, sighing, “It’s nothing. He shouldn’t be sent by that person. Even if he is, that child just wants to find someone, it has nothing to do with me.”
“But if he was sent by that person to the Ghost World, then why do you —”
“Don’t implicate others.” Chu Xun’s clothes were like snow, standing quietly by the flower branch, “Let him be.”
The streets were bleak. Mo Ran went out of Shun Feng Restaurant and went to the northeast. He took Chu Wanning’s portrait and asked door to door, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. He couldn’t get a reason.
Most of the people who saw the portrait waved their hands, and some didn’t even want to look at it and avoided him.
“The person in the portrait? I haven’t seen him before. ”
“I haven’t seen him before. Don’t disturb my business.”
“Don’t block me! You’re so annoying! Can’t you see it’s so late? Get out, get out! What portrait? I don’t want to see it! Take it away! ”
Although the residents of Nanke Village were all ghosts, these ghosts’ seven emotions and six desires had never been severed. Living together, most of them gradually regained their human appearance. They would also find some friends and relatives in these eight to ten long years of waiting. If not, they would raise a dead cat or a dead dog. In short, they would live as if they were in the mortal world. Therefore, although they didn’t need to sleep, they would lie back in bed to rest when the moon was high above the willows.
As night fell, more and more people were willing to pay attention to him, and no one could give him any information or a clear path.
On the long and endless streets in the northeast, he visited one house after another, bowing his head and smiling apologetically …
“I told you!! I saw wrongly! Thinking about it carefully, it doesn’t seem to be the person in the portrait at all. Can you stop bothering me! ”
The bearded man was preparing to rest with his wife and child in the ghost world, so he was about to close the door.
When he came back from outside, Mo Ran met him on the street and asked him if he had seen the person in the portrait. He thought for a while and said that he seemed to have seen it a few days ago near the East Market. However, his wife gave him a look, so he immediately shut up, as if he realized something, and immediately waved his hand and said that he didn’t know.
Mo Ran felt that he knew, so he didn’t want to give up. He begged him all the way and followed him to the door.
The man violently pushed him outside the door and pulled the wooden bolt. Mo Ran said anxiously, “Can you think about it again? Where is the East Market? The person in the portrait, where did he go? Please … ”
“I don’t know!”
A group of ghosts heard the noise and looked over. The man shouted with a hoarse voice, ignoring Mo Ran’s hand that was still on the door frame and fiercely wanted to close the door.
His five fingers were tightly clamped, and his heart was in pain. However, he couldn’t care less. He was unwilling to pull his fingers out from the gradually closing gap of the door. Instead, he tried his best to push and pry open the door again.
“Please, please think about it again. I just want to know where he went after that …”
However, the man suddenly opened the door and didn’t notice that Mo Ran’s fingers were bleeding. He pushed him hard and then shouted, “I said I don’t know, I don’t know! Get lost! “
