The bait I laid finally showed some movement.
A tinkling sound of wind chimes rang out, and Fu Ning's voice reached our ears. "Is anyone there?"
Immediately afterwards, a panicked voice with a sob came. "Miss Du, please save me! Save my husband, Officer Xue!"
Si Jiangchen and I walked to the front store. We saw Fu Ning leading Officer Xue's wife standing outside the counter, looking solemn.
Seeing me lift the curtain and come out, Officer Xue's wife propped her hands on the counter and said anxiously, "Miss Du, I was blind and didn't recognize you as a real expert. Please help me and wake my husband up."
"Did you use the talisman I gave you?"
Actually, I didn't need to ask. Officer Xue's wife was so eager to come here with Fu Ning. The talisman must have worked on her child.
I was recommended by Master Lu Tianchang and learned the Qimen Hun Tian Dharma from the master of the Quanzhen School.
This fortune - telling method is extremely accurate. There has always been a saying that "Once you learn Qimen Dun, you don't need to ask about the visitor."
In the ward before, I just held Officer Xue's wife's arm, and I could tell from her pulse and facial features about her health and her children. She and Officer Xue were destined to have two sons, and one would see them off in their old age. It was about this pair of twins. One of them died before seeing the light.
"Yes, I used it! I used it!"
Officer Xue's wife replied in a hurry. She pulled a little boy out from behind her and pushed him in front of me. "Shuoshuo, quickly thank Miss Du for saving your life."
Officer Xue's son was named Xue Shuo. He was a little boy with a big head and a sallow and emaciated face, about eight or nine years old. He was holding an old and faded SpongeBob SquarePants doll in his hand and looking at me timidly.
"Hello."
I was not good at dealing with children. Facing Xue Shuo's big black eyes, I could only greet him like an adult.
Since he could remember, Xue Shuo had been tortured by dual personalities. His physical development was much worse than that of his peers. He had a big head and a thin body like a little radish. Seeing me greeting him, Xue Shuo looked at me and asked, "Are you... the kind - hearted person who helped me get better?"
"Yes! This kind - hearted sister gave us the talisman paper."
Before I could answer, Officer Xue's wife took over and said, "If it weren't for her, how could your schizophrenia be cured?"
"Oh..."
Xue Shuo grinned. "Then I really have to thank you, kind - hearted sister."
As he said that, he suddenly picked up a half - foot - high white porcelain Avalokitesvara statue on the counter and smashed it hard at the glass on the counter.
"Crash!"
With a loud noise, the glass and the statue were broken all over the floor. Xue Shuo grabbed a sharp glass shard and stabbed it at me.
"Shuoshuo?!"
Neither Officer Xue's wife nor Fu Ning expected such a sudden change. They didn't have time to stop the naughty boy who wanted to hurt someone. They only had time to let out two screams.
At this time, Si Jiangchen took action. He put his arm around my waist and pulled me behind him. With his other hand, he accurately grabbed Xue Shuo's wrist holding the glass shard. With a slight force, the little boy immediately let out an "ouch" and dropped the glass shard. He squatted on the ground covering his arm.
"You... You're not Xue Shuo?!"
I knew that there were two personalities in Officer Xue's child's body. One of them was extremely violent and often bullied the host personality. Now it seemed that the cowardly host personality had been led to the underworld by my guiding talisman. How could this be possible?!
I was very surprised. The host personality of the human body was completely integrated with the physical body. When the guiding talisman was used, it would only peel off the other soul that did not belong to this body and then guide it into the underworld for reincarnation by the talisman paper. Children who had not experienced the good and evil in the world should be reincarnated soon.
However, this abnormal situation that should never have happened unexpectedly appeared in front of me.
Xue Shuo had been possessed by his still - born brother. Now it was the violent and ferocious soul that occupied this body!
This guy was really cunning. In front of Officer Xue's wife, he completely pretended to be his brother's personality. When he came in front of me, he probably thought he couldn't hide it from me anymore, so he decided to strike first and tried to kill me!
"Shuoshuo, what are you doing? How could you hurt the person who saved you?"
Officer Xue's wife still didn't realize that her son's personality had changed. Seeing that Xue Shuo's fingers were cut and bleeding because he was holding the glass shard tightly, she was both distressed and scared. She ran over to help her son deal with the wound.
"You bitch, get out of my way!"
Xue Shuo reached out and pushed Officer Xue's wife roughly, scolding her, "I've lived in my younger brother's body for so many years and called you mom for so many years. How could you be so cruel as to kill me?!"
"You... How could it be you? Where's my Shuoshuo?!"
Officer Xue's wife was pushed and hit the counter. There was another loud "crash". Only then did she turn around and look at the thin and small child in front of her in horror.
She clearly gave the talisman ash dissolved in water to Xue Shuo. He no longer talked to himself or hurt himself... and he no longer looked at her eerily and called her "old bitch" inadvertently. She thought her son was finally normal.
Why in the end, was it the violent personality that took over the body?
"Why couldn't it be me?"
"Xue Shuo" said proudly, "Do you think that coward would dare to face the world alone? If it weren't for me, he would have been bullied to death long ago. Instead of thanking me, you want to drive me away? Xue Shuo said that he was willing to swap with me! He asked me to use this body from now on and bear all the malice in this world! This body..."
Saying that, "Xue Shuo" reached out and pinched his own cheek, then continued, "He voluntarily gave it up! Since he didn't want it, I'll naturally enjoy life in this flesh - and - blood body!"
"There are rules in this world."
Si Jiangchen put his arm around me and said coldly, "Although you're only ten years old, if you hurt Xiao He, I'll make you pay with your life!"
"You're so boastful!"
After all, "Xue Shuo" was just a child and didn't understand how terrifying Si Jiangchen was at all. He grinned provocatively and said, "Do you think I don't know that children under thirteen who kill people have an amnesty?!"
As he said that, "Xue Shuo" grabbed another piece of glass and pressed it against his mother's neck. "Fine, I'll kill all of you and go to the orphanage by myself!"
He had been lurking in "Xue Shuo"'s body and had seen how Xue Shuo was forced by his mother to study until late at night every day. If Xue Shuo hadn't been driven to the point of suicide by the pressure of homework and family affection, he, this "sub - personality", wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the situation!