Chapter 53 - 40: I’ll Take the Blunt
"Summoning the soul... such a wicked art, only you could come up with something like this!"
Min Ning froze for a moment, then her face turned into one of anger.
Chen Yi’s idea wasn’t just audacious, it was shocking and disregardful of human ethics!
To summon Min He’s already departed soul—what else could this be but disrespect toward the ancestors? According to the laws of Great Yu, desecrating one’s ancestors or ancestral tablets warrants eighty lashes at best, death penalty at worst.
"This is the simplest way: directly call your grandfather out to ask him, and besides..."
Chen Yi spoke as if he were Mara tempting Siddhartha Gautama:
"Don’t you want to see your grandfather one more time? Don’t you want him to witness Min Ning and Min Yuechi now, young and accomplished, bringing honor to the family name? Don’t you want to hear him praise you once again, don’t you want him to teach you another strike with the blade?"
His words carried an inexplicable allure, and, without realizing, Min Ning began to picture the kind elder in her mind. As sacred teachings have said: the bond between fathers and sons is often distant, but between grandfathers and grandchildren, it is close. Min He, having built the family’s prosperity from scratch, had himself borne the storms that tried to shake the roots of the Min family. Under his protective shadow, the country’s winds and rains could never reach them.
Min Ning’s thoughts began to wander as she paced aimlessly through the courtyard, her gaze shifting erratically.
She was still unable to make up her mind. After all, summoning the soul was something so...