The Lucky Farmgirl

Manbao was led to the front by Old Zhou and Ms. Qian, while Taoist Shouqing held a ceremonial sword with a solemn expression, muttering incantations.

Whether or not he could truly call back the soul, he was quite dedicated. Manbao listened carefully and heard him chanting, "...Zhou Yin and his wife departed on a long journey in the past years and were lost. There is no place named to summon their souls back to their homeland for their ascension. With this sincere heart, I notify...summon the soul from thousands of miles to return to its native place, ascend early to immortality. Due to the unfulfilled causation, the cold soul becomes the spirit of the green waves..."

With a suave turn, Taoist Shouqing thrust his sword forward as though opening a path for the departed soul, his sharp gaze fixed on the main door as he dragged his sword all the way to the front of the shrine.

Old Zhou and Ms. Qian both watched the Taoist with keen eyes, and Manbao also stared at him with round, wide eyes.

Taoist Shouqing let out a breath, elegantly wiped away his sweat with a handkerchief and said, "The lost soul has returned; we can proceed with the funeral."

Ms. Qian suddenly burst into loud sobs, turning and throwing herself onto the coffin, beating the coffin lid and wailing, "Yin, Yin, how could you have such a hard heart, not visiting your sister-in-law even once in all these years? I raised you from a baby, even if you had come in my dreams once... "

The sweat Taoist Shouqing had just wiped away beaded up again.

Before Manbao could speak to him, she was grabbed by Junior Ms. Qian alongside Datou, who was dressed in filial piety clothes and holding a spirit tablet, and was pulled to the front to stand, "The time has come, raise the banners, proceed with the funeral—"

Ms. Feng and Ms. He quickly came forward to help Ms. Qian up, and in an instant, cries filled the air, Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang, long-absent, rushed in anxiously and took their places at the coffin, also calling out and crying loudly.