Xiao Ying's eyelids twitched a few times. "What do you mean, possessed?"
He managed to stay calm on the outside, but his heart had already begun to tremble.
His own symptoms seemed just like possession. He was always seeing things that weren't there.
The man thought for a moment. "Seeing things, I guess. He also heard calling and crying. He heard those sounds when he was burning the woods, and they scared him half to death. Later, it seemed like he saw things too. There seemed to be someone in the woods. He couldn't sleep or eat. That's why our old ancestor beat up that brother of yours, too. He thought he'd run into a ghost, so he lashed out and beat someone. The fear drove him mad. That's what we say in our family, anyway. It's not like he beat him on purpose."
From the man's tone, it was clear he harbored a lot of resentment toward the Shen family.
If what he said was true, then his old ancestor had injured Shen Mingxiu and fled Minqing because he had helped the Shen family burn down the woods.
What bothered me was that Shen Mingyi had come up with the idea.
If the stories Shen family descendants had heard were all true, then Shen Mingyi had a twin sister who'd been thrown to her death. He was also in poor health, so it was quite possible that the dead infant had latched onto him. That would explain why the woods were burned down later.
Shen Mingxiu had been left unable to have children, and Shen Mingyi's branch was the only one left with male descendants in the Shen family...
Shen Ankang had been found. Although he'd adopted Xiao Ying, and Xiao Ying did have Shen family blood in his