Seventh Master and I had searched through plenty of material about this monster's origins, but found nothing.
Seventh Master had originally planned to ask his colleagues whether any of them had heard of such a monster, but just as he was about to ask, we realized we could not describe what it looked like at all.
Even Ninth Concubine, who had lived for over a hundred years, did not know where this monster had come from.
So how had I found out?
The credit for that went to the Evil Well Meng Yifan and Lin Jinhua had discovered.
When we found that well, chains were wrapped around its mouth, and an evil-suppressing talisman was pasted on it. Clearly, something was being suppressed inside.
To know what exactly was being suppressed in that well, we first had to know what had been in it.
At first, it had been an ordinary well. But after someone spread rumors that Seventh Concubine was having an affair, Master Luo personally pushed her into the well and drowned her. That meant Seventh Concubine's Wronged Soul had been in the well.
Later, Second Concubine beat Xiuzhu to death, and her body was eventually dumped into the well, so Xiuzhu's Wronged Soul had ended up there too.
Thus, what was being suppressed in that well was either Seventh Concubine's Wronged Soul or Xiuzhu's.
But later, we learned that Seventh Concubine had long since reincarnated. Fourth Concubine had hired a Taoist priest to deliver her Wronged Soul.
And when Fourth Concubine hired someone to deliver Seventh Concubine, Xiuzhu had still been alive.
So all along, only Xiuzhu's Wronged Soul had been suppressed in that well.
But who exactly had suppressed Xiuzhu? If her Wronged Soul had not been causing trouble, why suppress her?
If Ninth Concubine had known