After handing out the packets, Liu Cheng immediately returned to Shouchun.
General Xie An had died so many times that one naturally grew used to it, but the matter itself remained a serious one. Only Liu Cheng could handle the aftermath.
Of course, Xie Yi was not dead yet. He was merely dying.
When General of the Vanguard Army Liu Cheng entered with a group of people, he found Xie Yi simply lying on the couch. Though he was drooling, nothing else seemed unusual. Just as Liu Cheng was wondering about this, a distinct, rank stench suddenly drifted over, embarrassing both the visitors and Xie Xuan, who stood attending at the couch. Xie Xuan asked everyone to step away for a moment, while the man on the couch showed no reaction whatsoever.
Once outside, they exchanged looks. They all knew that General Xie An truly was beyond saving.
After a while, Xie Xuan came out. They questioned him and learned that before falling unconscious, Xie Yi had actually seen ghosts and spirits coming through the wall inch by inch and had been frightened out of his wits. This only strengthened their certainty that he had little time left.
According to those with experience, wine could connect one to the spirits. Heavy drinkers nearing death could see the ghosts and spirits of Mount Tai coming to claim their lives, and could evade being escorted away by getting drunk and sleeping through it. But that was no lasting solution. The ghosts and spirits would certainly return, and then it would come down to luck: three to five days at the shortest, half a month at the longest, and almost never more than a month.
Taken together with all Xie Yi's drunken symptoms in Shouchun-headaches, dizziness, excessive sleepiness, forgetfulness, and an unsteady gait-it