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“The Jade Gourd Leads the Soul”

Antique dealer Lao Bai got a string of Hetian jade gourd bracelets, each of which contained a grain of cinnabar. He sold them as ordinary handicrafts, but he always heard a “click” sound from the counter in the middle of the night – the lids of those gourds would open a crack by themselves.

The rich businessman who bought the bracelet died suddenly three days later. His body was intact, except for a pinhole-sized hole on the top of his head. During the forensic autopsy, it was found that the brain was missing, but the inner wall of the cranial cavity was engraved with miniature “Rebirth Mantra”. Lao Bai checked the account book and was shocked to find that the bracelet was actually a burial object from the late Qing Dynasty collected from the tomb robbers, and the ancestor of the rich businessman was the county magistrate who forced the jade craftsman to death.

That night, Lao Bai was awakened by a rustling sound, and saw the bracelet floating in the moonlight, and the lids of the eighteen gourds popped open. A wisp of green smoke floated out of each gourd, and when it fell to the ground, it turned into a little man holding a carving knife, who smiled at him mysteriously: “It’s time to pay back the debt…”

The next day, the apprentice found a miniature landscape like a jade carving on the glass of the counter – Lao Bai was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, and a crystal jade flower bloomed on the back of his head.