Although Sun Wu Ye's illness had improved, he felt as if he had aged significantly.
Every night when Sun Wu Ye slept, he dreamed of his two daughters and his grandchildren. Sun Daji's wife said that Sun Wu Ye was being haunted by spirits.
Just recently, to fend off mosquitoes, they had hung some mugwort on the carriage. It had since dried, and Sun Daji's wife decided to burn it during their lunch break, allowing the smoke to drift around Sun Wu Ye.
As she burned the mugwort, she muttered under her breath, the gist being a request for Sun Wu Ye's daughters not to haunt him and to bless him with a long life.
The smoke made Sun Wu Ye cough frequently, his eyes tearing up uncontrollably.
Since she arrived here, Yu Xiaolian had come to believe in ghosts and gods. Given that Sun Wu Ye had dreamt of his daughters every day for over ten days, she also found the situation quite eerie.
