Yibai chose to let things take their course, allowing the old man and the Land Deity's wife to talk it out themselves. He only instructed the Land Deity's wife not to force anything.
But the old man came to him, asking how he should proceed.
Yibai told him to handle it himself.
After some thought, he added a sentence.
Li Qi, his days are numbered.
He will surely die violently within a month!
Upon hearing this, the old man was overwhelmed with sadness.
In the end, during a quarrel with the Land Deity's wife, he actually planned to let Li Qi leave with her.
Yibai was dumbfounded.
That's what the old man said.
"Qi'er is about to die, never having married, why not just be with the Land Deity's wife, so that after death he can still protect his family?"
The old man's reasoning made Yibai feel that the matter seemed not so difficult to resolve after all.
With this arrangement, did the old man's family gain a Land Deity's wife as a daughter-in-law?
Yibai was stunned.
