Upon hearing this, Liang Xiangxiu was momentarily stupefied.
If the method of pricking with a needle really had no use,
pricking her might indeed send Li Qiao'er to the yellow springs!
Yet, the issue was that she had not only seen others use this method but had also personally experienced such an event.
On the day her son married Li Qiao'er, according to local customs, they were supposed to set up an offering table at home and burn incense and paper for the ancestors. The purpose of this was to have the ancestors witness the marriage of the newlyweds and partake in the offerings.
But Liang Xiangxiu, skeptical of superstitions and also because she had a very poor relationship with her mother-in-law, strongly objected to setting up the offering table.
Yang Shoushan did not want to provoke her on his son's wedding day, nor did he want to break the tradition passed down from the ancestors, so he quietly set up an offering table in the back room.
