The so-called "filling the dirt" is to put a living person's organs into the body of a paperman to make it spiritual.
For one organ, it requires a living person's life to fill. Seventy organs would need over seventy lives.
"Master, let's not talk about whether we can find these seventy plus lives; even if we can find them, from now until tonight, how long is that really?
If you let me kill seventy pigs, I might not even manage that many."
The Turtle Mountain Taoist kept complaining,
Zhou Xuan changed the topic and asked, "If seventy can't be done, then how many can?"
"Seven at most." The Turtle Mountain Taoist felt that if he gave it his all, he could probably complete around ten organ fillings.
But he feared Zhou Xuan would haggle, so he left himself some leeway.
To his surprise, Zhou Xuan straightforwardly said, "Alright, seven it is. Do your best and deliver by tonight."
"Ah? No haggling?" The Turtle Mountain Taoist was quite surprised.
