Chapter 196: Visiting and Listening to the Heartache

The letter of invitation stated that the bride had committed suicide by poisoning and also killed his son.

It is said that one's body and hair are inherited from one's parents, so marriage should naturally be arranged by one's parents. However, the happy event turned into a sad one, so one had to ask someone to exorcise the ghost and restore peace to the family.

They have been trying to find a way to dispel the bride's resentment, but they have tried many methods and none of them worked. This time they came here to try their luck and see if she has any obsessions here.

It turned out that she had been arranged to marry someone in the afterlife, hence her deep resentment! They had always believed that she was unhappy with the marriage and that was why she was constantly making a fuss and refusing to go to the underworld.

Yan Weiwan said absentmindedly, "Could you help us find the location of the bride's home? There are some things we need to know."

"Okay, Ajin will take you there later."

The village chief agreed very readily. Bai Yunshu and the others got up and planned to go out to see the situation.

Perhaps because of what happened in the past few days, the village was dead silent. Only a few old men sat together on the roadside playing chess and chatting, and a few children were chasing each other and laughing and playing at the door. Only men were seen by the fields.

Qi Ningzhu naturally noticed something was wrong, and walked in front of Yan Weiwan, speaking to her in a low voice.

"Why are there so few women in this village? But there are so many children, one or two at every door. I think something is wrong."

Yan Weiwan thought for a moment and looked at Ajin, who was leading the way with his head down.

"Ajin, do all the women in your village hide their faces?"

Ajin paused and spoke in a low voice.

"Yes."

"Why?"

Yan Weiwan is puzzled

Ajin spoke honestly.

"Because they are disobedient, they are locked up, so they are not seen. There are very few who can walk out."

Qi Ningzhu and Yan Weiwan's expressions changed, while Bai Yunshu and Nan Lezhi next to them did not speak.

The two masters noticed something was wrong the moment they entered the village, but they kept wondering when their disciples would discover it.

When passing by other villagers' windows on the road, you can see pairs of eyes behind some windows that are timid and fearful but yearning for freedom.

So this journey has been heavy.

Seeing that it was still early, Nan Lezhi and Bai Yunshu planned to investigate together to see if there were any other clues and whether the two things were related.

Looking at the two little disciples walking in front and taking charge, I couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

In the dead silence, they arrived at the first house of the ghost victim.

When I stepped into the yard, there was only an old woman in the house who was fumbling with spinning thread. Next to her was a tattered cradle with a skinny child lying in it.

Seeing someone coming outside the door, the old woman stood up tremblingly with a kind smile on her face.

"Ajin? Who did you bring here? I can't see clearly."

"Mother-in-law, I brought a few immortals here to learn about the previous ghost incident."

When my wife heard that she wanted to know about ghosts, she suddenly became very excited and walked forward to hold Qi Ningzhu's hand.

"Alright, alright, I'll tell you everything you want to know! Immortal, you must subdue those ghosts. My son was killed by them! Ahem…"

After she finished speaking, she started coughing. Qi Ningzhu quickly patted her on the back, signaling her not to be so excited.

"We will, mother-in-law. Is this child your grandson? Why does he look so weak? Where is your daughter-in-law? Can you ask her about his condition?"

Qi Ningzhu went straight to the point, and the smile on her mother-in-law's face froze noticeably.

"He's my grandson, but his mother doesn't want to breastfeed him, so he looks skinny. It's okay, I will feed him goat's milk and raise him."

Hearing about her daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law said a little restrainedly: "My daughter-in-law? What could that lunatic know? You can ask, she is on the bed in the room, right inside, you can go in, but she might scare you, but I have tied her up, you have to be careful..."

The old woman said it reluctantly, and Yan Weiwan still felt uncomfortable with the word "tie".

When you say it this way, it doesn't feel like you are talking about a person, but rather an animal or an object. In any case, it's not a person.

Qi Ningzhu and Yan Weiwan looked at each other and walked in first. The next second, a woman's scream was heard from inside.

The two of them retreated instantly, with panic on their faces.

The one I just saw... was it a human?

The person with a foul smell all over his body, disheveled hair, bared fangs and claws, three times more terrifying than a ghost, is a person. Is she the daughter-in-law of this old woman?

Just when Yan Weiwan was about to say something, the old woman next to her rushed in skillfully with a stick in her hand.

"I told you not to listen! If you scream again, I'll beat you to death!"

“Ahhhhhh!”

Hearing this voice, Qi Ningzhu gritted his teeth and went in again, and Yan Weiwan hurriedly followed.

The old woman was pointing a firewood stick as thick as her arm at the woman on the bed. When the woman on the bed saw the stick, she held her head and trembled.

Qi Ningzhu stepped forward, intercepted the stick in her hand and took it away, then looked at the chains on the woman.

There's one on my neck, one on my wrist, and one on my ankle...

Qi Ningzhu couldn't help but speak.

"Why did you treat her like that?"

When the old woman heard Qi Ningzhu's cold tone, she explained with a wry smile.

"Immortal, please forgive me for laughing. We bought her with our own money. She always wants to leave, but she is my son's wife. I won't let her go. The child also needs a mother, so I can only tie her up and give her a bite to eat."

"It's okay, it's okay. I went through the same thing before, and I became obedient. When the child grows up, she won't want to leave! She's just a little bit unruly now."

Qi Ningzhu looked at the woman, then at the old woman, and said angrily, "You! You are a woman like her, why are you like this?"

The old woman didn't say anything when she heard this.

Why do this? Because if I don't do this, I won't survive.

She can't run away anyway... Let her learn to compromise now, after all, there is a child.

Ajin, who walked in from behind, spoke coldly.

"My mother was imprisoned like this before. It's normal. Everything here is normal."

In his opinion, these are all very normal things. After all, his father has taught him since he was a child that women are like animals and they cannot be allowed to run away.

Qi Ningzhu took a deep breath.

"Normal? What's normal about that? They're human beings, not animals! So? What happened to your mother?"

Ah Jin blinked when he heard her ask that and said, "Dead. She's crazy, she deserved it. She always beat me, calling me a bastard. She ran halfway up the mountain, missed a step, and fell to her death."

On the day he died, he didn't cry. He just wondered, "Why did I run? Why didn't I obey? Why didn't I live a peaceful life like the family next door?"

He looked indifferent and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.