Chapter 163 Unexpected Gains

Little Tangbao sat on the tiger's back, tracking the ghost energy all the way to the bottom of the cliff.

The dark energy at the bottom of the cliff was surging, and all kinds of debris could be seen everywhere. The eerie ghostly aura made people shiver with cold.

"It's quite scary here..." Li Chenglan stood behind Tang Bao like a ghost, scaring the little guy so much that his whole body trembled violently and his eyes turned red.

Tang Bao: Σ(︿)`Wu~

Tang Bao is brave and can bravely look at all kinds of lonely ghosts who died tragically, but he is most afraid of someone talking in his ear or being patted on the shoulder from behind!

Woohoo~

The little guy was really scared.

Chengfeng could no longer bear it, so he gritted his teeth and stepped forward. Regardless of whether the man was a royal relative or a scholar or official, he raised his hand and hit him hard on the back of the head.

Damn it!

Don’t you know that scaring people can actually kill them?!

Li Chenglan: "..."

The two men looked at each other, but in the end, no one said anything. They just followed Xiao Tangbao silently and continued to walk deeper into the cliff.

As he was walking, Li Chenglan suddenly looked around in panic.

He stood still, suddenly grasping Chengfeng's wrist, and with trembling fingers, he pointed at the withered bones and broken limbs half-buried in the rotten soil...

"Brothers Chengcheng and Chengfeng," he swallowed hard and asked with horror, "Do you believe in ghosts?"

Chengfeng: “???”

He saw a ghost?

Li Chenglan subconsciously tightened his grip on Chengfeng's wrist, his teeth chattering with fear.

He shrank his neck and said in a low voice, "Over there, it seems like there's a female ghost waving at me again."

"Where is it?" Chengfeng's eyes lit up and he looked around hurriedly...

Unfortunately, he had killed too many people and his yang energy was too strong, so he didn't see anything.

Xiao Tangbao turned around suddenly, with a look of impatience: "Can you please be quiet?" She muttered, thinking that she could not hear the movements around her.

…

Soon, the little guy suddenly pointed to the river below and rode away on the white tiger.

Chengfeng and Li Chenglan frowned, hurriedly took a few steps forward, and looked down following Xiao Tangbao's figure.

Li Chenglan rubbed his eyes in disbelief. He was sure that he saw a man covered in blood, floating in the air, grinning at Xie Yuanshuang.

He, he was not mistaken, the man's feet were not touching the ground, and there was no shadow...

"Ghost! Ghost!!" Li Chenglan was so frightened that he almost fainted. He pointed at the empty space beside Xie Yuanshuang and screamed.

"What the hell? Where is it? What does it have to do with anything?" Chengfeng stood on tiptoe and couldn't see anything. He was almost annoyed to death.

How come he can't see anything?

He will have to ask the prince for a talisman someday. Such a good thing cannot be given to the dog emperor!

Seeing Xie Yuanshuang's fingertips about to press on the marriage certificate...

At the critical moment, Xiao Tangbao descended from the sky riding a white tiger. She clenched her fists and, using the force of the dive, punched the scholar hard in the face.

At the moment the scholar ghost was knocked away, the force that restrained Xie Yuanshuang disappeared immediately.

Xie Yuanshuang collapsed to the ground, without a single strength left in his body.

The little guy caught the scholar ghost who was trying to escape with lightning speed.

She grabbed the scholar's throat tightly and threw him to the ground, her eyebrows raised, and she said fiercely:

"What are you doing?"

"Tell me! Why did you deceive me? Why did you bully Aunt Yuan Shuang?"

The scholar ghost glared at Xiao Tangbao fiercely, wishing he could eat her alive.

"If I hadn't managed to save her that day, she would have died at the hands of other evil spirits!"

"I allowed Xie Yuanshuang to live for so long, so why not take her life now?"

"Not at all!" the little fellow angrily punched him in the face. "Auntie Wo Yuanshuang had accumulated blessings in her past life. She carries the golden light of merit. Even if you hadn't tipped her off, she would definitely not have died a miserable death!"

The scholar ghost was furious: "Shuang'er and I are compatible, and I have been secretly in love with her for many years. She is the wife I have chosen. If you hadn't been meddling in my affairs and giving her one talisman after another, she would have been my wife long ago!"

"You don't understand at all. I'm helping her! Xie Yuanshuang is now completely alone and without any relatives. I don't mind her not even having a dowry now. I'm willing to marry her and be her support. She should be grateful to me!"

"Ha," Xiao Tangbao laughed angrily, "When you begged me, I only had a tiny bit of literary talent left. I didn't know anything at that time, so I agreed to help you fulfill your wish!"

"You have neither merit nor wealth to offer. Even if you were to marry someone in the underworld, you can't even afford the betrothal gifts. Yet you still look down on others for not having a dowry?"

The scholar ghost, whose sore spot was touched, stiffened his neck and made an angry "buzzing" sound.

"She, Xie Yuanshuang, abandoned her son, divorced, and was expelled from home. Her luck is ruined, and her fate is over... She's marrying above her station! She's marrying above her station!!"

The scholar ghost roared non-stop, the handsome face that he had painstakingly disguised was gone, and his face looked like a meat pie slapped on the ground...

When Li Chenglan saw this scene, he was so frightened that he almost stumbled and fell down the slope. Fortunately, Chengfeng was quick to rescue him.

He was shaking all over. Seeing Xie Yuanshuang lying in the snow, he forced himself to go to the river.

He, a grown man, was so scared, how could Shuang'er, a weak woman, bear it?

Seeing that Li Chenglan was so scared that his face turned pale, Chengfeng guessed that there must be an evil ghost under the cliff, so he hurried to catch up.

When they reached the bottom of the cliff, Li Chenglan didn't even dare to look at Xiao Tangbao, and hurried to help Xie Yuanshuang.

"I'm late, it's my fault..."

Li Chenglan was about to help Xie Yuanshuang, but she suddenly rushed towards Chengfeng, tightly grasping the corner of his robe with her ten fingers, "Burn! Burn the marriage certificate immediately! Quick..."

She spoke with difficulty, and her voice seemed to be squeezed out from her chest, which was heartbreaking to hear.

Chengfeng looked around and his sight fell on the strange piece of bamboo paper. Without saying a word, he lit it on fire.

"No--!!"

"Why why?!? I just want to be with the woman I love forever! I'm not wrong!!"

"You ruined me! You misled me!!"

"Zhao, Yan, Ran——!!"

"You deserve to be damned forever! Why can you go to the underworld? Why can you enter the cycle of reincarnation?" The scholar ghost's eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed to be turning into a fierce ghost.

Xiao Tangbao was stunned.

"Who are you talking about? The Zhao Yanran you are talking about is Yun Yan...is she Zhao Yanyao's mother?" Tang Bao, who was raising his fist and was about to give the scholar ghost the final blow, suddenly loosened his little hand.

The scholar ghost roared mournfully, "Who else could it be if not her? If it weren't for her, how could I be so miserable?"

"That bitch lied to me! She lied to me!!"

"I did everything she said, and she entered Prince Qing's Mansion as she wished, but she pushed me off the cliff, leaving me to die without a burial place. I won't accept this, I won't accept this..." The scholar ghost exuded a strong murderous aura, watching Xie Yuanshuang struggling desperately.

He still didn't give up.

Little Tangbao blew twice on his little fists, then punched his ugly face twice more.

puff……

The already weak soul became even more transparent and almost fell apart.

He almost lost his soul.

The scholar ghost suddenly regained his senses.

He has never been involved in anyone's death. He is just pursuing his own happiness. Even if he goes to the underworld, the judge will give him a chance.

The scholar ghost immediately quieted down, withdrew his gaze, shrank his body and remained quiet.

There was no trace of the reckless arrogance he had just now.

"Since you helped Zhao enter Prince Qing's Mansion, do you know my mother? What do you know?" Xiao Tangbao pinched the scholar's neck harder and harder, gradually losing his patience.

Everyone called her mother a bed-climber...

She scolded her mother for being shameless, and even her father showed deep disgust when he mentioned her mother.

Mother is not the kind of person they say she is. She wants to give her mother justice! !

Li Chenglan looked at Xiao Tangbao, and then at the evil ghost in her hand that had lost all its power.

Oh my god, right now the little guy is more resentful than a ghost.

It’s hard to say who is more terrifying.

It seems that he can’t keep his 10,000 taels of silver!

Tears streamed from the scholar's eyes: "Back then, when Shuang'er got married, I couldn't help but touch her red veil, and Zhao Yanran saw it."

"Afterwards, nothing happened, and I thought it was over..."

"Until one year, when the Yongping Marquis's Mansion hosted a banquet, Zhao Yanran came to me and asked me to drug Prince Qing. After they became a real couple, I would then have someone break in and help her marry into the Qing Palace."

"She said that after the matter was completed, she and Shuang'er would be sisters-in-law. She would use this relationship to send Shuang'er to my bed and give me a thousand taels of silver to help us elope."

"I, I did as she said and drugged Prince Qing. I was just too scared and didn't bring anyone to catch him..."

"But didn't she end up living in Prince Qing's mansion because of the drugging I did? It's because of her own incompetence that Prince Qing couldn't give her a legitimate status!"

"Later, she sent someone to invite me up the mountain, saying Shuang'er would come. I came as promised, but she pushed me off the cliff with her own hands..."

"God has mercy on me. He has separated that vicious woman's body and sent her to hell early! But I didn't kill anyone, so why should I end up without even a complete body and be sent to the animal realm alone?"

"I just feel so wronged, and I like Shuang'er so much... Please, Princess, please be tolerant and let me go. I will never dare to do it again. I will go to the underworld now..." The scholar ghost looked at her little fist in fear.

Xie Yuanshuang was filled with shock and anger, but she also recalled some details...

"Tangbao, what he said should be true..."

Xie Yuanshuang said in a trembling voice, "I remember that on the day of the banquet at the Yongping Marquis' Mansion, His Royal Highness Prince Qing came for the first time ever, but he hurried away halfway..."

"His Royal Highness Prince Qing had a grim expression on his face at the time, and my father was terrified. From then on, the Yongping Marquisate never hosted a banquet again."

"I guess your father may have eaten something he shouldn't have that day, but he didn't let Zhao Yanran succeed."

"It just so happened that the servants of Prince Qing's mansion, for unknown reasons, took a female doctor back with them... That female doctor turned out to be your mother, and so, anyway, you were born."