Chapter 111: Why kill them again?
"Just a light tap? More than that." Jing Wu's face revealed a mocking smile: "You took a stool and hit him more than a dozen times, literally crushing him to death..."
"No, no, no! No, I didn't!" Fang Yushu panicked immediately and hurriedly denied it: "I didn't kill him, it was him, he brought it on himself!"
"The formation you had the Taoist priest set up will completely turn him into a vengeful ghost. The first thing he will kill on the day he is born will be you."
Upon hearing this, Fang Yushu panicked instantly. After struggling with her emotions for a long time, she threw herself onto the girl and began to wail, recounting everything that had happened.
That night, Zhao Yuliang had been drinking and pinned her to the floor, beating her severely. In a fit of anger, she picked up a stool and smashed it over his head.
Seeing Zhao Yuliang stunned by the blow, she didn't know where she got the strength, but she grabbed a stool and smashed it down on him until she killed him.
Fang Yushu finally realized that she had killed someone. Panicked, she tried to escape with her two children, but Zhao Peng caught her.
She thought she was going to be sent to the authorities and die for her life, but she didn't expect Zhao Peng to be willing to help her cover it up, on the condition that she go with him.
Fang Yushu was still struggling with her decision, but she didn't expect him to threaten her with their two children, forcing her to compromise.
She had no choice but to submit to him. The two of them conspired to dismember the body that very night, and then buried it in their own vegetable garden.
Fang Yushu was also afraid that Zhao Yuliang's ghost would come looking for her, so she found a master to set up a formation in the vegetable garden.
After she finished doing all this, news spread that Zhao Yuliang was seriously ill and spent his days brewing Chinese medicine in the inn.
A month or two later, it was announced that Zhao Yuliang had died of a serious illness, and the funeral was held at the inn.
To prevent others from ruining her plans, Fang Yushu placed a few stones inside the empty coffin to give it some weight.
With his cousin Zhao Peng handling the funeral arrangements, everyone assumed that Zhao Yuliang had died of a serious illness and had no suspicion about the cause of his death.
After the funeral, the two first secretly had an affair behind each other's backs, and then became increasingly bold.
Although the villagers saw it, they wouldn't say anything in front of her, since it's not uncommon for a sister-in-law to marry her brother-in-law.
"I really didn't mean it, girl!" She knelt down abruptly, clutching the man's skirt, and cried pitifully, "He hit me, he beat me so badly that I'm covered in sores. I only fought back a little, I hit him with a stool. If I hadn't fought back, I would have been beaten to death!"
Jingwu pulled her skirt back, her eyes turning slightly cold: "A string of lies."
Upon hearing this, Fang Yushu's face paled, and she immediately stood up, shouting at the top of her lungs, "Miss, how am I lying? I've never told anyone these things. I only told you because I trusted you. If you don't believe me, you can ask Zhao Peng!"
"Ask him?" Jingwu laughed, speechless. "Zhao Yuliang discovered your affair with Zhao Peng and argued with you. During the argument, he accidentally pushed you, and you then decided to kill him. You pretended to beg for forgiveness and promised it wouldn't happen again. After Zhao Yuliang forgave you, you brought him a pot of wine, got him drunk, and then you and Zhao Peng teamed up to beat him to death..."
"Stop talking, stop talking!" Fang Yushu's face turned bright red, and her whole body was still trembling uncontrollably. "What you're saying is all false, you're just talking nonsense. Tell me how much money you want to shut up!"
"Alright, I won't say anymore." Jing Wu snapped his fingers, and a ghostly figure radiating yin energy appeared in the room: "Then let him tell you."
"Give me back my life, give me back my life, give me back my life."
The ghostly figure drifted towards Fang Yushu, its arms outstretched, the black nails on its fingers pointing straight at her, its lips slightly parted, emitting eerie sounds.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
After Fang Yushu saw the face in front of her clearly, she screamed in fright.
She quickly dodged backward, but seeing the ghostly figure relentlessly pursuing her, she couldn't help but scream in despair.
"It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me! Don't come looking for me!"
Hearing the shrill screams, Jingwu frowned, reached out and set up a barrier to separate his room from Yue Huai's room next door, so as to avoid waking up the others.
After doing all that, she could finally relax and watch the chase between the human and the ghost while sipping her tea.
Fang Yushu realized that the ghostly figure behind her was relentlessly pursuing her, and her legs went weak.
His face was covered in bloodstains, his eyes were bulging out, and the back of his head was sunken, with drops of blood dripping down.
She didn't dare look back; the face was terrifying, exactly the same as when he died.
Zhao Yuliang behind him had long lost his reason, leaving only a single obsession: to make the person in front of him pay with his life.
"Girl, girl, I beg you, please let him go, I really... I'll tell you everything, I'll tell you the truth!" Fang Yushu couldn't take it anymore and knelt on the ground, pleading desperately.
Jingwu then put down his teacup, formed a hand seal, and froze the ghostly figure in place.
"Speak."
Seeing that the ghostly figure was no longer approaching, Fang Yushu breathed a deep sigh of relief. She collapsed to the ground and, after a long while, slowly spoke.
“You’re right. I was having an affair with Zhao Peng, and Zhao Yuliang found out. That day, he grabbed me by the neck and questioned me about why I betrayed him. All I did was say that he didn’t satisfy me in bed, and he pushed me to the ground. In a fit of anger, I picked up a stool and hit him.”
"Then what?"
Fang Yushu dug her fingernails into her palm, leaving a mark, and continued through gritted teeth, "I knocked him unconscious immediately. I was afraid he would come after me when he woke up, so I decided to go all the way and called Zhao Peng to help me beat him to death. After he died, I was worried that his body was too big to bury, so Zhao Peng and I took kitchen knives and cut him into pieces and buried him in the vegetable garden."
As she said this, she suddenly raised her eyes and said fiercely.
"It's his own problem with sex, how can you blame me for going out to find someone? He's only twenty-eight or twenty-nine, not even thirty yet, and he's already so incapable. If I don't go out and relieve myself, I'll die of frustration sooner or later. You're a woman too, you can understand me, right?"
Jingwu's eyes twitched as he listened to her defense.
Then, he asked coldly.
"And what about your two children? Why did you kill them?"
These words struck Fang Yushu like a thunderbolt.
Her eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the person in front of her.
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