009. Cause and Effect
Chen Qiuxin walked in the familiar house in a panic. She had lived here for more than 20 years, but tonight she felt that every familiar tree and grass was so strange, and the road leading to the study seemed particularly long.
Shen Qiuxin became more and more scared as she walked. She should have reached the study room a long time ago, but this road seemed so long that she couldn't see the end.
The Qing family is not an ordinary business. Chen Qiuxin only found out about it after the little bastard was born. Qing Congnan rarely mentioned it, so Chen Qiuxin only had a vague understanding of ghosts and gods. She heard that ghosts had a method called ghost wall to harm people, but this was different from the ghost wall she knew. She had been on this road all along and had never returned to the starting point.
The dark path ahead seemed like some kind of horrible place that would swallow people, exuding a gloomy atmosphere.
The light from the lantern in Cui Jin's hand was also dim. Even though she spoke out words of comfort from time to time, Chen Qiuxin finally stopped in his tracks as he became increasingly frightened.
"Why don't you leave?" Cui Jin asked, her voice turning cold.
The voice was cold, and it seemed very wrong at this moment.
Chen Qiuxin's face turned pale in an instant, and she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have not heard Cui Jin speak for a long time. The hand holding her was as cold as ice. The road that would never end and the people around her who had changed at some point were all eroding Chen Qiuxin's sanity bit by bit.
"Madam." Cui Jin's flat voice sounded again, repeating: "Why don't you leave?"
Shen Qiuxin said stiffly: "The light... is a little dim."
"Oh." Cui Jin said, "Where is the light?"
Chen Qiuxin's originally vague memory suddenly became clear. She and Cui Jin were in a hurry when they went out and didn't bring a lantern at all!
Although he didn't dare to look, Chen Qiuxin couldn't help but slowly lower his head. What he saw was a blue-gray hand holding a lamp pole, and below it was Chen Qiuxin's head with blood gushing out of all his orifices and his eyes still open.
"ah!!!!"
A scream suddenly rang out.
Qing Ling, who was standing in the room, saw with his own eyes that Chen Qiuxin and Cui Jin were talking at cross purposes. Then, Chen Qiuxin suddenly screamed, and then his entire body seemed to be stripped of its skin and flesh by an invisible thing, with its limbs twisted off. After falling to the ground with blood dripping, he picked up the teapot with his twisted hands and poured water on his face. His abdomen was also cut open at this moment, and he choked himself to death with a pot of tea in an unbelievable way.
From beginning to end, the ghosts on the ground did nothing, but after Chen Qiuxin died, Qingling keenly sensed that the cold aura of the female ghost became stronger.
She didn't disappear.
Qingling heard Changheng chuckle softly. It was not his usual sarcastic and mocking laugh, but an extremely happy laugh.
"Two people will die tonight." Chang Heng said, "If you kill her, you won't be able to enter the reincarnation cycle."
Qingling didn't know who Changheng was talking to, but the other person who would die was definitely not him, but the maid named Cuijin.
"What are you talking about?" Qing Ling asked.
Chang Heng reached out and patted Qing Ling on the shoulder, asking, "Did you see it?"
Qingling saw it.
Shen Qiuxin, who had fallen to the ground, had her face stained with wet tea, and died with her eyes open. There was a dark and obscure line on her forehead, which looked like the word "Ling", but with more and more complex strokes, and a square circle outline, as if there was a seal on her forehead, but there was no seal on Cui Jin, who had already started struggling on the ground.
"That's cause and effect," Chang Heng said. "If you create a cause, you have to repay the result. Once the debt is paid off, it's all over."
In just a few breaths, Cui Jin on the ground died. She drowned herself with half a cup of tea.
Qing Ling didn't want to watch the scene, so he turned his head away. However, he didn't expect that even a sneaky person would have to follow the rules, so he asked in a low voice: "Cui Jin didn't owe her any debt, so why did she kill him?"
Chang Heng said nothing, but another voice sounded at this moment.
"Because ghosts are unreasonable."
The voice sounded very familiar. Qingling turned around and saw the monk Miaoyuan, whom he had met once, standing outside the open door.
As soon as Miao Yuan opened her mouth, the female ghost crawled a few steps silently and disappeared.
At this moment, Miaoyuan was staring at Changheng with a tense face as if facing a formidable enemy.
Chang Heng sneered.
"The haunting continues."
Qingling thought, it's inappropriate for a ghost like you to say that someone's ghost is still lingering, right? But he didn't dare say anything. He just glanced at Miao Yuan and found that Miao Yuan's face was full of shock, as if four big words were written on his face: unbelievable.
"How did you..."
Before Miao Yuan finished speaking, Chang Heng said casually: "You have no right to interfere in what happens here. If you don't get out of here within three breaths, you will die."
Miao Yuan had come to investigate the murderous aura surrounding Qing's residence, but he did not expect to run into the evil star he had seen in Zhanlong Mountain again. He did not expect the other party's behavior to be so similar to that of a living person. He was so shocked that he stood there in a daze. Now, after hearing the threat, he remained silent for a moment and turned around and left.
All sentient beings need to be saved, but they must also be alive.
Qing Ling, who was also extremely surprised, was called back to his senses by Chang Heng's "Let's go". On the way back to the courtyard, Qing Ling whispered, "What is the cause and effect between you and the Qing family?"
"I don't remember." Chang Heng said calmly, paused for a moment, and then said, "It's much bigger."
This sounded illogical, but when Qing Ling thought of the mark on Chen Qiuxin's head just now, he could understand that ghosts had their own way of determining cause and effect.
Qingling thought of the two people who had died miserably just now. They both died in the same way as the female ghost. A Yuan on the mountain road that day also tried every means to lure him off the cliff. It can be seen that ghosts seem to kill people in the same way they die. He looked at Chang Heng, who looked no different from an ordinary person, and could not tell the other person's death.
"What about you?" Qing Ling asked in a low voice behind him, "When are you going to take action?"
Chang Heng paused, turned around and looked at his wife, whose face was full of fear but who was pretending to be calm, and smiled viciously and coldly.
"Wait until I figure out the cause and effect..." His gentle ending tone was sinister, "Before that, you can beg me to let you go, maybe I will soften my heart."
This is a blatant joke.
Qingling lowered his eyes, walked around Changheng and walked forward.
From the time I first met Chang Heng until now, he is rapidly recovering to his original appearance. I think it won't take long for him to remember the grudge between him and the Qing family. By then, he will take action to settle this cause and effect, and as a member of the Qing family, I will not be able to escape either!
Qingling felt wronged.
He had lived a poor and hard life these years. For eighteen years, he had been guarding that small courtyard as if he were in a prison. He had not received any of the Qing family's fine clothes and delicious food, but he had to bear the consequences.
Why? !
After returning to the courtyard, Qingling ignored the two maids and went back to her room. Changheng had disappeared.
Fu'er and An'er looked at each other and saw each other's horror.
They had been doing chores in the yard and hadn't seen Qingling go out, so how did he come back from outside?
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