Chapter 70: Her Plan to Strike the Li Family Mansion with Lightning
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Stepping out the door, his lungs felt like they were on fire. Before the bone-chilling cold had even subsided, a voice called out from behind:
"Miss, why did you come out?"
Pingyu was startled and turned around abruptly.
There were no ghost faces in sight, only the girl's face with a confused expression.
The woman in green looked at the pale-faced girl, then back into the room. She asked uncertainly, "Did you see the cockroaches?"
In the slave girl's memory, her mistress only showed such terror when she saw bedbugs. With that, she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to push open the door: "Don't be afraid, Miss, I'll help you!"
cockroach?
Her mind, which had been gripped by fear, cleared instantly. The girl stared at the closed door behind her and thought:
Did I just close the door?
She remembered that the door was wide open when she first escaped, so why did it close after the green-clad figure arrived?
Pingyu took a half step back, looking surprised and uncertain.
Seeing that the green-clad man's hand was about to touch the door, Ping Yu urgently called out to stop him: "Wait!"
The woman in green trembled for a moment, then asked, "What's wrong?"
"There are no cockroaches."
She brushed people off, saying, "I just felt too stuffy inside and wanted to come out for a walk."
Ping Yu himself had just escaped; how could he let Green Robe venture into danger? To prevent the girl from asking further questions, she preemptively asked, "Weren't you outside the courtyard? How did you suddenly come into the inner courtyard?"
When Pingyu turned around, Green Robe was right behind her, clearly looking for her. Reminded by her young mistress, Green Robe finally remembered her duty. She hurriedly reported, "Miss, someone has come to visit from outside the manor!"
She has no one else besides Nezha. What business does someone have visiting her outside the mansion?
If they were guests, Lin Dong and Xue Yue'e would naturally greet them. Meeting the girl's puzzled gaze, the slave girl replied, "It is a girl, Miss. She was the one who came looking for the Third Prince that day!"
Ping Yu instantly had a candidate in his mind:
She was one of the sisters.
This is someone I absolutely have to see.
She immediately replied, "Then I'll change my clothes and go. Tell her to come inside and wait for me."
"This..." The woman in green hesitated, then finally said, "I'm afraid it's not appropriate."
Why?
In response to the question from the master, she replied, “We have a guest visiting our mansion, and he is a distinguished guest. He is a major customer from Chaoge. The madam and master said that this person can present our Lin family’s pastries to His Majesty. Although the girl seems well-behaved, she is still a commoner’s child. I am afraid that she might offend a noble person.”
That makes sense...
As Pingyu pondered this, Green Robe suggested, "How about I prepare some snacks and take them to her?"
"Go and prepare."
Ping Yu's words sealed the deal, and she turned and went back inside. To be honest, she didn't really want to go in, but she couldn't go outside in her thin clothes. Besides, if she said she was going to change but didn't go inside, Green Robe would become suspicious.
She didn't want to cause any more panic in her family.
Ping Yu silently recited, "With dragon scales here, there's nothing to fear," and then raised his hand to push open the door.
But this time, the terrifying chill vanished. Pingyu no longer felt maliciously watched, and the goosebumps on her skin subsided. She closed the door and quickly opened the wardrobe to choose some clothes.
Although the malice was gone, there was still something unsettling about the room. Pingyu decided to finish quickly and not linger inside.
The Lin family was wealthy and prosperous, and their ancestral home was considered a blessed place, not easily attracting ghosts. However, the unusual malevolent spirits haunting the mansion were simply due to Ping Yu's special constitution. Before his death, Nezha had guarded the mansion, and evil spirits dared not approach due to his powerful spiritual energy and his reputation for "annihilating all ghosts." Now that he was dead, the immense spiritual energy that enveloped the entire Lin mansion had slowly dissipated over time.
Pingyu believed that without the other party's deterrence, the number of monsters in his home would increase in the future.
Fortunately, Nezha had taught her the Thunder Talisman before his death, which could summon heavenly thunder to destroy many demons and ghosts.
However, the killing range of this technique is too large. If it were used in the mansion, it would probably destroy half of the house with just one use!
The Lin family is large and powerful, but even they can't withstand this kind of turmoil!
We need to redirect it to another place.
Pingyu thought for a moment, then reached out and put on her outer skirt.
It's just past noon, and the yang energy is at its peak.
But where can one build something that won't be struck by lightning and pollute the environment?
Pingyu's primary target is the East China Sea.
Water also conducts electricity.
Pingyu felt inexplicably excited when he thought about using electric batons to blow up fishponds in the real world.
There is absolutely no personal grudge involved!
It's simply a matter of eliminating some useless, flat-lying fish through external forces to maintain the stability of the marine ecosystem!
Of course, it would be best if we could blow up the Dragon Palace.
At the gate, the surviving twin was having a great time. She was eating snacks, and even the kitten she was holding got a bowl of goat's milk.
When Pingyu walked out, the man and the cat were having a great time and were completely absorbed in their conversation.
After waiting for a while and finding that no one had noticed her, she finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Sister, what do you want with me?"
The twins' names were chosen casually: the deceased younger sister was called Little Sister, and the surviving older sister was called Big Sister.
When someone called her name, the younger sister almost bit her tongue. At the same time, the cat turned around, and the moment it met Ping Yu's gaze, its cat eyes narrowed, and it bent down to hiss.
"Meow!!!"
The tabby cat was tense all over, and its fur stood on end as it approached Pingyu.
"Mimi?"
Confused by the cat's unusual reaction, the older sister quickly picked it up and comforted it, saying, "This is the owner who came looking for you, haven't you forgotten?"
The tabby cat remained unmoved, its sharp claws still extended and its body on high alert.
"Did I scare you just now?" Pingyu loved animals, and seeing the tabby cat's obviously stressed appearance, she felt guilty. She reached out to pet it, apologizing, "I'm sorry, Mimi."
The cat remained motionless in the girl's arms. Besides its calm expression, its pupils reflected the image of someone else. It was a second shadow clinging to the other person, its form vaguely outlined by red and black mist threads. The mist and smoke intertwined, everything hazy and indistinct, except for two pairs of clear, black and white eyes that shone brightly in the shadows. A point of light shone in the pupils of those two eyes, cold and sinister.
The cat, which understands the interplay of Yin and Yang, hissed not because of Pingyu's sudden outburst, but as a warning to the two-legged creature that an unusual monster was present behind her.
Unfortunately, Pingyu did not understand.
The shadowy figure behind her raised its hand and slowly made a gesture towards the cat, the flesh hanging from the base of its fingertip pressed against its lips:
Shh.
Pingyu's hair was pressed down slightly, almost imperceptibly.
His eyes curved into crescent moons:
Don't tell her.
The mysterious figure embraced Ping Yu's neck intimately from behind.
His moon-like eyes held no smile, only murderous intent and threat.
It was as if the cat would die instantly if it meddled in anything else.
The cat yielded, letting Pingyu stroke its ears.
Pingyu, completely unaware of the end of the game, assumed she had calmed the cat down. She breathed a sigh of relief and repeated to her younger sister, "What brings you here?"
"Tomorrow will be the seventh day after the Third Prince's death," the eldest sister said. "The Third Prince only provoked the Dragon King to save my younger sister. It's not that he was incorrigible in his cruel nature and deliberately went to Nine Rivers Bay to cause trouble and vent his anger, as they say!"
The older sister got angrier and angrier as she talked, and the snacks she had eaten earlier caused her to feel nauseous.
She couldn't help but let out a loud burp.
Pingyu: ...
Big sister:......
The scene became extremely awkward, and the younger sister blushed. Pingyu remained calm and gestured for her to continue.
The eldest sister continued, "It is said that on the seventh day after death, the deceased will return home to fulfill any unfulfilled wishes or to say their final words to their family members who are still worried about them. Finally, they will bring all the paper money burned during these seven days back to Fengdu."
After saying so much in one breath, the eldest sister finally got to the point: "I want to ask, does the master want to come with me to burn paper money for the Third Prince?"
Having attended numerous funeral banquets, both in modern and ancient times, Pingyu has gained some understanding of matters related to funerals.
After listening to the whole thing, she pointed out the problem: "Isn't it customary to burn paper money at the mourning hall on the seventh day after death? We're going to the Li residence instead?"
"But!" the eldest sister said, "I don't think the General's Mansion has set up a mourning hall for the Third Prince... So, does that mean we can just burn paper money anywhere while chanting the Third Prince's name, and he'll receive it?"
"The General's Mansion didn't set up a mourning hall!?"
Pingyu had been ordered to stay home and rest for the first three days because he was supposed to steal Nezha's coffin. This was a form of confinement, and because Li Jing considered the incident a family disgrace and strictly forbade the slaves from knowing about it, Pingyu was unaware of what was happening outside.
A person's soul needs a shrine to be properly worshipped and gathered; otherwise, it will only become one of the many wandering, lonely ghosts in this world.
Pingyu knew that Li Jing wouldn't hold a funeral for Nezha, but wasn't it going too far not to even set up a mourning hall?
Since the person is dead, you might as well not even bother acting anymore, right?
It was discovered that, let alone the seventh day after Nezha's death, the Li family had no intention of supporting Nezha at all.
Pingyu suddenly raised the corners of his mouth.
A forced smile, like a paper doll.
Seeing the once gentle young master suddenly smile like a female ghost in the blink of an eye, the older sister felt extremely frightened.
She heard the other person say, "Sister, don't go. There's a mourning hall at the Li residence; I'll go there tonight to burn the offerings."
Curiosity outweighed fear, and the girl asked, "But everyone says there isn't one! Was there originally one? The General and his wife kept it a secret so well that the whole of Chentang Pass knew that the Third Prince didn't have a mourning hall!"
Pingyu was originally wondering where to direct the heavenly lightning, but after hearing her younger sister's words, she changed her mind.
"some."
In fact, the Li family did not have a memorial hall for Nezha.
Li Jing was not only unwilling to spend an extra tung seed or incense stick on Nezha, but more importantly, he was in his prime, strong and healthy. Li Jing had a premonition that he would live a long life, which would fall within the timeframe when Nezha might be reincarnated and grow into an adult to seek revenge.
He didn't want Nezha to receive offerings of incense and be reincarnated.
It's okay though...
She was speaking to her younger sister, and also to herself:
"It will be there when I get there."
Without a moment's mourning for being kicked out of Jiuhewan, the General's Mansion made its grand entrance.
Pingyu planned to pretend to visit the Li residence, and then, when the ghost in the house went mad, she would naturally summon heavenly lightning to strike it down.
Despite his selfish motives, Ao Guang was willing to withstand the pressure from Taiyi Zhenren and gather his brothers from all sides to demand an explanation at Chentang Pass for his son's death.
Afterwards, he truly kept his promise and didn't cause any more trouble.
But Li Jing was different.
He treated Nezha as an ornament, a badge, from beginning to end.
When Nezha was in his prime, Li Jing would hang him on his body to enhance his own glory. When Nezha caused trouble, Li Jing would complain that he was prickly and covered in dust, wishing he could throw him away immediately and stomp on him.
Pingyu privately believes that Li Jing is even worse than the Old Dragon King.
If it misses, it's because Heaven is merciless; Pingyu has nothing to say.
But if he gets struck by lightning, may this thunder awaken the hypocritical man and make him open his eyes and see what he's doing.
She thought to herself:
The Li family mansion is all made of wood, so a strong fire is perfect for Nezha to burn money for!
Author's Note: I may revise this! Any updates mean I'm editing the story.
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