However, no matter how hard he tried, he only felt excruciating pain. The female ghost was still there, and the stench of blood in the air had not faded in the slightest.
"Hehehehehehe..." The female ghost floated towards Meng Yongfu again, her laughter unpleasant and arrogant. "Don't waste your energy anymore. You killed my whole family. Do you still want to live? I have been waiting for this day for three years. I will torture you to death bit by bit, just like you said, so that you can never be reincarnated!"
The female ghost laughed and wrapped her snow-white sleeve around Meng Yongfu's neck again.
A chill ran down Meng Yongfu's neck, then down to his tailbone, and he immediately rushed toward the door at his fastest speed ever.
He can't wake up. If she kills him in his dream, he might really die.
But as soon as he rushed to the door, a tall figure blocked his way.
He was still dressed in white, and blood was still flowing from his seven orifices. However, Meng Yongfu breathed a huge sigh of relief and quickly lowered his head with a forced smile.
"Brother Zheng, I didn't mean it. I really didn't mean to hurt you. I've regretted it every single day of these past years."
If I could turn back time, I would never have made that mistake.
I really know I was wrong! Please let me go.
"If you release me tonight, I will definitely hire a Taoist priest for Brother Zheng and Sister-in-law Zheng to chant a soul-soothing incantation for you so that you can be reincarnated as soon as possible..."
However, no matter how much he laughed until his cheeks ached and his mouth was dry, the male ghost just stared at him with his bloodshot eyes.
But he didn't utter a single word.
Meng Yongfu's heart pounded with apprehension. Could it be that this female ghost was the most powerful?
At this moment, her neck tightened again, and in the blink of an eye, she was dragged back into the house. "Hmph! In the Zheng family, women have always been in charge. What use is it for you to find him?"
Moreover, you used arsenic, which burned your husband's throat so badly that he couldn't even speak when he was a ghost. Why do you think he would forgive you?
A heartless person like you is worse than an animal. You still want to live? Don't you even know how to look at yourself in the mirror? You deserve to be childless and without descendants..."
Upon hearing this, Meng Yongfu finally couldn't help but retort, "Your Zheng family has so much money, what's wrong with lending me some?"
Moreover, it's just a noodle recipe. There are nearly twenty towns and tens of thousands of people in Qingshui County. If you teach me a little bit, it won't affect your business at all, but you insist on keeping it a secret!
We're all human, so why do you get to live in big houses and eat and drink well every day?
Our family could only squeeze into a shack, eating wild vegetable porridge every day, and even our feces were green.
If you were willing to lend me two or three hundred taels of silver, or if you were to bring up the matter of the cinnamon and chicken bones, I wouldn't have been so cruel as to poison you with arsenic.
You all brought this on yourselves, you deserved it, you deserved to die... Ah!!!
Before she could finish speaking, the white veil around her neck suddenly tightened, lifting her off the ground. Immediately, a powerful force traveled from the veil to her entire neck, as if it were about to crush her flesh and bones.
Meng Yongfu kicked his legs unconsciously.
All I could hear were the sounds of horns blaring and bones cracking.
Finally, even the last bit of air in his chest was squeezed out. He stared at the pair of bloodshot eyes before him, and terror swept over him like a tidal wave.
He regretted it!
It's not that I regret poisoning and killing him.
Instead, he regretted his earlier retort. If he was going to be childless, so be it. Why did he have to argue with her?
Just when he thought he was going to die today, the white veil pulling at his neck finally loosened.
Meng Yongfu collapsed to the ground, like a fish that had finally returned to water, his mouth wide open, breathing heavily.
The female ghost crouched down, her crimson eyes meeting the man's gaze. "Meng Yongfu, how does death taste? Did you like it? Do you still dare to curse me and my husband, hmm?"
The voice was extremely low, but to Meng Yongfu it sounded like the call of the Black and White Impermanence.
Terrified, he immediately lay down on the ground, bracing himself on the edge of the table, and kowtowed to the 'Zheng couple' with tears streaming down his face, crying, "I was wrong, I really know I was wrong!"
I shouldn't have been greedy for money and recipes, and I shouldn't have put arsenic in your porridge. I was blinded by greed and my face was covered in lard.
Moreover, I am now getting my comeuppance. The land I bought with your thousand taels of silver was all gambled away by my son, and he is now heavily in debt.
"Just spare my life, and I'll agree to anything you ask, okay? I don't want to die..."
The female ghost curled her lips into a smile, opening her blood-red maw wide. "Actually, sparing you isn't impossible—"
Upon hearing this, Meng Yongfu paused in his kowtowing. "What does Madam want from me to spare me?"
"Tonight is actually the day we are to be reincarnated, but because you poisoned us with arsenic and caused our deaths in the wilderness, our ghosts can only follow you until the day we are reincarnated."
As the female ghost finished speaking, she stroked her belly and said, "If this injustice is not cleared up, my husband, my unborn daughter, and I will all be reborn as animals."
"Clarify? How do I clarify?" Meng Yongfu wiped the sweat from his brow, not understanding for a moment.
The female ghost's lips twitched. "Come with me to sign a confession before King Yama, clarifying that you caused my family's wrongful death."
"What?! Going to see the King of Hell? And having to sign a confession?!" Upon hearing this, Meng Yongfu shook his head vigorously, like a rattle-drum.
"Only the dead go to see the King of Hell. And if I sign a confession in front of the King of Hell, then after I die I can only be reborn as an animal?"
"You still care about what happens after you die?" the female ghost sneered. "If you don't write it down, this day next year will be your death anniversary."
Whether you choose to live or die, it's your choice.
I have a bad temper. I'll only count to three. If you don't choose, I'll assume you want to die right now!
Having said that, she didn't give the man any time to hesitate, "One, two, three..."
"Sign! I'll sign! I'm willing to sign!" Meng Yongfu's mouth reacted faster than his brain, cutting off the conversation just as the word "three" was about to land.
After he said he was willing, he couldn't help but worry.
He has already taken three lives. If he signs another confession, will he not even be able to enter the animal realm after death and will he be reduced to ashes?
But the female ghost didn't give him a chance to back out.
She pulled him forward by the white veil around his neck, and as soon as they stepped out of the house, they heard a chorus of shouts of "Majesty!" and the sound of sticks clashing.
Looking up, the familiar courtyard was nowhere to be seen; all that could be seen was a white, billowing mist, with two rows of menacing black-faced ghost soldiers standing guard.
At the very front was a man with a face as black as charcoal, leopard eyes, and a lion's nose.
His hair and beard were completely red, and he had a pair of horns on his forehead. His long robe with a ghost mask reached all the way to the ground, and his eyes were like lightning. With just a slight lift of his eyes, one's heart would tremble.
Meng Yongfu was so overwhelmed by the pressure that his knees buckled and he collapsed to his knees.
He really is the King of Hell!
It was exactly the same as the King of Hell he had heard about in audiobooks, even more terrifying!
He controls millions of lives; with a mere pinch, life or death is decided.
As the man was filled with fear, he heard the sound of the gavel, and a deep, resonant voice, both cold and sharp, pierced his ears, "Who goes there? What business do you have with this immortal lord?"
Meng Yongfu trembled even more with fear, stammering, "Reporting to King Yama... I, I am Meng, Meng Yongfu, and I have come today for the Zheng, Mr. and Mrs. Zheng..."
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