Chapter 18 Chapter 18 After drinking pesticide and dying, his obsession is to eat fish.
Old man ghost No. 005 didn't expect that the extraditioner was so disrespectful to the elderly and actually played the incident of him climbing over the wall and sneaking into someone else's yard when he was alive. He was immediately furious.
"How could you be like this? I'm already so old, and you, a youngster, are taking advantage of your power to bully an old man!" No. 005 pointed at the Zhiyin Wall. "Shut it down! Shut it down for me!"
You Yunyi rolled his eyes. "When I died, your ancestors up to eighteen generations ago were nowhere to be found. And you're trying to take advantage of your age and seniority by showing off in front of me?"
Old man No. 005 choked and suddenly remembered that he had heard that You Yunyi had been working as an extradition agent for many years...
"So what? Even in the underworld, aren't you officials supposed to serve us, the common ghosts? What's with that attitude? Be careful, or I'll file a complaint against you!" No. 005 roared in court, then defended himself with a speed unbecoming of his age. "I took the fish from someone else's yard, but is that stealing? No!"
"We've been neighbors for years. I practically watched Xiao Liu from the yard next door grow up. The other day, I saw him pushing a tank of fish and took a few more looks out of curiosity. I didn't really want any, but Xiao Liu was being so phony, saying if the fish weren't so hard to handle and he didn't dare give them away, he'd definitely give me two... Hey! If you don't want to give them, then don't. Why are you being so phony, making it seem like I really want them? How can I tolerate that?"
"I took a stroll back home and passed by his yard when I saw him leaving the box of fish outside his door. Wasn't he deliberately trying to trick me into taking it? If it was really that dangerous, shouldn't he have left it inside?"
"And his wall was too low, and there wasn't a shard of glass on it. Luckily, I was the one who got in and only managed to grab one fish from the pile. If it were any other thief, they would have stolen everything from his house, wouldn't they?"
"I should have gone to their family to seek justice for this matter. They left such a dangerous thing in the yard and poisoned me to death. Luckily, my son and his family of three went out to play that day, and I had dinner alone. Otherwise, he would have killed my whole family!"
"Anyway, you have to make the decision on this matter for me. I died so unjustly, and now I have to queue up again. You don't respect the elderly and love the young here. I'm so old, but there's no green channel? You made me queue up with other ghosts for over a year. You have to give me back the more than a year of my life. At least let me go back and live for another ten or eight years. I want to see my grandson get married! Just tell me, when will this matter be handled for me?"
You Yunyi was too lazy to speak to the righteous request of the old man ghost No. 005. He just glanced at him, and then the old man ghost No. 005 and the audience found that No. 005 was forcibly expelled from the extradition office by an invisible force.
"Hey! Hey, what's going on? It's haunted..." No. 005 shouted.
You Yunyi looked at the camera in the live broadcast room and reminded the other ghosts: "Don't come to the extradition office to lie and cause trouble. I don't have the time to entertain you. If you cause trouble once, you will be blacklisted for a year. Remember this."
The ghosts in front of the big screen of the underworld live broadcast: "..."
They really didn't expect that there would be a ghost who dared to act so arrogantly in the extradition office. The most outrageous thing was that he took advantage of his seniority in front of the extradition officer.
"The old man's neighbors were so miserable when he was alive. If his son and his family are unreasonable and insist on compensation from them, do they really have to pay?"
"I guess we have to pay some compensation for humanitarian reasons."
"This old man has been dead for over a year and he still hasn't figured out who killed him. He's still cursing his neighbors with all his conviction."
"Hey, didn't No. 005 even have a chance to explain what his obsession was before he was kicked out by the extraditionists?"
"Hahahaha, that's great. Just don't indulge this kind of thing. Go to the underworld and become God!"
The dying people in the mortal world who were watching the live broadcast watched the old man being driven away: "..."
The extradition department randomly showed a picture of a person in the mortal world on the wall. The ghosts in the underworld saw an old woman stealthily reaching out to a bowl of meat in the corner.
Then she suddenly retracted her hand: "Oh my god, what a ghost... What's the meaning of this scene just now? Is it to warn the old woman that this bowl of meat has really been soaked in rat poison? What a waste! Such a good bowl of meat is just to poison a few rats. You might as well take it back and fry it. I'm here to catch rats for your house..."
Complaints aside, the old woman didn't dare to continue stealing the meat. She left the neighbor's yard with her hands behind her back, and returned home sighing to burn incense to the Bodhisattva: "Goddess of Bodhisattva, bless me. I just feel that my family is too wasteful. I won't dare to do it again. Thank you for reminding me today... Well, I might as well offer that bowl of meat to the Bodhisattva. Do you mind rat poison? Otherwise, I'd better go and bring that bowl of meat back. After all, even gods and immortals won't be poisoned after eating it... Forget it, the Bodhisattva has reminded me, so I'm not going. Please don't be angry..."
Audience ghosts: "...I hope you really give up."
The meeting with ghost No. 005 was too short and didn't take up much of the live broadcast time. You Yunyi glanced at the time and estimated that he would have to continue live broadcasting two more ghosts today: "Number 006 can come in."
No. 006 is also an elderly person, this time an old woman, dressed in shabby clothes. She was very nervous when she came in. Obviously, she was not a brave person, and was affected by the fate of the previous ghost No. 005. Although she knew that it was the problem of ghost No. 005 himself, No. 006 was still more nervous.
"Hello, sir, I...what should I say..." No. 006 was so nervous that he kept pinching his hands.
You Yunyi glanced at the stool opposite him and said, "Sit down first. Tell me how you died and what obsessions you have yet to resolve."
"Oh, that's right." No. 006 sat down and said awkwardly, "I... I died by drinking pesticide. It was paraquat. My family had some leftovers. I had an argument with my old man, and my son scolded me, so I just drank it out of anger. My obsession... Meng Po said I wanted to eat fish... It's true. What Meng Po told me was just ordinary fish, not the same poisonous fish that No. 005 ate before. And I didn't mention fish because of him..."
No. 006 sighed and said, "My family scolded me because of the fish."
"We're poor and have been for decades. We barely had meat to eat before, but there's a river in the village. Sometimes I can catch a fish or two while washing clothes. The fish aren't big. If they're big, they should be sold. If they're too small, we can't catch them, or there will be no fish in the river. We can't catch too many fish that aren't too big or too small. Everyone in the village fishes in the river. Just enough to satisfy our hunger. If we catch too many, people will gossip."
"There weren't many fish, so every time the old man and his son ate the meat and the head, and I'd take a few bites of the tail. Sometimes I'd secretly chop the tail a little bigger, but if I chopped it bigger, there would be too much meat, and nine times out of ten I wouldn't even get the tail. So I stopped trying to be clever."
"In the years before I died, my son graduated from school, and with the support of village officials, our family's living conditions improved significantly. Whenever I cooked fish, I wanted to try more meat. But I had never had it before, so I was embarrassed to ask for it. My husband and son were used to leaving only the tail for me, so I was too embarrassed to ask."
"Until my son got married, his wife came home with him during the Lunar New Year. We cooked fish for the New Year's Eve dinner. My wife picked out some dishes for me and her father-in-law, and she gave me a big piece of the best meat from the fish belly. I ate it and I thought it was really delicious. After that, I became bolder, but I didn't expect that my old man would remember the extra fish I ate."
"Two days before I died, my daughter-in-law and son had a fight, and he came home throwing a tantrum. I, an old man, got mad at him and started scolding me. I don't know why he started saying I was a water ghost who had died of starvation and was reincarnated because I ate too much fish... Oh, this obsession of mine. I didn't expect it when Meng Po told me about it. How could I have such a strange obsession? It really seems like the reincarnation of a water ghost who died of starvation."
"But Meng Po said that my obsession is to eat a whole fish by myself."
In front of the big screen of the underworld live broadcast, the audience ghosts listened to No. 006's narration with mixed feelings.
"Alas, it's pitiful."
"How can you be so spineless? Even if you didn't dare to confront me head-on before, couldn't you just cook the fish and then secretly eat some in the kitchen first?"
"Oh, didn't I say the fish wasn't big? There's only so much meat. It would be obvious if you ate a piece. It would be even more obvious if the whole fish was cooked."
"Didn't she say she would chop it into small pieces? How obvious would it be if she ate a piece of even the smallest fish? Especially since it doesn't sound like her husband and son are the kind of people who know how to cook fish."
"Why would she eat it secretly? If you ask me, she's just too soft and easy to bully. What kind of husband and son does she have? She even wants them to eat more. She's obsessed with eating the whole fish herself. Look, this is the first time I've heard such a petty obsession."
"But her obsession is difficult to fulfill, right? Does she need to extradite someone to cook her a fish and then roast it for her?"
"Oh, paraquat. It was originally a very good pesticide, but it's a pity that it was stopped because of drinking..."
Inside the extradition office, You Yunyi was also somewhat amused by this obsession: "Meng Po is right next to the Wangchuan River, and she has a pot at hand. You should go find her to catch you a fish. It's no use asking me. What did Meng Po say?"
Number 006 felt even more awkward after hearing this: "Meng Po...she said there are fish in the Wangchuan River, but the fish there are raised on joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and they don't taste good. She said you, sir, have a way to get fresh ones..."
You Yunyi was speechless: "People are not fresh anymore, how can we eat fresh fish?"
Upon hearing this, No. 006 immediately felt that he had caused a lot of trouble and quickly stood up: "I'm sorry..."
"It's okay, sit down." You Yunyi lowered his head and tapped the hand mirror, asking the bored Lin Yujing to bring him a fish, the seasonings needed to cook the fish, and the pots and pans.
"Can you eat spicy food?" You Yunyi asked.
No. 006 was somewhat bewildered: "Can..."
You Yunyi nodded: "Okay, wait a moment."
No. 006 was still a little nervous, afraid of wasting You Yunyi's time: "Then...how about I go out and wait?"
You Yunyi glanced at the live broadcast camera and said, "Just wait here, it's just the right time to kill the live broadcast time."
No. 006 sat down obediently.
The ghosts watching the live broadcast in the underworld were amazed: "Wow, it turns out there's a way to order takeout in the underworld!"
"Can I do purchasing on behalf of someone else? I have no idea where to spend the money my family spends on me."
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