Chapter 2 Chapter 2 "Your ex-husband's second son is not...
Hearing You Yunyi's words, the audience in front of the live broadcast screen exploded -
"Oh my god! Is this true?"
"Could the extraditioner's words be false? Why would he lie to you?"
"This... Hey, isn't it said that you can't remarry after your wife dies? But he married a new one less than a month ago... Doesn't this mean that he and his ex-wife have no feelings for each other at all?"
"It's more than just being heartless. This is a complete lack of respect and affection! To use an inappropriate analogy, even in ancient times, when an emperor died, the empress wasn't so anxious to appoint a new one..."
"Also, the husband of No. 036 and his new wife had a baby that year. What does that mean? Tsk tsk tsk!"
"It's not nice, it's too nice!"
"I guess that the eldest sister 036 is still alive, and her husband has actually already found a new partner. If I were to guess a little further, maybe her husband had been cheating on her a long time ago, and the eldest sister's death just made room for him!"
"That's not surprising. I've even seen husbands start looking for new wives before their wives die, waiting for the previous one to die before getting married..."
"Don't be so conspiratorial. Maybe it's just that my eldest sister's ex-husband just happened to meet a suitable partner for a second marriage, and he also wants to give his two children a complete family again..."
"It's so complete! We already have new brothers and sisters back then!"
"If a man who is remarrying cares about the children left by his first wife, he wouldn't have a baby so soon. Aren't they worried about the first child being upset?"
"Besides, she's already so old. Having two children isn't enough, and she's even having another child from her second marriage. Why didn't such a wealthy family treat my eldest sister's illness back then?"
"Oh, didn't the elder sister say that she couldn't be cured? I think you're just stirring up trouble and thinking too badly of others. The elder sister herself said that her husband and ex-husband were good people. If you ask me, it's probably because the second marriage partner is not good enough. She doesn't have children of her own, so she wants to have her own biological child as soon as possible to consolidate her position, so as to avoid..."
"Ha! Consolidating your position! Oh, even if you're driving an old car and haven't paid off your mortgage yet, there's still a kingdom to inherit. The newlywed bride has to seize the opportunity to consolidate her position! What's going on? She got pregnant on her own, and the man only found out after she was pregnant for ten months and gave birth, right?"
"You still say we think too badly of people. Big brother, you certainly don't think too badly of that man, but the person he remarried isn't human, right? Anyway, it must be the stepmother's fault. A good man was forced to marry a new one less than a month after his wife died, forced to let his new wife have children, and forced to stop his first two children from going to school. How pitiful!"
"Hey, you guys are really... Why are you targeting me like this? I just mentioned a possibility..."
"What family is this possible? Even Cao Xueqin would say this isn't from our Qing Dynasty!"
"Who is Cao Xueqin?"
"Alright, alright, stop arguing...Poor little sister, those two kids she left behind. Alas, weren't they supposed to go to middle school and high school? They're just not going to school anymore. What's going on?"
"Listen to the words Mr. You used: 'working like a slave.' Alas, those two kids are unlucky."
"036 Is her husband secretly hiding some money? Is their family not as poor as she thinks? Otherwise, what's her husband's second marriage looking for? A man who remarried immediately after his wife died without any feelings for her. He's old, broke, and has two teenage kids, and she married him and immediately had a child..."
"You can't say for sure. I think 036 is really confused. Didn't she just say that she and her husband have a good relationship and that she thinks her husband is reliable and can take good care of their two children? But in the end, he doesn't even allow them to study. If I were you, I'd want to turn into a ghost and scare the hell out of those bastards who bullied my children!"
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Inside the Extradition Office——
"No... Impossible! I don't believe it!" No. 036 was stunned for about ten seconds, then shouted in a somewhat collapsed manner.
In the blink of an eye, she was already in tears, with a face full of pain from overwork: "Qiqi and Haohao... No, Zhibin can't do this to me, I... I'm not saying that he can't marry again, I... You lied to me, Mr. Extraditioner, please don't lie to me, please..."
No. 036 burst into tears.
She knew in her heart that, by comparison, the extraditionist in front of her was less likely and had no need to lie to her, but she really couldn't accept it.
You Yunyi sat on the black sofa in a white shirt and black pants, looking at her with no change in expression, and didn't say anything else.
Until No. 036 choked up and spoke again: "I... I'm not saying that he can't remarry. Although I do feel a little uncomfortable, that's because I have feelings for him. But I... I'm dead, and he can start a new life, and I'm relieved, but... but how could he do this to me!"
"It's only been less than a month since I died, how could he be so anxious?! Why is he so anxious..."
"That's fine, but Qiqi and Haohao are his biological children! How could he do that to them? How could he... When I died, Qiqi was still one year away from the college entrance exam, and Haohao was still two years away from the high school entrance exam..."
"Qiqi's grades are really good. Her teacher said she can get into that... 911? Or 825 or something? Anyway, those are some really good universities. Haohao also studies very hard, so there's no need for us to worry about him. My husband... Zhao Zhibin and I didn't even go to high school. Our biggest dream is to send our child to college. How could he not let our child go to college..."
"When I was dying, I kept falling down at home because I couldn't see clearly. Zhao Zhibin was so sad that he cried. How could he be so good at pretending... My Lord, is there really no other hidden secret? My Lord, I've been dead for so long, are you really going to let me die with regret?"
No. 036 burst into tears, crying even more desperately and helplessly than the child ghost No. 035 before her.
The ghosts in the live broadcast room also felt very uncomfortable——
"Ah, it's true. He's been dead for three years. I suddenly found out that my husband wasn't a good person and that my two children are suffering in the afterlife... If you ask me, the extraditionist shouldn't have said that. Why is he saying this? Are they trying to make fun of me?"
"Maybe it's not important to the underworld officials like the extradition officer. I heard that eight out of ten people who go to the extradition office come out crying. The extradition officer probably feels that there are too many ghosts waiting in line and doesn't want to receive them..."
"You're overthinking it. The extradition officer is busy. Why would he deliberately make fun of you? If you really don't want to receive me, wouldn't it be easier to just say a few nice words to get rid of me? I've been to the extradition office before. Mr. You's words are quite blunt, but they really work. I'm too obsessed, but every time I go in and cry, the obsession dissipates a little."
"It's not easy to cry even if you become a ghost. If you don't believe me, try it yourself. Whoever can cry immediately will get the new clothes my daughter burned for me as a gift!"
"The extradition officer's words have 'telekinesis' in them, which is why they can affect us. But Mr. You's words also consume him. He doesn't speak too much on purpose. If you newcomers don't know, don't talk nonsense."
"But his attitude is just not considerate enough..."
"After extradition, you're obsessed with it. You've drunk Meng Po soup and you don't even remember what he looks like. Why is it necessary for him to be so considerate? Isn't it enough to be useful? Besides, do you really think the extradition office is a service station? Mr. You is not a service staff, and you're still provoking me..."
"Well, even if they're waiters, they have to serve a hundred customers a day, spending about ten minutes per customer... I think this attitude is understandable..."
"But will this really work? Why do I feel like 036 is even more obsessed?"
Inside the Extradition Office——
You Yunyi tapped the endoscope with his fingertips, then signaled No. 036 to look at the empty gray wall in the room. The camera in the live broadcast room was also facing this wall. The audience ghosts saw the wall slowly shaking from its cement texture, and finally became an extremely clear screen, as if wearing 3D glasses, with a very three-dimensional picture.
After seeing the image on the wall, No. 036 covered his mouth and said, "This... this is my home... Qiqi, Haohao, Zhao Zhibin... they look..."
"Very sad, right? This is the situation in your home on the first day after your death." You Yunyi said.
No. 036 and the audience ghosts saw that the brother and sister Qiqi and Haohao in the wall were crying in the living room with their eyes swollen like peaches, and Zhao Zhibin's eyes were also bloodshot and he looked exhausted.
Zhao Zhibin comforted the two children, saying, "Although your mother has passed away, she is definitely still blessing you in heaven. You should cheer up. Okay, Dad will go cook for you now... Dad is not a big cook, but luckily we still have the dumplings your mother made earlier. The three of us can make do with some."
Zhao Zhibin went to the kitchen, while Qiqi and Haohao were still sitting in the living room crying.
Seeing this scene, a ghost in the audience whispered: "It seems that she is not sad at all, and she seems to care about the child very much..."
"He's only been dead for a day, so it's not that soon that his true identity will be revealed. Let's wait and see."
"Haven't you noticed? 036 just said that when she died, her daughter still had one year left to take the college entrance exam, which is in June. So 036 must have died in the middle of the year. But didn't the extraditionist say that her ex-husband and his new wife had a child before the Lunar New Year? Doesn't that mean her ex-husband had been cheating on her for a long time?"
"Wow! You're amazing, I didn't even notice that!"
"Holmes, you!"
"You need to be sensitive to gossip, otherwise you'll miss a lot of exciting content! Tsk—"
The image on the wall changed with Zhao Zhibin's movements, and then the ghosts saw that Zhao Zhibin entered the kitchen and closed the door with a sad face. Then he raised his hand to wipe his face, and when he put his hand down, there was a smile on his face!
Because the wall presents a naked-eye 3D effect, Zhao Zhibin's face-changing scene is particularly vivid and penetrates the retina at close range.
This shocking scene left the audience ghosts dumbfounded, and No. 036 couldn't help but lean back, trying to get away from the wall.
She murmured, "Is he... is he schizophrenic... is it because of my illness that he was upset..."
In response, You Yunyi suppressed the urge to roll his eyes at the ghost in front of the camera: "Don't think too much."
Zhao Zhibin, smiling, couldn't wait to pull out his phone and send a WeChat message to a friend named "Brother Wang": "My wife passed away yesterday. I just came back from the funeral home. The whole house is filled with sadness. I don't know how to comfort me and my wife's two children. Can you come over and talk to them for me?"
"Brother Wang" quickly replied with a voice message, a woman's voice sounding somewhat speechless: "Are you sick? Your wife is already dead, so why are you still pretending? You're burning it down and you're afraid she'll suddenly change her mind and have to sell your car and house to pay for her medical treatment?"
Zhao Zhibin chuckled and replied, "I'm so happy! I haven't gotten used to her finally dying yet. You can't blame me for being cautious. After all, our car, house, and savings are all shared property. If she insists on getting medical treatment, that'll be a hassle. It's better to be careful and coax her into death. Honey, I'm being so cautious because I want to leave more money for our children's future."
"Brother Wang" replied: [More money? How much money do you have? You're such a braggart! You're so old and you still have two children. If I hadn't been deceived by you and got pregnant and couldn't bear to abort the baby, I wouldn't be with you anymore. Marrying you would inexplicably become a second marriage. I'm still young and have to be a stepmother to two children, and I have to pay the mortgage with you... I'm not getting married! The more I talk about it, the less I want to get married!]
Zhao Zhibin quickly coaxed the woman across from him in a gentle voice: "Honey! I didn't tell you before, but I actually bought insurance for Zhou Xuemei. I've checked everything, and if she dies, they'll pay out! When the insurance company transfers the money, we'll pay off our mortgage. We definitely won't let our child be born into debt, okay?"
Seeing this scene, No. 036 burst into tears again in front of the wall, but this time she cried silently.
"This is one month after your death." You Yunyi changed the scene again.
Zhao Zhibin and his second wife are already married.
The stepmother moved into her deceased mother's master bedroom with her five-month pregnant belly. Both children, Qiqi and Haohao, were very devastated. The original "warmth" between them and their father, Zhao Zhibin, was broken. They also disliked their stepmother and the unborn brother or sister very much. The whole family was in chaos.
You Yunyi: "This is two months after your death."
No. 036 saw that Qiqi and Haohao were first scolded by Zhao Zhibin, and then beaten by Zhao Zhibin with a clothesline.
After Zhao Zhibin and his second wife's son was born, Qiqi and Haohao had become complete burdens and thorns in his side.
You Yunyi: "This is because your daughter dropped out of school."
Zhao Zhibin and his second wife felt that they needed a nanny to take care of their youngest son, and since there was already one at home, they threatened to not let Haohao go to high school and asked Qiqi, who was preparing for the college entrance examination, to stay at home to do the laundry, cooking and take care of the baby.
Qiqi compromised and hid in the bathroom crying and missing her mother.
You Yunyi: "This is because your son dropped out of school."
Haohao still couldn't go to high school because Zhao Zhibin and his stepmother felt that Haohao was not well-behaved enough and would not give back to the family even if he graduated. Letting him continue studying would only be a waste of money. It would be better to leave all the money to support the younger son, while Haohao and his sister stayed at home to work - Zhao Zhibin was somewhat patriarchal, but since he already had a younger son, he didn't cherish this older son as much as his daughter.
Haohao and Qiqi imagined that if their mother were still alive, their lives would definitely not be so difficult.
You Yunyi: "This is two and a half years after your death."
Qiqi and Haohao, who have been babysitting two adults, a baby, and an entire household, have grown somewhat numb. When asked at the market why their mother wasn't out buying groceries, they replied, "Mom's at home taking care of my little brother."
After answering, and walking a long way out of the market, Qiqi asked, "Should we have just said that Mom was dead?"
"It's all the same. If I don't tell others that my biological mother is dead, next time people see my stepmother, they won't ask what happened. I don't want to tell anyone about that." Haohao said.
Kiki nodded.
You Yunyi: "This is the third anniversary of your death."
No one in the family remembers it.
So what You Yunyi said to No. 036 just now, "I don't have time to think about you," was indeed what he meant literally.
The image on the wall disappeared, returning to its gray cement texture. No. 036 was crying so hard that he seemed to be unable to breathe - but ghosts don't need to breathe.
"Zhao Zhibin—! How could you do this... My Qiqi, my Haohao, my children... I was wrong. Someone advised me that only by living could there be hope, but I didn't listen. I shouldn't have given up on treatment. It wasn't so astronomical that the money couldn't be funded. I was wrong. What will happen to my children..."
No. 036 burst into tears, slid off the stool, and suddenly knelt in front of You Yunyi: "Sir, please, please help my child, please help my child!"
You Yunyi dodged sideways: "You are separated by Yin and Yang, I can't help you. You can go find Meng Po."
No. 036 was stunned: "My... my obsession? But sir, I feel that my obsession is so strong now..."
"Obsession is something only the living have. No matter what happens after death, you will never be reborn. When you died, you felt that it was natural for you to sacrifice for your family. Your only obsession was that you were afraid that your family would miss you and would not be able to continue their lives. But now you are sure that they no longer miss you, and your obsession has been resolved." You Yunyi said.
On the peephole in his hand, No. 036 - Zhou Xuemei's name has changed from red when she entered the door to green now. It's time to ask Meng Po for a bowl of soup.
Zhou Xuemei had been at the extradition center for twenty minutes, twice the ten minutes allotted to each ghost. You Yunyi not only didn't drive her away but also played her past in the mortal world because he thought Zhou Xuemei's obsession should be gone today, so he could use the break time to work overtime.
"No... I haven't gotten rid of my obsession!" Zhou Xuemei refused to admit it. She knelt and refused to get up, taking two steps on her knees. "Sir, I can't rest in peace knowing my child is living this kind of life!"
You Yunyi looked at her calmly, "Everyone has their own destiny, you can't interfere. After drinking Meng Po soup, you won't even remember your name in life. All your past will be wiped clean. The people and things in the living world will have nothing to do with you anymore. Then you won't be sad anymore. Go."
Zhou Xuemei shook her head. "No, I can't... I... My Lord, please, since everyone has their own destiny, can you please tell me why my children have such a fate?"
The audience ghosts felt mixed emotions.
"So, after death, there's no chance of new obsessions. No wonder the extraditionist used such a ruthless method. It's true, they're quite efficient..."
"Alas, doesn't she even ask herself why she has such a fate?"
"Everyone has their own destiny. Isn't that just unfair? Look at Zhao Zhibin, is he a good man? But he's living so well now. He's got his wife's insurance compensation, a car, a house, two children working as servants, a young new wife, and a little son. Why is he so lucky?"
"His new wife isn't a good person either. I guess Zhao Zhibin won't have a good life in the future."
"What's the point of guessing? His new wife is indeed not nice and has bad looks, but she seems to really like Zhao Zhibin. It's a good thing for Zhao Zhibin! It's disgusting!"
"Don't worry, don't worry. The extraditionist is actually a nice person. If Zhao Zhibin and his new wife and their family of three are not doing well in the future, or if Qiqi and Haohao are doing well in the future, at least if it can make the ghosts we are chatting with feel better, the extraditionist will usually tell them..."
"Yes, yes, that's what I was going to say. When I was crying my eyes out in front of him earlier, he told me that the murderer who killed me was paraplegic."
"Ah... Doesn't that mean that if he doesn't say anything, then there's a very good chance that the evildoer won't get his comeuppance?"
"What you've said makes me really want to meet Mr. You in person! But I've been waiting in line for a year and still haven't gotten a chance to draw a lottery..."
In the Extradition Department—
You Yunyi sighed, then gathered his energy and quickly received the information on the peephole. Then he said to Zhou Xuemei, who was kneeling on the ground, "Get up. I want to tell you something happy."
Zhou Xuemei looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
"The youngest son born to Zhao Zhibin's second wife, Fang Lin, is not Zhao Zhibin's." You Yunyi said slowly, "Fang Lin was waiting for her son's biological father to be released from prison. She took Zhao Zhibin's money, kicked out his men, and went to reconcile with her son's biological father."
Zhou Xuemei and the ghosts in the audience were all excited: "What?"
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