Yan Hunlan has washed it countless times, but these bruises and handprints just won't come off!
"Retribution, this is retribution! Hahaha..." Yan Hunlan, completely naked, was crying and laughing in the dilapidated thatched hut when he suddenly rushed out of it...
"Look, this is what my daughter gave me, hahaha... this is what my eldest daughter gave me, this is my second daughter, and this is..."
In Yanjiawan, a man who was completely naked would grab anyone he met and show them the bruises on his body, pointing and talking, causing chaos throughout the entire village.
“Look at this, don’t do too many bad things. This madman Yan is a prime example. Look at what he looks like now.”
"Damn it, those bruises on his body look like they were touched by something unclean. Maybe he was driven crazy by the daughter he killed."
"Serves him right! He's always stealing chickens and dogs and doing nothing productive. His wife grows some things, but he still takes people to cause trouble. It's a miracle that this kind of person isn't dead!"
The villagers were talking amongst themselves, thinking that the clan elders had already ordered several people to lock Yan Hunlan in a wooden cage to prevent him from going out and harming others.
The families of the two people killed by Yan Hunlan's wife have already buried their bodies. Today is the seventh day after their deaths, which is also the seventh day after Yan Hunlan's wife's death!
Qiu Baoqiong's family is currently busy preparing for the seventh day after his death, as is Mao Danteng's family. Qiu Baoqiong's family has two daughters and one son. His eldest daughter is of marriageable age, but she is not loved by her maternal grandparents or uncles. His son is a teenager, and his youngest daughter is about seven or eight years old.
The adults were all busy preparing things for the seventh day after the death of the deceased, and they didn't even spare the two teenagers, leaving only the little girl to play outside.
Mao Danteng has two daughters, one is twelve or thirteen years old, and the other is about the same age as Qiu Baoqiong's youngest daughter. Mao Danteng originally wanted to have more children, but his wife's womb was uncooperative and she could no longer conceive. He had even planned to seduce someone outside the marriage to have a son, but that plan was thwarted by a woman with a scythe.
After the adults from both families finished their work, they realized that their youngest daughter was missing! At first, the adults thought that the child had run off to play, so they called out a couple of times outside the gate, hoping that she would come back soon. However, they waited for a long time but did not see their youngest daughter.
Both families started calling their children to go out and search, but they couldn't find him anywhere in the whole village. Then they started asking from house to house, but no one had seen him. The two families made a fuss until almost eleven o'clock. Seeing that it was almost time for their husbands to return to their homes, and since it was their two daughters who had gone missing, no one took it to heart. The two families began the ritual for the night of the return of the souls!
Midnight! The whole village was quiet! Inside their house, candlelight flickered, casting a hazy glow over the entire courtyard...
"Cock-a-doodle-doo..." Just as everyone was waiting for their loved ones to return, the rooster in the house suddenly crowed without warning!
Then all the dogs in the village started barking, as if they had been startled by something, their barks filled with fear and hesitation!
But it didn't last even ten minutes. The roosters stopped crowing, the dogs stopped barking, and it suddenly became very quiet, so quiet that it felt a little eerie!
"Knock knock knock..." Someone knocked on the door of Qiu Baoqiong's house, but no one had the courage to open it in the current situation.
"Mommy, open the door, I'm back!" A little girl's innocent voice rang out from outside the door.
"You brat, you still know how to come back? It's so late, where have you been?" Qiu Baoqiong's wife heard the little girl's voice outside and became bolder. She then opened the door while cursing.
"Squeak!" The heavy wooden door slowly opened. Mao's wife, who was in a bind, was ready to hurl a string of curses at him, but found the outside empty. Where was her little daughter?
Qiu Baoqiong's wife looked around, feeling puzzled. She clearly heard her youngest daughter calling her to open the door, but when she opened the door, her daughter was nowhere to be seen.
Mao's wife, who was feeling frustrated, suddenly noticed a small dark shadow next to her house, which looked like a child crouching in the corner.
Qiu Baoqiong's wife stormed up to the dark figure, grabbed his hair, and was about to start cursing when she realized that her grabbing seemed to have torn something off!
Mao's wife, who was feeling a bit confused, wondered if someone was playing a prank on her near her house. She picked up the things in her hand and took a closer look, only to see a head with flesh so rotten that the bones were visible in her eyes!
Just then, the head suddenly opened its eyes, and its pupils, devoid of white, stared coldly at Qiu Baoqiong's wife!
Mao's wife, who was in a terrible predicament, hadn't even realized what was happening when she felt something tugging at her trouser leg. Looking down, she saw a headless little girl's body with both hands pulling at her trouser leg, trying to stand up!
"Ah..." The two women, startled, simultaneously let out a high-decibel scream! The sound shattered the quiet night sky. By the time the people inside went out to check on them, the two women had already fainted at their doorsteps.
The misfortunes of both families occurred simultaneously, causing chaos and confusion. No one even cared about the night of their own death.
"Tap! Tap! Tap!" Just then, it seemed as if someone stepped on the ashes spread at the entrance and walked into the yard step by step!
"Ah! This...this...what happened?" The relatives and friends were so frightened by the footprints on the ashes that they stammered.
"These aren't our family members. What do they want by coming in here?" Countless people looked at the footprints on the ashes and felt a chill run down their spines.
Four pairs of bloody footprints appeared on the ashes! One large and three small! Then they came into the courtyard, walked through the ashes, and came to the offerings that were originally meant to worship Qiu Baoqiong and Mao Danteng!
Everyone watched as the offerings on the altar began to disappear rapidly, but no one dared to utter a sound, not even daring to breathe loudly!
After the offerings on the altar were finished, four pairs of bloody footprints stood in front of everyone. Some people fainted from fright. The four bloody footprints stepped back onto the ashes and left the courtyard. The people inside were soaked in cold sweat as if they had just been pulled out of the water. They collapsed on the ground, panting heavily. They wanted to run away and leave this place of trouble, but their legs were as weak as noodles, and they couldn't even stand up.
Now, no one dares to stay in either of the two houses. Even the wives and children of Qiu Baoqiong and Mao Danteng's families have gone to their parents' homes and dare not live there at all!
"Hey? Have you heard? The Qiu and Mao families have moved. They've moved back to the maternal grandparents' home. What happened?"
"Hehe, you guys don't know yet, do you? If you did, you wouldn't even dare get out of bed to pee at night!"
"I feel like these two women ran away because their husbands died and they were afraid you old bachelors would cause trouble for them!"
"You know what, I actually had that thought, but no matter what, I couldn't possibly do that to someone on the night their deceased husband's spirit returns! Wouldn't that be asking for death?"
"Stop talking nonsense and let him tell us what happened."
“Last night, as you all know, at the beginning, their rooster suddenly crowed, and then all the dogs in the village started barking, right? I couldn’t sleep. The older generation always talks about unclean things, unclean things. On the seventh day after these two people’s death, I wanted to see just how unclean those unclean things the older generation talks about really are!”
"You're really brave. If it were me, I'd be hiding under the covers in this situation, not even daring to stick my head out!"
"Can't you just shut up? Listen to him!"
"I came to a spot not far from the Qiu family's house and squatted down to see if Qiu Baoqiong's soul would really come back! Before long, I saw a dark figure float to the front of the Qiu family's shop! It didn't look like an adult. You all know that they hang white lanterns outside their doors, but I just couldn't see what this dark figure looked like!"
Not long after, I heard the dark figure start calling for its mother and asking the people inside to open the door. You all know that their two youngest daughters have gone missing, and I thought it was their youngest daughter who had come back!
Not long after, Qiu's wife opened the door. I clearly saw the dark figure standing in front of her, but she looked around aimlessly as if she were blind. She should have seen me, but judging from her expression, she didn't notice me at all.
Just as I was starting to feel something was off, this woman suddenly went to the corner of the wall next to her front door, grabbed something, and then fainted from fright! And guess what happened next?
"What's wrong? Stop keeping me in suspense, you idiot! I'm getting really curious!"
As everyone listened, they felt a chill in their hearts, but they still couldn't help but listen to this person continue.
The man swallowed hard, then looked around in great fear, as if he were on guard against something, before continuing.
"I saw that dark figure ride on Qiu's wife's head, doing something. A little while later, I saw three dark figures follow the first one and float directly into Qiu's courtyard. After that, it was completely silent, without a sound. It seemed like a long time had passed when I saw four dark figures float out of Qiu's house. Before I could run, everything went black, and I felt like I had fallen into a river in winter. I was so cold that I was shivering and then I passed out!"
When I woke up, it was almost dawn. I got up, regained some strength, and saw that the Qiu family's gate was open in the distance. Curious, I went to take a look, and guess what I saw? My goodness! You all know that you sprinkle ashes at the gate on the seventh day after someone's death, right? There were four pairs of footprints on their ashes!
"Didn't their family only have Qiu Bao who died of poverty? How could there be four pairs of footprints? You're just kidding."
"Four pairs of footprints are nothing! Where these four pairs of footprints have walked, there is blood! Bloody footprints!" The man's voice began to tremble.
"No way? This is so weird?"
"You guys don't know, I was so scared I almost peed my pants! No wonder they were in such a hurry to run away like their pants were on fire!"
"Really? You always exaggerate when you talk. If the people of Qiujiadian knew you were gossiping like this, you'd be lucky if they didn't curse you to death!"
"Really? You won't believe me no matter what I say now. If you have the guts, go see for yourselves. After all, seeing is believing! I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm going to find the old doctor to get me some talismans to ward off evil spirits. This is too damn scary!" After saying that, the man hurriedly ran away, leaving a group of people there, still doubtful.
The sun had just risen when the entire Yanjiawan village erupted in chaos! The Qiu and Mao families had moved away overnight for reasons unknown!
Besides the messy footprints, there were countless bloody footprints in the courtyard! People started speculating, some saying that the two families must have broken some taboo during the seventh day after their deaths, and others saying that they must have done something evil and were being punished.
Some of the bolder people in the two courtyards came in and looked around, but suddenly felt uneasy, as if something bad would happen if they stayed there too long!
Those who went into the two courtyards to watch the commotion all fell seriously ill afterward.
Some fearless people went directly to ask the two families who participated in the seven-day memorial service that night. What those relatives said was almost the same as what the boastful person had said at the beginning. For a time, the whole village was in a state of panic, wondering if these unclean things would come to their homes that night.
"Hahaha... You got your comeuppance for stealing my rice, didn't you? Hahaha... And you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, just wait! It'll be your turn soon, hahaha..." Just when the whole village was in a state of panic, Yan Hunlan, who had been locked in a wooden cage, somehow escaped from it. He started laughing and pointing madly at the villagers who had participated in stealing his rice.
After Yan Hunlan mentioned it, everyone finally realized that it was Yan Hunlan's wife taking revenge! She wanted all those who stole her food to die!
"Yeah, how come I didn't think of that? Four pairs of bloody footprints... Didn't that bastard Yan kill three of his daughters before? Add his wife, and that makes four, right?"
"Wait a minute, shouldn't there be four daughters? Where's the last one?"
"I heard that her wife threw that one into the river herself, and who knows where it was swept away to. Perhaps its soul was swept away with it."
"Tsk tsk tsk, this is going to be good. These bastards were never good people to begin with, and they ganged up to bully a pregnant woman and even buried her alive..."
"Shut up! If the Yan family hears this, the Qiu family, the Mao family, and several other households will all be drowned in the river. Don't you dare shout!"
"Exactly, I didn't expect it still couldn't be suppressed. Hehe, these people are going to suffer this time!"
The old doctor's house and courtyard were full of people, all there to get things to ward off evil spirits.
"I'm here to save lives, not to sell any magical artifacts. Get out of here, all of you!" The old doctor looked at the villagers with a hostile expression and tried to close his door, but was stopped by several strong men. Then, led by the few survivors, everyone swarmed in and looted everything in the old doctor's house!
Several people even got into fights over a few sprigs of mugwort, not to mention things like pig cinnabar!
The old doctor sat on the stool, coldly watching these people ransack his home, watching them fight, argue, and quarrel right in front of him...
The next morning, another group of people started making a ruckus under the elm tree in the center of the village.
"Did you know? The two youngest daughters of the Qiu and Mao families have been found!"
"Oh? It's been so long! Where did you find it? I thought it had been picked up and run away by a kidnapper!"
"If only they had been taken away by a kidnapper! Oh my god, didn't you see what those two little girls looked like? Ugh!" Before he could finish speaking, he started vomiting loudly.
"Is it really that exaggerated? Where was it found?"
"It was in the rice paddy where the Yan family woman killed the two youngest daughters..." Before the man could finish speaking, he began to vomit painfully again.
Since the murder, no one has come to the Yan family's rice paddies. If you have to pass through, you have to go around it.
A guy who was drunk and confused wandered over here at night. He was puzzled to see two scarecrows suddenly stuck in the rice paddy. The rice had been almost harvested, so why were there scarecrows in the rice paddy?
The drunkard stumbled and staggered curiously toward the two scarecrows, startling the flies covering them. The flies buzzed and flew up, and the drunkard was nearly knocked over by the stench.
The drunkard waved his hands to shoo away the flies that approached him, then covered his nose and walked up to the scarecrow.
The drunkard touched the scarecrow in front of him. It didn't feel like straw; instead, it felt like touching skin.
"Whose scarecrow is made of animal skin? That's so extravagant!" the drunkard said with a hint of sourness. He accidentally tore off a piece of the scarecrow's skin.
The drunkard waved the skin in front of him until something fell onto his face and started wriggling there!
The drunkard touched it with some confusion, not knowing what it was in the dark, until he blew on the tinderbox to light it!
A scream rang out in the rice paddy, instantly sobering the drunkard up considerably. He scrambled and crawled, howling as he ran into the village...
"What? The two youngest daughters of the Qiu and Mao families turned a living person into a scarecrow?"
"Yeah, I don't know who was so cruel! They have two little kids."
"Is that even a question? Whose rice paddy is that? Why would two young daughters go there in the middle of the night? Isn't it obvious?"
"But every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its debtor. Besides, aren't Qiu Baoqiong and Mao Danteng already dead? What does this have to do with the child? The child is innocent."
"When Qiu Baoqiong killed that person, their child was five or six months old and hadn't even been born yet. What do you say about that?"
"Alas, poor woman, her husband is useless, stealing chickens and dogs all day long, doing nothing. She finally managed to grow some crops, but her husband and outsiders gang up on her and bully her."
"If it really was Yan Hundan's wife who did it, I think she did the right thing, and she did a good job!"
Some villagers felt sorry for Qiu Baoqiong and Mao Danteng's families, while others agreed that Yan Hunlan's woman did the right thing and should take revenge!
The remaining few were also living in constant fear, not knowing when Yan Hunlan's wife would come looking for trouble. They stayed at home all day, not daring to go anywhere. Even when they went to the toilet, they needed someone to accompany them, for fear that they would end up like the youngest daughters of Qiu Mao's family, being taken to the rice paddies and turned into scarecrows!
"Knock knock knock knock..."
"Who is it? What's wrong so late at night?" The family heard the knocking outside, but instead of opening the door, they called out from inside.
"Knock knock knock knock, knock knock knock knock..." The knocking outside was very rhythmic, four knocks, then four more, but no one spoke!
"Daughter-in-law of the Yan family, I know I was wrong, please forgive us! I was blinded by greed and listened to those two bastards, Qiu Baoqiong and Mao Danteng, and that's why I did such a despicable thing. Please forgive me! I will never dare to do it again. As long as you forgive me, I will burn incense for you tomorrow, no, no, no... right now, right now! I will buy you the best incense and candles. Please forgive me, please."
"Please, please let my father go. He will never do it again. Please, if my father is gone, our whole family is finished. Please!"
"Daughter-in-law of the Yan family, we are so sorry. We will set up a memorial tablet for you and worship you every day. Please, please don't hurt my family. Please!"
The whole family knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy at the door. After a while, the knocking stopped, and nothing strange happened in the yard. Only then did the family's tense nerves slowly relax, and they collapsed onto the ground...
The man scrambled into the house, grabbed a large pile of incense, candles, and paper money, and started burning them in the courtyard, muttering to himself as he did so…
Upon hearing this, the remaining families quickly set up memorial tablets for the woman in their homes and made offerings to them every day. These families were indeed safe and sound!
Everyone now knows that this is Yan's wife taking revenge. Some of those who bullied Yan's wife in the past are starting to panic, while others are not afraid at all because they have never bullied her.
Some people started feeding and clothing the eccentric Yan Hunlan, while others went to his dilapidated thatched hut, rebuilt it, and then took him in...
"You can leave now. My family is back, and they've brought my three daughters with them. Don't come here again." The usually eccentric Yan Hunlan suddenly became very serious as he looked at the villagers who were still helping him.
"Brother Yan, what are you joking about? It's broad daylight, and your sister-in-law doesn't come back until night." The man thought Yan Hunlan was bluffing him, so he joked back.
“He doesn’t believe it, you guys make him believe it,” Yan Hunlan said with a wicked grin.
Just now I thought Yan Hunlan was just scaring the villagers, but suddenly I felt like I had fallen into a river in the dead of winter, and my whole body was about to freeze to the bone!
In just three breaths, it felt like an eternity to the villager. Once he recovered, he threw down his tools and scrambled away...
"Sigh... I went to any lengths to bring you here, hoping to give you a perfect love and life. I overestimated myself. A nobody like me, yet I dreamt of being a big shot. In the end, I ruined you."
We've been together for so long, and not a single day has been filled with happiness or a smile. I'm very anxious about it. I know you look down on me. You're beautiful and talented, and I just want to do something to make you look up to me, to let you know that I'm a capable man, worthy of you. But I still don't know what to do to make you happy, to make you love me like other couples do. Later, I started to give up on myself. Seeing the look of disdain in your eyes, my heart...
If I had known it would turn out like this, I shouldn't have brought you here. I really don't even have the basic qualities of a human being. I don't even know where your body is now. The old doctor told me to go and snatch it, but I don't have the guts or the courage. I can't accept it. I'm afraid they'll beat me to death with sticks...
"I killed all three of you. I also wanted a son. I was not a good father. I was a complete bastard. If you want revenge, then come and get it. This is what I deserve!" Yan Hunlan said calmly, smiling as he looked at the person opposite him.
Yan Hunlan slowly lay down on the bed of freshly laid dry grass, and was immediately enveloped by a cloud of black mist...
"Is Yan Hunlan dead?"
"Yes, he died. He died at home. His whole body was drained, and he became skin and bones!"
"Now the Yan family's daughter-in-law should have calmed down. It's good that she took this troublemaker away, so that she won't be crazy all the time and cause chaos in the whole village!"
Yan Hunlan's death seemed to be both expected and unexpected. Led by the clan elders, they wrapped Yan Hunlan's body, which originally weighed nearly 200 jin but now looked to weigh only 70 or 80 jin, in a straw mat and buried it without even erecting a tombstone...
Just when everyone was about to forget about it, the Qiu and Mao families returned. This time, it was said that they had brought back a master who specialized in dealing with the Yan family's daughter-in-law!
As soon as the two families returned, they started making a scene at the house where the memorial tablet for Yan's wife was set up, accusing them of aiding and abetting evil and being accomplices of Yan's wife! They threatened to smash the memorial tablets that these families were worshipping!
These families were unwilling at all, because ever since they set up the memorial tablet for Yan's wife in their homes, everything in their homes had gone very smoothly, and even the rats in their homes had disappeared. How could they let Qiu and Mao's families smash the memorial tablet!
As a result, several families got into a big fight, and the Qiu and Mao families didn't gain anything. Later, the clan elders intervened and reprimanded the Qiu and Mao families, saying, "You two families can cause trouble in your own homes, but it's wrong to cause trouble in other people's homes! If this continues, the clan elders will have to invoke the clan law!"
The Qiu and Mao families arrived in a huff, but left in a sorry state. They then cleaned up the abandoned courtyard and closed their doors, seemingly rummaging through something inside.
"Do you think the Taoist priest they hired this time can defeat the Yan family's daughter-in-law?"
"This is a bit suspicious. Hey? When those two families came back, did you see the Taoist priest they hired?"
"No! Just like when they ran away, they ran away stealthily and came back quietly. I only found out they were back when I heard noises next door this morning."
"Since you live next door to them, have you seen what those two families are up to these days?"
"We can't see them. It's so quiet, like they've moved away. There's not a sound, not even day or night!"
"Could they be practicing some kind of evil magic? We'd better not anger the Yan family's daughter-in-law, or we'll be in trouble."
"That's right. It seems like the Yan family's daughter-in-law is quite nice. She let them off the hook after they admitted their mistake and even helped them look after their house. Look at these two families, they've started causing trouble as soon as they came back. They might really bring us all down with them!"
"No, we need to see what kind of shady things these two companies are doing, and we need to stop them immediately!"
"No need, Yan's wife appeared to me in a dream and told us not to be afraid, she has a way to solve it!"
"Really? Don't make things up!"
"My little one said that an aunt was holding an uncle's hand, and three older sisters were crawling on the uncle's back."
Everyone gasped in surprise, then truly believed it, and began to sit back and wait to see who was more capable, this expert or the Yan family's daughter-in-law.
The night was very quiet, like the calm before a storm! Both the Qiu and Mao families were currently inside the Qiu residence, intently watching the sage sitting in meditation on the altar in front of them.
This master is not the kind of old man with white hair and a youthful face who looks like an immortal and holds a white whisk, nor is he a fairy who is so beautiful that he inspires awe.
A little girl, dressed in a very loose Taoist robe, with her hair tied in a yin-yang bun, sat quietly in the middle of the altar, closing her eyes to meditate. She didn't look like a master at all.
"Knock knock knock knock...knock knock knock knock!" At midnight, the knocking sounded again. The lady of the Qiu family was about to call out to someone when she was stopped by a boy next to her.
"Don't you know that there are three people and four ghosts?" the boy asked.
"Huh? What kind of people are these 'three ghosts'?" Everyone looked puzzled.
"How many times do we knock on a door normally? Listen to how many knocks it makes at your own door right now."
"It seems we usually knock three times, but..., the ones outside are knocking four times! Could it be?!" Everyone was shocked, looking at the expert on the altar like a lifeline, hoping that he could destroy the soul of the Yan family's wife so that their own families could be safe.
"Knock knock knock knock..., knock knock knock knock..." The knocking was still going on outside, but it wasn't really knocking. It was more like scratching the door with fingernails, each sound scratching at the hearts of everyone present!
"Considering you are also a person of misfortune, leave quickly and I will not pursue the matter. If you are stubborn and unyielding, do not blame this humble Taoist for killing!" The master sitting cross-legged on the altar said calmly, using courtesy before resorting to force!
The knocking outside stopped abruptly as the Taoist priest admonished them. Everyone assumed that the Yan family's daughter-in-law had been frightened away by the Taoist priest, that she was scared and had given up, and that they could simply take the body out the next morning, add peach wood, jujube wood, mugwort, cinnabar, and other things, and burn it all.
Suddenly, with a loud "bang," the gate of Qiu's shop was smashed to pieces by a tremendous force from outside! A gust of cold wind rushed into the house, and the temperature in the courtyard dropped by more than ten degrees!
"Insolence!" the expert sitting on the altar shouted! All the copper coins placed on the altar flew up with a "whoosh"! They shot in one direction like a rain of pear blossom needles!
"Waaah..." A scream rang out as the copper coin seemed to have struck something. A plume of black smoke billowed out, and a dark shadow slowly appeared in the candlelight beneath a corner of the wall! Then it drifted away along the wall!
The Qiu and Mao families gasped in shock. The dark figure had almost reached them, and if it weren't for the intervention of a powerful figure, they might have already been harmed! The crowd surged forward, crowding around the altar, looking around in terror, fearing that the elusive figure might take their lives in the blink of an eye!
Standing at the entrance of the inner hall, the young man looked at the group of people who were as panicked as stray dogs and could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Couldn't he protect them? Although he was two years behind his junior sister, and although his junior sister was already at the fifth level of the Earth Rank, he was at least at the ninth level of the Yellow Rank. Surely he could still keep an eye on this little brat from a remote village! The young man thought to himself.
The expert sitting cross-legged on the altar frowned, watching the panicked crowd trample his clean and tidy altar into a mess of dog paw prints. For someone with a slight obsession with cleanliness, this was unacceptable. He desperately wanted to shake all of them off, but it was just a thought; these people had all been paid a small sum of money.
Sigh, what can I do? I've taken their money, so I have to do their bidding! Who told my master to suddenly go crazy and send me and my little tagalong here, while I steal a half-day of peace and quiet in the Taoist temple?
The boy watched as his junior sister puffed out her cheeks and pouted, a sign that she was about to explode. He covered his mouth and secretly laughed behind her.
The junior sister turned her head and looked at the boy with ill intent. The boy quickly lowered his head, not daring to meet his junior sister's cold eyes. Oh no, he'd been discovered. He was in deep trouble this time. He was bound to get a so-called sparring session when he got back. The boy wailed inwardly.
"This humble woman pays her respects to the immortal master. I have come here to commit evil for revenge! I beg the immortal master to grant my request!" A voice drifted in from outside, and then a woman dressed in red slowly entered through the gate, came to the altar, and bowed to the young Taoist priest on the altar.
The young Taoist priest frowned deeply, never expecting such a powerful vengeful spirit to exist in this place! The candles that had been burning brightly on the altar were suddenly reduced to tiny dots by the woman's arrival, as if a gust of wind could extinguish them at any moment.
The boy who had been standing at the entrance of the inner hall, secretly laughing, now had a serious expression!
"Ah! Isn't this the Yan family's daughter-in-law? Weren't we supposed to have chopped her up...? How is she still alive?" The Qiu and Mao families were shocked and cried out as they saw the living woman walking past them. However, they managed to swallow back some of their words.
“When a person dies, it’s like a lamp going out. Since you’re already dead, all worldly affairs should be over. You should go to the Netherworld to be reborn. If you have any grievances, go to the judges of the underworld. I believe the judges of the underworld will give you justice!” the junior sister said.
"Of course I want to go to the Underworld, but the Underworld messengers said I died a violent death, and my body was chopped up. Not only that, they put me in a sack and then pressed me down under their latrine with a huge rock! So I can't enter the Underworld and they banished me. Now I can only wander in the mortal world. My resentment is too heavy, and I can't be reincarnated. So I came here to find an immortal to give me justice!" the woman said calmly.
"Is what she said true?" The junior sister looked at these people with a livid face.
"She killed my man first. If she hadn't killed my man, I wouldn't have chopped her up and done this!" Qiu's wife said righteously.
"Then... why did I kill the men from both of your families? Can you tell the Immortal Master?" the woman asked with a smile, looking at the trembling crowd.
"It's all your fault! You're unfaithful, promiscuous, and seducing men everywhere. When your affair was exposed, you stole arsenic from the old doctor to protect your reputation and poisoned the men of both my families, your two lovers!" Qiu's wife pointed at the woman and cursed.
"That's right, how dare you still ask the immortal for justice! You still have the nerve to come here! I'm ashamed of you!" Mao's wife reacted quickly, immediately picking up where Qiu's wife left off and scolding her.
"Did you hear that, Immortal Master? These people are still unrepentant and are still trying to smear me. Do you think I should send them all to the underworld to clear my name?" The woman's smile slowly grew more and more sinister, and worm-like blood lines began to appear on her face!
"Immortal Master, save us! This woman has never been a good person. Her husband is useless, so she seduces men everywhere. She was already promiscuous before she was married. Otherwise, she wouldn't have married that scoundrel Yan Hunlan. Even her own family has severed ties with her! Now she's coming here to turn the tables on us! Immortal Master, you must stand up for us!" The women from the Qiu and Mao families recounted their story vividly.
The junior sister glanced at the female ghost who was beginning to turn evil not far away, then at the crowd of people clutching her skirts, sobbing and weeping. She didn't know who to believe...
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