Chapter 204: Poisonous Heart
The burning red color pierced Qi Gu's eyes and heart. He stared blankly at Juanjuan devouring Wang Xiangxiu's soul. He didn't know how long it had been. He felt that it should not be too long. After all, Wang Xiangxiu's soul had not been completely devoured yet... Qi Gu took out the not very beautifully painted talismans that he placed in the interlayer of his schoolbag, and threw out a dozen of them at the same time, flying around Juanjuan.
Juanjuan's eyes were bloodshot and filled with hatred. She finally loosened the claws that were holding Wang Xiangxiu's soul and attacked Qi Gu.
Qi Gu dodged Juanjuan's attack and slapped a bright yellow talisman on her back, awakening her consciousness: "How could this happen?"
Qi Gu asked Juanjuan in disbelief.
He had obviously found a solution. Maybe... maybe if he had arrived a few minutes earlier, none of this would have happened. If he could have run a little faster.
But there is no maybe, what happened happened.
Wang Xiangxiu died and her soul became incomplete. Juanjuan was stained with blood and became an evil ghost, and the man on the ground died with his soul scattered.
Juanjuan's bloodshot eyes gradually regained clarity, but when she saw the body of her father's man on the ground, there was no regret on her face.
After Juanjuan's death, Wang Xiangxiu's husband, whether out of fear or out of mind, did not return home for several days and stayed at a friend's house.
It was not until the seventh day after Juanjuan's death that Wang Xiangxiu's husband began to return home more frequently.
At first, he restrained himself a little because Wang Xiangxiu lost her daughter, and he didn't beat her for a few days, but that little bit of sympathy soon disappeared.
From time to time, the small house began to emit the sounds of smashing and crashing, the woman's screams of pain, and the man's insults. Even when Juanjuan was trapped in the ditch and unable to get out of the water, she kept staring at the small door of her home. It was not entirely because she missed Wang Xiangxiu - but also because she was worried that Wang Xiangxiu would be beaten black and blue again.
Juanjuan actually hates her father very much. Every time her father comes home, he makes a loud noise, messing up the house that her mother has cleaned with great effort. He also pulls her mother's hair and bangs her head on the ground.
At the beginning, Juanjuan wanted to stop it, but her father pushed her down and she was in so much pain that she couldn’t walk properly for several days. So Wang Xiangxiu learned her lesson and every time her husband came home, she would lock Juanjuan in the room and not let her come out again.
Juanjuan is a disabled child. When she was injured, she couldn't even tell where it hurt or how it hurt. How could Wang Xiangxiu let her stand in front of her?
Every time, Juanjuan would peek at what was happening outside through the small gap in the door.
I saw my father get tired of fighting and leave, and then my mother, with her hair disheveled and her face bruised, tidied herself up outside, put on her messy clothes, combed her hair, and pretended nothing had happened.
Juanjuan always felt that her mother at this time was more like a "fool" as others called her than she was.
After all, my mother's face was covered with bruises and her skin was swollen. No one could fail to see that she was injured.
Juanjuan and Wang Xiangxiu spent a long, long time together like that.
Juanjuan intuitively felt that this was wrong and should be stopped, which is something even a fool could understand.
But every time she could only watch and do nothing.
Fortunately, she died.
After his death, Juanjuan still spent a period of time unable to help Wang Xiangxiu resist. During that time, she lay in a ditch, afraid every day that her father would come home.
In her mind, Daddy coming home means Mommy is hurt.
And now she couldn't even leave the ditch and couldn't find out anything about what was going on inside.
The feeling of powerlessness accumulated little by little in her heart and was difficult to resolve. The mother's screams were poison planted in her daughter's heart.
Finally one day, when the man appeared outside the house again, and the familiar sounds of smashing and smashing were heard in the room again, Juanjuan's long hair fluttered, and her eyes gradually turned blood red. One step, two steps... she crawled out of the filthy ditch, and crawled on all fours towards the room where her mother had been locked up countless times and screaming and wailing.
She bit off the man's neck with her sharp teeth and tore off his limbs with her sharp claws. She was finally able to protect her mother... protect her mother... Juanjuan felt that there was danger on all sides. Her eyes became more and more bloodshot as she lost control of the killing. She thought that if she wanted to protect her mother, the best way should be to let her completely merge with herself.
That way, she could protect her forever.
Juanjuan's thin hands pinched Wang Xiangxiu's neck and strangled her throat. Juanjuan carefully placed Wang Xiangxiu's body on the ground, her movements as gentle as if she was treating a dandelion.
Then, she devoured the soul that separated from Wang Xiangxiu's body.
She will protect her mother forever and ever.
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The eight-year-old Qi Gu listened to Juanjuan's story based on her own understanding, and he couldn't even maintain the spiritual power to use the talisman.
Why...is this happening?
He didn't know why Wang Xiangxiu didn't tell him about the domestic violence, nor did he understand why someone would treat his wife like that. He hated everything he didn't understand, and he hated himself for making a rash decision... If it weren't for his self-righteous white lies, would Wang Xiangxiu have been able to rely on herself to get out of this in the end without losing her life?
As for Wang Xiangxiu's husband, it can only be said that he deserved to die.
After he recovered, Qi Gu tried to gather Wang Xiangxiu's soul, but that was simply impossible. Wang Xiangxiu's remaining soul eventually dissipated between heaven and earth.
Juanjuan finally realized what she had done. She curled up on Wang Xiangxiu's cold body in pain. She hugged her mother tightly, wanting her mother to touch her head gently as she used to.
Eventually, she was taken away by the ghost messenger who arrived later and was sentenced to atone her sins in the ghost prison for a hundred years.
Qi Gu set up tablets for Juanjuan and Wang Xiangxiu in Fu'ai Temple, and at the same time accumulated merits for Juanjuan, hoping that Juanjuan could enter reincarnation as soon as possible.
After this incident, Qi Gu stopped studying his favorite metaphysics for a long time. He went to and from school alone every day, and the little boy traveled all alone on Fu'ai Mountain.
He never met the woman named Wang Xiangxiu in the mountains again.
And it's all because of him.
Guilt, remorse, and apology lingered in Qi Gu's heart for a long time. He became more taciturn than before, and apart from offering incense to the tablets of Juanjuan and Wang Xiangxiu, he no longer got involved in any metaphysical matters.
The master naturally noticed such a big change. He called Qi Gu to his side and asked him why he hadn't been fiddling with the talisman papers recently.
Qi Gu lowered his head, his fingertips intertwined, "Because, because I did something wrong."
He was so sad that he couldn't raise his head and didn't dare to look at his master's gaunt face.
"If you do something wrong, you should never do it again. If you find a bug in your rice, should you never eat it again? If that's the case, wouldn't everyone in the world starve to death?"
"But...I hurt someone."
"Did you do this on purpose? Did you intend to let her die?"
"……No."
"Then take this guilt with you and do more." The old man patted Qi Gu on the head, "You must remember this and don't make the same mistake again."
Qi Gu didn't expect that his carefree master would actually comfort him so seriously. His round eyes revealed a look of being comforted yet unbelievable.
Then the next moment, I heard the master say, "Since you have made a mistake, you will not have chicken legs to eat next time this year. Both of them are mine."
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