As the gates of hell slowly closed, Lu Weiguo's resentment dissipated, and he roared with bloodshot eyes, "Fang Yunfei, you son of a bitch! What right do you have to curse me! Go to hell—ow!"
Before he could finish his curse, Nan Yuanman, with a stern face, slapped a copper coin sword against his mouth: "Don't swear!"
Lu Weiguo glared angrily at Nan Yuanman, his blood-stained hand trembling as he pointed at her, mumbling incoherently, "You little bitch—ah!"
Dog Egg didn't give him a chance to curse. With a dark face, he stepped on Dog Egg's face and said coldly, "If you don't want a mouth, then never have one."
Lu Weiguo felt a sharp pain in his mouth, along with pain in his shoulder and tailbone. His eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Just then, the ward door was kicked open from the outside, and Feng Yuli rushed in: "Perfect!"
When he saw Nan Yuanman standing safely in the ward, he breathed a heavy sigh of relief. He strode forward, picked her up, and carefully examined her, saying, "I was really scared to death just now."
Just now, after Nan Yuanman ran into the ward, the door was suddenly closed, and he couldn't open it no matter what he did.
If he hadn't been afraid of disturbing the nurses and interrupting Nan Yuanman's treatment of the vengeful spirit, he would have gone to find bodyguards to break down the door.
Fortunately, the door wasn't closed for too long.
Nan Yuanman nestled obediently in his arms like a cat with its neck being choked, patting his chest to comfort him: "Big brother, I'm fine, Yuanman is very powerful!"
Feng Yuli stroked her soft hair: "Big brother knows, but I'll still worry about you."
Only after confirming that Nan Yuanman was alright did Feng Yuli see the old man lying on the ground, covered in blood.
Feng Yuli's hand holding Nan Yuanman trembled. After a few seconds of silence, he looked up at the only outsider in the room, Lu Xu, and asked Nan Yuanman, "Is this person... dead?"
Lu Xu felt a chill run down his spine as he was stared at, as if he were being watched by a large, ferocious beast, and dared not move an inch.
Was it just his imagination?
Why did he feel... that the little Taoist priest's brother wanted to kill him?
Nan Yuanman shook his head: "He's not dead yet, he's still breathing."
"That's good. I'll call the doctor over now." Feng Yuli breathed a sigh of relief and turned his gaze away from Lu Xu. That meant he wouldn't have to kill him to cover it up.
He stepped forward to press the call button, but Lu Xu was faster and pressed the call button before he could: "He's my grandfather, I'll take care of it, I'll take care of it."
Before the doctors and nurses arrived, Lu Xu glanced coldly at Lu Weiguo, who was lying on the ground, his life hanging in the balance, and hesitantly asked Nan Yuanman, "Um... Little Celestial Master, will this have any impact on me in the future?"
“Yes, you might have a bit of bad luck in the future.” Nan Yuanman said honestly, “He suffered backlash for his evil deeds. Some of the things Uncle Fang went through will come back to him. And you are his grandson. Your ancestors have been cursed and you have suffered the backlash, so you will also be affected.”
After listening for a while, Lu Xu gave a rather bitter smile: "...Being his grandson is the worst misfortune I've ever had in my life."
Lu Weiguo disliked his father and also disliked him.
The day before his father died of cancer, Lu Weiguo came to him asking for money to go drinking. When he refused, Lu Weiguo beat him up.
After Lu Xu's father passed away, Lu Weiguo, fearing that no one would support him in his old age, completely relied on him.
His scholarship and his salary were all taken away by him through forceful means. If he didn't give them to him, Lu Weiguo would go to his school and the place where he worked part-time and make a scene.
Lu Weiguo was also adept at using his old age to feign pitifulness and stand on the moral high ground, allowing himself to be criticized by those around him who were unaware of the truth.
Lu Xu originally thought that he could leave this suffocating home when he grew up, but he never expected that growing up would only be the beginning of his suffering...
Nan Yuanman couldn't offer any words of comfort, after all, this was the rule of Heaven, which was unreasonable.
She sighed like a little adult, took out a good luck charm and handed it to him: "Big brother, things will be alright in the future."
Lu Xu's Adam's apple bobbed, and he gave her a pale, weak smile.
It won't get better.
He looked coldly at Lu Weiguo lying on the ground, a secret sense of pleasure welling up inside him. Since they couldn't escape, they might as well torture each other forever.
Perhaps Fang Yunfei's backlash had already begun, because when Lu Weiguo was carried to bed by doctors and nurses, quite a few incidents occurred.
The stretcher inexplicably tipped over, adding another layer of damage to his fragile spine. Later, while he was being pushed on a gurney for a CT scan, the gurney's wheels suddenly broke, causing him to plunge into a bucket of dirty water that the cleaning staff had just pushed out, resulting in an extremely serious infection of the wound on his shoulder.
Lu Xu coldly watched Lu Weiguo wail in pain, listening to the doctor's pronouncement: "...The old man is getting on in years, his bones are brittle. This fall broke a bone in his lumbar spine. Without surgery, it will be very difficult for him to stand up again..."
Lu Weiguo gripped the armrests on both sides of the hospital bed tightly, shouting in panic to Lu Xu, "Move! I need surgery! Lu Xu! Pay up for my treatment!"
Lu Xu gave him a smile and said to the doctor, "Doctor, we won't treat him. The old man is too old, and surgery will be too damaging to his body. I'll take him home for conservative treatment first."
Lu Weiguo: "!!!"
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Nan Yuanman didn't pay attention to Lu Weiguo's situation. She was lying listlessly in Feng Yuli's arms as he carried her towards Feng Congqian's ward.
Gou Dan keenly sensed that Nan Yuanman's mood was off. He floated to her side and called her softly, "Yuanman, Yuanman? Are you unhappy?"
Nan Yuanman rested her chin on Feng Yuli's broad shoulder, staring blankly ahead, and muttered somewhat dejectedly, "Gou Dan, Yuanman is a bad kid."
Grandpa hoped she would be a kind and good child, but she just wanted Lu Weiguo to die. Her thoughts were simply too wicked.
Nan Yuanman pouted, tears welling up in her eyes.
She's become a bad kid.
Grandpa will definitely be disappointed in her if he finds out.
Seeing the tears in the little girl's eyes, the man felt extremely sad. He sighed softly, grasped Nan Yuanman's hand gently, and said in a firm but gentle voice, "Yuanman is not bad at all. Yuanman is a very good and kind child."
"I'm not okay at all." Nan Yuanman said in a low voice with tears in her eyes, "I just... didn't stop Uncle Fang from attacking Lu Weiguo."
“That’s normal.” Gou Dan’s voice was clear and calm: “I didn’t want to stop Fang Yunfei from killing Lu Weiguo either. In fact, I think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with his revenge.”
Nan Yuanman's eyes lit up, as if she had found a kindred spirit, and she looked at Gou Dan with a hint of confusion in her watery eyes: "Grandpa also said that cause and effect are cyclical, and there is nothing wrong with Uncle Fang taking revenge, but usually when Grandpa encounters this situation, he will step in to stop Uncle Fang."
"Why is that?" She tilted her head, puzzled. "Isn't killing your enemy the best and most direct way to get revenge?"
It can also directly dispel the resentment of vengeful ghosts.
Old Master Nan passed away too suddenly. He didn't have time to break down and teach Nan Yuanman the rules that a coffin maker should follow and the principles of life.
Therefore, the little girl became somewhat depressed when she encountered such a situation.
Gou Dan was also stumped by Nan Yuanman's question. After all, he was not a Celestial Master and could not know the rules that Celestial Masters had to follow. He just... simply felt that it was not worth it for Fang Yunfei to risk his next life for an old man who was about to die.
"I can't answer your questions, thank you." Gou Dan pursed his lips and said apologetically, "Perhaps you can ask someone traveling with you later."
"But I think... when doing this kind of thing, you just need to follow your heart."
Nan Yuanman stared at him blankly: "Act according to your conscience?"
“Yes.” Gou Dan nodded firmly: “You do what you should do, and leave all choices and consequences to the other party to decide.”
"The good or bad consequences that follow are up to them to choose; you just need to have a clear conscience."
The little girl seemed confused. Gou Dan sighed inwardly and gently patted her hair, saying, "It's okay if you don't understand. You just need to know that Yuanman isn't a bad child."
Nan Yuanman gave a muffled "hmm" and silently made her way to Feng Congqian's ward.
"We've arrived." Feng Yuli looked nervously at the little girl in his arms and pushed open the door.
Just as the door was about to open, the black and red threads on Gou Dan's body suddenly erupted, rapidly spreading across his soul and pulling him quickly toward the door.
Dog Egg: "!!"
Nanmanyuan: "!!"
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