"You're talking nonsense! My mother isn't that kind of person. It's clearly you and the child who are greedy. What good can a woman like you give birth to? You're lazy and good-for-nothing. You've been secretly using the money I give you to buy nice things to eat, haven't you?" Ma Wu cursed angrily.
Cui Xiang darted over and grabbed Ma Wu by the neck. Everyone frowned, worried for Cui Xiang. Would Ma Wu beat her up again?
As expected, Ma Wu swung his fists and started punching and kicking Cui Xiang. Unfortunately, he couldn't touch Cui Xiang at all. Cui Xiang's ghost power was insufficient, so she couldn't cause any real harm to Ma Wu. At most, she could only torment him in his dreams.
When the two children saw Ma Wu hitting his mother again, they went up and each grabbed one of Ma Wu's sides, then started hitting him all over. Bao Niu even bit Ma Wu through his clothes.
In pain, Ma Wu instinctively freed his fist to hit Bao Niu.
Yuan Qi knew that Ma Wu was a leopard that couldn't change its spots, so he simply threw a talisman at Cui Xiang, who immediately felt that she could beat Ma Wu.
"Let you experience what it's like to be a victim of domestic violence." Yuan Qi stood quietly to the side, arms crossed, watching the spectacle without any intention of interfering.
Cuixiang felt she was getting into it. She grabbed Ma Wu's arm, which was about to hit Bao Niu, and with a light flick, she sent him flying. Ma Wu fell to the ground and smashed the only small stool in the house.
Baozhu and Baoniu rushed forward, mounted Ma Wu, and unleashed a flurry of punches on him.
When Cuixiang saw that her two children were also helping her beat people up, she became even more excited.
"Get out of my way, I'm going to beat him up. I'll beat him up every time he's ever hit me before!"
Ma Wu stumbled and was a little dazed. By the time he came to his senses, Cui Xiang was already on top of him, and her stone-like fists rained down on him, making him numb.
He didn't believe that he, a grown man, couldn't beat Cuixiang. In the past, when he hit Cuixiang, she never dared to fight back.
"You bitch, have you rebelled? You dare hit me? I'll make you die again today." He tried to grab Cui Xiang's hair, but found that he still couldn't touch her at all.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach Cuixiang.
Ma Wu was simply being attacked on one side.
Ma Wu was quickly beaten black and blue, and even lost two teeth.
Cuixiang was still not satisfied, and Ma Wu glared at her resentfully, very unconvinced: "I will definitely beat you into submission today!"
She floated off Ma Wu and kicked him repeatedly, sending him rolling on the ground, begging for mercy. He felt like all the bones in his body were broken.
"Cuixiang, stop hitting me, I know I was wrong, stop hitting me, I know I was wrong."
Cui Xiang finally stopped, stood beside him with her hands on her hips, and said, "You deserve a beating. Kneel down and admit your mistake."
Ma Wu never expected that Cui Xiang would become so ferocious after her death; he couldn't even beat her. He was in so much pain that he couldn't get up.
Cuixiang had little patience and was about to beat him up again.
Ma Wu scrambled away, pleading, "Don't hit me, don't hit me, I'll kneel down for you."
Yuan Qi twitched his lips. So he was a coward who bullied the weak and feared the strong.
She asked slowly, "Tell me, were you really good to your wife before?"
Ma Wu then told the truth: "No, no, I only gave her a small amount of money, but I made her manage the food, drink, and daily needs of our whole family. Not only did she have to go out to earn money, but she also had to serve my mother, take care of the two children, and serve me at night. I even hit her. I'm not human, I deserve to die. Little Taoist priest, no, Heavenly Master, please let her go and be reincarnated as soon as possible. I will definitely treat the children well in the future. The only reason she refuses to leave is because she can't bear to part with the children."
“I don’t think you’ve beaten them enough. You’re just hoping they’ll leave so you can keep beating and exploiting them. You’re just a lazy, wicked person who thinks you’re a good person. People like you need someone to keep an eye on you all the time.” Yuan Qi looked at Cui Xiang.
Cui Xiang immediately understood Yuan Qi's meaning, knelt down and kowtowed to Yuan Qi: "Master, rest assured, I will not do evil while I am in the human world. I just want to watch the two children grow up safely. As for the rest, as long as Ma Wu takes good care of the children, I will not torture him at night anymore."
Yuan Qi hasn't agreed yet.
Ma Wu immediately objected: "That won't do! Wouldn't that mean I'd get beaten up every day? I might as well just give up and kill myself."
The neighbor, an older woman, couldn't stand it anymore: "Ma Wu, aren't you ashamed to say that? How many years have you been beating Cui Xiang? I've been your neighbor, and I hear Cui Xiang's screams every night. You can't live without being beaten once? Do you know how Cui Xiang has survived all these years?"
The neighbor also thought Ma Wu was shameless: "Ma Wu, as a man, I think Cui Xiang should stay. If you treat these two children badly, it's only right that Cui Xiang beats you."
The neighbors all said, "Yes, if I were Cuixiang, I wouldn't feel at ease with the two children either."
Ma Wu cried out in despair, "She's a ghost! Aren't you afraid?"
The neighbors looked at each other, and they realized they were also afraid of ghosts. Who isn't afraid of ghosts?
Yuan Qi said, "Ghosts can be good or bad. Cui Xiang has been a ghost for over a month, and she has never harmed you, has she? You have never dreamed of her, have you?"
The neighbors nodded in agreement: "That's true."
Seeing that Yuan Qi truly had no intention of taking Cui Xiang away, Ma Wu rebuked Yuan Qi: "Don't people all go to the underworld after they die? How can she not go? Little Taoist priest, if you don't believe me, I'll go and invite her..."
Cuixiang immediately went up to kick him, knocking him to the ground: "You've got some nerve, daring to scare even the Celestial Master. Since the Celestial Master dared to keep me here, it proves that the Celestial Master is capable and not afraid of those above. Let's see what you're capable of, daring to challenge the Celestial Master."
Ma Wu chickened out: "I dare not, I dare not."
Baozhu and Baoniu went up to hug Cuixiang and were overjoyed to find that they could touch their mother: "It's so good that Mother can stay."
Ma Wu was furious. He had originally asked Yuan Qi to take Cui Xiang away, but he never expected Yuan Qi to do this. He was worried about how he would live in the future.
Cuixiang wasn't satisfied and kicked him again: "You're not allowed to drink anymore. Every time you drink, I'll beat you."
Ma Wu felt that every blow Cui Xiang struck hurt to the bone. She clearly didn't have this much strength when she was alive. What was going on?
"Did you hear that?" Cuixiang kicked him again.
Ma Wu trembled: "I heard it, I heard it."
Cuixiang, pulling her two children along, kowtowed to Yuan Qi: "Master, thank you. I suffered a lifetime of injustice and hardship as a human, but I never thought that I could finally hold my head high as a ghost. Thank you, Master."
Yuan Qi remained expressionless: "Don't thank me yet. If you do evil, it will be against the natural order. Even if you become a ghost, the underworld will remember everything you have done. When you arrive in the underworld, it will settle accounts one by one."
Upon hearing this, the neighbors were immediately relieved and no longer worried that Cuixiang would take the opportunity to do anything.
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