Chapter 301: The Ghost Escapes
"He was heartbroken."
Yun Qingqing was straightforward and revealed the cause of Lu Hai's death in one sentence.
"……ah?"
Lu Guangzu opened his mouth, thinking he had heard wrongly.
What does it mean to have a broken heart?
Didn’t you just say that Lu Hai didn’t die from being stabbed in the heart?
Could it be possible that his heart could break on its own?
The villagers also looked at each other with strange expressions.
"You can find a coroner to examine it and you will know." Yun Qingqing said in a cold voice.
Among these villagers there was actually a coroner who had returned to his hometown to retire. He was nominated to perform an autopsy on Lu Hai on the spot.
After examining the body, the old coroner's expression changed from serious to shocked.
"His heart is really broken!" He gasped, "It doesn't matter whether the knife goes in or not. His heart has already been shattered into pieces! Just like..."
The old coroner hesitated and said:
"The way his heart was broken was like it was crushed by a hand. But apart from the knife wound on his heart, there was no other external injury. How could this be..."
"Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?" Lu Guangzu looked unhappy. "Don't say that. According to you, this is something that no human being can do..."
The old coroner said with a stern face:
"What do you mean by nonsense? I've been doing this for my whole life, how could I be wrong? If you don't believe me, come and check it yourself!"
Lu Guangzu was speechless after being criticized.
Yun Qingqing said calmly:
"He was visited by a vengeful ghost, and he deserved to die."
“What…what, vengeful ghost…?” Lu Guangzu took a breath.
The villagers also felt a chill on their backs. Even though they didn't quite believe it, the naked body and the words of the old coroner just now made them feel a little creepy.
Yun Qingqing raised her hand and pinched her fingers, then walked towards the backyard:
"If you want to know the truth, just follow me."
She took two steps, looked at Luda who was hiding in the corner, and ordered Nanzheng:
"Take him with you."
Nan Zheng ordered his men to take Lu Da and follow without saying a word.
Xiao Changheng followed Yun Qingqing, and the others looked at each other for a moment, then all followed and came to the backyard.
The backyard of this house is not very big, and there is no cultivated land to grow vegetables or raise chickens and ducks like other people's houses. It is just a small piece of wasteland.
There is a mud pit at the base of the north wall. It is obvious that a lot of water has accumulated due to the heavy rain in the past few days. Even now, half of the mud in the pit has not dried up.
Yun Qingqing pointed to a place and ordered the guards to find tools and dig down.
The semi-wet soil was very soft, and the guards soon dug up something. When they pulled it out and took a look, they immediately caused a burst of exclamations.
“It’s a human!”
"Why is there a dead body buried in this yard?"
"Hiss... This is obviously very old. Only bones are left..."
Some timid villagers have begun to retreat, while the braver ones are moving forward to get a clearer look.
The clothes on the corpse had already rotted away, but there were still some hair accessories left on the messy hair, indicating that it was a woman.
The old coroner sucked his teeth and said:
"The clothes have been rotten away, but the hair is still there. So, he must have been dead for at least three to five years."
"Six years."
Yun Qingqing said in a cold voice.
"Six years ago, this woman was killed by Lu Hai and her body was buried in the backyard. She became a wandering ghost and could not be reborn. However, because the original layout of the yard was in line with the Feng Shui Bureau, her ghost has been suppressed underground and cannot come out."
"Until the continuous thunderstorms last time, the depression became a pond, which not only destroyed the original Feng Shui, but also gathered negative energy to form evil spirits. The resentful spirits could no longer be suppressed, so they naturally came to seek revenge on the murderer who killed them."
After hearing her words, the whole audience fell silent.
Everyone just felt that it was broad daylight, but the temperature in the yard suddenly dropped a lot, giving people goose bumps.
Suddenly someone whispered:
"Six years ago... Hey, look at that hairpin. I think I saw Widow Sun wearing it..."
"Now that you put it that way..."
"Really? I've seen this hairpin too! Didn't Widow Sun pass away six years ago? Could it be that... she didn't pass away with a passing merchant, but died here in Lu Hai?"
"Back then, it was said that Widow Sun couldn't stand the loneliness and ran off with someone less than a year after her husband died. I never thought the truth would be like this!"
"Hey? I remember the first person who said he saw her leaving the village with the merchants wasn't Lu Hai...it was..."
Everyone turned their heads and looked at Luda, who was being held aside with a pale face!
Yun Qingqing's eyes were cold and she said in a deep voice:
"Once the vengeful ghost escapes, the first thing he does is to seek revenge on the murderer who killed him. Then, it will be the turn of the accomplice!"
Lu Da had been trembling with fear since he saw the corpse being dug out. When he heard her say that, his legs went weak and he knelt down.
"I, I didn't kill her. I just, I was attracted by her beauty and helped to drug her... Princess, please help me! Please take away the evil ghost! Otherwise, I don't know how many people she will kill in the future!"
He was so scared of death that he kowtowed so hard that blood came out.
When he shouted like that, all the villagers were frightened and they all looked at Yun Qingqing in fear.
"My Lady Princess, you know so much, you must know how to drive out evil spirits, right? Please help our village!"
"Princess, please save us!"
"If the evil ghosts in this village are not eliminated, I don't know how many people will be killed..."
Yun Qingqing raised her hand and pressed it down, and the villagers immediately shut up, waiting attentively for her to speak.
"Don't worry, folks. A resentful ghost is not an evil ghost. She just doesn't want to go to the underworld because she has not yet avenged her grudge and has not yet gotten rid of it."
"As long as she gets her revenge and her resentment dissipates, she will go where she should go and will not harm innocent people."
"If you are worried, please bury the body properly and burn some paper money for her, which will also be considered as accumulating some good karma."
"The human world has its own laws, and ghosts have their own rules. The deceased was a kind person when she was alive. You have no grudges against her, so she will naturally not come after you. That's why there's a saying that goes 'If you don't do bad things during the day, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking at night.'"
After she said this, everyone finally felt relieved and immediately began to arrange the burial of Widow Sun.
Although Luda cried, shouted and begged for mercy, he was still dragged away and sent to the authorities.
However, Yun Qingqing had seen clearly how he would die, and she thought that he would not be able to survive the punishment by the government and would be taken away by the vengeful ghost.
The matter was resolved, and Yun Qingqing and others were ready to leave.
But before leaving, she glanced casually at the corner of the backyard.
Two figures, one in black and one in white, had been watching there since a while ago. When they met her gaze, they immediately bowed to her.
Bai Wuchang's ever-changing narrow-eyed smile seemed to show some helplessness, and he said:
"Miss Yun, don't worry. Now that you've spoken, we'll wait until the ghost has taken revenge before taking her down. We'll be watching over her and won't let her lose control and hurt innocent people."
Yun Qingqing nodded imperceptibly, turned and left.
Almost no one noticed her movements, only Xiao Changheng followed her gaze and glanced at the corner, seeming to be thinking about something.
The irrelevant people dispersed, and they returned to Lu Sicong's house. Xiao Changheng proposed his intention, and Lu Sicong was surprised but a little hesitant.
Now he just wanted to take his daughter to a place where no one knew them and live a peaceful life. He did not want to go to Beijing, and had no interest in any official position in the Ministry of Works.
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