But then Qiao Zhen thought again, she was already dead, it would be too saintly for her to be so stingy with Cheng Zhao's money. Besides, someone of Cheng Zhao's status earns money by the hour, he makes a lot of money every hour, he wouldn't care about her insignificant expenses. So she was full of confidence to waste Cheng Zhao's money.
That evening, because Qiao Zhen had behaved well during the day, Cheng Zhao didn't put her back into the jade pendant. Qiao Zhen took advantage of Cheng Zhao being asleep and went back to the commercial street to look for the old man from the previous night.
The old man was still wearing tattered and smelly clothes. When he saw Qiao Zhen, he glared at her angrily, then turned around and left, leaning on his cane.
"Wait a minute!" Qiao Zhen immediately sped over, keeping a distance that was neither too close nor too far from him. "Old beggar, I was forcibly bound to a master! You have to believe me!"
The old beggar snorted.
Qiao Zhen followed at a respectful distance, saying, "I was really forced to accept the jade pendant as my master! I was locked inside it yesterday. If it weren't for a stroke of luck, how could I have gotten out?"
The old beggar waved his cane impatiently at Qiao Zhen, "You're such a nuisance! Do you really think I'm easy to fool? Do you think anyone can force a little ghost to recognize its master?!"
Qiao Zhen looked up and scratched the back of her head. "Really? He could still hear my voice, and it seemed like he could even see me. He chanted a spell, and I was put into the jade pendant. I'm not kidding you!"
The old man's mind raced. "Really?"
Qiao Zhen said with certainty, "Absolutely true!"
The old man and Qiao Zhen arrived at the top floor of a shopping mall. The old man was now dressed in clean clothes. The two sat side by side on the rooftop. "Tell me in detail what happened?"
Qiao Zhen looked at the old man warily. "Old beggar, if someone is being unusually helpful, they're either up to no good or a thief. You can't just be here to join in the fun and gossip, can you?"
The old man snorted, displeased with Qiao Zhen's malicious interpretation. "We ghosts also have rules. If you harm a human being, you will go to the deepest hell. But listening to what you said, I don't think that person is a human being. If he is from the ghost realm, then taking him back would be a great service."
Qiao Zhen immediately floated away, "Forget it! If I ruin his plans, given how easily he can put me into the jade pendant, he can definitely kill me just as easily!"
The old man teleported to Qiao Zhen's side. "Hey, old man, let me see if I can do something good. If not, I'll just leave. Don't you want to find out more about him?"
Qiao Zhen looked at the old man expressionlessly, "But I don't know your background, and that young man has already promised to make a golden statue and a golden tablet for me!"
The old man's eyes lit up as he looked at Qiao Zhen, his gaze full of sycophancy. "Are you sure he's not lying to you?"
Qiao Zhen said slyly to the old man, "He's very rich in the human realm. A golden body and a golden tablet are nothing to him. Why would he lie to me?"
The old man immediately knelt down and hugged Qiao Zhen's leg. "Young lady, please have pity on this old man! I haven't eaten for days!"
Qiao Zhen stared dumbfounded at the shameless old man before her, "You...?!?!"
The old man clung to her leg shamelessly, pleading, "Little girl, please have mercy!"
Qiao Zhenfeng was bewildered for a long time before finally raising her hand to stop him. "Get up first. I need to go back as soon as possible. If he can't find me, he'll lock me in the jade pendant."
The old man lifted his robe, exuding a heroic air reminiscent of the line, "The wind howls, the Yi River is cold, a hero departs, never to return." He reassured Qiao Zhen, "I'll go back with you. Let me see which rich man... ugh, which fool dares to force a little ghost from the ghost realm to acknowledge him as their master!"
Qiao Zhen looked at the shameless old beggar in front of her, who could only float around sometimes fast and sometimes slow, twisting and turning as if she were playing hide-and-seek with the old man.
But to her despair, she couldn't shake off the shameless old beggar behind her!
She and the old man stared at each other at the door of Cheng Zhao's bedroom. She lowered her voice and said, "He can hear me. You'd better behave yourself. If you can beat him, I'll be the only one who'll be wiped out. If you can't beat him, then you'll be wiped out with me."
The old beggar nodded solemnly. He floated in silently, looked at Cheng Zhao's face, then calculated with his fingers, then calculated again, and then calculated once more. "I can't figure it out."
Qiao Zhen led the old man to sit down in the living room, the two sitting side by side. "Sigh, if you can't even figure this out, then he must be even more powerful than a ghost immortal! Are there any important figures who have recently disappeared in your ghost realm? Let's use the process of elimination."
The old man's face scrunched up like a chrysanthemum. "No, that's all, except for what I mentioned to you last time..."
A sudden flash of inspiration struck both of them, and they pointed at each other, uttering two words: "King Yama!"
Again, at the same pace, Qiao Zhen raised her hand to cover her mouth, solemnly remarking, "I knew it! How could his status be ordinary? But if he were the King of Hell, what would his tribulations be?"
[Hidden Quest: Help Cheng Zhao overcome his tribulation.]
Qiao Zhen: [I knew this damn system was up to no good. Now it's exposed, isn't it?]
Xiao Ling: [It's all the main system's fault!]
Main system: [Go ahead and argue with me if you dare!]
Qiao Zhen channeled a wisp of immortal power into the main system and Xiao Ling's system. [Is more needed?]
Xiao Ling: [No... I don't need it anymore.]
The main system screen had long since turned into a static display.
Xiao Ling: [Please complete the task carefully, host. I need to read a novel now and won't be able to keep track of your activities all the time. Please be careful.]
Qiao Zhen: [Get lost.]
She blocked Xiao Ling again.
The old man's gaze seemed to sweep over Qiao Zhen intentionally or unintentionally, his mind swirling with thoughts he revealed nothing. If Cheng Zhao was Yama, then who was Qiao Zhen? Wasn't she just Yama's consort who went with him? The old man's eyes suddenly became strange as he looked at Qiao Zhen, a mixture of respect and burning desire, like a hungry wolf eyeing a plump, juicy bun, its eyes practically gleaming with a sinister green light.
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