Chapter 72 Those in charge of reincarnation are practically being snatched from the animal realm...
Zhou Yueshan huddled in the driver's seat, feeling his shirt soaked with cold sweat from his back.
The sound of fingernails scratching at the door grew louder and louder, almost as if it were right next to my ear.
But he didn't dare turn his head.
I dared not turn my head, nor dared I move.
He let the woman's cries for help come from the mobile phone in his hand:
"Let me out..."
"I'm not having an abortion anymore! I'm not having one!"
"Let me out, please, someone help me!"
"There's a fire here, and there are still people inside..."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yueshan suddenly realized who this person was.
That was a female college student he hooked up with six months ago.
That person lived in a single-parent family and was facing financial difficulties.
He happened to be rich and knew how to deal with a girl's predicament, so he arranged to meet her under the guise of providing financial assistance.
He was handsome and rich, and he even set up several schemes to save girls, so he quickly won them over.
However, he has always been fickle with women other than his wife, and he got tired of them after less than a month.
So he confessed that he was married and decisively dumped the girl.
He initially thought this was just a minor incident, and that this girl, like most of the girls he had deceived before, would obediently leave after being humiliated by him.
But to his surprise, less than a month later, the female college student came to see him again.
She said she was pregnant.
Zhou Yueshan was going through a failed project at the time, and took the opportunity to vent all his anger on the female college student.
Not only did he fail to pay for the abortion as usual, he also threatened the female student that he would cause trouble at her university and let everyone know that she had seduced a married woman.
The girl he had humiliated that day burst into tears, but all the resentment he had been holding in vanished.
After having his assistant kick the girl out, he stopped paying attention to her news.
The girl appeared in his sight once again, and for the last time, when he was watching the news.
I heard that this woman didn't have money for an abortion, but she certainly didn't have money to give birth to the child.
To save money, she had no choice but to go to an unlicensed clinic.
However, the doctor at the illegal clinic was unprofessional; he gave her the medicine and then went off to do other things.
As a result, a fire broke out at the illegal clinic, and she was trapped in the room, which, to make matters worse, had a broken lock.
When the police found her, her body was already burned to a crisp.
The newspaper said that the iron door to the room was covered with scratch marks from her last moments.
What were his thoughts after reading the new article?
Zhou Yueshan felt a chill run through his body.
He doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, or rather, he has committed too many misdeeds in business and life, making him afraid to believe in ghosts and gods.
After reading the newspaper, he told his colleagues about it as a joke.
After mocking the woman for being so stupid, he forgot about it.
But he couldn't understand it.
There were no problems for so long, so why did that woman suddenly come looking for him after half a year?
The scratching sound of fingernails on the door grew louder and louder, and he suddenly realized what was happening and tried to drive down.
But this time, he encountered the same situation as that female college student.
The car door wouldn't open, no matter what he tried.
He tried opening all the doors in the car, but none of them would open, and the trunk was also locked.
Even more terrifying, white smoke began to rise from inside the car.
A burnt leather smell wafted from the car, gradually filling his nostrils.
"Help! Help!"
As he heard the cries for help, he saw figures appear outside the car, which had previously been empty.
One by one, the bustling activity and heavy traffic returned to normal.
No matter how much he pounded on the car door, the people outside seemed unable to hear his cries for help, nor could they see his smoking car.
"Help me! Help me! There's someone in the car!"
"I won't do it again, I know I was wrong! Please, please let me go!"
"Please let me go, I really know I was wrong!"
He clasped his hands together in front of the smoke-filled carriage and pleaded tearfully.
"Please, please let me go. I promise I'll change my ways after I get out and never lie to anyone's feelings again!"
"If you let me go, I promise I'll do a lot of charity work when I get out, and I'll donate all my money!"
No matter how much he pleaded, the smoke inside the car continued to grow thicker.
He inhaled too much smoke, coughed painfully, and his head became increasingly dizzy.
Finally, clinging to a sliver of hope, he pleaded once more:
"Don't you like me? Let me go, and I'll divorce my wife."
Even if you died right now, I could still marry you!
"How about I make you my wife? Please let me go..."
This time, his plea seemed to have a response.
But it wasn't a good reaction.
A pair of charred hands slowly encircled his neck, tightening inch by inch.
With his neck being choked, Zhou Yueshan opened his mouth wide, but couldn't breathe.
His face turned liver-colored, and his eyeballs gradually bulged out.
On his deathbed, he heard an old man's cursing voice:
"Who do you think you are? Bah!"
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Yuan Yuling spent the whole morning playing with her daughter in the store, and she would avoid customers when they came by.
I took my daughter to the back room to watch TV.
Chu Ci looked at the still haggard Master Qiu and said, "The dead cannot be brought back to life. Please accept my condolences, Master Qiu."
Her words of comfort were weak and ineffective, but Master Qiu simply smiled.
“Master Chu, I saw my daughter again yesterday.”
When her daughter was mentioned, Master Qiu's eyes instantly reddened.
"Master, my daughter says her time is up and she can't stay with me forever, otherwise she'll kill me and her dad."
"So I hope I can come to you and help her reincarnate."
She stared at Chu Ci with wide, hopeful eyes:
"Master, do you think the concept of reincarnation really exists?"
Tears streamed from her wide eyes. "I always feel that my connection with my daughter isn't over yet."
She always says that it's great to have me as her mother, and that the greatest luck of her life is having me as her mother.
"I really want to be her mother again in my next life, so we can finish the journey of our unfinished destiny in this life..."
When she talked about her daughter, she couldn't stop crying.
"Our Shuangshuang were such good children, she shouldn't have ended up like this."
"Her father and I have saved up money for her wedding and the future children we'll have, how could she..."
Why are those people targeting my daughter? And why my daughter of all people?
She stared intently at Chu Ci, desperately wanting an answer.
"Master, is a person's life really predetermined by fate?"
"Is this the inevitable outcome for both of us?"
Why... why must those people be my daughter?
Chu Ci: "..."
She looked away, unable to bear looking into her bloodshot eyes.
In her past life, she solved a serial murder case; the victim was a young woman who had just stayed on to work at the university.
She comes from a single-parent family; her father died early, and her mother raised her alone.
Finally, their daughter got a job, and their family was about to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but unexpectedly, the rope broke at the thinnest part.
The murderer randomly killed girls who had just gotten off work.
The girl's mother looked at her with the same eyes at the time, asking her again and again why.
Why not someone else? Why her daughter of all people?
Chu Ci didn't know how to answer at the time.
We still don't know.
She pursed her lips, avoiding Master Qiu's gaze.
"There is reincarnation. Shuangshuang is very kind, and she will definitely be reborn into a good family in her next life."
"A good family..."
Master Qiu's eyes were lifeless as she muttered to herself.
"If it's a good family, then I'm relieved..."
"Then her father and I can finally rest easy..."
She slumped into her seat like a deflated balloon.
He stood there stunned for a long time before finally raising his head like a lost soul.
"master."
Her name is Chu Ci.
When are you going to send Shuangshuang away?
Chu Ci looked at her empty eyes, her heart tightened, and the word "today" on her lips changed.
"Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow... so soon."
Master Qiu, supporting her seemingly frail body, slowly stood up.
"Then I'll go buy more incense, candles, and paper money, and make some of Shuangshuang's favorite foods."
"She has never suffered any injustice with me and her father, I can't let her suffer in the afterlife..."
Chu Ci opened her mouth, watching her walk out like a lost soul, her steps dragging along.
He didn't say "Be careful" out loud in the end.
She sat alone in the shop, her mind filled with the "why" her mother from her past life had asked her.
When Master Qiu's gaze met that of the mother, she felt as if a heavy stone was pressing on her chest.
It was so heavy it made it hard for her to breathe.
"master?"
A childlike voice suddenly came from behind me.
Chu Ci turned her head and saw Kang Kang staring at her with wide eyes.
The little girl appeared out of nowhere, tilting her head to look at her intently.
"Master, are you crying?"
Chu Ci subconsciously wiped her face, but there was nothing on it.
Kang Kang pointed to her eyes, "Master, your eyes are red."
Chu Ci then realized that her eyes were sore and a little painful.
She shook her head and smiled as she touched Kang Kang's little braids.
"No, I just got sand in my eyes."
Kang Kang: "???"
The child, oblivious to her sudden dry humor, continued to tilt his head and look at her with a puzzled expression.
Chu Ci: "Why did you come here by yourself? Where's your mother?"
"Mom is inside answering the phone."
Kang Kang pointed to the house, clasped his little hands together, and quickly looked up at her.
"Master, my parents are getting a divorce."
Chu Ci was taken aback, looking at her bewildered face, and subconsciously frowned.
"and you……"
"Then Mom and Dad won't have to live together."
The two spoke at the same time.
Chu Ci was stunned, but Kang Kang's voice was light and cheerful.
She tiptoed, rising and falling gently, her head bowed, her hands clasped together, and the corners of her lips slightly upturned.
"If Mom and Dad don't live together, Mom won't always have to cry when Dad comes home."
Her voice lowered again, "In the past, whenever Dad came home, Mom would always come to my room in the middle of the night, hug me and cry."
"If Mom doesn't live with Dad, she won't have to cry."
"Mom also said she's going to take me away, so I won't have to see Grandma anymore!"
She looked at Chu Ci with her eyes crinkled, her voice sweet and childish.
"My mom said I won't see those scary things again, thank you Master Auntie!"
Chu Ci: "..."
Kang Kang shook his little braids and hopped back home.
Before she even entered the house, Yuan Yuling rushed out of the door looking anxious.
"Kang Kang!"
She picked up her daughter and ran to Chu Ci.
"Master, something has happened to my husband!"
Her beautiful eyebrows furrowed, and she was completely flustered.
"I just received a call from the hospital saying that my husband's car started to catch fire on his way to work."
"He was trapped in the car and couldn't get out until the fire was completely blazing before passersby noticed him."
Her face turned pale. "I..."
Chu Ci calmed her down and said calmly:
"Don't panic. Go find a lawyer first and have him take you to the hospital."
After saying that, she glanced at Kang Kang, who looked a little scared, and said, "If you're worried about the child, you can leave Kang Kang with me."
Yuan Yuling glanced at her daughter, whose eyes were a little red, and hesitated for a moment.
"good!"
She gave her daughter a few words of advice and then quickly took a taxi to the law firm she knew.
Kang Kang stood in front of the door, watching his mother walk away, his little face scrunched up.
Her eyelashes trembled, and tears fell in a steady stream.
"master……"
She looked at Chu Ci while crying.
"My dad...is he going to die?"
No, it won't.
Chu Ci picked her up and carried her into the house.
"Your father won't die."
Kang Kang wiped away his tears. "Is it because... Mom and I don't like him that he got into trouble?"
"Of course not."
Chu Ci touched her messy bangs.
"It won't cause any trouble if you're not liked. Your father got into trouble because he did something bad."
"Really?" Kang Kang looked up at her. "Is it really okay not to be liked?"
"Of course, not being liked by others is not a big deal."
Chu Ci took her to the convenience store next door and bought her some food. As she ate, she gradually calmed down and smiled.
"You'll only get into trouble if you do bad things. Kang Kang, you should be a good person from now on."
The little girl ate her snacks obediently, nodding vigorously.
"Yes, Mom said so too, Kang Kang will grow up to be a very good person."
Chu Ci looked at the little girl's obedient head and reached out to pat it.
Kang Kang is a very well-behaved girl, and her grandmother likes her very much when she comes back from playing cards.
I took Kang Kang out for his favorite food at noon, and it wasn't until the afternoon that I saw Yuan Yuling, who was bundled up and came to pick up the child.
She went into the store and, seeing that no one was there, took off her sunglasses.
"Master, I've taken care of it."
Holding her daughter who rushed towards her, Yuan Yuling breathed a sigh of relief, but seemed a little listless.
"My husband suffered extensive burns all over his body and will not be able to regain consciousness for a while. He is still in critical condition."
She glanced at her daughter in her arms, whose little brows were furrowed, and forced a smile.
“My husband is in trouble now, and knowing my mother’s personality, she will definitely come to me for money.”
"I want to take Kang Kang abroad."
"Mom," Kang Kang understood, and looked at her with a furrowed brow, "Will we come back later?"
Yuan Yuling frowned as she looked at her daughter and shook her head. "Mom doesn't know either."
Chu Ci looked at her with some worry, "Can you take care of yourself and the baby?"
“Yes,” Yuan Yuling’s smile eased a little. “I usually take care of the children myself. My husband just provides the money, so I have no problem with it.”
"That's good."
Chu Ci glanced back at the time. "You can leave your husband's matter entirely to the lawyer. Are you going home to pack your things?"
"All you need to do is go home and get your passport and other documents."
"There's no time to lose, let's get going." Chu Ci urged her, "Once your mother brings people to block your way, you won't be able to escape."
Yuan Yuling nodded while holding her daughter, took two steps forward, then stopped and turned to look at Chu Ci intently.
"Master, thank you."
"Need not."
Chu Ci shook her head, "From now on, I'll take good care of the child and live a good life."
She looked at Kang Kang in Yuan Yuling's arms and said, "Pay more attention to the child's mental health."
Yuan Yuling was taken aback for a moment, then quickly nodded.
"I understand, Master."
She hurriedly hailed a taxi and left with her daughter in her arms. Her grandmother watched them leave and sighed.
"I hope that the mother and daughter are doing well abroad."
Chu Ci watched the car carrying the mother and daughter disappear from sight, then turned to check the time.
"Grandma, I'm going out for a bit."
"Hey, where are you going?"
"Would you like some sweet soup?"
"drink!"
Grandma stated her requirements and gave her some instructions:
"I'll watch the shop, so hurry back!"
Chu Ci walked up to the dessert stall, where Wei Yong and Xu Juan were still selling desserts today.
Upon seeing Chu Ci, Xu Juan instinctively switched places with Wei Yong, turning her back to Chu Ci and not wanting to speak.
She thought Chu Ci would buy the sweet soup and leave as usual, but unexpectedly, he suddenly called her name:
"Xu Juan, do you have time to talk?"
Wei Yong paused for a moment, then, seeing Xu Juan's pale face, he spoke up:
"Master, what can I ask you..."
You can't answer that question.
Chu Ci interrupted him and looked at Xu Juan.
"Xu Juan, do you have time?"
Xu Juan pursed her lips and turned her head, meeting Wei Yong's worried gaze. She smiled reassuringly.
"It's alright, I'll go with Master Chu for a bit and be right back."
After saying that, she followed Chu Ci to a corner.
Before Chu Ci could speak, she preemptively spoke:
"I really want to live a good life with Wei Yong."
She looked at Chu Ci warily, "I know that things between Ah Zhi and me haven't been over for many days, but I..."
“I know,” Chu Ci interrupted her.
Looking at her questioning gaze, he asked, "I wasn't talking about you and Wei Yong. Where's your master?"
Xu Juan: "..."
Her eyes widened, her lips moved, then closed again.
Avoiding Chu Ci's gaze, she asked, "Why are you asking this?"
"Your master has a daughter, did you know that?"
"Huh?" Xu Juan suddenly turned her head. "Impossible! My master has no children, so where would he get a daughter!"
But Chu Ci's eyes didn't seem to be lying, and her heart skipped a beat.
"How did you know? Did those police arrest my master?"
“No.” Chu Ci shook his head. “But your master harmed someone.”
Have you heard of the actress Yuan Yuling?
Xu Juan thought for a moment before remembering, "I know, she was quite popular a few years ago, but she retired from the entertainment industry later."
Her eyes grew increasingly puzzled. "What does this have to do with female celebrities?"
Chu Ci: "Your master harmed her husband, and he is still in a coma in the hospital."
Xu Juan didn't speak, waiting for her to continue.
Chu Ci paused for a moment, then continued, "He wronged his daughter's mother when he was young, so he only recently found out that he had a daughter."
"However, by the time he found out, his daughter was already dead. She had been deceived by Yuan Yuling's husband and died in an accidental fire."
"In retaliation, he targeted Yuan Yuling's daughter and husband, and he succeeded this morning."
Seeing that she had stopped, Xu Juan couldn't help but ask, "Why are you telling me all this?"
Chu Ci looked at her intently, her lips pressed into a straight line.
"Although you haven't formally become his apprentice, you should know something about his methods."
"Do you think someone like him would stop at nothing to bring his daughter back to life?"
Seeing Xu Juan's face gradually turn pale, she reminded her in a low voice:
"Since you're planning to live a good life, when he asks you out, think carefully about whether you should go."
After saying that, she ignored Xu Juan and walked straight to the dessert stall.
Wei Yong had already prepared two bowls of sweet soup, and when he saw her coming over, he quickly handed them to her.
"Master, here are your two bowls of sweet soup."
Xu Juan was still standing on the street corner, looking lost in thought.
He cautiously asked Chu Ci, "Master, what were you two talking about?"
Seeing his worried expression, Chu Ci found it somewhat amusing.
"He didn't say anything, don't worry, it won't affect your relationship."
Wei Yong's face turned bright red, and his hands were so out of shape that they were almost visible.
"No, no, Master, that's not what I meant..."
He scratched his head awkwardly, his face growing increasingly red.
Chu Ci took two cups of sweet soup back with her and served another customer in the evening.
Time quickly passed to a little past eleven, and Grandma was resting her chin on her hand as she watched Chu Ci prepare to burn paper money again.
I couldn't help but nag, "Ah Ci, it's not a holiday, why are you burning paper money?"
Chu Ci didn't even turn his head, replying jokingly:
"I'm paying protection money."
Seeing that her grandmother was so sleepy she could barely keep her eyes open, she started to shoo her away.
"Grandma, don't wait for me these next couple of days, go back to sleep."
Grandma wanted to wait for her, but in the end, she was forcefully pushed into the elevator on her way home.
When the clock hands quietly pointed to twelve o'clock, Chu Ci lit a brazier at the entrance of the shop.
As a thick fog suddenly rose, the two underworld messengers appeared almost simultaneously.
After the noisy division of spoils, the square-faced white-faced underworld official walked around Chu Ci.
He stroked his chin, puzzled. "Young man, don't you really have anything you'd like us to help you with?"
"yes."
The shifty-eyed Black Yin Messenger chewed on the small gold ingot in his hand, echoing the words of the White Yin Messenger.
"You only give me money but don't do anything. I won't dare take your money next time."
Chu Ci smiled and said, "To be honest, I do have a question for you two seniors."
The black-clad messenger quickly put the gold ingot back into his chest. "Speak, Sister Chu, what do you want to ask?"
Chu Ci organized his thoughts and carefully chose his words before speaking:
"Seniors, what is the process for reincarnation?"
The two underworld officials, one black and one white, exchanged a glance. The white underworld official then pinched his chin and circled around her.
"You're in good health, without any illness or disaster. You look like you'll live to at least eighty."
Why are you suddenly asking this?
Chu Ci: "Something happened during the day, so I'm a little curious."
"Oh, I see."
The dark-skinned messenger touched his bulging chest, and a sinister voice rang out:
"There's no special procedure. They just take people away, sentence them accordingly, and those who have just been reincarnated are given Meng Po soup before they are reincarnated. There's nothing special about it."
"Once sentenced, they're sent straight to be reincarnated?" Chu Ci asked, puzzled. "Don't we have to wait in line for two years?"
"This isn't like a few years ago, when there was no need to queue!"
Bai Yincha was speechless.
"In the past few decades, your mortal realm was in chaos. More people died than were born, and you had to queue up."
"Now that things are peaceful in the mortal realm, there aren't enough ghosts in the underworld waiting to be reincarnated for you to have enough to give birth to. What are you waiting in line for?"
"That's right."
The dark figure quietly told her.
"To meet the number of newborns in the mortal realm, the ghost messengers in charge of reincarnation are almost forced to snatch people from the animal realm. What's the point of queuing then?"
Chu Ci: "..."
So that's how it is!
She blinked and asked the two underworld officials, "If I ask you two seniors to help someone reincarnate, will we be able to find out which family she will be reborn into very quickly?"
"..."
The two underworld officials, one black and one white, were taken aback and turned to look at her simultaneously, raising their voices:
"You want to interfere with people's reincarnation?!"
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