Chapter 3: Ghost Talisman, Wronged Soul Appears
There are dark clouds overhead.
From the rolling black clouds came gusts of biting cold wind, which seemed to freeze people's internal organs.
Tao Xiaohong saw a figure appear on her husband's back out of the corner of her eye.
She froze.
Her head felt as if it weighed a thousand pounds. She saw a pair of small hands slowly stretch out and cover Wang Wencai's eyes.
"Hey, who blocked my eyes?" Wang Wencai took two steps back irritably, thinking someone was playing a prank on him.
With this shout, everyone's attention was focused on him.
"ah!!!--"
Shrill screams rang out one after another.
Xiao Tao's face was covered in blood, her eyes were hollow and strange, and she grinned. She leaned close to Wang Wencai's ear and whispered, "Uncle Wang, do you still remember me?"
A rotten and foul smell went straight into Wang Wencai's nose, and the familiar voice evoked his memory.
"Uncle, why aren't you talking? When you tricked me into coming to your house, didn't you say you thought I was pretty? Uncle, am I pretty?"
Xiao Tao let go of her hands. Her facial skin had rotted away, revealing faintly visible white bones and maggots wriggling beneath her skin.
Wang Wencai opened his mouth in horror. He wanted to look away, but he couldn't move at all.
"Yan Yan."
Ye Zheng was not afraid.
He was just excited.
He ignored his own discomfort and tried to open his arms, "Yan Yan, do you still remember Daddy?"
Xiaotao looked up suddenly.
No one called her by her real name for many, many years.
The villagers didn't know, and even she herself almost forgot her real name.
"My name is... Yanyan?"
"Yes, your name is Yanyan, your name is Ye Lingyan, Ling means water spirit, and Yan means swallow. We hope that you can be a spiritual swallow that can fly freely in the sky and go wherever you want."
As Ye Zheng spoke, tears flowed down the wrinkles on his skin, reflecting his longing for his daughter over the years.
He was crying on his face but laughing in his heart.
As I laughed, bitter tears slipped into my mouth again.
His daughter is dead and will never come back, and the person standing before him is a ghost.
This fact almost made Ye Zheng collapse.
Xiao Tao floated over and stretched out her hand to wipe away Ye Zheng's tears, but unfortunately she couldn't do it. She could only smile at him, "Dad... Dad, have you been looking for me all these years?"
"Dad has been looking for you, sister. We all miss you very much." Ye Qingtong said in a trembling voice.
She tried to touch her sister's arm, but passed through her body instead.
Gu Ji coughed violently twice, "Little...Little Swallow."
If she calls Xiaotao again, she will be trapped here forever.
"You don't have much time, so explain the situation clearly. It won't be too late to reminisce after you're done."
Xiao Tao nodded and told the truth about the village in front of all the villagers and the police, as well as how cruel Wang Wencai had been over the years.
"Back then, I was indeed raped and murdered by Wang Wencai. I fought back, but he strangled me to death. He was terrified and buried me near the river mouth—"
"You're talking nonsense! What evidence do you have?" Wang Wencai retorted, and was slapped in the face by the policeman next to him.
The police officer suppressed his anger and said coldly, "The deceased came forward to testify and you still need evidence? Is your brain flooded?"
Look how thin that little girl is!
Apparently, he wasn't the only police officer who thought so.
Captain Sun, who was called by Ye Zheng, thought the same.
The village chief breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they gave up Wang Wencai, they would be fine.
But the next second, Xiao Tao turned the conversation to the village chief, "We were all abducted by the village chief. Besides me, there are many others!"
"You are talking nonsense!!!" The village chief leaned on his crutch, feeling guilty and losing his defense.
The way he said one pound showed that he was guilty.
Xiao Tao sneered, "I'm talking nonsense? Uncle police, you can go to every household and check. Over the years, I've seen strange sisters being brought in. I want to help them, but I hate that I'm just a ghost. Only Jiji can see me. Why? What did we do wrong to be sold like an object?"
She wanted to save those poor people countless times.
Countless failures.
Countless times, he almost became a ghost due to the accumulation of resentment, but was pulled back by Gu Ji. Ghosts cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation.
If she were still alone, amidst countless pains and complex emotions, she might become a lunatic like those women.
But is this their fault?
"This is not your fault, it's the human traffickers' fault." Captain Sun knew there was a problem in this village before he came, and he thought he was mentally prepared.
But when the police searched every house they found women locked up.
My mental preparation still collapsed.
The women had disheveled hair and were unkempt.
Some of those who were not crazy had dull eyes. Facing the man who broke in, one of them said nothing and reached out to pull at his clothes.
How ridiculous!
How ridiculous!
Captain Sun suppressed his anger and immediately called his superiors to take Wang Wencai, Tao Xiaohong and the village chief away.
The village chief was still unwilling to give up. "Comrade police officer, I'm already seventy years old this year. I think you should give me a lighter sentence, right?"
Captain Sun sneered, "Leniency? If I don't sentence you to death, I won't be named Sun!"
The village chief's eyes went dark. "I just bought a few people, why are they going to die?! I didn't deprive them of food or clothes. Women are supposed to carry on the family line anyway. Isn't it the same for them to come to our village? Why are they going to die?!"
The team members really couldn't bear to listen anymore.
"Captain, there's no surveillance here."
Captain Sun immediately made a gesture of understanding and dragged the man to a corner. A group of people beat the village chief with all their strength. His face was covered in blood, his nose and face were bruised, and he fainted.
If you ask him later, just say that he fell because he didn't stand firmly.
Tao Xiaohong and Wang Wencai next to them had fainted from fright. When they woke up, they would also face the judgment of the law!
Xiaotao's body was dug out and sent to the judge for examination.
The snow stopped falling at the entrance of the village. Ye Zheng held his daughter's body in his arms, imagining her warmth.
Time is running out, Xiaotao can feel it.
"Dad," she said.
"Dad's here."
"I remember when my sister and I couldn't sleep when we were little, Dad would sing to us. I always thought his singing was terrible when I was little, but now I really want to listen. Dad, can you sing for me?"
Ye Zheng watched his daughter's body fade away little by little, and nodded while crying, "Yes, Daddy will sing for you!"
His voice was filled with tears as he sang while suppressing the sadness.
"The dark sky hangs low
Bright stars accompany you
Insects Flying Insects Flying
Who are you missing..."
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