Chapter 10 Filial Daughter 4
◎Reburial◎
Crackling, a shower of raindrops as big as beans fell sparsely.
"Stop talking nonsense to me!"
The stepfather was furious, and seemed to have lost his mind in anger: "Either give me back my son's life! Or give me back my money!"
Yan Yue tightly grasped the money from Sun Yun's prostitution and scolded, "How can you say this is your money? Miss Sun Yun is watching right next to us!"
"Don't try to scare me!" The stepfather picked up a stick and pointed it at Yan Yue. He was furious and said, "I don't care if she's a wronged ghost or a demon. If she dares to cause trouble again, I'll let her die again!"
Yan Yue couldn't help but take a step back in fear, "How dare you speak nonsense and shout for killing in front of the City God?"
The man wiped the rain off his face and roared through gritted teeth, "I don't care about gods and ghosts! Today I will beat you to death, you charlatan, and make you buried with my son!"
The moment the wooden stick was raised high, a dazzling light descended from the sky, and the surroundings instantly became as bright as day!
The dazzling light disappeared in an instant with a loud bang.
Sun Yun's stepfather froze in his tracks, with wisps of white smoke rising from his body. He still kept the stick in his hand and fell face down to the ground!
Yan Yue was so scared that her blood froze!
She stared with her eyes wide open, not daring to move. She turned her eyes to look at Zhou Lin and Sun Yun, asking with her eyes: What's going on?
Zhou Lin patted the nonexistent heartbeat on his chest and exclaimed, "Wow! This is, being struck by lightning?"
Sun Yun looked frightened and asked timidly, "Is he dead?"
Yan Yue shrank his neck: No way, no way? ! Am I committing a serious sin?
"Shanlang...Shanlang?" Sun's mother finally recovered from her fear, crawled over and turned over her husband, suddenly let out an "ah", lay on her back, and ran away rolling and crawling.
Yan Yue watched from afar. Sun Yun's stepfather had his eyes wide open and his mouth open. The hand that was holding the stick was as black as charcoal and cracked. His sleeves were torn to his shoulders, and the blackness could be seen almost spreading to his mouth and nose.
Yan Yue was frightened. He put his cloak on his head to block the rain and ran away!
She didn't want to see her stepfather's ghost later!
A moment later, two ghost messengers appeared in the rain.
One of them picked up the ghost of Sun Yun's stepfather, who was imprisoned on the ground, and said, "I haven't seen a mortal who was punished by heaven for several years. What did he do?"
Another ghost officer flipped through the book in his hand, looked at the place outside the City God Temple, and said, "Maybe it was an insult to the City God?"
The man laughed and said, "When did those men in the underworld become so bad-tempered? Previously, a mortal set fire to the King of Hell's Palace, but there was no punishment from heaven!"
The ghost closed the book and said, "Who cares! God's punishment is never wrong. Let the Punishment Department handle it!"
"This evil ghost is quite capable to be able to bring down punishment from heaven!"
"I really want to know what he did..."
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Yan Yue took out a piece of change to pay the rent, and then took a hot bath, finally calming down.
As she wiped her hair, she muttered, "You can't blame me, huh? I didn't kill him."
Zhou Lin flattered her like a lackey, "How can I blame you? He is the one who got unlucky. He had to raise the stick to attract thunder!"
Yan Yue put down the burden in his heart, "Really?! It was just an accident, he can only blame himself for being unlucky. Let's learn a lesson from this, don't hold a stick and seek death when it rains in the future..."
Seeing Zhou Lin laughing dryly, Yan Yue quickly apologized: "Sorry, I forgot! You are already dead..."
The two were chatting, and Sun Yun suddenly knelt down silently.
Yan Yue quickly stood up and tried to help her, but then she remembered that she couldn't get close to Sun Yun, so she stopped moving: "Hey, what are you doing?! Zhou Lin, quickly pull her up!"
Sun Yun pushed Zhou Lin's hand away and said, "I just want to thank Miss Yue."
Yan Yue felt embarrassed: "What is there to thank me for? Besides, I didn't do it for you. Your mother sold the old Sun family house, and all the money is still your Sun family's. I am sorry for you."
Sun Yun said, "I did it on purpose. They have spent all their savings on the child's medical treatment. Besides the old house and some livestock, they only have a few acres of thin land left. If they don't sell the old house, they won't be able to get the money."
"I know that if I force her to pay back her debts, she will have to sell the old house. But I would rather someone else live there than have her live there with that man. Although I am still unhappy to see that she really sold it, I am already very satisfied with this result."
After that, Sun Yun kowtowed three times respectfully, "Thank you for helping me fulfill my wish. Sun Yun will always remember your kindness!"
"That's enough, that's enough, just get up after you've thanked me!" Yan Yue pointed at Zhou Lin and said, "Help me up quickly!"
Sun Yun finally stood up and smiled coquettishly at Yan Yue: "Girl, I want to go see my father again..."
Yan Yue said, "If you want to go, go! Go quickly. I'll find a paper-making shop and burn more paper money for you two, so that your father can live comfortably in the underworld!"
Sun Yun smiled sweetly, bowed to Yan Yue again, then turned and left.
Zhou Lin went out to see her off, and the two talked for a few more words outside the inn.
After they greeted each other, Sun Yun floated away, and Zhou Lin stood there and watched her go, as if he was frozen.
Yan Yue watched from the window, cracking melon seeds and laughing, "Look at how reluctant they are to part. They should be married in the afterlife!"
The next day, Yan Yue went to the paper-making shop to order gold and silver paper ingots, paper people and paper horses.
The food in the inn was more expensive, and even though Sun Yun had this much money now, she didn't dare spend it carelessly, so she ate at street stalls.
The food at the various small stalls is no worse than that at restaurants and inns, and the prices are much more affordable. Yan Yue also bought some snacks and melon seeds, thinking that Sun Yun would be happy to see that she had prepared so much!
As a result, Zhou Lin did not show up until the moon was at its highest point in the sky.
Yan Yue urged, "Why are you here so late? I have prepared snacks and melon seeds, waiting for you! Why are you here alone? Where is Sun Yun?"
Zhou Lin was not in a good mood at first, but he looked at her in surprise and said, "Her obsession has been broken, so she must have gone to reincarnation!"
Yan Yue was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Lin asked in surprise: "Didn't she say goodbye to you yesterday?"
Yan Yue thought of the three times Sun Yun kowtowed and asked in disbelief, "Is that a farewell???"
Seeing her bewildered face, Zhou Lin could only explain: "We linger in the mortal world, all thanks to this obsession. Once the obsession is broken, we will enter the underworld and continue reincarnation."
Yan Yue was stunned for a long time before asking, "So, when your family finds out that it's not you who is buried in the ancestral tomb, you will also go to reincarnation?"
Zhou Lin nodded: "Yes. Once the obsession is broken, we will be free."
Yan Yue felt a little uncomfortable.
She never had any friends. Even though they were just ghosts, she would listen to their joys and sorrows, and they would also curse the cruelty of Yan's parents on her behalf. After chatting and laughing with the two of them during these days, she finally realized the joy of having friends, so she did her best to help them fulfill their wishes and break their obsessions.
However, at this moment she suddenly realized that after she helped them, they would leave her.
Oh, she is destined to be a lonely person...
Seeing Yan Yue's bad face, Zhou Lin thought she was just sad that Sun Yun left, so he comforted her: "Don't be sad! Sun Yun is a well-behaved and filial girl. She will definitely be born into a wealthy family in her next life. We should be happy for her!"
Yan Yue smiled, nodded and said, "I will go to her grave tomorrow. She said goodbye to me, but I haven't said goodbye to her yet..."
The next day, Yan Yue went to the paper-making shop to get some things and customized a house.
The owner of the paper-making shop suggested that she get the kind of large three-story mansion that was displayed on the shelf, otherwise she could customize a small courtyard alone, which would also cost the same price.
Yan Yue looked at the simple and plain country courtyard in the painting and shook her head gently: "No, I want this one. That's her home."
That is where Sun Yun grew up. The happiest days of her short teenage life were spent in the Sun family's old house. In that small courtyard, there were her childhood laughter and her father who cherished her the most...
Yan Yue took a large bag of paper money and asked the villagers about the location of the Sun family's cemetery.
The villagers were very welcoming and when they heard Yan Yue say that she was a relative of the Sun family, they personally took her to the Sun family's ancestral tomb.
However, there was no so-called "ancestral grave", only two lonely small mounds of earth, and Yan Yue fell silent.
The fellow villager said, "There is no one left in the Sun family. After the eldest grandson's wife remarried, she no longer cared about the Sun family's ancestral tomb. Look, the ancestral tombs can no longer be seen! There are only two small tombs left, one for the eldest grandson and the other for his daughter Xiaoyun. In two years, they will probably be leveled."
Another person nearby said, "Da Sun was an honest man, but he had a miserable life! Xiao Yun was a very honest child, but why did she become a prostitute? She was hanged in the wilderness and buried with a mat, without even a coffin."
Yan Yue looked up in surprise: "Sun Yun doesn't have a coffin?"
The man said, "Of course not! Her mother thought she was a disgrace, so she didn't even have a funeral, she just dug a hole and buried her!"
Yan Yue was filled with anger and said angrily, "How dare she think Sun Yun is shameful? It was obviously she who forced Sun Yun to sell her body to make money to treat her father's illness! Sun's father committed suicide by swallowing charcoal in order not to implicate his daughter. And that vicious woman hid the news of Sun's father's death and tricked Sun Yun into continuing to make money in the brothel!"
"What? How can there be a mother like this in the world?"
"No wonder Xiaoyun made a scene when she came back that year and then hanged herself!"
"What a sin! No wonder that vicious woman gave birth to a sick child! This is retribution!"
"Did you hear? She found this guy and he died yesterday! She didn't make any noise and secretly hired two strong laborers from other places to bury him!"
“Is this true or false?”
"How could it be false? Have you forgotten that my cousin's sworn brother works in the county government? Weddings and funerals in the surrounding area must go through the government office to go through formalities. How could he hide it from me?"
"Then how did he die?"
"I heard that he was struck to death by lightning in the City God Temple! He was charred black, hey, it was so tragic..."
They were chatting animatedly and didn't notice when the "relative" from the Sun family left.
Two days later, the "relative" of the Sun family came to the Sun family cemetery again.
She came with two bullock carts.
One ox cart was pulling a high-quality coffin, and on the other ox cart were countless gold and silver paper ingots, maids and servants, paper horses, paper carts, paper houses, and everything else.
She also brought a dozen strong men with her, and without saying a word, they dug up the low grave.
When she saw the roll of tattered mat, she walked forward. Several strong men picked up several oil-paper umbrellas on the ox cart and unfolded them. Both sides of the oil-paper umbrella have been painted black with ink to block out the sunlight.
She walked under the black oil-paper umbrella, put Sun Yun's bones into the coffin with her own hands, and reburied her.
【Author’s words】
Yan Yue asked: No one praises me [poor]
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