Chapter 16: Infatuated Person 5
◎What is that thing? ◎
Yan Yue held an umbrella and led the two ghosts for most of the night and finally reached the river.
From a distance, I saw a woman standing on a big rock, and she seemed to be about to jump into the river.
"Xiao... Mei?"
Liu Jie's voice trembled and passed by like a gust of wind.
The woman on the big rock turned around and stared at him in astonishment, tears welling up in an instant: "Brother Jie..."
Chen Xiaomei threw herself from the big rock into Liu Jie's arms, and the two of them hugged each other and cried bitterly.
Yan Yue watched this scene with relief, and sighed to Zhou Lin: "Are you ghosts so stubborn? Seven years! If the two of you had gone to another place and walked around, you might have run into each other a long time ago!"
Zhou Lin was a little confused: "It seems that after becoming a ghost, my brain is not as sharp as when I was a human. I only remember one thing all day long, and it seems that I don't care about other things anymore?"
Yan Yue saw him looking at her and said, "Why are you asking me? I'm not a ghost! I'm very smart!"
The unfortunate couple cried enough and knelt down in front of Yan Yue: "Thank you very much, young lady! Your kindness is so great that we two cannot repay you!"
Yan Yue forced a guilty smile, but decided to tell the truth: "Well, Miss Xiaomei... your father is dead, probably because of me..."
After listening to Yan Yue's story, Chen Xiaomei was not unhappy at all. Instead, she comforted her and said, "I was bound by blood when I was alive, and I couldn't get rid of it. After I die, I will have nothing to do with him. This is his fate, so you don't have to blame yourself."
Yan Yue nodded: "What are your two plans for next?"
Liu Jie said, "We have waited for each other for seven years. Now that we have found each other, we will go to the Naihe Bridge to reincarnate together." He took Chen Xiaomei's hand and said, "I only hope that in the next life, no matter whether we are reincarnated as flowers, birds, fish, insects, humans, animals or livestock, we can still meet again."
After bidding farewell to the two, Yan Yue and Zhou Lin set out on their return journey in the slowly deepening night.
Yan Yue sighed, "I suddenly feel that since people will continue to reincarnate after death, then kinship is just a small shackle in countless reincarnations."
Zhou Lin replied: "Perhaps it is because of the unfinished karma or debt in the previous life that they continue to be entangled in this life! After the two are cleared, they will no longer meet."
Yan Yue thought back to the past ten years of her life, and wondered if she and the Yan family had settled their grudges.
*
After traveling dozens of miles back and forth, Yan Yue was exhausted. She kept complaining to Zhou Lin all the way for not being able to carry her along.
Zhou Lin had a lot of grievances, and he tried to coax her with a helpless smile, and finally they saw the city gate.
It's almost dawn.
Yan Yue put Zhou Lin into the black umbrella, walked into the city gate, and saw the two coolies pulling the cart again, followed by a yamen runner.
The bailiff was chatting with the guard at the city gate.
"Isn't this just silencing someone?"
"Well! Just know it in your heart. If you say it out loud, it will be your fault! We just need to know that our master should obey the will of heaven and the voice of the people and get rid of the scourge of Zui Xiang Lou's madam for the people!"
Yan Yue paused and couldn't help but look at the flatbed truck.
There was still a straw mat covering it, but it was obvious that the person under the mat was a little fatter, and the mat was slightly tilted.
"I understand! We eat this bowl of rice, so we naturally know what to say and what not to say!"
"That's right! If we know something that we shouldn't know, we have to pretend we don't know..."
The yamen runner was halfway through his words when he caught sight of Yan Yue and asked with a frown, "What? What's the matter?"
Yan Yue pointed at the flatbed cart timidly and asked, "Is this the madam of Zui Xiang Lou? Is she dead?"
The bailiff replied, "Yes! This vicious woman forced innocent people into prostitution and committed many evil things. Our great judge has upheld justice for the people. Now the vicious woman has confessed her crime and has been punished. What, do you have any doubts?"
How dare Yan Yue do that? He waved his hands and said, "No, no, no, I just felt that... wasn't she just captured the day before yesterday? How come she was just captured two days ago..."
The bailiff replied vaguely, "This is exactly what we did because we worked so hard and interrogated the case day and night, and that's how we were able to close the case so quickly! It was this vicious woman who saw that she couldn't escape the death penalty, so she committed suicide first to avoid the physical pain!"
The bailiff looked her up and down and asked, "Are you familiar with this madam?"
Yan Yue waved her hands again to deny: "Not familiar, not familiar! Not familiar at all!"
The more the yamen runner looked at her, the more familiar she looked to him. He asked, "It was you the other day, wasn't it? Little girl, why do you like to join in the fun so much? Don't you know how to be scared? How about I uncover her and let you see how she died?"
"No, no!" Yan Yue replied dryly, hugged her black umbrella tightly and ran away quickly.
I could faintly hear some laughter from people behind me.
"Kids nowadays are so bold that they even ask about dead people!"
"That's right! When I was a kid, I saw a dead body and was so scared that I peed on the bed when I was sleeping at night..."
In the inn, Yan Yue stared at the madam's cloth bag in a daze.
She originally wanted to wait for the madam to come back and ask her for the money, but now that the madam is dead, what should she do with the money?
I was so sleepy and tired that I fell asleep while thinking about all sorts of things.
Bai Chen woke up in the afternoon. Seeing Yan Yue still sleeping soundly, he was surprised for a moment but didn't think much about it.
It just so happened that he also wanted to pay attention to what Bai Lubao reported.
Yan Yue didn't wake up until the afternoon. Bai Chen was not there, so she went to the roadside to eat a simple bowl of wontons to fill her stomach.
The sky was gloomy and it looked like it was going to rain. Yan Yue had no mood to wander around and went straight back to the inn.
Soon, a drizzle began to fall until dark, but Bai Chen still did not come back. Yan Yue cursed inwardly, here comes the “leave without saying a word” trick again!
She angrily ordered a table full of dishes, asked Zhou Lin to hide under a black umbrella, and was about to ask the waiter to send the wine and food upstairs when Bai Chen suddenly ran into the inn in the rain.
Yan Yue swallowed the curse in her heart and quickly put on a smile: "Master, you are back? The food has just been served, eat it while it's hot!"
The hot summer has just passed, but Bai Chen is already carrying the chill of autumn.
Facing Yan Yue's smiling face, his cold expression eased a little, and he said, "Eat by yourself! I have something to deal with, and I probably won't be back in the next two days."
"oh!"
Yan Yue nodded obediently, and then asked: "Do you need my help, young master? I can do the laundry, cooking, lighting the fire, and chopping wood!"
Bai Chen finally smiled, took off his purse and handed it to her, saying, "No need. I've already told the shopkeeper that you can just stay here and eat whatever you want. You don't have to save money for me!"
Yan Yue liked to hear this so much that she agreed without hesitation: "Okay!"
Seeing her greedy look, Bai Chen smiled disdainfully and said two words: "Let's go!" Then he turned around and rushed into the rain.
Yan Yue held a small bag of gold ingots and counted them. Then she realized that it was still raining outside and stamped her feet, "Oh! Umbrella!"
She opened a black umbrella and chased after him, and saw that Bai Chen's shadow had already gone far away.
Just as I was about to shout, I saw the white shadow suddenly fly up from the ground!
Although nothing could be seen clearly in the rainy night, the white dust penetrated the white clothes and was not difficult to distinguish in the dark.
He seemed to have jumped onto the roof of the street with one leap, and then again, like the white feather at the tail of an arrow, he shot straight towards a three-story restaurant! But in the blink of an eye, he was standing on the roof of the restaurant!
Then it jumped out again and completely disappeared into the night.
Yan Yue's hands were shaking: "Zhou Lin... did you see it?"
Zhou Lin nodded: "I saw it."
It's not an illusion...
Yan Yue's voice trembled a little now: "What is that? ...The Ghost King?"
Zhou Lin said: "It should be a demon."
“…Monster???”
Yan Yue's body was covered with goose bumps, and she asked with an expression that indicated she was about to cry, "Are there still monsters in this world?"
Zhou Lin said, "I've only heard about it before, and this is the first time I've seen one. There are not only monsters in this world, but also monster catchers! Hey, where are you going?"
Before he could finish his words, Yan Yue had already gone back into the inn.
"Waiter! Quick! Pack these dishes for me!"
After she gave the instructions, she ran back to the house without stopping, stuffed all the clothes and other things in the house into the bag at lightning speed, then put the bag on her back, took the food box from the waiter, and rushed into the rain!
"Miss Yan! Come back..." Before the waiter could finish his words, Yan Yue had disappeared.
He swallowed the remaining words and looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Boss, Mr. Bai and his friends haven't paid for the room and meals for the past two days! Miss Yan packed her bags and left, and she also took a large food box with her!"
The shopkeeper waved his hand and said, "It's okay. It must be an urgent matter. Didn't Mr. Bai say before that he would be back in two days?"
Zhou Lin was a ghost, not afraid of the rain, and floated beside Yan Yue and said, "Girl, didn't you say you wouldn't go out at night? Where are you going so late?"
Yan Yue kept walking, with a look of lingering fear on her face, and kept on muttering: "That's a demon! A demon! Much scarier than a ghost! He can turn into a human, can see the sun, and can even touch me!"
Thinking of these days, she felt even more horrified: "No wonder he likes to watch me eat, and even makes me snatch food from him! It's obvious that he thinks I'm too skinny and wants me to get fatter so that he can eat me again!"
Zhou Lin looked puzzled: "Is that so? If he likes to eat plump food, why doesn't he just find a plump girl instead of going through all the trouble to fatten you up?"
Yan Yue rolled up her sleeves to reveal her fair wrists: "How fair and tender I am! I really am, I am much fairer and tenderer than the average girl! I have observed this on purpose these days, it's true!"
Zhou Lin was startled, with an expression of indecent disapproval on his face, and quickly turned his head away.
Yan Yue walked around to him and said, "Look! I really didn't lie to you! These days, I really haven't seen a girl whiter than me!"
"Yes, yes, yes! I believe it, I believe it!" Zhou Lin responded while covering his eyes.
Yan Yue said with a firm tone: "Except for babies, it is hard to find someone as white and tender as me! How big is that baby? I can be as big as ten babies! So he must want to fatten me up before eating me!"
Zhou Lin was infected by her nervousness and couldn't help asking, "Where are we going now? It is said that monsters can track auras!"
Yan Yue panicked when she heard this, "Then I can't escape, right?"
Zhou Lin thought for a moment and said, "When you were packing your bag just now, I saw the red cape of the City God! Let's go to the City God Temple first! With the City God here, demons and ghosts dare not act recklessly!"
Yan Yue's eyes lit up, and then hesitantly asked: "But, can't you enter the City God Temple?"
Zhou Lin smiled and said, "I'm fine. I'm already a ghost, I'm not afraid of him!"
"How can that be possible?" Yan Yue refused, "Didn't you say that the evil spirit in him is worse than mine?"
Zhou Lin teased her: "Who was it that swore so confidently that it was 'noble'?"
"Who doesn't go blind a few times in their life?"
Yan Yuebai glanced at him, thought for a moment and said, "You can stay close to me in this black umbrella. Maybe you can also hide in the black umbrella and go into the City God Temple with me?"
Zhou Lin smiled and said, "Try it! It doesn't matter whether you can get in or not. I'll be guarding you outside the palace."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
