Chapter 28: Devil 5
◎Is it a virtue or a fault? ◎
Feng Jian couldn't hear Wei Ping's voice, so he continued, "Tell her that I don't blame her for kidnapping me. She has been very good to me over the years. She has been frugal and has always given me everything. When I grow up and make money, I will give it to her and show my filial piety to her."
Yan Yue touched Feng Jian's head and said to Wei Ping, "You see. He thought you were the trafficker who kidnapped him. In order to protect you, he didn't dare to see you or tell anyone about you."
Wei Ping returned to her normal self. Although she still had a huge birthmark on her face, she was still much prettier than a ghost.
She cried out of breath and said, "It's me. I wronged Peng Peng."
After Feng Jian was recognized as a member of the Feng family, he disappeared from Wei Ping's world.
Wei Ping thought her child was lost and went crazy looking for him everywhere. When she heard that the government had arrested a human trafficker, she went to the government to inquire, but she asked about "Wei Peng", and Feng Jian's name was missed right under her nose.
She even traveled thousands of miles to the eastern towns provided by the human traffickers, spent all her savings but got nothing. She could only force herself to sell goods, hoping to continue making money to find her child.
A month ago, Wei Ping was selling goods in Linjiang City and unexpectedly saw Wei Peng, dressed in bright and beautiful clothes, being carried from a carriage into the clinic by a wealthy man.
She was horrified and went to inquire, only to find out that it was the lost young master of the Feng family, who had been abducted five years ago and had just been found.
Wei Ping was reluctant to give up her child, but Wei Peng was indeed not her biological son, so it was only natural for him to return to his wealthy parents.
She tried to see the child, but after waiting for several days, she didn't see the child go out.
She begged the Feng family's doorman to help her call Feng Jian out, but the young master had been kidnapped and was now being watched like the apple of the eye by the master and his mistress. How could the doorman dare to help her? The fight got so bad that he even beat her out.
Wei Ping's world collapsed when her child was gone.
After returning home, he fell ill and died.
Yan Yue explained everything to Mr. and Mrs. Feng, and the couple were stunned.
It turned out that the child had never left the area around Linjiang over the years and had been raised with great care.
Upon learning that Wei Ping died alone and depressed, without even anyone to collect her body, Mrs. Feng burst into tears and kept saying sorry.
Feng Jian didn't know what Yan Yue meant by "dying in depression", so he naively took Yan Yue's hand and asked, "Sister, father and mother don't blame mother anymore, can I go see her? I secretly saved some money and want to bring it to mother."
Zheng Yi said: "Your mother can't spend our money anymore. Sister Yue can see your mother, which means your mother can only spend the paper money she burned in the past!"
Feng Jian was stunned for a moment and suddenly got angry. He pushed Zheng Yi away and cried, "You're talking nonsense! Only the dead spend paper money!"
Zheng Yi was startled and asked Yan Yue: "Sister Yue, only when a person dies can he become a ghost, right? Isn't my mother a ghost?"
Feng Jian cried and held Yan Yue: "Sister, my mother is dead? How could my mother die? I didn't betray her..."
Yan Yueneng hugged him, pointed to Wei Ping's position and said, "Your mother missed you so much that she turned into a ghost to see you. She is right there! Although you can't see her, she can see you and hear you talking. She heard everything you just said, and she even praised you for being a good child!"
Feng Jian burst into tears: "I don't want her to die, I want to see her too!"
Yan Yue said helplessly: "I can't do anything about this."
She pulled Zheng Yi over and said, "Not all people become ghosts after they die. Your mother became a ghost to stay by your side because she was worried about you. She was afraid that you wouldn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, and that you wouldn't be happy."
"You keep crying, and your mother is very worried. But she can't talk to you or comfort you, so she can only cry with you."
Feng Jian finally tried his best to suppress his tears, his face twitching, "Then I, I won't cry anymore... Mom, don't cry either..."
Due to a misunderstanding, Wei Ping died with regret. Her resentment was so strong that she turned into a ghost, but no one knew who to blame.
The Feng family was naturally very nervous to find their child who had been missing for five years. The servants did not dare to let Wei Ping meet Feng Jian, they were just doing their job.
Feng Jian thought Wei Ping was the trafficker who kidnapped him. In order to prevent Wei Ping from being sent to jail, he kept his mouth shut and dared not mention her to anyone.
Wei Ping never told her children about her background. When Feng Jian was adopted by wealthy parents, she felt so inferior that she did not dare to go to Feng Jian's parents to explain the situation. In her heart, she blamed her child for being snobbish and ungrateful, which made her feel suffocated to death.
In any case, the misunderstanding was finally completely resolved.
Wei Ping saluted Yan Yue with tears in her eyes: "Thank you..."
Only then did Yan Yue notice that the hand that she had pushed on her shoulder that day had a festering palm and was horrible to look at. No wonder she had not dared to show up these days.
She pointed at Wei Ping's hand and asked, "How are you going to treat your injuries? How about I burn some more money for you?"
Wei Ping smiled with tears in her eyes and said, "No need. Miss, you have helped me a lot. I was confused for a moment. If you hadn't stopped me, I might have made a big mistake that is irreversible."
Yan Yue said: "No. If I wanted to do it, I would have done it a long time ago. You are reluctant to do it!"
*
After sending Zheng Yi back to the Zheng family, the two of them and the ghost strolled towards the inn.
Qi Zhaoyang asked: "How did you find out about this?"
Yan Yue explained: "I asked around in the village. The villagers said that Wei Peng and Wei Ping got along very well. Wei Peng was a naughty child, always making a lot of noise and calling Wei Ping from a distance. After having Wei Peng, Wei Ping also loved to talk and laugh."
"I just think, they have a good mother-son relationship, why did Feng Jian suddenly disown Wei Ping? Moreover, his personality changed drastically, and he never mentioned Wei Ping or her past life. Why? Thinking back to what I heard before about Feng Jian disrupting the ritual, I think he might be deliberately hiding the existence of Wei Ping."
Qi Zhaoyang couldn't help but say: "I didn't expect you to be so smart."
Yan Yue didn't like what he said: "Hey, what do you mean by that? Do you think I'm stupid?"
Qi Zhaoyang didn't dare to admit it, "No, no, no, I just think that you are smarter than I thought!"
When they arrived at the door of the inn, Yan Yue said to Qi Zhaoyang, "Then you should go to bed early. I'm going home first!"
"Ah? You, are not staying in the inn anymore?" Qi Zhaoyang was stunned.
Yan Yue said as a matter of course: "Of course! I have already cleaned up my house in the past few days, why should I spend this money?"
Qi Zhaoyang was caught off guard. Just as he was thinking about how to get close to him, the waiter came up to him at the right time and said, "Mr. Qi, you've been leaving early and coming back late these past few days. We always missed each other. We finally met today... Take a look at the room fee..."
Qi Zhaoyang reached for the banknotes in his arms, but Yan Yue asked, "You have no money?"
Qi Zhaoyang paused as he had touched the banknote. He pulled his hand back and stammered, "Uh... yes..."
Yan Yue took out her wallet and paid for him, then said, "Don't be embarrassed, you can pay me back when you make money! How many days' rent do you think is appropriate?"
"Well, I heard that you have a lot of empty rooms in your house. I wonder if it would be convenient for you to take me in for a few days..." Qi Zhaoyang was so shameless for the first time in his life, and he felt his face burning.
Zhou Lin rolled his eyes: "Shameless!"
Yan Yue didn't mind, but still decided to take the opportunity to blackmail him: "It's convenient! But..."
Qi Zhaoyang asked quickly: "But what?"
Yan Yue pretended to be distressed and said, "You also know that my physique makes me easily attract some strange ghosts and I am always frightened. Since we have such a good relationship, shouldn't you give me a few more life-saving talismans?"
Qi Zhaoyang couldn't help but ask: "Aren't they unable to get close to you? Even the evil spirits can't hurt you!"
Yan Yue said confidently: "It's one thing that they can't get close to me, but it's another thing that I don't want to see them! I want to sleep soundly without worrying about opening my eyes and finding an uninvited guest lying on top of the bed!"
Qi Zhaoyang reluctantly agreed: "Then how many do you want?"
“I want to cover my whole house with these!” Yan Yueshizi opened her mouth loudly.
Qi Zhaoyang sighed and said, "Then you might as well just kill me."
"How can it be so serious?"
"This talisman paper must be drawn on the night of the full moon on the fifteenth day of every month, when the moon is at its highest point in the sky, with blood from the palm of your hand mixed with cinnabar, and supplemented with a spell to drive away evil spirits. At most, I can draw two or three pieces a month. How can I cover your entire house with them?"
"Then it's OK to paste the doors and windows, right?"
"Okay, okay! I really owe you that!"
"You owe me! Don't you have no money? Aren't you going to eat my food and live with me in the future?"
"...Yes, Master Yan!"
"Hahaha, I, Yan Yue, am also a local tyrant and evil gentry!"
"Not a nice word, is it?"
*
Mr. and Mrs. Feng bought a fine coffin and personally led people to the charity cemetery to bury Wei Ping's body with great ceremony.
The couple decided that Feng Jian's nickname would be Pengpeng.
According to Wei Ping, when she first met Feng Jian, she asked him his name, and he kept saying "Peng". Wei Ping then asked a scholar from a neighboring village to decide on the name "Peng", which has the beautiful meaning of prosperity. Now that I think about it, Feng Jian should have said "Feng", but he was just over two years old and couldn't speak clearly.
The coroner found a nine-ring chain in Wei Ping's body. He thought it was the murder weapon at first, but only saw clearly what it was after he took it out. The guess is that she had been holding it in her hand, and it sank into her flesh as the corpse decomposed.
Feng Jian, wearing mourning clothes and holding Wei Ping's tablet, kowtowed in front of Wei Ping's grave and shouted "Mother!"
Now everyone in the village knew that the child Wei Ping adopted was actually the son of the Feng family, a wealthy family in the city. I can't help but lament that Wei Ping had a miserable life. Good days were about to come, but she was gone. She was really unlucky.
Seeing Yan Yue's solemn expression, Qi Zhaoyang consoled her, "Even if the misunderstanding is resolved in time, it may not change the outcome."
Seeing Yan Yue seemed puzzled, Qi Zhaoyang explained: "Wei Ping is a loner with low self-esteem. Just from the fact that she sulked at her and suffocated herself to death, and then turned into a ghost, she is not the type to live in harmony with the Feng family."
"She thinks too highly of Feng Jian. But as Feng Jian grows up, he will gain knowledge and experience, and his vision will be higher and longer-term. At that time, only his biological parents can give him such help and guidance. Wei Ping can't help him at all, and she will also feel aggrieved and unhappy."
"What she wanted was a role that could stay with her forever. So after losing Feng Jian, she didn't want to live anymore. But Feng Jian was not her child after all. From the moment Feng Jian was recognized by the Feng family, it was destined that her request could not be met."
Yan Yue felt that what he said seemed to make sense.
Qi Zhaoyang asked again: "Why do you think Wei Ping didn't want Feng Jian to go to the city with her to buy the Nine-Ring Chain?"
Yan Yue was silent.
Wei Ping no longer goes to the city to sell steamed buns and steamed cakes. Is it really just because it is inconvenient for her to travel too far with her children? Could it be that she had guessed that Feng Jian's home might be in Linjiang City, so she was deliberately avoiding him?
Yan Yue said softly: "We have no way of knowing whether Wei Ping had any selfish motives. Whether it was a virtue or a fault, I believe the judge will make his own judgment."
"I just hope that whatever she chooses to do in her next life, she will be successful and no longer miserable."
Yan Yue had a compassionate look on his face, his black robe fluttering in the wind, revealing a dignified manner that no one dared to disrespect.
Qi Zhaoyang's heart was shocked and he lowered his head unconsciously, not daring to look straight at him for a long time.
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