Chapter 35 She is a demon 2
◎ "To pledge one's body to someone" is to repay kindness with enmity! ◎
Yan Yue was stunned for a moment, and retorted without hesitation: "Are you possessed by evil spirits? She is the new shopkeeper of my teahouse! You are a demon..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw blood dripping from his hand onto the back of Nan Qing's hand holding the handkerchief.
The moment the drop of blood came into contact with her skin, it suddenly made a "hissing" sound, just like charcoal falling on flesh, quickly leaving a charred spot.
“I’ll go, I’ll go!” Yan Yue didn’t react, and reflexively grabbed the handkerchief to wipe the blood off Nan Qing’s hand, and asked in shock: “What’s going on?!”
Nan Qing took a step back, staring at her in shock, his face full of confusion.
Chu Zhi finally reacted, ran over with a handkerchief, and quickly tied it around Yan Yue's hands.
Qi Zhaoyang suddenly had an epiphany and figured out why his left eye could see ghosts!
But he didn't have time to think about it at this moment, pointing at Nan Qing, he said: "Look! She is really a demon! That's why your blood can hurt her! Chu Zhi is a human, she is not afraid of your blood!"
Yan Yue looked at Chu Zhi in astonishment. Her hands were covered in blood from bandaging them, but she didn't react at all. Nan Qing originally wanted to use a handkerchief to bandage her hands, but his skin was burned by her blood!
"Are you a demon?"
"Who are you?"
The two spoke almost at the same time.
Qi Zhaoyang raised his sword again: "You bold monster! You actually..."
"Go, go, go!" Before he could finish his words, Yan Yue interrupted him mercilessly: "What do you want to do with it?"
She looked at Nan Qing again and asked, "Are you really a demon?"
Nan Qing hesitated for only a moment before nodding and admitting, "Yes."
Chu Zhi couldn't help but take a step back, his voice trembling: "Ah?"
Yan Yue did not move, but only asked: "Do you eat humans?"
Nan Qing didn't expect her to ask, and coughed and said, "No. I eat normal food like you. Besides, I don't like eating raw food."
Yan Yue's expression did not change, but Nan Qing clearly heard her breathe a sigh of relief.
Qi Zhaoyang was a little furious: "You believe her? Monsters are so cunning, how can you just listen to a monster's words?"
Yan Yue refuted confidently: "But she is still the owner of my teahouse!"
Nan Qing understood, the implication was: she is still my cash cow!
"Oh, you don't know! She works diligently every day, buying goods and doing accounts. The teahouse is now doing a booming business, all thanks to her! She must be a good demon, and she doesn't intend to hurt me, nor has she hurt anyone else!"
Yan Yue explained a lot for Nan Qing, and then nagging Qi Zhaoyang: "Ghosts can be divided into stubborn ghosts, evil ghosts, and fierce ghosts, so demons must be good ones! Nan Qing just likes to do business, and he even became a disciple for this! Don't generalize and kill all demons with one stroke! Right, Chu Zhi?"
Chu Zhi had already reacted, and thinking of Nan Qing's past, she quickly said, "Yes, yes, Sister Nan Qing must be a good demon! She works quickly and skillfully, and she takes good care of us on weekdays! She is even very friendly to Dahei!"
Qi Zhaoyang was about to say something, but Yan Yue raised her injured hand and said, "Go home first! We are starving, so let's talk while we eat."
Nan Qing hesitated for a moment, picked up two food boxes and followed forward.
When Yan Yue rushed forward to stop Qi Zhaoyang, he threw the black umbrella to the ground. Shen Xuezhou was startled out by the noise, and just happened to hear that Nan Qing was a monster, he was completely stunned.
Zhou Lin asked him quietly: "You don't know?"
Shen Xuezhou glared and asked back: “I was just an ordinary mortal before I died, how could I know?”
Mr. Jiang said thoughtfully, "Can demons see ghosts? I felt before that Miss Nanqing seemed to be able to see us. Every time she glanced at us, I felt that her eyes seemed to linger on us."
Zhou Lin shuddered, rubbed his arms and said, "Mr. Jiang, please don't scare me! Does that mean she knows everything we've been doing in front of her these days? This is too scary!"
After Qi Zhaoyang applied medicine and bandaged Yan Yue and Chu Zhi bandaged Nan Qing's injured arm, eight pairs of eyes stared at the charred spot on the back of Nan Qing's hand, all with confusion in their eyes.
Finally, Nan Qing asked Yan Yue first: "Who are you?"
Yan Yue looked innocent: "I'm just an ordinary person!"
Nan Qing mercilessly exposed the truth: "Which ordinary person can see ghosts and talk to ghosts?"
Yan Yue's eyes widened: "How do you know?"
Nan Qing scanned the area and said, "I can see those three shadows that look like smoke. They will go into the black umbrella or the three back houses and come out after dark. Also, I heard you talking to them, but I couldn't hear them talking."
The three ghosts ignored it and said: It’s okay.
Yan Yue looked at Qi Zhaoyang: "Same as you used to be!"
Zhou Lin interrupted, "Then weren't you almost like a demon before?"
"You are almost like a demon!" Qi Zhaoyang immediately denied it and said to Zhou Lin: "I also needed to cast spells and use talismans to see you before, but she can see you directly. It's completely different, right?!"
Nan Qing frowned and stared at Qi Zhaoyang and asked, "Can you also see ghosts and talk to ghosts?"
Qi Zhaoyang suddenly shut his mouth.
Although it is speculated that it was Yan Yue's blood that splashed into his eyes, which enabled him to see and talk to ghosts. But he didn't intend to tell anyone about this, including Yan Yue. God knows what horrible things people would do to her if they knew her blood had such miraculous effects.
Yan Yue did not hide anything and confessed directly: "I probably died once, and Qi Zhaoyang also died once, so we can both see ghosts and talk to them."
Yan Yue recounted the story of how she was arranged to marry in the afterlife and how she woke up from the coffin, and also how Qi Zhaoyang was "retaliated" when he suppressed the evil spirit. Chu Zhi added that she saw Zhou Lin before she almost died by hanging herself. So people speculate that people who have died once or are dying can see ghosts.
Qi Zhaoyang didn't mention anything else. Nan Qing felt that this guess was logical and did not doubt it.
She just looked at the three groups of fog and asked, "Is Shen Xuezhou in here?"
The four of them sat at the dinner table, eating while listening to Nan Qing's explanation.
She was originally a green snake and had lived for hundreds of years. Later, she sneaked into the old house of the Shen family. At that time, the Shen family had just moved to Rongshan. The servant discovered it when he was tidying the garden. The then head of the Shen family told the servant to leave it alone and not to hurt it.
Afterwards, the head of the Shen family began to raise some wild birds in the backyard, and he also expanded the yard and built a pond. She had food and drink, so she settled down in the Shen family with peace of mind.
Later, the head of the Shen family went to the backyard to pray, hoping that she would bless the Shen family to survive the disaster. When she learned that the Shen family was being suppressed by their competitors, she thought it would be bad to just keep eating and living off their families, so she went to help.
In this way, the Shen family's business grew bigger and bigger, and she, as the "guardian of the family", lived a very comfortable life.
Unfortunately, the death of the head of the Ren family was so sudden that he passed away without having the time to instruct on how to continue to support her. The new owner didn't like things like live poultry, so he cleared them all out.
But Nan Qing was too lazy to move at that time, so he continued to linger in Shen's house, relying on the fish in the pond and stealing food from the kitchen.
After the third head of the Shen family inherited the Shen family, he made drastic changes to the garden, and Nan Qing was once again caught by the servants.
The head of the Shen family at that time, Shen Xuezhou's father, wanted to kill the big green snake. Shen Xuezhou, who was only nine years old, stepped forward to stop them and asked his father for help. Together with the servants, he put the green snake into a sack and drove it out of the city.
Nan Qing said that Shen Xuezhou was a proud and willful young boy at that time. He chanted a poem, "Fish leap in the clear river and chase the waves gracefully; deer run across the green hills and leisurely enter the clouds. I pity that you are a carefree traveler, so I let you return to the forest and continue our worldly relationship." Then he untied the sack and put her into the mountain.
Shen Xuezhou was shocked. He could no longer remember the poem, but this incident did happen.
Seventeen years later, Nan Qing returns in human form, wanting to repay Shen Xuezhou for saving his life.
But the Shen family lacked nothing, so she really didn't know where to start.
Chu Zhi asked: "Then why don't you marry him?"
Yan Yue was the first to object: "Who said that I have to repay you with my body for saving my life?"
Nan Qing smiled and said, "You've read too many miscellaneous books! All plants and creatures that cultivate to become spirits have a long lifespan, while mortals only live for fifty or sixty years. Humans and demons are on different paths, and there's a huge gap between them. How can you commit your life to each other?"
Yan Yue said: "That's right! And how can giving yourself to someone be considered a favor? What if that person is already married? Or has an engagement, or has a loved one? You are just stealing someone's love by giving yourself to that person! That's not repaying a favor, that's clearly repaying kindness with hatred!"
The beautiful imagination of Chu Zhi's youth was shattered into pieces by the two men, and her little mouth was pouted high.
Nan Qing agreed, "Yes. Helping others to fulfill their wishes is the true way to repay a favor."
"So I found him and begged him to keep me by his side. He loved reading when he was young. After not seeing him for 17 years, he no longer studies hard, but hopes to be like his eldest brother, become the pride of his parents, and expand the Song family's business empire."
"So I studied hard how to hire people, control costs, increase customer flow, increase profits, and manage accounts; how to run a shop well, and then expand the scale and open branches. Unfortunately, just when I turned a shop he owned from loss to profit, he suddenly died of an acute illness."
"In just three years, before I could repay him, he died. His wife didn't know how to run a business, so she handed his shop over to Master Shen. Master Shen never liked Second Master's business, so he changed the shop back to the business that the Shen family was good at, and he didn't want me anymore."
Shen Xuezhou murmured, “So that’s it…”
She wasn't stubborn, she just wanted to help him fulfill his wish.
Yan Yue borrowed Nan Qing's words to ask, "So you feel that you haven't repaid the favor yet, so you insist on staying in the Shen family's shop and are willing to be a lowly handyman?"
Nan Qing nodded and said, "I originally thought that helping him take care of the child until he grows up would be my way of repaying his kindness. I didn't expect you to show up suddenly. Since it's what he wants, helping you is the same, and it can be considered as repaying his kindness."
Yan Yueqi asked: "I never said that he wanted you to help me, how did you know?"
Nan Qing smiled gently and said, "Except for him, no one in this world would say that I am his direct disciple."
Seeing Yan Yue's puzzled expression, Nan Qing continued, "In fact, during the three years I followed him, he always told others that I was just his maid. It was only in the last three months, after I turned his shop around, that he reluctantly acknowledged me."
Several eyes of the crowd and ghosts fell on Shen Xuezhou, and Shen Xuezhou felt that his ghost face was a little swollen.
Yan Yue spat in disdain: "Shameless!"
Zhou Lin said more directly: "I just realized that Mr. Shen is really thick-skinned!"
Nan Qing didn't mind and continued to say with a smile: "Once when I was drunk, he told me that I was his direct disciple and asked me to work hard in the future and not embarrass him."
"So when you said I was his direct disciple, I knew it was him who asked you to come to me."
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