Chapter 7 Filial Daughter 1
◎Does it matter whether I forgive or not? ◎
Yan Yue didn't know why she could see ghosts, but she didn't dare tell Bai Chen.
These powerful families seemed to care a lot about feng shui, good and bad luck, and the like. If they knew that she could see ghosts, they would probably abandon her immediately and cut off all ties with her forever.
During the few days she'd been with him, she hadn't seen any ghosts, and she became even more certain that Bai Chen must be a relative of the royal family or a member of a powerful family. Not to mention eating well, dressing well and living well, just the "true dragon spirit" that can scare away ghosts, she will never let go of this thigh!
So if Bai Chen called her a fool or an idiot, she didn't care. Even if it sounded harsh, she could endure it!
Yan Yue didn't dare to ask further. What was the necessary connection between seeing ghosts and knowing how to read? Just work diligently and try hard to play the role of a "servant".
Bai Chen is a very easy master to serve.
When Yan Yue was a child, she heard from her neighbor's sister that working as a maid in a wealthy family would get beaten at any time, and being punished to kneel was commonplace.
Yan Yue had never learned how to be a maid and serve others, but Bai Chen never hit her. At most, he would occasionally hit her on the head, which was not light, but not heavy either. She was never punished to kneel.
After staying with Bai Chen for nearly ten days, Yan Yue spent all her time eating, drinking, playing and sleeping, and she became increasingly uneasy.
Is it so easy to be a maid for a powerful young man?
So she asked tentatively: "Sir, can I wash your clothes for you?"
Bai Chen was stunned for a moment and looked down at the white clothes on his body.
Yan Yue said: "Although... the clothes don't look dirty, but just... wash them?"
Seeing Bai Chen hesitate, Yan Yue quickly said, "How about I make you a pair of shoes? Maybe they are not as good as the ones you have on your feet, but... can I make you a pair?"
Otherwise, she would be really uneasy being a maid!
Bai Chen nodded, "Okay then! I'll get you the materials later."
"Okay!" Yan Yue felt relieved.
That night, Bai Chen threw his clothes to Yan Yue and said, "Wash them!" He then stuffed the package in his hand into her hand and said, "Here, it's the shoemaker!"
Yan Yue saw that Bai Chen had finally changed his clothes, but they were still white, made of the finest silk material. She guessed that maybe it was because his last name was Bai, so he had a special liking for the color white?
The white clothes that Bai Chen took off were made of the same material as the black clothes that Yan Yue left for Li Tiezhu. Both were made of the same material, as light as smoke and as smooth as nothing. When immersed in water, it is like sugar threads melting in water, and I dare not rub it hard at all.
Bai Chen was watching from upstairs as Yan Yue carefully dipped and lifted the clothes gently before hanging them up. The movement was so gentle, as if what was in his hands was not a piece of clothing, but a piece of fragile rice paper.
He shook his head in amusement, and suddenly felt a little sad while laughing.
The life span of ordinary people is only a few decades. Such interesting people will soon grow old and die, and it will be difficult to meet them again.
He doesn't like separation.
Yan Yue had just hung up the clothes when she suddenly heard the scream of a bird of prey overhead. Looking up, she saw a large brown eagle with patterns on it. It was terrifyingly huge!
"Wow! Sir, look! This eagle is so..."
She pointed at the eagle and looked back at the window of Bai Chen's room upstairs, only to find that Bai Chen, who had been standing there just now, had disappeared at some point. After washing the clothes, I went upstairs, but found that he was nowhere to be found.
Originally, Yan Yue didn’t take it seriously. She had figured out some of Bai Chen’s habits in the past few days. He never told anyone when he left or came back. As a rich young man, there was no need to tell his whereabouts to a servant.
Unexpectedly, he didn't come back until dinner time, and Yan Yue began to worry.
How many days will he be gone?
Have you paid enough for the inn and meals?
Fearing that she would be kicked out and forced to sleep on the streets, Yan Yue tossed and turned at night.
Perhaps the window was not closed tightly, and a light breeze blew into the room. Yan Yue got up and tried to close the window, but found two ghosts standing neatly in front of the window.
Yan Yue's legs went limp and she collapsed to the ground, unable to even scream.
The reason why I recognized they were two ghosts at once was because they were the long-necked female ghost and the young man I met in the woods before.
"I told you that your neck is scary long, but you just didn't believe me!"
The young man pulled the long-necked woman behind him, put on an extremely gentle smile, bowed to Yan Yue and apologized: "Girl, I apologize to you on her behalf. I'm really sorry, she didn't mean to scare you last time, she just wanted to try, whether you can really see ghosts..."
Yan Yue's voice trembled a little: "You are not much better..." Aren't you a ghost too?
But she didn't dare ask the following question.
The young man, dressed like a scholar, lowered his head and carefully checked his clothes and clothing, then touched his face and asked, "Am I scary? Are you okay? I died of illness, unlike her who was hanged and couldn't even retract her neck."
Yan Yuexin said: Is this the point? They are all ghosts anyway! Not much of a difference, right? !
The scholar seemed to understand and bowed again: "We were rude and shouldn't have run to the girl so suddenly. We are really sorry that the girl was seriously injured, so we came here to apologize in person."
Yan Yuexin said: That’s not necessary!
The long-necked female ghost poked her neck out from the scholar's shoulder and said, "I wonder if the young lady can forgive us?"
Yan Yue asked: "If I forgive you, will you stop bothering me?"
The long-necked female ghost and the scholar looked at each other and said weakly, "We, would like to ask you for a favor..."
Yan Yue said: "Does it matter whether I forgive or not?"
The scholar smiled awkwardly: "When asking for help, you should always have the attitude of asking for help..."
Yan Yuexin said: Asking for help? Do I have the right to refuse?
But she still didn't dare to say anything, and only asked: "How can I help you? I don't have a penny, and I don't even have enough food and drink!"
The long-necked female ghost said: "I want you to help me collect a debt. Once the debt is collected, the money will be yours."
The scholar also hurriedly said: "If you help me, my family will definitely pay you money!"
Yan Yue's heart was moved.
The long-necked female ghost was dressed in brightly coloured clothes. Although the young man was dressed like a scholar, his clothes were made of fine fabrics, and his demeanour clearly showed that he was not a child from a poor family.
What she lacks most now is money! It would be okay to help out a bunch, right?
The long-necked female ghost is named Sun Yun. She is the only daughter of her parents. Her mother wanted to have a son but never succeeded. She always complained that giving birth to Sun Yun damaged her body. Fortunately, her father treated her like a treasure and loved her very much.
When she was fifteen, her father fell seriously ill and the family had no money to treat him, so her mother secretly encouraged Sun Yun to become a prostitute in a brothel to earn money for her father's treatment.
Sun Yun was filial, so she followed her mother's wishes, worked diligently in the brothel to please the customers, and tried her best to earn money to send home.
But once she entered the brothel, she couldn't leave. She couldn't go home to see her father, so she could only ask someone to write a letter to her father, lying that she was working as a long-term worker in a wealthy family. She repeatedly told her father to take medicine and recover from his illness, and not to worry about the money, and that she would go home in two years.
She had been in the brothel for three years and was old enough, so the madam allowed her to go home to visit her family.
But when she returned home she found out that her father had passed away half a year after she left, and her mother had remarried.
Sun Yun cried her heart out. Her mother only wrote to her every two or three months, saying that her father was fine, but needed medication and care. It was not until this moment that she realized that her mother was just trying to trick her into sending money home.
She was disheartened and made a scene, wanting to get back the money she had sent home for the past three years, but her mother said coldly, "Go ask your father for it."
In a fit of rage, Sun Yun found a crooked tree and hanged herself, but unexpectedly she was trapped in the human world due to her obsession and unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation.
Yan Yueguang was almost furious after hearing this.
How could there be such a mother in the world? Is this something a mother could do?
Anger suppressed the fear of ghosts, and Yan Yue immediately agreed to seek justice for Sun Yun.
The scholar's name was Zhou Lin. He was a rich young man who went to Beijing to take the imperial examination but died in a foreign land.
His family sent a skilled servant to serve him, but he unexpectedly fell ill and died on the way. Perhaps to save trouble, the servant hastily buried his body in this remote wilderness and then returned home alone to report.
Zhou Lin is the eldest son in the family. He was loved and expected to grow up, but in the end he was unable to return home and has been wandering here for five years.
He swore solemnly and confidently: "You don't have to help me collect my body, just let my parents build a cenotaph for me!"
His matter was simple, so Yan Yue agreed immediately.
But Zhou Lin's home is far away, and he hangs around here because this is where he is buried. But Sun Yun's home was not far away. After her father passed away, her mother and the man she married later lived in the Zhou family's ancestral home. Yan Yue decided to solve Sun Yun's problem first.
However, after thinking about it for a day, she finally regretted agreeing to Sun Yun on a whim last night.
How can she, alone, seek justice for Sun Yun?
After the commotion, if Sun's mother reported the matter to the authorities, how would she explain to the officers since she didn't even have a token or a message? Could she tell the police, "I can see ghosts, and it was Sun Yun's ghost who asked me to collect the debt?" The police would probably throw her into jail immediately!
It was not until dark that Sun Yun and the scholar named Zhou Lin appeared behind her.
"What do you want to do?"
Yan Yue was startled and scolded, "Why don't you two walk quietly!"
Only after I said this did I realize that ghosts are silent! So he tried to make amends: "Next time, don't suddenly appear from behind me! Come towards me from the front, step by step."
The two ghosts nodded obediently.
The earthen walls in the village were very low. Standing outside the wall, Yan Yue could see the dim lights flickering in the houses.
"Your mother gave birth to a son as she wished, and he is already over two years old."
Sun Yun said: "I know. The child was born less than half a year after I died."
Yan Yue asked: "Can't you ghosts take revenge on your own? What about taking souls and taking lives?"
Zhou Lin explained: "Those who can take revenge on their own are evil ghosts. Only those with deep resentment and hatred can turn into evil ghosts. However, evil ghosts are usually blinded by hatred and will inevitably kill innocent people when they are not in their right mind. The ghost messengers will hunt them down everywhere. We dare not."
Yan Yue was a little surprised: "You are all dead, is there anything you dare not do?"
Zhou Lin said, "Of course! The underworld is similar to the human world. There are the Five Ghost Emperors, the Ten Kings of Hell, the Four Judges, the Ten Underworld Marshals, and many ghost messengers! If we would not cause harm to the mortal world, how could the ghost messengers let us wander around?"
"There really are the King of Hell and the Ghost Messenger!" Yan Yue murmured. She can see ghosts, so maybe she can also see the Ghost Messenger?
But now is not the time to talk about this. She asked Sun Yun: "Your mother treated you like this, you don't hate her, don't you want to become a ghost and take revenge?"
Sun Yun lowered her head and said, "I hated her, but I also felt sorry for her. The child she gave birth to later was born with congenital defects. She consulted many doctors, but they all said that he would not live for more than a few years."
"Is the child sick?"
Yan Yue's eyes lit up instantly: "Then I have an idea!"
【Author’s words】
Yan Yue: I am so smart, don’t I deserve your reward of a collection?
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