Chapter 78 Capital 9
◎The truth◎
Princess Changning was stunned when she heard this. Then she saw Xiaotao attacking the evil spirit again. She didn't bother to think more and rushed over to block it, shouting, "Xiaotao, don't!"
But Xiaotao didn't stop.
Seeing that Xiaotao's claws were about to touch Changning, Yan Yue quickly swung a whip, forcing Xiaotao to flip backwards and land on her stomach.
Yan Yue explained: "She can't hear you!"
King Jing finally reacted and ordered again: "Capture this evildoer Xiao Tao!"
Xiao Tao looked around and couldn't quite tell which one was Chang Ning. She just shouted, "Chang Ning! Follow me!" Then she jumped into the air and grabbed King Jing in her hand, threatening him harshly, "Don't move! Or I'll crush him to death!"
Yan Yue hurriedly shouted to Xiao Tao: "Wait! It was Changning who asked you to stop! Really! I swear!" She pointed at Qi Zhaoyang again: "He can testify! He can also see Changning and hear Changning talking!"
Xiao Tao looked disgusted: "I don't believe the bull nose of Qingxu Temple!"
"Monks don't tell lies. He is the disciple of the Heavenly Master!"
Yan Yue explained while moving her feet. When Xiao Tao hesitated, she grabbed Chang Ning's body and threatened him: "Hey, we each have one, so don't act rashly!"
Xiao Tao spat angrily: "You are so shameless!"
Yan Yue retorted, "You just framed me, are you ashamed? I have a question for you now, answer it well, or I will break Chang Ning's neck and let her die!"
“Don’t… cough cough cough…” King Jing’s face turned red and his neck became thick due to being pinched, but he still shook his hands in fear.
"You dare!" Xiao Tao pinched King Jing even harder: "Then I will let him be buried with me!"
Yan Yue sneered with amusement: "Who are you trying to scare? He's not my father! You, the guardian deity, have made the Jing Palace a dead end. I wonder how you'll survive in the future!"
"I……!"
Xiao Tao was speechless. After thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the truth. Her arrogance collapsed halfway: "You, what do you want to ask?"
Yan Yue pointed at the evil spirit and asked, "Why did you use the former princess to do evil?"
"What evil are you doing? I'm punishing evil and promoting good..." Xiao Tao replied angrily, and then she realized, "Wait, what is the former princess?"
Yan Yue blinked: "Don't you know that the evil spirit you tied up is Changning's biological mother?"
Xiao Tao's eyes suddenly widened: "That evil ghost is Changning's biological mother? You are talking nonsense, how is this possible?"
With the help of Qi Zhaoyang's magic, the evil ghost regained consciousness and cried bitterly with Changning.
But the truth of the matter was not what Yan Yue expected, and even more so what the Lord of Changning County expected.
The former princess was just angry at the time and wanted to force King Jing to death by hanging herself, but she ended up making things worse and actually died.
After her soul left her body, her mind, which had been blinded by anger, inexplicably became clear. Even though I am resentful, we are no longer together, so there is no need to hold on to it. The one who made her worried and turned into a ghost was her only child, Changning, who was only six years old.
Changning was the one who found her body. The pretty girl fainted on the spot when she saw her mother dangling in the air.
Later, Changning fell seriously ill. After he recovered, he seemed to have forgotten the horrific scene and continued to laugh and play innocently as usual, as if nothing had happened. She also accompanied King Jing to welcome Hua Rongqin into the palace, called Hua Rongqin mother with sincerity, and listened to her teachings obediently, just like a good and sensible child.
Only the former princess saw that when Changning couldn't sleep at night, she would use a carving knife to cut the paper into strips, then into thin threads, and finally into paper scraps that were too hard to cut, and then quietly buried them in the soil.
The former princess was always worried until Hua Rongqin became pregnant with her first child. Changning tampered with Hua Rongqin's pregnancy-preserving medicine. How could a child like her handle all the strife in the harem? It will be exposed if investigated.
The former princess was afraid that something might happen to her, and that she would bear bad karma as a result, so she made up her mind and did it for her.
She had already placed a round stone on the small stone bridge that Hua Rongqin had to pass by when visiting the garden. When Hua Rongqin passed by, she stirred up a gust of cold wind, which blew a broad leaf towards Hua Rongqin's face.
Hua Rongqin's first child was gone just like that.
Because Changning was not present and Hua Rongqin was surrounded by her own people, no one suspected her daughter.
After causing Hua Rongqin to miscarry her second child, the former princess suffered the evil karma and turned into an evil ghost uncontrollably.
Hua Rongqin's third pregnancy was even simpler. Perhaps because she felt guilty, she caught a glimpse of the ghost of the previous princess and was frightened into having a miscarriage. After that, she never got pregnant again.
Although she couldn't have her own children, Hua Rongqin was devoted to Changning.
The former princess turns into an evil ghost and will be captured by the underworld. Fortunately, the feng shui of the palace was arranged by an expert, so she hid in a deep well in the backyard and only visited Changning every now and then. It also prevents him from accidentally showing up when he is unconscious and scaring his daughter.
Nine years passed like this, and she gradually forgot many things, even the entanglement with King Jing and Hua Rongqin became vague. The only thing I remember is the hope of seeing my daughter grow up safely.
Last spring, Changning brought back a fox demon named Xiaotao from somewhere and started to make moves on Hua Rongqin again.
She tried to stop him many times, and Hua Rongqin even saw her many times and began to have nightmares.
Later, Xiao Tao got the soul-catching lock used by the underworld's evildoers from somewhere and tied her up. The masters, rituals, and talismans that the palace had invited many times were all easily broken through the cooperation of the fox demon and Changning.
Because Xiaotao often used the soul-catching lock to drag her to scare Hua Rongqin, she turned into a fierce ghost from the day Hua Rongqin went crazy.
Afterwards, she was confused most of the time and didn't remember much. She was glad that the fox demon had no intention of harming Changning, otherwise it would have been difficult for her to protect her daughter.
Whenever she was lucid, she would tell the other captured ghosts to remind them to kill Hua Rongqin with their own hands. That's how Zhou Lin knew her identity.
That day Zhou Lin wandered around the house, hoping to summon a ghost to find out what was going on. However, he didn't find the ghost, but was caught by Xiao Tao in a soul-catching lock. As soon as he struggled, the two evil ghosts and the fierce ghost beat him up. The little ghost had no power to fight back and could only be pinned to the ground.
Although he was beaten badly, Zhou Lin did not blame the late princess. Instead, he was moved by her sincere desire to protect her daughter, so he spoke out to stop Yan Yue.
Xiaotao and King Jing could not hear their words, nor could they see Changning crying so hard that she almost passed out.
The atmosphere had been silent for too long; some servants in the palace had relaxed from their tense state and even yawned.
King Jing couldn't help but ask, "Master, what's the situation?"
Yan Yue got angry just by looking at him.
The late princess, Changning, and even Hua Rongqin have all paid so much, so why is it that King Jing is the only one who stays out of it? If he hadn't been indecisive, how could so many tragedies have occurred? He is the crux of the whole incident!
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She angrily whipped King Jing with a whip and said, "How dare you ask such a question!"
Qi Zhaoyang was stunned, that was the prince!
"Hey! Hey!" Xiao Tao raised her hands high and let the unconscious King Jing slide off her body. "It wasn't me! I didn't do anything. You beat me to death!"
The person who was originally sleepy suddenly became energetic!
"What's going on?"
"The prince... passed away?"
Yan Yue was shocked again and explained to Qi Zhaoyang innocently: "I really tried my best this time!"
Qi Zhaoyang saw the spirit of King Jing standing beside his body and quickly bowed and said, "Your Highness, we have no ill intentions. We just want you to see this scene with your own eyes."
King Jing followed his line of sight and first saw two terrifying and burly evil ghosts, and took a step back in fear; then he saw the evil ghost with bloodshot eyes, and Changning, who was hugging the evil ghost and crying so hard that she was almost dying.
He took two steps at a time and ran forward: "Ning'er! I'm so glad you're okay! Daddy is coming..."
"Get lost!" Chang Ning roared angrily, "Don't come near us!"
The extremely hateful and disgusted look forced King Jing to stop and look at her in astonishment: "Ning'er...it's daddy..."
Chang Ning's emotions completely exploded: "From the day my mother died, my father died! You are just a father! Not a daddy!"
King Jing was stunned, and suddenly realized that Changning had started calling him father and Hua Rongqin mother, and had never called her mom.
"From the moment you brought Hua Rongqin back, I have only hated you!"
"If you hadn't been so fickle, how could my mother have died? You deserve to die! Hua Rongqin deserves to die even more! You all should pay for my mother's life!"
Changning's words, filled with curses and hatred, made King Jing feel like he was struck by lightning.
The evil ghost's scarlet eyes were full of love. He patted Chang Ning's back carefully and said comfortingly, "Be good, Ning'er. Mother doesn't care about them. Mother only hopes that my Ning'er can live a long and peaceful life."
Changning burst into tears again.
How could she have imagined that when she was bent on avenging her mother, her mother would turn into a spirit and still protect her, bearing the evil karma for her.
King Jing was stunned: "You, you are..."
Before he could finish his question, a sharp scream suddenly came from the room behind him, and a strong wind carrying a biting and eerie ghostly aura came straight at his face!
Yan Yue was pulled back a step by Qi Zhaoyang. She could almost feel the sharp claws rubbing against the fur on her neck. She was so scared that her heart was pounding!
"Why is there another evil ghost?" Qi Zhaoyang cried in panic.
Yan Yue looked into the room, her heart sinking: "It's Hua Rongqin!"
Hua Rongqin's target is not Yan Yue, but the former princess and Chang Ning.
The former princess pushed Changning away and fought with Hua Rongqin. Qi Zhaoyang picked up King Jing's body and moved it to a safe place. Yan Yue also grabbed Chang Ning's body and threw them into the house together with Yan Liang, shouting, "Hide!"
Xiao Tao had already loosened the ropes on the evil ghosts, and while driving the two evil ghosts to join the battle, she asked Yan Yue: "How did she become a fierce ghost?"
Yan Yue tried to stop the fight and said angrily, "How should I know? Maybe he heard the truth about the wrongful death of the fetus! Stop it now and don't make things worse!"
Xiao Tao couldn't hear the previous conversation, and didn't know what the unjust death of the fetus meant. She just said angrily: "This whore who forced the original wife to death has the nerve to hit people! If I don't beat her to death today, I am not worthy of being Changning's family fairy!"
There was a strong wind in the yard, with flying sand and rocks. Evil spirits and evil ghosts appeared one after another under Yan Yue's whip, and people were scared to scream and run away.
Xiao Tao couldn't tell which evil ghost was Hua Rongqin, and she was jumping here and there. King Jing was trying his best to stop her, and Changning also wanted to lend a helping hand to the former princess, which made the battle even more tense.
In the battle between the mad evil spirits, evil ghosts and fox demons, Qi Zhaoyang was really outnumbered.
Yan Yue's whip was very powerful. After being whipped three times, an evil ghost lay on the ground unable to move. But she didn't dare to swing it recklessly, for fear of hurting innocent people, especially Prince Jing and Changning, for fear that she would really beat them to death.
In a state of anxiety and irritation, she could only look up to the sky and shout -
"Bai Chen! Where the hell have you been?"
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