Chapter 85 Quarrel
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There was a quarrel in the house when Bai Lu Bao came.
“It’s just different!”
"What's the difference? It will be melted into gold ingots again, and the amount of gold will still be the same, not a tael less!"
“This looks good!”
"Then why don't you change your appearance? Aren't Guanyin Bodhisattva and Maitreya Buddha much more auspicious than the people in the underworld?"
"Guanyin has nothing to do with me! I can see ghosts, and it's auspicious to put a golden statue of the God of the Underworld in the house!"
"At worst, I can give you some more gold, and you can replace it with a golden statue of Buddha, which can also drive away evil spirits and avoid evil."
"Why are you afraid of this Hades?"
"When was I afraid of her?"
"Then you don't even dare to look at her statue!"
"Am I afraid to look? I just don't want to look!"
"Oh, just because she likes to wear dark colors, you don't want me to wear black! Are you afraid of her, or do you feel guilty about her? Why are you so reluctant to see anything related to her?"
"You... are so outrageous!" Bai Chen suddenly became angry and embarrassed.
Yan Yue was not afraid at all, "Oh, did you hit a sore spot? You know you are wrong, so you start to use your status to pressure others, you are so childish!"
Bai Chen's face darkened, "Who gave you the courage to speak to me like that?!"
Yan Yue rolled her eyes: "If you don't want to hear it, just get out. This is my guest room! I want to keep this golden statue of the God of the Underworld and put it in the most conspicuous place in the room..."
Before she could finish her words, the golden statue in her arms was suddenly pulled away by a huge force, and then hit the wall with a "bang"!
For some reason, the muffled sound seemed to hit Yan Yue's heart, interrupting all her sounds and thoughts.
Bai Chen felt inexplicably defeated in the face of her surprised and angry expression, and felt so guilty that even his heartbeat began to become disordered.
Yan Yue picked up the golden statue silently. Although the golden statue was thick, it was still hollow in the middle. Gold was soft in texture, and it was deformed after being dropped and hit. The terrifying fang-like ghost face had become crooked and deflated, no longer looking as majestic as it once was.
Silence was like a silent pressure, overwhelming you.
Bai Chen wanted to speak several times, wanted to apologize, wanted to explain, but because he was timid and nervous, he couldn't utter a word.
Yan Yue stared at the deformed statue for a long time before speaking: "Get out."
Bai Chen frowned slightly, and then Yan Yue said, "From now on, we are no longer friends. I don't want to see you again."
Bai Chen looked up in disbelief, and then anger surged up, and he asked angrily: "Just for such a small dead thing, you want to break off all ties with me?"
Yan Yue did not answer, but shifted her gaze from the golden statue to Bai Chen's face, "I said--"
"roll!"
Bai Chen's whole body suddenly tensed up, shock flashed in his eyes, and he unconsciously took two steps back. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't open his mouth and turned and left.
“Your Excellency…”
When Bai Lubao saw Bai Chen appear, he jumped up and disappeared into the night without caring that he was still in the bustling capital city. Bai Lubao had to chase after him quickly.
Bai Chen ran all the way to the outskirts of the city before stopping. Bai Lubao advised, "Your Majesty, why bother getting mad at Miss Yue over such a small matter? Go back and coax her out..."
"Didn't you feel it?" Bai Chen raised his face.
Bai Lubao was surprised for a moment, and suddenly said: "Your Excellency, are you talking about... the evil aura that suddenly emerged from the room?"
Bai Chen's brows were furrowed. "I saw clearly that the evil spirit was bursting out from her body."
Bai Lubao scratched his head and asked, "Could she be a ghost? By chance, she didn't die, but she has the Yin-Yang Eyes and the power of a ghost?"
Bai Chen's mind was in a mess. He shook his head and said, "I don't know, but there are too many things wrong with her. I have to go to the underworld and find out what's going on!"
Yan Yue stood there for a long time, suddenly feeling a little confused.
She didn't know why, but when she saw the deflated god, an uncontrollable rage suddenly surged in her chest. If she hadn't tried hard to restrain herself, she would probably rush up and punch Bai Chen a few times!
After the rage faded, she came to her senses.
Just as Bai Chen said, this is just a dead object made of gold. No matter what shape it is, this piece of gold is hers. Why must she go against him for a lump of gold? He even said cruel words like he would never see her again...
Yan Yue sat down on the chair dejectedly, his finger joints turning white from holding the statue too tightly.
So strange...
She had clearly never seen the god of the underworld, so why couldn't she tolerate the statue being insulted?
Suddenly he was filled with anger. Was it because of the God of the Underworld or because he himself was not respected?
Yan Yue couldn't figure it out and wanted to talk to Zhou Lin about it, but Zhou Lin was seriously injured and his vitality was damaged. He only showed up every day to say hello. Today, he didn't even come out with the black umbrella.
She has never been a serious person, and she doesn't like Nan Qing's stubborn way of thinking. If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Just look at the present. Go to bed early tonight. When you have recovered your energy tomorrow, you can say a few nice words to Bai Chen and you will be able to fool him.
After all, the thigh is thick. It’s not worth throwing away a thick thigh for a dead object!
Yan Yue figured out what was important and what was not important, and immediately felt relaxed physically and mentally, and slept soundly.
Unexpectedly, I didn’t see Bai Chen and Bai Lubao come for breakfast the next day. I went to look for them shamelessly, only to find out that they had left last night!
Completely losing his big brother, Yan Yue was dumbfounded, but could only complain in his heart: They say a prime minister has a broad mind, but this is the demon king, how come his mind is as narrow as a needle nose!
She ate breakfast with a depressed mood. Changning expressed her concern. Yan Yue did not dare to say that they had quarreled. She just said that she was going to see Yan Liang and Bai Chen left first because he had something to do.
Changning knew how the Yan family treated Yan Yue, and therefore disliked Yan Liang as well. But she regarded Yan Yue as her benefactor, and when she saw that Yan Yue wanted to visit this brother who was not a blood relative, she immediately asked housekeeper Cao to prepare gifts and personally accompany Yan Yue to visit Yan Liang.
Although Yan Liang was an official, he was only a minor official. He could not afford to buy a house in the capital city where every inch of land was valuable. The house he rented was smaller than Yan Yue's, with a square courtyard and no back house.
With Changning by his side, Yan Liang felt very reserved. After pouring tea for the two of them, he just sat there dryly, not knowing what to say.
However, Yan Yue looked at the facilities in the room and it was obvious that he lived alone.
Thinking of Yan Liang trying to stop her and pleading for her that night, he said, "Brother promises that this is only Yueyue and brother's home", Yan Yue couldn't help but ask, "Didn't Second Brother bring his family over?"
"I really couldn't forgive them, so I didn't bring them to the capital."
Yan Liang was filled with guilt: "I returned home after high school, but my mother told me that you had passed away due to an illness. I was so sad that I wanted to go to your grave to pay my respects, but they tried to stop me. After a long interrogation, they told me that they had arranged a ghost marriage for you and buried you with someone else in another family's grave."
"I asked them to return the money and take you back to the Yan family's ancestral tomb, but they refused. When things got tense, my eldest brother told me the amount of the money and said he couldn't pay it back."
"I saw that the amount of money was not small, so I became suspicious. Finally, I learned from Xiaoqi that your parents had said the day before that you were going to get married. Not only did they prepare new clothes for you, they also specially cooked a table of delicious food for you and forbade him to eat it secretly. The next day, you were carried out wearing a bright red new dress..."
Tears welled up in Yan Liang's eyes. "I was so angry that I even wanted to take them to the authorities! But my eldest brother punched me, saying that I went to Beijing to take the exam with the money my family borrowed from everywhere. I used the money you exchanged to pay off the debts my family owed for me, to treat my eldest brother and sister-in-law's children, and to arrange a marriage for my third brother. There is not much left..."
He choked up and apologized: "Yueyue, I'm sorry... I just can't bring myself to bring them to justice and seek justice for you..."
"I understand." Yan Yue comforted softly: "Although they were not kind to me, they treated you wholeheartedly and tried their best to support you to this day. If you were that kind of cruel person, you wouldn't have taken so much care and love for me since I was a child."
Yan Liang burst into tears and was so ashamed that he couldn't utter a word.
Yan Yue handed him a black handkerchief and said, "Brother, don't be sad. As you can see, I am living a good life now. But you said you dug up my coffin and it was empty. What's going on?"
Yan Liang tried to calm down and explained, "I borrowed some of the rewards and subsidies I received from the imperial examination and returned them to that family. Perhaps because they saw that I had an official position, although they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to stop me."
"They said that you two were buried together in one coffin. But when they opened the coffin, there was only the man, not you."
"I thought his family moved you and buried you separately, but they said it was a ghost marriage for their son. If you were buried separately, what would be the meaning of this ghost marriage? Instead, they suspected that I secretly took your body away and came to cause trouble for his family, hoping to frame me and extort money."
"The matter was brought to the county government office. Some people even suspected that you were not dead, but woke up in the coffin and ran away on your own."
"But the coffin was nailed shut and buried in public. There was no sign that the coffin had been opened, and even the nails were rusted. No one could explain what happened. The county government investigated for a long time but could not come up with any results, and finally the case was left unresolved."
Yan Yue did wake up and run away on her own, but there were no nails in her coffin and there was no one beside her. Could it be that a demon used magic to transfer her away?
She couldn't think of anything, so she asked, "Did they return the money to you?"
Yan Liang smiled bitterly and said, "Without you in the coffin, the ghost marriage is not considered completed, and the money will naturally not be returned. But don't worry, brother has paid it back, and now there is no debt."
Yan Liang smiled gently, "Brother has always thought that you might still be alive, and asked people to look for you everywhere. Now, I am really happy to see you standing in front of me alive..."
Warm tears flowed from his relieved yet sad smile, and Yan Yue's heart ached.
It seemed like her previous life, fortunately there was such a person who gave her warmth.
Changning had already been moved to tears by the brotherly love between the two, and she no longer transferred her dissatisfaction with the Yan family onto Yan Liang.
"Although you are a blockhead, you do have some friendship!"
Yan Liang said dejectedly: "I am a fool. I have done nothing for Yueyue. But that night I hindered her..."
Changning deliberately kept him that night to scare him by saying that Yan Yue was cheating him. Chang Ning couldn't help but look embarrassed, and said awkwardly: "What happened that night can't be blamed on you..."
She was halfway through her words when Yan Liang suddenly stood up and said, "Don't open it..."
But it was too late.
Yan Yue came back from the toilet and found a piece of yellow paper through the crack of the door of a side room. She raised her hand and pushed the door open.
There was only a high-legged eight-immortal table in the room, with a wooden spirit tablet upside down on the table. In front of it was an incense burner that was almost full of ash. There were also three plates of fruit offerings, which seemed to have been there for a few days.
There was a futon on the ground, and in the copper basin next to the futon were ashes from burnt paper ingots.
The most eye-catching thing is the gold ingots made of yellow paper in the house.
All over the floor.
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