Chapter 9 Filial Daughter 3
◎Ghosts are really useless◎
My stepfather's pupils trembled and his speech became even more stuttering.
"Give it back to her? But she has already... already..."
Yan Yue knew what he wanted to say. Sun Yun was already dead, so how could he return the gold and silver to her? What's the point of giving it back to her?
She glanced at her stepfather and said, "It's none of your business. That's the money she earned, she can do whatever she wants with it. Even if she wants to throw it into the sea, she doesn't want to spend a penny on you!"
The stepfather lowered his head in hesitation, but the grandma came to her senses from the stars in her eyes and asked anxiously, "So, Yun'er will let us go?"
Yan Yue said: "This is where Miss Sun Yun's resentment comes from. If you want to resolve this resentment, this is the only way."
Mother Sun nodded hurriedly and asked, "Then, where is the child's father?"
Yan Yue thought for a moment and said, "The root of Sun's father's resentment is naturally on Sun Yun. His daughter, whom he cherishes like a treasure, was deceived by you and suffered such inhuman torture. Naturally, he resents you very much. But if his daughter's resentment dissipates, I think his resentment will dissipate as well."
"Really?" asked Sun's mother crying.
Yan Yue asked back: "Do you think they are willing to be trapped in the mortal world and unable to be reborn?"
Sun Yun's stepfather originally had some doubts, wondering if Yan Yue had known Sun Yun before and learned the family secrets from her and was deliberately trying to blackmail her.
Unexpectedly, she asked for paper and pen, saying that Sun Yun wanted her to help write down every penny sent back home. Once every two or three months, he recorded more than ten times in three years, and even listed the price of the medicine his father used at that time. Only Sun's mother, father and Sun Yun know this, and there is no need to tell outsiders.
Finally, Yan Yue even wrote about the hairpins and jewelry that he and his mother took off Sun Yun's body when they collected her body. This was known only to the official who came to inform him and the couple, so he had no choice but to believe it.
The stepfather took Yan Yue's long list and was a little shocked: "This... is so much?!"
Yan Yue sneered: "When you asked for money, didn't you think it was too little?"
Seeing his face turn from green to white, and then white to red, Yan Yue said, "Three days later, at the end of the evening hour, I will be waiting for you at the City God Temple in the west."
"Three days?"
The stepfather was surprised and asked, "How can we get so much money in three days?"
Yan Yue glanced at Sun Yun and said, "This is not something I can control. Miss Sun Yun's resentment has deepened today. I am afraid that she will not be able to wait for you to take your time and will become a fierce ghost. By then, the money will be useless..."
"You'll have to pay with your life."
The last four words made the two of them look horrified and they dared not refuse anymore.
Yan Yue strode out of the courtyard, his cloak fluttering in the night, and he actually had a somewhat extraordinary aura.
Then a strong wind blew up out of nowhere in the yard, overturning all the farm tools standing against the wall and even moving the ox cart out of place.
Although the middle-aged man protected the child tightly, the old cow, chickens and ducks were frightened and screamed, which still scared the child, and he burst into tears.
Sun's mother rushed over and protected the child between them, but unexpectedly the wind only blew a few times and then dissipated.
The stepfather pushed Sun's mother away and cursed, "You vicious bitch! Don't come near my son again!"
He carried the child back to the house, leaving his grandson's mother alone, slumped on the ground, sobbing.
Yan Yue heard the noise in the yard. She took off her cloak and held it in her arms. She asked Zhou Lin and Sun Yun who had caught up with her, "Aren't you trying to scare people?"
Zhou Lin glanced at Sun Yun, who looked a little dazed, and said, "If her resentment hadn't deepened, the two of us wouldn't have made such a big fuss."
Yan Yue was startled and quickly stepped forward to persuade Sun Yun: "Don't worry..."
Unexpectedly, when she was only half an arm's length away from Sun Yun, Sun Yun's expression suddenly became extremely painful. Yan Yue was so scared that she reached out to comfort her: "Auntie, don't scare me..."
Before she could finish her words, Zhou Lin suddenly pulled Sun Yun over and floated back ten feet away, and stopped Yan Yue, "Don't come over!"
Yan Yue didn't dare to move anymore, and asked stutteringly: "She, is going to turn into a ghost?"
Zhou Lin said, "No, it's you. We can't get close to you."
"ah?"
Yan Yue was stunned, and felt a little touched: "Is it because you will absorb my Yang energy and shorten my life?"
Zhou Lin said, "No."
Well, you're just being too sentimental.
Yan Yue had no choice but to ask: "Why is that?"
Zhou Lin hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know. There is an evil spirit around you, we dare not approach you."
The huge pain brought Sun Yun back to her senses from her sad trance. She hugged her arms and said, "It hurts. When you suddenly came close to me just now, I felt that evil spirit almost tore me apart."
Yan Yue looked down in disbelief, pointed at the red cape on his arm and asked, "Is it because of the City God's cape?"
Zhou Lin shook his head: "It's been like this since I first saw you in the woods."
"Ah? How could this be?" Yan Yue blinked in confusion, then realized: "That is to say, although you can entangle me, you can't get close to me at all, so you can't hurt me?"
Zhou Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Not only can we not harm you, we can't harm anyone! If we could resolve our obsessions ourselves, why would we be trapped and wandering in the mortal world?"
Yan Yue breathed a sigh of relief. No wonder, including Li Tiezhu's father, none of these people had ever come within three feet of her!
This was the best news she had heard since she saw the ghost!
Although she didn't know what this so-called "evil spirit" was, these ghosts couldn't get close to her or harm her, so it wasn't that scary!
Seeing her happy expression, Zhou Lin asked timidly, "So, you're not going to take care of us anymore?"
Yan Yue, the beggar, turned into a rich man. He raised his neck high and said proudly, "Then..."
"It depends on your performance!"
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However, it turned out that she was overthinking it.
Ghosts are really useless.
I couldn't massage her shoulders and legs, nor could I earn money for her to spend. Because I couldn't see the sunlight, I couldn't show up during the day and could only jump around at night.
The only use of it is to chat with Yan Yue.
After all, many dirty things that cannot be seen in public happen at night. Ghosts have the advantage of being blessed by nature and can go around and watch the fun.
Yan Yue was locked up in the backyard by her foster mother for several years. Apart from feeding chickens and pigs, she never saw any living creatures and she barely spoke a word all year round. Now, with Sun Yun and Zhou Lin, she was told some secrets of wealthy families and strange things in brothels. She listened with great interest all night, her throat was sore from cracking melon seeds, and she fell asleep at dawn.
Sleeping during the day and eating melons at night, after two days of this, Bai Chen is still nowhere to be seen, but the waiter comes to hint at him.
The general idea is that if you still plan to stay in the room like this, you have to pay.
The shopkeeper played the good cop and told her to live there peacefully and it would not be too late to hand it over to the young master when he came back. After all, they had been generous before, and the young man couldn't really abandon such a beautiful woman.
While the shopkeeper's enthusiasm had not yet worn off, Yan Yue decisively canceled the two upper rooms and moved to the lower rooms, and promised to pay the room fee tomorrow.
At night, Zhou Lin popped up and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have asked them to pay back the money the next day! You wouldn't be in such a mess."
Yan Yue said: "That amount of money is not small, it's really a bit unreasonable."
Zhou Lin said: "Then at least, you should let them give you as much as they have first!"
Yan Yue said with a smile: "Isn't that a clear attempt to extort money? You are a scholar, how could you be so foolish?"
Zhou Lin's eyes were blank for a moment, and then he said after a while: "I have forgotten more and more things. I heard that obsessive ghosts like us will gradually forget the past. Those books that I studied hard all night, I have almost forgotten them now. Now I can only remember my family clearly."
Yan Yue knew that Sun Yun had only been dead for less than three years, but Zhou Lin had been dead for more than five years. She couldn't help but ask, "What would happen if you forget everything?"
Zhou Lin said: "I have forgotten all the past, so my obsession is gone. Maybe I will go to reincarnation? Or maybe my soul will be scattered, I don't know."
Yan Yue felt that ghosts were also quite pitiful.
She didn't know how to comfort Zhou Lin, so she had to change the subject: "Where did Sun Yun go? Is she in danger?"
Zhou Lin said, "It shouldn't be. Those quacks are mostly scammers, they are just pretending to be mysterious, but in reality they just burn some paper money in secret to buy a few days of peace. Anyway, in all these years of being a ghost, I have never seen anyone with real skills."
Yan Yue pinched her chin and said, "How about I become a charlatan?"
It's just talk, Yan Yue doesn't have the courage. What if she encounters a fierce ghost, she doesn't know which one will work, rooster blood or black dog blood, wouldn't she be doomed?
Without money, she didn't dare eat meat anymore. She ordered some vegetables and rice, which she ate in two meals, and finally made it to the evening of the next day.
Sun Yun disappeared early yesterday morning and did not show up until dark.
The sky was very gloomy today and the sun hadn't come out yet, so Zhou Lin showed up early.
Yan Yue was a little anxious: "Where did Sun Yun go?"
As she was muttering, Sun Yun followed her mother and her husband to the City God Temple. When the couple saw Yan Yue, who was already wearing red and standing there waiting, they hurriedly handed her the package.
Yan Yue saw that Sun Yun looked unhappy, but said nothing. She just counted the belongings brought by the two people according to the records on the list.
After clearing the account, I found that some things did not match.
Mother Sun explained, "I pawned the hairpin and bracelet and put the money in it. Ask Yun'er if she agrees."
Seeing Sun Yun nod, Yan Yue said, "Miss Sun Yun is unwilling to care about these trivial matters and agrees to solve it this way."
The two of them expressed their gratitude repeatedly. After Yan Yue finished counting, Sun's mother asked tentatively, "Master, will my son be healed now?"
Yan Yue glanced at him coldly and said, "I was talking about resolving the resentment of the deceased. I never mentioned curing your son's illness."
"What?!"
Sun Yun's stepfather was furious: "Aren't you lying? We worked so hard that we even sold our house! Just for my son to get treatment! Now you tell me that my son still can't get better?"
Yan Yue immediately understood why Sun Yun had been unhappy, and sneered: "Sell the Sun family's old house and return the money to the Sun family's daughter? You really are... a nest of snakes and rats!"
The stepfather was so angry that he didn't care about any grudges. He yelled at Yan Yue: "Since you can't save my son, just give me the money!"
Yan Yue was furious and shouted, "This should have belonged to Sun Yun! Just because I put it in your pocket for a while, does it mean it's yours?!"
"You only paid back her money. She suffered so much, how can you repay her? Her father loved his daughter so much that he even swallowed charcoal to commit suicide rather than burden her, but you treated him so badly! How can you repay her?!"
【Author’s words】
Justice Yan Yue asks for praise! [Heart]
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