The black mist was blocked by Si Jiangchen. It trembled a few times and suddenly transformed into a human figure nearly two meters tall.
"Bold! Let's see who dares to stop the ghost constable from doing his job!"
The voice of the shadowy figure pierced straight into my eardrums. Instantly, my head ached as if pricked by a needle tip.
While shouting arrogantly, the shadow shook the black mist in his hand. The mist instantly transformed into a chain and lashed out at Si Jiangchen's head.
"What a bad temper!"
Si Jiangchen sneered coldly. He pointed his left hand like a sword at the chain. The chain, which looked like a giant python, instantly turned into wisps of black mist and drifted away. "We're just asking you to wait. We don't covet this woman's soul."
Saying that, Si Jiangchen slapped his hand down. Qiu Zhuqing's ghost actually knelt on the ground straight up.
The shadowy figure who claimed to be a "ghost constable" shivered and actually knelt down side by side with Qiu Zhuqing...
"Li Jiuming, continue."
Seeing that it finally quieted down around, I gently let go of Li Mingyue's body and let her sit up slowly.
"I... I've been in poor health since I got sick," Li Mingyue continued in an aged voice. "I had to eat, drink, and relieve myself in bed every day. That venomous woman, Qiu Zhuqing, thought I was a nuisance and left me in the care of the servants. I knew she had her eyes on the Si family. After her sister passed away, she had always been coveting everything of the Si family! But... if she had just said it clearly... I, I would have let her go!! But, for the sake of the Li family's wealth, she poured boiling water into my stomach and scalded me to death!! I died with grievances, so I followed her every day, wanting to take revenge! If it weren't for this young lady giving me this chance today... I'm afraid I still wouldn't have been able to do anything to her!"
Saying that, he looked at me gratefully.
"Me?!" I opened my mouth in surprise. Just now, I was still wondering why this poor old man had been following Qiu Zhuqing but couldn't take action. But just at the moment when I was scratched by Qiu Zhuqing, he actually gained the ability to affect the living.
"Humph, it's you!"
Lu Tianchang, who was watching the show on the side, snorted. "A yin person and yin blood naturally make the ghost more powerful!"
I glanced at him and didn't bother to pay attention. I just turned back to Li Jiuming and said, "Now that you've avenged your great hatred, can you leave?"
Li Jiuming sighed deeply. "Yes, I've already filed a lawsuit against this venomous woman in the underworld. I'm just waiting for her to go down and face me in court!"
I knew that Li Jiuming's so - called "facing each other in court" meant going to the Ten Palaces of Yama to have a lawsuit. After reincarnation in the next life, they would avenge their hatreds and grievances, completing the karmic ties unfinished in this life.
Saying that, he glanced at the two dark figures kneeling on the ground by the wall. Then he rolled his eyes, and a faint black air dispersed from Li Mingyue's forehead. Vaguely, it transformed into that thin old man again. After bowing deeply to me, he disappeared between the white walls...
"Hey, aren't you leaving together?"
I was still surprised why he didn't leave with the so - called ghost constable when I saw the shadow kneeling beside Qiu Zhuqing move. It seemed to raise its head. "Please... may I take her away now, Master?"
His words were addressed to Si Jiangchen. Si Jiangchen originally thought I would take out my anger on Qiu Zhuqing's soul, but unexpectedly I didn't have such an intention at all. So he waved his hand and said nothing. The shadow floated up, hooked the dazed Qiu Zhuqing, and also disappeared into the air...
At this time, Li Mingyue collapsed on the sofa. After vomiting a pool of black water, she finally cried.
"Uncle, Brother Achen..."
Li Mingyue propped herself up with difficulty and looked at the two men of the Si family tearfully. "...You have to stand up for me! My mother was killed by this woman!"
She had no consciousness of being possessed at all. She still stubbornly pleaded with the two most powerful men to her. "You have to avenge my mother..."
"Open the door! Open the door quickly!"
Just as Li Mingyue was crying sadly, I heard Si Xirui's shrill scream from outside the door.
"If you don't open the door, I'll ask my brother to drag you all out and shoot you!"
Si Xirui's arrogant voice was accompanied by the loud banging on the door.
"Let her in," Si Jiangchen said to the guards outside without caring about his father's ashen face.
Immediately afterwards, the door was violently pushed open. Si Xirui rushed in with her long skirt trailing behind.
"Ah!!!"
She saw Qiu Zhuqing's body lying against the wall at a glance. The horrible sight of her wide - open eyes scared Si Xirui so much that she screamed and hugged Li Mingyue.
"Sister Mingyue, what's going on? What happened to Auntie?"
"Wuwuwu... Xirui, my mother, my mother was killed by Du Xinghe!"
Li Mingyue cried so hard that she almost fainted in Si Xirui's arms.
"Dad, Brother Achen, why don't you kill her to avenge Auntie?!!!" Si Xirui also knew that only I, her, and her mother were in the private room just now.
"Xinghe didn't kill her," Si Jiangchen said indifferently. "Don't slander others."
"Wuu..." Li Mingyue cried even louder.
When Si Xirui was born, her mother's health was already poor. It was always this younger sister of her mother who took care of her growing up. So she was more like a real sister to Li Mingyue, and her relationship with Si Jiangchen was extremely estranged.
"There were only her and Auntie and her daughter in the room. If it wasn't her, could it be that Sister Mingyue killed her own mother?"
Si Xirui's simple mind could only make such a speculation. "They're close relatives. How could that be possible?"
When she said this, Lu Tianchang suddenly laughed beside her. "So what if they're close relatives? Your aunt killed her own husband for the Li family's wealth!"
"You, you, Brother Lu, what are you talking nonsense about?!"
Si Xirui was still a little afraid of Lu Tianchang. She hugged Li Mingyue. "My aunt's husband is alive and well. How could he be killed?!"
"Oh?" Lu Tianchang was also stunned for a moment. "When did you see him?"
According to what the dead Li Jiuming said, he had been dead for at least three or four months, so Lu Tianchang asked this question.
"Yesterday, I went back to visit him with Sister Mingyue!"
Si Xirui shook Li Mingyue. "Right? Although Uncle is sick in bed, he can still eat and drink. I brought a roast osmanthus duck there yesterday, and he was very happy to eat it!"
"Um..."
Although Li Mingyue was choking with sobs, she still nodded with difficulty. "My mother treated my father best. She always hired the best nurses to take care of him because... because my mother had to take care of Sister Xirui."
...Ignoring her own husband and running to her brother - in - law's house to take care of her niece, Qiu Zhuqing's intentions were as obvious as daylight!
"Shameless!"
Lu Tianchang spat on the ground. I didn't know who he was scolding. Then he turned to look at me. "Kid, I get along well with you. We both like to meddle in other people's business! Are you interested in going to Li Jiuming's house to see that guy who can still eat roast duck while sick?"