"Dad! I'm doing this for your own good!"
Li Mingyue was shouted at by Li Jiuming and felt embarrassed. She was about to overturn the plate on the bedside table.
Li Jiuming had his daughter late in life and doted on Li Mingyue as if she were the moon in the sky.
Unfortunately, Li Mingyue thought her father was an old man. She felt it was embarrassing to go out with him. How could it be as enjoyable as strolling with her handsome and powerful uncle?
Li Jiuming had never been willing to speak loudly to his daughter. Since his daughter didn't like him, Li Jiuming tried to satisfy Li Mingyue materially. Whether it was clothes, jewelry, food, or entertainment, even if Li Mingyue wanted the stars in the sky, Li Jiuming would have been willing to set up a ladder to get them for her.
However, now that Li Mingyue had just started to show concern for her father, he didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he scolded her harshly.
With Li Mingyue's usual petty temper, she would have run away in a fit of anger.
Now that her mother was gone and she was afraid that the family property would be divided up by others after her father's death, she had to swallow her anger. She clenched her fists several times and finally picked up the chopsticks on the bedside table and handed them over. "Dad, use the chopsticks. Don't burn your hands."
Li Jiuming was quite giving his daughter face. He reached out and grabbed the chopsticks. Like a child, he stabbed the chopsticks into the chicken and picked up the whole chicken. Then he still brought it to his mouth and tore at the meat like a wild animal, swallowing it into his stomach.
In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the steamed chicken was completely eaten.
Li Jiuming still looked at Li Mingyue as if he was not full. Clutching the chopsticks in his hand, he uttered a single word, "Want."
Li Mingyue was startled by his empty eyes. She couldn't help jumping up from the bedside and hiding far away.
At this moment, the summer cloth curtain rustled. Lu Tianchang was seen carrying a large lacquered tray with a black clay casserole on it. The casserole was filled with thick, sticky rice porridge that had been cooked to a pulp.
"Just in time. The chicken is finished. Now it's time to drink the porridge."
I didn't know that Lu Tianchang could even cook. The porridge looked very fragrant and glutinous. Just looking at it made one's mouth water.
As he said that, Lu Tianchang asked the butler to remove the plate with only a few chicken bones on it and placed the full casserole of porridge on the bedside table.
Li Jiuming twitched his nose a few times. As if attracted by the smell of the porridge, he reached out his hand to grab it again, but was stopped by Lu Tianchang, who was holding a large iron spoon the size of a teacup. "Come on. I'll feed you, Master."
Li Jiuming was stunned for a moment. Seeing that Lu Tianchang had already scooped up a large spoonful of sticky rice porridge and brought it to his mouth, he immediately opened his mouth to an incredibly wide angle and swallowed the spoonful of porridge into his stomach.
I was startled. His lower jaw had dislocated from opening his mouth so wide, but Li Jiuming didn't seem to feel any pain. He just supported his chin with his hand and swallowed a large lump of porridge whole.
The thick porridge made of yellow glutinous rice solidified easily. It looked cold on the outside, but it was still almost boiling hot inside.
I stared wide - eyed at Lu Tianchang as he quietly scooped up another spoonful.
Li Jiuming did the same again. This time, even Si Xirui noticed something strange about her uncle - in - law. She was so frightened that she shrank behind Si Jiangchen.
Only Li Mingyue, who was standing behind Lu Tianchang and completely blocked by him.
She wanted to step forward and push Lu Tianchang aside, but her finger accidentally touched the black casserole. Immediately, she let out a scream and jumped up in pain. In just an instant, a string of blisters had formed on her finger.
"What are you doing?!"
Li Mingyue was both in pain and angry. She reached out to grab Lu Tianchang's arm that was holding the spoon. "You're trying to kill my dad?!"
"Stop!!"
I knew that Lu Tianchang was dealing with the monster that had occupied Li Jiuming's body and had no time to deal with Li Mingyue. So I grabbed her body and pressed her against the bed curtain at the corner of the bed.
"Your dad is already dead! If you keep acting like this, you'll be close to death yourself!"
I scolded in a deep voice, "Where were you when you could have shown filial piety? Now you're pretending to be a dutiful child?"
"You?! You're talking nonsense. You killed my mom. Now you're going to kill my dad too?"
Li Mingyue turned to look at Lu Tianchang. He was using the large spoon to stuff the scalding hot porridge into Li Jiuming's mouth one spoonful after another. The wide - open mouth of Li Jiuming finally scared her too. She stopped mumbling and quietly hid behind me.
After seeing that Li Mingyue had accepted the reality, I slowly let go of her.
By this time, Lu Tianchang had filled Li Jiuming's body with a whole casserole of porridge.
"Hoo hoo hoo..."
Li Mingyue suddenly opened his mouth wide. His two skinny hands covered his stomach and he let out a scream that didn't sound human. Then he suddenly threw off the quilt on him and rushed towards the floor.
Lu Tianchang was quick - witted. How could he allow him to escape? He reached out and grabbed his neck, pressing him face - up on the ground.
"Chi!"
Li Jiuming opened his mouth wide and let out another scream. It was seen that a sharp bulge had appeared on his dirty silk nightgown.
"I wondered what it was."
Si Jiangchen also put away the demon - suppressing spell he had secretly formed in his hand.
Lu Tianchang tore open the buttons of Li Jiuming's silk shirt, revealing his emaciated body.
"Ahhhh!!!"
Li Mingyue and Si Xirui simultaneously let out heart - rending screams and both fainted to the ground!
Because there was a terrible big hole under Li Jiuming's silk shirt.
The hole extended to his entire chest and abdomen, and his ribs were all exposed.
In Li Jiuming's empty cavity, there was a huge weasel lying there. Its limbs were still trembling constantly, and hot air was still spraying out of its wide - open mouth.
"You gluttonous thing. How dare you possess a corpse?!"
Lu Tianchang frowned and reached out to pull the weasel out of Li Jiuming's stomach.
"I'm afraid it's not just possessing a corpse."
Si Jiangchen squinted and looked at the weasel's mouth. "It probably used the person as a puppet and controlled Li Jiuming's corpse from inside to cheat for food and drink..."
"Then... I happened to do the right thing by accident!"
Lu Tianchang took another look at Li Jiuming, who was completely motionless. "He's really a poor guy! He couldn't even rest in peace after death!"
Seeing that I was still confused and didn't know the whole story, Si Jiangchen patiently explained to me why the weasel had gotten into Li Jiuming's body.
It turned out that just as Li Jiuming's ghost had said, his wife, Qiu Zhuqing, in order not to divorce him, simply came up with a vicious plan. She used boiling water and injected it directly into Li Jiuming's stomach through the feeding tube for food and water, almost scalding his intestines and stomach to death. Naturally, Li Jiuming couldn't survive.
The reason why Qiu Zhuqing did this was to make it impossible for the coroner to find anything wrong. After all, they wouldn't cut the person open to check.
Qiu Zhuqing left Li Jiuming's body for one night, planning to let the servant who came to serve him find it the next day and then report it to the authorities.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a whole morning, the servant actually carried a plate of food into the room and said that the master was hungry and wanted to eat!!!
This almost scared Qiu Zhuqing to death!!!