Chapter 50 Cold Corpse
When I left my master's house, I knew that all this was related to Liu Xiaojing. I remembered some of the things Liu Xiaojing had said to me, some of which were inexplicable. She said that she came for me because I owed her a lot in my previous life. I knew that Liu Xiaojing liked me, and I thought it was just a joke. Now it seems that Liu Xiaojing really came for me.
I didn't expect that Liu Xiaojing talked to Bai Jie and asked her not to be with me anymore. Bai Jie would of course not agree, but Liu Xiaojing didn't say anything else, just smiled weirdly. This is what Bai Jie told me later. It seems that everything here is really as Liu Xiaojing said. She really came for me. A person who came up from the corpse ship actually came for me. What did I owe her in my previous life?
Master Yunzheng once told me that we say we owe you something in our past lives. There's a reason for that, and it's true. Of course, this debt can be a form of affection, a sense of righteousness, or something else entirely. But some debts are life-threatening, terrifying. Could it be that I owe Liu Xiaojing these things? I have no idea.
I searched for information about the corpse ship, but found nothing.
It seems that I can only go to the lake to find the answer myself. Bai Jie came in the evening and told me about Liu Xiaojing looking for her.
"Don't worry, she won't do anything to you."
I didn't feel confident when I said this. I didn't know what would happen in the end.
The next day, I took a break and went to the lake. However, I couldn't find it. It was the same road I remembered clearly, but I just couldn't find it. Even after dark, I still couldn't find it. When I got home, my father asked me what I had done. He was starting to worry about me, as if he had sensed something. However, I wouldn't tell him, otherwise he would worry even more.
The next day at work, as soon as I arrived at the crematorium, Liu Xiaojing came over and asked me.
"You went to look for the lake? No need to look for it. Only Master Zheng and I can find it. You can't find it. It's a strange place, or another road. You won't find it without someone to lead you."
Liu Xiaojing said with a smile.
"What road?"
“Let’s put it this way, that’s the road to another world.”
I was sweating. If that was the case, then the existence of another world was real, definitely not fake. Liu Xiaojing must have come from another world, a world of ghosts or souls? I couldn't figure it out.
"What kind of world is that?"
"It's hard to explain this in just a few words. You have a connection to that world, and you can still go there if you have the chance."
"Why can you, Master Zheng can do it, but I can't?"
"Okay, stop asking so many questions. Let's go eat after get off work at noon."
Zhao Tie noticed that I was uneasy about this matter, so he lit a cigarette for me and asked me.
"Master, is there something wrong with you?"
"No."
"Well, I have something to do. I like Liu Xiaojing. Can you see if you can be my…"
"Shut up."
Zhao Tie was startled. Liu Xiaojing was pretty, so it was normal for someone to like her. Besides, Zhao Tie and I were not much different in age. Zhao Tie was very unhappy with my reprimand, but I was his master and there was nothing he could do. I didn't want to explain. Zhao Tie didn't know much about the crematorium. There was so much he didn't know.
What if Zheng Qing could go to the corpse ship? Is he also from another world? This scares me. Liu Xiaojing hasn't been telling the truth yet. What's her purpose here? Do I really owe her something? Maybe it's a debt from a past life , and I'm repaying it in this one, but this is the way to repay it, and I don't like it.
I must understand everything. I'll have dinner with Liu Xiaojing tonight and ask her clearly. If I don't understand all this, something might happen to Bai Jie. Liu Xiaojing wants Bai Jie to leave me. So Liu Xiaojing's plan is to be with me until she dies. This is not a good choice. What will be the outcome of me being with someone from another world? I can't imagine it.
When Liu Xiaojing and I were having dinner, I asked her about this. She hesitated for a long time before she spoke.
"You'll have to know this sooner or later, so I might as well tell you. I'm from another world and a princess of that nation. We were once husband and wife, but our fate wasn't over yet. I have to come back in this life, and I've come early, with the life from another world. I want to survive in this one, so I need Master Zheng's help. They're bone balls, something in the human body. Of course, there needs to be a certain number of these bone balls, otherwise I'll have to go back regularly, take the corpse ship back, rest, and come out again. I'm waiting for Master Zheng to collect 22 bone balls and wear them on my body. Then I won't have to go back. That world is full of corpses, and the corpse ship is also full of corpses."
Liu Xiaojing is telling a fairy tale, I don’t believe it.
"Do I owe you anything?"
"Yes, you owe me. Three hundred years ago, we were husband and wife for a lifetime. When they were joining our bones, something went wrong, and my bones weren't joined with yours. Instead, they were sold to someone else. What your son did in that lifetime was, of course, also my son's. I don't blame him, but I know you didn't agree to join our bones. You told your son this when you died, so you owe me a lifetime. I want to know why you didn't agree to join my bones in that lifetime."
I was a little confused. How could I possibly know about things in that life?
"I don't know about my previous life, but maybe your world will know."
"Of course, you don't know, but I will take you to see your grave in your previous life."
I'm a little wet. My last life was three hundred years ago. So what was I three hundred years ago?
After dinner, Liu Xiaojing took me to see my previous life's grave, a 300-year-old tomb. We went up the West Hill, where there was a cemetery. I knew the area; it was a large one. After entering the cemetery, Liu Xiaojing walked around dozens of graves before standing in front of one with a stone tablet.
"This is your grave in your previous life. My bones were sold secretly and then dug up the grave the year after I buried them. I can't find them anymore."
I looked at what was engraved on the stone tablet. I almost laughed out loud and found out that my last name in my previous life was Chou and I was a butcher. Liu Xiaojing also laughed after reading it.
"You were a butcher in your previous life. When you died, you asked your son to write your occupation down. I really don't know what you were thinking."
I feel a little dizzy.
"You can tell me anything, any grave could be mine."
"I'm not lying. Of course, you won't believe me. I'll find a way to make you believe it."
As we went down the mountain, I felt that Liu Xiaojing was a bit too unreliable. This was simply a joke. How could this be possible?
After Liu Xiaojing returned home, I went to find Zheng Qing. Zheng Qing was reading at home. He liked reading thick martial arts novels. My visit surprised him a little. Master Zheng cooked two dishes for him and we drank some wine.
"Master Zheng, I want to ask more about Liu Xiaojing."
"You can ask Liu Xiaojing yourself if she is willing to tell you."
"Actually, I've already asked, but there are many things I still can't figure out. In my previous life, my surname was Qiu, and I was a butcher. Liu Xiaojing and I were married in my previous life, but there's one thing I don't understand. I owed her, but you let her stay in this world. If I don't stay, I'll naturally repay her in my next life. This is not a good thing. Living with someone from another world is terrifying."
Zheng Qing looked at me blankly. He didn't expect that Liu Xiaojing would tell me so much. This might be an accident. Zheng Qing drank a glass of white wine in one gulp, then looked at me, stared at me, and didn't speak for a long time. I felt uneasy.
"Well, I'll tell you. Since you already know so much, and you're still husband and wife in the end, why shouldn't I tell you? Even if I don't know you, she will tell you later."
My heart was pounding. Perhaps the answer would be out soon. I didn’t know what the answer would be, but I was sure that it would leave me stunned and dumbfounded.
Zheng Qing said after letting out a long breath.
"I helped Liu Xiaojing because I needed something that I couldn't get, so I had to ask Liu Xiaojing to help me, and I would help her. That was the condition. The first time I saw Liu Xiaojing, I knew she wasn't from this world, but from another. She must be a ghost corpse. I could feel the coldness of her corpse, but now she's slowly regaining her human temperature. Only the bone balls had 22 left. After she put them on, a year later, she was no different from us. But there was one thing: after she died, there was no corpse. She simply disappeared."
I looked at Zheng Qing and felt that he and Liu Xiaojing had conspired to lie to me.
"What do you need?"
"Thousand-year-old finger bones."
I was stunned. What does he need this for?
"That nation is a thousand-year-old nation, and there are countless thousand-year-old finger bones there, but the thousand-year-old finger bones I need are also very special, so they are not easy to find."
"What do you want this finger bone for?"
"You ask too many questions and know too much. Just know your own business."
"I don't believe in such things at all."
"I know you won't believe it, but Liu Xiaojing will make you believe it."
I didn't know anything more about that day, and Zheng Qing didn't talk about it anymore.
The next day, I was off, and Liu Xiaojing took a leave of absence and came to my house. My father was not happy to see Liu Xiaojing, as he didn't know much about the situation. However, the matter between Bai Jie and me had been dragging on, and my father felt something was wrong. So, whenever he saw Liu Xiaojing, he would overthink it.
Liu Xiaojing and I came out.
"Xiao Zuo, I'll take you to a place. I think you'll believe it then."
"Actually, I can repay what I owe you after you've been reincarnated and we've met. You're from another world, or something else entirely. You're in a different world from humans, and ghosts and humans have different paths. You should know that."
"Of course I know that, but what I know even more is that two hundred years from now, I will be reincarnated, and this reincarnation will separate you and me, and we will never be together again."
"That's fate, it should be like this, just let it be."
Liu Xiaojing shook her head and didn't want to say anything more.
Liu Xiaojing took me to Wanghutai. The fog rose and the corpse boat appeared.
"I'll take you to my world, where there are no living people, or rather living ghosts. Our world was originally a world of corpses. I'm a ghost corpse, but I got a chance to transfer to this life. Although this life will be very painful, I can be with you, so I don't have to be afraid of anything."
That is a world of ghosts and corpses, a world of cold corpses. I don’t know what kind of world it is.
