Volume 1 Chapter 42: Separation of Life and Death
The next morning, I took Yaxue's decayed body back to the crematorium for cremation. I wrote "My beloved wife Yaxue" on the card of the urn. I want to take her home. She belongs to me. The unscrupulous Ling Peiqiang and his wife are not worthy of being her parents.
Zhao Chengshi took me to his home. There was a spirit tablet in the main hall, and it turned out to be my great-grandfather's name. He told me that his great-grandfather eight generations ago was my great-grandfather's apprentice. At that time, my great-grandfather had not yet opened a ghost story shop, and was an orthodox Taoist master.
Later, my great-grandfather retired from the business of heavenly masters and opened a ghost business shop. This profession was so unique that it was only passed down to the descendants and not to outsiders. Zhao Chengshi's great-grandfather called himself a disciple of the ghost business outer sect. After learning a few ghost business skills from my great-grandfather, he returned home.
Yesterday, Zhao Chengshi saw my ghost story peach wood sign at the entrance of the hotel and guessed that I was the descendant of the ghost story. He tried his best to save me from the morgue, but was ambushed and buried alive. Later, I sent him back to the duty room of the crematorium. When he woke up, he was still worried about me and came to the funeral hall to find me. If it weren't for his help, it would have been a bit dangerous last night.
Zhao Chengshi wanted to keep me at his house for a drink, but Shen Bing had the ability to come here and drag me into the car, saying that the case had been tried, but my testimony was indispensable. The police stayed up for two nights, waiting for me to finish taking the statement so that they could get a good night's sleep.
On the way, Shen Bing saw me holding the urn, but she didn't dare to speak. But a woman like her with a strong curiosity, how could she bear not to ask?
"Isn't it true that raising a corpse alive is... just like raising a normal person? Why do you want her to die?" She held it in for a long time, but couldn't help but ask.
I sighed, my mood suddenly became extremely low and I was too lazy to talk.
Seeing me like this, she felt too embarrassed to ask any more questions, so she changed the subject and started talking about the case.
Tan Qing was killed by two returning ghosts. It was exactly three o'clock. Under Zhao Chengshi's spell, the returning ghosts left the body and returned to the underworld. Long Shaohui was sent to the hospital. Shen Bing returned to the police station to temporarily replace the team leader to take charge of the case. He directed the serious crime team to capture Ling Peiqiang and Le Wei who were hiding in Ling Peiqiang's villa in the southern suburbs of the city.
They confessed everything without any resistance.
Tan Qing is from Yunnan, and is a very famous Yin-Yang master in the local area. Ling Peiqiang is a superstitious person, and most people in official careers are like this. When he went to Yunnan for a trip, he met Tan Qing through a friend. After talking, he admired Tan Qing's fortune-telling and corpse-raising skills very much, so he invited him to develop in the north. Tan Qing was with a high-ranking official at the department head level, and he also thought it would be easier to make money, so he followed him. Tan Qing was optimistic about this location in the eastern suburbs of the city. Ling Peiqiang paid for the land, built a storefront, and opened a Taoist culture store.
Ling Peiqiang was born in the underworld in his early years. He used money and tricks to climb up step by step. Of course, there were also despicable acts that hurt people, and he made many enemies in both the black and white worlds. The real reason he asked Tan Qing to help him use ghosts to help him eliminate obstacles in his future and protect his safety. Tan Qing lived up to expectations. In a few years, he created two living corpses to help Ling Peiqiang solve a lot of troubles. It was not only Tan Qing who forced the orphanage to move out of the old house, but also because of the pressure from Ling Peiqiang, he turned the old house into a living corpse training base.
That rose was a slut that Tan Qing made for Ling Peiqiang. She seduced political enemies and used it for her own use. Ling Peiqiang loved her so much that he even raised a yard of roses. But she was the first one to be cultivated. At that time, Tan Qing was inexperienced and had some flaws, so her level was not high. Later, he found a way to use egg corpses to cultivate zombies, and then he created the high-level cold-blooded killer, Si Sanba.
After Yaxue committed suicide by jumping into the lake, Ling Peiqiang and his wife asked Tan Qing to cultivate their daughter into a zombie, so that she could still live in their sight. But every time the evil ghost conceived, it had to use a magic treasure. So it was not easy to cultivate, and it took three years for Yaxue to become a living "person".
Later, Tan Qing learned from his colleagues in Yunnan that there was a ghost shop in the north that used ghost teeth to refine black pearls that could replace the evil spirits of hundreds of ghosts and make magic treasures. So he drove the living corpses to look for black market antique dealers to extort black pearls. That bitch was very cold-blooded and killed people for the treasure, which led to this case.
I saw Yaxue at the train station. Ling Peiqiang and Tan Qing knew I had come to the provincial capital and were afraid that I would see her and expose the secret, so they drove her to Beijing. Who would have thought that we would meet each other?
Tan Qing was afraid that the truth would be revealed, so he started to murder me, but was saved by Yaxue. This made them even more afraid, so they planned an arson case and asked the bitch to lead me to the old house and kill me. But to their surprise, Yan Xiang had been keeping an eye on the haunted case in the old house, and this time he was invited by Long Shaohui to discuss the case. He suggested that the old house might be the lair of evil spirits. Long Shaohui acted decisively and went to the old house immediately. At this time, Le Wei was just discharged from the hospital and was transferred by Long Shaohui. It was because of Le Wei's going that we were almost wiped out.
Le Wei is Tan Qing's apprentice! Because Ling Peiqiang was a high-ranking official while doing underworld business, there was no one in the police station, so he recruited the young and promising Le Wei to join him. A rose made Le Wei taste the sweetness, and from then on he followed Tan Qing and called him master.
As soon as we entered the old house, we first arrested Le Weihun, scared Yan Xiang and Long Shaohui away, and went back to get reinforcements. As a result, Tan Qing refused to go. When the others heard that Tan Qing was not going, they thought that this person was more powerful among the eight great supernatural masters. His refusal to go meant that the ghosts in the old house were not easy to deal with. Who would dare to come out in the middle of the night? Yan Xiang and Long Shaohui had no choice but to take all their weapons back. I had already injured the dead bitch and escaped, and was looking for him in the underworld.
Their plan was to frame Prime Minister Yan, so Le Wei showed up and pretended to be frightened by Yan Xiang's ghost catching, and went crazy and kicked out the candle, trying to kill Shen Bing and me.
Even so, Shen Bing and I returned from the underworld , which shocked Tan Qing. Since I have this ability, it is very likely that I will find that Yaxue is dead. They immediately started the second plan, faking death! The next morning, they learned from Yan Xiang's apprentice who had been bribed that Shen Bing and I had returned to the wrong souls. This was good news, and they couldn't wait to let the dead bitch who had not fully recovered come to kill us. If we died, there would be no need to fake our death. We could just make it an accident that the hospital made a mistake in the medical records.
There is no need to say more about what happened later. Basically, we both know it very clearly. The car in the funeral square that wanted to run us over was also sent by them. Le Wei went to destroy the counterattack bureau, but was chased away by Yan Xiang and Shen Bing. Feeling that there was nowhere to hide, he hid in Ling Peiqiang's villa.
Shen Bing kept talking all the way without mentioning Yan Ning. When we got to the police station, I asked her, "Have you found Shen Bing's mother?"
Shen Bing said that at six o'clock in the morning, someone reported that a female corpse was found in the small lake in Mingzhu Park. After the body was salvaged, it was discovered to be Yan Ning!
I felt sad. Although this woman was not the culprit, she was a traitor to her husband. Her death was a closure. However, before she left, Yaxue asked me to take care of her mother, but it seemed that I could not do it .
As soon as I closed my eyes, the memories of last night with Yaxue came to my mind.
We found a very secluded place. She curled up in my arms and cried to me, "I am neither human nor ghost. Why should I live instead of suffering in this world?"
I said, "Come back to Shangcheng Town with me and leave everyone's sight forever. I will make you happy for the rest of your life."
Yaxue smiled sadly with tears in her eyes: "Your words are enough. A lifetime is too luxurious for me. I am grateful to God for this moment."
"Don't be silly, let's go back now, no one will find you."
"No. Letting me go means you truly love me. I just hope that after I die, you can take care of my mother for me."
Three years ago, she made me taste the pain of separation from someone in life, and three years later, she made me taste the pain of separation from someone in death. In three years, I have experienced separation from someone in life and death. Is there anyone in the world who is more miserable than me?
"Why are you crying?" Shen Bing pushed me.
I hurriedly opened my eyes and wiped my face. I didn't know when, tears started to fall quietly.
