Chapter 91: Hey, I Didn’t Wrong You!
Hospital room.
A short and fat old woman with graying hair, wearing a tank top, her skin loose and aged, was pointing at Lu Xu sitting on the hospital bed and cursing loudly: “You’re just like your useless father! You can’t do anything right!”
“Why don’t you just die with him? Why are you still alive in this world tormenting my old bones!”
“Good-for-nothing trash! Idiot!”
The old woman cursed more and more vigorously, finally mixing dialect with standard speech in a chatter, Lu Xu’s face pale, lips pressed tightly, hands clenched into fists as he tried hard to endure.
Finally, when the old woman cursed his parents, Lu Xu couldn’t hold back anymore, opened his mouth to curse back, but at that moment a wind suddenly rose in the room, the curtains blown to flap loudly.
The appliances in the hospital room flickered on and off, emitting sizzling electrical sounds.
This weird scene suddenly reminded Lu Xu of the ghost he saw in the toilet, his face changing abruptly.
The old woman was slapped in the face by the sudden wind, not yet reacting to what happened, still cursing profanely: “What kind of crappy hospital is this? Don’t they know there’s a patient here? They don’t even know to close the window! I’m going to complain to those useless nur—!!”
Before he finished speaking, his vision blurred suddenly, and a person with an especially mutilated body appeared before him, ferociously reaching out a hand corroded down to bare white bones toward him.
The old woman shuddered, her pupils dilating abruptly, screaming: “Ah——! Ghost!!”
He turned to run out of the hospital room, but being old, his mobility wasn’t as nimble as before; just as he turned, he was pounced on by the vengeful ghost and fell to the ground.
The vengeful ghost seemed to hate him extremely, opening its bloody maw and biting into the old woman’s shoulder, tearing it bloody.
The old woman’s wails echoed through the entire hospital room; strangely, the passing nurses and patients outside seemed not to hear, and no one came to check.
Lu Xu, who had originally been lying on the hospital bed waiting to die, was stunned, staring dumbfounded at the old woman being torn at by the vengeful ghost on the ground.
What was going on? Wasn’t this ghost haunting him?
Why did it suddenly attack Grandpa?
Just as the vengeful ghost was about to bite through the old woman’s neck, Nan Yuanman rushed in timely, thrusting out the copper coin sword to block its mouth.
The vengeful ghost bit onto the copper coin sword, golden light flashing on the sword body, instantly flinging the vengeful ghost away.
The vengeful ghost seemed to have eyes red with hate, heedless of its soul body injured by the copper coin sword, roaring and struggling to pounce again at the old woman crawling desperately on the ground.
Nan Yuanman quickly pulled out a talisman and smashed it onto the vengeful ghost’s soul body, her childish milky voice exceptionally authoritative: “Wake up!”
This clear shout unconsciously used merit power; the vengeful ghost, originally stimulated into losing reason, felt its mind buzz, consciousness gradually returning.
Seeing this, the old woman scrambled desperately toward Nan Yuanman: “Save me! Save me! Ghost! There’s a ghost!”
The vengeful ghost’s remaining single eyeball was exceptionally blood-red; he glared hatefully at the old man struggling to crawl on the ground, gnashing his teeth as he demanded: “Lu Weiguo! Why! Why harm me! Why!”
The vengeful ghost’s accusations and questions made Lu Xu and Nan Yuanman subconsciously look at the old man groaning and crawling on the ground.
Lu Xu’s mind buzzed, full of disbelief: “Grandpa, you, you killed someone?!”
Hearing this question, Lu Weiguo’s wriggling body instantly stiffened; ignoring rebutting Lu Xu, he turned his head in full terror to the ghost behind him that was utterly unrecognizable, voice trembling: “You, you’re Fang Yunfei?!”
How was this possible!
Back then, didn’t that master say Fang Yunfei was trapped in place and would never come find him?
Fang Yunfei sneered: “It’s me.”
He remembered; he remembered everything.
His name was Fang Yunfei; he had a wife, a child; he wasn’t killed by an intruder while sleeping at home, but deceived and harmed to death by his neighbor Lu Weiguo!
“Lu Weiguo, you have such a vicious heart; I ask myself I never did anything to wrong you, even often helped your old mother; how could you, how could you harm me! Do you know, my wife Xiaojuan is due to give birth in three months!”
By the end, Fang Yunfei’s voice involuntarily rose, his soul body trembling violently with hate.
Lu Weiguo felt a pang of guilt, quickly retorting: “It wasn’t me! I didn’t harm you! Fang Yunfei, if you want revenge, you should find the contractor back then! Why come for me!”
“Yunfei ah, just as you said, you were so good to me; what reason would I have to harm you! If you want revenge, find the right enemy!”
Fang Yunfei’s eyes grew even redder, grievance surging wildly from his body: “Stop lying! I saw it! I saw it all!”
“It was you! You recommended me to the contractor, to use me as a living sacrifice to the earth god!”
Nan Yuanman’s chubby steamed bun face instantly darkened.
The meaning of sacrifice a living person to the earth god was, before starting a major engineering project, forcibly burying a living person into the foundation to “worship the land” and “comfort the ghosts and gods,” ensuring the project goes smoothly and avoiding disasters.
No wonder this uncle became a vengeful ghost, his grievance never dissipating.
So he was buried alive!
Even, looking at how his body was severely corroded, before being buried alive, he likely endured inhuman torment!
Lu Weiguo panicked even more, loudly retorting: “I didn’t! Don’t falsely accuse me!”
Lu Weiguo’s repeated denials once again drove Fang Yunfei into rage-fueled irrationality; grievance exploding from him, surging fiercely to engulf Lu Weiguo: “I’m falsely accusing you! Then take a look, am I really falsely accusing you!”
Nan Yuanman was startled, hurriedly intervening to rescue Lu Weiguo, preventing Fang Yunfei from staining his hands with blood and affecting his future reincarnation.
Her hand had just touched Fang Yunfei’s grievance when his memories surfaced in her mind.
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Fang Yunfei was born in a small village in Qin City; as a child, due to leg problems, he was abandoned by his birth parents in a mountain hollow three months after birth.
He was lucky, discovered by the village’s village guardian and taken back to be raised.
The village guardian was a one-eyed old man who often divined for villagers; all the food, drink, and supplies he got were used on him.
But the village guardian was unlucky; when he was three, while picking wild vegetables up the mountain, he accidentally rolled into a hollow, head smashed on a stone and died.
Three-year-old Fang Yunfei grew up stumbling along on the village’s aid.
He knew after the village guardian was gone, he had no one to rely on, so he was ambitious and hardworking, often helping elderly villagers who were unwell.
Lu Weiguo was his neighbor back then; his father died falling while working outside, his mother cried blind but still struggled to raise Lu Weiguo.
But Lu Weiguo was spoiled by his grandpa and grandma, mischievous outside, not helping his mom at home; Fang Yunfei pitied his mom and helped when he could.
It was originally just neighborly help and mutual sympathy, but Fang Yunfei’s assistance deeply stung Lu Weiguo’s self-esteem.
Someone even worse off than him, pitying him? Thinking finally someone was more miserable?
