Chapter 213

Chapter 213

The next day, we went to the shop.

We called Seventh Master over too.

Before, when Anning and I had gone to deal with Liu Jing’s case on our own, we’d mainly wanted to train ourselves and avoid troubling Seventh Master as much as possible.

But if we couldn’t even handle Liu Jing, there was no need to talk about Ding Ruoning and Sun Jiayu.

Yesterday, Seventh Master had even been there in person, and Song Xiaotian and I had still nearly kicked the bucket.

So this time, we probably had to let Seventh Master be involved from start to finish. We had to follow his instructions.

In the office, we showed Seventh Master the materials, then explained the specifics to him.

After reading through them, Seventh Master shook his head and sighed.

Whether it was Sun Jiayu’s death or Ding Ruoning’s, they had both been horribly unjust.

A perfectly good family, living a perfectly good life, had been driven to death by people online simply because they had money.

“People who run their mouths without the slightest decency will get what’s coming to them sooner or later.” Seventh Master was angry too as he looked at those comments.

I asked him, “Seventh Master, what do we do next? Ding Ruoning has already started taking revenge. She’s definitely going to get back at everyone who violated her daughter. She might even go after the people spreading rumors online.”

Those keyboard warriors only dared say anything they wanted because they thought no one could crawl through the internet cable to take revenge on them.

Well, great. This time, there really was a ghost coming through the internet cable, and it was coming for their lives.

“Then let her take revenge.”

Anning said, “Those people deserved to die in the first place. If it were me, and if I could find them, I’d hack them to death first, then kill myself.”

Meng Yifan agreed. “I’m completely with you. First off, those three little animals didn’t die unjustly at all. They relied on their age to do whatever they wanted, and their parents never taught them properly. They deserved to die.”

“And the people spreading those sexual rumors about a little girl-how shameless can they get? They deserve to die even more!”

I looked at Song Xiaotian. Lying on the sofa, he put down his phone and said, “Based on my experience, scumbags who are rotten from childhood don’t grow up into anything good either. If the ghost involved wants revenge, that’s perfectly reasonable. The law doesn’t say ghosts aren’t allowed to carry out private executions, right?”

To be honest, I felt the same way they did.

But I knew Seventh Master definitely wouldn’t stand by and do nothing, because this was what he studied. This was what he did.

He didn’t allow ghosts to harm people.

So I kept quiet.

Seventh Master nodded, then looked at us and asked, “Then do you think Ding Ruoning and her daughter are pitiful?”

We all answered in unison. Of course they were pitiful!

“Since they’re pitiful, then now that they’re dead, where should they go? They should go where a Ghost ought to go.”

Seventh Master said seriously, “If a Ghost harms the living, then the mother and daughter won’t be able to reincarnate. They’ll have to be punished too. Why bother?”

“The first law of life and death is this: after a person dies, everything from when they were alive-including love, hatred, grudges, and resentment-no longer has anything to do with them. Once a person is dead, they’re dead. If you truly think she’s pitiful, then you should stop her. Don’t let her keep killing.”

“For every additional person she kills, she’ll have to suffer one more punishment in the future.”

That logic did seem to make sense.

But it was unfair. She had been driven to death, had suffered such a terrible injustice, and she still wasn’t allowed to take revenge herself?

And if she did take revenge, she had to be punished for it?

Who the hell made up such a screwed-up rule?
“This is unscientific. Completely unscientific!”

Meng Yifan complained, “Isn’t this rule basically helping the tyrant do evil? The bad guys hurt people, the good guys take revenge, and then the good guys still have to protect the bad guys from dying. After the good guys get their revenge, they still have to be punished. What kind of unreasonable rule is that? I don’t get it.”

Seventh Master nodded. “Rules may not be perfect, but rules are rules. Ding Ruoning took revenge, so she has to be punished. If you think she’s pitiful, then you should stop her from killing. If you don’t stop her, then that means you don’t actually think she’s pitiful. And since you don’t think she’s pitiful, you still have to stop her.”

All of us got completely twisted around by Seventh Master.

It felt like something was off, but none of us could find the logical flaw to refute him.

Anning was seriously thinking about how to argue back, but she had never been good at thinking in the first place. After mulling it over for ages, she still couldn’t come up with anything.

“Besides, this is your business.”

Seventh Master patted Meng Yifan on the back and said, “You need to perform an Exorcism for that mother and daughter before the villa can be sold. We’re talking about a villa here.”

When Meng Yifan heard that, he lowered his head and said, “Actually, I think Seventh Master makes a pretty good point. We’re doing this for the mother and daughter too. We should still go stop her. After all, we have to consider the bigger picture…”

Song Xiaotian was holding a teacup and about to go out for more water. When he reached the door, he turned back and glared at him. “You greedy little bitch!”

Since it had come to this, we had no choice but to stop her.

First, this was our business to begin with, and when it came to business, making money still had to come first.

Second, if Ding Ruoning killed again, she would be punished once she reached the underworld and wouldn’t be able to reincarnate.

“But we don’t know who she’s going to kill next.”

I asked Seventh Master, “And we don’t know when she’ll go after the next person either.”

Seventh Master said, “Cast a Six Yao hexagram.”

Six Yao…

But I had only ever used Six Yao to read people. I had never used it on ghosts.

Although Six Yao could also be used to divine matters involving ghosts, I had only just started learning not long ago. How could I possibly be at that level?

“Actually, reading people and reading ghosts works the same way.”

Seventh Master said, “As long as you choose the right Yongshen, the method is essentially the same. If you want to read a ghost, use Official Ghost as the Yongshen.”

“Yongshen” was a term in Six Yao. It referred to the Six Relations and Earthly Branches in the hexagram that represented the subject of the question.

For example, when divining matters about parents, elders in the family, or teachers, the Parents Yao was used as the Yongshen.

If a man was asking about marriage, or if someone was asking about wealth, then the Wife and Wealth Yao was used as the Yongshen.

If a woman was asking about marriage, then Official Ghost was used as the Yongshen.

Official Ghost had a wide range of symbolic meanings. It could also be used to read work, illness, and matters involving ghosts and spirits.

Since Seventh Master had told me to calculate it, I cast a hexagram.

I used Ding Ruoning’s name to cast this hexagram. Following what I had learned, I began carefully analyzing the image of the hexagram.

It was my first time divining a ghostly matter, so naturally, I was extremely cautious. I repeated the deduction again and again.

I went through it four or five times, taking half an hour in total. In the end, the results from all four or five attempts matched.

“She’s going to kill someone tonight…” I said, looking up.

Seventh Master quickly asked, “Who? What time tonight?”

I said, “Zi Hour. Jiang Xiaoyu.”