Chapter 86
Chapter 86
When Zhao Fei’s Mother finished speaking, she kept kowtowing, her forehead thudding against the ground again and again.
“Aside from that one thing, our family has never done anything else against our conscience!”
“Deaf Granny, please be merciful. Save my Zhao Fei!”
“As long as his life can be spared, I’ll do anything!”
Zhao Aiguo also dropped to his knees with a thud.
“Old Auntie, my wife has said everything that needs to be said!”
“I work in the county, and yes, I’ve taken some dirty money, but I swear I’ve never delayed anything that concerned ordinary people like us!”
“You can ask around about that. If I’ve told even one lie, may heaven strike me down with five bolts of lightning!”
Deaf Granny first had the two of them get up, then let out a sigh.
“This old woman knows about that matter. You of the Zhao Family did handle it decently enough, but in the end, a life was still lost.”
“If I ask the Immortal Spirits to protect Zhao Fei, how is that dead girl’s resentment supposed to fade?”
“If her resentment doesn’t fade, how can she be reincarnated?”
“This is karma. Cause and effect. Retribution.”
Old Monk Kongchan chanted a Buddhist invocation, then also spoke up to plead for Zhao Fei.
“Namo Amitabha. As the saying goes, lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha on the spot.”
“Young Benefactor Zhao committed an unintentional wrong. Lady Bodhisattva, please help him this once.”
Deaf Granny shot Abbot Kongchan a displeased glare.
“Old monk, don’t bring your Buddhist talk into this!”
“That line of yours might fool lovesick fools and pious old women, but it won’t fool this old woman!”
“Heh. ‘Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha on the spot’?!”
“Then let me ask you this: if an evildoer can be freed and become a Buddha just by admitting he’s wrong, isn’t your Buddha far too cheap?”
“Do you sell him by the pound or by the ounce?”
The more Deaf Granny spoke, the angrier she became. She slammed her palm down on the stone table.
“This is the divine land of the East. It falls under the rule of the Jade Emperor and the Emperor of Fengdu. Your ways don’t work here!”
The old monk sighed and did not argue with Deaf Granny. He merely lowered his voice and began reciting the Ksitigarbha Sutra.
Zhao Aiguo and his wife still wanted to kowtow and beg Deaf Granny, but Zhao Fei, who had finally recovered from his shock, spoke first.
“Dad, Mom, Zhao Fengmei really died?!”
Zhao Aiguo nodded heavily. “She died. I even had someone transfer her to the city hospital, but they still couldn’t save her.”
Zhao Fei reached up and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. He sat dazed on the ground and muttered to himself.
“So it was her coming to claim my life. I wronged her.”
“Fine. Nobody needs to get involved in this. Worst case, I’ll go with her. One life for one life!”
Zhao Fei’s attitude made both Hua Jiunan and Chen Daji see him in a new light.
Chen Daji gave Zhao Fei a thumbs-up.
“Didn’t see that coming. You don’t chicken out when it counts. A real man!”
“But have you thought about one thing? If you die, what happens to your current girlfriend?”
Zhao Fei glared, then said with perfect confidence, “What happens? Tough luck!”
“After I die and become a ghost, I’ll take her with me too!”
“When the time comes, I’ll have one in each arm. Still better than you, you single dog!”
Chen Daji had been hit right where it hurt. He flew into a rage and charged forward, grappling with Zhao Fei.
“Zhao Fei, you son of a bitch!”
“I just praised you, and now your true colors are showing. You’re a damn hooligan after all!”
Hua Jiunan pulled the two of them apart with a helpless look on his face, then said to Deaf Granny,
“Grandma, this matter isn’t simple.”
“Logically speaking, the one coming to claim Zhao Fei’s life should be that female ghost named Zhao Fengmei. How could there be Ghost Soldiers?”
“I’m worried someone is using the wronged soul to hook people’s souls away and do evil.”
After Hua Jiunan finished speaking, the old monk Kongchan followed up.
“Namo Amitabha. This young benefactor is correct.”
“The ones who came to Jinguang Temple last night were all Century-Old Ghost Soldiers. I did not see that female benefactor who died unjustly.”
When Deaf Granny heard this, she muttered to herself,
“That’s right!”
“Although a woman dying from an abortion means two lives lost in one body and resentment soaring to the heavens, no matter what, she shouldn’t be powerful enough to command Ghost Soldiers.”
“Could the Ghost Infant in her belly have some extraordinary origin?!”
Chen Daji’s curiosity was thoroughly aroused.
“Grandma, if a child dies before it’s even born, does it have a lot of resentment?”
“Would it definitely take revenge on its parents?”
Deaf Granny patted Chen Daji and explained to him,
“After a fetus that never saw the Heavenly Light is aborted, it can only be reincarnated once the lifespan it should have had in the mortal world comes to an end.”
“During those decades, perhaps even a hundred years, its soul can only suffer in the underworld.”
“It’s like someone who’s been locked up in prison for a very long time and finally makes it to the end, only to have you add another several decades, maybe a hundred years, to his sentence.”
“Tell me, would he hate you or not?”