Chapter 126: Chapter 125: Scared Peeless!
"Oh my heavens, did you hear that sound?"
"I heard it, it’s a woman’s crying!"
"There really is a female ghost here!"
The pilgrims exchanged words, their strange gazes falling on Chu Wenyao, desperately backing away, wanting to distance themselves from him as much as possible, afraid the female ghost on his back would entangle them too.
"Ahhhh!"
Chu Wenyao was scared to death by Yu Nianzhao’s vivid description. Upon hearing the ghostly crying, he felt an icy chill on his back. He gradually saw the red robe of the female ghost, even seeing her tongue flicker over his shoulder, screamed in horror, and his eyes rolled back.
A pungent smell of urine wafted over.
They watched Chu Wenyao wet himself in fright, the scene was quite disgusting.
Yu Nianzhao lightly frowned, "You really lack martial integrity! You were just shouting, but now you wet yourself out of fear? My King Yan temple hasn’t been open long, and you’ve dirtied this clean place. I don’t care; you’ll have to pay up later!"
Jing Rui echoed, "Exactly, I have to clean this place, you don’t pay, you have to send someone to clean it."
"Sob sob sob..."
Recovering from dizziness, Chu Wenyao’s legs gave out, causing him to kneel directly into the warm puddle of water, that disgusting scene making even his good friends back away, afraid to get the filth on themselves.
"I really didn’t mean to drive her to death, I just liked her appearance and wanted to take her as a concubine. She refused resolutely, and I... I threatened her with her father’s life, who would have known she would be so fierce. When I sent someone to fetch her, she had already hanged herself. I was frightened then and didn’t handle the situation. Who would have thought..."
Chu Wenyao cried bitterly, his tragic cries echoing as if wanting to cry out all his fears.
"Who would have thought, her old father, who depended on her, couldn’t bear it after seeing her take her own life, and died too. The father and daughter had no other relatives, only relying on their craft to sell things, but ended up being driven to their deaths by you. No wonder the resentment on her is so strong. Her suicide was her choice, yet it also caused her father’s death; she holds deep hatred for you. I’ve said, you’re at death’s door."
Yu Nianzhao blinked her beautiful eyes, continuing his words.
Chu Wenyao looked at Yu Nianzhao with eyes of disdain that had turned to respect. He trembled his lips, saying, "Princess Consort, you are an extraordinary person. You truly are skilled in mystical arts and can see everything, right? I beg you, save me. I’m willing to pay any amount, ten thousand taels, no, twenty thousand, thirty thousand even, please save my life and get rid of this female ghost."
He truly didn’t want to die; his desire to live was strong.
Hearing the offer, Yu Nianzhao was slightly tempted, but her eyes were indifferent, and she decisively shook her head, "If it were an ordinary person, I’d surely help, but this is a karmic relationship between you and the female ghost. If your heart wasn’t evil, and you hadn’t gone to Yizhuang to cause trouble, she wouldn’t have clung to you. Simply put, you’re a wicked person, not worthy of my help."
Chu Wenyao’s face changed, he held back his pathetic look and roared angrily, "She’s a ghost, I’m human, how can you not tell who’s evil? Do you want to watch me be killed by a ghost? Yu Nianzhao, you are not a good person either. You’d let someone die, what kind of person are you? It’s a ghost, I’m willing to pay, and you don’t want the money? What do you want?"
"Tsk, what a nasty mouth, indeed, people like you don’t deserve to be saved." Yu Nianzhao’s eyes grew colder, freezing enough to wound a person.
"Ah! How am I undeserving of being saved? My surname is Chu, up top is Duke Luu and the Empress Dowager, I have power, position, and money. Whose life is more important than mine? Just an ordinary woman, wanting to take her as a concubine was giving her face, yet she refused, she died by her own hand, what’s it got to do with me? It’s not my fault, it’s her problem!"
Chu Wenyao’s expression was grim as he pointed at Yu Nianzhao, "If you won’t save me, there’s others skilled in mystical arts. I can find another Daoist to save me. Yu Nianzhao, you just wait and see, don’t think that with Prince Su backing you, your Princess Consort Su title will last long. My cousin Chu Wenxin and Prince Su are the perfect match, just you wait to be dragged to hell one day."
"Oh... isn’t hell quite nice? Why, do you want to see it too?" Yu Nianzhao was unfazed, wearing a bland, indifferent smile.
Chu Wenyao’s chest heaved with anger, Liu Yi kindly advised, "It’s better to sincerely repent, maybe the Princess Consort will save your life."
Luu Shaoqi agreed, "Indeed, after all, they died because of you, seeking forgiveness from the female ghost is the right path."
Chu Wenyao glared venomously at them, "Get lost! I didn’t kill them, forgive what? Shangjing doesn’t only have Yu Nianzhao skilled in mystical arts. I don’t believe the Chu Family can’t find a Daoist to rid me of the ghost, just wait and see!"
He stood up, shoving Liu Yi and Luu Shaoqi aside, reeking of urine, and rushed out of the King Yan Temple.
"Wen Yao!"
Pei Yuncheng worriedly called out, "He’ll surely hold a grudge against you all, especially you, Zhaozhao, be careful of his revenge."
Yu Nianzhao spoke coldly, "It all depends on whether he has the fate to seek revenge against me."
"What do you mean? With the Chu Family’s power, he can find other Daoists to exorcise the ghost!" Pei Yuncheng said, confused, "Besides, why won’t you help him? In any case, it’s not good to let a ghost cause harm. If the Chu Family knew the cause, they wouldn’t spare you."
"He indeed didn’t personally kill the female ghost or her father, but that doesn’t mean... he has no other lives in his hands." Yu Nianzhao looked at him, snorted coldly, "The Chu Family may have some novice Daoists protecting them, but his amulet should soon fade, indicating it’s almost worn out, that’s his karma."
Yu Nianzhao spread her palm, a wisp of death Qi drifted in the wind, "Moreover, do you think he went to Yizhuang for what? He feared posthumous revenge, so he sought people to bolster his courage, to share his resentment. He accurately opened the coffin to find the female corpse to curse her, intending to suppress her ghostly spirit, but he didn’t expect the amulet would be useless, provoking the female ghost to cling to him, quite fitting karma indeed."