freenovelworld Chapter 50: Recalling the Past, the Truth Emerges
Chapter 50: Recalling the Past, the Truth Emerges
Lin Sui succinctly stated: "After her daughter was assaulted and committed suicide in despair, her mother, heartbroken and in agony, also hanged herself and became a vengeful ghost, killing all those who had harmed her daughter."
"Because of her deep obsession, she transformed into her daughter's appearance after her death, which made everyone believe that Xia Yaoyao was the one who harmed people."
"Unfortunately, the two culprits did not die. One of them, Zhou Ming, had his whole family move away in a panic after the incident."
"Liu Jiabao escaped unharmed because he was spending the night at an internet cafe when the incident occurred."
"The anniversary of the mother and daughter's death was approaching soon, and the father prepared everything, intending to use their blood to commemorate their souls here."
Everyone: "..." Your summarizing ability is quite strong, huh?
Seeing everyone's speechless looks, Lin Sui shrugged: "Dead people don't have faces, and I can't do anything about it even if I wanted to. Only the person involved can tell us the specifics."
Upon hearing this, everyone turned their attention to the mother and daughter who looked exactly alike.
At this point, the live stream returned to normal after all the illusions ended.
Before netizens could even rejoice, they were stunned by this scene.
[Holy crap! Two Xia Yaoyaos?]
Look, Da Yaoyao is wearing a red dress; she's the one Lin Sui was talking about!
So, who is she?
[Wife, wife, I'm so glad to see you again! I've been missing you so much I could only manage to eat two pork knuckles.]
[Lin Sui's face is truly... no matter how many times I look at it, I still want to ask, fairy sister, what mistake did you make in heaven?]
As the woman listened to Lin Sui's words, she suddenly dared not look Xia Yaoyao in the eye, and her hand unconsciously loosened its grip.
Her daughter has been innocent and kind since she was a child.
Although she later regretted countless times that she shouldn't have taught her to be so kind, she didn't want her to see her hands stained with blood.
That looks terrible.
Ke Linsui said that his daughter wandered the earth after she died.
She still saw her unbearable side.
This made the woman hate Lin Sui's meddling even more, and she refused to cooperate with a cold face: "I have nothing to say. Kill me if you want. Anyway, I've already taken so many lives, I'm destined to be wiped out."
"No, Mommy! No!"
Xia Yaoyao shook her head while crying, then knelt down and begged Lin Sui: "Master, please don't hurt my mother. My mother did all this for me. I'm the one who dragged her down. If you want to kill someone, then kill me."
Forget about killing, she's really not a demon-slaying maniac.
Lin Sui said helplessly, "I didn't say I wanted to hurt your mother, and..."
She glanced at the woman: "Who said you'd vanish into thin air?"
The woman was taken aback.
Lin Sui then asked, "When you were taking revenge on the Liu family, did you intentionally let their twins go?"
"Yes, those two sisters are also pitiful people caused by the preference for sons over daughters."
As the woman spoke, she added viciously, "Only their eldest sister, who looks honest and simple, turns out to be a cannibalistic monster just like her grandmother and mother."
"She's the one who turned around and accused my daughter of leaving Zhou Ming for candy!"
Lin Sui nodded: "Since you did not harm any innocent people, everything you did belongs to the underworld. You still have a chance to enter the underworld and be judged by the judges for your sins."
"As far as I know, as long as you haven't done anything wrong before, the judge usually won't hold it against you, and at worst, he will give you a lenient sentence."
Unlike the Liu family of four—Grandma Liu, Father Liu, Mother Liu, and Eldest Sister Liu.
She did nothing but evil in life, and after her death she caused the deaths of many innocent people, which is why she wiped them out.
That saves the ghost messenger from having to make a trip.
"Really? Really? I really still have a chance?" the woman asked excitedly.
Her daughter would linger in the mortal world for decades to come, and she naturally couldn't bear to leave her alone as a lonely ghost.
"Of course, but there's a condition," Lin Sui changed the subject, "you must let go of your obsession with becoming a demon, otherwise, I'll have no choice but to destroy you."
The woman quickly said, "I can let go, but there is a formation suppressing me here. I want to go out and seek revenge on Liu Jiabao and Zhou Ming, so I have no choice but to absorb the continuous Yin energy to force myself to break through and become a demon."
Upon hearing this, Lin Sui became even more certain that the Yin-gathering formation here was for raising ghosts.
When the water tank bursts, that's when the plant will be ready to be raised.
This isn't a well-intentioned attempt to help women; if it were to become a habit, the consequences could be dire.
Thinking of this, Lin Sui's heart sank: "Who taught you to draw magic arrays?"
For a person who commits suicide to become a vengeful ghost, in addition to wearing red clothes and being filled with resentment, they also need the blessing of a magic array.
Otherwise, if everyone committed suicide and became a vengeful ghost when they encountered something unpleasant, the world would have been in chaos long ago.
The woman was just an ordinary village woman; no one taught her, so she couldn't possibly understand these things.
The woman looked bewildered: "No one taught me. I found the magic circle diagram by chance after my daughter died."
She paused for a moment and said in a low voice, "Let me start from the beginning."
Even distant memories still leave a bitter taste in one's mouth.
She slowly spoke, her face bearing Xia Yaoyao's features...
The woman's name was Yang Zhaodi. Because she suffered from the preference for sons over daughters since childhood, she developed an honest and weak personality.
But she also secretly vowed that if she had a daughter in the future, she would never let her end up like her.
To her relief, she married a good man who loved his daughter as much as she did.
Therefore, even though her in-laws favored boys over girls and always openly or secretly belittled her and her daughter, and insisted on naming her daughter Xia Yao, she could silently endure it on the surface, and then secretly change the name back with her husband.
When Xia Yaoyao was five years old, she suffered the first fatal blow in her life.
Their one-month-old daughter was stolen by human traffickers and has disappeared.
[My God, they even have a little daughter? And she was kidnapped by human traffickers? What kind of melodramatic soap opera is this?!]
[Stolen just one month after birth, it's likely the work of someone known to the family.]
[It's reasonable to suspect that the evil deeds of that old hag from the Xia family were committed; a thorough investigation is recommended.]
"Still living on? You've been dead for eight hundred years! You need to go to the underworld and investigate thoroughly."
"At first, I also suspected it was my mother-in-law, because I had another daughter, and she never gave me a kind look."
“That day, I had just finished my postpartum confinement when she sent me out to help the Liu family pick lotus pods to earn some money. Xia Er also had to work during the day and was not at home, so Yao Yao had to take care of the youngest daughter.”
"But before I could get back, Yao Yao came running to me crying, saying that her little sister was missing..."
At that moment, Yang Zhaodi felt as if the sky had fallen.
Her youngest daughter was only a month old, unable to run or jump, and she knew all too well what it meant for her to be missing.
She forced herself to ask Yao Yao what happened, but Yao Yao said she didn't know either. Her grandmother insisted that she go buy soy sauce, but when she refused, her grandmother threatened to beat her, so she had to go and come back quickly.
However, when she returned, she saw her grandmother anxiously asking around if anyone had seen their little girl.
She questioned her mother-in-law about whether she had taken her youngest daughter away to be given away, but her mother-in-law cried and insisted that she was wronging her, saying that she had only meant well in helping to take care of the child but had made a mistake.
Isn't it all the mother-in-law's fault?
The youngest daughter wasn't lost when they were around, but the mother-in-law saw her and she just disappeared?
Even though the police said that there were indeed a few human traffickers who sneaked into Lotus Village during that period when there was a large flow of people, she still resented her mother-in-law every single day.
Later, they learned from the police officer which direction the human traffickers had fled.
Her husband, Xia Er Xia Juntao, began a five-year search.
So that's why Xia Juntao is rarely home. It's so heartbreaking.
He doesn't not love his daughter; he just loves her too much.
However, it's also true that he neglected his eldest daughter because of this...
Why not bring your daughter and wife along? It would be better than the whole family being separated.
[You really don't understand human suffering. You just spout off whatever comes to mind. Putting aside everything else, just finding someone would cost a fortune. Where would the money come from?]
[Taking her along was indeed impractical. Xia Juntao could manage on his motorcycle by himself, but if he were to take Xia Yaoyao, who was only five years old at the time, with him, she would likely fall ill along the way. Besides, they couldn't very well prevent her from going to school.]
Yang Zhaodi continued, "Originally, with Xia Er around, even if my parents-in-law didn't like us, they wouldn't go too far. But everything changed after Xia Er left."
Their family was the poorest in Lotus Village back then. They didn't build a new house until Xia Juntao and his older brother came of age, but they could only squeeze together with his parents-in-law and his older brother's family.
Fortunately, the eldest brother and his wife work in the city, while their son stays in the village at the insistence of his parents-in-law.
She and Xia Juntao had originally saved up their savings, planning to take out a loan to buy a house in town and move out after Yao Yao started elementary school, so that it would be more convenient for their daughter to go to school.
Only one year away.
Just one year short.
After Xia Juntao left home, she had to hand over all the money she earned from working. She was also responsible for everything inside and outside the house, leaving her in-laws to completely shirk their responsibilities.
Even so, her in-laws still treated her badly, and beatings and scoldings became commonplace.
She could tolerate all of that, but what she couldn't tolerate was her in-laws forcing her young daughter to do laundry, cook, and take care of her cousin while she was away.
If Yao Yao is even a little slow, she will be beaten up.
My daughter is sensible and never complains to me. She even takes a bath by herself without my help.
She was in a daze for a long time because of the loss of her youngest daughter, and she was so busy every day that she didn't notice at first.
Until her daughter became increasingly silent, until one day, she cried and asked her, "Mom, am I really that naughty, so Grandpa and Grandma always hit and scold me?"
Only then did she realize what kind of life her daughter, who lived alone at home, was going through.
The patches of bruises on her thin body made her vision go black, and she almost fainted.
【Ughhhhh, I'm so angry! Are these really my grandparents? They're like my enemies!】
[It's also her own fault for being so cowardly. Why didn't she fight back? If she had been any tougher, her daughter wouldn't have been beaten like this.]
[Isn't it normal for a wife to help take care of her parents when her husband is away? There's nothing wrong with that.]
[The one in front is clearly an ungrateful little fairy; no wonder she can't get married.]
【So you think you're so grateful? Then let me ask you, what have you done for your parents? Did you buy them a car or a house? Did you save up millions for their retirement? You only know how to be grateful after you get married, huh? You're just a maggot who outsources filial piety. I wish you no descendants, but a house full of children and grandchildren!】
Yang Zhaodi gave a wry smile: "It's not that I haven't argued with them, but..."
What I got in return was a barrage of angry words.
"You two eat at my house and use my house every day. What's wrong with helping out with chores? If I don't teach her a lesson for not doing it well, she'll only get beaten even worse when she goes to her husband's house! You're not grateful to me, and you still dare to come and cause trouble? If you're so capable, get out of here and don't ever come back to this house!"
Yes, that's right. Her mother-in-law only dares to be so unscrupulous because she has no family to back her up and nowhere to go.
She had considered moving out, but finding her youngest daughter required money, and she didn't have any extra funds.
She even considered asking Xia Juntao to come back and stop looking for him, but the thought of her youngest daughter being a girl and possibly being sold to some remote mountain village to live an even more miserable life made it impossible for her to bring herself to say it.
She could only try to bring Yao Yao with her when she went out to work, and she would no longer foolishly tell her in-laws how much she earned, secretly saving up some money.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief when her daughter reached the age to start elementary school.
During this period, Xia Juntao would only come back once a year for the Chinese New Year.
Although Yao Yao felt wronged because she could never see him, she would still smile as she saw him off, and then secretly hide under the covers and cry.
Five years passed in this way. Xia Juntao also searched tirelessly for five years, braving wind, frost, rain and snow, enduring hardships along the way.
Yao Yao is already ten years old. If she gets hit or scolded, she runs away quickly and waits for her to go home together.
Good news also came from Xia Juntao's side: a human trafficker has been caught, and they might be able to find out where his youngest daughter is.
She thought everything was slowly getting better.
But misfortune did not spare her.
She will never forget that day.
Yao Yao didn't come home after school, so she went out to look for her for a long time before someone told her that they saw Zhou Ming taking her daughter to his house.
She ran all the way there, feeling incredibly anxious for some reason.
No one was home at Zhou Ming's house, but the front door was open.
She slowly pushed the door open and saw her daughter lying on the cold floor, covered in blood, like a rag doll...
She doesn't remember how she got through the days that followed.
All Zhou Ming remembered was swearing that it had nothing to do with him, and that Liu Jiabao had given him money after watching porn at his house, telling him to go out and find any girl to come over.
The Liu family was the richest in the village at the time, and they offered a lot of money, so he agreed because he was greedy for money.
After forcibly dragging Yao Yao home, he took the money and went out to have fun, never expecting Liu Jiabao to go so far.
When Xia Juntao rushed back, he didn't say anything, but punched him directly and started fighting with his father again.