Zhong Hua was smiling too, but this smile was too bitter. He looked at the little girl in front of him.
She was still the same as he remembered. It seems like, he was killed shortly after leaving home.
Such a small, lovely child could have grown up quickly …
“Xi Liu, come with brother.”
He stretched out his arms and made a gesture of hugging. The little girl moved her legs. When he saw that she was approaching, she suddenly stopped.
Xi Liu lifted up her small face, looked at the person in front of her carefully, and said seriously, “Brother, I’m going to strangle the Uncle now. Will you wait for me for a while?”
Her voice was still full of childishness, with sweet coquetry to the people close to her. But with such a sweet voice, the words made him turn pale.
Zhong Hua looked at the girl in front of him. Her face was white and her hair was messy. Her beautiful eyes, which were originally full of innocence and childishness, were now covered with hatred.
Once those eyes were black and bright, and made people think of the most beautiful stars. But now they were crimson red, just like an evil spirit that had just crawled out of hell.
The one to fear. She is no longer the cute little sister, but a ghost who had been a dead for several years.
But, how could he get scared?
If Xi Liu doesn’t come over, Zhong Hua will come over.
The young man walked slowly to her side, carefully and little by little, picked up the little child.
Light and weightless, but he touched her.
He picked her up. He discovered the marks on Xi Liu’s neck, which were choke marks left by an adults’ hands. Those blue marks looked terrible.
Zhong Hua held out his hand and touched it carefully. He asked, “Does it hurt?”
The little girl snuggled up in her brother’s arms and shook her head. “It was painful at that time, but it doesn’t hurt now.”
With her big eyes open, she looked back and looked in the direction of the enemy. Her voice was crisp. “Brother. Uncle is a bad person. I want to strangle him.”
“Xi Liu, is a good girl. He’s a bad man, he will be punished, don’t do it yourself, okay?”
The comfort of the young man didn’t make Xi Liu happy. She licked her lips; her eyes were full of blood. “I want him to die I want him to be like Xi Liu!”
Zhong Hua’s eyes were red. It’s not that he didn’t want that scum to die, but Master Wei said that if Xi Liu killed with her own hands, she would never be able to reincarnate again.
“Xi Liu, listen to brother. His life will be gone in a little over a month. Even if you don’t do it, he will suffer and die …”
The little girl pushed him away, her feet gently fell to the ground, and there seemed to be tears in her eyes. When she fell down her white cheeks were stained with blood tears again.
“I can’t wait …”
Her voice was still young girl, but hoarse like an old woman. Xi Liu stood on the ground, her pair of originally tender feet were covered with wounds.
“My uncle buried me in the garbage mountain, it was so stinky and dirty. I was hurting from the sun, like I was on fire. But he could walk in the sunlight …”
“I know good kids shouldn’t be jealous, but Xi Liu just can’t help but be jealous of Uncle.”
“He’s a bad man. Why can he walk in the sun? Why can he talk to so many people? Xi Liu had to hide in a dirty dark place, no one could see me, no one talked to me … It is scary to walk on the road at night. If I see someone, I have to avoid it, otherwise I would get hurt …”
“I want to go home to find Grandpa, but I walked for a long, long time before I realized that even if I went home, Grandpa wouldn’t see Xi Liu … He would never see Xi Liu again, wouldn’t call Xi Liu’s name, wouldn’t take Xi Liu to play…”
Zhong Hua listened to her, his heart sunk and felt like it was swelling, and his hatred for Wang Jinchuan deepened in his heart. His tears couldn’t stop falling.
“Xi Liu, come home …”
The crying girl turned her head suddenly, and her eyes, which were full of innocence, stared in the direction of Wang Jinchuan’s home with hatred. “It’s all Uncle’s fault!”
“Xi Liu managed to find him. Every day and every night, trying very hard to make him the same as Xi Liu, but he couldn’t feel, just couldn’t feel it!!”
“But it’s different now …”
The little girl turned around rejoicingly, revealing a lovely smile with dimples, sweet and full of expectation. She held out her hands and showed Zhong Hua her tender little hands that belonged to a young child.
“Brother, I just touched Uncle.”
“Just a little bit, just a little more. He can be like Xi Liu. He will be scorched by the sun, and he will be bumped into by people …”
Xi Liu’s lovely and delicate smile was getting bigger and bigger, and her eyes are getting redder and redder.
She smiled happily and said sweetly, “Brother, just wait for me. When I kill Uncle, I’ll go home with you.”
“When you kill him, you’ll never be able to go home.”
A cane hit a stone and the man in the Daoist robe came out from inside the bamboo forest, he came to Zhong Hua and put away the bell in the young man’s hand.
Wei Mingyan pulled out a red rope from his sleeve, and wrapped it around the bell slowly, one turn after another.
“When you were a person, you didn’t do bad things. You could have been reincarnated smoothly. But when you kill people as a clean soul and dye your hands with blood, you can no longer be reincarnated.”
The handsome man looked up slightly and looked faintly at the stubborn girl, “Didn’t I tell you all this?”
“In another month or so, Wang Jinchuan will live a life worse than death. You can still shred him to pieces, even if you tear off his soul, it would be fine, but now, you can’t.”
Xi Liu’s little hand gradually clenched. She gritted her teeth and took a step back with tears. “I don’t want to wait.”
“Even if he’s in pain and suffers, but he is still alive!!”
“He can eat, drink water, walk freely under the sun, many people will see him, talk to him, and walking down the street, he can just run into people and it won’t hurt …”
“Even if he rolled in pain and hit the wall, he’s still alive!!”
“But I’m dead!” Her eyes were full of hatred, every word, as if sobbing out with tears of blood, “I want to live, I want to talk to people! No one can see me, no one can hear my voice, I know I’m dead, dead, there’s nothing left!!!”
“But Uncle is alive. Even if he is in pain, he’s still alive!”
Zhong Hua eyes are full of red veins, he stepped forward and tried to protect the little sister that he had watched since childhood in his arms.
“Xi Liu, he will die, he will soon die. Don’t give up reincarnation for such a person, it’s not worth it, listen to your brother, ah!”
“It’s worth it!!”
The little girl could even respond in a shrill tone, “He killed me, why can’t I kill him!?”
“I just want him to be like me, why not!?”
“As long as he lives, I will suffer!”
“So, I’m going to kill him, I’m not wrong!”
Zhong Hua finally held the cold child’s soul in his arms, “Xi Liu, be a good girl. Will you be good first? Brother will help you take revenge. Where is your body? Brother will help you get it back, okay?”
Xi Liu leaned in his arms. A flash of fierce hostility dissipated after seeing the person close to her, she snapped and tears rolled, “Brother, don’t you care about me? Why do you all have to protect him, obviously … he’s the bad guy …”
“Xi Liu listened to what Grandpa said. Xi Liu didn’t do a bad thing, but Xi Liu died. He will never see Xi Liu again. He can’t, he can’t talk to Xi Liu …”
“These are all because of Uncle. He had caused Xi Liu to become like this. He is a bad man. Why do you want to protect the bad guy …?”
“No, it’s not like that …” Zhong Hua’s heart felt soft when the girl in his arms cried. He was sad and trying hard to act as if nothing was wrong, his eyes were red and he squeezed out a smile.
“Xi Liu, my brother can see you. In the future, you would be with brother. Brother will take you to work. It’s fun there. You can watch TV and computer. Brother will buy you any clothes you like, okay?”
He held out his hand trembling, gentle and full of pity. He helped the little girl to sort out her hair. “Just follow brother, and brother will protect you. Okay?”
Xi Liu looked up at Zhong Hua, just when the young man thought she agreed, the little girl in front of him pushed his hand and ran out of his arms.
“Thank you, Brother.”
“After I kill my Uncle, I will come back to you.”
“Xi Liu!! Xi Liu!!”
Zhong Hua stood up at a loss and tried to catch up, but his arm was caught by Wei Mingyan.
He panicked and didn’t know what to do. Seeing the man wearing a robe in front him was like seeing an immortal savior. “Master Wei, can you stop Xi Liu …”
“Too late.”
Wei Mingyan looked at the child whose body became more and more solid, and his eyes darkened. “She has turned into a malevolent ghost.”
“Even if she doesn’t kill that man, a malevolent ghost can’t reincarnate.”
“Malevolent ghost… malevolent ghost… No, no, Master, Xi Liu is a good child. She’s very cute and obedient, she won’t harm people. I beg you to help her, she has never done bad things, it shouldn’t be like this …”
Wei Mingyan’s eyes were always in the direction of where Xi Liu disappeared. He finally wrapped the bell and tied the red rope and slowly put it in his sleeve.
“Since Xi Liu died, she possessed Wang Jinchuan. It’s true that she didn’t do anything bad, but she was a child, a blank sheet of paper, with no one to teach her, and following a guy like Wang Jinchuan who did all those bad things.”
“I would imagine that Xi Liu learnt a lot from him.”
“A child is like a knife, if a good man teaches, it is a good knife, when the wicked hold it, even a good knife would be taught bad things. Moreover, no one could see Xi Liu since she died, and it is not surprising that she had to endure the pain from the scorching sun and became an evil spirit.”
Zhong Hua couldn’t accept this answer, he shook his head in a trance, “But she’s still a child, she doesn’t know anything, it’s not her fault …”
“It’s not her fault.”
Wei Mingyan patted his sleeve and walked forward slowly. “It’s good to end this way. It’s not fair to Xi Liu who has suffered a great sin to go to reincarnation without doing anything.”
“Master, Master, what do you mean? Leave Xi Liu alone? Master …”
Zhong Hua looked ahead to follow Xi Liu’s footsteps and the man, and anxiously wanted to keep up with him. But he didn’t how, clearly, the handsome Daoist priest was walking slowly, but he couldn’t keep up.
He can only shout behind the Daoist priest.
Wang Jinchuan had a dream. He was always dreaming these days. He dreamed that he was rolling around on a bed of nails. He was so pained that he had become a bloody man and still couldn’t stop.
He cried in pain and cried for help all night until he woke up. The pain on his body only made him fall into a clearer dream.
But today’s dream had changed. He dreamed that he had fallen into an icy lake, surrounded by cold water. He struggled desperately, but he couldn’t come out.
There were many dogs in the lake. They had red eyes, long fangs, and were eyeing around fiercely.
Wang Jinchuan was frightened. He tried desperately to swim, but his neck was entangled by aquatic plants in the lake. With his struggle, the aquatic plants entangled more and more tightly. He couldn’t breathe, and his feet couldn’t exert force. His heart was full of despair.
— Help!
— Somebody help!
— Is there anyone who can help!?
Desperation, pain, suffocation, surrounded by vicious dogs rushing up with bloodshot eyes, tearing at his body.
Wang Jinchuan jerked open his eyes, but met, the sight of a little girl.
She has lovely, beautiful and delicate facial features, wearing cartoon clothes full of childlessness. But those original eyes that were big and round, full of innocence, were blood red, full of hatred.
“Uncle …”
Xi Liu smiled sweetly. “Does it hurt?”
The man’s pupils suddenly narrowed. He struggled desperately, wanting to throw off the hands on his neck, but it was no use. No use at all!
It was obviously a child’s hands, but these little hands, which once could be easily controlled, have now become the sickle on his neck.
His breathing was forced to stop. Wang Jinchuan’s face turned red from suffocation, and his eyes were a little bloodshot.
He had never been so clearly aware that he was going to die.
During this time, no matter how painful it was, Wang Jinchuan never thought about dying.
There was hope in living, and he wouldn’t be stupid enough to destroy hope with his own hands.
But Xi Liu, wasn’t going to allow Wang Jinchuan to have hope.
The man’s eyes gradually became cloudy, and he desperately reached out and struggled for help, making an ‘ah-uh’ cry for help.
He doesn’t want to die, he doesn’t want to die–
If he died, there was nothing left —
“Xi … Xi … Xi Liu …”
Finally, the man who was choked at the neck made a sound. He struggled and begged for mercy in a hoarse voice. “I was wrong, Xi Liu … Don’t kill me …”
“… Please … Xi Liu …”
The hands between his neck, slowly loosened.
Wang Jinchuan suddenly got air, quickly exhaled, and coughed because he was too anxious. Even if he coughed badly, the man still tried to breathe.
He has to live, he must live.
“Uncle, do you really know that you were wrong?”
The girl’s crisp voice rang out clearly. Wang Jinchuan shuddered, and tried to suppress the fear. He raised his eyes to look at the girl in front of him.
The little girl in front of him had a white complexion, a pair of big eyes, and was sitting on the edge of the bed with a good posture. Except for the pair of red eyes, he couldn’t see any difference from living people.
Seeing that Wang Jinchuan didn’t answer, Xi Liu tilted her head and asked again, “Uncle, do you know that you were wrong?”
“I know, I know … I know I was wrong. Xi Liu, I’ve wronged you. I am an animal, I’m not human …”
The man coughed, quickly got up, huddled in the corner and desperately stretched out his palms to slap his own face.
He was scared, so he used great strength, and soon had handprints on his face. But even Wang Jinchuan felt it wasn’t enough, under the quiet gaze of the little girl, he desperately hit himself with force.
“I was wrong, I was wrong. Xi Liu, let me go, let uncle go, okay?”
The man begged, the little girl still kept her original sitting position, she blinked her bloodshot eyes, her face showed a few moments of innocence. Her white face was smiling. “Uncle wants me to forgive?”
“Yes, yes. Xi Liu, you’re a good child. Spare uncle, and uncle will burn paper money for you and worships every year, okay?”
The girl shook her head. Her childlike cute face was full of innocence. “Uncle, cut your hand. That day, you grabbed Xi Liu’s hand very hard.”
“I’ll forgive Uncle when the hand is gone.”
The man’s face was paler than before.
“Xi … Xi Liu, must it be like this? If I cut my hand, it would be very painful … Xi Liu is a good child and wouldn’t bear to, right?”
The little girl pursed her mouth unhappily. “But when Uncle grabbed Xi Liu, it was also very painful.”
“Uncle, if you don’t want to, come with me …”
“No, no, no!!! Uncle is willing, uncle is willing –“
Wang Jinchuan went to the kitchen with weak legs. His family had a butcher’s knife, which was left by his long-deceased father and was extremely sharp.
He held a knife in his right hand and put his left hand on the chopping board. Sweat fell like raindrops and soon soaked all of his clothes.
“Xi Liu, I … I’ll only cut the left hand, okay? I’m alone, I can’t cut both hands …”
The little girl in the Mickey Mouse’s clothes followed. She stood on tiptoe, looked, and innocently said, “Yeah.”
“I don’t think Uncle can cut two hands on your own.”
Before Wang Jinchuan breathed a sigh of relief, Xi Liu continued, “Then cut off your right hand and right leg.”
The man has long since stiffened beyond all recognition.
If he doesn’t have one hand and one leg, how could he live in the future?
“Xi Liu, Xi Liu. Uncle is begging you …”
When the knife fell to the ground, Wang Jinchuan knelt down and begged the little girl who had been strangled to death with his own hands, “Let me go. I really know I’m wrong. Let me go…”
Xi Liu looked cold. A little girl having a blank expression should have been funny, but her blood-red eyes made her look like a demon who had just crawled up from hell.
“Isn’t that how Uncle treats people who owe debts?”
She squatted down, carefully kept her Mickey Mouse dress from touching the ground, picked up the knife, handed it to the man and smiled at him.
Her voice was sweet, glutinous and crisp. “I learned this from Uncle.”
“Doesn’t my Uncle always say ‘you can either cut off your fingers or pay back the money’?”
“Uncle either cut off your right hand and right leg, or become like Xi Liu. It’s very simple, isn’t it?”
Wang Jinchuan’s hand trembled, with panic and despair in his eyes. He took the butcher’s knife.
In the process of receiving the knife, he touched the little girl’s hand.
It was cold, with a chill that made his whole-body shiver.
“Xi… Xi Liu, if I cut off my hand and leg. Will you forgive me?”
Listening to the man’s hopeful questions, the little girl showed a lovely smile, “Yes, I will forgive my Uncle.”
In order to live, as long as he can live!
Wang Jinchuan gritted his teeth. His forehead was full of sweat. He raised his knife to his right hand.
–“Ahhh!!!”
He almost fainted in pain, shaking all over, and tears burst out instantly.
Blood splashed all over the floor, and the left hand holding the knife could only hang down weakly.
Soon, a little chubby finger belonging to a child, pointed at Wang Jinchuan’s right leg. The man’s face was full of sweat and tears. He looked up, facing the beautiful big eyes of the little girl who just finished laughing.
She reminded him, “Uncle, there’s still the leg.”
Wang Jinchuan desperately closed his eyes and swung hard.
With a scream, the man has almost collapsed. His lips soon turned white, and he fell to the ground wailing.
It was very painful, very painful! But at the same time, his heart was also relieved.
It’s good to be alive, just as long as he’s alive …
At the moment he relaxed, a pair of cold hands slowly landed on Wang Jinchuan’s neck.
The man opened his eyes wide in disbelief and tried to squeeze out a pleasing smile. “Xi Liu, Xi Liu. Didn’t you say you would forgive uncle …”
“I lied to Uncle. Doesn’t uncle like to lie the most?”
The little girl smiled smugly and tightened her hands slowly.
She leaned down slightly and lowered her lips to Wang Jinchuan’s ear, as if to whisper, and said…
“Uncle, I asked you to cut two hands. Why didn’t you?”
“You don’t know what’s good for you.”
The last sentence she heard before she died was finally returned.
Wang Jinchuan struggled desperately, kicking his leg weakly on the ground, and finally, little by little, he lost his last breath.
Before his soul could come out, it was already being torn apart by a swarm of obscure dark Qi that has been waiting, as if it was scrambling for something delicious. Tugged and pulled, torn and ravaged in all directions.
–“Ahhh!!!”
Only the voice that souls could hear echoed in the house, and the little girl stood up slowly. Although she knew she couldn’t touch it, she still skipped over the blood on the ground.
She walked out lightly, and the color in her eyes faded gradually. After a moment of confusion, only innocence remained.
When she got outside the yard, she saw the young man running, panting, a head full of sweat and worry in his eyes. Xi Liu showed a small child’s spoiled sweet smile.
“Brother!”
She was picked up, and the little girl snuggled up in Zhong Hua’s arms, restlessly hugging his neck and rubbing her face in it, whispering, “I miss Grandpa.”
“I’m afraid.”
Zhong Hua heart was softened by her snuggling. He hugged the little girl and coaxed her.
“Dear, it’s okay. Xi Liu, don’t be afraid …”
Wei Mingyan leaned against a wall. No one knew how long he had been here. At the moment, he ignored the newly born soul howling in the house, and his eyes lightly fell on Xi Liu, who was just like an ordinary little girl.
The redness in her eyes faded, white and lovely. She was obediently receiving comfort, and suddenly met the eyes of the handsome Daoist master.
Xi Liu shrank back with her bloodstained little feet in fear, her eyes full of fear.
The man in the robe stood up straight slowly, took out the little bell just now, and put it on her neck under the panic sights of the little girl who wanted to cry but didn’t dare to cry.
Zhong Hua froze, “Master …?”
“Put this on to cover the dead Qi.”
Wei Mingyan held out his hand, stabbed a needle on his index finger, and under Xi Liu’s dumbfounded and wary eyes, dotted it on her eyebrow.
“From now on, you will follow me and act as a playmate for my granddaughter when she’s older.”
“You have to do good deeds to get a chance to reincarnate. You hear me?”
The little girl timidly agreed with tears in her eyes, her little hand quietly grabbed Zhong Hua’s collar. Her two beautiful black eyes were full of fear towards Wei Mingyan.
With a tearful voice, she replied, “I understand …”
Zhong Hua still had tears on his face. After reacting to what Wei Mingyan said, he cried and smiled, “Thank you, thank you …”
“Let’s go. See your grandpa one last time, and by the way, teach you how to send away your first soul.”
Wei Mingyan picked up the girl from Zhong Hua’s arms, whose eyes were glowing when she heard about her grandfather. He held her and took the lead on leaving. Zhong Hua couldn’t think much about it and quickly followed.
As for the desperate screams behind Wei Mingyan?
Sorry. He’s old and his ears aren’t that good.
Zhong Hua was smiling too, but this smile was too bitter. He looked at the little girl in front of him.
She was still the same as he remembered. It seems like, he was killed shortly after leaving home.
Such a small, lovely child could have grown up quickly …
“Xi Liu, come with brother.”
He stretched out his arms and made a gesture of hugging. The little girl moved her legs. When he saw that she was approaching, she suddenly stopped.
Xi Liu lifted up her small face, looked at the person in front of her carefully, and said seriously, “Brother, I’m going to strangle the Uncle now. Will you wait for me for a while?”
Her voice was still full of childishness, with sweet coquetry to the people close to her. But with such a sweet voice, the words made him turn pale.
Zhong Hua looked at the girl in front of him. Her face was white and her hair was messy. Her beautiful eyes, which were originally full of innocence and childishness, were now covered with hatred.
Once those eyes were black and bright, and made people think of the most beautiful stars. But now they were crimson red, just like an evil spirit that had just crawled out of hell.
The one to fear. She is no longer the cute little sister, but a ghost who had been a dead for several years.
But, how could he get scared?
If Xi Liu doesn’t come over, Zhong Hua will come over.
The young man walked slowly to her side, carefully and little by little, picked up the little child.
Light and weightless, but he touched her.
He picked her up. He discovered the marks on Xi Liu’s neck, which were choke marks left by an adults’ hands. Those blue marks looked terrible.
Zhong Hua held out his hand and touched it carefully. He asked, “Does it hurt?”
The little girl snuggled up in her brother’s arms and shook her head. “It was painful at that time, but it doesn’t hurt now.”
With her big eyes open, she looked back and looked in the direction of the enemy. Her voice was crisp. “Brother. Uncle is a bad person. I want to strangle him.”
“Xi Liu, is a good girl. He’s a bad man, he will be punished, don’t do it yourself, okay?”
The comfort of the young man didn’t make Xi Liu happy. She licked her lips; her eyes were full of blood. “I want him to die I want him to be like Xi Liu!”
Zhong Hua’s eyes were red. It’s not that he didn’t want that scum to die, but Master Wei said that if Xi Liu killed with her own hands, she would never be able to reincarnate again.
“Xi Liu, listen to brother. His life will be gone in a little over a month. Even if you don’t do it, he will suffer and die …”
The little girl pushed him away, her feet gently fell to the ground, and there seemed to be tears in her eyes. When she fell down her white cheeks were stained with blood tears again.
“I can’t wait …”
Her voice was still young girl, but hoarse like an old woman. Xi Liu stood on the ground, her pair of originally tender feet were covered with wounds.
“My uncle buried me in the garbage mountain, it was so stinky and dirty. I was hurting from the sun, like I was on fire. But he could walk in the sunlight …”
“I know good kids shouldn’t be jealous, but Xi Liu just can’t help but be jealous of Uncle.”
“He’s a bad man. Why can he walk in the sun? Why can he talk to so many people? Xi Liu had to hide in a dirty dark place, no one could see me, no one talked to me … It is scary to walk on the road at night. If I see someone, I have to avoid it, otherwise I would get hurt …”
“I want to go home to find Grandpa, but I walked for a long, long time before I realized that even if I went home, Grandpa wouldn’t see Xi Liu … He would never see Xi Liu again, wouldn’t call Xi Liu’s name, wouldn’t take Xi Liu to play…”
Zhong Hua listened to her, his heart sunk and felt like it was swelling, and his hatred for Wang Jinchuan deepened in his heart. His tears couldn’t stop falling.
“Xi Liu, come home …”
The crying girl turned her head suddenly, and her eyes, which were full of innocence, stared in the direction of Wang Jinchuan’s home with hatred. “It’s all Uncle’s fault!”
“Xi Liu managed to find him. Every day and every night, trying very hard to make him the same as Xi Liu, but he couldn’t feel, just couldn’t feel it!!”
“But it’s different now …”
The little girl turned around rejoicingly, revealing a lovely smile with dimples, sweet and full of expectation. She held out her hands and showed Zhong Hua her tender little hands that belonged to a young child.
“Brother, I just touched Uncle.”
“Just a little bit, just a little more. He can be like Xi Liu. He will be scorched by the sun, and he will be bumped into by people …”
Xi Liu’s lovely and delicate smile was getting bigger and bigger, and her eyes are getting redder and redder.
She smiled happily and said sweetly, “Brother, just wait for me. When I kill Uncle, I’ll go home with you.”
“When you kill him, you’ll never be able to go home.”
A cane hit a stone and the man in the Daoist robe came out from inside the bamboo forest, he came to Zhong Hua and put away the bell in the young man’s hand.
Wei Mingyan pulled out a red rope from his sleeve, and wrapped it around the bell slowly, one turn after another.
“When you were a person, you didn’t do bad things. You could have been reincarnated smoothly. But when you kill people as a clean soul and dye your hands with blood, you can no longer be reincarnated.”
The handsome man looked up slightly and looked faintly at the stubborn girl, “Didn’t I tell you all this?”
“In another month or so, Wang Jinchuan will live a life worse than death. You can still shred him to pieces, even if you tear off his soul, it would be fine, but now, you can’t.”
Xi Liu’s little hand gradually clenched. She gritted her teeth and took a step back with tears. “I don’t want to wait.”
“Even if he’s in pain and suffers, but he is still alive!!”
“He can eat, drink water, walk freely under the sun, many people will see him, talk to him, and walking down the street, he can just run into people and it won’t hurt …”
“Even if he rolled in pain and hit the wall, he’s still alive!!”
“But I’m dead!” Her eyes were full of hatred, every word, as if sobbing out with tears of blood, “I want to live, I want to talk to people! No one can see me, no one can hear my voice, I know I’m dead, dead, there’s nothing left!!!”
“But Uncle is alive. Even if he is in pain, he’s still alive!”
Zhong Hua eyes are full of red veins, he stepped forward and tried to protect the little sister that he had watched since childhood in his arms.
“Xi Liu, he will die, he will soon die. Don’t give up reincarnation for such a person, it’s not worth it, listen to your brother, ah!”
“It’s worth it!!”
The little girl could even respond in a shrill tone, “He killed me, why can’t I kill him!?”
“I just want him to be like me, why not!?”
“As long as he lives, I will suffer!”
“So, I’m going to kill him, I’m not wrong!”
Zhong Hua finally held the cold child’s soul in his arms, “Xi Liu, be a good girl. Will you be good first? Brother will help you take revenge. Where is your body? Brother will help you get it back, okay?”
Xi Liu leaned in his arms. A flash of fierce hostility dissipated after seeing the person close to her, she snapped and tears rolled, “Brother, don’t you care about me? Why do you all have to protect him, obviously … he’s the bad guy …”
“Xi Liu listened to what Grandpa said. Xi Liu didn’t do a bad thing, but Xi Liu died. He will never see Xi Liu again. He can’t, he can’t talk to Xi Liu …”
“These are all because of Uncle. He had caused Xi Liu to become like this. He is a bad man. Why do you want to protect the bad guy …?”
“No, it’s not like that …” Zhong Hua’s heart felt soft when the girl in his arms cried. He was sad and trying hard to act as if nothing was wrong, his eyes were red and he squeezed out a smile.
“Xi Liu, my brother can see you. In the future, you would be with brother. Brother will take you to work. It’s fun there. You can watch TV and computer. Brother will buy you any clothes you like, okay?”
He held out his hand trembling, gentle and full of pity. He helped the little girl to sort out her hair. “Just follow brother, and brother will protect you. Okay?”
Xi Liu looked up at Zhong Hua, just when the young man thought she agreed, the little girl in front of him pushed his hand and ran out of his arms.
“Thank you, Brother.”
“After I kill my Uncle, I will come back to you.”
“Xi Liu!! Xi Liu!!”
Zhong Hua stood up at a loss and tried to catch up, but his arm was caught by Wei Mingyan.
He panicked and didn’t know what to do. Seeing the man wearing a robe in front him was like seeing an immortal savior. “Master Wei, can you stop Xi Liu …”
“Too late.”
Wei Mingyan looked at the child whose body became more and more solid, and his eyes darkened. “She has turned into a malevolent ghost.”
“Even if she doesn’t kill that man, a malevolent ghost can’t reincarnate.”
“Malevolent ghost… malevolent ghost… No, no, Master, Xi Liu is a good child. She’s very cute and obedient, she won’t harm people. I beg you to help her, she has never done bad things, it shouldn’t be like this …”
Wei Mingyan’s eyes were always in the direction of where Xi Liu disappeared. He finally wrapped the bell and tied the red rope and slowly put it in his sleeve.
“Since Xi Liu died, she possessed Wang Jinchuan. It’s true that she didn’t do anything bad, but she was a child, a blank sheet of paper, with no one to teach her, and following a guy like Wang Jinchuan who did all those bad things.”
“I would imagine that Xi Liu learnt a lot from him.”
“A child is like a knife, if a good man teaches, it is a good knife, when the wicked hold it, even a good knife would be taught bad things. Moreover, no one could see Xi Liu since she died, and it is not surprising that she had to endure the pain from the scorching sun and became an evil spirit.”
Zhong Hua couldn’t accept this answer, he shook his head in a trance, “But she’s still a child, she doesn’t know anything, it’s not her fault …”
“It’s not her fault.”
Wei Mingyan patted his sleeve and walked forward slowly. “It’s good to end this way. It’s not fair to Xi Liu who has suffered a great sin to go to reincarnation without doing anything.”
“Master, Master, what do you mean? Leave Xi Liu alone? Master …”
Zhong Hua looked ahead to follow Xi Liu’s footsteps and the man, and anxiously wanted to keep up with him. But he didn’t how, clearly, the handsome Daoist priest was walking slowly, but he couldn’t keep up.
He can only shout behind the Daoist priest.
Wang Jinchuan had a dream. He was always dreaming these days. He dreamed that he was rolling around on a bed of nails. He was so pained that he had become a bloody man and still couldn’t stop.
He cried in pain and cried for help all night until he woke up. The pain on his body only made him fall into a clearer dream.
But today’s dream had changed. He dreamed that he had fallen into an icy lake, surrounded by cold water. He struggled desperately, but he couldn’t come out.
There were many dogs in the lake. They had red eyes, long fangs, and were eyeing around fiercely.
Wang Jinchuan was frightened. He tried desperately to swim, but his neck was entangled by aquatic plants in the lake. With his struggle, the aquatic plants entangled more and more tightly. He couldn’t breathe, and his feet couldn’t exert force. His heart was full of despair.
— Help!
— Somebody help!
— Is there anyone who can help!?
Desperation, pain, suffocation, surrounded by vicious dogs rushing up with bloodshot eyes, tearing at his body.
Wang Jinchuan jerked open his eyes, but met, the sight of a little girl.
She has lovely, beautiful and delicate facial features, wearing cartoon clothes full of childlessness. But those original eyes that were big and round, full of innocence, were blood red, full of hatred.
“Uncle …”
Xi Liu smiled sweetly. “Does it hurt?”
The man’s pupils suddenly narrowed. He struggled desperately, wanting to throw off the hands on his neck, but it was no use. No use at all!
It was obviously a child’s hands, but these little hands, which once could be easily controlled, have now become the sickle on his neck.
His breathing was forced to stop. Wang Jinchuan’s face turned red from suffocation, and his eyes were a little bloodshot.
He had never been so clearly aware that he was going to die.
During this time, no matter how painful it was, Wang Jinchuan never thought about dying.
There was hope in living, and he wouldn’t be stupid enough to destroy hope with his own hands.
But Xi Liu, wasn’t going to allow Wang Jinchuan to have hope.
The man’s eyes gradually became cloudy, and he desperately reached out and struggled for help, making an ‘ah-uh’ cry for help.
He doesn’t want to die, he doesn’t want to die–
If he died, there was nothing left —
“Xi … Xi … Xi Liu …”
Finally, the man who was choked at the neck made a sound. He struggled and begged for mercy in a hoarse voice. “I was wrong, Xi Liu … Don’t kill me …”
“… Please … Xi Liu …”
The hands between his neck, slowly loosened.
Wang Jinchuan suddenly got air, quickly exhaled, and coughed because he was too anxious. Even if he coughed badly, the man still tried to breathe.
He has to live, he must live.
“Uncle, do you really know that you were wrong?”
The girl’s crisp voice rang out clearly. Wang Jinchuan shuddered, and tried to suppress the fear. He raised his eyes to look at the girl in front of him.
The little girl in front of him had a white complexion, a pair of big eyes, and was sitting on the edge of the bed with a good posture. Except for the pair of red eyes, he couldn’t see any difference from living people.
Seeing that Wang Jinchuan didn’t answer, Xi Liu tilted her head and asked again, “Uncle, do you know that you were wrong?”
“I know, I know … I know I was wrong. Xi Liu, I’ve wronged you. I am an animal, I’m not human …”
The man coughed, quickly got up, huddled in the corner and desperately stretched out his palms to slap his own face.
He was scared, so he used great strength, and soon had handprints on his face. But even Wang Jinchuan felt it wasn’t enough, under the quiet gaze of the little girl, he desperately hit himself with force.
“I was wrong, I was wrong. Xi Liu, let me go, let uncle go, okay?”
The man begged, the little girl still kept her original sitting position, she blinked her bloodshot eyes, her face showed a few moments of innocence. Her white face was smiling. “Uncle wants me to forgive?”
“Yes, yes. Xi Liu, you’re a good child. Spare uncle, and uncle will burn paper money for you and worships every year, okay?”
The girl shook her head. Her childlike cute face was full of innocence. “Uncle, cut your hand. That day, you grabbed Xi Liu’s hand very hard.”
“I’ll forgive Uncle when the hand is gone.”
The man’s face was paler than before.
“Xi … Xi Liu, must it be like this? If I cut my hand, it would be very painful … Xi Liu is a good child and wouldn’t bear to, right?”
The little girl pursed her mouth unhappily. “But when Uncle grabbed Xi Liu, it was also very painful.”
“Uncle, if you don’t want to, come with me …”
“No, no, no!!! Uncle is willing, uncle is willing –“
Wang Jinchuan went to the kitchen with weak legs. His family had a butcher’s knife, which was left by his long-deceased father and was extremely sharp.
He held a knife in his right hand and put his left hand on the chopping board. Sweat fell like raindrops and soon soaked all of his clothes.
“Xi Liu, I … I’ll only cut the left hand, okay? I’m alone, I can’t cut both hands …”
The little girl in the Mickey Mouse’s clothes followed. She stood on tiptoe, looked, and innocently said, “Yeah.”
“I don’t think Uncle can cut two hands on your own.”
Before Wang Jinchuan breathed a sigh of relief, Xi Liu continued, “Then cut off your right hand and right leg.”
The man has long since stiffened beyond all recognition.
If he doesn’t have one hand and one leg, how could he live in the future?
“Xi Liu, Xi Liu. Uncle is begging you …”
When the knife fell to the ground, Wang Jinchuan knelt down and begged the little girl who had been strangled to death with his own hands, “Let me go. I really know I’m wrong. Let me go…”
Xi Liu looked cold. A little girl having a blank expression should have been funny, but her blood-red eyes made her look like a demon who had just crawled up from hell.
“Isn’t that how Uncle treats people who owe debts?”
She squatted down, carefully kept her Mickey Mouse dress from touching the ground, picked up the knife, handed it to the man and smiled at him.
Her voice was sweet, glutinous and crisp. “I learned this from Uncle.”
“Doesn’t my Uncle always say ‘you can either cut off your fingers or pay back the money’?”
“Uncle either cut off your right hand and right leg, or become like Xi Liu. It’s very simple, isn’t it?”
Wang Jinchuan’s hand trembled, with panic and despair in his eyes. He took the butcher’s knife.
In the process of receiving the knife, he touched the little girl’s hand.
It was cold, with a chill that made his whole-body shiver.
“Xi… Xi Liu, if I cut off my hand and leg. Will you forgive me?”
Listening to the man’s hopeful questions, the little girl showed a lovely smile, “Yes, I will forgive my Uncle.”
In order to live, as long as he can live!
Wang Jinchuan gritted his teeth. His forehead was full of sweat. He raised his knife to his right hand.
–“Ahhh!!!”
He almost fainted in pain, shaking all over, and tears burst out instantly.
Blood splashed all over the floor, and the left hand holding the knife could only hang down weakly.
Soon, a little chubby finger belonging to a child, pointed at Wang Jinchuan’s right leg. The man’s face was full of sweat and tears. He looked up, facing the beautiful big eyes of the little girl who just finished laughing.
She reminded him, “Uncle, there’s still the leg.”
Wang Jinchuan desperately closed his eyes and swung hard.
With a scream, the man has almost collapsed. His lips soon turned white, and he fell to the ground wailing.
It was very painful, very painful! But at the same time, his heart was also relieved.
It’s good to be alive, just as long as he’s alive …
At the moment he relaxed, a pair of cold hands slowly landed on Wang Jinchuan’s neck.
The man opened his eyes wide in disbelief and tried to squeeze out a pleasing smile. “Xi Liu, Xi Liu. Didn’t you say you would forgive uncle …”
“I lied to Uncle. Doesn’t uncle like to lie the most?”
The little girl smiled smugly and tightened her hands slowly.
She leaned down slightly and lowered her lips to Wang Jinchuan’s ear, as if to whisper, and said…
“Uncle, I asked you to cut two hands. Why didn’t you?”
“You don’t know what’s good for you.”
The last sentence she heard before she died was finally returned.
Wang Jinchuan struggled desperately, kicking his leg weakly on the ground, and finally, little by little, he lost his last breath.
Before his soul could come out, it was already being torn apart by a swarm of obscure dark Qi that has been waiting, as if it was scrambling for something delicious. Tugged and pulled, torn and ravaged in all directions.
–“Ahhh!!!”
Only the voice that souls could hear echoed in the house, and the little girl stood up slowly. Although she knew she couldn’t touch it, she still skipped over the blood on the ground.
She walked out lightly, and the color in her eyes faded gradually. After a moment of confusion, only innocence remained.
When she got outside the yard, she saw the young man running, panting, a head full of sweat and worry in his eyes. Xi Liu showed a small child’s spoiled sweet smile.
“Brother!”
She was picked up, and the little girl snuggled up in Zhong Hua’s arms, restlessly hugging his neck and rubbing her face in it, whispering, “I miss Grandpa.”
“I’m afraid.”
Zhong Hua heart was softened by her snuggling. He hugged the little girl and coaxed her.
“Dear, it’s okay. Xi Liu, don’t be afraid …”
Wei Mingyan leaned against a wall. No one knew how long he had been here. At the moment, he ignored the newly born soul howling in the house, and his eyes lightly fell on Xi Liu, who was just like an ordinary little girl.
The redness in her eyes faded, white and lovely. She was obediently receiving comfort, and suddenly met the eyes of the handsome Daoist master.
Xi Liu shrank back with her bloodstained little feet in fear, her eyes full of fear.
The man in the robe stood up straight slowly, took out the little bell just now, and put it on her neck under the panic sights of the little girl who wanted to cry but didn’t dare to cry.
Zhong Hua froze, “Master …?”
“Put this on to cover the dead Qi.”
Wei Mingyan held out his hand, stabbed a needle on his index finger, and under Xi Liu’s dumbfounded and wary eyes, dotted it on her eyebrow.
“From now on, you will follow me and act as a playmate for my granddaughter when she’s older.”
“You have to do good deeds to get a chance to reincarnate. You hear me?”
The little girl timidly agreed with tears in her eyes, her little hand quietly grabbed Zhong Hua’s collar. Her two beautiful black eyes were full of fear towards Wei Mingyan.
With a tearful voice, she replied, “I understand …”
Zhong Hua still had tears on his face. After reacting to what Wei Mingyan said, he cried and smiled, “Thank you, thank you …”
“Let’s go. See your grandpa one last time, and by the way, teach you how to send away your first soul.”
Wei Mingyan picked up the girl from Zhong Hua’s arms, whose eyes were glowing when she heard about her grandfather. He held her and took the lead on leaving. Zhong Hua couldn’t think much about it and quickly followed.
As for the desperate screams behind Wei Mingyan?
Sorry. He’s old and his ears aren’t that good.
