Li Qiang is already seventy years old. He has silver hair, his goatee is all white, and there are many brown spots on his face and hands.
His home is very neat and tidy, and there is no stale atmosphere in the homes of ordinary elderly people.
When Su Yi and Xiao Ming came, he was practicing calligraphy at home. Although he didn't go out, he took care of his appearance meticulously. He was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and black trousers, which were pressed very smoothly.
It can be seen that this is an old man who pays great attention to the quality of life and has a good attitude.
"Come on, come on, please have tea." Li Qiang smiled and brought two cups of tea and placed them in front of Su Yi and Xiao Ming. "I usually have very few guests here, and this is the first time the police are back. I can Entertaining the police once before you die is another experience in your life, a good thing, a good thing..."
Su Yi smiled and said: "It's not wrong to say it's a good thing. Although what we will talk about later is not a good thing, what we are doing is indeed a good thing."
Li Qiang asked doubtfully: "I have lived alone for decades and have never had any contact with strangers. I don't know, how can I help you?"
"It's related to some cases we have received recently." Su Yi looked a little more serious.
He started with Rubbish and the others playing a psychic game, talking about Xiao Ming’s yin and yang eyes, and talking about Xiao Ming seeing the ghost in blue clothes.
Li Qiang's face changed obviously at this time, with shock, anger and fear in his eyes.
He seemed to want to stop Su Yi from talking, but Su Yi just talked about the victims very plainly, with a gentle tone and a very calm attitude, so he endured it.
Although because of Su Yi's participation, not as many people died as in the original plot, the imminent danger in this plot is actually even better than in the original plot.
At the end, Su Yi said: "Old man, it is actually a last resort to disturb your purity rashly, but in order to prevent more innocent people from being killed, we have no choice but to come. I came to you also to learn more about the truth, which is very important for solving the problem." Its resentment also helps.”
Li Qiang's face turned gloomy and bright for a while, and finally asked in a trembling voice: "Mr. Huang, you are a man of virtue. I want to ask you, if you really succeed in the end, what will happen to her?"
Su Yi said sincerely: "I'm not going to lie to you, it will definitely die. It has harmed so many people. I am neither willing nor dare to cross it to reincarnate. No cultivator dares to accept its karma." .”
"But she really died in vain!" Li Qiang said sadly with a trembling voice, "She is so pitiful! She should not have such an end at all!"
"Most of the evil ghosts who harm people die in vain." Su Yi said, "It is justifiable for evil ghosts to take revenge. When we practitioners encounter them, we turn a blind eye or close one. But evil ghosts kill innocent people indiscriminately, just for the sake of resentment. If you just offend innocent people, are the people killed by it a waste of time?"
"Whether you are a human or a ghost, you have to pay the price for doing something wrong. If the murderer cannot be severely punished, how can the deceased rest in peace?" Su Yi said seriously, "Old man, the laws of nature are consistent, and if you respond to them, you will be lucky. Chaos leads to evil. No matter how pitiful it is, it should get the retribution it deserves. Just like those who killed it back then, I think they should also get retribution, right? One drink and one peck are destiny. Only with one cause and one effect can this matter truly end.”
Li Qiang's lips trembled, as if he was enduring great sadness.
"But, but... she really died in vain!" He finally burst into tears and cried, "Otherwise, she would still be so angry after so long! Beautiful aunt, beautiful aunt..."
he cried.
As he cried, a dark wind suddenly blew in the room.
The dark wind howled, making curtains and clothes rustle.
"Aunt Mei, Aunt Mei!" Li Qiang became even more excited. He looked around and screamed with tears streaming down his face, "Forget it, Aunt Mei! Let them go!"
"It's been almost a hundred years! Let them go, Aunt Mei..."
Whirring whirring……
The wind howled.
Bang bang bang!
Cups and bottles in the room suddenly exploded, and debris flew everywhere!
Li Qiang and Xiao Ming were both startled and stood up hurriedly.
Su Yi also stood up with a solemn expression, holding a talisman in his hand and looking around vigilantly.
"Aunt Mei, Aunt Mei?" Li Qiang stumbled to the window and looked out the window with tears in his eyes, "Is that you, Aunt Mei?"
The wind died down and warmth returned to the room.
Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and then became aware that his body was dripping with cold sweat.
After a slight silence, Li Qiang sighed deeply and said in a low tone: "I'm old and I don't have many years to live. In fact, I know that I can live so long because Auntie Mei has blessed me... I don't want her to harm me." She is a human being, but I don’t want her to lose her soul, it really puts me in a difficult situation..."
Su Yi didn't persuade him, just waited quietly.
Xiao Ming, on the other hand, was very anxious and hesitated several times, but thinking of Su Yi's instructions, he had no choice but to remain silent.
After a long time, Li Qiang sighed again and began to tell: "I remember that I was only five years old and both my parents died tragically that year. It was Aunt Mei who saw me as pitiful and adopted me. Aunt Mei was the most beautiful woman in the village. It's a pity that Life was miserable, and he entered a low-level profession, joined a theater troupe, and became a female actor."
"In those days, opera singers had a lowly profession and would be looked down upon by others. However, Aunt Mei often told me that whether a person is a despicable person has nothing to do with what he or she does, but rather depends on his character. Aunt Mei is very kind and helpful, so Although she was an actor, she was highly respected by everyone in the village. The most virtuous and respected person in Huangshan Village at that time was a cultural man who had studied Western education and was also the only teacher in the village. His name was Bu Wantian."
As soon as these three words "Bu Wantian" were spoken, the room instantly became cold!
Not to mention Su Yi, both Xiao Ming and Li Qiang felt something was wrong. Obviously, this name seemed to be as taboo as the name Chu Renmei.
Li Qiang paused and sat on the sofa, holding on to the armrests tremblingly, then sighed and continued to tell.
"Bu Wantian has been a scholar for generations, but he loves Aunt Mei's beauty and character. Everyone in the village is optimistic about their marriage. Their wedding banquet lasted for three whole days..."
"Old man, let me interrupt you." Su Yi suddenly spoke, causing Xiao Ming and Li Qiang to look at him in confusion.
"Although it has been dead for so many years, it still needs to be kept secret for the deceased." Su Yi reminded with a serious face, "Some of them have nothing to do with the injustice she suffered, or are related to her privacy, or you promised her not to tell her. Please don’t say anything about it.”
Li Qiang was stunned and said: "What I want to talk about is the reason why Aunt Mei died in vain. But this matter is indeed a family scandal."
"It's nothing. Try to ignore that part and focus on the bad guy. I don't think it will affect our understanding of what happened back then." Su Yi reminded.
"Okay, okay, you really need to pay attention to this." Li Qiang said gratefully to Su Yi, "I don't often talk to people. When I talk, I don't know what to say and what not to say. Young student, you are good to remind me."
After a pause, he frowned and said: "When you put it like that, I remembered something. I promised Aunt Mei something back then, or it was an agreement between me and her. At that time, I promised her to do something for me. One thing is kept secret, but times have changed, and this secret is nothing in today's era...Can't we say this too?"
"As long as you promise, you must do it!" Su Yi said seriously, "Old man, this is definitely not something that can be joked about."
"I took note of it." Li Qiang also became cautious due to Su Yi's words.
He thought for a moment and began to reword his words to tell what happened that year.
"That year, Bu Wantian suddenly told Aunt Mei that he was infected with opium and owed a large sum of money to Tian Qi from the same village. Tian Qi told Bu Wantian that as long as he allowed Aunt Mei to accompany him for one night, not only would the debt be written off, , he will also spend a sum of money to buy opium for Bu Wantian. Otherwise, he will make Bu Wantian's opium smoking public and ruin Bu Wantian's reputation!"
"Aunt Mei is kind-hearted and soft. She loves Bu Wantian very much, so when Bu Wantian begged her, she finally agreed. She hoped to sacrifice herself to save her husband. Who knows, that night she When he and Tian Qi were together, Zhang Xiaosan from the same village discovered their affair, and Zhang Xiaosan even called the village chief to catch them and rape them in bed."
When Li Qiang said this, Xiao Ming frowned and said: "This Bu Wantian is really not a man. He actually let his wife... Oh, no wonder she is so resentful."
"It would be nice if things were just that simple." Li Qiang sighed, "In that era, it was a very serious matter for Aunt Mei to do such things with outsiders as a wife. At that time, every village and clan had According to my own family law, lynching must be used for things like this. Since Auntie Mei’s case was discovered on the spot, her ending has actually been doomed."
"Aunt Mei knew this herself. She knew that she was destined to die, but in order to prevent her husband from being stigmatized, she did not tell her that it was actually Bu Wantian who asked her to do this. She was willing to die, only hoping that Bu Wantian could Become a new person..."
"She is so stupid..." Xiao Ming sighed.
"Yes, but what Auntie Mei didn't know at the time was that all this was Bu Wantian's conspiracy! Bu Wantian has been a scholar for generations, but his heart is like a snake and a scorpion. He is really harmless and unhusband..." Li Qiang gritted his teeth when he said this. , showing hatred in his eyes.
"Actually, he was not infected with opium at all, and he did not owe Tian Qi any money. He deliberately deceived Aunt Mei so that she would believe it and did that kind of thing with Tian Qi, and then he notified Zhang Xiaosan to catch the rapist!"
"He knows that after the village chief finds out about this, he will definitely not let Aunt Mei go! Bu Wantian just wants Aunt Mei to die!"
Xiao Ming said "Ah" and his eyes widened in horror: "This, this...but why did he do this?"
"Because he fell in love with the daughter of a big bank boss at that time!" Li Qiang said angrily, "That woman also fell in love with her. But Bu Wantian was already married, and the beautiful aunt was virtuous and virtuous, and she did not violate the rule of seven outings. He has no reason to divorce his wife."
"If he abandons Aunt Mei rashly, not only will no one in the village agree, but it will also affect his innocent and glorious image in the mind of that woman. That's why he came up with such a vicious and despicable plan to make himself a A victim."
Xiao Ming shuddered after hearing this, and after a long time he said, "Is this man's heart made of stone?"
Li Qiang sighed: "That night, Zhang Xiaosan and the others stoned Aunt Mei to death, picked up the body with a rag and threw it into a mass grave in the back hill."
"I was still young at the time, and I overheard the conspiracy of Bu Wantian, Zhang Xiaosan and Tian Qi, and then I realized how miserable Aunt Mei had been deceived by them. I only had Aunt Mei as a relative, so I ran to her body and cried. I told her the truth, who knows, who knows..."
"What happened?" Xiao Ming asked nervously.
"Who knew that Auntie Mei's hands suddenly broke free from the rope and raised them high!" Li Qiang said in a trembling voice, "You probably all know what happened next. In three days, sixty-six people died in Huangshan Village. !”
"Zhang Xiaosan was hacked to death by Bu Wantian; Tian Qi committed suicide in a frenzy and bled to death; the village chief and his family all jumped into the well and drowned, and Bu Wantian was also frightened to the point of bleeding to death..."
"It's miserable, how can it be called miserable?" Li Qiang clicked his tongue and shook his head, "At that time, everyone in the village was in panic and they all ran out, but what's the use? Anyone who has anything to do with the incident that harmed Aunt Mei will escape. Don’t fall off.”
"On the third day, it was time for me to leave. Because of Aunt Mei, I was taken in again. Before I left, I went to the back mountain to see her. She still raised her hands high and looked like she was dead. "
"I told Aunt Mei that those who harmed her are dead, and many innocent people are also dead. No matter how great the hatred is, it is time to let go. I advised her to stop killing people."
"Strange to say, I put the peace bracelet she gave me on her arm, and she put her hand down. From then on, she really never killed again. people."
After a pause, Li Qiang frowned and said, "I really can't figure out why Aunt Mei started killing people again after decades..."
Xiao Ming said hurriedly: "Uncle, where is its graveyard? We want to see it!"
Su Yi stretched out his hand to stop him and said to Li Qiang: "Uncle, does that peace bracelet have any special meaning for you and it?"
"I didn't think so at first, but you reminded me to pay attention to Aunt Mei before, so I think this safety bracelet is really important." Li Qiang said, "Back then, Aunt Mei gave me that bracelet. She told me that she could promise me anything. I put the bracelet on her and asked her to promise not to kill anyone again. Maybe that's why she listened to me."
"Is that so, Sir Huang?" Xiao Ming looked at Su Yi.
Su Yi nodded and agreed with this guess.
"This bracelet is a Su Seal." Su Yi said, "The so-called Su Seal is actually a token of agreement between humans and ghosts. Ghosts attach great importance to promises, especially the promises made before rebirth. When a ghost still acknowledges that it was given to you during its lifetime, When you have made a promise and you have a token that allows it to recognize this promise, this token is regarded as a long-lasting seal."
