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Chapter 71 Zhou Ping'an, the New Employee on Leave

Although many ghosts were willing to reincarnate after the Ghost Festival reopened this year.

Because of the child-giving incident, many child ghosts who lingered in the underworld were also reincarnated.

However, there are still many ghosts in the underworld who are still attached to their wishes. She has been in office for some time now and has helped many ghosts fulfill their wishes, but the number of leave application forms in the background is still over 999 million.

Okay, back to work!

Putting everything else aside, the salaries paid to civil servants in the underworld are quite high, a full 10 times that of those in the human world.

However, with the black gold bank card left by her grandfather, Xu Qingling said she is not short of money.

I work diligently because I enjoy it.

She was born without feelings or desires, yet she always gained insights while helping ghosts fulfill their wishes, which was the most precious thing to Xu Qingling.

The appearance of the next person asking for leave interrupted Xu Qingling's thoughts.

Xu Qingling's gaze fell on the ghost in front of her, and her brows furrowed slightly.

She couldn't see the ghost in front of her very clearly, neither its body nor its appearance.

His soul was very strange, grayish, as if covered with a layer of something that wouldn't go away. That thing not only covered the ghost's body, but also his face.

Sasha rushed down to look, and after a while, she exclaimed, "Sister, it's cement!"

cement?

Does that mean the ghost is completely encased in cement?

Xu Qingling knew that most ghosts would retain their appearance before death, unless their ghostly power was high enough to transform into other forms.

But clearly, the ghost in front of us doesn't have that ability.

Does that mean that at the moment of death, the ghost was encased in cement, with even its mouth and nose covered?

The image, the way she died—just thinking about it made Xu Qingling feel suffocated.

If he was dead, that would be fine. But if he was still alive at the time, wouldn't he have been buried alive by cement?

Xu Qingling vaguely felt it was the latter, otherwise, why would this person, now dead and a ghost, still have this cement following him?

Xu Qingling raised her hand, and a stream of light flew out and landed on the ghost in front of her.

As the light faded, the layer of cement that had been enveloping the ghost also disappeared, revealing the ghost's original appearance.

He was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, slender, with delicate features and a slightly dark complexion.

The heavy covering that had been on his body dissipated, and the boy was still in a daze for a moment. When he came to his senses, he realized that Xu Qingling had removed it for him, and tears of blood flowed from his eyes.

He slowly knelt down and thanked Xu Qingling.

Xu Qingling glanced at the boy's information on the computer.

Zhou Ping'an, 17 years old, died as follows...

When her gaze fell upon that line of words, Xu Qingling's pupils contracted slightly. Even though she had always considered herself to be as hard as iron, her heart couldn't help but flutter.

Buried alive, used as a live stake!
No wonder, no wonder even in death his body was still covered in cement, that layer of cement was like a bone-deep infection, impossible to get rid of.

"Sister, what is a 'raw stake'?" Sasha didn't quite understand this relatively obscure and unfamiliar term.

"Go check it out online." Xu Qingling clearly saw that when Sasha mentioned the words "living stake," Zhou Ping'an's soul trembled slightly, seemingly with extreme fear.

Xu Qingling was unwilling to explain this word in front of Zhou Ping'an.

When Sasha found out what "生桩" meant, her eyes immediately reddened and tears streamed down her face, which she couldn't stop wiping away no matter how hard she tried.

Zhou Ping'an must have been in a lot of pain and discomfort at that time.

Zhou Ping'an, however, paused for a moment when he saw Sasha crying for him. His eyes softened, and he said, "Miss Sasha, don't cry. It's all over now."

But is it really over?

Actually, no. Just moments before, he was encased in cement, and he still doesn't want to recall the scene of his death. "Sister, he's so pitiful, you have to help him."

"Zhou Ping'an, what obsession do you still hold onto?"

Before Zhou Ping'an could speak, an image appeared on the wall.

The video begins with a person whose face is obscured throwing an infant in a trash can. Zhou Shun, a deaf-mute man who happens to be taking out the trash, looks down and sees the baby covered in ants, crying almost to death.

When Zhou Ping'an's gaze fell on Zhou Shun, looking at his young adoptive father, tears of blood welled up in his eyes again.

“Dad…” Zhou Ping’an’s eyes were filled with longing and sorrow.

The video is still playing.

Zhou Shun hurriedly took the baby out and carefully patted the ants and trash off his body.

As if it were a predestined fate between the two, the baby stopped crying in Zhou Shun's arms.

Zhou Shun, who is deaf and mute and has never married even at the age of 40, looked at the baby with eyes full of tenderness and affection.

No matter how he looked at the child, he found him adorable.

However, Zhou Shun eventually called the police, and the baby was taken to the police station.

Unfortunately, the baby's parents were not found for the next week.

The police station couldn't keep a baby indefinitely, so they approached Zhou Shun and offered two options: either Zhou Shun would adopt the baby, or the baby would be sent to an orphanage.

Officer, I'm willing to take care of him, I really am.

Zhou Shun, who couldn't speak, immediately gestured with his hands to indicate that he was willing to adopt the child after understanding what the police meant.

Although Zhou Shun is deaf and mute, he is not stupid; in fact, he is quite intelligent.

He not only taught himself sign language, but also learned to recognize and write characters despite having no formal education.

He is also a diligent and conscientious person.

As a child, he was a homeless person, relying on handouts and growing up eating other people's leftovers.

When he was a teenager, the authorities allocated him an old house to live in and registered him as a resident. He also started a garbage recycling station, which enabled him to support himself.

As for how he got here?
He was naturally abandoned because he was born deaf and mute and was abandoned when he was three years old.

The name Zhou Shun was given to him by the old policeman who registered his household registration.

Zhou is the surname of that old policeman, and Shun is a wish for his future to be smooth and successful.

Zhou Shun likes his name very much. Even though he is disabled and different from ordinary people, he still cherishes his life and lives and has always lived it well.

However, he has never gotten married and had children.

It wasn't that he didn't want to, nor that he lacked the ability; Zhou Shun, who had some brains, still managed to save some money after opening the garbage dump.

Even his neighbors advised him to find someone. Of course, a normal person would not marry Zhou Shun, but it would be possible to find someone with intellectual disabilities or physical disabilities.

But Zhou Shun refused.

He was not only literate but also educated. He knew that he was born deaf and mute, and that if he had children, there was a high chance that the condition would be passed on to them.

Although he always acted as if he didn't care about being deaf and mute.

But he knew it was still different.

There are always people who give you strange looks.

Zhou Shun didn't want his child to suffer all of this.

If a child cannot have the ability to speak, if a child is born destined to be unable to hear the sounds of this world, to live in complete silence, he would rather have no children at all.

(End of this chapter)