Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 355 The Past of Our Fathers

Ran Qing's murmured words were stiff and cold.

After he finished speaking, he could clearly feel the girl nestled against him suddenly stiffen.

The gentle and enchanting atmosphere of just moments ago has undergone a subtle change.

But this girl, who looked exactly like Li Hongye, did not get angry when her identity was exposed.

It did not become enraged and transform into some kind of evil creature to attack Ran Qing.

She just looked at Ran Qing silently and bitterly, and said, "...But I am indeed Li Hongye, I am the Li Hongye you know."

"Li Hongye's memories, Li Hongye's personality, everything about Li Hongye... You paid for my life, and I am Li Hongye, the Li Hongye who has been resurrected."

The girl looked at Ran Qing with bitterness and sorrow, and slowly let go of him.

Looking at Ran Qing's expression, she understood something.

"...So you don't want to take me back?"

Ran Qing dared not look into her eyes, but instead gazed into the distance, at the bustling and prosperous city of celebration, and said.

"The Ghost King's Coffin is indeed powerful; it can create an exact replica of a living person, and you can take them away as long as you pay..."

"But no matter how realistic the forgery is, it's still just a fake."

Ran Qing sighed and made a difficult decision.

He sensed the disappointment in the girl beside him and wanted to say something.

Before she could even speak, the girl who looked exactly like Li Hongye smiled and stepped back, shaking her head.

"That's definitely your temper, Ran Qing."

"You can't accept a fake Li Hongye, nor can you accept the fact that you chose your girlfriend from among your mother, grandmother, and sixth aunt and came back to life..."

Li Hongye smiled, shook her head, and said, "Indeed, not choosing is the best option."

"If you take me home, you'll probably feel guilty for the rest of your life, feeling guilty that it wasn't your aunt who stayed until the end."

This girl, who was exactly like Li Hongye, with the same memories and the same personality, calmly accepted reality.

She winked playfully at Ran Qing and said, "Then... this time it's really goodbye forever."

"But at least this time, I can say goodbye to you with a smile, instead of being trapped in a coffin, wailing and suffering."

"Thank you, Ran Qing, thank you for leaving me until the end."

"Although saying this might make you seem very unfilial, it's true that I'm the most important person in your heart."

Li Hongye said with a grin, "Knowing this, I'd be perfectly content even if I died again."

The girl was laughing and joking happily, without any entanglement.

She turned around and walked back the way she came.

After walking away step by step, it finally disappeared into thin air.

It was as if they had never appeared.

Ran Qing stared blankly as the girl disappeared into thin air, and in a daze, she suddenly felt a cold touch on her back.

He was startled and quickly opened his eyes.

I then realized that I was lying in a thick, white fog.

After jumping up, a strange coffin was suddenly found in front of him.

This is a stone coffin, but the outside of the coffin is covered with a strange layer of blue down.

The fine, bluish-green hairs seemed to be alive, wriggling on the surface of the stone coffin, giving one a chilling feeling.

Little Cotton, fast asleep, lay at his feet, smiling happily.

"Auntie...hehe...Auntie..."

She clearly saw her sixth aunt.

Perhaps they are about to bring Aunt Liu back at this moment?
Ran Qing stared at the strange stone coffin before him, recalling everything that had just happened. He understood the true purpose of the Ancient Luo Ghost Coin.

These ancient ghost coins were actually used to buy lives.

To buy the life of a dead person.

Bringing the Ancient Ghost Coins to the Ghost King's Coffin allows you to resurrect a dead person.

Or rather, the Ghost King's Coffin will create an exact replica of you and let you bring it back to the human world.

But the question is, are these things really human beings?

What exactly is this evil spirit from an ancient ghost kingdom, which uses bizarre powers to create living people?
Looking at the eerie coffin before her, Ran Qing recalled the scene of the mentally impaired Ran Jianfei telling his wife in fear, "She's a ghost"...

“That’s right, I resurrected your stepmother using the Ghost King’s Coffin.”

Ran Jianfei's voice suddenly rang out from the white mist behind him.

Ran Qing was startled and turned around abruptly.

Looking at Ran Jianfei, whose face was full of exhaustion, his transparent figure floated in the mist.

He looked at Ran Qing with a bitter expression, no longer displaying the annoying slickness and frivolity he had before.

The eyes and brows of middle-aged people are filled with nothing but weariness and helplessness.

He said in a low voice, "...Ten years ago, I came to the coffin of the Ghost King, wanting to resurrect your mother."

"But the person I brought out in the end was my first love, who had passed away many years ago."

"Before I met Xiaoxia, Xiaofang was my neighbor. We grew up together. Our two families arranged a marriage between us when we were little, and she was the first girl I liked."

“When I was your age, I vowed to treat her well and take her to the county town to live the good life of city people. I didn’t want her to spend her whole life toiling in the fields like those women in the village.”

"But later, when she was crossing the bridge to catch a market, she was swept away by the floodwaters caused by a torrential rain."

“I always thought I had forgotten her long ago, especially after your mother and you came into my life. Our family is very happy.”

"I can't even remember what Xiaofang looks like anymore."

"But ten years ago, when I came to the coffin of the Ghost King, ready to resurrect your mother and bring her back to the human world, the one who came out with me at the end was Xiao Fang..."

Ran Jianfei, shrouded in mist, smiled bitterly and sadly.

He laughed with unbridled self-deprecation.

This was the first time Ran Qing had seen him with such an expression.

Even though Ran Jianfei's words had already given her some clues, Ran Qing's emotions remained complex and difficult to describe the moment they were confirmed.

He stared at the transparent, remnant soul before him, at the father who had abandoned him for ten years.

After a few seconds of silence, Ran Qing said, "You don't need to tell me these things. I don't care about your romantic entanglements."

"Why was my mother taken away by the Ghost King's Coffin? Is she still in this white mist?"

Ran Jianfei's remnant soul was taken away along with his mother's ghost.

Now, Ran Jianfei's remnant soul appears in the white mist surrounding the Ghost King's coffin, but what about his mother's ghost...?

Ran Qing frowned and looked around.

Ran Jianfei, who was faintly visible in the white mist, sighed.

“That’s not your mother. It’s a ghost from your mother’s ancestor who took your mother’s place by using the power of bloodline.”

“She’s the one who killed your mother. I went to the ghost town of Laro to find her, also to kill her and avenge your mother.”

"But unfortunately, I couldn't beat her..."

Ran Jianfei's remnant soul stared at Ran Qing and slowly said, "As for why it was targeted by those evil soldiers of the Ghost Kingdom, I don't know either."

"But she's right there in that coffin. You'll see her when you open the Ghost King's Coffin."

(End of this chapter)