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Chapter 293 The Most Bitter Torture in the World

The ghost market, lanterns in the wind, and waves of sound.

Amidst a series of dissenting rebuttals, the old man with the black tongue continued his eloquent speech.

The Dao soldiers controlled by Chen Xu had silently retreated several steps, ready to leave the Long Tongue Ghost Market with the Tray Ghost at any time.

Black Tongue Old Ghost kept mentioning both Xie Huaizheng and Xie Huaizheng's daughter.

Xie Huaizheng was undoubtedly an honest and good official during his lifetime; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him a hero in the officialdom.

But after he became a ghost, he ate people, even Chen Xu. It was only natural that Chen Xu would retaliate and kill him.

Chen Xu didn't think he had done anything wrong, but compared to the Xie woman mentioned by the black-tongued old ghost, he was indeed his father's killer.

In an instant, Chen Xu's thoughts were racing.

His first thought was of the "life-or-death crisis" he had once divined.

Previously, he had been dealing with this so-called crisis in a completely futile and clueless manner.

After killing Chi Jie, he also believed that his crisis was over.

Chi Jie may be the primary source of that sense of crisis.

But what if that's not the case?
Is it possible that the "Xie woman" mentioned by the black-tongued old ghost is the real crisis?
After all, Chi Jie was no match for Chen Xu.

Despite some setbacks, it was actually quite easy; it just seems like something is still missing.

In the mortal realm, Chen Xu, who was remotely controlling everything, suppressed the slight ripples that were rising in his heart.

In the ghost market, the Taoist soldiers listened intently in silence.

Black Tongue Old Ghost began to recount his story in a leisurely manner, telling a tale that seemed both long and short in one breath:

Xie Huaizheng's daughter also had a difficult life.

She was less than three years old when her mother died of illness, leaving behind only a handwritten letter and some money, while entrusting her to an old friend in Jiangdong.

Unexpectedly, his old friend also died young, having only raised Lady Xie to the age of seven before passing away.

Finally, Xie Niangzi ended up at the home of an old friend's brother, where she was raised as a child bride.

At the age of fifteen, Xie Niangzi married her adoptive mother's younger brother, but her adoptive parents both fell ill and passed away.

Rumors circulated that she was a cursed star, and anyone who got close to her was bound to meet a bad end.

At this time, Xie Niangzi's husband began to believe the rumors circulating in the streets, and began to treat Xie Niangzi very badly.

The young man drowned his sorrows in alcohol every day. When he got some money, he gambled it all away. After losing everything, he would go home and beat his wife.

Poor Lady Xie also felt that she had dragged her adoptive parents down, so she worked hard without complaint and endured beatings and scoldings.

She was submissive and obedient, yet she managed her household and business affairs exceptionally well. Even the most hard-hearted person would be warmed by her kindness!
Another six months passed, and one day, Lady Xie discovered that she was pregnant.

After she became pregnant, her husband changed somewhat. Perhaps thinking that since they both had a child, all the resentment from the past should go away, he finally stopped arguing with Lady Xie.

As a result, both sides enjoyed some good days.

But who could have predicted that this good fortune wouldn't last long? Guess what happened?

It turned out that during the postpartum period after giving birth, Xie Niangzi was having a hard time taking care of the baby, and her husband was feeling sullen, so he went to a gambling den to pass the time.

After gambling again and again, before Xie Niangzi's baby was even a month old, one day the young man suddenly brought people from the gambling den, saying he wanted to use the baby to pay off gambling debts.

It turns out that a cultivator had divined that Lady Xie's son had extraordinary potential and exceptional talent, making him suitable to enter the immortal realm and become a celestial child.

How could Lady Xie believe the words of a gambling addict?
Although she was in her postpartum period, she absolutely refused to allow anyone else to easily take her child. Thus began a struggle between a mother driven to desperation and a strong gambling den henchman.

They chased and fled back and forth, until finally, Lady Xie ran to a deep well outside the three alleys.

That was the most famous deep well in the entire county. Several neighbors used to draw water from this well for drinking. Xie Niangzi accidentally kicked the edge of the well and fell into it with her child.

well! "

Black Tongue Old Ghost sighed.

The ghosts around them, who were originally chattering noisily, became engrossed in listening to the old black-tongued ghost tell stories.

Having listened intently, the ghosts fell silent for quite some time.

Only then did a ghost in a panic shout, "Hey, Black Tongue Old Ghost, why are you sighing? What happened next? What happened after that?"
"You say this young lady from the Xie family is a mortal, and that she fell into a well. How can such a frail young woman possibly refine a dragon?"

The old man with the black tongue chuckled and said, "Don't be in such a hurry, there will always be unexpected encounters, won't there?"

Yes, what a serendipitous encounter!
Why were the ghosts willing to listen to this old ghost with the black tongue tell stories?
All because of the story of this old black-tongued ghost, which somehow possesses an indescribable sense of legend.

The old man with the black tongue continued slowly and deliberately, with intonation, "Young Lady Xie and her son fell into a deep well, but little did they know that this deep well was actually connected to the Golden Wing River, which was dozens of miles away."

Jinchi River is also a tributary of Yuancang River.

The Yuancang River not only connects the seven prefectures of Tiannan, but also has several tributaries flowing through the six counties of Jiangdong.

The great breach of the Yuancang River in the seven prefectures of Tiannan occurred on the very day that Lady Xie fell into the deep well.

That day, Lady Xie, overwhelmed with grief and anger, threw herself into a well with her infant child in her arms. That day, the seven prefectures of Tiannan were hit by a once-in-a-decade torrential rain, and the Yuancang River breached its banks.

The Jinchi River also swelled, and the mighty current swept Xie Niangzi into the main tributary of the Yuancang River.

The infant Xie Niangzi was less than a month old died on the spot in the raging torrent.

Do you know the power that a mother can unleash when she watches her child die in her arms?

The story is tragic, yet the ghosts cry out, "So what if it erupts again? That Lady Xie is just a mortal!"

The old ghost with the black tongue sighed and said, "Although she is just a mortal, she is Xie Huaizheng's bloodline."

Have you ever heard of the saying, "Extreme passion and extreme nature can lead to instant sainthood"?

Lady Xie, carrying the remains of her infant son, drifted in the floodwaters of the breached dike for more than ten days.

Although her child had died, she would always express milk in her dreams and feed him.

She ate rotting corpses that floated in the flood, scavenged rotten tree roots from the mud, fought with wild dogs for food, and struggled against fate.

She survived all those hardships, and then one day, in the mud after the flood, she heard that she was not an orphan at all, but the daughter of Xie Huaizheng, an imperial envoy!
Haha, her mother never told her this secret before she died.

Her father was unaware of her existence.

It was a meeting amidst the mud that made father and daughter recognize each other.

But by this time, Xie Huaizheng had become a pariah, hated by everyone.

He could only secretly leave a treasure for Lady Xie, while he himself was bound by the crowd and put on the execution platform.

Lady Xie's mother died, her father perished, and her son drowned. Holding her infant's skeleton in her arms, she instantly became a demon on that day!

The old ghost with the black tongue cackled, its voice echoing through several streets of the ghost market.

(End of this chapter)