Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 5 People Are Living Ghosts
Su Ji took a few steps back dejectedly, leaning against the altar table weakly.

At this moment, all thoughts of him were completely ashamed, there were no tears in his eyes, only desolation and burning pain.

At this moment, he finally understood that the saddest thing in a person's life is not that he has no fate, but that he has no fate; it is not mediocrity without talent, but mediocrity with talent; Sometimes, even the only relative in this world betrayed you and abandoned you!
If people feel that they are not born at the right time, they are willing to degenerate, and they often die without dust.

Wang Laoqian turned around and changed his face, inciting the common people with righteous words:

"Su Ji offended the gods and will be punished by heaven today!"

"God damn it?"

Su Ji smiled sadly, and slowly pointed to the people in front of him who were prosecuting the teacher, shouting frantically:

"You are not heaven! There is no god in the world! There are only evil ghosts in the world! Once I turn into a ghost, none of you will be able to escape!"

His words were full of resentment and helplessness, and the hatred in his eyes was hotter than the flames.Everyone present was forced to take a few steps back by the intimidating momentum.A few people who came to join in the fun turned around and ran away in fright on the spot.

Seeing that the situation was not good for him, Wang Laoqian quickly grabbed the torches from the people around him and threw them at Su Ji!
Su Ji turned sideways, but unexpectedly the torch knocked over the oil lamp on the altar table and ignited the lamp oil jar under the table!
In an instant, flowing flames spread through the cracks in the floor!
Su Ji took a few steps back and shouted to the "three ghosts" beside him:
"Hurry up and run! Do you really want to be ghosts with me?"

"This is my home, I'm not going anywhere!" As she said, Huan'er sat on the ground without moving.

Su Ji sighed: "Wang Laoqian only wants my life. If you go out, just push the matter to me!"

Huan'er spat on the ground and said:
"Brother Ji underestimates me too much. Although I'm not the son of an official, I can't do this kind of thing! If Brother Ji didn't help me with all my money, I would have become a stray dog. I might as well die! "

Wang Laoqian turned around and shouted to the people behind him:
"They ran away, and we are the ones who suffer! Burn them to death!"

Instigated by Wang Laoqian, the common people also threw out the torches in their hands and hurriedly exited the temple gate.Wang Laoqian, who was the last to go out, closed the temple gate tightly.

Su Ji rushed over and kicked on the door, but the temple door remained motionless. Little did he know that all the doors and windows were blocked by the people from the outside!
He suddenly looked back and saw that the little Taoist priest was still in the temple, he couldn't help shouting:

"Little Taoist priest! Why don't you run away? Do you want to become immortal on the spot?"

The little Taoist knelt on the ground and trembled all over, pointing at the flames spreading in front of him, he said:

"I really want to run away, but I'm afraid of fire... I'm afraid when I see it... I'm terribly afraid..."

Su Ji sat down on the ground and sighed helplessly:

"With your virtue, it's meaningless to live. It's better to die."

The little Taoist said tremblingly:

"I don't want to die either. I'm afraid of pain. I heard that burning to death hurts! Aren't you afraid?"

"It's useless to be afraid? I deserve to die today, and I have to die if I'm afraid. If I don't deserve to die, then there's nothing to be afraid of!"

After all, Su Ji smiled lightly, as if laughing at himself, but also as if he was relieved.

Hua Tuan slapped her thigh and said angrily:
"Brother Ji! This is how I behave in this life! If there is a next life, I must live like a fucking human being!"

"What do you consider a human being?"

"I want to be rich and powerful. I have countless women. Four... no! Forty!"

Su Ji laughed and said, "You are really not afraid of being exhausted!"

Looking at the two people who were dying but still laughing, the little Taoist couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

Seeing him disapproving, Hua Tuan couldn't help asking curiously:
"Little Taoist priest, what do you want to do in your next life?"

"I don't know if a person like me will have another life. If so, I want to be a general."

"General?" Su Ji and Huan'er questioned in unison.

The little Taoist's expression became more and more melancholy, he lowered his head and said:

"My ancestors have been in the army since the previous dynasty. From my grandfather's generation, the descendants, regardless of gender, have no long hair."

Su Ji was shocked and said: "I heard that there is a bald general in Haojing, the capital of Zhou, who is known as the god of war. It is said that he is the descendant of Li Jing, the general soldier of Chentangguan in the Shang Dynasty. Could it be..."

"It's my brother." As he spoke, the little Taoist sighed.

"You are also a descendant of Li Tianwang. Your brother became a general, why did you become a Taoist priest?"

"My father once heard a fortune teller say that the ancestors of my Li family led troops to splash Chaoge with blood, and the descendants fought against the Rong people for years. Ying went to Xishen country to practice Taoism, but because he was afraid of the tyrannical Rong people, he dared not go alone so far, so he had to live in this ruined temple."

After listening to the little Taoist's story, Su Ji was stunned for a long time, then suddenly smiled bitterly, and bent down, as if he had never heard anything funnier than this, he looked up to the sky and sighed:

"One word from fortune-telling can change a person's fate. There is nothing more absurd than this!"

The little Taoist felt ashamed when he heard this, but he didn't know that Su Ji was not laughing at him, but himself.

Su Ji knew that he was the same as him, not only had no chance with Dao, but also his life was at the mercy of fate.Unexpectedly, the fallen people in Tianya, who had the same experience as me, would gather together today to go to the underworld.

Is this a trick from the heavens, or is it a pure coincidence?
Could the fortune-telling priest mentioned by the little Taoist be the same person as the barefoot Taoist priest he met when he was a child?
No matter what, it is not important to Su Ji who is about to die, because it is impossible to start over in this lifetime.

Seeing Su Ji frowning, Hua Tuan'er comforted him, "Brother Ji, our life is coming to an end, why don't you tell us what you plan to do in your next life?"

Su Ji pondered for a moment, then sadly replied:
"In the next life, even if I can only live for one day, I will live happily like my two elder brothers, saving people to death, and killing people to death. Although they only lived for 17 years, they spent 17 years being someone else's life. It’s something I can’t do. And I’ve been miserable for the past 17 years, and I’ve also caused the important people around me to suffer…”

Hua Tuan patted Su Ji's shoulder, choked up and said:

"Brother Ji...don't say it...we will be brothers in the next life!"

Su Ji's heart ached, and his body trembled uncontrollably.He rubbed his red eye circles violently, and said embarrassedly: "Look at this thick smoke, it's already starting to choke your eyes..."

As he spoke, wrinkles appeared on his forehead, and a wry smile appeared from the corner of his parched mouth. Looking at the flames that continued to seep out of the black smoke, he said in despair: "It's a pity that the four of us can't have a drink before we die. It's a great pity in life! "

When talking about "four", Su Ji suddenly found that there was a "ghost" missing by his side, so he couldn't help asking:

"It's strange... where did the hungry ghost daddy go?"

The three of them looked around. The fire had already ignited everything that could burn in the house.Tongues of fire ravaged the ceiling, billowing thick smoke filled the entire temple, and it was impossible to tell the difference between east, west, and north.Finding someone in such an environment is almost impossible.

At this moment, only an old voice came up from the ground:
"Those who thought about staying in the next life, those who thought about staying with me in this life..."

　[Small theater (irrelevant to the main text! Can be skipped)] [Su Ji asked: Coward, you said that as a protagonist, how did I not have a golden finger in Chapter 4? 】【Little Taoist answer: I already have it, but you don’t know it yet】【Su Ji: Is it the obscene sword? 】【Little Taoist: Wrong! 】【Su Ji: Gouyu? 】【Little Taoist: Wrong! 】【Su Ji: Could it really be that pinch of hair? 】【Little Taoist: All wrong! 】【Su Ji: So what exactly is TM? 】【Little Taoist: Spoilers are more shameful than being cute. 】【Su Ji: Do you know how to write the cute word "cute"? 】【Little Taoist priest: Two "ten" side by side form "艹", "日" and "月" form "Ming", spelled together into a word "Moe".So tomorrow is October, month, tenth, day, and it’s the cuteness festival!I wish all readers a happy holiday in advance! 】

　　
　
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