Chapter 37: The Bridge of Rebirth, Stealing the Secret Seeing this, Zhang Jiuyang's heart was slightly shocked. He thought of the fire. Lu Yaoxing held his one-month-old son in his arms and kowtowed to the air, begging the air to leave a bloodline for the Lu family. Judging from his performance at the time, he seemed to have realized the strangeness of the fire and understood who was behind it all. However, the other party did not respond and chose to ruthlessly burn all 32 members of the Lu family to death. But there was one thing Zhang Jiuyang could not understand. He clearly saw with his own eyes Lu Yaoxing being burned to death in the fire, and the child he was holding tightly in his arms also turned into a ghost, but Lu Yaoxing was the only one missing. The seven-star soul-locking nail on Yunniang's body, the person who tricked Lao Gao, the figure who pushed Yunniang into the water on Baishi Bridge, and why Lu Yaoxing used his own daughter as a living stake... Zhang Jiuyang had a hunch that perhaps the answers to many mysteries were hidden in this booklet. He continued to look down. "If I die in an accident, then the person who killed me... is Blind Lin!" Zhang Jiuyang's pupils narrowed. Blind Lin? Isn't he already dead?
Wait, Lu Yaoxing’s family was burned to death four months ago, and Blind Lin died three months ago. Judging from the time, Blind Lin should have been alive before Lu Yaoxing’s family was burned to death. Could it be that Blind Lin was going out to do something just to set fire to the Lu family? Zhang Jiuyang thought of Blind Lin’s diary, on the last few pages of which were written a few lines of large characters in hasty handwriting. "Damn it, that thing is getting more and more powerful, I can't control it anymore!" "Damn it, I vomited blood three times today. It seems I have to go find Lu Yaoxing. I don't want to die in this shitty place!" …… He turned to the next page. "My nightmare began when I met that scary blind man." "But all this has to start from my rise to fame." "My name is Lu Yaoxing. I am from Anlin County, Yangzhou. I run a ferry business on Lingjiang River. I lived in poverty until one day, a young man in brocade clothes boarded my boat." "It was already late at night, and there was no one else on the river. When passing an undercurrent, the young man in brocade clothes dropped his bag, revealing a lot of white silver and a lot of gold leaves." "I smashed his head with a paddle, threw his body into the river, picked up all his money, and then fled Yangzhou and settled in a remote county in Qingzhou." "I used the money to buy land and open a shop. Soon I became the leading businessman in the area, enjoying wealth and glory, and living a life that I could never have dreamed of before." "But one thing has always bothered me. No matter how many women I have, I can never give birth to a son!" "If I don't have a son, then no matter how much wealth I have, what's the point? How can I face my parents in the afterlife in the future?" Seeing this, Zhang Jiuyang sighed softly. There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and no one is the greatest. For the ancients, sons were extremely important. Wanting to have a son was already Lu Yaoxing's obsession. "Perhaps it's because I've done something sinister that God has prevented me from having a son. For this reason, I've often built bridges and roads, and donated incense to temples and Taoist temples, but to no avail."
"Until one day, Blind Lin came to my door, and then the nightmare began." "Blind Lin is indeed a capable man. He told me my biggest secret after counting with his fingers. He said that all my wealth came from the water and was ill-gotten gains. Therefore, I am destined to have no descendants and no sons." "I asked him to help me, and Blind Lin told me a method called the Bridge of Rebirth." "He said that he could build a bridge to the afterlife on the Xiaoyun River, and then use magic to deceive the heavens and change my fate, making them think that I was dead. From then on, all my sins would be wiped out, and I would naturally be able to give birth to a son." "But Blind Lin said that the Rebirth Bridge is a trick to deceive the heavens. If I want to build it, I must drive a living stake, and the person who offers sacrifices to the bridge must be my flesh and blood. Only in this way can I go to the netherworld and deceive the heavens." "I have six daughters, but I raised them all by myself. I couldn't bear it. At this time, I suddenly thought of the daughter I had with Yunniang..." Zhang Jiuyang finally understood why Lu Yaoxing killed his own daughter with his own hands. This person is really crazy! No wonder he suddenly had a son later. It must be that the magic of the Bridge of Rebirth was successful. However, things should not be that simple, otherwise Lu Yaoxing would not have called it a nightmare. "Later, my wife got pregnant and gave birth to a son. I was very grateful to Blind Lin and was willing to reward him with a large sum of money. However, he did not want the money and instead made some strange requests." "At first, he just asked me to find some corpses or buy children under six years old from human traffickers." "Gradually, his requests became more and more bizarre." "He asked me to whip him with a barbed steel whip until he was covered in blood, then sprinkle him with salt water while he chanted some incantation." "Sometimes, I seem to see two expressions on his face, one in pain and the other in laughter." "One night, I woke up suddenly and saw him standing beside my bed, his two blind eyes staring at me, motionless." "I pretended to be asleep, but I already had the intention to kill." "The next day, I poisoned him to death." Seeing this, Zhang Jiuyang felt a chill in his heart. Lu Yaoxing was indeed a man who had committed murder and robbery before, and he was extremely cruel at heart. "Since he gave my Lu family an heir, I found him a grave and chose the best coffin. I thought he was finally free, but I didn't expect that he would show up at my house the next day." "This time, I smashed his head with a stick myself. Brains and blood were splattered everywhere, but the next day, he came back to life and greeted me." "I began to feel terrified. Finally, after I killed him for the third time, I took my whole family and fled to Qingzhou City overnight. I made up my mind never to return to Yunhe County again." Zhang Jiuyang's eyes moved. He used to think that the reason why Lu Yaoxing moved his family away was because he was worried about Yunniang's revenge, but now it seems that he was hiding from Blind Lin. Who exactly is that Blind Lin, and how could he keep coming back to life from the dead? Or is it just a smoke screen? "The day after I moved to Qingzhou City, I finally stopped seeing that scary blind man. Time passed slowly, and my son was almost one month old." "But who would have thought that just a few days before the full moon banquet, Blind Lin suddenly came to see me again. He seemed to have amnesia at this time. Sometimes when I called his name, it took him a long time to respond." "He started making all kinds of weird requests again. I pretended to satisfy him while secretly monitoring him. I found that he would hold a box in his hands every night. He seemed to care a lot about what was inside and would open it every hour to take a look." "I killed him again and took the box. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand what was inside. But it doesn't matter. This box must be very important to him. If he comes again, I will use it as a threat." "But who knew that the body disappeared and he never showed up again."
"But I am becoming more and more uneasy. Blind Lin is definitely not a good person. He will definitely take revenge on me. This intuition is getting stronger and stronger." "If I died accidentally, it must not be an accident. The murderer is Blind Lin!" "You must be someone from my Lu Mansion who found this book. Remember, don't tell anyone. Take this book and the things in Blind Lin's box to the capital and find a place called the Imperial Observatory and give them to them." "And tell my son that daddy can't watch you grow up." "Daddy is a bad man, but I hope you can be a good person in the future." …… (End of this chapter)