Chapter 46: Chapter 46: Are there many ghosts in the Ghost Market?
Translator: 549690339
“My father was wronged by treacherous people, jailed for the crime, and later the Embroidered Uniform Guard commander was executed by dismemberment for ‘plotting a major rebellion’, many victims were finally vindicated, and my father was among them.”
Regarding this sudden question, Liu Shishi didn’t have any resistance.
She explained, “When 1 took my own life, my father was in prison. He was released on the seventh day after my death, and he gave me a grand funeral.”
Xu Yang shook his head after hearing that, “It seems like you were a bit too hasty in taking your own life. But if it weren’t for that, we wouldn’t have met or become acquaintances.”
He secretly calculated Liu Shishi’s age in his heart.
She claimed to be a Ming Dynasty citizen.
During the Ming Dynasty, only one commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was executed by dismemberment for “plotting a major rebellion,” and that was Ji Gang.
Xu Yang had seen this detail in some Ming Dynasty novels.
He discreetly took out his phone and looked up Ji Gang, discovering that he had indeed done many evil deeds, framing officials, murdering rich merchants, forging imperial orders to snatch official ships to transport private salt for himself, and dying in the 14th year of Yongle, which was AD 1416.
“2023 – 1416…”
“What?!”
Xu Yang did the math and blurted out, “Shishi, you’ve been dead for 607 years, and when you died, you must have been at least seventeen or eighteen, right? So… you’re over 620 years old?”
“Hm?”
The temperature in the air dropped a few degrees.
Liu Shishi glared at Xu Yang coldly and got up to watch TV.
Xu Yang shrank his neck, whispering to Yang Yin, “Did I say something wrong?”
Yang Yin covered her mouth and laughed softly, “Master Xu, a woman’s age is not something you can casually discuss… It’s not gentlemanly.”
You guys are already dead, why does that matter? Xu Yang secretly retorted!
Yang Yin said, “Besides, our age as ghosts is fixed at the last moment of our lives. For example, 1 was 22 when I died, so I will always be 22.”
“Shishi was 18 when she died, so she will always be 18.”
Xu Yang laughed.
Isn’t this just thick-skinned?
Of course, this thought could be in his mind, but not something said aloud, he couldn’t help but ask, “Since you are 22 and Shishi is 18, why do you call her elder sister?”
Yang Yin had an expression of ‘Well of course’: “Because Shishi died earlier!”
Xu Yang:”…”
Nice going!
You ghosts really have a unique way of calculating age.
Xu Yang looked at the time, it was already late at night, and he hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in several days, so he took a shower and went to bed.
But he didn’t notice that at this moment, a black SUV was parked across the street from the funeral shop.
In the car,
Wang Lin looked at the surveillance video on his phone and said, “Sister Bai, it’s here.”
That BMW came back from the Yellow River and stopped right here… Take a look!”
He pointed to the surveillance video, and the scene showed Xu Yang walking out of the funeral shop and standing in front of the driver’s window of the car, not knowing who he was talking to.
There was no one in the driver’s seat.
Immediately afterward, Xu Yang got in the car and sat in the passenger’s seat.
The BMW took off with a start and drove onto the main road.
Wang Lin and Bai Wei looked at each other in astonishment.
After a while, Wang Lin swallowed and said, “Sister Bai, has Xu Yang… raised a ghost?”
Bai Wei’s eyes flickered and she said, “Though raising a ghost is taboo, there are quite a few peculiar people in the martial world who have raised minor demons…even some female celebrities have done such things… But what I’m more curious about is why he brought a ghost to Lingzhou City late at night. What’s his story?”
They exchanged glances again and suddenly thought of Wang Wei, who had died in his own courtyard.
And from the timeline, everything matched!
Wang Lin shook his head with a bitter smile, “Wu City finally produced a Dao cultivator. We had planned to recruit him, but who would have thought he raised a ghost and killed people… Sister Bai, what should we do?”
“Martial world affairs should be handled within the martial world… Maybe there’s a grudge between them. If that’s the case, the Supernatural Affairs Bureau doesn’t need to intervene,” Bai Wei contemplated, listing various clues in her mind.
Wang Wei and his disciple were close to the disciples of the Lu Shan Sect.
However, the reason for the disciples of the Lu Shan Sect to visit Xi Xia Province is said to be the ‘Daoist Struggle of Years Ago’…
About the ‘Daoist Struggle’ between the Lu Shan Sect and Jingming Sect twenty years ago, it was considered one of the ‘major events’ in the martial world over the past twenty years. The Supernatural Affairs Bureau had access to general information, and Bai Wei had already seen it.
“A Daoist…”
“Surname Xu?”
“Xu?”
Her eyes lit up, “Wang Lin, let’s go back…”
They returned to the Xi Xia branch of the Supernatural Affairs Bureau in Wu City. It was an unlisted office building in the city.
Back at the office, Bai Wei began to investigate and consolidate various clues.
With her authority, she could see a lot of information. In just over an hour, she sorted out some useful information.
“Four days ago, Xu Yang reported a case that his grandfather’s bones had been stolen.”
“The officer who handled the case was Wang Tianshui from the Litong District Bureau. He was ordered to stop halfway through the investigation by his superiors… The one who gave the order was our bureau chief.”
Wang Lin got the point, “Sister Bai, do you mean that Xu Yang…might be a descendant of the Xu family in the Jingming Sect?”
Wang Wei and his disciple worked for the Lu Shan Sect. They stole his grandfather’s bones, so he killed them? If that’s the case, Xu Yang didn’t do anything wrong. He’s a dutiful man.”
Bai Wei said, “I don’t understand the details yet. We’ve met Xu Yang before, and his aura is only that of the Qi Refining Realm Fourth Level. How could he have killed Wang Wei and his disciple?”
“Sister Bai, if he could go underwater and kill that Water Ghost, how could he be as simple as the apparent Qi Refining Fourth Level? You’ve seen Wang Wei’s injuries too, they were definitely inflicted by a Daoist realm expert!”
Xu Yang was unaware of all this.
He slept soundly until noon the next day, and after washing up, he ordered takeout. After finishing lunch with the two ghosts, he finally went to the counter on the first floor, leisurely waiting for business to come in.
It’s not that Xu Yang was lazy.
Mainly because the business he was doing was such that he could only wait for customers to come, he couldn’t just run out and hand out flyers on the street, right?
Yang Yin, however, looked at the merchandise on the shelves with excitement, her saliva almost dripping down.
“So much money…so many treasures!”
“If we take these to the Ghost Market, won’t we make a fortune?”
She walked up to Xu Yang, grabbed his arm, and said playfully, “Master Xu, let’s make a deal… Leave these goods to me to handle, and I’ll exchange them for a few antique treasures for you, what do you think?”
Seeing Liu Shishi glance over, Xu Yang slapped away Yang Yin’s little hand on his arm and scolded, “Just talk, don’t pull and drag.”
He was intrigued by the Ghost Market and asked Yang Yin, “This Ghost Market you mentioned… Where exactly is it? And… are there many ghosts inside?”