Chapter 16

Xie Shouzheng also breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought it would be a fierce battle, and I was afraid of losing soldiers and generals. I didn't expect this move from the Princess to be truly eye-opening. It's much more convenient than the demon-locking chains we used before..."

Lin Qingyue sighed secretly in her heart: My cultivation is still too low; planting the simplest curse requires the help of my own essence blood to be effective, which is really troublesome.

It's also thanks to the fact that there are no great demons in this world, otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to handle it.

But then again, if the demon evil here hadn't been downgraded in strength, a wolf demon like Xie Shouzheng wouldn't have been able to become a fifth-rank official.

Xie Shouzheng didn't know he had been despised and still asked Lin Qingyue shamelessly: "Can you draw a few more of those talismans just now and leave them for us to use?"

"You have quite the imagination!" Lin Qingyue rolled her eyes at him, "You'd better think about how to send the other party away. The Heavenly Net Talisman has a time limit and can only last for at most one hour."

Xie Shouzheng said carelessly: "Sending him away is not difficult! If you can persuade him, persuade him; if you can save him, save him. If you can't persuade or save him, kill him or seal him. After all, you can't persuade a ghost that's destined to die with kind words!"

Lin Xiao's face changed as soon as he heard this: "Then what about my son?"

Xie Shouzheng shrugged: "If killing one person can ensure the peace of a region, then your son can only sacrifice his life for righteousness. At worst, I will help the Eldest Young Master Lin ask the Emperor for the title of a hero who sacrificed his life for righteousness."

After a pause, he looked at Lin Qingyue: "I wonder if the Princess has any brilliant ideas?"

Previously, when Princess Qing'an's soul became a fiend and they were at a loss, Lin Qingyue was able to easily call back her reason. I just don't know if she has a way to deal with an evil demon.

"Absurd! Does your Xuanjing Division treat human life like grass?" Lin Xiao was furious.

Zhou Shi ignored the pain in her body and stumbled to Lin Qingyue's side:

"Yue'er, save your brother. Mother only has this one son, I can't just watch him die!"

Although she didn't know how Lin Qingyue had learned these skills, she was now the only straw she could grasp.

"Is that so?" Lin Qingyue smiled cunningly, "Then what if you trade your life for his?"

Zhou Shi was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Lin Qingyue said: "It means trading your life for your son's life."

Zhou Shi didn't speak.

Lin Qingyue turned around, not wanting to meddle anymore, and let Xie Shouzheng figure it out himself.

Zhou Shi suddenly grabbed her sleeve and said tremblingly: "Mother is willing! As long as Feng'er can be saved, Mother is willing to trade her life!"

Lin Qingyue sneered: "You are indeed a great mother, not even caring about your own life for Lin Rufeng and Lin Ruzhen. Yet, you are heartless and unrighteous toward your biological daughter."

Dongfang Yan frowned as he looked over, not understanding why Lin Qingyue would emphasize the words "biological daughter."

Zhou Shi sobbed and said: "Yue'er, Mother knows she has neglected you all these years. Today Mother has seen many things clearly, and Mother promises to care for you more in the future. Just please help your brother; if he treats you badly in the future, Mother will scold him and hit him for you!"

Lin Qingyue: "Heh~ so you also know he treats me badly."

"Yue'er, Mother begs you!"

Over there, Xie Shouzheng was squatting next to "Lin Rufeng," nagging and persuading him.

Talking about how grievances should be settled, how it's better to let go of obsessions and turn back to the shore.

And about putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot, etc.

Even the tabby cat on the side felt it couldn't bear to watch anymore and covered its face with its paw: Xiao Hui is still as long-winded as before!

After a long-winded speech, he finally succeeded in angering the evil demon, which let out a sharp scream and then tried to break free from the restraints with brute force again.

"Bang!" Several red blood threads began to break under that brute force.

Xie Shouzheng was startled: "Didn't you say it could last for an hour? Why is it starting to break so quickly? Princess, Princess!"

Lin Qingyue had the urge to slap Xie Shouzheng to death.

"It could have lasted for an hour, but you angered him. He has both a grievance-filled soul and an evil demon in his body. Originally, it was just the evil demon making trouble, but your persuasion angered the grievance-filled soul as well. Lord Xie, you really are useless! I really don't know how you became this Evil-Appraising Envoy."

"Princess, my affairs can be discussed later, solving the current problem is urgent!"

Lin Qingyue's cold and wise gaze saw the ghost hidden in Lin Rufeng's body through him:

"For so many years, you have endured without acting. I know you are not an evil ghost, you just have grievances with nowhere to tell. Are you willing to let us see your memories? Perhaps I can give you justice."

As she spoke, she slowly walked toward Lin Rufeng: "If you are willing, temporarily put down your resistance. Although this world is full of filth, justice still exists."

Perhaps it was because her tone was too gentle at this moment, or perhaps it was because the ghost had been wronged for many years with nowhere to vent, but it actually shed two lines of clear tears and slowly closed its eyes.

Lin Qingyue immediately threw out a talisman: "All things in the past life are but a dream. With blood as the guide, trace the dream and return to the shadow!"

Two days ago, when Lin Qingyue used this move, she could only return the memory to one person.

But this time, while tracing the dream, she superimposed a "Mirage" curse, so that it could be projected into the void, allowing everyone around to see it.

So at this moment, a dream-tracing scene the size of a lotus leaf appeared above Lin Rufeng's head.

In the scene, the bright spring sunshine shone on the lintel of the "Lin Shi Xue Tang," shining brightly. The sound of reading was melodious and entered the ears.

Lin Shi Xue Tang was a school founded by the first Marquis of the Lin family. In addition to the children of the main family, it also recruited children with other surnames.

During the day, the school was filled with the sound of reading, a scene of progress.

But after the teacher left, it was a different story.

"Splash—" A bucket of foul-smelling urine was poured over his head.

The young man in a green shirt with a delicate face was covered in filth.

The students nearby hurried to disperse, some disgusted, some mocking.

"Hahaha, look at Shen Mo's appearance, doesn't he look like a human-shaped urine bucket?"

"A urine bucket should be filled with shit and urine!"

"Shen Mo, go to the latrine and be a dutiful urine bucket, don't disgust us in the school!"

The young man covered in filth looked angrily at the person who led the bullying:

"Lin Rufeng, how have I offended you? Why do you always target me?"

Lin Rufeng at that time was still an eighteen-year-old boy, young and handsome, but as vicious as a devil.

"You haven't offended me. I'm just bored with studying and want to find someone to bully."

"Why choose you? Who told you to be born in a poor family and have a declining family fortune?"

Shen Mo said: "So what if I'm from a poor family? My grandfather was also an official, it's just..."

It's just that he was too upright, offended his superiors, was dismissed from his post, and his family fortune declined.

When he was in his hometown, Shen Mo was still a spirited young man who wanted to rely on his own strength to bring glory to his family.

Later, when he came to the capital to study, he also wanted to broaden his horizons and be taught by great scholars.

But the capital was full of high-ranking officials and nobles, and students from poor families seemed insignificant.

In the Lin Shi Xue Tang, his background was the lowest, and he even became a target for bullying because of it.