Chapter 86

"It's still different." Lin Qingyue said, "Chicken, duck, fish, meat, and five grains are food in the human world, so humans will raise poultry and livestock. And these poultry and livestock have also relied on humans for thousands of years to multiply into huge groups. Therefore, on some level, there is mutual benefit. There is no right or wrong."

"Similarly, wild foxes eat chickens and rabbits, which is understandable. And if humans accidentally enter the wilderness, they also have the risk of being preyed upon by beasts, which is also animals following the natural laws of survival."

"If you follow the animal laws, you should stay in the deep mountains and old forests. But now that you have opened your wisdom, stepped into human society, and chosen to be a human, you should abide by human rules, not do evil, not indulge your appetite, and even more so, not eat your own kind!"

"Who says humans won't eat their own kind? Human cruelty is the one without bottom line!" The woman in red put down the soup bowl and wiped the oil stains on her mouth.

"You said, humans shouldn't kill their own kind. But my sister, she clearly turned from a fox into a human, and lived in the world for many years, but when her identity was exposed, she was still treated like an animal!"

"They ate her meat! Used her fur to make a luxurious fox fur cloak, and wore it proudly!"

"My stupid sister..."

A tear slid down the corner of the woman in red's eye, and there was the deepest sorrow in her eyes:

"She was really stupid, thinking that she had cultivated into a human form, she didn't want to work hard, and was greedy for the red dust. In the first few years, she was indeed very happy, playing in the red dust, free and easy."

"But later... later, just like the bloody stories described in the picture books, later she fell in love with a man, willing to give up her freedom for him, just wanting to be a virtuous wife."

"But she didn't know that the end of all love stories only stops on the day of marriage. Because of the trivialities of firewood, rice, oil, and salt after marriage, the man's changing face is the end of all happiness."

"And my stupid sister, she trusted the man's sea-oath and mountain-vow. When he had nothing, she accompanied him to suffer and live a poor life. She thought this was called 'true love is invincible', hehe... is it very stupid?"

"During this period, I repeatedly advised her to return to the mountains to practice with me, and not to be confused by this flowery world. But she wouldn't listen!"

"That idiot, deeply in love with that man, doing housework for him, taking care of his parents, and even the food and drink expenses of the whole family, and the money for the man's pen and ink to study, were all earned by my sister with hard work."

"She lived more and more like a human, but forgot that some people are beasts!"

"That man, he took the exam several times and failed to pass. Later, he wanted to take the path of 'offering fu to seek office'. By offering his own ci-fu works to the powerful in the imperial court, he proved his talent and obtained the opportunity to be recommended as an official."

"But the scholars who wanted to take this path were like crucian carp crossing the river, how could it be his turn, that mediocre person?"

"Later, he heard that a certain official loved to eat game and loved to wear fox fur cloaks."

"For the sake of his official career, for the sake of becoming a person above others, that man who once made sea-oaths and mountain-vows with her actually found a demon catcher, beat my stupid sister back to her original form, locked her in a cage, and sent her to that official..."

"A five-hundred-year-old fox is rare in the world. Her bones and meat were treated as nourishing delicacies, and her fur was also made into a luxurious cloak."

"You say, is my sister stupid, is it self-inflicted?"

The woman in red looked at Lin Qingyue and Dongfang Yan, although she had a charming smile on her face, the sorrow deep in her eyes could not be hidden no matter what.

"The person who ate fox meat 12 years ago was the magistrate of Fengnian County. He was originally a high official in the capital, and was demoted to Fengnian County Magistrate a year ago, coming to this place."

She raised her hand to hold the large spoon by the side of the furnace, stirring the meat pieces in the soup gently: "Look, what is rolling in here is the man who loved to eat game back then, and he is also the current Fengnian County Magistrate. Such delicious meat soup, do you really not want to taste it?"

Lin Qingyue looked at the milky white soup and suddenly laughed: "So that's it. That is really the cycle of heaven, retribution is not bad."

The woman in red got approval and seemed very happy: "You think so too, right? Why can humans eat foxes and wear fox fur? What I am doing now is just returning the favor in the same way!"

"There is a debt for every injustice, and there is a master for every debt. You want to find the person from back then to take revenge, I can understand. But what about those people outside? They can't all have a grudge against you, right? Why do you want to vent your anger on innocent people?"

The woman in red said: "Because I want to take revenge. That man who relied on selling his wife's flesh and blood to climb into the officialdom has now jumped to become a fifth-rank high official."

"He knows that I will come back for revenge sooner or later, so he has been raising demon catchers by his side, and he also carries various amulets on his body. I have no way to kill him, and I can't wait any longer, otherwise he will die of old age."

"How can I be willing to watch him live a life of wealth and honor? I want to take revenge, but my cultivation is still too weak, look, even you can easily break my array."

"And the souls and flesh of humans can nourish demon pill spirits, which is also the only way to improve cultivation in a short time."

"Hey!" She sighed softly, "Although those people are innocent, who told them to be humans, who told their kind to kill my sister?"

"Lying!" Lin Qingyue coldly exposed her.

The woman in red frowned: "You think I'm lying to you? We've reached this point, what reason do I have to lie to you?"

Lin Qingyue said: "Maybe you are not lying to me, but lying to yourself! You keep saying it's for revenge for your sister. But when you mention your sister, your tone is hateful, and you even keep calling her stupid."

"Is there any problem with this?"

"Of course there is a problem! How could a sister who dislikes her everywhere and keeps calling her an idiot have been lurking for so long, thinking about revenge for her sister?"

Lin Qingyue paused, "Unless, the one who died was the sister. And that younger sister who was confused by love, gave her true heart, but was let down, is you!"

"No!" The woman in red was furious, "What nonsense are you talking about? The one who was eaten and skinned back then was the younger sister, Hong Yao. And I... I am the elder sister, Hong Qin, the elder sister!"

Lin Qingyue took all her emotions into her eyes and was even more certain of her guess.

"Demon species are more likely to fall into their own obsessions than humans. Your sister died for you, right? So, what you hate most in your heart is actually yourself. So, you subconsciously treat yourself as your sister Hong Qin, you think that way your sister didn't die. Right?"