Chapter 85 I Want to Call You Mom
"Just three days after taking the pregnancy-preserving medicine, I contracted leprosy. The next day, the police broke into my house and said someone had reported that there was an infectious patient at home. They then locked me up in a foreign hospital, saying it was for quarantine."

"The doctor told me that the only way out is to die of old age or illness. I don't believe it. I love Li Quan, and I believe he will find a way to get me out."

The more Liu Tingting spoke, the more emotional she became, and the more resentful her voice became: "About a week later, a woman came to visit me. Haha, she called me sister, sister. She was Li Quan's mistress and is now his wife."

"She told me that the drug Li Quan injected into me was not abortion hormone at all! It was leprosy virus. Li Quan didn't love me at all, he just wanted my money!"

"I felt resentful and regretted not trusting my parents, but it was too late. After the woman left, the doctor at the hospital moved me from the female isolation ward to the male isolation ward that night."

"I hate Li Quan, I hate that woman! Before I committed suicide, I thought of the rumor that women who died in red would become evil spirits and return to the world of the living for revenge."

“Hahaha~ I didn’t expect it to be true. I could really turn into a ghost. I made that woman fall from the third floor onto the road, and she was crushed to death by three or four cars.”

"Next is Li Quan. I will torture him slowly and make him live a life worse than death!" Liu Tingting became more and more crazy as she spoke, and the resentment around her became stronger.

Zheng Wenjie looked at Gong Ruomei and waited for her to decide what to do next. Gong Ruomei understood Zheng Wenjie's eyes and thought silently.

Tang Xue was a little anxious. She had been with Gong Ruomei for six years and knew her too well. She was afraid that she would not have the chance to take action, so she said quickly, "We can't just listen to her one-sided story. I'll trick Li Quan up here so they can confront each other!"

Gong Ruomei glared at Tang Xue. Tang Xue understood her, and she understood Tang Xue even better. Tang Xue liked money and had a simple mind. She had a clear distinction between love and hate, just like a simple child of sixteen or seventeen years old. However, because of her experience before becoming a zombie, she was too indifferent to human life.

"Let's go. I don't want to get involved in this matter." Gong Ruomei said, then took Xie Wei and went downstairs.

Tang Xue sighed as she looked at the copper coin sword in her hand, and asked Zheng Wenjie, "Master, if Li Quan is killed by this ghost, will he also become a fierce ghost?"

"It's unlikely. It's not certain that an evil ghost will appear among ten thousand dead people. The conditions are too harsh. People's emotions and pain will always be healed by time." Zheng Wenjie shook his head and said.

"Okay." Tang Xue glared at Liu Tingting unhappily, and followed Gong Ruomei with Zheng Wenjie.

In the car, Li Quan saw the door of the villa opened, crumpled up the empty cigarette box, opened the car door and walked quickly to greet him.

"Master, what happened?" Li Quan glanced at Gong Ruomei's Taoist robe, looked at Zheng Wenjie hopefully and asked.

Gong Ruomei glanced at Li Quan and said coldly: "There is nothing we can do about this matter."

Li Quan's dark complexion instantly turned red. He opened his arms to stop Gong Ruomei who wanted to leave and begged loudly in a crying voice: "How is this possible! Think of a way! Save me, I will give you everything you want! The money, the batch of goods at the dock, all of them are yours as long as you save me!"

"Please? Can you please save me?" Li Quan said, then he collapsed and knelt on the ground with tears streaming down his face.

Gong Ruomei raised her head slightly, looking down at Li Quan who was kneeling and crying. "Killing someone means paying with one's life. It is only natural. Since you have done it, you must bear the consequences."

Tang Xue stepped forward, grabbed Li Quan's shoulders, and threw him onto a flower bed, knocking down a bunch of flowers.

The two drivers outside the iron gate saw this scene and just as they were about to get out of the car, they saw Zheng Wenjie's eyes, shuddered, and dared not move.

Li Quan covered his chest and coughed as if he was having difficulty breathing, while his other hand tightly grasped a handful of dirt.

Tang Xue snorted and wrinkled her small, white nose, then reached out to take the suitcase from Gong Ruomei: "Master, Madam, let's go."

"Wait, I have a question." Zheng Wenjie suddenly said. Seeing that both of them were looking at him, Zheng Wenjie said, "How long has it been since the fall of the Qing Dynasty? Why do you still call me master and madam? The remnants of feudal society are still playing tricks on you."

Tang Xue thought there was something wrong with Zheng Wenjie, but she never expected that her own name would be called feudal.

She looked at Zheng Wenjie innocently and said, "All wealthy families are like this. I used to call her Madam and Miss, but in recent days I have seen some wealthy families who have moved to Hong Kong Island and realized that since the master and the young lady are already married, I have to change my name to Miss and Madam."

Tang Xue rubbed her head again and asked confusedly: "If we don't call you Master and Madam, what should we call you?"

"Killing someone...paying with one's life is a matter of course, but I did nothing wrong. Damn it, this damn woman." Li Quan said viciously as he looked at the dirt on his hands.

Gong Ruomei reached out and touched Tang Xue's chubby little face and said gently, "As long as you are happy, you can call me whatever you want. You are not an outsider, you are my relative."

Tang Xue opened her mouth, her eyes sparkling as she cried out softly, "Mom."

Zheng Wenjie could feel Gong Ruomei's body suddenly become stiff, and the gentle smile on her face also froze. He silently reached out and stroked Tang Xue's baby fat hand.

"It's her. She has been torturing me these past few days, this bitch! Want to kill me? I'll make sure you die without a complete corpse first, ah," Li Quan, who hadn't slept for several days and nights, completely collapsed and frantically dug the flower bed with his hands.

The tears in Tang Xue's eyes slid down: "Mom...Mom, I have been without a mother since I was a child. My brother brought me up, and then my brother died, leaving me alone."

"You saved me and took care of me. When I was scared and couldn't sleep, you told me your stories and stayed with me until I fell asleep. You are exactly the same as the mother I imagined." Tang Xue wiped her tears and cried.
"And it's your blood flowing in my body now. Can I call you mom from now on?"

Zheng Wenjie came over and said with a mocking look on his face: "Hey~ Are you still a child?"

Gong Ruomei pushed Zheng Wenjie away, hugged Tang Xue with some heartache, and said softly in Tang Xue's ear: "Be good, don't cry, we will always be with you."

Gong Ruomei sighed and continued, "My blood flows in your body. I am your mother and your relative."

Tang Xue laughed out loud, broke free from Gong Ruomei's embrace, wiped away her tears, and smiled at Gong Ruomei with red eyes: "Miss, I was just kidding."

Gong Ruomei smiled and just said, "Let's go home."

"Okay, Miss, let's go home." Tang Xue jumped and took Gong Ruomei's hand and was about to leave. Zheng Wenjie watched for a long time and waited until the two decided to go home before asking: "Didn't you... notice what Li Quan was doing?"

Tang Xue turned around and said with a smile: "I heard what he said. I almost couldn't help but slap him to death just now."

Gong Ruomei frowned and said, "I heard it. I have already said that I will not interfere. I don't want to care about what secrets are going on between them. They are not good people anyway."

Zheng Wenjie looked at Gong Ruomei and Tang Xue speechlessly. It seemed like they just wanted to try out the power of witchcraft, and it wouldn't matter after trying it?

But Tang Xue suddenly reacted and said with some surprise: "Wait, then my copper coin sword can exert its power!"

Tang Xue let go of Gong Ruomei's hand, squatted beside the flowerbed, took out the copper coin sword from the suitcase, and watched Li Quan digging the soil seriously. Li Quan's hands were already covered with mud and blood, but he seemed to feel no pain, his eyes were red, and his face was also unhealthy flushed.

"Ah! Miss, come and look, there is really a dead body down there, but the death was quite tragic. I can't tell clearly if it is the female ghost." Tang Xue shouted.

Zheng Wenjie hugged Gong Ruomei and took two steps forward, watching the crazy Li Quan tearing apart the corpse whose face could no longer be seen with his hands, while still shouting madly.

Gong Ruomei looked at Li Quan coldly, bent down and took out willow leaf water from the suitcase, and sprinkled it all on Li Quan's head. Li Quan seemed to suddenly wake up after being drenched in the cool willow leaf water, and suddenly let go of his hands and fell to the ground.

"Tell me clearly what's going on, and then I'll decide whether to help you or not." Gong Ruomei said coldly.

Li Quan's chest kept rising and falling. He looked up at the three people, wiped the willow leaf water mixed with tears on his face with his sleeve, swallowed his saliva, regained his composure, and said after a while: "My... my wife is dead."

"I feel sorry for her. She and I were betrothed to each other and grew up together. When I was ten, my father left home with my family to expand his business and cooperate with a warlord. When I was fourteen, my family suffered a disaster and all our property was confiscated by the warlord."

"I am the only one in my family who survived. I had no choice but to return to my hometown to live with my wife."

Li Quan looked at the body in front of him expressionlessly and continued, "I thought my father-in-law's family would be afraid of being implicated. I thought a lot and was hesitant about whether to go to their house, but it was different from what I thought."

"Not only did my father-in-law not cancel the engagement, but he also funded my studies and treated me like his own child. Haha, even my brother-in-law is jealous of me."

Li Quan seemed to be laughing and crying: "Later, my father-in-law let me take over part of the business, and I married my wife. She is very gentle and considerate. Those were the happiest days of my life."

"My father-in-law passed away half a year ago, and the business was handed over to my brother-in-law. But my father-in-law left me a large sum of money. His last words were for me to take the money and try to run my own business. If it doesn't work out, I can go home."

Tang Xue snorted, stuck the copper coin sword into the soil and said, "We all know what happened next. You changed your mind and got a mistress, and you even lied to your wife about the leprosy virus and said it was a pregnancy-preserving agent. Huh? That's not right. Aren't you going to elope?"

Li Quan smiled in a low voice, tore open his coat, took out a pocket watch from his arms, and endured the pain by using his clothes to scrape off the dirt and blood stains on his hands.

"You really saw her, didn't you? Haha, she actually turned into a fierce ghost and came to take my life. If I didn't know that people would turn into ghosts after death, I would have asked some masters to send her to the eighteen levels of hell, and she would never be able to be reborn."

Li Quan opened his pocket watch and looked at the small photo of the couple on it tenderly. Then he raised the pocket watch and showed the photo to the three people. The woman leaning against Li Quan was not the female ghost, but the woman who was smiling all the time and looked gentle and virtuous.

Gong Ruomei's face was cold, she frowned, looked up at the villa and was about to go up, but Zheng Wenjie hugged her: "Wait until he finishes talking, that female ghost can't escape from my palm even if she runs."

"After my husband and I left home, we came to Hong Kong. I wanted to try to start a shipping business. It was difficult to deal with foreigners at the beginning because I couldn't speak English."

"After someone reminded me, I came to my senses and started bribing the foreigners. Sure enough, everything went smoothly afterwards. I even bought a cargo ship from them."

Li Quan put the pocket watch in his arms and pointed at the body and said, "The person who reminded me was her father. Her family has lived in Hong Kong Island since the previous generation. They are all fishermen. I gave her father a red envelope, but her father refused it. He just asked me to take her ashore so that she can work and earn money."

"I agreed. I am usually very busy and have many things that need to be handled by me personally. My wife is alone at home all day long. People in a foreign country will always feel lonely. I let her accompany my wife and pay her a salary every month."

"But I was wrong. I thought she was really simple and kind. My wife usually goes to bed early. One night I got drunk and was taken back by the driver. She was the one who took care of me."

"When I was awake, I was in her room, sleeping in the same bed with her. I wanted to chase her away, but she knelt down and begged me not to chase her away. She wouldn't say anything. She just wanted her brothers and sisters to find work on land."

Zheng Wenjie raised his head and saw rain falling from the sky. The raindrops were sparse and soft, brushing his cheeks with a cool feeling.

Li Quan also opened his palms to the sky: "I didn't chase her away, and the days that followed returned to normal, until last month when she suddenly told me that she was pregnant."

"I gave her 10,000 Hong Kong dollars and let her go. She can do whatever she wants. Even if she brings her brothers and sisters to shore with 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, she can live comfortably for seven or eight years."

"She accepted the money and agreed to it. I waited until she packed her luggage and left before I felt relieved. I was originally planning to find a maid to accompany my wife, but because of the cargo ship problem, I had to go to the UK."

"When I came back, my wife was no longer at home. She was locked up in an isolated hospital. I paid the foreigners money and they agreed to let me take my wife away."

"But I came back too late, and she had already committed suicide."

Li Quan gritted his teeth and said, "I investigated for two days and found out that it was all this bitch who used the 10,000 Hong Kong dollars I gave her to buy a shot of leprosy virus and called the police to report that my wife had leprosy."

Tang Xue looked puzzled: "Why did she do this? I didn't even have ten dollars before, ten thousand dollars would have been enough for me to live for many years."

Li Quan looked at Tang Xue and laughed, then relaxed, leaning against the soil and said, "When I found her, she told me that my wife and I had been married for so long but had not gotten pregnant. My wife doesn't lay eggs, and she already had my child in her belly. She was betting that I would marry her for the child."

"So you killed her too, and the baby in her belly." Gong Ruomei continued with some disgust: "If you want revenge, why don't you wait until the baby is born? The baby is innocent."

Li Quan laughed louder and louder, rubbing his hair that was wet by the rain: "Not only did I kill her, I also wanted her to feel the pain that my wife felt. I had someone inject her with leprosy virus and threw her into the men's isolation ward."

"Later, she miscarried. When we met again, she begged me to spare her. I agreed and sent someone to bring her back."

"I thought of many ways to kill her, and in the end I decided to have someone throw her off the roof and kill her, but I didn't expect she would be so lucky."

"She didn't die even after falling from the third floor." Li Quan laughed crazily, "I asked the driver to drive the car and run over her three times before killing her. My wife loves to appreciate flowers, so I buried her body in the flowerbed. The flowers that grow there will surely be more colorful."

"But I didn't expect there really was a ghost. Why didn't my wife come to see me? She must have known everything and she didn't forgive me."

Zheng Wenjie said: "Your wife should have gone to the underworld to be reincarnated."

Li Quan restrained his expression and nodded: "I hope she can live a peaceful and happy life in her next life."

Before he finished speaking, a cold wind suddenly blew and the temperature around dropped a lot. Zheng Wenjie smiled. It seemed that all the words Li Quan said before were not as hurtful to the female ghost as this last sentence.

Li Quan also felt something. Not only was he not afraid, but he stood up and said loudly: "Come on! I'm not afraid anymore. Since we can become ghosts after death, let's see who is more fierce!"

Li Quan shouted with a ferocious expression: "You don't know yet, right? Not only you, but also your father, your mother, and all your brothers and sisters were thrown into the sea to feed the fish! Didn't they turn into ghosts to find you? "

"Ah..." A shrill scream came from the villa, but Li Quan laughed even more crazily.

(End of this chapter)