Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes Chapter 11 (1/2)

Chapter 11

I hold onto Yanw.a.n.g’s tight and wept bitterly. I begged him to let me boil soup for a few more years in the netherworld. Yanw.a.n.g looked very conflicted. He was soft-hearted and looked at the magistrate for a few times. The cold magistrate only said: “The netherworld has strict justice. People who are not punishable can’t be punished.”

I howled in pain: “I’m punishable. I beg you! You punish me for a few more years. It’s better if you punish me for thirty or more years. I’ll burn incense to thank you!”

The magistrate was unmoved. Yanw.a.n.g sighed loudly, touched my head and said: “Xiao Xiang Zi, don’t cry. You can’t escape something that’s fated.”

I refuse to give in: “Why?! We obviously caused a mess again, why are we not punished?!”

Yanw.a.n.g picked his nose.

“Well, there’s no protest from anyone and it didn’t have a big impact on the netherworld, so you won’t be punished.”

“I can now go lift the pan and pour away all the soup, delaying all the souls that need to be reincarnated.”

The magistrate looked at me coldly and said: “I advise you not to do it. That’s a serious crime for which you’ll be flogged.”

I lowered my head, crying form unfairness.

Yanw.a.n.g bit his lips and said: “Well, celestial Chu Kong needs to spend a love lifetime with you. Making you an idiot, he won’t have it easy either.

I wiped my tears and said: “He didn’t drink the soup of oblivion this lifetime. He’ll remember everything clearly, so he won’t like me anymore. If I as a fool fall into his hands, I’ll die a cruel death or an even more cruel death…”

“Well, you can’t be so sure,”Yanw.a.n.g interrupted me.

He searched for a while on his desk and took a double sided mirror out.

“Look, in the past lifetime celestial star Chu Kong loved you deeply.”

I didn’t dare to look at the Lu Hai Kong in the mirror. I was afraid that when I see him cry, I’ll cry too. I murmured: “That’s not Chu Kong.”

“Is or isn’t, is just a thought. Even he himself don’t know if he is or isn’t, how can you be so sure?”

Yanw.a.n.g’s words were vague. It’s like those stupid G.o.ds in heaven speaking very beautiful, but with words that no one understands.

I pinched Yanw.a.n.g’s leg really hard and said: “Get to the point.”

Yanw.a.n.g made a “sisi”sound and took two deep breaths.

“This thing called love is better if you, Xiao Xiang Zi, experience it yourself. “

I increased my strength and pinched his leg. Yanw.a.n.g’s said very fast: “Magistrate, magistrate, quickly pull her away. Let her go back to boil soup. After three years she can go and be reincarnated.”

I was ruthlessly dragged out. Before the door of Yanw.a.n.g’s palace closed, I couldn’t help myself and took a peek at the Lu Hai Kong in the mirror. He was still young, but his hair has turned white. He was in front of an isolated snow-covered grave. Slowly he poured wine onto the ground. He looked like his mind was somewhere else.

I felt like something is pinching my heart, making it unable to breath.

Each pa.s.sing day, the days of making soup is more painful. But no matter what I did, three years pa.s.sed really fast. The little ghosts carried me and thrown me into the circle of reincarnation.

“f.u.c.king Chu Kong! Next time I see you in the netherworld, I’ll pull all your hair out!”

Hair…hair…hair…In the reincarnation circle those last words kept repeating.

After a while I lost my senses.

Dida dida.

A sticky liquid kept dripping against my ears. It was silent for a moment and the next there were many voices.

I don’t how much time has pa.s.sed. The liquid stopped dripping.

Someone lifted the wooden lid above my head. The light of the sun was blazing. A boy’s face appeared before me.Mother said that seeing a boy older than me, I need to call him big brother.

I obediently said: “Da gege1.”

The boy was disgusted when I call him that.

“In this lifetime, we met in such occasion! b.a.s.t.a.r.d heavenly emperor Li2.”

I stared at him blankly. He frowned and also stared at me. He looked very confused.

Suddenly a gruff voice called: “Shaozu3.”

The boy bit his lips and put the wooden lid back above my head. The sound of his footsteps sounded further and further away.

I continue to sit down in the barrel, holding my legs. Mother said she wants to play hide and seek. If she didn’t find me, I couldn’t go out. But it’s really strange…obviously it was mother who put me in here. How come she still hasn’t find me after such a long time? Is it that the adults are eating something delicious and didn’t tell me?

I used all my strength to push the lid away and climbed out of the barrel.

“Mother,” I yelled, while walking. I didn’t see anyone in the yard. There’s only blood everywhere, it looks the same as when the cook killed a chicken. I’m very unhappy: “Eating chicken and they didn’t call me?”

I searched in the kitchen and in my parents’ chamber, but I didn’t even see their shadows. I walked into the hall and saw a bunch of people in black kneeling on the floor. The only one standing with his hands on his back is the little boy. I’m pleased and yelled: “Da gege, did you see my mother?”

The people in black turned and looked at me. One person stood up and came to me while carrying a b.l.o.o.d.y sword. I blinked and asked: “Are you guests? Are it you who helped the cook kill the chicken? But where’s the cook?”

The man in black coldly said: “You’ll see them soon.”

He raised his sword. Blood dripped onto my face. I blinked and stared at him.

“Hey, drop the sword,” the boy said.

The man in black before me hesitated for a moment. The boy continued: “Let her go back with us.”

All the people in black began to talk: “But shaozhu, she…”

“I said bring her back.”

The boy walked to me and stood beside the man in black. He stared at me for a moment. Suddenly his face is in front of me. He said in a soft voice: “Originally, I wanted to let you fend for yourself. But yet you fell into my hands yourself. With that being the case, I’ll kindly accept you.”

He pinched my cheeks.

“Xiao Xiang Zi, what do you say? Should we bully you or should we seriously bully you or should we severely bully you?”

He laughed.

“No matter what, thinking about the future days, is making me indescribable happy, haha!”

“My name isn’t Xiao Xiang Zi, it’s Yang Xiao Xiang.”

I blinked again and looked at him.

“Da gege, pinching my cheeks hurts.”

He loosened his hand and looked at me smilingly. It looks like when the cook caught a fat pig.

“From now on, your name is Xiao Xiang Zi. Be my….well, disciple. What do you think?”