Otherworldly Merchant
Chapter 558: Heartless Li Yu

SinceI knew the spirit’s identity, it would be easier to deal with it!

Zhou Ehuang was agentlewoman. Perhaps she had become a resentful ghost because of the secret affair between her beloved husband and her younger sister. As long as I could solve this, her grudge would vanish.

I searched online and collected the stories between Li Yu andYoungLady Zhou. However, what I found discouraged me. No matter whether it was the official or unofficial history records, the fact that Li Yu had an affair withYoung Lady Zhouwhile his wife was on her deathbedwas an undeniable event in history.

After reading the history records, I felt sorry for Queen Zhou. She was a beautiful and talented woman, which made her a heavenly match to Li Yu.It was true that she was his favorite concubineintheimperial harem, butin the end, she was defeated by her younger sister, Lady ZhouYoung.

Lady ZhouYoungwas fourteen years younger than her. Queen Zhou died when she was twenty-nine years old. How could she be comparedtoLady ZhouYoung, who was a bud that was about to bloom at that time?

I considered the option of beckoning the soul ofYoungLady Zhou. From my dream last night, I could tell that Li Yu didn’t mean harm to me. He was the keyto openingthis case!

Li Yu’s soul would appear when the scroll was near. As he had appeared in the hospital, the scrollhad tobenearby. However,looking for that scroll in this vast hospitalwas like looking for a needle in a haystack.Moreover, we could alert people here.

I didn’t know what to do, but then I suddenly remembered that Li Yu didn’t just want me to see Zhou Ehuang in his dream. Hewasleadingthe way. There should beahiddenmeaning somewhere!

I closed my eyes and remembered the route he had taken me. Then. I followed that route in realitybyusing my memory. I was in the in-patient department.The left side of the first corridor was the place where people received drips.I walkedthrough the infusion area andmade anotherleftturn. I was in aplace where people took blood tests.After passing that areabya few steps, I stopped in front of an office.

It seemed the scroll of the ancient painting was here. It was early in the morning, so I guessed there was no one in the office just yet. Ipushedthe door. It squeakedopen.

There was a deskinside withsimple decorations. The scroll was placedon thedesk. I wanted togoand pick up the painting, but I was surprisedto seea white shadow sitting there.

“You’re here.” When I entered, Li Yuwas smiling andlooking at me.It seemed he was waitingfor me.

For the time being, I didn’t know what to say. It wasn’t good to ask him about Zhou Ehuang’s weakness.Feeling helpless, I kept silent.

He started to chat with me as though he was talking with a friend. He didn’t talk much. He was weary after one thousand years of torment. He hoped I could help him finish all of these grudges. Then, he handed me the scrolland saidgently,“Ehuang’s weakness is me.”

Then, he turned into a beam of white lightand enteredthe scroll. Immediately, the Ci on the painting emerged in threedimensions. I knew that his spirit had attached to the poem in the painting.

After dawn, everything resumed to normal. I held the scroll paintingandcontinuouslythoughtabout what to do tonight.

Zhou Ehuang’s weakness was Li Yu. In other words,I needed to use Li Yu’s spirit tonightto threaten her. But if I did that, Li Yu would be hurt; he couldeven perish.

I hesitated. I thought it was coincidental at first, but now it was clear to me that Li Yu had arranged everything from the time I had bought the painting to the moment I decided to bring it with me on this trip.

Li Yu wanted to finish this one-thousand-year grudge, butdidI have to destroy this ancient poet?

Nothingunexpected happened during the day. Li Maziwokeup. When I saw himteasethe nurse, I knew he was all right. Orange was still unconscious. The doctor checked her and explained that her vital signals were normal. Perhaps she didn’t want towakeup because she didn’t want to face reality.

When Shen Haoran heard that, he knew what Orange didn’t want to face. The situation they had experienced that night was so terrifying. It was understandable that she didn’t want towakeup.

I comforted Shen Haoran. “Don’t worry. After wesolvethe spirit, Orange will wake up.”

Shen Haoran smiled. It was the first time I saw a bright smile on his face. I ate something to fill my stomach then returned to the hospital.

This small town wasn’t the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty in ancienttimes. Li Yu was here because of the scroll. So, if Zhou Ehuang wanted to stay here, sheneededan otherworldly item!

I took a walk around the hospital anddidn’t find anythingstrange. I didn’t insist on continuing the search. Instead, I returned to Orange’s patient room to arrange the stuff.

Since talismans and wormwood powder couldn’t affect the spirit, this time, I intentionally used a block of brick taken from the Great Walland putit under Orange’s pillow. The bricks from the Great Wall represented the Chinese people’s will to resist the foreign invaders, which madethemcarryintimidating power. At the same time, since Queen Zhoulivedinside the palace for almost her whole life, when she saw the brick, she would think it was the city wall, which would keep her away.

Then, I arranged a pair of mutually engendering and mutually restraining formations at the door and the window.

I had created theseformationsfrom the information I’d read from my grandpa’s journal. I left the Death gate and the Life gate of each formation open. When the spirit entered the formation, she wouldget throughthe Life gate. At the same time,the Death gate would activate.

TopreventZhou Ehuangfrom running throughthe Life gate, I deliberately arranged two small formations. This way, I could keep her in the formation and give her time tocatch a breathwhile she was between the two formations.

After I had arranged everything, the sky outside was dark. I let Shan Haoran dismiss his group of thug friendsas theywere not in danger. Li Yu had told me that Zhou Ehuang could sense his location. She wouldn’t go to other places and cause trouble. It also explained why the female ghost had appeared on our way to this village. She had sensed Li Yu’s energy in the painting I put in the car.

Shen Haoran insisted that he wouldn’t leave. I didn’t shoo him away but asked him to take care of Li Mazi.

Then, I opened the Yin and Yang Umbrella to protect both Li Mazi and Shen Haoran beforegoingintoOrange’s room. I took out the scroll paintingand unfoldedit on a table. Then, I used a lighterand burnedthe rim of the painting. Of course, I had controlled the flamewell enough notto hurt Li Yu. It wasenough to entice Zhou Ehuang.

As soon as I started burning it, I heard the window rattle. I grabbed the Sirius Whip tightly in my handand looked attheglass-panedwindow. However, after a long time, I hadn’t seen the ghost yet.

I was feeling skeptical and bewildered when suddenly, a pair of icy-cold hands grabbed my neck!

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