12dz Chapter 583 A Mother's Love Cannot Be Replaced; Destroy Others to Keep Your Own Mother
Chapter 583 A Mother's Love Cannot Be Replaced; Destroy Others to Keep Your Own Mother
Chapter 583 A Mother's Love Cannot Be Replaced; Destroy Others to Keep Your Own Mother
Grandpa Hou was intimidated by Jiang Chacha and retreated repeatedly. His cloudy eyes were filled with fear as he stared at her as if she were a venomous snake or a ferocious beast.
Hou Shouping, who was standing at the door holding a basin and carrying a bag, wanted to go in but didn't dare. She could only weakly ask, "Miss Jiang Chacha, are you really a demon?"
She's so beautiful, so gorgeous, her figure is amazing, how could she be a demon?
According to village legend, demons are all hideous creatures who come out to worship the moon and eat children on dark, windy nights.
She was a stunning beauty, a beauty that could captivate at first sight, not some child-eating demon...
Jiang Chacha turned to look at her: "Yes, I am a demon, a demon with an official status in the Three Realms. Your grandfather has broken the law, and I need to deal with him. You just stay outside and don't come in, and don't even think about protecting your grandfather, or your crime will be compounded..."
Grandpa Hou interrupted Jiang Chacha: "What do you mean by a demon with an official position, or that there are new regulations in the Three Realms? I've never heard of any of that. You demon, don't try to fool me by using the name of the Three Realms. Although I'm old, I'm not so easily fooled."
Jiang Chacha withdrew her gaze from Hou Shouping and looked directly at Grandpa Hou: "You said I lied to you, so why are you so afraid of me?"
Grandpa Hou's pupils constricted: "I'm not afraid of you."
Jiang Chacha stepped forward: "You're not afraid of me, you're trembling. The ghost trapped inside you is begging me to let you go, to not stoop to your level. The demon you've imprisoned is calling for my help, asking me to free her and kill you!"
Grandpa Hou growled, "Nonsense, you're talking nonsense. There are no ghosts here, no monsters here."
"You intruding monster, I advise you to get lost. Otherwise, I'll go and ask the local earth god and the city god to teach you a lesson."
Jiang Chacha spread her hands: "Alright, go and invite them. It seems the local earth god and the city god will help you or me."
Grandpa Hou: "You..."
Jiang Chacha waved her hand, unleashing her demonic power to envelop Grandpa Hou.
The powerful demonic energy made Grandpa Hou feel a strong pressure, and the spirits crawling behind him let out ghostly howls.
The ghostly howls were loud and eerie, giving Hou Shouping, who was peeking out from outside the door, goosebumps all over her body. She felt as if she had been thrown into a mass grave, and her heart was filled with fear and dread.
Grandpa Hou's back became more and more bent, and his body could no longer bear the weight from behind him, causing him to kneel down, put his hands on the ground, and fall to the ground, his whole body shaking.
Jiang Chacha stepped forward again and grabbed the spirit behind Grandpa Hou, pulling it off his body and tossing it aside.
With a swift movement, she grabbed the flaming stick that was stuck in the ground. The stick shrank in her hand until the other end rested on her palm.
Jiang Chacha pressed down hard on the head of the flame stick, and the flame stick sank into the ground another three centimeters. Then, a cracking sound was heard, like the sound of a porcelain jar breaking.
The sound was loud, shrill, and piercing.
Grandpa Hou, who was lying on the ground, quickly reached out his hand: "No..."
Jiang Chacha raised her hand, and the flaming staff shot out, sticking to her wrist and turning into a bracelet, which was fastened to her wrist.
From the hole pierced by the flaming stick, wisps of yellow smoke began to rise. After the smoke cleared, a weasel about the size of an adult cat darted out.
The weasel's beard had turned white, the tuft of hair on its head had turned white, its limbs had turned white, and its fur was yellow, dry, and messy.
Upon seeing Jiang Chacha, the weasel knelt on its hind paws and bowed to her with its front paws, saying, "Yellow Furry thanks the Great Demon Senior for saving me! Thank you so much for saving me!"
Jiang Chacha gathered a ball of demonic power and struck it: "No need to be polite, turn into human form and speak."
Huang Maomao was struck by a powerful demonic force. He felt a warmth spread through his body and transformed into a woman who was neither young nor old, but in poor spirits, thin as skin and bones, and dressed in tattered clothes.
When Hou Shouping saw this from outside, her eyes widened. She felt like she was dreaming, that her values were being reset, and that her understanding was being refreshed.
After Huang Maomao grew up, he once again bowed to Jiang Chacha: "Thank you for saving me, Great Demon Senior. Thank you for bestowing demon power upon me, Great Demon Senior. Thank you, Great Demon Senior. Thank you..."
Her forehead struck the hard, muddy ground, making a sound that echoed the grievances she had felt after being trapped for so many years.
Grandpa Hou, who was lying on the ground, suddenly sprang out with unexpected strength and rushed towards Huang Maomao: "Go in, go in, go in quickly! You can't come out! If the people outside find out that you've become a demon and a human, they will surely capture you and burn you to death!"
Huang Maomao suddenly stood up, his hatred surging as he charged towards Grandpa Hou.
A human and a demon collided.
The person was knocked to the ground.
The demon stood calmly.
The spirit standing to the side made a gesture of reaching out to catch Grandpa Hou.
It is a soul, without a physical body, so it naturally connects to nothingness.
Jiang Chacha reached out and hooked a long bench inside the room.
The bench seemed to come alive and appeared behind her.
After she sat down, she spoke with an air of domineering composure: "Yellow Hairy, who locked you up? What suffering did you endure? What did they take from you? Go and get it back."
"There's no need to worry about the Earth God, the City God, or your own merits."
"Now that the three realms are cooperating and there is a new agreement, my demon race has an office in the human realm. If the sky falls, I'll hold it up for you."
Huang Maomao was struggling to cultivate in the human world when she was captured and imprisoned. She never thought she would be released, let alone that a powerful demon senior would come to support her.
She felt emboldened, her eyes reddened, and she thanked Jiang Chacha repeatedly.
She wiped her cheek, took a step forward, grabbed Grandpa Hou, and slapped him three times.
He was beaten until his mouth bled, his cheeks were swollen and red, and his last two teeth came out along with the blood and foam at the corner of his mouth.
The ghost beside them jumped around anxiously, trying to save Grandpa Hou. It didn't know any ghost magic; it only possessed a chilling aura. With Jiang Chacha present, it was utterly useless, only able to watch helplessly as Grandpa Hou was beaten. Hou Shouping, seeing her grandfather being beaten, wanted to help him, but she was afraid. She felt terrified, believing that her grandfather owed someone a debt, and it was only natural for them to retaliate by beating and scolding him.
After slapping Grandpa Hou, Huang Maomao grabbed his collar with one hand and turned his other hand into a furry weasel claw, its sharp tip aimed at Grandpa Hou's stomach: "You locked me up, tortured me, you ate my husband and children, give them back."
"No!" The ghost rushed forward, trying to grasp the yellow hairy man's sharp claws, but its soul was too light and transparent, and it kept being passed through. "Don't hurt him, it's all my fault, it has nothing to do with him."
As if he couldn't hear the ghost's words, Huang Maomao still managed to cut open Grandpa Hou's stomach with his hand, entering his abdomen and disturbing his internal organs.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!!"
"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"
Grandpa Hou's old, hoarse voice echoed in the mud-brick house.
Blood was everywhere.
Seeing her grandfather like this, Hou Shouping couldn't hold back any longer and rushed into the house: "Pretty and charming fairy sister, my grandfather is old..."
Jiang Chacha looked up at her and made a shushing gesture: "Little girl, the human realm is your territory. That's right. My demon race lives on your territory, barely surviving and cultivating to become human, not to be eaten by you or used by you."
“Your grandfather knows the art of medicine and has some basic knowledge of the great principles. He should know clearly that debts must be repaid.”
Hou Shouping wanted to say something in rebuttal, but couldn't utter a word. She could only watch helplessly as her grandfather cried out in pain.
To prevent him from dying too quickly, Jiang Chacha used her demonic power to bind him, so that he wouldn't die from the pain of bleeding due to internal organ damage.
Unable to save Grandpa Hou, the ghost rushed to Jiang Chacha, knelt down, and kowtowed to her: "Great Demon Senior, all the mistakes are mine. Please, please let Huang Maomao stop. I can take all the beatings and tortures for Hou Guangzong."
Hou Guangzong?
To bring glory to one's ancestors?
Jiang Chacha reached out and pulled Hou Shouping aside, looking at the ghost: "Your soul is very young, but your clothes are very old. In order to keep you in the human world, he did not hesitate to learn the art of medicine and find a demon from my demon clan who cultivated into a human. You are his wife."
Hou Shouping stared wide-eyed. No, no, no, her grandmother doesn't look like that!
The female ghost shook her head: "No, I am not his wife, I am his mother, his mother."
Jiang Chacha frowned slightly: "Are you his mother?"
The female ghost nodded: "Yes, I am his mother, I am my husband, and I am the wife his father bought with five catties of coarse grain rice."
"Because I had nothing to eat or drink, I was very thin and didn't start menstruating until I was 20. I gave birth to him when I was 22, but it ruined my health, so I couldn't have a second child."
“Back then, a hundred years ago, things were not peaceful. There was a shortage of food and drink, and the people were tough. If a family had many sons, they had more laborers, so they could work more, cultivate more land, and have more food to eat.”
“Having many sons means you can bully others, and others won’t dare to bully you. After I gave birth to him, he was as big as a kitten and his body was weak. I couldn’t have any more children, so my husband would beat and scold me, and wouldn’t give me any food. He wanted me to die.”
“But my child is still so young, I can’t die, he won’t live if I die. I tried my best to swallow my anger, to hide, to dodge, to work hard, but in the end I couldn’t beat my husband’s strength.”
“When my child was 8 years old, my husband beat me to death. My child witnessed it. He forgot to cry. He only felt hatred.”
“I was beaten to death, and I was filled with resentment. I couldn’t let go of my child, so my soul lingered in this world.”
“My husband buried me carelessly after I died, and then told everyone that I died of illness. He then started looking for a second wife.”
"But he was too poor, had children, didn't own much land or a house, so no one was willing to marry their daughter to him."
“It’s not that no one was willing to marry their daughter to him, it was me.” Hou Guangzong endured the excruciating pain and gritted his teeth as he continued his mother’s words: “I saw him beat you to death with my own eyes, I saw him bury you, and he asked someone to find him a wife. When someone else took a liking to her and he agreed, I would run to that person’s house and say that he beat you to death, that if I married him, I would be beaten to death even if I didn’t give birth to eight sons, and that if I married him, he would beat me to death.”
"When the woman's family heard this, they naturally did not want to commit such a sin, and they were even less willing to see their daughter, whom they had raised with such care, be beaten to death after getting married. So no one married him. He wanted to have many children, but in the end, I was the only one."
“At first, he would beat and scold me every day, then he stopped hitting me, and then he ran away. He ran away and abandoned me.”
Huang Maomao angrily and resentfully questioned, "Your father beat your mother to death and abandoned you. You should hate him. Why do you hate me? Why did you kill my husband and my children?"
Hou Guangzong's face was covered in tears and blood. He looked at Huang Maomao and laughed foolishly: "Without a father or a mother, in those turbulent and hungry times, not a single relative was willing to take care of me or give me a bite to eat. I could only rely on myself, doing odd jobs and begging."
"And so I stumbled and grew up for about 10 years, when I met a sorcerer who said that a spirit was following me, the spirit of a female ghost."
"He described the female ghost to me, and I knew immediately that it was my mother. My mother was always worried about me, and she always followed me."
"I longed to have a mother so much that I shamelessly followed that sorcerer and begged him to teach me some magic."
“He got annoyed by my following him around, but was moved by my perseverance and diligence, so he taught me some magic techniques, some cultivation methods, and some methods of feng shui. Wealthy families all believe in feng shui, and with this skill, I can completely support myself.”
“When my mother saw that I could support myself, she felt a little less worried and her resentment was not so deep anymore. She wanted to leave, but I didn’t want my mother to leave. And then you just happened to run into us at that time.”
“I’ll deliberately set a trap for you, a weasel demon who has just taken human form and doesn’t know the evil in people’s hearts, and then I’ll help you.”
Huang Mao Mao was stunned: "What? You set up the trap I fell into?"
Tears of blood welled up in Hou Guangzong's eyes: "Yes, you spirits who cultivate human form in the mountains, running around on the mountains and in the fields, do you know there are treasures in the fields?"
“I saved you, and you thanked me by digging up a treasure for me in the field. I took the treasure, and my mother was afraid that I would go astray, so she wanted to leave, but she didn’t.”
"Later, I read in a book that the resentment of demons is powerful. If you trap and imprison a demon when its resentment is at its peak, you can keep the soul you want to keep."
The blond-haired man scratched his face with his bloody claws: "So, you killed my husband and children right in front of me and ate them?"
Hou Guangzong's face was covered in blood from being scratched: "Yes, you're a weasel spirit who has become a demon. You have a husband, your husband loves you, and you love your husband. You've given birth to a litter of children for your husband, and the children love you and depend on you!"
"Your husband would go to great lengths to get food for you and the children, coming all the way to the village, stealing, robbing, begging, and working!"
"Why? Why is it that you, a demon, a beast, have such a loving husband, and such a harmonious and loving relationship with your family?"
"I'm going to seize your husband and devour your children right in front of you. That way, you'll be filled with resentment and hatred, becoming the best nourishment for me to keep my mother alive!"