This woman’s name is Cuihua?
Zhou Ze chuckled in his heart. This name really suited this silly girl.
Lawyer An immediately took Cuihua from Old Zhang’s hands. He glanced at the injuries on her body and said in astonishment, “Cuihua, which f*cking dog stabbed you to this state!”
“…” Zhou Ze.
Then, Lawyer An thought of something. He immediately shook his head. He said, “I’ll treat you first.”
Lawyer An immediately carried Cuihua upstairs.
“Boss, who is that woman?” Bai Yingying asked as she handed Zhou Ze a warm towel.
“A silly girl who just escaped from Hell. I almost died at her hands.”
Even now, Zhou Ze still had some lingering fear when he recalled the strong wind that the silly girl had created.
He insisted on not undoing the seal, but it could be said that it was a close call at that time.
“Ah, boss, your hands!”
Bai Yingying’s heart ached terribly seeing Zhou Ze’s two bloody fingers. The fingernail at the fingertip was gone and it was still bleeding.
“Ugh…”
Zhou Ze suddenly felt that his fingers had entered a warm, humid place. His naughty tongue was jumping up and down.
Yingying had put his injured fingers into her mouth.
After a long while, Yingying took out Zhou Ze’s fingers. She asked with great heartache, “Boss, does it still hurt?”
“Silly Girl.”
Zhou Ze reached out and touched Yingying’s head.
“Of course it still hurts.”
“…” Yingying.
The Little Loli sitting at the bar counter rolled her eyes.
‘I can’t afford to offend RBQ. This f*cking straight man is really steel-like and uses his hard power to remain single. If only I hadn’t met that stupid zombie and that doctor with the m-constitution… This guy would never have a woman in his life.’
Bai Yingying helped Zhou Ze bandage his wound.
Zhou Ze walked up the stairs to see Cuihua after everything was taken care of.
If Lawyer An hadn’t recognized that woman, Zhou Ze would have gone up now to cut a few more holes in that woman’s body.
In this regard, Boss Zhou had no intention of showing mercy to the fairer sex.
The Little Monkey jumped onto Zhou Ze’s shoulder from the beam. Its crying made it obvious that it was thinking of the Old Priest.
Zhou Ze reached out his hand and patted the monkey’s head.
He said, “Don’t be anxious. The Old Priest will appear in court for the trial tomorrow. We will take action then.”
The monkey nodded. It was very sensible.
“As the boss, I can’t sleep or eat well either with the Old Priest locked up.”
Zhou Ze looked worried.
Little Monkey reached out and hugged Zhou Ze’s neck, comforting him instead.
“By the way, the woman I brought might be of some use to you. I’ll let you give it a try first. If you can recover a portion of your strength from your previous life, I will let you participate in the prison break tomorrow.”
If it succeeded, Zhou Ze would get Little Loli to bring back the White Fox too.
Zhou Ze honestly didn’t think that there were too many of these great demons. If it was purely to keep a pet, then forget it.
Zhou Ze went up to the second floor and pushed open Lawyer An’s door. He saw Lawyer An sitting by Cuihua’s bed. The wounds on Cuihua’s body had been treated. In addition to this woman’s terrifying recovering ability, she looked much better now.
“Do you know her?” Zhou Ze asked.
Lawyer An nodded.
“She almost killed me,” Zhou Ze said.
“I apologize to you on her behalf. I also thank you for not killing her and for bringing her back to treat her injuries.”
“Well…” Zhou Ze nodded and said, “Sometimes I’m too soft-hearted and can’t bear to kill women.”
“She’s a servant girl under the Old Fourth Feng,” Lawyer An said.
“I thought you were the Old Fourth.”
“Hehe.”
Lawyer An shook his head, “A few years ago, Old Fourth Feng was my servant, just like your relationship with Lin Ke.”
“I think this must be a story full of conspiracies and betrayals, the tearing of friendship and interests.”
Lawyer An sighed and nodded.
“You can say that. Old Fourth was my subordinate back then. Cuihua was the soul of a servant girl who was found buried with her in an ancient tomb. She was nourished by the ancient tomb’s feng shui for thousands of years and was brought forth by the Old Fourth.”
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
“Yes?”
“Yes?”
“Continue, my ass.”
Zhou Ze sat down on the chair beside him. He was waiting to hear a story.
“Continue what?”
“Continue telling the wonderful story of how you were cheated out of your official position and ended up like this.”
“…” Lawyer An.
“Go ahead. You didn’t want to tell me in the past but now you can tell me.”
“I still don’t want to tell you. It’s not something glorious.”
“If you don’t tell it, we can’t keep this woman.” Zhou Ze pointed at Cuihua, who was still lying in bed.
“I have to know what kind of person the Fourth Master is. I have to decide how to deal with this matter.”
“Boss, this woman and I know each other. Can’t you show mercy?”
“That night at the tree outside the apartment building, where the Old Priest was in trouble, did you show mercy?”
A smile appeared on Zhou Ze’s lips.
Lawyer An’s eyes narrowed. He was a little surprised and a little shocked.
So, the Boss knew what happened that night.
Indeed, he had let fate decide if his boss was to live or die that night. Although it was not an intentional betrayal, the relationship between them, who depended on one another, was clearly torn apart.
He had no reason to ask Zhou Ze to take responsibility for his matter, of course.
“Alright, I’ll speak.”
Lawyer An looked at Cuihua on the bed.
“Feng Si is the most talented one I’ve ever met. He comes from the righteous path, a type of sect similar to Mount Lao, Mount Longhu, and Mount Mao, that is commonly used in those ghost novels on the bookshelves downstairs. Of course, there isn’t such a sect in the real world.”
“However, there is indeed a group of people in the real world who have the ability to fight against ghosts and gods. The scabby-headed monk you met back then is one of them.”
“Feng Si was a mystic cultivator when he was alive. After he became a ghost errand boy, I don’t know how he managed to find a way to improve his cultivation by leaps and bounds.”
“It’s also because of this reason that I took him in as my ghost errand boy.”
“Later, I became a police constable and then became a Patrol Inspector. He soon became a Patrol Inspector as well, and he became my equal. Our relationship became quite good.”
“Continue. Gao Chao is here. Continue, don’t stop.”
“Later, I committed a crime and ended up like this.”
“…” Zhou Ze.
Boss Zhou stood up. He walked to the bedside. Although two of his fingers were bandaged and his right arm was still broken, Boss Zhou still had three good fingernails to use.
“Boss, what are you doing?”
“Don’t stop me. I’m going to stab her to death!”
“…” Lawyer An.
“At that time, I helped a prisoner in the 18th Level of Hell pass the message and was discovered.” Lawyer An told the truth. “Later, the officials of the underworld started to hunt me down because I broke the taboo.”
“You might not know what the 18th Level of Hell is exactly. It’s similar to the Qin City prison in the real world.”
“What I did at that time was indeed a major crime.”
“Then, a judge personally took action and severely injured me. After that, he continued to hunt me down and almost forced me into a desperate situation.”
“In the middle of Yellow Springs Road, Cuihua appeared in front of me when I was almost exhausted. She helped me heal my wounds.”
Zhou Ze looked at the woman lying on the bed. ‘No wonder Lawyer An wanted to protect her. So this silly girl was Lawyer An’s savior.’
“This was the reason why I was able to escape from Yellow Springs Road and sneak back into the mortal world. When I was a Patrol Inspector, I also made a lot of friends. They helped me run things.”
“I was already deprived of my birth language. To put it bluntly, I’m just a lonely ghost in the mortal world. Even if the people in Hell knew of my existence, most of them would turn a blind eye to it.”
“I also made use of my previous connections to do some human-snake smuggling business in exchange for my power to survive in the gray area.”
“In other words, it was Feng Si who saved you, your former subordinate and colleague at that time?”
“Yes, Cuihua is his subordinate and only listens to him. Without his arrangements, it’s impossible for Cuihua to appear there.”
“From the looks of it, Feng Si is good?”
“That doesn’t seem right. The Ghost Jade that we destroyed earlier was by Feng Si’s arrangement. He deliberately left the Ghost Jade in the world of the living, allowing it to rely on human lives to absorb and grow year by year. He would only send people to pluck the fruit after it ripened. A person who would do such a thing doesn’t look like a good person no matter how you look at it. Could it be that he’s the kind of person who has a little integrity but no virtue?”
Lawyer An lowered his head.
After a moment of silence, he finally spoke, “The person who snitched on me back then… was Feng Si.”
“Oh?” Zhou Ze was surprised. “Then this Fourth Master must be sick! Snitching on you and then saving you?”
“He said that snitching on me was part of his duty but saving me was the return of the favor I had done for him in the past.”
Lawyer An paused for a moment before continuing.
“He has always been outstanding. He has always been so outstanding that my scalp has gone numb. Perhaps it didn’t matter to him at that time if I was dead or alive since I had been deprived of my birth language. He could use this as a bargaining chip. He could let the other Patrol Inspectors and judges see that he, Feng Si, was a person of love and righteousness.”
“In Hell, there are actually many sects. The style of interpersonal relationships is countless times more serious than in reality.”
“Yes.” Zhou Ze nodded.
“But she…” Lawyer An pointed at Cuihua, “no matter what Feng Si was thinking… I have never forgotten that she had suddenly appeared to heal my wounds when I was at the end of my rope while being hunted.”
“I felt that I didn’t owe him anything, but I owed her my life.”
Cuihua, who was lying on the bed, seemed to wake up at that moment.
She began to talk in her sleep, “Fourth Master… Fourth Master…”
Lawyer An reached out and stroked Cuihua’s forehead.
“Fourth Master… Fourth Master… Cuihua is hungry… Cuihua wants to eat… pickled cabbage…”