Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 135 Scoundrel
This was the man who was his father, and he had always loathed and hated him.

This is something Ran Qing has vaguely felt since he was a child.

However, when he was a child, he hardly ever saw the man called his father. He could only feel the man's alienation and indifference towards him from the one or two occasional meetings.

But at that time, Ran Qing didn't think much about it. He had already gotten used to being alienated by his father and didn't think about the reasons.

Until recently in the ghost world of Wujiang, when Ran Qing and Aunt Liu rescued the man from Li Hongye, the father and son confronted each other and many things finally came to light.

This man really hated and despised Ran Qing.

He even said that he would rather let his son die so that his wife could live.

At that time, Ran Qing keenly realized that this sentence contained a lot of information.

But at that time, he was at a loss. He had to face the death of his sixth aunt and the hatred and anger towards men.

For a moment, he didn't dare to think about it or ask the man what had happened ten years ago and why the man hated him.

He was afraid... afraid that he was the cause of his mother's death.

That was a weight he couldn't bear.

So after returning from the Wujiang ghost world, Ran Qing subconsciously forgot about the middle-aged man lying in the hospital.

Disgust with the other person's selfishness is only one reason.

The most important reason is that Ran Qing did not dare to face this middle-aged man and did not have the courage to explore the truth about his mother's death ten years ago.

He thought that after the man was discharged from the hospital and investigated the secret of his mother's body, he would have grown into a powerful ghost walker and might be able to face this matter.

But now, his mother unexpectedly appeared and even came to his bedside to talk to him...

This situation made Ran Qing unable to play ostrich anymore.

He was determined to get to the bottom of the matter no matter what.

Even if he really was the one who killed his mother, even if he had to bear such a sin, he had to find out the truth of that year.

Then, find out what’s wrong with my mother now!
Ran Qing stared at his father with cold eyes, without any retreat.

That cold and hard expression showed his attitude - he would not give up easily today unless he got to the bottom of the truth.

Seeing such a young man, the middle-aged man frowned.

His expression also turned cold.

"Tsk..." The middle-aged man tsk-tsk and said with some annoyance: "It's really not like me at all. You're as stubborn as a donkey."

"You're my offspring after all, how come you didn't inherit any of my good qualities?"

The man acted like a father, with a hint of mockery and sarcasm.

He knew that such words might anger the boy, but he said it anyway.

He might even have said that on purpose...

Ran Qing just stared at him coldly and said, "Don't try to trick me or change the subject."

"I just want to ask you, how did my mother die?"

"I have the right to know!"

Ran Qing felt angry at the middle-aged man's provocation.

But now he is able to control such anger and will not let himself lose control of his emotions.

He could see that the man didn't want to answer him, so he was deliberately provoking him, simply to make the matter bigger and cause the father and son to quarrel again, or even fight again.

Once Ran Qing gets angry and starts to fight, and this man takes advantage of the situation to act like a rogue and make a scene, then Ran Qing will have no chance to ask about his mother again.

Now seeing the middle-aged man's eyes roll, as if he was going to play tricks again, Ran Qing said coldly: "Don't even think about disgusting me. Such despicable and shameless tactics will not work on me."

"Tell me the truth, and I'll disappear immediately and never bother you again."

Ran Qing stated his demands in a firm tone and directly.

The middle-aged man rolled his eyes after hearing this: "...Didn't you say the same thing last time? You said you didn't want to see me again, so why are you bothering me again now?"

"Has your kid learned to break his promises and treat his words as if they were farts?" "When you're in a bad mood, you come to disgust me, and when you're in a good mood, you pretend I don't exist... You kid treat me like a public toilet, right? You can come and go as you please."

At this moment, the middle-aged man turned into a rough and tumble person.

Ran Qing did not argue with him, but just looked at the man quietly, as if to say, "If you don't say anything, I will keep staring at you."

Seeing his stubborn son, Ran Jianfei was silent for a while.

Finally, he said with a headache: "Your kid is really a stubborn donkey. Okay, okay, it doesn't hurt to tell you."

"I can't say I hate you, I just don't like you."

"Your mother did die of illness. It's not as complicated as you think, and it doesn't involve any other messy things."

"Your mother has always been in poor health. You should remember that when you were a child, your mother often boiled herbs for you to eat, right?"

"That winter was very cold. Your mother went on a long trip and came back frozen. Her old illnesses were triggered, and she died just like that."

"I'm annoyed with you because you've been annoying since you were little. Your grandma spoiled you with all sorts of bad habits."

"So I don't like your grandmother either, because your mother was in poor health to begin with, and after she married into our family, your grandmother, the wicked mother-in-law, always bullied her. Every time I tried to persuade her, she would start crying, making a scene, and even threatening to commit suicide, calling me an unfilial son."

"So after your mom died, I just didn't bother to care about you two."

The man said indifferently, "Don't you like grandma the most anyway? Doesn't your grandma like you too?"

"Then you two can live on your own. I'll move out alone. We'll have nothing to do with each other."

"This is the truth about why I hate both of you. It's not as complicated as you think."

"As for what you said about seeing your mother talking to you last night... I can only say that you were purely dreaming."

"It's impossible for someone to retain their personality after death. Even if your mother died and became a ghost, she would only come to kill you. She wouldn't care about you, let alone have any feelings for you."

"Go back tonight and take a closer look to see if that thing is your mother."

"Maybe it's another monster in disguise, pretending to be a relative to trick you."

The man spoke very logically, and it seemed that Ran Qing was overthinking it.

But Ran Qing's brows were tightly furrowed.

He stared at the man and said, "You are talking nonsense..."

When his mother passed away ten years ago, he was still young and couldn't remember many things clearly.

But he also vaguely remembered that the atmosphere at home was very heavy at that time.

Grandma and father quarreled several times, and finally my father left alone with his luggage.

Moreover, after entering the city, this man clearly went to find Aunt Six, Lu Baiyin and others to do something big together.

As soon as his wife died, the man rushed to the city to find companions to do big things.

The timing is too coincidental.

Ran Qing also remembered that his grandmother and his mother had a very harmonious relationship with each other, and there was no such thing as an evil mother-in-law bullying her younger daughter-in-law.

"You're talking complete nonsense, thinking I was too young to remember anything," Ran Qing said expressionlessly, "but I've had a good memory since I was a child. I can even remember a lot of things before I was two years old, let alone when I was seven or eight."

"My mother was definitely murdered. It might even be related to the big thing you did ten years ago!"

"My grandma had a quarrel with you. She didn't want you to go, but you insisted on going?"

Ran Qing expressed her suspicions one by one, picking out loopholes in the man's words.

In the morning light, the man was speechless.

The father and son looked at each other again, and the man named Ran Jianfei was silent for a few seconds.

Then he sighed, spread his hands, and said, "You wouldn't believe me anyway, so why are you asking me? Can't you guess it yourself?"

The man acted like a rogue again.

(End of this chapter)