After taking a shower, Zhou Ze was carried out by Bai Yingying, wearing a white shirt and casual pants, and settled on a bamboo mat on the second floor. When Bai Yingying came down, Xu Qinglang immediately approached and asked:

"What's the situation?"

Secretly,

Carefully,

This feeling was akin to the apprehensive feeling of running an underground casino, as if the police would burst in at any moment to bust the gambling ring.

Bai Yingying hesitated, her face flushed.

Xu Qinglang frowned.

*You're* a zombie, why are *you* blushing?

"What happened?" Xu Qinglang pressed, eager for an answer.

"Wha..." Bai Yingying stammered.

"Hey, stop being coy. Do you still want that latest graphics card or not?"

"The boss said he'd get me a new, top-of-the-line computer after the shop moves." Bai Yingying said bashfully.

"Did he bribe you?" Xu Qinglang's face darkened.

"Uh-huh." Bai Yingying was honest.

"That's not right. He barely has over ten thousand yuan, and he has to renovate after the move. I'm covering the rent. He doesn't have that much money."

"The boss took two of my jade hairpins, pawned them for five hundred thousand yuan, and said he'd pay me back seven hundred and fifty thousand yuan in six months."

"He tricked you into pawning funerary objects?" Xu Qinglang looked at her like she was an idiot. "Are you stupid? Those were your grave goods!"

"The boss said he'd give them back." Bai Yingying mumbled.

"You believe everything he says? If he said he was your zombie ancestor, you'd believe him too?"

"I would." Bai Yingying whispered.

Because she really sensed the aura of a zombie on the boss.

"You're hopeless, silly girl." Xu Qinglang looked at her with exasperation. "By the way, let me ask you something. Do you have any sisters?"

"Huh?"

"I want to find a female zombie to be my maid too. It's a sure-fire deal."

"Oh."

Bai Yingying straightened up.

A cold aura suddenly emanated from her.

The silly girl instantly transformed into an ice-cold goddess.

Xu Qinglang, still lamenting his own situation, suddenly trembled.

That familiar feeling of dread from their first meeting returned, and almost instinctively, Xu Qinglang turned back into a little quail.

"You said, take *who* as a maid?" The female corpse asked.

"No, I said I'd go buy a new graphics card for you this afternoon, so you can play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG, 吃鸡 chī jī) at the highest settings."

…………

"Here, this is Qingyi Niangniang's information."

Tang Shi handed a tablet to Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze's hair was still wet. He was sitting on the bamboo mat, leaning against the wall, looking like a decadent, handsome college student who had just finished playing basketball and taken a shower.

Xu Le had all sorts of shortcomings and useless aspects,

But you couldn't deny that Xu Le was indeed good-looking.

Otherwise, the Lin family parents wouldn't have chosen him to be their live-in son-in-law.

"Seeking children?" Zhou Ze said, glancing at Qingyi Niangniang's information.

Qingyi Niangniang (青衣娘娘, Azure-Clad Goddess) was a small local temple in Tongcheng. She didn't exist in historical records, and she didn't even have a place in mainstream mythology. Even in Tongcheng, she wasn't a household name.

Her popularity wasn't widespread, and most of the stories about her were made up by later generations.

Just like many attractions in Yangzhou's Slender West Lake (瘦西湖, Shòuxī Hú) were related to Emperor Qianlong's visits to the south, as if Emperor Qianlong did nothing but create stories in the Slender West Lake to name these attractions.

The story of Qingyi Niangniang was also somewhat far-fetched. There was a town in Tongcheng called Lüsi (吕四), said to be named after Lü Dongbin's (吕洞宾) four visits there. This Qingyi Niangniang was a widow whom Lü Dongbin met during his visit to Tongcheng.

The widow had no children, didn't remarry, and observed chastity for her deceased husband. She loved children and was kind-hearted, so she took in many orphans, equivalent to an ancient orphanage or day-care center. Lü Dongbin, upon discovering her, gave her a cyan robe as encouragement.

After her death, the locals built a temple to commemorate her merits, calling it Qingyi Niangniang.

Most of the people who came to this temple to burn incense were seeking children and the continuation of their family line, similar to the effects of the Guanyin (观音, Guān Yīn) Bodhisattva Who Sends Children.

However, the bottom mentioned that the Qingyi Niangniang Temple had been demolished during the renovation of the old district.

As for rebuilding, it was difficult. Firstly, she wasn't as famous as Mazu (妈祖, Māzǔ). Secondly, the difficulty of building a new temple was indeed high, and developers wouldn't add to their own workload. Although some local elders objected, the temple was eventually demolished.

The information included a photo from a few years ago. The Qingyi Niangniang Temple in the photo was already dilapidated. The head of the statue had fallen off in some unknown year, leaving only a headless sculpture standing there.

This was consistent with the image of the headless woman.

"So-called temple deities are soul embryos shaped by faith and incense, just like the faceless woman who came to test you. She was transformed from the sorrow of those passing on the road to the Yellow Springs (黄泉, Huáng Quán)," Tang Shi explained.

"She knew her temple was about to be demolished and she was about to disappear, so she came out to kill people out of spite?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Temple deities have their own code of conduct, and even their final frenzy will never be aimless."

"I know this. I checked." Xu Qinglang walked up from the stairwell at this time. "The girl whose head was cut off by the ceiling fan had had three abortions at the hospital. Qingyi Niangniang deliberately used her code of conduct to carry out her final punishment."

"Punishment?" Zhou Ze retorted. "Who gave her the authority to do that?"

Xu Qinglang shrugged. "Everyone has a different perspective, and naturally, their position is different. In her eyes, a child is a life. Having an abortion for no reason, having an abortion irresponsibly, is a blasphemy against life."

"So, if I hadn't happened to run into it, she would have continued to find people like that and cause them to die accidentally?" Zhou Ze asked.

"That should be the case." Tang Shi nodded. "She has become crazy and obsessed. When anyone reaches the end of the road, they will always go crazy, even if she is a temple deity."

"I've always wondered one thing. Why did she only let the women die? Lao Zhou, do you remember the girl's boyfriend in the noodle shop? How come he was okay?

Does Qingyi Niangniang also favor men over women?"

"So the most pitiful one is still the student boyfriend."

Zhou Ze gave the answer.

Xu Qinglang was stunned when he heard this.

A look of understanding appeared on his face, and he said:

"When will my thinking be as excellent as yours?"

"In short, you can slow down a little next time you do things." Tang Shi reminded, "Desperadoes, or this kind of temple deity, don't touch them next time. Everything she does is offset by her previous merits, it's not your fault."

"It's not a question of whether I want to touch it or not, it's that I just happened to encounter it, so..."

After thinking about it,

Zhou Ze thought of the monkey from before,

And suddenly felt no interest in explaining. He simply waved his hand and said, "Forget it, never mind."

Tang Shi smiled at this moment and said, "I originally thought you were different from him, but now I suddenly realize that you are essentially the same."

"I don't want to follow his path. By the way, is your injury healed?"

"Almost healed."

"Then what are you still doing here? Not going to help your friend? I can help you book a ticket to Rongcheng."

"Whether I go or not doesn't matter much. The result won't change because I go, and I believe he can come back."

Xu Qinglang was about to leave at this time, and suddenly thought of something, saying: "By the way, the shop matters over there have been dealt with, and we can move at any time."

"I'll wait until my body recovers a bit more." Zhou Ze said.

He didn't want to be sitting in a wheelchair when he was taking care of the shop's business.

"Okay, then take good care of your body, and be careful not to get it wet."

Xu Qinglang walked downstairs.

Tang Shi was still standing here. With a flick of her finger, a White Rabbit candy willingly shed its clothes and flew into her mouth.

Then, while chewing, she asked Zhou Ze:

"Some changes seem to have occurred in your body."

"Perhaps."

"But I still want to remind you to take good care of this body, because for us, returning from hell and choosing a body is a one-time opportunity. Once this body is ruined, you will become a wandering ghost."

"No exceptions?" Zhou Ze frowned. He wasn't very fond of this body. Although he had gotten used to it, there were always some unspeakable things.

Especially when facing Doctor Lin.

Tang Shi thought for a while, and said: "That one seems to have the ability to switch bodies, but he's just a special case. For us, there's only a single, unique chance."

"You seem to be in a good mood today." Zhou Ze noticed that Tang Shi was talking a lot today.

Zhou Ze wasn't narcissistic enough to think that it was because he had safely returned that this woman was so happy that she was talking more.

"He sent a message. There will be a result at the end of the month."

"Oh, the yearning wife received the news, so she's overjoyed."

Zhou Ze stretched lazily, "I hope he can unleash his potential over there, kill all those ghost messengers and faceless women, and even if he has to self-destruct in the end, he has to drag them down with him, so that I can continue to live my peaceful little life."

The little loli and the faceless woman were like a Damocles sword hanging over his head.

"After the matters over there are resolved, he might also come here. Maybe you can become neighbors then."

Heh, woman.

To be honest, Zhou Ze didn't have much confidence that he could safely return from Rongcheng, but he also knew that, to Tang Shi in front of him, she wouldn't listen to any rational words anymore.

Zhou Ze could only follow this line of thought and continue:

"Okay, then we can form a group. Doesn't Marvel have something called the Avengers? We can also do one,

The League of Hellish Guests?

The League of Hell Dwellers?"

"Too obviously following the trend, tacky." Tang Shi was clearly dissatisfied with this name.

"Heh, then you say one."

"How about the Anorexics Alliance?"