Chapter 48: Ghostly Lover

  Fu Chuan knew that what he said was not right, but the boss of Jiahe Building's mouth and actions really made him feel that it was a case of "what goes around comes around", he should have died at Hua Zi's hands, just look at the newspaper.

  But those poor people who were killed by him, Fu Chuan understood in his heart that Buddhism talks about compassion and kindness, but yesterday he did not take action to save them. Although he knew that everything was a deserved punishment, Fu Chuan still felt uncomfortable in his heart. However, he also thought that what he had done was not wrong. Sometimes human hearts are really contradictory.

  Fu Xiang looked at San Yang and thought that San Yang's three views were quite correct, which was not bad. After experiencing more things in the future, San Yang might understand what he meant by his words.

  Fu Chuan asked San Yang: "Has Hui Ling arrived?" Fu Chuan was looking for Hui Ling because he had some important matters.

  San Yang told Fu Chuan: "Hui Ling is not here, she left home early in the morning. I knocked on the door, but no one responded." Fu Chuan found it strange, he had an appointment with Hui Ling today, why did she leave?

  Fu Chuan asked San Yang: "Does Huiling have a phone?"

  "He's a monk who uses what kind of phone? Master, do you know that in Hui Ling Master's home, except for a bed, there is almost no furniture."

  Fu Chuan didn't think it was strange, Hui Ling was originally a Buddhist, and Buddhists have never been concerned with material things. Fu Chuan was different, he wanted to eat well, play well, live well, so now he is deeply in debt.

  Fu Chuan got up and stood by the window. The night had already fallen, and Fu Chuan looked at the Furen Building across the street. For the first time, the lights on that floor were extinguished without being turned on, and Fu Chuan finally felt a weight lifted off his mind.

  "Master, Master Shu called from the seaside today."

  "What did she say."

  "It's just asking when Master is going."

  Fujiang did not answer, nor did he know when he could fulfill his promise to Li Baobao. He didn't want to break his promise and was eager to go to the seaside villa to pick up Li Baobao, but now things here were like a tangled mess, and he needed time and energy to sort them out.

  Night, Jihe Building——

  Huiling remembered that the first time he stood under the Jiahao Building, he had already foreseen it, his heavenly calamity was inside. When she stood in the Jiahao Building looking at him, Huiling's heart softened instantly. He told himself not to appear here again, but his footsteps and heart were uncontrollable.

  She is still as beautiful as she was when I lost her at first.

  She remains forever young in that most beautiful moment, and Wisdom has also become more mature over the years. She once said that maybe he didn't become a monk, but went to find a job, maybe he could become a successful businessman or industry elite.

  A faint mist surrounded her, she was trapped in the Jiahe Building by the Buddha's light, and crystal tears fell when she saw Hui Ling come and go.

  "Good weather."

  "Wisdom."

  Still remember that year, they also called each other and made a private promise of lifelong commitment. He said: Qing'er, marry me, be my wife.

  She said: Huiling, I will marry you, but before marrying you, you must first grow out your hair.

  At that time they laughed together, he was sixteen years old, she was twenty years old, Dà Huì Líng was four years older, he was the youngest abbot of Fahua Temple, and she was an orphan living in the temple.

  Huiling was raised by her, she has seen all the absurd things Huiling did, she was Huiling's first time, but she wasn't, Huiling had a grudge in her heart, yet never asked who her first time was with, it's something that every man would care about.

  Huiling walked closer and closer, wanting to see more clearly, but she told him not to get any closer, it would be very dangerous. She was still so worried about Huiling.

  Huiling didn't care about anything else, he went in and held his Qing'er in his arms, just like holding the whole world. He said why didn't you come to find me for so many years, even if it's a dream.

  She wept in his arms and said that she had died by her own hand and was not qualified to be reborn, so she could only wander the world.

  Huiling came forward and was afraid that the Buddhist beads on his body would hurt her, so he took off the beads early. He said I miss you, I really miss you.

  He said I've been waiting for you, maybe until we reincarnate, so that we can meet again in the vast ocean of people.

  She said she wouldn't be able to, that she would never have the chance to reincarnate, it was her fault, missing the opportunity, missing everything that should have happened with him.

  It was she who gave up those opportunities, she pushed away Hui Ling and told her to leave this place, saying it's very dangerous here.

  Huiling didn't move, the people who came out thought he was a madman and asked the gatekeeper to drive Huiling away. Huiling couldn't take Qing'er out of the building because this was where he had personally sealed it.

  He wanted to break the seal, but was stopped by Qing'er. She said that if Huiling broke the seal, all the evil spirits would come out and many people would die.

  Qing'er assured Huiling that she had never harmed anyone, and that she was caught in this building. In her years of wandering the world, she had never harmed a single person, hiding from the sun every day, avoiding people or things that could harm her.

  Huiling knew she didn't have it easy, and he felt guilty in his heart.

  They were so happy back then, but the difference in their status made it impossible for them to be together. Monks cannot get married; if he wanted to marry her, he would have to leave the temple.

  Later, he succeeded in giving up that responsibility. He wanted Qing'er to be his responsibility, but Qing'er hanged herself the day after he left, and no one knew why she did so.

  Huiling has been playing games with people all these years, he is really tired, really misses her, and it's really incomprehensible. He told her to wait for him, he would come back to find her, but the next day he got was that she had already committed suicide.

  He asked Qing'er why she wanted to commit suicide?

  Qing'er cried and shook her head, saying she didn't commit suicide, but was murdered. Huiling fiercely asked Qing'er who killed her, Qing'er kept shaking her head, saying she didn't know, even she herself didn't know who killed her, then made her corpse look like a fake suicide.

  That year, Huiling was three years old, an age that had been weaned and needed to be taken care of. The former host didn't have so many experiences to take care of Huiling, the future host, so they adopted a four-year-old girl from outside to take care of Huiling who had already been weaned. The girl was responsible for taking care of Huiling, but she never knew how to wear a skirt because she always wore monk clothes in the temple. Until Huiling was twelve years old, he didn't know that the person who had been with him all along was a girl.

  Qing'er had been with Huiling for fourteen years, until the year Huiling turned sixteen. It wasn't until then that he accidentally saw Qing'er changing her sanitary napkin and realized she was a girl.

  That year she was twenty years old, and on the sixteenth birthday of Huiling, he pulled her into his room and made love to Qing'er in his own chamber, making a promise for this life and the next.

  After that, their love became unstoppable until they were discovered by the master. The master wanted to drive Qing'er away, but Huiling threatened to die with her. Qing'er was a girl, and if she left the temple, she would have no home to return to.

  Huiling is a man, he knows he has to take responsibility for all this. He asks the host to keep Qing'er, and he leaves. The host sees Huiling's persistence for the last time, can only bear the pain of parting with him, and let Huiling go.

  But on the second day, when Huiling returned to the temple, she heard that Qing'er had hanged herself.

  Huiling secretly took Qing'er's body out of the temple and buried her on a cliff overlooking the sea, where they often sneaked out to play together. He hoped that Qing'er could always be with him like this.

  In the following decade, the temple sent countless people to search for Hui Ling, but they all returned empty-handed. No one knew where he was hiding or what he was doing now.

  Huiling looked at Qing'er, now he only had one idea, that was to take Qing'er away from Jiahe Building. He still had a lot of questions to ask Qing'er, he must know how Qing'er died.

  Ten years had passed and he told Qing'er that she couldn't imagine how he spent these ten years, hiding in the corners of this city waiting for her to appear, and how much he missed her.

  Qing'er looked at Hui Ling, her tears had already stopped, but she knew she couldn't go out, and she also couldn't follow Hui Ling because she couldn't.

  She pushed Hui Ling, pushing Hui Ling out of Jiahe Building. She let Hui Ling leave cleanly and didn't want to see Hui Ling get into trouble. She said: "Go, go quickly, if she finds you, you'll die!"

  Huiling stood outside the building, he didn't want to leave and couldn't leave, because he couldn't let go of Qing'er's hand again. If he lets go of Qing'er this time, Huiling doesn't know if he will have to wait another ten years.

  At this moment, Huiling wanted to eliminate Buddha's seal, but he didn't expect to be kicked to the ground from behind. Huiling knew that the person behind him hadn't used his full strength, otherwise he would have been crippled long ago. He also knew that only Fuchuan could give him a kick without hurting him. Huiling looked back and indeed locked eyes with Fuchuan's fiery gaze.

  Huiling said: "Don't mind! I'll take her out!"

  Fu Chuan rushed forward, pulled Hui Ling up from the ground, and roared at her: "You can live or die as you please, but if you want to drag others down with you, I won't stand idly by!"

  Huiling looked at Fu Chuan, then turned to Qing'er. Suddenly, Huiling's legs softened and he knelt down in front of Fu Chuan. He knew that only Fu Chuan could save Qing'er now.

  "I, Hui Ling, have never begged anyone in this lifetime. Today, I kneel here and beg you, please take her out with me, I must take her away!"

  Three sheep were also shocked, he watched Hui Ling and Fu Chuan argue, neither giving in, but had never seen Hui Ling kneel down in front of Fu Chuan to beg her master to save a female ghost.

  Three sheep thought this female ghost must be very important, three sheep couldn't bear it, Pei Chun finally didn't loosen his mouth, three sheep had no choice but to accompany Hui Ling and kneel in front of Pei Chuan.

  "Master, just help the Grand Master."

  Huiling lowered his head, his body slightly trembling. He said: "She is the reason I left the temple. All these years, I've been hiding from the temple's pursuit, also to find her."

  "Fu Chuan, I've never asked you for anything before. In fact, I've helped you out quite a bit in the past. So this time, consider it me asking you for a favor, help me get her out of here."

  Fujiang's voice was icy, but his heart was shaken by Huiling's words. He had thought that Huiling was expelled from Fahua Temple for violating the temple rules, but he never expected it to be because of a woman.

  "Humans and ghosts are on different paths. Even if I help you bring her out, you won't be able to spend the rest of your life with her." Fu Chuan had already made up his mind.

  He pulled Hui Ling up, he and Hui Ling were brothers, he didn't think of making Hui Ling kneel down to beg him, he took action because he also wanted to know what had happened between Hui Ling and this female ghost.

  Fu Xiang's body originally had a spiritual light protecting it, so he could penetrate that layer of Buddha light and pull out the ghost. However, doing so caused severe damage to his body, which he didn't tell Hui Ling about.

  He walked forward and stretched out his hand through the Buddha's light. The spiritual light and the Buddha's light were incompatible, so his hand was suddenly set on fire.

  He smoothly grasped Qing'er's hand and with a bit of effort, pulled her out. Qing'er was pushed to Hui Ling's side, while Fu Chuan suddenly clutched his chest in pain and fell to the ground.

  "Master, what's wrong?" San Yang immediately went forward to help Fu Chuan up. Although San Yang knew that every time Fu Chuan was like this, he would feel unwell, but he had never seen Fu Chuan spit out blood before.

  Fu Chuan felt another wave of evil power coming from downstairs, Fu Chuan shouted to San Yang: "San Yang, quickly drive the car over!" Fu Chuan then said to Hui Ling: "Leave here immediately!"

  Fu Chuan felt that Huazhi must have known, they were here, Huazhi's power was getting closer and closer, when boarding the car, Fu Chuan felt that the power was like it was going to capsize the car.

  After returning to Bao Fa Tang, Fu Chuan went back to his bedroom and never came out. San Yang had already started making medicine for Fu Chuan according to the old routine. Hui Ling felt very apologetic about what happened to Fu Chuan, he knew he needed to give an explanation to Fu Chuan.

  Three sheep brought the medicine out of the kitchen, "Master, you haven't left yet."

  Huilian stepped forward and asked: "The medicine for your master?"

  Three sheep nodded, "Yes, hiding at home, Master will be fine after taking some medicine, don't worry about it."

  Huiling finally handed the medicine bowl to him, he took it in, and San Yang also listened, handing the medicine bowl to Huiling. He knew that Huiling was using the medicine as an excuse to apologize and leave.

  Huiling walked into Fuchuan's bedroom, where Fuchuan was lying on the bed with a heartache, his eyes open but not speaking. Huiling held out the medicine bowl in front of Fuchuan and said gently, "Drink it, it's already cooled down."

  Fuhe doesn't want to drink bitter medicine now. Fuhe helped Huiling, not because he wanted Huiling to pretend to be careful in front of him. "You know I'm helping you, not for other reasons, but because I think you're my friend. Friends help friends, it's what they should do. But I have to know what's going on, what's your relationship with that female ghost?"

  Huiling now also knew that it was impossible for her to deceive Fu Chuan any longer. He said, "She is the reason I left Fahua Temple."

  "She? A female ghost?" Fu Chuan took one look at Hui Ling's appearance and knew it was a human-ghost romance, "Why?"

  Huiling thought for a moment, sat on the sofa, and after a period of silence, he said: "The Qing'er ten years ago was not a ghost, she grew up with me, and it can be said that she took care of me growing up."

  "We grew up together in Fahua Temple, and later we fell in love. However, you know those old fogies in the temple; they would never allow me to be with Qing'er, so I was driven out of Fahua Temple, or rather, I left voluntarily."

  "But when I went back to take Qing'er away, Qing'er had hanged herself. I never believed that Qing'er committed suicide. All these years, I've been avoiding the people from Fahua Temple because I wanted to see Qing'er again, but I couldn't find her anywhere until I went with you to Jiahe Building and discovered she was trapped inside."

  "After all these years, I've been waiting for an opportunity to find her, but I never thought she was right in front of me and I didn't even know."

  Huiling said emotionally, and actually shed tears. Fu Chuan looked at him with disdain and said, "Hurry up and wipe away your tears." He couldn't bear to see a man cry.

  Huiling told Fu Chuan that after this matter is resolved, he hopes Fu Chuan can help him investigate the cause of Qing'er's death. However, Fu Chuan did not immediately agree, and since this matter has not been resolved yet, he does not want to give himself another burden.

  Fu Xiang asked Hui Ling: "You left Fahua Temple because of that woman, have you ever regretted it?"

  His eyes were calm and peaceful, but his tone was very firm. He said: "I just regret that I didn't take her away a day earlier, otherwise she wouldn't have died."

  "What did your master tell you about this matter?"

  Huiling thought of her master and felt guilty in her heart. "Master hasn't seen me since I left the temple, my senior brother told me that Master has gone into seclusion."

  "Closed off?" Fu Chuan actually knew Hui Ling's master, who was a truly high-ranking monk. "Do you know that in the past ten years, no one has seen Ran Yi Master? Not even when my own master passed away, and they were old friends for many years, did Ran Yi Master make an appearance."

  Hui Ling suddenly looked at Fu Chuan and said, "What do you mean by this?"

  Fuhe smiled and said, "However, Master Ran has not appeared in public for ten years."

  "How is it possible? When I left, Master was still fine, except for being angry."

  "That was ten years ago."

  Huiling felt that he was really unfilial, but Master Ranyi had brought him up since childhood and treated him like his own son. However, Huiling had been wandering outside for many years without returning to see Master Ranyi even once, and the news about his situation all came from others' mouths.

  Huiling couldn't believe what Fu Chuan said, and he asked: "Are you certain that my master hasn't left the Fahua Temple in ten years?"

  Fuhe nodded firmly and said: "Last year I went to see the master, but the master didn't see me. If he followed the usual practice, he would have seen me first."

  Huiling sat up and said, "If we say that the master has not appeared for ten years of almsgiving, this is impossible. Almsgiving is very important, the master will not be absent, let alone be absent for ten years."

  Fuhe asked Huiling: "How long has it been since you watched TV? The annual alms-giving ceremony at Fahua Temple can attract tens of thousands of people, just to see your master go there. But the alms-giving ceremony at Fahua Temple hasn't been held for several years now."