Free Web NovelChapter 2055: Chapter 2015: The Harsh Truth
Inside it contains a cruel truth: these people have long been dead, but they don’t realize it, still thinking they are living as they did when alive.
"Miss Jia, have you ever gone out for a walk?"
A walk?
Miss Jia indeed has never gone outside, she has always stayed in this brothel.
Miss Jia shook her head.
"Let me take you for a walk then."
"But, isn’t that inappropriate?" Miss Jia said.
Going out for a walk? Wouldn’t that mean being exposed publicly?
Being looked at like that by others, Miss Jia felt very embarrassed.
"If you don’t go, then I will leave."
Now Ye Qiu knows that to resolve this, he must make the ghosts of this world realize that they have long been dead, only leaving behind some memories and thoughts, still thinking they are alive.
Rather than these spirits occupying such a large area here, it would be better to let those lands above be inhabited by the living.
How could the dead possibly compete with the living for places to live?
Seeing Ye Qiu really preparing to leave, Miss Jia hurriedly said, "Mr. Ye, then please wait for me."
Miss Jia went to take a white cloth to cover her face, leaving only her eyes exposed, and then went out through the back door of the brothel with Ye Qiu.
The back door of the brothel was also a street, bustling with activity at this time.
On the road, all kinds of things were being sold.
Food, drinks, toys, daily use items, everything was available.
Miss Jia felt as if she had never seen these interesting things from childhood to adulthood.
"If you like them, buy them."
Ye Qiu said.
When Miss Jia was about to purchase them, Ye Qiu took out a stack of money.
Actually, he handed her Joss Paper.
Miss Jia still felt embarrassed using Ye Qiu’s money.
After buying these, Ye Qiu’s two servants and Miss Jia’s maid were holding them while Ye Qiu accompanied Miss Jia to watch a play.
In ancient times, there weren’t as many recreational activities as now, even though now it seems many TVs and such were burnt for these underground people.
But it’s still not widely spread in this world.
And currently, watching plays remains the main form of entertainment.
Like opera performances, puppet plays, etc.
What they saw now was an opera performance, surrounded by people of all ages.
Ye Qiu and Miss Jia found seats, sat down and watched, these opera-performing ghosts were clearly very skilled when alive.
So, they performed excellently.
But, listening to it, Ye Qiu always felt somewhat out of harmony.
While Miss Jia was listening with great interest, Ye Qiu was secretly recording the sound.
A full opera can take a long time to perform.
Ye Qiu didn’t stay to watch the whole of it, only recorded for over an hour, and then asked Miss Jia to leave.
"Mr. Ye, we haven’t finished watching."
"You’ll never finish watching it, I’ll take you to see something else."
See something else?
Miss Jia seemed puzzled. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
When Miss Jia and Ye Qiu left and went outside.
Ye Qiu suddenly stopped and said, "Miss Jia, do you feel there’s something different about the people ahead?"
Something different?
Miss Jia looked over and felt there was nothing different!
Their dressing seemed very normal, similar to Ming Dynasty attire.
"Look closely again."
Ye Qiu said again.
Look closely again?
Miss Jia looked over again, and still found no difference.
Actually, Ye Qiu saw at a glance that they were just paper figures.
"Can’t you see?"
Miss Jia nodded.
"Actually, they’re not people."
Not people?
What does that mean?
Miss Jia didn’t understand.
"Didn’t you see their footsteps are light, they’re just paper figures full of ghosts."
Paper figures?
Miss Jia was even more incredulous.
When Ye Qiu asked her to watch carefully, very soon, Miss Jia really found something different.
"Look at my two servants again?"
This time, Miss Jia saw more clearly.
Aren’t these just paper figures?
So-called paper figures are just people folded out of paper?
Just dummies?
"Then, what about you?"
Miss Jia almost wanted to scream.
Ye Qiu covered her mouth.
"Let’s talk as we walk."
As Ye Qiu and Miss Jia walked and talked, gradually, Miss Jia seemed to discover something wrong as well, like she seemed to be a paper figure too, it’s just her attire looked more full-bodied.
In essence, she was no different from those people?
But why does Mr. Ye look different?
Why is it like this?
Could it be it’s not the Ming Dynasty, not Jinling now?
"Miss Jia, have you recalled some past events?"
Recalled some past events?
Just now, Ye Qiu had been reminding the other person, but Miss Jia didn’t realize she seemed to have died long ago.
As for how she died at that time?
Miss Jia didn’t think of it.
Now she seems to recall it.
That night a fire broke out in the brothel, the fire soared up to the heavens, engulfing the entire brothel, the people outside couldn’t save those inside the brothel, including the brothel girls and guests.
And this incident had never surfaced in Miss Jia’s mind, now she suddenly remembered very clearly, trapped by the fire, she called out to the heaven and earth but received no response, then didn’t know anymore.
When she woke up again, she seemed to have arrived in this world.
"Have you recalled it?"
"Mr. Ye, I seem to recall the fire at the brothel that year."
"Then you were buried by the fire indeed."
Ye Qiu had already realized, the young brothel girls and guests from the brothel had died in the fire hundreds of years ago, perhaps only the ghosts remained.
Now, led by Ye Qiu’s constant reminders, Miss Jia finally recalled.
So now, Miss Jia suddenly realized a very frightening truth, which is why these years she always felt her life, her days hadn’t changed.
Turns out she had been dead long ago.
This world that looks very different from the original world is not the original world at all.
Then what is this place?
Could it be hell?
"Is this hell?"
"Not quite, this is just a very special place causing your spirits to struggle to reincarnate properly, staying here for hundreds of years."
"What about you then?"
"I’m not originally from this world."
"Then why did Mr. Ye appear in this world?"
This would be a long story to tell, Ye Qiu certainly wouldn’t say much more, he just wanted Miss Jia to be aware she had died, a long time ago at that.
Now not only must she know, but also other people in this world must realize, and as their intent fades away slowly, perhaps they will slowly disappear along with it, leaving this world without ghosts.
This place will return to normal, and people above can live here normally again.
Although this seems somewhat cruel to these ghosts, it’s an unavoidable solution.
