Scum Man Cannot Redeem Himself - chapter 170

The visitors gradually thinned out, there was mist rising in all directions, beautiful as if a fairyland.

Ning Qing wandered between them.

A white-bearded old man came smiling. He was dressed in white, his hair was white, and in this fairyland of peach blossom forest, he looked like an immortal.

Ning Qing greeted him.

The old man came for her, and reached out to ask, “Give me twenty taels of silver to buy wine for me to drink to relieve your worries.”

No person would ask a stranger for such a large amount of silver. But he did not look like a bad guy, but a child who wanted to eat candy, as it looked very interesting.

Ning Qing smiled lightly, “I have no worries, let alone I don’t carry such a large amount of silver.”

The old man narrowed his eyes and mysteriously touched his beard, “You can enter this peach blossom forest, must be indebted to the peach blossom, the other people can not enter.”

Ning Qing looked around. At the start, there were a few visitors to the forest, but except for her and the old man, no one else was around.

The old man pointed to the gold hairpin on her head and licked his lips, “That looks good, I can exchange it for wine.”

The old man’s craving for wine was so funny that Ning Qing took off the gold hairpin and handed it to the old man, “Go and exchange it for wine!”

The old man happily accepted it and casually picked a peach blossom, “Eat the petals and the peach blossom debt would be paid.”

A gold hairpin for a peach blossom, Ning Qing shook her head and laughed lightly.

The old man soon disappeared. Ning Qing went back, gradually more visitors were seen, the mist also disappeared.

Ning Qing found a stone table on the side of the road. One could see the visitors and she could wait for Hui Xian there.

She was a little tired. The spring breeze urged, the sun was warm, while waiting on the stone table, she fell asleep.

When she opened her eyes again, Hui Xian was sitting beside her smiling, but also bought two bowls of peach blossom soup. The aroma was really tempting.

She picked up the spoon to eat a few bites, saw the peach flower on the stone table and remembered the old man’s words. She never believed in ghosts and God. Still Ning Qing added the flower petals into the bowl and ate it together.

“Karma reincarnation, go pay your debt!” The old man’s voice echoed in her head in a daze.

Pay back the debt?

Her head started to ache, like it was about to split open, and her throat was dry and on fire.

“Water!” She instinctively shouted, but the sound that came out was so hoarse that it was indecipherable.

An old woman rushed over.

“Miss is awake, God bless, go report to the master and madam,” the maid’s voice was filled with heartfelt joy.

“Water, give me water to drink,” Zhao Lingxue couldn’t think of anything else, at this moment she only wanted to drink water to renew her life.

Surprised, the maid finally heard her own lady’s request and hurriedly poured water and helped her up. Zhao Lingxue couldn’t wait and took it from the maid’s hand and drank it all in one go.

“One more cup,” the voice was still hoarse, but it was much better than before.

The maid happily went to pour.

“Miss, thank goodness, you are finally awake.”

Zhao Lingxue took the tea and drank it all.

She rubbed her swollen temples. A rush of memories came rushing back, a feeling like she was an empty shell before, suddenly filled up.

It took a while to get used to it before she slowly smoothed out her thoughts.

She was Zhao Lingxue, sixteen years old, the pearl of the great merchant Zhao Qingshu of Li Zhou. The family’s business was spread all over the dynasty, and they were ranked high in the wealth list in the whole dynasty.

She was the youngest of five brothers, and was the one that Zhao Qingshui and his wife Liu have been hoping for for years, so they loved her like a pearl.

A girl who had been spoiled like this, was inevitably arrogant, and sometimes loved to cry. Because of her loving parents and brothers, she lived a naive life. But she was still kind-hearted, soft-hearted and simple. Sometimes, because of the death of a kitten, she cried for three days without eating. Sometimes, also because of some small things.

But such a girl’s life was short. As told by the fortune teller who saw her eight characters, and said she may not live to sixteen years old.

Zhao Qingshu was so anxious that almost kneeled down to the fortune teller.

The fortune teller was the most powerful in Li Zhou and had great skills. After carefully pondering for some time, he had a method to solve the problem.

Zhao Qingshu must find her a dragon man with the coordinates of the southwest direction, the eight characters are strong as husband, in order to save her life. Also in accordance with the eight-character arrangement, he gave Zhao Qingshu a copy of the hardest eight-character birth date; let him follow the eight-character search, the harder the better.

They looked for more than ten years, and finally found the same eight characters. When they wanted them to get married, the girl suddenly had chest pain. She had no breath and died.

Zhao Qingshu grief rushed to find the fortune-teller, to see if his daughter could be still saved. The fortune-teller came to their house, after looking at her, he said that Zhao Lingxue was not dead, and would naturally wake up after a few days.

This led to the opening scene.

But when she woke up, the phrase ‘karma reincarnation, go pay your debt’ was engraved in her mind so clearly that she couldn’t understand it.