Whoa, You Dared Hit Master

"Master, do we have to use a chicken again?" Wen Cai looked at the big rooster in Uncle Nine's hands with dismay.

He had worked so hard to raise it.

"If we don't use the chicken, should we use you?" Uncle Nine glared at Wen Cai.

"Use the chicken, the chicken." Wen Cai gave an embarrassed laugh.

"Take this. You talk too much." Seeing that Wen Cai wasn't carrying anything, Qiu Sheng handed him the wooden sword in his own hand, taking the opportunity to kick him while he was down.

As for Lin Yu, he sneaked into the kitchen, grabbed a big handful of glutinous rice, and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm~" Only after doing that did Lin Yu hum a tune and hop his way to the morgue.

As soon as he arrived, he saw Uncle Nine setting up an altar and performing a ritual. After a series of procedures, Uncle Nine finished making an enchanted ink line.

"Snap the line against the coffin. Remember to cover the entire coffin," Uncle Nine instructed Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai as he handed them the ink fountain.

"Ah, people are divided into good and bad, and corpses into dead bodies and zombies." Once Uncle Nine had finished everything, he couldn't help sighing.

"People aren't just divided into good and bad. They're also divided into men and women." Wen Cai couldn't resist offering his insight again.

Naturally, Uncle Nine gave him a scolding for it.

"Grand Master Ren is the zombie kind."

"Hey, junior brother, do you know why people turn into zombies?" Wen Cai saw that Lin Yu had arrived and decided to ask.

Lin Yu's eyes darted around, and he explained as he walked, "If a person's last breath doesn't leave before they die, it gets trapped in their throat. Over the years, they turn into a zombie."

By the time Lin Yu finished speaking, he had reached the coffin. Looking at the coffin that was taller than him, he began pondering something again.

"Correct. When a person dies unjustly, suffocates... a breath gathers in their throat." Uncle Nine stroked Lin Yu's head and spoke with satisfaction.

Xiao Yu knowing so much also showed what a good teacher he was.

"So people have to fight for a breath while they're alive, and breathe their last when they die," Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng offered their own insight.

"Then, senior brothers, shouldn't you start fighting for a breath?" Lin Yu was weary of hearing the two of them grumble. Ask them to do a little work, and they started complaining.

"Xiao Yu, stay here and keep an eye on them. Don't let them miss any spots." Uncle Nine really didn't want to look at Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng anymore, afraid he wouldn't be able to stop himself from hitting them. After instructing Lin Yu, he left.

"Keep it up, senior brothers. Once you're done, get some rest early." Lin Yu pulled over a stool, sat down, and leisurely watched the two of them work.

"Hey." Seeing Lin Yu sitting there so leisurely, Qiu Sheng couldn't let it pass. He shot Wen Cai a meaningful look, glancing at the ink fountain in his hand and then at Lin Yu.

"Uh, maybe we shouldn't."

Wen Cai was a little scared. Lin Yu wasn't someone they could mess with now, and besides, he had Master backing him. Wen Cai didn't quite dare.

"Coward. What are you afraid of?" Qiu Sheng gave Wen Cai a contemptuous look.

"Come on, let's do it." Wen Cai couldn't take it anymore. Since when have I ever been a coward? He returned Qiu Sheng's look, signaling that they should do it.

"Mm." Qiu Sheng smiled with ill intent.

"Junior brother, we're done. Want to come check if we missed anywhere?" Qiu Sheng straightened up and called to Lin Yu.

"Let me see."

Lin Yu had seen the two of them making eyes at each other for a while now. One look told him they were up to no good, and Qiu Sheng had done the same thing to Wen Cai in the original story. Now they were calling him over-they were definitely joining forces to play a trick on him.

"Xiao Yu." Just as Lin Yu was checking, Wen Cai suddenly called him from behind.

Lin Yu turned his head in puzzlement.

"Look behind you," Wen Cai said with ill intent.

Lin Yu had kept part of his attention on the two of them all along. How could he not know what Qiu Sheng was doing behind him? He quickly ducked.

The ink line that was supposed to snap against Lin Yu's face swept over his head and snapped right across Wen Cai's face instead.

"Ah, Qiu Sheng, what are you doing?" Wen Cai wiped the ink from his face haphazardly, complaining about Qiu Sheng.

"Run!"

Having failed to trick Lin Yu, Qiu Sheng grabbed Wen Cai and fled in a panic.

"Tch, don't chicken out." Disappointed, Lin Yu tucked the talisman he had just pulled out back inside his robe.

"No one's here now, right? Little zombie, here I come."

Seeing that they had all left, Lin Yu pulled over the stool he had just been sitting on, climbed up, and opened Grand Master Ren's coffin.

"Ew, that's disgusting."

As soon as Lin Yu opened it, he saw that Grand Master Ren's face had already rotted. He had only been exposed to a little moonlight, and he had already started transforming.

"Hehe, here, have a little appetizer." Lin Yu grinned wickedly, took the glutinous rice from his pocket, and sprinkled it evenly around Grand Master Ren.

As soon as the rice touched the corpse, a crackling sound rang out, and Grand Master Ren shuddered from side to side as it burst against him.

Afterward, Lin Yu quickly closed the coffin lid, bent down, and inspected it.

In the original story, they had missed the bottom of the coffin. Now, with no reminder from Lin Yu, they hadn't marked it either.

Looking at the bottom of the coffin, which had already been corroded by corpse Qi, Lin Yu made sure the zombie should be able to get out.

But he didn't want Grand Master Ren to come out as strong as he had been in the original story, so Lin Yu took the opportunity to get rid of some more of his corpse Qi.

After all, people had died in the original story. He had to make sure everything remained under his control.

With that in mind, Lin Yu tossed in some more glutinous rice. Listening to the sounds from inside the coffin, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Don't rush, don't rush. There's plenty to fill you up." Lin Yu patted the coffin with one hand and hefted the glutinous rice tucked against his chest with the other.

Grand Master Ren: Gee, thanks!

"You little bastard! If you've got guts, don't come back!" Just then, Lin Yu suddenly heard Uncle Nine's furious roar.

"Crap, they hit Master!?" If not for the plot Su Xiaoxiao had sent, Lin Yu might have forgotten this scene entirely.

But because he had just been focused on Old Master Yam, he had actually forgotten this part of the story for the moment.

At the entrance to the funeral home.

"Why don't you stay?"

Anyone who didn't know better would have thought some man couldn't bear to part with his wife.

"Oh, come on, you want me to stay at a time like this?" But as soon as the other person spoke, the whole thing sounded different.

"Hey, you're just going to leave me?" Wen Cai looked pleadingly at Qiu Sheng.

"It's not my problem. Who told you to fail even at distracting him, then smear ink all over my face?" Qiu Sheng looked at Wen Cai with glee.

It turned out that after Qiu Sheng had pulled Wen Cai outside, Wen Cai saw that Qiu Sheng was completely fine while his own face was covered in ink, so he smeared some on Qiu Sheng's face.

The two had been roughhousing, and suddenly they had gotten into trouble.

"It's so late. We could easily run into a ghost." Wen Cai still wanted to try to persuade him. The two of them getting beaten was better than him getting beaten alone, right?

"Oh, come on. Right now, I'd rather see a ghost than Master." Qiu Sheng looked inside with an expression that said Wen Cai was on his own.

With that, Qiu Sheng rode off on his old twenty-eight-inch bicycle, leaving Wen Cai standing outside alone, torn between going in and staying out.

"Senior brother, where's Senior Brother Qiu Sheng?" Lin Yu came out and saw Wen Cai alone. He looked around. Where had Qiu Sheng gone?

Weren't those two inseparable all day? How had he disappeared after such a short while?

"Qiu Sheng, that disloyal bastard, went home by himself," Wen Cai said through gritted teeth.

"Oh, all right." Lin Yu had been planning to give Qiu Sheng the Protection Talisman he had made, but he was already gone, so it would have to wait until next time.

In the original story, Dong Xiaoyu shouldn't have appeared yet, right?

Lin Yu stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"Hey, junior brother, no matter what you say, you have to help me this time." Wen Cai looked pleadingly at Lin Yu.

"What trouble did you get into? Did you make Master unhappy again?"

Lin Yu looked helplessly at Wen Cai, that walking disaster. He couldn't do anything right, but when it came to causing trouble, he truly was number one.

"I just... just hit Master once," Wen Cai said sheepishly.

"Whoa, you dared hit Master?" Lin Yu was speechless for a moment. Those two had guts big enough to cover the heavens.

"No, it wasn't like that. I just accidentally gave him a light hit," Wen Cai explained in a panic. He couldn't let Lin Yu pin that label on him so casually.

"Really~?"

Lin Yu didn't believe it had been "light." In the video, even the broom had broken.

"Junior brother, please help me. Otherwise, Master will beat me to death," Wen Cai continued pleading with Lin Yu.

"All right, all right, let go first. I'll help you." Wen Cai's wheedling gave Lin Yu goosebumps all over, and he hurriedly agreed.

"Go back to your room and hide for a bit. I'll deal with Master for you." Lin Yu told Wen Cai to return to his room. This was no time for the two of them to meet.