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Chapter 16 Pretending to be a ghost

In a moment, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai took advantage of the moonlight to sneak up the wall and sneak out of Zeng's mansion.

Back then, when it was dark, there were basically no people on the streets, and street lights and other things did not exist, so they were not worried that anyone would find themselves.

Mingjiao Temple is very close to Zeng Mansion, just two streets away. It can be said that it is just a hike. Sun and Huang arrived at the back wall of the temple in just five minutes and successfully got along with Zhou Wu.

Because they had already made plans in advance, the three of them didn't have to talk too much after they met. After a few words of whisper, they climbed over the wall and entered the temple again.

The body of the second wife of the Zeng family was treated with anti-corrosion yesterday and the coffin of the shroud was also prepared. At this moment, the coffin was parked in an idle room in the temple.

In a Buddhist temple, corpses cannot be dispersed. If a dead body is not cremated by the cremation of the corpse, you must not enter the Main Hall; this is the rule, let alone Mr. Zeng, even the emperor cannot do anything randomly.

Therefore, after the body of the second wife of the Zeng family was transported, it was kept in a room without Buddha statues and let the monks chant scriptures and salvation.

Monks are also humans and need rest. At night, they took a break, leaving only a 15 or 16-year-old novice monk here, watching the coffin symbolically guarding the night.

Sun Huangzhou and the other two came to the door of the mortal room (the mortal room cannot be closed), and looked in a little, and found that the little monk was sitting cross-legged with his back to the door, lowering his head, and was already dozing off.

Seeing this, the three of them just exchanged glances and said nothing. Huang Donglai walked in first. He silently approached the other party with his light skills, took a piece of cloth dipped in the potion from his arms, and looked at the other party's mouth and nose. At that time, the young monk fell down and was unconscious.

Sun Yixie and Zhou Wu followed closely behind and both stepped into the door.

"Brother Huang, your medicine is good." Sun Yixie jokingly as soon as he came in, "Is it used to pick flowers?"

"I'll pick your sister!" Huang Donglai said, "This is a serious inhalation quick-acting sleeping pill produced by my Huangmen. It's a secret recipe! Do you understand the secret recipe?"

"Okay, you can get me one of ten or eight packs the next day, so I won't have a good sleep," Sun Yixie said.

"Get out." Huang Donglai said, "I'll call me if you can't sleep well one day, and I'll knock you out with a stick."

Huang Donglai still knew Brother Sun. In order to prevent his brother from going astray, he firmly rejected Sun Yixie.

After they said these words, Zhou Wu, who was standing by, quickly opened the coffin lid (the coffin lid will not be nailed to death before being buried).

After all, Zhou Wu is also the captain of Luzhou City. Even though he is not a top expert, his power is not comparable to ordinary people. Even Sun Yixie can use brute force to move the lid of the sarcophagus at home, so it is no problem for Zhou Wu to open an ordinary wooden coffin.

"It's still here." After Zhou Wu opened the coffin, he glanced in, and then said this.

When Sun and Huang heard this, they stopped joking with each other, but came to the coffin and looked inside.

That's right, it's true that the glaze fish is still "still there", and the second wife of the Zeng family is still tightly held tightly with her hands and covered her chest.

"Hmph... Sure enough." After a little observation, Huang Donglai said with a smile, "The second wife was also poisoned to death." He paused and said in a leisurely manner, "These among her is called the 'Immortal Binding Rope'; when this poison occurs, the heart and lungs will be tied up by ropes, making it difficult to pulsate and breathe, causing the person to die suddenly in a short period of time. Another characteristic of this poison is that the 'corpse zombie' phenomenon of the deceased will come very quickly and seriously, just like the whole body is 'tied up'... Therefore, as long as she puts the glaze fish in her hands shortly after she dies, the current illusion of 'dead holding things firmly' will appear."

"Brother Huang." Zhou Wu continued at this time, "Then can we still..."

"Of course." Huang Donglai knew what he was going to ask, so he answered directly, "Just be beaten up."

"Ah?" Zhou Wu couldn't help but be stunned, "It's that simple?"

"No, no matter how stiff it is, it is just a skin and bone, not made of iron." Huang Donglai said, "Why can't you break it?"

As he said, he reached into the coffin and, with a little force, he spread the second wife's hand apart.

Seeing Huang Donglai taking out the glaze fish so easily, Zhou Wu also smiled bitterly. Only then did he realize: In fact, in the past three days, anyone who was brave and not afraid of blaspheming the dead, who dared to break the fish like Huang Donglai, would take it out. It was precisely because everyone was afraid of ghosts and gods and believed in ghosts and gods that they took it for granted that the deceased was hard to relieve their resentment, and they needed to find a monk to recite scriptures and save her before she could let her go.

Of course... they really have to be patient to wait like this. When the time for the zombie zombie has passed, their hands will indeed be released.

"Okay, get it done, go." Huang Donglai took out the glazed fish, put it in his arms, and walked out.

Zhou Wu and Sun Yixie did not delay. They quickly walked to both ends of the coffin, one by one, and took the opportunity to lift the second wife's body out and followed them out...

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At the moment of ugly moment, the housekeeper Zeng Su lay on the bed toss and turns, and nightmares were repeated.

As the saying goes, being a thief is guilty.

Although Zeng Su is a habitual offender who has been exposed to several lives on his hands and his psychological quality is not bad, after all... he is not a professional killer, nor is he a person in the world. He is just a housekeeper of a wealthy family. In just half a month, it is impossible for a person to change so thoroughly.

If this matter is calmed down, Zeng Su may have survived it in another year or two... By then, he will be accustomed to this mentality of living a life with his life, but now he is obviously not good.

So, in his dream, everything came back to the beginning...

That day, the second wife of the Zeng family suddenly called him into the room, cried with him, and asked him when he would take him far away.

Zeng Su was speechless.

The second wife of the Zeng family is 32 years old this year, and Mr. Zeng is 60 years old. The so-called pear blossoms over the crabapple is reasonable for this wealthy family, old couples, to have such a thing.

In fact, Zeng Su is not young, and is already forty-three this year, but compared to Mr. Zeng, he is even stronger than Master Zeng.

He and the second wife concealed their love affair very well. Apart from the parties involved, only the second wife's personal maid knew about it. At first, the maid was also threatened and tempted by them to cover them up, but later, over time, the maid became a grasshopper on a rope. After all, the wood was already done at that time. Once the matter was exposed, the adulterer would naturally go to soak the pig cage, and her maid would definitely be beaten to death by the boss.

As long as they keep a low profile, they can continue to live like this. After a few years, they might be more bold.

But the second wife is still young and doesn't accept her fate... She has a pursuit and doesn't want to be so sneaky. She wants to take a bunch of Zeng's fine and soft things and let Zeng Su take her away.

As for Zeng Su, it’s not that he doesn’t have the courage, but that he doesn’t have that stupid brain.

What are you thinking? The Zeng family, is that an ordinary family? You took the master's second wife to run away? Can you run away? Unless you can run out of the great power, you will definitely be caught back.

Faced with the second wife's repeated crying and coercion, Zeng Su knew that it was difficult to get better, so he decided... to run away by himself.

He had already planned it, so he left a letter to Mr. Zeng, saying that he was sorry for the Zeng family, and became greedy, and stole a hundred taels of silver from the cabinet. Because he had no shame to see the master, he could only write this letter and run away. He asked the master to read for his years of friendship, and not report to the official to pursue him, let him leave.

Zeng Su calculated it very accurately. This amount of money was not much, not much, not much, not much, not much, not much, not much, not so much that his escape seemed false.

Then he would take the money and fly away, and life would not be a problem in the future. The second wife could only stop thinking about it. If the woman really wanted to make trouble again, she would just seek death by herself, and it would have nothing to do with him, Zeng Su.

He had already prepared to implement this plan, but unexpectedly... just the day before he was about to run away, he met someone.

That was a woman.

A "faceless" woman.

Every time she appears in front of Zeng Su, she will change her face.

Sometimes she is a graceful young woman, sometimes she is a hunched old woman, and sometimes she becomes a beautiful girl.

That day, this woman took the initiative to find Zeng Su; she was good at martial arts and was very good at speaking.

She knew all about Zeng Su, including the affair between Zeng Su and the second wife, and Zeng Su's plan to escape alone.

She told Zeng Su that she had a way to keep Zeng Su at the Zeng Mansion as a housekeeper and to make the second wife "shut up forever".

Zeng Su did not agree at first, but he soon discovered that the other party was not giving him a "choice" but threatening him...

Zeng Su did not have a long struggle between being accused of soaking a pig cage, killing the second wife, and continuing to be the steward of the Zeng family.

According to the woman's instructions, he placed the "Lilac Fish" at the right time, where He Da and He Erchang walked, deliberately letting them discover and pick them up.

He cooperated with the woman to pretend to be a ghost, which scared Zhao Daqiang.

He used the medicine powder given by the woman to trick He Er out at night, made him faint, and took the glazed fish from him, and then pushed He Er into the pond.

He put the poison from that woman into the water that Zhao Daqiang drank, causing Zhao Daqiang to die.

Then, the woman disguised He Er's voice and put Liuliyu in He Da's room, pretending to be a ghost again to scare He Da; while Zeng Su followed closely behind and brought his servants to save the scene.

He Da was too scared and told him what he saw and heard. Zeng Su used this as a basis to report to Mr. Zeng, linking up everything before and after, confirming the fact that "the glazed fish is an evil thing, attracting ghosts" and putting the responsibility on the He brothers.

Afterwards, He Da left Zeng's mansion, and Zeng Su followed Mr. Zeng's instructions to lead people to bury the glazed fish in the wilderness.

But that night, he quietly turned back and dug back the things.

After completing these, it was finally time to attack the second lady; anyway, as long as the dead body had a glass fish in its hand, the second lady's death would be attributed to the same nature as those "haunted events" before.

After killing the second wife, Zeng Su told Captain Zhou all the "ghost stories" in front of a group of yamen runners, so that the matter could spread to the streets and alleys.

On the other hand, after He Da left Zeng's mansion, he thought that things were strange no matter how he thought about it. He was not interested in the truth, but was afraid that evil things would come to him again, so he went to the pawnshop again and wanted to ask the pawnshop owner what was going on.

But he didn't know that the shopkeeper was also bought by that woman, and he was just pretending to be mysterious.

So, He Da's behavior caused him a murderous disaster; Zeng Su received instructions from the woman and ran to the inn to find He Da. While talking to him, he secretly poisoned him in the tea and silenced his mouth smoothly.

At this point, Zeng Su had four lives on his hands.

He was indeed not caught and also kept the position of the steward of the Zeng Mansion; he was not afraid of "Jade-faced Flying Dragon Sun Honglei" and "Xudong Laoxian Huang Xiaose", just thinking that they were cheating warlocks.

But Zeng Su was afraid of ghosts. He was afraid that there were really ghosts in this world, and that those who were killed by him came to seek his life. He was also afraid of that "faceless" woman, because he still didn't know why the other party taught him behind the scenes.

Hiss

The strange sound woke Zeng Su from her sleep.

He hesitated in the dark for a moment, confirmed that the sound was not an illusion, and then he quickly stood up and lit up the oil lamp on the table in the dark.

"Ah!" Zeng Su was so scared that she screamed in shock when the room lit up.

Because he saw a glass fish on his table.

Hiss

The sound outside the door seemed to remind him that the fish was not the most terrifying one.

Zeng Su turned his head dullly and looked at the window in the sound. He saw... a familiar woman's shadow was standing there, as if looking at him through the window.

He could recognize that it was the shadow of the second wife...

In fact, even if Sun and Huang didn't bring the second wife's body over today and just found a woman to stand there, Zeng Su would automatically envision her as the second wife in this environment.

"Namo Amitabha..." In extreme fear, Zeng Su retreated to the corner of the wall farthest from the door and window, closed his eyes, folded his hands together, and began to recite the only Buddhist scripture he knew, begging the ghosts to retreat.

He was thinking too much...

A few seconds later, I could only hear a "squeak".

A gap was pushed open to his room door.

The butler is also a servant, and the servant's door is not allowed to be locked, and it can be opened with just a push from the outside...

In fact, Sun Yixie had already driven it once when he came in quietly to put the glaze fish, but Zeng Su had not woken up at that time, so he just didn't know.

"Namo Amitabha! Namo Amitabha..." With the change of opening the door, Zeng Su chanted scriptures faster and faster, and became more and more rapid, but his eyes did not close again because he was afraid that he would not be able to see any terrifying danger approaching when he closed his eyes.

Unexpectedly, after the door opened a crack, the outside of the door suddenly became quiet, and the woman's shadow disappeared, as if everything just happened was just an illusion...

If the glass fish on the table was not there, Zeng Su might have started to think about whether it was just a windy one.
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