SHOCK Chapter 34

On the third night, after another village rascal fell from the roof and died, Liang Nv stopped running to Zhou Wu’s room to talk.

The Region Chief Officer Zhou Zhongyuan thought for a long time, led Zhou Wu’s ox, and came to Zhou Wu’s house.

Rumors of a ghost haunting the village spread like wildfire.

The remaining two men who had robbed Zhou Wu’s house had already run away from home.

As soon as night fell, every household closed their doors tightly, propped them up with several wooden sticks, and shivered in fear, unable to sleep.

In just a few days, Zhou Zhongyuan’s gray hair had almost turned completely white.

He secretly invited the coroner from the county, who investigated and investigated, spending a lot of money in vain, and came to the conclusion that it was an accidental death.

Unable to withstand the pressure, he led Zhou Wu’s ox, along with a bag of polished rice, and sent them together with Zhou Wu’s wooden box to Zhou Wu’s house.

Because of his status, he didn’t say much, dropped the ox rope, and turned around to leave.

Zhou Wu had not eaten some bad wild vegetable stewed fish.

Only today did he happily eat a meal of white rice, and the family of three was as happy as if it were the New Year.

It was just that he hadn’t been happy for long when Zhou Zhongyuan came again.

After stammering for a long time, Zhou Wu finally understood what he meant.

All the villagers had found him, strongly demanding that Zhou Wu leave the village, because the ghost haunting incidents had all happened after he came to the village.

Therefore, this misfortune was brought by Zhou Wu’s family.

Liang Nv held Dog Paw in her arms, nervously looking at the two men, this peaceful life was hard-won, don’t lose this life of dependence again.

Zhou Zhongyuan was furious, if he hadn’t been thinking of ugly things, he would have gone to live in the township himself.

“That’s probably difficult, the villagers are all poor farmers, where would they get extra money?”

Zhou Wu laughed, “Since they’re all poor farmers, why are they so fussy?”

“Although they’re poor people, they’re also afraid of death, aren’t they?”

“Because they’re afraid of living, they want to drive me away from home, to starve to death outside?”

“It’s not driving you away, it’s wanting you to understand everyone’s pain.”

“No one understands my pain?”

“Can’t you harm the whole village because of one person?”

“Why are your words so ridiculous, who said I’m the one harming them?”

Seeing that the conversation was not going well, Zhou Zhongyuan shook his hand and left, but turned his head again at the courtyard gate.

Zhou Zhongyuan didn’t answer, only spat out two words: “Arrogant.”

Watching his departing back, Zhou Wu chuckled, “I’ll show you arrogance.”

Liang Nv leaned over and said in a low voice, “Sir, you’ve offended too many people, how are we going to live?”

“Me?”

Liang Nv asked in surprise.

Zhou Wu smiled strangely, “We’ll discuss it carefully later, to see if we can live a better life.”

Dog Paw tugged at his mother’s clothes.

“Mom, I’m hungry again.”

Zhou Wu waved his hand, “Eat, eat as much as you want, I’ll make sure you have a good life soon.”

After making food for Dog Paw to eat, the two of them huddled in the room and whispered for a while, then got up to prepare things.

The two of them waited idly for an afternoon, and before their good days arrived, the township bailiffs came first.

Zhou Zhongyuan brought two bailiffs dressed in black, and came to Zhou Wu’s house.

The two bailiffs had gloomy faces, shaking the iron rulers in their hands, looking at this young man in front of them who was not yet twenty.

Zhou Wu asked in surprise, “Isn’t it three hundred and eighty-seven coins?”

Zhou Zhongyuan said expressionlessly, “Isn’t interest counted?”

“Damn, one-tenth interest?”

After speaking, he waved his hand, and the two went behind Zhou Wu, preparing to take him away.

“Hmm? Since you have money, everything is easy to talk about.”

The two bailiffs looked at each other, chuckled, and changed their tune.

The two men’s gazes turned to Zhou Wu at the same time.

The two pondered for a moment, and nodded, “We’ll have a taste, but don’t play tricks with us, kid, we don’t eat vegetarian.”

As he spoke, the iron ruler made a “pa pa” sound in his hand.

Zhou Wu waved his hand, “Liang Nv, quickly prepare the fresh fish, let the two adults have a taste.”

Seeing that the two bailiffs were going to stay for a meal, Zhou Zhongyuan blinked his eyes.

“Since you two have fresh fish to eat, I have a jar of good wine at my house, can I offer it as well?”

A jar of wine was also emptied, and seeing that the sky was getting dark, it was not suitable to travel at night in the wild, the two bailiffs decided to stay overnight and return to the township to report tomorrow.

The two bailiffs were afraid that Zhou Wu would run away, so they stayed in his house.

Zhou Wu had no choice but to sleep in Liang Nv’s room, fortunately the heated brick bed was large, taking up half the room.

He slept on one end, and Liang Nv and her son slept on the other.

This was still under Zhou Wu’s insistence, otherwise Liang Nv would definitely sleep on the ground, not daring to share the heated brick bed with Zhou Wu.

After midnight, Zhou Wu woke up first, and sat up.

As soon as he moved, Liang Nv quickly got up to serve him.

Zhou Wu waved his hand to her, signaling her to keep quiet.

The night was thick, and dark clouds covered the bright moon.

Zhou Wu and Liang Nv acted together quietly, each sneaking out of the house.

Zhou Zhongyuan had drunk several bowls of wine at noon, and was sleeping soundly.

Suddenly, his wife shook him awake.

Just as he was about to get angry, he saw his wife trembling, muttering in a low voice.

“I… I… Did I hear that?”

“What?”

“There… There’s a ghost, I… I said people were living strangely, there really is… a ghost.”

Zhou Zhongyuan listened intently, in the silence of the house, he could faintly hear the sound of a woman crying.

Sobbing, mournful, sometimes near, sometimes far.

Zhou Zhongyuan’s heart began to pound, although he had heard of ghosts, he had never seen one with his own eyes.

He suppressed his fear, got out of bed, took the lantern, lit it, and opened the door to go to the courtyard.

But his wife tightly grabbed his arm, not letting him go out.

He angrily shook off his wife’s hand, got up, took the lantern, lit it, and opened the door to go to the courtyard.

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