Chapter 297: Before the big fuss, the troubles at home
"There are so many good houses in the capital that you can't live in, but you want to come to such a remote place. I really don't understand what the rich man thinks."
Zhou Shi listened to Dashu's reward in his mind and Zheng Yao's complaints beside him at the same time. He nodded and said:
"You can't buy a house in the capital just because you want to. After all, Boss Wang is a foreigner, and he just wants to keep quiet."
"Hehe, after all, he doesn't have the ability like you to defeat a group of people, right?"
Zhou Shi frowned and turned to the wild Taoist priest in tattered clothes. "You know?"
"I have been following Boss Qiu to track down Lu Zhengjiu these days. Can I not know that Boss Qiu came to help you on the day you opened?"
"Boss Qiu, you are so kindly called..." Zhou Shi secretly smacked his lips, Zheng Yao and he joined the Jiulong Hall together, and his entrance was quite unceremonious.
But now, he seems to have become a member of the Kowloon Hall, but he is being guarded at every turn. This is really...
"Shopkeeper, someone has come out of the house!"
"Zheng Yao, get down!"
The two of them lurked in the field and saw several figures fighting from a distance from the house hung with white lanterns.
"Bastard...you...it's not your turn..."
Zheng Yaoyou put his index finger against his ear, closed his eyes and listened for a while, then said: "It seems that Boss Wang's son and his concubine are fighting over property."
"Haha, what a vulgar routine..." Zhou Shi sneered, "The mourning hall is in such chaos, it's just convenient for us to get in."
"Don't worry, just look around."
Zhou Shi looked up and saw that the surrounding land was very neat and tidy, divided into many small pieces by rows of bamboo forests. The winter snow melted, and the small stream formed by it flowed under the feet of many stone lions of different shapes. It was a good place.
"how?"
"This is an array, and a lot of effort has been put into maintaining it. I guess I hired experts to do it."
He raised his hand and pointed at the stone lions, "I guess there's a lot of gold buried under those stone carvings. They have all five elements, and the layout of the formation is obvious."
Zhou Shi raised his eyebrows. He didn't know much about Qimen Dunjia. Although Mr. Mo was an expert in this field, he had no intention of teaching himself from scratch.
"Follow me closely. I don't see the use of this formation. I can only find ways to avoid it first."
Zheng Yao took out two small cups from his arms, opened the water bag and filled it, took out a piece of talisman paper and lit it, put the ashes into the water and stirred them well.
"Drink." He raised the small cup and said, "This can help hide your figure. Let's try not to alert the watchdog as much as possible, right?"
Zhou Shi agreed, glanced at the small cup suspiciously, looked up and drank with a sullen face, and suddenly felt light on his body, and there seemed to be smoke coming out of his head.
He touched his body and found that his body temperature dropped sharply, and it felt like a stone.
"Let's go."
Zheng Yao stood up, looked around, counted with his fingers, and led Zhou Shi along the stream toward the house.
After turning a few corners, Xiao Lin suddenly said in Zhou Shi's consciousness: "No, I feel like there is something targeting the ghosts outside!"
Zhou Shi also felt that his body was constantly being touched by cobwebs, but he did not dare to push these nihilistic things away for fear that Zheng Yao would become suspicious.
"Can you still come out?"
"It's very difficult... even if I go out, my strength will be reduced to ten percent."
Gee, this formation is really difficult to do...
At the same time, Zheng Yaoye shook his body and whispered: "It seems that this formation is specifically aimed at Yin souls. You should be able to feel the Yin energy on your body, right?"
Zhou Shi hummed and continued on his way, thinking that it was right to bring a helper.
The route Zheng Yao took was quite tortuous. He was obviously less than a mile away from the house, but it took him half an hour to reach the base of the wall.
"The delay has been too long. Now Boss Wang's family has returned to the mourning hall. How can we get in?"
"It's okay. With my invisible talisman, they won't be able to see you even if you walk in front of them." Zheng Yao was quite confident, "We just need to be careful about those two guard dogs."
"Then let's go."
The two of them jumped up, climbed over the three-person-high courtyard wall, and landed firmly in the courtyard.
Only ten steps away, two men and two women knelt down facing the mourning hall with lanterns with the word "Dian" hanging on them. One of the men bowed his head and said:
"My elders are above me, my father's spirit is above me, I, Wang Tianxi, have absolutely no doubts and will definitely carry forward Jigugu Pavilion. You can go with peace of mind!"
The man on the side couldn't help it anymore and yelled: "Who are you! When our father was seriously ill, how long did you stay at the bedside, and you are worthy of competing with me for the family property?"
"Hey, Zengshou, what do you mean?" The woman who was also kneeling was very beautiful, but she couldn't hide the wrinkles on her face, "Tianxi doesn't go to take care of the family business, do you expect this embroidered pillow from you?"
"Home? Is this your home? Don't think I don't know. You and my brother have long..."
"Anyway, I put my words down. This property can only be surnamed Wang. It won't work no matter who you climb on! You have no status!"
The last woman was crying. When she heard this, she threw away her handkerchief and cursed: "God damn Wang Zengshou, she has no status and neither do I! You have forgotten how I committed myself to you behind the old man's back! You, my mother
Fight with you!"
After the four people exposed each other, they started fighting together again. Some relatives nearby wanted to start a fight, but were pulled back by others first.
It is difficult for upright officials to deal with household affairs, and they would rather offend a gentleman than a villain. Even if they try to break up the fight with good intentions, they will inevitably be accused of being a snipe and a clam quarreling over the fishermen's profits. It is better to watch the excitement of these things with your arms crossed.
No one knew that there were two outsiders under the wall who had heard the truth.
"Shopkeeper Zhou, what do you think?"
"What do I think? Boss Wang didn't die of illness at all..."
Zhou Shi pulled Zheng Yao, who was still unfinished, away from the scene and strode into the mourning hall.
Fortunately, the coffin was not sealed during the morgue, so Boss Wang's body was exposed in the coffin.
"Beware the door on the coffin."
"Don't worry." Zheng Yao said, took out a piece of talisman paper, flicked his fingers, and it automatically flew to the corpse's forehead and stuck it on it.
"Can you still drive away corpses?"
"Nowhere, it's just a matter of controlling corpses at most. We travel all over Yemaoshan, so we have to be able to do everything."
Boss Wang's corpse sat up from the coffin, mechanically unbuttoned his clothes, revealing a black and rotten wound on his chest.
"This is……"
Zhou Shi was stunned by the horrific wound, but Zheng Yao said calmly:
"It is definitely not caused by ordinary martial arts. It may be caused by an outside master."
But Zhou Shi had other ideas. Such wounds reminded him of the remnants of the plague god he encountered on the way to the capital.
Rot, disease, and death if touched, aren't these the characteristics of the aura of the plague god!
Plague believer?
"Let's go to the place where the incident happened... Hey, wait a minute, do me a favor."
Outside the house, the four of them dragged themselves into the mourning hall. The eldest brother Wang Tianxi, who was the leader, shouted: "We will let dad judge! If you can, say what you just said again in front of your father's soul!"
"Just say it! You and aunt, second aunt and I, we..."
Before the younger brother could finish speaking, his eyes swept across the mourning hall and he immediately knelt on the ground in fright.
"father!"
The four of them looked at each other, no longer caring about tearing apart, and knelt down in a row.
Boss Wang, who was lying in the coffin, had his eyes wide open and stretched out a hand, pointing directly to the sky!
"Dad, dad, we were wrong!"
"Dad, please don't, please don't..."
The other relatives were horrified at first, then winked at each other, and stepped forward to scold the four unfilial things.