"What are you talking about? Master told me to stay as far away from the village as possible..."
"It's really different where you burn it..."
"Stop talking nonsense! You forgot last night... let's go!"
The leader seemed to be the housekeeper who received Chen Zhu. He led a group of people carrying lanterns and left the village all the way south.
Zhou Shi followed them to the entrance of the village and watched them sneaking up the mountain.
Chen Zhu made two red lanterns, but those people were carrying white lanterns...
And how can anyone hang up white lanterns on a special day? How unlucky!
Folks say that red is the most eye-catching in the eyes of people, and white is the clearest in the eyes of ghosts, so there is a saying that red matters and white matters are not used in any case when getting married.
But such a big word "囍"...
Zhou Shi watched the housekeeper and his party go away, and then looked at the sky.
It's afternoon now, about three or four o'clock, and the villagers are still in the fields and haven't come back yet, so they chose this time to come out to deal with the white lanterns in order to deceive others.
Zhang Yuanwai is just a rich man, and his family doesn't need many servants. This housekeeper came out with seven or eight people, and I'm afraid there won't be many people left in the family.
Now is a good time to sneak into the Zhang family!
After making up his mind, Zhou Shi ran all the way back to the Zhang Family Courtyard.
He picked up some stones from the ground, threw them at the door, then ran to the side and hid.
The stone knocked on the door, but no one came out to scold "Whose kid has such mean hands".
He tried again, but still no one responded.
What a good opportunity! He gently pushed open the ajar door and slipped into the courtyard.
The courtyard is not as big as the wealthy families I saw in costume dramas in my previous life. It only has about two entrances.
"If someone discovers it, how can I explain it?
"Hey, all the servants have gone out with the housekeeper. At most, they will be discovered by the female family members or outsiders. When the time comes, I hold my head and rush out. Who can stop me?
"Chen Zhu said that he stayed in a side room last night..."
Zhou Shi walked quietly to the side room and put his ear to it, but heard no sound.
He gritted his teeth, pushed the door open, and stepped in.
The door closed behind him, and he found that the room was too dark. Even without lights, it didn't look like afternoon at all.
He soon discovered the reason. The doors and windows of the house were covered with gauze, leaving only a faint light.
"Even if someone has just died, it doesn't have to be like this. There must be something evil in this family!"
After his glasses adjusted to the darkness, Zhou Shi saw something on the bed in the room.
It’s a corpse!
He moved closer and carefully identified the face of the corpse, and was sure it was Chen Zhu.
"It's been almost a day since he died, and he just parked his body at home without finding anyone to deal with it. This family is really heartless..."
Zhou Shi muttered, lit the candlestick nearby, and began to examine Chen Zhu's body.
"The clothes are neat, there are no obvious external injuries, the posture is normal, as if he was just asleep, and there are no signs of fighting..."
Various signs indicate that Chen Zhu did die of natural causes.
When the candlelight swept across Chen Zhu's face, Zhou Shi's movements suddenly stopped.
The corpse's eyes are closed, but there seems to be something wrong with the eyelids...
He stretched out two fingers and opened the corpse's eyelids.
Empty.
There is a hole under the eyelids, and the eyeball is missing!
What's going on!
Zhou Shi was so frightened that he took two steps back, and the candlestick in his hand suddenly went out.
A gust of cold wind blew behind me.
The doors and windows are closed, where is the wind coming from?
He slowly turned his head——
The bride in wedding dress is standing behind him.
Who is it? How did he get in - wrong!
He looked down and saw that there were no feet at all under the long skirt.
Not a living person!
The bride's sleeves slowly lifted up, revealing two palms turned into white bones, stretched out towards him.
Zhou Shi's mind went blank and he couldn't think at all. He could only reflexively make actions that he had rehearsed countless times in his mind——
His hand shot towards the iron abacus behind his back and turned a bead.
With Duke Hu in hand, he directly poured the Yin wine from Fang Zun on his head.
The Yin wine cuts through the skin like a cold blade, dripping onto the ground, and emitting green smoke composed of countless ferocious faces.
The Ghost Bride's bone palm stopped in the air, and she groped for a while.
Zhou Shi didn't dare to express his anger and endured the discomfort caused by the wine soaking through his clothes. He was even worried that his heartbeat would alarm the ghost bride.
"Thumping, thumping..."
The ghost bride seemed to have lost her target, turned around, slid towards the darkness, slowly faded and disappeared.
After confirming that the ghost bride had really left, Zhou Shi realized that he was dizzy from holding his breath for a long time.
"Huh-huh-huh-"
Fortunately, I have made preparations before...
Before Zhou Zhi came, he had considered how to deal with the ghosts. Mr. Mo said that too much resentment would turn the ghosts into powerful ghosts that would act upon the smell of Yang Qi. Without the power to restrain a chicken, he would only die.
The Iron Abacus is the foundation for his survival in this strange world, and Duke Hu is his only "weapon", which he must carry with him.
After using the mice in the inn to confirm that the Yin wine in Hu Gongzun was not poisonous, the first thing Zhou Shi thought of was to use the extremely heavy Yin energy of the Yin wine to cover up the Yang energy so that the evil spirits would not detect it.
"At that time, I was thinking just put some on the top of my head and shoulders, but I was afraid that half the cup was spilled - cold and cold..."
Zhou Shi rubbed his arms, but couldn't resist the biting chill. The Yin wine quickly turned into smoke, and for a while the room was filled with ferocious faces. If anyone saw it, they would be scared to death.
"What the hell is that-"
He actually already has the answer in his heart.
The ghost in a wedding dress appeared in the room of Chen Zhu, who died mysteriously. The young master of the Zhang family held a wedding last night, and he used a white lantern.
At this time, the Yin wine in Hu Gongzun filled up again, and there were ripples!
"The yin wine on my body has not dissipated, but the yang energy that Mr. Hu feels is - someone is coming!"
Zhou Shi quickly got down, looked left and right, and finally crawled under the morgue bed and hid it.
"Good guy, the horror movies I used to watch were that there was someone in the bed and there was a ghost under the bed, but now it's reversed..."
The door opened with a creak, letting a beam of sunlight shine into the room, and then closed quickly.
Zhou Shi touched the wall and pressed it against the door, eavesdropping on what was going on outside.
"I've seen it, there's nothing wrong with that kid, he died perfectly."
"That's good. I was shocked when I saw the door lock was unlocked just now..."
Is there a door lock?
Zhou Shi was even more frightened and quickly sprinkled some Yin wine on his forehead.
The door was unlocked when I came in just now!
"This ghost is very powerful, he can even open locks...it turns out this is the ghost bride's trap!"
If Mr. Hu hadn't been around, he might have had to report to Yinhun Inn.
The conversation outside the door continued, with the voices of a man and a woman. The male voice was obviously the housekeeper.
"Madam, you can go and rest first. We can send you off to the young master."
"No, I want to send my birthday boy away in person... Poor child, why is he gone..."
Zhou Shi frowned, the young master of the Zhang family is dead?
This also confirmed his guess that last night was a ghost wedding!
"What should I do about that kid?"
"Well, after a day of rest, it seems that it won't change. Let's take it and bury it tonight. Fortunately, he is a good salesman and won't let us get sued."
"Yes."
"Remember what the eminent monk said, when you are buried, you must have your head north and feet south, burn some paper-wrapped cattle and sheep, and paper ingots..."
"We will remember it, please rest assured, madam."
"Well, remember to burn some for that unlucky guy. The lanterns used by Shou'er to get married haven't been settled yet, so let him keep them for his next life."
"Understood. Madam, I'll go get ready first."
After hearing the sound go away, Zhou Shi stood up and put Hu Gongzun into the iron abacus.
He rubbed his temples, and a plan slowly formed in his mind.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, he pulled off the black gauze on the window and put the candles and matches into his sleeves.
"It seems that Chen Zhu's death account will be settled soon."
About an hour later, it was completely dark.
Under the leadership of the housekeeper, the servants of the Zhang family worked together to carry a large coffin.
A relatively sturdy servant carried a body tightly wrapped in white cloth.
They did not hold fire and went straight to the north in the dark.
After walking for about an hour, they got into a small forest in Beishan.
The housekeeper looked at the direction, then raised his head to identify the position of the moon, and said:
"This is it, put the young master down and dig a hole."
The six servants picked up the shovels they brought and started digging on the spot. It took another half an hour to dig out a grave.
The housekeeper walked around the tomb and said with satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad, let's bury it."
At this time, a cold wind suddenly blew through.
"Russling, rustling, rustling..."
Everyone trembled, and a timid servant came up to the housekeeper and said:
"Butler, let's light the lamp..."
"No! The eminent monk said that you can't do it during burial..."
At this moment, a light spot appeared not far away.
The housekeeper was furious: "Who is so unruly and wants to kill us? You..."
He forcefully swallowed half of the sentence.
Under the weak light, several ferocious faces appear and disappear!
The wind started blowing again, this time it was stronger, as if the whole forest was whispering.
Three shadowy figures with their heads lowered and blurred faces appeared in front of him.
"Ghost, ghost!"
The housekeeper was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. Others wanted to run, but they all tripped over the clods of soil they had just shoveled.
"Hahaha - I went out to dig a hole in the middle of the night - to bury dead people - or to bury live - people - ah -"
A burst of crying and laughing sounds came out, which made the housekeeper wet his pants.