When ten wives were united, I panicked

Confirming that the man was still angry, He Xizhu locked him into the next room first.

She lit incense and gave Ye Yushi a cup of honey water.

The two faced each other and drank from the cups. When it rained at night, they would put away their fangs and look like a beautiful girl again.

"So you can talk." He Xizhu said, "You have been silent all this time, I thought you couldn't talk."

Pursing her lips in the rainy night, she pointed to the censer beside her and whispered, "I also just discovered that I can talk."

It may be because she hasn't spoken for a long time, or because she is not a human being now, the voice in the night rain sounds very hoarse, and it seems to have a little echo, flat, without any ups and downs of emotions.

"I don't have a good voice," she said. "If you don't like it, I don't have to talk like I did before."

"No, I like it very much." He Xizhu hurriedly said, "I am very happy to be able to talk to you."

When it was raining at night, he lowered his head shyly and smiled happily.

The man woke up in the middle of the night, and he started crying and howling since he woke up, so noisy that He Xizhu, who was already asleep, couldn't get up from the bed.

Holding her arm during the night rain, he calmly asked for her opinion as if asking whether to open the window or not: "Shall I kill him in the past?"

"No." He Xizhu rubbed the top of Ye Yushi's hair, "I still have something to ask him, can you lie here and wait for me, I'll be back soon."

Ye Yushi nodded obediently, and let go of her arm.

Xu Shi saw that he was still in the house after waking up, and the man kept knocking on the door panel, screaming of collapse.

"Stop yelling." He Xizhu opened the door, and kicked him along the way, "Isn't it amazing when you called yourself Grandpa outside the house before, why did you get scared when you came in?"

The man crawled into the corner and tremblingly looked behind He Xizhu.

"Don't look." He Xizhu said, "She's next door, I'll come over as soon as I yell."

"Don't!" The man opened his mouth wide, he didn't even care about the snot and tears flowing into his mouth, "Don't call her, I beg you, don't call her! It's me, I am not a thing, I am thinking about the baby in the house, and I don't know how serious it is. Threatening you, I will never dare again, never dare again, I beg you to let me go and spare my life!"

"I didn't want to kill you." He Xizhu moved a chair over and sat down, "If there are any rumors or stories about this house, tell me everything you know, and I will consider letting you go."

After receiving this sentence, the man hurriedly told He Xizhu everything he knew as if he had been pardoned.

According to the man, this house has a long history, and it was built probably from his grandfather's grandfather's generation.

Ever since he was born, he has been hearing grown-ups say that this house is haunted and that he should not go there, and they also say things like committing crimes.

He didn't know the specific things very clearly, but he vaguely remembered that his grandfather told him that the older generation in this town had killed people before, and the people who were killed couldn't let go, so they avoided the evil chase and stayed in the village. In the world, I avenged myself with my own hands, but the ghost who killed people became an evil ghost. She was very resentful, and after turning into an evil ghost, she was very capable. Those who have entered the house have not come out alive, but as long as they don't get close to the house, they will be fine.

"So why did you lead me into the house that day?" He Xizhu asked.

The man knelt on the ground and kowtowed to He Xizhu three times in a row before he dared to tell the truth.

"It's an offering to a ghost." He said, "There has always been a saying in the village that as long as you offer the food she likes to the ghost in this house, the ghost will make the offering person rich and powerful. Chicken, duck, fish, and later on, the ghost gradually became dissatisfied with this, so he began to..."

"You started eating people?"

The man knelt on the ground again and kowtowed again and again.

"Many rich and noble families in the town have done this. They specially deceive those foreigners who don't understand to live in their houses. Once those people go in, they can't come out again."

"I know I'm wrong, please let me go! This is the first time I've done this. It's because my family is too poor that I can't help but think about it. I won't dare again!"

He Xizhu looked at the man in front of him with a complicated expression.

"So in the beginning, you don't know why the ghost you mentioned was killed, do you?"

"I don't know." The man shook his head desperately, "Believe me, if I know, I will tell you!"

"Let me ask you one last question." He Xizhu said, "Then do you know, who else in this town knows the whole story?"

The man wiped his nose. He lowered his head and thought for a long time, sweating from his forehead in anxiety.

"I know!" He suddenly raised his head, "That old coffin seller, you can ask him, he knows everything!"

The old man who sells coffins?

He Xizhu immediately thought of the old man who sold incense to him in the sacrificial supply shop.

She got up and kicked the man's leg with the toe of her shoe: "Go away, don't let me see you again."

"Also, you'd better remember that you didn't see anything tonight, and you never entered this house at all."

The man ran away, and He Xizhu went back to the next door, thinking about the mission.

The goal of clearing Mission [-] is to help Ye Yushi repay and fulfill her wish. Therefore, there may still be some people who make her hold grudges alive, and the wife also has unfulfilled wishes.

It would be much easier to ask Ye Yushi directly about this kind of thing, but He Xizhu was not sure if his wife would tell the truth to him, and it would probably be a good idea to ask Ye Yushi to tell those painful memories bit by bit. A very cruel thing.

"You let him go?" Ye Yushi floated over and asked incomprehensibly, "You let him go without punishing him?"

He Xizhu hugged her into his arms, and felt the icy chill on his wife's body through the clothes.

"It's not without punishment." She said, "The experience tonight is enough for him to remember for a lifetime."

Ye Yushi probably felt that this punishment was too light, and she wanted to speak, but He Xizhu covered her mouth.

"Go to sleep." He Xizhu lowered his head and rubbed against her shoulder, "I'm very sleepy."

The next morning, He Xizhu woke up early. After thinking about it all night in her dream, she still felt that she should go to the sacrificial supplies store.

Although the ghost didn't need to eat, she insisted on making breakfast for Ye Yushi, and then went out while his wife was eating.

She arrived quite early, and the shop had already opened, as if it had just opened, and the old man was standing outside, putting incense into the incense burner at the door.

"Why is the little girl here again?" Seeing He Xizhu, he asked in surprise, "Didn't you just buy incense and go back?"

"I'm not here to buy things this time." He Xizhu said, and handed over a gold ingot, "I have a few questions for you."

The old man didn't even look at the gold, but just wiped the ashes beside the incense burner and asked, "What do you want to know?"

"A story about that house." He Xizhu said, "A person broke into the house yesterday, and he said that you should be the only one in this town, and you still know about the past."

The movement of the old man's hands paused, and after a while, he put away the cloth in his hand, and walked into the house with his body on his back.

"Come in, if you have any questions, let's talk inside."

The author has something to say: I updated 4300+ today, although it has not reached 5000, but... I tried my best QAQ

I'm going back to school next week. In order to maintain the punctual update at [-]:[-] pm for as many days as possible, I have to save the manuscript for these two days (crying.jpg)