I become a god in another world

Chapter 274: Headless Male Corpse
Chapter 275

The ghost disaster that everyone is afraid of seems like a trivial matter to Zhao Fusheng.

The Xu family was very lively and the courtyard was crowded with people. The arrival of the police did not attract other people's attention at first.

But as they saw Zhao Fusheng and squeezed in, some people soon realized that something was wrong.

County Magistrate Pang also saw the arrival of the county officials.

The moment he saw the officer, he guessed that something big had happened in the county.

He had few servants working under him, and they recognized the man's name as Wang Hun, the fifth child in his family, and therefore known as Brother Wang Wu.

Although his name is Wang Hun, he is not confused in doing things and acts very steadily.

The wealthy Xu family is opening their house today, and all the people from the Demon Suppression Bureau are here. If there weren't special circumstances, given his personality, he wouldn't come at this time to bring bad luck to the Xu family.

His arrival at this time means that something big has happened in the county and the county officials are unable to suppress it.

Especially when County Magistrate Pang saw Wang Hun walking straight towards Zhao Fusheng, he felt a jolt in his heart, realizing that there might be a ghost case going on in the county government.

But Wan'an County today is no longer what it used to be.

Although he guessed that there would be a ghost disaster, County Magistrate Pang was not as panic-stricken as before.

He pushed through the crowd and walked towards Zhao Fusheng.

At the same time, the moment Wang Hun came in, Wu Shaochun's nose moved.

After he controlled the stove ghost, he became much more sensitive to some special smells. At this moment, he smelled a bloody smell mixed with a cold and chilly breath drifting into the Xu family.

Wu Shaochun looked up in the direction of the smell and saw the officers entering the courtyard.

He tried to squeeze out of the crowd, but they surrounded him tightly.

Seeing that Wang Hun had already walked in front of Zhao Fusheng, Wu Shaochun became anxious and his figure gradually faded. Then his body turned from solid to virtual and he disappeared mysteriously in broad daylight in front of everyone.

'Wow—'

Everyone gasped, and then someone screamed in the distance from Xu's house:
"Ah! Ghost!"

This scream caused the previously bustling outer house of the Xu Mansion to become silent for a moment.

Xu Yachen was startled by the 'clang clang clang' sounds. He turned his head to look at the source of the sound and saw Wu Shaochun running out of the inner house.

Soon after, the servants of the Xu Mansion ran out with pale faces, shouting:

"Master, the kitchen—"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Wu Shaochun and his body shook twice.

As soon as Xu Yachen saw this scene, he understood.

Although he didn't know how Wu Shaochun suddenly disappeared and rushed into the kitchen, scaring the servants of the Xu family, but as long as the Xu family was not haunted, all the troubles were just trivial matters.

He waved to the servant, signaling him to stay calm, and then saw Wu Shaochun walk to Zhao Fusheng's side.

At this moment, Xu Yachen also saw the county officials coming in, and then looked at the mess in the courtyard, and immediately knew what had happened.

"Huang Si——"

He shouted, and the steward immediately came over to listen.

Xu Yachen gave a few instructions, Huang Si nodded, stood up and walked to Zhao Fusheng, and led Zhao Fusheng, Wang Hun and others into a quiet room in the courtyard.

Once out of the vestibule, the room suddenly became quiet.

Huang Si ordered the servant to serve hot tea. Although he was very curious about what had happened, he still tactfully left the room.

"Are you looking for me?"

After Zhao Fusheng sat down, his eyes fell on Wang Hun:

"What's your name? What cases happened in the county?"

She asked several questions in a row, neither hurried nor slow.

For some reason, the chill that Wang Hun had felt when he saw the crime scene suddenly dissipated a lot in front of Zhao Fusheng.

"I, I, I—"

He opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak smoothly after saying "I" several times.

When Zhao Fusheng saw this scene, he knew that he must have been frightened too much.

"Don't be anxious. Have a sip of tea and talk slowly."

She pointed her chin at the teacup next to Wang Hun and blew away the tea foam in her cup while speaking.

Wang Hun was shivering. Hearing her words, he quickly picked up the hot tea beside him, not caring about the hot water temperature, and drank the cup clean with a "gulp, gulp".

The heat flowed down my throat, my body warmed up, and the shivering became much better.

He was wearing a red and black police uniform.

The clothes were dark red in color, with black cloth edging. They had been issued a long time ago, and he usually wore them on his work. Many places on the collar were worn out and had become fuzzy.

There were a few places where it was torn, but they were all cleverly patched with cloth lining the inside of the garment. From the outside, if you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to tell that the garment was torn.

This man has a wife who is very clever and skillful.

Zhao Fusheng thought to himself.

He was wearing a pair of thick-soled cloth shoes covered with yellow soil.

The soil had dried up, but upon closer inspection, one could still see that the dried soil was a yellow-brown color, mixed into the cracks of his soles.

There is no loess in Wan'an County, but there is loess outside the county, and there is a village nearby.

During this moment of observation, she memorized the information she saw.

Wang Hun finished his tea, put the cup back on the table, and then said:

"Sir, my name is Wang Hun, also known as Wang Wu. I have been busy checking the household registration under the order of Lord Pang Da."

In front of everyone from the Demon Suppression Division, Wang Hun's courage gradually revived.

"After completing the household registration check in the county government a few days ago, we started to move out of the county." When he said this, the muscles on his cheeks began to twitch unconsciously.

He wiped his face with his hand and then said:
"According to the original plan, I will go to Liutu Village with Li Er from the government office today."

"Liutu Village?" As soon as Wang Hun finished speaking, an elderly voice sounded at the door.

Everyone looked up and saw that it was Meng Po who came.

There were not many envoys from the Demon Suppression Division, so Wang Hun naturally knew Meng Po.

He didn't know what abilities this old woman had, but he had heard County Magistrate Pang warn him: Don't make her unhappy.

Wang Hun was at a loss, and was about to speak, but Meng Po looked at Zhao Fusheng and said:

"Sir, this Liutu Village is four or five miles outside the county."

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

"There are about 20 families living there, all of whom were people who fled to Wan'an County during the land survey period."

Meng Po had lived in Wan'an County for many years and was quite familiar with the surrounding area, so she explained it to Zhao Fusheng.

After listening to her, Wang Hun nodded quickly.

"Go on." Zhao Fusheng remembered these clues and motioned Wang Hun to continue.

"Yes." He responded, and then said:

"Just like Meng Po said, there are several villages like Liutu Village outside the city, not far from the county town, but far away -"

When he said this, his eyes flickered, revealing a hint of guilt and embarrassment.

These villages are scattered around the county town. Although they are not big, they have 20 to 30 households. Usually, such work can be completed in half a day at most.

But it took an hour or two to go back and forth. It had rained the day before, so the ground was wet and slippery, making it difficult to walk.

County Magistrate Pang asked them to record the household registration of the vicinity within five days. Recently, he and Li Er have been busy with this matter.

Zhao Fusheng heard this and asked him:

"What about Li Er?"

Wang Hun said:

"Last night, Li Er came to my house and said he wanted to discuss something with me. He was going to drink at his father-in-law's house the day after tomorrow, so he wanted to see if he could go separately from me when he went to check the household registration today."

When he said this, he looked a little nervous.

Zhao Fusheng was not angry, but said:
"That is to say, you and Li Er acted separately, you went to Liutu Village, and something happened in Liutu Village."

After she said this, Wang Hun nodded again.

While the two were talking, County Magistrate Pang, who had realized that something was wrong earlier, finally got rid of the crowd and followed them into the room.

He happened to hear this when he arrived and was immediately annoyed.

"You are such a good bastard--"

When Wang Hun heard Magistrate Pang's voice, he shuddered and almost fell to his knees:
"grown ups……"

Although County Magistrate Pang wanted to scold the two officers who acted on their own initiative, he knew that this was not the time for him to get angry.

Therefore, he suppressed his anger and said calmly: "Don't talk nonsense first, finish the matter first."

"Yes."

Wang Hun hung his head and nodded:

"I went to Liutu Village—"

Originally he thought that it was just a small village with more than 20 households, and he would be able to finish all his work in a few steps at most within an hour.

In fact, at the beginning, things developed pretty much as he predicted.

"When I arrived at Liutu Village, I first found the local village chief and asked him to call the villagers to register their household registration one by one."

This process is the most tiring.

In fact, a lot of time is often spent on household registration because villagers do not cooperate.

But today Wang Hun's actions went relatively smoothly. The village chief of Liutu Village was quite honest. He followed his instructions and had people call the villagers over. However, when they counted the numbers, they found that one household was missing.

"There is a family in the village that didn't come."

The male owner of the family was named Yang Tiehan. He and his wife, Ms. He, had four daughters and three sons.

Two of the daughters are married, and the other two are still young and remain at home.

Among the three sons, the eldest son Yang Ping just got married last year, and his wife, Ms. Ding, gave birth to a son just half a month ago.

"The Yang family is not a small family." County Magistrate Pang found an empty seat and sat down, then said.

Wang Hun was still feeling a little guilty about checking the household registration with Li Er separately, so he didn't dare to look him in the eye. When he heard this, he responded:

"It is considered a wealthy family in Liutu Village."

Liutu Village is a small village with few people. The Yang family has a total of nine people, which is considered a large population in the village.

"The village chief sent people to call them, but they didn't come, so he complained."

The Yang family was originally poor, but He was very fertile and gave birth to three sons. He was poor and domineering in the village, so other villagers were reluctant to mess with him.

The village is small, but there are many trivial matters and grudges among people.

The villagers had many complaints about the household registration issue, thinking that the county was making trouble for no reason and had nothing better to do. They only did it reluctantly because of the authority of the county officials.

Now that the village chief had summoned the Yang family and they didn't come, he immediately became angry and suggested that Wang Hun go find the Yang family himself.

Wang Hun refused to agree when he heard this.

He has been dealing with ordinary people for many years and knows very well that the poorer some people are, the more difficult it is to convince them.

The temper is both soft and bad.

"If I go with Li Er, as a team, they will have concerns. If I go alone and irritate them, I will probably be in trouble." When Wang Hun said this, he received a cold glare from County Magistrate Pang.

But because Zhao Fusheng was there, County Magistrate Pang didn't say much.

Wang Hun laughed twice:
"I was scared at the time, so I asked the village chief to send a few more honest and reliable villagers to go with me and show me the way."

The village chief was at a loss.

He didn't want to get involved in this trivial matter, but Liutu Village was not far from the county. If Wang Hun was really beaten by the Yang family and went back to the county to file a complaint, the county magistrate would probably not forgive him.

Thinking of this, he suppressed his unhappiness and personally selected a dozen strong villagers to go to the Yang family together.

"When we arrived at Yang's house, we found the door was closed and locked from the inside."

The village chief asked someone to knock on the door, but no one opened it.

"The room was so quiet, as if the whole family had fallen asleep and hadn't woken up yet. I immediately felt something was wrong."

The Yang family’s grandson was only born half a month ago.

A group of people went to knock on the door, making quite a noise. The house was not soundproofed, so the noise was so loud that the children would have been woken up.

As soon as the baby wakes up, he will cry loudly.

But after they had been clapping for a long time, there was no sound in the house.

At that time, the village chief speculated whether the Yang family had fled with their loved ones.

This kind of thing is not uncommon.

These days, there are many exorbitant taxes and levies.

The harvest this year was poor, and the county has already collected a round of taxes after the autumn. Before the new year has even begun, someone from the county has come again - saying that they want to register our household registration.

In the eyes of the villagers, this is almost the same as registering a name and then adding another round of taxes.

If the Yang family had heard the news earlier, it is possible that the nine members of the family would have packed up their bags and run away.

But Wang Hun was a county official after all, and he instinctively felt that something was wrong.

Although the village chief said that the Yang family was very poor and had no food to eat all year round, and the whole family was pale and thin, but they were large and powerful, and the villagers were a little afraid of them.

Here, they can barely survive. If they move away and go to another place, I'm afraid they won't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Moreover, Yang Tiehan’s eldest son got married not long ago, and his eldest grandson is not even a month old. In this situation, where can the family go?

"I thought something was wrong, so I asked the village chief to remove the door and break into the Yang family."

Anyway, there are people to take charge, and the village chief was afraid of conflicts when he came, so he brought a lot of people with him. Even if he removed the door and found that the Yang family was fine, he was not afraid of a fight.

As soon as he heard what Wang Hun said, he immediately ordered people to tear down the door.

The door of Yang's house was smashed and a group of people rushed into the yard.

Despite such a big commotion, no one from the Yang family came out to scold.

On the contrary, after Wang Hun and others rushed into the yard, they were trembling with fear.

A male corpse was lying on the ground beside a large stone trough used to feed livestock in the corner of the yard, and a wooden basin full of bran had fallen beside him.

"I went forward and took a look, and I saw that the head of the corpse was gone, and there was only a neck, like a pillar, stuck into the stone trough."

Thinking of the scene at that time, Wang Hun was so horrified that his soul flew away and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

He couldn't help but reach out and wipe his neck, his face full of fear.

When Wang Hun saw the headless male corpse, he let out a strange cry, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground with his back facing the sky.