I become a god in another world

Chapter 316 Causes and Consequences (5K update)

Chapter 316

"Alas." Yang Guiying sighed with tears in her eyes:
"My mother-in-law—"

Li Ganniang lost her husband at an early age and raised four daughters and one son alone, suffering a lot of hardships.

She did everything in the past few years.

She is good at matchmaking and midwifery, and is familiar with all the villages within Shilipu.

In addition to doing these things, she also takes on some work for the children.

Yang Guiying said:

"Even if some wealthy families in the county or village want to buy servants or maids, she can help find people and collect the guarantee money."

As a result, life is difficult, but it's manageable.

It was not until later that the two villages in the wild banana forest began to buy spices. Many people came here to collect incense, and the simple village gradually became complex with people coming and going. Li Ganniang's "business" also changed accordingly.

These are all old stories, and Yang Guiying glossed over them.

"More than three months ago, my mother-in-law found a daughter from Jiumen Village."

Speaking of this, she felt very uneasy and kept turning her head to look outside the door, as if she was afraid that Li Ganniang would suddenly come back and see her.

"That girl is an acquaintance. It is said that my mother-in-law delivered her. Her family is quite poor, but her parents dote on her and don't want her to marry far away. They want to find someone they know well, but she still hasn't been engaged until she was sixteen."

Li Ganniang immediately came up with an idea.

She used the excuse of going to Jiumen Village to act as a matchmaker and went to the home of this old acquaintance. She met the little girl and was attracted by her beautiful appearance.

The old woman then offered to act as a matchmaker for the girl.

Since they had known each other for many years, the parents did not think much about it and agreed immediately.

In the meantime, Li Ganniang asked Sun Sanniang and others to help set up the scheme. They fabricated a fake man to deceive the girl, lured the girl to come with the promise of marriage, and then sent her to the market in the wild banana forest and abducted her.

"More than two years ago, after Godfather Qiao disappeared, the place became chaotic, with all kinds of people there." Yang Guiying sighed:

"If the girl is taken away, she will soon be sent out of Wan'an County, or even out of Xuzhou. Where will her parents go to find her?"

When Meng Po heard this, she became extremely angry.

Her daughter was kidnapped, and she suffered a lot throughout her life trying to find her daughter.

When he heard what Li Ganniang was doing, his face was flushed:
"Isn't she afraid that her parents will come to her house if she does this?"

Yang Guiying smiled bitterly:
“She picked people who were carefully selected.”

Firstly, the other party’s parents believed her, thinking that Li Ganniang was from a nearby village and knew her well. How could they have thought that she would lie?
Besides, this little girl was delivered by Li Ganniang. Who would have thought that a woman who is a mother herself could be so cruel?

"And if the other party asked again, she would say that her daughter followed the man out to make a living and fooled him for a while."

Most country people are simple and cowardly, and generally don't want to cause trouble.

"Besides, Lijiaao is no longer the Lijiaao of the past. If things really get out of hand, my mother-in-law has someone to support her." Yang Guiying shook her head.

Zhao Fusheng shook his head at Meng Po, signaling her not to get angry, and then asked:

"Did anything strange happen afterwards?"

"Yes." Yang Guiying nodded:

"My mother-in-law got the girl from the other party and was afraid that she would realize that she was deceived, so she imprisoned her in the home of a family surnamed Cao in the wild banana forest. For some reason, the next day, everyone in that family had their heads gone!"

"A family of seven, all dead, including the little girl."

Not long after the incident, Yang Guiying lost her second child.

"To be honest, I think it's because the Li family has done so many evil things that this is retribution." Yang Guiying cried when she thought of this:
"But the one who did the bad thing wasn't my child, so why is it me who is being punished?"

She babbled:

"That Sun Sanniang is not a good person either. Later, she came to my mother-in-law's house again, saying that she wanted to do another business and then ran away—"

Yang Guiying may not have chatted with anyone for a long time, and now she opened the floodgates of conversation and could not stop.

Zhao Fusheng was distracted.

From what Yang Guiying said, it seemed that someone had indeed died in Shilipu, and the way of death was the same as that of the Yang family.

She interrupted Yang Guiying and asked:

"You said a family of seven died mysteriously in the wild banana forest? Why didn't anyone report it to the police?"

Yang Guiying shuddered and said:
"How dare you report this to the police—"

The wild banana forest is now filled with filth and is no longer the simple mountain resort it once was.

Li Ganniang, Sun Sanniang and others are engaged in a business that carries the risk of death. If this were to be exposed, many people would be implicated.

"Besides, this is not the first time someone has died." Yang Guiying said in a low voice.

Zhao Fusheng's pupils shrank:
"Has there ever been a family that died mysteriously before, and their heads disappeared?"

Yang Guiying nodded:
"Yes." When she said this, she looked out and whispered:
"My Lord, these words have come out of my mouth and entered your ears, please do not let others hear them." When she said this, her expression was a little hesitant, and finally she said with tears in her eyes:

"I am grateful to you two for bringing this message to me, so I muster up the courage to tell you - alas -"

At this point, she let out a long sigh:
"Actually, this has been going on for quite some time. From what I know, it's been at least two years. People in the village say it's haunted."

She didn't know much about real evil spirits, and what she said was just what others said.

But Yang Guiying's words hit the nail on the head.

"The wild banana forest was not like this before." Yang Guiying showed a look of pity on her face:

"There is a mountain behind the wild banana forest. The mountain produces a kind of spice. In previous years, the two villages inside made a living by collecting spices. They were all very rich, and everyone else was jealous."

But the people of those two villages took good care of the spices, and others could not interfere. All they knew was that many merchants came to the village to buy spices every year, and when the spice harvesting season came, there were many passers-by passing by.

"There was not enough room in the village, so some even paid to stay in our village. Over time, a market was formed in the wild banana forest, and it was quite lively."

Zhao Fusheng nodded when he heard this:

"I also heard Luo Liu and Sun Sanniang mention it."

Yang Guiying said:
"They are from the Wild Boar Village and Niulan Village..." After saying that, Zhao Fusheng raised his eyebrows, thinking that she didn't know about the 'Wild Boar Village', and hurriedly explained:
"These two villages are the ones that sell spices, but these two people are not good people, so don't trust them."

Zhao Fusheng responded:
"Aren't they from the same village?"

Yang Guiying shook her head and said:

"We were originally from the same village. Sun Sanniang was originally from the Wild Boar Village, and later married into the Luo family in Niulan Village—"

"Luo family?" Meng Po heard this and turned her head to look at Zhao Fusheng and asked:

"Is it the Luo family of Luo Liu's family?"

"Yeah." Yang Guiying responded:
"She was originally Luo Liu's third sister-in-law. Luo Liu had five older brothers, one of whom was not supported. Sun Sanniang was not originally called Sun Sanniang. She married Luo San and was originally called Luo San's wife—"

She revealed Sun Sanniang's true colors:

"Didn't those two villages harvest spices later? The people of these two villages were united in guarding against outsiders and not allowing outsiders to set foot in the forest, but they fought fiercely among themselves and almost became enemies for life."

During the fight, Sun Sanniang's husband was killed by her brothers from her natal family.

Once this happened, a great feud was created.

"Since then, the Luo family has hated this daughter-in-law."

Yang Guiying talked for a long time but didn't mention the case of the headless ghost An.

Liu Yizhen was a little anxious and was about to ask a question, but when he saw Zhao Fusheng giving him a look that said "calm down", he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"I see that Sun Sanniang and Luo Liu behave very close to each other, going in and out together, and I'd think they are a couple." Zhao Fusheng said with a smile.

Yang Guiying lowered her head:
"But the brother dies and the younger brother dies - this is a long story." Although she hated the behavior of Sun Sanniang and Luo Liu, she seemed unwilling to say too much about the two of them, and only vaguely passed over the matter:

"In short, the affair between Luo Liu and Sun Sanniang was a scandal at the time—" She said this with a wry smile:
"It's not even a scandal nowadays. There are uglier things than this."

She finished her words in a self-deprecating tone and added:

"The reason why I mentioned Luo Liu is because he did not handle the matter properly at the time, which angered the parents and also caused Godfather Qiao—"

Zhao Fusheng had been listening to her calmly, waiting for her to bring up the topic of this so-called 'Godfather Qiao'.

Seeing that she finally mentioned this person, he immediately asked, "What kind of person is this 'Godfather Qiao'?"

Yang Guiying raised her head:
"Father Joe is a good man."

After she said this, she smiled bitterly and sighed:

"It's a pity that good people don't live long."

This sigh was consistent with what Zhao Fusheng had thought when he heard about the existence of 'Qiao Yuesheng'.

Yang Guiying was stunned for a moment, not knowing what she was thinking. After a while, she reached out to lift the hair by her ear and whispered:
"He was the one who discovered the incense and taught the two villages how to make incense. At first everyone was grateful to him, but later some people resented him and believed that he was the cause of the disaster in the two villages."

But this is just a secret complaint of many people.

On the surface, he is the person in charge of Niulan Village, in charge of village affairs, and has a high prestige in the village.

"He was well-educated, sensible, able to do accounting, and fair. When he was around, Niulan Village was decent. Unfortunately, he disappeared mysteriously two years ago, and the village fell into chaos."

"Missing?" Zhao Fusheng frowned:

"Why did you disappear?"

"Not sure." Yang Guiying shook her head:

"In the early days, Niulan Village was very defensive against our village. Many things were kept from us, and there was also a wild banana forest between us."

The reason why Lijiaao knew some things about Niulan Village was because Qiao Yuesheng paid the villagers to build a clan school in the wild banana forest.

"He seems to be saying that reading can cure ignorance? Or cure? I don't understand." Yang Guiying said with a confused look on her face:
"Anyway, let the nearby villagers send their children to his clan school."

At first, no one sent their children there. Later, Qiao Yuesheng said that anyone who was willing to send their children to school would receive some wheat bran every year. After that, many people began to send their children there to study.

The teacher is himself.

He taught for two years and was very popular with some children. They all called him their adopted parent and recognized him as their godfather. “That’s also the origin of the name Joe Godfather.”

Many villagers also admired him and followed their children in calling him "Daddy Qiao".

Yang Guiying said:

"He also built a temple at Shilipo, which was very popular at that time."

Qiao Yuesheng's voice reached its peak during those years in Shilipu.

Unfortunately, the good times are not long.

"Two years ago in May, when the two villages were on guard against each other, a fire broke out in the forest one night and the Shenlong tree was burned to ashes." Yang Guiying's voice trembled as she talked about the scene at that time:

"People from Niulan Village and Yezhu Village were like crazy trying to grab fire that day. It was a very chaotic day. We were so scared when we heard the noise that we couldn't sleep all night."

The fire could not be extinguished and spread rapidly.

After two or three days, it rained in Shilipu, and the fire was finally put out. Afterwards, when the village's property was counted, "there was not much loss. A few people who put out the fire were injured, but no one died. However, Godfather Qiao was missing."

"There are many different opinions. Some say he set the fire, saying that he knew he was guilty and fled. Others say that God couldn't stand the fighting between the two villages and the annual casualties, so he sent a fire from the sky, and Godfather Qiao left this sad place—"

In short, from that day on, Qiao Yuesheng disappeared.

"Not long after, someone discovered that the clay head of his statue, which was enshrined in the room, suddenly broke into pieces and fell to the ground."

At this point, Yang Guiying's face showed fear:
"From that day on, news of mysterious deaths began to be heard frequently in Shilipu."

At first, it happened to a few people who died without any signs at all, their heads would disappear out of nowhere.

Later they gradually developed into a family.

This method of death was even like a contagious plague, spreading from one village to another and spreading to the nearby Sifang Town, Changsheng Town, and Shilipo.

"At first, people died in every town, and everyone suspected that it was a ghost, but no one knew for sure, so everyone was in a panic."

However, for the people of Lijiaao, they often hear about people dying in this world, so even if there are ghost stories, they seem to be far away from everyone. When they hear these news, they treat it as gossip and do not take it to heart.

On the contrary, Shilipo, without Qiao Yuesheng's supervision, began to become a place where crime grew rampant.

Some villagers in Niulan Village and Yezhu Village, who had lost the Shenlong Tree on which they depended for their livelihood, began to gather a group of idle ruffians to engage in robbery.

People from Huanggang Village and Fengmen Village also did such things, but it was not a long-term solution after all - and they could not compete with these long-established bandits, so they found another way and started making a living as kidnappers.

The governors in the surrounding villages would keep an eye on their children. Young girls and women would never dare to go out alone, for fear that they would be abducted by their children.

In less than two years, Shilipu became a chaotic place.

Li Ganniang originally traveled around the countryside, but was also dragged into this mess. In the end, she teamed up with these people and harmed countless people.

Many parents, like the girl in Jiumen Village, thought that their daughters were married off to stable and honest families through matchmaking by acquaintances, but they did not know that their daughters had already been sold and their whereabouts were unknown.

"A month ago, Sun Sanniang came to my house looking for my mother-in-law. She said that when she went to Laoyang Village to sell mountain products, she saw a family surnamed Li with a very pretty daughter, so she asked my mother-in-law to seduce her and abduct her."

Li Ganniang gave birth to four daughters and one son, and Li Youlu had been married for many years and had only one daughter.

Now that her daughter-in-law is pregnant, Li Ganniang is a little scared because of the death of the girl in Jiumen Village, so she says she wants to stop and accumulate good karma for the grandson in her daughter-in-law's belly.

"At that time, Sun Sanniang sneered and mocked my mother-in-law for her wishful thinking."

Sun Sanniang said: If yellow mud falls into your crotch, it's either shit or shit. You want to accumulate good karma by getting mixed up in this mud and be a good person in your next life.

She turned away at that moment.

"Will she let it go?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

Yang Guiying was a little scared:
"That's impossible." She said softly:

"This person is extremely cruel and merciless. She would peel off the skin of some girls who refused to obey her. She threatened my mother-in-law at the time, saying that if she refused to obey, she would sell me off."

She finally burst into tears when she said this:

"Sun Sanniang said, which woman can't give birth? She said that if the grandson in my belly is gone, then it's gone. Then I can kidnap the daughter of the Li family in Laoyang Village and then find a woman for my man who is guaranteed to be able to give birth. My mother-in-law was tempted."

Meng Po couldn't help cursing after hearing this:

"What a beast."

"Where is your husband?" Zhao Fusheng frowned.

Yang Guiying's eyes were filled with tears:
"What can he do? Everything is decided by his mother. He also disliked that I gave birth to a daughter, saying that as long as it was a woman, it would be fine. He also told his mother to pick a good-looking one."

"..."Meng Po's face turned pale, and she wished she could find Li Youlu and give him a good beating.

"Did your mother-in-law and Sun Sanniang really go to Laoyang Village and kidnap the daughter of the Li family afterwards?"

No matter how calm Zhao Fusheng was, he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted with these people.

Yang Guiying cried:

"No, they were just about to start their journey. Half a month later, something happened in Niulan Village and all the Luo family members died."

There was a look of fear on her face:

"Everyone's heads were missing, and their bodies were scattered all over the house."

Yang Guiying's words revealed important information. Zhao Fusheng's eyes lit up. He was about to ask again, but Yang Guiying continued:

"I was afraid that my mother-in-law would sell me, so I asked someone to pass a message to my parents, asking them to take me home—"

She wiped her tears while speaking:

"I know my family is poor and my brother just had a son. I don't ask to stay at my parents' house all year round. It would be good for me to avoid the limelight." She originally thought that her parents would ignore her. She had sent the letter for several days, but there was no response.

Just when I was feeling desperate and anxious, Zhao Fusheng and others came.

"Thank goodness you told me that my parents didn't ignore me. After all, my family loves me and wants to help me. Unfortunately, I don't know how fate has led to this happening."

When Yang Guiying got to this point, she finally burst into tears:

"Why did my parents die instead of the bad guys? I have been waiting for so long, Dad - Mom - brother and sister-in-law -"

"How could such a thing happen out of the blue?" Yang Guiying cried.

Zhao Fusheng, Meng Po and Liu Yizhen looked at each other in surprise.

Evil ghosts have no emotions, no mercy, and only know how to kill based on instinct.

The law of evil spirits that kill people in dreams itself marks those who have expectations in their hearts and have made agreements with others.

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