I become a god in another world

Chapter 381 A Night of Terror (Double Monthly Ticket Request)

Chapter 381

"Discovery, discovery--" Chen Duozi was shaking all over and couldn't even speak clearly.

Fan Wujiu clenched his fists, stared at her with his eyes wide open, and his lips trembled. After a while, he slammed the side of the boat heavily, unable to bear it any longer:

"What did you find? What did you find? Come on, tell me!"

He was afraid of ghosts, but he was very strong. With one slap, the side of the boat shook and almost threw the terrified Zhang Chuanshi out of the boat.

"Xiao Fan, you little bastard."

Zhang Chuanshi came to his senses and started cursing.

These two people quarreled all the time, and others were used to it.

Fan Bisi didn't even frown. Seeing his brother's impatience, he had an idea and continued:
"Could it be possible that there is also a group of people sending gifts to Lu Yuhe?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Duozi's face revealed a look as if the fear he had tried hard to hide had been exposed. He seemed to feel a little relieved, but also a little scared. After a while, he nodded desperately.

"Yes, yes, just as the lord said."

Her inner fear was exposed by Fan Bisi, and she felt like she had survived a great catastrophe. She whispered:

"I was panicking and scared at the time. I felt that this matter was evil, so I wanted to go and discuss it with the master. But when I was walking out with a long list of gifts, I saw the master coming back—"

There were no lights on in the Lu family at that time. Lu Yuhe walked out slowly from the darkness, dragging a long list of gifts in his hand, which scared Chen Duozi so much that he almost lost his soul.

Later, the people who were sleeping in the house seemed to wake up, and lights came on in the house.

With the light shining, Chen Duozi froze when he saw the gift list in Lu Yuhe's hand.

The couple looked at each other and the objects in each other's hands without saying anything. At this moment, both of them guessed what the other had experienced before, and then began to tremble.

"We went back to the room—"

Lu Zhu'er was still in the inner room. The couple was worried about scaring their daughter, so they didn't dare to speak loudly and just spoke in a low voice in private.

Chen Duozi asked Lu Yuhe what happened, and Lu Yuhe said:
"I ran straight to the front door, afraid of disturbing the neighbors. When I opened the door, I saw a group of people dressed in red and purple standing outside with loads on their shoulders."

"A plump woman, older, about forty years old, wearing makeup, with a high-pitched voice--" Two stiff-looking servants stood behind her, each holding a lantern.

Under the light, a team of people giving gifts blocked the street in front of the main entrance into a long queue.

Every few feet or so there was a pair of servants holding lanterns, and the scene looked amazing from a distance.

As soon as the 'woman' saw Lu Yuhe opening the door, she shouted "Congratulations" and claimed that she was sent by Master Zang to give a betrothal gift to Lu Zhuer.

After saying this, he saw those people carrying the gift basket in.

"It's enough to fill the whole yard. I'm afraid there must be dozens of them." Lu Yuhe said this and handed over the gift list in his hand:
"By the way, here's the gift list."

As soon as he finished speaking, he handed over the gift list in his hand, but his eyes instinctively fell on Chen Duozi's hand.

Chen Duozi also raised his hand as if possessed by a ghost. The two of them compared the gift lists in their hands, with fear and uneasiness in their eyes.

Both of them held a long piece of yellow paper in their hands.

The paper is uneven in thickness and a little rough. Most people wouldn't be so careless when giving gifts as a betrothal gift.

Moreover, the yellow paper was made of square pieces of paper about the length of a palm pasted together. The seams between each piece of paper were faintly dark brown and gave off a bloody smell.

There was no writing on the paper; it was a blank sheet of paper.

Seeing this scene, the couple felt panicked and scared.

Lu Yuhe forced a smile:
"Did someone play a prank on me?"

It was the middle of the night and the other side was so powerful, how could they possibly play such a joke on a mere Lu family?

Chen Duozi said:

"What's more, the Zang family of Wenxing County, Shangyang County, has a marriage alliance with our Lu family. This matter, this matter--" She pursed her lips, "No one knows about it. Such a matter has not been determined before, and we will definitely not tell anyone. Who would know that Master Zang is coming to propose marriage?"

The most bizarre thing is not just that.

When the couple was getting extremely worried, Lu Zhu'er in the room waited for her parents to come in for a long time and felt uneasy, so she took the initiative to come out of the inner room.

As soon as she came out, she just started crying.

"I asked her several times what happened, but she didn't say anything. She just covered her face and looked at me from time to time with a complaining look on her face."

After Chen Duozi said this, Zhao Fusheng knew that things were getting serious.

"Why does she blame you?" Fan Wujiu asked curiously.

Chen Duozi's eyes turned red and he said:
"Zhu'er said that when there were guests at home, we didn't stop them and let them break into the house."

Also said:

"Mom passed away early. Before she died, Dad and Aunt Duo swore to heaven that they would treat me well. Why don't they keep their promise now?"

She felt resentful.

Chen Duozi was used to reading people's faces, and that night was so terrifying.

If it was just a gift-giving beforehand, when she met Lu Yuhe afterwards, she knew that there was something dangerous and weird about it.

When she heard what Lu Zhuer said, her face turned pale.

When she first heard Lu Zhuer's complaints, she felt a little sad and her chest ached. But when she realized the reason, she was not sad or disappointed, but terrified.

"Sir, she said she was hiding in the house as we instructed and didn't go out. Suddenly she heard someone knocking at the door, so she went to open the door in a daze."

When Lu Zhuer opened the door, she saw a woman standing outside. She was about 40 years old, with heavy makeup and purple clothes. Behind her were two servants holding lanterns. When they saw her, they grinned and said,
"So handsome, so handsome."

"She claimed to be from Master Zang's family and came to propose marriage."

Lu Zhuer asked her which Master Zang, and she said:

"It's Master Zang from Wenxing County. He was engaged to the Lu family long ago."

She also said that she had spoken with Lu Yuhe and his wife earlier, and now she was entrusted by Mr. Zang to deliver the betrothal gifts.

After saying this, the woman seemed to remember something and lifted her sleeves:

"By the way, the gift list is with your parents outside. I have one more thing that I forgot to give you."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, she grabbed Lu Zhuer's hand.

Her hands were soft and delicate, yet a little cold, without any trace of life.

But at that time, Lu Zhuer herself was also panicked and dizzy from the shock of the sudden change. She had no idea how to deal with the matter and did not think of anything else.

The woman took off a blood-red jade bracelet from her wrist and put it on Lu Zhuer's wrist, saying that it was a family heirloom of the Zang family and that Lu Zhuer must wear it.

After she finished speaking, she said that she had finished her work and was going back to report, so she took two servants holding lanterns and quickly left.

I don’t know when the door was closed. When Lu Zhuer came to her senses, there was no one outside.
Not even the footsteps of the three people leaving were heard.

The servants in the house and Chen's mother and daughter seemed to have fallen asleep long ago and did not react at all.

There was no light in the house, the moon was blocked by dark clouds that night, and the yard was dark and quiet. At this moment, there was a loud slamming sound from the back door, breaking the silence of the strange night.

Then the servants in the room shouted:

"Who?"

The shout broke the silence, followed by the noise of someone getting up and coughing, and only then did Lu Zhuer come to her senses.

When she came to her senses, she realized she had been standing at the door for a long time.

It was a winter night and it was extremely cold outside. The young lady, who had been kept in seclusion in her boudoir, was already weak. After being exposed to the night wind for a while, the blood in her body seemed to be frozen and she lost consciousness.

She heard footsteps in the distance and people talking in low voices.

But she had seen the strange woman and the servant before, and was frightened, so she hid in the inner room.

Later, Lu Yuhe and Chen Duozi came back with the gift lists. They were still frightened when they talked about the gifts given by the two strange teams.

The two of them experienced this terrifying moment in the middle of the night and were feeling uneasy. Lu Zhu'er was also in great torment, and the couple even forgot that Lu Zhu'er was still in the inner room.

Until Lu Zhuer was so frightened that she could no longer bear it and came out of the room, crying and complaining that her father had not only hastily arranged a marriage for her, but also that the matchmaker had come to her house in the middle of the night, which was very presumptuous.

When the three parties got together and talked about the matter separately, several of them were finally shocked.

"Sir, although I, I acted separately from my master, I did not see the woman that Zhuer saw after opening the door, but, but——"

When Chen Duozi got to this point, he covered his face and cried:

"But when we compared the three of us afterwards, no matter their age, clothing, body shape or appearance, they were clearly the same person."

This is really a terrible thing for the Lu family.

"How come the three of us met the same person at the same time? In this world—"

Chen Duozi stammered and looked at Zhao Fusheng:

"Didn't you meet a ghost?"

……

When she said this, Wu Shaochun finally felt that this case had a bit more bizarre and thrilling feeling.

He turned to face Zhao Fusheng and scratched his face:
"My lord, this matter is indeed a little strange."

Without him saying anything, Zhao Fusheng and others could tell that what was happening in the Lu family was quite strange.

Liu Yizhen grabbed the hemp ropes on both sides of his arms with both hands, easily weighed the bound ghost coffin twice, and looked at Zhao Fusheng:
"Fusheng, do you think this is a ghost?"

"It's a 'ghost', but it's not a ghost."

Zhao Fusheng's words were ambiguous.

Fan Bisi and Liu Yizhen were stunned at first, and then looked thoughtful.

Wu Shaochun seemed to understand, but with his keen experience in handling ghost cases, he vaguely realized some of Zhao Fusheng's hidden meanings.

Meng Po tilted her head and thought for a while, her expression changing from gloomy to bright.

Chen Duozi looked confused. She was not from the Demon Suppression Division and was afraid of Zhao Fusheng and the others. She was completely confused by what Zhao Fusheng said but did not dare to ask.

She looked around at everyone else. Fan Wujiu scratched his head, looking a little anxious, and kept winking at his brother.

Zhang Chuanshi lowered his head and pursed his lips.

The child was squatting on the ground, his back leaning against Zhao Fusheng's bench, his hands playing with a branch he had picked from somewhere.

"My Lord, I, I don't understand—"

Although Chen Duozi was worried, since the matter involved Lu Zhuer, she had to suppress her fear and ask the question.

Zhao Fusheng stared at her with a smile on his face, which made Chen Duozi shudder, and then he said:
"Whether you understand or not, just continue to tell me what happened later."

"Later, what happened later..." Chen Duozi stood on the deck, feeling the wind for a long time, and thought of the scene that night. He was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold. For a while, he felt dizzy and could not react.

Zhao Fusheng reminded her:

"You said that you and your wife and Lu Zhu'er opened the door at the same time, and both of you encountered a woman in a purple dress with heavy makeup who was delivering gifts."

"Yes, yes, yes--" Chen Duozi remembered after she reminded him.

But she murmured, not knowing where to start.

Zhao Fusheng reminded her again:
"This woman gave Lu Zhuer a bracelet."

"Yes." When Chen Duozi mentioned the bracelet, his voice actually increased. His cheek muscles twitched and his voice was a little sharp:

"Sir, Zhu'er said at that time that the woman gave her a bracelet, which looked like blood jade and was very transparent, and seemed to be priceless..." When Lu Zhu'er talked about this with Lu Yuhe and Chen Duozi, she was afraid and hesitant.

The couple looked at each other and quickly signaled their daughter to pull up her sleeves so that they could see the blood jade bracelet.

"Zhu Er obediently lifted her sleeves. We looked under the light and saw that there was no bracelet. Instead, there was a red mark on her wrist from being bumped at some point."

When Chen Duozi said this, he shuddered.

Once again, things took a bizarre turn.

Wu Shaochun and Meng Po looked at each other, frowning in confusion:
"No blood bracelet?"

"Red seal?"

"It's a red mark." Chen Duozi was very sure:

"It didn't look very dark at the time, as if someone had squeezed it hard."

When Lu Zhuer saw that the bracelet was missing and only the mark was left, she was very scared.

She clearly remembered how the woman pulled her aside and talked to her intimately after the door was opened. She also remembered that the woman mentioned Mr. Zang from Wenxing County and said that among the engagement gifts, there must be an important blood bracelet, which the woman had to deliver personally and hand over to her.

Shortly after the woman left, she had been guarding Lu Yuhe and his wife's room, not going out at all, with her hands clenched tightly. Where did the bracelet go?
The three of them couldn't figure out what was going on.

Everything that happened that night was too weird. The three of them sat in silence all night, thinking over it and unable to make up their minds whether they should report the matter to the Demon Suppression Division.

"After daybreak, we decided to report the news to the county governor's office first."

Chen Duozi reluctantly said:

"When my great grandfather was alive, he had dealings with the government. He was a man of integrity. I wonder if he left any traces of his loyalty to the government. My master wants to try his luck."

Before leaving, Chen Duozi called him and somehow woke up Lu Zhuer, who had fallen asleep on the table at some point, and asked her to lift up her clothes again so that he could look at her wrist.

"All in one night..." Chen Duozi swallowed his saliva:
"Sir, in just one night, the red mark on my Zhu'er's wrist became deeper and the width was consistent. I measured it with my hand and it really looked like a bracelet had been worn there before."

Lu Yuhe was frightened and did not dare to go out to visit the governor until daybreak.

Before leaving, when I went out of the front door of my house, I saw my neighbors scolding me. They said that maybe someone had a funeral last night and paper money was scattered all over the ground. The host did not know the rules and did not know how to clean it up.

It was these two sentences that frightened Lu Yuhe greatly.

The Lu family made such a big noise last night, but the neighbors around them seemed to be completely unaware.