I become a god in another world

Chapter 400 The family was destroyed
Chapter 400
"it's me!"

A hoarse and sinister voice sounded, the tone was a little sharp, and there was a sense of lack of energy.

The tone of his voice was filled with a deep malice that made one tremble all over.

The most important thing was that the voice was very familiar, so familiar that the boy’s mother had talked to it just last night.

Good luck to grandma!
"Ghost!!!"

The woman recognized Grandma Wang’s voice and was frightened out of her wits.

……

The next day, the boy went to visit his mother. When he brought her food, she mentioned what happened last night and begged him to go home and plead with his father. The whole family helped to speak well of Ye Erye and let her move back home.

The boy felt sorry for his mother and agreed immediately.

But since it involves a case involving human life, it cannot be dealt with so lightly.

The family went to Ye Erye's house and sat for a long time, but Ye Erye did not give in. He only said that Grandma Wang's death was strange. If this matter was brought up and ignored, it would inevitably cause criticism and people would say that it was bullying the old woman in the village who had lost her child.

But he also said that Master Wang San and his son were already dead, and as long as the people didn't report it and the officials didn't investigate, the matter would be over after a while. Therefore, he advised the young man's family to go back first, and as long as his mother could hold on for a few days, the villagers' talk of the matter would be calmed down.

After hearing Mr. Ye's reply, the whole family felt relieved and went home happily.

"I had planned to go to the Chen family's old house before dark to tell my mother the good news, but it started raining before dark, and the rain was getting heavier, so I had to give up."

He planned to visit his mother after the rain stopped, but the rain did not stop that night.

The next day, the boy got up early, took two vegetable cakes and went to Chen's old house, but he found nothing.

His mother disappeared from the Chen family's old house.

"Because it involves a murder case, the house is locked from the outside."

However, the door of the house had fallen into disrepair and a large gap could be opened in the middle, big enough for a person's hand to pass through.

Although he already knew that this case was related to ghosts, Fan Wujiu still couldn't help asking:

"Could it be that your mother was afraid of ghosts and managed to squeeze her hand through the crack in the door and pry the lock open?"

"Tsk." Zhang Chuanshi, who was standing by, could not help but sneer when he heard this, and said sarcastically:
"Xiao Fan, I think you are really a fool. Who has the strength to twist open an iron lock?"

Fan Wujiu glared, raised his arm, and clenched his fist:
"I!"

He rolled down his sleeves, revealing his muscular arms.

"……whispering sound."

Zhang Chuanshi had nothing to say.

Zhao Fusheng ignored the two men, but changed her mind, and some clues related to the case emerged in her mind, and she said:

"Your mother fell into the abandoned pond next to Chen's house?"

"Yes, my lord."

Although it had been more than half a year since the incident, he still had tears in his eyes when he talked about his mother's death:
"She somehow fell into that pond and drowned."

The door lock was not broken and the door was not damaged, but the person disappeared.

The young man thought of the death of Master Wang San and his mother, and felt uneasy. After he lost sight of the Chen family's old house, he went to look for them in the pond behind the house.

The pond was covered with dead leaves, and the body of the boy's mother was wrapped in a pile of dead leaves.

As the news spread, the villagers were suddenly frightened.

If only Master Wang San died, it could be said that it was the old man who accidentally fell.

Although Grandma Wang died later, she had an argument with the boy's mother before her death. The boy's mother wanted to kill her in anger, so it is reasonable that she carried her on her back and threw her into the river.

But this woman was locked alone in an abandoned house, the door lock was not broken, but she died. How can this be explained?
For a time, rumors spread in the village, saying that the village was haunted.

Some people say that Master Wang San died unjustly, while others say that it was a ghost looking for a substitute.

"...Some people say it's retribution because we didn't pay taxes and tributes to the Demon Suppression Bureau earlier, which angered the master."

The young man spoke incoherently.

"What happens next?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

"After that..." He suddenly covered his face and cried bitterly.

The young man didn't say anything else, but the others in the Demon Suppression Division had already guessed the result.

Afterwards, the villagers fished the boy's mother's body out of the pond.

According to custom, the body should be kept for three days before being buried in an empty plot of land.

However, the tax system of the Han Dynasty changed every day - there was a tax on living people in the past, and later on, a tax called "tax on dead people" was introduced among the states and counties.

After each deceased person was buried, unless there were no descendants of the nine generations, a land tax had to be paid to the imperial court. This was jokingly called "paying taxes on the dead" by the common people.

Once the sign of taxation appeared, many places stopped holding funerals.

Once there is someone in the family, many people will find an empty space to bury the body overnight. Some people even dare not erect a tombstone after burying their relatives, for fear of being reported by neighbors.

……

The boy's mother died in a strange way, and there was something evil about her, which was not auspicious.

After discussion among the villagers, they decided to dig a hole far away from the village to bury her body after they fished her out, and to avoid any further complications, they tamped the soil very firmly.

For some reason, the villagers felt uneasy after doing all this.

Master Ye pondered for a while, and then found a group of young and strong people in the village to carry two or three large stones to press down the grave mound firmly.

When Zhao Fusheng heard this, he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

The people of Dongping Village were cautious, and Mr. Ye from the village was even more careful in his actions, but ghost cases were beyond human control.

The power of ordinary people is too weak in front of evil spirits, and they can only be tortured one-sidedly.

After the boy's mother's grave was compacted, the villagers finally breathed a sigh of relief and left in twos and threes.

The boy's family cried and felt heavy in their hearts.

Because someone died in the family, the family couldn't eat or sleep well, especially the young man, who felt extremely guilty.

During the day, his mother's pleading and crying rang in his ears, and he always felt as if he owed his mother a promise that he had not fulfilled.

Worried about this, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. At about two o'clock in the morning, he suddenly heard a rustling sound.

Like mice rummaging through a granary, or silkworms eating mulberry trees...

After a long while, the boy finally realized that it was raining.

As soon as this thought came into his mind, he suddenly felt a chill.

There has been a lot of rain in Dongping Village recently, and this rain is not auspicious.

"Before my mother died, she mentioned that it rained on the day when Uncle Wang San and Grandma Wang 'came back'—"

So when the boy heard the sound of rain, he suddenly sat up from the bed.

The strange thing is that the whole family seemed to be in a deep sleep, and the surroundings were so quiet that it was a little eerie.

Just when he was feeling uneasy, there was a sudden knock on the door.

'Bang bang bang. '

It sounded like someone was knocking on the door.

The boy was shaking all over at the time, and the knock on the door woke up everyone in the family who were originally asleep.

As soon as everyone woke up, the silence was broken by the noise they made.

But this noise did not make the boy feel relieved, but made him even more uneasy.

"Knock, knock, knock." The knocking on the door continued, and the family members sat together after waking up.

Everyone thought of the strange things that had happened in the village recently, and they felt particularly scared and dared not speak out.

But what is coming cannot be avoided.

Once marked by the laws of evil spirits, they will not disappear just because ordinary people hide.

The boy's family didn't say anything. After a long while, the person knocking on the door finally spoke:

"Open the door."

His mother, who had drowned in a pond during the day and was hastily buried by the villagers, returned.

When the boy's mother was alive, she mentioned that Uncle Wang San had "come back". The family believed it at first, but after Grandma Wang died, everyone was inevitably influenced by the rumors and began to suspect that the mother had made up a lie to deceive people.

It was not until that night when the mother returned dead that everyone knew what fear was.

"We didn't sleep all night—" the boy's voice was a little low, "No one dared to open the door. The knocking sound lasted for half the night and only disappeared when it was almost dawn."

As the sky brightened, the rain that had been falling all night stopped.

The frightened family opened the door tremblingly. There was no evil spirit outside, nor was there the mother's figure. There was only mud on the ground.

"There is a clear set of footprints in the mud."

Although the incident happened seven or eight months ago, the boy's body kept shaking when he mentioned it, and he was obviously extremely scared.

The surviving boatmen and members of the Lu family were also silent and dared not say a word.

At this moment, Zhao Fusheng suddenly asked:

"How many sets of footprints are there?"

"W-what?"

The frightened boy raised his head with a confused look on his face, as if he didn't understand the meaning of Zhao Fusheng's words.

"Did you see the footprints at your door with your own eyes?" Zhao Fusheng did not get impatient with his question and asked again.

"Witnessed--" The young man turned his head and looked at the people around him as if asking for help. Ding Datong sighed:
"My Lord asks if you saw it with your own eyes?"

"Oh, oh, oh, I saw it, I saw it with my own eyes, and I was the one who opened the door at that time." The young man nodded hurriedly.

He was quite courageous, perhaps because he was a newborn calf that was not afraid of a tiger, or because the evil spirit that had resurrected was his mother and he didn't know the consequences, so he still dared to take on the task.

"How many sets of footprints are there in front of your house?"

Zhao Fu was afraid that he didn't understand what he meant, so he spread out his left hand and moved his right index and middle fingers back and forth in his palm:
"If you walk back and forth a few more times, you will leave more footprints."

When it rains a lot in Dongping Village, the ground becomes muddy and leaves traces when you walk on it.

The young man understood what she meant and said quickly:
"Just one string of—"

"Which direction are the footprints heading? Are they coming towards the front door, or leaving the front door?" Zhao Fusheng asked again.

The young man said:

"There was only a bunch of people coming towards the door, like someone walked to the door, and then disappeared—" When he said this, he shrugged his shoulders and whispered:
"There's a ghost at the door of the house—"

Zhao Fusheng was serious:
"That means there is no return."

"There's no return?" Zhong Yao was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked at Wu Shaochun:
"Uncle Wu, what does this mean?"

When he was in Wan'an County, he spent several days with Wu Shaochun and felt both respect and fear for him.

Wu Shaochun had studied with Zhao Fusheng for a while, and had handled a ghost case on his own. After a brief thought, his eyes lit up:
"Could it be that the ghost has not left and is still staying in the house?"

"what!"

Wu Shaochun's words scared everyone.

The survivors of Dongping Village, the Lu family, the boatmen, and the people of Changping County all felt their scalps tingling. They hurriedly pressed their backs together and looked around vigilantly.

"It's very possible."

Zhao Fusheng nodded:
"This may be the evil spirit's method of killing people. Wherever the footprints go, they will leave their footprints in front of the door."

Until the whole family was wiped out.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fusheng looked at the young man again and realized that what he said was not entirely accurate. Perhaps he only got part of the evil spirit's killing rules right - otherwise, why was the young man who should have died at the hands of the ghost still alive?
"Did something happen to your family afterwards?"

Zhao Fusheng asked.

The young man nodded sadly:
"Yes, we didn't dare to stay at home anymore, so we went to find Master Ye to save our lives."

When the villagers learned that a ghost disaster had occurred, they were so frightened that their scalps went numb.

But now that things have come to this, there is no escape.

Master Ye also found the situation difficult to handle. He was afraid that the young woman would die with regrets, so he wanted to find a way to avoid the disaster.

"We can't afford the Demon Suppression Bureau, and we don't dare to report this matter. Second Master said that there is a ghost master in the neighboring village--"

"Ghost-saving man?" It was the first time Fan Wujiu heard such a name and asked curiously.

Wu Shaochun explained:
"It's some country folk who claim they can attract ghosts."

During the Han Dynasty, ghost disasters were rampant. In addition to the Demon Suppression Division who used ghosts to control ghosts, there were also some people who claimed that they could also solve the ghost disasters.

They tell outsiders that evil ghosts are just unfulfilled wishes. They can lure the ghosts into their bodies, let them confess their grievances, and fulfill their unfulfilled wishes when they were alive. This way they can appease the ghosts' resentment and resolve the problem.

Fan Wujiu was stunned by Wu Shaochun's words. He said:

"Is it really so magical?"

"Fake!"

Wu Shaochun said.

When he was young and ignorant, he also believed in such ghost-controlling people. But after controlling ghosts, he realized that these people were just swindling and had no real ability to solve the ghost disaster.

"..."

Fan Wujiu was greatly disappointed and let out a long sigh.

The boy was also very disappointed and murmured:

“Fake, fake? It’s actually fake? No wonder they died—”

These invited ghost exorcists had no idea that Dongping Village was really hit by ghosts.

Many times, the "ghost disasters" they undertake are mostly man-made, or the person who hires the service has a "ghost" in his heart.

But this time, Dongping Village really encountered a big event. The ghost-saving man came and lived in the boy’s house.

As soon as he arrived, he started saying that the boy's mother was buried in the wrong grave and he said a lot of nonsense.

Led by him, the villagers went to the cemetery and saw that something had indeed happened there.

It rained heavily all night the day before, causing a landslide. The stones that Ye Erye had people use to hold down the grave were washed away, and the grave was flattened by the rain. The body buried in it disappeared and no one knew where it went.

When the villagers saw this, they praised the ghost man highly and held a banquet to entertain him that night.

It was agreed that a ritual would be held the next day to "exorcise" the evil spirit, but something evil happened that night.

The ghost man drowned in the pond where the boy's mother drowned.

Or it was because the villagers couldn't find him the next day. After searching for a long time, they initially thought he was a liar who had escaped, but when they saw that the divination items he brought with him were still there, they guessed that he might have been stuck in something and couldn't get away.

After searching for a long time, the boy somehow walked to the pond and saw the corpse floating in the pond.

……

The same weird thing happened again.

That night, someone knocked on the boy's door again, and this time it was the ghost master.