I become a god in another world

Chapter 448 Twenty Years Ago
Chapter 448

But the last time the old man opened the door, he immediately angered Meng Po, so the accident happened before Zhao Fusheng had time to ask any questions.

Now the old man opened the door again, and she interrupted him in time, so that Meng Po didn't have time to get angry again, and she successfully figured out the old man's identity.

Zhou Dazhui, a government official, mentioned that his uncle was the gatekeeper of this house before he died. He had guarded the gate for both the Sun and Wu families.

It was not until later that he witnessed a strange incident with his own eyes, and in panic he resigned and returned home, but ultimately he could not escape death at the hands of a ghost.

However, in Zhou Dazhu's memory that day, the old man Zhou, the gatekeeper of the Wu Mansion who died of the ghost face sore, survived in another form in this special ghost realm of the Wu Mansion.

It was through this clue that Zhao Fusheng confirmed that due to some special reasons, the Wu family's time stopped more than 20 years ago and the days have never turned over.

"It's really interesting." Zhao Fusheng said with a smile.

"You little girl..." She smiled and said this, and the old man Zhou who was guarding the gate looked speechless.

He leaned out and saw Liu Yizhen and the others. He looked a little hesitant, and then he held onto the door with both hands. He turned back and looked inside the house. Finally, he sighed and squeezed his head out from the crack of the door again: "Let me ask you, do you really know my family?"

"How can this be false?" Zhao Fusheng replied with a smile: "I know your last name is Zhou and you have a brother working in the government office. Do you know the name of your nephew?"

Old Man Zhou showed confusion in his eyes. He scratched his head and said to himself: "That's true..."

"We were also guided by your brother. He said that you have been guarding the gate here in your early years and can help us." Zhao Fusheng said calmly.

People in the Han Dynasty had a strong sense of clanship, and the ties between relatives were deep.

Even if they are not blood relatives from the same village, once the surname or clan is mentioned, these people will instinctively respond in a group.

Zhao Fusheng saw this from Kuai Liangcun and Qian Zhongying.

She deliberately mentioned Zhou Dazhu's family, and old man Zhou's expression changed obviously.

His expression was no longer as grim as before, and the look in his eyes when he looked at her was no longer harsh and scrutinizing like in the last reincarnation, but more blaming.

Such a reproachful expression meant that he regarded Zhao Fusheng and others as his own people.

"If that's the case, I can't keep you here."

There was no one in the Wu family yard, so he gradually became bolder: "Don't come here, especially women—"

"Uncle, what on earth happened here?"

Zhao Fusheng also changed his name to bring them closer.

Old man Zhou glared and wanted to say something, but in the end he sighed: "Alas, I really shouldn't have gotten involved in this trivial matter--"

He had a sad face and a hesitant expression. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't ask about some things you shouldn't ask about. This place is weird..." He waved his hand and said, "You wanted to sell your daughter, and I shouldn't have stopped you, but you know our Zhou family and Dazhu, so I can't hurt you."

He was about to close the door, but Zhao Fusheng quickly held it open: "Uncle, since you recognize us, we are all acquaintances. To be honest, we are from the same hometown as Mr. Wu. Now we have nowhere else to go, so we come to him for help."

"A fellow countryman?"

When Old Man Zhou heard this, he was a little surprised: "Since we are from the same hometown, how could you not understand his character?"

After saying this, he finally came to his senses: "This Mr. Wu is from another place, and you are from the same hometown as him, and also from another place, so how do you know our Zhou family?"

"It's a long story..." Zhao Fusheng changed the subject: "In short, we want to meet Mr. Wu."

Old man Zhou sneered: "I think you are old and stupid, you don't know whether you live or die."

After discovering that Zhao Fusheng and others were not distant relatives of the Zhou family, Zhou Tou'er's expression changed rapidly. He opened the door with ill intentions: "Since you are determined to go down this dead end, I will not stop you."

"Come in, fellow countrymen of the master."

The door was opened with a creaky sound, and a cold wind mixed with a faint smell of blood blew out from the mansion, making Zhao Fusheng's scalp numb.

Although Chen Duozi had made preparations, he trembled all over and grabbed the corner of Meng Po's clothes tightly.

But Meng Po's body was cold, like a dead person. As soon as she approached, she felt scared and turned closer to Zhao Fusheng.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhou." This time, Zhao Fusheng finally knocked on the door of the Wu family as he wished.

She was about to go in, but before she entered, she heard Old Man Zhou sneer, "Don't try to get close to me. It's better to say you don't know me."

"These are all my family members. Can we go together?" Before the clues of the matter were figured out, Zhao Fusheng did not take the old man Zhou's bad attitude seriously. She asked with a smile.

Old Zhou said, "You can bring as many people as you want." He thought he had figured out Zhao Fusheng's intentions, and said, "But it's useless. Once you go to the Wu family, you can't return."

His words made Zhao Fusheng realize immediately: the Wu family was already haunted at this time.

Zhou Dazhui said that a ghost disaster occurred in Jin County more than 20 years ago, and his uncle witnessed the strange incident when he was guarding the Wu family.

Perhaps the Wu family's time node stopped at this moment.

When she thought of this, Old Man Zhou asked impatiently, "By the way, are you here to look for your relatives or to sell your daughter?"

"So what if I'm looking for my relatives? So what if I'm selling my daughter?"

"Looking for your relatives is fine. I'll send you to the master. If I'm selling a daughter, which daughter should I sell?" Old Man Zhou looked around Zhao Fusheng and Kuai Manzhou, and finally set his sights on Zhao Fusheng:

"The girl you're holding is a little young, but that's okay. You're just the right age—"

Zhao Fusheng immediately said, "You can sell me, too."

“……” Old man Zhou paused.

"How much did the Wu family pay for me?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

Her words made Old Man Zhou a little slow to react. After a long while, he said, "At least, at least three taels of silver must be given--"

He was guarding the Wu family's gate and had seen many people selling their children.

When the children were brought in, many people cried, but there were only a few like Zhao Fusheng who were interested in asking questions and selling themselves.

"Three taels of silver."

Zhao Fusheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at Fan Bisi: "The price has also increased."

"..."

"..."

Fan Bi Si and Fan Wu Jiu dared not say a word after hearing this.

Meng Po's originally cold face showed a faint smile, Liu Yizhen's mouth twitched, and Chen Duozi's face was full of vigilance.

"How can you still laugh——" Old Man Zhou asked in surprise: "This can be regarded as the money to buy your life——"

"It's all money for life. Earlier..." Zhao Fusheng paused for a moment, "Oh, by the way, I heard that people from Wuxian Temple also came to the Wu family to sell their daughters. At that time, they sold two daughters, and each of them agreed to get eight taels of silver. How come I only got three taels of silver?" After she finished speaking, her face darkened, and she suddenly turned hostile and grabbed Old Man Zhou, "Are you trying to take my five taels of silver?"

"You can't do that--" Old Man Zhou had seen her as easy to talk to and seemed to have a good temper before, but he didn't expect her expression to change in the blink of an eye. He couldn't help but be shocked and instinctively wanted to grab her hand away.

Zhao Fusheng looked young, but his strength was amazing. Her hand was like an iron clamp. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't push her away. Instead, she lifted him up. He immediately panicked: "Let go, let go, we can talk if we have something to say. It's not decent to pull and tug at her..."

"Then explain clearly, why do other people sell it for eight taels, but I only give you three taels? Where is the extra five taels?" Zhao Fusheng said angrily, "If you don't explain clearly, we—"

She rolled her eyes and looked at Liu Yizhen and the others: "Anyway, there is no one around, and this place is not far from the gate. I will drag you to a corner and beat you up. The Wu family is big and powerful, maybe I can beat you to death and no one will know."

After saying that, Liu Yizhen and others also gathered around.

"You, you——" Old Man Zhou got a little anxious when he saw this scene: "Why are you being unreasonable? Don't mess around. This is the Wu family. To be honest, Master Tang from the Jin County Demon Suppression Division will be visiting the Wu residence tonight. If you kill me, you won't be able to leave the Wu family."

Zhao Fusheng was unmoved and smiled, "You said before that once we entered the Wu Mansion, we couldn't leave alive."

She kindly reminded: "You won't forget what you just said, right?"

Old man Zhou was struck by lightning, and a look of regret flashed in his eyes.

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Zhao Fusheng glanced at Fan Wujiu and said, "Old Second..." She lowered her chin, "Give him a taste of his own medicine and make him say something he can listen to."

Fan Wujiu chuckled twice, turned his wrist, and cracked his knuckles, saying with a smile, "Sir, you have found the right person. These uncle and nephew are the same. They only respond to hard words and not soft ones."

"What?" Old Man Zhou was shocked when he heard that. Just as he was about to struggle, Fan Wujiu really picked him up like a chicken. Before the fight started, the old man was already howling like a ghost: "Don't hit me, don't hit me, we can talk it out if we have something to say, we can negotiate it out -"

Zhao Fusheng rolled his eyes and said, "I changed my mind. How about you send us out of the house?"

When she said this, Chen Duozi was surprised.

But before she could ask any questions, she saw that Meng Po and the others were not surprised, as if they had already guessed Zhao Fusheng's reaction.

Old Man Zhou looked bewildered: "Send, send it out? Didn't you insist on coming in before--"

Zhao Fusheng said, "I regret it now. I don't want to sell it to the Wu family anymore. Please send us out intact."

Old Man Zhou's face turned green and red, and after a while he shook his head: "I can't get out, I can't send it out, this place is weird, once you go in, you can't come back."

He said, dejectedly: "To be honest, I can't even get out, let alone you?"

Zhao Fusheng turned around and looked into the eyes of Liu Yizhen and Meng Po.

"Having said that, I won't hide it from you. This Wu family is haunted."

Old man Zhou said with a sad face.

"Haunted?"

Zhao Fusheng pretended to be surprised: "Isn't it said that Master Wu's family has a close relationship with the Demon Suppression Division? With the Master of the Demon Suppression Division here, how could this place be haunted?"

"It's true!" Old Man Zhou shouted anxiously.

After he finished shouting, he tilted his neck back in despair: "Look, we're making so much noise, has anyone from the Wu family been here?"

After asking, without waiting for Zhao Fusheng and the others to answer, he angrily said: "No! There is not even a single person."

"There is a strange thing. At night, the masters and ladies all come out--" he said fearfully.

An old house that cannot be exited, a courtyard that is empty during the day, with him as the only gatekeeper.

But at night, the yard was bustling again. No wonder the old gatekeeper was scared.

"If this isn't a haunted place, what is it?" Old Man Zhou sighed.

Meng Po turned her head and looked around, and Chen Duozi also listened attentively. It was so quiet around that one could hear a pin drop. The huge mansion really looked like an empty house.

But to be on the safe side, Zhao Fusheng still glanced at Kuai Manyu. The child's pupils were bleeding, and the ends of his hair were flying gently, turning into barely perceptible threads dangling in the air.

After a moment, she looked at Zhao Fusheng and shook her head.

There is indeed no living person in the Wu Mansion!

"It's really strange." Zhao Fusheng tried to find out important information in one sentence.

Fortunately, she came here originally to solve the problem and clarify some things, and she had no intention of quitting easily. The reason why she proposed to leave was purely to trick old man Zhou.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fusheng asked, "Do you remember the Chang family of Wuxian Temple?"

"The Chang family of Wuxian Temple?" Old Man Wu was bewildered when he heard this. "I know Wuxian Temple, it's a small town not far south of the county town, but the Chang family——"

"The Chang family sold their two daughters to the Wu family." Zhao Fusheng reminded.

"Is there such a thing?" Old Man Zhou said uneasily: "I can't remember——"

Fan Bisi's eyes moved, he glanced at Zhao Fusheng, and asked: "The Chang family of Wuxian Temple sold their two daughters to the mansion a few days ago. It was agreed that each daughter would be paid eight taels of silver, but you only paid three taels of silver——"

"No." Old Man Zhou immediately said, "Where did you hear this rumor?"

Fan Wujiu said: "We saw it with our own eyes, how could it be false?"

"It's fake, fake! To be honest with you, the Wu family has only moved to Jin County for two days, and Mr. Wu did ask to buy two women as concubines, but, but no one has come yet--"

Old Man Zhou said anxiously, "He told me that each person would get three taels of silver, and he didn't give me any more than half a penny. Could it be that you were deceived by the people from the Five Immortals Temple?" He said, "Maybe they are deliberately treating you as fools and letting you cause trouble."

When Zhao Fusheng heard this, he was even more certain that the Wu family's time stopped at more than 20 years ago when they just moved here.

"Has Mr. Wu just moved in?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

"Yes." Old man Zhou nodded in response.

"They are from other places. They said they had a long-standing relationship with Lord Tang and were gifted this house." Zhao Fusheng added, "I heard that this house belonged to the Sun family before..."

Old Man Zhou said, "That must have been more than 20 years ago."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Fusheng looked him up and down, which made Old Man Zhou's hair stand on end: "Good man, don't look at me like that. It makes me feel scared."

"I see you are not young anymore. Are you from King County?"

As soon as Zhao Fusheng finished asking, Old Man Zhou nodded: "Yes."

"Your brother works in the county government office, and your family has some connections. After the Sun family got into trouble, this house became vacant and is said to have belonged to the Demon Suppression Bureau." When Zhao Fusheng said this, Old Man Zhou was a little surprised.

"Well said." He nodded in agreement.

"Since you are guarding the gate here, you must have some knowledge and connections. How much do you know about the Sun family's past? Tell me about it."