I become a god in another world

Chapter 77

The room that Zhao Fusheng lived in was the best main room of the Wu Liyou family.

It is said that Wu Dajing's parents lived in the early years.

After the death of Wu Dajing's father and mother, Wu Dajing and his wife renovated it once, and the latter couple lived there.

After Zhao Fusheng arrived, the Wu family packed up the best house and made it available. The house was cleaned and the bedding on the bed was replaced with new ones.

But after she lay down and pulled the quilt, she smelled a vague smell of blood.

It was obvious that the bedding and sheets had been purchased a few years ago, but they would not be willing to take them out to cover them on weekdays, just for entertaining guests.

Due to the constant pressure on the bottom of the box, the sheets have deep scratch marks. In order to prevent them from being eaten by insects, some insect-proof wood herbs should be stuffed in them. The sheets have a pungent smell of vegetation.

Zhao Fusheng searched around and found no blood. Where did the smell of blood come from?

She reached out and touched her chest and felt the folded human skin quilt.

Zhao Fusheng took out the human skin quilt, pushed the folded bed quilt away, and unfolded the human skin quilt that he took out from Wu Liren's quilt and spread it over himself.

The bloody smell immediately faded away.

Zhao Fusheng slept deeply that night, and was awakened by Zhang Chuanshi's knock on the door early the next morning.

"My lord, my lord."

Zhang Chuanshi's voice came faintly from outside the door. Zhao Fusheng opened his eyes, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether he was in a dream or reality.

She rested for the night, but she didn't feel any better, but felt indescribably tired.

Maybe it was because of the long journey yesterday that she felt pain all over her body and her head felt swollen.

The sea of ​​consciousness was in chaos, with many memories in a mess, and he even forgot to answer Zhang Chuanshi's call.

Her eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, her expression was a little haggard, and she glanced around——

The room was dark and shabby, with dusty cobwebs covering the corners. She was sleeping on an unfamiliar bed, with a half-person-high cabinet next to her.

There is a small oil lamp above the cabinet.

The oil lamp had been on all night. Most of the oil in the lamp was gone, and the light was weak.

A strange, pale pink bed, as soft as some kind of salted leather, was spliced ​​into a quilt to cover her body.

"grown ups--"

Zhang Chuanshi's voice came again.

Zhao Fusheng's dazed thoughts came to an end. She forced herself to sit up and was about to pull away the quilt when she saw a few small characters tattooed on the middle of the quilt: There is a ghost in my house!

"There is a ghost in my house!"

These four words were like a key, instantly opening the door of her sealed memory.

Everything that happened last night came to Zhao Fusheng's mind: she received a report from Wu Dajing and went to Goutou Village with him - on the way Wu Dajing paid homage to Wu Datong, who died early, so he separated from her and Zhang Chuanshi - she went to the village to check In Wu Liren's old house, he found a quilt on the bed - after dismantling it, he saw a human skin quilt inside the quilt.

After Wu Dajing returned in the middle of the night, she thought of the clues to the case, so she asked Wu Shaochun to summon the villagers to prepare to solve the ghost case at Wu Liren's old house today.

At this time, Zhang Chuanshi called her, it should be Wu Shaochun and others!

as predicted.

Without getting a response from her, the knocking on the door became more urgent. Several chaotic footsteps sounded at the same time, and the sound of burning torches also sounded at the same time. Wu Shaochun lowered his voice and asked:

"My lord, haven't you woken up yet?"

"I don't know." Zhang Chuanshi shook his head anxiously.

"Did you hear anything happened last night?"

Wu Liyou also asked.

"No, I didn't dare to close my eyes last night. The lights in your room were not turned off all night." Zhang Chuanshi replied.

"Did something happen?"

a woman asked timidly.

As soon as she said this, everyone immediately panicked.

Wu Liren and his family disappeared mysteriously in Goutou Village before. People said it was because of a ghost trouble in the village, so they invited a big shot from the Demon Suppression Division to exorcise the ghosts.

If Zhao Fu died in this village, the entire village would probably die.

"No, I have to go in quickly and take a look."

Zhang Chuanshi panicked when he heard this.

At this moment, Zhao Fusheng smoothed the memory in her mind, but she was horrified to find that she seemed to have lost part of her memory.

She still remembered the scene last night when she asked Wu Shaochun to summon the villagers to gather today, but she couldn't remember why they summoned the villagers.

At this moment, Zhang Chuanshi and others were already planning to knock on the door and come in. Zhao Fusheng suppressed the fear in his heart and shouted:
"I'm fine, come in."

She was worried about something happening last night and slept with her clothes on.

At this time, I got up and got out of bed. As soon as I stood firm, I felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

Zhao Fusheng quickly held on to the wooden cabinet beside him, and it took him a while to feel much relieved.

When everyone outside heard the sound in the room, they were relieved.

Everyone opened the door and filed in.

Zhao Fusheng was seen standing holding the cabinet, lowering his head and panting.

The quilt on the bed was pushed away, and a thin human skin quilt fell scattered on the bed. This scene made everyone's hair stand on end and they didn't dare to say anything. They felt that this Lord of the Demon Suppression Division was really weird.

After Zhao Fusheng got through the initial discomfort and stood firm, he calmly turned around to fold the human skin quilt on the bed, and then stuffed the item into his arms.

"Sir, Wu Shaochun has awakened the villagers, and they are all waiting outside at this time."

Zhang Chuanshi stepped forward and said something.

Zhao Fusheng nodded:
"I'll wash my face and leave now."

She couldn't remember why she summoned the villagers, but since she had this idea, it proved that she must have found important clues and wanted to solve the case at Wu Liren's house.

Although she had lost this important memory, Zhao Fusheng had realized her strange weakness.

Since she controlled ghosts, although her life has been threatened by ghosts, her physical fitness has been much stronger than that of Zhao Fusheng before because of the influence of ghosts.

At this time, she felt obvious discomfort. It was most likely that she had been hurt by a ghost.

"Wu Liyou has spread some noodles. I will bring some for you to eat while walking later."

With Zhao Fusheng's promise last night, Zhang Chuanshi's attitude was obviously much more attentive.

Zhao Fusheng did not refuse.

The woman from the Wu family came in with face wash. She roughly wiped her face and hands with a handkerchief. Perhaps it was because she felt uncomfortable, but when Zhao Fusheng wiped his face, he felt a burning pain in his cheeks and hands after being stained with water.

The soft towel fell back into the basin. The basin was clear and clear, with no blood or skin flakes visible.

Zhao Fusheng reflected his face into the basin, and her face was reflected in the basin.

In the rippling water, her face was pale and her eyes were dark, looking at her reflection in the basin.

Others did not dare to urge. After a while, Zhao Fusheng reached out and slapped the water, shattering the reflection in the water, and shouted:
"go!"

When she led Zhang Chuanshi and others out, Wu Shaochun also brought some young people from Kotou Village to wait outside Wu Liyou's home.

Seeing Zhao Fusheng coming out, Wu Shaochun's eyes lit up and he stepped forward and saluted:
"grown ups."

Zhao Fusheng looked behind him.

There were about a dozen people following him, most of whom were about the same age as him and were young people from the village.

Wu Shaochun explained: "After you spoke last night, I went back and knocked on the doors of the villagers to explain your request. At this time, most of the people in the village went to Uncle Liyou's house to wait. We are here with you. "

"Have they all gone?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

Wu Shaochun said:
"Everyone has been notified." After saying that, he added:
“When it comes to taxes, no one is left behind.”

After he said this, he stared at Zhao Fusheng's face. When he saw her nodding in agreement, his heart dropped and he smiled.

Wu Liyou's female family members listened to this and asked:

"Are we going too?"

"The adults have already seen us, so let's not go. We still have things to do at home—"

Another woman also answered, but before she could finish speaking, Zhao Fusheng interrupted her:
"We must go. For this case, everyone must go to Wu Liren's house."

Several women looked at each other. Although they were confused and dissatisfied, they did not speak in the end and just lowered their heads in default.

The group of people left the courtyard. Wu Liyou was thinking about reducing taxes, but he was afraid that if he walked slowly, he would lose the benefits, so he urged the women at home to lock the door quickly and follow.

When everyone arrived at Wuliren's house, the villagers of Goutou Village were already surrounded by the gate of Wuliren's house.

Seeing Zhao Fusheng coming, everyone was excited and rushed forward:

"The lord is here."

"Shaochun said that today's gathering is going to talk about tax cuts?"

"What tax is being reduced?"

……

Everyone was asking questions, making Zhao Fusheng's head hurt.

Zhang Chuanshi saw that she looked bad and shouted quickly:

"Stop arguing, stop talking!"

Everyone was scolded by him, and their voices suddenly became much quieter.

"Your Excellency hasn't spoken yet, but you have started making noises. Your Excellency naturally has an idea of ​​how to reduce taxes and by how much."

Zhang Chuanshi cursed:
"You villains like you are cunning and often don't keep your words, so you think that others are different from you? When adults say tax cuts, they are meant to be tax cuts! People are really poor and have little knowledge. We, adults, are here to handle your case. .”

Others were scolded by him without any pain.

For the villagers of Kotou Village, it is hard to say whether the so-called ghost case exists or not.

Even if there is really a ghost, it seems that the victims are only Wu Liren's family. What does it have to do with other villagers?

So what if the person who dies is not one of our own, or there is a ghost?
The big shot in the Demon Suppression Department does not handle cases just to get promoted and make a fortune. If she wants to handle the case, she needs everyone's cooperation. Naturally, tax cuts are much better than scaring people with so-called ghost disasters.

Zhang Chuanshi could see what these people were thinking, and he wanted to curse again, but Zhao Fusheng stopped him:

"How many people came?"

Wu Shaochun glanced around and saw a large group of people. He counted briefly and replied:

"It's almost all here."

When Zhao Fusheng heard this, he felt strange in his heart.

But at this time she did not speak, but nodded and said:
"Let's talk inside the house first."

Wu Li's family has a big business and a big house.

There are three courtyards. The middle courtyard is very large and is full of debris.

These are all the things that the villagers moved away after Wu Liren disappeared and were returned last night.

After Zhao Fusheng signaled Wu Shaochun to organize people to move things around and free up the middle of the courtyard, she said:

"What do I say next and what do you do? After this ghost case is completed, each family will be exempted from the taxes of the Demon Suppression Company for half a year this year."

When she said this, the others suddenly became excited and shouted:
"We will do whatever the adults say."

The people of the Han Dynasty suffered deeply from taxes.

It's okay to say that the imperial court's taxes can be owed in arrears, as long as one payment is made every year. However, the taxes of the Suppressing Demon Division involve the lives of local officials, and they cannot be owed in the slightest.

Every year this tax weighs on the villagers like a heavy mountain. Now that half of it has been removed, many people have happy smiles on their faces.

Zhao Fusheng said:
"Next, you will be divided into family groups, find a seat and sit down one by one, and then Lao Zhang will count."

The others quickly followed her words and sat down one after another.

Zhang Chuanshi understood the meaning of her words and couldn't help but wonder: "Do you suspect that the number of people in Kotou Village is wrong?"

Zhao Fusheng nodded.

After taking a nap, when she got up, she had forgotten why she had summoned the villagers from Kotou Village to Wuli's house.

But at that time, she had great trust in herself and guessed that there must be a reason for her doing this.

After arriving at Wu Liren's house, she immediately understood the reason why she wanted to summon the villagers.

Although part of her memory was missing, the memory of chatting with Wu Dajing at the dinner table last night came to her mind.

At that time, she asked about the number of people in Kotou Village, and Wu Dajing replied:
"There are 21 households in Goutou Village, with a total of 126 people."

But when she arrived at Wu Liren's house, she found that the villagers who came here, including Wu Li's whole family, were only dozens of people at most, far less than a hundred.

When she turned to ask Wu Shaochun, Wu Shaochun said: Almost all the villagers are here.

This is an obvious mistake.

Everyone sat down one by one, and the scene was calm. Zhang Chuanshi coughed twice and started counting: "1, 2, 3..."

He started with the number of households, counted them three times, and finally stopped at the number '19'.

"Sir, there are 19 households in Kotou Village."

Zhang Chuanshi reported several reports.

He hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem yet, but as soon as his words came out, the perception in Zhao Fusheng's mind suddenly began to change.

The memory of having dinner with Wu Dajing last night was distorted. In his conversation, the number of households in Goutou Village also changed, from the original '21' to '19'.

But Zhao Fusheng had already been alert, so she strengthened her original understanding and was not affected by this change.

Zhang Chuanshi's memory was distorted, and he didn't notice anything was wrong. After counting the households, when he saw Zhao Fusheng nodding, he was about to count the population again.

He discussed with Wu Shaochun:
"First, each family will report the number, and then I will do the calculation. This will be much more convenient."

Wu Shaochun responded, and then each household began to count the population, while Zhang Chuanshi counted on the side.

He is a businessman who has been doing business all year round, and he is also good at mental arithmetic. After a while, he reported the number:
"Sir, the total population of Kotou Village is 79 people."

At the same time, the population figures of Kotou Village in Zhao Fusheng's mind changed again.

When the villagers still didn't know what she was doing and what her purpose was, Zhao Fusheng finally spoke:

"I don't think this number is right."

She shook her head.

"wrong?"

Wu Shaochun, who was sitting in the front row, was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head:

"Sir, there are only so many people in the village."

He turned his head and looked around. Every familiar face was sitting in the courtyard.

The place where Wu Shaochun sat was alone, and he didn't feel anything was wrong.

"The number of households you reported in Kotou Village is 19, with a population of 79."