I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 126 Widow (asking for monthly ticket)

Lying in bed, Sang Que couldn't sleep. She felt that she had to find someone in the Gui Dynasty who could help her in this regard as soon as possible.

Everyone has things they are good at and not good at. She just used her limited energy on martial arts, and brought her strengths to the extreme, so that her weaknesses were indeed a bit short.

When I join the Evil Suppression Bureau in the future, I will definitely have to do a lot of investigations and document reviews like this.

Martial arts require a lot of practice every day, and only after enough time has accumulated can there be a breakthrough. She cannot let trivial things take up too much of her time for practicing martial arts.

Sang Que thought of Liu Tianyou, who was quite suitable. He was able to survive for five months after being trapped in the hidden world, which was far beyond that of ordinary people.

After returning, she asked Kou Yushan to write him a letter, asking him if he was willing to come to Wangshan City. She could give half of her monthly salary to Liu Tianyou and let Liu Tianyou handle these matters.

After thinking of the solution, Sang Que felt relieved. He got up from the bed and looked at the household registration file on the table.

"It's only going to take a while! If we can solve it sooner, we can get the incense burner sooner!"

Cheer himself up, Sang Que returned to the table, calmed down and thought of a solution.

There are more than 300 people in Pinghu Village. The household registration files are updated once a year. Births, deaths, missing persons, marriages, and relocations are all recorded. One book here is for one year, and there are nearly 50 of them.

What she wanted to see was the household registration files for the period before and after the ancient house at the bottom of the lake appeared, to see if there were any major changes in the number of villagers in Pinghu Village.

Sang Que took out a blank piece of paper and his own cinnabar pen grid. He first calculated the time based on what Qin Ze said in the afternoon, then found the corresponding household registration file, and started to look through and compare it from the year before the ancient house at the bottom of the lake appeared. He copied down the number of villagers, births, deaths, and missing persons each year according to the table.

All things are difficult at the beginning, but once you start and find the patterns and methods, the concentration of the mulberry bird will be very high.

This is also the reason why she was able to finish her summer homework in one night.

On the bed, after Xuan Yu felt Xia Chan's breathing stabilized, he crawled out of Xia Chan's arms, jumped onto Sang Que's desk, squatted in front of Sang Que, watched Sang Que copying numbers curiously, and accompanied her silently.

"It doesn't seem to be a problem." Sang Que bit the tip of his pen. "The numbers of births and deaths are inconsistent, and marriages and the like are all random. There is no pattern. However, there are indeed many people over fifty years old in Pinghu Village. Can worshiping the longevity turtle really prolong life?"

Sang Que carefully looked over the numbers he had copied several times and indeed could not find any problem.

"If it were so easy to find out, it wouldn't be my turn to look through it here."

Meow!
Xuanyu nodded in agreement. Sangque raised his hand to hit him, but Xuanyu raised his claws and slapped Sangque.

Sang Que smiled, grabbed Xuan Yu into his arms and rubbed him. The pressure and irritability were reduced, and his mind became much clearer.

Xuan Yu held Sang Que's hand and pretended to bite it while meowing. Sang Que thought about the horror movies she had watched with her best friend Jiang Zao. All the ones involving cults and sacrifices would have the highest death toll among children and women.

Sang Que looked through her records again. She originally wanted to see whether Pinghu Village was involved in the worship of evil gods, and to see whether the number of deaths of women and children was decreasing every year.

As a result, she found that the number of women and children in Pinghu Village had not decreased, but had increased.

Sang Que's eyes lit up. He put Xuan Yu back on the table and looked through the household registration files again.

The candlelight flickered in the lamp, and the sound of night watchmen came from the county government office.

It is already one o'clock in the morning.

Sang Que put down the household registration file in her hand, frowned, and needed to think for a while before she could organize the words to describe what she had discovered.

She started by checking on the women and children in Pinghu Village and discovered that married women in Pinghu Village would always bring their children and move their household registration back to Pinghu Village after a few years.

She didn’t write the reason, but there was no such thing as divorce in that era, so the only reason was that she had lost her husband.

After these widows brought their children back to the village, plus the children born in the same year, the total number was the same as the number of people over 50 who died in the same year. Among the previous deaths were young people who disappeared and died because of evil spirits. These widows did not return to the village at regular times, so Sangque did not notice this.

Now if we exclude those young people who died accidentally or went missing and only look at people over 50 years old, and then compare it with the number of newly added children, we get this astonishing discovery.

Take last year for example. In the first half of the year, a widow brought a child back to the village. Two babies were born in the village last year. Then in the second half of the year, three elderly people in the village died of illness one after another.

When there were no widows returning to the village, the number of newborns in the village was consistent with the number of old people dying.

Since the year the ancient house at the bottom of the lake was discovered, the total population of Pinghu Village has never been less than 300. Before the discovery of the ancient house, there was a year when the population dropped from 355 to only 120 due to an epidemic.

Her statistics may not be accurate enough, and there may be omissions in the household registration files. She can't figure out the patterns and causal relationships for the time being.

But she guessed that since most of the women who married out of Pinghu Village lost their husbands after giving birth, they would move back to the village with their children.

Will Qiao Ying encounter the same situation? If she doesn't go back, Zhang Yuanzhong will die.

She loved her child, and because Pinghu Village would be bad for the child, she went back alone without taking the child with her.

If this is the case, Qiao Ying's behavior makes logical sense.

Qiao Ying and the ancient house at the bottom of the lake are the key to the ghost fog incident in Pinghu Village. To solve the ghost fog incident, we must first find Qiao Ying and then explore the ancient house at the bottom of the lake.

After having a direction, Sang Que was certain that there was nothing she could do late at night, so she packed up the things on the table, asked Xuan Yu to keep watch, and went back to bed.

The next morning, Sang Que told Qin Ze and the other two, as well as Xu San, a day tripper from Bailong County, about her discovery.

After the few people finished listening, Qin Ze sat in the chair and rubbed his thighs.

"It seems that I can only go to Pinghu Village to investigate. The evil spirit that I control is related to water. Leave it to me to go down to the lake, but my current situation is not particularly stable. Once I use the power of the evil spirit, there is a high possibility that I will lose control at the bottom of the lake. I wonder if Brother Xu San has any way for me to temporarily suppress the evil spirit in my body?"

Qin Ze was willing to join the Suppression of Evils Division. On the one hand, it was because he became a ghost walker and had to accept the control of the Suppression of Evils Division. On the other hand, he wanted to survive and had the ambition to become a ghost walker general.

Xu San looked embarrassed. "The incense masks we use for daily tours are inherited through rituals. I can't lend them to you. In the short term, I can't help you suppress the evil spirits."

Sang Que thought of a way to deceive the evil spirit, but Qin Ze didn't even look at her and never thought that she understood these things.

Xu San thought for a moment and said, "Give me a day. I'll prepare some things. I'll go to Pinghu Village with you guys tomorrow morning. When the time comes, Miss Sang and brothers Wan Biao and Zhao Qi will go to find Qiao Ying, and brother Qin Ze and I will go down to the lake to investigate."

Wan Biao and Zhao Qi are the two men with Qin Ze. Wan Biao has wide eyes and looks like a rough man, while Zhao Qi has a fair face and looks more like a scholar than a soldier.

Xu San was a native of Bailong County. He was born into a fishing family and believed in "蓑翁". He was a good swimmer and would not be bothered by water ghosts if he went into the water for a short time.

After the decision was made, everyone prepared themselves. Sang Que planned to go find Yao Zhen again to see if he could find out anything from her.

Yao Zhen had told her before that it was an extremely important rule not to eat or drink anything in Pinghu Village after entering there. Yao Zhen must have been in the village and came out safely.

But before leaving, Sang Que stopped Qin Ze.

Qin Ze had already asked Wan Biao, who had talked nonsense to her before, to apologize to her this morning. Regardless of whether they can respect her now, at least they have a cooperative attitude.

She was indeed not good at going into the lake. If she met a water ghost at the bottom of the lake, she would be dead. Qin Ze had to rely on this matter.

So in order to pass the test smoothly, she decided to tell Qin Ze the method of controlling the evil spirit. Helping Qin Ze is also helping herself.

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