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Just when Su Hao was so proud that he thought he had found a treasure land for free prostitution, several old men wearing vests and small round caps suddenly appeared from the shadows next to him.

They stared at Su Hao with a gloomy look and scolded: "Where did you come from? This is my family's ancestral hall. This is the tribute prepared by my family's descendants. Get out of here, otherwise your soul will be gone." , not even a ghost can do it.”

"what."

Su Hao also noticed the uninvited guest in front of him with an unkind expression. He pointed at himself and asked, "Can you see me?"

"Nonsense, you are talking so much even after you are dead."

"Hey, looking at this person's clothes, he seems to be a student who has studied abroad."

"What's wrong with the student? He hasn't become a ghost like us now. No, he's not as good as us. He's just a lonely ghost with no one to support him. He'll be caught by Black and White Wuchang and other ghosts and taken back to the underworld."

Su Hao stared at the chattering ghosts and asked again: "I mean, if you can see me, does that mean you are all ghosts?"

"Since I'm a ghost, I have the final say here."

Su Hao frowned, and a strange face appeared in his body. His eyes were closed tightly, but his big mouth was particularly eye-catching, occupying almost half of his face.

The monster's mouth slowly opened, and a dark green tongue flew out from it. It instantly rolled up the old ghost that screamed the most fiercely, and swallowed it in one gulp like a melon seed.

The remaining ghosts in the ancestral hall panicked and shouted, "No, he is a ghost king, run away."

For a while, the birds and beasts scattered.

Su Hao snorted with satisfaction, even if I am a ghost, I am still a ghost with golden fingers. How can I be bullied by a group of little Luo Luo?

He occupied this ancestral hall, the Yao family ancestral hall in front of him.

At the same time, he discovered a convenient point of this world. Although he could not bring back real objects or living things, he could devour ghosts here. It was considered that he had found an experience point den for the soul beads.

Chapter 165 Incense in the Ancestral Hall

Some people ask, why do you devour others indiscriminately?

What if the other party is a good ghost?

In troubled times, there are only good people at the bottom, the poor people at the bottom, and the comprador class or landlords who serve capital. The Mr. Yao who was devoured before is the ancestor of a certain shop in this flower street and alley, and he did the same thing. A business that exploits the poor at the bottom.

In this era, nine out of ten rich people can be killed.

If you are not ruthless, your family is not rich, and you are not exploiting blood, where will the money come from?

Su Hao's operation can be regarded as a blackmail at best.

After snatching the Yao family's ancestral hall, Su Hao took a few more puffs of incense. He found that although the incense in this ancestral hall was strong, he could not absorb all the incense. He could only absorb a small part of it. , just enough to allow him to solidify his soul.

Why is this?

Could it be related to his identity? He was not from the Yao family. In other words, the incense offered by the other party was not offered to him point-to-point. What he had absorbed before was nothing more than a small part of the ownerless incense inside.

If this is the case, the value of the Yao Family Canteen to him will be much less.

After eating and drinking enough, Su Hao placed his entire body into a certain Unowned Spirit Tablet on the altar table, then took a nap, and in the blink of an eye it was the next day.

In the morning, I was woken up by a chattering sound.

I don’t know when a thirty-year-old woman appeared in the ancestral hall. She was kneeling in front of the futon and offering incense to her ancestors. She closed her eyes and prayed devoutly. Two young girls aged fourteen or fifteen were plundered from across the ocean. It is said that they escaped from the Central Plains. After half a month of recuperation, they have become much more energetic. They will be put up for sale in the near future, hoping to find a rich man. The patrons, please let me and the shopkeeper earn a lot of money."

(Shopkeeper: refers to the man who is the master of the family, usually a woman’s name for her husband)

"As long as my family's business is prosperous, filial piety to our ancestors will naturally be indispensable. Please also bless my family's prosperity and peace."

Su Hao looked at the woman on the futon in front of him. Her clothes were beautiful and her face was rosy. She was not young but not young, weighing at least [-] to [-] kilograms. With her thick frame, she looked like a naked pig when she was kneeling underneath.

Looking at the expression on his face, in addition to the piety during prayer, a pair of plump lips were covered with red makeup, like a mouth sucking blood.

Su Hao listened to her chattering beside him for a long time, and soon became impatient. He floated down from the spirit tablet, turned around, squatted down and blew a breath in the fat woman's ear.

Goosebumps instantly appeared on the skin of the fat woman on the futon. She straightened up suddenly and looked around the inside of the ancestral hall with her bony eyes. Her voice became sharp and hesitant.

"Ancestor, do you think I talk too much?"

"I brought a lot of paper money this time. I will burn it all for you. After burning it, I will leave. Please don't blame me, ancestors."

Immediately after, thick smoke billowed out from the copper basin in front of the futon. After the fat woman left, the yellow paper that was burned to ashes was slowly blown up by a whirlwind, and gradually blew to a corner outside the ancestral hall.

Su Hao looked around and found that in the corner of the entrance of the ancestral hall, there were four or five old ghosts squatting with low eyebrows. There were men and women. Two of them looked vaguely familiar. They were not the group that Su Hao scared away yesterday. Who else?

Su Hao immediately revealed his face and sneered: "Why are you back again? Aren't you afraid of being eaten by me?"

Several old ghosts at the door rushed in from the steps, and the originally open door of the ancestral hall was closed instantly.

"Ghost King, don't be angry. We don't want to, but there are ghosts on the street outside to arrest people. If they catch you, you will have to eat and drink, and you will have to suffer a lot. This is our territory, and we have paid it in advance. Protection fee, where can we go if we don’t come back?”

"Protection money? Ghosts arresting people?"

Su Hao immediately drank, "There were ghosts outside last night? Which house did they go to arrest people? What does this protection fee mean?"

"If you answer my questions well, I won't eat you."

Several ghosts in the ancestral hall looked at each other, and nominated a leader to come out and answer: "The poor ghost collecting rags from the Han family nearby died last night, and the ghost messenger went to his house to get people. If the next 49 If his family can't come up with money to ransom him within a few days, he will inevitably be beaten in prison before being sent to the underworld."

Su Hao thought of the saying that people enter the bardo 49 days after death, and immediately asked: "Can't the first seven days also come back to say goodbye to the family?"

The old ghost replied again: "What are you doing back here? By the time we get to the first seven days, the body will probably have been buried long ago. We won't let him back without paying some money to take care of the ghost."

Su Hao pointed at the ghosts below and asked, "Why can you still stay in the ancestral hall? Will the ghosts come to catch you?"

"That's because we paid the protection fee. The ghosts will naturally turn a blind eye. As long as we don't show our faces in front of them, they will treat us as if we don't exist. Besides, our Yao family's family background is quite good and we have a family ancestral hall. We can only survive with the incense offered by future generations."

"For those who have long been extinct, or whose families are poor, even if they can get the protection money, without the incense and offerings, their souls cannot be solidified, and sooner or later they will become unconscious ghosts, and eventually dissipate in the world."

The other party's answer basically verified Su Hao's previous conjecture.

Unexpectedly, people will inevitably be exploited by ghosts after death. This really proves the saying that the king of hell is very troublesome to the little ghosts. This is the so-called characteristic of the Celestial Dynasty.

Su Hao thought about the little girl from the Han family he met last night, and thought that the Han family kidnapped by ghosts last night should be her father. Now the only pillar of the family is gone, and he doesn't know how this little girl will live in the future. .

He felt an inexplicable irritation in his heart.

"The Han family and your Yao family are neighbors after all. The man in his family just died, leaving a mother and daughter behind. Life will definitely be sad in the future. I think your Yao family is doing well. Can you give them a dream for future generations? Go take care of the Han family?"

Su Hao turned his attention to several old ghosts in the ancestral hall.

The leader hesitated and said: "This...as long as the ghost king promises not to eat us and return the Yao family ancestral hall to us, we are willing to help. However, we have to wait until night to entrust dreams to future generations. I am afraid it is too late today."

Su Hao nodded and said: "Tomorrow is too late. I won't stay at the Yao family ancestral hall for too long. I will leave when I find a place. Do you know what Feng Shui treasures there are in this city? It is also the so-called extremely yin place. "

"A place of extreme yin? The Dog King Temple in the north of the city is said to be a place of extreme yin. It was built near a mass grave. It is full of yin energy. It was originally a Yuefei Temple, but was later occupied by a group of beggars. One of the people inside One night, the beggar was said to have been given a dream by an immortal, saying that he was destined to be a general. Then he decisively joined the army and later became a warlord. After this became known, the incense of the Dog King Temple became effective."

"If the Ghost King goes, you will definitely be able to occupy this Dog King Temple with your skills. All the incense inside will belong to you. Maybe you will have a chance to become an Earth Immortal in the future."

Su Hao chuckled, "I will definitely go and take a look at the Dog King Temple, and I will also leave the Yao Family Ancestral Hall to you, so please don't hit me."

Seeing that he was easy to talk to, these old ghosts actually tried to drive away tigers and devour wolves, and encouraged him to occupy the Dog King Temple.

In this world, since there are ghosts and ghosts, there must be other demons and ghosts as well. There is a saying that in troubled times, evildoers will appear.

Only after he became a ghost did he realize the importance of this incense to the soul.

Since the Dog King Temple is so popular, it must have been occupied by some kind of existence, either official or private. I wonder if there is a so-called Chenghuang Temple in this city?

Su Hao slowly came outside the ancestral hall and found that it was noon outside. The dazzling sunlight fell on his soul, like a layer of burning knives falling down, making his soul crackle. If he continued to stay here, Under the sun, I'm afraid it will be wiped out in ashes soon.

Su Hao thought for a moment and then retracted.

No wonder these old ghosts have never dared to leave here. The outside world is not easy to deal with. There is scorching sunshine during the day and ghosts are hunted everywhere at night. How can we have enough and comfortable meals in this ancestral hall?

Staying until night, Su Hao remembered what happened to the little girl named Han Yuerong and rushed to the Han family from the Yao family ancestral hall.

The originally messy front yard has been cleaned up, and many of the goods inside have probably been taken away at low prices. The main room is open, with an oil lamp flickering on and off inside, and two lamps set up by benches. There was a body lying on the door panel, covered with a white cloth.

Kneeling next to the door panel is a mother and daughter wearing mourning clothes.

The eldest is Mrs. Han, and the youngest is her daughter Han Yuerong.

When Su Hao's soul drifted in from the courtyard, he happened to see Han Yuerong's dazed little eyes staring at the moon in the sky. There was a line of wet marks hanging in the corners of her eyes that could not be wiped off. Her shoulders were slumped and her back was hunched. I am even less energetic than yesterday.

If it weren't for her small eyes that moved from time to time, Su Hao would have thought she was asleep.

Su Hao's arrival caused a cool breeze to blow up in the room.

Mrs. Han, who was at the top, looked around the room in horror. Her eyes finally fell on the body on the door panel. There was no fear in her eyes, but instead there was a pain mixed with relief.

She looked at the little daughter next to her, stretched out her hand and patted her back, "Yuerong, go to the kitchen to heat up the food. You have been kneeling for a long time. No one should be here today. You can sleep with your mother tonight." , Mom knows you are afraid."

"Mom will find someone to bury your father tomorrow, and from now on we will be left together to live together."

Su Hao watched Han Yuerong get up. She reached out and touched her eyes. She came to the kitchen with an oil lamp and skillfully lit a fire to heat the rice.

After a while, the meal will be ready.

The mother and daughter sat silently opposite each other at the small kitchen table. There were three dishes on the table, a plate of pickled cucumbers, a plate of stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and a plate of stinky tofu.

Not a bit fishy.

The staple food is a bowl of porridge and a white flour steamed bun.

They basically didn't eat much during the day, and there were no outsiders in the house at the moment. The two of them ate sparingly and quickly eliminated all the staple food. Han Yuerong was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks. Mrs. Han was already worried about her future life.

"Your father was sick and owed the pharmacy three and a half yuan for medicine. Today the people from the pharmacy came. Although they didn't ask for debt, I know they were worried that they wouldn't be able to get the money back. It will cost at least another one yuan to bury your father tomorrow. Dayang's labor fee, 1 Dayang's coffin money, and there are still some things that can be sold at home. Let me count them and return the money. If there is any extra money, mother plans to send you to a girls' school."

"These days, there is no future in doing hard work. Only by studying can you have a chance to change your destiny."

Han Yuerong is now seven years old. If her father had not been ill, she would have entered school this year.

At this time, she was already confused. If she had a choice, she would definitely want to go to school.

So he nodded, "I'll listen to you."

The two had dinner and closed the courtyard door, but the main door was still open. According to the rules, a few days before the burial, people should be on duty all night, and two white candles should be lit in the mourning hall until dawn.

Now that the Han family is about to go bankrupt, where are there so many rules?

Not to mention white candles, even oil lamps cannot be lit.

After Mrs. Han spread the quilt in the bedroom, she arranged for Han Yuerong to wash his feet and go to bed early. She continued back to the lobby and stared at the man's body on the door panel, with a hint of pain in her eyes.

In the past, when men were around, the pressure to support the family was on the men.

Now that the man was gone all of a sudden, various debt collectors came to her door one after another, and their tone of voice became a bit harsher. An invisible pressure came to her alone.

She remembered something that Aunt Wang next door quietly discussed with her on the last day before the man died.

Aunt Wang knew a man who came to the city from the countryside to make a living and worked as a coolie on the dock. Although the work was tiring, as long as his health was not in trouble, he could earn a little money to support a family of three.

The man was in his 30s and was widowed. Today, Aunt Wang specially brought him to his home to pay his respects. It was a meeting between the two of them.

At that time, Mrs. Han was in grief after being widowed, so she pushed the two of them out.

At this moment, when I was alone in the silence of the night, I remembered what happened during the day.

In fact, Mrs. Han has already made a decision in her heart. In this era, not to mention the hardship of being a widow alone, how to survive is also a problem, let alone letting Han Yuerong go to school.

It is absolutely impossible to rely on her alone.

The only obstacle is the psychological discomfort. At this time, her ex-husband has just left and has not been buried yet. Even if she is willing to remarry, she will have to wait for a while, otherwise these neighbors will break her spine.

"Ugh!"

Mrs. Han sighed, took a bundle of newly purchased incense candles from the table, lit them carefully, inserted them into a porcelain bowl filled with soil, and placed them on the altar table in the hall.

"Don't blame me, I also want Yuerong to go to school."

Mrs. Han glanced at her ex-husband's body on the door panel again, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and turned to enter the bedroom.

(At this time, the purchasing power of an ocean can buy 50-60 kilograms of rice, which is equivalent to about 200 yuan today, only a lot more)

Chapter 166 Remarried

After Mrs. Han left the lobby, Su Hao immediately came to the incense candle. He was surprised to find that he could completely absorb the incense that was originally offered to the deceased.

Isn't this more comfortable than being in the Yao family ancestral hall?

Could it be because the man of the house was imprisoned by ghosts?

Su Hao's eyes moved and he simply refused to leave.

With these incense, at least he can live without worries in the short term. If that doesn't work, he can still devour some evil spirits. However, this will also cause some risks, such as attracting the attention of other beings in this world.

Finding a fixed place to smoke incense is actually the most stable way to make a living.

Although there was plenty of incense in the Yao family's ancestral hall, first of all, it was not an ownerless thing. He could only pick up some leftovers to smoke. Secondly, it seemed that the Yao family was not engaged in serious business. Su Hao was inexplicably offered as an offering, and he felt a lot in his heart. Somewhat uncomfortable.