"Yeah, it's really unbelievable!"

The more the group talked, the more frightened the youngest man became. "Tell me, are the wronged spirits of those you killed yesterday back for revenge? Gods and Bodhisattvas, please don't drag me into this!"

As they circled the area more and more, the chirping of cicadas and birds became less and less frequent.

"Could it be that we've really encountered a ghost wall?" one of them said.

"Don't talk nonsense, let's take the back road!" said the leader of the bandits.

Everyone trembled with fear. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew by, and one of the men was so frightened that he wet his pants, saying:

"Big brother, there's a banyan tree over there. We're all tired from walking. Let's cool off under that banyan tree for a while and then look for that house!"

The leader of the bandits, perhaps tired of searching, said, "Let's sit for a while and continue searching. I refuse to believe this place is so eerie!"

After seven or eight bandits sat under the banyan tree to cool off for a while, the bandit leader said, "Let's split into eight groups, each taking one of our own. Whoever finds it will use a whistle as a signal!"

"become!"

Eight thugs, armed with knives, searched all night but found nothing. Exhausted, they collapsed in the graveyard behind the mountain and fell asleep on the spot.

The next morning, the roosters crowed.

One of the bandits got up to urinate and was startled by the nearby grave mound, letting out a scream. His companion was also awakened by the scream, rubbing his still-closed eyes and asking, "What's wrong? Why are you making such a fuss?"

The bandit scratched his head and said, "That's strange. We were looking for it on the main road yesterday, how did it end up here? Second brother, do you think we rested under that banyan tree yesterday?"

The thug called "Second Brother" yawned and said, "Yeah, what's up?"

"Second brother, take another look here!" the bandit said.

The second son looked to the side and saw a huge tombstone standing next to him. He screamed in fright, which woke everyone up.

The leader of the thugs kicked the second-in-command hard, "What are you yelling about! You're capable of murder and robbery, and now you're yelling like a ghost! When you were pinning that three-year-old girl to the ground and doing it to her last night, weren't you scared?"

Suddenly, the bandit shouted again, "Brother, look! Isn't there a house over there? It's quite a big yard! Sixth Brother, take a look too!"

That sixth brother, the young bandit, looked him over and said:

"There seems to be a house there, but it looks quite far away!"

The leader of the bandits immediately got up, looked at the house in the distance, and laughed, "We didn't leave empty-handed, brothers. After we finish this job, let's take care of that guy surnamed Wang too, and then we'll take the ice to another place to sell!"

The family with the surname Wang belonged to Butcher Wang.

“That Butcher Wang is a county magistrate. Killing an official of the imperial court is very risky!” said Lao Liu.

Wang the butcher, relying on his family's wealth, donated money to obtain an official position last year, leaving only this one shop in his house for rent.

"He's just a nobody county magistrate, but this old bastard has a deep pocket! Who knows how much money he's plundered from the people? We might as well take it!" said the leader of the bandits.

This group of bandits is capable of taking lives, murdering children, and is certainly not genuinely standing up for the people whose wealth has been plundered.

They were just using it as an excuse to seize other people's property.

These past two days, they've been robbing and looting, and they've also been bribing Magistrate Wang and his cronies, getting him to turn a blind eye. The magistrate, on the other hand, is muddle-headed and doesn't really manage things.

Unbeknownst to the group, the courtyard was not far away, but right in front of the cemetery. After descending the mountain, the bandits circled around several times.

The leader of the bandits, exhausted, plopped down under the banyan tree, kicked a stone angrily, rested for a moment, and then got up to find that there was another path next to the banyan tree.

Everyone was so frightened that their hair stood on end.

"Big brother, there's a road here. I didn't see it last night or when I came here just now," the second brother said.

Just then, a young and beautiful woman walked towards the intersection; it was Mo Xiaomei. She was carrying a hoe. Although Mo Xiaomei was somewhat attractive, the group of thugs, in broad daylight and having spent the night taking a roundabout route, didn't initially pay much attention to her beauty. They only asked:

"Madam, where are you from?"

Mo Xiaomei said:

"I came out from here! What are you doing standing at our group's door?"

Looking at the men, who looked rather fierce, she was somewhat frightened and took a half step back.

The second son was quite moved by her pitiful appearance.

The leader of the bandits also noticed Mo Xiaomei's beauty, but he was thinking about the money in Niushan Village, and asked:

"Madam, is there a family surnamed Niu around here?"

Mo Xiaomei mustered her courage and said, "Everyone around here has the surname Niu. Which family are you looking for?"

"Boss, why waste your breath arguing with her? Let's just loot the whole village, kidnap all the bitches, and leave no one alive!"

The second brother said.

They call women "bitch".

Hearing their words, Mo Xiaomei was quite frightened. She gripped the hoe tightly and rolled her eyes, saying, "The richest family in our village is the Niu family. They have many women, and his wife and his youngest daughter are famous beauties in the village! They have more than a dozen servants. It's definitely not a good idea for you grown men to take me, a woman, there!"

"Their house is over there, in the biggest courtyard!"

The Niu family didn't actually have more than a dozen servants; Mo Xiaomei was just saying that the Niu family was too large and it would be inconvenient to take her along.

"Never mind her for now! Let's go!" said the leader of the bandits.

Mo Xiaomei watched the group of thugs enter the village, patted her chest, and quickly left. Listening to the screams coming from several houses in the village, Mo Xiaomei felt inexplicably relieved.

After Xiang Jinlan and Zheng Si's brothers, who were working as night watchmen at the restaurant, died, they came to Niu Dajia with Sang Yu last night.

Sang Yu is also a shop assistant.

He was supposed to be on night watch with another guy, but he happened to be in a hurry to go to the toilet, and then he heard the other guy begging for mercy and screaming in the toilet.

Sang Yu only dared to come out after the bandits had looted all the valuables in the shop.

Looking at the group of people huddled together in the room, Xiao Fubao said, "Don't be afraid, we'll be alright!"

Nevertheless, Niu Da took a hoe, Niu Yong took a shovel, Xiao Heng took a sickle, and Zheng Si and his brothers, along with Sang Yu, took a cleaver used for cutting rice.

Little Fu Bao was holding two kitchen knives in both hands.

The bandits frightened everyone, and the two kitchen knives in Xiao Fubao's hands really scared Chen Yu and Niu Cuihua. Xiao Heng couldn't help but smile when he saw all this.

His little one is really adorable.

Suddenly, a door was burst open.