Xun Xingshun had no idea what to do; this was the first time he'd ever encountered something like this...

"I didn't expect this thing to actually exist," Xun Xingshun was also very troubled. Other things were easy to report to higher authorities and find someone to solve, but how could he explain this thing?

I reckon the moment he opens his mouth, someone will grab him.

Although those four people have fallen and the situation has eased considerably, they are still afraid of another major upheaval after all these years, so they remain extremely cautious in their speech.

The only good news is that Li Wang doesn't seem to have any intention of hurting anyone.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a villager burst into tears, saying, "Brother Li Wang, I really didn't mean to. I was just passing by your vegetable garden that day and saw that your corn was growing well, so I just picked a couple."

I know I was wrong, I'll make it up to you later.

“Brother Li Wang, I secretly cursed at you that day, but I really didn’t do anything. Please don’t come looking for me here. We’ve grown up together since we were kids…”

"I was wrong, I was wrong..."

Many people sincerely repented, fearing that Li Wang would come knocking on their door later...

"Ah, Li Wang, don't go to my house..." Xun Afu screamed, and everyone then realized that Li Wang was standing there blankly at Xun Afu's door.

Xun Afu's whole body went limp. Thinking of his wife and children at home, he mustered his courage and ran over, kowtowing repeatedly. "Brother Li Wang, I really don't know what I did wrong. When you came to my house to borrow an axe before, I lent it to you without saying a word."

Please go somewhere else. Don't scare people here. My children are still young and can't handle being frightened..."

Seeing that Li Wang was standing there motionless, Xun Afu became anxious and reached out to pull him, but unexpectedly he walked right through her, which scared her so much that her face turned pale.

"I was just like that too," Ye Qing whispered to his brother, not realizing that his words had startled the man.

Xun Afu's legs went weak, and he knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly. "Tell me what you need. As long as it's within my power, I'll do it for you."

Li Wang didn't even look at him, turned around and left, heading straight for his home.

Xun Afu was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, trying hard to recall if he had offended Li Wang in any way.

Xun Xingshun felt that tonight was too unbelievable, and he needed to go back and calm down.

But he was the backbone of the village, and everyone surrounded him, asking what to do.

Xun Xingshun: "...What do you think we should do?"

He's just an ordinary village chief, and he doesn't know how to catch ghosts, so what can he do?

The villagers were all dumbfounded. If they knew what to do, they wouldn't have asked the village chief.

“If he only shows up once, we can just put up with it. But what if he shows up again? We can’t just move away from this village.”

Some of them were already timid and wondering, if they couldn't stay in the village, would they have any way to survive?

Their houses and property are all here; they can't run away even if they wanted to.

What's going on with Li Wang? The villagers didn't do anything to wrong him while he was alive, so why the need to scare him like this?

“It wasn’t us who killed him. Even if someone did kill him, why would he need to scare us like this when he went to find that person?” Xun Meiguang muttered to herself.

Standing next to him, Xun Liangtian quickly tugged at him, "Don't talk nonsense. Everyone went to check it out. His door was tightly closed. How could anyone have harmed him?"

If he hadn't missed a whole day at work, no one would have known he would suddenly die at home.

Moreover, this person did it while asleep, and was covered with a blanket, so it must have been due to some sudden illness.

Saying this at this time, isn't it implying that your father has failed in his duty?

Xun Meiguang turned his gaze to Xun Afu. Li Wang had just stood at his door for a while. Could his death be related to Afu?

Xun Afu glared back, "Why are you looking at me? Don't assume that just because he's standing at my door, he has anything to do with my family."

I swear to God in front of everyone, if I killed Li Wang, may my whole family suffer a terrible fate.

Xun Afu felt utterly wronged, and he couldn't understand why Li Wang had come to his house.

His family were all kind-hearted, and they didn't have any enemies in the village. Who knew what was wrong with him?

He's dead, so why does he have to cause trouble? Don't think he can't see that several people in the village are looking him up and down, probably trying to implicate him with Li Wang.

Xun Xingshun said, "Alright, don't talk nonsense without evidence."

Besides, we all live in the same village, and Afu doesn't have the ability to do something so big.

They're all small and thin; if they were to face Li Wang, who knows who would lose their life.

Xun Afu used to feel inferior because he was small and thin, but he never expected that this time, because of his physique, the village chief would speak up for him.

Because of their poverty, their family suffered from malnutrition from a young age, often going hungry or overeating, which is why they didn't grow very tall.

For several generations, the tallest men in the village were no more than 1.6 meters tall, thin and small, so they didn't have much of a presence in the village.

In order to avoid being ostracized or bullied in the village, the family always greeted people with a smile and tried their best not to be disliked or bullied.

When Xun Meiguang and the others saw Xun Afu's appearance, they also felt that their previous guesses were a bit excessive.

Li Wang is so tall, if they really faced off, who knows who would suffer?

"Doesn't Li Wang often go hunting in the mountains? Could he have been injured by prey there?" Ye Qing suddenly reminded everyone, because Li Wang had been injured before.

"Why bother with all this now?" Xun Xingshun didn't understand how these people had gotten into this conversation. "Since he's already left, everyone should go back to sleep. We have to go to work tomorrow."

Xun Xingshun felt annoyed and didn't know how to resolve the matter, so he had no interest in listening to their idle chatter.

"Village chief, we just want to know how Li Wang died, and whether he suffered some great injustice, which is why we're lingering in our village?"

That's how storytellers used to be. As the saying goes, they died with their eyes open, and that's what it means.

Xun Xingshun said, "...Why don't you go and ask them?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people who had been surrounding Xun Xingshun immediately dispersed, fearing that the village chief would call on them to do something later.

Going up and down mountains is no problem for them, but dealing with ghosts is something they don't have the guts to do.

Xun Xingshun looked in the direction of Li Wang's house and swallowed hard. Actually, he was also panicking, but in order to save face as the village chief, he couldn't show his fear on his face.

He's lived a very long life, and this is the first time he's ever encountered something like this.

When I heard others talk about these topics before, I thought it was all just hearsay, something they were deliberately saying to scare people.

"Alright, let's go back and rest for a bit. We can talk about it tomorrow."

It will be broad daylight then, and Li Wang probably won't show up. We can then come up with ideas together.