Chapter 195 [(*^▽^*)]
Zhao Anxue coughed lightly, "Axu, what are you doing? Did something happen?"
She walked over and saw the large bump on his forehead and the broken teacup on the floor. "What happened? Did you fall? You have such a big bump."
"Why couldn't you open the door to your room just now? The guests said something might have happened here. What happened? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
Lin Yangxu slowly came to his senses, and asked with a slightly tearful voice, "Mother, didn't you hear what I just heard?"
Zhao Anxue looked puzzled. "What?"
After asking, she began to have some thoughts, especially after seeing her son's disheveled appearance. Wasn't this similar to her own past self?
So, Lin Yangxu encountered that vengeful ghost here before?!
Zhao Anxue was too scared to stay in the room any longer. She subconsciously took a few steps back and left the room.
Standing outside the door, close to Lin Zhoushan, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, as long as she stayed by Lin Zhoushan's side, nothing would happen.
Today, Lin Yangxu was in danger, so will it be her turn next? Zhao Anxue grabbed Lin Zhoushan's sleeve in fear.
Lin Zhoushan gently pushed her hand away and slowly walked to Lin Yangxu's side. "Axu, what did you see?"
Lin Yangxu was about to speak, but then he froze for a moment. Did he really see anything? To be honest, he didn't see anything.
He just couldn't open the door and get out. The candles in the room had gone out, and it seemed like he felt a chill. There was also a broken teacup.
Wait, an extinguished candle?
His gaze fell on the still-burning candle on the table. How could it not have gone out? What was going on? It was definitely extinguished!
"Dad, did anyone light a candle just now?"
Lin Zhoushan looked back. "No."
Lin Yangxu swallowed hard. Was he hallucinating too? "Just now... the candle suddenly went out, and the room was pitch black. I called for help, but no one answered. When I tried to go out, I fell down. When I tried to get out, I found the door was closed, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open it."
"It felt like something appeared behind me. I felt a bone-chilling cold. I couldn't get out, so I could only hide in the corner. Then I heard the sound of a teacup falling and shattering. I was so scared. Soon after, my parents appeared."
Lin Zhoushan looked around the room carefully. "You said that after the candle went out, you tried to open the door to go out, but you couldn't open it. You felt a chill behind you, so you hid in the corner and then heard the sound of a teacup breaking..."
Lin Yangxu nodded, "Yes, there really is a ghost, Dad, there really is a ghost, it's him..."
At this point, Lin Yangxu seemed to have choked up and stopped talking. If it were just the two of them, saying a few words would be fine, but there were so many guests standing outside!
Lin Zhoushan sneered, "Do you even believe what you're saying? Ghosts? You're just scaring yourself. After the candle went out, you couldn't see anything at all. You probably didn't find the door properly. The chill behind you means the window wasn't closed properly, there was a crack. The teacup broke? You bumped into the table while running and were too scared to even notice!"
Lin Yangxu stared blankly at Lin Zhoushan. Was that really the case? He felt that something was wrong. How did the extinguished candle reignite?
Also, he seems to remember that he hid in the corner and it was broken a while later. Could it be that he bumped into the table while running, and the teacup rolled to the edge of the table and fell to the ground a while later?
Huh?
Thinking about it that way, it actually makes sense. But... what do we do now? Everyone's been drawn here. Didn't I just make a complete fool of myself with that behavior?
Lin Zhoushan's words were overheard by the players outside, and some players felt that he was deliberately avoiding the matter.
It's unclear why the Lin family patriarch, despite having instructed them to stay and search for the vengeful ghost, made excuses to deny it when they discovered something amiss.
Xue Rui and the others were whispering to each other in the back.
Zhou Feng lowered his voice, "What do you think?"
Xue Rui said, "Perhaps Master Lin doesn't want the vengeful ghost to be associated with his only son. After all, if there were any connection..."
Zhou Feng said, "That makes sense. After all, Lin Yangxu is his only son."
After Lin Zhoushan explained, the players outside, though dissatisfied, did not stay any longer. After all, the items that had detected the ghost earlier had been quiet for a long time, which meant that the ghost had left.
The player is thinking of looking elsewhere; maybe they haven't gone far yet?
Xue Rui and the others left quietly. Lin Zhoushan dismissed many servants, leaving only two or three people who knew the inside story.
Lin Yangxu finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Dad... are you telling the truth?"
After Lin Zhoushan's explanation, and after some self-adjustment, Lin Yangxu really felt that he might have been overthinking things and that nothing was actually wrong.
Lin Zhoushan then changed his tune, "I was just placating those guests. If they knew that Yang An's death was related to you, do you think they would report it to the authorities?"
Lin Yangxu was stunned for a moment, "Dad, will they really go to the authorities to report me? Then I..."
He seems to have offended a few really annoying people before, so what if he gets targeted? Oh wait, no, there hasn't been any leak yet.
Wait a minute, Lin Zhoushan said he was just making excuses to prevent the guests from thinking that Lin Yang'an's death was related to him. Does that mean the ghost story is true?
He was so frightened that his face contorted in fear. "Father... so the ghost is real? He really came back for me?"
Lin Zhoushan: "The body that was buried overnight is gone. What do you think? Besides him, who else do you think would dig up the body? Who else knows where the body is?"
“The servants in the house have been staying in the mansion and haven’t gone out, so they couldn’t possibly go digging. As for the villagers? The villagers don’t go there, and it’s not the time to visit graves now, so the children won’t go there either.”
"These guests only arrived in Linjia Village a few days ago. They probably don't even know where the cemetery is on the back hill. Tell me, who else could have taken the body away?"
Lin Leyou watched their conversation with great interest. Not only the family of three, but also a few servants outside, all looked very unpleasant. Aha!
Lin Yangxu, "Dad!"
He screamed in agony, his former playboy demeanor completely gone, and lunged forward to hug Lin Zhoushan's leg, crying out, "Father, please save me!"
"I really didn't mean to. I was just provoked by him... You know, even though he's not in good health, he has a really sharp tongue. I only hit him when he really angered me. I never expected it to get this serious..."
Lin Zhoushan's lips twitched incessantly. Whether the child was telling the truth or not, there was no way to verify it now that the dead were dead, so what else could he do?
He glanced at Lin Yangxu and felt it was time to get things done.
He suddenly said, "In that case, it's time for you to get married."
Zhao Anxue paused for a moment, then seemed to realize something and asked with some worry, "Master, this matter hasn't been resolved yet. Won't it cause trouble if we get married so hastily?"
Lin Zhoushan said, "What do you think? He's already nineteen and still not married. Are we going to keep waiting? How long are we going to wait? It's really strange. You've had your maids around before, so why are they all unable to conceive?"
He just muttered those words to himself without thinking too much about it, so he didn't notice the somewhat strange and awkward expressions on Zhao Anxue and Lin Yangxu's faces.
Fortunately, they recovered quickly and didn't actually let Lin Zhoushan see it. "Let's find a good girl in the village, someone we know well would be good too. Have you seen anyone you like?"
Lin Yangxu subconsciously uttered a name, "Wang Chunhe".
Lin Zhoushan pictured Wang Chunhe in his mind. "So this is the girl. She's a nice girl, hardworking, gentle, and virtuous. She's more than a match for you."
Zhao Anxue also realized who Wang Chunhe was. Although she couldn't stand women who were prettier than herself, she wouldn't object if she were to become her daughter-in-law.
But... if this woman still doesn't have a child after she enters the house, won't Lin Zhoushan realize something is wrong?
Lin Leyou never expected that Lin Zhoushan would still be thinking about such a problem at this point. He hadn't even solved the problem of the vengeful ghost, yet he was already thinking about holding a wedding for Lin Yangxu, who was about to die.
Huh?
No, no!
Lin Zhoushan doesn't seem like someone who lacks foresight, so does he have ulterior motives?
Lin Leyou was unsure for a moment. Could it be that Lin Zhoushan thought Lin Yangxu would definitely be killed sooner or later, and now he wanted to get married as soon as possible so that he could have a child?
In that case, wouldn't it be faster to just send Lin Yangxu a woman instead of getting married? Getting married would take a long time, since an auspicious date needs to be chosen.
Lin Leyou couldn't figure out what was going on. Wait a minute!
In an era like this, children who die before marriage are not allowed to be buried in the ancestral grave? So they get married before they die?
Whether or not to keep the child is not really that important.
Lin Leyou took a deep breath. Okay, okay, whatever, as long as I can complete my mission, that's fine.
Having already caused a ruckus tonight, Lin Leyou didn't intend to reveal himself at the Lin residence again. Instead, while the players were all at the Lin residence, he went to one of their residences.
There are only two people at the player's residence: Xue Qian and a strange woman. Kill them both when the time comes.
When he arrived, he was surprised to see a woman in the courtyard outside. Was it the female player?
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