"Sister...you're so creepy when you smile!" Tang Wu gave her a thumbs up.
"I'll just assume you're complimenting me. Let's go, we can have a good night's sleep tonight."
Tang Wu was a little worried: "Sister, is there any chance of death?"
"What are you thinking? They're just fainted, not dead! Besides, this is the outskirts, even rabbits are rare. What danger can there be?"
Tang Wu scratched his head and handed the bucket to her, "I'm afraid of hearing them screaming in the middle of the night!"
Tang Youyou pulled the corner of his mouth and took the bucket. The two of them came to their sleeping place one after the other, and naturally put the bucket into the space.
"You two are back? Is everything going well?" Tang's mother hadn't slept yet, worried that something might go wrong.
"Mom, why aren't you asleep yet? Don't worry, everything is as expected!"
Tang's mother nodded. "I've been having nightmares lately. I don't know what's wrong. My eyelids keep twitching."
"Okay, okay, go to sleep quickly!"
The next day, a scream woke everyone up.
"Who is it? It's not even the morning hour yet!"
"It seems to be at the foot of the mountain?"
Everyone rubbed their sleepy eyes and prepared to get up to work. They couldn't sleep anyway, but no one wanted to check.
The four people on the mountain supported each other and went down the mountain. When they met the villagers who were digging the soil, they were stunned for a moment, and then asked carefully.
"Did you hear anything last night?"
A man sneered in his heart, how could he not know when so many of you were running down the mountain last night and making such a big noise?
But remembering the patriarch's words, he replied expressionlessly: "No!"
Then he lowered his head and started digging.
The butler had been staring at him, but didn't see anything. He grabbed his clothes and asked, "Did you really not hear anything?"
The nearby villagers gathered instantly, "What do you want to do?"
The housekeeper narrowed his eyes, glanced at everyone, loosened his grip, and pointed at everyone, "It's best if what happened last night has nothing to do with you, otherwise you will be in big trouble!"
What he didn't know was that he was the one who would be in trouble now.
"Pa pa pa", he was slapped three times in a row.
He knelt on the ground with his hands covering his face, feeling extremely aggrieved and not daring to say a word.
"You useless thing! What's the point of me keeping you? A group of people can't even catch a ghost!" Mr. Zhao was furious.
Butler: If you have the ability, go ahead and catch him. I’m not a Taoist priest.
"Take two hundred taels and go to Fuxing Temple to invite the abbot down. I want to capture that female ghost!"
He just doesn't believe in evil, but he can't cure the female ghost?
The housekeeper had no choice but to take the silver to Fuxing Temple, and when he came back he was beaten severely.
"If you can't even do this little thing, what use are you?"
Mr. Zhao punched and kicked him. He clenched his fists and an idea began to germinate in his mind.
"How dare that old monk talk nonsense? When did I stop doing good deeds? I think he's just a charlatan. Maybe he doesn't even have the skills to subdue that female ghost!"
The butler's face was bruised and he didn't dare to refute a word.
In her heart, she cursed him: "You hit me all the time. Am I your punching bag? If you dare to hit me again, I'll send you to hell!"
Unexpectedly, he was kicked again. He gritted his teeth and made up his mind:
I have endured humiliation for fifteen years. Not only have I not been able to obtain the contract to sell myself, I have been beaten and scolded from time to time, and I have to keep my head down and obey. Whoever wants to be the housekeeper can do it. I won't serve you anymore.
"What? Do you still want to resist?" Mr. Zhao looked down at him and saw that he clenched his fists as if he was trying hard to restrain himself.
Suddenly, the butler loosened his grip and said in a somewhat flattering tone, "Master, please release me from my indenture. I am already thirty years old and still unmarried. Please, in consideration of my years of dedicated service to you, allow me to return to my native place!"
Yes, he didn't want his wife and children to be slaves, so he never got married for so many years.
Mr. Zhao suddenly squatted down and clicked his tongue twice, "It's not impossible, but I have one condition!"
The butler looked up suddenly and asked, "What are the conditions?"
Zhao Yuanwai pinched his shirt hem lightly and smiled obscenely, "If I'm not mistaken, you are still a virgin, right? Serve me reluctantly once, and I will release you from the indenture! How about it?"
The butler slowly lowered his head, suppressing the nausea in his heart.
After a while, he replied, "Master, can I rest for two days?"
Mr. Zhao thought he had succeeded, stroked his beard and laughed, "I'll give you a day off!"
After he left, the housekeeper collapsed to the ground, wiped the blood from his nose, and muttered to himself: "This is too much. I must enforce justice on behalf of heaven."
Remembering the host's words, he was suddenly shocked. "Tell your master to do good deeds, otherwise the Buddha will punish you! Also, benefactor, remember to be calm and don't be impatient, otherwise there will be a bloody disaster within three days!"
He clenched his fists, still feeling indignant. He could no longer bear this anger. Today, he must die.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a pair of trouser legs behind the door and sneered, "Who?"
A man walked out slowly, but he was dressed like a woman.
"It's you? This is the front yard, not the place for you!"
The man was none other than Mr. Zhao's new favorite, Erniu.
"Butler, are you...are you okay?"
The butler ignored him and slowly got up. Erniu wanted to support him, but he pulled his arm with some disgust.
Erniu was deeply hurt. He looked around and then pulled out an oil-paper bag from his sleeve and handed it to him, whispering, "Arsenic! I saved it up, and no one knows about it! Kill him, and only then can the people in this courtyard survive!"
After looking at him deeply, she left quickly.
The butler was stunned for a moment. Ever since he saw the "female ghost" last night, he had become dazed.
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