Chapter 540 Scary
Mr. Zhuang was annoyed by the noise. When he came out of the study, he saw Bai Shan and Bai Er beating someone, while Daji was leaning against the door to block out the shouting and banging outside.
No one knew where Zhou Si had gone. His eldest disciple was running around the yard with a copper basin in his hand, banging it around and shouting nonsense.
Mr. Zhuang felt that he might have read for too long today and he felt a little dizzy.
Mr. Zhuang leaned against the door frame and called out to Manbao twice in a row, but Manbao was banging on the copper basin excitedly and didn't hear her at all. She banged on and on, and even ran to the other side of the wall and shouted in the direction of the other house: "Come and see how we catch ghosts! We caught a ghost! Come and see how the ghost gets justice..."
Mr. Zhuang looked at her helplessly. He glanced at the fake ghost in white clothes lying on the ground with his head in his arms, moving to avoid the attacks of the other two disciples. Then he sat on the doorstep and sighed sadly.
The sound of the copper basin was very loud, and Manbao's voice was not weak either. It not only alarmed the people in the entire alley, but also alarmed the people outside the alley.
Including the yamen runners who were on night patrol.
The rumor that Kangxue Street is haunted has been around for a long time, especially in the past year and a half, when hauntings occur every once in a while.
The house had been empty for half a year, and everyone had only heard of it being haunted, but rarely heard a female ghost crying and screaming in the middle of the night. But I didn't expect to hear it again last night.
So today, the rumor has spread not only to the residents of this alley and Kangxue Street, but also to the outside world.
It is said that because this rented house is close to the Yan family's house, the Yan family's ghosts have moved into this house. Once someone moves in, it will start to be haunted.
But this house belongs to someone else, they can't stop them from renting it out, right?
But the people living in the same alley were indeed a little worried, fearing that they would anger the female ghost again. Who knew that not long after nightfall, they heard a shrill scream. The cry of "Ghost!" almost resounded through the sky, and half of the people on the street heard it.
Just when everyone was worried, a gong sounded and someone shouted that a female ghost had been caught. The people in the same alley were skeptical and did not dare to go out.
But not long after, they heard the shouts of the yamen runners, and then someone quietly opened the door and came out, holding a lamp, to see what was going on.
When I reached the end of the alley, I saw the old neighbor Xiao family knocking on the door of the new tenant's house with angry faces.
The yamen runner came forward with his sword and shouted, "What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing so late at night?"
When the Xiao family saw the yamen runners appear, their faces turned pale and they subconsciously took two steps back. Then they remembered something and were about to complain, but the door that had been closed suddenly opened from the inside.
Manbao was the first to rush out, carrying a copper basin and a club. Seeing the chief yamen runner and the neighbors behind them, he immediately said, "Brother yamen runner, you've come just in time! We've caught a female ghost. Come in and see."
The yamen runner looked at them suspiciously, "Can you catch a female ghost?"
"Of course we lay in ambush for the entire night. The female ghost just started crying and crying for justice, and we caught her. But she turned out to be a man, not a woman," Manbao said excitedly. "That's fine, but we were able to catch her and even beat her. Ghosts can't become invisible at all. Isn't that strange?"
The night watchmen understood what was going on, as did the neighbors behind them. They all sneered, "What's so strange about this? Isn't it just a man pretending to be a ghost?"
"After all this time, it turns out the haunted alley these past two years was caused by humans?"
When everyone went in together, they saw a female ghost lying on the ground. She was dressed in white and had disheveled hair. She was obviously a ghost.
The Xiao family members squeezed in and were shocked to see him lying motionless on the ground. The old lady shouted, "Erlang, my Erlang..."
Daji blocked her with the stick in his hand. Zhou Silang finally finished dealing with his clothes and ran out, saying, "So this ghost is your child. I was wondering, as soon as we caught the ghost, you guys acted like crazy and wanted to beat us up."
The old lady raised her head and glared at them. "I'm telling you, if anything happens to my Erlang, I will never forgive you."
Zhou Silang put his hands on his waist and was about to start arguing with her, but Bai Shanbao stopped him and said, "Why bother arguing with him? Let the government handle this matter. Tomorrow, we'll go tell the landlord that they're deliberately pretending to be ghosts to scare people and disrupt public order. It's obvious that everyone in the family knows about this."
Bai Shanbao said, "Let's not even talk about the losses that the people in this alley have suffered in the past two years. Just think about the fear they've all suffered. If we report this to the government, they could get a beating and imprisonment for a few years at the very least, or exile at the worst. So why are you arguing with them?"
Manbao added, "That's right, that's right. Anyway, we won't see each other again in the future."
She raised her head and looked sympathetically at the pale, devastated Xiao family members, waving her hand and smiling, "If you have anything to say, say it all tonight. After tonight, we won't see each other again."
The Xiao family was frightened and their legs went weak, almost falling to the ground.
Seeing they were silent, Bai Shanbao was finally satisfied and said to the silent yamen runner, "We saw him suddenly appear with our own eyes, burning paper money outside my courtyard wall, and then crying like a woman, saying that I died unjustly. Obviously, the rumors of ghosts in the past two years came from him. Aren't you going to arrest him?"
The bailiffs looked at each other, took out the rope and said, "Of course we caught him."
The fake ghost lying on the ground pretending to be dead was trembling. When the yamen runner picked him up, he finally couldn't help it and knelt down to beg for mercy: "Have mercy, have mercy, father, mother, please save me, I, I didn't mean to pretend to be a ghost to scare you."
"If it wasn't intentional, how could pretending to be a ghost be unintentional?" Man Bao said, "You lied so insincerely, it's obvious that you don't really regret it."
Bai Erlang, who was standing behind him, kicked him on the butt and said angrily, "That's right, at least find a better excuse."
Mrs. Xiao trembled with fear, but she quickly found an excuse, "Sir, he, he has sleepwalking. No, he's not pretending to be a ghost to scare people."
Bai Shanbao frowned, "Sleepwalking is pretending to be a female ghost?"
The Xiao family member trembled his lips and gritted his teeth as he said, "He is also insane. He becomes crazy at night and thinks he is a female ghost."
Anyway, it's not intentional to pretend to be a ghost to scare people.
Mr. Zhuang, who was originally a little dissatisfied with Bai Shan and Man Bao for making up scary laws, sat back on the doorstep and ignored them.
It's really a case of bringing disaster upon oneself. If they honestly admit their mistakes, the government will at most fine them some money and give them a beating with a stick.
The next chapter will be around 6 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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