Chapter 1 Seems like a big enemy
As summer ends and autumn arrives, the hot and dry nights finally become a little cooler.
At this time, outside Lin'an City.
A sparsely populated area.
Several figures moved stealthily under the cover of dusk.
But before these people could get into the village, someone stabbed them in the neck from behind.
In an instant, bright red splashed along with wailing sounds.
Several bodies were thrown into the open space, and soon soldiers came and quickly dragged them away.
The surroundings fell into silence again, as if no one had ever appeared.
In the woods.
Chen Chunxing was lying in a pile of grass half a man's height. When he saw this scene, there was no panic on his face, but rather a hint of depression.
A few days ago, she noticed that the steward was in trouble and knew that his life was coming to an end. She had anticipated what would happen today and came here just to meet her colleagues.
Unexpectedly, I would be pestered by someone.
Oh no, it was a "ghost".
Chen Chunxing glanced calmly at the person beside him.
Amidst the messy weeds, a pair of delicate and clean embroidered shoes stands out.
The woman's face was pale, tears and blood kept oozing from the corners of her eyes. She held a handkerchief in her hand and sobbed, her crying as sharp and piercing as the cry of a nightingale.
He had no intention of hiding it at all, as if he wasn't worried about anyone hearing it.
The moonlight was sparse and the grove was dark. It must be her lying there, otherwise several people would have been scared to death.
Chen Chunxing waved his hands as if to shoo away a fly, and tried to lower his voice:
"Hurry up and leave. If you delay, you'll suffer more when you get down."
As if sensing some kind of call, the woman bowed.
"An old tree in the West Garden, three feet to the south. I hope that Your Excellency will take into consideration our long-standing friendship and look after the descendants of the Wu family."
After saying that, the woman's figure disappeared.
Chen Chunxing raised his head slightly and glanced at the dimly lit farm in the distance through the weeds.
She sighed, knowing that there were soldiers lying in ambush all around, and she was afraid that she would not be able to get what she wanted today.
I had no choice but to crawl back and leave this dangerous place.
——
"Where has that crazy girl gone off to? What's going on? Do you still want me, an old woman, to go and invite her myself? You guys go and call her back quickly, or you won't have any food tonight!"
Diao walked into the yard with a gloomy face, and stared straight into the house with her narrow and long eyes that looked mean.
There were three children standing in the main room, the oldest of whom was no more than seven or eight years old, and they all nodded and dared not speak.
Old Mrs. Li from next door came out of the kitchen holding a bowl and happened to hear this. She couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.
"Hey, this smells like stewed meat, doesn't it? No wonder the three little ones had to go out in the dark to find the eldest girl. If she doesn't come back, who would dare to pick up their chopsticks?"
Through the half-person-high earthen wall, Diao glanced at Old Lady Li, pursed her lips and said nothing.
Li couldn't stand her behavior and raised her voice.
"If I were to ask you, your eldest daughter is the same. She's already thirteen after the Chinese New Year, right? She's about to talk to her in-laws, but she's always acting out of control. What will she do when she gets married?"
When Diao heard this, she immediately became unhappy and sneered at Li.
"Who the hell are you to meddle in my family's affairs?"
Li was so angry that her face turned red. Just as she was about to retort, she heard Diao continue:
"You can't even clean up your own mess, and you still have the nerve to meddle in other people's families. Even though my family is out of balance, I've raised all four children, and none of them are missing any limbs."
Li's face suddenly turned from red to white, her lips trembled, and she couldn't say a word. After glaring at Diao, she fled back to the house.
Two years ago, the neighboring village suffered a great disaster. Although our village was implicated, it also lost a lot of manpower.
Li's granddaughter became disabled as a result.
She didn't expect that Diao would dare to use this matter to poke her sore throat. You know, Diao's son also died at that time!
What a shrew!
At this moment, Shen Chun walked to the door of his house and saw his brothers and sisters standing there hesitantly. He heard Diao's sarcastic words in his ears and couldn't help but admire in his heart:
I've never seen an old lady who looks more like a villain than her grandmother!
Two years ago, when she opened her eyes from chaos, what she saw was endless blood. There was an ordinary-looking farmer holding an axe, guarding the door of the woodshed.
That night, the sky was filled with flames and the sounds of fighting could be heard from miles away.
When the surroundings calmed down, only broken bodies were left on the ground.
When Chen Chunxing received the memories left by the original body, he was immediately paralyzed.
It was a mistake on the Naihe Bridge that caused her to be reborn as this ancient girl.
Seeing that Diao, who had just sent off her daughter-in-law who had a difficult childbirth and had also suffered the pain of losing her son, always had a stern face in public and was trying to hold up the crumbling family, but fainted from crying several times in private, Chen Chunxing accepted his fate.
The most serious consequence of working in their line of work is that once you take over someone else's body, you naturally have to take on their responsibilities.
Although, she sometimes felt like she was the wronged one...
In his previous life, he was keen on taking the civil service exam, and after his death, he happened to catch up with modernization. Chen Chunxing signed up enthusiastically at that time, and even recruited a ghost from the Naihe Bridge to form a team.
Three years passed and he was about to be promoted to a regular employee, but something went wrong in the final stage and he was reborn.
Committing suicide was impossible for her, and she didn't want to go to the hell of unjust deaths, so she had to finish this life and then go back to the underworld to settle the score with her boss.
——
When Diao saw someone coming in, her already ugly face became even darker.
The little girl was thin and slim, and although there wasn't much flesh on her cheeks, her complexion looked quite rosy.
Her jet-black hair was combed into two buns, revealing her full and smooth forehead. Her eyebrows were thick but not messy, and underneath were two black pearl-like eyes.
It looked like an ink painting that the artist had accidentally spilled on a farmyard.
But the clean clothes that had just been changed during the day were now covered in dirt, as if they had been rolled in the mud.
When Chen Chunxing saw Diao Shi raised her eyebrows, he knew he was going to be scolded, so he hurriedly drove the three children back to the courtyard, walked over quickly and said in a low voice:
"Grandma, something happened next door."
Hearing the word "next door", Diao glanced at the wall cautiously, and after pulling Chen Chunxing into the main room, she scolded him:
"I told you not to wander around, but you're really good at picking places! Why can't you change your stinky habit of just joining in the fun?"
Chen Chunxing smiled in a flattering manner.
"If I hadn't gone, how would I have discovered such a big thing? What if it implicated our village again like before..."
Upon hearing this, Diao's anger immediately subsided. She calmed herself down, walked to the wooden shelf in the corner, wrung out a wet towel from the copper basin and handed it to Chen Chunxing.
"We're so far from the capital, and the neighbors suffered a crime before. There are only a few servants left in the manor. Who can still cause trouble for them?"
"When it comes to matters involving the powerful, it's not surprising that something unexpected happened." Chen Chunxing took the handkerchief and wiped his face carelessly.
Thinking of the identity of the master, the disaster two years ago seemed to be just yesterday. Diao slowly leaned over the stool and couldn't help repeating a sentence.
"Is there really something wrong?"
Chen Chunxing threw the handkerchief into the copper basin and said, "There were soldiers and officers outside the manor. I saw it clearly."
"Soldiers?" Diao frowned in confusion. "Why were we surrounded by soldiers?... Well, it's good that they surrounded us. Since it's the government's job, it shouldn't implicate us..."
"That's the problem," Chen Chunxing said, throwing his hands towards Diao, interrupting her thoughts. "I saw the chief steward being called over."
Not only did she see the steward walk into the farm next door, but after she lay in the grass for about a quarter of an hour, the steward's wife turned into a ghost and came to find her. One can imagine what happened to both of them.
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