Chapter 438: Master (3)
Xu Ailian manipulated the talisman paper and moved forward step by step, finally stopping on the westernmost earth wall of the Wang family next door.
"This is it," she said to the little fox sitting at her feet.
"This house?" the fox fairy asked, "Then why is it the neighboring house that's affected?"
Xu Ailian explained, "It's because of the direction. When the corpses were buried, their faces and eyes were facing west. Unlike wronged spirits, the corpses can't move, so they can only attack what they see."
She took a knife from her bag and scraped the earthen wall.
She was always good at finding the right spot, and soon a few protruding finger bones were revealed in the wall.
There really are bodies buried there.
Only a very vicious person would do such a thing.
Aunt Zhang hurried over and said, "Master Xu, this is Aunt Wang's house. You're scraping their wall..."
Speak of the devil, and here it appears. A short and thin woman rushed out, cursing in a shrill voice as soon as she arrived.
"Who are you? Why are you scraping our wall? Are you trying to steal something?"
No courtesy at all.
Xu Ailian explained to her calmly, "There's something wrong with your wall. It's affecting the Zhang family's fortune. We have to tear it down and rebuild it. Otherwise, his family won't have a peaceful life in the future."
She meant well and didn't mention the body in the wall, but the fox fairy shook her head secretly when she heard it.
Sure enough, Aunt Wang refused to agree.
"You old liar, what are you mumbling about!" She cursed. "His family is restless, what does it have to do with mine? Why do you ask me to tear down the wall?"
Xu Ailian had no choice but to continue explaining patiently: "It's not completely unrelated to your family. There is dirt in the wall, and your family is not comfortable living there. It will definitely have an impact over time."
Aunt Zhang also chimed in: "That's right, Master Xu helped you exorcise demons and monsters, and he didn't even ask for money, yet you're still picky."
Aunt Wang got even more excited after hearing this: "You're tearing down our wall for yours, and you're still accusing us of being picky? I think you two made an agreement to blackmail our Wang family!"
"I'm telling you, don't even think about it! You're not allowed to tear down this wall. You have to pay for the places you just scraped. Pay... eight cents!"
"If it really needs to be demolished, you pay for it, calculated by the number of bricks. After it's demolished, you pay for the reconstruction, and it must be the same thickness as the village chief's house! And..."
"It doesn't matter where you pay, my family won't pay! You still have to pay compensation, there is compensation for demolition in the village!"
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Aunt Wang was almost about to bring over the abacus to do the calculation.
Aunt Zhang was so blocked that she couldn't speak. Xu Ailian, who usually explained things gently, was also silent in a rare way.
This wasn't the first shrew she had ever met, nor was she the cruelest.
She could tell her there were body parts in the wall, explain the consequences, or use a little trick to convince her...
But Xu Ailian doesn't want to do that now.
If nothing else, she was just tired.
Doing good things was questioned, maliciously speculated, and attacked... She had experienced enough in her life.
"Hey, what do you mean? You're silent again?" Aunt Wang came closer and closer, spitting on my face. "If you don't tear down the wall, you have to pay my family eight cents!"
Her mouth was like a machine gun, making non-stop noises.
"Scraping the wall... you scraped it for nothing..."
"Tearing down my wall just to save his family, what a lie."
"What master? He's just an old liar..."
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"That's enough! Are you done yet, you stinky bitch!"
A man's curse exploded out of nowhere, almost shattering everyone's eardrums.
Everyone was shocked and looked around to see which man had such a loud voice.
After circling around a few times, I found that it seemed to be... the fox at Master Xu's feet?
"What are you looking at?" The fox fairy lowered its front legs and its body quickly grew larger. It was not only much larger than an ordinary fox, but also turned into the size of a pony.
Aunt Zhang was braver and hid directly behind Master Xu. She believed that the small animals raised by Master Xu would not hurt anyone!
Aunt Wang was so frightened that her legs went limp and she kept screaming, "Ahhh—a monster!"
The "monster" leaped and landed beside her, stretched out its long mouth, and pushed her to the wall.
"Did you see clearly, bitch? It's a human hand bone!"
"There's a dead body inside your wall, do you think it matters?"
"Who built this wall? Your man? Killing and dismembering people and sleeping next to you. How does it feel?!"
"Just tell me whether you're going to tear down this wall or not. If you don't, I'm going to explode!"
Aunt Wang looked at the sharp claws and fangs of the big fox in front of her and was so scared that she couldn't even make a sound and nodded desperately.
She kept twisting her body, and it looked like she wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but she had no strength and lay on the ground like a rolling loach.
"Hmph." The fox fairy felt relieved and exhaled a small flame from his nose.
But it knew very well that the reason this bitch was willing to give in was not because it said it was good, but because she was a bully who only feared the strong and bullied the weak.
If you tell the same thing to an old woman, she will be able to find one, two, three, four, or five mistakes to bully the honest person.
To deal with this kind of person, you have to be more ruthless than her!
Then its fox eyes turned and it caught sight of a dark shadow flashing past the other side of the house.
"Want to run?!" Its fox claws lit up, pointed at the direction of the fleeing shadow, and moved towards its own arms -
The shadowy figure seemed to be sucked in by something, floating in the air and flying towards them quickly.
It turned out to be an old man with gray hair. Fortunately, he was in good health and did not break any arms or legs when he fell.
"Grandpa, Grandpa?" Aunt Wang finally spoke after seeing her relatives. "Grandpa, save me! There's a monster here!"
But the man himself is a weakling, how can he care about her?
He has something up his mind!
"So it's the eunuch." The fox fairy snorted again: "Confess quickly! What does the corpse in the wall have to do with you? Did you kill it?"
The man seemed to be a bit braver than Aunt Wang and shook his head frantically: "No, no, it's not!"
"I'm looking at you!" The fox fairy stepped on the man's chest with one claw like a mighty tiger. "Tell the truth and I'll spare your life. If you don't, I'll cut your body into pieces and paste it on the wall!"
In fact, with its majesty, there is no need to say these threatening words. Just puff out its beard and glare at the other party and they will surrender.
Soon the old man gave in.
It turned out that the murderer was not him, but his son, Aunt Wang's husband.
The husband often secretly visited the village prostitute. The prostitute threatened to expose the matter and forced the husband to marry her as a concubine. The husband was so angry that he killed her.
When the father-in-law saw this, he was afraid that it would bring trouble to himself, so he dismembered the village prostitute's body and pasted it into the wall.
Originally, they had buried the body properly, and nothing would have happened afterwards. However, they insisted on completely destroying the human life, and the body could not be liberated, and became an unjust corpse.
Because the face was facing the direction of Zhang's family when it was pasted, the Zhang family suffered an unexpected disaster.
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