Chapter 023 A Pack of Hawthorn Candy Causes a "Haunting"
Wu Sansheng, who had just woken up and was squatting at the door brushing his teeth with a teacup in his hand, was a little surprised to see Wuxie getting up so early. He asked incoherently with a mouthful of saliva.
"Nephew, why did you get up so early today?"
"It was the little brother who got up early and woke me up. I wanted to sleep a little longer... ah~ but the little brother just pulled my blanket off."
Wuxie couldn't help but yawn while covering his mouth while speaking, and his voice was dragging. He looked like he hadn't woken up yet and was half dead.
"It's good to get up early. It's all thanks to my brother that I helped you. Otherwise, you would have overslept. If you overslept, I wouldn't have waited for you."
Wu Sansheng saw that Wuxie seemed to be a little resentful towards Zhang Qiling because of this incident, so he mentioned it casually and wanted to take the opportunity to teach Wuxie a lesson to let him know the importance of being on time.
"oh."
Early in the morning, Wuxie responded lazily and casually. He didn't want to argue with his third uncle over such a small matter. The main reason was that he had just woken up and his mind was still a little confused. He might not be able to argue with his third uncle.
Seeing him like this, Wu Sansheng knew that he didn't take his words to heart. He sighed helplessly in his heart and cursed him in frustration.
"With your lazy nature, you can't even eat hot shit."
Wuxie looked up at him weakly, and was about to open his mouth to argue for himself and retort what he had said, when Pan Zi suddenly came over and interrupted them.
"Third Master, breakfast over there will have to wait a while... What were you talking about with Little Third Master just now? I seemed to hear something like, 'I don't have the heart to eat shit.'"
"Nothing, nothing, you heard wrong."
Wu Xie quickly waved the subject away. Rumors were spreading so quickly, he worried that if he discussed it any further, he wouldn't be able to explain himself clearly.
Pan Zi was a little confused by Wuxie's evasive attitude, but he didn't ask about the matter so tactlessly. Instead, he casually talked about other things.
"By the way, Master San, I just heard something interesting outside."
When Wuxie heard Pan Zidu say it was interesting, he became interested, rubbed his face to sober himself up, and asked.
"What's interesting? Don't mention trivial family matters. I'm not interested in rural romance."
Thinking of the rural TV dramas he watched with his grandma before, Wuxie couldn't help but feel a headache.
"No, it's the store at the entrance of the village that we met yesterday. I heard from the aunties there that the store was haunted last night."
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
Pan Zi was just watching for fun, but Wu Xie and Wu Sansheng both became serious in their hearts after hearing these words.
Wuxie instantly thought of the ghost he saw in the old building two years ago and how he was later rescued by a master. His hand unconsciously touched the jade pendant hanging around his neck.
Since then, he has been careful not to walk alone at night, go to remote places, and do other taboos, and everything has been fine for the past two years.
The big guy said that he has a physique that makes him prone to seeing ghosts. Could it be that he is about to encounter one?
Wuxie thought of the talisman paper that he had burned in the water cave, and felt a little regretful for his curiosity and impulsiveness at that time. If he had known this would happen, he would not have done it in the first place!
The problem now is whether the next ghost he encounters will be powerful. He doesn't know if this jade token can save his life if he really encounters one...
However, Wu Sansheng, who is meticulous and likes to think too much, does not believe that it is really haunted. He always feels that the probability of it being man-made is higher.
It's not his conspiracy theory, but their plan has just started, and any small accident may lead to total failure. Any slight disturbance must be carefully investigated.
He had never heard of any rumors about ghosts before. Now that they had just arrived and there was a ghost, it was obvious that it was caused by outsiders.
They are all one of our own group and know each other well. This was definitely not done by one of their people.
He also recognized the group of foreigners who had come in earlier; they were Qiu Dekao's men. Their leader was Aning, a woman who was decisive and straightforward, and certainly wouldn't bother with any trickery or deception.
Therefore, there must be a third party involved now. We are not sure whether they are the ones who caught the fish, nor are we sure what the other party is trying to do by pretending to be mysterious.
Wu Sansheng was lost in thought while he rinsed his mouth naturally and wiped it with a towel.
Pan Zi continued to talk about the gossip he had received.
"I heard that the owner of the tavern went to open the shop this morning before dawn as usual. As soon as he opened the shop, he found an extra ten yuan on the counter, and he used his reading glasses on the counter to hold it down.
They said that the moment the door opened, the boss saw a strange blue light flash across the glasses, which almost gave him a heart attack.
The doors and windows were all closed, and there were no signs of anyone having vandalized the place. Later, he checked the items in the store and discovered..."
Seeing that the two were so engrossed in listening to a piece of gossip, Pan Zi suppressed his laughter, pretended to be mysterious, and kept them in suspense.
Wu Sansheng hit him on the back of the head in annoyance and urged him in a bad tone.
"Why are you keeping me in suspense? Tell me now!"
"oh."
After being hit, Pan Zi obediently put away the expression on his face and quickly repeated the ending.
"The boss discovered that there was nothing wrong with his shop, and he was missing a bag of hawthorn candy. That bag of candy cost seven dollars, and he put ten dollars on the table, and he made an extra three dollars."
"That's it?"
Wu Sansheng twitched his lips, not knowing what to say. Wuxie also looked speechless, but then he seemed to remember something and suddenly put on a serious expression with a hint of horror.
"Uncle San, I suddenly remembered. Late last night, I was sleeping soundly when I felt someone walking next to me. I also smelled a strong scent of hawthorn in my dream!"
Wuxie remembered it very clearly. It was because of the hawthorn smell in his dream, which smelled so real, sweet and sour and seemed delicious, that he became hungrier and hungrier in his dream last night, and almost woke himself up from hunger.
The reason why he didn't wake up from hunger was that he was pulled up by the young man before he woke up from hunger.
"You're overthinking it."
Wu Sansheng casually comforted Wuxie, but he couldn't help but guess in his heart that Wuxie would not lie about such a thing, and he slept with Zhang Qiling last night. Could it be that Zhang Qiling did it?
What's wrong with you? Why do you get up in the middle of the night to buy hawthorn candy?
"No! Uncle San, please believe me!"
The more Wuxie thought about it, the more he felt that the feeling of last night was very real. Combined with his own unique physique, he felt that he must have been haunted by a ghost, and that ghost might also like to eat hawthorn candy!
"There must be something unclean here! Uncle San, you must believe me!"
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