Of course, no one knows what happened late last night.
Wang Gang was haunted by my mother and injured the Eight Immortals. In the end, he didn't come to catch up with me. I'm afraid he didn't have the courage.
At this time, I have more curiosity about the Li family's affairs, and I also want to know the details of that year.
Only in this way can I understand the reason why my mother is unwilling to leave with me...
Otherwise, everything is just my conjecture.
After the uproar, the villagers became more afraid, but many people also showed gratitude.
The villager I was questioning became a little bolder and took a few steps closer to me.
He then said cautiously: "Sir, this man Li Changding is the son of Old Man Li. He has disappeared for a while. People said he was dead, but I didn't expect that he really died..."
"Where did you find his head?"
I pondered for a moment, but I didn’t hide anything. I just said part of it selectively.
He said that I noticed a murderous corpse in front of Old Man Li's house last night. When I entered Old Man Li's house, I saw this dead head, along with the water ghoul trying to harm people.
After saying that, I pointed at the body of the water ghoul again.
The villagers in the scene suddenly fell silent, and some villagers even showed disgust and contempt in their eyes. They whispered that they would not forget to continue to harm people even if they died.
I didn't interrupt loudly, but I just had more thoughts in my mind.
The villager in front of him sighed again, stamped his feet and said, "The Li family is really guilty..."
Then, he told me the whole story.
Since the villager didn't know my identity, he almost started from the Li family.
Of course, he just said that Old Man Li was a wealthy family in the village back then.
When Li Huarong, the eldest daughter of the Li family, caused an affair and the Li family fell into ruin, the second young master of the Li family, Li Changding, did a lot of things that were worse than a pig or a dog.
For example, he became addicted to gambling and longevity pills, which made the already difficult Li family even worse. In the end, they had to sell the mansion and live in a farmhouse.
Later, when his mother, Li Zhou, fell ill, he even used the money he spent to buy life-saving medicine to smoke Fushou ointment. He also owed a lot of loan sharks, which made creditors come to ask for help.
His mother was originally in poor health, so she was so angry that her lower body became paralyzed.
Old Man Li couldn't maintain his family's livelihood by himself, so he began to sneak around and even rob openly if he was discovered.
In the past, when the Li family was prosperous, everyone more or less took advantage of it. If it was a small theft, they wouldn't care about it. It would only cause trouble if it happened too much.
Over the years, the Li family has been living a life of survival until some time ago, when Li Changding suddenly disappeared.
It seems that the first news that Li Changding died outside came from Old Man Li.
Roughly speaking, Li Changding owed a lot of loan sharks and couldn't repay the money, so he was beaten to death.
After saying this, the villager sighed and said: "Sir, don't you think so? The Li family only has one son left. It doesn't matter if the family is ruined. At least there is a man, and he still refuses to teach. Now that he is dead, the Li family has lost its incense."
"Even after he dies, he will continue to harm my parents! What evil did the Li family do in their previous lives? Both their daughter and son are so unfilial..."
When the villager talked about his daughter, he obviously changed his tone and seemed to shrink back.
After that, the villager said no more.
I have known for a long time that my mother's affairs are taboo in this village and also in Hongsong County.
After a pause, I asked, "How many times have water ghouls caused trouble in the past few years?"
"In the past, there was a year when there were many water ghouls on the river. There were ghost heads on the river. Every time you went into the water during the day, something would happen. Then for a year, they all disappeared. In the first few years, some water ghouls started to appear again. They were all like this. There are old water ghouls whose fur has fallen out, and some people have seen several of them pulling buffalo into the river together."
I thought about it, and the year he mentioned must be the year my mother died.
That gentleman must have done something else. When he suppressed my mother, he also suppressed the water ghoul?
Perhaps in the past few years, the water ghoul has become more sophisticated and can come ashore to cause trouble.
Just when I thought of this, several more villagers ran over. They came to the side of the villager in front of me, and they said a few words to each other.
The next moment, the villager asked tentatively: "Sir, I haven't asked you your name yet. What our village means is that you will get rid of the water ghoul and get rid of Li Changding before he harms others, so as to benefit our Huaili Village." Well, the folks all want to thank you and please go to the ancestral hall to rest."
I was silent for a moment and first said my surname was Li.
In fact, I don't want to agree because I don't have a good impression of these villagers. These people are more or less responsible for my mother's fate.
But there are some things, I'm afraid I have to ask Old Man Li to know more details, so I have to make use of these villagers.
My thoughts settled quickly, I nodded and said: "I can go there, but it doesn't need to be a big fanfare. The matter in your Huaili Village has not been completely resolved. You will send someone to call Old Man Li over to the ancestral hall later. I want to go there." See him. Send some more people to go to the Li family’s mansion and check the house to see if there is anyone inside.”
The villager also nodded quickly, and he immediately said a few words to the villagers next to him.
Immediately afterwards, he introduced me to one of the middle-aged men in his forties or fifties, saying that he was the head of Huaili Village.
The village chief's eyebrows were thick and curved, and he had a kind face. He made a gesture of invitation, indicating that he could lead me.
I bent down to pick up Li Changding's head and the old water ghoul's body, and followed the village chief in the same direction.
Some of the other villagers followed us, and some simply dispersed.
About two-quarters of an hour later, I was led into the ancestral hall of Huaili Village.
This ancestral hall was built in a pass leading into the hanging river, seemingly echoing the Dong Feng family on the other side.
After entering the gate, there is a big locust tree planted in the courtyard, covering half of the house.
And the ancestral hall actually only has one room...
This room was very large and filled with all kinds of spiritual tablets. The tallest one was over three meters tall.
The mourning hall below was filled with incense candles, creating a lot of thick smoke.
I frowned and glanced around the courtyard, confirming that there was only this ancestral hall.
The village chief asked cautiously: "Mr. Li, is there any problem with this ancestral hall?"
I hummed and said, "There is indeed a problem. Just look at one house, called the Lonely House. Huaili Village uses the haunted house as an ancestral hall. Naturally, the luck of the entire village will not be much better."
The village chief's expression suddenly changed, and he said uneasily: "Is there a problem with the one-room ancestral hall? This was not a room before... The young master died in Huaili Village, and the family asked his mourning hall to be placed here, and there are The gentleman came and demolished the two huts on one side..."
My pupils suddenly tightened.
That young master...
My mother's fiancé? !
I suddenly felt that things here might be far more simple than I thought!
