Chapter 50 - Ghosts in the Village

 All the way to the north of the city.

Out of the city gate, the road began to be uneven, traveling for about half an hour, the sky was dark, before finally arriving at the entrance of that manor.

This manor has been haunted for more than twenty years, and apart from the neighboring farmers, as well as the people who specialize in taking care of the manor, no one else actually knows much about this matter.

For example, those burly men and grannies that Yunchu had brought with her, one by one, they looked curiously at the barren manor in front of them, not understanding why there were no crops planted.

"Ma'am, this doorway is full of weeds, you shouldn't go in." Chen Defu spoke, "Old slave will bring a few people to explore the situation."

Yunchu carefully observed the entrance of the manor, her lips suddenly floated into a smile, "At first glance, it is indeed overgrown, but Uncle Chen, have you noticed that the left side and the right side of the grass on the separation, there will be an extremely difficult to find a small road, the manor should be from the people who go in and out through this road."

 Cheng Defu stared in shock, "Someone else dares to live here?"

 Yunchu but smiled.

People are three times afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are seven times afraid of people. Even if there really are ghosts, there is actually no need to be afraid.

She took the lead down the parted path and stepped in, the skirt of her dress hooked in the weeds, and as she stepped forward, she hooked out a number of silken threads, and a dress was sort of ruined.

 Chen De Fu hurriedly stepped on the weeds and walked in front of her to open the way.

Listening Frost was at the front to hold the lamp, while Listening Wind and Listening Snow helped Yunchu lift the hem of her skirt on the left and right.

Behind the grannies and hans hooted and hollered to follow, until this time, they realized something was wrong, this day is dark, the manor how a lamp is not lit?

Entered the manor, the weeds in the inside are flush with people high, the moonlight shines down, the tree shadow shakes, the timid listening to the snow scared face is white.

Chen Defu led the people to clear a path and brought Yun Chou into the lobby, wiping the chairs in the lobby clean with his own clothes and respectfully invited Yun Chou to sit down.

 Hearing Frost even took tea down from the carriage and made it here.

 As the tea boiled and smelled, the night sank even deeper.

Chen Defu listened to the frost and other people's courage gradually increased, they are so many people, even if there are severe ghosts probably do not dare to show.

"This tea is overcooked, so let's have a few sips each to moisten our throats, we'll have to work later."

 Yunchu smiled and rewarded the tea down.

The grannies never drank only coarse tea, it was the first time they drank such delicate and mellow tea, they all couldn't help but drink a few more cups.

Not long after, a granny covered her stomach and said, "Ma'am, can the old slave go relieve herself, she'll be right there."

 Yunchu nodded, "It's dark outside, you have two people accompany you along."

It so happens that there are two grannies are also anxious, so the three together out of the lobby, outside all the flush high weeds, simply can not distinguish the direction, where to figure out where the latrine, so the three together, looking for a place where the grass and trees are strong, undo the belt on the squatting down ...

 Suddenly, there was a rustling sound.

 A granny blurted out, "We're over here, if you want to relieve yourselves go elsewhere."

 That footsteps are but getting closer ...

Yun Chou and the others were sitting in the lobby, and soon, they heard the screams of the grannies one after another.

 Listen to the snow so scared that her whole face trembled, "There can't really be ghosts ..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Listening to Frost's voice also trembled a little, "Madam has already arranged for Uncle Chen to go over, it will be fine."

The words just fell, Chen Defu let people carry those three grannies back, two of them have already fainted in fear, the remaining one babbled, "It s a ghost, what a scary ghost, so long fangs, that ghost is going to eat us ...."

 As the granny spoke, her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted as well.

Chen Defu reported, "Ma'am, when the old slave brought people over, that thing had already run away, it ran really fast, drilling into the woods and disappeared."

The trees were tall and the grass was thick in the forest, and with the darkness, they were dizzy going in there for the first time.

The grannies and men in the lobby were all scared, no one expected that there would be ghosts here, and all of them had the intention of retreating.

 Yun Chu stood up, "Let's go, let's go over and take a look."

 The hansoms and grannies looked at each other in dismay.

They don't understand, isn't her ladyship afraid? How is it that her ladyship is so calm and doesn't look the least bit flustered?

 One could only say that a master was a master, not something that they, the subordinates, could compare to.

With Yun Chu taking the lead, these people found their backbone, and the retreat in their hearts slowly dissipated as they surrounded Yun Chu and headed out.

Chen Defu and the four hans opened the way in front, and soon arrived at the place where the three grannies had relieved themselves, and there was a direction where the weeds were overpowered, and the crowd followed that direction, and after a slight walk of a dozen or so paces, they arrived at the front of the manor house's grove.

The grove was darker, the trees were more abundant, not to mention meeting ghosts after going in, if one got lost it would be enough to drink a pot of water.

 Yunchu closed her eyes and sniffed.

Just now she put a kind of nameless incense in the tea, it was a spice that her mother had developed for nothing when she was a child, she liked it very much and ordered some when she had nothing else to do.

Later she found out that the fragrance endured, and even if she drank it into her stomach and out of her body, it would still carry this odor and the smell would be deeper.

After the grannies drank the tea and relieved themselves, the "ghosts" passed by here and would surely have gotten their scent on them.

Yunchu sniffed for a while, opened her eyes, and pointed due south, "Uncle Chen, go this way."

 Chen Defu nodded his head and went up with the four hans to open the way.

There was no sign of anyone coming here at all, but a closer look revealed that the weeds were all falling in one direction very regularly, and those who were used to walking would be able to get through without disturbing the weeds.

Yun Chou led the people to the depths of the woods and saw a thatched hut, the hut was nestled in the middle of a dense forest, but it looked clean and had a smoky atmosphere.

 Chen Defu was incredulous, "So there really are people living here."

Listening to the wind frowned: "What kind of person even pretends to be a god here, Uncle Chen, hurry up and arrest the person for proper interrogation."

 Yunchu made a gesture of impossibility.

She walked to the door of the hut and spoke in a faint voice, "Mrs. Wu, Young Master Wu, meet me."

Before she was ready to buy this manor, she had already checked the situation of the first owner of this manor's earliest, the Wu family.

After the people of the Wu family got a strange disease, one by one, they all died and were buried in the ancestral tomb of the Wu family, and she purposely sent someone to go there, and there were two tombstones missing from the large ancestral tomb.

 That would be the last wife of the Wu family, and the young master who was only about a year old back then.

The fire ten years later in a previous life was supposed to have killed the mother and son, so that was the end of the haunting.

 After Yun Chou's words fell, there was no response from the hut.

She wasn't in a hurry and continued, "The capital has recently come with a divine doctor, wouldn't Mrs. Wu like to have the divine doctor check Young Master Wu's pulse and cure him?"

At these words, the house resounded with movement, and in a moment a bent woman came out with a cane.

 Yunchu couldn't help but be shocked.

When that Mrs. Wu had just given birth to a child, she was about twenty years old, twenty years had passed, and now she was probably in her forties, and this looked as if she was sixty years old, what had she gone through to make a woman age like this?

 She wasn't done being surprised.

 Another man in a black cloak came out of the house.

The man had a face full of blisters the size of a baby's fist, some of those blisters had broken the skin and festered, the whole face looked very scary, he reached out to help his mother, his hands were also full of blisters, his body was probably full of ...

Yunchu knew that this was Young Master Wu, suffering from a strange disease inherited from the Wu family.