Recap
“Remember to build a ghost wall so that people who shouldn’t go out can’t leave Yuexi Town.” Since the rectification has begun, Rong Yu will not cause any trouble. The Hu family still has some friendship with the government office, so he has to stop them from reporting to the government just in time to solve the other families. As for the county magistrate who beat Wen Yichu and drove him out of the government office, it is better to wait until he becomes an official to settle the account. A higher official can crush people to death, and it will be more permanent at that time.
Yan Zhao: “Don’t worry, I promise that they can’t even walk out.”
Rong Yu: “Then I’m not too sure.”
Yan Zhao asked: “Are you going to close the door and beat the dog?”
“Almost.” Rong Yu said.
“Beat the landlords and divide the land.”
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The Hu family was pushed out of the Hu Mansion by a gust of cold wind, shivering in the cold night. Mr. Hu was chased and beaten by Mrs. Hu with a cane for a long time. Finally, Mrs. Hu couldn’t stand it anymore and suggested finding a place to stay first; otherwise, they would freeze to death outside.
Mr. Hu escaped the cane, and he, the head of the family, was at a loss at the moment. All the family belongings were in the box, which had been taken away by the man surnamed Wen. They were not penniless. The little money left on them, plus the gold and silver jewelry worn by Mrs. Hu and the silk and satin she wore, was worth a few dollars. If they were pawned at the pawnshop, it would be enough for ordinary people to live for several years. But the Hu family was used to spending lavishly, and this little money was not enough for them to squander, and it was not even enough to pay for the wages of the servants.
Being driven out of the house overnight and reduced to the situation of pawning jewelry and clothes was a miserable feeling.
Besides, after buying the house, the remaining money could not cover the expenses for a few days. Mr. Hu really didn’t expect to end up like this overnight. If he had known this, he wouldn’t have provoked Wen Yichu! How could a scholar who was gentle and polite during his lifetime be so terrible after his death?
At this point, the Hu family finally began to regret that they shouldn’t have insisted on letting Wen Yichu be buried alive. This regret was not out of repentance for Wen Yichu but out of fear of their own fate.
If they had known that Wen Yichu would be so terrifying after crawling out of the coffin, they would have said nothing to let anyone be buried with him!
Mrs. Hu began to blame Mr. Hu again: “It’s all your fault. If you hadn’t insisted on letting that scholar and Xiaowei have a ghost marriage, would he have caused our family to have no peace forever? And you insisted on killing him alive. Now, how can the resentment be resolved? I wasn’t there that day, but now I have to suffer with you.”
Mr. Hu didn’t expect that his wife would start to make trouble again just after he appeased his mother. He said impatiently, “It’s useless to say these hindsights. You didn’t see him buried with your own eyes. You were unconscious! After waking up, you clapped your hands and said that he had died well. Now you are talking about innocence!”
Seeing that the couple was about to quarrel again, Mrs. Hu, who had calmed down, took charge of the situation: “Enough! I have another house in Yuebei Town. I will stay there tonight. What’s the point of quarreling?”
Let a group of maids and servants laugh at her.
When Mr. Hu heard that the housing problem was solved, he immediately changed his face and said attentively, “Mother, my dear mother, I know that you are more reliable than this woman who can only complain. Your son didn’t even know that you had a house.”
Mrs. Hu was about to get angry again: “You!”
Mrs. Hu glanced at her lightly, and Mrs. Hu was silent immediately. The mother-in-law has accumulated power for a long time, and she can still control her.
Mrs. Hu was already chilled tonight when she heard Mr. Hu’s words behind her back that she was old and should have passed away long ago. But her son was her own, and no matter how disappointed she was, she couldn’t just ignore him. She closed her eyes tiredly and said, “Let’s hurry to Yuebei Town without delay.”
Yuebei Town was not far away, and if they walked faster, they could still get there before midnight. Mrs. Hu was still calm. The predicament was only temporary. When they got to the town, they could ask a master to take away the ghost in the old house, and they could get their property back.
They had planned everything, but they didn’t expect that they couldn’t get out of Yuexi Town at all.
When they went back to the original place for the fourth time, Mr. Hu said in fear, “Mom, this must be a ghost wall, and the ghost doesn’t want us to leave.”
Mrs. Hu’s hand holding the cane trembled slightly. “No, let’s go to the Jin family.”
The four major landlords in Yuexi Town are Jin, Hu, Sun, and Wu. They are all landlords in the same town, and some of them are old friends. Mrs. Hu has some friendship with Mrs. Jin, and the relationship between the two families is closer. Of course, if we really look into it, it is just a plastic friendship that is like-minded because they are from the same landlord class, not a deep friendship.
The Hu family came to stay overnight, and the Jin family was also surprised, but when they thought about the ghost last night, they suddenly understood. Jin patted Hu’s shoulder and laughed: “Brother Hu, why are you so timid? A few little ghosts have frightened you. It’s okay; there are many rooms in the Jin family, enough for you to live in.”
Jin’s seemingly hearty smile was mixed with ridicule, and it was clear that he thought Hu was making a fuss. Hu also showed a grateful fake smile and cursed in his heart that if you ran into that ghost, you would be scared to death.
But on the surface, they were happy, talked, and laughed.
But soon, they couldn’t laugh anymore.
That night, the Jin family was haunted.
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When Rong Yu said he wanted to beat the landlords and divide the land, it was certainly not just a statement. If it was just to avenge the original owner, then the matter should come to an end after the Hu family is dealt with. But it is obvious that Wen Yichu is not concerned about the Hu family but about the oppression of the peasants by the landlords, so none of the four kings of Yuexi Town can escape.
To expand a little, it is not enough, even if all the landlords in Yuexi Town are overthrown. There are countless towns like Yuexi Town in the world, countless exploiting landlords and exploiting people. What Wen Yichu wants to challenge and overthrow is the entire landlord class. And if you want to overthrow it, you either lead a peasant revolutionary uprising or become an official in the court and carry out reforms from top to bottom.
Fortunately, Wen Yichu wanted to serve the court rather than overthrow it. He did not consider leading an uprising, and he could not do it. Rong Yu was very lucky that Wen Yichu was an ancient man. Although he had the rudiments of equality in his mind, he was not so ambitious as to overthrow the entire feudal society. He just came here to fall in love and save the son of destiny, and he did not intend to change the pattern of the world. The workload was too large, and he was too lazy to move after thinking about it.
The devil can indeed change the pattern of the world by himself, but that is destruction. Wen Yichu wants to create a new world.
Rong Yu admired him, but he did not intend to become him. The savior has always been worshipped as a god, but he is a demon, and it is rare for him not to destroy the world.
Having said that, overthrowing the entire landlord class can only be implemented after becoming a high official. On this small piece of land, Rong Yu only needs to defeat the four landlords in Yuexi Town one by one.
He didn’t even need to fight the landlords himself. The four landlords ate human flesh and drank human blood. After generations of exploitation, the graves were filled with wronged ghosts. Yan Zhao gave an order, and countless ghosts rushed to vent their hatred.
They will suffer for their own sins.
On the same bleak night, ghosts were rampant. After the Hu family made trouble, it was the Jin family’s turn. What remained unchanged was that Rong Yudu nestled in the arms of the most powerful ghost king and slept very peacefully.
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The next day, the Jin family had two big dark circles under their eyes and drove the Hu family out. Before closing the door, Landlord Jin shouted excitedly, “Our temple is small and can’t accommodate you, big Buddha!”
Plastic friendship is vulnerable in front of ghosts. If it doesn’t involve their own interests and safety, the Jin family doesn’t mind giving the Hu family a place to stay. But now it is clear that the Hu family has brought bad luck to them; otherwise, how can they explain that everything was fine before, but once the Hu family moved in, the Jin Mansion also became haunted?
For their own safety, they dare not let the Hu family stay anymore.
When Landlord Jin thought of the ghost face he saw last night, he felt a chill in his heart and hurriedly asked the servant to go to the city to invite the monk to perform a ritual, but the servant returned after a short while.
“Why did you come back so soon? Where is the monk?” Landlord Jin stared, looking left and right, but not seeing the monk.
The servant’s face was pale, and he wanted to cry but had no tears: “Master, I can’t get out of this town.”
Yan Zhao set up an invisible maze on the road connecting the entire Yuexi Town with the outside world. Ordinary people can enter and exit freely, but anyone who has anything to do with these four families will encounter a ghost wall and be trapped in this town.
Landlord Jin shook his body and gradually realized the seriousness of the matter.
An hour later, the four major families gathered.
“Brother Jin, Brother Hu, why are you in such a hurry to find us?” Mr. Sun said dissatisfiedly, “I just got up from bed.”
Mr. Wu also said, “That’s right.”
These two families have not encountered any supernatural events, and they can’t understand why Mr. Jin and Mr. Hu look like they have seen a ghost. Oh, yes, they heard that they were haunted the night before yesterday… It’s none of their business, so they just don’t care. The two families are still watching the fun.
Mr. Jin told them seriously that they had encountered a ghost wall, and now everyone was trapped in the town. Sun and Hu laughed so hard that they almost cried.
“No way, Brother Jin, you are telling a made up horror tale.”
However, when the servants they sent out to verify came back with pale faces to report, they couldn’t laugh anymore.
When the two of them went there in person again and found that they really couldn’t get out, their expressions were about to cry.
“What’s going on?”
Landlord Hu could no longer remain silent and told the story of Wen Yichu.
The four major families knew that Wen Yichu was buried alive and arranged a ghost marriage. At that time, none of the other three families stopped it and did not take Wen Yichu’s life seriously. But now that they heard that this strange situation was related to Wen Yichu, they immediately joined hands and scolded Landlord Hu.
“Mr. Hu, how could you do such a wicked thing? That thing was done by you, and it has nothing to do with our three families. Don’t implicate us!”
Landlord Hu cursed in his heart that the three families have done no less wicked things than me, and it’s just that Wen Yichu is particularly difficult to deal with. How dare you blame me?
At the moment, he could only apologize, and then he said that Wen Yichu was now in the Hu Mansion and asked everyone if they were willing to negotiate and reconcile with Wen Yichu; he really didn’t dare to do it alone.
But the other families were unwilling. They believed that every wrong has its perpetrator, and Wen Yichu wanted to seek revenge on the Hu family, and the Jin family was blamed last night. Wen Yichu had such great power to trap everyone in the town, and he didn’t know what kind of ghost he had become. Who would be willing to die for an outsider?
Sun and Wu left the table early, eager to distance themselves from Mr. Hu so as not to be blamed. Didn’t you see that the Jin family, which took in the Hu family, was haunted together?
The talks failed, and the four families could not unite at all.
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Rong Yu, who was regarded as a scourge by the four major families, was playing games with the children at this moment.
The exterior of the mansion was magnificent, magnificent, and very impressive. The plaque with the words “Hu Mansion” had been removed and replaced with four large characters in a flamboyant style—Wen Dao Academy.
At first, the children stood outside and didn’t dare to come in: “Brother Wen, this is Mr. Hu’s mansion; we can’t go in.”
They usually look at the Hu family’s grand house with envy, but after looking at it for too long, the gatekeepers will drive them away fiercely. They never have a chance to see what it looks like inside.
“What is Mr. Hu’s mansion? Do you see the words on this plaque? Wen Dao Academy.” Rong Yu showed the children the title deed: “It turns out that the academy is too shabby. You need a good environment to study, so I upgraded it for you.”
The children opened their mouths wide and said, “Wow!”
This is too advanced!
At first, they hesitated and didn’t dare to go in. After entering, the little radish heads were immediately shocked by the beautiful scene in the mansion. They ran around happily and looked around curiously. It wasn’t until class that the restlessness subsided.
Exquisite desks and chairs, high-end pens, inkstones, and a quiet reading environment… The children seemed to have come to a fairyland overnight, and they could also eat delicious snacks.
“Brother Wen.” A little girl asked, “Where did Mr. Hu and the others go?”
This is the only girl among the students. Wen Yichu has advanced ideas and believes that both rich and poor men and women should study. Unfortunately, the villagers in the town think that boys can at least become high officials in the future if they study, and girls only need to get married. There is no need to read and write, and it is a waste of effort to learn. Wen Yichu talked a lot, but there was only one girl in the class.
Rong Yu said, “They went to drink the northwest wind.”*
*(starve)
The girl seemed to understand.
After changing to a brand new learning environment, the children are very passionate about studying, but Rong Yu is not very passionate. He really has no interest in teaching and educating people. Even if it is actually Yan Zhao who teaches, he is only responsible for passing on the message, and he finds it boring after a long time.
It was so boring to study all day, and we had to pay attention to the balance between work and rest. Rong Yu decided to teach the children to play games during the break; in fact, the big devil himself wanted to play.
In ancient times, there were not many ways to entertain. Rong Yu made the simplest one, cut out a deck of playing cards, and played cards with the children after teaching the rules.
The children were very excited to come into contact with new things. Rong Yu had not entertained for a long time, and he forgot the time when he played. He played one round after another.
Wen Yichu’s long-burning candle began to jump wildly again, and the blood-jade bracelet suspected that he was furious.
Wen Yichu: This is a waste of time, learning nothing, and wasting time!
Rong Yu was having fun and saw Wen Yichu’s candle jumping. He frowned and said, Why are you so nosy?
He couldn’t hear Wen Yichu’s voice, but he could guess the other party’s general thoughts.
Wen Yichu: Knowledge is power. If they don’t seize every minute to acquire knowledge, how can they participate in the imperial examinations, how can they plead for the people, and how can they defeat the landlord class?
Rong Yu: I play Landlord with them. As long as any of them finish playing cards before me, they can defeat me.
Wen Yichu:…
Blood Jade Bracelet: Big Devil, please stop talking. The Son of Luck is going to be angry again!
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