Recap
The child is not guilty if he doesn’t know. But this couple, as well as many people in Yuexi Town, were witnesses who watched Wen Yichu being killed that day. Watching with cold eyes is another kind of harm.
Yan Zhao didn’t like them anyway.
Rong Yu glanced at him and asked, “Are you childish?”
Yan Zhao told the truth: “You are not generous either.”
“I am not generous, but there are people who are.” Rong Yu lay on the couch and conveyed Wen Yichu’s meaning:
“I don’t hate them; I want to save them.”
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The Hu family thought that they could have a peaceful night staying at Xiaohu’s house—they all hid in this broken house, and the ghosts couldn’t chase them again, right?
But the ghosts were not making trouble in the house but were specifically targeting them. So that night, when Mr. Hu just went to bed, he saw a female ghost hanging upside down from the beam. He was so scared that he quickly climbed out of bed, and another hand stretched out from the bottom of the bed, trying to grab his feet.
It was another night of chaos.
After three consecutive days and three nights without closing his eyes, Mr. Hu had dark circles under his eyes and was tired, as if he had been drained of his energy by the ghost. He was sleepy and hungry, so he asked the maid to make some breakfast to fill his stomach. The maid opened the rice jar and found it empty. She said in embarrassment, “Master, there is no rice in the rice jar.”
Landlord Hu’s eyes widened, and he asked sternly, “How can there be no rice in the rice jar? Where did the rice go? Did you steal it last night?”
The Hu family lived a life of feasting and eating, which can be seen from Landlord Hu’s fat stomach. The kitchen of the landlord’s house is always full of food, which is collected from the tenants. Even if it cannot be eaten, it will not be used to help the hungry tenants until it is eaten by insects.
There is no idle land in the world, but farmers still starve to death.
They have tenants to farm and cooks to cook. They only need to open their mouths to eat rice, and they don’t even need to enter the kitchen door. They don’t know how the crops grow in the fields, and they think that rice should be white, tender, fragrant, and soft. Mr. Hu never thought that he would be in such a predicament.
Xiaohu’s parents did take out the last grain to entertain them last night, and they didn’t dare to leave any.
The servant touched his stomach and said, “Master, how dare we steal food? We are hungry, but there is really no rice in this house.”
Mr. Hu blew his beard and glared: “Nonsense, this family of poor people are all farmers. How can farmers have no rice?!”
The servant: You are talking nonsense.
He reminded me carefully: “But Master, 90% of the grain is in the kitchen of your mansion.”
Mr. Hu: “…”
Suddenly remembered.
Thinking of the plague god sitting at home, Mr. Hu had a headache and dared not get close. He really shot himself in the foot. If he had collected a few percent less rent from the tenants, he would not be hungry today.
Mr. Hu refused to admit that he had brought it upon himself and said in a rough voice, “If this family is gone, we can find another one. There will always be one who can give us rice.”
He took his servants to knock on the doors of the farmers who rented the Hu family’s fields, but every family’s doors and windows were closed, and they would not open the door even if they were beaten to death. No matter how Mr. Hu shouted and threatened, no one responded.
Mr. Hu said in disbelief, “Did these people rebel overnight? How dare they ignore me?”
He never thought that everything would really turn upside down overnight.
Last night, Xiaohu’s family was sleeping soundly in the room, and Rong Yu kicked the door open and dug them out of the quilt. Xiaohu’s parents woke up and trembled. They looked at Rong Yu as if they were looking at the King of Hell to take their lives. The couple tried their best to protect Xiaohu, who had the tragic look of a warrior who would never return.
At this time, Rong Yu spoke: “I’ll give you a task, complete it immediately, and it will be counted as rent.”
Xiaohu’s parents: “…”
That’s it? ? ?
The task given by Rong Yu was very simple. He asked Xiao Hu’s parents to knock on the doors of the tenants from house to house to convey a message: Wen Yichu had indeed returned as a fierce ghost and only intended to punish the enemy Hu family and the other three families that were closely related to the Hu family. He would not vent his anger on ordinary people, nor would he pursue the silent witnesses that day, understanding that they were forced to do so by evil forces.
But now Rong Yu is the biggest evil force in Yuexi Town, so he asked Xiao Hu’s parents to warn him on his behalf. He hoped that when he brought down the four major landlords, these people would no longer provide any shelter for the landlords; otherwise, they would be on his revenge list together.
Wen Yichu talked about reason, and the big devil talked about violence.
With this warning, who would dare to open the door to the Hu family?
The ghost incident was originally widely spread. When the people saw that Mr. Hu really fell to the point of eating and drinking for free, they believed that he must have been retaliated by the fierce ghost Mr. Wen. They didn’t dare to offend the landlord, and they didn’t dare to provoke the evil spirits. In addition, they also had resentment towards the landlord. They wanted to applaud at this moment, so why would they open the door?
Mr. Hu went to several houses. In the past, he always collected rent with a proud attitude, but today he is rejected everywhere. Finally, he returned to Xiaohu’s house with his head down.
Forget it; at worst, I can just skip this breakfast.
As for what to do with lunch and dinner, I’ll see what happens when the time comes! Mr. Hu thought in despair.
But at noon, Mr. Hu still couldn’t think of a solution, and he was too embarrassed to beg from other landlords, so he endured the hunger in his stomach. Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Hu were both female relatives, and Mrs. Hu was old, so she was dizzy with hunger. Mr. Hu was also hungry, thinking about what to do in the future.
He couldn’t think of a solution, and his thoughts began to drift again. He remembered that when he collected rent in the past, some families with large populations didn’t have enough food to eat, and some old men knelt down and kowtowed, hugged his legs, and cried and begged him to reduce the rent: “Mr. Hu, you took so much; what should we do with our family of five?”
What did he do at that time? Oh, he kicked the old man away coldly: “Get out; what do you do to me? You even soiled my clothes!”
Later, he heard that the five-year-old son of that family starved to death. Landlord Hu didn’t take it seriously.
Now that he suddenly remembered, he did have a little regret, but it was still not repentance. He just regretted that if he hadn’t been so desperate at that time, he wouldn’t be so desperate now.
He was always selfish.
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At dinner time, Landlord Hu was so hungry that he leaned on the table and took a nap to relieve his hunger. Suddenly, there was a roar outside, which startled Landlord Hu, so he sobbed up immediately.
“Hu! Get out!” It turned out that the three families of Jin, Sun, and Wu surrounded him outside the house. When Landlord Sun saw him, he cursed: “I’ve been looking for you for a whole day, and it turns out that you are hiding here. You did something immoral; why do you let us suffer together?!”
Landlord Hu was puzzled: “What’s wrong with me?”
“You are still pretending to be innocent!”
Several people scolded indignantly, and it took Landlord Hu a while to understand that it turned out that the three people had ruthlessly cut off their relationship with him last night, but they did not get peace. Not only the Jin family was haunted last night, but also the Sun and Wu families had a night of terror.
They were all trapped in Yuexi Town by ghosts, and they couldn’t even go out to ask a monk to perform a ritual.
Who can not panic when encountering such a thing? Who can blame Mr. Hu for causing the trouble?
Mr. Hu: “…”
None of the four families is cleaner than the others, but why is he so unlucky? There are so many ghosts, but Wen Yichu is so strong.
“What’s the use of just talking about me? You should think of a solution!”
“You caused the trouble yourself, and we should think of a solution for you?!”
“Anyway, no one can escape now. If you keep shirking your responsibilities, you will be haunted by ghosts every night.”
“…”
“How about,” Mr. Hu suggested, “let’s go to Wen Yichu to beg for mercy?”
The other three said in unison, “You go!”
They are not stupid enough to let the servants run and pass the message on their behalf. If they can’t even show this sincerity, they don’t want to live.
Mr. Hu shouted, “I won’t go! I don’t dare! Let’s go together!”
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Wen Dao Academy.
Four middle-aged men with big bellies stood in front of the door, hesitating to knock on the copper ring.
The other three winked: Mr. Hu, this is your home, and you are the one who caused the trouble, so you have to knock on the door.
Mr. Hu looked up at the plaque that had been replaced from “Hu Mansion” to “Wen Dao Academy,” wondering blankly if this could still be considered his home.
They hesitated, pushed, and shoved, and no one dared to step into the gate of hell first.
Before they decided who would be reincarnated first, the gate of hell opened first.
So the familiar scene was staged again: the seven little carrot heads who were stuck on the door were smashed into a ball of dough because of Rong Yu’s unexpected opening of the door, and the four greasy men were smashed into a pool of meat patties.
Unfortunately, Rong Yu was not as friendly to them as to the little carrot heads.
In fact, Rong Yu’s attitude towards the little radishes was also very cold at the beginning, but compared with his cruelty towards the four landlords, it was simply warm, like a spring breeze.
“You’ve had enough of playing card Landlord. Today I’ll teach you how to play real Landlord.” Rong Yu curled his lips.
The children chattered, “How do you play real Landlord?”
Rong Yu gestured to the four landlords who fell into a pile and couldn’t get up temporarily because of their heavy bodies: “Step on them hard. Whoever leaves the most footprints will be the winner.”
The four landlords: “???”
No, no, no! They shook their heads frantically, but the children were already rushing over excitedly like a herd of galloping horses.
These children were personally taught by Rong Yu, the great devil, and became bold and daring. Wen Yichu taught pure white carrots and radishes, but Rong Yu taught them all black-hearted radishes.
The great devil was not exaggerating that he could teach a legion of monsters from human cubs. He would never give up, and if someone stepped on him or insulted him (research shows that no species dares to do this at present), he would trample back. The children also learned to take revenge and no longer swallow their anger.
These children accepted the trampling incident well and did not think there was anything wrong at all. They hated these landlords. The children did not understand anything else, but they knew that every time these people came, it was like a locust passing through. The food at home was empty, the father was silent, and the mother was in tears, all because of these bad people. Xiaohu stepped on Landlord Hu’s face fiercely. Who made him bully his parents last night?
A group of children were light and could not kill four big meat shields, but they could make them vomit three liters of blood. The four officials thought that Rong Yu could have a meeting after venting his anger, but the children were happy to play, and Rong Yu kicked them out directly.
“Either you bring all your belongings, including the banknotes, land deeds, servants’ body sales contracts, etc., and come to my house to beg me to spare your lives, or you will never go out again and die trapped at home with ghosts every night.” Rong Yu said this in a noble and cold manner, and then closed the door without leaving a gap for them.
Jin, Sun, and Wu: What? !
All their belongings? ? ?
How can that be possible? That’s their lifeblood! If they lose it, their ancestors will be so angry that they will come back to life from their graves.
Of course, even if their ancestors’ true qi came back to life, Yan Zhao had the ability to make them completely dead.
But at the moment, no one was willing to pay such a high price, and they immediately backed out. It’s not worth it to get a beating, but it’s not worth losing all your wealth.
Jin, Sun, and Wu came as slowly as a snail and left as fast as a wild dog, leaving the homeless Hu in the wind.
He has nothing, and Wen Yichu didn’t let him go.
As he was talking, the door suddenly opened again.
The one who came out was Xiaohu, who had just left a shoe print on his face. He looked up at Hu, who was much taller than him, and said with his hands on his hips, “Brother Wen said that as long as your family goes to the farm, you can sleep well!”
Now is the spring plowing season, and the ready-made labor force must be exploited to the fullest.
Wen Yichu wanted to overthrow the landlords, but unfortunately, the big devil was the biggest landlord.
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