Volume 2 Chapter 33: Outside the Game
Fan Xiaobing's expression was uncertain for a moment, his eyes rolled around, and he never answered.
Damn it, seeing the sun was setting further and further west, I didn’t have time to waste with him, so I said impatiently: "Okay, you go to the underworld and think about it. I'll go home and take a shower first." Then I turned around and pretended to leave.
When he came back from taking a shower, he was gone. The guy got anxious when he heard it and shouted quickly: "Don't leave, I'm telling you, I've set up a five-ghost moving bureau in my house."
"Speak louder, I can't hear you clearly."
"There's a Five Ghosts Moving Bureau set up in my house!" Fan Xiaobing shouted loudly.
The crowd immediately became lively, with many people scolding him for being immoral and using such evil techniques to harm others and benefit himself in order to make a fortune.
I nodded with satisfaction, and glanced sideways to see Fu Xueman with a panicked look on her face, head down and silent. I sneered and thought, the best is yet to come.
"Who helped you perform this evil magic?" I asked.
“It’s Master Mao.”
"Besides setting up the Five Ghosts Moving Bureau at your house, what else did she do in the square?" I asked loudly.
"She, she's still in the square. Five children were buried in this pit..."
"Where did the child come from?"
After I broke through Fan Xiaobing's psychological defenses, he spoke freely, sweating profusely as he answered, "They are all dead children who were just buried in the nearby village."
This caused a stir among the masses. Two children from this village were buried in the western suburbs after their death. The next day, the graves were dug up and the bodies were missing. The two families ran to the pit and questioned Fan Xiaobing angrily. I quickly pushed them back. Fan Xiaobing confessed that he had sent someone to do it. At that time, the square had just been built and street lights were being installed. Master Mao designated this street light as the location of the Five Ghosts. Burying five children's bodies below would not only raise a big-headed ghost boy to help him move wealth, but also become a Five Ghosts Outside the Bureau.
Even if someone saw through the Five Ghosts Moving Bureau in his house, after removing it, this external bureau would still be effective and would continuously transport wealth to his home. However, the external bureau was even more evil, not only robbing wealth, but also taking lives. Liu San and Uncle Wang Zijun were killed by this external bureau.
When the middle-aged policeman heard Fan Xiaobing say that he had set up this trap, he started to curse: "You tricked us into coming here and you are actually harming us. Your ancestors are all wicked!"
Fan Xiaobing hung his head. He had admitted everything anyway and felt guilty, so he didn't say anything back, no matter how you scolded him.
After the masses learned the truth, they were in a turmoil. Although Liu San and Wang Zijun's family members were attending a funeral and did not come, their relatives and friends were not happy and rushed over to denounce Fan Xiaobing. Wang Zijun was also angry and was cursing. When he saw me trying my best to stop the people rushing over, he quickly helped Shen Bing push the people back.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Fu Xueman tried to escape in the chaos. I shouted at her, "Wait, I haven't finished asking your questions." She trembled and stopped.
I turned to look at Fan Xiaobing at the bottom of the pit and asked, "When Ding Ruiyun saw you two doing something, she wanted to kill you. It just so happened that Master Mao wanted someone to be her substitute to pay off his debt, so he drowned her in the water cellar, right?"
Fu Xueman fell to the ground with a thud.
Fan Xiaobing was horrified. He stared at me with wide eyes in fear as if he had seen a ghost, and stammered, "You, you, how...how did you know?" He thought that he could do this thing secretly. Since Mao Tianshi, Fu Xueman and he would not tell anyone, no one would know the truth about Ding Ruiyun's drowning.
I dare not say that I heard Ding Ruiyun say it in the underworld, it is hard to believe, I sneered and said: "I guessed it, because Mao Tianshi is a woman, she must have found a woman to be a substitute, and your wife drowned in the water cellar half a year ago for unknown reasons, she must have been a scapegoat!"
Fu Xueman lay on the ground and cried in panic, "I don't know what you are talking about. Even if my mother returned the betrothal gift after you faked your death, there was nothing wrong with that. Why do you have to frame me and ruin my reputation?"
Damn, she's too smart, trying to turn the tables by pretending to be pitiful. I turned around and glared at her, shouting, "Do you dare to say that you have a clear conscience and have never harmed Ding Ruiyun? Let me tell you, the female ghost who possessed you that day was her! Now she's behind you and can hear every word you say, are you still trying to make excuses?"
Fu Xueman screamed "Ah!", and turned around in panic, lying on the ground, looking around in horror.
Shen Bing whispered in my ear: "Ding Ruiyun is here too, is that true?"
I whispered to her in annoyance, "You are becoming more and more stupid." Shen Bing immediately raised her braids and glared at me with a tight mouth.
Fan Xiaobing was so frightened that he held his head and screamed. He was in a trance and kept muttering, "Don't come looking for me. It's Master Mao who is looking for someone..."
I looked at Fu Xueman and wanted to ask her why she insisted on marrying me, but I thought she was too cunning and I probably wouldn't get any results from asking her. It would be better to tease Fan Xiaobing who was now scared. So I squatted down and said, "The last question, if you answer it honestly, I will rescue you immediately. Why didn't you marry Fu Xueman after Ding Ruiyun died, and let her entangle me?"
The seven of them were sunken to their chests, a little breathless, and the six policemen all begged me to rescue them. I ignored them and just stared at Fan Xiaobing, eager to know the answer.
Fan Xiaobing said with trembling lips: "After Fu Xueman knew that I used my wife as a scapegoat, she has been afraid to marry me, fearing that she would follow in Ding Ruiyun's footsteps. I don't understand the real reason why she wants to marry you, but I guess she wants to marry someone who understands Taoism and can protect her from being killed by the ghost boy."
Yes, he was right, Fu Xueman must have thought so. When their family saw my ability, they took the initiative to propose marriage. Obviously, they wanted to marry a man who understood Taoism. Otherwise, how could someone like me with a bad reputation be so lucky as to be favored by the "Town Beauty"?
Fu Xueman finally got up from the ground, burst into tears, and ran out of the square with her face covered.
Everything was revealed, and I felt relieved. I shouted, "I'll rescue you now!" I picked up the shovel and dug a shovel of blood soil on the five elements position, asked Wang Zijun to burn the talisman and put it in, nailed the fire stick again, and tied the red rope. The seven people in the pit stopped sinking immediately and were pulled to the edge of the pit by Wang Zijun and I.
Seven people were lying on the ground gasping for breath. They were almost in a state of panic, shaking like sieves and unable to speak.
I asked the middle-aged policeman if he felt someone grabbing their legs and pulling them down. He nodded in fear. I called Wang Zijun and told him to go down and dig. Now everyone knew that there was an evil Five Ghosts Bureau down there. Who else would dare to go down except us?
It took an hour to dig two meters deep, and just as the sun was setting, they dug out the skeletons of five children. It was so fucking weird that after being buried there for six years, their bodies were still intact and not rotten at all, but they were all purple and black, and their faces were extremely hideous and terrifying!
