Mr. Zeng, whose surname is Zeng, his name is Yun, and his courtesy name is Ruxuan, was descendant of an official.

An official means having power; having power means having money; having ancestors means having money, so he is born with money.

At that time, only rich people could afford to read, so Mr. Zeng was not only rich, but also fame.

Of course, his little fame was limited to allowing him to hire servants (without fame, he could not use servants at home, and he would not be able to have money). He had never been an official; he had no need to be an official, because he could only rely on the property left by his ancestors, even if he did nothing, he could live a life of luxury and food all his life.

However, as the saying goes... People without long-term plans will have immediate worries.

Mr. Zeng is not stupid either. He understands that no matter how rich you are, if you don’t have the protection of power, it will be unstable in the long run.

因此,多年前,他就非常机智地把自己唯一的女儿嫁给了朝中一名年轻有为的官员,并花了不少钱为这位女婿上下打点；如今,他的女婿已是工部尚书,外孙也有俩了；女婿对他很是感恩,再加上两家的利益也紧密的捆绑在一起,所以这曾老爷莫说是在地方上,纵是放眼整个大朙,也算是个颇有势力的人物.

However, in the late summer of the 18th year of Yongtai, a series of strange events suddenly occurred in the Zeng Mansion, which had always been peaceful.

Looking back now, the cause of that incident should have been half a month ago...

There were two helpers in the kitchen of Zeng Mansion, a pair of brothers, one named He Da and the other named He Er. One day, when they were pushing the sweeper truck out to pour sweeper, He Er accidentally saw something on the grass by the river shining under the sun. He looked closer and found that it was a carp made of glass.

In our current opinion, this thing is roughly the deteriorated version of the "Eight Stars and Eight Arrows 998 Crystal Diamond", which is so low that it is beyond imagination. However, with its great chemical level and industrial ability, this thing is relatively rare, and even if it is used to a pawn shop, it can be exchanged for a lot of money.

The He brothers are just ordinary people living at the bottom. They do not have the idea of ​​"just find the owner when you pick up valuable things." After picking up the things, their first thought was: "This time God is so open-minded that my brothers and I have picked up such a big advantage."

In their perception, if they picked up this thing, they would have already belonged to them. Even if the owner came to him later, they might not be willing to give it to him...at least they had to take some benefits.

So, on the way back to the house, the two of them were already eager to discuss how to sell the thing later, how to divide the money from the sale, how to spend it after it was divided, etc.

That night, both of them were so excited that they couldn't sleep, but because there were others next to them, they couldn't discuss this matter publicly, so they could only hold it in.

When it was midnight, they were so tired that they fell asleep one after another.

The wealthy family has a house that specializes in sleeping for the servants. Similar to the current collective dormitory, the He brothers slept with four other people, with a large shop and two brothers' shops next to each other.

The "fish" I picked up during the day was not taken out because they were afraid of being seen by others. They were always in He Er's arms, and he didn't feel uncomfortable sleeping like this.

That's it until the beginning of the Yin hour.

In today's terms, it's past three o'clock in the morning, which is when people sleep the most.

suddenly……

Outside the window of the lower room, there were strange noises.

At first the sound was very light, like the sound of a tree branch blowing by the wind on the window paper, but then it became louder and more and more urgent.

The He brothers were too tired and slept very heavily, but they didn't hear it, but a servant named Zhao Daqiang who lived in the same room as them woke up when they were sleeping. Soon, he was awakened by the sound.

Zhao Daqiang was just in his early twenties and was young and young. He didn't think much about it. He sat there and slowed down a little, then got up and went out, wanting to see what the sound was going on and go to the toilet by the way.

He thought he might have heard something like a wild cat or an owl making noise in the tree, but unexpectedly, he pushed the door and turned his head...

It was seen that under the moonlight, an unknown object with a salty smell was standing less than half a meter away from him, and its height was half a head higher than him.

As soon as this thing entered his sight, Zhao Daqiang instantly lost his sleepiness, and his whole body seemed to fall into an ice hole. In that breath, he felt a stream of passionate blood rushing straight from the soles of his feet up to his forehead, making him dizzy, his pupils contracted, and his whole body shivered.

And his eyes, which gradually adapted to the dim light, finally saw clearly in a few seconds... The black thing in front of him was a long black hair that had been soaked in the water for no reason. It had been as wet and sticky as aquatic plants. From the gap between the long hair, there was a pale human face, staring at him with a pair of eyes rolling on the white of his eyes.

Fortunately, he is a young man. If a woman or an old man comes, he will faint even if he is not scared to death on the spot.

Zhao Daqiang was so lucky that he just felt weak, but his legs fell to the ground, and he shouted that he was choking in his throat, but he just couldn't get out...

A few seconds later, his pants were wet, and the warm touch made him come to his senses a little. His voice was no longer blocked, and he immediately shouted: "Help! There is a ghost!"

In the middle of the night, his voice was so lively... Not only the servants of the house, but even the master and his wife were awakened by the shouts of excitement.

The ones who arrived at the scene the earliest were the five people lying in the room next to him, but when they came out, they saw that there was not even a single figure around Zhao Daqiang, who was sitting on the ground and peeing his pants.

Soon, the housekeeper and other servants also arrived. They poured Zhao Daqiang two sips of hot water and slapped them twice, which made him calm down and recounted the things he had just now.

But when he asked where the "ghost" had gone, he couldn't say it. He just said that if his eyes were slightly staggered, the ghost would be gone.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Next, it became very difficult until the more than an hour before dawn... The Zeng Mansion, including Mr. Zeng, who had listened to the butler's report, did not dare to close his eyes again.

People in those days were afraid of this. Even if they had never seen it before, they were more or less awe of ghosts and gods. So Mr. Zeng immediately ordered to call all the servants up and down, holding lanterns in their backyard... that is, Xiaoyaojin, and report any abnormalities immediately.

It was not until dawn that everyone breathed a sigh of relief as soon as the sun came out. After all, the demons and evil spirits could not see the sun.

This matter has come to a temporary end.

At this time, He Da and He Erke didn't think that this matter had anything to do with him...

That afternoon, they took advantage of the time they came out to pour out the water and sneaked to a nearby pawnshop, trying to sell the glazed fish.

When the pawnshop saw this thing, he called out the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took it and took a look, and then he let out his hands, asking He Dahe Er to take the thing away, saying that they would not accept it.

The He brothers don’t understand it now, and there is also the reason why the pawnshop does not collect things? But if they ask again, the shopkeeper will not say anything and just ask them to take the things away quickly, otherwise he will throw them out.

The He brothers had no choice but to take the things back, thinking that when they came out tomorrow, they would go away and go to another pawnshop to ask.

So on this day, they brought the glass fish back to Zeng's mansion and hid it in He Er's arms.

That night, there was no movement and nothing happened overnight.

Unexpectedly, early the next morning, He Da opened his eyes and saw that He Er was gone. He Da thought to himself: Could it be that my brother ran away with his own things?

He quickly got up and asked the whole yard for searching, but no one had seen He Er.

He Da was so angry that he thought that He Er must have left him and ran away. Maybe He Er had already taken over the money for selling things by himself at this time, left Luzhou, and went to another place to do small business.

But if you really want to find it, He Er has no characteristics in his appearance, so where can he look?

Thinking of this, He Da regretted that his intestines were so blue. He believed in his younger brother so much that he kept putting the fish with his younger brother, but in the end he had no money.

Another day later, the housekeeper found He Da and asked where his brother was. Why didn't he come to work? He Da could only answer that he didn't know. The He brothers were just helping with him, not selling themselves to Zeng's mansion. As long as he paid the wages, he could leave at any time. Therefore, when He Er disappeared before the wages were paid, the housekeeper would not ask more questions. After all, there were not only one or two people in the mansion.

In this way, on the third day... two things happened.

The first thing - Zhao Daqiang died of illness.

Since the night of "hitting a ghost", Zhao Daqiang has been unable to afford to get sick, cannot eat, and cannot sleep. When he asked the doctor to show him, he could not see any disease. He could only think that he was overly frightened and caught some prescriptions that would help calm the mind and fall asleep.

But he vomited the medicine as soon as he drank it... he didn't even take a few sips of it.

He is a small servant, and the mansion cannot arrange any particularly thoughtful care for him. It would be great if he could build a small house for him to lie down and recuperate.

In this way, he did not eat, drink or sleep for several consecutive days. On the evening of that day, when someone came into the house to see him, he was already lying there and dying.

Almost at the same time, in the backyard of Zeng Mansion, another second thing happened - He Er's body floated up from the Xiaoyao Pool.

In just half an hour, it was no trivial to find two dead people in a row.

Zhao Daqiang's death is easy to deal with. He was sold to Zeng's mansion since he was a child. No one cares if he died of illness or beaten to death. But He Er's death... is not easy to deal with.

He Er died in your Zeng Mansion without understanding, and he had a brother alive. They are not from your Zeng Mansion, they are just helpers. You have to give an explanation to the victim, right?

At first, Mr. Zeng didn't want to report to the official position, so he thought He Er had drowned after he made a mistake and gave his brother some money to send him away.

And how big is this? The idea is simple. Although he didn't know how his younger brother drowned, since everyone was dead, he thought: The "fish" on my younger brother is now my own. I am not young anymore. I can't make a living by relying on being a helper for a lifetime, but I want to sell the fish and then pay the money I paid to me by the Zeng Mansion, and use the money to do a small business and marry a wife. It's not bad.

Thinking of this, he felt that there was nothing to be sad about his brother's death, and it could even be said to be a happy thing; he was too lazy to investigate how his brother died...

Unexpectedly, when he asked the housekeeper if there were any relics on his younger brother, the housekeeper told him that there was nothing; and the money Zeng Mansion paid him was not as good as he expected.

He Da was so anxious that he thought someone had stolen "his fish", but it was hard to explain it clearly, because if someone asked about the origin of this thing, he couldn't answer, so he spoke up and asked the Zeng family to pay him twenty taels of silver.

What does twenty taels of silver mean in Dazhe? Let’s put it this way, one tael of silver is equivalent to a consistent amount of money, that is, one thousand cents, and purchasing power... Today, you can buy about 500 kilograms of potatoes.

Mr. Zeng is rich, but he cannot agree to such a request. If he agrees to you today, ten gangsters who are a hundred times bigger than you are a scoundrel, and tomorrow they may come to you with similar methods.

But life is at stake, and Mr. Zeng has a good reputation in the local area. He doesn't want to bully others unless he has no choice but to bully others, so he has to report to the official position.

When the government came, the people who watched the fun and spread the news naturally all came. Not only did He Er drown, but the fact that Zhao Daqiang was scared to death by the "water ghost" quickly became a topic that the people of Luzhou talked about after dinner.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! So, he is quit working, but he has no other place to go. Even if there is one, he doesn't want to go before asking for money, so he stays in Zeng's house.

The housekeeper was afraid that he would interfere with other servants, so he arranged a separate room for him and also cared about his meals, saying that he could live until the government found out the results.

One night a few days later, He Dazheng was sleeping alone in the room. In the darkness, his brother He Er's voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Brother, I died so miserably..."

After hearing this, He Da woke up in fear. He couldn't tell whether he was dreaming or real just now. At this moment, his hand... touched something - a glass fish with a wet surface.

"Ah!" At that moment, He Da was so scared that he was out of possession.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he suddenly heard...

Hiss—hiss—

Outside the window, strange sounds began to sound.

Regarding this strange noise, He Da heard Zhao Daqiang say with his own ears. When he recalled it now, a thought flashed through his mind: "Can't it be... the ghost Zhao Daqiang encountered came from the beginning for this fish?"

Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss...

The sound outside became more and more rapid. He Da was so scared that he hugged his head and lay down under the bed, shouting for help.

I don’t know how long it took, but the sound stopped, and then several people shouted at the door.

I think someone heard the call for help.

He Da mustered up the courage to climb out from under the bed and opened the door. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was the butler and several servants carrying lanterns at the door.

At this point, he really couldn't hide it anymore. That night, he told the butler about the cause and effect of the whole thing, and took out the "glazed fish". The butler presented the thing to Mr. Zeng to show, reposting He Da's story.

Mr. Zeng is a scholar, so he doesn’t understand these things. Just think that this glass fish is an evil thing. Just find a barren mountain and bury it. As for He Da, give him ten taels, whether he wants it, let him leave quickly.

The next morning, He Da took the money and left Zeng's mansion. The miserable ran away, so the government stopped investigating his brother He Er's case.

And the "glazed fish", the housekeeper ordered a few servants to pick a few days and when the sun was at its peak, they ran to a wasteland outside the city, dug a very deep pit, and buried it on the spot.

I thought the matter would come to an end, but...

A few days later, Mr. Zeng's second wife was suddenly found dead in the room, and the corpse's hands were closed in front of her chest, holding a glass fish tightly in her hands...

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Huang Donglai was in a wine shop on the side of the road and ordered a pot of wine for the strange old man, and listened to him telling the story vividly.

After hearing this, Huang Donglai's first question was: "That... this father-in-law, let alone is this really so evil... Why do you say so in detail, as if you saw it with your own eyes?"

"Hey! Boy, don't believe it." The old man replied confidently, "I heard Grandma Li from the old Li family next door."

"Did Grandma Li from the old Li family next door see it with her own eyes?" Huang Donglai asked again.

"She didn't see it, but she heard from her grandson's cousin's friend's cousin." The old man said again.

"Then the cousin of her grandson's friend..." Huang Dong said this, and he couldn't listen any more. He turned around and said, "Hi~ just say, where is the source of this news."

"It's the steward of Zeng's mansion, Zeng Su." The old man replied, "He knew the most about these things. He personally told Captain Zhou in the yamen. When Captain Zhou knew about it, his brothers from the yamen runners would know it, and then..."

"Okay... 'Okay... Then' there is no need to mention it." Huang Donglai stopped the other party from continuing to be poor and asked again, "By the way, when did the second grandmother of the Zeng family die?"

"Just yesterday." said the old man, "The body was left in the room for a day and a night, and no one dared to move. Today, Mr. Zeng and the county magistrate discussed it and simply asked the messengers to send the second wife's body together with the glazed fish to the temple, and ask the monks to recite scriptures and spend a few days to see if they can calm this matter."

"Well... Yesterday..." Huang Donglai touched his chin and said, "Those who died yesterday are known to everyone in the city today. The people here really like to talk about gossip..."

"Little smash." The old man smiled, "Ha... don't you like to listen to gossip too? Why would you buy me wine?"

Huang Donglai thought to himself, that's right; this is not the world he used to be. People can stare at their mobile phones and computers all day long, searching for almost unlimited information and fun on the Internet... Here, there is not even a newspaper, so don't the people just talk to each other in a pissy way.

After a while, Huang Donglai remembered that he had something to do, so he put down his money and said goodbye to the old man, and went to the branch of the high-speed rail gang.

Originally, I was so happy when I heard this today, I didn’t care or plan to care about it.
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