"Three good news?"
"What's the news? Brother Ma, please tell me quickly, have my mother's body been found?"
Seeing that Ma Qiang was deliberately keeping me in suspense, I didn't say anything. On the contrary, Chen Biao was extremely anxious.
“Ahem!”
Ma Qiang cleared his throat and said, "Yes, the first good news is, Brother Chen, your mother's body has been found. It's in the coffin in the west room of your old house!"
Hearing this, Ma Qiang seemed a little excited, and kept saying: "It's good to find it, it's good to find it... If we find my mother's body, we can bury my father's ashes with my mother's body. This can be regarded as fulfilling my father's last wish."
Chen Biao's eyes were red and he immediately grabbed my hand.
He hurriedly thanked him, "Master Yang, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, I would be worse than a pig or a dog! After all, it was my demon that killed my father!"
I chuckled and said, "I didn't do anything. You should just listen to what the next two good news from Ma Qiang are!"
Chen Biao looked at Ma Qiang expectantly.
Ma Qiang did not delay and said directly: "The second good news is that the curse on your Chen family has been broken!"
"What? The curse is broken?"
Chen Biao seemed a little unbelievable, and his eyes moved from Ma Qiang to my face.
I nodded, confirming what Ma Qiang said.
Seeing me nod, Chen Biao became even more excited.
Finally, he couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes and they flowed out.
He squatted on the ground and sobbed, saying repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you... Thank you so much. If it weren't for you, I really don't know what I would do. That's great, our Chen family doesn't have to be extinct! That's great!..."
Then Ma Qiang told the third good news.
But when talking about the third piece of news, the smile on Ma Qiang's face turned gloomy, and he said to Chen Biao: "Brother Chen, this third piece of good news is about the person who harmed your family. My brother Yang almost knows who it is."
Hearing this, Chen Biao, who was squatting on the ground, slowly raised his head.
He stared at me deeply and asked anxiously, "Master Yang, is what Brother Ma said true?"
I sighed and said, "Yes, it's true! Today I will help you find the person who harmed your Chen family. And that person not only harmed your Chen family, but also harmed your Li family. Li Yunlong was actually killed by that person!"
Li Yunlong and Chen Biao naturally knew that I was talking about Li Xiang’s son, his playmate back then.
But after hearing this, Chen Biao was a little confused. He asked in confusion: "Master Yang, didn't that person harm our Chen family? How did he harm the Li family too?"
Then I asked Ma Qiang to briefly tell Chen Biao what had just happened in the west room of the Chen family's old house.
After hearing this, Chen Biao's face was filled with anger, and he kept cursing, "Damn it, that guy is simply a bastard, don't let me catch that villain, if I find him, I will definitely kill him!"
I can understand Chen Biao's anger. But the person who can perform the "ghost sacrifice method" and trap the ghost is probably not an ordinary person.
At this time, Li Yunlong, the wronged ghost in the soul-collecting barrel, also made a sound and said a few words to Chen Biao in front of me.
Hearing Li Yunlong's voice, Chen Biao was even more certain that Li Yunlong had drowned in the reservoir.
Wicked people do it.
Soon, I stood aside and said, "Well, the truth will soon come out. Let's go and meet that evildoer!"
After saying that, I walked towards Jinhe Village, and Chen Biao and Ma Qiang followed me.
Afterwards, under the guidance of Li Yunlong's ghost, we did not leave Jinhe Village, but came to a tile-roofed house on the west side of Jinhe Village.
When standing in front of the tiled house, Chen Biao was stunned.
"This... this... how come it is here?"
Chen Biao's tone of voice changed, and there was a tremor in his voice.
"What? Is there something wrong?"
Ma Qiang asked in surprise.
Chen Biao said in a trembling voice: "This courtyard belongs to... our village... the village chief's house!"
At this point, Chen Biao looked at me with a worried look in his eyes and asked in a trembling voice, "Master Yang, you... could it be that you made a mistake??!"
I raised the corner of my mouth, shook my head, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go, we can't make a mistake. Li Yunlong has already felt it, and its body is right here. We will know when we go in!"
Then, under the astonished gazes of Ma Qiang and Chen Biao, I was the first to enter the tile-roofed house.
The sky was already gloomy at this time, and there was a feeling of dark clouds looming over the city. It seemed that it might rain soon.
Without knocking, I pushed open the iron door of the tile-roofed house and walked straight into the house with Ma Qiang and Chen Biao.
The house also has three rooms, similar in structure to the Chen family's, but it is quite spacious inside.
There was a curtain with pendants hanging at the door. When we entered the house, the pendants made a rustling sound.
When we stopped, a sound suddenly came from the east room of the house.
"Haha... I didn't expect you guys would find your way here? It seems like I underestimated you!"
Chen Biao was very familiar with that voice; it was the voice of the village chief Pang Wei.
Following the sound, the three of us rushed into the east room.
In front of a square table on the kang in the east room, the village chief Pang Wei was drinking some wine. On the table was a plate of peanuts.
After we arrived, he didn't even blink and just kept drinking.
Chen Biao immediately shouted angrily: "Pang Wei, you old bastard, I didn't expect that all those things were caused by you. You always said that you have a good relationship with my father, but I didn't expect that you actually wanted to kill our Chen family behind our backs."
"Do you know that it was because of the curse you cast that I strangled my father to death and caused my unborn son to die tragically in my womb? You are truly a heinous criminal!..."
Chen Biao kept scolding Pang Wei.
But the village chief Pang Wei looked unconcerned.
He was still sitting there drinking his wine, looking as if he had nothing to do with the situation. But I knew his heart was dark!
The village chief Pang Wei remained silent, but this also indirectly confirmed that all of this was done by him.
Chen Biao was so angry that his face turned blue, and his bloodshot eyes were filled with coldness. I believe that if Chen Biao was really given an axe, he would definitely chop Pang Wei to pieces.
"You bastard! Damn it, I'll kill you!..."
After cursing loudly, Chen Biao punched Pang Wei in the face.
Ma Qiang and I quickly stopped Chen Biao.
"Brother Chen, don't be so hasty to do anything. This man is worse than pigs and dogs. If you do something to him, you will dirty your hands!"
Chen Biao was
Ma Qiang pulled him aside.
After hearing what I said, the village chief Pang Wei, who was sitting cross-legged on the kang, finally spoke.
Pang Wei placed the wine glass in his hand on the square table with a bang.
His cold eyes pierced me fiercely, and he said coldly: "Boy, I don't know who you are, but you shouldn't meddle in the affairs of the Chen family!"
I had no fear in my heart, because this village chief Pang did not have any Yin De at all, so his Taoism could not be very high. Of course, there was also a possibility that he could use Yin De, but because he had done so many bad things, his Yin De had been ruined.
I looked back at him jokingly and said unhappily, "Really? You said I shouldn't care, so I shouldn't care? Who do you think you are? Don't think so highly of yourself, because in my heart you are not a human being at all. You have this body but you are nothing but a beast with a human face and a beast's heart."
"Do you think you are so great? I tell you, you are wrong. What you did is not worthy of praise. Now you accuse me of meddling in other people's business. Let me tell you, I am an upright Taoist priest. And you are a shameless person!"
After being ridiculed and scolded by me, the village chief Pang Wei did not get angry immediately.
He glanced at me coldly and said solemnly, "Little brother, you are very advanced in Taoism, so it's no problem for you to kill me. But there are some things I still need to tell you."
Having said that, Pang Wei didn't care whether I was listening or not and just started talking to himself.
It turns out that Pang Wei and Chen Yousong were very good friends when they were young, and they even worshipped in front of the statue of Guan Gong. However, although they were good friends, they both fell in love with a girl named Tan Hongyu in Jinhe Village.
And that Tan Hongyu is actually Chen Biao's mother.
Chen Yousong and Pang Wei both admired Tan Hongyu, so they started competing. The two agreed to compete fairly, but one day Tan Hongyu came to Pang Wei crying and said that she was abused by Chen Yousong.
Because of this incident, Pang Wei and Chen Yousong had a big fight on the mountain, and finally they parted ways.
Soon, Tan Hongyu became pregnant with Chen Yousong's child. The society at that time was not as open as it is today. If a woman did not find a husband after getting pregnant, she would be despised.
In order to save her own face, Tan Hongyu married Chen Yousong.
Tan Hongyu and Chen Yousong are together. Although there is a big knot in their hearts, they still have to maintain their life. What Chen Yousong doesn't know is that because of Tan Hongyu's matter, his good friend Pang Wei has hated him since then.
There were even several times when Chen Yousong met Pang Wei on the mountain road, and the two of them started fighting directly, and the fight was bloody. This matter was still a hot topic in the village. However, people only knew that Chen Yousong and Pang Wei were not on good terms, but they did not know that Tan Hongyu was abused by Chen Yousong.
Later, Chen Yousong took Tan Hongyu to work in the city and left Jinhe Village, and his affair with Pang Wei was gradually forgotten by people.
In fact, Tan Hongyu liked Pang Wei in her heart. It was just that Chen Yousong's extra care for her made her hesitate between Pang Wei and Chen Yousong. If she could choose Pang Wei directly, perhaps the later events would not have happened.
And Chen Yousong really loved Tan Hongyu, which was why he did such a shameful thing.
Chen Yousong's love has become an obsession for him. This is also the reason why Chen Yousong began to believe in Buddhism after Tan Hongyu passed away.
(to be continued)
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