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. It's in this pit where five children are buried..."
"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 man 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, staring at me with wide eyes as if he had seen a ghost, stammering: "You, you, how... how did you know?" He thought that he could do this secretly, and since Mao Tianshi, Fu Xueman and he would not tell anyone, no one would know the truth about Ding Ruiyun's drowning.