Chapter 89: A Disturbance!
No matter how they looked at it, Zhang Hai’s death was bizarre. If he had truly died over three days ago, then who was the Zhang Hai that returned to Wei City? And why, of all times, did his soul return to Longmen Village today?
Li Yanchu’s eyes narrowed. The elderly, white-haired man with the cane had vanished again. But this time, he didn’t reappear from the shadowy depths of the Lin ancestral shrine.
Instead...
Bang!
With a thunderous sound, the doors of the Lin family shrine slammed shut.
Li Yanchu said in a low voice, “At this point, our only option is to head to Lady Zhou’s place and see if Zhang Hai is really there. If he is, we ask him why he came back, and what in the world is happening in Longmen Village.”
Bai Hongtu suddenly said, “Didn’t you say earlier we shouldn’t go knocking on a widow’s door in the middle of the night?”
Li Yanchu froze for a second, then straightened up and replied seriously, “Right now we don’t even know if that Lady Zhou is a person or a ghost. You’re still worried about that? Why are you so sensitive?”
Bai Hongtu’s mouth twitched. He was so stunned he couldn’t come up with a retort.
Soon, the two arrived at Lady Zhou’s house. The woman who had been drawing water by the well earlier was now nowhere to be seen.
Not only that, even the eerie cries of hunger that had echoed throughout the village had completely vanished. Only the blood-red moon in the sky remained, its color even more intense than before, brightening as if soaked in fresh blood.
The two slipped in quietly, creeping around to the back of the house. The lights in the room had already been extinguished, and it was pitch dark inside.