Merchant of the Underworld

"Mute lady has returned to her hometown." Xiao Wu replied.

"Go back to your hometown?" My face darkened.

"Yes, the mute uncle said that aunt has been having nightmares recently. Maybe she has never gone back to visit the grave of the elder, and she was asked to remember her, so she went back to fulfill her wish."

"Never went back? You mean, in all these years, you have never seen them leave your grandfather and go back to their hometown?" I asked with some suspicion.

"No." Xiao Wu seemed to see the confusion in my eyes and explained: "Uncle Mute and the others are definitely not the murderers. For so many years, they have taken care of my grandfather's safety, food, clothing, housing and transportation! After my parents passed away, I was also The people they raised are closer than the rest of the family, and it was definitely not their fault.”

"Besides, when the mute lady left, grandpa wasn't sick yet, but he had a bad cough."

That being said, they have served Mr. Wu all his life and raised Xiao Wu. They are closer than family members. But it happened that Mr. Wu returned to his hometown when his illness was so serious, and he had never been back.

This is a bit suspicious!

"Let's go! Go to their room and have a look." After I said that, I turned around and went to the second floor.

Uncle Mute's room was surprisingly simple, with only a wooden bed and a standing wardrobe against the wall, and nothing else.

The room was spotless, even the sheets and curtains were newly replaced.

"Are they always like this?" I asked.

"Yes." Xiao Wu said, "Auntie loves to be clean, and she always keeps everything spotless inside and out."

I walked to the bed and looked at it. The sheets were spread evenly, without even a wrinkle, and the quilts were folded squarely.

Open the wardrobe and observe carefully. Although there are not many clothes, they are folded and hung as they should be, as neatly as if they were placed in a display window.

However, there is a problem here!

All the clothes are worn by men, which means they belong to the dumb uncle.

There wasn't even a single piece of women's clothing in the cabinet! Not even a winter coat!

Didn’t the mute aunt go home? It’s not like I’m never coming back, so why would I take all my clothes with me?

"Where's the dumb uncle?" I asked anxiously.

"He...here he is." Xiao Wu Gang said halfway and suddenly pointed behind me.

I turned around and saw that the dumb uncle was standing behind me at some point.

Before I could ask anything, he pointed at Xiao Wu and then at me, then turned and left.

"Brother Zhang, the mute uncle asked me to stay here and not move, and asked you to follow him." Xiao Wu explained to me the meaning of the mute uncle's gesture with some confusion.

What on earth is he going to do?

I was stunned for a moment and said, "Okay, just wait for me here. I'll come as soon as I go." After that, I followed the dumb uncle downstairs.

The dumb uncle walked very quickly, leaving the small building and heading straight to the backyard.

The backyard is a small garden, planted with many tall and low trees, flowers and plants all over the ground, and a lifelike rockery in the middle.

The dumb uncle took me around the rockery and stopped under an oak tree.

He pointed towards the tree, wiped it on his neck, and finally pointed at himself, and then tears flowed down.

This time, I understood immediately.

He was saying that the mute aunt was buried under this oak tree, and that he killed her with his own hands!

Why is this?

The two were both deaf and mute. They lost their child and searched for it together. Then they were taken in by Mr. Wu and lived together for decades. How could they be so cruel?

The mute uncle wiped away his tears, grabbed a piece of grass from the ground, and kept making gestures in his nostrils and ears, and then he bowed his waist again, pretending to cough uncontrollably.

This means... the mute lady got a strange disease, grass blades grew out of her nose and ears, and then Mr. Wu also got sick?

In other words, Mr. Wu’s curse was brought back by the mute aunt?

I also grabbed a handful of grass from the ground, placed it on my heart, spread my fingers to make flowering movements, and the dumb uncle nodded repeatedly when he saw it.

Now I finally understand.

Mr. Wu is not in good health and has been living in a small building and almost never goes out. People who want to harm him don't dare to come in easily, fearing that Mr. Wu has some kind of forbidden formation - although Mr. Wu's cultivation level is not very good, he is an old man in the world of ghosts after all, and he wants to protect his house. Femininity is still very easy.

So the man cast the curse on the defenseless mute aunt.

After all, the mute aunt takes care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of these people, and they may have to go out frequently to buy ingredients and daily necessities.

And this curse must have some specific method that only works on Mr. Wu.

Once Mr. Wu was tricked, the curse hidden in the mute aunt's body also broke out at the same time.

The vigorously growing grass blades spread out from the internal organs and emerged from the facial features, which was naturally extremely painful.

This is exactly the characteristic of the wood curse!

At that time, Mr. Wu had already been tricked and was completely powerless. The mute uncle had no choice but to reluctantly kill the mute aunt to prevent her from suffering such pain!

However, he was afraid that Xiao Wu would be sad when he knew the truth, so he made up a lie.

The mute aunt's clothes must have been burned and buried. The sheets were spread evenly, the room was spotless, and everything remained as it was.

The dumb uncle must be feeling very uncomfortable, but he just can’t express his pain!

The mute uncle's tears were streaming down his face. He suddenly pointed at the oak tree, then at the small building, and he knelt down to me with a pop.

He is begging me, begging me to save Mr. Wu, help Xiao Wu, and let the dumb lady take revenge!

I stepped forward and helped the mute man up, and patted his chest vigorously. Let him rest assured that I will definitely get to the bottom of it and bring justice to the deceased!

After saying that, he took out a requiem charm and threw it over, letting the mute aunt's soul rest in peace as soon as possible.

But at this time, I found that the magic talisman actually floated out.

Huh? wrong!

The mute aunt's soul is not here.

The person who casts the curse will not only take his life, but also his soul!

Well, let me see what kind of monster you are.

I pointed towards the small building and signaled the mute uncle to go back and take care of Xiao Wu first, and then chased after him following the magic talisman.

Jumping out of the courtyard wall and heading south along the long street, it was already late at night.

There are almost no pedestrians on the street, and even vehicles are extremely rare.

Under the bright street lights, the magic talisman floated forward, and I followed closely behind.

The magic talisman was flying faster and faster, and I was struggling to catch up. When I turned the corner and saw a taxi waiting for work, I opened the door and got in.

The driver asked me where I was going. I said that I had just arrived in Xi'an and wanted to take a look at the night view. I would drive forward first.

The driver was quite talkative. While talking about the customs and customs of Shaanxi, he recommended various scenic spots to me, such as the Tang Dynasty Furong Garden, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, and the Bell and Drum Tower. If these are not spectacular enough, it is far away from here. Not far away, there are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Lintong.

I didn't have any free time to listen to his introduction. I dealt with it absentmindedly while staring at the direction in which the magic talisman was flying, and casually told him to turn left or right.

Oddly enough, if the soul has knowledge and leads the spiritual talisman to pursue it, it must follow the two-point and one-line approach. But this magic talisman was walking straight along the road, as if it was afraid that I wouldn't be able to catch up!