Ji Changze had been patiently lying on the ground, waiting for his strength to return. Only when one of them walked past him, he suddenly got up.
The little soldier who was yapping about things like how nice he was, was startled, and simply leaped backward with a miserable cry.
When he saw Ji Changze look at him with a face full of blood, he wailed and let out a scream, his knees went weak and he fell to the ground.
“Grandpa Ghost, you’re kind enough not to bother with the little ones. We just want to help you collect the corpse, nothing else. Please, please let me go, I have a wife and a young one. I’ve been trapped in the war for so long without killing anyone, I haven’t seen my parents at home for 3 years, and my wife is still 8 months pregnant …”
Ji Changze had been patiently listening to him before asking, “You haven’t been home for 3 years, and your wife is 8 months pregnant?”
He choked fiercely but didn´t dare to raise his head and cried, “Wuwuwu… I was wrong, I lied to you, my wife is not pregnant.”
Ji Changze looked at the soldier standing next to him. The soldier saw that his face was covered with blood, and his legs trembled with fear. He quickly followed and knelt down, “Ss… Sir, we are just greedy for money, but we aren’t the ones who killed you.”
Seeing the two crying, Ji Changze got up slowly and patted the soil on his body, “Okay, okay, you guys feel at ease, I know you didn’t kill.”
The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, but not until the sigh of relief was over, they heard the bloodied dead man that somehow crawled out of hell, continued to say; “You’re just touching around us, disrespecting the dead.”
The two little soldiers: “…”
They were about to piss themselves in fear.
“We… we, we just want to bury the several of you and check to see if there are any wounds on the body in passing. We really do not mean that … ah… Grandpa Ghost.”
A few coins fell down as they knelt down, falling right on stone with the peculiar ring of money.
Ji Changze looked at the coins.
The soldiers: “… this can be explained. We picked up these coins.”
“So, since it’s not yours, can you give it to me?”
“Yes, yes, yes, all for you. You can also have mine.”
The two men were pardoned and hastily pulled out money from their pockets. They were all carefully placed on the ground in front of them.
Ji Changze stepped forward, held out his hand, and picked it up. He shoved it into his sleeves and asked, “Tell me, whose soldiers are you?”
“We, we… are under General Hou.”
He still hadn’t checked his memories yet. Ji Changze still didn’t know what this General Hou was doing. But he didn’t look the least bit confused, he just continued with what the two said.
“Do you know where the rebels went?”
The two men thought he was planning to seek revenge on the rebels and were overjoyed. They quickly told him everything they knew.
“After the rebels killed people, they went towards the northwest, it seems that they also brought a group of slaves with them. They should be planning to sell them over to the northwest. Grandpa Ghost, you still remember that it was the rebels who killed you, right?”
Ji Changze didn’t speak, only looking at the clothing on his body.
He stood up and looked at it. This small village was right next to the river. He lifted his sleeves, and underneath it were dirty arms. He didn’t know when the last time he took a bath was, but his clothes were on the contrary. In addition to the blood and the dust on the ground, even the corners and seams of the clothes were washed clean.
His body was dirty and the original owner was definitely unkempt.
Clean clothes meant that someone washed them for him.
This body had lived with someone not too long ago, but without checking his memories yet, he couldn’t be sure if his loved ones were among these bodies, or not.
Ji Changze held out his hand and knocked on the two heads that were kneeling.
“You guys wait here for a minute, I’m going to go inside and check it out. I’ll be out in a minute.”
The two men were overjoyed and happy to see the blood-stained shoes leave.
They weren’t stupid, who would want to wait?
When the ghost left, they would immediately turn and run away.
When the time came, there were soldiers and generals there, Yang Qi was heavy, this ghost wouldn’t dare to come.
(TNote: Yang Qi = life aura. As opposed to Yin Qi/ death aura.)
They glanced at each other, ready to run. But from behind, the bloody dead man’s voice came, “If you run, I’m going to chase.”
Ji Changze chose this house because he saw the same cloth as he was wearing on the drying rope. He speculated that this house should be the house where the original owner lived.
Sure enough, after going in, he checked his memory and confirmed this.
This was where the original owner lived.
Only, strictly speaking, this house didn’t belong to him, but to his wife.
The original owner’s home wasn’t near here either.
He used to be the eldest son in a small village in Huxian County. They didn’t have contraceptive measures in this era, so after him, he didn’t know why, his parents had no children. Later, when he was 14 years old, his mother suddenly became pregnant, then she began to give birth to a series of younger brothers and sisters.
They couldn’t abort a baby when they are pregnant. If they got pregnant, they could only give birth.
The original owner had no problem with his parents giving birth to his sisters. Girls could also be sold for money, whether they are sold to brothels as prostitutes, to courtyards as slaves, or to some families as child brides; but he had a lot of opinions about younger brothers.
He had three younger brothers and two younger sisters.
Sisters can be exchanged for money, which he could ignore for the time being. However, when the younger brothers grew up, they would want to marry a wife. If they marry a wife, it must be paid for by the family. The family paid for it means that the full share of the money originally belonging to him should now be distributed to the three younger brothers.
The original owner was definitely not happy about it, and after thinking about it, he came up with a good idea.
That was to study by himself.
No one was married yet right now, and the younger brothers were still young. If he wanted to go to school, his parents would certainly agree. In addition to school supplies, it would take a lot of money. He would go to the county, then ask for money from the family. The money wasn’t a small amount, wouldn’t he get it all for himself?
The original owner got his wish and went to study. Every time he came home, he tried to get money from his parents.
Each time the words were ‘This money is for the teacher. When I succeed in my studies, I could work as an accountant, and I can earn a lot of money.’ He was the eldest son, and his parents had high hopes for him, so they gave him the family money, again and again.
The original owner was thinking of keeping the money until later when he married his wife and spent it on himself. The result was that he didn’t take his studies in the county seriously, but learned to gamble.
All the money given by his parents was spent completely, so he had to keep asking for it.
Two elderly people who were still physically fit ruined their bodies working, in order to earn money for him.
First, his father collapsed, then his mother followed, and the doctor said they could only take medicine and recuperate.
They were an ordinary farming family, and the younger siblings underneath are still young. This means the original owner had to support two elderly people plus the younger siblings underneath by himself.
With his selfish nature, of course, he wasn’t happy about it. So, he asked the doctor if he could cure it outright. The doctor said that he could only see if there was any famous doctor if he wanted to completely cut off the source of illness, but the consultation fee of the famous doctor wasn’t low.
However, the original owner only wanted this sentence, he didn’t care about the latter. He directly coaxed his parents to ask for a famous doctor, then nimbly took away all the money of the family, directly leaving his parents and younger siblings behind.
His parents were too sick to get up and needed medicine to prolong their lives.
The younger brothers and sisters were still young. The oldest one was seven years old when the original owner left.
At that time, there was a war raging. Money was hard to earn and food was hard to buy. You can imagine, the only healthy and adult eldest son of the family, the original owner, left the home and took away all the silver and gold; How would these brothers and sisters live?
The original owner knew clearly, but he simply ignored it and took
all the money. He decided to live somewhere else.
Now there were fleeing people everywhere. He just had to blend in and pick a random city to go into. Anyway, now that the registry was in disarray, changing a name was easy.
As a result, who knew he was so unlucky. Halfway down the road, robbers came.
They directly robbed him of all the money he had on him.
Now, he, a fake victim, suddenly became a real victim.
Starving he fainted on the side of the road and was saved by a girl. The original owner opened his eyes to see the good-looking girl, and her age was just right, he immediately had intentions.
In addition, the girl was a native of this village, and right now, he had no money. The best way to settle down in a village was to find a girl to marry.
And after he inquired, the girl’s parents were both gone, leaving her alone. Although he dislikes her a bit, thinking she might bring bad luck, but he couldn’t even eat enough to care about that.
So, the original owner tried to pose as a scholar who had studied in the county, courteous and gentle.
And fabricated a narrative out of it.
He said he was a native of Huxian County. He was studying well, but he didn’t expect his parents to suddenly fall ill, so he could only go out to look for a famous doctor. But he ran into robbers and lost all his money, and his parents lost the opportunity to treat their illness. So, he’s afraid that now it will be difficult.
He made himself sound aggrieved and pitiful, filial and at the same time full of a scholar’s gentleness.
The girl’s longing for love, coupled with the original owner’s initiative, made their marriage a success.
The original owner thought very well.
This girl had no other relatives at home. So, after he married the girl, if he turned against her or beat her and scolded her, there would be no one to support her.
When a husband teaches his wife, who would meddle?