Ah Cheng rushed all the way to the village headâs house, and Wang Pengpai was unable to sense anything wrong about him.
When Ah Cheng tried to break through the guards manning the door to the village headâs house and attempted to forcefully rush in, Wang Pengpai looked between the sharp knives and spears in the guardâs hand and Ah Chengâs small body and bare hands. He felt that Ah Cheng must be really anxious. Seeing that the guardâs spears and knives almost pierced Ah Chengâs shoulder, Wang Pengpai secretly assisted him to pass through.
He didnât give his all in helping Ah Cheng. After all, Ah Cheng may have gotten injured while breaking into the village headâs house in the actual course of events. For example, if Ah Longâs soul had possessed him after he had grown weak due to the injury, then Wang Pengpaiâs excessive protection would only hinder the normal progress of the attraction.
However, Wang Pengpai was shocked when he saw Ah Cheng jump directly in front of the village headâs bed, grab the village headâs shoulder and pick him up from the bed.
Were they sure this man wasnât a crazy person who escaped from the zoo??
âVillage head, village head, just let Pingping and I be together.â
Ah Cheng cried so sincerely and miserably, it appeared that his previous emotional outburst had been real. He shook the village headâs shoulders and begged bitterly. The amount of strength Ah Cheng used made Wang Pengpai feel that the village headâs brain was about to be shaken out of his body by Ah Cheng.
âVillage head, village head, why is your face green? Are you uncomfortable?â
Wasnât that obvious? Anyone would have lost half their life if you shook their shoulders with so much strength.
Wang Pengpai complained inwardly. His eyes swept over, and he almost leaped up on the spot.
Good heavens! What the hell was with his face being green? The motherfucking village head was a jiangshi!
Of course a jiangshiâs face would look green. Look, his teeth were even as long as a vampireâs. Why are you still concerned with whether the village head is ill or not!
âVillage head, village head?â
With just a glance, Wang Pengpai knew that Ah Cheng had never faced any dangers before. He was shocked that Ah Cheng would lean closer after seeing the village headâs green face. Seeing that the village headâs black fingernails were about to touch Ah Chengâs neck, Wang Pengpai couldnât bear to look again.
Even if Ah Cheng became a jiangshi and was controlled by the village head during the actual course of events, Ah Cheng might be III-9 now!
A living III-9 was more valuable than a dead III-9. Even if Wang Pengpai couldnât fully confirm Ah Chengâs identity, he couldnât just look as Ah Cheng got bitten by the jiangshi village head. Wang Pengpai immediately came forward and grabbed the village headâs hand. After he snapped his fingernail, he pushed the village head forward. This made it look like the village head was pushing Ah Cheng away. Ah Cheng also seemed to be scared silly and he sat directly on the ground, staring at the village headâs hand and kowtowing.
âVillage, village head, your nails?â
In the end, Ah Cheng was still a Cordoned-off Village villager who often dealt with jiangshis, and he finally realized what happened to the village head. Ah Cheng opened his eyes and exclaimed, âJiangshi, village head, how did you become a jiangshi?!â
Yes, how did the village head become a jiangshi?
Wang Pengpai, who had grabbed the jiangshi village head and trapped him with his strength so that he wouldnât move, was also thinking about this conundrum. The village head had still been able to talk during the early morning meeting. Wang Pengpai noticed that the rigidity of the village head was similar to a corpse of a person who had died for a year or two. The village head couldnât have become so rigid within half a day.
Either the village head had long since morphed into a jiangshi, but hadnât completely lost his mind because of a secret method, or the âpersonâ who had spoken to them this morning had not been the village head.
âVillage head, can you still hear me? Do you, you still recognize me?â
After all, jiangshis instinctively desired flesh and blood, but the jiangshi village head just sat stiffly and stared at him without hurting him. Ah Chengâs frightened spirits returned to his body, and he asked cautiously and nervously.
Fool, of course he wouldnât move, because Iâm grabbing him!
Wang Pengpai scolded the other in his heart, and his face turned red as he exerted his strength. Jiangshis were very powerful. Even though Wang Pengpai was very strong and could lift Yu Hean up, it wasnât easy to wrestle with jiangshis. Of course, it would be easy for him to kill a jiangshi, but Wang Pengpai thought that there was something strange about the village head of Cordoned-off Village. Now was not the time to kill him, but he couldnât incapacitate the village head. After all, Ah Cheng was still in the house.
Therefore, he was just holding the jiangshi back with all his strength. Wang Pengpai felt like he was controlling a ferocious bison, and because he was exerting strength with his whole body, he soon started sweating.
Why isnât Ah Cheng scramming from this place?
Wang Pengpai cursed in his heart, and he managed to squeeze out enough time to look up at him. Instantly, he grew so furious that he was about to ascend to the heavens. He saw that Ah Cheng had not left yet. He was turning over the boxes and cabinets, muttering cautiously, âVillage head, village head, I know you still remember me. I am Ah Cheng.â
Gazing at the village headâs green face and long tusks, Ah Cheng shed a few tears and sobbed, âNo wonder you wanted Pingping to have a netherworld marriage. It turned out that you were out of your mind. I have to say, you loved Pingping so much in the past⊠Village head, where did you put the marriage deed?
âDonât worry, Iâll be good to Pingping in the future.â
A marriage certificate was required for a marriage in the mortal world, while a marriage deed was required for a netherworld marriage. It had to be burned to the underworld on the day of the grand marriage. Ah Cheng was looking for the soul contract between Pingping and Ah Long. As long as the soul contract was destroyed, the marriage could not happen.
This lad was quite focused on his goal.
Wang Pengpai was shocked and commented in his heart on how Ah Cheng wasnât terrified enough to run away after seeing the village head had become a jiangshi. Other than panicking initially, he had began to look for the marriage deed immediately. Ah Cheng was really not a simple boy, and Wang Pengpai suspected that he was III-9.
However, watching Ah Chengâs red eyes and the tears streaming down his face, Wang Pengpai felt that III-9 shouldnât be able to act so well. If his suspicions turned out to be true, III-9 was too shameless and his acting much better than that of an ordinary person.
Was Ah Cheng really III-9?
While Wang Pengpai was wondering, Wei Xun happily went through all kinds of cabinets and drawers in the house. He not only found the marriage deed between Pingping and Ah Long, but also found many strange and frightening things.
Wei Xun was very generous and fed all these things to the little fox with a swipe of his hand. Wei Xun had felt that the fox cub was unusual from the moment he had fed the young fox the ginseng rootlets. Obviously, this young fox was a mere silver of consciousness and didnât have a corporeal body. It was even a remnant soul. Yet, it was able to consume items!
After asking the young fox about it, the young fox proudly said that it was due to its talent. Although Yu Hehui had failed to leap over the Tianmen cave and did not become a fox fairy in the end, he had outstanding abilities. He had been a fox in the scenic spot for ten years and had reached the level of a heavenly fox.
A heavenly fox was a creature that only appeared in legends, and it was more powerful than a fox spirit. Although the heavenly foxâs remnant soul had almost dissipated, it still had its abilities. In fact, the ginseng rootlets were not eaten by Yu Hehui immediately, but were swallowed by him and stored in the main bodyâs remnant soul. While slowly nourishing the remnant soul, it had birthed the young foxâs consciousness.
In other words, it could eat all kinds of things because of its abilities, store them in the remnant soul, and digest them slowly.
Wasnât this just acting as a carry-on bag!
Wei Xun had long since felt that the potential of the fox fairy was like a sponge in water. In other words, this meant that he could always squeeze out some new uses from the fox.
The baby fox who was stuffed with a mouthful of trash: ???
However, Wei Xun was still talking to its consciousness, âStore what I fed you just now. Donât eat it, and spit it out when itâs time to do so, got it?â
Damn. Although his words werenât very lethal, they were very insulting.
What a shame!
The young fox barked angrily, but Wei Xun comforted the young fox and promised to get it chicken when he got out of this tour. The young fox could also choose one of those things to eat. Only then did the young fox pitifully agree.
This fox was cunning. The young foxâs mood quickly changed and it began to actively advise Wei Xun on where the good things in this room wereââAnyway, it could freely choose something to eat from what Wei Xun stored in him. Of course it had to swallow all the good things!
âVillage head, where did you hide the marriage deed?â
Wang Pengpai watched Ah Cheng flip through the place for a long time. In the end, he was empty-handed, and he walked towards the village headâs bed with a sad and anxious expression. âVillage head, I know you are conscious. Just tell me. Pingping and I will take good care of you in the future. I wonât, wonât expose your jiangshi identity.â
What a farce! How could the village head be conscious? Wang Pengpaiâs hands were sore and his patience was stretched to the limit. He was so angry that he wanted to let go of the jiangshi and allow Ah Cheng, who didnât fear death, to have a good experience with the jiangshi. But the next second, Wang Pengpai saw Ah Chengâs surprised expression as he boldly placed his hand under the village headâs pillow, saying, âItâs here.â
This boy really didnât want to live any longer?!
This set of actions caused Ah Cheng to get very close to the jiangshi village head. Seeing that the jiangshi village head had tilted his head and opened his big mouth, about to bite Ah Chengâs arm, Wang Pengpaiâs face turned green. He subconsciously pressed himself down on the jiangshi village head and rolled around the bed with the jiangshi village head. Then he heard a light click. Wang Pengpai had a bad feeling in his heart and hurriedly wanted to get up, but the heavy jiangshi village head pressed on him.
There was no time for him to react. In the next second, the bed frame turned over, flipping the jiangshi village head and Wang Pengpai around.
There was a secret passage under the bed!
The instant when he was flipped over, Wang Pengpai glared at Ah Cheng, who still had an expression of surprise. Wang Pengpaiâs eyes were red and he gnashed his teeth angrily.
This fellow was definitely III-9!
Fuck his grandmother! Just wait, when this fat man comes back, you will suffer my wrath!
âThere is a secret passage under the bed,â Wei Xun said, surprised.
Click, the passageway naturally shut.
Wei Xun held a small palm-sized box made of locust wood in his hand. The lever that opened the passageway under the bed was near the pillow. Wei Xun swore that he was just curious. Who would have thought that after pulling it briefly, the village head and Wang Pengpai would flip over into the passageway?
He guessed that Wang Pengpai had confirmed that he was III-9 .
Wei Xun also felt wronged. He thought about the secret passageway, and happily broke the lever.
In this way, outsiders could no longer open the secret passageway. Of course, there should also be a mechanism inside that could open the passageway. Even though the jiangshi village head was stupid and couldnât speak, he didnât expect Wang Pengpai to be trapped for long.
But in any case, he could trap Wang Pengpai for a short while.
It was not suitable for Wei Xun to stay here for a long time. Wei Xun stuffed the wooden box to the little fox and jumped down from the window behind the house, bypassing the guards as he swaggered back to his house.
When he got back, Wei Xun counted the things he had found at the village headâs house this time, and suddenly felt that the trip was worth it.
He had robbed everything from the house, and had even placed a broken piece of porcelain into the little foxâs mouth. Although it was true that most of it was rubbish, there were several useful things.
Not mentioning the marriage deed between Pingping and Ah Long, Wei Xun had also obtained one [Canine Tooth of High-rank jiangshi] and one [Cursed Grass-made Puppet. It needs to be further assessed].
But the most important things he had obtained were the items in the wooden box under the pillow of the jiangshi village head.
One was a slightly worn thread bound book titled [Cordoned-off Villageâs Village Head Diary]. Wei Xun couldnât help but sigh at how Pingping and her father were really blood relatives, even having the same habit of writing diaries.
In addition, he had also obtained a small and exquisite black wooden statue the size of a thumb.
[Statue containing the remnant soul of Ah Long (flying fox version)]
The author has something to say:
Wei Xun [Garbage Allocation Ambassador]: We must separate the domestic garage from the normal items, and feed them to the little fox. As for the rest of the garbage, we wonât throw them away. We will also feed them all to the little fox. Poisonous and harmful garbage are also separated and all will be to the little fox. Itâs such a pity to throw plastic waste, we should also feed them to the little fox. We must always separate the garbage based on their types before feeding the little fox, and donât allow the air to cry again!
Little fox [Utterly exasperated]: bark, bark!
Itâs prohibited to feed wild foxes!
I uploaded a 3k Chinese character chapter today, and I still owe you guys 10.5k Chinese characters~
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T/N: Hello everyone, sorry for the late chapter update!