boyutpedia Chapter 158 The Unlucky House
Chapter 158 The Unlucky House
On an auspicious day, Hua Lichu knocked on Li Lian's door.
Upon learning their purpose, Li Lian gave Hua and Qiu a strange look.
"Have you met the landlord? Male or female? Old or young?"
Hua and Qiu raised their eyebrows high: "From what you're saying, this house has more than one landlord?"
Li Lian poked her head out the door, looked around, and quickly invited the two of them to come inside and sit down.
After the two were seated, Li Lian also chose a chair, moved it in front of them, and lowered her voice:
"That house does indeed have two landlords, no, that's not right. To be precise, that house belongs to the two old men."
But the daughter-in-law was fierce and wanted a share of the pie, so she was determined to sell it first, and whoever sold it first would own it.
The price she offered you wasn't high, was it?
"Yes! It's much cheaper than the houses I saw nearby."
Li Lian sneered twice: "She just knew you weren't from around here, so she's trying to scam you!"
Hua Lichu frowned: "Trying to trick us?"
Li Lian involuntarily leaned closer and whispered, "That house... it killed people!"
Hua and Qiu were exasperated. "Hey! A house can be lived in for decades. People are born, grow old, get sick, and die in it. It's normal for people to die in there, right?"
Hua Lichu narrowed her eyes: "What Aunt Lian is talking about should be unnatural death, tragic death."
Li Lian nodded: "You've only been here for a year, so you don't know. I've lived here for almost twenty years, so I know the inside story."
"Then tell me?"
Li Lian cleared her throat: "That house wasn't built very long ago, maybe only a little over ten years ago."
We all call the house owner Old Man Xu. He has only one son, named Xu Gousheng.
Xu Gousheng was short and rather ugly, always grinning with yellow teeth, and idled away his time doing nothing productive.
Teasing cats and dogs, peeping at the eldest daughter taking a bath...
The new No. 1 Middle School only moved here in the last two years. Back then, our area couldn't even be considered a suburb; it was just a village. It wasn't until seven or eight years ago, when two factories were built nearby, that things started to look a bit better.
Old Xu's family only has one house, and Xu Gousheng looks like that. He doesn't have a proper job, so what good family would marry their daughter to him?
Unfortunately, he had high standards and looked down on ordinary village women, so he couldn't find a wife even when he reached marriageable age.
Old Man Xu only has this one seedling, how could he not be anxious?
Later, Old Man Xu went out for a few days, and when he came back, he brought back a wife for Xu Gousheng.
There was no banquet held, and no neighbors were notified.
Someone went to his house and saw it, and that's how we found out that Xu Gousheng had found a wife.
The young woman was fair-skinned and gentle, always keeping her head down and never speaking to anyone. We all suspected she was mute.
Hua and Qiu frowned: "That's not right. The landlord I met looked to be only in his thirties or forties, and he was very eloquent!"
Li Lian pursed her lips: "The one you saw was Xu Gousheng's second wife. The first one was beaten to death by Xu Gousheng when he was drunk."
"Huh? Nobody reported J?"
Li Lian sneered: "I reckon that girl was probably bought by Old Man Xu. She's mute and has no family. Who would report her to the police? Who would want to get involved in this?"
Seeing Hua Lichu's furrowed brows, Li Lian smiled and said, "Such things were quite common a few years ago. However, the Xu family eventually got their comeuppance."
"How to say?"
"After the first one died, Old Man Xu took out a large sum of money and married Xu Gousheng a wife, who is the Chunxiang you met today."
Chunxiang's family was poor, with seven brothers.
Before she entered the family, she seemed very well-behaved. But less than three months after she entered, she tricked Xu Gousheng into stealing all of his father's money for her.
From then on, the good days for Old Man Xu and Xu Gousheng came to an end.
We only found out that Chunxiang was naturally strong when we heard that she had beaten Xu Gousheng and his son until they were crying for their parents. Her parents had kept it a secret because they were afraid that she would have difficulty getting married.
Chunxiang took control of the household and forced Old Man Xu and his son to work every day. If they didn't work, they wouldn't be fed, and if they made a fuss, they would fight.
She couldn't beat him on her own, so she went home and called her brothers. In short, Old Man Xu and his son were truly helpless, crying in the fields every day, saying that they had married a tigress.
Moreover, the villagers all say it's retribution.
Chunxiang has been married into the family for so many years and hasn't gotten pregnant. It seems the Xu family line is truly going to end."
Hua and Qiu listened again and again, but they were still puzzled: "Then where do they live now? Why did they move?"
"I don't know if it's because Old Man Xu and his son are guilty, or if there's something really strange going on, but they say they often hear a woman crying in the middle of the night... We all think, could it be that the vengeful spirit from up ahead is still haunting us?" Li Lian said mysteriously.
Hua and Qiu chuckled dryly: "Has anyone else heard this?"
"Who would dare? What if..."
Hua Lichu leaned back in her chair, her eyes deep and fixed in a certain direction, lost in thought.
After a long pause, he said, "So, only Old Man Xu and his son heard it?"
"Yes, Chunxiang also said she didn't hear it. But Old Man Xu and his son get sick all the time. Chunxiang has tried beating and scolding them, but it's no use! So she had to build a new house on the field behind the house."
"Then why is she in such a hurry to sell the house?" Hua Lichu asked incisively.
Li Lian explained, "It was Old Man Xu and Xu Gousheng who wanted to sell the house. Chunxiang was afraid that Old Man Xu and his son had money in their pockets and would be difficult to manage, so she took matters into her own hands."
But everyone thinks her house is unlucky, so nobody wants to buy it, and she keeps lowering the price. If you want to buy that house, you should negotiate the price properly; you can still get it down!
However, I sincerely suggest that you don't buy it.
Hua Lichu and Hua Heqiu got up, thanked them, and left.
After returning, I told Hua Yuansheng and the others everything.
After thinking for a moment, Hua Yuansheng said directly, "I don't believe in that stuff anyway."
He lost his wife in his early years and his daughter in his old age. The Taoist priests who passed by in the village would point at his nose and say that he was a jinx to his family.
The villagers also murmured that he was cursed with bad luck, which is why he brought death to all his loved ones.
But he has nothing to fear, he is upright and honest!
Hua Lichu was a little conflicted. She was a staunch materialist, but how could she explain her rebirth?
Hua Antao smiled and said, "If that were true... my mom would probably come looking for us sisters every day."
It's their fault for not letting Liang Yongchang continue to lie on them and suck their blood.
"Auntie, think it over carefully, ask around more, discuss it with your uncle and the others, and then make a decision."
What Hua Lichu didn't say was that if Hua and Qiu didn't buy it, she would buy the house herself, demolish it, build a new building, and become a landlady!
The first day of the holiday has passed just like that.
Hua Lichu and her sister both knew that their grandfather cared about the village.
So early the next morning, the three of them, grandfather, grandfather, and grandson, drove the oxcart back to Huajia Village.
As soon as the oxcart entered the village, seeing the villagers hurrying along and clearly anxious, Hua Lichu had a gut feeling that something had happened!