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Chapter 1002 Borrowing a Way
After the two entered the village, villagers immediately surrounded them and sold the village's specialties. Song Jiang took a look and saw that they were mostly some strange fruits... The other party saw that Gu Hao and Song Jiang were entering the village for the first time, so they said enthusiastically, "You can taste it for free... You can pay if you like it."

Song Jiang looked at Gu Hao in surprise, wondering if there are fruits here? ? Gu Hao told him, "The land in the underworld can actually grow crops, but the taste is not very good, and it is definitely not comparable to the land in the human world."

Song Jiang wanted to try a bite, but Gu Hao stopped him and warned him in a low voice, "You are a living person... If you eat something from the underworld, you can't go back."

Song Jiang had no choice but to put it down and said apologetically, "We still have things to do... Come back when we have time."

Unexpectedly, the fruit vendor said enthusiastically, "Really? What are you here for? Buying a house or visiting a friend?! Our village is very small. If you need any help, just let me know."

It was the first time that Song Jiang encountered such an enthusiastic ghost. He was immediately at a loss and had to look to Gu Hao for help. Gu Hao smiled and said to the vendor, "It's like this... We want to visit a friend in the village next to the hell, and we want to borrow the road from your village."

The vendor's face changed when he heard this and he said, "That's far enough... How about this, you come with me, I'll take you to see our village chief, and you have to talk to him directly about borrowing the road."

The vendor on the road introduced himself, "My name is Aliang, and I am the distant cousin of the village chief. Most of the ghosts living in this village are relatives and friends. Since we all live together in the same village, it is not so easy for ordinary ghosts to bully us."

When Song Jiang heard this, he asked curiously, "Shouldn't evil ghosts... go to hell and suffer? How dare you bully ordinary ghosts in the village?"

Ah Liang laughed when he heard this and said, "I can tell from the looks of it that you two are new souls who died not long ago. You don't know some of the things that happen here. Those evil ghosts who were sent to hell were truly unforgivable criminals when they were alive. Ordinary evil deeds can't compare to them at all. In addition, some people have already received fair judgments in the world of the living. For example, murderers have been executed by firing squad, and criminals have been sentenced to prison. In these cases, they generally won't be punished again in the underworld after death. But some of them are still evil people in nature, and they will still do things that violate the laws of the underworld."

While listening to Aliang's introduction to the situation here, Song Jiang looked around the village and found that the houses here were all small villas with independent doors. However, the styles of these villas were all strange, including European Baroque castles, wooden stilt houses, quadrangle courtyards with bracket structures, and even simple cave dwellings? !
Seeing this, Song Jiang said curiously, "The architectural style of the houses in your village is quite... complicated."

Ah Liang smiled and explained, "The architectural style of the houses in our village mainly depends on what style of houses the villagers' living relatives have built for them..."

Song Jiang understood what was going on immediately. Seeing Song Jiang's strange expression, Aliang thought that he might have no relatives to worship him, so he said in a deep voice, "In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't have relatives to worship you here. Generally, there are two choices. Either you can be self-reliant and find a job in the underworld to support yourself; or you can go find your ancestors. If they don't want to reincarnate, like my third uncle, then you can lean on the big tree to enjoy the shade."

After all, Gu Hao hadn't been back to the underworld for many years, so he couldn't help but ask Aliang, "Are there many ghosts like you who don't want to reincarnate now?"

Ah Liang sighed and said, "There are more and more... But only a small number of them don't want to reincarnate, and most of the rest can't get a number to reincarnate. I don't know what happened in the past few years, but people in the world of the living are less and less willing to have children, which leads to more and more ghosts waiting for a number to reincarnate, and in many cases, they have to wait for decades. Who can stand this? So they all find a village hidden in the fog to live in, and then they will reincarnate when they get a number." Song Jiang also sighed and said, "You don't know... People in the world of the living are not having a good time now. Prices are soaring, houses are very expensive, and the most important thing is that money is getting harder and harder to make, and children are even more difficult to afford and raise."

Ah Liang, who had been dead for more than 20 years, heard what Song Jiang said and said in disbelief, "Is it expensive to raise a child? When we were young, we just added a set of bowls and chopsticks to our family..."

Song Jiang waved his hands and said, "What year are you talking about? These days, raising a child starts from birth... From the confinement center to kindergarten, then to primary school, middle school and high school, and finally graduating from university and working, this amount of money is really not a small number. If you don't have some financial resources, you really can't afford to have a child."

"What does 'juan...' mean?" Aliang asked puzzledly.

Song Jiang thought for a moment and said, "How should I put it? It's a new term. It means all kinds of competition, all kinds of competition, and that you can't fall behind others in anything you do."

At this time, they just walked to a magnificent palace. Ah Liang smiled and told Song Jiang and Gu Hao, "This is the village chief's house! How is it? Big and grand, isn't it?!"

Song Jiang looked up at the tall building in front of him with some surprise, and then whispered to Gu Hao beside him, "Why does it look a little familiar to me?"

Gu Hao only took a quick glance and said, trying not to laugh, "It's a miniature version of the Hall of Supreme Harmony..."

"Oh my god... why do I feel like I've seen him somewhere before?!" Song Jiang immediately realized.

As the three were talking, a beautiful young lady walked out of the main entrance of the hall. When she saw Aliang, she smiled and said, "Oh, it's Master Aliang. Is business slow today? How come you have time to come to play at Third Uncle's house?"

Song Jiang looked up at the newcomer and felt that this woman gave him a strange feeling from beginning to end, so he whispered to Aliang, "Is this your third uncle's wife?"

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But Aliang shook his head and said, "No, no... this is a paper man."

After hearing what Aliang said, Song Jiang realized that the smile on his face was very mechanical, as if it was painted on his face, and his gestures were very stiff, indeed not as free as a real person. Then the three of them, led by the paper man, entered the village chief's house and met the little old man who lived in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.