I become a god in another world

Chapter 475 Suspected Brothers
Chapter 475

According to the people from Wang's Satin Shop who were arrested later, this pair of embroidered shoes was originally custom-made for another family in the city.

The family had a daughter who was about to get married, and they made wedding shoes specifically for her.

There were still two days before the agreed pick-up time. However, the night before, a maid from the Sun residence named Ayuan came to the cloth shop and insisted on buying the shoes.

How important are wedding shoes? It is a big taboo for businessmen to break the contract and resell the items ordered by customers at the last minute.

But as soon as Ayuan arrived, the people from Wang's Satin Shop somehow took out the wedding shoes and handed them to her.

The Sun family is a wealthy family in the city. The head of the Sun family, Sun Daoyang, has a good reputation in Jin County. Although he has a big business, he still returns to his hometown every New Year to donate money and send porridge to help the people.

His family needed a lot of things for food, clothing and daily necessities. Generally, when doing business in the city, they would just verify their identity, take the items first, and then settle the bill.

After Ayuan took the wedding shoes, the people from Wang's Satin Shop were supposed to come to collect the money, and at this point the payment and goods were completed.

However, later on, people from the Sun family mysteriously disappeared, and this matter became an unsolved case.

Naturally, I didn’t get the money back for the wedding shoes.

The people from Wang's Satin Shop not only offended the family who ordered the shoes, but also lost a pair of shoes. The Wang family was very depressed, so even though 16 years had passed, they still remembered it clearly when the Demon Suppression Bureau mentioned it again.

Tang Zuwang was personally trying the case, and the Wang family members would never dare to collude with each other.

This is what makes things strange.

There was indeed a ceremony held at the Sun Mansion 16 years ago, but there are two different opinions as to whether it was a happy event or a funeral.

After interrogating Wang Guanshan and the Wang family, not only did Tang Zuwang's doubts not be resolved, but more suspicions were added.

At the same time, Ji Laosan also cried out that he was innocent.

He did not admit that he had taken over the paper-making work at the Sun Mansion.

Paper-tying is a craft that cannot be mastered in a short period of time and needs to be passed down from generation to generation.

It is usually passed down from father to son, and it takes years of hands-on teaching before one can become a master and work for others.

Due to the particularity of this business, the Ji family was the only one in Jin County who practiced this craft. When the case was retried, the Ji family could not shirk responsibility like Wang Guanyun did.

But the Ji family refused to admit that they had taken on this job.

The Sun family was a wealthy family and needed many burial objects for their funeral.

According to the confession 16 years ago, Ji Laosan mentioned that the Sun family specifically requested ten pairs of paper dolls of men and women, two horses and vehicles, and a villa - this was a big project, and Ji Laosan needed to work for a long time with his son and daughter-in-law.

There are a large number of these items. If there really is a funeral in the Sun Mansion, the objects cannot deceive people.

So Ji Lao San insisted that this incident never happened, but he couldn't explain why the Demon Suppression Division had records of the funeral at the Sun Mansion - he didn't even remember that he had been detained and interrogated by the Demon Suppression Division.

Things came to a standstill here.

Of the five relevant witnesses, two were tortured into confessing, one insisted that he was innocent, and the other two also denied that such an incident had ever happened.

All these circumstances even made Tang Zuwang doubt himself - did the Demon Suppression Division really record the files randomly 16 years ago?
It's not impossible!
The Ghost Control Division of the Demon Suppression Department handles cases based on their mood. The ghost controllers have all kinds of strange temperaments, and most of them have very low character and quality. Abuse of punishment is commonplace. In short, it is not uncommon for them to record files in such a random manner.

Just when Tang Zuwang was doubting himself, Ji Laosan's family could not bear the torture and gave out another clue: 16 years ago, his family did not make paper figures for the Sun Mansion, but a strange thing happened in their home.

It was just after the Sun family held a "wedding" when a broken "stump" suddenly appeared in their shop.

The Ji family originated from a paper-making shop, so the "remaining limbs" mentioned by Ji Laosan were naturally not real human tissue, but a paper-made thigh with a bamboo frame as the skeleton.

Times are tough these days.

Every bamboo strip and every piece of paper in the Ji family was counted, and the younger generation also had a quota for practice. The appearance of this "paper man's leg" was inexplicable - and from the broken end, it didn't look like it was specially made, but like it was torn off a paper man that had been pasted together. It was really weird.

After the incident, Ji's family questioned each other but could not find out the truth. No papers or other items in the house were lost, but the paper man's legs seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

During that period, all the members of the Sun family disappeared out of nowhere, causing a sensation in the city.

The Demon Suppression Division and the government are both investigating the case. Even though strange things have happened in the Ji family, they dare not make it public.

The less trouble, the better.

Once the Demon Suppression Division is involved, the Ji family will be in great trouble.

Therefore, the Ji family remained silent.

Afterwards, the case of the Sun Mansion was left unresolved. Apart from the sudden appearance of the "strange leg", nothing strange happened in the Ji family. The Ji family breathed a sigh of relief and soon secretly burned the paper man's leg to destroy the "corpse".

More than ten years passed, and the Ji family gradually put their minds at ease. However, they didn't expect that after a long time, the Demon Suppression Bureau would bring up the old matter again, and then the Ji family would reveal the secret that had been hidden for many years.

……

The file ended here. Combining the currently known information, Zhao Fusheng knew that the Demon Suppression Commander from 26 years ago was quite capable. With the methods he used at the time and without any contact with evil spirits, he was already close to the truth.

After Sun Shaoyin died in Shangyang County, his body was decomposed (or perhaps he was dismembered by someone).

After his death, the Sun family sent him back to Jin County for burial.

During the funeral, someone replaced most of Sun Shaoyin's body parts with a paper figurine made by Ji Laosan and pieced them together.

Sun Shaoyin's evil ghost was later revived, and the law of reincarnation affected the memories of many people. The memories of those who participated in the funeral of the Sun family that year were erased, and they only remembered the happy events of the Sun family.

However, Tang Zuwang's power was limited at that time, and he did not go into the Sun Mansion to investigate, so he was confused about this old case and could not figure it out clearly.

Zhao Fusheng read most of the files based on the intermittent records. Combining them with what is known now, he almost figured out what happened in the Sun Mansion back then.

Tang Zuwang's records go back to that time.

He interrogated the Sun family but found nothing.

But after investigation, he found many strange things in the Sun Mansion.

One of the doubts: Was the event held by the Sun family a wedding or a funeral?

After investigation, he found that the Sun family did have a wedding to celebrate that year, but an accident happened halfway through and it ended up in vain, as if something went wrong.

Later, the Demon Suppression Division recorded two points about the Sun Mansion: First, there was a record of a funeral in the Sun Mansion. Judging from the scene in the record, the person who died was a major figure in the Sun family;

2. The Sun family once thought about selling the ancestral home.

But in the end, the government had no record of sale or name change.

Out of caution, Tang Zuwang recorded in the file that he had looked up related cases in the same year as the incident at Sun Mansion.

The case handling in Jin County was not good that year. There were not many major cases, but there were quite a few minor cases. However, most of these cases had nothing to do with the Sun family. However, in the same year, a clerk in the Demon Suppression Division went missing, which could be barely related to the Sun family.

This man's surname is Bao Xing'er. Before the incident, he had wanted to buy the ancestral home of the Sun family and had been keeping an eye on the Sun family's house. Before the incident at the Sun family's house, he disappeared mysteriously, and neither the Bao family nor the people from the Demon Suppression Division saw him again.

Later, Tang Zuwang checked the list of the Demon-Suppressing Division and indeed found his name added to the list of servants of the same year.

On the day he disappeared, all the people in the Sun Mansion also disappeared.

No living person was seen in the huge mansion.

This house is scary.

The commander of the Jin County Demon Suppression Division probably sensed something strange about it, so he chose to try to cover up his mistake.

Perhaps because he didn't want to get into trouble, or perhaps because he knew that he was not capable enough, the Demon Suppression Commander at that time recorded the doubts in a book and left this trouble to those who came after him.

After the Sun family disappeared, the mansion became ownerless and, according to the rules at the time, was taken over by the Demon Suppression Division. The commander was also a smart man. He probably guessed that the mystery of Bao Er's disappearance was related to the Sun Mansion, so he ordered Old Man Zhou, who was close to Bao Er at the time, to leave the Demon Suppression Division and go to the Sun Mansion to guard the gate.

Old man Zhou has been guarding the gate of the Sun family for many years.

Occasionally strange things happen.

But Old Man Zhou was a shrewd man. Although he was guarding the gate, he only stayed near the porch and refused to step into the inner house of Sun's mansion.

More than ten years passed like this, and people living near the Sun family often said that they had seen ghosts.

After nightfall, someone discovered a red light near Sun's house, as if the house was filled with red lanterns. Occasionally, passers-by could hear the voices of women talking coming from inside the wall - not long after, these people would disappear mysteriously one after another.

In this world, it is common for a few people to die. As long as the problem does not become a big deal, the commander in charge will mostly turn a blind eye and just live day by day.

But Tang Zuwang was very unfortunate. During his tenure, the incidents in the Sun Mansion became more and more serious. As rumors spread, they could no longer be suppressed.

The people living near the Sun Mansion were very scared - especially since the Sun family was a wealthy family in their early years, and the people living around them were all well-known figures in the county.

These people are very enthusiastic about donating money and supplies. This is the city center, so if a ghost disaster occurs here, the impact will be too great.

The Demon Suppression Command had a requirement to handle a certain number of cases each year, and after much thought, Tang Zuwang decided to handle this case of ghost disaster.

He is not a reckless person either.

Before handling the case, he also estimated the risks of the case.

When evil spirits revive after a person's death, their rank is usually not high. There is suspected to be a ghost in the Sun Mansion (?), but the ghost disaster has not spread outward.

Many people related to the Sun Mansion ghost case (? ) did not die (except the corpse-sewer). The gatekeeper Old Man Zhou, Old Third Ji, and Wang Guanshan are all alive and well. There are evil ghosts that have revived here, and it has been quite some time. However, if not many people are killed, the ghosts cannot be promoted and the danger is relatively small.

After making up his mind, Tang Zuwang prepared to take action.

If you want to solve a ghost case, you must first determine the laws of evil spirits, and to determine the laws of evil spirits, you must first deal with ghosts.

In such an era, dealing with ghosts means death - only by using human lives as bait can one have a chance to lure out the ghosts and understand their laws.

Just at this time, Tang Zuwang was sleepy and someone brought him a pillow.

A family surnamed Wu, originally living in Wan'an County, Xuzhou, moved their entire family and passed through Jin County.

This move is unusual.

If a family wants to develop and multiply, they cannot move their entire family to a new place at this time. They are unfamiliar with the place and if something happens, there will be no one to turn to for help.

Tang Zuwang instinctively realized that his opportunity had come.

As soon as he saw the Wu family, Tang Zuwang felt a chill in his heart. With the keenness of a ghost rider, he sensed that the Wu family actually had a ghostly aura.

He was on guard, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

Wu Jizu was not an honest man either. The two sides tested each other and had half-truthful exchanges, and they managed to learn some information.

"...The Wu family actually had a history with the Shangyang County Silver General in the early years..."

The Ghost Rider is arrogant and domineering when he is alive, but life is like fireworks. The more ostentatious he is while alive, the faster he will die.

It stands to reason that such ghost riders will be passed down from generation to generation, and all debts will be settled when one dies. Even though the Wu family and the Shangyang County Silver General had an old relationship, more than a decade later, even the best of their friendship has been wiped out.

This time, Tang Zuwang's cautious nature prevailed again.

"I looked through the timeline and sent someone to Shangyang County. I found out that 16 years ago, the Silver General of the Demon Suppression Division of Shangyang County was actually—"

The ghost rider who established the 'right of first night' and has caused unrest in Shangyang County ever since.

When it comes to the Sun Mansion ghost case, Tang Zuwang also put in a lot of effort.

In the archives of the Jin County Demon Suppression Division, there was a record of his investigation into the Silver General of Shangyang County - this was a pleasant surprise for Zhao Fusheng.

"...After investigation, I found that this silver general is very powerful."

This man's surname is Zang and his given name is Xiongshan. "I realized that his surname was Zang and that he had caused a bloody storm in Shangyang County, but no one from the Imperial Capital came to clean up the mess. I knew something was wrong."

Afterwards, Tang Zuwang used some unknown means to find out that behind Zang Xiongshan there was actually an ancestor of the Imperial Capital Demon Suppression Division.

The file ends here and this volume is finished.

"..."

Zhao Fusheng looked up and met the eyes of Liu Yizhen and Meng Po. The three of them couldn't hide the complicated expressions in their eyes.

It was an unexpected coincidence, but also felt like something that was expected.

"Ugh."

"Ugh."

"Ugh."

The three of them sighed in unison.

Chen Duozi and Kuai Manzhou stared at the three of them curiously. Before Chen Duozi could ask any questions, Zhao Fusheng said:
"Zang Xiongshan, Zang Xiongsan—or Zhang Xiongsan?"

"Zhang Xiongwu or Zang Xiongwu?" Liu Yizhen also asked.

Meng Po was thoughtful:
"They are so close, maybe they are brothers?"

Chen Duozi didn't understand what was going on, and seeing that everyone looked serious, he didn't dare to ask more questions.

Zhao Fusheng suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind and reached out to Chen Duozi:

"Mrs. Chen, please give me the next file."

Chen Duozi was a virtuous woman. She had already opened each file and placed them in order.

There are not many files left.

When she heard what Zhao Fusheng said, she immediately picked up the case file closest to Zhao Fusheng and handed it to Zhao Fusheng.

"June 221, 6 of the Han Dynasty..."

Zang Xiongshan was originally from the imperial capital and was a member of the Zang family. His family had a powerful general named Jin in its rank.

According to the archives of the Demon Suppression Division of the Han Dynasty, this man controlled ghosts in 189 AD during the Han Dynasty. The capital was not at peace that year and a tragic disaster occurred that shocked the Demon Suppression Division and almost caused the death of the emperor. The capital was also in chaos as a result.

After the disaster was quelled, this man left the Imperial Capital Demon Suppression Division and was transferred to a local county government.

But strangely, this experience is blank.

It was not until several years later that he truly returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau's attention. Only then was his name finally recorded in the Demon Suppression Bureau's directory files.

This year happens to be the 200th anniversary of the Han Dynasty.

Because of the special year and the grand celebration of the imperial court, he returned to the capital and eventually settled in Bingzhou.

According to later records, he moved to several places in Bingzhou, staying in each place for more than one to two years, until he returned to Bingzhou Prefecture in 204 and served under the rule of Bingzhou Yinjiang at that time.

This man has been controlling ghosts for many years and is very powerful. He has also been awarded the title of Silver General. The generals of Bingzhou could not suppress him, so they transferred him to Shangyang County.

At this point, Shangyang County was in trouble.