Chapter 100 Li Shan (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 100: Can money really buy everything?
Li Shan looked at Li Hong An deeply before lightly floating away. It was not until they left the main door that the ghost doll jumped out happily and gave Li Shan a thumbs up, “Yes, this is how to scare people. Attack unexpectedly, and break his psychological defenses bit by bit.”
Li Shan asked with a gloomy face, “Will he really call the police?”
The ghost doll touched the sparse hair on his own head and said indifferently, “If he doesn’t call the police, then you could scare him again. You must have a firm will. A ghost that doesn’t scare people is not a good ghost, understand?”
Li Shan squatted in the corner, covering his face with his hands, and said in a muffled voice, “Money can really buy everything, right? Including conscience. I don’t really hate him, I’m just disappointed. Because I know how hard life is without money. But I just want an explanation, I just want someone to be responsible for my death. My life is cheap, but my life is also a life. They treat us as non-humans! Are poor people not human beings?”
Ghost Doll fell into silence. He didn’t understand the ways of the world, and he didn’t know how to comfort people. He held it in for a long time before saying, “Don’t be sad, I’ll go back and ask Master Gu for you, and you’ll know the answer.”
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After Li Shan left, Li Hong An collapsed on the ground. He was so frightened that his body turned weak and almost exhausted. His wife was also frightened, and her face turned pale. Trembling, she got up from the ground with tears flowing down. “Tell me, what happened to Li Shan? Didn’t you say he went to work in another city? How did he die?”
“Li Shan fell off the scaffold.”
“Fell off again?” Li Shan had a problem with his legs and missed several times when he stepped on the scaffold. However, he had a safety belt around his waist and a protective net below. He only fell one level and was only injured with scratches. He was not seriously injured. This is not a new thing.
Li Hong An stood up with the help of the wall, with a pale face. He didn’t say anything with a tense face. Walking to the bed, he had to use all his strength to open the bed board that he usually opened easily. Then, he took out a black cloth bag from it.
Li Hong An’s wife opened the bag and was shocked. “Where did you get so much money?”
The cash in a bundle of 10,000 yuan, all red coloured bills, dazzled the eyes of this farm wife.
Li Hong An lit another cigarette and took 2 deep puffs. “We can’t take this money.”
“Why?” Li Hong An’s wife became excited. “We have the money in hand. Why can’t we take it? With this money, we can save it for a few more years and buy a house for our son. How can he marry a wife without a house? The betrothal money is not a small amount either.”
Hearing that, Li Hong An frowned. “This money is the hush money given by the construction team after Li Shan died.”
After thinking for a moment, Li Hong An’s wife went still. “So he asked you to call the police. If you call the police, the money will be gone. You have to give it back, right?”
“We’ll just give it back and earn the money by ourselves.”
“When can you earn back this big amount of money? How can you just give it back like this?” Li Hong An’s wife immediately put all the money back into the bag and hugged it tightly in her arms, “His death has nothing to do with you, and it’s not you who killed him. This money was given by someone willingly, you can’t give it back.”
The truth is, Li Hong An also felt pained to give up the money. He said helplessly, “But Li Shan’s death is always a knot in my heart. I haven’t been able to sleep well in the past six months. I couldn’t help trembling whenever I think about his death. What if he comes again?”
“It has nothing to do with the money. Anyway, it can’t be returned. Think about it. With this money, our life will be much better. You have to consider the children.”
“If I don’t give it back, what if Li Shan wants my life?”
Thinking of Li Shan’s face, Li Hong An’s wife was also afraid. Then, she made up her mind and said with gritted teeth, “I heard that dirty things like ghosts are afraid of black dog’s blood, or rooster’s blood. Tomorrow, you go and kill our black dog at home, and I will kill a rooster as an add-on. If he dares to come again, we’ll just splash him all over with the blood.”
Li Changan looked at his wife in shock. He knew she was a shrew, but he didn’t expect her to be so aggressive. “This is too much.”
The woman said firmly, “No matter what, I won’t return the money anyway.”
Knowing that Li Hong An didn’t call the police, Li Shan was also angry. He came to the house again the next night. This time, he made a lot of noise, knocking down everything in the yard, and the yard was in a mess. After that, he walked to the door and pushed it open with a gust of cold wind.
However, Li Shan didn’t expect a basin of black dog’s blood waiting in front of him!
The legends of the old people were true. Black dog blood could really suppress evil spirits. When Li Shan was splashed, his soul was like being splashed with sulfuric acid, corroded and billowing black smoke, and screaming.
Li Hong An couldn’t bear to watch anymore, but his wife was vicious. She went and poured the remaining chicken blood on Li Shan. That ruthlessness, for the sake of 200,000 yuan, she will make sure Li Shan’s soul disperses and never be reborn.
At this moment, the ghost doll flew over and stuck a talisman on Li Shan’s back. This was the amulet that Gu Ye gave them. If they were injured one day, it would help them. Li Shan’s injury was stopped, leaving only a big hole that had been corroded on his shoulder. Li Shan looked at the couple with a sinister face. He was sad and disappointed before, but now he really wanted to kill them.
“Li Hong An! I’m going to kill you both!”
Li Hong An was so scared that he screamed and ran away. Pouncing at him, Li Shan grabbed Li Hong An’s neck, lifted him up, and threw him out fiercely. Seeing what happened, Li Hong An’s wife picked up the mop beside her and rushed up. Li Shan was already angry, so he grabbed her by the neck and smashed her against the wall, knocking her unconscious.
Li Hong An ran over anxiously and hugged his wife. Inside, he regretted that he shouldn’t have listened to his wife.
Li Shan angrily glared at his friend, who wanted to kill him, “You guys are so vicious! For the sake of money! You guys even dare to do this! Li Hong An! 40 years of brotherhood! 40 years, it’s not worth the hush money.”
“Da Shan! I’m sorry! I was wrong, I was really wrong. I regret it, I didn’t want to kill you, I just couldn’t bear to part with the money. Now, I kneeled down to you, I kowtowed to you, please let me go!” Li Hong An’s face was pale, he didn’t dare to look at Li Shan’s corroded shoulders, and kept kowtowing to apologize, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
Seeing Li Hong An like this, Li Shan suddenly laughed. His expression became colder, and the resentment in his body became thicker. His heart felt cold, and he didn’t want to talk anymore. Ghost doll remembered Gu Ye’s instructions ‘Don’t kill anyone’ so he flew over and threw himself on Li Shan’s back, “Uncle, calm down. Make them call the police. Make them call the police now, and the police will take care of it for you. If you kill them here, you will bear the cause and effect of 2 lives. Then you may lose your mind and just want to kill anyone you see. At that point, how can you seek revenge on the person who really harmed you?”
Hearing that, Li Shan finally calmed down. Staring at Li Hong An with cold eyes, he instructed, “Call the police now. Don’t wait until tomorrow, I will never believe what you say again.”
Li Hong An crawled back to the house, tremblingly. He took the phone and cried to the police, “Comrade police, I want to report to you. My friend is dead, he was killed!”
Under the pressure of Li Shan’s cold eyes, Li Hong An told the police what had happened half a year ago incoherently, and finally begged in cries, “Please give him justice!”
Li Shan walked away with a cold face. Ghost doll took the initiative to hold Li Shan’s hand. He thought for a long time before comforting Li Shan, “Uncle, don’t be sad.”
Li Shan looked down at the child with a clown-like appearance and asked, “How did you die?”
Ghost doll shook his head, “My mother thought I was ugly and didn’t want me. I don’t know how I died. By the time I could remember things, I was raised by a fat Master, and then followed a group of bad guys. They lied to me that they were doing good things, but they were actually doing bad things. Later, I came to Master Gu’s house. Although he thought I was ugly, he didn’t drive me out. I am very grateful.”
“Your requirement is that low?”
“Yes! As long as there is a place to shelter me. I can also help clean the house, help Ling Ling make paper figures, and help Xiao Pang get talisman paper. I think I am very useful.”
Li Shan’s expression softened a little, “No one wants me either. My parents don’t want me, and I am also lame.”
Ghost Doll smiled and said, “I will accompany you!”
Li Shan finally smiled, and the resentment on his body dissipated a lot. He held Ghost Doll’s hand and went to the next village.
The other 3 workers were from the nearby village. Since Li Shan already scared one person to make a report, it’s better to scare all of them to call the police together. This time, Li Shan would never believe their words of delay again. In order to avoid any accidents, he asked them to call the police on the spot. If they didn’t, he would kill their children.
This idea was given by Ghost Doll. He heard from other ghosts that humans would protect their children. If you said to kill their children, they would be obedient. In fact, he didn’t believe this sentence very much, because there were so many abandoned children in the world. Unexpectedly, the workers were really scared, and they called the police on the spot without even a trace of hesitation.
In one night, the police received 4 calls, and the reported missing person was Li Shan. The coincidence made the police immediately pay more attention to this matter. Because the crime scene was not in the same area, the case was transferred to the police station in the capital that night.
The time, place, people, the process of the crime, the handling method… a series of plots are very detailed, and the 4 people’s statements are exactly the same. The police began to investigate who was in charge at the time that night, and the next day, they got the list of all the staff responsible for the construction at the time.
In addition to the on-site safety supervisor, the person in charge of fire safety is Huang Yong, who was reported to ‘throw Li Shan into the mixer’. There is also Chen Hong, who is responsible for reviewing and approving procurement and on-site financial expenditures related to the project. If this case is true, these two people should bear most of the responsibility, and there are also several marginal procurement underlings whose names have been marked.
The upper management of this construction company is also responsible.
However, there is no dead body, and where is the evidence? There is no evidence at all. This case is still a headless case, and it is unknown whether it is true or not. Even if the policemen go to the construction company to investigate, it is just a routine inquiry. At the moment, it’s just the migrant worker named Li Shan who is missing. There is no evidence, which is very troublesome to deal with.
Gu Ye calculated on his fingers and immediately found a runner ghost to call back Li Shan and the ghost doll. There is still a lot of trouble to handle in this matter.
Raw word count: 6088 (whole chapter)
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