Chapter 8: Invasion of Evil Qi

  Regarding Zhang Xiaolan's bizarre death, the police investigated several people, including Li Tianzhen and Liu Daquan, but nothing came of it. The police searched for several days but couldn't find any results, so they returned Zhang Xiaolan's body to the Liu family.

  After all, no matter what, Zhang Xiaolan is still Liu's daughter-in-law. Therefore, the burial of Zhang Xiaolan should be handled by the Liu family.

  Because Liu Renqing is still in the hospital, and Liu Daqi is an idiot, all the big and small things of the Liu family are now being taken care of by Li Tianzhen. Everyone knows that Li Tianzhen hates Zhang Xiaolan, so everyone thinks that Li Tianzhen will easily dig a hole and bury Zhang Xiaolan.

  To everyone's surprise, Li Tianzhen not only didn't casually dig a hole to bury Zhang Xiaolan, but also invited the famous Bamboo Mountain Taoist from afar to perform rituals for Zhang Xiaolan.

  In this village, when someone dies, asking Master Zhushan to perform the funeral rites is the highest honor. Li Tianzhen was very pleased with his daughter-in-law, and after her sudden death, he spent a lot of money to ask Master Zhushan to perform the funeral rites, which was somewhat acceptable due to his grief.

  For Zhang Xiaolan, this daughter-in-law, Li Tianzhen would not have spent so much money on her. Therefore, Li Tianzhen asked Zhu Shan Lao Dao to come, and there must be another reason for it.

  It happened that on the third day after Zhang Xiaolan's death, in the afternoon when Li Tianzhen returned home, she heard her son Liu Daogui still snoring.

  In Li Tianzhen's memory, Liu Daqi was never lazy and would get up as soon as the rooster crowed. Now, the sun has already risen over the mountain, it's already past 10 o'clock. At this time, under normal circumstances, Liu Daqi should have gone out to play.

  Li Tianzhen vaguely felt that something was wrong, so she tried to push Liu Daogui's door, but the door was bolted and she couldn't open it.

  Before marrying Zhang Xiaolan, Liu Daqi never closed the door when sleeping. After marrying Zhang Xiaolan, it was always Zhang Xiaolan who closed the door. Now that Zhang Xiaolan is dead, according to her son Liu Daqi's habit, he should not close the door when sleeping.

  Li Tianzhen felt more and more afraid, but what made her feel slightly comforted was that Li Daguang's snoring sounded relatively normal, no different from before.

  So Li Tianzhen thought she might have overthought it. Just because Li Dagu didn't sleep in late before, doesn't mean he won't now; just because he didn't lock the door before, doesn't mean he won't now.

  Thinking of this, Li Tianzhen's uneasy heart calmed down a bit. However, Li Tianzhen still had to go inside and take a look before he could completely put his mind at ease.

  "Open the door!" Li Tianzhen knocked on the door with a loud thud, the sound was like crashing into the door, as if the door was about to be knocked down by Li Tianzhen.

  Li Tianzhen didn't want to use so much force either, after all, this was her own home and if she broke the door, she would have to fix it herself. However, Li Tianzhen knew very well that as long as her son Liu Daqi was asleep, even thunder couldn't wake him up. Therefore, if she wanted to wake up Liu Daqi, she had no choice but to knock this loudly.

  Unfortunately, Li Tianzhen's knocking on the door had already been heard by the neighbors next door, but Liu Daqi still didn't wake up. Because his snoring was still circulating around Li Tianzhen's ears with a rhythmic feel.

  Li Tianzhen had almost given up, thinking that Liu Daqi was fine. But after taking two steps out, for some reason, Li Tianzhen turned back. She still wanted to open the door, as if not seeing Liu Daqi would make her uneasy.

  Since the door couldn't be opened by knocking, Li Tianzhen had to open it herself. In rural houses, except for the front gate, the doors inside the house, although they had door bolts, were basically useless.

  Li Tianzhen took a thin bamboo stick and inserted it through the door gap. Then, he slowly pried off the door bolt with the bamboo stick. Once the bolt fell, Liu Daogui's room door could be opened.

  As soon as the door opened, Li Tianzhen was stunned. Because she found that Liu Da-kui was lying naked on the bed, his body still tied with some hemp ropes, but those hemp ropes had already loosened a bit.

  Seeing this scene, Li Tianzhen hurriedly ran over and untied the hemp rope on Liu Daogui's body, and shook him awake.

  Liu Da-kui woke up and didn't have any other abnormalities, except that the useless thing between his legs was a bit red and swollen. Li Tian-zhen asked Liu Da-kui if it hurt, he replied that it didn't hurt.

  Li Tianzhen asked Liu Da-kui what was going on, and Liu Da-kui shook his head while saying: "I don't know, I don't know."

  Li Tianzhen asked Liu Da-kui for half a day, but couldn't get to the bottom of it, so she could only put this matter in her heart.

  That night, Li Tianzhen did not go to the hospital to take care of Liu Renqing, but stayed at home, because she had a premonition that something would happen tonight.

  At eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Tianzhen vaguely heard some movement in Liu Daogui's room. After hearing the movement, Li Tianzhen quietly walked to the door of Liu Daogui's room.

  During the day, Li Tianzhen deliberately drilled a small hole in the door of Liu Daogui's house with an awl so that she could see into the room at night.

  The moon was very bright tonight, and with the moonlight shining in, Li Tianzhen could see the situation inside the house clearly.

  Inside the room, Liu Da-kui took off his clothes one by one. After taking off all his clothes, Liu Da-kui put his hand into his own pants.

  Liu Da-kui messed around for a while and then took off his pants too.

  At once, Liu Daogui was completely naked. After stripping off his clothes, Liu Daogui brought over a hemp rope and tied himself up with it.

  Li Tianzhen was completely speechless at this point.

  Is this still your own son?

  Is this still that Liu Da-kui?

  Li Tianzhen couldn't believe what was happening in front of her eyes was true. But the fact was right in front of her, she didn't want to believe it but had to.

  Just as Li Tianzhen thought Liu Daqi was **, Liu Daqi suddenly pulled out a rolling pin. As for this rolling pin, Li Tianzhen was all too familiar with it, and it was the one that was stuffed into Zhang Xiaolan's lower body when she died.

  This rolling pin, which was taken away by the police together with Zhang Xiaolan's body at that time, how did it end up in Liu Daqi's hands? Just as Li Tianzhen couldn't figure out what was going on, Liu Daqi made another shocking move.

  All of a sudden, Liu Da-kui loosened the rope tied around his body and freed both hands. After freeing his hands, Liu Da-kui held his thing in one hand and used the rolling pin to poke at it with the other. As he poked, his thing began to swell red.

  As Liu Daku's mother, Li Tianzhen certainly couldn't let things continue to develop like this. She used her hand to push the door, found it couldn't be pushed open, so she lit the kerosene lamp.

  The kerosene lamp had just been lit when it was blown out by a gust of wind. The door was closed, so it shouldn't have been possible for the wind to blow in. Li Tianzhen thought she must have shaken the lamp herself and extinguished it, so she put the lamp on the table and picked up the matches.

  Li Tianzhen had just struck the match and lit it, when a gust of wind blew out the match in her hand.

  "What thing?" Li Tianzhen cursed loudly.

  After scolding, Li Tianzhen lit the match again. This time there was no wind blowing, and the match burned normally. However, when Li Tianzhen was about to light the kerosene lamp, she found that the wick was gone.

  "Da Gui!" Li Tianzhen shouted at the top of her lungs, then rushed towards Liu Daguai's room like a madwoman. Li Tianzhen felt that Liu Daguai was in danger now, so she didn't even bother to light a lamp. She had to burst into Liu Daguai's room and drive away the thing inside.

  "Creak!" Just as Li Tianzhen was about to bump into Liu Daogui's door, it suddenly opened.

  Li Tianzhen kicked the threshold with a "thud", followed by a dull thud. Li Tianzhen fell into Liu Daogui's house with a splat.

  Li Tianzhen fell down, and Liu Daqi slowly walked over. Only to see that Liu Daqi's face was iron-green, and he was coldly laughing with a "heh heh" sound.

  "Big...Kui..." Li Tianzhen had just shouted out these two words when Liu Da Kui raised the rolling pin in his hand and struck Li Tianzhen's head with one blow.

  Liu Da-kui used some force with this stick. After Li Tian-zhen was hit by this stick, she immediately fainted. Seeing Li Tian-zhen fainting, Liu Da-kui dragged her out of the house and threw her into the main hall.

  After finishing all this, Liu Da-kui returned to his own room and closed the door.