Confiscated the property and exiled? I emptied the warehouse and fled the famine.

Cui Lizheng's words undoubtedly praised the shabby house to the highest praise. The implication was that this tile-roofed house was what everyone in Baiyun Village wanted to live in, and it was already good enough to give it to you prisoners, but you are still picky.

Ruan Yunsheng held back his eyes and rolled his eyes. If this tile-roofed house was really so good, would it be their turn? He knew without even thinking that there might be something wrong with the house.

Cui Lizheng did not give them any time to think about regretting. He called two people from the village and asked them to take them over.

Even after everyone left, Master Zhou's eyes did not move away from Ruan Yunsheng. Cui Lizheng stepped forward to please him, "Master Zhou, are you interested in her?"

Grandpa Zhou did not hide the fact that his eyes were full of affection as he looked at Ruan Yunsheng, "Well, this woman is not bad..."

Now that everyone has left, there is no point for Mr. Zhou to stay here any longer. He is reluctant to see Ruan Yunsheng leaving. Anyway, there is plenty of time and no one that Mr. Zhou has set his eyes on has ever escaped.

Cui Lizheng sighed lightly, what a sin, another good girl was going to be harmed. But he, as the head of the village, was useless, and the county magistrate was just a puppet of the county chancellor, who could do nothing and could only wish for good luck.

The two villagers who were arranged by Cui Lizheng to send them to the western households looked back at Lu Zhizhou and his group from time to time. The west was not very far and they arrived in more than half an hour. Along the way, Ruan Yunsheng saw that the villagers of Baiyun Village all shook their heads when they saw their expressions, thinking that something must have happened.

Ruan Yunsheng stepped forward quickly and said, "Brother, may I ask what exactly is this western house? Why is there no one living in this tile-roofed house?"

The man didn't want to have anything to do with these people, but seeing that Ruan Yunsheng was so handsome and gentle, he couldn't bear to refuse. "Sister, you don't know, this house on the west side is close to Lanyuan Country, there is only a river away, and it is often robbed by people from Lanyuan. And the house you live in is a tiled house, but the previous owner and his family were killed in the house by bandits from Lanyuan Country. Since then, the house has been haunted..."

The man shuddered as he spoke, and seemed to be very afraid of the house. Ruan Yunsheng thought with a serious face. She couldn't say for sure whether the ghost story was weird or not, but her intuition told her that there must be something fishy going on.

"Thank you for telling me, brother."

"You're welcome, you're welcome. Actually, you can't blame Cui Lizheng. He has no choice. This Mr. Zhou is clinging to County Magistrate Cao, and now Fengcheng is managed by County Magistrate Cao. If Cui Lizheng wants to live a more comfortable life, he can only learn to humble himself. If he had a choice, he would not let you live there."

Ruan Yunsheng understood what the man said. It turned out that Cui Lizheng was a good man like the county magistrate, but he was forced to be suppressed and unable to exercise his rights.

"Okay, we won't blame Cui Lizheng. Thank you for telling me today."

This time, Ruan Yunsheng did not give him money as he did to the officials. After all, they had just arrived here and if they took out a few taels of silver to bribe these people right away, they would not be able to take it back.

As they were talking, they had arrived at the place assigned to Ruan Yunsheng and others. The man pointed to the place in front of him. Ruan Yunsheng raised his eyebrows as he looked at the yard in front of him. This place was really nice, a typical courtyard with three entrances and four courtyards, although it was a bit shabby.

“Is this where we live?”

"It's quite big, it can accommodate so many of us, but it's a little too shabby."

Ruan Yunsheng didn't say anything, because the house was really dilapidated. Half of the tiles on the house were gone, and the windows were so broken that they couldn't even block the wind. The door at the entrance was leaning to one side and there was no sign of its former glory.

"Brother, I think this place is quite prosperous. How come it doesn't match your Baiyun Village at all?"

The man whispered, "In fact, our Baiyun Village was quite wealthy before. Our land is very fertile because it is close to the river. In the past, every household of the villagers in our Baiyun Village had a courtyard house with three entrances and four sides, which was very beautiful. But later, for some reason, there were more and more bandits in Lanyuan Country. Although we were rich, we could not withstand the repeated burning, killing and looting by these bandits. Later, after this family was killed, the soil in our village began to change inexplicably. It didn't produce anything. We couldn't pay the land tax for a long time, so we could only sell the tiles at home for some money. Slowly, it became like this..."

"Brother, are you saying that the land here has become uncultivable since the accident happened to this family?" Ruan Yunsheng asked puzzledly.

"Yes, that's why we say it's a weird place. Not only that, sometimes we can hear noises coming from this house in the middle of the night. Some brave villagers want to go in to see what's going on, but they either go crazy or become stupid after they come out. Since then, no one of us has approached this house. If you hadn't come, I'm afraid no one would be able to live in this house in this lifetime."

Ruan Yunsheng was a little curious, "If that's the case, why don't you sell the house?"

The man was shocked and looked around and said softly, "Hey, how could we not have thought of this? The first wave of people who came to sell houses all had problems at home the next day. The families that were originally fine suddenly all had diarrhea and high fever the next day."

Ruan Yunsheng frowned. Is this really so weird?

The man felt more and more uncomfortable the more he spoke, and shuddered. "Alright, alright, that's it, let's go first. This place is too gloomy."

After the two left, everyone looked at the yard in front of them with worries. They should decide whether to live here or not. If they don't live here, Cui Lizheng will not arrange another place for them to live. If they live there, it will be haunted...

Lu Yunruo swallowed her saliva and said, "Sister-in-law Qi, do you think we really want to move in?"

"Xiao Ba, read with me. We were born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze. Everywhere we look is China. It is prosperous, strong, wise, civilized and harmonious. It has freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law. It is patriotic, dedicated, honest and friendly..." Ruan Yunsheng silently read the twenty-four-character mantra.

"Ah?" Lu Yunruo looked confused. What was her seventh sister-in-law talking about? She didn't understand a word of it.

"Let's go. Now that we are here and have no choice, let's go in. How can this ghost be so scary as to be afraid of a human? We are not even afraid of humans, so why should we be afraid of this illusory thing?"

Lu Zhizhou took the lead and walked in. As soon as he pushed the door open, a gust of cold wind blew in from inside. The city fortress that everyone had just built in their hearts was instantly shattered.

Everyone wanted to step in bravely but retreated. Lu Zhizhou pushed aside the weeds in front of the door and looked at the house inside. "There is enough space for several families to live here. If you don't mind, we can live together in the future and have someone to rely on. If you don't think it's appropriate, we can ask the head of the village to allocate two more rooms tomorrow. What do you think?"