After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 67 Setting the Game

"Take them all away! Don't let any of them escape!"

As soon as the almost cracked duck voice finished speaking, more than a dozen nimble servants wearing coarse cloth shorts ran out from behind the crowd and pinned down the people who were asking for an explanation in front of the haunted house.

"What?"

"What are you doing?"

Some of them didn't know what was happening and were just struggling.

Song Lan and the others saw it very clearly.

"...Why do these people who suddenly came out to arrest people seem to be particularly familiar with the people from the Dali Temple?" Liu Wu muttered in a low voice.

Pei Yuanshi also frowned: "The leader just now clearly nodded and greeted the officials from the Dali Temple, and when those people rushed up to arrest people, those officials did not show any surprise at all!"

"He didn't even hold the knife. It was obvious that he had known this would happen."

Liu Wu nodded in agreement.

Brother Pei is right!
"The clothes of these people seem to be very uniform. I think I have seen them before when I was looking at houses at the Brokerage Guild."

Song Lan raised his eyebrows, feeling that the answer to today's drama was about to come out.

Liu Wu was at a loss: "Dentist?"

"Why did the pawnbroker come to arrest these people..." He didn't understand.

Song Lan chuckled: "Maybe, yesterday, I failed to take everyone's life, and I was worried that if I continued to allow these people to challenge me, I would really lose this house. I had no choice, so I found someone from the Dali Temple to forcibly seal this house."

"The house is sealed, and the challenger cannot enter, so the challenge has naturally failed."

"The pawnbrokers came to arrest people. It can't be that they are just being kind and afraid that these people will run away and they have nowhere to find them, so they offered compensation on their own initiative, right?"

If it's not about giving compensation, then of course it's about asking for compensation!
Liu Wu nodded.

The ghost lady is right!

His eyes widened and he angrily cursed: "How shameless you are!"

Isn't this pure fraud?

"I never thought that the Emperor's feet, the Imperial City, would be so filthy and dirty!"

Liu Wu thought that if this matter became a foregone conclusion, he would have been cheated out of 1,800 strings of cash for nothing! !

His mother will break his legs!
The kind that interrupts everything!!

"Lord Song Lan, what should we do?"

Liu Wu whispered, "How about we sneak away before those people find us?"

"slip?"

Song Lan raised his eyebrows: "It's written in black and white on the contract. Your name and where you are from are all clearly written, and your fingerprints are also pressed. Where can you sneak away?"

"Even if you run away, your home is still there, right?"

"Haven't you heard the saying that the monk can escape but the temple cannot?"

"You might run away, and the next moment they'll come to your house with another deed to collect the debt!"

"When the time comes, we will add penalty interest, delayed work fees, travel expenses... Your family members don't know the truth, they only see the black and white paper with your signature. When the time comes, even if we take the case to the government, we can't say whether we can get justice, and we can't say whether we will be plundered."

Liu Wu felt scared just by listening.

"I, then, then I..." He spoke incoherently and was so flustered that he didn't know what to do.

He choked up like a whimpering puppy: "Then what should I do?"

Is he just going to let these bastards extort his money?

He is also stupid... Why did he let himself be fooled by a few bad friends?
Being impulsive really hurts others and yourself.

Pei Yuanshi's face also looked ugly.

He had pledged the Changsheng Temple as a stake. If he lost...

Thinking of the old man who was so happy two days ago, saying that he had received a donation from a believer and wanted to rebuild the mountain gate, gild the master's body, and restore the glory of Changsheng Temple, if he found out in a few days that it was just a waste of time, he would probably be so upset that he would hang himself on a tree with a hemp rope and go down to serve the master. "So, do you remember one principle?"

The girl's cold voice suddenly rang in his ears, startling Pei Yuanshi and bringing him back to his senses from his annoyance and regret. He looked at her blankly.

"Gamblers will not die well!"

Liu Wu muttered softly, "I'm not doing this for gambling..."

Well, it’s also a gamble.

However, what he was gambling on was not such a small house, but the face of those dandies in Linzhou Prefecture who, like him, idled away their time, played with cats and dogs, and spent huge sums of money from their family's good fortune just to compete with each other.

Liu Wu's face turned pale.

Pei Yuanshi sighed helplessly: "I thought that a haunted house is nothing to be afraid of. I have the protection of my ancestor, and I am the most outstanding disciple in the sect. It is easy for me to deal with a haunted house, if not to say I can easily defeat it."

Liu Wu was innocently confused: "Handy and easy to catch, don't these two mean the same thing?"

Pei Yuanshi was speechless for a moment: "...In short, I didn't expect that what made me so difficult to deal with was not the evil spirits in the haunted house, but the trap set by the evil-hearted and unscrupulous people!"

He sighed sadly: "In the past, I only thought that evil spirits were cruel and terrifying, but now I know that what is more terrifying than evil spirits is people with evil spirit hearts!"

"How can these people be like this?! They are colluding with officials and businessmen and do not care about the law. If they are allowed to do it so easily, what is the difference between that and taking human life lightly?"

Pei Yuanshi really didn't dare to think about how he would go back and face the old man and his ancestor if Changsheng Temple was looted by these people.

Song Lan looked at the people in front of the haunted house being taken away and let out a light "tsk".

"Let's go too," she said.

Liu Wu nodded dejectedly, of course he had no objection.

"Indeed, we can't fight for a moment! Let's go quickly, get out of this dangerous place first, and then slowly think of a way later! Don't let them find us later, otherwise we will really be left with no one to help us!"

As he said this, he was about to pull the person away.

Pei Yuanshi also agreed with what Liu Wu said and was about to leave with him.

Song Lan didn't move.

"Ok?"

Liu Wu originally just pulled in vain, but found that he didn't move it. It was like he had pulled a rock that could stabilize a mountain with his bare hands. With a whoosh, he was pulled back by the force of inertia and staggered.

Ouch! Ahaha-hiss!
Liu Wu fell to the ground and his chin was cut.

"Ms. Female ghost..." Woohoo, it hurts.

He looked at his bloody hand and suddenly felt even more painful.

Pei Yuanshi subconsciously took two steps back and kept some distance from the others.

Otherwise, the blood will splatter on you.

Song Lan's tone was innocent, but his expression was cold and ruthless: "Who said you were leaving?"

"what?"

Liu Wu carefully supported his chin with his hand and took two hissing breaths every time he spoke a word.

"If you don't leave, do you want to follow and watch the fun?"

"Of course!"

Song Lan raised his eyebrows: "It would be a pity not to watch such a good event."

"Ms. Ghost..."

Liu Wu wanted to persuade him, but Song Lan had already raised his hand and tapped his forehead.

"If I don't go, how can I——"

When Liu Wu heard this, his eyes widened in shock.

(End of this chapter)