Courtyard House: Drunk and tipsy, the whole courtyard exposed at the start.

Zhang Dabiao said with an air of righteous indignation, "Otherwise what?"

"This is the Jia family's business, not mine. Everyone has been here with us until now."

"I have to go to school or work tomorrow. Since your neighborhood committee has taken over, I've finished all the records for you. Now, of course, I need to go back to sleep."

That made sense. Liu Guangqi and the others patted their behinds and prepared to go back. It wasn't their house that was haunted. Since the neighborhood committee had come, they could leave it to them.

Madam Jia was stunned for a moment, then cried out in anguish, "No, none of you can leave!"

"What will happen to our family if you leave?"

"Aren't you afraid that ghosts will come looking for you?"

Zhang Dabiao said without any hesitation, "I'm not afraid. If he dares to come looking for me, I'll beat him until he shits green!"

"Let him know what the iron fist of the people is like!"

Everyone was speechless; they could tell that Zhang Dabiao was truly unafraid.

But they were afraid!

Zhang Dabiao, the bravest of them all, went back. What if something happened to them that night?

Director Wang asked helplessly, "Then, where did He Yuzhu go?"

She planned to find someone bold enough to back up the situation.

"He was so scared of Xu Damao that he peed his pants and went home to hide."

"..."

"Where is Xu Damao?"

"I got knocked unconscious by Sha Zhu, almost beaten to death, and now I'm lying at home."

"..."

"What exactly happened?"

Then Liu Guangqi and Yan Jiecheng added fuel to the fire, leaving Director Wang speechless.

That Xu Damao... he really deserves a beating!

Aren't you afraid of scaring people to death?

"And... what about Yi Zhonghai?"

"She was so scared she fainted. When they dragged her out, she had hit her head and was lying in bed at home."

"..."

"Da Biao, why don't you stay a little longer... for us..."

"Could you offer some guidance on the work?"

Director Wang was scared too! He'd never seen anything like it before!

Even the fearless Sha Zhu was scared to death. If she were to wet herself on the spot, her reputation would be completely ruined.

Zhang Dabiao nodded reluctantly. This problem needed to be solved, otherwise things could get out of hand if it got too big.

"By the way, Da Biao, you said 'want it' first."

"Are there any other possibilities? It's not ghosts... it's feudal superstition?" Director Wang thought of something.

Zhang Dabiao chuckled, then said in a sinister low voice, "If it's not feudal superstition, then it is—"

He pointed at Jia Zhangshi and said, "They have a radio!"

"Or maybe it's some kind of telegraph equipment used by spies, deliberately putting these things out to scare us!"

"There must be some ulterior motive!"

The Jia family's faces turned green! I only cursed you once, and you're trying to drag our Jia family into espionage activities! You're trying to kill our Jia family!

"Zhang Dabiao, don't make baseless accusations! Who's the spy? What radio?"

"Does our Jia family look like we can afford a radio?"

Everyone nodded in agreement. Of all the children in the courtyard, only Zhang Dabiao had brought back a radio last time, which was a prize from a prize-winning savings game. He gave it to Mu Wanqing that very day, saying it was for her to use for studying. Everyone had seen that.

As for the Jia family buying a radio?

Even if their family is rich, Jia Zhangshi would definitely have hidden it all away. Why would they buy a radio?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

But Director Wang's expression changed; there were human voices, accompaniment, and electronic sounds—

It has to be a radio!

"search!"

With a wave of her hand, the staff began searching from all angles.

Several people were tapping and knocking on the wall, looking for a hidden hole.

Several others went around to the front yard to search the Jia family's house. In this kind of case, it's better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free!

After investigating for a long time, it was finally determined that the sound was coming from the wall that had been rebuilt later!

Very strange!

Then Director Wang asked Zhang Dabiao, "Dabiao, what do you think?"

Zhang Dabiao...

Can't you just use a different word?

He had no choice but to reluctantly offer an idea.

"Smash it! We'll find out if there's anything inside the wall!"

"Even if there's nothing there, if this wall is gone, the sound will be gone too!"

Director Wang nodded—that's what she thought too.

But Jia Zhangshi was unhappy: "If you tear down the wall, where will we live?"

Zhang Dabiao could only shrug and say, "Fine, you don't have to smash it? Then your family can just take it. Anyway, the noise isn't loud, no one else can hear it, and it has nothing to do with us."

"Alright everyone, let's call it a day and go home to sleep."

Zhang Dabiao waved his hand, and everyone got ready to pack up and go home.

"No, you can't leave!"

"I……"

After hesitating for a long time, the Jia family finally decided—

Let's just smash it.

Director Wang repeatedly confirmed, "This was something your family allowed to smash, so we can help you smash it, but you'll have to fix it yourself."

This needs to be agreed upon in advance, so that the Jia family doesn't try to renege on their promise later.

Madam Jia wanted to argue a bit more, but Jia Dongxu finally nodded.

"Director Wang, go ahead and smash it..."

What else can we do?

That's the only way.

Zhang Dabiao immediately perked up: "Director Wang, I'll do it! I'm strong!"

Smash the Jia family's wall?

Where else can you find such a good deal as legally and legitimately smashing their wall?

Director Wang found someone to bring a sledgehammer from the neighboring shop, and then at midnight, Zhang Dabiao took off his coat, swung his arms, and started sledgehammering the sledgehammer while muttering and shouting—

"Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!"

No one understood what was going on, except for the Jia family members, who trembled with each fall of the hammer.

Despite the freezing weather, Zhang Dabiao was radiating warmth, making him quite conspicuous under the flashlight beam. Even Director Wang couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Young people are full of energy!"

In less than ten minutes, Zhang Dabiao had completely smashed the newly built wall!

The Jia family looked on, wanting to cry but having no tears.

However, the result is also obvious: with the wall gone and no point of contact, the sound naturally cannot travel through. The area where it flashed was just air, and that slight vibration was completely negligible.

So, the demons and monsters helped the Jia family get rid of them, but the walls were gone too.

Director Wang and the street office staff were very meticulous. They thoroughly searched through all the rubble, but they couldn't hear any more sounds. Moreover, there were no radios or telegraph devices hidden in the stones. In the end, they had to call a cart to haul the rubble to the street office, where they would have to thoroughly search it again the next day.

In addition, the house in the front yard was turned upside down again, even the stones under the bed were lifted, but there wasn't a single clue.

The personnel from the neighborhood committee have returned, but the Jia family is left heartbroken.

My perfectly good home has been turned into this mess, how am I supposed to sleep here?

A cold wind was blowing in!

Finally, with no other option, the five members of the Jia family squeezed back into the side room in the central courtyard and made do for the night.

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Yi Zhonghai went to work with his forehead bandaged up like an Indian man's and his face covered in gentian violet.

Jia Dongxu had dark circles under his eyes and sneezed every now and then; he had been thoroughly exhausted last night.

The two looked at each other, and Jia Dongxu felt a little embarrassed. He had bumped his godfather's head like that, which was really an eyesore.

What does Yi Zhonghai want to say? He almost lost half his life last night!

But at least Jia Dongxu pulled him out, which can be considered as fulfilling his filial duty.

Oh well, my son is so filial, what does it matter if I get hurt a little?

They didn't bring it up again.

Jia Dongxu hesitated for a moment before asking, "Godfather, you said..."

"Was it Zhang Dabiao who caused that incident last night?"