Chapter 0001 – Rainy Night (1 / 2)

It was June in the middle of summer, and the weather was so changeable that just now the sky was still clear and sunny, but in the twinkling of an eye it was pouring with rain.

The rain was pouring down, blurring the boundaries of the mountains and forests, and an ornately decorated carved carriage sped past on the official road.

Outside the carriage, the boy holding the reins wiped his face full of rainwater, and strenuously advised the people inside, “Young master, today’s rain is a bit too heavy! The road ahead is flooded, let’s find a place to hide from the rain and wait for it to stop before we depart?”

“It’s getting late, and Auntie will be worried if we return late. Changrong, let’s go back by that side path.”

A pair of bony hands slowly reached out from a curtain inlaid with gold filigree and pointed roughly in the right direction.

“But, Your Excellency, that road goes past a mass grave!” Chang Rong looked along with Gongzi’s instructions and stammered, “Your status is honored, in case you are hit by something dirty, I can’t afford it!”

The person inside the car lifted the curtain with a folding fan, revealing a jade-like young face with bright eyebrows filled with a warm smile.

It was Chen Zian, the second son of the Chen family, the richest family in Jiangcheng.

Chen Zian arched his eyebrows and smiled, “Chang Rong, your son reads holy books, but he never believes in strange words. However, if you are afraid–“

The last half of the sentence he deliberately dragged out a long time, Chang Rong how dare to say that he is afraid? He could only harden his head and set up the carriage to drive towards that mass grave.

The mass grave not far away was dead silent, with only a few vultures gnawing on the corpses on the ground. Chang Rong forced himself to hold back his nausea and avert his eyes, struggling to keep his distance and driving the carriage with all his might, just wanting to leave this hellish place quickly.

Fortunately, this mass grave is not big, only need to burn incense can pass. Seeing that it will soon drive through, Chang Rong just breathed a sigh of relief, then saw a black “ghost shadow” in front of the slow writhing on the ground —

Chang Rong was so frightened that he strangled the reins and let out a scream, “Ah! Gongzi save me! Ghost! Ghost!”

Prosperity’s voice seemed to scare “it”, and almost simultaneously, the “ghostly shadow” also shrieked!

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

Ghostly screams rose and fell, Chen Zian’s eyes flinched as he quickly lifted the curtain and got out of the car, shouting angrily, “Who’s pretending to be a ghost there!”

“Noble, noble forgive me! Nu didn’t, Nu just wanted to help sister dig a grave–“

Chen Zian fixed his eyes on the ground, where was the ghost on the ground, it was clearly a small girl with a double bun.

The little girl looked at them in shock, her body was covered in mud and had long been soaked through. She was half-kneeling on the ground and picking up the dirt with her hands, her clothes had long been too dirty to be seen, and her facial features could not be seen, only revealing a pair of extremely bright and beautiful eyes.

Beside her was a roll of straw mats with dark blood on the outside, and it was clear from the vaguely exposed hair that the body of a woman was wrapped inside.

Looks like the little girl wasn’t lying.

Obviously, she was not old enough, and the children of other people’s families were still enjoying themselves, but she had to dig the graves for her family by hand in the rain and in the wild.

Chen ZiMin felt some compassion, opened the oil paper umbrella on the car, covered the little girl’s head, and softly asked, “Little girl, the rain is so heavy, why don’t you know to hide? Where is your family?”

The wide brim of the umbrella shielded her from the torrential rain pouring down over her head.

The girl looked up dully, only to see a hand with an auger-patterned topaz wrench, and hastily lowered her head.