Chapter 563: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 563: The Trap Set by the Half-Immortal, Finding the Grave-Digging Culprit

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Whether Wu Banxian truly calculated it or not, who knows—either way, some things are just that coincidental.

Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan happened to want to hold their wedding on New Year's Day too, which happened to avoid a family conflict.

If they hadn't wanted to hold the banquet on New Year's Day, it's hard to imagine what kind of quarrels and conflicts would have arisen.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, another day gone.

That day Wang Zhanggen received a phone call from Wu Banxian.

"I already know who dug up your family's ancestral grave. Bring the remaining payment over."

Wu Banxian said in a flat tone.

"Really? That's great!"

Wang Zhanggen immediately rode his motorcycle to the Rural Credit Cooperative in town to withdraw three thousand yuan, then brought Li Xiulan with him to Wu Banxian's house.

"Half-Immortal, who on earth dug up my family's ancestral grave?"

Wang Zhanggen respectfully handed over the remaining three thousand yuan.

His face full of expectation, he wanted to know the answer too badly.

As long as he could find out who dug up his family's ancestral grave, he felt this money was well spent!

Wu Banxian had an expressionless face and spoke a name that neither Wang Zhanggen nor Li Xiulan could have imagined:

"Zhou Aidi."

Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan immediately looked disbelieving.

Zhou Aidi was the wife of former Village Committee Secretary Liang Yuanchao. Since Liang Yuanchao passed away, she had lived alone in misery. She once lived with her son in Shenzhen for a while, but because of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict, she ended up back in Shanggou Village living alone.

She wasn't an unreasonable shrew; on the contrary, everyone in the village thought she was a good person and quite pitiable.

Such an old woman—how could she do something so immoral as digging up someone's ancestral grave?

It was simply hard to believe!

"Half-Immortal, the Zhou Aidi you're talking about—is she the Zhou Aidi from our Shanggou Village?"

Li Xiulan asked cautiously; she really couldn't believe it was Zhou Aidi.

"Yes, the Zhou Aidi from your village. Her husband is named Liang Yuanchao." Wu Banxian said very firmly.

"No, are you sure your calculation is accurate? Zhou Aidi is an old woman—how could she possibly dig up someone's ancestral grave?" Wang Zhanggen didn't believe it either.

His Wang family and Zhou Aidi had no grudge or enmity; why would she do something so immoral?

If the culprit were someone like Yang Dafu or He Dazhu, Wang Zhanggen might believe it, but to say it was Zhou Aidi—he really couldn't believe it.

Even if Wu Banxian's calculations were accurate, he still didn't believe it.

However, Wu Banxian's attitude was very resolute:

"It's Zhou Aidi. I've told you the culprit. Whether you believe it or not, that's up to you."

The reason Wu Banxian was so certain Zhou Aidi was the culprit who dug up Wang Zhanggen's ancestral grave was that Zhou Aidi had come to tell him herself!

So why did Zhou Aidi come to tell him on her own initiative?

It turned out that the words he had Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan spread around the village played a key role.

Wang Zhanggen went around publicizing that the person who dug up his ancestral grave tried to steal a chicken but lost the rice, that all his good luck had been absorbed by the Wang family, and that he wanted to thank the culprit for bringing double joy to his household—two sons holding wedding banquets together.

This matter quickly reached Zhou Aidi's ears. Seeing that Wang Zhanggen personally came to notify her to attend the wedding banquet at Huangsheng on New Year's Day, and thinking of how her waist and back had been aching lately, and how her son far away in Shenzhen was calling home less and less, she felt that what Wang Zhanggen said was probably true.

So she became afraid, worried and anxious.

Thus she secretly ran to the neighboring town to find Wu Banxian, seeking a solution.

Because word had spread in the village that only Wu Banxian had the solution.

She went to find Wu Banxian, naturally laying out the whole truth.

Wu Banxian was curious at first: this old woman, why would she go dig up Wang Zhanggen's ancestral grave?

So he asked her:

"Why did you go dig up someone's ancestral grave? Don't you know that's very immoral?"

Zhou Aidi kept her head down and said honestly:

"I was just psychologically unbalanced. Why are all three of his sons so promising, while my son is not? Even if he's not promising, the wife he married dislikes me, causing me to live alone in misery in the rural area."

The reason Zhou Aidi gave was absurd, but also very real.

Some people in the rural area are just like that—simple jealousy and resentment can lead them to do many absurd things.

You have to know, back when Zhou Aidi went to Shenzhen alone to find her son, she didn't understand anything; she didn't even know how to take a bus at the bus station. It was Xiao Hua who took the initiative to help take her to the bus station, and enthusiastically bought her a bus ticket and saw her onto the bus.

But now, she actually went in the middle of the night and dug up Xiao Hua's grandfather's grave.

"Even if you're psychologically unbalanced, you can't do such a thing. You're truly muddle-headed!"

Wu Banxian coldly scolded.

Zhou Aidi hurriedly begged:

"Half-Immortal, I know I was wrong. Now our Liang family's Qi Luck has all been absorbed by Wang Zhanggen's family. What should we do? You must help me."

Wu Banxian had an expressionless face:

"You go back and find a time to go apologize and admit your mistake to them yourself. If you want your family's Qi Luck to improve, you first need the Wang family's forgiveness. If the Wang family doesn't forgive you, then nothing will work!"

After Wu Banxian saw Zhou Aidi off, he immediately called Wang Zhanggen, asking him to come over.

So now, facing Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan, Wu Banxian's tone was very firm and confident. He also said:

"If my divination is correct, within a few days Zhou Aidi will come to you on her own initiative to apologize and admit her mistake."

"Really?" Li Xiulan looked puzzled.

She felt that even if Zhou Aidi had dug up their Wang family's ancestral grave, it was impossible for her to come and apologize of her own accord.

Wang Zhanggen also felt what Wu Banxian said was far-fetched, and didn't quite believe it.

Wu Banxian said:

"You all go back and wait, and don't go question Zhou Aidi. If within seven days Zhou Aidi hasn't come to apologize and admit her mistake to you, I will not only return your five thousand yuan, I'll even add another three thousand yuan for you!"

Seeing Wu Banxian speak so firmly, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan were half-believing and half-doubting.

"Half-Immortal, this is your own word. If by then Zhou Aidi hasn't come to apologize and admit her mistake to us, you must not renege on your account!" Wang Zhanggen said thus.

Wu Banxian said with great assurance:

"Those in my line of work care most about reputation. How could I possibly renege on my account!"

Wang Zhanggen felt he was sure to earn three thousand yuan.

Because he really couldn't think of any reason Zhou Aidi would dig up his family's ancestral grave.

So he brought Li Xiulan home and waited patiently.

Unexpectedly, before a day had passed, that very evening Zhou Aidi came to his home on her own initiative.

"Changgen, Xiulan, I have something to tell you..."

Zhou Aidi's aged face bore guilt.

Seeing Zhou Aidi appear, Wang Zhanggen and Li Xiulan were both stunned, showing slight surprise.

They thought, could Wu Banxian have been right?

"Sister-in-law Aidi, what is it?"

Li Xiulan hurriedly asked.

Only to see Zhou Aidi say nothing, and directly "thump," kneel before them.