Chapter 11: Uninvited Guest

“Even if you say that, I still won’t accept it,” Li Si continued to hold out the pork to Butcher Yu, saying calmly, “If I accept your pork, what about the parents of the other children when they hear about it? Should they also give me pork?”

In this world, pork was still difficult for ordinary families to afford. The meat was expensive, and the seasonings for cooking it were costly. Most families could only eat it once a month or every few months.

“Alright, I’ll buy this meat then,” Li Si said, seeing that Butcher Yu wouldn’t take it back. He placed the pork on the table, took out a handful of copper coins from his sleeve, counted out over a hundred, and stuffed them into Butcher Yu’s hand.

Since Li Si had inherited this body, he couldn’t ruin the original owner’s reputation. Having been reborn, he didn’t want to live as shrewdly as in his previous life. He wanted to change his way of living, to live more freely.

Moreover, what he lacked now wasn’t money, but soul points. Money wasn’t that important to him now. Besides, if he could exorcise demons and subdue monsters in the future, he could earn plenty of silver whenever he wanted.

For example, Landlord Zhang’s family had announced that whoever could subdue the ghost in their house would receive a thousand taels of silver. Even if he didn’t have the ability now, he would in the future.

“This… this, how can it be like this,” Butcher Yu held the money, his face showing a troubled expression.

At this moment, Uncle Zhou had finished preparing Li Si’s tofu pudding. He brought it over and jokingly scolded Butcher Yu, “You rascal, why are you troubling Young Master Li? You know his character, if he says he won’t accept it, he definitely won’t.”

“How about this, in the future when I buy pork from you, you can pick out the better cuts for me,” Li Si laughed, giving Butcher Yu a way out.

Hearing Li Si say this, Butcher Yu’s face broke into a smile, and he added, “Then I’ll trouble the teacher with my son in the future. I have things to do at home, my wife can’t manage it all. In the future, if the teacher has time, you can come to our home as a guest.”

With that, he hurriedly left for his butcher shop.

“Heh,” Uncle Zhou chuckled, placing the tofu pudding on the table. He smiled at Li Si and said, “This Butcher Yu wants his son to become your disciple. What do you think, Young Master Li, have you thought about taking on a few disciples?”

“I don’t have much skill now, I’m not at the point where I can take on disciples,” Li Si laughed, using a spoon to eat the tofu pudding.

Seeing Li Si say this, Uncle Zhou knew that Li Si wasn’t planning to take on disciples. He shook his head with a smile and turned to go about his business.

After Uncle Zhou left, Li Si began eating the tofu pudding, spoonful by spoonful. Feeling the warm sensation of the tofu pudding sliding down his throat, he narrowed his eyes, feeling very content.

Soon, he finished eating, left five copper coins on the table, said goodbye to Uncle Zhou, and left carrying the two jin of pork.

After leaving the tofu shop, Li Si headed towards the vegetable market. Today he planned to buy more vegetables. He always felt that the food at the restaurant didn’t quite suit his taste, so today he planned to go home and cook a good meal for himself.

At the vegetable market, he bought some green vegetables, green peppers, and ginger, scallions, and garlic, then contentedly headed home.

Today he wanted to make garlic green vegetables and stir-fried green peppers with meat, both very simple dishes but ones he really liked.

After walking for a while, as he approached his home, Li Si’s footsteps suddenly halted. He saw a horse-drawn carriage parked in front of his door. He recognized this carriage, or more accurately, the original owner recognized it. It was the carriage from the Zhang mansion in this county town.

Combining this with the recent rumors he had heard, Li Si knew what this was about. His demon-subduing and monster-slaying deeds must have become known to the Zhang family. They had come to seek his help in exorcism.

Thinking of this, Li Si immediately turned to leave, intending to avoid meeting them. Let whoever wants to go, go. With his current weak body, he didn’t know if he would subdue the ghost or if the ghost would subdue him.

He only had one low-level ghost creature now. What if the Zhang family’s ghost was a mid-level or high-level one? Although he had a protective charm, he couldn’t be so reckless. If he got entangled with this ghost, he might still be finished after a month.

“Hey, is that Young Master Li?” However, it was apparently too late. A man dressed as a servant on the carriage had spotted him from afar and called out.

Li Si’s departing footsteps froze, and he turned back with an unpleasant expression to see this man quickly running towards him.

Seeing the man’s sturdy build and the speed at which he was running, Li Si felt his own legs, sore and weak from the morning run, and wisely abandoned the idea of immediately fleeing.

“Young Master Li, my master has some business with you,” the servant said, bowing respectfully to Li Si when he reached him.

“I have things to do, I need to go home and cook soon,” Li Si held up the vegetables in his hand to show the servant, indicating he wasn’t lying.

“Please don’t make it difficult for me, Young Master Li,” the servant continued to bow to Li Si, his face showing a pleading expression.

“Sigh, I really have things to do. I need to marinate the meat now and wash the vegetables, otherwise I’ll miss lunchtime,” Li Si’s face showed a helpless expression, indicating he couldn’t do anything about it.

He really didn’t want to go to the Zhang mansion now. What a joke, he wasn’t prepared at all and knew nothing about the Zhang family’s ghost. Going now would be no different from seeking death. At the very least, he should wait until his body was in better shape and he had prepared a peach wood sword.

“Young Master Li, please be magnanimous. If I don’t bring you back, my master will surely beat me to death,” the servant cried out, falling to his knees and starting to kowtow to Li Si. His head hit the ground with loud “thud” “thud” sounds.

“Ah,” Li Si sighed inwardly, then took the opportunity while the man was kowtowing to quietly tiptoe past him. Soon, he reached the front of his house.

Even if this person kowtowed himself to death in front of his door, it had nothing to do with him. If he wanted to kowtow, what did it have to do with Li Si? Should he follow him to the Zhang mansion to seek death?

Inserting the key into the lock, Li Si thought about how this world also had moral coercion, kowtowing to him just because he wouldn’t go. Thinking of kowtowing, his hand paused. When had the sound of kowtowing stopped?

“Young Master Li, what are you doing?” Suddenly, a low, hoarse voice came from behind him.

Li Si turned his head to see the servant, his face covered in blood from his forehead, looking at him expressionlessly.

Then, a black shadow flashed, and Li Si felt a heavy blow to the right side of his face. His head suddenly buzzed, and his body collapsed to the ground.

In his last moment of consciousness, he heard the words, “You don’t know what’s good for you.”

“What are you looking at?” the servant cursed at a few onlookers, then hoisted Li Si onto his shoulder and stuffed him into the carriage.

The few people on the roadside looked at each other, but seeing the servant’s ferocious appearance with his face covered in blood, they immediately became too scared to make a sound.



With a “Giddyup,” the carriage slowly started moving, leaving the street.