Si Jiangchen and I were invited to the home of Village Head Lu Erzhong.
On the concrete road in the village, the most imposing three - story building with a courtyard belonged to his family.
Following Lu Erzhong from behind, from afar, I could see the black miasma of malevolence lingering in the air above the luxurious building with its off - white tiled exterior.
"Miss Du, what's wrong?"
Uncle Li saw me pause slightly and turned back to ask. He was an outsider in Lu Village, so he tried harder to curry favor with the village head.
"Who's at home in the village head's house now?"
I frowned as I looked at the building of the village head's house, vaguely sensing something strange.
"Only my wife and daughter are at home."
Lu Erzhong sighed. There was an anxious look on his honest - looking face. "Xiaojuan is really a handful. If you don't keep an eye on her for a moment, she'll cause some trouble!"
"No! There's something else in your house!"
I quickened my steps, overtaking them, and rushed towards the building.
Among the layers of ghostly fog, there was also a powerful earth - yellow demonic aura. I really had no idea what kind of constitution this Lu Xiaojuan had to attract so many strange things!
"There's really no one else in my house!"
Hearing my words, Lu Erzhong's hair stood on end. A haunted Lu Xiaojuan was already enough to give the couple a headache. Now, hearing that there was something else in his house, he was so scared that his legs started to tremble.
"Mr. Du, if you want more money, it's okay! But don't bring any bad luck to my family!"
Lu Erzhong knew that some feng shui masters deliberately led "dirty things" into the client's house to show how powerful they were.
"Ho."
Si Jiangchen, who had been lazily following behind us, smoking a cigarette, suddenly let out a soft laugh, as if mocking my meddling.
I pretended not to hear him and quickly reached the courtyard gate of Lu Erzhong's house.
The antique - style courtyard with yellow - green glazed tiles had two large red - lacquered iron gates tightly shut.
From inside the courtyard, a shrill voice scolded, "Humph! Where did this fraudster come from? How dare you cross my path?!"
I felt a chill in my heart!
That day in the wheat field, Lu Xiaojuan not only encountered a ghost but was also possessed by a "great immortal"?
"Damn it!"
Lu Erzhong, who was closely following me, immediately turned deathly pale.
There were only his wife and his daughter tied up on the bed in his house. But now, there was a strange voice shouting in the courtyard. Who could it be? A human or a ghost?
Lu Erzhong fumbled to open the gate.
Unexpectedly, the one who claimed to be a great immortal inside suddenly "whooshed" and jumped onto the glazed tiles at the top of the three - meter - high courtyard gate, glaring down at us.
"Xiaojuan?!"
Lu Erzhong, Uncle Li, and his wife exclaimed in unison.
Standing on the smooth glazed tiles with hands on hips was none other than Lu Xiaojuan.
"Come down quickly!"
Lu Erzhong was still worried about his daughter. If she fell from a three - meter - high place, she would surely break her head.
"Lu Erzhong!"
Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaojuan put one hand on her hip and pointed at her own father with the other, scolding, "Don't think that by hiring these amateurs, you can scare me away! I'm telling you, your Lu Village owes us hundreds of lives, and I'll make you pay one by one!"
Lu Xiaojuan was only wearing a nightgown. The nightgown was splashed with oil stains, rice grains, and there were also some bloodstains on her chest. She looked dirty and eerie.
However, what was even more terrifying was not her appearance but her voice!
A young girl in her early twenties was speaking with a rough, smoker's voice like that of a middle - aged man in his forties or fifties. This extreme contrast made people's hair stand on end!
"You've been cultivating in the mountains. Why come out to harm the world? Be careful that your clan leader will drag you back and punish you!"
From afar, I had already noticed that there was a weasel spirit in the yin energy above Lu Erzhong's house.
These small animals were naturally cunning and extremely vengeful. I wondered how the people in Lu Erzhong's family had offended it, causing it to come out of the mountains to torment people!
"How dare you! You're just a young girl. How dare you use our clan leader to teach me a lesson?"
Lu Xiaojuan looked down at me. In the slanting afternoon sunlight, I could see that a layer of yellowish fine hair had grown on her face, and even her mouth seemed to have become pointed, taking on a bit of a beastly appearance. "I advise you to go back where you came from, or I'll kill you!"
With that, she bent down, picked up two glazed tiles, and threw them at us.
"Smack!" "Smack!"
The tiles narrowly missed my body and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.
I had to admit that the weasel had excellent aim. If Si Jiangchen hadn't reached out and pulled me to his side by my waist, those palm - wide tiles would have hit my head.
"How did you guys manage to provoke a weasel?!"
I didn't have time to thank Si Jiangchen. The weasel - possessed Lu Xiaojuan had already grabbed a handful of tiles and was throwing them at us like raindrops.
"No! We didn't! There was no such thing causing trouble before!"
Lu Erzhong was also confused.
Before today, there had always been a fierce ghost on Lu Xiaojuan. It would only roar and bite with red eyes, not talk to us like this.
"Come down. Let's talk."
Protected by Si Jiangchen, the tiles couldn't hit me. "Tell me what you want."
"What do I want?"
Lu Xiaojuan raised her eyebrows and suddenly grinned. Her white teeth were covered with dark red flesh and blood. "I want you all dead! Of course, I want everyone in your village to die, just like my family!"
By now, all the glazed tiles on the gate tower had been removed. Lu Xiaojuan simply got on all fours and, just like a wild animal, jumped down from the three - meter - high gate tower and pounced directly at me.
"Little girl, since you like to meddle in other people's business, stay here too!"
Lu Xiaojuan's furry face suddenly loomed large in front of me. "I've taken a fancy to you. Later, I'll make you my main wife and have you bear me lots of cubs..."
She had already grabbed my shoulders with all four limbs.
I had been waiting for this opportunity. The demon - suppressing talisman I had prepared in my hand was about to be slapped on her forehead.
Unexpectedly, Si Jiangchen behind me was faster. He hugged my waist with one hand and grabbed Lu Xiaojuan's hair with the other, then threw her out like a stray dog.
"Hey! You!!!"
My hand missed. Lu Xiaojuan rolled on the ground and got up again, really acting like a wild animal.
"What are you doing?!"
I turned my head and glared angrily at Si Jiangchen. It had been such a good opportunity just now. As long as my talisman was pasted on Lu Xiaojuan's forehead, it would immediately seal the weasel spirit's spiritual power and trap it in Lu Xiaojuan's human acupoint. Even if we couldn't reach an agreement, I could still stab it with a needle and send it to hell.
Now, Si Jiangchen had just ruined this opportunity!
How could I not be angry?!