I had already started backing away when she walked towards me.
I kept backing until I reached Si Jiangchen's side.
When Lu Erzhong's wife held the big red enamel basin in front of me, although I had steeled myself, I still couldn't help retching.
In the white basin with red flowers, there was a basin full of bloody red soup. In the middle was a skinned dog's head, baring its white teeth and glaring at me with its cloudy eyes, as if it couldn't rest in peace!
Lu Erzhong, who was standing beside his wife, let out a startled cry of "ow" at the sight. He reached out and knocked the basin over.
"Woman, what on earth are you doing?!"
Lu Erzhong finally slapped his wife hard across the face.
The dog was the big yellow dog raised by Lu Erzhong's family. It had made great contributions when they were looking for Lu Xiaojuan before.
Lu Erzhong never expected that his good dog would be skinned alive by his wife!
The basin fell to the ground, and the blood splashed everywhere.
Si Jiangchen had already carried me back to a safe distance to watch the show. We saw Lu Erzhong's wife being slapped to the ground. She stared blankly for a while, then suddenly burst into loud sobs.
Just then, Aunt Li, who had been helping to settle Lu Xiaojuan in the house, also rushed out from behind the curtain with a scream.
"Xiaojuan! Xiaojuan's biting people again!"
Aunt Li's face was as white as a sheet. She tightly covered her left arm with her right hand. Blood was gushing out from her half - sleeved T - shirt sleeve and seeping out through her fingers.
Uncle Li quickly stepped forward to check on his wife's injury.
"What's going on?"
Si Jiangchen whispered in my ear, "Didn't you already catch that pesky weasel?"
"There's still something in his house!"
When I entered the house just now, I had already noticed that after the yellow demonic aura disappeared, the black aura had become even stronger.
I originally thought that the other ghost would possess Lu Erzhong's wife, who had never shown up. But when she walked out with the basin, I only saw a skinned dog spirit following her miserably. It didn't look the least bit fierce, just wagging its tail as if it were still alive.
Now that Aunt Li had been bitten and rushed out, I suddenly understood what was going on!
The village head's house was really bustling!
What Lu Xiaojuan brought back from the cemetery wasn't just one ghost... it was a "buy one get one free" deal, with a resentful weasel spirit.
When Lu Xiaojuan was possessed by the weasel spirit, the ghost took up residence in her mother, who was taking care of her.
While Lu Xiaojuan came out to cause trouble for us, the ghost controlled Lu Erzhong's wife to kill and eat their yellow dog.
After I caught the weasel possessing Lu Xiaojuan, Lu Xiaojuan's body was like an empty house without a master for the time being. The cunning ghost immediately abandoned Lu Erzhong's wife's body and got into Lu Xiaojuan's.
That was why I had never seen the true appearance of the ghost.
I frowned, grabbed a ghost - suppressing talisman in my hand, and lifted the bamboo curtain to enter Lu Xiaojuan's east room.
Actually, there were still some things I didn't quite understand...
But there was no time to think about it now. God knows what Lu Xiaojuan, who was no longer restrained, would do!
The east room was filled with a sweet, fishy, and putrid smell. In the grayish mist, I could vaguely see a black figure crouching on the bed against the wall.
"Old ghost! Instead of lying dead peacefully, you come out to cause trouble. Do you want to go to the eighteenth level of hell?"
Through the thin mist, I could already see clearly what was on the other side.
Lu Xiaojuan wasn't even wearing a skirt, just a bra and panties. The blood dripping from her mouth left red streaks on her snow - white chest.
Behind her, there clearly stood a thin old man with a haggard face and an ancient bronze - colored funeral robe.
Judging from the material of the robe, it was at least forty or fifty years old.
Lu Xiaojuan's mouth was moving as she chewed on something. It was the flesh and blood she had bitten off from Aunt Li's arm just now. She swallowed it in two mouthfuls.
"Hehehe..." A sinister laugh came from her mouth again, like iron scraping against glass. An old man's voice said, "Village head Lu won't let us be reincarnated, and now he won't even give us food... We're hungry! We have to come to the village to seek justice from him!"
"Nonsense!"
This was pure nonsense. Lu Erzhong wasn't the underworld. How could he stop the dead from being reincarnated?
I shook the ghost - suppressing talisman in my hand at the old ghost. The thin piece of paper immediately caught fire, and a small ball of fire rushed straight towards Lu Xiaojuan.
Si Jiangchen was right behind me. I was afraid that if I rushed forward to stick the talisman, and he couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed me for a kiss, how could I maintain my dignity as a "master"?
The old ghost let out a sneering laugh, shrank his body suddenly, and floated out through the half - open window.
I naturally knew what he was up to. I immediately ran to the bedside and stuck an exorcism talisman on Lu Xiaojuan's chest. Then I heard more screams outside.
"Stupid woman, why are you biting people too?!"
It was Lu Erzhong's shocked and angry shout, followed by the exclamations of Aunt Li and Uncle Li.
I turned around and was about to run into the yard. Si Jiangchen saw me bustling around like an ant on a hot pan and couldn't help but curl his lips and say, "It's tiring to meddle in other people's business."
"What do you know!"
I walked past him, deliberately keeping a distance.
He was a rich man. Naturally, he didn't understand why I had to work so hard.
When Du Wenzhong and I escaped from northern Henan, we were penniless, not even having a change of clothes!
We had slept on the benches in the city park and lived on the top floor of a half - built building...
In order to survive, we did any kind of work. We never cared whether it was tiring or troublesome!
When I ran out of the house, sure enough, I saw that Lu Erzhong's wife's eyes were grayish. In the setting sun, she looked extremely eerie.
The thin old man in the funeral robe had a pale - green face and a sneering smile. He looked at me as if he were mocking my incompetence!
"The order of Ziwei, the marshals are all here. Wherever the divine might reaches, there shall be no lingering..."
I already had another talisman of the spiritual official in my hand and started chanting the spell.
"Spiritual officials" are a type of gods in Taoism. They are equivalent to policemen in the human world or ghost messengers in the underworld. They are the divine generals who help those who practice Taoism to protect the Dharma and do things.
Since there are many Taoist sects, and there are also casual practitioners like me and Du Wenzhong, the number of spiritual officials is large. They are commonly known as the "five hundred spiritual officials".
Here, "five hundred" is just a general term. Even my grandfather, that fake old Taoist, had a "spiritual official" running errands for him to investigate matters and call back souls. One can imagine how many of these Taoist Dharma - protecting divine soldiers there are!
I myself can only summon two spiritual officials. One is the Fire Deity Lord "Spiritual Official Wang", who is worshipped by all Taoist sects, and the other is the Thunder General "Spiritual Official Pang".
Both of them are extremely powerful and yang - energy - filled Dharma - protecting gods. Ordinary ghosts would flee in panic at the mere mention of their names.
But this wretched - looking old man in front of me didn't show the slightest sign of fear.
"You can only summon so few soldiers, hehehe..."
The old man even laughed teasingly, "Take a look outside the courtyard gate! Even if more spiritual officials come, they won't be able to do anything to us!"