Just when I thought the matter was about to be perfectly resolved, Bai Wei unexpectedly appeared on the courtyard wall beside the big willow tree.
A rope was tied around her neck.
A short and fat man stood behind her, and the end of the rope around Bai Wei's neck dangled in his hand.
"Whoever dares to touch my mother! I'll hang this woman up like a lantern!"
His voice was shrill, a bit like that of an underage child, but the words he uttered were eerie and terrifying.
"My brother... That's my brother!"
Feng Qianqian immediately hid behind me. "He often says that this big willow tree is our mother."
I was taken aback for a moment.
I knew that in some remote areas, children who were difficult to raise would worship various natural spirits as god - parents. As long as it was an old mountain rock or tree, it might be the protector of a sickly child.
However, willow trees were not on this list.
Willow trees were extremely yin and prone to attracting ghosts.
What normal parents would let their children recognize such a god - parent? This was surely sending the child's life to an early end!
But this dwarf - like little man in front of me truly showed an incomparable attachment to the big willow tree. He nimbly jumped off the wall, reached out and pulled out the talismans I had previously nailed into the tree trunk, and tore them to pieces.
As the yellow talisman fragments fluttered in the sky, the branches of the big willow tree waved wildly like an octopus. The soil at the root began to churn like boiling water. Small bumps appeared on the dirty garbage in the big pit beside the tree, as if something was about to crawl out of the garbage heap.
"Mother, come out quickly and kill these guys who want to frame you!"
The little dwarf was extremely excited and pointed at us.
The bulging parts in the pit finally cracked, and several hideous corpses crawled out of the scattered garbage.
Some of their clothes had rotted, while others seemed to have been buried not long ago.
Among those corpses climbing upwards, I was shocked to find Feng Zhenzhen's tattered body!
This willow tree not only detained the souls of the dead, but also controlled their corpses!!
By now, it was completely dark, and a hazy, crimson crescent moon hung in the sky.
"Kill them, Mother! Kill them and eat their meat!"
With the little dwarf's shouts, those dirty corpses, stiff and twisted but extremely fast, pounced on us.
"..."
These were the most ordinary risen corpses. In the past, with my Taoist magic, I only needed to use a powerful Five - Thunder True Spell to suppress them!
But now... I bit my lips resentfully and reached for the yellow talismans in my backpack. These were the talismans I had drawn before. According to this way of using them up, after a few more ghost - catching and evil - exorcising rituals, my pocket would be empty!!
Before my fingers could reach into the backpack, Si Jiangchen's big hand covered mine. He pressed his body against mine, wrapped his left arm around my waist, and held my fingers with his right hand, and made a virtual talisman gesture in the air.
"Xiao He, follow me and recite."
His deep voice rang in my ear. The faint smell of tobacco made my heart skip a beat.
"Heaven is round, earth is square, the laws have nine chapters..." He actually began with the opening lines of the Five - Thunder True Spell.
"...It's, it's useless..." The disappointment in my heart was incomparable. I knew the Five - Thunder Breaking the Sky True Spell, but it no longer had any effect.
"Follow me and recite." Si Jiangchen bit my earlobe. I couldn't help but tremble, and my mouth unconsciously began to recite softly with him.
"Heaven is round, earth is square..."
"Good girl!"
Si Jiangchen smiled softly.
The zombies were getting closer. I could already see the grayish - white fungal threads on the corpses growing rapidly and tangling.
Behind us, Wei Yuan couldn't help but scream.
"...Yin gives birth, yang follows, all ghosts have nowhere to hide." Si Jiangchen still recited unhurriedly.
At this moment, my mind unexpectedly calmed down. I focused and followed him in reciting. Si Jiangchen also noticed my change and even took the time to peck my lips. "My Xiao He is so good."
"Ugh..." I was about to be angry to death! This bastard! The zombies were already right in front of us. I could even smell their stench, but he still dared to be distracted!!
I still held my breath and just cursed him a hundred times in my heart as "big bastard"!!
"...Those who dare to disobey will be suppressed by the Five Thunders!"
Si Jiangchen finally finished reciting the entire spell. In an instant, a faint blue light emanated from the bodies of those approaching zombies. A very weak rumbling sound came into my ears, faintly like the sound of thunder.
"Puff"!
Almost at the same time, all the zombies and the five - or six - meter - high big willow tree collapsed and shattered from the outside in, suddenly turning into countless purple - blue light dots that flashed and disappeared in the night. The ground was empty. The zombies, the big tree... It seemed as if they had never existed in this world.
"Is this... also the Five - Thunder True Spell?!"
All the hairs on my body stood on end. He was a zombie with a purely yin and evil body, and he was still with me... Uh!
My face flushed.
Anyway, he could use Taoist magic, but there was absolutely no way he could use the Five - Thunder Spell!
But just now, it was clearly the effect of the Thunder Department's True Spell, and even more powerful than my original spell effect!!
"Yin Five - Thunder. Do you like it?"
Si Jiangchen squinted his eyes and looked at my shocked expression leisurely. "Xiao He, you can learn a lot of interesting things by following me."
...
Alarm bells rang in my heart. His tone now was just like that of the big bad wolf trying to lure Little Red Riding Hood!
"Ahh!"
The little dwarf who had been leaning against the willow tree suddenly lost his support and fell to the ground with a thud, screaming loudly, "Mother! Where is my mother!"
He still held the hemp rope around Bai Wei's neck in his hand. With a hard tug, he pulled her off the nearly two - meter - high wall.
"Brother, that's a willow tree. It's not our mother!"
Feng Qianqian watched as her own brother frantically strangled Bai Wei until she rolled her eyes, and immediately shouted, "I know you're a good person. Don't do bad things anymore! You're my only relative..."
Feng Qianqian shouted as tears gushed out like a bursting river.
In this family, the only one who could give her a little warmth was this sick brother.
The retribution of the Feng family seemed to have fallen on Feng Xiaobao, the only male descendant of the Feng family.
The Feng family was poor. No one in the neighboring villages was willing to marry the two sons with extremely bad tempers who often beat people. Old Lady Feng bought a woman from a human trafficker to be the wife of the eldest son, Feng Zhuzhi. But the second son, Feng Shuanzhi, wasn't willing. That poor woman then became the tool for the two brothers to vent their desires. She gave birth to three children in a row but still couldn't escape the fate of being beaten to death by domestic violence...
Her body was casually buried under the big willow tree behind the courtyard.
At that time, Feng Xiaobao was already four years old, and Feng Qianqian had just passed the full - moon celebration.
Originally, Feng Qianqian was also going to be thrown into the pit by Old Lady Feng to be buried with the dead woman. Thanks to Feng Xiaobao desperately hugging his sister and not letting go, she was finally saved...