Marriage of the Di Daughter

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Marriage of the Di Daughter Chapter 135 Part 4: Method

“Just because it hasn’t happened doesn’t mean there isn’t.” Taoist priest Chong Xu’s gaze swept through everyone in the garden, including those servants and maids. The people who were noted by his gaze couldn’t help lowering their heads, not daring to look straight, afraid this master would also say that they were ridden by evil spirits.

“Look at the black air in your mansion, the evil spirit should have existed in your mansion for a while. Heard madam said that there’s nothing strange happening in the mansion, it seems that no one died recently.” Taoist priest Chong Xu frowned. He muttered to himself for a moment before speaking, “It’s like this, the evil spirit has hidden in the mansion for a while, but not that long. If it has stayed for more than a year, the evil spirit would have taken form and the fortune of the mansion would have been corrupted, then there would be blood disasters. So to say, everyone in the mansion has the possibility of being in danger.”

When these words came out, everyone’s hearts were cold.

“That….. Without rhyme or reason, how did an evil spirit appear in the residence?” Ji Shuran asked, “According to the Taoist priest, up to now, the evil spirit has been around less than a year. Then could it have come from outside?”

“That’s a high probability.” Taoist priest Chong Xu raised his horsetail whisk, “Perhaps someone attracted it from outside, or perhaps someone brought something unclean, and led the evil things in.”

Everyone looked at each other in dismay.

Jiang Li looked on coldly. Relying on this point, he only could deceive the people below, at most disturbing people’s hearts but would not go as far as to make people completely believe him. At least at this moment, Jiang Yuan Bai’s face still did not show that he was convinced. Jiang Li knew this was not because Jiang Yuan Bai did not believe in the supernatural, but because Jiang Yuan Bai thought Chen Ji-shi meddling in the Jiang family’s matters was a slap on his face.

But there was no difference.

Lu-shi asked, “Taoist priest, what should we do now?”

“Nothing.” Taoist priest Chong Xu said, “Let this poor Daoist first search and find out where the evil spirit is.”

By this time, the platform had finished setting up. The little Daoist had put a peach wood sword, copper coin, red string, cinnabar, a yellow talisman with strange runes written on it, and a little bell on their respective places in the middle of a square with four pillars made of copper stuck at the four corners. Between the pillars, a red string dyed with cinnabar was stretched tautly. It surrounded the square and on each string, tiny little bells were suspended.

There was currently no wind. Taoist priest Cong Xu stood in the middle of the square with one hand holding a sword made of copper coins, sat on an eight divinatory trigrams cushion, closed his eyes, and his mouth mumbled incorrigible words.

Jiang Li looked at the scene full of interest. Xue Huaiyuan was also a person who did not believe in ghosts and gods. Tongxiang was poor before, with only two physicians in the entire countryside. Poor people couldn’t afford medicine, sometimes, when their children fell ill, they became confused and went to look for the so-called “supernatural matron”. Those matrons would demand remuneration based on their family condition, and what they could do was only to go to their home and use “methods”, talk about some unknown things and compelling people to drink the water mixed with burnt ash from the yellow talisman or something. Xue Huaiyuan loathed this kind of thing as many children were delayed the opportunities of timely treatment due to this and died.

After he took office, he forbade these “matrons” to appear in Tongxiang. In the beginning, those matrons still went secretly to those people’s homes, refusing to change. After Xue Zhao was aware, he quietly made pranks, making those swindlers vanish. After many times, the common people also understood that those matrons were actually scamming them and were no longer duped.

Although Xue Huaiyuan blamed Xue Zhao for being naughty every time, he always turned a blind eye to Xue Zhao’s tricks on the matrons. Seeing Taoist priest Chong Xu like this at this time, Jiang Li somehow remembered the past again. If Xue Zhao was here, she didn’t know what kind of prank he would play to make Taoist priest Chong Xu reveal his true face.

However….. Her expression gradually turned cold, Xue Zhao was no longer here, and she would not use a prank to break Taoist priest Chong Xu’s “method”.

Sha had to watch him pull all his moves out.

Taoist priest Chong Xu muttered for a while, suddenly, for no reason, the little bells hanging on the string tied to the pillars started moving slowly.

There was no wind, everyone who was standing in the garden could clearly feel it. They stared blankly at the little bells that first started by swaying before gradually moving urgently. It was distinct, each and everyone could hear, moreover, the movements became bigger and bigger.

Jiang You Yao grabbed the corner of Ji Shuran’s clothes timidly. She did not know what was going to happen today, but she knew that Jiang Li would probably be out of luck today, so she came to watch something happen to Jiang Li with a feeling of schadenfreude. When she heard Taoist priest Chong Xu say there was an evil spirit, she was originally afraid. Now, seeing the little bells rang out for no reason, she became even more afraid. She only felt it was cold in the garden.

Today’s weather was already strange, the black clouds were dense, and the courtyard had fine incense lit by the Taoist child which smoke curled upwards, making it appear more and more eerie. The people couldn’t help standing a little closer together; even Tong’er and Bai Xue felt goosebumps rising on their backs.

Behind the crowd, Aunt Hu couldn’t help clenching her hands into fists, feeling sticky in the hollow of her hands. She was really too tense and she sweated profusely. Her heart felt uneasy and she looked in Jiang Li’s direction.

She saw Jiang Li standing beside Jiang Yuan Bai with her expression calm and tranquil as before. It was unknown whether it was the flame that illuminated her face, but Aunt Hu felt that a ball of fire seemed to burn in the girl’s pitch-black eyes. She was not intense, not impulsive, and burned quietly.

Then, she would burn everything until there was nothing left.

The sounds produced by the little bells did not stop, but grew louder and louder. At the same time, from the flat ground, a gust of wind suddenly rose. However, this wind seemed to be well-behaved, rising for a while before stopping.

Taoist priest Chong Xu had let go of the sword made out of copper coins in his hand, but the sword did not fall. Instead it swayed and stood up straight.

Another cry of surprise sounded from the surroundings.

The copper-coin sword was a treasure to drive away evils, capable of getting rid of monsters. Under everyone’s eyes, it unexpectedly stood up on its own, didn’t it mean that there was truly an evil spirit inside the residence?

Jiang Yuan Bai’s brows furrowed at this time.

Jiang Li sighed in her heart.

Without a couple of tricks, how would Taoist priest Chong Xu dare to fool even the current emperor. This skill of producing magic tricks could be considered as having reached perfection.

The next moment, the copper coin sword suddenly turned its direction with the sharp end pointed towards Jiang Li, then it rushed over.

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