"Ah..." Liu screamed, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Zhang Cuiyun screamed in fright and pulled out several talismans from her bosom, pressing them onto Jiang Xianya's forehead.

As she backed away, she called out loudly to the Jiang family members, "Don't panic, this talisman was drawn by Xu Xiangu from Wuyan Village. It's specially designed to ward off ghosts and monsters and can temporarily immobilize her."

Seeing that everyone was not so panicked, Zhang Cuiyun continued, "Your little girl probably died unjustly. Her resentment is so great that she has turned into a vengeful ghost. She can come out to take lives even in broad daylight. It's really frightening. Quickly send someone to Wuyan Village to invite Xu Xiangu. Inviting Xu Xiangu alone is not enough. Go to the Taoist temple outside the county town to invite a powerful Taoist priest. Otherwise, not only your family, but everyone in Qingya Village will be wiped out."

Upon hearing this, the Jiang family members turned ashen-faced.

Liu, who had just fainted and then woken up, rolled her eyes and almost fainted again.

"I don't know which damned bastard killed that young girl. Now we might all be dead. I'm so unlucky to have come to your mansion to play matchmaker. If I hadn't had this talisman, I would have been dead just now. What bad luck..." Zhang Cuiyun cursed.

"You...you're saying Xianya was murdered?" Liu asked, her eyes wide.

Zhang Cuiyun ignored her and reached into her small cloth bag to find the magic weapon that Xu Xiangu had sold her for self-defense.

“Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor. If you feel you died unjustly, go find whoever harmed you, don’t come looking for me.” Zhang Cuiyun looked at Jiang Xianya and earnestly said, “I just want to arrange a ghost marriage for you, so you won’t be lonely in the underworld. Having a husband is good; he can accompany and protect you in the afterlife. The Wang family is wealthy; they’ll burn countless amounts of paper money and land for you. The third young master of the Wang family is honest and simple; he’ll definitely manage it all for you. This is a good thing. Listen to my advice: take your revenge, live a good life, and don’t implicate the innocent…”

Zhang Cuiyun kept muttering to herself, while Jiang Fuyi and his son Jiang Minghe, standing to the side, turned pale with fright.

Jiang Minghe, in particular, was trembling.

Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt its debtor. If his niece has become a vengeful ghost, then he's doomed...

The fact that the Jiang family was going to sell their dead daughter to someone else for a ghost marriage was no secret in the entire Qingya Village. When Zhang the matchmaker entered the village at dawn, she was seen by everyone.

Many villagers got up early to come to the Jiang family's house to watch the excitement. Although they didn't enter the yard, they peeked out from outside.

The villagers were terrified.

"Jiang Fuyi, what are you all standing there for? Quickly send someone to invite Xu Xiangu and the Taoist priest! We can't let your granddaughter, who has turned into a vengeful ghost, kill everyone in our village!" Someone kicked open the Jiang family's courtyard gate and shouted loudly.

Jiang Fuyi, whose head was completely white, was also frightened. His hands trembled and his mouth quivered. He opened his mouth, about to speak, but found that Jiang Xianya, who had been immobilized by the talisman, had actually moved. Jiang Fuyi was so frightened that he almost fainted.

Jiang Minghe scrambled out, tripping over the threshold and breaking his head in the process.

Jiang Xianya tore off the talismans that Zhang the matchmaker had stuck on her forehead, looked at them, and then threw them on the ground with a look of disgust.

As for talismans, even a disciple of the Taiyi Sect who has only been a disciple for a year could not draw such garbage with his eyes closed.

If you encounter ghosts or monsters with this kind of talisman, it will not only be useless, but it can also kill you.

"This ghost is too powerful, even the talisman can't hold her back, run..." Zhang Cuiyun shouted and hurriedly ran outside. Although she was fat, she ran the fastest.

In a short while, the Jiang family courtyard was deserted except for Jiang Xianya.

After a while, the entire Qingya Village was empty.

After receiving all of the original owner's memories, Jiang Xianya went back to her room and changed out of her red dress, putting on a coarse cloth dress with many patches.

It's actually quite ironic.

As the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, apart from this red dress, she had never owned a single new piece of clothing since childhood; she always wore hand-me-downs from her cousin, Jiang Qiurong.

She was a year older than Jiang Qiurong and was also taller, so her clothes obviously didn't fit.

After her "death," her grandparents finally bought her a new red dress, not out of a change of heart, but to sell her for a good price.

A sharp glint flashed in Jiang Xianya's eyes as she picked up her knife and went to the chicken coop.

An hour later, more than 300 people from Qingya Village returned with Xu Xiangu and surrounded the Jiang family's courtyard.

Under Xu Xiangu's guidance, the Jiang family posted many talismans to ward off evil spirits outside the courtyard.

She held five coins in her left hand and a peach wood sword in her right, hopping around at the doorway while muttering incantations. After a while, she finally pushed open the courtyard gate.

The Jiang family was terrified and didn't dare to go in with Xu Xiangu. Zhang Cuiyun, who dealt with the dead, was bolder. Holding a handful of drawn talismans, she followed Xu Xiangu inside.

Under the big locust tree in the courtyard, Jiang Xianya was enjoying her meal.

She was so hungry and craving food that she slaughtered two chickens, one to stew and the other to roast.

For decades, she has been traveling among humans, mending her soul, and she cannot eat even the most exquisite delicacies.

The first thing to do after being reborn is to eat.

They've been starving for decades!

Jiang Xianya felt truly pitiful. Of course, the original owner of this body was also extremely pitiful. She lost her father at a young age, and her mother was burdened with the reputation of being a jinx to her husbands. She was bullied by the Jiang family. In order to raise her, her mother could only endure it. No matter how others beat or scolded her, she would endure it. But as long as someone dared to touch Jiang Xianya, she would fight to the death.

From now on, she will take good care of her mother.

As for now, she needs to fill her stomach first.

Jiang Xianya's cooking skills were average, but she thought the chicken soup was the best food in the world, and although the roast chicken was a little burnt, it was still pretty good.

Seeing Jiang Xianya enjoying her meal so much, Xu Xiangu thought she was seeing things.

Are ghosts really this scary these days?

wrong!

Xu Xiangu shook her head, tightly gripping the "magical artifact" in her hand, and mustered her courage to approach Jiang Xianya. After a moment, she suddenly turned around and left the courtyard with a dark face.

"Big sister, wait for me!" Zhang Cuiyun was very scared and quickly ran after her.

"Xu...Xu Xiangu, why are you out here? That ghost is still sitting under the big locust tree." Someone peeked into the courtyard, shuddered, and shouted.

"In broad daylight, where did this ghost come from? That's clearly a person." Xu Xiangu rolled her eyes in anger: "It's yourselves who are blind, unable to distinguish between a person and a ghost, making me come all this way for nothing."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Jiang Fuyi and Liu Shi and said somewhat irritably, "Although there are no ghosts to catch, I still made the trip. You even used so many of my talismans. The agreed-upon fifty taels should not be shortchanged by a single copper coin."

If these people hadn't barged into her house in such a large group, crying and begging her to come over, she would have gone to the county town to exorcise evil spirits from Master Liu's house. The money they gave her was sixty taels of silver, which was much more cost-effective than coming to Qingya Village.

However... if she takes the money now, she can still make it to the county town.